세상의 끝: End of the World

Pirate King

With this thought, Jennie's gaze rose to look at Han Jisung, whose head was down.

Han Jisung took back the notebook. He wrote another report for her. This time, detailing his encounter with Lisa, and the zombie man who looked exactly like a human.
The two of them considered this information silently.

They both thought, but didn't say the dark reality in their minds.
Lisa.
Jennie said, "Lee Know went to investigate that lab with her."

Han Jisung shook his head. Lee Minho wouldn't find anything even remotely related to the truth. Even if Han Jisung had left any evidence behind, he was sure by the time Lee Minho got there, everything would have been emptied out. That person was very annoying when it came to fooling Lee Minho.

"What is she after? Does she really want to wipe out humanity?" Jennie cursed. "This girl really thinks she has everyone eating out of the palm of her hand. The SKZ, the military, the mafia, even the zombies... fuck! Everything ties back to her!"

All of the powerful forces in the world were all netted in a web, and Lisa stood in the center. She was the spy who was the SKZ's main point of contact with other powers, and in the SKZ, she had the unshakable trust of many survivors whom she had personally saved.
The two people in the lab solemnly realized that the people in the SKZ, and maybe even Lee Minho himself, might not believe them if they said-

That this perfect, lovely girl really didn't give a damn about them.
That in this already horrifying, wretched world, something even more dark and sinister was brewing behind her.
"You trust me with this."
In the end, Jennie felt she had to say something.
"Why did you come to me?"

Han Jisung was stubbornly looking down, refusing to communicate or make eye contact. But in the end, the answer was obvious. Jennie was the researcher dedicated to making the vaccine for the zombie virus. If she wasn't standing against the zombies, who would be?
Jennie found a place to sit down, tired and weary. After all these years of fighting, only to find out that it was only by Lisa's whim that they were all still alive.

After all, with her ability to avoid being sensed, she could easily bring down the entire base. She could assassinate the major leaders and destroy all of humanity any time she wished.
As for why she didn't?

Maybe she wanted humanity to survive, but first she needed to let them have hope, then bring them to their knees.
Truly a scheming bitch.

Jennie laughed coldly. She took off her glasses and wiped her eyes.
When she calmed down, she looked at Han Jisung with a cold, determined face. "From now on, you're my assistant. You'll keep watch. I can't accept lying down to accept defeat. Either we fight to the end, or we die having done all we could."

And then, as if trying to tighten the lure around Han Jisung, Jennie pulled the corner of her mouth in a humorless smirk.
"After all, we'll need to work together to convince Lee Know."

Meanwhile.
On Lee Minho's side, he sat at the camp in the wilds. Over the past weeks, he had listened to the radio messages his people had sent from all over the region.
"Paju City is a ghost town."
"I've heard back from the survivors at Incheon City. They're barely hanging on..."
"Nothing from Gunpo City."
The reports had come in one after the other-the surrounding cities had cut off contact. Whether they had fallen, or their communications somehow couldn't reach, Lee Minho didn't know. But it became clear that the region around Gimpo City, including the SKZ base, had become like an isolated island, separated from the rest of the land by the vast number of zombies surrounding it. It was impossible to know if the other cities had suffered the same fate without his knowledge.
There were less than ten thousand people left alive in this region.