I'm still alive

The scene is cut off. So I didn't even realize when I had lost my mind. When I opened my eyes, all the buildings and land were on fire, and in the midst of it the weeping men were being eaten by flames and monsters.

Pain, despair. The wind that blew was full of ash and dust, and the atmosphere that licked his face was filled with fear. I can't breathe. Just like I was trapped in the abyss, I was constantly floundering in the air.

When you look up, you can see the sky turning red. There were no stars, no sun in the sky, and only red flames were tearing up the clouds.

Humans scream, monsters that eat them scream. All the cries heard were resonant, and gave a gentle tremor to my heart that was not running.

At that moment I rejected the gravity falling into the abyss and began to soar into the sky. On the fast-changing screen, you can see the relationships that have been passed on, and it makes you look back on your whole life like a lantern just before you die.

The burning corridor, the road that saved Chae-yeon from under the car. Until this day when I met and lived with precious people. From far away the men I killed were scattered like ashes, and my memories took up the void.

And all the memories are sucked through the lantern, and the scene ends. I probably had my eyes open. However, the moment I realized that this was a dream, my eyes opened wide.

empty stomachs

I found myself breathing. I opened my mouth and nose and hurriedly breathed, and stuffed the honey-sweet oxygen deep into my lungs. And as soon as you face the light in front of your eyes, your head rings, and your vision and sound are cut off for a moment.

But for a moment, my body, realizing that this was an unfamiliar time and space, was instinctively moving and telling me I was lying down. What is it? Old curtains and strange ceilings come in through a cloudy view. It's ringing, it'..., came the voice of a man.

'Oh, mister! Don't move!'

Uncle? That's a strange voice.

'Teacher! Teacher! He's up!’

I instinctively grabbed the sheet on which I lay. Then the nerves that had been asleep began to wake up, and the pain that had been hidden came belatedly. I screamed in a single voice. But the mind and body learned in danger quickly scold to look around.

I re-opened my struggling open eyes, half-up. And even before his vision was restored, he tried to pull out the sword by bringing his hand to his waist.

But his waist is light. The house of the sword I was wearing was gone, and the sword in it was gone. Huh? Where's the Great Sword? And at that moment, in my head, the scene that I threw at Choi Tae-sik's neck passed by. a perfect throw to the surprise of one's Perhaps the old man saw it, it was a perfect trajectory to applaud on the spot. I put down my right hand blankly once skimmed through the air and turned my eyes to the rough clothes felt by my skin.

He was wearing a black mission suit in consideration of the night's infiltration. Of course, the uniform would have been moped by their attacks, but that wasn't what matters now. Because I was wearing a patient suit that I had never seen before, not a mission uniform.

Besides, the patient suit that someone had worn me smelled terribly shabby and sour. Inside, however, there was clearly a bandage that smelled of a light disinfectant. Yeah, someone cured me. At the end of a brief thought, naturally the boundaries were lifted, and my gaze began to search the room. Rub your stiff eyes and lift up your upper body.

At first I thought it might be Eden. Maybe the old man or the people of Eden brought me out of my senses? The idea. But contrary to that idea, this place I was in was an old hospital room with a stale smell, and quite a few people were sitting powerlessly around.

Hospital? No, it wasn't as big as Eden's. The shabby facilities and narrow places looked like a private hospital that was common in the neighborhood. I touched the floor to get up.

You can't move yet!

But what blocked my movement was the voice of the woman I heard earlier. When I raised my head in response to the call of me, a woman was running here from far away.

And then a grandfather, wearing a white doctor's gown, or a gown that turned almost yellow, began to follow with difficulty. I stopped acting in a daze and......, looked at them.

The woman was a young woman in her mid- to late 20s, wearing a pink-colored uniform and a yellow name tag on her chest. This woman, who checks my condition with her name, hospital name and stiff face, was a nurse assistant working in a private hospital. And a grandpa following him? No, are you a doctor? He, who seems older than my old man, talks to me, gasping for breath.

'What, are you awake?

Oh, at that moment the last remaining tension was dull and relaxed. A treated body and a safe hospital room. And a nurse assistant and a doctor standing in front of me. The fact that they dragged me out of my senses and treated me was a fact that even a fool could guess.

I only remember throwing myself into the water and swimming frantically. Since then, I wondered where they found me and if they had ever seen the old man and Kang Soo-ryeon, but before asking about the post-war situation, I bowed my head and thanked them for saving my life.

'......thank you very much.'

The thank-you was short, but there was deep sincerity in it.

It must have been a serious injury. Skin and flesh were covered with wounds, and muscles and bones had been accompanied by pain whenever they moved. A state of complete exhaustion that reached its limit, perhaps if they hadn't found me, they might have died there where their memories were lost. But as if to compensate for the pain and hardship I have suffered, I have survived again, and now I can meet Chae-yeon and her party. To a stranger who was always on the lookout...I have come to receive an unexpected help...

Did I do anything? You should thank Jin Soon.’

The old doctor mumbled his toothless lips. Then I take out the magnifying glass from my front pocket and wear it, and come up this way and start checking my condition. Do you think they're treating you? I lifted my arms without a word of mouth and waited for my grandfather to check my condition. So a minute later, Grandfather took off his glasses and told me.

'Come on, take a rest now.

Grandfather said nothing after that. Then he bent down with a cry, and soon walked slowly out of the hospital room. I was looking at the back, and...I had no choice but to feel something strange. It's like I've been struggling in hell all this time, and I've had a hard time getting to a place where people live. A private hospital with a familiar atmosphere. And attitude towards the doctor who was not different from everyday life. I feel a sense of alienation and a sense of comfort. The word peace was unfamiliar to me that much to me.

'You're a stranger in the world these days. So everyone respects and follows.’

As I was bewildered, the woman of the assistant, who was still beside me, thrust out a half-full water bottle. I took it in a daze, spouting Ah, and looked at her quietly smiling. There were a lot of people sitting in this room besides me.

And other signs from outside were home to the private hospital, telling the survivors that they were living together. Is that kind-looking old doctor leading them? I asked her over a glass of water.

'By any chance...... is your name is Jin-soon?’

A doctor's grandfather must have mentioned the name Jin-soon earlier. To thank Jin-soon, not himself. That means the woman who found me hurt and brought me here is called Jin-soon. But she waved her hand with an embarrassed face, and waved her name tag as if it were a sight. Yellow name tag......... And the name written there was Kang Yu-mi, not Jin-sun.

I have a brother who brings food from outside. He brought you from the Han River Park. I'll be right back, so please wait a little.'

The word "self-sufficiency" didn't go with the survivor's camp. And this place, like any other Shelter, was feeding outside. And one of the survivors, Jin-soon, was lucky to find and bring me, probably knocked out by the Han River current. I nodded to her kindly explaining, and now asked me for the information I needed.

Excuse me, where are we? And was there any other survivors around me?’

I began to feel a little impatient when the condition was over. How far is this place from Eden, and have you ever seen old people and Kang Soo-ryeon? I had to organize the information quickly and get back to Eden as soon as possible, so I was forced to ask her for an answer. Then she was a little embarrassed with the sound of "Oh, my God, and soon explained it.

Once I was found, there were no old people and no Kang Soo-ryeon. Of course, there was no particular body or trace found. The radio's gone, the map's gone......... Literally, we're completely out of touch. But I decided to think positively. I believe in old people. At least the two would have landed somewhere safer than me. And if you get well, you can always go back to Eden and reunite again. I was impatient to rush out at once, but I tried to soothe myself with effort.

I'll give you a local map later. Take a rest for now.'

She patted me on the shoulder and said, Why are you so kind? The words came out of my mouth, but when I saw her clear face, it went right in. This is the xx district, a span away from Eden. He was swept away by the current of the Han River and came to the next town for the first time. It was such a long distance that a sigh came on its own, but for now I decided to lay down and concentrate on recovery. She disinfected my last small wound and rose slowly from her seat. But at that moment, enough noise began to come from outside the window to disturb my closed ears.

‘.’

It was a small noise. But the sound began to grow louder and louder, and it had been turned into noise enough for everyone in the room to respond. I slowly opened my eyes and looked at the window where the light was leaking out.

Suddenly, the window turned noisily, and the corridor, which had only been heard by quiet signs of popularity, had been turned into a tumultuous crowd. I briefly raised my lying body, and at that moment the door of the hospital room rattled open, and a woman wearing the same clothes as Kang Yu-mi hurriedly shouted.

'You, Yumi! Outside! Outside!'

Outside? Why outside? The woman who opened the door and shouted was not even able to properly explain what had happened. But her disheveled hair and pale face told her whole body that something had changed outside.

The atmosphere begins to cool down at the moment. Kang Yu-mi, who was cleaning up the hospital room, became mushy and followed her, and instinctively realized that I was not in a situation to lie down.

Crowds of voices. People in the same hospital room as me got up from their seats, making noise. When I saw it, I had no choice but to touch the bed with my hands, moaning up from my seat. My whole body had been in pain, but my body, taught in pain, endured even that and helped me get up.

Breathing out, a sweet smell came out of my mouth. And then I gasped and walked toward the window, clearing the curtains that were covering the window. A cold wind blows as I clear the curtains. With the cold wind, the scenery began to be seen intact, and a familiar sense licked the nerves.

‘!!!’

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

the howls of the men coming in Survivors in the hospital room scream in surprise. And they were stamping their feet and looking at a herd running from afar. Cars that are completely blocking the perimeter. But the herd running in between was a group of survivors who seemed to be people.

And another group of people following wildly. The inhuman speed and groaning of groans were telling me that the herd was such a familiar monster to me.

Argh!

Next to me a lady screamed, and my arm muscles began to strain themselves.

The man running from the front waved his hand at this place. I don't know if the signal was for help or to run away, but it was a very urgent and desperate gesture. From the reaction of the people here, they are not outsiders but survivors from this private hospital. What Kang Yu-mi said earlier......, is it a man named Jin-soon? to roam outside for food He seemed to face them.

He would have fled without even fighting. And foolishly, he was fleeing to the private hospital where he had departed, inviting danger from others. A sigh comes out of itself. I felt so strange to those people who couldn't cope with anything and those survivors who just ran away.

I feel like I've been in a fierce speculation zone and entered a sheep's fence. How on earth did these people survive? I looked around the hospital room, feeling a little envious of them who were born with natural luck.

We need to use it as a weapon.

I found a sack standing in the corner of the hospital room, and approached it. And when I grab the sack and step on the bottom with all my strength, I start to think about the old days.

The opportunity to pay for medical treatment and treatment seems to have come sooner than I thought.