I'm still alive

When I came down the mountain completely, the snow began to fall more. The field of vision slowly narrows, and snow particles that stick to the head and body slowly drop body temperature. Blow your hands to warm up the cold. Still, he took the increasingly cold fingertips with his mouth for a moment, and moved on again.

Passing the construction site where we stayed for a day, we check out the convenience store where we met Jin-su and Lee Hye-in. When I went inside, all the items that had fallen on the floor were robbed, and there were full of human footprints. There were also survivors. All the hot packs and ramen I had hidden were gone. I regret I should have just brought it then.

And I busily moved to find a convenience store or a supermarket. And every time I found a convenience store, I opened the door with a happy heart, and it was all robbed. I took only a few pens and papers from inside the heavily cluttered convenience store with a wretched heart.

It was a phenomenon that showed there were still many survivors, but I wasn't particularly pleased. Among the monsters we were now becoming monsters. Contact with survivors to me was as dangerous as contact with them.

I find them from afar the whole time I've been walking. As we begin to find them, we avoid them less and move faster. Most of them become very passive when the sun is up. I don't care whether I walk far away or not, as if I'm just standing there waiting for the sound to come.

Most of the seasoned survivors who have survived so far seem to know this. That's why nearby convenience stores are robbed so quickly. It is not an area with a small population, but it is faster. The more I fumbled, the more impatient I felt.

You only have to be careful after dark. Let's not be nervous. I mumbled along like that. And sometimes I could see some men swinging their hands in the air, and at first I stopped in surprise and observed them. It was probably reacting to the snow falling into the air. They were simpler than I thought, and they seemed to have a fairly short.

When I found a fourth convenience store and made a fool of myself, I sat in the seat for a moment and agonized. There seemed to be more survivors than expected. I expected this to happen, but the speed at which the convenience store is robbed is quite fast. I wonder how you take all this stuff. I couldn't get rid of the feeling of taking it as a group.

He doesn't even spill a chocolate bar. All the way to the convenience storehouse....... Even if I didn't cross the 1-kilometer radius, I couldn't get rid of the suspicious mood. I felt uneasy for no reason. And he foresaw that the period of getting food would be longer.

I sighed with fatigue as I looked at the ceiling of the convenience store. I thought I'd have to go a little further. And I thought for a long time and finally decided to cross Dorimcheon. I crouched under the counter at the convenience store before I left and warmed up for a while. I shook the hot pack that I brought hard and rubbed it on my face before putting it in my inner pocket at the end. And I shook the snow off my clothes with my hands hard.

When my cold body melted, I forced my feet that wouldn't fall off and left the convenience store. And as soon as I left the convenience store, the first crisis came so suddenly.

"Honey!"

A woman's scream came from an officetel in the building next to a convenience store. I leaned instinctively down to the floor at such a loud noise. Noise attracts them. A red light keeps ringing in my head, burning my reason white. Unexpectedly, I was stuck in the spot.

The veranda on the sixth floor of the officetel with sound. From there, a woman ran out as the inside door opened. The screams of tearing my eardrums ran through my brain. Grabbing the heart that began to run wild, and looking at the officetel, the woman who ran out to the veranda hurriedly closed the door inside the veranda.

And with his mouth shut, and a thin shiver, he was looking at what was happening in the room with a despairing face. I heard a roar of them breaking and breaking. I looked around like an instinct. Shall we go back into the convenience store? Or shall we run and run?

I looked all over in a hurry. It's too late to run now. My heart was pounding when I thought of the people who were already coming with this sound. I looked everywhere and found a car next to me. And he crawled right under the car, lying on his stomach, without any time to think further. The woman's long scream came again when she went under the car after plowing through the snow.

'Honey!!!'

Presumably, the woman's husband was fighting them in the room. I closed my eyes tightly. The images of people who had been eaten by them passed quickly like a scene in a movie. The moment I witnessed it may have remained a trauma to me. In this situation, my body hardens and I sweat a lot.

For a long time, there was screaming from the inside and screaming from the inside. And soon, the man's terminal coldly crosses the cold city. The woman gave a short scream as to whether she had confirmed her husband's death, and soon the scream stopped.

Then the sound of breaking and breaking slowly died down, and soon a woman's cry rang in her ear. I closed my eyes and hugged the gun tightly. His jaw was suffocating and slowly licked his parched lips. They ate up the man, but hit the veranda door after door to see if it was still not enough. I can hear the glass start to crack. The woman quietly uttered only a cry for lack of strength to scream. Then came the sound of their feet running from afar and the groaning of their vocal cords.

I swallowed my saliva when I heard the sound of running on the concrete floor barefoot. Soon their feet passed quickly under the car. And the strange groans they spit out made my head ring. They were overjoyed.

Is it the joy of predation? What is he talking about? My skin was chilling and held my breath because of the strange, breath-taking sound as if my tongue had been cut off. No, it was just suffocating and stuffy. I heard them coming from right around here. I moved further under the car and completely hid myself in the shadow. It was chilly and cold under the car. I closed my eyes and waited for this nightmare to end quickly.

And suddenly all the noise stopped.

When all the noise stops suddenly, I gently open my eyes with wonder. Then, they shift their eyes from the bottom of the car to the view. And I made eye contact with a woman whose head falls on the floor. I had the illusion that time had stopped. Her clear eyes were looking at me hiding under the car.

I heard the sound of meat dripping on the floor. When I opened my eyes again reflexively, I saw a bloody mass before my eyes. After all, she chose suicide. One man, another man, became just a chunk of meat caught in a butcher's shop.

It was hard to define exactly what I felt. A lump of emotion, all the complicated emotions tangled in one place, shot up from the inside like vomiting. I stopped the tears from rising with my hands and wept. Tears pour down constantly over the cold cheeks.

Throwing herself out of the veranda, she fell in front of the car where I was hiding. a grotesquely twisted neck and limbs And yet the clear eyes were looking at me. She was lucky to die instantly, not to complain of pain or to be conscious. He was staring at me with empty eyes as if his soul had fallen out.

The last sight she saw in front of death was me hiding like a coward under a car. When they saw her on the floor, they screamed with joy. And like a piranha, they rush in, push each other, step on her, and predominate her. I couldn't close my eyes, so I looked at it from beginning to end.

She is eaten to the bone and erased from the world. And they're slowly dispersing as if they're done with the predation. Leave only bloodstains and meat slices. And when snow piles on it, the evidence that she was there slowly disappears in this city.

The sound of windows closing around me sounds very small. I bend my head and bury my face on the floor.

* * *

I stared blankly at the snow. The bloodstains were disappearing because of a pile of snow. Perhaps an hour or so passed before I came to my senses in the cold, and I quickly close my eyes a couple of times and wake up. Now I couldn't hear anything. It wasn't until then that I breathed my feeble exhalation again.

Then quietly put away the piled snow, and put out the head of the car to check out. Check the front, back, and front with a blurred vision. They were all back in place, except for those far away.

I scraped through the snow and crawled out from under the car. And I crawled hard to the front of the convenience store, holding my trembling legs. My eyes were all over my body and my body was cold, but I didn't stop crawling. I didn't want to be bloodstained. I sympathize with her, but I didn't want to be like her.

The gear to the entrance of the convenience store opened the convenience store door with both hands. Then crawled back under the counter. Hugging a cold gun and bag, he was dazed in the counter.

I took a hot pack out of my pocket, but it was already wet. I nervously threw the hot pack down the counter and opened the bag. The outside of the bag was damp, but fortunately it didn't get wet inside. Just in case, I took out one more hot pack and shook it hard with my trembling hands.

Then I rubbed my face, hands, and whole body. Excessive tension has made me thirsty and hungry. However, I didn't bring anything except hot packs because I felt relieved that this would not happen. I concentrated on warming up my body, biting my lips, putting a hot pack in my arms.

I looked outside slightly and checked the clock hanging on one side of the convenience store. But the clock didn't move, as if it had stopped. It was hard to estimate the time because of cloudy weather outside. I didn't think about the time because of the untimely variable.

What if the sun goes down while I cross Dorimcheon? But can I spend the night here? I hugged a cold gun and fell into thought. The snow-soaked clothes weighed heavily on my body. I just want to fall asleep here. I want to warm up and rest.

Wake up. I have to move. I have to get out of here..... But I couldn't stop the flood, and I slowly fell asleep. There was no cold, no tiredness, no fear. I wish I could fall asleep like this forever. Then wouldn't the pain, the anguish and the heavy burden all disappear like a haze? The memory that hovered in my head like a flash of lightning flashed through my eyes.

I can see myself running across the line in the fire. And I see my little single room. The view also reversed and Chae-yeon was seen shivering under the car. Kang Soo-ryeon hugging Chae-yeon, Jin-su pushing a mysterious man with a bag. Lee Hye-in still can't make eye contact with me. The look of an unidentified man staring at me resentfully. And a soldier who looked at me with sad eyes.

Everything was slowly buried under the water. I slowly sink to the floor along the flow that attracts me from the unconscious. A flapping sound rings in the ear. I can see a woman with her limbs bent around her eyes. As she was dying, making eye contact with me, she was making eye contact with me like that. Her mouth opens.

‘…….’

What?

‘…….’

I can't hear you well.

Ah.

A chill came upon me like a tidal wave. Deep-sea, feeling distant with the feeling of being dragged deep down, I awoke. I coughed with nausea and I put my face on the floor and coughed roughly. No, I was going to.

While coughing, I covered my mouth like an instinct. You shouldn't make a sound. Dry coughs are blocked in the palm of the hand and slowly disperse inside the convenience store. And I looked up in surprise. How long did you sleep? How long has it been? I slowly got up and looked out, blaming myself.

It was darker than before. It's an unsafe place. You don't know how those people around you will turn at night. I can't spend the night here. When I thought so, I decided to get out of here. I grabbed hold of my dizzy head and left the counter like a thud.

The sun is not completely set. Although the orange light was far away as if the twilight had approached, it was not impossible to move. No, I just rationalized this situation like that. I moved my steps a little faster. We have to cross Dorimcheon in the direction where they are not.

As I checked the signs one after another, I walked along Dorimcheon Stream without hitting my view. Sometimes the ones you see pass by, and sometimes the ones who walk idly toward one place get under the car and wait for them to pass by. Even as I walked slowly, my sweat fell like a waterfall, and I was getting tired of hunger and thirst. Then check the sign. Sillim-ro 8-gil.

On both sides were filled with goshiwon buildings and small residential complexes. The darkening speed was getting faster and faster. I could feel them getting more and more sensitive. There was no fork in the road after eight. I went straight into Sillim-ro. There were only garage and shopping malls on both sides as if they had escaped from the dense areas. I was thinking of heading there, but I couldn't get close to them because of them in the middle.

I finally decided to cross the Hwaranggyo Bridge in front of me and go down Dorimcheon Stream. No, I had no choice. And there was no direction or force to run away. I took off my shoes so as not to make the sound of footsteps. My head was full of thoughts that I should run from now on.

The sun was getting darker and faster, as if it had been completely on the alert. I took my shoes in one hand and started running quickly. My feet were bursting with pain, and I slowly took away my senses by wetting my cold eyes with socks. But the footsteps didn't ring much to see if it was worth taking off my shoes on the snow.

Holding a bursting heart, holding back thirst and hunger, he crossed the Hwarang Bridge desperately. Certainly, as the bridge crossed, the density of the building decreased noticeably. When I crossed the Hwarang Bridge, what I saw right away was quite a big road. As soon as I checked the sign, it said 11th street of Sillim-ro.

Cars were standing on the main road, so I couldn't run anymore. I leaned over the car for a moment and looked around. As expected, they were walking from place to place in a more active move than before. And their eyes began to turn red.

Failing to make quick judgments and wander, I ended up not finding a shelter before sunset. Nothing came to mind. The head was complicated and confused. I was at my wit's end, so I grabbed the wheel, and I sat still. And I instinctively crawled under the car to the memory of passing by my head like a lightning bolt.

The whole world began to get dark. I put on my shoes, rubbing my cold feet with my hands. Then I poked my head out of the car and looked. As the sun went down, the world became completely dark, and red eyes were all around. I gulped down my saliva, feeling miserable.

I went under the car again and thought. Do I have to be stuck like this? What if they find you? Should I leave it to chance? I lay so still, unable to breathe freely, that I might hear my breath.

And lost in thought. The dark city pressed me slowly, as if I were left alone in space. Scared. Scared. I clasped the gun with my trembling hand and looked ahead. It was then. I saw a wheel in front of my eyes.

And for a moment a brilliant idea passed through my head. This road I saw earlier is crowded with cars. The gap between the front and the back was narrow, as if in a parking lot. The cars that were blocking my way had already become my way.

I began to crawl quietly under the car, looking sideways and in front of me. I crawled hard under the car in front of me now. As expected, he was under the car even though he kept crawling. I crawled again and again in a tunnel made of cars like a tunnel. Every time I saw their groans and feet, I stopped and waited for them to pass. Fighting for a long time with patience, I was slowly advancing.

I was tired and cold all over. I've been thirsty. But I endured and endured. After stopping for two hours and crawling repeatedly, I stuck my head out from under the car to see where I had arrived. Then, very fortunately, there was a large sign that stood out.

Well-being Mart

an old-looking rustic sign He must have fled in a hurry, so he closed the security window. The mart, with a slight opening below, seemed to beckon me to come. I waited for them to disappear. And as they walked far away, I quickly went under the guard window of the Gear Mart.

It was dark. I couldn't see anything. He stretched out his hand and crawled hard against the wall. And soon, convinced that I was inside the mart, I slowly got up and leaned my back against the wall. In total darkness I was alone.