Chapter 154: The Boss in the Academy
One taught pattern making.
One taught design.
Another taught CAD software.
Unlike some computer training centers, they did not even provide certificates or job placement assistance.
It was obvious at a glance that the place was not particularly professional.
Naturally, the number of students it could accommodate was not especially high either.
Judging from the size of the building alone, it could probably house at most a little over one hundred students.
And that estimate already assumed that every dormitory room housed eight people.
Once he took into account the fact that some students probably lived nearby and chose not to stay in the dormitories at all, the actual number of residents would be even lower.
However, this at least meant that there might not even be any elite monsters inside.
After thinking it over, Joo Joowon ultimately decided to make the trip.
After all, fewer people also meant that accidents were far less likely to happen.
Besides, what kind of anti-zombie equipment could a dormitory possibly have?
Scissors?
The chances of a place like this being completely wiped out were extremely high.
Even if every single infected person inside had become only Level 1 Zombies, that would still represent a considerable amount of experience for Joo Joowon, and the situation would remain relatively safe.
As a first tier metropolitan city, most areas of Sabi City remained lively throughout the night before the apocalypse, which naturally meant that zombies were everywhere.
Because of that, Joo Joowon had no intention of creating unnecessary trouble for himself.
He simply picked up Byeol and Hwi and traveled by moving across the walls.
Although the sky was not completely free of danger, the chances of accidents occurring were still far lower than if he traveled directly along the streets.
As long as he avoided making noise, very few people would ever think to look upward and notice that there was actually a person running between the tall buildings.
After all, who went around staring at the sky for no reason?
With that thought in mind, Joo Joowon moved rapidly between the high rise buildings.
Occasionally, whenever he spotted zombies through windows or noticed isolated zombies wandering below on the streets, he casually dealt with them along the way.
By the time he finally reached his destination, he had unexpectedly gained another twenty experience points.
Byeol had always been calm and dependable.
Even while Joo Joowon carried it while sprinting across walls and rooftops, it showed no fear whatsoever.
Hwi, however, reacted in a way Joo Joowon had not expected.
It appeared to be somewhat afraid of heights, or perhaps it simply could not adapt to this kind of situation.
As a result, not only did it fail to observe its surroundings during the journey, it never even raised its head once.
Instead, it buried its face directly into Joo Joowon’s chest and left him staring only at the back of its unusually round head.
Since windows were available, there was naturally no need to bother opening doors.
Joo Joowon jumped directly through a window and entered one of the training classrooms.
Inside stood numerous sheets of white paper nearly as tall as a person, along with several enormous tables.
The size of the furniture made the entire room feel unusually empty and spacious.
There were not many desks either.
At a rough estimate, there were only enough seats for twenty or thirty people at most.
There was nobody inside the classroom.
After leaving the room, Joo Joowon headed directly upstairs.
Small training institutions like this rarely arranged separate accommodation buildings.
Usually, the first floor served as the reception area, the second and third floors housed classrooms and the floors above that were converted into dormitories.
Only institutions that had earned enough money from their students to afford a new building would move into the kind of luxurious teaching environments that looked genuinely professional and high end.
The computer training institute where Joo Joowon had once worked before it went bankrupt had followed exactly this kind of model.
Unfortunately, there had simply been too many computer training centers back then.
His boss’s company had possessed no real competitive advantage and was eventually pushed out of the market by rival institutions.
Even so, Joo Joowon had learned quite a lot while working there.
He had gained a thorough understanding of how these training institutions operated.
After that experience, he never even bothered looking at this type of workplace when job hunting.
The large chain training institutions that operated nationwide at least provided complete employee benefits even if their salaries were low.
Working in small rundown places like these was a completely different story.
Forget social insurance and housing funds.
Sometimes even the tiny salaries they offered were not paid on time.
The management also loved painting grand visions of the future to keep employees motivated.
Everything about such places screamed "unprofessional."
He had only climbed a few steps upstairs when his enhanced senses immediately noticed something strange.
Heavy breathing.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to call it snoring?
Joo Joowon was not entirely certain.
The sound was simply too obvious.
It was like the footsteps heard by protagonists in horror movies when they were hiding from serial killers.
Each sound struck against his heart and created an overwhelming feeling of pressure.
Joo Joowon instinctively stopped walking.
At that moment, only one thought existed in his mind.
Boss monster.
Damn it!
How could a place with so few people still produce a boss monster?!
Joo Joowon had not expected his luck to be this terrible.
He had merely chosen a random blind box location and somehow managed to run directly into a boss.
He was absolutely certain that this was not an ordinary monster.
It definitely was not an elite monster either.
Joo Joowon had encountered quite a few elite monsters already.
Not a single one of them had ever given him this kind of feeling, as though he was being crushed by a higher form of life itself.