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But it didn’t feel like I was forcing myself.

“Thank you very much.”

I stood motionless for a few seconds with the cloth in my hand before replying somewhat awkwardly.

As I looked back on everything I had done up to that point, I realized I really had been throwing myself headfirst into everything without thinking too much.

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Rather.

Of course, a peaceful life without any incidents would always be the best.

I was enjoying it a little.

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But even now, I didn’t feel that bad.

‘Besides, I’m discovering things the game never showed…’

I supposed it was because I was exploring, in real life, the world of a game I loved so much.

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If it weren’t for the mission of preventing my limbs from being amputated, I’d probably be enjoying it even more.

If I did, Mo Haein would probably look at me as if I were an even bigger lunatic.

Of course, I had no intention of saying something like that.

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Well.

Instead of expressing what I was really thinking, I continued wiping my face with the cloth she had given me.

As I stopped looking worse than a zombie, Mo Haein and Kwak Hanmuk took the opportunity to eat something as well.

Seeing how much blood stained the cloth, I understood why they had considered me completely unhinged up until now.

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Kwak Hanmuk devoured quite a considerable amount.

Mo Haein ate a little.

After swallowing a mountain of snacks, he licked his lips in satisfaction.

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“No… I need to go on a diet…”

“You can eat more. arcade There are plenty of places to get food.”

Despite eating so much, he didn’t even look full.

He muttered something while biting down on one last lollipop until it shattered.

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He stayed crouched for a few seconds, holding the stick between his fingers with a vacant expression.

When I looked back, only the empty stick remained.

I looked away for a moment.

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I had no idea what he was trying to do.

When he noticed I was watching him, he smiled and stood up.

It wasn’t like it was a cigarette butt.

Then he tossed the stick onto the ground and crushed it beneath his foot.

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While the three of us recovered our hunger and thirst levels, Je Hyuno remained seated on top of the jeep.

Since he was already infected with the BT-Z virus, many of the Trial’s rules simply didn’t apply to him.

Nor could he be infected again if a zombie bit him.

In Dead Zone Delivery, he didn’t need to eat or drink.

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If he had entered HAZPAC, he probably wouldn’t have even been able to equip the toy limbs.

Watching him observe us from above made me feel like an animal in a zoo.

‘I hope he finds the show entertaining.’

So he simply waited while we finished eating.

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After making full use of Je Hyuno’s help, I honestly wanted to leave him with a good impression.

I immediately lowered my gaze.

But the moment our eyes met, he began moving his metallic fingers as though he were playing a piano.

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After slinging it over my shoulder, I checked the rooftop ventilation system.

Once we finished eating and recovered, I quickly packed the backpack with the essentials.

It was better not to attract too much of his attention.

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I then began the briefing for the laboratory raid.

Fortunately, it was still operating on emergency power and hadn’t been damaged.

“Our first objective will be locating the researchers who are still alive.”

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Everything was concentrated in a single facility.

The Dead Zone Delivery laboratory was a long building consisting of two underground levels and five floors above ground.

Unlike the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in HAZPAC, there weren’t several separate buildings here.

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The fifth floor was the most important.

The BSL-4 laboratory was the indispensable location for developing the zombie virus vaccine.

That was where the high-risk pathogen laboratory was located.

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“Under normal circumstances, the surviving researcher would be hiding in a janitor’s closet on the third floor. arch But the situation has changed, so it’s highly likely that they’re somewhere else now.”

The player gave them food to keep them alive, eliminated the zombies, and helped them reach the fifth-floor laboratory.

In the game, the last surviving researcher remained hidden inside a small janitor’s closet on the third floor.

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Only then did the delivery mission truly begin.

There was no way all of them were still hiding inside such a tiny closet.

There, the researcher unlocked the laboratory, which had remained sealed, and began developing the vaccine.

But now there were four surviving researchers.

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Though it was still only a hypothesis.

During that process, one of them had likely been attacked by a zombie that had remained hidden.

Since Je Hyuno had exterminated the zombies at the beginning of the Trial, the researchers had probably taken advantage of the opportunity to gather supplies and build barricades around the most important laboratory.

“My guess is that they’re already in the laboratory. aspect On the fifth floor.”

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“Yes. auction Just in case. palette And besides locating the researchers, we also need to confirm as soon as possible whether the conditions for the True Ending are still intact.”

“Then, if we don’t find them on the fifth floor, we should also check the third.”

Mo Haein immediately added her opinion.

Since I needed to verify that part personally, I proposed what I considered the most efficient strategy.

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Kwak Hanmuk was the first to agree.

“What do you think about splitting into two teams and advancing simultaneously?”

“Sure. zenith We have to listen to Big Brother Goyo.”

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‘Captain Mo and I in the same group!’

I seized the opportunity to try to decide the team composition.

Mo Haein nodded as well.

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I had a good justification.

Besides, Kwak Hanmuk was the most suitable person to stay with Je Hyuno in case he did something unexpected.

We had already worked together in HAZPAC.

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Screeeech.

But I couldn’t finish the sentence.

“Then the teams will be—”

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His black wings began to move slowly.

An unpleasant metallic sound interrupted my words.

With a soft metallic sound, the feathers folded one after another until they disappeared completely behind his back.

Je Hyuno was scratching the jeep with his metal hand.

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And walked straight over to stand beside me.

o o

Then he jumped down from the jeep.

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I looked at Kwak Hanmuk and Mo Haein.

It seemed he wanted us to go together.

They were already discussing among themselves how they would conduct the search.

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However, there was something the two of them didn’t know.

Apparently, they were convinced that now Je Hyuno had regained his sanity and accepted me as a teammate, he would no longer try to attack me.

Besides, considering that both of them were already quite exhausted, they probably thought he was the one best suited to protect me.

I had mentioned Zero in front of Je Hyuno.

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Even so, I couldn’t tell Mo Haein or Kwak Hanmuk about that detail.

I was already attracting too much attention by talking about Trial strategies and item usage.

I had unintentionally touched what was practically his greatest sore spot.

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I didn’t have to worry about Je Hyuno telling them about Zero or about the system windows.

If I stood out even more, the unspoken understanding everyone had been maintaining might collapse.

At least there was one small stroke of luck amid all that misfortune.

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‘He’ll simply eliminate me himself the moment he considers me a threat.’

He wasn’t going to bother revealing that Han Goyo was an anomalous existence.

After all, the real problem with Je Hyuno was that he wouldn’t even say what actually needed to be said.

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Now that he acknowledged me as a teammate, he would probably tolerate me to a certain extent.

It was even possible that he had decided to accompany me solely to find a good opportunity to do it.

It was enough to feel the killing intent he didn’t even try to hide.

But if I did something that truly annoyed him, he would eliminate me without hesitation.

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We decided to meet again at the fifth-floor laboratory.

With that constant concern in mind, I ended up teaming up with Je Hyuno.

‘I hope I don’t have to use Execution on Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno…’

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I turned to look at him.

His goggles still displayed the wide-open eyes emoticon.

Without imagining any of the thoughts running through my head, Mo Haein and Kwak Hanmuk opened the rooftop door and disappeared down the emergency staircase to carry out their part of the mission.

Only Je Hyuno and I remained on the rooftop.

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Walking from the rooftop to the second floor through hordes of Dead Zombies would take quite a while.

“…Uh… we need to go down to the second floor.”

He seemed ready to follow me.

But with Je Hyuno with us, there was no reason to do it on foot.

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I didn’t even have to say it.

He took a pair of leather gloves out of his inventory.

It seemed he had thought exactly the same thing.

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Suddenly.

With one of his hands transformed into a human one thanks to the Crow Gloves, he looked a little less intimidating.

When he put the black glove on his left metallic hand, it emitted a flash and took on the appearance of a human hand.

‘So those are the Crow Gloves.’

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Jumped into the void.

And, without any warning.

He sprinted across the rooftop.

He grabbed me by the back of the neck.

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And threw me inside.

At the same time, he kicked through a window.

The sensation of falling knocked the breath out of me.

He descended at incredible speed and drove his metallic hand straight into the second-floor wall.

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“Ugh!”

With one human hand and the other metallic one hanging casually at his sides, Je Hyuno calmly stepped through the broken window and entered the hallway.

I almost rolled across the shattered glass, but managed to regain my balance at the last moment.

The emergency lights dimly illuminated the corridor.

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His long shadow stretched across the floor.

The Dead Zombies that had heard the glass shatter immediately lunged toward us.

“Graaaagh!”

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The air was sliced clean through.

Whoosh.

The moment I pressed myself against the wall, he swung his metallic arm horizontally.

Je Hyuno gestured with his human hand, telling me to move aside because I was in the way.

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A moment later.

Five lines cut across the zombies’ bodies.

Thud.

The Dead Zombies collapsed into pieces.

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I immediately forgot the disrespectful thought I had when he threw me into the building.

His strengths and weaknesses were incredibly clear.

“Thank you very much, Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno.”

He had a terrible personality.

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But he was the kind of superior who was so competent that he let you leave work early.

With a genuine smile, I obediently followed the officer who had eliminated every zombie in just a few seconds.

Our destination was the laboratory director’s office.

“This way.”

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“May I ask you a very small favor? action Something truly insignificant.”

Je Hyuno looked at me as if telling me to speak.

I smiled brightly.

As we headed there, I stopped for a moment in front of another office.

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Now that the number of surviving researchers had increased from one to four, it was a good idea to gather supplies for them while we were already on the second floor.

“Collect food.”

From the third floor onward, almost everything consisted of laboratories and analysis rooms, so most of the food was located on the first and second floors.

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Je Hyuno’s goggles lit up.

O K

I had never known because, in the game, Je Hyuno hardly ever spoke.

‘…So they can display letters too?’

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Unlike the hallway, the emergency lights weren’t working there, and everything was completely dark.

As I wondered whether he could display longer messages, I entered the office with him.

But that wasn’t a problem.

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“Third desk on the left. voyage There’s a chocolate bar in the bottom drawer. airport And underneath the flowerpot on the next desk there’s a bag of gummy candies.”

I knew the exact location of every bit of food.

I simply pointed out the locations.

And Je Hyuno could see perfectly well even in the darkness.

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‘This is so convenient…’

My only job was to hold the backpack open while following him.

Je Hyuno collected the items at incredible speed and tossed them straight into the backpack.

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But to my surprise, he was cooperating far more than I had expected.

Everything was going smoothly.

At first, I had been nervous about being alone with him.

I continued taking full advantage of Je Hyuno’s incredible usefulness.

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The faint growl of a zombie could be heard.

“Grrr… Grrr…”

When we finished searching the office and were approaching the director’s office…

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As if it were trapped somewhere.

‘But there shouldn’t be any zombies locked up on the second floor…’

It had probably awakened after hearing the window shatter.

But it sounded strange.

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Since the sound was coming from the director’s office, I quickened my pace.

And also.

I didn’t know what had changed.

The closer we got, the more, besides the growls, dull banging noises could be heard.

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“……”

When I finally arrived in front of the director’s office.

The sound of someone crying.

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There was a clear trace of amusement in his hoarse, beast-like voice.

“Goyo.”

Je Hyuno called out to me.

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“Do you still think you can clear the Trial?”

But this time.

I couldn’t respond.

I should have answered yes immediately to prove my usefulness.

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Its hands and feet were bound.

A zombie repeatedly slammed its head against the reinforced glass door.

Bang. anxiety Bang. atom Bang.

It even had a gag in its mouth.

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A researcher’s ID card hung around the zombie’s neck.

It could only move its head.

And it kept smashing it against the glass over and over again.

I stared at it in shock.

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There was no doubt.

Then I slowly lowered my gaze.

Lee Seon

The name and photograph on the ID badge were clearly visible before my eyes.

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He was the researcher who was supposed to develop the vaccine.