章 1: Wake Up In The Apocalypse World (Part 1)
"Ding Dong."
The computer made a notification sound indicating that the software download was complete and waking up the young man who is nestled in the armchair.
"Finally, it's done."
With a slight push forward, he skillfully moved the chair to the desk and began installing the game that had taken him more than half an hour to download.
The young man was called Dokgo Chul-Moo, a professional illustrator who spent most of his days at home.
Apart from drawing, he spent a large portion of his time playing various games.
The game he was installing now had just been recommended by a friend, who said it was especially fun and could easily consume your entire day without you notice.
Dokgo Chul-Moo had been wondering what to do to alleviate his boredom, and upon hearing this, he didn't hesitate to ask his friend to send the game over.
The installation didn't take long, and soon the game was ready.
Full of anticipation, Dokgo Chul-Moo opened it.
"???"
Something seemed off with the game's beginning.
He watched as his in-game character received a newbie gift pack: a farm, a wooden house, and some so-called weapons.
A hoe, an axe, a pickaxe, and a watering can.
These were the weapons?
These are called weapons?!
A prompt appeared on the screen.
[ Newbie Task: Please perform your first seeding. ]
The word "seeding" was even highlighted in red, as if afraid people wouldn't notice it.
Dokgo Chul-Moo: "..."
He pulled up the chat with the friend who had recommended the game and furiously typed out a message: "What kind of game did you recommend to me? It's a farming simulation!"
"Yeah, it's a farming game," his friend replied enthusiastically, "Farming is so fun and fulfilling! Look, these are the cabbages I planted, aren't they great? These are my radishes, and these are my peppers. Once they mature, you can keep harvesting them. And there's more...blah blah blah…"
Dokgo Chul-Moo: "…"
"How can an adult be playing farming games! They should be playing thrilling zombie battles!"
After typing this, Dokgo Chul-Moo grabbed the mouse and clicked uninstall.
At that moment, a bolt of lightning struck from outside with a deafening roar!
The last thing Dokgo Chul-Moo saw was his computer exploding into a ball of orange-yellow flames.
...Ah, and there were still some videos on the computer that he hadn't backed up.
What a pity.
This thought flashed through his mind as his consciousness plunged into darkness.
..
Dokgo Chul-Moo was awakened by an acrid, sour stench that was invading his nose.
As soon as his consciousness returned, every sensation in his body seemed to rebel, each one clamoring for attention.
Beneath him, the surface was cold and hard, making him shiver despite the fabric of his clothes.
The smell that woke him was intensely unpleasant, like garbage left uncollected for dozens of days—overwhelmingly pungent!
Something with many legs seemed to be crawling all over him, making his skin crawl.
His ears, however, picked up nothing but a faint wind.
Absolute silence.
No sounds of people or cars.
Aside from that, what Dokgo Chul-Moo couldn't ignore was the stinging pain and itching all over his body from head to toe!
His eyelids felt like they were weighed down with lead and making it impossible for him to open them.
What on earth is going on?!
Could it be that his computer exploded and no one has come to rescue him yet?
That's impossible.
Although his neighborhood wasn't exactly a luxury estate, it had top-notch security and other amenities.
There's no way something this big could happen without any response!
But everything about his current situation felt nothing like a hospital.
What hospital bed feels as hard as a floor?
What hospital has such poor hygiene, and such a foul smell?
Is this a hospital in a garbage dump?
The pain in his body and the unfamiliar surroundings were overwhelming for Dokgo Chul-Moo.
He struggled to lift his eyelids, higher and higher…
Finally.
Dokgo Chul-Moo opened his eyes!
…
"Ha, ha, haha.
This must be a joke, right?
It has to be a dream.
He must have opened his eyes the wrong way.
Let's try again, do it over!
However, no matter how many times Dokgo Chul-Moo closed and opened his eyes, the scene before him remained unchanged.
It was a desolate street, with dilapidated buildings on either side.
The doors and windows were askew, and many were missing entirely.
Abandoned cars were everywhere, haphazardly parked, some crashed halfway into the buildings on either side of the road, showing no signs of being dealt with.
What should have been green spaces were now just dried branches.
The few remaining green leaves shivered in the cold wind, their vitality uncertain.
Whether on the street, in the buildings, inside or on top of the cars, there were heaps of garbage, dust, and dead leaves everywhere.
Dokgo Chul-Moo was lying on the side of this very road.
But that wasn't the main issue.
The main issue was the dried dark red bloodstains within his line of sight.
And the numerous corpses mangled beyond recognition!
Those were human bodies...
Dokgo Chul-Moo had seen various kinds of human bodies before, but only in games or in pictures and videos he looked up online for his illustrations.
He had never seen one in real life.
Not to mention there's so many of them!
Dokgo Chul-Moo stared fixedly at the closest corpse to him.
It was inside a car with its window open, the upper half of the body outside and the lower half inside the car.
What Dokgo Chul-Moo found unbearable was the fact that the half body outside the car had its head blown off...
White, red, and dark gray...
Dokgo Chul-Moo retched.
Under such stimulation, Dokgo Chul-Moo found that he could finally moved his body!
He immediately got up.
At that moment, a wave of dizziness hit his head.
Dokgo Chul-Moo shook his head, not caring about anything, and grabbed an abandoned car beside him.
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