Apocalypse: Apparently, I Can See Zombies

"That's the eighth zombie we encountered that he trapped inside a room. Why doesn't he just kill them?"

A boy asked among the students who were about to reach the stairs leading to the roof.

"I don't know. Maybe he feels conflicted since they are students like us."

"I don't blame Jin-woo for feeling conflicted, I also feel the same. After all, those zombies could have easily been me."

A few more boys spoke up about Jin-woo's actions. Along the way there they met a total of nine stray zombies.

The number didn't come as a surprise to Jin-woo since the zombies were mostly gathered on the fourth floor before he trapped them. It wasn't unreasonable that a few remained. As for him not killing those zombies, he didn't bother explaining his actions to the others despite overhearing their conversations.

After climbing up the stairs. Jin-woo reached the doors leading to the roof only to see that a chain locked with a padlock was wrapped around its metal handlebars.

The students surrounding Jin-woo on the stair island all despaired when they saw the lock, but their eyes suddenly lit up when they witnessed Jin-woo taking out a bundle of keys from one of the pockets in the utility belt around his waist.

But as Jin-woo was sifting through the keys to find the right one, a familiar female voice suddenly echoed next to him.

"Jin, how were you able to tell when a zombie was approaching us?"

Jin-woo paused and turned to see that the voice came from Mai-sun.

"Ah, that's right! Jin, how did you know?"

"Yeah, it was cool how you were able to do that. Is it like a sixth sense?"

The boys, having the thoughts that they had at the back of their minds asked out in the open, started staring at Jin-woo with curious gazes.

Jin-woo's gaze lingered on the smiling Mai-sun for a moment before he turned back to sifting through keys while answering non-committedly.

"Hm, something like that."

Before any more questions could be thrown his way, Jin-woo finally found the right key and unlocked the door. He pushed it open, and a stream of sunlight landed on everyone.

Despite the solar panels and the AC units, the roof was still extremely spacious with even a slight elevation some distance away from the door, which was used as a helipad. For safety reasons, the ledges were also secured with a three-meter-tall green fence.

The excited students all spilled out onto the roof like birds freed from a cage, while Jin-woo walked to the side and sat near a ledge.

Seong, however, went to the ledge. The football field as well as the auditorium and gymnasium were to his left, but he wasn't gazing in that direction, his attention was transfixed on the buildings outside of the school.

From here, faint smoke could be seen swirling up into the air from several buildings on fire.

The students who were once excited felt like a bucket of cold water had been doused on their heads. Some had their expressions go pale as they watched the burning buildings, while others' expressions turned gloomy.

No one could remain calm upon seeing this scene. The reality of their situation, which they had been willfully ignorant of while being stuck in the cafeteria, was now laid bare in front of them.

Perhaps it was just an illusion, but it felt like they could hear faint screams filled with agony coming from those burning buildings in the distance.

It took a long while for the students to snap out of their gloomy moods brought on by the chaotic scene. For those who had phones they either played games or watched random videos.

They had been avoiding watching the news all this while because they knew how bad the situation outside was. For those who lived in Itaewon or Yongsan District as a whole, their families and everyone they knew outside of the school were likely already dead as they couldn't even get them on the phone.

As for those who had family outside of Yongsan District, those with phones called directly while the teachers organized for those without to borrow from others to call.

Meanwhile, the others were going through a rollercoaster of emotions Jin-woo chose not to look. Not that he didn't care, but because he had long come to terms with the world plunging into chaos… and his likely death.

Jin-woo knew that the Marshal would never let him go after getting his hands on the cure. At the very least if he was not killed, he would be locked away in a lab facility.

Even with his abilities, Jin-woo wasn't sure if he could remain unscathed. He and Seong had never talked about this point, but they both knew of the danger he would be putting himself in if he went along with everyone.

As for not going with the rescue team and escaping by himself… Jin-woo was indeed contemplating it, but he hesitated because he wasn't confident in surviving on his own.

Plus, who knows how long a cure would take to be created without his blood? The sooner a cure is created the better the chances are to stop this virus before it gets even more out of control.

Sitting cross-legged, Jin-woo took out his two sandwiches and banana milk. But before he ate, he fished out his phone to pull up a video. As for which video, it was a video on the news overseas.

After finding a channel page of a big news station on Newtube, Jin-woo clicked on a recently published video. He then placed the phone on his left knee and picked up one of the sandwiches to eat. But at that moment someone suddenly approached and sat next to him.

Jin-woo, who was just about to take a bite of his sandwich, paused. But he soon ignored the person and focused on eating.

Just then, the female news anchor started speaking in the video.

"We've received reports that all the countries in the U.N. have decided to cut off all travel going to and from South Korea. The decision came as a response to the mysterious and deadly virus that suddenly appeared in the Yongsan District of Seoul. The number of infected is currently unavailable but the virus is said to have ravaged Yongsan District which is home to the well-known and populated Itaewon neighborhood leaving only a few residents alive…"

Suddenly, the female anchor paused reading the teleprompter, and her face showed a skeptical expression. It was as if she couldn't believe the next words she was supposed to say. However, she was a professional, so her pause lasted for only a few seconds. But even as she resumed speaking, she couldn't help but voice her doubts.

"I…I apologize, but it seems this deadly virus has resulted in something straight out of a horror film... The South Korean government has been silent about the specifics as to what this virus is, but videos of the situation in Itaewon have gone viral on social media as it's revealed that... that zombies are attacking people."

The female anchor stuttered on the last few words before it cut to the videos that she had mentioned.

The first video showed a short clip of a zombie being unsteadily recorded through a window as it stumbled through the narrow streets of Itaewon. The second clip was of someone shaking on the ground while being surrounded by a few people trying to help, it seems they were in some sort of office building.

A few more clips were played, but Jin-woo got the jest of it and instead chose to check the comments under the video.

He scrolled through and as he suspected, people didn't believe the video was real. Some commented that it wasn't April Fools yet, and others asked if they had somehow clicked on a parody account rather than a credible news source.

Jin-woo also saw a few comments asking which low-budget zombie movie these clips came from, as if they wanted to check out this supposed 'indie movie.'

The comments on this video weren't only in English, a few other languages were there, some Jin-woo himself couldn't understand.

Suddenly, Jin-woo saw a comment in Chinese that made him almost choke on the piece of sandwich he had just bitten.

TrendyFoist: "Damn, from all those Hollywood movies I thought it was a company in the US that would be the first ones to start a zombie apocalypse, not our brothers over in SK."

Jin-woo managed to swallow the piece of food in his mouth successfully before he smiled bitterly, but also curiously opened the replies.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Commy3994: "Lmao, you really believe this? Ain't no way this is real, it's probably fake news. But if it was real, it was prob done by you Japs."

TrendyFoist: "@Commy3994 Idiot, I'm Chinese, not Japanese."

Commy3994: "@TrendyFoist Is there a difference? Lol"

TrendyFoist: "@TrendyFoist You must be a stupid American, go and educate yourself."

Commy3994: "@TrendyFoist wow, how can you be so racist?"

TrendyFoist: "@Commy3994 how am I racist? You started this"

Commy3994: "@TrendyFoist RACIST"

GuiltyDream: "@TrendyFoist Dude, he's just trolling you, lol. Don't respond to ppl like him."

Jin-woo came to the end of the comments, but this brief interaction pretty much summed up a majority of people's reactions to this news. Either they didn't believe it was real, or they half believed it but still joked about it.

Overall, the sentiments were ordinary.

Suddenly, the person who had been silently sitting next to Jin-woo finally spoke up.

"Jin, did you speak with my mother? Was she okay?"

Jin-woo paused, then glanced at Mai-sun next to him.

Seeing her expression as she silently stared at him, Jin-woo suddenly realized, that for the first time since he had known this girl, she had dropped her rather manufactured attitude.

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