Chapter 22: The Lost World of the Corrupted (6)
We decided to avoid the main road and instead take the backstreets to bypass the zombies on our way to Chungmuro Station. The narrow alley was lined with half-eaten corpses.
“Ugh.”
“They weren’t here when we passed by earlier.”
It was my first time seeing human corpses up close like this, and I had to fight to keep my stomach from turning.
I glanced to my side at Seo Ho-Su, noticing that he kept a straight face, probably trying to hold it together for our sake. When our eyes met, he gave me a small, reassuring smile, as if to say he was fine.
“Looks like it’s been about four hours.”
Ha Hee-Jeong's voice was calm and steady, seemingly desensitized to this kind of violence. She examined the bodies in a detached manner, even estimating their time of death.
At that moment, I got a glimpse of what her life must have been like in her previous climb.
I thought she was just a good fighter...