Apocalypse: Apparently, I Can See Zombies

Chapter 97- Smoke On The Horizon

"You must be crazy to think we would agree. We don't even want someone like you near us. Get lost!"

Jeon-sok was like a cat that had its tail stepped on and he erupted at Ye-jun.

"Absolutely shameless."

"Yeah, how does he have the courage to approach Boss Jin?"

The other seven youths reacted similarly to Jeon-sok. Their biting remarks were mostly aimed at Ye-jun, but some were hurled at the others behind him, which caused their faces to turn ugly.

They wanted to retort back, or at the very least turn and walk away, but Ye-jun had instructed them to stay quiet.

However, he had not informed them beforehand that they were going to play games with them.

Even the students with Ye-jun couldn't understand why he was doing this, so Jin-woo was even more puzzled.

With furrowed brows, Jin-woo stared at Ye-jun who was still calmly standing there despite the insults. He then opened his mouth about to speak, but Mai-sun, who had been sitting behind him silently watching them play, suddenly spoke up.

"I think you guys are going too far with your words. It's just playing a game. We're all in this situation together so being against each other like this will only cause trouble."

Jeon-sok and his seven friends went silent, a bit taken aback because it sounded like Mai-sun was speaking up for Ye-jun.

But wasn't she friends with Jin-woo? They even heard they were childhood friends.

Jeon-sok's seven friends weren't people from Class 1A so they did not know the true relationship between Jin-woo and Mai-sun.

No, even those in Class 1A thought Mai-sun and Jin-woo were friends. Though with a particular dynamic between them, with Mai-sun trying to be nice, and Jin-woo, in response, giving her the cold shoulder.

Jeon-sok paused for a moment, but he suddenly recalled all the times he had seen Ye-jun before they came to the cafeteria, and he realized Mai-sun had always been next to him.

'No, wait!'

Jeon-sok's pupils suddenly constricted as he remembered something else.

Mai-sun was the one Yoon-min sacrificed himself to save, he had completely forgotten about that. Yet despite that, she was sticking up for Ye-jun in this situation.

At this moment, Jeon-sok was suddenly aware of Mai-sun and her weird behavior, something he hadn't taken notice of until now.

Face turning cold, he looked at her and said.

"How can you say that after Yoon-min risked his life to save you? If it wasn't for Ye-jun our classmate and Yoon-min's best friend Micah wouldn't have died. You seem to want us to make up, but did this bastard even apologize to Jin-woo?"

"Ha? You think I don't feel guilty? Yoon-min died yet here I am safe and sound, so you're thinking how dare I speak up for Ye-jun, right? But what should I do? Should I go jump off the roof hoping my death will bring Yoon-min back? Is that what you want?"

Mai-sun immediately clapped back and Jeon-sok was left speechless, not knowing how to respond.

"I just don't want anyone else to die because of me, but if you all keep fighting then that's exactly what's going to happen."

After saying this, Mai-sun turned her head away, not willing to pay any more attention to this situation after having her good intentions turned against her.

Jeon-sok didn't know what to do with himself. He felt slightly bad, so he scratched his head and said.

"I never said you should kill yourself, don't misunderstand me."

However, the moment he uttered those words, he realized that his intention to call out Mai-sun's involvement with Yoon-min's death had shifted to him trying to blame her for it. It wasn't a good look, and the atmosphere turned awkward when Mai-sun didn't respond.

Seong glanced at Mai-sun and suddenly said to Jin-woo.

"Looks like her acting has gone up a notch."

Jin-woo didn't respond but he subtly nodded his head to show his agreement.

He and Seong had known Mai-sun since they were young, so they knew her personality well. When she says or does stuff like this and they say she was acting, it doesn't mean they thought her words and feelings were fake, but that she loves to weaponize her words and those feelings to make herself look good.

If her personality was rated out of five, it would be two parts narcissism and three parts anarchism.

Those three parts of anarchism being there because when she does weaponize her words and feelings it's to sow chaos along with making herself look good.

Jin-woo looked at Ye-jun and then said.

"Do you have the game? How many of you are we playing against?"

Jin-woo didn't really care what Ye-jun was planning, and even though he didn't like it when it was coming from Mai-sun, she was right. They couldn't continue fighting amongst themselves, or else something horrible would happen at the worst possible time.

Instead of splitting the group into factions that are antagonistic towards each other, Jin-woo would rather have everyone stick together. To do that he had to lead by example by agreeing to this since he was a figurehead of one of those factions, after all, his problem was with Ye-jun not his classmates in Class 1A.

"We can just download it. Eight."

Ye-jun's response was curt, leaving Jeon-sok and the others frowning in response. However, they nonetheless make space for them to sit down. Afterward, they work to get the game onto their phones.

Before long Jeon-sok was organizing a team match between them, eight on Ye-jun's side and nine on Jin-woo's side.

The first match started with Jeon-sok using the same tactic as before, by sending out Jin-woo as a one-man army.

However, he and the others realized something was different about Jin-woo after he headshoted the third person from Ye-jun's group.

A strange scene then unfolded, Jeon-sok and the others crowded around Jin-woo who was taking everyone on solo.

Their breaths soon hitched in their throats after the seventh headshot just outside a cabin.

Jin-woo then pushed open that cabin's door, but instead of entering he suddenly ducked, where bullets immediately exploded above his head, narrowingly missing him. Then, in one fluid motion, he switched to a flash grenade which he tossed inside the cabin before retreating, the door automatically closing as he did.

After a second, Jin-woo stepped back into the cabin. Inside Ye-jun's player was motionless while pointing straight at the door.

Ye-jun's entire phone screen was white, but the moment he heard the door being open from Jin-woo's phone he fired his gun.

However, Jin-woo was one step ahead.

Even though Ye-jun could hear the door being open, he couldn't see that Jin-woo was holding a hand grenade that was tossed into the cabin before he retreated again. A few bullets landed but didn't decrease his health bar completely.

A loud explosion echoed out in the cabin and Ye-jun silently stared at the phone he had borrowed which was showing a blood-red screen with the words 'you are dead' written in bold red letters.

Jeon-sok and the others immediately reacted, cheering wildly. They all collectively almost lost their minds as they couldn't believe Jin-woo just soloed the entire game. They wished they had recorded it so they could post it online.

Even a few of the students from Class 1A couldn't help but voice their amazement, while the others were more subdued, giving Jin-woo dumbfounded looks.

"Let's play again."

Ye-jun's voice cut through the excitement while he was seen fixing his glasses. If he was upset, no one could tell from his voice or body language.

"Haha, sure!"

Jeon-sok was the first one to agree, and the students from Class 1A couldn't help but feel irked.

However, Ye-jun calmly motioned to one of them and whispered something into his ears. Eyes lighting up, this youth passed on the message to the youth beside him, and this went on until all seven youths heard Ye-jun's orders.

Jeon-sok saw this, but he only sneered.

No matter what kind of plan they came up with it would be useless.

However, after the second match ended, Jeon-sok and the seven other youths' faces were ashen.

Jin-woo, however, calmly looked up from his blood-red phone screen at Ye-jun who was staring back at him with an equally calm expression.

"So even in a game, you're willing to sacrifice people so you could survive."

After Jin-woo said this he turned to his former classmates next to Ye-jun before adding.

"Be careful he doesn't do this to you in real life."

Upon hearing that, those seven youths had their expressions change before they glanced at Ye-jun with hesitant expressions.

In the game just now, Ye-jun had instructed two of them to be bait for Jin-woo to lure him into a building where Ye-jun could snipe him from a distance. At the same time, the rest of the team would ambush Jeon-sok and the others who were unprepared.

With Ye-jun looking over the battlefield with a sniper after taking out Jin-woo, they were completely decimated.

Jeon-sok soon recovered from the devastating loss before he gritted his teeth and turned to Ye-jun to ask for a rematch.

However, just as he opened his mouth to speak, a loud explosion suddenly echoed before an earthquake-like tremor rocked the building and caused a few of the girls to scream out in terror.

Jin-woo's body jerked due to the building shaking, but he quickly stabilized himself and hurriedly got up to see what had happened. Immediately his gaze landed outside of the school where he saw a bellowing cluster of smoke rising into the air on the horizon.

It was too far away to see what exactly was on fire, but from the loud sound and the massive impact of the blast, it seemed the building held some explosive chemicals.