Staking a Claim (4)

A zombie army appeared out of nowhere.

They began crawling up the wide platform Architect had built.

They were heading for the two living humans fighting back on top of it.

I scrambled up onto the AI tower crane called Architect and contacted Woo Cheonyeop.

There was one question I couldn’t just leave unasked.

“Did you have an idea this was going to happen?”

[I wasn’t certain. I just thought it was possible.]

There was plenty of debate on the Gallery, but thanks to the testimony of Doryeong, a Grade A fixer, most people in the city accepted that ghosts existed.

Still, the accepted wisdom was that Doryeong kept them under control as much as possible, so even though ghosts existed, people near National Land Parcel No. 1 wouldn’t actually encounter them.

Besides, Cheong Harin and I had killed nearly a thousand zombies around here this morning...