Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 536

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 6
2. He Has a Plan (3)
Thud. Thud.
Zombies smeared in crimson blood scraped their bodies against the door. These zombies could not open the sliding door.
There was no need to even lock it—opening it was nearly impossible for them.
But was it only the zombies who couldn’t open this sliding door? Ironically, the humans couldn’t open it either.
Even without being locked, they couldn’t open it.
And each time one of these sliding doors closed, they became isolated.
A small society was born with each door that shut.
Balloon Gum, now trapped in Class 1 of the third year next to the first-floor hallway leading to the restroom, was experiencing this.
The moment the sliding door closed, he was incorporated into a society against his will.
Just as a child doesn’t choose the nation they’re born into.
“Hey. Why don’t you have a name tag?”
In this society, he was the lowest class.
Those who had trusted and followed him also fell to the lowest class alongside him.
“….”
“Kid… did you lose it? Whatever, doesn’t matter. Come here.”
Class 5, the upper class.
These were the words of Jinhyeok Kim, who reigned as the apex predator among them.
Balloon Gum had no choice but to approach.
Jinhyeok Kim threw a lighter at Balloon Gum and spoke.
“Light it for me.”
Jinhyeok Kim held out a cigarette in his mouth and waited.
“….”
Balloon Gum hesitated.
[Your class’s morale is decreasing.]
Class 3’s morale was dropping.
It seemed to be because of his action.
-Lmao so humiliating
Damn, haha
-NPCs really are all different lol
This was Jinhyeok Kim’s method.
To humiliate the enemy leader.
By making Balloon Gum submit, he could control all of Class 3.
This young punk was sharp only when it came to such things.
‘At least my name hasn’t been exposed.’
Balloon Gum suppressed his anger by thinking of the one thing that had gone well.
There was no chance of winning if they fought here.
Class 5 had three players standing firm, and they were observing this situation with cold eyes from where they stood by the window.
If he started a fight, he would only be giving them justification to attack.
And Class 3, lacking in numbers, strength, and strategy, would suffer a crushing defeat under Balloon Gum’s leadership.
Click.
A lighter flared to life.
“Haaah.”
As Jinhyeok Kim drew a deep breath, the tip of the cigarette glowed red.
He stretched out across the desk and exhaled smoke.
“Ahhh. Sweet. So sweet.”
The expressions on the Class 3 students’ faces grew dark.
Gloom. Despair. Hopelessness….
Balloon Gum had lit the cigarette.
Yet with a single gesture, he influenced them all.
The rough-looking students positioned behind Jinhyeok laughed.
“Jinhyeok, you’ve watched too many movies. Are you Lee Jung-jae or something?”
“Yeah, stop trying to look so cool~”
Jinhyeok pointed outside to them.
“Hey. Look outside right now. Our lives are more like a movie than Lee Jung-jae’s.”
“Damn, you talk a good game.”
“Ah. But.”
Whoosh.
Jinhyeok sat up.
He waved his cigarette-holding hand and called over the Class 3 students standing at the door.
“Hey, Class 3. Come here, all of you. From what I saw earlier, you guys don’t seem to understand your position.”
Jinhyeok now understood that he could control all of Class 3.
After all, he had humiliated their leader-level member, Balloon Gum.
“Hey. Why aren’t you coming?”
The Class 3 students hesitated but slowly got up and came forward as he commanded.
“Listen, Class 3. You guys are just freeloaders here. Got it? But you kept chattering and attracted the zombies?”
Most of the students couldn’t speak.
Only Jihun tried to protest.
“That, that’s….”
Thwack!
Another student beside him struck the back of Jihun’s head.
“You bastard. What do you mean ‘that’s’? That’s.”
Hahahaha.
The female students nearby laughed.
“Sangho Lee. Take it easy.”
“If we leave these guys alone, they’ll troll again, I’m telling you?”
With Jihun’s mouth shut, Jinhyeok exhaled cigarette smoke and spoke again.
“Listen. You. Tell me something. What do you have to say? Where were you when we were finding weapons and blocking the door? Huh? You didn’t do anything, yet you’re trying to come in just like us? Does that make sense?”
Jihun Oh couldn’t respond.
To begin with, he wasn’t particularly intelligent, and in this atmosphere, how many people could speak the truth?
“From now on, listen well? Huh? Unless you want to die.”
He turned his head and blew cigarette smoke directly at Balloon Gum as he finished speaking.
“Especially you, you bastard. I don’t like that fierce look in your eyes.”
The acrid smoke stung, so Balloon Gum closed his eyes and muttered under his breath.
On a channel only the viewers could hear.
“Jinhyeok Kim. Sangho Lee. Jiyeon Park. You won’t die peacefully….”
No, that’s why I’m telling you to say that over there haha
A Death Note only I know about lol
That’s so funny lol
-The image of a private memorizing his seniors’ names~
Thump-thump
The epitome of authenticity lol
Pungria Stark lol

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The eyes peering through the door crack widened.
‘Huh?’
Almond was puzzled.
‘Where did they go?’
The zombies that had been swarming in front of the bathroom had vanished. Their aggression had suddenly been drawn elsewhere.
“…Guys. Where did all the zombies go just now?”
From the vantage point of only seeing through the door crack, it was difficult to confirm where the zombies had gone.
“R, really?”
“Yeah.”
“Then we can enter the infirmary?”
“Hmm….”
I wasn’t sure about that.
If the zombies had rushed toward the infirmary, that would be problematic.
“No. We might not be able to go straight to the infirmary. Even just getting into a classroom should be fine.”
In truth, my first option was a classroom rather than the infirmary.
Right now, I didn’t particularly need a good bed like those in the infirmary.
Just avoiding the cold floor would be enough.
‘The real problem is….’
The real problem was my injuries.
[Scratch – Right Arm]
[Scratch – Left Leg]
[Right Foot Ligament Damage]
They hadn’t worsened yet.
[Bleeding 32%]
My bleeding meter was climbing steadily.
Once it reached 100%, I absolutely had to stop the bleeding.
Otherwise, I’d die instantly from hemorrhage.
Even now, the situation was genuinely dangerous.
[Anemia]
[Your vision blurs and your reaction speed decreases.]
[Limping]
[Your movement speed is reduced and you feel pain upon landing.]
[Exhaustion]
[Your strength diminishes and your accuracy drops.]
[Hunger]
[Your strength wanes and wound recovery slows.]
These injuries were directly impacting my actual combat capability.
The battle against Class 1 had clearly taken a severe toll.
‘It’s time to move.’
I instinctively sensed that it was time to leave this bathroom.
“I’ll head out soon. Everyone should use the bathroom while the zombies are away. We might not get another chance to come back here.”
I said this as I opened the bathroom door myself.
-That’s advice from someone with experience, take it to heart.
-Of course, the Bathroom King lol
-lololol reminds me of early access days.

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Whoooosh.
The sound of water flushing echoed from various corners.
The children emerged from the restroom, their eyes gleaming with readiness.
“Alright then…”
Almond carefully slid open the door.
“Let me scout ahead first.”
The timing to leave was right now. The problem was deciding which direction to head.
It was crucial to know where the zombies had gone.
‘They’re swarming in front of the classroom.’
Almond confirmed that the zombies were clustered in front of the nearest classroom from here.
‘If that’s the case…’
Almond’s expression brightened.
This was good news.
The staircase leading to the basement was unguarded.
If they went downstairs, the route to the school store—far more important than the classrooms—would open up.
Of course, there was no way to know what might be there.
Given the current situation, heading to the basement was the best option.
Click.
Almond closed the door again.
Then he explained the current situation to the children.
“…And that’s why we’re heading to the basement.”
The children all nodded in agreement.
Everyone was absolutely starving. More than fifteen hours had already passed since this crisis began in the game’s timeline.
Since it was set during summer, the sun might rise in a few more hours.
These growing children had been running desperately, so their hunger meter was surely registering at extreme levels.
[Hunger]
Almond was no exception.
It had been a while since he’d crossed the threshold from mere peckishness into genuine hunger.
The moment it shifted to starvation, all sorts of debuffs would kick in.
“We move on my signal.”
Almond took one last drink of water to moisten his throat, then grasped the door handle again.
“One. Two…”
Creak.
The door pulled open.
The route was simple. All they had to do was head straight for the staircase visible right ahead once the door opened.
The condition was to move with minimal noise.
“Quietly.”
Almond gestured to the children while gripping his hammer tightly.
The children followed in single file, moving silently. They all crouched low and hugged the walls, minimizing their exposure as much as possible.
Crunch. Crunch.
Only the faintest footsteps echoed through the corridor.
The shrieks of the zombies raging in front of that classroom were far louder.
Thus, the strategy of muffling sound proved remarkably effective.
They descended the basement stairs and rounded the corner.
“The vending machine… ah… finally….”
Someone from Class 3 murmured as if entranced.
A rather stocky boy with a sturdy build.
He seemed quite hungry.
“Daehyeok. Shut up.”
“….”
The girl standing in the middle silenced him quietly.
In truth, that level of whisper wouldn’t have reached the zombie horde, which had grown quite distant by now.
But—
“?”
Thud.
Suddenly the children collided with each other. Like dominoes.
“D-don’t push.”
“Why aren’t we moving?”
“I-I don’t know.”
Almond, who stood at the very front, had stopped.
Almond slowly straightened up and turned to face the children, speaking.
“…It’s locked.”
Creeeeak….
Almond turned the handle of the fire door, but it wouldn’t budge.
lol
“Wow, the convenience store noona already? Lol”
-We’re done…
Hurry back to the bathroom ㅠㅠㅠ
Someone had already blocked the passage connecting to the basement.
Almond looked down at the fire axe gripped in his hand.
‘Should I smash it with this?’
He recalled Baek Jun-su’s gang forcibly opening a fire door before.
With the fire axe, it wasn’t impossible.
But if he swung it here, the zombies would come rushing over.
Then they’d have to fight with their escape route sealed off.
‘I can break through before that.’
In theory, it wouldn’t take even a minute to destroy this door handle with the fire axe and break through.
He could open the door and get inside before the zombies heard the noise and came running.
“I’ll break through. Everyone prepare for the zombies.”
Almond simply said that and hoisted the fire axe high into the air.
“What, what?”
“Hey. Wait──”
──CLAAANG!!!
A tremendous metallic screech echoed through the corridor as steel collided against steel.
“This is insane.”
“Hey, hey, block from above—we’re already screwed! We need to break through here!”
The children gripped their weapons and looked upward toward the staircase.
It was obvious the zombies would come swarming down.
Before that happened, it was a race: breach the convenience store’s fire door or get overrun by the zombies.
CLAAANG!
CLANG!
Almond struck the handle with terrifying speed.
“Grraaaah?”
“KYAAAAAAAH!”
The zombies clustered in front of the classroom began reacting to the sound.
THUD THUD THUD…!
The thundering footsteps of creatures charging down the distant corridor grew louder.
“Faster! Faster!”
The child standing at the very back spoke with a trembling voice.
Then─
CLANG!
The round metal handle fell to the floor and rolled away.
“!”
The handle had snapped off at record-breaking speed.
It hadn’t even taken fifteen seconds. Even the children were stunned.
“Already?”
“Damn… we’re alive.”
-Hurry!!
Sigh… ㅠㅠㅠ
and my heart ㅠㅠ
Almond quickly inserted his hand to disengage the lock, then pushed the door.
“!”
Squeeeeeak….
Only a faint metallic scraping sound emerged.
The door wouldn’t open.
“Hey! Damn it, what are you doing! Why won’t it open!?”
Uijun Park, the fierce-looking one, shouted in desperation.
“Are you trying to get us all killed!? The zombies are right on top of us!”
Who would deliberately refuse to open it?
No matter how hard I pushed, the door wouldn’t budge.
Only by peering through the gap could I understand why.
“A barricade…?”
Behind the door, numerous desks and bookshelves had been stacked into a barricade.
“It’s blocked.”

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[Beginner’s Tip: Did you know? The Bible supposedly contains this passage: “Those who fail to show proper courtesy and hospitality to others shall themselves be denied hospitality.” Seems to fit your situation perfectly, doesn’t it? Well, that’s because the Bible contains no such passage—the production team made it up! Haha!]

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