- 5 days ago
Hidden Survivors EP
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00:04Oh my god! Something's wrong at Pinnacle Hospital! There are police and doctors everywhere!
00:09Is there a confirmed case?
00:16Emily, I was just about to reply to you, but the post vanished. I didn't delete it.
00:19I don't know if it's a confirmed case, but there are special police. It's terrifying.
00:23Is your lease almost up? Do you want to renew it?
00:26Emily, graduation season is coming up soon and apartments will be in short supply.
00:30Decide quickly if you want to renew and I can give you a discount.
00:54The city will be locked down at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Get out if you can. Stock up on supplies
00:59until your place is full.
01:09There's an emergency at home. I need to take leave.
01:11Okay, Emily, go on home. Take a week off.
01:20Dad, drive back to City Q right now. I'm coming home today.
01:24Honey, what's going on?
01:25I'll explain everything as soon as I get out of the car.
01:28Where are you now?
01:38Mom, send me the address of our new place. Leave work now. I'll be home this afternoon.
02:01Miss, are you sure you want this much stuff?
02:03Positive. Please deliver it as soon as possible. Thank you.
02:12What was wrong with that biter in the video?
02:14A huge metropolis with tens of millions of people, a major transportation hubbit, locking down just like that?
02:20Why run away from the most important economic and cultural center unless it's already out of control?
02:25What is happening to this world?
02:33What's wrong, honey? What happened?
02:35Sweetie, does this have something to do with you coming home suddenly?
02:38I don't know exactly what's going on, but I know it's serious.
02:41The city is locking down at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
02:43Someone warned me to leave right away and stock up on supplies.
02:46I'm so scared. Please believe me, Mom and Dad.
02:48We really need to buy enough to last at least a year.
02:50Don't be afraid. Mom and Dad have your back, always.
02:53Who would we trust if not you?
02:56Stocking up, right?
02:57Don't wait for my cooking today. I'm heading to the wholesale market first.
03:01Send me the list of what you ordered, baby. I'll check what you're missing and fill in the gaps.
03:09Our family will be fine. Stop panicking. Pack your things properly and head to the airport.
03:14I already placed an order for a batch of supplies.
03:16To avoid drawing attention, I had them delivered to the B1 parking garage around 8 p.m.
03:19When could be upstairs, be careful not to run into anyone.
03:21Okay, don't worry, sweetie. Mom will never let anything happen to you.
03:49I'm not going to leave you alone.
03:49Alright, how am I?
03:49See you later.
03:50Watch out to come.
03:50There will be a morgrove.
03:52Get out to go.
03:53Get out of my nous.
03:53Let's go.
03:53I'll be right back.
03:53All right.
03:53Let's go.
03:54Oh, come on.
04:16I don't know.
04:33I have to face it.
04:34This is already the last train to the airport.
04:56It's passable now.
05:13Hi mom, it's me.
05:15Honey, mom's busy here.
05:17I just ordered 200 pounds of pork, 100 pounds of beans, 100 pounds of lamb, four whole chickens.
05:21Still need chicken wings and drum hocks.
05:23Is there anything else you want?
05:24Mom, you're incredible.
05:26Listen.
05:27Remember to buy a solar generator, batteries, and a few more refrigerators.
05:31I'll search for the rest.
05:39Attention all passengers bound for city queue.
05:42This flight is about to depart.
05:51Hold on.
05:52If I throw up now, everyone will notice.
06:17I'll search for the rest.
06:32Honey, we can't go home yet.
06:34We need to finish buying everything first.
06:37Starting tomorrow, we won't go out at all.
06:44We're out of stock.
06:46Installation can't be done for three days.
06:48What if we pay extra?
06:50I'll head over to your place and install them right now.
07:04Mom, when will you be back?
07:06My girl's calling.
07:08I'll head home now.
07:09I couldn't bargain down the price for these clothes.
07:11I'll check the underground market tomorrow.
07:13Oh my God.
07:14Fine.
07:15You win.
07:16Take it at this price.
07:17Mom, when will the meat and solar generators you bought be delivered?
07:20The wholesale market will deliver the meat pre-stored in refrigerators.
07:22The fridge shop and meat vendor are run by the same family.
07:25The solar generators have already arrived.
07:26I had them left outside room 1502.
07:28That apartment's unfinished.
07:29No one will notice.
07:30I stash the rest in the 24th stair hall.
07:33Hardly anyone climbs that high, and no one lives above the 20th floor.
07:43Mineral water, toilet rolls, self-heating hot pots, lime storage barrels, rainwater collectors,
07:50rubbing alcohol, everything's here.
08:34Mineral water, toilet roll, everything's here.
08:36I'm keeping the four hens on the enclosed balcony off the kitchen.
08:40Soundproof cotton has been installed everywhere, so no clacking can be heard outside.
08:59What was that?
09:09I don't know.
09:12I don't know.
09:12I don't know.
09:16I don't know.
09:22You don't know.
09:46Movies are just movies.
09:48I can't judge these creatures downstairs based on fictitional stories.
09:51The person who was brutally attacked this morning has now turned into one of them.
09:55Judging from this, the virus spreads through saliva and blood.
09:58Right now, these zombies seem mindless, wandering aimlessly in circles.
10:02After that sick man vomited earlier, they were drawn to the smell and swarmed around
10:06building 10 where he lives.
10:08That means they hunt relying on hearing and smell.
10:12Honey, let's get some sleep.
10:14We were completely worn out last night.
10:19What's happening?
10:19It's so dark.
10:21Damn it.
10:23The stench of rotten iron is thick enough to choke on.
10:27I remember these eyes.
10:29I saw them at the airport in City B one day ago.
10:33Sweetie, you're having a nightmare.
10:35Wake up.
10:39You have a fever, baby.
10:40Take this medicine and you'll feel better.
10:53The number of zombies between building 10 and building 12 hasn't changed.
10:58Still 11.
10:59It means there are likely no new infected in our community.
11:03I have no idea what sustains them.
11:06They seem to need no food or energy besides human flesh.
11:10Stray cats in the yard hold no interest for them.
11:13They fear no daylight and will lunge and bite and blindly at any sound, proving their hearing
11:20is extremely sharp.
11:28Dad, come quick!
11:37Dad, should we help him?
11:44Help might come for us soon.
11:47I think we can give him something, just not too much.
11:52That makes sense.
11:55Two packs of compressed biscuits and two chocolate bars.
12:01But how?
12:02The distance between our building and building 14 is nearly 50 meters.
12:06We can't throw it that far.
12:08There's no way we'd risk our lives to deliver it.
12:57That makes sense.
13:00Right together
13:01Oh, my God.
13:03It's horrifying.
13:18Sweetie, what's wrong?
13:19Mom, Dad, that man downstairs?
13:21He's the one from apartment 1602, building 14.
13:23The neighbor gave him two packs of instant noodles today.
13:26So the victim was that kind Linju.
13:28They made it in first day on Lamar's supplies.
13:30We might have been the ones killed tonight.
13:32In this world, even kindness can get you killed.
13:36All right.
13:37Honey, go back to your room and rest.
13:40Margaret, you take over the night watch.
13:42I'll reinforce our fire north, our fire door with extra defenses.
13:49Shit!
13:49Shit!
13:50Shit!
13:53Shit!
13:58Who says being trapped indoors means we're just waiting to die?
14:16Damn you.
14:17If you win, I'll make you pay.
14:30The dying woman's last words played in my mind.
14:33She mouthed one thing to me.
14:35Run.
14:47Hi.
14:52You hear me?
14:53You hear me?
14:55You hear me?
15:07I don't know.
15:45I don't know.
15:56I'm not reckless.
15:57I'd never gamble with my own life.
15:59Deep down, I knew the plan was full of flaws.
16:01If the zombies had caught me before I got in the elevator, or if that man downstairs
16:05had noticed the changing floor numbers and grown suspicious, I would be dead a hundred
16:08times over.
16:09My plan came with high rewards, but equally high risks.
16:12That was why I never let my parents get involved.
16:14Do you think your father and I are weak, hiding behind you, waiting to be protected?
16:20Watching your child take dangerous risks just to keep the family safe is the cruelest thing
16:23a parent can endure.
16:24Have you ever thought?
16:25Two people begged for supplies that day.
16:27Where is the other one?
16:28Could he be hiding on the 14th floor, waiting to ambush you?
16:31I...
16:32I never considered that.
16:35Baby, beyond being your family, you need to learn to trust and cooperate with others.
16:41We are not burdens.
16:43We survive this together.
16:51Thirteen people went out to search for supplies, but only five actually made it back.
16:56A severe two-day rainstorm hit one night in September.
17:00It completely submerged the first floor and put the second floor in imminent danger.
17:07Will the buildings collapse after being soaked in rainwater for so long?
17:11It's unlikely.
17:12Flooding mostly shortens a building's lifespan, not bring it down at once.
17:51I can't help to feel like the zombies are watching them.
17:55The supplies they brought back was only enough for one person to survive three days.
17:59I reckon they'll have to go out for more.
18:01But I heard the streets are flooded with them.
18:03I think they'll have to go out for more.
18:12I think they'll have to go out for more.
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18:27I think they'll have to go out for more.
18:29I think they'll have to go out for more.
18:37Damn it.
18:38The thick, sickening stench of blood hangs in the air,
18:42and I feel like I'm drowning in it.
18:47Oh my God!
18:49It's an intelligent variant!
18:51The zombies downstairs have evolved,
18:53and they've spawned a leader!
18:54This is terrible.
18:55Will we even survive?
18:57Don't be afraid, my love.
18:58As long as we stay together as a family,
18:59we'll get through anything.
19:00Based on everything I observed,
19:02I've categorized them as Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3.
19:04Stage 1 zombies are the mindless ones
19:06from the early days of the Apocalypse.
19:07Stage 2 are the evolved ones
19:09that hunted the survivors today.
19:11Enhanced physical ability
19:12with basic primitive intelligence.
19:14Stage 3 are the intelligent overlords
19:16that can command the Horde,
19:17even capable of showing primitive emotion.
19:19Evolution is only accelerating.
19:21If we don't stop them soon,
19:22there will surely be Stage 4, Stage 5, and beyond.
19:25This is catastrophic.
19:26We've lost all contact with the government.
19:28We have no idea what has become of the outside world.
19:30We held our breath until the last zombie
19:32left the neighborhood,
19:33finally able to relax.
19:35Yet overwhelming loneliness washed over me.
19:38The world had grown deathly quiet,
19:40leaving only the three of us alive.
19:42You've been down lately.
19:43Go tend to the plants to clear your head.
19:45It feels as if I'm nurturing
19:46the last hope for humanity.
19:48Some of the potatoes we stockpiled long ago
19:51have sprouted.
19:51I plant them alongside the new vegetables.
19:54I cut out the sprouting the buds,
19:56then bury them in soil-filled water bottles.
19:58Once leaves grow in,
20:00I dig up the rooted spruits
20:01and transplant them into large cardboard boxes,
20:04alongside the other healthy seedlings.
20:06I fertilize the crops every 20 days.
20:09I snip off all beading flowers
20:11to stop the plants for wasting nutrients and withering.
20:17Even on such a sacred holiday,
20:19we can only celebrate in the simplest, saddest way.
20:24How much longer must we endure this first world?
20:28I never cared for Christmas pudding.
20:30I wouldn't take a single bite last Christmas.
20:33This year is different, though.
20:35Every ingredient feels incredibly precious.
20:37It has been six months since the zombie outbreak,
20:40and we treasure every scrape of food
20:42more than ever before.
21:10I have a bad feeling.
21:12The zombies are evolving again.
21:18With explosions this massive,
21:21could the military have arrived?
21:44It seems cruelty has become their pastime
21:46in this broken world.
21:47With their endless looting,
21:48the last traces of ordinary survivors
21:50in this community are being erased.
21:52My fingers go numb.
21:53I barely have time to mourn the dead.
21:54At this rate, we'll be next by tomorrow.
21:56Once they find the locked stair hall door,
21:58there will be no way out for us.
22:03To stay hidden,
22:04we can only survive on compressed biscuits today.
22:07No fireplace, no fire at all.
22:09The outsiders clearly know how to fight the undead.
22:12They carry no fear,
22:13living carefree in the apocalypse.
22:15Compared their recklessness,
22:16our small family is trapped in heavy, suffocating dread.
22:18I run through every possible plan in my head,
22:21yet none seem enough to keep us safe.
22:23I refuse to die like this.
22:31Stay safe, sweetie.
22:33I will, dad.
22:34I will, dad.
23:16Thank goodness.
23:17It still works.
23:32It only has a flight time of 23 minutes.
23:34We have to turn back after 7 kilometers.
23:48The zombie horde didn't come.
23:50My plan failed.
23:52It's all right.
23:53We'll figure out another way.
23:54I'd hope the noise from the drone
23:56would lure the evolved zombies
23:57from the city center into our community.
23:58They would fight the intruders,
24:00buying us time to find a way to survive.
24:01But I drew nothing.
24:02Every one of my guesses was wrong.
24:03The drone needs four hours to fully charge.
24:05We can't fly it again until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
24:07By then, the intruders will have started
24:09searching the buildings.
24:10It will be too late.
24:19What I feared has finally come.
24:28Honey, your nose is bleeding.
24:38Have some chocolate.
24:40Sweets are said to boost dopamine and calm you down.
24:47I'll try one last time.
24:49This is my final gamble.
24:51Our last struggle before everything ends.
25:22It seems the three of us
25:23are the last surviving people left in City Q.
25:32Just stay here forever.
25:51We're saved.
25:53We're saved.
25:55We're saved.
26:01I don't know.
26:35I still can't believe it.
26:37Are we truly safe now?
26:39The zombie outbreak was a global catastrophe, and our nation was among the worst hit regions.
26:43The government has exhausted every resource on rescue and containment.
26:46Here in Q City, we have eliminated the last remaining undead.
26:48Only three major cities nationwide still await full clearance.
26:51We must accept the heavy consequences this disaster has left behind.
26:56Restoring public trust will not happen overnight.
26:58The explosions you heard in the night were part of Operation HICU, a joint campaign between military and civilian task
27:04forces.
27:05Your drone drew no response from the undead for one simple reason.
27:09There were no zombies left in Q City.
27:11For half a year, this city has been nothing but an empty dead zone.
27:15Temporary safe havens have been established in every provincial capital.
27:19Most survivors have already been relocated there.
27:21Your community lies far from the city center and was newly developed, so rescue notifications were delayed.
27:27Thermal scans from military drones mark this area as completely uninhabitated.
27:31We are so sorry.
27:35None of this is your fault.
27:36Your drone's low-altitude patrols caught our attention long ago.
27:40We spotted the shaky blood-written SOS today.
27:42We hesitated, uncertain if it was a genuine plea or an enemy trap.
27:46Refusing to abandon any chance of saving lives, we tracked the drone back to this complex and waited for the
27:51right moment.
27:52I trust you.
27:54I trust it's our country.
28:00Come in.
28:02Warm up with a cup of hot cocoa.
28:06They never imagined anyone could have survived hidden inside this community.
28:11One vicious-looking man fixed me with a cold, vengeful glare.
28:16He may have been plot-rotting retaliation, but none of it mattered anymore.
28:32I hope it heals soon.
28:34Just like all of humanity.
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