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The end of the world arrived, resources depleted, all of humanity living in cramped underground chambers.
I joined the dangerous surface search team, just to secure better resources for my wife Melody.
But her childhood sweetheart Faisal carelessly trampled precious food under his feet.
Melody only berated me, saying: "If you weren't so useless! Faisal wouldn't have to eat such disgusting canned food!"
During a search mission, Melody and her childhood sweetheart were caught in the act behind my back.
They even planned to abandon me outside the radiation-filled living pod, to let their illicit affair flourish.
But later Melody knelt before me, desperately begging and professing her love.

World Ending, My Wife Threw Me Into a Virus-infested Pod

The gathering point for the search team was located between the first underground level and the surface.


When Xanthe and I arrived at the meeting spot, most people were already there.


In addition to the familiar team members from previous days.


I spotted two familiar faces in the dispatch squad.


The dispatch squad wasn't made up of volunteers who joined the search team.


Rather, it consisted of those who couldn't contribute their living supplies in the underground shelter and were forced to go on missions.


They didn't have the same proud demeanor as when they first joined the search team.


Both looked timid and withdrawn, their faces tightly covered even though they hadn't put on their protective helmets yet.


Their relationship also seemed less intimate than before, with a noticeable distance between them.


When they saw me boldly appear with the search team, they jumped as if they'd seen a ghost.


Trembling, they pointed at me and stammered.


Chapter 8