147. Capture the wanted bounty (1)
An abandoned building located near the Sewer Snake’s Base.
Here, with nothing but cement dust and dirt, rusty rebar and broken wooden planks, Oliver and his party were waiting.
In Zone X, these places were spread all over the place, so if you took the risk, you could rest like this.
With nothing to do while waiting, Oliver provided the extra emotion and vitality he had brought with them to the children in the corpse dolls, while Joe and Sam sat in a corner and chatted.
And Owen volunteered to stand guard outside. Waiting for sewer snakes and for alert purposes.
“Karreuk…….”
“Gyauk.”
“Exactly. Just right. right.”
The children in the corpse doll were crying as if there was not enough.
Oliver said after checking the inside of his clothes.
“I’m sorry. I may have to work soon, so I can’t give you any more. Instead, I’ll make you a special meal when I get home from work. Can you stand it?”
At Oliver’s soothing words, Child nodded.
It has been good to eat since the old days, but now I eat much more. After all, it seems like it was a good choice not to randomly increase the number of children.
Oliver, who was tidying up, such as cleaning out empty test tubes, turned his gaze to Joe and Sam without realizing it.
The two talked as if nervously.
“Will the snake bastard really help us? ·····As their name suggests, they are like sewer snakes, aren’t they? Cunning, dirty, infested with germs, harmful.”
“It’s no big deal, I said we would cooperate, but we can’t fight. They probably know that too.”
Sam shut his mouth, not sure what to say, and bit his nails nervously.
Oliver intervened and asked.
“Why can’t we fight?”
At Oliver’s question, Joe and Sam turned their heads.
Oliver added additional words to clear up the misunderstanding.
“No, I don’t mean to fight. I want to know why. Why can’t we fight the sewer snake?”
Joe and Sam looked at each other, and Joe answered.
“It’s a big gang in this neighborhood. A sheep has only the quality of the sheep, so it is not burdensome to fight.”
Sam added.
“There are rumors that there is a connection with areas Y and Z.”
“A connection?”
“Uh, it’s not that big of a deal, and there are organizations that do business with them, and there are organizations that protect them by paying a protection tax. If you make a mistake, you can have problems with them.”
Joe got the baton again.
“Then things get out of hand. Even in areas X, Y, and Z that are almost abandoned in the city, there is order in it. If you wake up without even thinking about it, many people will get tired. Of course, the person who caused the incident will be the most tiring.”
Oliver nodded as if understanding.
In fact, if there are people in any form, order is created, and breaking this is dangerous only in different degrees.
Orphanages and mines, like the Joseph family… It wouldn’t be any different than Zone X.
Oliver, who is an outsider, may not be very impressed, but if you live here like Joe and Sam, this is a very important issue.
As he was organizing his thoughts, Joe suddenly asked Oliver a question.
“Hey, Dave. May I ask you something?”
“A question? Yes, tell me.”
“How did you know that Sewer Snake Captain Gyle was a warlock?”
“Was that little warlock?”
Sam asked in amazement, and Joe nodded and pointed at Oliver.
“I saw it.”
Oliver answered.
“Do you remember the gatekeeper guarding the entrance to the stairs going up to the office?”
“The masked muscle masses?”
“yes. The mask on his face had the energy of black magic. It’s probably a mind manipulation class among the manipulation classes.”
“Mental manipulation?”
“Yes·····. Black magic is largely divided into firepower, disease, manipulation, and creation, and there it is further subdivided. For example, in the case of the manipulation class, it is divided into the program that deals with corpses, the shadow class that deals with shadows, and the mental class that controls the minds of living things.”
Oliver told the story of the basic black magic he saw in Joseph’s study.
Joe and Sam were amazed the first time they heard it. Didn’t the captain teach you?
In fact, I could easily predict what was far from a proper education at the point in time when I had to write a fictitious emotion.
Anyway, Oliver continued to explain.
“For reference, mind manipulation is one of the most difficult of the manipulation classes.”
“okay?”
“Yes. Corpses and shadows don’t resist, but creatures do. Animals are the easiest, but humans are very resistant and require multiple preparatory steps and assistive devices.”
“What is the preparation, what is the device?”
“Preparation refers to lowering the mental power of the person being manipulated, and a device is a medium such as a mask, tattoo, or necklace that will amplify the effects of black magic.”
“ah·····.”
“Nevertheless, it is said that it is difficult, but in that sense, Mr. Gail, who controls not one person but two, can be said to be a pretty good warlock.”
“·················ogue.”
Joe and Sam didn’t say yes, and looked at Oliver. Emotions shone with a bit of fear and tension and respect. Why did you want to go there?
Then, a randomly placed wooden door opened with a roaring sound.
It was Owen with a large iron rod.
“I, there…. A man came from the sewer snake.”
Oliver, Joe and Sam stood up at those words. Looking at the gloomy night sky and the clock, it is now morning time.
That said, it was the situation Gyle was talking about.
“Are you Joe? Knuckle Joe?”
The skinny gang with the phrase ＜survive＞ engraved on his forehead asked.
He rolled his eyes as if anxious.
“uh. What’s up?”
“Our boss said the customer bounced. They also killed our children who stood in the way. .
The gang handed me a note.
Joe took the note and opened it to check it. There were several letters and something similar to an address written on it.
“It sounds like an address, do you know where it is?”
Joe answered Oliver’s question.
“Uh, the sewage discharge site at the left end of Zone X.”
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Sewage discharge station at the left end of Zone X.
It was said that it was the least abandoned area of Zone X abandoned by the city.
The reason is that the sewage from the living area near Zone X is collected here.
“So the people in Area X don’t make any fuss here. Luckily, even though I didn’t get caught by the police, I was bullied by the people in the same area X in the name of making a fuss and causing a nuisance.”
“by the way. Did the Kell rebels roll their heads? I bet you’re thinking of escaping through a sewage ditch. Did you even hire a broker?”
“Well, we’ll find out soon.”
What Sam said was true.
When we went to the place Gail, the master of the sewer snake, pointed out, we arrived at the entrance to the sewage discharge plant where all kinds of bad smells spread.
They were hesitant to go in because of the smell, but Oliver and Joe and others were ready to go in, ready to fight.
Joe put on his knuckles, and Sam loaded his twin pistols with enchanted bullets. Owen tensed and clenched the iron rod.
Oliver extracted his emotions and put a black suit over his body.
Joe looked at him without saying a word and opened his mouth.
“Well then, let me in. Everyone be careful. Contaminant life forms often appear in these wastewater discharge stations and sewers.”
Everyone nodded silently, and Joe entered the sewage discharge plant with Joe in the lead.
Crack thump thump.
As we entered the sewage discharge plant to some extent, we were able to see the floor moistened with moisture.
There was a slope on the floor, so it looked like it would slip and fall.
“Karrre….”
One of the children, worried that Oliver might fall, wept lowly.
Oliver said okay and observed Joe and Sam walking in the lead. Joe looked at the note and Sam asked a question.
“Do you know where to go?”
“Oh, it’s written. All you have to do is go to the central intersection through the 3rd Sewer Passage. We decided to meet there.”
“How the hell did you find out about that?”
“How important is that? What matters is whether they are there.”
With those words, Oliver and the party’s steps got faster.
At first, I was lost on the road, but after checking the note that Gail sent me and the number engraved on the wall, I started moving.
Although the size of the sewage plant was larger and more complicated than expected, it took some time, but Oliver and his group were able to reach their destination.
“There it is. I have.”
said Joe as he hid himself against the wall of the aisle.
I could see a wide space and over 20 people gathered there beyond the waterway with the gurgling sewage.
They all looked shabby, but they had an atmosphere familiar with violence, including a few warlocks.
“Fuck, there are more numbers than you think?”
Sam said as he looked at the number.
“I think there are other people hiding in other places besides the ones they entrusted to Guyle, right? …Dave, is there a wizard or a warlock among me?”
Oliver looked up and answered.
“There are three warlocks and five artificially manipulated bodies. I don’t think he’s a modified human, and I think he’s been treated by a warlock.”
Joe nodded.
“Well·····. Do you have any effective attacks against the majority?”
“Yes, there are some black darts mixed in targeting.”
“I’m glad. I don’t know what it is… fountain. First of all, you shoot in the middle over there. with smoke grenades.”
Sam nodded and replaced the bullet in the magazine.
“Dave, then use the black dart you mentioned to hit them wide. Then, I will charge with Owen and your corpse doll and finish it off.”
Oliver nodded, and Sam nodded again, guns in both hands.
Oliver grabbed Sam’s shoulder and pulled him towards him just as he was about to set himself up and fire.
“?! what are you doing-”
-Ping!!
Before he could finish speaking, a sharp thorn pierced the air over where Sam was standing.
Everyone looked up in amazement, and their eyes met a very large insect hanging from the ceiling.
The beetle, with countless hairs on its brown shell, was a moderate mix of a scorpion and a earwig.
It was the size of a medium-sized dog, and had an elongated belly, a tail curved like a scorpion, and thorns like an awl above it. It’s also fatal to humans.
“Oh, polluting creature?!”
Sam, who was close to dying, said without realizing it.
Knuckle Joe punched the giant worm to death and then shouted.
“I got caught!”
As if to prove him, two grenades slid down through the entrance to the sewer where Oliver and his party hid.
Sam, Joe, and Owen froze at the sight. They were all on the verge of dying. Without Oliver.
[Black Cube]
The small black shields that came with the brigade encased the grenade in a cube.
Thanks to this, even though the grenade was detonated, the Black Shield held up firmly and no damage was spread around it.
“what? Is it a fire?”
“What do you know? Shoot!”
With those words, Kell Free Independence Army personnel began to fire in unison.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo ━━━!!!
The bullets hit the cement wall along with gunshots.
Everyone in the party hid close to the wall.
Although it didn’t seem like a high-fidelity gun, if it was shot with this kind of concentration, even a mortuary doll would do quite a bit of damage.
Even if durability is increased through drug treatment, the essence is a corpse.
Sam shouted.
“Shit!! Did the snake bastard sell us?”
“No, you can’t tell us, but there’s no reason to sell it. I don’t know how they did it, but they noticed us.”
“how!?”
“How do I know!”
As Joe and Sam chatted, Oliver took a closer look at them.
Then I noticed something strange. There was a faint spider web hanging from the shin pants.
Owen shouted.
“But, isn’t it strange?! Why are you only shooting? please·····.”
– Fuhahahaa! iron puck! iron puck! iron puck!
Before Owen could even finish speaking, something came out of the raging water.
An amphibian that looked like a combination of a frog and a crocodile, it was larger than a human and had teeth like a mouth. Even the number was as little as three.
There I started hearing strange noises from behind.
The sharp sound of scratching nerves was similar to scratching stones with claws.
“…naked rat?
Oliver said as he watched the monstrous creature running from behind and screaming.
The hairless rat, which was over 2 meters tall, had wrinkles all over its body, and something bulging around its face as if it had a skin disease.
It looks very similar to what we saw on the beggars in the past.
Surrounded by polluting creatures on the left and right.
The victorious Kell Freedom Liberation Army stopped firing and shouted.
“The hyenas who give money. Come here without fear?! Be all shit.”
It wasn’t really wrong at all.
If you were surrounded by polluting creatures back and forth in a narrow passage, that was a normal result.
It’s not that difficult to catch any polluting creature if you have enough equipment and preparations, but when you’re surrounded by unexpected situations like this, it’s the polluted creature that has no answer.
He has excellent physical abilities, and it is dangerous just to come into contact with the germs all over his body.
Confused about whether Joe knew this too, he ordered Sam and Owen, and asked Oliver to help.
“What, is there no way?”
Oliver chanted after extracting emotions instead of answers.
[brainwash]