clue
“Are you… no.”
I wonder if I’m starting to have hope that I can live now, but I tried to ask more about the situation here to the Awakener with a very nervous face.
How much do you know about a guy who fought for days and days to live without being able to eat or wash properly?
“get out.”
“Hoo-wook… Whoop… yes?”
“Get out. Because it’s annoying.”
Some of them were already kept alive while having a simple conversation.
‘One other guard except for the dead guard. There’s a guy leaning on the railing on the second floor and watching.’
The former was clearly a person involved in this place, and the latter was the strongest-looking person in this place.
Except for those two, the rest didn’t even need to put their lifelines on for a while.
“I… .”
“why.”
“Then how will those who have been arrested… .”
“You know what to do.”
“Still, I would die easily if I got caught up in battle… .”
The guy who still doesn’t know exactly who Ha Yeon-woo is, threw out his own beliefs, implying the meaning of rescuing people first.
Of course, there was no way even the seeds would be eaten.
“What… !”
Ha Yeon-woo grabbed the guy by the back of his neck and threw him as he continued to speak.
The direction is the iron gate, the entrance of a huge warehouse-type building that has been wide open at some point after the riot.
Immediately after the commotion, a guard rushed in and seemed to have opened it.
The deformed monsters that were sucking their fingers outside were crawling inside without anyone stopping them.
So, the inside of the building was packed with people outside, and their eyes were focused on Ha Yeon-woo as if they had applied honey.
It means that the Awoken who used to be fighters will not be caught and killed while running away.
As much as I threw it with a little force without the purpose of killing it, the 5th-tier Awakener quickly corrected his posture and landed safely at a place quite far from the warehouse.
After looking around for a while, I wonder if I didn’t have the courage to come in, I just stared at this place.
He didn’t leave even though I gave him a chance to leave.
“You must be Chinese.”
An Asian Awakener captured in the middle of China.
Of course, it was most likely Chinese. If not, there’s a good chance you know the geography of this place pretty well.
He gave me some useful information, which saved my life.
“I just needed directions.”
Maybe he was the right one.
Those who will remain after their responsibilities are over anyway, people who may have spent several days with all their bodies restrained. Or they might be monsters in a bounce-field state.
An Awakener whose limbs are intact and who seems to have no mental abnormalities. It seemed useful as a guidebook, so I kept it in my eyes.
“I’ll have to sort this out first.”
* * *
Wang Yuan.
He was a fifth-tier Awakener who was active in China. That’s pretty promising too.
It had to be. It was because he was a rare returnee among the awakened.
Besides, I spent over 7 years there, and when I returned here, I was already in the top 1% of the strong.
If there is a downside, his homeland is not the Awoken-friendly America, but the controlling China.
As I thought it was natural, I belonged to the party right after I returned, and I was active as one of the propaganda warriors, taking charge of the battles and jobs they gave me.
The word was a warrior, in fact, a face madam.
The Communist Party’s tool to further increase its prestige and control other Awoken in the early days of the Gate Crisis.
However, there was no better option than that for Wang Yuan, who had neither back nor money.
I had no confidence that I would be more successful in China as an individual.
Even Xiao Lin, who was the strongest Awakener at the time, was not active as an executive of the party.
‘That bastard was acting to gulp the country, but… .’
As a leader, there is no shortage of inaction, but a life that is swayed because there is no foundation, and after 10 years have passed, I have fallen far behind and am only among hundreds of thousands, but the reality that I have been complacent, saying that it is a good life.
In any case, in the end, it survived because of its half-heartedness.
Even when Shaolin rebelled, when his stronghold was blown away overnight, and when something like a nightmare happened eight months ago, I was able to take a step back and watch the situation.
Usually, in a situation close to such a disaster, the first to die is the weakest at the bottom. After that, it was the vanguard full of chivalry.
“It should or shouldn’t pop out… .”
Wang Yuan was unable to take any action even after being caught in the arena because of his half-hearted mind.
At least, he had survived so far because his desire for life was no less than others, and he had nothing to promise for the future.
I just killed the enemies standing in front of me one by one, and killed them again. It was the end of the preservation of life at least.
The whole area has already been eaten by those monsters, and they can’t even figure out where to go.
Even if she was saved by a mysterious man who suddenly appeared, she couldn’t even figure out what to do.
Rather, I felt that being with that unidentified handsome man who saved me was the best option.
“for a moment… .”
As soon as the thought reached that point, Wang Yuan’s head, which had been hardened from fighting three or four times a day between life and death, began to turn furiously.
Awareness of life arises, the desire to survive rises again, and memories that were judged unnecessary and discarded are revived.
“That person… I’m sure I’ve seen it a lot… .”
Falling in love with the hectic interior of the building, the panoramic view that comes in at a glance when you come out.
I stared intently at the man standing in front of it, relaxed.
There are many cases where you feel that you have seen it a lot. Politicians, celebrities, etc.
And when an Awakener like Wang Yuan felt such a sense of deja vu, it was only natural that 99 out of 100 would be a strong Awakener.
‘Black hair. A very handsome face in his early 20’s. Skinny with large stature. A goddamn strong Awakener… .’
“no way… Ha Yeon-woo… ?”
Doubts gradually began to turn into convictions.
It was a very unique set of features that no one could replace.
It’s been almost a year since the means of communication were cut off and the world changed to analog, but that doesn’t mean all the memories of the past have disappeared.
As his thoughts turned to conviction, Wang Yuan’s sense of relief that he was simply out of hell began to turn to hope.
If you are sure of the person you thought of, and if you can hold the rope.
“City of Awoken… !”
A city of Awoken, famous for shunning even variants. The hope of being able to go to Sara Borough.
Kwajik-
At the same time, a massacre began to unfold inside the huge warehouse.
* * *
Ha Yeon-woo, who caught a glimpse of the guy outside the warehouse door looking at him with a sad expression somewhere, immediately continued his next action.
To test the limits of the monster and get the minimum information.
“Is the head next?”
I picked a guy with a moderately hard head and shot mana again.
perok-
A monster that froze without warning and hardened as soon as it got stuck in its head.
Soon, just like the giant whose heart had been pierced a moment ago, he fell face down on the floor with a sound.
“Until this point, there is nothing special about humans.”
cooong-
The clamor of the mutants intensified at the sound of him collapsing.
“Oh, how long are you going to keep an eye on it, you bastards!”
“I can’t kill myself anyway. You should even think about hunting and sharing!”
“It is unconditionally a pincer! Or else we’ll end up here!”
“What are you saying, you assholes?”
A laugh came out of nowhere.
I feel like I’ve become a monster.
It was a joke reminiscent of the conversation between the Awakeners of the guild that won the bid and members of the Cougar organization when they secretly joined the gate subjugation among the unregistered Awakeners of the Cougar.
Even though they regarded each other as enemies who invaded each other’s territory, when a monster that was difficult to deal with appeared, the physiology of those awakened people who worked together by mentioning their experience points was unfolding.
To those monsters now in the shape of humans, strong Awakeners were no more, no less than the old high-ranking monsters.
“You look too much inside.”
I wasn’t talking about their intentions. much higher than that. It was about the inside of the being who made it all up.
Someone wants to kill a human. To be precise, the Awakener is the main thing, and the death of most humans is probably a by-product of it.
Wickedly, he chose another hound, this time not a monster, but the same human.
While feeding the dog-like system of experience and the growth of power through it.
It is not an illusion. The circumstances were so tight that I couldn’t even think of any other variables.
And who is that?
“Adjuster.”
I didn’t have to think about anything other than him.
‘gate. monster. Awoken… .’
The change of the earth that started with them reached an inflection point with the disaster that happened a while ago.
Now, even mutant monsters that become stronger by hunting the Awoken, who were opponents of monsters, have appeared.
I just couldn’t figure out what he wanted.
It was because he had helped and strengthened humans until he heard that God took care of someone, and now he was trying to hunt down those who had become so strong.
However, one thing is for sure in that inconsistent series of processes, all of which resulted in the destruction of something.
A number of humans died, civilization was destroyed, and a situation in which monsters and humans were in sharp confrontation was directed.
And thanks to these guys, now humans and humans were hunting each other.
“Kill!”
I grabbed the arm of the first guy who shouted and rushed at me and tore it off.
Fuhuk-
“Hey… .”
Grasp the half-monster by the neck and give it strength.
Wooddeuk-
It was crushed with a grotesque sound.
In the meantime, the thoughts in my head did not stop.
Even if my head wasn’t aware of this space at all, there was no problem killing all of these guys.
Tuck- Tuck-
‘Pan continent… .’
I moved my steps and approached the group where they were gathered, continuing my thoughts.
The only variable was the pan continent.
Why did some humans have to visit the continent and absorb the things there as if giving them benefits?
And why did things similar to pan continents often appear here?
As if copying monsters, hierarchies, and knowledge.
And why did the pan continent perish?
‘Maybe here… .’
“Did you want to make it like a pan continent?”
Shuuk-
Even in the midst of that, tentacles flew here and there.
Perhaps it was because of their animalistic instinct to die if they got close, all of them were arms and legs shaped like monsters.
pick-
Ha Yeon-woo’s new model, which had been extinguished like smoke, appeared in the middle of the crowd that had reached out and attacked at best.
Right after that, the hand that was lightly swung quickly took over the different body parts of the monsters in the vicinity.
sigh-
“Kuh… .”
“Keuk… .”
“Gagging… .”
Knees, shoulders, neck, lower back, groin.
In an instant, the monster, close to heat, collapsed and groaned at Ha Yeon-woo’s attack.
It looked like a simple attack, but in reality it was not.
Because I was checking their physical characteristics by attacking different body parts.
A small sound leaked out of Ha Yeon-woo’s mouth, standing alone like a lofty crane in a chaotic war situation.
“Explode.”
Fuhuaaak-
Their heads, which were barely breathing with one place lost, exploded with words like a spell.
“It’s too premeditated to be a game.”
Even while moving mechanically and continuing to slaughter, his thoughts were constantly busy inferring the tuner’s true intentions.
“Just run!”
“You son of bitch!”
puff-
Digging through allies and enemies, dismantling the limbs one by one.
I don’t know anything else, but I can be sure of one thing.
Both obtaining and using power receive a price corresponding to it.
That is why the vast majority of strong people are not created without great aspirations, a sense of purpose, or delay.
In the case of Ha Yeon-woo, the driving force was the expectation of seeing his father who was left alone, and then the family he created there, and the afterimages of them who had died for hundreds of years.
Of course, there must have been a characteristic element called talent at the top.
“The Adjuster is not a god.”
Kwajik-
The low-swinged leg smashed the whole three shins that had turned into monster legs and chanted.
The Adjusters are not gods, but only parts of the universe like humans.
This is guaranteed by the existence of causality, which is equivalent to a real god.
Of course, it’s possible that he also lied, but once we assume that, he’s just a thinking, mindful creature.
It comes to the conclusion that everything he did to the Earth must have been done with his power in the end, and he must have paid some kind of price to use that power.
And the strong will never exert such a premeditated and enormous influence on a simple game.
If it’s purely for fun, moving directly into it would be a much better option than watching two entire planets perish.
This is because the small act of physically experiencing directly brings more inspiration than just watching a huge phenomenon.
For nothing, play was not a word derived for preschoolers.
‘Then, what he wanted to gain by making this place like a continent he dug up… .’
hook-
I waved my hand with the thought of reaching the end.
A thick mana gushing out covered the area like fog, tearing the fabric of the monsters standing still.
“Because that’s one of the ways Adjusters become stronger?”