Chapter 184
Permafrost (5)
10-year-old Anya thought.
‘I want to be special,’ he said.
It was the usual thought of 10-year-olds, children who have just entered their teens.
The author was also like that at that age, and if you look at your nephews and younger siblings passing by, all ten out of ten dream of being ‘special’.
Every child wakes up in the morning and goes to school that looks like a box, sits in the same chair and desk, and receives a common education, but each child has his or her own hope deep in his heart.
A dream that is more precious than anything else, like the stars in the night sky, that you want to achieve even if you risk everything.
─I don’t think anyone can laugh at someone else’s dream─
The cold hearts of those who have already become adults did not have such a right because no stars existed in their cold hearts, and those who have not yet become adults must be wandering among the clusters of stars that fill their hearts.
There was nothing special about Anya except for her appearance… … .
I wished to shine like a star in the night sky.
* * *
“Come on, applicants! Applicants! Follow the lead so that you can quickly move to the parade ground!”
The teaching assistant’s shouts through the loudspeaker hit my ears.
The reaction was split in two.
A fast-paced party under the guidance of the teaching assistant.
“Anyway, the departure is a long time later, so what are you running for?”
And the other one is the teams that are moving around with all kinds of teasing.
Our team, which consisted of me, Anya, Desiree, and Elizabeth, was included in the former.
It’s because this side is much better than the side where people blush while making all sorts of excuses that good is good.
“No, so when do you want to start?”
“I do it when the time is right, so I just have to move slowly.”
“Eh, I don’t know. I just want to lie down.”
“So, what’s for lunch today?”
The air base in Maritime Province, which was set foot again under the guidance of the driver, was different from yesterday. but. No matter how few applicants there were, the fact that there were only our team in such a large place was certainly absurd.
“There’s no such thing as a mess, it’s a waste of the military uniform I put on.”
It was a word from Elizabeth who saw the fluttering side.
That’s right. It’s because what they’re doing now shows how they think about this.
Considering that most of the Awakeners who completed the academy were discharged from the sergeant (jin) as a noncommissioned officer, even if they enlisted in the military without a fill, and even if they were below the level, their composure was understandable to some extent.
however.
Slowly, watching them move to find their place like invertebrates… … .
… … It’s dizzy, really.
How can a good sound come out when the appearance of the reserve army training center that we used to see on Earth is being reproduced right in front of our eyes.
I couldn’t put a shield on their behavior.
Human resources coming to Primorsky Krai are divided into two groups.
one.
「Really, a person armed with a sense of duty and a spirit of service.」
Those who volunteered to be frozen in the harsh winter, shouting, ‘I will use the power I gained as an Awakener for the sake of society.’
Although this class had a wide range of abilities, the threat of an accident was low because they were well equipped mentally.
No, even if an accident happened, it was easy to deal with.
The fast-moving minority we belonged to belonged to this side.
While there are good people like this, the majority of them are gloomy, although it was a bit like my own words.
two.
“Those who need higher performance than the ability they have.”
A kind of job warriors who applied because they needed specifications.
The gloomy spec war in modern society was still the same in Korea in a changed time line.
Most of those who were discharged after enlisting as noncommissioned officers without completing the academy belonged to this group.
They had an extremely low risk of accident. Because most of them took care of themselves to the utmost and had no intention of stepping out and doing something.
but.
If the ability was excellent in the first place, it was impossible not to be unable to complete the course, so the ability to cope with accidents is significantly reduced due to the lack of ability.
No matter how long they ate jjambab in the military, compared to the time when they were armed with all kinds of ‘firearms’ and ‘control’ provided by the military, they are no different now.
Seeing their languid appearances made me feel cold.
Even if I don’t have to worry about the safety of the extras, I know very well what’s going on up north.
It was clear that an accident would happen if they were left unattended.
“Authors, are you okay with this?”
“… … I am thinking about that too.”
I grabbed my forehead, and Anya shook her head.
Around the time Elizabeth’s snort and Desiree’s awkward smile reached their peak.
“Geumtaeyang Applicants! Golden Sun Applicants! Where are you?!”
“Here it is!”
I unconsciously raised my hand at the cry of an instructor looking for me.
For an instant, the surroundings became quiet.
Eyes that had previously only glanced at us were instantly focused on us.
“Are the applicants for Taeyang and his companions correct?”
The instructor who broke through the crowd and approached us asked me while rummaging through the papers in his hand.
“yes that’s right.”
Anya replied instead.
In the meantime, through my enhanced hearing, I could hear occasional whispers.
‘Is this the golden sun I know?’
‘what is that?’
‘That’s it. The youngest Master, who appeared in the news a while ago.’
‘… … ? Why would a kid like her come here?’
‘That’s it, I don’t know?’
Amidst the crowd, human-shaped shadows talk about us.
The instructor didn’t care about them and looked at the papers and our group in turn, then answered.
“The captain is looking for you. The situation is urgent! Hurry up!”
The group’s eyes instantly turned to me.
In an instant, three pairs of blue and red eyes stare at me.
Looking into their eyes, I replied inwardly.
… … Hey guys? I know nothing.
* * *
Around the time Geumtaeyang and his party were called from the base to the director’s office, Nikolai led a truck full of paint cans to the outskirts of the city.
To feel the few sunlight, he opened the window wide and started driving.
how far did it go
When his truck across town stopped at a traffic light, a middle-aged woman passing by saw him in the truck and pretended to know him.
She was someone Nikolai knew well.
The manager of a mart he had seen in the neighborhood for a long time, she was also close with his mother.
“Nikolai. You look busy today too?”
“Ah, Aunt Sassam. I am always like that.”
“Oh wow, that’s hard. The people at the city hall are too much, leaving everything to children like this.”
“I applied, what.”
Looking at Nikolai with pity, she took out some coffee from the thermos container she was holding and handed him over.
“Well, at least eat some of this. Then you get a bone disease?”
While they were talking, the signal changed.
“thank you. Oh, then I’ll go. I’m in a bit of a hurry.”
After being handed a coffee through the car window, he pointed his thumb at the back of the truck, smiled shyly, and slipped his foot off the brake.
“Get some and do it~!”
A middle-aged woman called Sasya shouted toward the back of Nikolai’s truck as he left. Hearing ‘yes!’ out the window, she looked at the truck proudly.
Inside the truck, Nikolai smiled kindly and drove the truck.
The window slowly went up with a wheezing sound, then closed completely, and when I got enough distance from Sasha.
.
.
.
Nikolai soon became completely expressionless.
After staring at the envelope Sasha handed to him in the passenger seat, he casually threw it towards the back seat.
Coffee cans rolled out of the thrown brown pulp bag and landed on the floor, but Nikolai didn’t even notice.
He had work to do.
* * *
“X-foot, did these bastards even go into heat as a group? Why are there so many monsters?”
“There must have been a hive nearby!”
Vladimir, an Awakened man from Maritime Province, whose Korean name is Kang Man-soo, swung his sword in fright at the rushing green waves.
“No, does this even make sense!?”
The white snowfield shook with green waves.
It was green and had features attached to it, so it wasn’t green.
The person who answered him was Park Dong-cheol, a pair who had been together for a long time from the same Maritime Province.
-bang!!
With a sound, a wind hole pierced the goblin’s forehead as it tried to bite Kang Man-su’s leg.
Kang Man-soo’s movements were crude to be called swordsmanship, but thanks to the acquired physical abilities of the Awakened, it was enough to lightly cut one or two small monsters in half.
But that’s only possible when there’s one or two.
“There are too many, too many… … .”
Kang Man-soo muttered blankly as he thrust his sword into the throat of the last goblin.
The surroundings were full of the corpses of the goblins they had defeated so far, but more green waves were approaching from far away.
-bang!!!
Occasionally, an explosion erupted between the group of monsters with a shattering sound.
It is a shell fired by a tank supported by the military.
There was a void between the monsters, but it was only for a moment, and soon other guys filled the void.
I didn’t think that the number of monsters would decrease as if they were growing in the field.
“Shouldn’t we report to the top of the team leader and retreat?”
“Fuck, I want to retreat too. But if we retreat, what will we bounce to?”
A team member who approached him asked anxiously, and Kang Man-soo spat out roughly.
His gaze was looking back.
There was a border town there.
To those who grew up in other places, it would only look like a frozen land, but to him, who was from Primorsky Krai, it was special.
It was the same for those on his team.
His team, consisting of eight people, all from Maritime Province, including Kang Man-soo, came together with one single goal: to protect their hometown and family.
They refuse to enter the Korean Peninsula and decide to defend this land.
The reason why they were able to endure until they were merged into Korea, abandoned by Russia, was because there were people like them.
-Kwaaang!!!
I hear a roar again. The self-propelled howitzer, which had been reorganized, started firing in support.
Steel bullets fell to the ground like rain. The ‘blood and blood that was a monster’ and the soil were mixed and scattered.
– Chichik. Oh, I inform all the crew. A little while ago, the support unit departed from the air base, so please cheer up a little more. give me a little more strength more.
Soaring dust covered the green waves, and the sound of the sound from the earphones put the party in a sigh.
“Get your mind together, you bastard, you and I are people with nowhere else to go. In addition, the military provides support, and there are no large monsters, so that’s enough for me—”
Kang Man-soo, who gained confidence, is about to continue his words.
-Geuggeuk!!!
The ground shook as if there had been an earthquake.
The watch shook dizzy, and even the barrel of the self-propelled gun, which was deeply rooted in the ground, staggered.
and.
＜───!＞
There was no binge drinking.
Kang Man-soo and his party clenched their ears and rolled terribly on the ground.
It wasn’t without binge drinking.
It was only that the deafening roar tore through the eardrums of him and his teammates, paralyzing their hearing.
When Kang Man-soo, who had regained his senses, looked back.
It was filled with only a lump of scrap metal that was a dented and overturned armored vehicle and the screams of young lives crushed under it.
and
A huge figure soaring through the clouds as if reaching the sky caught his eye.
Standing barely on the ground, Kang Man-soo spat out as if muttering.
“… … run away.”
Called.
As “it” took a step, the earth’s axis twisted.