Chapter 189
Permafrost (10)
Seoul 5 years ago.
The steeple of the city is crushed by the front kick of a gigantic dragon, no, a lizard-like monster.
The shattered fragments hit the people like meteors.
Little Nikolai stared blankly at the scene.
＜─────!!!＞
After the monster’s roar, all sounds disappeared. In Nikolai’s eyes, only the red burning city settled.
“… … !”
red
“… … this!”
It just burns red.
“… … lie!”
Dense smoke, close to soot, rose like a whirlwind through the building.
Every time the molars and claws of the unknown monster flashed, pieces of flesh that were human were scattered in all directions along with red liquid.
“Nikolai!!!”
‘widely!’ At the gesture of someone grabbing his shoulder roughly, Nikolai stopped staring blankly. I was startled.
In the direction he turned, he saw his parents.
The figure of his father hugged him tightly.
and ran recklessly. He and his family ran for a long time.
I passed the human lower body protruding from the monster’s mouth.
I passed an arm sticking out under the rubble of a building.
I closed my eyes and ignored the gestures for help.
I closed my ears to the voice begging for help and pretended not to know.
I couldn’t tell the left and right, and I ran until the front and back became blurry.
And what appeared in front of Nikolai’s family, who ran away for a long time.
“… … isn’t it? What about your parents?”
* * *
I will omit the moving process.
I’ve said it tiresomely before, and trying to describe boring scenery will only waste space.
instead,
“Hmm—I can’t communicate here either. And Golden Sun Awakener, would you like to see this?”
“I expected it, but… … Here too.”
At the pilot’s request, we headed to the captain’s room. A monitor placed next to the instrument panel sent a view of the city through a high-definition satellite camera.
I’ve seen signs like that in every city along the way. and… … .
“Please do not enter the city and descend from the outskirts.”
The city I actually saw, the landscape of Khabarovsk was devastating.
Awakeners and soldiers who had to manage the city and its citizens, and the holy Apocalypse who had to protect their base, were nowhere to be seen.
Instead, there were only monsters intermittently spitting out grotesque sounds.
History across the middle of the city was full of monsters. On top of that, the group of monsters roaming the city center was like a swarm of ants.
Combined with the flying species that fly in the sky… … .
“Taeyang, I don’t think we can do this alone… … ?”
“Iknow, right.”
“… … Well, the decision is made by the leader.”
I had no choice but to clench my molars and return. I can’t go on like this
“I will return.”
made a decision
ominous Heart disturbed by Anya’s work. Even the circular paint that covers the entire city that appears again and again with him, his head was complicated.
* * *
After returning to Anya’s house, I was laying in bed to cool my head. Time passed without a hitch.
I could see the sun setting over Seosan.
Anya said to me, ‘Taeyang, I’ll go out for a bit~.’ I left with only these words.
He must be going to see Nikolai, as he overheard yesterday. Elisabeth and Desiree thought so and scattered around the house to do their own errands.
No matter how much I watched an interesting movie or read any comics, my troubled mind was not erased.
——He pressed me even harder.
He quietly circulated his magic power. It’s been a long time since I realized that I couldn’t go any further with this direct method after reaching the stage.
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Just like that, I quietly circulated the mana within my body and pulled it out with my hand.
A whitish flame burned in the palm of my hand.
One flame is just flame, but when they are added one by one, it becomes a single flame.
In a dark room with all the lights off, that was all I could see.
The moment you carefully spread your mana in all directions.
I felt a sense of alienation.
It was obviously a room with no one but me, but I couldn’t get rid of the impression that someone was watching.
“What… … ?”
It felt like my spine was swollen. Shit, I hate dealing with humans and monsters, but I don’t like ghosts… … .
I wondered if it was Desiree or Elizabeth, but there was no sign that it was human.
No, even the sound of breathing and weak vitality do not appear, so how can you think of this as a human being?
He swallowed a dry saliva and slowly turned his head in the direction he felt his gaze.
slowly.
From the ceiling to the wall, to the door along the wall.
and what’s there
“clock… … ?”
It was the clock hanging above the door.
I woke up. I jumped off the bed at once and stood straight on the floor, went straight to the door and snatched it.
I stared at the circular watch, which was not so big, just a little bigger than the face of an ordinary person.
and.
seemed
A lens that emits a small light from the center of the hand, right in the center of the watch.
Someone was watching us.
* * *
The moment when Golden Sun found the lens attached to the watch at home.
Anya got on the bus to City Hall.
Geographically, it is a place slightly biased toward the north from the center of the city.
City Hall was located in the main street of Ussuriysk.
In the evening, there are few people walking around the city.
Anya felt that way.
It must be natural because of the cold. Anya, thinking nothing of it, got off at the bus stop in front of City Hall.
The station was a gray square box with iron poles.
The sun had already gone over Seosan, and only the lights turned on at the bus stop were illuminating the surroundings.
The first shimmer of the bluish moon hung over the roof of the city hall behind the bus stop.
“It’s kind of creepy… … .”
Anya stepped into the city hall along the snow-covered alleys that were trampled on by her feet.
City Hall, which was built of cement and felt like a gray-white temple, was quiet.
It was quiet. If there is a grasshopper, it is enough to hear the sound.
But nothing like that.
It was late in the evening, close to night, so most of the people had already left work, so the lights at the entrance were off.
Stepping inside the city hall, Anya felt the atmosphere cool.
“Collie—?”
The high ceiling was empty, and the glass door at the entrance seemed to have been enlarged to hide the sentiment.
The cold stone floor creaked as it met her sweet low heels.
Not even the guards in sight.
By the time Anya walked to the center of the hall near the information desk.
“No, are you here?”
“There was.”
On the second floor, connected by stairs on the left and right of the hall, I heard Nikolai leaning against the railing and talking to her.
His face was shadowed by the pale bluish light coming in through the door.
The impression is cold.
Anya was stunned at the moment.
“What are you doing? No, come up.”
However, his smiling face was the same as usual.
Anya grabbed the handrail of the stairs on the left and climbed up. The cool iron railing felt in my hand.
When I went up to this floor, it was dark, no different from the first floor.
Anya groped the wall for the light switch.
“Ahh~. Turn on the lights, why are you in such a dark place?”
“I thought it was okay because you would go upstairs anyway. Come on, let’s go.”
As she made her way to the emergency exit in the corner, there were several brightly lit desks with personal lamps on, and one of them caught her eye.
A man in a shirt, probably very tired, was lying on his face with his head on the desk.
“What are you doing? no. come fast.”
“okay.”
Anya moved her feet.
She stepped into the emergency exit.
– Kiki profit… … bang!
The door closed with the sound of rusty hinges.
* * *
I put the watch in my hand.
I wondered if it might happen, and I spread the magical power that I had been spinning all over the place. So that’s when I felt it.
Lenses and wiretaps placed throughout the house.
I sent the mana straight into my hand.
He clenched a fist with his left hand, which was burning white.
-bang!!!
He slammed his fist into the wall next to him.
‘Muh, what!!! Golden Sun! What’s wrong?!’
I heard the voice of Elizabeth living in the next room.
Instead of answering her question, I raised my fist.
As he pulled his fist out of the hollow wall, gray-white concrete powder fell to the floor.
It wasn’t just grey-white that fell.
‘Patter’ Things that are a little thicker fall off. It was a shattered piece of black plastic.
I suddenly remembered the first time I arrived at Anya’s house.
[Leaving behind the sound of twisting hinges, her house was well-maintained without a speck of dust.]
A ‘crackling’ sound is heard. It was the sound of a broken wiretapping machine in the hole where the fist had been drawn.
[Elizabeth sat down on the edge of the long sofa and swept the armrest once before tilting her head. It was because there was not a speck of dust on her index finger as she swept the sofa.]
The door burst open. Elizabeth could be seen through the open door. Dressed in a comfortable red dress, she stared at me with her arms at her sides.
“Hey, what the hell is going on?”
I remembered the conversation between Desiree and Anya.
‘If no one was home, it would have been neglected for quite a while… … . It feels like the maintenance of this house has continued… … ?’
Without saying a word, he passed Elizabeth and struck the neck of the lamp hanging on the hallway wall with the blade of his hand.
The neatly cut light fixture crashed to the ground.
‘─Actually, there is someone who takes care of this house.’
“Hey, hey. What the hell is going on?! it’s crazy?!”
“Taeyang-kun? Elizabeth? What’s going on?”
This is Elizabeth’s room.
‘It’s been a long time, so… … hmm. We’ve known each other since elementary school.’
Opened all the doors on this floor one by one.
I spread my magic power, found it and destroyed it.
‘──We always went together, even in middle school. Well, come to think of it, he’s a very old friend. lol.’
“This… … ?”
“… … .”
The first floor is the same as the second floor.
The two of them, who had been following me and urging me to explain, became quiet at the point of destroying the camera in the laundry room.
‘hmm… … . Her name is-‘
No, because there was no way a person with goodwill would install cameras and wiretaps throughout the house in the first place.
no it won’t be me How many people in the world would install such a shameful thing in their house?
-[The greedy usurper] sighs in relief, saying that it seems that the owner has finally returned to normal.
Anya is away from home during the school year.
A semester is quite a long time, and during that time, it was possible to install a wiretap or a camera without the landlord’s knowledge.
‘—Nikolai, Nikolai Smirnov.’
Finally, I completely removed the shoe cabinet next to the door and grabbed the wiretapping device inside.
My hunch was right. This house was never done out of favor.
The molars were bitten by themselves.
A thumping sound filled the room.
“The sun.”
“Golden Sun.”
They both called me at the same time and I opened my mouth to them.
“… … I have something to check. I’m still just feeling sick, so will you come with me?”
Only the final verification process remains.
Immediately, the children and I came out of the house and stood in front of the front door of the house next door – Nikolai’s house.
Desiree grabbed the doorknob and turned it left and right. It only made a clicking sound and didn’t even move.
“Is it locked?”
“Wait a minute.”
Gathering magic in my legs, I ran toward the door, jumped, and stretched my heels.
-bang!!!
The iron door pulled out along with the door frame went over into the house.
And I went inside and opened the door one by one without hesitation.
Desiree and Elizabeth also dispersed, looked around, and followed me open the door one by one.
no problem
no problem
no problem
no problem… … .
‘Clap.’
… … not
-bang!
kicked the door
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Just like when you enter the house, the scenery inside the forced open door… … .
… … It was full of pictures all over. The size and composition of the photos were different, but one thing was unified.
person in the picture.
Anastasia Ivanov.
“… … Holy shit.”
okay. As Elizabeth said, as she sneaked up to me and looked up at the picture on the ceiling, this room… … It was terrible.