146 – site-1
“As I said yesterday, I will go to the field starting today. Originally, I was going to take you to the place where the night shift is being organized, but I think I need to know how things are going from the beginning to the end, so I’m waiting until the gate opens.”
“All right.”
“I get it.”
“While the other kids are waiting, they do personal training or check their equipment. Even when there are few gates and there is plenty of free time, there are a lot of things to take care of, so there’s no point in sitting idle. You don’t have to do anything.”
It turns tighter than I thought.
“It’s funny to stand there blankly until a gate occurs, so why don’t you move on to the group scheduled for the next dispatch and see what everyone is doing?”
“Yep!”
As I followed Park Ji-hyun, I saw a fairly large door.
“What are you all doing?”
Park Ji-hyeon opened the door without knocking and went in. In a fairly large room, about 10 people were training or touching equipment.
“I guess you haven’t been very busy lately? You have time to train.”
“Isn’t that right? We handled all the gates that appeared in the dark areas that didn’t cooperate well, but recently, they’ve been handling the gates there. That’s why my free time has increased a lot.”
“Isn’t there a need for a separate keeper as well?”
“I don’t think it’s necessary right now. It’s meaningful to buy time by dispatching a keeper in advance to go to the gate five times a day, but now, both the keeper and the disposal team are dispatched together, so everything is covered from start to finish, right?”
“Let’s watch the progress and think about whether or not to remove the keeper, because even if we collect all the keepers, a few more teams will come out.”
“What if more teams come out? I don’t have any equipment.”
While Park Ji-hyun was talking, I glanced around and saw a woman who had been beaten by the Heavenly Demon yesterday.
“Looking at the new recruits, it looks like they’re taking them to the field?”
“Right, I want to give them a proper role, but shouldn’t I go to other departments? For now, I’m just going to let them see them, and you guys think they’re just diced radish.”
“Okay, can you tell me some of the equipment you use on site?”
“It’s something I have to do, but I’d appreciate it more if you did it.”
Park Ji-hyun smiled and smiled, and the man who seemed to be the leader also smiled and answered.
“If you have to do something, just let Jihyun do it, I’m busy.”
“Can’t you just let the other kids do it?”
“Isn’t Jihyun-nim the most free person here?”
“Haa… Okay, I can explain.”
Park Ji-hyun pouted and started explaining while walking around the room.
“Do you see the maknaes over there cleaning up? That’s something like a barrier item, blocking civilians’ access and being the last bastion when the defense line is breached. Every time it happens, there is a probability of 80% somewhere, but I can’t check whether it’s broken or not until I use it again, so even if I can’t do it, I have to tear down and repair all 20 barriers one by one.”
“The guards do it? Are there no technicians dedicated to it?”
“Is there any? I got it from Sol, so there aren’t many technicians who can properly repair it. In the first place, most of the technicians in our city are people who make high-end weapons, so I’m not going to do trivial tasks like this.”
“Even by hiring civilians…”
“Of course not, it’s a secret, so it’s difficult to identify a suspect if it leaks outside, and there are parts that can only be fixed by spending mana, so ordinary people can’t even repair it.”
“It’s very inefficient.”
“I can’t help it, but it’s better than before. There was no such thing in the past, so once the gate exploded, casualties almost always occurred, so until just a few months ago, monsters came out of the slums because they couldn’t catch monsters that had sneaked out.”
I know. Because I’ve been attacked many times.
“With the introduction of barriers, the work of the guards increased, but the number of casualties decreased, so we have to carry them no matter what. We hope that the technology develops quickly and does not break down.
“Yes…”
“Then let me introduce you to the next equipment,”
This time, I moved to a pile of metal piled up in one corner.
“These are traps. You can get a sense just by hearing the name, but these are devices that are mainly used to bind monsters. At first, as the name suggests, they were made to work when stepped on. It was split into . Fortunately, it can be reused, but each time it is reused, mana has to be put in, and it has to be cleaned up, so it is one of the culprits that make the gate processing department busy.”
“You’re busy with all these things…”
“If there are a lot of teams, they will be dispatched up to 5 times a day, so it’s hard because we have to complete all these processes within 2 hours.”
Park Ji-hyun walked over and introduced a new equipment.
“It’s like a first aid kit. It’s like an item containing the abilities of a healer, but it can’t be reused and it’s delivered from outside, so there’s nothing to touch.”
“This is a walkie-talkie, you know without explaining, right?”
I heard all the explanations about quite a lot of types of equipment.
“There are other equipment used when entering the gate, but I’ll tell you about that later. For now, just memorize what I’ve told you today.”
-Wheee
“Good timing, now we can go to see the site.”
The guards put down what they were doing and started packing up their equipment.
Personal equipment was put in the suit at once, and the time was reduced by wearing the suit, and the equipment to hit the barrier ended with someone taking a bag containing about 30 barriers.
It took less than a minute for each of us to dress up in our personal gear, pack our personal weapons, and even pack all the shared equipment.
‘Fucking fast…’
Are you also experts? It was much faster than I imagined.
“Can we just go out?”
“Oh, I’ll follow you on my own, so go ahead.”
When Park Ji-hyeon gave a definite answer, the guards quickly went outside.
When I asked why the door was so big, it seems that it was designed that way so that they would not collide with each other when going out at once.
“Did you see it?”
“Yeah… that’s really fast.”
“It’s as fast as our city mobilizes, but because of the lack of manpower, we kept running round and round with a small team. It’s not a good thing, but thanks to that, the mobilization speed is very fast… First of all, shall we follow?”
“Yes.”
I ran after Park Ji-hyun, but the distance continued to widen.
Since the guards were all awakened, I couldn’t keep up with my running speed.
‘Ah…what should I do?’
At the point of contemplation, Park Ji-hyun stopped following the guards and separated.
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to get my motorcycle. The place where the gate occurred this time is quite far, so it’s hard to go there by running. You don’t have to lose your strength in advance.”
Looking at where the guards had gone, they quickly put their equipment in a truck-like vehicle and got on board.
‘I live and see all the cars.’
“But a motorcycle… no matter how you look at it, it looks like a single person?”
Looking at the small motorcycle Park Ji-hyun brought, the Heavenly Demon asked with a puzzled expression.
“Aren’t Class A Awakeners faster than motorcycles? You take care of yourself with a cat.”
Then he started chasing after the tail of the truck that had just started.
“… get up.”
The Heavenly Demon knelt down in front of me, so I got up right away.
-Jumulluck
When I felt the Heavenly Demon’s hand rubbing my butt, I immediately hit my back.
“Uh huh, you should be kind.”
“My hand is unconditionally a good hand. I am doing this because I like Ahae, but how can it be a bad hand?”
Before I could say anything, I ran fast and stuck right next to Park Ji-hyun’s motorcycle.
“Hey, you’re really fast. I didn’t know that even an A-class Awakener would follow me so leisurely.”
“But can I follow you? What if something like a B-level gate happens while I’m on my way?”
“What should I do? The other team has gone ahead and is preparing everything, and I only need to arrive in 30 minutes. The way to block the high-ranking gate is very different from what I have told you so far.”
Then I increased my speed and opened up a little distance.
‘Does that mean you don’t want to talk anymore?’
As if it were not a lie to say that the distance was quite far, it took close to 5 minutes to move at a fairly fast pace. In terms of distance, 8km seemed like a good run.
‘Is it part of the border of the slums?’
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No one gathered around the gate.
“Let’s start working.”
The guards quickly got down and set up barriers around them, laid traps, and installed various equipment.
It took less than 5 minutes to finish all the settings as I moved skillfully and handled the work quickly.
“Do you know why I told you to just watch? It’s something that can’t be mastered in a short time, and someone planned what to do in advance.”
“cool.”
“Yeah, we’re kinda cool.”
Park Ji-hyun smiled and smiled.