19 – Hero Proficiency Test (6)
How to get water in the mountains?
Poke a hole in a pine tree and insert a pipe to get water?
It is impossible with current equipment.
The most likely thing is to get the food and drinking water hidden by the person in charge and the supervisor.
Built in the ground or hung from the top of a tree….
ㅡ Someone is watching us.
As I was climbing the mountain and looking around, a monster started talking to me.
“Wait!”
At my words, everyone stopped and covered themselves with a nearby tree.
I don’t know, but the monster is sharp in this way.
Someone must be looking at us.
“Why is that?”
“It feels like someone is watching us.”
“Ah, I see…” .”
Mr.
“A suppression?”
“Yes. If you’re going to haunt us for two days in this mountain, you’ll need a way to satisfy your hunger and thirst.”
Ah, that’s right.
Since the test is being held in the mountains, I thought I should get food and drinking water somewhere here.
But this is just a hero ability test.
It was not a test to film a living being.
“Jin-woo, please protect Eun-hye.”
After saying that, Eunseong put down her luggage and ran towards the direction I vaguely pointed out.
There was no hesitation in the movement even though it was a mountain road that was much steeper than the plains.
Not long after, I heard the sound of Eunseong fighting.
I heard the sound and used my body hardening ability to be alert.
And before long the sound of battle stopped.
Mr. Eunseong had brought food and drinking water from the person who subdued him.
“It is as Eun-hye said.”
A canteen full of water and some food.
I don’t know how many more raids there will be in the future, but if we block at least 3 raids, one serving will come out.
“I’m glad.”
Eun-hye, who still thinks that she is her burden, straightens her face a bit.
Wheein.
After a while, the bracelets we were wearing trembled slightly.
It seemed that extra points were given.
“… Surprisingly, it doesn’t feel that bad.”
If you have hearing or the ability to detect presence, you can deal with it before being attacked.
Then it reduces the risk and gives you a chance to gain extra points.
We packed up and started moving again.
It was best to find a cave, but the possibility of a cave just in time in a place like this is small.
So I decided to make a realistic decision.
A place that is wide enough for three people to lie down, and there are enough trees nearby to block attacks from attackers to some extent.
A place where the ground is not sloping and therefore not dangerous.
There were several candidate sites, and while we were moving, we moved while checking so that we could go back.
Sometimes we run into other groups, but fighting with other groups is a point deduction factor.
So we just passed by as if we didn’t exist.
As I wandered around, there was something that caught my eye.
There was a case where a 3-person team became a 4-person team.
“What is that?”
“Well….”
“Perhaps that is also included in the bonus.”
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““Ah….””
At my words, they nodded, saying that they were right.
Besides hunting monsters and villains, being a hero also includes saving citizens.
It seems that there are not only attackers who have been deployed in the mountains, but also people like that.
We wandered around and found someone screaming for help.
Looks like someone in need of help, his entire body was covered in dirt.
“In case you don’t know, I’ll carry it on my back and move it.”
“Okay.”
I carried the woman on my back. All three of us’ bracelets vibrated simultaneously.
At the same time, he gave me a rough direction on where to go to be recognized as having saved this person.
We walked her up the mountain again to the location indicated by her bracelet and dropped her off.
“Tough work!”
She calmly waved her hand and left, to the extent that she wondered if she was the person who had just pretended to be sick.
“It tells you if you get extra points for this, but it doesn’t tell you how much.”
Eun-hye brought up such a story while looking around her bracelet.
Certainly, as a convenience function, it would be convenient to tell us how many points we got and where we are.
As we were talking and walking, Eun-hye stopped us.
“There is a trap in front of me.”
Ms. Eunhye’s clairvoyance ability noticed a trap that the monster couldn’t identify.
As expected, there are things like this.
Trap… It’s a trap….
“Oh, there’s drinking water over there.”
500ML of drinking water was prepared near the trap.
“Wait a minute.”
I drank very little of her drinking water from her.
“… There seems to be no problem, but let’s eat it on the last day.”
Unlike the water obtained by defeating the raiders, I thought that the water here might be a trap.
There are traps like this, but it’s impossible not to have them.
As I was walking through the mountains like that, the sunset started to set before I knew it.
We decided to go back to the point we had checked.
I gathered some dead tree branches from nearby, lit them with the lighter I had prepared, and took out my sleeping bag and padding.
“Hye Eun-hye uses the sleeping bag.”
“… May I?”
“If Eun-hye catches a cold, that is more of a problem.”
“Thank you….”
Even though Eun-hye was hesitant, she didn’t refuse.
“Usually in novels and movies, when the light is on like this, everyone around you can see it, so there are times when the light is not turned on.”
Mr. Eunseong said that and threw wood into the bonfire.
“There are scenes like that.”
I also threw a dry branch into the bonfire following Eunseong.
“Will we be okay?”
Eun-hye must have thought that Eun-seong’s words were plausible, so she spat out those words.
“Still, it’s better than catching a cold and ruining your physical condition the next day, right?”
There may be raids at night.
Still, it is better to be nervous with fire than nervous without fire.
“It must be very difficult for people who don’t bring any luggage….”
Eun-hye frowned as she thought of the people she didn’t know who might have become a group of three without any baggage.
It seems difficult without a lighter and no padding or sleeping bag.
We decided to eat dinner in a relatively friendly atmosphere, set a night watch, and go to sleep.
Of course, Eun-hye, who is not a combat type, was excluded.
In the first place, there was a rule to consider them as half civilians, so it was natural.
But not everything goes the way you think.
The assailant, whom I rarely encountered during the day, appeared four times during the night.
Although we did take some rest, we actually woke up with a full night’s sleep.
The condition was, of course, the worst.
***
After the monster came into my body, I felt like I had some stamina left over even if I stayed up all night.
That’s why I didn’t have any major problems even while camping and hiking.
“Are you okay?”
“It’s okay….”
If it’s a problem, it’s probably Eun-hye, not a combat-type ability.
Those who challenge the hero ability test are those with basic physical strength.
However, since she was a woman with non-combat abilities, it felt like she had reached her limit to some extent.
Eun-hye looked nervous as she thought she was hurting her team.
“For now, all the raids have been stopped and we have food, so I don’t think we’ll be eliminated. Now let’s spend it resting properly.”
“Yes.”
While saying that, we rested in a position where we could adequately block the attack.
It was a rather exhausting test, but somehow it seemed to be heading towards the end.
ㅡ Please help… !
I was taking a break after lunch when I heard a voice calling for help.
“This must be the last one.”
We got up and went in the direction of the sound.
Eunhye let her know that she looked around and there were no traps in her.
Then it will end like this… It was the moment when I thought so.
“Wait a minute.”
I stopped her party as they approached her.
“Why?”
“Um… That person must be a trap.”
“Yes?”
You saved 2 citizens so far and got points.
What these citizens have in common is that they were covered in dust all over their bodies, probably because they rolled down the mountain.
It wasn’t just the two citizens we saved.
The other teams I ran into while riding in the mountains also always had dusty citizens on their backs.
But the citizen who appeared this time was different.
It was in a very clean state without a speck of dust, as if it had fallen from the sky with teleportation ability.
Suspicious.
Maybe because of mysophobia, I didn’t get dirt on my body.
But since there is no dust even on the shoes, I think this is a suspicious situation.
Could this be a trap made in the sense of preparing for a villain dressed up as a citizen to attack?
If you have teleportation skills, you might be aiming for Eunhye the moment we react.
“It might be a trap. It just goes by.”
There should be room for points anyway.
After hearing my words, the two of them looked a bit puzzled, but they nodded.
We looked at her, and her vigilance, and her sneaking back behind her.
It was the moment when she neglected her and backed away from her asking for her help like that.
ㅡ There is someone.
A warning from the monster has been sent again.
“Mr. Jinwoo?”
“Yes, there is someone.”
Mr. Eunseong immediately rushed out and tried to subdue the enemy, but I shook my head.
“Slow back. I think I already have enough points anyway.”
It’s the last day.
As the end of the test is near, the enemy’s offensive may become stronger.
It may be more advantageous to keep the score stable.
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
Mr. Eunseong and Mr. Eunhye followed my words without saying anything.
We slowly spread our distance to avoid being attacked.
As the score was preserved and moved, the bracelet vibrated and announced the end of the test.
***
After the exam, following the guide of the bracelet, I returned to the meeting place, and I saw quite haggard test takers.
—- No, there’s a trap like that!
ㅡ Ugh….
ㅡ Oh, sh*t….
The loudest of them all, Joe’s muttering pierced his ears.
Judging by the sounds they heard, they seemed to have been tried to help the man we passed by.
“As expected, that person earlier was a trap.”
“… If it wasn’t for Jinwoo, he would have been in big trouble.”
Ms. Eunseong sighed in relief as she said that.
ㅡ Thank you for your hard work. Those who will be called from now on are those who have passed the final exam.
All schedules are over.
Of course, we passed the test, and when we were officially promoted later, we said goodbye and parted ways.
That was the moment I was returning home.
ㅡ It is an enemy.
Enemy?
The monster said so, but I couldn’t see anything.
That was the moment I was thinking about it.
In front of my eyes, someone with a strange feeling passed by.
Yeah, it was subtle.
It was pretending to be human, but it was kind of awkward.
First of all, the walking form was strange.
Even though there seems to be no wounds or injuries on both legs, the walking posture was awkward.
The neck was also strange.
He is looking down at the floor as if it is difficult to straighten his neck.
ㅡ Yes, that guy.
Aside from that, it was a movement that seemed very awkward somewhere.
I decided to follow the suspicious man in front of me.