Chapter 923 – 923. Nightmare (3)
Complying with speed limits meant nothing in the current situation.
The road was already full of lawlessness and monsters.
Many cars were left half-wrecked, and the more they passed over the road covered in people’s blood, the stronger Eunhyeon’s heart pounded.
It felt like my terrible imagination and anxiety were gradually becoming reality.
“Please please…”
Hoping that Eun Yeon-hwa was safe, Eun-hyeon drove on the road for the first time.
Thud!
Something jumped onto the speeding car.
Something stuck to the windshield made a noise as it looked at Eunhyun inside the car.
Kieeeeek!
It was a green-skinned monster with a small, child-like body that opened its mouth and screamed.
The scream that came out of his small mouth threatened Eunhyeon and blocked his vision while he was driving.
Good!
In the end, Eunhyun’s car, unable to drive properly due to the green monster blocking her view, crashed into the guardrail.
Quaaaaang!
“Huh!?”
The entire car body shook due to the strong impact, and an airbag popped out of the steering wheel in response to the impact exceeding a certain level.
Eunhyeon lost consciousness for a moment, but immediately opened her eyes.
“Uh, ugh…”
He somehow managed to shake off the airbag that was pressing down on his entire body, opened the car door, and got out.
His head felt dizzy, perhaps due to the aftereffects of the impact of hitting the guard rail.
I held on to my dazed mind and staggered out of the vehicle that had been in an accident.
“Here is…”
Eunhyeon looked around him with a blank expression.
It was a road on a mountain full of dense trees.
I tried to guess my current location by looking around the winding road, but Eunhyeon, who had no driving experience to begin with, had no way of knowing where I was.
The smartphone that he could rely on was also destroyed due to the bus overturning accident.
If the smartphone had been fine, it would have been able to estimate the current location and serve as a navigation device through the app.
The loss caused by not being able to protect the smartphone until the end was too great.
Height, Ik…
“Ah…”
Eunhyeon reflexively took a guarded stance without realizing it.
He sees the enemy being sent towards him.
However, the goblin, the green monster sending that hostility, was stuck between the guardrail and the front bumper of the car and could not get out.
His lower body had already collided and he could not move properly, so he was just gesturing helplessly towards Eunhyeon.
“…”
Eunhyeon just stared at it blankly.
I’m still confused as to where that monster came from, why it appeared, and why the world has become like this.
Key, Rick…
Finally, the goblin met her death.
Her lower body was crushed and she died from excessive blood loss.
“When I was like this… No.”
Eunhyeon came to her senses late.
In addition to the giant rabbit, my anxiety that many other monsters might appear was correct.
If so, monsters might appear in his mother’s hometown as well.
“Hurry… “I have to go to my mom quickly.”
If my smartphone had been safe, I would have been able to call Joo Hyeon-seong and check on my mother’s fate.
Not being able to exchange news, let alone confirm whether she was alive or dead, made me feel increasingly impatient.
Perhaps because of the shock from the car accident, her mind was dizzy and her body was not responding properly, causing her to stumble.
Eunhyeon forced his legs to move his body.
Unable to figure out where she was, Eunhyeon could only do nothing but aimlessly walk along the guardrail on the road.
Kirik!
While walking on the road, Eunhyeon once again heard an unpleasant voice that sounded like an iron scraping her vocal cords.
An entity similar to the small green monster that threw itself on top of the car earlier.
The goblins were all glaring at Eunhyeon.
This time, not one person, but many people walking on the road in a group.
Eunhyeon and the goblins’ eyes met.
Eunhyeon frowned and gritted his teeth.
“Shit… !”
Kirik!
The goblins all started running towards Eunhyeon.
Eunhyeon, who had been frozen for a moment, also gritted her teeth and moved.
Even at moments like this, he was very resentful of his body, which had become frozen with fear.
But there was one thing he could be sure of.
‘You can’t run away.’
It was obvious that he wouldn’t be able to run far on his shaky legs and would be caught by the goblins.
In that case, it would have been better to fight.
Kiaaaaa!
Eunhyeon swung his fist at the running goblin.
Kiik!
Eunhyeon’s fist hit squarely and crushed the goblin’s face.
I should say that I was really fortunate, but the goblin monsters that Eunhyeon encountered were not as strong as I thought.
Compared to a human, it has a small body that is only the size of a child, but its belly is protruding and its limbs are skinny and weak.
For Eun-hyeon, a strong adult male, these monsters were more worth dealing with than he thought.
Kiaaak!
Another goblin swung the weapon in his hand towards Eunhyeon.
The small, rough dagger in his hand, glaring fiercely, aimed at Eunhyeon’s abdomen, but Eunhyeon snatched the wrist of the goblin holding the dagger.
He twisted his thin, lanky wrist, causing the dagger he was holding in his hand to drop, and immediately kicked the goblin in the abdomen.
It was one of the self-defense techniques I briefly learned from Joo Hyeon-seong.
He said it was a self-defense technique that would be good to use when confronting an opponent with a weapon, but honestly, he did not seriously learn it because he thought he would ever encounter a gunman with a knife in Korea.
He never thought he would use it in this way.
Kiek!
The goblin’s body suddenly rose into the sky and flew through the air.
“… !”
Eunhyeon immediately grabbed the dagger that the goblin was holding.
He thrust the dagger into the neck of the charging goblin.
Puuk
As the dagger was pulled out, blood poured out from the goblin’s neck like a fountain and splattered around.
Naturally, blood was bound to splatter on Eunhyeon’s clothes, which were nearby.
“Tsk…”
Eunhyeon unknowingly suppressed the nausea that was rising in his chest.
It was the worst feeling.
The feeling of cutting and stabbing flesh, the smell of monster blood pouring from cut blood vessels, etc. Were full of things that added to the disgust.
It almost gave rise to the illusion that he had committed murder.
Murder.
Did he commit murder himself?
No.
The monster was killed.
To put it bluntly, wouldn’t it be similar to slaughtering a chicken, pig, or cow?
However, for Eun-hyeon, who was experiencing this act of taking the life of a living creature for the first time, it was not much different from the worst feeling.
Nevertheless, Eunhyeon swung his dagger and killed all the other goblins.
It was truly a disgusting act, but even before that, his survival instinct should have sounded the alarm.
Must live.
In order to live, you have to kill them.
Eun-hyeon thought that this was self-defense, and as she consoled herself and endured it, the only thing that filled her mind was the need to check if her mother was alive or dead as soon as possible.
Eunhyeon desperately suppressed the rising feeling of nausea and continued walking.
Fortunately, not long after, Eunhyeon found another abandoned car without an owner.
“Thank god. The engine is still running…”
Driving the car that started, Eunhyeon headed home again.
After driving for several hours, the fuel in the car ran out.
He arrived home, shaking off the monsters that had been chasing him.
“Mom!”
Eunhyeon hurriedly opened the door and entered the house, and she called Eunyeonhwa.
“Mom! I’m here! “You can come out!”
Maybe he was away, or maybe he was hiding inside the house because of this mess.
Eun-hyeon’s voice as she sang Eun-yeon-hwa trembled mercilessly as she imagined and guessed various things.
Rustle
“… !”
Soon, Eunhyeon heard the sound of someone moving in the house.
Startled, she turned her body in the direction from which she heard the sound.
“… Mom?”
At that moment, I thought she might be secretly angry, so I cautiously called out to her, but there was no answer from her.
If she was Eun Yeon-hwa in the first place, it was also strange that she just kept moving without answering yet.
Sensing something, Eunhyeon headed to the kitchen and grabbed a kitchen knife.
Then she rushed towards the main room where the sound was heard and screamed.
Bang!
“Who is this! Come out!”
Eun Yeon-hwa was not in the room she entered after kicking down the door with all her might.
“Huh… !?”
What was there was a monster.
A bizarre monster that does not have a human shape.
A monster whose skin melts and whose limbs twist and make bizarre creaking noises.
Something that I couldn’t tell if it was a face or an arm was looking at Eunhyeon.
It slowly crawled across the floor.
“… !”
Eunhyun shook her shoulders.
It was moving slowly, getting closer to her.
“Oh, don’t come…” !”
Eunhyeon, frightened by her terrible appearance, shouted urgently.
My body was frozen with fear and did not move.
Soon Eunhyun’s legs gave out and she fell to the floor.
Still, he thrust his kitchen knife towards the monster approaching him.
That was the warning and greatest resistance that Eunhyeon could give to the monster.
But the monster didn’t care and approached Eunhyeon.
Something with a horrible appearance, flowing as if melting, touched Eunhyeon’s body.
“Tsk… !”
Eunhyeon was scared and tried to get rid of the monster by struggling, but he was unable to have any effect on the monster.
Eventually, Eunhyeon, who was desperately resisting, finally opened her mouth.
“Ah… Field…”
“… What?”
Eunhyeon looked at the monster for a moment and asked back.
What the monster said, he couldn’t understand.
A cracked sound that is difficult to describe as ‘words.’
But it was definitely a voice.
The voice was a terrible sound that could not be explained as coming from human vocal cords.
But even so, I was confused because I couldn’t understand why it felt familiar.
The monster spoke once again.
“Son…”
“Mom… Mind?”
I couldn’t believe it, but even so, the possibility popped into my head.
It’s more terrible than any of the worst imaginations I’ve ever thought about, forced myself to erase, or glossed over.
The possibility that the monster with the terrible appearance in front of you was your mother.
“Oh, no…”
“Son…”
“No. No!”
I wanted to deny that fantasy several times, but contrary to my mind, reality gradually made that fantasy true.
“Sorry…”
Eun Yeon-hwa, a distorted monster, apologized to her son several times.
“Mom, I’m sorry. “I can’t do anything, so I won’t do anything.”
“Ah…”
Eunhyeon finally faced the reality she had wanted to deny over and over again, and was unable to say anything.
Eunhyeon’s hand, which was holding the kitchen knife she had pointed at, thinking it was a monster, was shaking violently.
Fear, fear, and shock that her mother had turned into a monster.
Various emotions were swirling around, confusing his reason.
Eun Yeon-hwa’s hands touched Eun-hyeon’s body, with the flesh melting and the bony bones visible.
His appearance may have reduced him to a hideous monster, but it was the gentle touch of a mother touching her son.
Eunhyeon saw it.
Eun Yeon-hwa’s melted face, the water flowing from the corners of her eyes, where her eyes would have been.
Eun Yeon-hwa held the kitchen knife with both melted hands and tightly squeezed both hands of Eun-hyeon, who was trembling.
And very slowly he stabbed his own neck with the blade.
The cracked and collapsed vocal cords could no longer produce a voice, and only the mouth opened, but I immediately understood the meaning of the mouth shape.
‘Love you. ‘My son.’
Eunhyeon just stared blankly at her mother’s actions.
Eun Yeon-hwa committed suicide by stabbing herself in the throat with the kitchen knife her son was holding.
He was reduced to a monster, and in order to prevent himself from losing his mind and attacking his son.
This was the starting point where his fate, which was destined for death, was first twisted and caught the eye of the goddess.
