Chapter 631 – 631. Pando
After passing the broken Eiffel Tower, I continued to fly east this time.
Maybe it’s because I’m flying faster, but Europe feels very small.
I only flew for about an hour from Paris, but before I knew it, I had left Germany and reached the Polish border.
What I learned while moving around was that there were a certain number of people in Germany.
It’s not that many, but you can see people living together in small groups here and there.
I guess no one has been caught and killed here yet.
Even if you read their memories, these people are people who continued to live even before the world collapsed.
They are not people who emigrated from somewhere.
Maybe that’s why there wasn’t much information available.
People who have no interest in how the world works.
These people whose goal is simply to survive, without any intention of harming or fighting anyone.
These guys could kill me with just a thought, but I just left them behind.
It is better to leave it alone than to kill it. That way, you can get information next time.
At the very least, if it’s dead the next time you come, that alone is information.
You can tell when someone comes and goes, right?
After spinning around a little more, I teleported back to London.
Now that it’s time for people to sleep, I should read their memories.
But unlike the guys at Kraken headquarters, the guys at Buckingham Palace don’t go to bed early.
Guys who gather together and drink loudly.
It must be a slightly different feeling to light a fire and have a barbecue in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
Drinking, eating, shouting, singing, and making noise.
A Canadian who had just arrived for the first time was also called in and mingled awkwardly with them.
No… I guess I’ll just go to sleep… Why are you doing that? Really.
I look at those guys and become skilled at making soju.
I wish I could finish it quickly. I’m tired of waiting.
As time passed, one by one, they left the room and entered the building, and eventually the last ones left went in looking moderately drunk without even clearing up their seats.
Ugh. I finally got in. To procrastinate.
A room where the lights go off one by one. That’s how Buckingham Palace finally fell into darkness.
However… Is this okay?
Isn’t there such a thing as a night watch? What are the boundaries? Just defenseless?
No, the problem lies in the fact that you drank alcohol in the first place. I also don’t understand the superiors who let that happen.
What are you camping for? Did you come to the workshop?
No matter how much I think about it, it’s full of things I can’t understand. It’s absurd.
I wait for them all to fall asleep and then read their memories one by one.
These guys smell like alcohol and meat. Ah. I really hate it. In particular, the smell of alcohol is unbearable.
What on earth did these bastards eat that smells so bad? It’s full of things I don’t like. Really.
What’s even more annoying is that these guys don’t have much memory to read.
These guys don’t know much. It has no nutritional value. It’s not worth the wait.
I ignored those guys and immediately looked for the guy with the top head.
The guy who came to pick up the Canadian earlier.
So, this is the guy they call the head of the European branch.
I think this guy is higher than the Chief at Kraken Headquarters… This guy doesn’t know that much either.
What on earth did they do to themselves? I’m curious about your way of thinking.
Without any detailed explanation, they just throw the mission at you and say, ‘This is what you need. When you say ‘Can you do it for me?’, They say ‘Please just leave it to me’ with a face full of a sense of duty.
I guess they think they are some kind of super soldier.
Is there a need to be this dedicated and have a sense of duty?
Still, it doesn’t mean I have no income, so that’s okay. It’s not like there’s no information at all.
Except for the European branch manager, the rest are just mercenaries.
The condition is to be officially accepted as a member of Kraken only if one survives through ‘service’ and ‘dedication’ on the front line for a certain period of time.
It probably would have been the same even if Seo Min-jun had come. Because not all mercenaries here are Americans.
But I don’t know how great these Kraken guys are that they voluntarily want to belong to this group.
Is that so? If you can’t avoid it, join it?
That’s not a bad choice.
No, but… It’s a bit funny to me, who knows the real goal of this world.
No matter how much service and dedication the guys who joined as mercenaries did… Will they accept it obediently?
I don’t think there’s any way to accept it.
Anyway, that’s it…
I learned roughly the map of Europe.
Currently, three powers were clashing in Europe.
One is the United States.
These guys have already organized Canada, Iceland, Ireland, and the UK.
Fuck. They’re digging up South America, but they’ve already sorted out the North? Anyway, the Yankees are great guys too. It’s no better than a dog.
Yikes. Is this too harsh a curse? Sorry. Yankees. Wasn’t that too harsh?
Anyway, the guys who turned Iceland, Ireland, and the UK into uninhabited islands are now attacking France.
The reason we couldn’t find anyone all the way to Paris was the work of these guys here.
And another force. Unknown name in Europe.
When I say “Unknown,” It feels somewhat unknown. Well, actually, it feels roughly similar.
In any case, Unknown may be alone or in the majority.
The reason there was so little information was because everyone we met was either dead or busy running away, so we couldn’t get any information.
The only known information is that they speak Swiss German? And that there are so many skills?
So, I think they think there could be several of these guys, not just one.
But if this guy is like Jang Ryong, he could be one guy. He could be the guy who wrote the Q&A.
The last force is a name I know. Smelly Corporation.
Russian security company. Instructors and bodyguards.
They had eventually pushed out all of Eastern Europe and were slowly advancing westward.
But… If there were guys like Pitman, it would be hard to stop them with just a few guys. Moreover, the instructor said that it was not just one or two.
In any case, the three powers are accelerating the massacre of civilians in Europe.
Looking at things like that, the German people I saw earlier are lucky. Since you’re in the exact center, you’ve still avoided the fire, right?
That’s how I found out the information… In fact, there is nothing you can do.
These guys don’t set a location and meet to fight, and I don’t know where they are right now.
Actually, it would be good if they fight among themselves and die on their own.
A guy called Unknown is quite troubled.
If he’s like me… He is quite a dangerous guy.
In the end, all these bastards here and the Smelly Corporation guys are doing is having fun collecting coins and paying them back to them, right?
It’s annoying. It’s a hassle.
You might not know if it has a base, but if it doesn’t, it’s not easy to find and kill it.
I know where it is.
Still, I am glad that we have found out to some extent the situation in Europe, which was shrouded in mystery.
I felt a little uncomfortable because I hadn’t been paying attention.
So now the remaining areas are… Africa and the Middle East? Ah. There is also Australia.
But you don’t have to worry too much about Australia. Although it is called the Oceania continent… The population there is less than that of South Korea.
Guys who are as big as a piece of land.
I’ll have to check it sometime, but it won’t be that threatening.
I’m probably raising cows and eating steak.
I don’t know much about the Middle East, but Africa cannot be ignored.
There’s a lot of population there too. Moreover, there may be a larger population there than is known.
Anyway, as the scope of my activities expands to cover the whole world, I have more things to worry about, which is annoying.
If I had known this would happen, I would have taken an interest in world history.
It’s a good thing that I know a little bit about world geography.
Now that I’ve finished my business, I teleport back to the United States.
Although there is more information, my job is simple.
Master your skills while watching the Kraken headquarters.
For now, that comes first. Rather than wasting time wandering around for no reason, it’s better to focus on the inside first.
It’s enough to just stop by and check out this part of Europe whenever you think of it.
The guys at Kraken headquarters all went back to their rooms at night.
There is no particular need to watch them, but you can still become skilled at creating soju by watching them.
After creating soju until my head became dizzy, and I couldn’t do it anymore, I went straight back to the bunker, collapsed, and fell asleep with sleep on me.
When I woke up, it was almost midnight.
Ah. It’s strangely difficult, even though I’ve changed my life between day and night more than once.
Is it because of the time difference? It’s strangely difficult.
When I get up and leave, I see four women just getting ready for bed.
“Oppa, are you awake?”
Seunghee, Mina, and Anna smile at me.
“Huh!? I woke up just in time! You know! Listen to my story.”
And Se-Ah’s excited voice. And she jabbers to me about what happened to her.
“So… I did that… So…”
It’s a long story, but in the end it’s simple to summarize.
I found a managed ryokan.
According to what Se-ah said, they found a ryokan with a slightly older female owner and her daughter.
Moreover, he shared food with them and already took a hot spring bath once.
“… Are you stupid?”
“Why!?”
“Can you trust those people? What if they attack suddenly? What if you take sleeping pills in the hot springs?”
“Ha. Oppa, you really don’t trust people? Do you really think I didn’t check that?”
“What and how did you check it? Did you at least read your memories?”
“You don’t have to read your memories to find out, right? I watched you for almost three days. There’s no problem. I’m okay, so I moved!”
Okay… Well, Se-Ah isn’t that thoughtless.
Still, we have to check for risks. It’s best to find out for sure.
“Open the gate there. I will check and come back.”
“It was a difficult place to find. Don’t mess it up.”
“I know.”
SeAh opened the gate, and I went over.
In the dark mountains. And decent buildings in those mountain valleys.
It wasn’t just the ryokan that Se-Ah mentioned. There are many buildings around, but I can only feel the presence of one place.
The presence of two people. Is that the mother and daughter that Se-ah was talking about?
I tried to look through clairvoyance and clairvoyance, but it was too dark to see well.
Still, as I looked at it for a long time, my eyes got used to the darkness, and I was able to see it to some extent.
The two seem to be sleeping. An ordinary middle-aged woman, an ordinary young daughter.
It’s not particularly pretty or anything. Unfortunately.
I feel bad for imagining a mother-daughter rice bowl meal between a beautiful ryokan hostess and her daughter. I was wrong.
I went downstairs, put them to sleep, and read their memories.
The reason why we were able to survive until now, the reason why we are alone in a place like this where there are no people.
I read the memory with suspicion, but I was wrong.
These were extremely ordinary people.
Surprisingly, these two have never faced anything difficult or experienced any terrible experiences.
People who simply carried on a family business that had been passed down for generations.
The mother and daughter stayed behind because everyone around them had left to find a way to survive, but they simply didn’t have the courage to do so.
Fortunately, we both chose to improve our skills, so we were able to live simply until now, with a small rice field and raising chickens.
Really… They are extremely peaceful people in this messed up world. In some ways, they may be the happiest.
They are the lucky ones.
When I go back to the bunker, everyone has gone to sleep, and Se-ah is the only one left, not sleeping, waiting for me.
“Did you check?”
“Uh, nothing special. But you were acting really friendly?”
From the memories of the hostess and her daughter, Se-Ah was a very kind and friendly young lady.
It felt quite different to see Se-ah’s calm self from someone else’s perspective after seeing her bratty self speaking informally to me every time.
“Kyeah! You think I’m doing this to just anyone!?”
“What? Then you’re giving me special treatment?”
I sat next to Se-ah on the sofa, then she put her arms around her back and between her legs, lifted her up, and sat her on my lap.
Surprisingly, Se-Ah does not resist and obediently embraces him. She puts her weight on mine and leans her body against mine.
“Why are you still?”
“A little. Don’t say things like that, just stay still.”
“Okay. Sorry.”
SeAH stayed still for a while.
“I will continue to go to the ryokan there.”
“Ah. I don’t think there will be a big problem. It’s not like I have any other plans or are aiming for something. In terms of skills, both the mistress and the daughter are growing. I don’t think there will be any problem.”
“Can I use some of the food I have at home?”
“Uh. Whatever you want.”
“And.”
“Hmm?”
“Come with me.”
“Me?”
“Huh. Then who would it be?”
“Just with me?”
“No. Everyone will go together. Seunghee, Mina, and Anna. But just the two of us will go once.”
Although he pretends to be calm, his reaction is different from usual, as if he is a little embarrassed on the inside.
Cute guy. When I say this, people get excited.
“Okay, okay. Let me know when you want to go. Let’s go anytime.”
