Chapter 92 – 92. Empty House
It took less than 10 minutes to catch and kill the three awakened people.
In 10 minutes, I obtained an infinite labyrinth, 3 extraordinary corpses for spiritual and physical transactions, items they used, and a bag full of food.
No matter how hard you try to go through the simple labyrinth, it takes at least 5 hours, but in contrast, you achieved results similar to going through the simple labyrinth in just 10 minutes.
“Wow…”
I was laughing with excitement on the inside, but Kang Ji-yeon looked at the dead bodies lying around and started gagging.
His condition seemed a little bad, perhaps because he had directly participated in the murder. Lee Hee-jung didn’t seem to think anything of it.
“Are you okay?”
“Ah… Well… It’s my first time seeing someone die right in front of me… So it’s no big deal. “I’ve seen a lot of people die in the auditorium, so it’s okay.”
Kang Ji-yeon shook her head vigorously and soon made up her mind.
She returned to her original state faster than expected. Yes, it should be like this. I can’t go with her if she seems like someone who would break my heart just by participating in the murder.
And I know because I tried it, if you kill a few people, you eventually become indifferent. I’m also slowly becoming calm.
Because you can’t kill each and every person while caring about them.
It might be better to think of it as just a game.
“Uncle. Zombies are coming from there. “I think I heard a noise.”
“Oh yeah. Let’s quickly shake it off and go.”
Lee Hee-jung, who was alert to the surroundings due to her expanded vision, informed her that zombies were coming. Zombies from around here are probably coming here.
No matter how much you turn down the sound, you can’t fight completely silently. Still, I’m glad it makes less noise than shooting a gun. If I had fired the gun, all the zombies in this neighborhood would have crawled out.
[The labyrinth is recorded.]
Meanwhile, a notification that the Infinite Labyrinth was recorded in the notebook also appeared. I decided to look into this later and took the items from the corpse first.
In any case, it would be a big deal if the items were passed along in a spiritual and physical transaction. When spiritual and physical transactions were activated, even the clothes one was wearing were traded, so there was a risk that the accessories one was wearing would also be taken away.
“Here, I found a necklace.”
“This is a ring.”
“I also have a ring. That’s enough. Let’s take each bag and set off.”
“Yes..”
I’m thinking of trading the corpse as a spirit-body transaction…
I was a bit worried about whether to sacrifice all three bodies and take the reward box or just give two bodies and eat the stat points.
“Are stat points better?”
“Yes?”
“No, I’m just talking to myself.”
It’s good to get items by getting reward boxes, but it’s also important to increase stat points. Items are useful if you get them, but stat points make me stronger as a person.
However, if you select a stat point with three corpses, one corpse will remain.
‘Well, you can just order the skeleton spirit to bring it to you…’
It must be cumbersome. There is no way that you will encounter another awakened person today, and then you will have to carry the corpse with you.
I didn’t think it would be a good idea to keep walking around with a dead person’s body, so I decided to quickly eat the reward box and leave.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
“Yes..”
We quickly left the scene. On the way here, Lee Hee-jeong has already reached level 5 survival, so there is no need to lose strength in hunting anymore.
Anyway, we crossed the street and arrived at the slightly older-looking apartment where Kang Ji-yeon’s parents lived.
“Whoa…”
“Is this the apartment?”
“Yes. “This is the 4th floor..”
“I see..”
The entrance to the first floor had already been smashed by someone. Still, maybe because it wasn’t a hallway-style apartment, it didn’t feel like there were a ton of zombies walking around inside.
The stairs are also quieter than expected.
Perhaps all the people hiding in this apartment are still alive. I used presence detection just in case.
“Three beyond this door. “There are two in this house.”
“Yes?”
“I can feel the warmth inside. There are people in here.”
The people on the first floor were still alive. I’m not sure if it was a human or a zombie trapped in the house, but judging by the fact that it didn’t make zombie-like cries, it looked like a survivor.
There are definitely a lot of survivors in these apartments with relatively closed entrances. Old hallway-style apartments and residential areas with virtually all entrances were in shambles due to zombies, while almost all of the apartment residents survived.
Of course, when eternal night and winter begin, everyone will starve to death or freeze to death in that order… But if they are called and become a fanatic, they will survive, so most people will choose that path.
In the future, this world will be divided into those who have infinite labyrinths they can escape from and those who cannot and become fanatics, zombies, and vampires. It must be a real mess.
Anyway, we quickly got up to the 4th floor. There were no special encounters or events in between.
“4th floor… Over there… Is it room 401 or 402.”
“Room 402.”
“Ah…”
But why?
There was no sign of popularity in room 402.
“Why, why are you like that..?”
“That’s…”
I hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to say to Jiyeon Kang. However, she eventually had to speak out due to the presence detection penalty.
“There is no sense of popularity.. “There is no one in this house.”
“Yes…?”
Kang Ji-yeon asked me what kind of bullshit that was. Then she hurriedly opened her door and went inside.
“Mom. Dad! Mom!!!”
Kang Ji-yeon goes around the rooms of her house, including her master bedroom, and desperately calls out to her parents. However, her family was nowhere to be found. An empty house. It must have been empty for several days already, so there wasn’t even a sense of life, let alone signs of people’s presence.
Trace observation tells us. The people who were in this house left here at least 5 days ago.
Five days ago, Kang Ji-yeon was still held in the auditorium. It’s now been two days since the disaster began. At that time, Kang Ji-yeon’s parents had already left this house.
“Uh, here. “There is a note.”
“What, what?”
At that time, she found a note attached to her refrigerator from Lee Hee-jung, who was snooping around with her to see if there were any clues.
“Uh…”
“What is it about?”
“Here…”
Kang Ji-yeon, who was reading her note her her her her, sat down.
I took her note from her and read it.
-To Jiyeon. If you come back and read this note while we were away for a while, don’t worry too much. Let’s go to the supermarket in front of here to get some food and daily necessities. Please wait.
-Dad and Mom to my beloved Jiyeon.
-PS. We believe that you will definitely come back, Jiyeon. See you again. I love you.
“…”
It had already been about five days since they left home.
But the fact that he didn’t come back means…
“Do you want to go check?”
“…”
“They say there’s a mart in front of here.”
“…No.. I-I.. I.. Can’t go.. Fuck.. Ugh…”
Kang Ji-yeon muttered non-stop and wiped away the tears that were flowing.
She tore out her hair at the misfortune that had befallen her.
Unfortunately, on the first day of the disaster, she was captured by the Dongyeong High School bastards and suffered all kinds of humiliation. When she was finally released and came to look for her parents, they were almost as good as dead.
It would be difficult to explain that feeling of despair in words. If I hadn’t been caught by those guys from Dongyeong High School, I would have been able to stay with my parents.
“Huh…”
“…”
“…”
Heejeong and I had nothing to say to Jiyeon Kang, who was crying. Lee Hee-jung had already lost her entire family like her and was in a half-crazy state, and I was in a situation where I could possibly lose my entire family like her.
It was very sad that I couldn’t even comfort myself.
“First of all, go in and get some rest.”
“Yes… Yes…”
I opened the lab infiniteyrinth and let Kang Ji-yeon in. This is because it seemed better to put her in a base than to take her with her when she was completely mentally broken.
Above all, it seemed like Saeyeon and Park Seonhwa could comfort her better than us.
“Do you want to come in too?”
“What about my uncle?”
“I’ll finish doing some work and then go back.”
“Yes. “Then I’ll go in first.”
“Okay.”
After sending Lee Hee-jeong into the base, I sat in the kitchen of Kang Ji-yeon’s house for a while.
“Haa…”
She sighed and wiped her face.
I was tired in many ways. Not only did I come all the way to Incheon without stopping, but my heart ached and my heart ached as I thought that maybe my family members were already dead.
“For now… “
I decided to check the items I obtained from killing the three awakeners earlier. When my head was a bit complicated, I needed to do something like this to calm my mind.
“Let’s see… “
First, I checked the labyrinth recorded in the notebook.
[Labyrinth Type: Infinite Labyrinth]
[Difficulty: Advanced]
[Labyrinth Name: Fallen Sanctuary of Raythena]
[Entry conditions: Survival level 1 or higher]
[Imposition target: (none)]
[Goal achievement reward: (none)]
[Capacity: 0/5]
“Fuck… “
The entry conditions are only level 1. What this means is that there are all kinds of penalty characteristics inside the labyrinth.
The more favorable conditions are for visitors, the stricter the access conditions become, so saying that the access conditions were lenient meant that they were ridiculously difficult.
From the beginning, the level of difficulty was advanced.
‘This… Is so fucking dangerous… ‘
What on earth were those three guys thinking when they entered this labyrinth? They even came out alive and well and were even collecting sacrifices. Maybe those three guys from earlier were even crazier than I thought.
Or maybe there was a statue at the beginning that gave the blessing they were talking about.
‘Anyway, there are only five people allowed in… ‘
I’ll have to try to attack it properly later. Considering that it is a sanctuary, it seems like a dungeon where pagan forces appear. You can only find out what the inside situation is like when you go in, so I couldn’t make a hasty judgment right now.
“Wow.. The item too..”
Now that I’ve confirmed that the labyrinth’s condition is pretty damn good, I’ll have to properly check the items captured from them this time and also open the green reward box.
Then, we should go into the base and begin a full-fledged invasion of the labyrinth.
