Chapter 55 – 55. Down Again
“Oh… Shit…”
When I opened my eyes again, what I saw was a space filled with yellow wallpaper.
The strangely damp and sour smell of the carpeted floor and the noise of the lights make it an unpleasant place.
“Kashnax-sama!! Indy Cron!”
Called but no answer I tried my best to feel their gaze or presence, but I couldn’t even feel their presence.
It felt like a complete disconnect.
“It sucks..”
I checked my watch.
“Ah.. It’s broken..”
The watch had stopped moving, as if it had been broken. My cell phone was also turned off.
“Summon the Black Wheel! Summon the deep landlords! Salamander!”
Nothing responded. Even the summoning technique was blocked.
“Cheshire. Cheshire. Cheshire. Please..!”
I pressed the button to call the guide Cheshire several times out of anxiety, but there was still no response.
I think it’s been 5 minutes since I pressed the button…
“Hey. Hey! Wake up. This is not the time to be sleeping.”
I shook Merhere, who had collapsed next to me and was snoring, awake.
“Ugh… Hey, is this place…?”
“I don’t know. When I woke up, it was here. Do you know where this is?”
“Mo, I don’t know. What. This gloomy, eerie place… Are we, dead?”
“Isn’t that it? Maybe.”
Merhere trembled slightly in her anxiety, saying that we might have died and landed in such a strange place.
“You said it didn’t matter if you died earlier.”
“…”
Embarrassed by my words, Merhere lowered her head with her face blushing.
After all, there was no way I really wanted to die.
I left Merhere who couldn’t answer and looked around.
‘Is this… The ground floor? It’s completely different from what I imagined.’
It was a place with an endless corridor and a scene where I didn’t know if this was a room or what it was.
There is no way out, just walls with yellow wallpaper and damp carpets stretching endlessly.
From the black mold that blooms here and there, to the strangely disturbing sound of fluorescent lights. It’s a dark, eerie place.
How to say It felt like I was somehow stuck in the game’s test room or developer space.
“Stop thinking and get up. We have to find a way out.”
“I get it.”
“For a moment. Take this before you leave.”
I searched her bag and handed her her account creation card.
I don’t know what will happen from now on, but I need to wake up quickly.
“This…”
“It will make you a player.”
At my words she nodded her head and tore off her silver vinyl.
Flash!
“What did you get?”
“Uh… Oh”
Her chosen job was Fallen Angel.
It’s a class that’s just right for her situation. A fallen angel It’s honestly the job I expected.
When a former angel loses its wings and halo, all it has left is corruption.
“What. It fits well. Why are you so dead?”
“To be honest… To say he’s a fallen angel… Quite…”
She seems pretty shocked by her job.
It seems like a natural result, but I don’t know what makes me so sad.
“Yeah, in a way, it was a natural result.. From the point of already falling…”
While muttering, he held the hand of Merhere, who was denying reality, and walked forward.
She doesn’t know how many hours it has been since she fell here. We need to find a way out quickly.
‘Looking at the atmosphere, I don’t think the underground guards will come after me here.’
Rather, I felt uneasiness that a monster bigger than the guards might be lurking inside. I prayed that I could get out of this strange place safely. To my two demons, of course.
“By the way, do you know the way?”
“I don’t know. You can’t stay still.”
“That’s… That’s right. Excuse me. I see something over there.”
“Where?”
“Can’t you see? The black figure… Huh?”
I followed her fingertips and turned her head.
“OMG!!!”
There was something standing there with its face half out, watching us.
“Me, that fuck… What is that…”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like that. It’s not even a demon… It’s probably a creature more sinister than a demon…”
A black figure standing motionless in a distant corner staring at us.
The guy was laughing.
“This, for now.. Don’t take your eyes off it.. Let’s get as far away as possible..”
“I get it. That… Looks very ominous.”
Without taking our eyes off him, we held his hand tightly and slowly backed away.
He still smiles at us, but he doesn’t come close.
“Isn’t that… A dangerous guy? Aren’t you coming after me?”
“No, look at what it looks like.”
“Just looking at what it looks like… It sure looks dirty and dangerous.”
Merhere agreed with me.
As a result of backing so cautiously, our backs soon hit the wall, and we slowly turned and ran out of his sight.
“Haha..”
“Now, wait a minute…”
Perhaps because I was too nervous, I was catching my breath for a moment when Merhere grabbed my shoulder tightly.
“Why?”
“I-over there…”
He was a little closer to us.
“This…!”
“It seems inevitable. What to do Are you going to fight?”
While we were thinking about what to do, the guy who was watching us slowly started approaching us.
-Kiiiiing!!!!!
With a roar
“This!! Rue!!! Uh..?”
Skills don’t come out.
No matter how much he shouted, purple light gathered in his hand and was soon released.
“Oops!! Let’s go together!!!”
Merhere was already on the run. I ran like crazy after her. At that time.
[Run away this way.]
A voice I’ve never heard before.
I feel like I know something, but I don’t know. It was the voice of a girl I couldn’t remember at all, but seemed to have known for a long time.
“Hey!! Mer!! Here!! Follow me!!!!”
The voice was pointing in one direction.
My senses are telling me We must follow this voice.
And that which is now pursuing us is the kind of enemy that cannot be defeated.
Moreover, now that I can’t even use skills, it’s even worse.
Soon after, Merhere turned and came close behind me.
“Keiiah!!!!”
As we ran away with all our might, he screamed and jumped on all fours, and Merhere and I ran like crazy without even breathing properly.
Although his skills were sealed, he was not easily tired thanks to the fact that he was still receiving the influence of his stats.
“Shit!! Do you know where you are going?!”
“I don’t even know…! Just..! Long here!”
“What made you come? Is it okay to follow that?”
“Madam!! I don’t know!!”
“Uh! Excuse me!! That’s the door!!!!”
“Kiaaaaa!!!!!”
As she was running around the corner several times to avoid him, Mer pointed in one direction with her finger.
There was a door in the shape of an emergency exit.
“Over there!! Over there!!”
Merhere, who got ahead of me, opened the door and closed it the moment I jumped out.
Bang!! Bang!!!
As soon as we jumped out and closed the doors, the unknown monster chasing us broke the door and let out a scream. It wasn’t until after a while that I couldn’t hear any sound until Merhere and I were able to catch our breath.
“Ha ha… Ha… I’m out!!”
Outside the door we came out of was the roof of an unknown building.
“But where is this… Not on the roof of a mart…”
“This looks like a human city, but no one seems to be there. Calm down.”
A city without a single streetlight. Not a single bird flew in this ghost town surrounded by darkness. There were no zombies or anything. Only silence lingers.
We are now in a strange space where there are no people at all.
“Damn it…”
“I just can’t get a feel for it.. What this is going on..”
I think I’m going to lose my mind. I thought I had escaped after seeing the scenery of the city for a moment.
We were still confined to the ‘ground floor’.
“Hey..!”
Then someone approached us from behind.
Merhere naturally raised her hands and took her fighting stance.
I immediately drew the ceremonial dagger I had and aimed it at it.
The skill was still unusable here.
“Are you also imprisoned here? Hey! Don’t be nervous! I am a drifter too! I want to cooperate!”
It was a red-haired foreigner who approached us with a smile.
You must be speaking in a foreign language. Automatically interpreted in the brain.
It’s a little strange that the other person is a foreigner who is not an NPC in the game, so he can communicate with me.
‘Why can I understand that bastard?’
Could it be that the effect of being able to communicate smoothly with Manma is now being activated?
Or it may simply be the nature of this place.
It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t change the fact that that bastard is suspicious.
“Hey. Don’t come any closer.”
As long as the slave branding skill is sealed, you can never be relieved.
Especially, there’s no way I could ever trust someone I met in a strange place like this.
“Wait, wait…! I want to cooperate with you!!”
“What is cooperation? How can I trust you? I can’t believe it. Never.”
“Now, wait. Tell me my story..!”
Saying that, he grabbed the ax that was strapped to his waist.
It is out at the point where you put your hand on the axe.
I swung my dagger straight at him and he managed to dodge my dagger before turning and running.
“What crazy! Shit! This is why Asians are!!! You are so quick to notice!!”
He was also a man who came for a malicious purpose.
If so, you can’t miss it all the more here.
Maybe we’ll call in our allies or make our presence known to the larger group.
I don’t know if I didn’t run into it at all, but since I ran into it, I have no choice but to kill it.
“Catch!!”
“I get it!!”
Like a slave, Merhere ran straight to my command. She quickly caught up with him and landed a dropkick.
“Aaah!!”
Merhere, who has a voluptuous body with a height of 190 cm, hit his waist directly with a drop kick.
He arched his back, as if he’d reversed his clamshell phone, then fell forward and screamed.
“Big..! Aaa!!! Shiibal!!! Years!!!!”
I approached Merhere, who was holding on to the fallen man.
“Hey. Mer. You kill this guy.”
“What?”
“Kill it quickly. You need to level up No matter how bad your skills are, shouldn’t you raise your stats?”
“That is definitely true. I get it.”
Merhere took the dagger from me and brought it to the fallen body.
“Wait a minute!! Please..! Look at it just once.”
Take a peek..!
“I’m sorry. I hope you will go to heaven.”
Merhere, as if she did not want to listen to him anymore, stabbed her throat and turned her dagger once more.
Instead of stabbing himself, the guy who had a hole in his neck screamed in pain and fluttered, then slumped and died.
“Your level has risen. The stats have also increased.”
“That’s right. Phew. Let’s see…”
Merhere’s skill had only one choice, like Ganghwayoung, a carnage vamp.
And even though he was level 1, his basic stats were that of a level 15 player.
I never thought the difference in racial values would be this big. Of course, I, who is compensated by the effect of increasing magical power, is higher.
Even when she didn’t have stats, she ran faster than me, so she might have higher physical abilities than her actual stats.
“An unholy blessing… It’s a body enhancement class.”
“Didn’t you say you couldn’t use skills anyway?”
“That’s right. I just checked.”
We went through the dead man’s bag.
His bag contained various tools.
It was full of items for survival, such as ropes and tools for making fire.
“I will put it to good use.”
I also searched his arms. Then an old photo and a notebook came out.
In the photo, there was a man who had just died and an unknown woman. The photo was just thrown away.
“Let’s see…”
The letters in the notebook were not in Korean.
It was written in English. Of course, I couldn’t read any of them. However, I can understand a few words because I have lived through it, but it was written in cursive, so I couldn’t understand all the contents of the notebook because my English skills were not good.
“I don’t know.”
“Give me.”
“Can you read it?”
“Ever since then, he has been an angel. It’s like human language.”
“Indeed, it is useful here. That’s useful, Mer.”
“Kuhm.”
As soon as he stroked her hair, Mer read the contents of her notebook.
It was his diary and the record of his survival after falling here.
“Damn it… Then here it is…”
“Right. A collection of errors. This seems to be a place to confine errors that ruin the world line.”
Surprisingly, the city of this abnormal appearance is the beings named ‘mistakers’.
In other words, it was a place where possessors, reincarnated persons, reincarnated persons, returnees, and regressors were confined.
“Huh… Shibeol.. Keep reading.”
“I get it. Big hum. The use of skills is restricted in this city. Max level is probably limited to level 20. And the erroneous ones that fall here are reset to the power level.”
“For a moment. Are you saying I’m not an error person because I’m at the same level as when I entered?”
“It seem to be like that. Maybe it’s because the way we got in was different from them.”
These guys suddenly opened their eyes and said that they were here, but since we opened the door and came in, it seems that a different rule applies. Since they entered with the doors open legitimately, they might be treated as visitors.
“Read on.”
“I get it. All food found inside is either rotten or tasteless. The only thing edible is the occasional lemon-scented water and other errants trapped here. They say you can’t survive if you don’t eat cannibals… Ugh…”
If you don’t have anything to eat, you should at least eat cannibals, but it’s also a bit shaky.
Frowning her face, she continued reading the contents of her notebook.
“Also, among the reincarnations settled here, Zhang Quen, a Chinese, said that we should be especially careful. He was particularly erroneous, so he copied himself from day one, and he ate himself up to level up. It seems that you have broken through level 15, which was considered to be the actual limit level that can be raised here.”
“Haa.. It’s a mountain beyond a mountain. Is there any way to get out of here?”
“For a moment. Are reading Hmm.. It seems that this person also struggled to find a way out. They all failed, but they seem to have found the suspicious place.”
“Where is that?”
“The heart of the city. It says there’s a sinkhole there. But there is… A snake… A snake.”
“Snake?”
“It is a snake. It is described that the snake periodically crawls out and devours the chunks of error before disappearing again. And the area around the sinkhole… Is where Zhang Quyen settled. Here is the map he drew.”
“In the end, I’ll have to catch that Chinese bastard or avoid my eyes.”
“According to the contents of the notebook, it is written that Zhang Quen made a corps composed of themselves here. Can we both get through it?”
“I’ll have to try it, but… I’ll have to stay here for a long time.
I checked the items in the bag.
“Ha..”
There were only the medicines I had bought earlier and the firecrackers I had brought just in case.
If it’s my luck… I’m sure I’ll be able to draw the dragon’s breath out of these five firecrackers in one shot.
Please I wish I could pull it out
“I’m going to try it, but I’ll have to try it.”
When I picked one of the five bundles of firecrackers, I heard the voice I heard earlier while running away.
[That’s not it. The one on the right…]
“Didn’t you hear something?”
“What are you talking about?”
“It’s definitely not hallucinations, but… No.”
This time, Merhere didn’t hear.
If so, this is the only voice I can hear.
Something is helping me I quickly put the firecracker I just pulled out into my bag and grabbed the right one.
‘The feeling was similar to when I first encountered Carshinax or Indicron.’
Could it be that a new evil god has appeared here?
“Let’s go down now.”
“I will.”
We looked around from the rooftop and roughly figured out where we were now.
Then I went down the building. Fortunately, when I opened the roof entrance, it did not lead to a strange place like before, but it definitely led to building distribution.
We arrived at the first floor and walked to the center of the city as written in the notebook.
I didn’t run into anyone on the way.
That was when I got close to the sinkhole.
Click..!
Lights came on from all sides, aiming at us.
Haha!!! These are the new fallacies!!! Welcome!!! You came to my kingdom!!!”
Hundreds of people are watching us. All look the same. Among them, he must be the leader of the Zhang Quyen people, wearing staffs and accessories made of human bones.
“That guy is Captain Zhang Quen..”
The damn Chinese reincarnated was waiting for us.
“Save the woman there! Kill the man!!! Today is a meat party!!”
The bastard gave orders to himself.
Then, the same-looking guys screamed in unison and charged at us, each holding their own weapon.
“Damn… I guess we’re done here. Could you lend me a dagger? I would rather die than be gang-raped by a guy like that.”
“Wait!”
I quickly lit the fireworks with a lighter.
In the meantime, the group of Zhang Quen who had already come close to us.
Soon all the ignition wires attached to the firecrackers will burn out.
I held out firecrackers at the running guys.
Then something exploded from the end of the long firecracker…
Cuguagua!!!!!
An explosion sounded enough to paralyze the eardrums, and coward fire was fired.
For a moment, the intense light blinded me for a moment, and the shock wave pushed my body back. The same was true of Zhang Quen, who survived.
“Run!!”
I ran like crazy to the sinkhole with Merhere.
“Catch!!!!”
Somehow we survived, but Captain Zhang Quen and the rest of the soldiers chase after us.
“Shit!! What was that just now!?”
“Dragon’s Breath!!”
“That, something like that…!”
Soon we arrived right in front of the sinkhole.
[Welcome…]
Voice again.
The back is full of a bunch of people. There is nowhere to run. Now there’s no reason to be afraid to jump.
“Hold your hand. One! Two! Three!!”
I grabbed Merhere’s hand.
“Damn it. I fall again.”
Hearing her self-deprecating laughter, we jumped into an endless sinkhole.
