Chapter 252 – Chapter 20 – Embryo (2)
The light that obscured my vision disappeared, and my senses began to slowly return to my body.
Seeing that there are some monsters from the beginning, it seems like you have entered a dungeon.
Then, is it the distortion of space like Chaerin did?
[Prove your oath by correcting the remaining twist on the target.]
[Time Warp: You interfere in the past. Find incidents related to twisting and handle them normally.]
“Hour?”
It was a phrase I had seen when solving Seol-ah’s twist.
At that time, the use of traits was banned and went back to childhood, right?
I remember experiencing and resolving an incident that caused Seol-ah to lose her mind.
‘This time, he’s still in his adult state, and he can use his attributes.’
However, I thought the outfit was a bit strange, but strangely, it was the original outfit I had been wearing until now.
It’s as if I’ve brought my recent self…
He was in the form of the idol ‘Lucifer’.
Last time I felt like I was entering my body from the past.
It wasn’t like that this time, but did you move to the past with your body intact?
It’s the first time I’m experiencing it, so it’s hard to predict exactly what kind of situation it will be.
“By the way, why is it time. I thought it wasn’t because it was inside the dungeon.”
However, when I heard the strange screams around me, I realized that it was all an illusion from the start.
Fighting in dungeons are mostly expert hunters.
But there’s no way I could scream like that.
‘…Dungeon break?’
If so, everything would be explained if it was not inside the dungeon in the first place, but outside the dungeon.
Then, the premise of the twisting of space is nonsense in the first place.
That scream must have belonged to an ordinary person who was swept away by the dungeon break.
“This is because of the time warp…”
I spread my wings and flew towards the scream.
I started recalling the big dungeon break incidents in the past.
Of course, you can’t solve the case with this fist-fighting method, but it would be advantageous to have a little bit of information.
Even in the case of the dungeon that Chaerin created right now, you cleared it by getting a hint like this, right?
There was a high possibility of finding a solution this time in a similar way.
But it’s so strange, there are ordinary people screaming openly like that, but the hunter doesn’t come?
“Hick!?”
“Are you okay?”
“Huh, Hunter sister…?”
The screamer was a very small girl.
Ah, since I’m dressed as a girl now, you don’t think it’s particularly strange.
Well, if this is the past, hunters were generally only women, so it wouldn’t be easy to think that they would be men.
“Anyone else besides you? Adults?”
“Mo, I don’t know…”
Once I put the child on my neck, I started to look around.
The dungeon and the half-fused city, the terrible horror of being completely destroyed and burning.
It was quite a shocking situation to see the bodies torn by the monsters scattered around the streets.
‘The level of monsters is not that high.’
Still, the city was neglected until it was destroyed like this?
No matter how much hunters are a group that is criticized for not doing their job properly, I felt strange as a person who belonged there.
In a situation like this, wouldn’t all Hunters with low combat power be put in?
In fact, if there were even traces of Hunter’s resistance on the street, he wouldn’t have felt it was strange.
It was a trace of a one-sided massacre that had been carried out without any such thing.
It’s amazing that this child is still alive.
“What about your parents?”
“I’m the only one who told me to run this way…”
“Yeah, it’s okay if you stop talking.”
I looked around the area earlier, and all that was left was a corpse.
Just in case you didn’t know, I used the trait to investigate the living.
Also, there were no survivors nearby.
This means that the child’s parents are already dead…
They are very brilliant people who struggled to save this child somehow.
Ah, it was a little sad that Ai would have to live without her parents from now on.
If I hadn’t been there from the beginning, like me, I wouldn’t have remembered losing her parents like this.
“I’m sorry. I’m too late.”
The child shook her head and buried her face in my back as if it wasn’t my fault.
At this age, he is quite smart and has a strong sense of humor.
Well, even though he was screaming earlier, he managed to escape by using obstacles until the end.
So, are you still alive?
“You want to rest too, but we’re in a hurry. Could there be other survivors?”
“…Yes.”
“So I’m going to look around the whole area a little bit quickly. I’m going to find out why the situation is like this.”
The child nodded at her, and she listened very well.
It was strange that a child from an ordinary family listened to words so well.
It was good that I was able to quickly take action without having to persuade and appease myself thanks to me.
“No matter how you think about it, it’s strange.”
I was checking this whole city while flying like that, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t help but think that this was strange.
She thought earlier when she only circled around that area, she thought it was weird but it could be if she was unlucky.
It would be very strange if the whole city was in the same situation.
‘No, rather than the same…’
Earlier, that area was the best.
It would be correct to say that other places were attacked and destroyed first, and that place collapsed last.
Naturally, there were no survivors in other areas, and there were not even corpses on this side.
It looked like the monster had licked every drop of blood.
“It’s like being in a movie…”
Even if it’s a bit broken and collapsed city, nothing remains without even a corpse.
It seemed to create a darker, more terrifying atmosphere.
Even the monsters did not remain because there was nothing left to eat on this side.
‘First of all, most of the monsters you see here are low-grade predatory types.’
They are weak enough to be used for the Hunter level test, but Korea has strict gun regulations, so ordinary families do not have guns.
It seemed that there were no hunters in this city, so it seemed that they could not respond at all.
But it’s a bit strange.
“Why is no one coming to help?”
It’s been such a long time, but strangely, no one comes to the city to help.
To be honest, quite a bit of time has passed since I arrived, right?
It is far beyond the situation where the question is resolved to the extent that it is a bit late.
‘For a moment…’
It’s not something I’ve experienced, and I forgot about it because a solution came out that I wouldn’t even bother paying attention to.
After all, now I’m in the past, and that point may have been quite a while ago.
And if there was damage this serious, there’s no way it wasn’t recorded.
“The Tragedy of Songdo…?”
It was a major accident that occurred in Songdo, Incheon.
It was a dungeon break accident that was presumed to have occurred because the dungeon was in the water and could not be properly detected.
The problem is that this dungeon break is completely different from anything I’ve experienced before.
In this dungeon break, most of the energy, unusually, was to surround the city in the form of Doom.
Songdo faced the dungeon break in a state of isolation from the outside world.
The biggest problem is that the dungeon break broke at the timing when all the hunters who lived in Songdo were out.
Now, magic equipment that can pierce this has been developed.
In addition to that, the technology to more reliably check the dungeon status in the water has also been applied.
Even some large cities have laws in place for more than one hunter.
But in the end, there is a reason why it was created.
The trigger was this terrible accident called Songdo Tragedy.
All of the over 100,000 people living in the city at the time died, with zero officially announced survivors.
‘That’s why the city was strangely awkward.’
I get called a lot, and because of the dungeon, I go to various places.
You can immediately recognize what kind of city Songdo is.
However, Songdo is a place that has been completely rebuilt after the tragedy of Songdo.
Do you remember the appearance of Songdo after reconstruction, it must have not matched with what it is now.
‘It’s pretty much back in the past.’
Anyway, what is it?
Once I reached the barrier separating this place from the outside, I fell into trouble.
Although I can use a wide variety of attributes, and my firepower is strong.
You can’t break this with such a simple thought.
The weapon that broke it was also made weak by using the vulnerability, and the S-class hunter hit and broke it.
In other words, once you don’t know how to exploit the vulnerability, you can’t use it.
Even in this dungeon, the boss monster’s core was converted into a barrier, so it was impossible to clear it until it died a natural death over time.
‘It’s strange anyway. Why did you come here to solve Jung-a’s twist, but did you lock her up in a place like this?’
Until now, I had completely forgotten about it, driven by the thought of having to save even one more person.
But if you think about it for a little bit, this situation is strange right now, isn’t it?
I had such a question, and then, of course, the only survivor who was saved after being near me caught my eye.
The place I can be now is inside Songdo, which is quarantined.
And the only survivor in it is…
No matter how much I think about it, there is nothing but this child.
“No way…”
“Why is that?”
“You, what’s your name?”
“Your name?”
“Huh.”
“It’s Jeong-ah. Bae-jeong-ah.”
If you think about it, the tragedy of Songdo happened to me as a child.
If we assume that now is that era, Junga must still be a child.
Yes, just like this little kid in front of me.
