Chapter 229 – The Monk
A body that stands upright on two feet as if walking upright.
Three thick fingers and toes protruding from the hands and feet, a tail with sharp needles, and two hook-like bones protruding from the wing bones.
Yes, the leader of the Mentis who attacked the shelter before the cockroaches showed up.
It was also a much stronger and larger number of bosses than the one who died at the hands of Ha-jin at the time.
Chuck! Chuck Chuck-
Starting with one boss, more than 30 bosses all at once bow their heads on one knee in front of a lofty being.
“My king. Please give me your order.”
“… “
The leader knelt down in front of him without saying a word… No, the Queen of Mentis, who slowly raised her head looking down at her generals, opened her heavily closed mouth as she looked at the vast army of hundreds of Mentis spread out behind her.
“It is not yet time.”
The queen’s gaze, which says it’s not the right time with the premise of ‘not yet’, was directed toward the shelter that was over 20km away.
‘Is it the appearance of a new king?’
As the head said to the young king, the queen thinks she is the new king.
But that wasn’t the only thing it took.
Although the energy quickly disappeared, the energy of another real king was also felt in the same place.
A king is such an incompatible being that you can never join forces together.
However, the real king, who swallowed the young king’s energy, hid his existence without any conflict of energy, and the new king did not take any action, condoning taking away his prey.
Of course, I haven’t actually seen it.
I just guessed it through the energy I felt.
And one additional question is that even though it was the real king who absorbed the young king’s energy, the young king’s latent power was shared with the new king and his subordinates.
So the queen sent out scouts by implanting larvae in the bodies of her human captives, but she was killed as soon as she arrived.
‘They know we exist. Even so, don’t run away…’
It is different from the young king who ran rampant without knowing the opponent’s strength.
They are strong enough to erase the existence of the young king in an instant, but they also know about their own existence.
On the other hand, there is no information about the opponent at all.
The queen who destroyed a nation called Japan had enormous power, but she was different from the young king who ran amok without knowing how to look, so she was neither impatient nor rash.
For two days, the queen waited in her bundang.
She and she started moving.
“Ha… What are you so afraid of..? I almost peed… Still, the SA ranks are different.”
Minseo appeared at the place where the Queen and the Mentis Corps disappeared.
She returned to her shelter after taking one last look in the direction the Queen and Mentis Corps had disappeared.
『Shadow Spirit (SA) – Disappearing by erasing existence. Speed +120% when stealth is released』
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The reason Mentis was able to find and kill all the Japanese hiding in various parts of the country in the vast land of Japan is because he used the same human being.
The advance of the Mentis started from a small port city on the southern coast.
It was very simple for them to set the direction of their march.
Planting and releasing larvae into a person’s body.
The larvae were planted in the body of a person who had fainted and moved to an unknown place, or by hiding the appearance of a large army on the spot, it made frightened people have no choice but to run away instinctively, and made the fleeing people lose their guard and reveal themselves. I found out where people were hiding.
Of course, there were survivors who considered fleeing people as prey and killed them, but their end was the same.
Even if the larva is killed or saved, the location of the larva is accurately conveyed to the mantis who produced the larva.
“Huh..! Huh..! Huh..! Huh..!”
A man running down a dangerous street with torn clothes and a messy face with blackened blood.
From a distance, you might mistake it for a zombie at first glance.
“What do we do..?”
“What should I do? It is not a matter for us to judge.”
“But…”
“Oh, how did such a weak-minded woman survive until now? Over there, lady. Don’t think about doing useless things and listen to your boyfriend. I could reach out my hand out of vain sympathy and die.”
“… Really too much… And you’re not my boyfriend?! You misunderstood me last time! He’s not a boyfriend, he’s a brother! Older brother!”
“Oh right. Did you say brother? I’m not interested in other people’s business, haha~”
The brother and sister don’t look particularly friendly, but the man in his 30s who was acting together laughed out loud, as if a man running away wanted to hear it.
Of course, before that, the younger sister shouted first, and the voice was heard in the ears of a man in desperate need of someone’s help.
“Huh… Heo-eok… Who’s here?! Please help me if you can!!!”
The man, stopped on a secluded country road where not even a zombie was visible, looked around and shouted, but the voice of a woman and the sound of a man’s laughter that he had heard a moment before were only quiet as if it were an auditory hallucination.
The only sounds you can hear are birds and insects.
“Shit..! How can I survive alone… How could I…!!!”
The man collapsed on the ground, holding down his wobbly legs with two tightly clenched fists and weeping, and a large group of werks, invisible in the city, appeared in the mountains quite far away from such a man.
“Kreur..!!”
“Cre..!!”
The werks who live up to the prey that appeared after a long time.
However, it wasn’t just Wekes who were targeting men.
Likewise, even the diggers, rarely seen in urban areas covered with hard roads or building floors, were furiously digging and approaching the man who was sitting on the unpaved road in the countryside.
Deed Dede Deuk!!!!
As the sound of digging and the bulge of earth rushing towards him, the weeping man quickly jumped up onto a nearby tree.
“Those mole babies..!! Do I look easy on you, you bastards!!!”
I am by no means a weak person just because I was beaten by Mentis.
And it was not because I was not capable of defending my own life that I frantically searched for others.
It was just that he felt unbearably lonely and afraid to be left alone in this hellish world.
Awesome!!!
After breaking a moderately thick branch, the man also broke the relatively thin opposite side, sharpened the tip, and then jumped down the tree and smashed the sharp branch to the ground.
Pooh!!!
Dig!!!!
As soon as a twig gets stuck in the ground, Digg digs up the soil and jumps up.
However, Digg’s sharp teeth sprouted wildly and could not bite the man’s body.
The man had already moved behind Digg’s back, brandishing his sword.
Awesome!!!
The man who cut off Digg’s head, which occupies almost 80% of his mouth, quickly threw himself to the side and cut off Digg, who was bouncing from where he was standing until then. This has begun
The man, who replenished his low stamina by raising his stamina stat with gradually accumulating coins, dealt with the Diggs very skillfully, but the situation rapidly deteriorated when a large group of Werks appeared.
“Khehehehe!!”
“Kheung!!”
“Damn it..!!”
You can’t even run up a tree.
The Wekes, who were already watching the fight with Digg, waited for the man to come up, with several of them perched on top of the tree so that the man would not even think about climbing.
But that doesn’t mean there’s no place to hide.
It was a private house with rice paddies and fields to the left and right, but if you moved just 50 meters past them, 5 country houses were built.
The moment when the man running across the field to the two-story rural house where diggs can’t climb, jumps over the fence and throws himself toward the window at the back of the house.
Puck!!!
Among the brothers and sisters who were watching the man’s struggle, the brother ran up and hit the man who was throwing himself with his shoulder.
“Keugh..!!”
The man who fell on the floor was glad to see the unexpected appearance, but he quickly got up and raised his knife at the man.
He is a welcome survivor, but at the same time he is also an enemy who attacked him.
Chew!!!!
However, contrary to the man’s vigilant appearance, the older brother who jumped over the fence swinging a knife and split Weck’s torso in half turned away from the man and jumped over the fence to greet his younger sister and a man in his 30s.
“Nice job, brother!”
“Oh, is it like brother and sister? I thought you were smart, but you are the same.”
“Because I’m smart too?!”
“Don’t get me wrong. It just does what it was meant to do.”
“What?”
“Aren’t you out hunting to earn coins? A prey appeared and hunted. It is just that.”
“But why did you save that person?”
“It is a nesting spider. It’s just to let game be produced in a place where game is scarce.”
“Hmm… You speak very well. Then let’s go hunting and go back. Instead, I leave that man here.”
“I see.”
“Brother! Mister!!”
“If you have time to call me, will you deal with him?”
“Yes..?”
“Khehehehe!!”
“Aww!! Do not come!!!”
Pooh!!!
The younger sister, who quickly turned around and threw a long spear into the muzzle of the flying weck, and the older brother, who started hunting in earnest, and a man in his 30s, a monster that slaughtered more than half of the weck and digg in an instant and ran away. Leaving the fields behind, we started to climb back up the mountain.
With uninvited men, of course.
“Excellent! Stop following me!”
“… Please help…”
“Whoa… I know your circumstances are pitiful, but wouldn’t you know better if you had survived until now?! How easy is it to accept someone you don’t even know?!”
“I know… But we lost everyone… And I don’t even know where this is… Please… Please help…”
“I’ll go, really…! Hey brother! Say something!”
“I am not your brother. I am Han Min-woo.”
“I’m Jia Han.”
“I didn’t ask for their names?! Say something so I can’t follow you!”
“You don’t like it? Mr. Park Sang-jun.”
“Park Sang-joon..? Just call me uncle! It just makes me feel bad!”
“Why does it feel bad to be called by name?!”
“You sound like you’re being sarcastic!”
“You’re being sarcastic right?!”
“This..!!”
“Heh heh heh~ You seem to be getting along well today too.”
Park Sang-joon and Han Ji-ah, who growled at the appearance of the monk with benevolent laughter and shining hair, as well as Han Min-woo, who was shaking his head slightly, put their hands together and slightly bowed their heads.
“The chief priest.”
“How was the hunt?”
“It was finished well without incident.”
“Fortunately, the. But what is that devil in the back?”
“A devil..? What is that… “
“Are you saying that?”
“… “
The monk’s eyebrows slightly furrowed when the man he called a devil spoke the same way as ordinary people.
“Namu Amitabha Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva… The small monk will excuse me for a moment.”
“Yes..?”
Confused by the monk’s sudden words, the man put his hands together and stared blankly at the monk who gently closed his eyes. .
“Chehehe..!!!”
As if he had been hit in the stomach, the man’s body bent forward and floated into the air with a sunken stomach and fell to the floor.
And from the man’s mouth, who couldn’t even breathe properly, the larvae of Mentis slipped out, and Jia Han screamed at the sight.
“Kyaaak!! I-what is that?!”
“Keeeee!!!!!”
Tadadat – Phew!!!
Awesome!!!!
Han Min-woo’s knife, which ran in an instant and pierced the larva’s body, and Park Sang-joon’s knife, which cut the body in half.
However, the surprised eyes of Han Min-woo and Park Sang-joon were directed not to the mantis larva protruding from the man’s body, but to the monk with the Buddhist name Wongong, who bowed his head toward the man who collapsed with his palms folded.
“Monk… What did you just do…”
“No, do monks have traits too?”
“Heh heh~ That’s the Buddha’s will, so I had no choice but to kill. It’s not that great of a power. It’s just the remnant of an old monk.”
Han Min-woo and Park Sang-joon were surprised by the invisible power, but there was something else that really surprised them.
It is said that he noticed the larva of Mentis, which neither the head nor Hajin, who has a sixth sense, can feel.
That was a real surprise.
Blazing-
Won-gong, who set fire to a fire in a pit dug deep in the mountain to burn the larvae of Mentis, said that he was fine now and asked to move the man to the temple. .
“You are leaving tonight.”
“Yes? What are you talking about?”
“This place will soon become dangerous. I’m not sure if it’s today or tomorrow. So take your people and leave the temple today before the sun goes down.”
“Hey, wait! Why do you do that to me… What the monk does rather than me…”
“Heh… I have other things to do.”
Won Gong, who left a meaningful message, turned around and returned to the temple.
As time passed and the red sunset began to set, and as the time mentioned by Won Gong approached, Park Sang-joon gathered people together and said that they had to leave this place.
“The monk said that this place would soon become dangerous and told us to leave before sunset.”
“Go, suddenly?”
“Where are you going now… “
“Then you should have said something sooner!”
“By the way, what about the monk? Aren’t you going with me?”
Park Sang-joon, who frowned as they all said what they wanted to say, pointed at Han Min-woo with his finger and said,
“From now on, that friend will lead you. He’s a reliable friend, so don’t ignore him because he’s young and listen to what he says. Well, if you don’t like it, you can act separately. Then me too.”
“Yes, Mr. Sangjun!”
“Where are you going?!”
“Hey!!”
Jump-
Leaving behind the shouting people, Park Sang-joon entered the court hall where Won-gong was located, and stood next to Won-gong, who was sitting cross-legged and motionless, and touched the cross hanging around his neck.
“Will the Buddha be nice to me even if I believe in Jesus?”
“To love and cherish everyone, Buddha and Jesus must have the same heart.”
“That’s good.”
“Then why are you still staying?”
“I feel like I have work left to do. Tired of running away any more… And whether it’s heaven or paradise, if you’re with me and the monk, why don’t you go to one of the two places? Haha~”
“Heh heh heh”
Won-gong finally recalled his closed eyes and made eye contact with Park Sang-joon, who was looking down at him, and smiled coolly, but at the moment the smile disappeared, and he stood up and stared at the door of the temple hall.
“It seems that the devil’s power is stronger than the Buddha’s will.”
