Chapter 124 – The Blood Witch (9)
I immediately solved the celestial cartoon art.
The pupils, as thin as those of a cat, gradually dilated. Small trembling eyes and a slightly open mouth. Just as I hadn’t expected her presence, neither did Beatrice. The blood that ran down her cheek looked like bloody tears.
“Why is your junior…?”
She muttered in her blank voice. I let out a small sigh and opened my mouth.
“Did you do all of this? Oh, don’t get me wrong. I’m not blaming you, I’m just asking.”
Slap- slap-
Every time I walked, sticky blood stuck to the soles of my shoes. The situation inside, where only the red emergency lights were dimly lit, was so gruesome that it was difficult to see with open eyes. Like minced meat, the ground pieces of flesh were pressed together all over the place.
Watching me slowly approaching, Beatrice backed away slightly. I looked around and pulled a hacking device from my pocket. Befitting the most bleak surroundings, this seemed to be the place to control the entire facility.
“What are you doing there, like a sinner, so dullly?”
He said to Beatrice, who escaped from the bright beam of light in the hallway and hid into the darkness.
“…What I did is right.”
The answer came belatedly. Beatrice muttered in her small voice, then pressed her lips together again. After finding the control room console and installing the hacking device, I turned around to look at Beatrice and shrugged her shoulders.
“It must have been.”
“Junior-sama… Uh, are you okay?”
“What do you mean?”
“I saw you on the way.”
It was already guessed that she had some kind of resentment in the Tang Dynasty. The problem is that the party seems to be in one relationship with the blood ties, but there must have been circumstances. In the yard where political factions don’t match, things go wrong.
“I saw it as I came. The bodies of innocent children who died.”
“Don’t do that. Knowing.”
I checked once more that the hacking device is working. Watching the green scale, indicating the progress, increase little by little, he replied to Beatrice.
“I came here with the intention of killing everyone anyway. If there were people to save, it would have been to dig up information. The results are not significantly different. But didn’t you need this information too?”
“…No.”
Is there no need for proof? It must mean that it was not an attack to find out something, but an act purely for the purpose of destroying the facility.
“Then can I take this?”
Before he knew it, he took out the device, which had been hacked and extracted, and waved it in front of Beatrice.
“Yes.”
Apparently, this was the end of the facility. Looking at the screens on the internal display, it seemed that no one was alive in the facility. Thanks to Beatrice’s rampage, the work ended more futile than expected.
“If there’s nothing more to do, let’s leave.”
Click-click-
When I went out first, Beatrice followed a little behind. Confusion emanated from his gait.
There could have been relatively normal people in this facility. However, he didn’t want to blame her. I’m not even a great threat to the political faction. Although cruel in her hands, she was not in a position to blame me anyway. Now, the cruel corpse was not very exciting.
[I can hear?]
While I was quietly moving my steps.
A chat came from Midsummer. Communication was still jammed, but the status window function was not affected at all. If you look closely, this is a scam.
[I can hear. Going out now.]
[Already?]
[There was a guest who came first.]
[A guest, not an enemy?]
[Beatrice. I don’t know how he knew it, but it seemed like he went wild.]
[No wonder.]
[No wonder?]
The nuance felt in the words of midsummer was strange.
[There is a problem. Get out of the area as quickly as possible.]
[Is the route the same as it came?]
[Yes. I’ll explain as I go.]
[For awhile.]
I turned to Beatrice and spoke.
“Is light work possible? You seem to have used quite a bit of energy.”
A look of exhaustion was evident from his face. Unlike usual, there was no strength in the tone. It wouldn’t have been easy to stir this gigantic facility alone. Apparently, the stealth technique is pretty good too. Even though there was an energy source that was supposed to be a killing stone, there was no way to supply energy indefinitely.
“How long do I have to run?”
“It takes a while. We definitely need to get out of this area.”
“Then I guess I’ll need breakfast…”
There was no time for a leisurely breakfast. If Midsummer was going to say that, it meant that something unusual was happening.
“Are you going to get up? Or will I carry you?”
“Me?”
“Yes.”
“Do you trust me, junior? If you attack from behind, it’s a big deal.”
“Because I believe in you, you can choose. Front? Back?”
“…I’ll pick you up behind you.”
It felt soft and warm on the back. Confirming that her Beatrice had her own arm around her neck, I ran with all her might, holding her on my back.
[What’s going on?]
[The nearby military base moved in large numbers. It is said to be a training exercise, but as estimated by Cheonbi-gak, it is close to a movement to block the entire erosion zone in Taebaek City.]
[Wouldn’t it be a problem with a military base?]
No matter how many soldiers made up of ordinary people, they couldn’t stop the unmanned people from escaping. It’s like that when it’s me or Beatrice.
[It’s not just the military base. Those who have just entered the erosion zone. Seomunse is the Jecheondae 制天隊. The number is about fifty. Behind them is the problem. After entering Jecheon University, it was confirmed that the soldiers led by Nokpo soldiers were gathering. The number is… In thousands.]
[If it’s a nokpo soldier, yes?]
[According to Cheonbi-gak, there is more than one possibility of being a member of the Tang Dynasty. It’s the momentum to spread even the heavenly desires.]
[First of all, the Red Ryongdae helps team leader Park Soo-ho and his team evacuate. It’s in a corner of the outskirts, but in case you don’t know. I’ll get out of here on my own.]
[Okay. I’ll contact you again when the NIS agents are finished evacuating. Be careful.]
[You be careful too. Avoid fighting as much as possible.]
While talking with Midsummer, the facility site has already left. As I came, after heading to the Sundal Blon haunting area surrounded by thick mist. We entered a nearby high-rise building. I could have left immediately, but there were some things to check. After stopping on the middle floor, he carefully set Beatrice down and let out a gasp.
“Let’s talk for a minute.”
Thanks to the walls on all sides, there was at least a small risk of being discovered here. Beatrice stared blankly at me for a moment, then nodded.
“Where did you get the information about that facility?”
Her yellow eyes shone in the dark, where dry concrete dust was scattered.
“I know of an intelligence guild that has ties to the NIS. The information guild snatched up what a team leader of the Moorim Inspection Department recently uncovered.”
“…”
I’m at a loss for words.
Team leader Park Soo-ho probably didn’t expect this. Still, I would have thought that the guys called the NIS would have given information to other intelligence groups.
I don’t know how far it’s rotted from.
It was said that if one guild was able to catch it, there was a possibility that it would happen to other places as well.
“It seems that other places have also figured out that you have ruined the facilities. Or it could be mere coincidence, but things are going pretty messy.”
“It won’t be a coincidence. Usually, these facilities are considered to have a problem if they lose contact for a certain period of time. Or maybe there’s someone I’ve missed.”
“Do you have any experience?”
“…This is the first time I’ve been to such a large-scale facility.”
You’re talking about having destroyed a few small facilities.
Beatrice glanced sideways at my appearance.
For someone who slaughtered hundreds of people, he had an incredibly innocent face. He wasn’t meant to say something to a person covered in blood, but he’s kind of cute when you look at his actions. I wonder if I’m going crazy too.
“The Seomun family’s jecheondae will soon come near this facility. Within 20 minutes at most. Behind them, there are thousands of unmanned soldiers who seem to belong to the party. After that, the military base was blockaded. It also seems to be pretty urgent. Judging from the momentum of deleting the facility altogether.”
“It’s strange.”
Beatrice, who had listened to my words, tilted his head.
“I agree. The ancestral rites of the Seomun family are obviously heterogeneous.”
The ‘Dae’ level of the Seomun family was close to the Dan or Dang level compared to other family members. It was not only large in scale, but also belonged to one of the best armed forces in the political faction. In addition, Jecheondae is under the direct control of the Murim Lord, the Sword King. They were never easy movers.
The fact that Jecheondae moved also meant that the intention of the sword king was with them.
There are two possibilities.
In case the sword king cooperated with Tang.
If that’s the case, then Jecheondae must have rushed in to quickly identify the facility’s anomalies and punish the assailants.
If the sword king has nothing to do with the party.
If so, it meant that the Sword King, like Beatrice, had obtained information from somewhere and dispatched the Jecheondae to find out the truth.
If it is the latter, it will be difficult for Jecheondae to return alive.
Since the dead were silent, even if Jecheondae was massacred here, it was not a matter of fabricating it as the work of a monster.
“What about junior?”
“I’m thinking of taking a look at the situation and getting out of here. I think you’ll have to go alone from here… Let’s start with breakfast. I will protect the law.”
After staring at me for a while, Beatrice sat down and started eating breakfast. It was a fairly unpretentious attitude. If I attacked Beatrice here, it would be easier to kill than twisting the chicken’s neck.
After a brief cloud of luck, Beatrice’s eyelids slowly lifted.
“I’m fine now.”
Her voice was different from before. In just this short amount of time. He seemed to have extraordinary recovery power. I changed my face again with celestial comics.
“I didn’t see anything wrong earlier.”
“Yes. Then I’ll look into the situation and leave. Please enter carefully.”
“…”
After exchanging glances with Beatrice, who slightly bit her lip, I ran to the roof of the building. Soon it was time for Jecheondae to arrive near the facility.
