Chapter 2159 – 2159. Eternal Eden
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Swish!
I split the head of the parasite charging at the front in half. Inside, the parasite’s tentacle mass, which was acting as a brain, writhed, spewed blood, and then slumped.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A parasite behind me fired a gun. I lifted the dead body to block the bullets. The problem was the ones charging from both sides. No matter how much better my physical abilities were compared to an average person, I couldn’t just massacre these guys unilaterally.
I took a step back to avoid the attack for now.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Arrows shot by Irina from behind flew and kept the parasites in check. Just as I told her, she shot an arrow into each of the parasites’ limb joints. Even in the middle of a fight, I was slightly impressed. Her archery skills were truly ghostly.
I swung my cutlass. The heads of two more parasites floated into the air.
Three parasites died in an instant. Usually, they would be overwhelmed and lose their nerve. The ones behind would hesitate. Because they didn’t want to die. They would instinctively feel fear. But these parasite bastards didn’t stop even at the death of their comrades.
“We must kill Sung Yu-jin for all of us to live.”
“Everything for our kin.”
Parasites are also living things.
From the moment they gain intelligence comparable to humans, they feel the fear of death. But they suppressed that fear. For the sake of their kin. Just like humans.
‘Disgusting bastards.’
I didn’t like the way they were acting like humans, wriggling the tentacles that protruded from their eyes, nose, and mouth.
No matter how much these bastards pretended to be human, they were just parasites. If these guys reproduced and infected even the beauties who would become my women? Just imagining it made me sick. These bastards had to be eradicated.
Thunder God Style (雷天流) Thunder Flash (雷光).
I swung my sword with a lot of killing intent. My target was the guy running along the railing. I planned to cut his neck and drop his body down.
Swish!
The guy’s head flew off. The body, having lost its command system, lost its strength and collapsed. That’s how it should have been, but suddenly it regained its balance on the railing.
‘What?’
I barely had time to feel puzzled. The body charged at me and grabbed me as if hugging me.
“What the hell.”
I realized it when I saw the cross-section of the neck. I could see tentacles wriggling through the cross-section. Besides the head I had blown away, another parasite was attached to the spine. Two parasites were coexisting in one body.
‘It’s not like there’s a rule that there can only be one parasite per body… but why now of all times? Usually, one parasite controls one person. These bastards… they planned this for this moment.’
A sacrificial operation based on the premise that I would target their heads first.
‘Now I have to split not only their heads but also their bodies.’
But before that, I had to get away from the guy holding me. But it wasn’t easy. Parasites had better physical abilities than ordinary humans. Simply put, they were stronger.
‘Thunder!’
Zzzzzzzzt!
Even when I tried to electrocute the parasite by emitting electricity from my whole body, it wasn’t easy. Their bodies, which were superior to humans, also had excellent electrical resistance. Moreover, these guys were already prepared to die. They wouldn’t fall off even if they were electrocuted. They were willing to die to kill me.
“Damn it.”
The guys in front kept pushing in, but my body was being held, making it difficult to swing my sword properly.
Thud.
A sword pierced my body. This was really not good. Before my whole body was cut to pieces, I gritted my teeth and moved. I leaned my body against the railing.
“Grab him!”
“We have to kill him.”
“We must kill Sung Yu-jin!!”
The parasites’ momentum became even more desperate. They seemed to have judged that I was escaping through the railing. They were trying to catch and kill me no matter what.
I threw myself towards the railing no matter what. There were more than six parasites holding onto my body now. I couldn’t win by fighting normally.
‘Then I’d rather start over.’
Just before falling off the railing, I saw Irina and Choi Hye-jin, who were in shock.
“Yu-jin!”
“You crazy bastard. What are you doing?!”
Irina was pale, but Choi Hye-jin just frowned. Choi Hye-jin knew my abilities. She knew that even if I fell from this height and died, I would come back to life.
I would fall with the parasites. There would be 2-3 parasites left… but Irina and Choi Hye-jin were here. They could handle 2-3 parasites on their own.
“Focus on defense and kill Lee Ye-bin as quickly as possible.”
I fell with the parasites.
The feeling of falling wasn’t good. It felt like I was being pulled by gravity. Moreover, the things holding onto my body were male bastards. The parasites preferred human males with superior physical abilities.
I could feel myself getting closer to the ground.
I cleared my mind of unnecessary thoughts. There was only one thing I had to focus on now. Recovery. After I died, the recovery had to activate automatically for me to come back to life.
Thud!
With the sensation of my head exploding, my consciousness flew away completely.
My consciousness returned. How much time had passed? Before I could even wonder, I was distracted by the pain piercing my temples.
Reflexively, I raised my body and snatched the thing piercing my temple and pulled it out. When I checked, it was a mass of tentacles.
The main body of the parasite.
It had tried to take a place in my head while I was briefly defenseless.
I threw the parasite away. It writhed on the floor, making a squeaking sound. I went over and stomped it to death.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunshots rang out. I swept my blood-soaked hair back with my palm and looked around. There were piles of corpses everywhere.
‘How many minutes have passed?’
I couldn’t tell. I shouted towards the top floor of the apartment.
“Choi Hye-jin! Irina!!”
I called them. Choi Hye-jin and Irina peeked their heads out over the railing on the top floor. They were safe.
“Are you just waking up now? Lee Ye-bin, that bitch, ran away!”
“How many minutes have passed since I fell?”
“Three minutes!”
Choi Hye-jin’s voice echoed loudly in the apartment.
Three minutes.
The time it took to recover after dying.
‘It felt like my head completely exploded. And I recovered from that in three minutes.’
I looked down at the floor. There were broken skulls and pieces of brain around. The skull was one thing, but the brain pieces were probably mine. Parasites eat the brain and control the human body.
‘Well, that’s not the important thing.’
The parasite attack had failed. Now, there shouldn’t be even a handful of parasites hiding in Saetbyeol Apartment. Those guys were likely to be hiding very well in preparation for an emergency.
The most dangerous one was Lee Ye-bin.
‘She’ll try to kill me by manipulating people with her pheromone control ability and instigation. If she can’t kill me, she’ll die.’
I shouted to Choi Hye-jin.
“Choi Hye-jin! Request support from Doctor Na!”
“Okay! Combat drones will be flying in within 5 minutes!”
Five minutes.
I just had to hold out for 5 minutes.
In this open central plaza of the apartment, I just had to hold out against the hundreds of apartment residents led by Lee Ye-bin.
“Apartment residents! Stop fighting and look at the first-floor plaza!”
Lee Ye-bin’s voice echoed through the speakers installed in the apartment. I looked straight ahead. On the third floor of the apartment, she was standing confidently, holding a microphone and watching me. Around her, men who were out of their minds from pheromones were hostile to me.
“The culprit of all these incidents is Sung Yu-jin, that man!! Saetbyeol Apartment has turned into hell since Sung Yu-jin came. That man was the one who stole our food and distributed it as he pleased, and that man was the one who killed people through the terrible method of voting! Before we argue about who’s right and wrong, we have to kill that man!”
“That’s right!”
“If it weren’t for that bastard…!”
“Sung Yu-jin is Satan! Saetbyeol Apartment has turned into hell since Sung Yu-jin came!!”
They were blaming me. The hatred they had for each other was now focused on me.
The atmosphere of the people was too heated to be swayed by fear again. This was unstoppable. The karma I had created was coming back to me.
‘So.’
I put my cutlass on my shoulder and struck a swaggering pose.
‘It’s natural for pigs and dogs to have periodic seizures.’
I was someone who had experienced hundreds, thousands of rebellions in other worlds. Did they think I would be intimidated by this? I gave the middle finger to Saetbyeol Apartment.
“Th-th-that bastard!”
“Instead of being afraid and apologizing!”
“Let’s kill Sung Yu-jin!”
Lee Ye-bin’s building 102 was full of morale, and people with weapons were coming down to the first floor.
“Lee Ye-bin is right! Everything has been weird since that bastard came! Let’s kill that bastard first!”
Kang Sang-gi of building 103 shouted, and the residents agreed.
“That bastard took Ms. Irina from us! Let’s kill that bastard and take Ms. Irina! Ms. Irina would want that too!”
Woo Tae-hyun of building 101 didn’t stay still either. Anger and madness were contagious, drawing in the residents of building 101.
‘That bastard still hasn’t given up on Irina?’
Irina was really pretty, but she was my woman. I couldn’t forgive Woo Tae-hyun for targeting my woman. I was going to kill him 100 times, but now I had to kill him 1,000 times.
“Kill him!”
“Waaaaaaah!”
Hundreds of people screamed and charged at me. Seeing them charging from three apartment buildings, it seemed like I would die 2-3 times today.
When the distance between them and me was less than 30 meters.
“Kyaoooooooong!”
A giant cat jumped over the apartment wall. A mutant that had surrounded the apartment and made it its territory. A being that the apartment residents called a monster and feared had suddenly appeared.
“……”
The people who were pouring out anger and hatred all shut their mouths. A new fear was engraved in their eyes.
“Kyaoooooooong!”
The cat with an arrow in its left eye was rampaging.
It wasn’t difficult to figure out what had happened. Irina had shot the giant monster cat in the eye to provoke its anger and lure it into the apartment.
It didn’t end there.
Bang!
The wall broke, and a giant mutant entered the apartment. The giant glared at the monster cat, not the people. It was as if it was looking at a traitor who had violated an agreement.
‘It’s a mess. No, should I call it a cat mess?’
The situation wasn’t bad. Probably.
