## Chapter 2160 – 2160. Eternal Eden
“Kyahoooooong!!”
The monster cat roared and swung its front paws at the people.
Thwack!
With a single cat punch, a human body burst like a watermelon. From speed to power, everything was terrifying.
‘This is one of the top-tier mutants I’ve seen so far.’
Bang!
One of the people shot at the monster cat. When it comes to mutants, a 9mm bullet wouldn’t even tickle them. Unless it was a special bullet. Ordinary pistol bullets could never harm a mutant.
But the cat rolled its body to the side, dodging the attack.
“Kyaoong….”
And quietly. It hid its body in the shadows of the wall. Could that tiger-sized body really hide? Surprisingly, it did. Or rather, its presence faded. You could see it, but was it real? It felt like a déjà vu, like it was a shadow.
‘That must be the monster cat’s ability.’
The monster cat leaped. It instantly jumped 15 meters and chewed off the head of the man who had shot the pistol.
Thump, thump, thump.
A giant mutant raised its fist and ran towards the monster cat.
“Kyaaaaak!”
The monster cat hissed at the giant mutant and ran as if to fight back. The giant extended its fist, but the monster cat dodged with its excellent reflexes. Kwaaang! When the giant’s fist hit the ground, a small earthquake occurred.
‘The monsters are fighting each other. Is the cat slightly more dominant?’
Small scratches were gradually increasing on the giant’s body. On the other hand, the cat was as unscathed as it was at the beginning. It was natural since it had dodged all of the giant’s attacks.
Some of the people watching the battle began to flee out of the apartment.
‘That bastard might be a parasite. If I let it go here, I’m screwed.’
I tried to follow and kill it, but the monster cat moved first and swung its upper body with a single cat punch. I confirmed that the parasite’s main body was mixed in the burst upper body.
Bang!
The giant monster was also killing the fleeing people, prioritizing them.
It was a clear, purposeful action. It was when I was feeling a sense of déjà vu. One guy stepped forward. A plain face that could be anywhere. Not even a representative of the apartment, this guy was babbling something to the monster cat and the giant mutant.
I listened closely.
Weeeeweeeeeeweeeeeeweeeeeek.
It sounded similar to the sound of insects. Could a human mouth make that sound? I was surprised for a moment. The giant and the cat became somewhat docile.
‘It’s not controlling them. It’s negotiating through conversation. Is he a power user?’
The man repeatedly knelt and bowed his head to the two mutants. He was supporting the mutants.
I felt like I understood something.
‘Is that bastard a parasite?’
There was no rule that a mutant couldn’t awaken a power. There was no rule that a parasite couldn’t awaken on its own.
‘If he can negotiate with those guys, why is he trapped in the apartment with the people?’
No.
It’s not negotiation. He’s supporting them. The people who periodically go missing in the apartment. Some of them might not have been eaten by parasites. What if the parasites secretly offered them to those monsters? What if the monsters were using this Saetbyeol Apartment as a breeding ground, domesticating humans and raising them as livestock?
It made sense.
‘Mutants are evolved individuals. It’s not strange for them to have higher intelligence.’
Several men grabbed young children and approached the mutants.
“Waaaaaah!”
“Mommyyyyy!”
The young children cried and looked for their mothers, but there was no one who seemed to be their mother. No one ran towards the men either. They were just overwhelmed by the two mutants and terrified.
And the offered children became a meal for the mutants. They smacked their lips and put on a human mukbang show.
I could be sure. The children were brought by the parasites.
The mutants seemed satisfied with the parasites’ treatment and smiled. They looked around at the apartment residents and prepared to leave. The apartment residents must have realized now that they were livestock.
Brrrrr.
The smartphone in my pocket vibrated. My smartphone was fine even after falling from a high floor, thanks to the power of the Yuhee Life app. It would be fine even if I threw it into the sun.
The caller was Na Chaeyoung. I suddenly looked up at the sky and saw that the drones had arrived. A drone unit of over 50. 20 of them were suicide drones armed with bombs.
-…I checked with the camera. It looks like the worst situation. What are you going to do?
“Of course, I have to kill them all. Those mutant bastards, those parasite bastards, and those apartment resident bastards who pointed their guns and knives at me.”
-Okay. Shall we start the battle now?
“Huh, you’re not stopping me?”
Given Na Chaeyoung’s personality, I thought she would stop me at least once. What I was ordering was a massacre.
-Now? I’ve bet everything on you. What I have to do is not to be a hypocrite, but to assist you.
“Indeed. Is this what it means to support me with a wife’s heart?”
-……It’s completely different.
They didn’t know about the existence of the drones. It was partly because the drones were flying quietly at a high altitude, but their attention was focused on the mutants.
The parasite who had been bowing to the mutants suddenly raised his upper body and pointed at me. The mutants’ gaze turned to me. They had pinpointed me as the cause of this situation.
“Start. Wipe them all out. Pour half of it on the giant.”
The drones flying in the sky began to fall vertically as soon as my order was given. The movements of the suicide drones were precise. It was the power of AI.
Bang! Kwaaaang! Kwakwakwakwakwang!
The falling bombs turned the apartment plaza into a wasteland.
Tutatatatatatatatatatatata!
The combat drones fired machine guns at the mutants and the surviving people before the smoke even cleared. Some drones even chased after the people who had fled into the apartment.
-Surrender your weapons and surrender.
A mechanical voice echoed from the speaker attached to the combat drone.
Raitenryu Electromagnetic Wave.
I focused my concentration and stared into the smoke. I spotted the monster cat escaping towards the entrance. Its side was tattered from the bomb. I could see inside. Its intestines were dangling from its bones.
‘I knew it when it dodged the pistol bullets. Its durability is low compared to its strength and speed.’
The cat’s running speed was also slower than when it was healthy.
“Kyaooooooo!!”
The cat shouted as if telling me to move. Tutatata. It dodged the bullets pouring out from the drones well.
Papat!
Arrows pierced the monster cat’s back in succession. The cat writhed on the ground in pain. Irina’s arrow support was perfect. It could dodge bullets but not arrows? Well, I didn’t know until the arrow pierced me either.
‘Irina is a sniper specialist.’
It was very easy to cut off the neck of the fallen monster cat.
“Yaooong….”
The cat cried pitifully. Was it trying to beg for its life?
“Fuck off.”
I cut off its legs and tail, then pierced its heart and cut its neck. It was a perfect kill confirmation.
‘What about the giant mutant?’
The guy who had been focused on by the suicide drones was bleeding all over and walking towards the broken wall. Then, Choi Hyejin, riding a hoverboard, flew towards the mutant giant from the sky.
“Die, you bastard!”
She dropped from a height of 5 meters and swung her baseball bat with all her weight. The weakened giant had no way to withstand it. Its head burst and it died.
‘I told her to focus on defense.’
Choi Hyejin, who was hitting the giant’s corpse with her baseball bat as if to confirm the kill, ran away towards the rooftop on her hoverboard as soon as she made eye contact with me.
‘The reason why Choi Hyejin did this… she probably just wanted to do it.’
There didn’t seem to be a grand reason.
The apartment plaza, where the smoke had cleared, was littered with corpses. The funny thing was that there wasn’t a single representative of the apartment.
“Doctor Na. Use the combat drones to monitor the apartment residents so they can’t escape. And call the Praetorian Guard. There’s a limit to what the drones can do, so the Praetorian Guard will have to stand guard.”
-Uh, I found people trying to escape through the back door of the apartment. It seems they secretly dug a hole in the wall?
“It must be an escape hole prepared for the worst-case scenario.”
-I’ve surrounded them with combat drones. Lee Yebin? There’s also a woman covered in luxury goods. What do you want to do?
“And the rest are two men?”
-That’s right.
Woo Taehyun and Kang Sanggi. The representatives were trying to escape together.
“Wait right there. I’ll be there.”
The guys surrounded by the combat drones knelt as soon as they saw me. Woo Taehyun and Kang Sanggi hung their heads in despair.
Surprisingly, Lee Yebin hadn’t given up hope yet. She took off her blouse and skirt and was left in her underwear. Garter belt stockings. It was a very seductive outfit. She slightly lowered her upper body, emphasizing her chest, and begged me.
“Just once. Please forgive me just once. I was wrong. I’ll do anything you tell me to do from now on. I’ll serve you as my master.”
I scoffed at her begging for her life.
“You’ve crossed the line too much for this. You know that, right?”
Lee Yebin’s face twisted viciously.
“It’s because of you! You bastard! Everything is ruined because of you, you fucking bastard!!”
“You idiots. If I wasn’t here, you would have died from the parasites and mutants. Be grateful that you’re dying in a blaze of glory. Ah, the voting game was quite fun.”
“You fucking bastard!!”
I swung my sword.
The three heads fell at the same time. Kang Sanggi? He was a guy I wasn’t interested in from the beginning. Woo Taehyun would be killed a thousand more times for coveting my woman.
Lee Yebin? She was a bit annoying, but that was it. I hesitated before leaving with Woo Taehyun’s head. Come to think of it, I hadn’t checked Lee Yebin’s pussy. I swung my sword and cut Lee Yebin’s panties.
“Bulgogi.”
• • •
The two most dangerous mutants in Saetbyeol Apartment were dead. They were dealt with by the suicide drones’ bombs, which were difficult to handle without military missiles. This meant that suicide drones were better than most missiles. This technology would probably be used by the military soon.
Anyway, not all the residents of Saetbyeol Apartment were dead. There were 400 survivors. Compared to the original 1,000, less than half survived, but they survived nonetheless. Most of them wanted to leave Saetbyeol Apartment.
They wanted to join other shelters or survivor groups and live a new life.
But I didn’t let them go. I monitored them thoroughly. I couldn’t afford to miss the parasites hiding among them.
And two days later, I received a call from Na Chaeyoung.
-I’ve developed a parasite detector.
