Chapter 314 – 314. Factory 4
A car speeding down the highway.
This is my first time on this road, and the road is better than I thought.
And it’s organized. There were damaged cars that seemed to have been involved in an accident, but they were pushed to the side of the road.
They say someone took a hand in it. If you were just going to pass by, you wouldn’t have organized it like that, right?
Thanks to this, I was able to get to Cheongju faster than expected.
Only about an hour and a half. If I went by plane, it would have taken about three hours, right?
After all, you can’t follow a car over long distances. Flying is always great, but that’s the problem. The maximum speed is 50 kilometers.
Something… Is there a way to lose faster? It’s too limited. Acceleration can make you move really fast, but why is flight like this?
Right in front of Cheongju, Ochang Rest Area.
There was no need to stop at the rest area, but I stopped to go to the bathroom.
Actually, you can urinate anywhere… It’s not a world where open urination is a problem.
Still, the remnants of the past are scary. Somehow I feel like I have to do that.
Storage under the car. The car gets sucked inside.
Really… It’s a good skill. I don’t even want to imagine life without storage anymore.
To be honest, I think I could live in this world with just flying and storage. If you want to enjoy the maximum effect with the minimum skill, it is right to do so.
Ah. Storage is transparent because it is Tier 3. Flight. Acceptance. Is this enough?
Storage is not just inventory. This can have infinite effects depending on the person who uses it.
These skills create variables and create strangeness among rigid skills. At least that’s what I think.
Anyway, after getting ready, I put on transparency and reflective flight and flew into the sky.
Cheongju is just around the corner. What kind of appearance would a woman the size of Minhee say like that?
Let’s take a look. With my eyes.
And in just 5 minutes, I felt absurd and absurd at the same time.
People… There are too many.
This is a truly ridiculous number. At first glance, they are quite decent people. More than anything… They live an ordinary daily life.
Stores that are open, people coming out to buy something from there. A man heading somewhere with coffee.
That… Couple? Really? Is this real?
It’s almost suspicious that this city escaped the effects of the world’s destruction.
And what was even more surprising was that there was a patrol vehicle.
What did they say about that? Humvee? Okay. A Humvee that would only be used in the U.S. Military. A man wearing a bulletproof vest riding on it.
He has short hair and is wearing sunglasses. And the gun he is holding.
Gun. A gun. Fuck? Is that possible?
Aren’t all the gunpowders gone? What is this city really all about?
Everything else was shocking too… The thing that caught my eye the most was the gun, so I wanted to take a closer look.
Since there are that many people, isn’t it okay to go inside? It doesn’t seem that difficult to blend in…
But I feel a little hesitant.
The people there are so different from me. It feels like a different world.
It feels a bit like that. A spy infiltrating another country?
But the difference between spies and me is that spies at least know the information of the country they want to infiltrate, so they can blend in without feeling uncomfortable.
But I am different. I don’t know anything. If you mix in hastily and end up being misunderstood, it’s a mess.
In the end… I decided to get a little more information. To get more information about that ridiculous and strange-looking city.
I spent a whole day walking around the outskirts of the city and watching.
I couldn’t bring myself to go inside. The risk was too great to carelessly set foot in that vast and heterogeneous city.
It’s been a really long time… The feeling of timidity that had been buried in a corner of my heart slowly came out and enveloped my body.
From what I looked at for a day from afar… It was a truly incredible place.
The most shocking thing is… That there is a school.
Children coming out of school in the afternoon.
And the parents who came to pick up those children.
It almost makes me wonder if what I’m seeing is really reality.
What a child. Oh my god. How can there be so many children?
Children who appear to be elementary school students. Those children were born before the world collapsed.
It’s my first time seeing the world like this and seeing so many kids, so I can’t help but laugh.
School. That’s hilarious. It’s a school with no new students.
No, it’s still been 5 years since the world fell apart… There will be new students for the time being. There can be new students every three years.
However, children who enter the school three years later will not have juniors. Because they are the last children thrown into the world.
As those kids get promoted, the grade itself will disappear…
Eventually, there will be no need for elementary schools. Then three years later, middle school, and three years after that, high school.
As I look at the school while floating in the air, I have a lot to think about.
Originally, I came with the intention of killing everyone in the factory.
No, killing would have been the last thing.
Like in Baekma Village, I camped out here for a long time and killed all the guys who stopped by, and then I drew a picture of finally disposing of the factory.
But what is this? What is this ridiculous size? So many people? And what about school? A child?
Kill the child? Looking at me?
Even though I have done all kinds of crazy and psychotic things over the past five years, I have not killed a child.
That was the reason why Seung-gyu was saved. It is no exaggeration to say that Hayul saved Seung-gyu and Yu-jeong.
However… So many kids.
How on earth should I do this?
I felt like I had hit a glass wall on my well-traveled path.
I feel like my thoughts are completely blocked.
And it feels like you are asking me a question. What do you want to do? This city?
Two principles fight each other within me.
The humble belief of not killing a child.
The crazy belief that I would kill everyone but my people.
Neither of them are normal… For the first time, the rules I had established for myself collided with each other.
Of course… This isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
Fence. A place that used to be a garden.
There are children there too. There aren’t many enough to create a school, but there are definitely children.
That’s why I made that place my people. Well, not everyone is mine.
People who work there. It’s possible because people like that just thought of it as a part of a fence.
Besides, that was a number I could handle. But… It’s different here.
There are too many numbers. A place too big to make an exception.
Besides, I don’t have the confidence to manage a place like this. Can this huge place really be run by just one or two people?
So, can I recruit those superiors and make this place my jurisdiction?
It’s a different story on a different scale from the one where I recruited Director Jeong and the class leaders from Dongsan and made them my people.
And I don’t know if I have the ability to do that.
This is a well-thought-out system. And the security that is being maintained.
They are probably all people with skills. But… There are almost no signs of using skills.
Do all the people who live there have trash skills? I don’t think that will ever happen.
Troubles that arise from unexpected places.
I had no choice but to watch.
So time passed and people continued to move.
People leaving work around 6 o’clock. People who travel by car, people who use public transportation, people who walk.
A group of people rushing into a restaurant, a woman rushing somewhere,
Smiling men, smiling women, smiling children.
I feel like I’m going crazy.
It was even more shocking than when I tasted old food due to regression.
If you look closely, there are definitely some differences from the old life.
In the past, everyone would have lived with a smartphone in their hand, but these people don’t have anything like that.
There are people who put earphones in their ears or watch something with a smartphone, but they don’t seem to be talking on the phone.
It’s just a function of an MP3 or movie player.
Whatever it is, this city is strange. I’ve never seen it, but was this what the streets looked like in the 90s?
The more I look, the more I think.
The answer has not yet been decided within me, so I have no choice but to watch.
And the more you watch, the more doubts and curiosity grow.
There are too many things I don’t understand.
What on earth is that gun I saw earlier? Why don’t these people use their skills? Why isn’t there chaos?
Now that money has lost its value, what should we use it for? No… Is this city really maintaining stability?
As the night deepens, the city lights go out one by one.
I was used to a city where the lights were always on 24 hours a day… A city with the lights off is unfamiliar again.
A city with only dimly lit streetlights. No, not all the lights have gone out.
Even though it was late at night in some areas, there was still noise and lights.
It’s been a really long time… I was curious about what day of the week it was today.
I took out my smartphone and checked that today was Thursday.
The concept of a day of the week when the world is ruined and useless. But it remains here.
They still seem to feel the importance of the days of the week. In a city that operates like the old world, there would be weekends and holidays.
Time to pass into dawn like that.
Despite the still bitter cold, I am looking down at the city from high in the sky, wearing a high bar and sleeping bag.
I don’t think there’s anyone in this city with a detection range as wide as mine, so I’m floating in the air with peace of mind.
Still, just in case, leave an appropriate amount of space between them. Because I’m not bold enough to let my guard down.
As I continue to watch the city, I see the soldiers with guns I saw during the day hurrying somewhere.
Okay. I don’t know anything else, but I want to check on those guys.
A gun. If you see it being carried around like that, it probably isn’t a model.
Is it a BB gun? It won’t be like that.
Anyway, I follow them. I’m curious. It would be a world without gunpowder. What on earth is that?
There were already several similar guys at the place they arrived.
There are Humvees, soldiers with guns, and a few female soldiers.
And they started hitting the police line like they were used to.
Okay… Perhaps they are also playing the role of police.
Well, in a world like this, there is no need to separate the roles of the police and the military.
At the same time, they take up position as if they are surrounding a building. Then, several people quickly form a line and enter the building.
What? What’s going on?
I was curious, so I decided to go inside.
I used Phase Out right away, and I was surprised.
Black clouds clearly visible inside the building. That thing means someone died within 15 minutes, right?
And it was easy to find out who killed him. A person in the direction where the black clouds are looking, in the direction where the foggy tentacles extend.
I kept a reasonable distance and went towards the murderer.
As long as you have imagination, you can move as much as you want in this world because it is a phase out, so going towards the killer is not that difficult.
I went inside the building, settled down, and looked around to see where the murderer was.
One man, and one woman he caught.
It seems like he’s shouting something, but I can’t tell because I can’t hear him.
It’s not easy to tell by the way his mouth his moves because he keeps looking this way and that… Shall we solve Phase Out?
I don’t want to be misunderstood by staying inside, but… If there is a problem, I can use Phase Out again.
After confirming that there was no one nearby, I quickly turned it off and activated invisibility, reflection, and flight.
And then I hovered slightly in the air and stood as far away as possible.
The shout you hear as soon as you release the phase out.
“이 썅년아! 응!? 감히 바람을 펴? 씨발! 그 개새끼는 죽었어! 이제 네년 차례야!”
“Save me. Save me. I was wrong! It shouldn’t have happened like this!”
Ah… Is this a banal and cliché fight? Looks like the woman was having an affair. And the angry man already killed the man who had an affair with the woman?
While I was thinking that, the man shouted again.
“Stop it! Lightning!”
Then, a wave of lightning struck around the man! And spreads out.
The woman who was hit by it trembles and falls to the floor.
A man grinning while looking at a fallen woman. And the sound of rushing up the stairs is heard.
Tok tok tok tok tok tok
The sound of something being fired was heard and the man wearing the lightning wave fell down.
Soldiers ran quickly. A man shouts ‘heal’ to a fallen woman, and she looks much better.
Anyway, I just became interested in the gun the men fired.
That’s probably… Air gun. Now I know what that is.
And I got a little goosebump. Why didn’t I think about the existence of air rifles until now?
