Chapter 446 – 446. Groundwork 1
First, I was immediately transported to Uijeongbu.
The somewhat noisy site of the old fence. Should we call it Castle now? I’m confused.
I was able to find Minhee only after asking a few people.
Minhee, who was looking around the facilities, spots me and welcomes me.
“Did it work out well?”
“Uh, for now. It’s just the beginning.”
“As long as you’re safe, that’s fine.”
I can feel her calm, caring heart.
Even though they have to do this inconvenient work because of me, they move without complaining.
I’m thankful for that alone.
“But. The system here is really well established. Just looking at the facility layout and traces, it’s arranged quite efficiently. It’s neat.”
“Really? Well, Director Jeong is like that.”
“Director Jeong?”
“This place was originally called Fence. The person leading it is Director Jeong. How many times have I told you this?”
“Ah, yes. I’ve heard of Fence. It’s the predecessor of Castle.”
“Now that I think about it, Director Jeong is also a member of the Jeong family. Don’t you have an older brother or cousin?”
“Nothing. My only cousin is my older sister.”
“Really? I guess there are only one or two Jeongs in the world. So are you going to tour the facility now?”
“Yes. We need to know what is there, where it is and how. We have to start production right away.”
“It’ll be busy for a while. There won’t be anything around, but don’t neglect your guard.”
“Dohyeon has already left.”
“Really? If he went, it would be okay to some extent.”
Then this is it.
“Are you going?”
Minhee asks me. Do I show off that much?
“Yes. I told you so. Now is the start.”
“When will you be able to relax?”
“Well, I hope that day comes soon.”
Minhee smiles slightly bitterly at my words. Then he comes to me and gives me a light hug.
“Come back. Take care of yourself.”
What should I say about Minhee’s words? It seems like his own wishes are reflected.
It’s just a general greeting. It feels like they are begging you to come back.
She seemed like a proud queen, but she seems to have become subtly dependent.
“Okay. I’ll stop by as soon as I have time.”
After saying that, I immediately teleported to the bunker.
As soon as I arrived, I immediately turned on the detector, and as expected, I sensed the four women outside.
They don’t spend much time at home these days.
As soon as I left, Se-Ah looked at me and said.
“Oppa. This is a coin…”
“Ah. The party has been canceled, and only you are coming in, right?”
“Is it okay to do this? I’m over 8 million now!”
“That’s okay. Are the coins coming in yet? Isn’t it time for them to stop coming in?”
“I still come in occasionally. Just a few tens of thousands.”
“Because the guys there weren’t clumsy guys. Just get invited.”
Make a party and invite Se-ah, then invite Seung-hee, Mina, and Anna.
As soon as I created a party, a message appeared saying that I had won 20,000 coins. Hey. This is perfect.
“Okay then… Let’s get to the gate.”
“Where are we going again?”
Seunghee asked, and I answered with a smile.
“There are many places to pick up coins.”
First, Busan. I’ll have to see how much is left on the cruise.
“Wait a moment.”
First, go near the cruise ship and then look around with detection.
No sign of anyone. Have you ever thought about collecting your coins? Well, it won’t be easy.
Diving into the water is not possible even with skills.
“No one is there. Anna come and use coin detection.”
“Yes.”
“Come here, Se-ah. Let’s check the location and retrieve the remaining coins. How much is left?”
“Wait a minute. I think there are about 30… Or so left.”
“Really? I ate almost all of them. The fish are quite useful. Find out where they all are and retrieve them. As quickly as possible.”
“Okay.”
“Yes.”
If you think about it, timing and coin detection are skills that one person should have.
Even if the two of you can communicate, it’s not easy to accurately indicate the location.
If Anna masters coin detection, should she learn taming?
Anna is now Tier 11. Death Wind is Tier 16. The only skills you need to learn are poisonous dance and bleeding, so you can afford it.
But I also need to learn a skill to break the shield. Umm. I’ll have to think about it once I master coin detection.
Finding coins goes faster than you think.
Perhaps this is possible because the fish does not move directly, but moves on its own to some extent.
There is a saying that fish have a memory of 3 seconds, but in reality, they are not that stupid.
After 30 minutes, Se-Ah and Anna say they are done.
“Thank you for your hard work. About 600,000 more came in.”
“What should I do now?”
Se-Ah, who has tasted her coin, asks with sparkling eyes.
Haha. Okay. This is a normal reaction. How fun and exciting it will be. The effect appears immediately.
“Okay then. Let’s go to the next area.”
“Next area?”
“Next area?”
Instead of answering, I opened the gate and the four women got on the gate right away.
“Uh, here…”
Mina muttered, and I spoke to her.
“Wuhan. How old is the epidemic now?”
“Plague. 4.2 million.”
“4.2 million?”
“Yes.”
“Wow. It’s spread a lot. So I guess it’s pretty much dead.”
“That’s right. The fatality rate was quite high.”
“But it’s sad that there hasn’t even been any notice of these idiots. Even if there are 4.2 million out of 1 billion, it’s only 0.4%.”
“I have no sense of numbers anymore.”
“Anyway, Mina, please keep dispelling diseases both when she stays here and after she leaves. Understood?”
“Yes.”
And then I look at Se-ah and Anna.
“Sea and Anna are the same here. Let’s start by taming one fish.”
“One? Not three?”
“Uh, two crows will be like that.”
“Ah. Okay.”
Let’s all go down together and tame a fish.
They mixed the seawater into the Yangtze River like that, but it doesn’t seem to be noticeable.
The river flows leisurely again and nothing seems to have changed much.
When the city of Wuhan was full of water, there wouldn’t have been much of a problem if it was just a fish.
Because they were all swept away by the water, there must have been a coin under the water.
But now the water has almost subsided, and you must have picked up a lot of things under the water.
It would be faster to pick up coins from those who died from the plague.
[100 coins obtained.]
[100 coins obtained.]
Coin acquisition message continuously heard.
100 coins. I guess that’s because the 500 coins are split between five people, right?
It feels a little strange to think that there is only one message per message.
It means that he was swept away and died without even having a chance to eat his coins.
“Okay. Leave the fish alone. Let’s look for a crow.”
Let’s look around, relying on Anna’s animal detection.
I thought it would take a long time, but I found it surprisingly quickly, and SeAh immediately tamed two.
“Wow. It’s cuter than I thought?”
Se-Ah keeps looking at the tamed crow to see if she likes it.
“It’s not evaluated because of the color and image, but the crow is a wonderful bird. Look at its English name. It’s Crow. Crow. How cool.”
“Then can I just ask them to pick up coins too?”
“Uh. Ah. But try that. Summon and transfer.”
“Why is that? I’ve tried it a lot with Rex.”
“Oh. Really? Can you do it in places you can’t see?”
“A place you can’t see? Where?”
“Can you send it all the way to China while staying in the bunker?”
“I haven’t gone that far.”
“Try. Now. Immediately. Send them to the bunker.”
“To the bunker… Just a moment. Um. Transfer.”
A crow disappeared. Wow. It’s fascinating.
“Sea is a complete magician. Next time, put it in a hat and send it to me. Where did you send it?”
“To the bunker yard.”
I opened the gate and went straight to the bunker and went out into the yard.
A crow standing quietly on the ground. Rex and the wild dogs around him are startled and on guard.
I teleported back to Wuhan and blinked in the direction where the women were.
“Sing it again.”
“Summon.”
The crow reappeared. How absurd is Rex?
Suddenly, the crow that was on guard right in front of me suddenly disappeared.
“It’s going well.”
“But why is this?”
“Ah. We need to cure the crows of the disease as well. They can catch the plague.”
“Ah. Oppa, you’re really meticulous. Do you even care about all that?”
“Don’t you know about bird flu? It’s better than causing trouble for no reason.”
“No. But it doesn’t matter if we spread bird flu here in China.”
“Oh, that’s right. But if the crow dies, you have to come back to tame it again.”
“You can catch it in Korea and send it here.”
“Ah. I see. Is Se-ah smart?”
“I think my brother is thinking strangely.”
“I see. Anyway, that’s enough. Tell them to go find the coin and pick it up. Just one.”
“Just one?”
“Uh, let’s send the other one to Beijing.”
A crow flew away, and I opened the gate near Beijing.
Se-ah goes over and flies the remaining crow again. Good. We have reached a certain level now.
“Let’s go back.”
Open the gate to the bunker and go in together.
The message keeps popping up, but most of the coins are in hundreds.
Still, there are quite a lot of them, so I think it will be quite a lot if I put them all together.
“The problem is that if you’re like this, it’s difficult to master taming.”
“Still, eating coins comes first.”
“No. Mastery comes first. Let’s play for about two hours. Let’s see how much we gather and see whether we should master first or continue farming.”
“I understand.”
“Then we just need to be skilled, right?”
Seunghee asked, and I nodded and said.
“Uh. Seunghee’s reflex is almost done, right?”
“Yes. There isn’t much left.”
“Okay. Let’s take pictures quickly. Let’s raise the tamper and collect coins together. Mina doesn’t have much shield left, right?”
“Yes.”
“I have no choice since Mina needs to reduce damage first.”
“Do I do timing too?”
“Huh. The more, the better, right?”
“Well… Shouldn’t I take a picture of heaven’s gate? Or hell.”
When I look at Mina, she is a little embarrassed, thinking she may have made a mistake.
“Do you want to?”
“You don’t need that much timing anyway.”
“That’s true. Then let’s do it that way. Let’s just focus on damage reduction and Mina’s wide-area skills.”
“I understand.”
“Anna’s tree has been decided. Oh, that’s right.”
I approached Anna. He looks a little puzzled as I approach.
“As soon as I finish what I do in Busan, let’s go to Russia.”
Anna flinches slightly at my words.
“You waited a long time, right?”
“No. Where are you going?”
Then, Anna smiled brightly. But the sun is not as bright as usual for her. The coolness that comes from behind that smile.
A resentment that pierces through that smile. It’s scary.
“Okay then. I’ll be right back. I’m doing my job. Furthermore, I’ll be back in two hours.”
After saying that, I move to Busan.
The headquarters of the Lete guys is a department store in a place called Seomyeon.
A place with both a hotel and a department store. From my memory, it was quite large.
And when you stand, that is where the extreme scum are.
They are all guys who need to be caught and killed. I have obtained some information through memory reading, so now I need to check it.
It wasn’t too far from where the cruise ship sank, so it didn’t take long to get there.
A city with no one. They were probably all killed by Lete and the extremists.
The Lethe guys didn’t seem to have much intention of building a city like SG.
Just a small selection. The total number of people is only those staying at the hotel.
Among the conglomerate conglomerates, they are the smartest ones.
Still, the scale is too big. And it stands out so much.
If we really wanted to live, we should have come together as a smaller group.
Anyway, everyone can’t let go of their greed. Why can’t I give up and hold on to such useless things?
I climbed a nearby high building, placed all the Lethes within the detection range, and began practicing clairvoyance.
Coins keep coming in. It’s a tiny amount, but it’s a lot.
It really is a mountain full of dust. It comes up more often than you think, considering it’s just one fish and two crows.
Rather than worrying about which skills to level up first, it is better to use that time to increase your skills and master them all.
With that in mind, I watched the Lete guys and the extreme scum.
And I continued to practice clairvoyance.