Chapter 93 – I Received My First Request From My Broker Sister.
“The air is different here!”
“It’s just like the demon world. The energy of death I feel from the ground is calling to me. Oooh!”
The spirits seem to be felt as soon as they are summoned.
It’s a different world.
A lonely factory in a barren land.
As I slowly approached, people armed with rifles and mechanical equipment looked at me.
“Who are you?”
“I came from the Full House request office.”
Among the guards, a man wearing red goggles approached with an amplified voice.
“Show me your permit.”
Before leaving, I took out the small mechanical chip I received from my broker sister.
Then he took out a strange device and scanned the chip.
[Attendant: Summoner Park Ja-geun]
[App rating: Gold]
[Total rating: 245]
[Consistent with received information.]
“I submitted a request a week ago, and it was sent quickly.”
He seemed dissatisfied because the support came late.
It seems that Jenny’s request office is not doing as well as expected.
Anyway, permission to enter was granted right away.
Once my identity was confirmed, I followed him and entered the fence.
“What abilities do you have?”
“I know how to handle blood.”
He was armed and showed an exact copy of the rifle he was holding.
“It doesn’t look bad.”
He put down his rifle, perhaps feeling relieved that his abilities were being shown right in front of him.
“What do I have to do?”
“There are pollutants that attack every night when the factory is in operation. You just have to stop them.”
It was simple and easy.
Mission to protect the factory.
He was confident that simple defense would not be breached.
“You just need to block the back of the factory. It’s this way.”
I followed him armed and entered the factory.
Looking at the miscellaneous machine parts scattered around, I wondered what kind of machine parts factory it was.
-Klick. Kklik.
When I entered the factory, it was different from what I expected.
With the green floor and walls, it felt like a laboratory.
“What does this factory do?”
“It’s confidential.”
He was the one who drew the line.
He was no longer curious.
If I try to find out, that gun might be aimed at me.
As I walked through the central passage of the factory, I was able to see a little bit of the inside.
I looked at the eyeball picture poster on the wall and listened to the voices of employees passing by.
I thought it was a factory that made artificial snow or something.
“Are you here, Captain? Hmm? Who is that guy next to you?”
As we headed to the back of the factory, there were many people waiting with rifles, along with an armed bald man.
“Reinforcements.”
“You mean this kid?”
The kid was definitely hit by the bald guy.
Even if you can’t, you’re at least 2 meters tall.
I’m 180 cm tall and with my bald head in front, I really looked like a kid.
“Even though he looks like this, he has the ability to manipulate blood. He will be of great help.”
“Ah. Hehe. I was rude.”
The bald man scratched her head and gave me an apologetic look.
Seeing everyone using Tanaka made me feel like I was a soldier again.
So, in order to fit in with them, I decided to take the playful tone out of my voice.
“It’s okay.”
“Where did you come from? Summon? Black? Or Legend?”
“It’s called Full House…”
“Huh? Full House? This is the first request office I’ve heard of.”
When the bald man heard that it was a full house, he looked disappointed.
“Cooker, we’re in a hurry, so we’ve requested assistance from all the request centers. It’s fortunate that at least one person came.”
“I see… Captain.”
The bald man was upset, fiddling with his rifle and grumbling.
It looks like he was disappointed that the support came from a not-so-famous referral agency.
“I hope this helps.”
“I guess so.”
I guess it’s still not reliable.
Rather than being happy about my support, the unit members showed more worried faces.
After a brief meeting, the captain and some others left for patrol.
I sat down outside the dusty factory, staring blankly at the wasteland.
“Take one of these.”
“Thank you.”
The bald man must have been upset about his mistake earlier, so he brought a can of drink and handed it to me.
A pineapple flavored canned drink that I hate.
Out of courtesy, I immediately opened the lid and quenched my thirst.
“Have you done a lot of commissioned work?”
“I’ve only tried it a few times.”
“Then… This must be the first time something like this has happened.”
“I have several experiences defending the area. I also have a military background.”
“Oh. He was a soldier. Hehe. Well, most of the commissioned work and mercenary work are things that retired soldiers often do.”
The bald man seemed to have a lot of experience working with people like me.
“He’s quite young… He probably ran away, right?”
“I have been discharged.”
If he is a retired soldier, he must have been in the military for decades, but since he looks young, there are some doubts.
“Our country is at war, so conscription is mandatory. I had to pick up a gun at a young age.”
“A country at war… It must have been quite bloody.”
“I felt that way sometimes. The place where I served in the military was always full of flocks of eagles.”
“An eagle.?”
“Yes, they were watching us from the sky to eat our dead bodies.”
“Hmm. That can’t be possible.”
The bald man’s reaction was quite delicious.
He broke into a cold sweat after hearing what I said, as if he had witnessed something terrible.
Of course, when we’re with men, we talk about the military.
I was happy because it seemed to work well.
“Sometimes I hear a popping noise in the early morning.”
“Exploding sound.”
“It’s the sound of passing elk cubs stepping on a landmine and exploding.”
-Boom!!
“Just like before… Boom…”
“Oh! It’s dirty! You stepped on a land mine! I’ll contact the captain right away!”
Suddenly, we felt a huge tremor outside the factory, so the bald man and I panicked.
But I soon came to my senses and grasped the situation.
“Captain. Captain.”
“What’s going on?”
“Contaminant is approaching!”
“Okay. I’ll go quickly.”
While the bald man was reporting the situation to the captain in the hologram, he sneakily walked over the fence and looked at the wasteland.
Is that pollution.
Both hands are hook-shaped. The face is a snake. The body was bipedal like a human.
It looked similar to a chimera from mythology.
“A pollutant during the day. They must have only appeared at night. Crazy.! The factory guys kept the factory running without a word!”
The bald man grumbled as if he had finished reporting the situation and looked at the factory chimney.
I could see green smoke coming out.
After seeing the smoke, I immediately raised my rifle.
The bald man aiming at the pollutant pulled the trigger.
-Bang!
One shot accurately hit the pollutant’s head.
However, as if something was blocking it, the polluted body shook its head a few times and started walking like a zombie as if nothing had happened.
“Special skin.! Damn it! It’s a level 3 pollutant, boss!”
When he saw the pollutant deflecting bullets, the bald man took out a sword full of saw blades.
“This guy doesn’t work at long range, so you’ll have to fight in close combat!”
At the words of the bald man, he created a spear made of blood.
Thinking that it really wasn’t effective at long distances, I jumped out of the fence and threw the spear at the pollutant with all my might.
-Hutuk!
“Kkeikkkk.”
Thanks to the advanced throwing technique, the flying spear accurately hit the guy’s head.
It was driven into the solid wasteland floor and became a fixed pollutant.
“Just. At once.”
The bald man looked at the pollutant and me with a surprised expression.
“I guess it’s not just one guy.”
Similar-looking pollutants were seen gathering one by one around the struggling pollutant.
“Contaminants are.”
“They are gathering over there, Captain.”
Fortunately, the captain and his men quickly arrived and began taking out their weapons for battle.
“We prevent people from coming near the factory as much as possible.”
“”Yes! Captain!””
It was visible that they had come together over a long period of time.
Everyone took their seats and took out their weapons, making it look like a pretty cool special forces unit.
Thanks to the information I heard from the bald man, everyone raised their melee weapons, not guns, and followed me outside the fence where I was standing.
“Did you do that skewered guy?”
The captain saw the polluted body pierced through the red spear and approached me.
“Yes, but as soon as he was attacked, he started gathering other contaminants as well.”
“Most pollutants are not intelligent. However, they still have instincts, so they gather when their allies are attacked.”
This meant that all the contaminants that were gradually gathering had to be dealt with.
“Bullets don’t work, but my blood spear seems to work. So I’ll do my best to keep them from getting close.”
“Then we’ll take care of anything that comes close. Don’t worry about it, just keep blowing the spear.”
At the captain’s words, I created a blood-red spear again and aimed at the approaching pollutants.
It hits as soon as you throw it.
“Oh. It works really well.!”
Every time the unit members hit a pollutant, they praised it highly.
This is the shooting skills of the reserve forces.
He continued to throw spears with exclamations of exclamation from the surrounding crew.
Throwing.
Throw again.
It pierced through all the pollutants before they approached.
“Hey. Hey! Aren’t you going to collapse after that!? It looks like you’re losing a lot of blood!”
“There is still room.”
Because my stamina was high, I didn’t get tired at all even if I continued to use my blood.
So all the members stood there blankly, just watching me throw the javelin.
Until I deal with all the pollutants by myself.
“That’s amazing.”
“I think I caught dozens of them by myself, boss.”
The way everyone looks at me has changed.
At first, their eyes were full of suspicion, but now they were eyes of surprise.
I don’t like people looking at me like this.
I don’t know if she’s a pretty girl, but for some reason, I felt like my superiors in the military were looking at me, so I wasn’t very happy.
Anyway, I succeeded in blocking the pollutant’s first attack alone.
“It was true that he was a retired soldier.”
“Yes. Well. I served my entire military service.”
I guess the bald man doubted that I was a soldier until I showed him my performance.
“But why are pollutants coming to the factory in the morning?”
“Protein gas generated from the factory is attracting pollutants from the surrounding area.”
“If it’s protein gas… Does it smell like meat?”
“The pollutants will feel that way. But the protein gas only comes out at night. I guess they are doing something else inside the factory.”
“Uhm. I see.”
“I need to apply for additional allowances from the company. I’ll be away for a while.”
The captain was seen entering the factory with a serious face.
He seemed angry, perhaps because he had more work to do outside the designated hours.
It’s an additional allowance.
I was excited that maybe I could even get a bonus for my first request.
