Chapter 235 – Encounters
The inside of the building was cleaner than expected.
Mucous fungus was visible everywhere, but it was nothing compared to the outside.
“This way!”
Edward took the lead and started guiding.
I could see flesh maggots coming in through the entrance we entered.
I couldn’t leave it as is.
I threw an incendiary grenade there.
– Pooh!!
As the incendiary grenade explodes, flames soar.
– Kwyiik!!
The maggots scream strangely and burn.
However, it is terribly insufficient.
Large maggots were constantly coming in from behind.
A few more incendiary grenades were thrown there.
They were burned to death as they approached, but since so many maggots poured out, it seemed that there was a limit to blocking them with incendiary grenades.
I was about to take out my magic wand and use the Explosion, but I refrained from thinking that a very messy situation would happen.
If so, I decided to choose a slightly gentler method than that.
He clenched his fists and lunged forward.
-Pop!
Wind pressure erupts from the tip of the fist.
The wind pressure bursts the maggots and blows them out.
This is just a temporary fix.
Soon other maggots filled the gap.
“Unho! Come quickly!”
Grace, with a worried expression, calls me from the back, who is blocking the maggots.
I threw a few more incendiary grenades at the maggots rushing in again and moved towards the party.
The party stood in front of a large metal door at the end of the hallway.
I could see the surveillance camera with the red light above the door moving and watching the party.
Edward waves his hand hastily at the camera.
“Sister! Jessica! Here you go!”
Jessica? What is Edward’s sister’s name?
– Knocked up.
The tightly closed metal door opened on both sides.
And a bright light poured from inside.
Inside was a neat silver metal room.
Edward goes inside and calls the party.
“Come on, get on!”
The room was large enough to accommodate all of us.
The party did not let their guard down and went inside cautiously.
– Procrastination.
I looked at the end of the hallway.
The maggots were literally pouring in.
“Daddy, close the door quickly!”
As Carrie watched the scene, she hurriedly exclaimed.
I threw an incendiary grenade at the monster maggots.
– Pooh!!
When the incendiary grenade exploded and the flames started, it seemed to hesitate for a moment…
Soon, the maggots filled the hallway.
The figure that even covered the flames of the incendiary grenade and approached like a flood.
I was even a little nervous.
Rather than being scared, who would want to wear those filthy maggots on their backs?
Fortunately, the door was closed before the maggot monsters arrived.
– Doo doo doo doo.
The maggot monsters knocked, and a sound like roasting beans was heard from the door.
– Ugh.
Along with the mechanical sound, I felt the sensation of my body floating for a moment.
‘Elevator?’
It seemed to go down… Underground.
It was quite large for an ordinary elevator.
‘Is it a freight elevator?’
Looking around, I saw a surveillance camera in the upper corner. However, it seemed that it was a simple elevator, so there were no buttons that could be operated.
Is it controlled from the outside?
On Edward’s face, comfort and joy coexisted.
The elevator that went down for a while stopped at some point.
It seemed that we had reached our destination.
– Knocked up.
The elevator door opens…
I saw a sensible, platinum-haired beauty in her glasses, standing with her hands in the pockets of her white gown, a languid, nonchalant expression.
Her face was clearly haggard. Even so, her beauty did not fade.
Rather, she was a beautiful woman who seemed attractive even in that way.
‘Is this woman Jessica?’
Edward did not disappoint me.
In the meantime, I reflected a little on myself in the past, who doubted him even a little bit.
It was rewarding to come here with a big heart.
“Sister!!”
Edward is delighted and lunges at her, who appears to be her older sister, with her feet apart. But unlike Edward, she didn’t seem very happy.
-Puck!
She kicked Edward in the shin for a hug of joy.
“Evil!”
Edward grabs his shin and runs ‘hopping’.
“Noona, noona why…”
Edward asks Jessica with a sad expression.
“Haa…This stupid idiot…I sent him out to run away, and he’s creeping in here again…”
Jessica sighs with a nonchalant expression and curses at Edward.
“I told you to call the rescue team.”
“What is the rescue team… Even though it’s my younger brother, I didn’t know that they wouldn’t be this ignorant… That was just something I said to send you away.
“That, like that…”
Edward is moved to tears by his sister’s efforts to save himself.
Looking at this guy now, he smelled like a serious siscon.
“By the way, what about you and the others?”
Edward asks, looking around.
“They’re all dead.”
“Lord, are you dead?”
“Oh, I killed him.”
Her expression didn’t change much when she said calmly that she had murdered.
“Why why?!”
Edward asked, stammering at his sister’s shocking words.
“Without hope, he expressed with his whole body that he wanted to eat me once. That’s why I killed him.”
Good job.
I wanted to clap, but I held back.
How dare you touch my woman…
They were cheap even if they died.
She was a woman with a hot temper.
“Anyway, it doesn’t look like a rescue team… Seeing the sheriff, it seems like it…”
Jessica glanced at us and said.
It seems that Philip, dressed as a sheriff, caught his eye.
“I’m sorry, but it’s not a rescue team. I came because I heard from Edward that you have the Shelter’s master key.”
Philip said politely to Jessica.
“Shelter? Edward must have had the master key there… I gave it to him when he escaped from here.”
Everyone’s eyes are terribly focused on Edward at Jessica’s shocking remark.
In particular, Philip’s eyes were fierce.
His tightly clenched fists were trembling.
“This… Son of a bitch…”
You might watch the live broadcast of Philip’s assault on his lover on the spot.
‘Heh, Edward, this guy is really…’
In contrast, I
He was generous with Jessica’s younger brother, Edward.
“Hey, everyone, calm down! It’s a misunderstanding. I forgot the shelter’s master key when I fell into the lake…”
Edward makes excuses while breaking out in a cold sweat.
Naturally, the party did not appear to believe his words at all. It was strange to believe that he had a record of what he had done in the past.
It was an atmosphere that wouldn’t be strange even if I was being seduced right now.
It can be seen that his older sister, Jessica, is acting as a deterrent.
“It’s true! Trust me just once!”
The eyes of distrust toward him did not disappear.
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The place where Jessica had been living looked like a neat laboratory made of white tones.
“It’s a research institute. It’s a place where we mainly research materials… And other things besides that.”
We followed Jessica’s guidance and moved to what appeared to be a restaurant with long tables lined up.
“I’m sorry, but the only thing I’ll serve you now is water. See the water purifier over there? You can scoop it up and eat it.”
“What about your sister’s food?
“It’s been a while since I fell. Right now I’m only drinking water.”
It sounds like you’re starving
Surprised, Edward hurriedly took out an energy bar from his backpack and handed it to Jessica.
After receiving the energy bar, she looked at it for a moment before opening her mouth.
“I was contemplating whether I should commit suicide… Am I lucky?”
“That, don’t say that. Sister.”
“Edward, then you mean this sister must have died starving and suffering?”
“Oh, no, that’s not it…”
Seeing Edward struggling with Jessica, he seemed to know what kind of relationship they usually had.
Should I say that she is a model of her younger brother who is completely dominated by her older sister?
“Jessica, why didn’t you escape with her brother?”
Jessica, who was chewing on the energy bar given to me by Edward, said in response to my question.
“Edward awakened his supernatural powers, and I thought that I would only be a burden due to my weak stamina. So, he and the lab guards let his brother escape.”
“The guards?”
“Everyone…Is dead.”
Edward replied with a somber face.
He barely survived alone and was rescued by Philip.
“As expected, my judgment was correct. If I had followed him then, I would have died.”
Edward would never have abandoned his older sister, Jessica, and he likely did.
“Anyway, you guys are reckless too.”
“Reckless?”
“To come all this way to get the Shelter’s master key. Giving the key isn’t difficult… Now how are you going to go back?”
“That…”
Seeing those maggots earlier, everyone was at a loss for words.
“Follow me.”
Jessica seems to be walking a little lighter than before, perhaps because she ate an energy bar.
She led us into a room with numerous screens. On the screen, scenes from all over the laboratory were reflected.
It was like a security room in this underground lab.
“Look here.”
The screen she was pointing at showed a distant view of the ground.
It seemed to be filming from a fairly high altitude.
“Drone?”
“It’s a satellite.”
She zoomed in on the satellite’s screen.
“See?”
A panoramic view of Seattle.
And we could see
An ugly, super-giant mass of flesh nestled in one corner of the city.
Tentacles from it were extending all over the city.
And I could see at a glance that the amazing guy Kkamangi was talking about was that flesh.