52 – Gwangmyeong City, Part II
Translator: | Editor:Chapter 19. Gwangmyeong City, Part IITranslator: KhanEditor: RED
3.
Gwangmyeong Industrial High School…
It was now used as a hideout of the Messiah, located right next to Mt. Dodok. Of course, the conversations there were always nasty things, from boasting of forced rape to competing with the number of people they had killed. It was a den of the devils in human form. Now it was full of tension.
“He had a gun?”
“Yes, he was definitely holding a pistol.”
“Not a revolver?”
“Choi, tell me straight. was that a real pistol? Are you sure you were not wrong?”
The starting point of tension was Choi. Having survived thanks to the mercy of the monster, Kim, he returned to the hideout with all his speed, and then went to the executive and spat out everything.
The fact that Choi spat out was enough to make the Messiah executives gather in one place even late at night.
“No, it was clear. It was a pistol.”
“You’re making us sick.”
The first reason was that Choi’s opponent used a pistol, not a revolver.
“Where did he get the pistol? The police armory usually has automatic rifles, but no pistols?”
Normal cops usually used revolvers for many reasons.
First, the first shot could be loaded with blank ammunition, but if they used a normal pistol, they would have to reload it after using a blank. Second, Korean police do not use a gun in most circumstances.
Therefore, in Korea, pistols that are not revolvers are used in two places: the army, or the police commando units, such as the special forces in the police.
“Did he get it from the army?”
It was clear that wherever he brought it, it was associated with a group with different firepower than the general police.
“But you said that he didn’t shoot. Hey, Choi. Explain it again. How did the kids die?”
“Well… the moment he dropped the gun muzzle, a sound of the wind suddenly came and everyone fell to the ground with a hole in their temples.”
“The sound of the wind? Explain it correctly, not a stupid explanation.”
“That, that was the sound of the wind. Shiyik, shh! That kind of sound.”
He had killed three people in an instant with a weapon other than a gun.
“He must be a superhuman, damn it.”
It made the Messiah executives more nervous than the fact that he had used a pistol. They couldn’t help but notice that some of the men with the marks on the back of their right hands had superhuman abilities.
“Does he use Telekinesis like the captain?”
One of them was the head of the Messiah, Lee Ji-seop.
“But can the captain do that with Telekinesis in an instant…”
“Ha Il-hyun, can I show you if I can or can’t? Huh?”
“Sorry, sorry.”
Lee Ji-seop.
He was quite young, sitting on the only fluffy principal chair in the teachers’ room, and he looked like a college freshman, never more than mid-twenties. He was a quiet-looking man.
“I’m quiet these days, so do I look funny? Huh?”
“No, no.”
But he was never a kind man.
Would a kind man be the head of a wicked herd called the Messiah?
He was a cruel and mean man.
The world was on its last stage, and there was no more entertainment in the world. Since he was ruthless and evil, he enjoyed bringing people into torture as entertainment.
In the basement of their hideout of Gwangmyeong Industrial High School, dozens of corpses of those who had been killed by Lee were waiting for spring and summer to come.
Of course, he did not become a leader just because he was ruthless and evil.
“Hey, Ha Il-hyun, do you want me to drill a hole in your head?”
Along with the words, the revolver in Lee’s pocket floated into the air and pointed at a man named Ha Il-hyun.
Ha’s expression was unseen, for in the teachers’ room they were talking, only two flashlights were flashing instead of a light. They could see how frightened he was by the constant trembling of the flashlight in his hand.
“Sorry, I’m sorry.”
“Everybody, stay with me. How long are you going to repeat the same story? Are you here to do that? What we need is to find him and find a way to kill him!”
With the words, Lee grabbed his own gun, which he had made fly with Telekinesis, and withdrew it.
His expression was serious.
‘Fucking hell.’
It was not a look for just this situation.
‘There’s been some crazy stuff happening since a few days ago.’
Strange things had been happening in Gwangmyeong City over the last fifteen days. Monsters hiding all over the city began to run away like crazy. Of course, it made it easier for survivors to act. That’s why people, who are not even superhumans like Choi Ki-soon, and who didn’t have a gun, were able to hunt human beings openly.
But Lee knew that this was not a good sign.
‘Everything went wrong when the special forces came to Gwangmyeongsageori Station about fifteen days ago.’
Above all, Lee saw that people, who dressed as special forces, appeared around Gwangmyeongsageori Station.
It wasn’t like a rescue team. If they were a rescue team, they would try to find survivors, but instead, they appeared at night when survivors kept quiet. Crucially, they entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station without any hesitation.
‘What did they do?’
Then suddenly the monsters began to make a fuss.
‘Should I have run away then?’
In fact, he tried to escape then, because Lee Ji-seop, who had already committed a lot of crimes, would be the first to be executed when the military or police were in place.
However, after that, the monsters in Gwangmyeong City disappeared, so he remained. Without a monster, he would be the boss of Gwangmyeong City.
Now, again, a strange one appeared.
‘Damn it.’
Lee was so concerned that he could not even participate in this conversation now.
Then the door of the teachers’ room opened loudly.
“Hmm?”
“What is it?”
The door opened and everyone who was talking turned their heads naturally toward the noise. But there was nothing in the doorway.
Instead, the sound of the wind came through the open window. Surprised by the sudden cold wind, people turned their heads again.
Only two out of six people in the teachers’ room could turn their heads away from the door after the cold wind came in.
Thud! The other four fell to the floor as they were, dripping blood out of the holes in their heads.
“Aahhhh!”
One of the two survivors, Choi Ki-soon screamed at the man floating by the window of the teachers’ room on the second floor.
“He, he, he—”
Instead of screaming, Lee jumped up and tried to point the revolver in his hand toward the dark thing over the window.
“Argh!” But Lee could not. His arm pointed to the ceiling, not his front, as if an invisible line had caught his right wrist and pulled it away.
‘It’s him.’ Lee was well aware that it was Telekinesis, and thanks to that, he knew who had appeared now.
Kim Tae-hoon.
He appeared.
4.
Kim Tae-hoon knew the psychology of a criminal group better than anyone else.
They were like cockroaches.
When an individual is threatened, the threatened individual heads to the hideout and begins a plot to survive. Therefore, it was not very effective to deal with what you first see when you clean up a criminal group.
Kim also knew what he had to do to get what he wanted from criminals.
“Answer the question.”
“Go nuts, you son of a bitch, just kill me!”
Ptui! Lee, who was holding both arms high above him, not one arm, spat at Kim Tae-hoon before him defiantly. The spit touched Kim’s cheek.
Kim wiped the spit lightly. After wiping the spit, he closed his mouth tightly. Then he also spat on Lee Ji-seop. Ptui!
However, what Kim spat was different from Lee’s spit. It was not saliva, but a small fireball. So the fire that Kim spat stuck to Lee’s cheek.
“Aaaaaaargh!”
The pain of his skin melting through drew a huge scream from Lee’s mouth, and shook the teachers’ room. The fire did not go out. It was gradually expanding its area by nibbling away Lee’s skin.
“Aaargh, Aaaaaaargh! Aaaaaaargh!” At this burning pain, Lee’s bloody poisonous eyes filled with fear quickly.
The fire extinguisher Kim brought from the corner of the teachers’ room saved Lee. The extinguishing powder coated Lee’s face.
“Koff, koff-” Lee gasped in the extinguishing powder. Kim stood in front of Lee with the fire extinguisher.
“Forty-seven. It is the number of your men who were deployed here, and the number I removed.”
Lee laughed at the remark.
“Don’t talk rubbish, just kill me, if you don’t want to get spit on again.”
Ptui! At that moment, Kim once again spat at Lee. The saliva touched Lee’s eyelids, which were stained with the extinguishing powder.
“Aaaaaaargh!” In this sudden situation, Lee recalled the pain he had suffered a moment ago, and now he was screaming, imagining his eyes burning.
But there was no pain. Kim’s spit was normal saliva.
“If you don’t want to get spit on again, keep in mind what I say. When I ask a question, if I don’t get an answer in three seconds, if you roll your eyes for three seconds, or if your answer is different for the same question, I’ll spit on your eyes.”
Lee could no longer muster any malice in his words.
He, who had a keen intuition, knew that Kim would not let him live; the man in front of him had no intention of sparing him.
And he realized why Kim had mentioned the number of his men. Forty-seven.
Some of them were guards who monitored the basement. They were guarding the place where the bodies of Lee had dumped after playing with them were collected. Of course, he’d seen the bodies there.
“What happened in Gwangmyeong City three days ago?”
“Nothing-”
So at this moment, Lee adjusted himself to this situation.
“I’m sure something happened in Gwangmyeong City three days ago.”
“Nothing really happened. It was rather quiet. I couldn’t see the monsters either!”
“So what happened about fifteen days ago?”
“That’s-” Lee looked as if he had been stabbed.
On the other hand, Kim counted calmly. “One, two-”
“Special forces. Special forces entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station. That’s all I know.”
“Time? Day or night?”
“Night, late night…”
“How many?”
“I don’t know, but I think there were more than ten people-”
“What happened after that?”
“Monsters suddenly began to move, and the monsters have been greatly reduced in town-”
At that moment, a revolver slowly began to float into the air, owned by a member of the Messiah who now had a hole in his head. Lee Ji-seop had started using his own Telekinesis.
‘You’re dead.’
That’s why he complied with the attitude.
Now he knew that Kim would not spare him, and he had to kill Kim to live. Of course, the moment he grabbed the gun and pointed it at Kim, he tried to pull the trigger without hesitation.
Ptui! However, Kim’s saliva reached Lee’s left eye more quickly than the bullet did.
And this time, the saliva had color. The fire which the Flame-spewing Crocodile had vomited began to boil Lee’s left eye.
“Aaaaaaargh!”
Lee screamed in a panic as the world turned black with his left eye burning. Of course, the revolver he was trying to use with his Telekinesis fell to the floor.
Kim spoke to Lee without spraying the fire extinguisher this time. “I’m not going to let you live, as you’ve noticed. But I don’t even think I’ll kill you nicely. So from now on, all you have to do is beg me to kill you nicely. I don’t have to explain what I’m saying because you’re quick-witted.”
“Aaaaaaargh!”
“Then let me continue with the questions.”
Kim was a man who understood the psychology of criminals better than anyone else.
5.
Late night.
Kim was looking at exit No. 4 of Gwangmyeongsageori Station.
‘Special forces entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station.’
The information he’d obtained was pretty good.
‘That’s why the green-grade monster near Cheolsan Station suddenly came towards Gwangmyeongsageori Station.’
It was a very good piece of information that organized the information in his mind.
‘If they come to Gwangmyeongsageori Station from Cheolsan Station, they would end up in Bucheon. In the process, the monsters below yellow-grade were naturally pushed toward Bucheon.’
Of course, the information did not clear all his doubts.
‘The purpose of the special forces is unknown. It was not a rescue team. A rescue team has no reason to act like that.’
Therefore, Kim had to guess again.
‘Their purpose was to hunt monsters. What they entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station without hesitation meant that they knew there was a green-grade monster inside in it. Of course, there was a weapon to kill the green-grade monster.’
Special forces came to Gwangmyeong City, and they entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station to kill a green-grade monster. The green-grade monster disappeared from the detection of the Daedongyeojido three days ago.
‘More than ten days.’
It was unlikely that they would have fought in a subway station for more than ten days.
Common sense suggested that it was highly likely that they failed. The green-grade monster was alive up to three days ago.
In Kim’s view, they could not kill a green-grade monster with just a relic. They should have included at least four to five hunters, who had the same level of power of Kim. No matter how powerful a weapon was, it was no use by itself. When there was a man who could handle it, it would be a real weapon.
‘This is the hunting.’
Here, Kim focused on that it was not just a battle, but a hunt.
‘Even if the green-grade monster had killed all the special forces entered, it could have been fatally wounded.’
Usually, the battle was divided between the winner and the loser, but the hunting sometimes doesn’t finish between the winner and the loser.
‘If the fatal injury got worse, the prey that ate the hunters would die of the fatal injury in the process.’
At that moment, after thinking about it, Kim entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station.