episode_0158

Songdo residential district shrouded in fog.

Several houses collapsed due to monster attacks and hunter fights.

It’s hard to count on one hand the number of houses that are left intact, as if a bomb had just passed through.

However, the enemy calmly investigates this place.

She knows.

The most shabby places are the best places to hide.

The black coat he was wearing.

He walks through the house with his hands in his coat and his breath coming out white.

Then, suddenly, a relatively intact three-story house caught my eye.

It was probably the home of a wealthy person who was doing relatively well in Songdo.

And usually these houses… .

The city is reduced to a den of villains who have taken over.

Into that den, the representative of the wicked enters.

As she opens the front door and enters, a field of rotten grass welcomes her.

The smell of sour air.

Instead of the damp, humid smell of the sea, an artificial smell lingers.

And that smell is very familiar to the enemy.

Because it’s the gunpowder chemical scent used when disposing of a corpse.

Moreover, it is so strong that you can smell it even outside.

This means that there were a lot of ‘things’ that had to be treated with chemicals.

The enemy leisurely headed towards the source of the smell.

Behind the gloomy building.

And a suspicious looking iron door.

The enemy held the door leading to the semi-basement tightly in his hands.

But, as expected, the door handle is firmly locked.

“… .”

She put her hands into her coat pockets again.

and….

“￣￣￣!”

He struck the ring hard with his heel.

A rickety door.

The door opens with one kick from the enemy.

“Ugh… .”

Soon a vibrating, rotten stench.

Even though she is a corpse toucher, it is difficult to bear.

I slowly walk down the stairs, covering my nose with my coat sleeve.

She thought that a living person could never stay here.

I turned on the light on my phone and looked around the basement.

Corpses tightly wrapped in black plastic bags.

And a plastic tub placed there to deal with it.

In that bathtub… .

There were still people alive.

“… !”

Would a person who came in just by the sound of footsteps notice something different from usual?

The man trapped in the bathtub shook so hard that the soles of his feet slipped.

The enemy shines his light towards the person.

Thanks to that, I was able to tell that she was a woman in her 20s.

Wearing only a thin white shirt over underwear.

Her arms were cuffed in police handcuffs to the bathtub handles.

“Calm down. I’m not a kidnapper.”

The enemy grabbed the blindfold and gag that were squeezing her body.

Then the bound man shrank back and trembled.

Perhaps he was reflexively scared because he had been beaten countless times.

Her face was finally revealed.

She was a pretty girl, but before she was kidnapped, she was covered in tears, as if she had put on makeup.

“Ugh… . Ughhh… .”

The woman shed tears of joy when she realized that the enemy was not the kidnapper.

However, the enemy seemed to have little intention of saving her.

He just stares down at the kidnapped woman with his red eyes like a snake.

She demands.

The reward he could get by saving this poor woman’s life.

“Who are you?”

“Ugh… . I’m sorry. Please save me… .”

I’ve been crying so much lately.

The voice was completely hoarse.

“That’s not what I want. I asked who you are and why you’re locked up here.”

A firm and cold voice.

The woman gasped for breath at the voice.

“I am a staff member of the Songdo Hunters Association… .”

Association staff?

In some ways, why is the woman who should have been in the safest place here in a place like this… .

“A few days ago, a mob with red eyes appeared in Songdo… .”

“Like me?”

“No, they were shiny and clear… but those people were a murky red like animals.”

As the woman talked, she occasionally glanced at the stairs from which the enemy had come down.

“The mob kidnapped the few remaining Songdo residents they could find. In the process, they clashed with our association several times.”

It’s a given.

There is no way the association would turn a blind eye to the mob kidnapping its citizens.

“But those people, they were so strong that it felt like each and every one of them was a top-class hunter or higher… .”

The association staff trembled with fear as they recalled that time.

Were the hunters belonging to the association that strong enough to defeat them?

“In the end, the Songdo Association collapsed and many people, including me, were kidnapped.”

The woman looked at the corpses wrapped in black bags and gave up.

Then he looks up at the enemy and asks a favor.

“Is it okay now…? Please save me… . It’s my turn soon… .”

Red-eyed mob.

And the people they kidnapped.

It might have something to do with Park Shin-ae.

Are you going to bring people in and use them as test subjects again?

but….

They originally kidnapped hunters and extracted only their abilities.

But now they are even kidnapping civilians… .

Something is strange.

It’s different from usual.

“Okay.”

The enemy took a dagger out of his pocket.

And then he slowly approaches the tied up woman.

The enemy raised his dagger to cut the chain of handcuffs.

But, in that fleeting moment.

The woman’s face turned pale as she was relieved to have been rescued.

“Back, behind… !”

The enemy also turned his head as soon as he heard that sound.

but….

“—!”

Before she could dodge, a huge iron club flew at her head.

And with a murderous sound, the enemy’s temples are crushed.

She flew away powerlessly.

He ended up lying on the floor littered with corpses.

“￣￣￣￣!”

The woman screamed as she looked at the enemy with his head smashed.

But even that scream didn’t last long.

A man swinging a blunt weapon at his enemy.

Because he glared at her with his cloudy red eyes.

“Be quiet… . I told you to keep quiet… ?”

A man who is breathing so hard that his breath is white.

He rolled his eyes incessantly as if he had lost his mind.

“What’s with that woman? Has the Seoul branch of the association already moved?”

“Mo, I don’t know… . I don’t know… .”

The woman shook her head madly.

The moment when an intruder appears in the place you’ve been trying to hide.

The man, deciding he could no longer stay, uncuffed the woman in the bathtub.

“If only the congressman hadn’t asked me to bring an undamaged human being… .”

And then he grabbed my wrist and dragged me out.

“You would have been like that too. Got it?”

A woman being dragged away helplessly.

She looked at the corpses of the enemies lying on the floor with sad eyes.

“Please… . Someone save me… .”

A man wearing only sleeveless shirt even in the middle of autumn.

He has a tattoo of the Incheon gang on his shoulder.

He climbed up the stairs, holding the woman by the nape of her neck with overwhelming force.

The sound of his footsteps getting further and further away.

But the sound soon stopped abruptly.

In the basement, where I thought there was nothing more to see, I heard a voice again.

“Incheon Oseongpa?”

His former affiliation.

The man turns his head upon hearing that name.

Suddenly his eyebrows flared tautly.

Because the woman I thought was clearly killed in one blow was standing there again.

With a face so clear that it’s hard to believe that he’d been hit by a blunt object.

“Was the reason for the riot to secure funds for Park Shin-ae’s new government?”

The enemy asked him with a blank expression.

Then the man stared down at her as if he was dumbfounded.

“Yes, the condition for entering Sky Island is to sacrifice 5 people per person.”

He casually put the association woman down on the stairs.

And he speaks to the enemy with the club slung over his shoulder.

“I’m only one left now.”

The man pointed at his own red eyes with his finger.

Very proudly.

The enemy looked into those eyes and realized the powerful blow he had received just a moment ago.

A heterogeneous power gained at the cost of sacrificing four people.

It must have been granted by Park Shin-ae’s ability, which she stole from Siho and numerous hunters.

“So you should just die.”

One last word.

After that, the bastard jumped down the stairs.

And he charged at me with an unusual speed, holding a club in one hand.

However, the enemy had already figured out his level a long time ago.

She absentmindedly reached into her coat pocket… .

He pulled out a gun.

“￣￣￣.”

A short, loud gunshot.

The man’s forehead twists with the sound of the gunshot.

He collapsed helplessly on the floor.

White smoke flows out faintly from the muzzle.

The enemy calmly lowered his pistol and approached the man.

But, at that moment.

The bastard sprang back like a spring and rushed at her again.

Then the enemy struck the man’s temple with the handle of his pistol.

And then, at that moment, he collapsed.

Sharp bones protrude from the basement floor.

As the enemy clenched his fist, the bones clenched him like a Venus flytrap.

“Ugh… . What is this… !”

The bastard glares at the enemy with red eyes.

However, the enemy did not react at all to such gazes.

He just clenched his fist tighter and tighter until his body swelled up.

“Why…? You said you became strong after sacrificing 4 people? Get out of here too.”

A firm word from the enemy.

At those words, the man began to feel genuine fear.

His bulging eyes turn towards the enemy’s red ones.

A distinct murderous spirit with the same color but different texture.

The moment he felt that life force, the man realized who he was facing.

“This… . One mind… .”

“If you want to live, answer honestly from now on. Where is Park Shin-ae’s base?”

The whole body is twisted and compressed by the huge bones.

Like a fly being crushed to death.

The man knows.

The cruelty of one mind.

If you don’t answer correctly, you will definitely die.

So I somehow managed to squeeze out a voice and answer.

“Ha… It’s in the sky.”

“Sky?”

Ambiguous answer.

Soon the bones begin to dig into the creature’s skin.

Then the man screamed like the woman he had locked up.

He cried out in a voice filled with pain.

“It’s really in the sky…! There’s a staircase in the Central Building that leads to the sky island… .”

A sad voice.

The enemy frowned at those words.

No matter how unrealistic the answer may be, it’s unlikely that a man facing death would lie.

Finally, she opened the palm she had been holding.

Then, the bones that had been holding him back also began to loosen.

“Sigh… .”

The enemy sat on the body bag for a moment.

And with my legs crossed, I pause for a moment, lost in thought.

Red Hunters and criminals living in Songdo.

The rankers who follow Park Shin-ae, are they all on Cheonkong Island?

While she was lost in thought, the man began to crawl on all fours like an animal.

Then, he grabbed his cell phone that had fallen on the floor and pressed the emergency call button.

“Stupid bitch… . This isn’t the time to be so carefree, is it?”

The enemy made no response to his words.

Then the man made a trembling expression for a moment and then shouted at her again.

“Right now, my members are coming this way. How dare you touch me in Incheon…? Kill me… .”

“￣￣￣.”

The enemy placed his chin on the back of his hand and fired his pistol absentmindedly.

Then the bastard groaned and grabbed his leg.

“￣￣￣.”

Perhaps because of the noise, the enemy fires another shot.

Only then did the bastard cover his mouth and become quiet.

“Sob… .”

After 5 hours have passed.

The enemy finally seemed to have gathered his thoughts and stood up from his seat.

And then he looked down at the man who had fallen while holding the cell phone.

As if looking at a bug.

“ You said the members were coming?”

“Yeah… .”

“Don’t worry. I have someone coming too.”

“One…? Do you think you can defeat our elite members with just one?”

The enemy kicked the man as if he was not worth answering.

And then he shot him five times in the head without any emotion.

“… .”

The power of God.

No matter how high that thing is, it doesn’t seem to reach the five bullets lodged in his head.

Because the one who was pierced didn’t move anymore.

Passing the woman who was struggling on the stairs, the enemy climbed the stairs alone.

and….

I encountered Anna with a bloody face.

The color is very vivid, as if it was just buried a moment ago.

“You’re late.”

The enemy spoke to her with his eyes slightly open.

Then Anna wipes her cheek with the back of her hand and answers absentmindedly.

“There was some trash on the way here.”

Gray hair tied to one side.

And the blood was on the black jacket and the sleeveless top underneath.

It’s the exact same outfit she wears when she goes out hunting hunters.

“That’s the building the index went to first. The entrance is there.”

The two rankers left the house calmly.

On the way out.

There were countless corpses strewn across the lawn.

Their eyes were as red as the man the enemy had killed just a moment ago.