episode_0079

Wow.

“Kkueeek”

A fist lands on the infected person’s solar plexus, and the infected person screams and falls unconscious.

After being hit in the solar plexus, he let out a sound like a pig being ripped off, folded his body like a feature phone, and fell to the floor and rolled around.

The infected people that Sejun and his group met as they reached the area where the sound came from were quite aggressive.

However, that is just simple aggression. Its durability was the same as that of an ordinary person, and it was completely destroyed by a single punch filled with magical power.

Whiik, puk!

Tania swings her sword with its sheath and kills people.

Every time she swung her sword, a very dull sound was heard and the infected people fell and rolled around her, screaming.

Occasionally, I would hear a rather scary sound of something breaking, but I didn’t have time to pay attention to that right now.

“I’m a survivor, in the car over there!”

Finally, like a swarm of ants attacking their prey, most of the infected people who had covered the police car are rolling around on the ground. Through the cracked window of the police car, a person can be seen holding his head and suffering.

“Police? Is it the police?”

Sejun approaches the police car and observes through the window.

The man in the car, who appeared to be a police officer, was trembling as if he had not yet grasped the situation outside even though all the infected people around him had been neutralized.

“Hey.”

“Hi Iik”

“Oh, sorry─, no. We are here to save you.”

Sejun unconsciously tries to apologize but corrects himself. Hearing his voice, the man in the title inside the police car is startled and shrinks further for a moment, then suddenly raises his head and throws himself towards the window like a crazy person.

“Wow!”

This time, Sejun was shocked by the force, took a step back, pulled out the longsword on his waist, sighed, and put it back in, widening his eyes.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“People? person? How on earth are you?”

“Ah, we… .”

After that, Han Sejun’s story continues for a while. Whether or not he was listening to Sejun’s story, the man in the police uniform was trembling and his face suddenly changed color and his hands were shaking, as if he was feeling hot all over his body.

“Ah… So, first of all, you are not the infected ones, are you? Oh, now that I think about it, my head doesn’t hurt when I look at you! Hahaha.”

Sejun tilts his head when he sees the police officer looking somewhat distraught.

Sejun sighs and nods, saying that although something didn’t seem normal, it might be possible in the current situation.

Jang Ah-hyun approaches next to him.

“Hey. You’ve just heard about us, so now let’s talk about him. What happened? How did we get here?”

All Jang Ah-hyeon’s group learned about the Corruptor was what they learned in the Magic Science class. Because it was simply learned through writing, proper practical information was severely lacking.

From what they learned, if you look at the Corruptor’s host, that person will also turn into the host.

However, this person did not become a host even though he was surrounded by numerous infected people. Although his mind seems a little strange, he is a living proof of survival.

There is bound to be a way, and if we know that way, we may be able to save countless people who have not yet become hosts.

But the words that came out of his mouth were a negative response.

“Ah, ahhh. No, I can’t say it.”

“Yes? I can’t say it. Are you saying you won’t cooperate?”

“Hey man. I’m sorry, but please tell me a story. I know it’s a difficult story to recall, but if you listen to the man’s story, there might be a solution.”

Jang A-hyeon and Muriel urge him to cooperate, but the man in the police uniform is reluctant to talk, perhaps because he has been greatly traumatized.

“… Okay, if you don’t want to say it.”

“Ma, it’s not that I don’t want to talk.”

“… Is there any other reason?”

“Yes, there is a big reason I can’t tell you.”

The policeman continues talking, gasping for breath.

“Even if you want to say it, you can’t. To be precise, you shouldn’t even think about it. Right now, my head is still pounding. I am forcing my thoughts away from them now.”

“What does that mean? Can’t think?”

Jang Ah-hyeon looks at him with a puzzled expression after hearing the unknown words.

Instead of immediately answering her voice, the man in the police uniform took out a crumpled police notebook that he had kept in his pocket and held it out in front of her.

“Well, I am at my limit. I can’t hold on any longer. The more I try to think about it, the more something creeps into my mind. Please read this. I wrote down what I knew while I was in Earth University.”

“Ah. Thank you.”

“Ha. ha. no. From the looks of it, they seem to have special abilities. I was saved. Thank you so much.”

Jang A-hyeon nods her head to express her gratitude and lowers her eyes on his notebook. I flipped through a notebook with a character drawn on it that seemed a bit cute to be considered a male police notebook.

“… ?”

Jang Ah-hyun clicked her tongue when she saw what was in her hand. For now, Se-jun stayed silent behind her, but he gradually became curious about the contents and began to fidget. As if aware of his actions, Jang A-hyeon turned the notebook back.

Muriel received the notebook, opened it wide, and shared its contents.

[Damn it. Fuck. [This kind of thing]

[It’s okay to roughly understand the situation. The current situation is very up and down.]

“… .”

“What is this? Is this the right handwriting? It can’t be translated. What ciphertext is this? The only thing I can make out is the words Lee Hyuk-soo on the cover.”

Muriel, who opened the notebook, cast a questioning look at the police officer, and Han Se-jun sighed a little when he saw that.

His handwriting must have been so serious that his handwriting was full of typos. This translation badge, an artifact of Northmund, can translate even awkward typos and slang.

However, the fact that it was difficult to translate even with that badge meant that it was an earthworm script that could hardly be considered a letter.

“Uh, so to sum it up… .”

The notebook of a police officer named Lee Hyuk-su was full of various typos and cryptic sentences, but Sejun, who was Korean, was able to understand the contents anyway and was able to share them with his team members.

To summarize, it was like this.

[This disease is spread by conception.]

[This disease occurs as soon as you identify the other person or realize the situation. Resistance is possible with willpower, but when it actually occurs, there is probably no one who can resist it.]

[Therefore, to avoid this disease, you just have to avoid forcing yourself to understand the situation. I kept singing my favorite singer’s song in my head, and it worked quite well.]

[After being infected, they become zombies and have the same physical abilities as existing humans. In addition, his intelligence appeared to have degenerated, as if he did not even know how to open the door.]

“If it spreads through understanding. It won’t spread to young babies like newborns, right? Babies won’t be able to determine exactly what’s going on.”

Choi Byeong-gi, who had gone out for reconnaissance, came down from the air to the ground and added a word. His voice was as usual, but his face seemed dark and a little hesitant.

“I guess that’s right. By the way, is Choi Byeong-gi okay? Where did you get hit? I don’t look good.”

“Ah, haha, I guess I can’t compete with my senior. The moment I took to the air for reconnaissance, hundreds of eyes were focused on me, and for a moment I thought my mind was flying. Oh and… uh… What were you trying to say?”

He raised his nails and scratched his head. There was something he wanted to say, but it seemed like it was difficult to say because it was all tangled up in a sudden incident.

The more I tried to speak, the more my mind went blank, and all I could do was scratch my head.

“Now that I think about it, it seems like Jun’s idiot mentor junior is right.”

“Huh?”

“That’s right. Didn’t you feel it? It feels like my magic is slowly draining away when I’m looked at by the infected. It’s not like I’m being cut down as much as when I entered the dark fog.”

“Oh, now that I think about it, I think what Mr. Muriel said is correct.”

Yue agrees with Muriel’s words. When I thought about it, it seemed like that. It was so slight that it was hard to believe, but after listening to her and thinking about it, I definitely had that feeling.

In the case of the weapon guy, it was probably because he was floating in the air and receiving the attention of the entire city.

“Then it’s not that awakened people are immune. Our magic power itself acts as a firewall for this memetwork.”

Tania opened her mouth with a dark expression as she looked at Yue, who was concentrating her magical power while holding the police officer’s shaking head.

Seeing the light coming from the hand wrapped around his temple, it seemed like he was probably using a supernatural ability.

Now that I think about it, I learned in class that a person with mental abilities can neutralize the Corruptor’s abilities. So, can this Himecut girl also alleviate the policeman’s symptoms?

The girl, who had concentrated her powers for a moment, weakly shook her head and opened her lips.

“I failed to completely purify it due to my lack of ability. But it seems like you have regained some stability.”

That’s what she said, but was her supernatural ability really effective? The police officer, whose whole body was shaking, was now quietly lying down on the car seat and falling asleep comfortably.

“Okay, first we have to save more survivors.”

Jang Ah-hyeon muttered as she watched Se-jun and Choi Byeong-gi tie the unconscious infected people with the large cable ties they had brought.

The primary goal is to rescue survivors and isolate the infected.

From a little distance away, Sejun can be seen carrying several unconscious infected people on his back and throwing them into a store building with the door open.

Soon, the curtains are drawn so that no one can see each other outside or inside.

‘Even though Sejun has a foolish side, he’s still smart sometimes.’

Jang Ah-hyeon looked at that and nodded. It was probably something I came up with on the spur of the moment based on the contents of the notebook.

Infected people have difficulty opening doors. And they block them from seeing each other, both inside and outside.

It wasn’t a bad choice for an impromptu quarantine.

“Phew. I did it this way, but honestly, wouldn’t it be a bit difficult to make the entire city like this?”

Sejun shook his hands and opened his mouth.

It is said that this entire city is in a state of collapse. We will save as many survivors as possible, but it is impossible to isolate all infected people.

“First, only people who leave the city and are at risk of infection are quarantined. Even though they look like this, they are still alive and there is a chance that things will go back to the way they were.”

“Okay then. Still, it may not be just one or two people.”

“I will pass on the information I have found out to everyone.”

Jang A-hyeon says that and presses the call button on her cell phone.

Number 001. The number registered at the very top goes to that person.

*

Jeee!

With the sound of a smartphone vibrating, someone shakes their head. A sound of falling was heard.

The sound of the fall was not a scream, a groan, or a sound of surprise.

Just shake it without making a sound. And a middle-aged man fell to the ground.

I silenced one infected person and took my phone out of my pocket.

I haven’t seen the screen, but I know who it is. This vibration pattern right now is a communication from Jang A-hyeon.

So I immediately pressed the call button and put the cell phone to my ear.

“… Right. Good job. That’s good information.”

Because I was busy, the call couldn’t last long, but I think I probably had a smile on my face after the call ended.

Right. There was a way to block the Corruptor’s abilities.

I also teach grandiosely about monsterology, but the source of that information is the content of the lecture that Han Si-woo took in the original world.

Therefore, even though I was a professor and all, it was true that it was difficult to know exactly what was not covered in the lecture.

In the original world’s lecture on demonology, it was known that the Corruptor was simply a visual host.

But in reality, the ferocity of that monster was unrivaled. He was a person who spread a disease that spread not through visuality but through concepts and understanding.

In the original, it is a high-level monster, but depending on its level of danger, it may reach the highest level.

‘But I said the main body was very weak.’

Yes. Therefore, I believe this is the last place Rania White stopped by. I was in Romania.

“Professor… .”

With Yun Sia, the girl with the dragon horn hair.

Her voice calling me sounded a little anxious. Maybe you’re worried about the person on the other end of the phone.

Still, his condition improved significantly after receiving psychiatric treatment. If it was before, who would it be? He must have been growling and shaking alone.

First of all, now is the time to lend a cat a hand. Even though Yoon Shia is suspended from school, we can’t just leave someone with special abilities in the dormitory in this situation.

“Has there been any communication from the organization?”

“Ah, yes. Not yet. It is said that the most recent one, Rania White, probably went to the eastern part of Romania.”

“I see.”

She answers with wide eyes.

However, his eyes are wide open, but he does not appear to be flustered or embarrassed like before.

She is simply fiddling with the small tablet she received from Helen, snapping her fingers as if turning a page or two, and checking communications from GDO.

“It must be quite difficult for the organization as well. Most of the field staff evaporated in an instant.”

In addition, half of Bucharest’s population was infected. That’s why I, who came to find the main body of the Corruptor, was stranded in Bucharest, the capital.

Although it is urgent, there is nothing that can be done right away unless the location where the Corruptor’s main body is expected to be is identified. It was best to help the locals at the scene of the mess.

Hwii ik—!

As my fist cuts through the wind, another infected person faints and falls without even being able to scream.

When I snap my fingers, the air, which has become less dense according to my will, squeezes the lungs of the infected people like a tide, causing them to lose consciousness from breathing difficulties.

“Sia Yoon. Then, convey the information you obtained to the organization. This strange disease is spread conceptually, so be sure to follow precautions. Let this be known to the whole world.”

“Yes, Professor.”

Even if you know the quarantine rules, can you actually follow them? When I gave the command while swallowing the words in my throat, she nodded with a determined expression.

Yoon Sia tapping the tablet with her fingers. Maybe it’s sending a message.

I sighed heavily and looked back at the city. The streets were empty and lonely, and the cries of the infected could still be heard in the distance.

Still, I was glad that there were no more people saying they wanted to take pictures of me. Perhaps this incident was deeply and darkly embedded in their minds.

As I was thinking about that, I heard her flushed voice coming from behind me.

“Huh? School, professor!”

When I turned around in confusion at the sudden sound of surprise, she hesitated for a moment and turned the tablet she was holding towards me.

What is written there.

“The location of Paul Holland, Rania White’s colleague, has been identified!”

she shouted loudly.