episode_0199
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“Ugh… ”
Devin slowly came to his senses from the intense pain he felt throughout his body. The pain that makes you moan spontaneously. It was as if I had been hit by a truck, and there was no area that didn’t hurt.
And the smell from your nose is so terrible. The smell of sewage, the urine of drunkards, and the smell of marijuana as if burning musty weeds pierced my nose.
Just like Devin, the smell he always smelled when he was in the gang…
“Hey, are you awake?”
“… … !”
At the sound of a voice, Devin’s head, which had been lying on the floor, lifted up. Then, with difficulty, I lifted my eyelids, which were difficult to open, and looked for the owner of the voice.
It wasn’t difficult to find. He was crouching down and looking down at Devin.
If there was a problem, it was on the other side. The man was wearing a tank top that exposed his arms, allowing Devin to see his tattooed shoulders.
It was a tattoo of the same gang he betrayed and ran away from.
“Heo Eok… !”
“I almost didn’t recognize him because his face changed slightly, but it was still true. He’s wanted as a traitor to our gang.”
The man smiled darkly, as if he had guessed Devin’s reaction.
‘What the hell is this…? ?Surely I wasn’t subdued by that bastard…? !’
Devin had no way of knowing what had happened. His last memory was of Minho holding him by the neck and telling him everything about the bomb he had planted in the school.
Devin learns that Minho, who enjoyed the homecoming party, decided to rob a gang in Oakland, right next to San Francisco, to supply weapons before returning to Korea, and that in the process, he threw away his belongings that he had packed in a large bag. There was no way I could have known.
Minho even handled the bag containing Devin so roughly that he didn’t even expect him to survive. In the process of robbing gangsters, it was used as a shield or a throwing object when necessary.
They intentionally abandoned Devin because it didn’t matter whether he died from his injuries or was lucky enough to survive without the use of his limbs.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Devin survived. I didn’t know if he would actually welcome that fact.
“I don’t know if that monster and the traitor had any connection to why they left him here, but the loss our gang is suffering right now is incredible.”
“Um, over there… I think I must have mistaken the person… ”
Devin, who was bleeding from wounds all over his body and had broken limbs, smiled awkwardly. It was the best expression he could make despite the mind-boggling pain of his injury.
Of course, it didn’t even affect the man in front of him.
“It’s no use. The body search was completed while you were unconscious. It looks like the tattoo is covered with another tattoo, but if you look closely, it’s not noticeable.”
Wow…
“Ugh… !”
The man who was grabbing Devin’s hair put his face in his face and laughed.
“You would be a good toy for the survivors. Let’s have some fun somewhere.”
“Ugh… Ugh… !”
***
‘My ears are a little itchy…’ ‘Who curses at me?’
I was lying on the bed, rolling around, digging my ear with my little finger and tilting my head.
Where I am now is Korea.
After the homecoming party, I stayed at Olivia’s house for a few more days and returned to Korea the day the channel was suspended.
Olivia’s eyes were filled with tears as she saw her off, but she couldn’t live in America forever. The schedule was already longer than planned, so I couldn’t be lazy anymore.
‘Let’s see what I got this time… ‘
It was a hassle to carry individual items, so I didn’t even take them with me except for what I had in my hand. This is because they swept up all the boxed automatic rifles, pistols, and ammunition that had been piled up in the warehouse.
I think I killed about five gangs, and at this rate, I felt like I could form my own small army while traveling.
Even bombs were available, although not in large quantities.
‘The bomb reminds me of Devin. Is he alive or dead?’
I felt better thanks to being able to supply more weapons than I expected, so I just threw them away… I didn’t really know any secrets that I had to hide, so it didn’t matter what happened. In any case, his injuries would either kill him or leave him crippled for life. Since he wasn’t that important, I decided to just erase it from my mind.
‘Anyway, now I want to fight with things a little different than people.’
I guess I need to let go of some steam. I felt the need to deal with non-human types of enemies. Perhaps due to the effect of the title, there was no mental shock, but it was still true that I was a bit tired.
‘First of all, the most common genre in which non-human enemies appear is fantasy.’
Fantasy abounds with non-human hostile forces such as monsters called monsters, demons, and other races. Because it can be said to be a major genre, there are plenty of works to choose from to suit your taste.
In that case, you can find a suitable work right away and get into it.
But after thinking for a moment, I shook my head.
‘… What I need right now is something else.’
It was something I felt during the last stalker incident, but something became even more clear during this trip to the United States.
If I continued like this, it wouldn’t be long before it became known to the world that I had supernatural powers.
Even today, the streets are full of cameras, including CCTV and smartphones. But in addition, there are secret societies like Black Foot. Perhaps, or certainly, there is a secret society operating not only in the United States but also here in Korea.
‘In the end, in order to feel freedom of movement in real life, you have to get souvenirs or items related to computers or electronic equipment.’
In movies with a dark atmosphere that sometimes appear, I felt like I could understand just a little bit why people with superpowers believe in their powers and run wild. I’m relieved of that desire while traveling, so I’m hiding it and not suddenly exploding from stress, but they may have been so frustrated that they went berserk.
And anything related to computers or electronic equipment includes lie detectors and imaging equipment.
It is not possible to extract information by torturing an enemy every time you encounter one. In fact, torture has the advantage of being able to be performed at any time without any special tools, but it also has many disadvantages. It was noisy, time-consuming, and had the potential to be bothersome in many ways if the scene of torturing someone else was caught. I’m used to it now, but the problem was that the feeling of crushing and breaking a person’s body was not very pleasant.
And the filming equipment…
‘Is it because it’s annoying? I’ve been out a lot these days, but it’s cumbersome to hold my smartphone in one hand every time. The chest mount isn’t very comfortable to wear and doesn’t look good… ‘
In summary, in order to act more freely in reality, you need a way to hide yourself from various electronic devices, including CCTV, and be safe.
In the process, it would be even better if you could get something with various convenient functions, and if possible, you wouldn’t want anything more if it was something that could avoid stopping the channel.
Anyway, I can say that once I was stopped, I felt a bit of a sense of crisis. There was no guarantee that something similar would not happen next time.
It was a given that I would receive cumulative warnings for no reason, which would reduce my exposure and ruin my channel.
‘where… ‘Isn’t there a suitable work?’
Looking at the conditions for souvenirs and items needed, it seemed like I needed to look into the science fiction genre.
While I was surfing the Internet and looking for travel destination candidates, there was a work that caught my eye.
“New Kind?”
It was a title I had never heard of before, and it seemed to be a newly released movie from a famous OTT service. The evaluations of those who watched it in person were not bad.
After quickly skimming through the plot summary, I couldn’t help but be impressed. This was exactly the travel destination I needed right now. Not only did it satisfy all of the above conditions, but since it was a movie, it didn’t seem like it would take up that much time.
The setting of New Kind is a world where artificial intelligence androids have become common. It’s not science fiction that travels across the universe, but looking at the plot and still cuts from the movie, it seemed like I could get what I wanted.
‘But since the background is the background, it will be difficult to use this ability.’
Because it’s science fiction, physical abilities can somehow be overcome, but if you’re caught using your supernatural abilities in a place where technology has advanced dramatically compared to modern times, there’s no way to know how the situation will unfold.
After thinking about a method for a while, I decided to use a feature that was unlocked a long time ago but had never been used before.
Just the baggage function. This is a function that was unlocked when you reached the end of the story of Aka, the Fallen Kingdom.
‘The Fallen Kingdom has not disappeared from the list of travel destinations, so I have to go back there… ‘
While thinking this to myself, I took a closer look at the baggage functions.
Basically, souvenirs registered in baggage seemed to be deactivated at that travel destination. However, it does not disappear completely, and it appears that conditions can be set to activate it again.
In cases where it would be difficult to carry a specific souvenir, for example, I thought it would be used to prevent one’s identity from being fixed as a demon while traveling to a different martial arts world after learning the Heavenly Demon Godkong.
After completing all preparations, I focused my mind to enter the destination.
‘I need to finish this trip in one go.’
Because the ending I wanted was decided.
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