episode_0450

I walked all day.

The strangely quiet southern forest is no longer any different from the mountain next to the neighborhood.

But if you concentrate, you can feel its heavy breathing.

That guy was really far away.

And, he was doing something ridiculous.

“···He died?”

“Trying to look dead.”

The figure of the man, who had excreted feces and urine and had dirt smeared all over his body, looked like a corpse that had been hit and buried by a shell while rolling on a battlefield somewhere.

“We contacted Grootsrang. So, they are trying to catch us by pretending to be dead.”

“But, you’re being eaten.”

“You can endure that. The leather is tough and thick to begin with, so even if you bite it, it will only leave a scratch, similar to a slight fall.”

Since I was reading emotions, it was just a sound I was spitting out, but the guy looked really dead.

Isabel wasn’t strange.

From sea water and packs of wolves to eagles and insects.

The scavengers were all gathered together and staring at each other.

“Your location may have already been discovered, but you have to take a big detour. His ears are better than yours.”

According to the enforcement officers’ hunting records, they confirmed that up to 8 Lubits had communicated with other Grootsrangs.

It is said that Grootsrang, which was 4km away, came to see the cub’s cry.

How long did I walk ignoring him?

Hahaha!!! Kkeggang!!! Wow!!!

Isabel’s face turned pale as she heard the screams of the scavengers dying.

“That’s Hae-soo with personality.”

“I thought he was definitely dead…!”

“It was learned through numerous predations. When an animal dies, it poops and urinates. The dead animal ends up covered in a heap of dirt after struggling so hard. Isn’t it amazing?”

“It’s not surprising at all! Isn’t it terrible?!”

is it?

I’m amazed.

How far forward did we go?

You can see a beautiful split tree as if blocking the path of an animal.

It’s a Kara tree.

It is quite hard and tough, so it is also used as a wood for furniture.

There was no way a tree like this would have broken from the waist down even though there was no typhoon…

Pap-duk-

Crushed tree sawdust is stepped on.

The ugly gnawing marks on the base showed that the culprit who did this was Grootsrang.

He wasn’t just pretending to be dead, he was assuming we would go here in the first place.

The corner of his mouth rose.

“···A cautious bastard.”

This isn’t something you can avoid.

It’s just a way to make sure that no traces or smells are left behind when crossing over.

The resin of the Kara tree is also used as a signal among executioners.

To be precise, the problem is the secretion that bacteria living on hands eat after eating the resin of the Kala tree.

I started to get scared because it felt like I was being hunted.

If you leave a trace, they will definitely attack you tonight or tomorrow night.

“If you touch the tree───”

“Come on over.”

Isabel was climbing up a tree, reaching out to Anne from above.

* * * * * *

I didn’t even feel like pointing it out.

Humans have an embryonic sense of smell, so it’s obvious that even if we tried, we wouldn’t be able to understand it. It wasn’t intentional in the first place, and people learn by making mistakes.

‘This is my negligence.’

From the moment we faced danger, we had to set rules.

For example, you shouldn’t get ahead of me. You shouldn’t touch something.

This was something that had to be corrected by someone who knew.

“How do you feel? Don’t you feel like you’ve been left out now?”

“No. He’s following us closely.”

Isabelle and Anne look at me in confusion.

“···Yes?”

Well, who would say that your hands smell like resin?

“How is that possible?”

Your hands are a garbage dump.

It is a place where we come into contact with dozens or hundreds of things, including fingernails, boasting more germs than a toilet, and sweat a lot.

Isabelle, who didn’t even know that, ended up leaving a trace by reaching for a tree again.

“Don’t touch anything, don’t get ahead of me.”

“Why?”

“The reason it chases us is because of the smell coming from your palms.”

Isabelle and Anne look sideways at me.

“···Yes?”

“Just know that for now.”

Groots and I are chasing after us with a passion for someone his age.

It’s already been two days since I couldn’t sleep.

Thanks to this, Isabelle and Anne’s thinking skills are regressing.

Thinking becomes tiresome and short.

If you take away intelligence, humans have nothing left, and drowsiness is their worst enemy.

“···Aren’t you sleepy?”

“You call that a horse?”

“I can kill you.”

Isabelle looked at me as if she was shocked.

He’s been bragging all this time about how scary he is, and now he wants to kill him.

“From what I remember, there is a small pond in the front area. Because the soil is wet and there are low or no trees, it is also advantageous for visibility.”

“Didn’t you tell me to run away?”

“But there is no place to rest from now on.”

That small wetland is the end.

Grootslang’s body is hot thanks to his unique weight in tons.

Thanks to this, I really enjoy stepping into wetlands.

If we rest there, it will chase us with such rashness that it’s almost rash.

“What are you going to do?”

“Is there anything special?”

“Okay. Let’s find a suitable shelter.”

I don’t have a bow, but I have an air rifle.

Of course, it’s not powerful enough to pierce its thick hide, but it’s perfect for targeting the testicles and eyeballs, which are the male’s unique weak points.

Groots’ testicles are the size of a human head.

The wetlands were quite large. After finding a suitable place, he made a hiding place there and cleaned his body with water flowing from his body.

“···I can’t imagine what I would have done without this.”

If that were the case, you would have had to purify wetland water using the clothes you were wearing and drink it.

I must have felt very dirty.

Isabel takes off her clothes, gets excited, and pours cold water on her body without hesitation.

‘It’s pleasing to the eye.’

I glanced at it as if I was not seeing it.

“It’s weak point is its nose.”

“Koyo?”

“Yes. The blood vessels in the nose are condensed, so if you get stabbed properly, blood will come out like a fountain. Please know───”

Ujijik!!!

···This is Grutz.

It’s been wandering around in the forest, destroying trees, but hasn’t shown itself yet.

“···Are you here?”

“We are moving to block our retreat.”

There is no need to do that since you have decided to kill.

Armed with a halberd and a sawed-off air rifle loaded with heavy lead bullets, I headed toward the source of the sound.

‘Let’s blow the snow out.’

Even if only one eye is blown, the sense of distance is lost.

Soon, it appeared from the jungle.

…The guy was holding a tree with his muscular nose and blocking his eyes.

“······!”

‘You learned about the crossbow.’

I vaguely thought that no one knew about air rifles.

Actually, it was true that I didn’t know.

So anyone who faces this gun must die.

Just like me, he assumed that because I was a demigod, I could fire a heavy crossbow.

The glimpse of its threatening ivory and sharp fangs seemed to signal death at the moment of bite.

Now there is no point in shooting.

Please receive “. He’s definitely going to throw that tree. Even if you don’t throw it, you’ll swing it. If you get hit and fall, it will pull you in with its snake-like nose and chew you with its fangs.”

He offered his Precious Blood to Isabel and Anna.

Their bodies stiffen.

When the Precious Blood is handed to me, I accept it with slightly trembling hands.

“Put it in your cheek. Even if you puncture your stomach and break your spine, you just don’t have to get your head chewed off. Since there are two opponents, I won’t eat it. They’ll hurt you enough and throw you right away, and I’ll make it happen.”

The guy was very gentlemanly.

This was because they were not expressing hostility towards me.

That means if I step away, it won’t attack me.

“Be careful. He’s more interested in you than me.”

Groots’ gaze was directed towards Isabelle.

This is because Isabel is the owner of the smell imprinted on him.

And Isabel can never avoid that guy’s attacks.

“Well, just into the wetlands…”

“The inside is like a dark ocean.”

To my eyes, I can see a few water mantises with only their eyes sticking out in the wetlands in response to the vibration.

They were extremely wary of Groots and us.

“Hey, how about calling a dragon?”

“Groots can be seriously injured even if he is not a semi-elderly dragon that is over 500 years old. There is no way I can help you. I will aim for the rear.”

Isabel trembles.

It has to be that way.

Groots was the size of an elephant… no different from a bear.

What about the colorful ears that look like outstretched bloody mosquitoes and the nose with teeth dripping yellow poison?

The nails on the long fingers for climbing trees are already comparable to long swords in length alone.

The warning sound alone causes humans to freeze in fear at the cellular level.

That was the southern seawater that could cause the extinction of Ajin.

“Please be aware. Being hit by a front paw is more dangerous than being chewed. Your body will explode.”

I jumped ahead quickly.

Groots’ head isn’t even pointed at me.

‘You mean to do that?’

I walk straight towards its face, and only then does it look at me.

“Poetry, sihyeon?!”

“You must not turn your back on the river. Move immediately to a place where you can retreat sufficiently.”

I couldn’t make a loud noise.

If they respond to my shout and throw that tree, that will be the end of it.

The guy–his nose is heading towards the tip of the tree.

I plan on swinging the tree like a baseball bat.

Kwa-ga-ga-ga-gak!!!

Soon the tree sweeps across the ground, wiping it out.

‘If you get hit, you’ll be taken in and torn apart!’

I quickly stepped back.

The wetland where the trees were swept away scatters mud over a wide area.

Even the water mantis was frightened by the sight and ran away into the marsh.

Sigh!

But only one attacks Grootsrang.

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Isabel was frightened and took a step back when she saw a huge crustacean sticking out of the marsh.

It was a tree that the water mantis attacked with its spear-like paw.

It was the judgment of a mere crab.

I also ran towards him.

In the meantime, Grootslang’s paw hits the mantis’ head.

Byak───!

With that single blow, the chitinous carapace of the mantid was shattered.

He looked at me too late, but the gun was already aimed at his eyes.

Bang───!

Meeek───?!

Its eyeball exploded and vitreous splattered into my face.

The panicked guy violently shakes the beautiful tree.

I had to avoid him by rolling through the mud in the direction he was swinging the tree.

When I took the fall and stood up, his eyes were no longer on me.

His eyes were nailed to his wife’s enemy, Isabel.

“Run!”

“Yes, yes?!”

As Isabel runs away, he turns his head towards me and gives me a cold look.

It’s a warning look telling you not to attack if you don’t want to die.

When I look into its eyes, it turns away from me.

I guess I understand the warning.

It was the leisure of a strong man.

But I had no time to spare, and to my mean eyes, all I could see were two testicles the size of a human head.

‘sorry.’

I think your death will be painful.

I aimed the air rifle, stepped forward, and aimed the gun at the guy’s testicles.

Taaaang───!

─The guy’s testicles exploded.

Startled by the sudden noise, he flinched and looked at me, and then he started trembling and limping.

Uuuu!

Grootsrang, sick of indescribable pain, is drooling saliva and venom.

Thin blood mixed with tears flows from the burst eyes.

It showed its vicious teeth as if a wolf was warning.

He throws the tree he caught with his nose!

‘You can’t avoid this!’

Sigh!!!!

“Ugh!”

The world turns!!!

In an instant, Groots and Isabel become distant…

Wood-dud-dud-deuk!!!

The world started spinning.

I hit my head on the ground, got crushed by something, and eventually stopped.

“···Khaaagh—?!”

I don’t even know where I got hurt.

I couldn’t even breathe, as if a fist had been stuck in my solar plexus.

I hurriedly examined my body.

The body was tangled in a tree, as if it had been sucked into the wheels of a car in a car accident.

‘All my bones are broken!’

As soon as I recognized it, pain started rising throughout my body.

As I chew the Precious Blood, the pain begins to subside little by little.

‘One is not enough.’

I also chewed what I put in my other molar.

Just as a doctor adjusts a bone, the bone that has been torn through the flesh begins to adjust to an unknown force.

When I cleared away the tree and stood up.

The guy was carrying Isabelle with her shaky legs.

Wedge! Sigh!

“Aaaagh───?!”

Isabelle was good at controlling her distance.

Until I first caught sight of its nose, which shot out like a poisonous snake.

“What the fuck?!”

I picked up the halberd and rushed towards Grootslang.

‘We have to distract him!’

But how?!

Dantalian’s power exploded.

He looked at me sensitively, but then ‘laughed’ like the devil.

Then he grabs Isabelle with his nose and lifts her up!

‘Just put it in your mouth and chew it and that’s it!’

It’s obvious that if you shake it, the upper and lower bodies will separate!

Anne was frightened and trembling.

“Please help me!!! Save me──!!!!”

“야이 개새끼야───?!!”

He glanced at me, and then he put Isabelle in his mouth───

Kkwadeuk!!!!

I chewed it and shook it.

Clap!

In an instant, Isabel’s upper and lower body were torn apart, and the lower body fell in front of me.

He’s smiling at me.

As if spitting, he spat out Isabelle’s body from his mouth.

“Kyaaak?!! Isabelle?!!!”

Anne panicked and rushed toward Isabelle’s torn torso.

What is the meaning of this action?

…He is passing on the pain he felt to me.

“······?!!”

He approaches me like a bear prowling.

You want me to run away, right?

If I run away and watch from afar, they plan to trample Isabelle’s body and blow it up.

yes?

But not me. I never run away.

As we move forward, the guy approaches.

The nose is ready to sting like a poisonous snake.

He raised the halberd above his head and prepared to cut it down.

I’m not angry.

This situation makes sense in an instant, and the sense of peace created after a long struggle invades my mind.

Basically a nose with four fangs at the top and bottom.

Structurally, the best places to get bitten are the head or shoulders.

Before Isabelle died, she was bitten on the shoulder.

I’m going to do the same thing on the shoulder.

When I look straight into its eyes, I can feel its thoughts.

‘okay. ‘The burst kernels hurt a lot.’

You too are dying now.

no. You came to die? okay. I’ll take it from you.

I can feel its will to attack me.

0.2 seconds until the brain nerves send a command to the body. Or 0.3 seconds.

Even if he shoots out his nose, I have the advantage.

send! Shoot your viper-like nose at me! I feel like I’m getting angry at him.

come!

As soon as the halberd is struck down, its poisonous snake-like nose shoots out.

Suddenly!!!!

Meeek───?!!! Meeek────!!!

A man with his nose torn in two screams.

When I pull out my halberd, it quickly retrieves its nose.

I raised the halberd again, prepared to strike, and glared at the guy.

Groots with half his nose steps back.

“···Don’t go.”

Groots freezes and glares at me.

Why? It seemed like he could understand what I was saying.

“You came here to die. Don’t run away.”

“If you keep going, you will die from excessive bleeding.”

“If you’re going to die, die like a man. Your companion is waiting in the afterlife, right?”

Blood was pouring from his nose as if his throat had been slit.

“If you turn around, I will find your independent bastards and kill them all.”

The guy’s steps suddenly stopped.

There is power in your eyes.

“Okay. That’s it.”

···The guy is grinning.

It appears that Groots was a very emotional animal.

I aimed my halberd at him.

“I will send you to your companion.”