Episode 196. [ New York (2)]
Kyung-hoon could not participate in the journey from Washington to New York.
Only Isabelle and Shane Bailey moved from Baltimore to Philadelphia to the outskirts of New York.
The group went back the route Isabelle had taken after leaving New York.
It was a very difficult and painful road for her to come to Washington. But just because Shane and Bayley were together, the same path wasn’t as difficult.
But when she arrived in front of New York, fear rose again.
Numerous monsters and the lord of the Ratmen who rule the city.
Even she didn’t know how she had survived this long time in this city.
Isabelle looked to the side with a nervous face.
Shane was looking ahead with Bailey on his shoulder.
Bailey stuck out her tongue when she saw Isabelle.
Hehe hehe
, Bailey was a precious friend who had not changed even though a long time had passed.
And a strange robot man who imitates a cowboy. He still had his cowboy hat on his head.
However, other than my father and mother, he was a better uncle and teacher than any other adult I saw when I was young.
I learned so much from him in a short period of time.
Weeeeeee.
Did you say drone? A flying robot came next to me and spoke to me.
[Are you okay?]
It was Eve’s voice.
They said it was a robot similar to Shane, but she had a hard time understanding what that meant.
It seemed to Isabel that Eve was speaking into a microphone from afar.
Fortunately, seeing Bayley and Shane calmed my nerves.
“yes. are you okay.”
She nodded and glanced past Shane.
There was still a rather scary man standing there.
He was a living human being and an awakened person whom I had not met in a long time. But since I didn’t see him often, I was still a little unfamiliar and scared.
Every time, that man disappeared and came back, saying he had business to do in another world.
It was a pity that I couldn’t see him often, but he was like Santa Claus, bringing loads of great things every time he came back.
This time, I brought a wonderful gift.
Isabel smiled as she stroked a submachine gun with a silencer.
The muzzle was short and small in size to make it easier for her to use. Moreover, because it had mana stones embedded in it, most monsters could be killed with just this gun.
Of course, I will use more windows, but I really liked this gift.
[Everyone is really like this, so I don’t know how to give them proper education.]
Eve sighed.
[He was so intelligent that he absorbed it right away, but all they taught him was how to kill monsters…]
It was clear that even if he did end up in the other world, he would have a lot of trouble.
However, Eve did not have time to teach separately. It was because I had to move with Kyung-hoon.
So Eve handed her a tablet and a huge portable hard drive.
[Are you looking at the tablet I gave you?]
“Yes. “I watch it with Shane once before I go to bed.”
[With Shane?]
Eve asked in a curious voice.
The mobile hard drive contains various basic knowledge, educational videos for children, and dramas, movies, and cartoons that may be of interest to the other world.
Shane seemed to be a better teacher than I expected.
“Yes, I really liked it because there were a lot of western movies I hadn’t seen before. “I watched a lot of movies every night.”
[…..You stupid robot!]
Beep!
Suddenly, Shane grabbed the antenna and panicked.
Bailey jumped off the robot’s shoulder and approached her.
bruise! bruise!
Isabel picked up the puppy. The fur was fluffy.
They were all fun and nice people.
If I was with them, New York wasn’t scary.
*
-Isabel’s expression has improved again.
“great job.”
-Thanks to the stupid cowboy.
Kyunghoon smiled slightly.
To be honest, this trip to New York was a burden for Isabel.
It was about revisiting a city I had left, and it could also be about reminiscing about memories from long ago.
However, since she said she would do it herself, Kyung-hoon was planning to move with her even if it was risky.
Although she was still young, she was not someone who needed protection. He was the lone survivor in this world and a comrade who needed to grow.
“Shall we go?”
“Yes!”
Isabel responded with a firm voice to Kyung-hoon’s words.
Shane, who was fiddling with the antenna, also glanced back at Isabel.
The group entered New York City.
New York was a big city.
The five boroughs, including Manhattan, were very large. Although it was large, the New York metropolitan area, including the surrounding areas, was similar in size and population to the metropolitan area of Korea. Although the population
no longer existed…
the group moved cautiously.
Drones flew silently, monitoring all directions, and the group Everyone put on cloaks and moved to find a place without monsters. When
the drone’s surveillance, Kyung-hoon’s mana detection, and Bailey’s senses came together, a great synergy effect emerged. There was
no way to avoid being spotted by monsters while traveling from the outskirts of New York to the Hudson River. There was.
The group arrived at the riverside and hid on an old yacht parked on the riverside.
Isabelle looked across the river at the Manhattan skyscrapers with startled eyes.
Because she had no idea that they would get this far without fighting a single monster.
“Survivors’ Basement .” “You mean the city was over there in Manhattan?”
Isabel nodded in response to Kyung-hoon’s question.
– Building an underground city by linking the subway with parking lots in the basements of large buildings seemed like a pretty good idea. Unlike
other cities, the Manhattan fortress city was not located on the ground.
The monsters’ attention. The reason was that it would attract. The idea was that it would survive until the end even after all the cities in the United States were destroyed in the enemy attack. ‘But in the end, it was destroyed.’
I couldn’t say those words out loud.
Isabel was tapping her ears with a curious look on her face. Eve’s voice coming through the wireless earphones was amazing.
Kyung-hoon checked Isabelle one last time. Her face was stiff, but she didn’t look scared.
” Now all that remains is the problem of crossing this river…”
Splat!
As expected, the Hudson River was no different from the Han River.
A huge monster fish was passing by. It looked a bit different from what I had seen in the Han River.
“It’s impossible to sneak by, right?”
“If it’s similar to the one in the Nakdong River, it will check if something passes by on the water.”
Kyung-hoon looked embarrassed at Shane’s answer,
“I think we can catch him… but it’s impossible to catch him quietly.”
Isabel blinked at the conversation between Shane and Kyunghoon. It was a conversation she couldn’t understand.
“Am I planning on crossing the river?”
“To get to Manhattan, you have to cross the river. Oh, that’s right. How did you cross the river? Isn’t the river too long to cross?”
Isabelle looked at Kyung-hoon with an absurd expression. It was nonsense to say that they could cross the river with their special skills.
They really seemed to be planning to catch the monster in the river and cross the river.
“There is an underground road that crosses the river. That’s how it goes. “I passed by.”
The bunker she was in was outside Manhattan, and the group had already passed by that bunker. The
bunker had already been submerged in water and was useless. Isabel also had no regrets about the bunker she lived in.
While she was alone, she tried to avoid going into Manhattan as much as possible. But she had no choice but to go out to find food.
There were a lot of small animals she could catch in the Manhattan bunker.
“Are you locked out yet?”
-The Lincoln Tunnel was safe. There seems to be no need to do anything unnecessary.
The group headed straight to the entrance of the undersea tunnel.
Three tunnels were seen under the large playground. They were tunnels with two-lane roads connected to each other.
“The passage in the middle is “It’s old and flooded. Only the north and south passages are safe, but I usually go through the south passage.”
Isabelle said as she guided the group.
She wasn’t a girl of many words, but since she was going out, she said what she needed to say. There were many abandoned and
rusty cars in front of the tunnel, and the inside of the dark tunnel was greatly curved and headed toward the river. The
moss-covered tunnel was There were only abandoned traces, like rolling cars.
But Eve stopped the group
. -Wait a moment. Let’s check with the drone first.
Weeeeeee.
Black drones flew into the tunnel.
-We will deploy drones every 500 meters.
Communication connection . It was for the escape of the remaining drones in an emergency.
The black drones passed through the tunnel without a sound.
The drone’s infrared camera examined the inside of the tunnel.
The inside of the tunnel was no different from the outside. Cars were abandoned here and there, and the walls and cars were covered with moss. “There is
a place in the middle guarded by rat people. I just used my personality to avoid that place.”
Isabelle explained to her outside how she had been moving around.
Eve was able to find her quickly.
There were Ratmen gathered in the center of the undersea tunnel.
“There were always about two or three of them standing around the strange hole.”
“If it’s a hole, isn’t it a water-sucking earthworm monster?”
“A monster that sucks water?”
Gyeonghoon’s body trembled as he remembered the experience of crossing the Han River.
At that time, while passing through an undersea subway tunnel, Gyeonghoon was sucked into the mouth of an earthworm that absorbed water and spewed out through the buttocks. He
had no intention of repeating that experience.
Eve was also able to find the hole.
A small stream flowing at the bottom was being sucked into the wriggling hole.
There was also a reason why this tunnel was safe.
“Let’s catch the fish monster and cross the river.”
After hearing Eve’s words, Gyeong-hoon tried to head back to the river with a horrified look on his face.
-But it seems he was waiting for them.
The number of Ratmen gathered was too large.
There were over ten regular Ratmen and an elite class that was several times larger. Ratmen were surrounding the hole.
In addition, the elite-level Ratmen were raising huge hammers towards the hole. They
were ready to hit the hole as soon as someone gave a signal.
The monsters seemed to explode the hole when someone passed through the tunnel.
Eve said . Upon hearing this, Kyung-hoon had a bewildered expression on his face.
“What kind of suicide commando?”
In a movie I saw a long time ago, this underwater tunnel was submerged in water, and a bald actor escaped from the tunnel…
“No, wait a minute, why is that a trap?”
Kyung-hoon injected mana into the ring.
Sub-space opened up above his hand, and he took out items from inside. All
diving equipment, including buoyancy regulator, breathing apparatus, diving clothes, and hood, came pouring out.
From that day on, I never forgot to pack it away. “I should use it in times like this and when. Isabelle has something to use. Oh, Shane is waterproof, right?”
At Kyung-hoon’s words, the group looked at him blankly.
“Oh, Bailey is the problem. What do you want to do? Do you want to wear a breathing set and follow me? Do you want to fly across the river?”
What?
The dog tilted its head at Kyung-hoon’s words.
After a while, all the other drones came out of the tunnel and the lone drone silently attacked the monsters.
It was a drone equipped with a mana stone. And this drone was a drone that Eve modified after seeing Shane’s use of mana.
Mana explosives were mounted underneath the drone.
Keek?
All the monsters were startled by the suddenly rushing drone, but the drone passed them by and jumped into the hole.
And then a mana explosive exploded in the hole.
bang!
Binge crying,
kueeeeek!
The scream of a monster that was extracting water was heard.
And water began to flow back from the hole. Water shot into the air.
Wow!
The monsters were startled and ran away. But the gushing water was faster.
The river swept through the tunnel.
