Chapter.5 Inside Out (10)
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“Now that you’re here, feel free to take a look.”
“Hahaha thank you for your cooperation. It’s all for the safety of Area 47, so don’t be too grumpy…”
Rumble-
“Uh…”
“What.”
“No, that’s…”
Ezel, who followed Ian, was at a loss for words when he saw the cargo compartment of the armored truck opening on both sides.
There was no space to store them, so there was a huge amount of firearms and explosives packed as if they were moving items. There was a wide variety of items, from high-end items that were hard to find in the dome to used firearms that only scavengers would use.
“I just need to show you what I need for business, right? “I’m sorry, but if you show us the things we’re going to use, our power will be weakened, and I don’t think I can tolerate that.”
“So you’re saying this isn’t all?”
“hmm? Are you asking the obvious? Put a truckload of stuff on someone’s nose. These are items that we will sell at a discounted price to promote our brand name. If we sell all of this, we can build it up as a caravan to some extent. “It may seem like a lot, but it’s not much because it’s all packaged.”
Even if you do a rough calculation, the quantity is enough to arm three legions of raptors, and they will sell it all at a low price for promotional purposes.
‘Even this is not all. This guy named Metal Joe is very wary of me. They will try to hide information unless it is absolutely necessary, so it is highly likely that this is something they put out for show…’
No matter how much I thought about it, it was too much to just turn a blind eye to and say goodbye.
‘Spice dealer in District 43. They say he’s been in business for several years, making a name for himself, but he seems like he’s really just an ordinary person.’
Ezel studied his face closely to remember it. A very distinctive appearance with wide eyes and almost half of the face made of metal. But strangely enough, it looked familiar.
“Hey…”
“Why? “Is there something wrong with my stuff?”
“No, we will end our investigation of the product here. But… have we seen you anywhere before?”
Ezel was an inspector, and he was classifying people in his memory into two categories. People whose faces I remember because I see them often, and people whose faces I remember because I have to remember them.
Since you probably haven’t seen the merchants of District 43 often, the reason this person’s face seems familiar is because he belongs to the latter group….
‘No matter how much I look, there’s no matching face, right?’
Feeling a strange sense of déjà vu, Ezel glanced at Ian’s face while sketching it, and began to feel the stinging stares of those around him.
“Uh… do you have something to say to me?”
A professor looking at himself with bewildered eyes. An old man closing his eyes tightly as if he saw something he couldn’t see. And
dduk uduk dduk!
A large man whose face was distorted to the point where it could no longer be distorted.
“we. where. Have seen. Isn’t there…? Hey, do you think these Dom bastards have good skills? “Did you culture the liver that was sticking out of your stomach and stuff it into the stomach bag?”
“Ian. You can’t kill me. “We have to make a living here.”
“know. Then don’t know. No need to worry, Professor. “I am now very rational and can control myself well.”
The man was approaching Ezel, saying something unknown.
“I… I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you’re talking about…”
“Kihi! “It was too classic and direct for an inspector general’s work statement.”
“….uh?”
It was only then that Ezel realized what kind of misunderstanding he had caused. What he said without thinking, the big man had a different meaning.
“Hold on.”
“then. “I can bear it.”
“Be patient.”
“Hehehe. Hey professor, do you trust me? “Are you not trusting your comrades who crossed the firing line with you?”
“Get Vex.”
Slap!
Slam!
With perfect timing, Bex rushed towards him and at the same time, Ian took out a small gun that did not suit his size from his arms.
“Ugh! Joe! Be patient! “If you shoot the inspector, we’ll have to be chased by Dom for the rest of our lives!”
“Fuck it! That bastard… that bastard looked at me lustfully! Oh no! Let’s get along! “I’ll shove a very large, thick, and hard piece of dynamite into that hole and send you to paradise in style!”
Taang!
“Ugh! “I really shot it!”
“censor! Get down! “Hold your arm!”
“I will kill you! How dare you insult me like this! From now on, I will rip out the spine of anyone who mentions the name Dom in front of me!!”
Taang!
“Hepburn! “Take the gun, take the gun!”
“You bastard, ask someone! “How can a guy with no chin have such good teeth!”
After all the fuss, Ian calmed down after Ezel, who was lying flat on the floor, spouted out in detail about the inspection department’s method of remembering people’s names, and confessed like a criminal that he had completely normal sexual tastes and that there was absolutely no meaning to it.
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“Heo, heo, heo, heo.”
Ian, who had transformed into a caterpillar again using the same rope he had used in the morning, was glaring at the inspector as if he were going to kill him, drooling even though he was gagged.
“Well… you were very surprised, right? “He’s such a fiery friend.”
“Oh no, no. “I said something that could have been misunderstood…”
In fact, Ezel had already lost interest in that big guy a long time ago. Rather than that, he was more focused on the name that caught his ear during the chaos.
‘I heard you clearly. It was only once, but the professor called the old man Bex and the man called him Hepburn.’
Crunch, crunch, crunch –
Ezel’s pen was dancing on the notebook without stopping.
‘Hepburn. The name used by the leader of the group that ultimately won the large-scale battle that recently took place in Area 45. Hepburn Ian Bex. H….HIV. These guys are the ones called the losers of District 45!’
An underground bunker in Area 45 discovered a few days ago. A battle between the Dome and the Raptors took place to occupy the place where all the resources of the old world were sleeping, and hundreds of mutants, elites of the Scavenger Dome, and legions of the Raptors came back from the dead hell and reaped the fruits of victory. It was a group of HIV made up of three people whose names were not even known.
Now, a week later, the Dome has searched for information about them in every way, but the troops that entered the underground bunker have been annihilated.
The informants in Area 45 were also wiped out in the raptor massacre, and the nearby Area 43 was also in chaos, so no information was obtained about them. As a result, they relied on news circulating in the community and missed the timing to contact them in advance, and in the end, the security key to the underground bunker they presumed to have been stolen was uploaded to the exchange and put up for auction.
The inspection department and the executive city council all praised his abilities, unanimously designated him as the number one recruit, and even put a bounty on him for his capture. He has now settled in District 47 and is right in front of his eyes.
‘T express information. Broadcaster ‘professor’ is the head of HIV. If so, it makes sense to expand your power like this. The money earned must be enormous. Especially since that key security key is still updating the highest exchange auction price in real time at the top row of the exchange.’
“Inspector.”
“I… I really couldn’t have imagined this… but the professor said that… I can’t believe it…”
“Inspector?”
“yes? Ah, old times! “What’s going on, Professor?”
Ezel woke up to the professor’s call. It was completely different from his sly attitude up until now. It has to be that way. If the professor in front of you is Hepburn, then you are a master of combat, even with just the latest exosuit.
There is no information about its combat method or combat power, but it can be inferred even without information that it has ridiculous combat power in that it leisurely passed through the battlefield where the three forces of the variant and Dom Raptor clashed and even came out with loot. It was a part.
The professor suddenly looked at Ezel with strange eyes and opened his mouth as if to comfort him.
“Today… I think there was a misunderstanding and the situation became a bit uncomfortable. If you need any more information, please contact me personally next time. You probably know my nickname. Can I get the inspector’s nickname? But I need it to contact you. “I understand that I won’t reveal your name for security reasons, but can I at least disclose the nickname used in the community?”
“Uh…huh?”
wait for a sec. my ID?
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.
.
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Click, click, click!
‘[Soy Sauce
Gay Bar]’ ‘Damn it!!!’
At that moment, Ezel realized that it was no time to worry about Dom’s political stance. Soy sauce gay bar. My nickname. Numerous evil deeds committed hidden behind that anonymity!
‘[Legendary odor] [End stage exhibitionism] [Unusual diet: filth] [Habitual vomiting]. how is it?’
‘Ha, that’s shit, Professor. Do you see me as a bong? ‘Aang?’
‘Let’s go to Trait 6: [Mental Breakdown]!’
‘Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk change he’s going to die kkkkkkkk’
Oh no. What on earth did I do in the past…!
Until now, in the game, a student who was a professor passed by like a flash of light. I am the culprit of that suffering. I am the culprit who beat up Hepburn, the leader of the superhuman group HIV in District 45, and ate her like a dog!
‘The Lord dies. If you get caught, you will definitely die…!’
The professor’s chat, asking ‘Hey, where do you live?’ was echoing in Ezel’s ears like an auditory hallucination.
I wanted to stay calm somehow, but my armpits and back were already dripping with cold sweat.
“Inspector, is it hot? “Why are you sweating so much?”
“Yeah it’s nothing! “I have hyperhidrosis!”
“is it so? Come to think of it, your clothes are covered in blood. Why don’t you take a shower inside? Although our shelter is small, it is well-equipped…”
“I actually have a paratrooper! Water Because I’m afraid of water!
“is it so?”
‘God, Buddha, Jesus, Confucius! Please don’t get caught! please!’
Ezel prayed desperately as he watched the professor’s forehead slowly wrinkle.
“Yes yep! sure! “There is nothing wrong with the inspection, so I will leave now!”
“…Yeah, whatever. Then the nickname is-”
“That’s enough for me!”
Ezel desperately pretended not to have heard the professor’s last words and turned around. Naturally, please naturally! Dammit, why are my joints so stiff? Why am I so conscious of breathing? Even a wild boar in heat wouldn’t breathe this hard!
Still, after trying desperately, I could feel the border of the hiding place getting closer along with a crackling noise. Now all you have to do is go a little further and board the suit…
“…Stop.”
“ah.”
‘Oh my @#%^%@#!!!’
The moment Ezel was in front of Goji, he could instinctively feel the sharp voice that penetrated his ears. The professor noticed something.
As Ezel slowly turned his head like a horror movie character, the professor, with his hands in his pockets and his neck slightly bent to the side, was staring at him intently.
“Inspector… Come to think of it, you said earlier that you were really enjoying my broadcast. “I was embarrassed, Bex. From the moment he called me ‘Hepburn,’ he was strangely watching me, right?”
“Uh oh oh oh… that’s….”
Rattle rattle!
Ezel’s hand hurriedly fumbled in his pocket. Emergency signal, emergency signal…!
“Actually, we acted on the premise that they knew our information from the beginning, but now that I think about it, seeing as the scavengers in Area 45 attacked without even thinking, it seems like the information about the spice merchant being HIV is still stuck in Area 43. Naturally, Dom knew about the news that a spice merchant had joined Big Dream, but he did not know that it was a group that was close to an urban legend called HIV.”
Rattling.
Feeling in his pockets, Ezel remembered that he had left his emergency signal in his suit. I felt like my soul was leaving my head.
“If you look at it that way, it’s completely understandable that our inspector wants to pass away in such a hurry… but why are they trying to hide his nickname so much? Like a person who has committed a sin? huh? Right? Viewers?”
Jump, jump, jump.
Wow.
The professor, standing behind Ezel, who had frozen in the same posture as he was heading out of the shelter, put his arm around his shoulder and asked with a devil-like face that had captured the victim’s soul. The professor was full of confidence.
“who are you?”
“Hehehe!”
Ezel couldn’t say anything other than groaning in fear at that question.
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Ten minutes later, the rope that was tying Ian up was recycled and was restraining Ezel’s body.
“Oh my.”
flinch!
“Ohhooooraaaa-”
flinch! flinch!
Every time the professor let out an exclamation, Ezel, who was tied up and sitting on the sofa in the shelter, was twitching as if he had been pricked by a needle.
“Soy sauce-gay bar. “I’m going.”
“Yes, Professor.”
“Are you going?”
“Yep?”
“Why are you so scared? We haven’t even seen One Day Today, so should we call it like we normally do? “Professor, you professor, you idiot, professor, you bastard.” is not it? “Did you go, friend?”
“Ah no! “I’ll just be the professor!”
The professor chuckled as he looked at the soy sauce gay bar, which was as frozen as a new soldier. I really wanted to meet this guy at least once. I knew he was rich and lived in a dome, but he was an inspector who was one of the elite in the dome. This is a guy who has the authority to use an exosuit.
“Soy Sauce Keibara….. That’s a very impressive nickname. “Are you looking at me like that?”
Ezel responded as if in a fit of rage when Ian stood behind him and said that he was throwing and catching dynamite with one hand.
“never! That’s not it! I only asked because I felt like I had seen it somewhere before! really!”
“Yeah? Take a closer look. Have you really ever seen a face like this?”
“No! “No!”
Ezel responded hysterically as Ian took a lighter out of his pocket and clicked it towards his face. Ian smiled as if he was satisfied with Ezel’s appearance and returned to his original position.
“Don’t be too scared Ian. Still! “He’s the Dome’s inspector and he’s like a lifesaver to me?”
“iced coffee. Now that I think about it, you said that the reason you started concept play was because of this guy, right?”
“That’s right! If it hadn’t been for the fuel and money I sent back then, the professor wouldn’t have been able to run the generator or create the character that made him this much money now-”
Syaaaak- Suaaaak-
At those words, Vex, who was sitting on the floor sharpening a blade on a whetstone, saw the blade turn blue. His eyes lit up as he checked.
“Then… the cause of the division that planted the time bomb in Hepburn’s head. That guy…”
Gulp.
Ah, damn it. It was written on the fortune teller that my life would be short because of this guy’s tongue.
“Come to think of it, that’s also true. Hey Hyde. Say hello. “This guy is your godfather.”
[Oh Godfather! Hello?]
Ezel’s mind suddenly went blank at the sight of the professor’s wiggling fingers and the red-bladed kukri on the other side.
“Soy sauce gay bar. No, Ezel. You know you have to make sure you give and take in the wasteland, right? I understand that we have quite a lot of debt that has been accumulated over the past five years. “Wouldn’t it be better to take this opportunity to settle it all at once?”
“Professor Kyo… Professor! wait for a sec! wait for a sec!!!”
“I won’t kill you. Cutting off a hand or a foot does not cause a person to die of shock. You can trust this. Thanks to so-and-so, I started a game called GG with random characteristics, and I cut off a lot of hands and feet in it. “He is an expert in this field.”
Rattling rattling!
Ezel closed his eyes tightly as he saw the white smile of the professor standing like a steel tower before his eyes.
“For the past five years. Thanks to you, it was really fun. “I’m going.”
Sigh!
In an instant, without anyone having time to stop him, the kukri in the professor’s hand was swung.
Pap pap –
The only thing hanging on the tip of the sharply swung sword was the rope that was tying Ezel. The professor roughly put the kukri away and then playfully tapped Ezel on the shoulder.
“Hehehehe. Hey, were you scared? Since you are the culprit who has been troubling my heart for the past few days, I tried to make you a little scared as well.”
Grumpy-
“….Are you going? Ezel?”
“You passed out?”
The faces of Bex and Ian, who had been laughing as they watched the professor swing the knife, instantly turned into embarrassment.
“Hey, all of a sudden. He’s the inspector general. “What happens if I faint like this and don’t return to the base?”
“How can this happen!” “It’s obvious that it will be treated as an attack and Dom’s special forces will flock to the final destination!”
…..omg.
The professor went next to Ezel, who was lying unconscious, and slapped his unconscious face and shook him violently.
“Hey, I’m going. “Get up.”
Slurp, slosh.
“I’m gone! It was a lot of fun! “Please wake up!”
slam! slam!
No matter how hard the professor slapped Ezel’s face, he just shook like a rotten piece of wood.
“Wrong! “I absolutely loved it!”
“water! Bring water, water! “If this guy doesn’t come to his senses, we’ll all die!”
“Shit! “Professor Park, you stupid bastard! You should joke around in moderation!”
“Did you know I would end up like this!”
Another commotion broke out in the professor’s shelter to wake up Ezel, who had fainted.
Ezel opened his eyes five hours later, when the exosuit he was riding in was beeping like crazy.
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