Chapter.7 Masquerade Ball (25)
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There was a part of me that was worried.
The name Zeus. It was a somewhat comical worry, but the moment he pressed the button while looking at the unstable, clattering equipment, what came to the professor’s mind was that that name looked very unlucky.
When the Third World War began, the world mobilized all of the nation’s capabilities to accelerate the development of weapons, and numerous weapons were developed.
Among them, there were quite a few that were expected to change the history of warfare, and scientists full of gukppong were very positive about naming the weapons after God.
Cluster Biohazard missile Hades was like that, and
napalm rail bullets, Agni
tide guidance device Horus,
lightweight vehicle crossing equipment, Moses, etc. continued that lineage.
But the problem was that it ended badly, as if he had paid the price for his arrogance.
Hades blew up a country with a mistaken bomb, and
Horus, who uses birds to block enemies by building a birdstrike wall on the air route, turned the laboratory where the prototype equipment was located into the stage of a Hitchcock movie due to a researcher’s operating mistake, and
infantry portable vehicle crossing equipment. Although Moses is strong, it is very vulnerable to lateral pressure, so even if the enemy poured just two tank trucks worth of water upstream of where the bridge was installed, the bridge would shake in the aftermath, giving it the stigma of being a ‘stepping stone for the Three Islands’.
I don’t know why, but all weapons named after gods have problems or have caused problems in some way. In the end, scientists came to believe in the ‘new weapon jinx’ and the weapons developed after that were given names like R-7, MK-3, etc. just like in the old days.
“Cough! “Huh!”
[Ik, my body can’t move! Hey shell! Are you still conscious?]
“Ah uhhh….”
My whole body shrunk, as if I had been injected into a muscle, no matter where I was. As expected, Zeus, who was overcharged, poured out all his power to the limit and radiated several strands of current that he could not control.
[Don’t hold on, just lie down! I’ll try to move!]
“It’s so noisy… I don’t know how far the mutation will go this time if I let it go, but I’m crazy… Cough!”
But surprisingly, my body was fine. I had spiderweb-like red scars all over my body, like someone who had been struck by lightning, but other than the fact that my whole body hurt like I was going to die and my whole body felt weak, I was otherwise quite fine.
[Aren’t the standards too hard? Normal people would describe an injury of that magnitude as ‘nearly dying.’]
“Feeling pain in every part of the body means that no nerve has been completely damaged. To be honest, from now on…. Cough! I thought I might end up living as a paralyzed person for the rest of my life. “If you survive.”
Usually, people who are injured to the point of death say, ‘I know my body well!’ I saw a lot of people being reckless while doing it, but after almost dying once, I realized why everyone was saying that. It was a serious injury, but I thought it would heal if I rested. There’s no reason, but somehow it just feels like that.
‘It may be that I instinctively know that feeling after almost having been immersed in the afterlife. ‘I guess it’s not time to go yet.’
The professor tried to crawl out the window, but had no strength in his body, so he just lay down.
‘Confirmation…. I need to check the results….’
[Stay still. I’ll move it.]
The fingers of my left arm crawled across the floor and pulled the professor’s body, which was full of red marks of burst capillaries, all over his body
.
Wow.
The professor looked away as he felt the hot glass hitting his back in the aftermath of the launch.
“Ha haha…. Oh my god….”
None.
I tried to check the enemy damage, but there was no enemy.
From the cockpit to your target point and beyond.
In the area where dozens of tanks, combat vehicles, and Raptor infantry were scattered, only one wide, maroon-colored valley remained. A valley surrounded by dozens of tanks, more than twice as many combat vehicles, numerous raptor infantry, and a strange rock formation formed by sandy rocks melting into one.
“Huh…. Since you have something like this, if you hold on, you’ll definitely win.”
[Even if I were a soldier, if something like that passes over the heads of our soldiers, I would naturally feel a sense of patriotism that I never had before. Patriotism? [Love city heart] Anyway.]
“Ian, that guy should have shot this.”
[If it were him, I could bet my entire consciousness that he would ejaculate without erection and faint on the spot.]
The professor seemed to know why other divine weapons disappeared in accidents
or were renamed Jinx, but only this Zeus survived as its name. .
“Fuck, God… Isn’t this possible with just one button, the world is going to be destroyed?…”
Such terrible power that even the person who used it cried out for God without even realizing it.
Even in God’s eyes, he must have been satisfied enough that the blue lightning created by this man did not feel like an insult to his name.
Zeus was a weapon with power worthy of its name.
***
Shootaaaaa-
rain.
Raindrops suddenly began to fall from the cloudy sky, and steam began to rise above the terrifying valley where people and metal had melted together.
“After the thunder, it’s rain… I’m going to have to work hard to play this game for a long time. What do you do if there is magic and monsters? “Reality is so unrealistic.”
The battle lasted from dusk until night. In the aftermath of the explosion, ash and dust would have risen high into the sky. In addition, the air was rapidly warmed by Zeus’s launch, and the rising airflow generated in the valley melted to a temperature close to that of lava. Well, if you look for the reason, you will find various scientific answers.
But for
some reason, it seemed like a revelation to the professor telling him that enough was enough and that he should stop.
[Do you… believe in that?]
‘It’s loud. I guess I got a little emotional because I almost died.’
Neither Hyde nor the professor said anything, but they felt it inside. Even though they were enemies, more than three people in size just evaporated with a single gesture of his hand.
‘…I lived a good life so that I could go to heaven with my mom and live there.’
[….you?]
‘By wasteland standards, dude. ‘I can’t even take it off anymore.’
[Well… if I were a god, wouldn’t I give me extra points for killing the raptors? They are the living embodiment of population reduction policy.]
‘Killing them is not the problem. The problem is that even now that the battle is over, my mind is still full of thoughts about the people I will kill.’
Those guys from the executive branch who killed my mother. It’s probably hiding somewhere in this city.
‘We have to catch and kill him now. Since they are defeated, they will either join the Raptors or hide somewhere. If you don’t find it now, you may never find it in the future.’
“Huh!”
Fortunately, unlike the rest of my body, my left arm was completely intact, regardless of what it was made of.
[Where are you going?]
“Well… my throat is as dry as a desert, so let’s go outside first. “It’s rain that comes like beans sprouting in a drought in a wasteland.”
Sigh!
“Water wizards… They say they can somehow survive as long as they have water, right? “As someone who has a deep love for water, how could I pass this up?”
The professor limped outside, using his left arm, which was about one and a half times longer than his right arm, as a cane. A place for the defeated executive to go. It was just a feeling, but there was a place I could guess.
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Crrrrrrrrr!
“Step on it! Step further! “Take him away!”
“This is the speed limit an armored vehicle can reach!”
“Whether it’s shaking the car apart or going out and shooting it, do whatever it takes!”
“Everyone except the personnel needed for this operation have already gone outside…”
Kaaaaang!
“Hehehe hey Sol. Why do you do that? It’s a long way from the voice I heard over the phone a little while ago… Isn’t it different? “If the Commander-in-Chief is so scared, the prestige of the Raptor Society you love so much might fall?”
Sol felt like he was having a nightmare. I thought I escaped perfectly. As I looked at the battlefield on the other side, where metal vapor swirled with tremendous light, I thought I had made a good choice to survive!
“A man must have courage! At least if he was my subordinate! Isn’t there a need for a pulpit? Smile brightly for once! “Like the day you first met me, like when we communicated earlier!”
Taang!
Wow!
“Like when you killed my family and said it was all for me! brush!”
“Hehehe!”
A motorcycle caught up behind them, and the man riding on it stuck to the moving tram. I tried to shake the car to get rid of them, but instead of falling, they climbed further, so I was afraid that their vehicle, which had assimilated into the surrounding environment, might be discovered, so I sent out some soldiers to deal with them.
Soon, blood was splattered on the periscope of the armored vehicle, and just as Sol was about to relax,
Taang!
Wow!
The sound of a huge impact shaking the armored vehicle followed again. After all the soldiers were defeated, the monster with a gauntlet-like gun on his hand started shooting at the armored vehicle again.
Camouflage is a technology that does not make the tank transparent, but illuminates the surrounding environment to make it appear as if the tank is not there. The man was stuck on top of the tank, so the tank picked up his image and projected it onto its surface.
When an all-too-familiar voice came from the mouth of the man whose face full of hatred and murder was plastered on the armored car, Sol couldn’t believe it.
“No way! Oh, how can a person change like that? How could a man who served as the poster child for Raptor, the embodiment of reason and destruction, look like that-”
“Oh. brush. Will you yell at me one more time? “Your deep voice resonates particularly well in this part.”
Taang! Taang! Taang! Taang!
Kwajik, kwajik, kwajik!
“Ugh!”
Piyung!
“It seems like an unusually thin part!! Even trash can be helpful sometimes!”
In the end, Ian’s hand cannon found a gap in the armored vehicle where the external armor had been removed, and a hole was created in the area where it was hit in succession.
Eerie brown eyes rolling around as if looking inside what appears to be a hole.
“Hear’s Johnny! Hehehehe!”
“Go away!” “I’m telling you to go away!!!”
Taang! Taang! Taang!
“Off!”
“100 million!”
Large-diameter bullets fired through holes the size of two fingers bounced around inside the armored vehicle and began to hit the bodies of the people inside one by one.
“Aaaah!”
“Pack leader! “The main gate of the target location is closed!”
“Kwaaaaaak! My my feet!”
“The door is blocked!”
“Go in!” “I mean, hit in and take that guy off the armored vehicle!”
Coooooo!
The armored vehicle, which did not slow down according to Sol’s orders, crashed into the iron door of the executive garage at their target location and blew it away.
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Creep!
“What the heck… Someone who doesn’t even know how to drive got behind the wheel… Cough!”
Ian kicked the wooden fragments covering his body and blew them away. I tried to hold on to it, but the shock was too great to hold on with one hand.
“hmm? Holy shit! This thing is loose! “It’s a new product that the inspection department received less than a day ago!”
Ian cursed as he saw that the hand cannon’s auxiliary device attached to his left arm was loose. As he was thinking about things like after-sales service and compensation mechanisms, there was a lot of dark red stuff stuck between the loose devices.
Sticky.
“blood? Shit. “Is there anything wrong?”
Ian hurriedly examined his body at the sticky blood stains on his fingertips. During battle, there are times when you cannot feel the injured area due to adrenaline, so it was better to inspect it with your eyes as closely as possible. Everything was fine, but I could see fragments of a shattered wooden box lodged deep in my calf.
“Jimmy. “How unlucky…!”
Phew!
Without hesitation, I pulled it out in one go and closed the wound with the hemostatic spray I had left over from Bex. It’s safe to say that he wasn’t hurt at this level. cancer.
After shaking his head and shaking it off, he quickly lifted the hand cannon in his left hand, looked around, and slowly moved as if dragging his body. An armored vehicle leaking smoke. There was no sign that the hatch had been opened, so the people inside were either dead or had no intention of getting out.
‘Blood… isn’t it just my blood?’
There were some corpses. I thought he might have been run over when an armored vehicle came in, but no matter how I looked at it, the signs were different from being hit by a car.
‘There are only five that I can see. A sharp… spear? pile? Was it hit by a ballista or something? There are cuts… It looks like this part was crushed with heavy machinery or something?’
Age is between 40 and 50 years old. Other information was difficult to confirm because the body was so damaged. Traces different from those of an explosion. It was as if he had been hit by a huge beast…
‘This can’t be…’
Suddenly, the battle with the monster at noon flashed through Ian’s mind. sport. A Type 2 variant could not cause this level of destructive power, but if a Type 3 variant occurred…
“Haha! Lived! Raptor reinforcements! This is the end for you too, you monster! No matter how strong you are, you probably can’t take on a tank!”
‘person!’
Slam!
At that moment, Ian, who was hiding behind a pile of wooden boxes, heard a voice full of joy.
“hey! This way! We are the executive branch! Raptor’s Alliance! An ally! This monster is an assassin sent from the Dome! Kill him! “Shoot me now!”
And the familiar figure of their backs standing hunched over in front of them, looking down.
“hmm? Ian? “Why are you here?”
“you you….!”
The now familiar bushy black hair. The voice has lost a bit of strength, but is still sly.
With the sound of the heavy hand cannon falling from his hand, Ian began to stagger towards the professor.
“Oh no….”
“Wow, how long has it been since we broke up that I’m so happy to see you? Are you okay? What about Vex? “Where did Bex go and came alone?”
Chiiing –
At that friendly and welcoming voice, tears poured out like a waterfall from the eyes of the strongest man in the world.
“Uuuuuuuu!! “Nooooo!!!”
“What! Why is this happening all of a sudden?”
Wow!
Before the professor had time to stop him, Ian forgot that he was in front of enemies and hugged the professor’s body, shedding tears.
Scars from electric shock bloomed on every exposed part of the body. Military uniform soaked in blood. And
the left arm, which was not human but looked like a monster.
Through his morning encounter with Old Picture, Ian learned very well what his friend, who appeared before his eyes in a pitiful state, meant.
“My friend is dead!!! You’ve become a mutant!!! Aaaaaah!!!!”
“Are you dead? Hey, wait a minute! “What are you talking about-”
Ian swept the professor’s body, which was full of wounds, with a heartbreaking heart. He knew very well what this cobweb-like scar meant.
‘Wounds caused by electric shock. Yes, it would be strange if I didn’t get caught since I ran into the streets of a dome full of street fighting masters by myself. Electrical torture… The simplest and quickest torture device to install. If you were at risk of death, you wouldn’t have opened your mouth until the end.’
In Ian’s eyes, the sight of the professor dying with electric burns all over his body after being tortured by the executive branch was good.
The heart of the steel man felt like it was going to break.
‘The corpses in front of you must have been the work of you who became mutants. Professor Park, you were a stronger man than any other man I’ve ever met in my life. As he died after being tortured, his last remaining will was enough to remain and carry out his mission even after becoming a monster! ‘He was a strong enough man to turn on the generator and come here after the executioner!’
Ian tightly hugged the greatest friend he would ever have in his life, tears streaming down his face on the professor’s shoulder.
“Wow! I respect you my friend! I have lived a more intense life than anyone else I have ever experienced in my life! “You were so… amazing!”
“Uh… Ian? Metal Joe? Did you do drugs or something? “The one the Raptors use when doping?”
Ian didn’t even think about wiping away his flowing tears. Because the tears didn’t stop. Yes, he was the guy who spoke in this voice. What will happen to this guy now? Perhaps even if we kill everyone here, Professor Park, who has become a mutant, will not fall. Because he was a smart guy. Even if all the executives died, there was another reason why this division arose. Because he wasn’t a guy who didn’t know it was a raptor.
Ian once again took out his wife’s belongings that he had carefully kept in his arms.
“I won’t let you… I won’t let my friend wander alone through the barren wasteland, chasing raptors, and die miserably!”
Slam!
Ian firmly believed that this time, his derringer had found the right use.
“Farewell, my soul brother. If I die and meet my wife, Molly… I’ll tell you she’s my friend and she’ll be nice to you. “I will never forget you.”
“Is this crazy! Don’t put the gun away! “This bastard runs away!”
Wow!
Ian’s tears welled up once again due to the exhilarating pain he felt on his forehead. This headbutt will probably be the last headbutt you will receive from the professor! Ah, my friend!
“Do not refuse! At least I can handle my friend’s funeral with my own hands!!!!”
“Someone is going to search, you crazy bastard! “I’ll kill you!”
“Keuuuuuu! Even in death, you will remain stubborn! die! “Die by my hands!”
“He’s not dead! He’s not dead! “I’m Professor Park! I turned on the generator, shot Zeus, and came this far alive alive, you tin-headed bastard!!!”
Bitch-
Bitch- Bitch
—-
The professor’s desperate cries to survive as Ian’s gun movements became increasingly strangled, echoed in the executive garage.
Crackling –
A bloody friction sound rang out from the professor’s left hand.
If he didn’t stop this time, I was planning to control my strength and hit him with my left arm.
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