[Cheonryuje side story] Na-Establishing ㄹ (3)
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Taaang-
Gunshot. Chen Liujie raised his head at the sudden noise, but quickly returned his gaze to the magazine in his hand. Anyway, gunshots aren’t that rare. Someone got angry and someone died.
His interest was focused on the cheap magazine in his hand rather than the common death.
A magazine I found on the outskirts of the street. It was a magazine with completely uninteresting content, such as suits and watches, but Cheon Ryu-je was trying with all his might to capture it.
Yesterday, I was just starting to feel like I really wanted to do something. The outside world would be incomparably more glamorous than this trashy street, and it was natural for someone who didn’t know anything to get robbed or die unexpectedly, so I wanted to know something before leaving.
Taaang –
The moment he put down the magazine with the strangely torn off part of the woman and reached for the next magazine with a large snowy mountain on the cover, a second gunshot was heard.
Two gunshots. Two bullets. This is not good. If bullets were fired all at once, it could be seen as someone killing someone and then killing someone, but if gunshots are heard over a period of time, it can be seen as a gunfight.
‘Has there been a fight between the cartels?’
Cheonryuje put down the magazine and slightly lifted the cloth covering his drain. If a cartel dispute broke out nearby, I was thinking of staying away for a while. If it were like the old days, I would have pounded on metal with the same thought in mind – if I die, I’ll die because I’m drunk and want everything to happen. Now that I have something I want to do in my life, I thought I should avoid danger.
but. When he rolled up the cloth and stuck his head out.
“Ugh! Do not come! “Don’t come here, you weakling!”
“Gggggrrrrgh! Kyaaaaaak!”
“Ahhhh! Take it off! Somebody get rid of this crazy guy! “Aaaah!”
Taang! Tatang! Taaaang!
“no! I never participated in that damn drug or experiment! I heard that there are people who touched cash, so I thought I would target them-”
Taaang-!
Slurp.
“Experimental area 14. Sorting out the number of people who escaped from the main street. “Move.”
Countless feet and voices running through the small light on the ground. There were only crazy people brutally biting the forehead and cheekbones of fallen men and soldiers in strange clothes shooting people at random.
‘People are crazy. Large-scale gunfight. Dangerous.’
Cheon Ryu-je, who had sneaked back on his way out, planned to turn off the furnace and take refuge in the sewer. Because I could at least think that even if my brain was full of holes due to drugs, I would die if I left.
but. When he saw something quietly moving on his toes, Chen Liuje had no choice but to stop his steps inside.
Last night, I was going through all the trash cans on the outskirts of Kracolanzia. Some were magazines from outside that were obtained by carefully examining the kindling of those who were lighting fires in drums.
The magazine, with its vivid colors in a dark and dull sewer, seemed to be asking him for direction.
Are you really going to crawl into a sewer with no light? Have you forgotten anything?
“Uhmmm….”
It’s an auditory hallucination that usually occurs when the drug’s energy wears off. Especially at a time like this.
Cheonryuje is the entrance and exit of the sewer that sways before your eyes. And in the small light in the sewer, I looked at the magazine over and over again, its bright colors blooming like a haze.
Sweet.
His choice was to pick up two knives that were leaning in a corner of the sewer.
“…Han Seo-ho.”
Because it reminded me of that guy who must be outside right now, frying the pieces of a sandwich in his mouth and talking passionately about the government’s clinical trials.
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Click, click, click, click,
“Huh, huh, huh!”
Thunder-like gunfire continued to ring through the sewer and hit my eardrums. Amid the terrible headache pounding in their heads, a few words mixed with noise flowed into the sewer beneath their feet.
Chiik-
[Introduction and isolation of Area C completed.]
Chiik-
[Multiple samples occurred in District D. Go straight in and apply.]
[Confirmed.]
Concise dialogue and the sound of several quickly moving footsteps.
‘Something… is blocking it? But with the sewer empty like this… Isn’t it a cartel or a gang? ‘Someone outside?’
Cheon Ryu-je recalled how impressed Seo-ho was when he first showed him the sewer road. When I thought of a sewer, I thought of something like an earthen pipe buried in the ground, but I couldn’t think of a road so big that I could stretch my back and walk around like this.
The road beneath the earth’s crust seemed unfamiliar to outsiders.
‘If it had been a cartel or gang battle, they would have been the first to block the sewer road.’
It was clear that the gunmen outside were people who had no business crawling under the ground.
“Uuuuuu…”
I saw someone crouching in the dim light of the sewer.
Clothes stained with dirt. Thin, pale face. Spit marks.
‘He’s a druggie.’
As expected, as expected from this place, quite a few people ran away to find the sewer. Because the people here either ignore the noise or burrow into the dark.
Crash.
He held a knife and they looked very tired. It wouldn’t be that difficult to ask about the whereabouts of Asians who can be seen anywhere on the street.
Until the fallen man jumped up like a spring and rushed at him, did Cheonryuje and Seoho follow his advice and jump into the sewer? All I could think about was that.
“Kaaaaagh! Ugh!”
A strength that is unbelievable even for a skinny body. The dejected appearance of a drug addict with bloodshot eyes flashing and black, rotten teeth sticking out.
Cheon Ryu-je, who was thrown to the bottom of the sewer by that force, swung his fists at him indiscriminately. The knife had lost track of where it had gone.
The arm trained to swing the hammer smashed the addict’s nose and knocked out his rotten teeth, but the addict’s mouth, digging in like a wild boar, bit his shoulder hard.
“Uuuuuuuuuuu!”
Tianliujie pushed away its forehead with his left hand and desperately fumbled with his right hand in the shallow water of the sewer. please. please…!
and. The moment when the sharp part of the broken tooth pierced the flesh and the incredible force of the teeth dug into his shoulder blade.
-Fuuuk!
Cheonryuje’s sword, which was swung without hesitation due to the solid feeling caught in the slippery texture of the old water, dug into the guy’s side.
Crackling-
“Uuuuuu!”
Feeling my shoulder being crushed, I swung it again.
Sigh!
When you stab someone in the stomach, they lose strength. This is a natural reaction for any living thing outside of the realm of will. Even under the vivid sensation of cutting into flesh, it did not fall.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
Puuuk phuwag! Suddenly! Caw!
chest. stomach. Lower back. neck.
The moment when Emperor Cheonryu’s sword, which he swung desperately as if in proportion to the pain, cut into its neck, which was covered in blood, and the sword held in return penetrated it.
“Huh…. Hmm….”
The sound that was making the sound of wind escaping through punctured lungs finally lost its strength.
Tang Tangrang!
“Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh!”
Free from the monster’s hand that was crushing his shoulder, Cheonryuje exhaled harshly from the pressure that was crushing his chest and pushed away the monster’s head that was stuck on his shoulder.
Although I often saw guys who were under the influence of drugs and acted strangely. It may have been stabbed by a small knife, but even after being stabbed several times by a large blade that was close to 80cm long, it was not enough to show off its strength.
“Ugh. Ugh….”
I felt a tingling and stiffness as if his blood had entered between my torn shoulders. I tried to think about what was going on, but my drug-damaged brain was refusing to think deeply.
Something that comes to mind right now. That’s exactly what I can think of.
I want to go out.
It’s chaos outside. You can also go out.
But I don’t want to do that.
Why don’t you like it? It’s hard to think. The floor is shaking like waves, the heat in my head rises, and my shoulder hurts so much that I want to rip it off.
“…Han Seo-ho.”
Ah, Asians. Suddenly, it occurred to me in my broken brain that he didn’t really enjoy reading magazines.
Tonight. This guy carried out the plan he made while undergoing a clinical experiment and boasted that he would buy something edible with the money he received in return for the experiment.
Cheonryuje was looking forward to the moment when he would ask the guy what he found in the magazine.
He had never been acquainted with anyone, so he couldn’t express how he felt about Seo-ho.
Are you a friend? Han Seo-ho said that, but the difference between him and Seo-ho was too stark to be seen as equals. If he was like a bug crawling in a sewer, Han Seo-ho felt like the legendary bird that carries the sun by biting it.
Is it erotic? It’s not that he never coveted women’s bodies in his trashy life. That feeling didn’t even feel like a piece of iron. When I asked Han Seo-ho if he was like that, I saw that he brandished a knife saying he was going to kill me, so it wasn’t like that for him either.
Awe. It’s probably most similar to this. The feeling a person living in a rock cave feels when he first sees the rising sun and looks at the horizon at dawn every day from that day on. Praise or worship of existence. Gratitude for the fact that it is a living, breathing human being like him, and that the faint possibility of becoming such a being is open to even myself, who I thought had no chance.
okay. In my eyes, Han Seo-ho was a person worthy of respect. Just being a person like him is enough to look forward to a new life. A human being worthy of reverence.
Cheonryuje picked up the knife he had dropped.
Not all people outside are the same. It may be a paradise that cannot be compared to this place, but just as there are differences between drug addicts, the people there will also be different.
So I wanted to learn from him. If I learn about the world from this guy’s perspective, wouldn’t even he, who has been bad since birth, become a little more colored? Wouldn’t it be possible to resemble that unchanging vitality?
Those thoughts made Cheonryuje take a step back. On the way to the outskirts of the street, to a place where people’s moans, similar to something that had attacked him, flowed out.
will be alive Such a great being. There is no way that a shining being could disappear so vainly even in this garbage dump. He was the one who retained the light of life more than anyone else here, so if there is someone who dies last here, it must be Han Seo-ho.
That thought moved his toes, which were becoming paralyzed in the strange heat.
As something hot tickled his spine and brain, he swung the knife with all his might.
As if driving away medicinal energy, as if striking an iron blade to clear a dizzy head.
Creep –
Sugaak!
Cheonryuje entered the sewer covered in their blood.
and. at last. A corner of the sewer. In a place where sharp gunshots pierce your ears before you can even close the manhole cover.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….”
Unfortunately. I ended up finding it.
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Taang – Tutatatatata – Taang –
The sound of gunshots could be heard outside without stopping, and the sewer was turning red as it accepted the ceaseless flow as if it was doing its job.
There he was, at the end of a trail of blood that stretched as if a corpse had been dragged away.
“Han Seo-ho.”
“Ughkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!”
‘….I can’t be alive.’
Even saying that he is dying would be an understatement.
Underneath his badly torn shirt, his torso twisted and torn by bullets was visible. I saw someone who had been shot before, and there was a big gaping hole behind the small hole. If the front is like that, the back will look like it was cut off with a chainsaw.
There were a lot of bite marks and tear marks here and there, and the pistol with the slide locked back explained how he got here.
“Ryuje… fuck… it’s not a fantasy this time… is it really you…?”
However, Cheon Ryu-je, who had been breaking through the people who were running at him in the same condition until now, ran forward when he heard Seo-ho’s voice recognizing him.
“Cruck… Damn… It wasn’t just a clinical experiment… Cough!”
“Don’t talk. “If you say so…”
Chen Liuje interrupted him while he was panting and hesitated, not knowing what to say. What do you say? Is the wound open? Is there more blood?
I can’t even touch it because it feels like it will collapse if I try to support it. I don’t even know how a serial killer is still alive, looking like a mangled corpse. What on earth should I say?
“…Am I hurt a lot?”
“….”
“Except for my head… I can’t feel it… I can’t even see my eyes… They asked me if I was hurt badly…” “
….”
“…. young. “I’m dumb again.”
Seo-ho read the emotions on Chen Liu-je’s face with blurry eyes and recognized his condition.
Endless despair bloomed on the face of this guy who was like a piece of iron. It probably represents his hopeless condition.
It was clear that participating in the clinical trial was a mistake, but feelings of regret did not come to mind. Even though it was originally a test for a new drug. Even though it is a drug that is a bit unsettling enough to bring people to this place that is no different from the filth of the city, who could predict that it would also be a drug that turns people into crazy beasts?
It was just unlucky.
The first person to receive the injection started screaming horribly, and the soldiers surrounding the people who had received the injection began throwing electric nets at them.
Seo-ho, who escaped immediately after receiving the injection and was looking for someone he could talk to, was out of range and was able to see everything that happened next.
Some people did not collapse even though the voltage was so strong that smoke came out of their skin, and they started attacking the soldiers with incredible force, and the soldiers began pouring in live ammunition without a moment of hesitation.
“I didn’t even look at zombie movies unless they were grade A…”
It’s also fascinating. It feels like everything around my waist has flowed down to the bottom of a dirty sewer and only the area around my spine remains, but I can’t believe I can feel an itch creeping up my back.
Seo-ho realized that his turn was approaching as his mind became clearer, along with a strange sensation that seemed to be licking the wrinkles of his brain.
“Seoho.”
“Well… don’t do anything that doesn’t suit you. “Those who leave will have regrets.”
Cheonryuje. This is a strange guy who made it up as a joke without even thinking about it, but he still uses it because he likes it.
I thought it was a relief to see some life in his dull eyes recently, but he seems to be quite a fierce guy.
Still, this is better than turning into a zombie and running towards that guy who can’t even walk due to cramps in his arms and legs and going to the afterlife in peace.
“Please…let’s do something.”
Seo-ho raised his finger, which I couldn’t even tell was moving, and pointed at the sword Cheonryu-je was holding, and then at himself, who was practically a corpse.
The medicine may have messed up my brain a bit, but I’m not stupid. I’m sure you’ll understand.
“….hate.”
“a little.”
“I said no.”
“hey.”
“Why! to me!”
Seeing Cheonryuje’s eyebrows drop, Seoho laughed with blood boiling. Maybe it’s because it’s time to die, but I can see things clearly that I normally can’t.
“I lived as ‘me’ even in this trash can… wouldn’t it be a bit weird to lose that with one injection? “I’m kind of like that.”
“You…”
“…Do it. before it’s too late.”
I flinch.
At that moment, Seoho’s legs, which were lying around like a corpse, moved. This is impossible with his strength as he speaks every last word. Perhaps, like other drug addicts, he too was tainted by something.
His idol, who was already a corpse, was reflected in the sword he lifted with difficulty.
Seeing that, Emperor Chen Liu knew that he could not refuse Seo Hao’s request and despaired.
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