Episode 175 [ Mutant (2) ]
An underground bunker in Manhattan, New York.
Standing in a dusty underground passage, the girl sighed.
The trap was broken.
“I was safe for a while…”
He pretended not to notice for a while and then started playing around again.
“I can’t help it.”
Anyway, the bunker in the Manhattan area was within their control.
They were also staying underground to avoid other monsters.
Although they were different bunkers, it was inevitable that her movements would overlap with those of her who had made her home underground.
The girl put the broken trap in her bag. Now that it was like this, it was clear that other traps would be the same.
I had to get out of the bunker.
Cry.
At that time, I heard their sounds from the other side of the passage.
The girl sighed again. This hunt was a complete loss. When I used the trait, I became incredibly hungry…
but I couldn’t help it.
She put her hand on the wall. Fortunately, I felt another passage behind the wall.
Srurr.
Little by little she became transparent. And she slipped into the wall.
After she disappeared, they appeared in the passage.
Sniff.
They ran to where the girl was.
Red-eyed humans running on all fours. They were mutants in the Manhattan bunker.
They sniffed. It smelled like a human, but there was no one in sight.
And the trap disappeared too. A thief had come and gone.
***
People with red eyes lined up in front of the door.
Ten, twenty, but Shane couldn’t pull the trigger right away.
“Can’t you come to your senses?”
They said he was crazy, but he was a living human being. I couldn’t attack carelessly.
But Eve immediately dashed Shane’s expectations.
-It’s unreasonable.
The person with a rat’s tail in his mouth raised his hand and pointed at Kyung-hoon.
Kiyeeek!
The half-cut rat fell to the floor and a scream came out of the man’s mouth.
Webbed fingers were visible between the fingers pointing at Kyung-hoon.
-It seems that even the genetic level has changed over time. It seems difficult to consider him a human already.
Those who appeared behind them also started running, screaming the same way.
There was an old man in a suit running on all fours, another running up a wall, and another with thorns sticking out of his body.
“Is it because the genes have changed? “You use characteristics, right?”
The polluters I saw in the other world only had their physical abilities become incredibly strong.
However, the mutants in this Las Vegas underground did not only become physically stronger.
There was no change in being able to use the characteristics.
Kyung-hoon ran forward holding his sword.
Shane also came to his senses and supported Kyung-hoon.
Ta-ta-ta-ta!
The sound of machine guns echoed off the walls.
Blood splattered and water gushed out.
However, even if it was a mutant that used the trait, there was no difference.
The thorn was unable to pierce Kyung-hoon’s defense shield, and the person climbing the wall fell to Shane’s gun.
The mutants who were running at the same time launched their bodies towards Kyung-hoon.
The Samjeonggeom swung like lightning.
Suddenly!
A line was drawn in a circular shape.
Phew!
The mutants were cut down as they were floating in the air.
Within a few seconds, there was no enemy standing still.
Kyung-hoon frowned after checking the fallen mutants.
“You ran away.”
The suit-wearing mutant who was directing the attack was nowhere to be seen. It seemed like he only ordered an attack and ran away.
Shane looked at the dead mutants and shook his head.
When I looked at the corpse, it didn’t even look like a person.
There were mutants whose skin was not red, and there were also mutants who had reverse joints or whose facial features were different from those of humans.
“Then shall we go in?”
Kyunghoon and Shane entered the open iron door.
A drone guarded the outside of the door, and small spiders climbed the wall and entered the door.
It wasn’t even the main entrance. However, when I entered the door, a world different from the sewer outside unfolded.
Antique wooden pillars, marble on the floor, sculptures lined up on both sides, and paintings on the walls.
The bunker hallway inside the iron gate looked like the hallway of a luxury mansion, not a bunker.
The paintings and sculptures were all imitations of works I had seen in books or on TV.
-It doesn’t seem to be a counterfeit product.
“Surely the Van Gogh painting hanging here is genuine?”
It wasn’t just Van Gogh. The artist’s works, which were easily recognizable at a glance, were lined up in a row, covered in dust.
Moreover, some of the statues were broken and lying on the floor.
“I’ll have to take everything with me when I go back.”
It was an opportunity to expand the collection of Kyunghoon’s personal museum, ‘Museum that cannot be made public.’
Jump and jump.
Even though there was such a big commotion, no one was attacked while walking down the hallway.
The hallway wasn’t long. The two were able to enter the central hall. It was a much larger hall than expected.
Gorgeous chandeliers and beautiful carpets dazzled the eye, and there were long rows of card roulette tables and slot machines.
It was a large casino.
-You can’t believe they built a facility like this underground. This is so crazy.
Eve stuck her tongue out again.
But this casino was different from other casinos.
There was a stage in the center of the casino. And the Octagon ring was built on top of it.
An octagonal steel ring often seen in martial arts competitions.
However, the thickness of the wire mesh in this ring was on a whole different level. Moreover, the roof was covered with thick wire mesh, making it look like a cage imprisoning a large monster.
Crumbling.
Inside the octagon ring, or rather the cage, there was a monster with its head down.
Close to 3m tall. It was a humanoid monster full of distorted muscles and tendons.
No, I didn’t know that I might have been human in the past. There were tattoos all over his body.
But now, other than the tattoos, there was nothing left that made him look human.
No, there were too many. Distorted human faces were sticking out all over the upper body.
-I can’t figure out if it’s a monster or a mutant. On the outside, it looks like a fusion of several humans.
Eve also seemed surprised.
Kyunghoon frowned.
“What does it mean?”
It was something I didn’t understand. It wasn’t something that was attacking me, it was a monster trapped in a cage.
Kyung-hoon’s question was answered by an unexpected being.
The monster in the ring straightened its back. The face on the shoulder moved its mouth.
“It’s not a different story. “I’m at a gambling place, so I’m going to risk my life and fight.”
The monster neither purred nor stuttered. The face on his shoulder answered in perfect English.
The humans and robots looked blankly at the ring.
The talking monster was amazing, but the content was even more absurd.
-Is there something crazy going on here? Even the monster went crazy.
If mutants were referring to humans who went crazy after eating monster mana stones and meat, there might not be much of a difference.
But to speak so clearly? If we did well, we might be able to have a conversation.
Shane and Kyung-hoon raised their guns and swords.
“What are you? “Is it a monster?”
“Is the intruder asking the homeowner? “It would be polite to introduce yourself first.”
It was strange how things were going.
Kyung-hoon decided to just hang out.
“I’m Kay, this is Shane. “They are survivors.”
“There is only one human? Are you giving a name to a robot and taking it with you?”
Kyung-hoon frowned at the monster’s words, but Shane just looked at the monster through the camera.
“It doesn’t matter. It’s amazing that there are still survivors. So is it my turn? I am the last survivor of this casino bunker and its ruler. And he’s a mutant who likes gambling.”
All the faces on the monster’s body smiled brightly.
Kyung-hoon naturally got goosebumps. But he kept asking questions.
“Did the people who survived in the bunker end up eating monster meat?”
“I know very well. “That’s the only way to be a mutant.”
“But why does your body look like that…”
This time, the face on the stomach answered,
“It grew up because I ate a lot of things other than monsters. Chuckle.”
I didn’t even dare to ask what else was there.
I tried to ask something else, but this time the monster struck me.
“I think I’ve finished introducing myself. Isn’t it time to fight? I’m tired of waiting.”
Now, the face that opened his mouth kept changing. Every time he spoke, his tone of voice changed and his personality changed. If I
kept listening to it, I felt like I was going crazy.
“Why do we have to fight?”
“It’s not us, it’s you. We have no intention of fighting robots or anything like that.”
The monster pointed exactly at Kyung-hoon.
Kyung-hoon sighed. The joke ended here. It was enough to ask him with an answer.
“Do you think I will listen to that?”
Gyeonghoon raised his sword.
“Oh, you’re so scared. If you don’t listen, we’ll all be buried here together.”
With the monster’s words, mutants came in from outside the hall.
Although there were fewer mutants than the mutants who fought outside the door, these mutants were different from those mutants.
The mutants had bombs wrapped around their bodies.
Among the mutants, the man in the suit who ran away earlier was also seen. . Did he break the news?
– Oh my. Is he a suicide bombing mutant?
“A terrible awakened person has arrived, so we have to do at least this much. There are more bombs planted elsewhere, so you should listen to me, right?”
It was a trap. It was also a suicide trap.
But I didn’t know why a one-on-one fight was necessary.
“If you beat me or kill me, you can take away all the treasures in this casino. I don’t know if they’ll be useful, but it’s full of dollars, gold and silver treasures. .”
I don’t know about other people, but it was very useful to Kyung-Hoon.
Kyung-hoon whispered so that only Eve could hear.
“How long will it take to find and disarm the bomb?”
– We are currently searching. I think it will take about 3 to 5 minutes.
Sassasasasaak.
Large spiders were moving quickly between the ceiling, walls, and floor. They were small robot spiders equipped with mana stones.
“It’s 3 minutes… so maybe I should buy more time.”
-It could be a trap!
Kyunghoon tilted his head.
“If it’s a trap, what’s the problem?”
“…..”
Eve couldn’t answer.
Kyung-hoon shouted at the monster.
“You can’t use weapons, right?”
“It’s a fight in the ring. “I don’t use weapons either.”
Kyung-hoon clicked his tongue when he saw the size of the monster. It sounded funny. The monster’s body itself was a weapon.
But Kyung-hoon handed the backpack to Shane.
“Please do me a favor.”
“I’ll prepare it.”
If I had been alone, I might have made different choices, but Shane was here. Unlike before, the back was strong.
Kyunghoon approached the stage. The monster shook its neck from side to side.
The ring was not locked. Kyung-hoon went inside through the small door.
Crash.
The door was automatically locked.
-That’s strange. The door is too small for that monster to get in and out.
“I guess it’s a trap after all.”
Kyunghoon glanced back.
Shane was taking things out of his backpack. Since it was a robot that could handle mana, there was no difficulty in taking things out of the backpack.
bang! bang!
The monster clapped its hands together.
“ruler! So let’s get started! Fight!”
“ruler! So let’s get started! Fight!”
“ruler! So let’s get started! Fight!”
All the faces on the body shouted at the same time.
Pop!
With that, the monster’s head exploded.
“You’re sure it started, right?”
Kyung-hoon stood on the monster’s shoulder and grinned.
The faces responded to Kyung-hoon’s words.
“that’s right! “It’s over!”
Shake!
The ring floor collapsed.
Kyung-hoon and the monster fell down.
It was a trap.
I couldn’t even see where the floor ended.
Kyunghoon looked up. A thick iron plate was blocking the hole.
-I should have waited a little longer!
Eve grumbled. But soon he gave me what I wanted.
-Anyway, we found all the bombs.
“good job!”
Kyung-hoon waved his hand at the monster falling next to him.
All the faces that had been smiling grimly turned into puzzled expressions.
Kyunghoon spread his hands downward. The door was made. The silver hole sucked Kyung-Hoon in.
*
Pugh.
A silver hole was created next to the robot.
The hole was created above the machine that the robot had taken out of the backpack a little while ago.
A simple portal tracker named Pointer.
Kyung-hoon jumped out of the hole.
“It was a perfect fit.”
He grinned at Shane and turned to look at the bomb-clad mutants.
Among the suicide bombing mutants, there were also mutants without shells.
A middle-aged man wearing a suit.
It was a man who was eating rats in front of the door.
Kyung-hoon smiled when he saw the true owner of this nest.
