Episode 6 [Omen (3)]
Buuuung.
Cars flocked to the abandoned factory complex. These were vans and trucks with ‘Animal Quarantine’ written on them.
The cars stopped in front of the factory complex and people got out of the van in front.
“Move! Stay alert until we make sure it’s safe!”
Wearing black body armor, helmets, and guns in their hands, they looked like anti-terrorism units or special forces.
They quickly entered the complex, keeping a watchful eye.
Kyung-hoon, who was standing in front of the building and watching the car come in, raised both his hands. It seemed like I chose the wrong place to report.
“I should have just called the police.”
People who appeared to be special forces approached quickly, and the person in front asked Kyung-hoon,
“Are you the one who reported it?”
“yes.”
“Where are the harmful animals found?”
Kyung-hoon pointed to the factory with his raised hand.
“Lead entry.”
After checking Kyung-hoon’s hand, he let the two people into the factory.
“Oh my god.”
A suppressed scream was heard from inside the factory. Then, the team members also entered the factory, but the moaning only increased.
After a while, they entered the factory. People came running out.
Some unit members took off their masks and started gagging, and others also turned white. They had seen many bad scenes many times, but the scene inside the factory exceeded their expectations. “Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?
” Didn’t you?”
The man who asked the question bluntly a moment ago asked with a completely different expression.
“Yes, it was a little chafed, but there were no major injuries.”
He looked at Kyung-hoon with admiration after seeing his tattered clothes.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
After finally giving a proper greeting, he took out his walkie-talkie and said,
“Internal verification has been completed. It’s safe.
As he made contact, people got out of other vans and trucks.
There were public officials wearing armbands saying ‘Animal Quarantine’ and people wearing white quarantine suits.
The abandoned factory complex was crowded for the first time in a long time.
Trucks and vans were lined up on one side, and dead dogs and cats were being carried out to the trucks.
People in quarantine suits were walking around cleaning up the surroundings, and outside the factory complex, local people were gathered and chatting.
“I heard that dogs and cats died en masse.”
“They have been crying loudly for the past few days. Was it because they ate something wrong?”
“Oh my, that’s too bad.”
“But now that everyone is dead, will the neighborhood become a lot cleaner?”
Some people felt sorry for the dead animals, but many residents seemed to be happy.
Due to incorrect information, people did not consider what happened inside the factory to be a big deal. It was clear that they would quickly forget once the factory was cleaned up today.
People were talking loudly . Meanwhile, the body of a monster cat was loaded into a black van. It was wrapped tightly in white cloth, so the people outside had no idea what was being moved. Kyung-hoon stood in the corner and watched
the scene. He had the words ‘Animal Quarantine’ written on his tattered clothes. He was wearing a jacket.
Kyung-hoon was sweating while giving a statement to a government official a little while ago.
He couldn’t tell the truth. Then, he had to talk about how he had changed, so he had to explain that he got caught up in a fight between animals. But he understood that explanation well. It didn’t seem to work. The civil servant held him for a long time and wouldn’t let him go.
Fortunately, the military successor who had called earlier arrived, and thanks to him, I was able to get out of the boring statement.
“Brother, it’s been a while since you’ve had a good job. .”
“What on earth happened? I called you while I was reporting it to the police. Have you changed your affiliation? What is animal quarantine?”
“Haha, the livestock quarantine department was expanded and absorbed. Thanks to that, you were able to go to work right away.”
A large, muscular man smiled brightly at Kyung-hoon. It was Park Jin-hyuk, his successor in the military and his close younger brother after being discharged.
Unlike the others, he was wearing casual clothes.
“But it looks like his skills haven’t died yet. He’s used to fighting.” “I heard they got caught up in it, but there are some people to whom bullets don’t work well.”
“Could this have happened again?”
Jinhyuk looked around at Kyunghoon’s question. Everyone was so busy moving around that no one paid attention to this area. But it wasn’t something we wanted to talk about here. “Let’s have a drink after this
. I’m off-duty, so I have time.”
Since it was a day off, they couldn’t go out together.
“They said they need to do more investigation.”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
Jinhyeok went to the car the government official was in and talked to him a few words. He told me that it had been handled well.
The two men walked out of the factory complex, shoulder to shoulder.
At the entrance of the complex, the troops who had entered the factory earlier were resting. Jinhyeok, who was leaving the factory, saluted.
“I will go in first,
Chungseong .” . “I’m off duty, but I’m having a hard time.”
The team leader who spoke to Kyung-hoon first received his salute.
“Ah, the person next to you, is he from the same unit?”
“yes. “He was a senior person whom I looked up to.”
“If you have time, please bring me to the unit.”
“oh! All right.”
The team leader saw him and saluted.
“Greetings once again. Thank you for your hard work and loyalty.”
After receiving the greeting and coming out of the complex, Jinhyuk grinned.
“You’re popular, aren’t you? You really are the Madonna of sergeants.”
Kyunghoon shook his head. I had no desire to be popular with the soldiers.
The sun was slowly setting. I went out to eat lunch, but it was already dinner. The day was too short.
After returning to his room and changing his clothes, Kyung-hoon and Jin-hyuk headed to a nearby meat restaurant.
Grumbling.
Pork belly was cooking on the grill, and the noise from the dinner party heated up the entire restaurant.
Two people sitting in an ordinary restaurant clinked beer glasses.
“It’s been a really long time. Why haven’t I contacted you for a while? “I can’t even keep in touch with you because sometimes you
don’t want to bother to call me.” Kyung-hoon couldn’t help but smile bitterly at the words he said after drinking beer.
Thanks to his help here and there in the military, he was able to keep in touch with his successor even after he came out in society.
However, his successor was discharged from the military . After doing this, he immediately joined the police special forces, and as he continued to fail to find a job, he began to distance himself from me. Although he was my younger brother who would not care about such things, he was bothered by the constant calls to come to the place where he worked. “I saw you earlier, but the team leader
. It seems like you fell in love with your brother. I got a call again. Do you really want to come and visit?”
Today was no different.
“Before, I was just saying this out of curiosity, but this time, I’m actually recommending it. The atmosphere is strange these days.”
The story didn’t stop there. Kyung-hoon leaned forward. It looked like he was going to say what he wanted.
“That’s what I want to ask. What is that huge cat I saw earlier and what is animal quarantine? I’ve heard of livestock quarantine, but I’ve also heard of animal quarantine. “I didn’t even see it.”
“So, how did you kill that monster? Most people don’t even get hit by a bullet. Even my older brother, who was able to fly and crawl during his time in the military, would have found it difficult.”
Kyung-hoon had no choice but to repeat what he told the civil servant at the factory complex.
“You said you got into a fight. “I heard that I got involved in a big fight between cats and ended up in a mess.”
Jinhyuk, who was skeptical about Kyunghoon’s words, nodded.
“Well, if that’s what you’re like, then that’s true,”
Jinhyuk continued, flipping the meat over.
“As I said before, the ‘Animal Quarantine Department’ is a department created by recruiting from various departments such as the Ministry of Health’s Livestock Quarantine Department, the Police Special Forces, and the Forest Service. Yes. It wasn’t even that long. “Six months?”
“So what are you doing?”
“Well, we will continue to work on livestock quarantine… Anyway, that has nothing to do with us. We deal with mutant animals that have appeared recently.”
“Mutant?”
“You saw it during the day, too. It’s a very big cat.”
“There are so many people like that? Enough to create a separate department? I’ve never heard of such a thing?”
“There are quite a few. I’ve already dealt with it more than 10 times.”
Jinhyuk told the story while eating meat.
Jinhyuk didn’t know when the mutation began to appear. The police special forces he belonged to were moved to a new department six months ago, and there he was
. He ended up dealing with mutant animals instead of people.
“At first, I think the hunters got hurt and died a lot while dealing with them. Police officers also get hurt a lot. It was quite dangerous for us too. “I could only catch it by pouring slug bullets from a medium to large rifle.”
Looking at it now, Jinhyuk’s face was showing signs of fatigue.
“Before, there weren’t many of them coming down to private homes, but recently they’ve been seen even in private homes. The damage to the general public has increased. Looking at it today, it seems like abandoned dogs and cats have also changed…”
“It’s not just our country, right?”
“That can’t be true. There are also significant connections between countries. Official announcements are being blocked, but most large countries are moving together. Of course, the United States is controlling it.”
“You couldn’t figure out why?’’
“Well, I always took corpses and captured them alive, but I couldn’t seem to figure it out.”
Jinhyuk continued speaking while looking at Kyunghoon.
“That’s why I’m telling my brother to come and visit. “I was just about to call you, but I don’t think this will end like this.”
Jinhyuk’s expression looked serious as he spoke.
“As you know, it’s all confidential. It seems like they block broadcasts and articles as much as possible. It looks like the topic has gone out a bit. “You don’t know if it’s this serious for everyone.”
Kyung-hoon replied that he would think about Jin-hyuk’s words.
After that, the two drank while talking about life in the world.
After drinking to their heart’s content, they parted ways around midnight. Jin-hyuk once again gave up until the end. He told him to think about it and got into a taxi, and Kyung-hoon waved at him.
After breaking up with Jin-hyuk, Kyung-hoon returned to his room. He sat on the chair and glared at the desk. On the desk was a cell phone that kept moving even if it wasn’t charged. Was it
because his body had changed? The alcohol he had drunk so far disappeared quickly.
What should he do?
After returning from the strange world, Kyung-hoon’s worries continued. He was confident that he would never even think about going to a dangerous place again, and his curiosity and sense of adventure were wriggling. I was constantly fighting.
So far, I had been on the side of not going to dangerous places.
It was good for adventure and it was good to solve my doubts, but there was no reason to risk my life for it. Living in this safe world, especially Korea, I couldn’t do anything dangerous after the military. He had no thoughts.
But what happened today changed his thoughts.
It wasn’t safe here either.
It had been a while since the mutants appeared. Moreover, the appearance of the mutants was very similar to what he had seen in the other world.
How would things have happened in that world? I felt like I could figure it out.
In the end, the scale of my worries tipped the other way.
Kyung-hoon held the cell phone in his hand.
*Enter your personal information.
The text was blinking on the screen.
Kyung-hoon tapped the keyboard.
[Kang Kyung-hoon ］
Hwaak!
As I entered the name, the phone screen lit up.
