Episode 67 [Airport (1)]
Kyung-hoon was at Seoul Airport when the news that EV had been recognized by the U.S. government went viral.
Like other cities, the airport also showed signs of being abandoned for a long time.
More than half of the airport runway was covered with dirt and sand, and weeds were growing on it. This was because the Tancheon River that flows next to the airport frequently flooded.
Up to that point, it wasn’t much different from other buildings in the city. But other than that, no place was the same.
Hangars, various facilities, and abandoned airplanes were left horribly destroyed.
They were all traces of battle.
Kyung-hoon was lying face down on the riverbank east of the airport. He was examining the destroyed Seoul Airport through a telescope.
“Please do reconnaissance.”
-yes.
Weeeeeee.
The drone soared into the sky.
Fortunately, it was a clear day so there was no need to worry about monsters in the clouds.
While one drone was soaring high, another drone climbed over the collapsed wall and entered the airport.
I couldn’t enter the airport without thinking, even because of the traces of the intense battle and the text left at the training center.
This time, I planned to understand the situation as much as possible before moving.
The drone, soaring high in the sky, scanned the entire airport with a high-performance camera.
-Underdog outside the building. Only wild dog-type monsters are visible.
It was the most visible monster in the destroyed city. There were more than a dozen Underdog Mana Stones in Kyung-hoon’s backpack.
-The underdogs here seem a bit different from underdogs elsewhere.
Kyunghoon looked at the tablet screen. The scene being filmed by the drone was being transmitted to the tablet.
In a remote area behind the hangar, a wild dog monster was eating the same monster.
-The guidebook said that underdogs do not prey on their own kind, but it seems that the information was incorrect.
In other places, scenes of underdogs secretly attacking other underdogs were filmed.
“Well, if they fight among themselves, it’s fine for me.”
Kyunghoon first put aside things he didn’t understand.
-You can see a lot of broken firearms. But other than that, I didn’t find anything special. Shall we take a look inside the building? Kyunghoon nodded.
-Enter into the building.
The low-flying drone flew toward a hangar that seemed to be in good condition.
Weeeeing.
The underdogs looked around at the unfamiliar sound, but did not notice the drone.
The drone entered the hangar through the collapsed wall.
Thanks to the light leaking from the broken ceiling, the inside of the hangar was not dark.
Kyunghoon, who was looking at the tablet screen, frowned.
‘person?’
A silhouette that looked like a person seemed to pass by at first glance.
– Let’s change direction.
Eve also noticed. The drone suddenly changed direction. The screen shook.
bang!
Kyunghoon raised his head in surprise. It was a gunshot. That sound also came from the hangar where the drone was located. The tablet screen had turned black.
-The drone is believed to have been shot down. It looks like I got hit by a gun.
“Is there anyone alive?”
-There may still be automatic defensive firearms left.
It could have been an automatic weapon attack, like at a training camp.
However, Kyung-hoon and Eve had seen a moving silhouette before that.
“It looked like a person, right?”
-There is a greater than 80% chance that it is a living human being.
Kyunghoon stood up.
There might be a living human being there, but I couldn’t ignore it.
He held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. I couldn’t use a pistol with a silencer because I hadn’t yet replenished bullets. Mana explosives could attract too much attention. Although you can easily deal with an underdog, there is no harm in being careful.
-Fortunately, a fight broke out between the underdogs. I have some time to spare for the time being.
Wow! Wake up! Crumble!
The underdogs who heard the gunshot and ran to the hangar were attacked by other underdogs. Dog fights broke out on the runway and throughout the airport.
-This is really hard to understand behavior.
It was difficult to understand, but it helped a lot.
-After crossing the wall at 2 o’clock, go 50 m in a straight line and you will find the wreckage of a broken helicopter. If you move 30 meters from the helicopter wreckage to the 11 o’clock direction, the plane crashed…
Kyung-hoon ran out after hearing Eve’s voice. It jumped vertically over the wall and ran like lightning down the sand-covered runway.
After hiding behind the helicopter wreckage for a while, he ran back to the smashed transport plane.
It rattled.
He remained undetected by the monsters until he jumped into a cargo plane that had split in half.
Crumble.
However, there was an underdog inside the cargo plane as well.
-sorry. It was difficult to confirm up to this point.
Phew.
Kyung-Hoon plunged the sword into Underdog’s mouth and listened to her apology.
“It’s okay. It’s hard to figure out what’s inside with a drone flying high anyway.”
Besides, being a lone underdog was just a handful.
After defeating the monster without a sound, Kyung-hoon looked around the broken transport plane.
The inside of the transport plane was full of broken boxes. Kyung-hoon whistled when he saw the items coming out of the box.
“Hwiik! It’s huge.”
Various paintings, old ceramics, old books, and antiques filled my eyes.
Kyung-hoon picked up an old crown covered in dust.
-This is the gold crown of Geumryeongchong. To treasure number 338….
“No, you don’t have to explain.”
I knew it right away even without hearing an explanation.
Kyung-hoon looked around the broken transport plane again. There were many broken boxes, but there were also quite a few that still maintained their shape.
“Surely these aren’t all cultural assets?”
-It seems like a cultural asset. The box is stamped with the National Museum of Korea mark.
It was an unexpected windfall, but Kyung-hoon had a perplexed expression on his face.
“Can I take this? It makes two of the same thing.”
-It is safe to say that things before the 21st century are completely the same. No one will be able to tell the difference.
“That’s the problem. If you take this and make a mistake and release it into the world, it’ll cause an uproar.”
– So are you planning on just leaving it here?
“You can’t do that…”
Kyung-hoon scratched his head and put the work aside.
“Let’s think about it after we’re done with our business here. The inside of that hangar is more important than this.”
Kyung-hoon put the crown he was carrying into his backpack and looked out through the gap in the transport plane.
It seemed like the underdog fight was slowly coming to an end. The barking of underdogs has decreased significantly.
‘By the way, there is no body. There were almost no corpses in the city. Did they eat it all?’
After feeling doubt for a moment, he heard Eve’s voice and started running again.
-Please sprint towards 1 o’clock. Soon the underdogs approach.
After collecting mana at his feet, he pushed the mana towards his feet when he kicked his feet. Although the mana did not spurt outward, the force of pushing with the feet increased several times.
His body suddenly moved forward.
“It can be said to be a light aircraft.”
Kyung-hoon quickly arrived next to the hangar, hid himself in the shadows, and looked at the runway.
Underdogs appeared through the scattered dust.
The underdogs, whose entire bodies were covered in blood, began to wander around, growling at each other.
-I don’t know if I have a really bad brain. We fought a little while ago and then we’re together again. Is that why they are eaten by their own people? I wasn’t really interested in the underdog ecosystem. Kyung-hoon looked inside the hangar while listening to Eve’s voice.
Inside the hangar, visible through the torn wall, there was a strange atmosphere.
The inside of the broken hangar, with light streaming in through the burst ceiling, was somehow sad and beautiful.
Moreover, the woman leaning on one side of the wall made it look like a beautiful painting.
It was a woman wearing an old military uniform.
She was leaning against the wall, and even with her eyes closed, a gentle light seemed to radiate from her.
-The temperature was checked and it was confirmed that he was breathing at 40 degrees. I am a survivor.
Kyung-hoon entered the hangar without realizing it.
As he approached the woman, he flinched and stopped.
I saw a drone that had crashed on one side of the hangar. There was someone inside who destroyed the drone.
He raised his sword and shield and walked carefully.
“Can you tell where the gun was fired?”
-Comparing the direction of the shot from the crashed drone with the last screen… It was shot 10 meters in front of the owner. There was a rifle rolling around where Eve said.
“It’s a rifle with a symbol engraved on it.”
-It’s a K2 rifle for the Awakened.
Kyung-hoon lifted the gun and checked the magazine. There were still rounds left in the magazine.
“There are at least 10 bullets.”
It was not possible to check the remaining number by removing the bullets here.
After putting the magazine back together, Kyung-hoon grabbed the gun instead of the sword.
There was someone using a gun in here. There was no reason to use a sword unless you could deflect bullets with it.
‘Why did you throw away the gun with the remaining bullets?’
Questions would follow, but first we had to check on the fallen woman.
-There are no heat sources visible around. Other than the fallen woman, there are no monsters or humans in here.
The results of Kyung-hoon’s examination were no different.
Still, he carefully looked around and approached the woman.
The woman did not wake up until he came to her side.
He stood next to the woman and examined her.
It was a pretty Asian woman with short hair. Unlike wearing a military uniform, no muscles were visible and there were few injuries. She was an ordinary woman in her late 20s.
Kyung-hoon felt that her unremarkable face was strangely friendly.
He tapped the lying woman with the tip of the gun. I felt like I had fainted properly. The woman did not wake up. Kyung-hoon knew several ways to wake up a fainted person.
Fuaaaaak.
Water poured on the woman’s head as she lay down. The water that poured out of the bucket drenched the woman’s head.
“Sick.”
It also worked.
The woman opened her eyes and wrung her hands.
“Ahhh.”
She stole the spilled water and looked at Kyung-hoon with a surprised face.
Her eyes widened. Tears flowed from her eyes as she looked at Kyung-hoon.
Kyung-hoon’s heart ached when he saw her tears.
I couldn’t understand it, but I was filled with the desire to protect her.
“Ah…”
Kyung-hoon also looked at her with tearful eyes.
Kyung-hoon put the gun in his backpack.
And took out the sword.
“What are the odds of an ordinary woman surviving alone in a place like this?”
-….It will be very small. But it’s not 0%.
“That’s right. If it wasn’t for Jin Xiawei, it would have been difficult to find a way to check.”
The wounds that had been on Kyung-hoon’s body until recently were no longer visible. Jin Xiawei had completed the potion not long ago.
Sigh!
Kyung-hoon lowered his sword. The sword was stuck in the woman’s thigh.
“Ahh!”
The woman screamed. I grabbed the sword with both hands and looked at Kyung-hoon with tears streaming down my face.
‘Isn’t it?’
That was the moment Kyung-hoon took out the potion from his bag.
Biguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
The woman in front of me began to crumble. His face changed and his body began to grow.
“It wasn’t like that either.”
Kyung-hoon pulled out his sword with a bitter look on his face.
And swung the sword.
Suddenly.
The transformed face was cut off and floated into the sky. That face looked very similar to Jinhyuk.
Same time. Among the underdogs, human-looking monsters rose up.
They were monsters who had been the same underdogs just a moment ago.
The surprised underdogs rushed at him, but their bodies were torn apart in an instant.
Then, human-shaped monsters appeared from other buildings. They were all wearing military uniforms and holding guns with engraved patterns.
