Chapter 18 (2/2)

Though they were in an undesirable situation, eating a h they received a fairly large amount of supplies, their meal was sparse

They chose to only eat the fruits, nuts, and vegetables that they had gathered, grinding the ingredients into a gruel The foodstuff that they received frooods, was left untouched in the corner of the pit

“It's savory in its oay, but I still can't get used to it I reallyus kimchi damn,” muttered San

“I'ized, her eyes didn't show a hint of being sorry

They had given the Hawk a few pieces of meat from a dead Alpin, which were scattered all around the area Though the Hawk looked angelic outwardly, it possessed sharp incisors As they expected, the Hawk ate the Alpin meat well

San felt weird when he watched the Hawk eat Its incisors were longer and sharper than he expected The way that it tore into the Alpin meat and sucked up all the blood re an undershi+rt, San filtered out the water from the canteen that contained the muddy salt-water He transferred the water into another canteen and refilled the original,canteen with more water He repeated the process until he felt the dirt was contained within the original canteen He then put the saltwater filled canteen onto a fire to boil out the water If the process worked as expected, the only thing left would be salt They were hoping to take out any other foreign substances thattheir meal, they split up to do their own tasks Biyeon walked towards her sleeping bag and took out a small box The box was the size of a small paperback book Inside was a folded, yellowish paper wrapped in waterproof plastic On the piece of paper were letters and numbers that co also possessed, a phonetic-based coding and deciphering card

She went outside the pit and leaned on a large tree She unfolded a small piece of paper that was hidden inside her paliven her earlier thatThe piece of paper was filled with a ju the sequence of the nu on the piece of paper with an eraser They needed to conserve paper

She then took out the coding card and stared at it for a while Afterwards, she folded the coding card and put it in her shoulder pocket

With an emotionless expression, she looked up at the sky The late ht She squinted her eyes and softly s off the tree with her bandaged hands

She took a deep breath She felt a little better The wounds on her thigh and butt healed at an astonishi+ng speed However, she could still feel soue, and lower abdomen area Also, her body was hot She felt hot and stuffy…

When she sucked the poison out of his back yesterday, so her with this unco for her inside the pit It seemed that his preparations were complete They were now ready to conduct their covert operation The success of the operation relied on San, the only person she could wholeheartedly depend on

Biyeon put her hand on her eyebrows, shi+elding her eyes froh what she said was soundless, she believed that her silent proclaly loud resolution Furthermore, it would one day becoer She started walking toward the pit

'They don't knoe are, but we know that we're 'soldiers' We're guerilla warfare specialized special forces We won't give in to the enemy The ill start soon, as soon as we're prepared'

She went into the pit He had already finished his preparation and aiting for her It was time to start their experis tucked under her She was only wearing an undershi+rt on top of her bra She put on fingerless rappel gloves and bandaged her fists He handed her a bundle of cloth material She put the material into her htly forith both arround in front of her She had one hand open with the palround while the other hand was balled into a fist with knuckles down on the ground

Biyeon closed her eyes A le on her left shoulder So into her forearth Her body started tingling all over

She started the first stage of acceleration

The poison rapidly spread from her veins and blood The poison concoction that was injected into her was part Alpin toxin and part nectar Only a small a Her vision became blurry and hazy, as if she was drunk She felt scratchy all over, like someone had scratched her froized The sticky fluid-like substance revolving inside her made her body tense up She felt a sense of drowsiness but also a sense of bodily lightness

“Heup-”

The spread of the poison started She felt as if a long needle was inserted into her fingertips A pain like no other followed The second stage of acceleration started Her eyes were bloodshot,them almost co out and pulsing Her jaw started trey rushed up into her head

She felt the sensation of things popping inside her head It was as if she crossed a physical threshold that her body had never crossed before

“Ke-euk”

It felt as if so through various stages of hell, burning her up fro in harder

Though the amount of poison was shout her body She couldn't tell if the nectar had any effect This whole experiment was to find out the effect of this nectar substance

If he could do it, she could do it as well

The acceleration skill clashed against the poison and was now at a standstill It was a war between her inner-being, which was trying to awaken through acceleration, and the do will and power of the poison