Chapter 114 (1/2)

The wooden bridge that connected to the forest region was replaced with a assembly type steel bridge. It’s said that the Engineering Corps completed it in four days.

As expected, there was nothing that didn’t work out if the army was involved.

First, the 250 military trucks passed and our van followed behind to cross the bridge.

There was a small guard post next to the bridge where soldiers with guns and a few hunters were standing by.

It seems they were on lookout so that the Chungho Group cannot cross from that side.

They wouldn’t be able to catch the ones that cross the river though.

“We will be inspecting for a bit.”

Once all the military trucks passed the soldiers holding guns approached.

It seems they will be thoroughly checking since the situation is how it is.

They starting the inspection from the vehicles in the front and it seemed they were doing an inspection of the vehicle’s inside and confirming the passenger’s ID and face.

“This looks like it will take some time.”

Park Han-bum said while yawning. Soo-ah slightly frowned.

“Wait…… aren’t they doing a ID check? Edward doesn’t have one.”

“Ah, now that you mention it.”

It hadn’t even been that long since Edward came to this side. Of course he didn’t have something like an ID.

“An ID you say. What’s that?”

“Ah, damn it. This is going to be annoying.”

There was a battle right ahead of them so there was no way bribes would work. Everyone’s sight landed on Edward.

“Why are you all looking at me like that? And what’s an ID?”

He said with a displeased look.

It was possible to somehow get past the fact that the inside was wider than the outside.

It was pretty amazing but since space expansion existed for things like bags as well it was possible to gloss over it. However, that wasn’t the same for Edward.

I asked him.

“How long can you stay as a shadow?”

“About 5 minutes.”

Would it be enough with that?”

“I don’t think it will be enough.”

Han Joon-suk shook his head. It was not like turning into a shadow made him completely transparent and turning into a bat would be plenty suspicious.

It was a problem to turn back now too. That would be pretty suspicious as well after all.

“Could you get out of the car please?”

A soldier shouted at the half open window. It was not a situation where we could stall for time.

“Just get off.”

Edward let out a laugh.

“Where are you getting such confidence?”

“Don’t worry, go and get this ID check or whatever. I will do what I can in here.”

“…… okay.”

Looks like he had an idea.

For now, everybody got out of the car while leaving Edward behind.

The ID check went without a problem but the problem was checking the inside of the van.

Two soldiers went in the van and came out before 1 minute passed.

“There are no problems. You are free to go.”

“Yes? Yes. Thank you.”

Once we entered, we could see Edward leaning on a chair with a proud look on his face.

We started going for now. Once we crossed the bridge I asked him a question.

“What in the world happened?”

“You didn’t forget who I am did you?”

“Vampire…… Ah, did you make those soldiers your servants?”

“I didn’t bite them so don’t worry. If we’re separated by a certain distance it should get cancelled so that won’t be a problem either.”

It was a good thing that it was a normal soldier instead of a hunter.

A large monkey got sent flying after crashing into the van.

Yeon-gyeong’s shoulders shook.

“Party leader, just, just now…… that was a monster right?”

“Yep.”

“Is it fine to keep driving?”

“It’s fine. But more importantly…….”

Wasn’t she hugging that too tightly.

“That guy will die suffocating.”

“Ah, sorry. I hugged you too strongly right?”

Yeon-gyeong took Kelby off of her chest. This envious bastard.

The forest became more dense. The road gradually became narrow enough that the van couldn’t pass so the speed started falling.

“Ahhh!”

A large tree was hit by the van and broke. Cho Young-gu shouted with a loud voice.

“How far you going to go?”

“There’s a lake if we go a few more kilometers.”

I spread the map open. If we wanted to hunt while staying at one place then water was a necessity. Drinking water was lacking as well but we needed to be able to wash.

The other reason is that there are monsters where water is.

“There doesn’t seem to be a road though? Is it really fine to just keep driving?”

“It’s fine. There is some impact but it won’t get broken.”

I have mentioned this before but items were strong against this kind of physical impact.

No matter how strong and big a tree is it was possible to crush it under the van with enough speed.

If we travelled so loudly then monsters would be attracted too.

Once we drove while crushing dozens of trees we could see a small lake.

We could also hear something running at us from behind.

The sound of Giant Monkeys could be heard as well. They were all monsters following the van we were riding.

Through the sound I could tell that there were at least dozens. I turned my head in this and that direction and started talking.

“Should we start with some basic warm ups?”

2 meter high Giant Monkeys showed themselves on top of the trees.