4 Episode 4 - At a Large Supermarket, Part III (1/2)
Chapter 1. At a Large Supermarket, Part III
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
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The food corner on the second floor of the large supermarket...
”Argh!” This place where visitors were greeted with various kinds of food, was now a battlefield filled with screams, monsters, and blood.
”Surround that Goblin! Surround it!”
Clang Clang! Four men rushed toward the three Goblins, dwarf monsters with green skin. The only common feature of the four men, who were all different in age, attire, and shape, was that they each had a crude spear made of a knife, curtain rod, and insulated tape. The four men used the long reach of the spears, to stab the Goblins' bellies and eyes.
”Kieee!” the Goblins screamed, and one of them slipped to the floor and fell.
As soon as the Goblins fell, a baseball bat suddenly hit its head like an ax. The baseball bat crushed the Goblin's head like clay, and the Goblin went limp on the floor, spilling blood from its eyes, nose, and mouth.
”Uhhhh-cha!!!!” Bang Hyun-wook, the owner of the baseball bat, screamed out, rushing straight towards the Goblin in front of him. The Goblin's face was cracked in half. The bat had smashed it precisely between its nose and the brow, and of course, the two red eyes of the Goblins near it were not safe either. The eyeballs had burst like eggs. But the pain and despair never made it scream. Instant death!
All the Goblin could do was to shiver like a dead body.
'I am full of energy!' Bang was sure at this moment. 'If I'm in this condition, I could hit a home run in the Major Leagues!'
The strange power that started from his stomach and flowed to the ends of his arms was not an illusion. The conviction was charged with courage.
”Come on! Come on!” He cried out loudly as if he hoped all the monsters in the food corner on the second floor of the basement would find him and come to him. But there was no monster coming toward him.
Hammer! The last monster on the second basement floor, a monster called an Orc, with gray-brown skin and nearly two meters tall, was just dead. The cause of its death was a traffic accident. The fork of a forklift was pierced through its chest, and stuck in a wall, leaving it hanging there.
Kim Tae-hoon, the perpetrator of the terrible accident, came down from the forklift, and at the same time he pulled out the smartphone he had in his pocket.
At that moment, the lights that lit the second floor turned off at the same time with a bizarre sound.
”What? What?”
”I can't see anything!”
During the confusion that followed, the light emitted by the smartphone revealed Kim's face. His expression was not good.
'No communication.' No communication at all.
It was a factor that caused him to turn on another warning light in his head.
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6.
The end of a battle was always bleak. There was no cheering. The sense of relief of being alive took away the power of the whole body, the power to spit out gossip or even complaints. At the same time, the fatigue that has not been recognized in the extreme situation was doubled.
Pain also came with fatigue. There was no difference between the one hundred and two survivors who lived through the death fight against the monsters on the second floor of the large supermarket. Everyone just sat down on the floor.
Some of them sat back against the shelves, or simply fell asleep lying on the floor, stunned. The emergency lights that began to come on as the emergency generator started to operate prompted them to sleep even faster.
If there was no light at all, they would not fall asleep in fear, but this gentle light gave them relief.