21 Episode 21 - The Second Relic, Part I (2/2)

January 2nd.

At the end of the day, which was like an eternity, Kim Tae-hoon and his newly-minted men if the Mac Clan, left the 1121 unit at the moment the sun rose and began marching toward the Bucheon Stadium.

The march was not so long.

The distance was about five kilometers, and even if you walked, it was only an hour to reach it.

However, the Mac Clan, who had left the unit at 7 AM, arrived at the Bucheon Stadium Station near Bucheon Stadium at 2 PM, just past the middle of the day.

They had to arrange the roads so that the vehicles carrying the weapons could move, including the dump trucks carrying the weapons.

There were few monster raids. It was a task that took a lot of time.

Getting rid of the cars which had lost their owners filling the streets by shoving them to the side also a took a lot of time, and it was not an easy job to deal with cars that were tangled up by traffic accidents if they didn't have Kim Tae-hoon and Bang Hyun-wook.

But it was a task that had to be done.

'Anyway, we have secured a road that links the Stadium Station with the military base.'

Now the dump truck wasn't just a truck, but an arsenal with a lot of weapons, and a powerful weapon that allowed them to gain the height advantage in the battle with monsters.

Securing a road for such a dump truck to move was now the most important thing for the Mac Clan.

Moreover, the road was supposed to be used as a way out at an emergency moment, so organizing the road stupidly was just like dealing with their lives stupidly.

'Living in an apartment or a building is dangerous. If we decide where to live, we'd better go to a military base or Bucheon Stadium...'

It was also important to dispose of the bodies of the dead. The place where a body sleeps becomes a tomb, but the place where it is scattered becomes hell.

The difference was huge.

Organized bodies would be a sign of order still remaining in a world that seemed to be nearing the end.

'Uh? There, there!'

”What is it? What happened? Ah!”

”The smoke is thick over there. It looks like there's a fire?”

”Isn't that a general fire, with that much smoke? It's an apartment complex over there, isn't it?”

Everyone's eyes turned to the smoke of the distant apartment complex. Kim Tae-hoon's eyes also turned.

'Now this is the beginning.'

That performance that everyone is looking at is why we need a trace of order.

The cause of the smoke was obvious.

Smoke would not be generated without fire in the chimney, so there is no smoke without fire, isn't there?

It was a fire.

The cause of the fire was obvious.

”What happened to the fire?”

Currently, the temperature was minus ten degrees Celsius, but the wind was blowing, rather than the temperature is rising.

In this cold winter, no electricity or gas was being supplied.

In the end, we will have to use the old-fashioned methods that mankind used to endure in the cold.

”I'm sure they set a fire to melt themselves, and if there were no fire in this weather, they'd freeze to death.”

Of course, they would have set a fire.

Naturally, if they had had common sense, they would have come out of the building and brought out something like a drum, or a large-scale cooking oil, and put some firewood into the fire.

But some of them, without common sense, would have been burning in their house using portable gas burners and portable butane heaters, and this was not a world that rewarded a lack of common sense.

The problem is that there were no firefighters to dispatch even if they called 911.

”Maybe we just have to wait until the fire goes out unless it rains. But it won't rain in this weather. If it rains, it would be even more astonishing.”

”What happens when the apartment complex is on fire and spreads around?”

”Well ...”

The world that people had built was as easy to burn as matchboxes.

”I don't know what will happen, but I'm sure there's no way to do anything.”

”It's creepy.”

In fact, this applied not to just monster attacks, but also disasters such as earthquakes.

Experts say that when a disaster like a major earthquake occurs, there would often be more deaths from secondary disasters such as fires in the infrastructure that had collapsed, than the deaths caused by the disaster.

'The real trouble is now beginning.'

It would be monsters, not people, who would be most excited in such confusion.

'Hmm...' At that moment, Kim Tae-hoon's head went back.

To his eyes, this was a desolate road filled with vehicles.

But his other senses said that the desolation was false. The Sense of the Hobgoblin told Kim Tae-hoon that there was a strong being near him.

”Prepare for battle!” Kim Tae-hoon shouted.

Ohwwww!

After Kim Tae-hoon's cry, an eerie howling that made their legs tremble echoed around them!