32 Episode 32 - Messiah, Part I (2/2)
The watchers, who had originally been in the hair salon and the laundry, now used as prisons for locking up the sacrifices, looked at each other as soon as they heard the disturbance.
”What the hell happened on the first floor?”
”A monster?”
During the turmoil, the iron door of the emergency passage to the third and fourth floors of the parking garage was carefully opened.
Someone moved swiftly through the open door, and the man who opened it so secretly closed the door so hard that it was obvious secrecy was not his goal.
Bang!
It was a really solid door.
Their eardrums thundered. It was enough for everyone on the third floor to hear.
”Argh! What is this sound?”
”Well, it sounds like a door closed.”
”Door? Where is the door here? It's connected to the parking lot by a moving walk, isn't it?”
”Emergency exit, there is an emergency exit, but the emergency exit was locked...”
People began to swallow hard, tense and nervous about what was going to happen.
Those who were waiting to be sacrificed with their hands and feet tied up also trembled.
”Go.”
”What?”
”Go, it could be a monster.”
”Fuck.”
Eventually, one of them put his helmet on, grabbed his crude spear in his hand, and headed for the emergency exit.
'Damn it, why is this happening?' His footsteps were full of regret and irritation, and his anxiety and fear made them heavy.
What if it's a monster?
What if something happens?
Will I die here?
Am I going to be food for a monster?
In such a situation, the man investigating the emergency door approached it carefully. He glanced around, looking for signs.
'Nothing?'
There were no traces in his eyes. There was only a faint hint of the trail of a man, and the door closed, but not a very noticeable sign.
No, the man was hoping that this was nothing, and so it seemed to the man that this was nothing.
”Whew!” At that moment the man sighed with relief.
With that sigh, the man who decided nothing was going to happen returned the way he had come with a lighter step.
Then he said, ”Nothing! Nothing…”
When the man returned to his original place, the first thing he saw was someone with a hole in his head, and a co-worker on the floor with his neck turned 180 degrees.
”Hmm?”
And that was the last thing that he saw, as the man approaching from behind broke his neck at once.
krak...When the man fell limply, one of the women slated for sacrifice screamed.
Ignoring the scream, the man acted calmly. He didn't bother to stop her. Rather, he let her scream and took the jumper and helmet one of the fallen guys was wearing.
Then, he shouted down at those who heard the scream coming up to the second floor via the escalator.
”We have a problem on the third floor! Come on!”
”Problem?”
”Come on! Quickly!”
”Oh, okay.”
The man, who replied immediately, headed for the escalator, and behind him came a featherless Arrow.
5.
”Goddamn it, there's no one in the truck!” a man shouted, checking the driver's seat of the truck that had broken through the entrance.
The ten men gathered around the entrance showed a similar look at his words. Their heads were cocked, and they knitted their brows.
”Did the truck move by itself?”
”Does it make sense?”
”What the hell is going on? This truck isn't a monster, is it?”
The disturbance added a new stir.
”Something happened on the third floor!” A man came down through an escalator connecting the first and second floors.
He was not any different from the others in jumper and helmets. No one stopped the men from running down the escalator to the first floor.
Rather, those on the first floor looked at the person coming down in surprise. One of them asked, ”The third floor? What happened?”
”What? What's wrong with the first floor? Why is a truck stuck in the entrance?”
”We don't know, damn it, suddenly the truck just ran into the entrance!”
”So? Is that why you're here? What about the guards? Are they watching the sacrifices?”
”Shit, that's not the point! Tell the men up there to come down now. What can a sacrifice do?”
”So you're almost all here, then.” The voice of the man changed in a flash.
”Hmm? Wait, wait, who are you-”
The man acted very quickly.
Pak!
He punched the face of the person who noticed that he was not a colleague, smashing in his face as if he had been hit by a huge hammer. His skull crumpled like tofu.
At the same time, the man pulled the safety pin from the grenade he took from his jumper's pocket and threw it at the crowd gathered around the truck.
No one responded in time.
Of course, everyone was caught in the killing blast of the grenade, without any resistance or preparation.
It was not even the end.
”Aaaaaaargh!”
The moment a scream burst out from the mouth of a lucky survivor, a short gunshot rang out.
A confirmation shot.
The confirmation shots finished off everyone gathered around the truck in the time it took to draw a long breath.
No survivors.
Kim Tae-hoon's gaze immediately turned towards the corner of the grocery on the first floor of the large mall, which was visible from the entryway.
At that moment, his Hobgoblin's Sense warned him of danger.
As soon as he turned his head to the left, two crackling baseball-sized fireballs flew towards him.
The fireball touched Kim Tae-hoon's jumper, and moved over it like a living creature, setting it aflame.
Kim Tae-hoon immediately threw off the jumper, pointed his gun in the direction it came from, pulled the trigger, and immediately dove between two counters.
At that moment, he heard someone say, ”I didn't know I am going to fight a real Awakener so quickly, but this is fun.”
It was the first time he heard it, but Kim Tae-hoon was convinced at this moment.
'Lee Jin-sung.'
Who was the owner of the voice? The chief of the Messiah was here!