40 Episode 40 - He Got the Eyes, Part II (1/2)
Chapter 14. He Got the Eyes, Part II
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
5.
It was night time before the enthusiasm of the survivors, which seemed not to go out, cooled down.
The night was dark and cold, and the survivors moved to find a warm place to survive again.
Kim Tae-hoon was also prepared to spend the night.
Kim Tae-hoon's bed was a car, and he sat in the driver's seat of a car that was too expensive to use as a tent instead of the Mercedes S500, put down the window, and turned his head.
He saw the dead body of the Black Snake.
Kim Tae-hoon looked at the dead body and picked up a mug. A partner with a steaming heart told him that it had no intention of spending the night sleeping.
”Boss.”
”Big brother!”
Jang Sung-hoon and Bang Hyun-wook appeared at that time.
”Would you like a beer? It's very cool because it has been in the snow. I brought you a snack, too.”
Before his answer came out, Jang Sung-hoon got in the passenger seat and Bang Hyun-wook also got in the back seat.
Jang Sung-hoon, who was in the passenger seat, put his hand in a black plastic bag.
”Do you have any brands you like?”
”I don't need it.”
”Brother, I'll have Miller, Miller.”
Jang Sung-hoon handed a Miller beer can to Bang Hyun-wook.
”You're a young man who just graduated from high school, but you are choosing a brad beer? Huh?”
”Haha, that's the way it is,” Bang Hyun-wook smiled awkwardly and received the beer can.
Kim Tae-hoon took a sip of coffee at the sight of the two. He began to enjoy the silence.
Jang Sung-hoon started to talk in the meanwhile. ”You've been through it.”
”Now let's get to the point, then. Now, we're creating a Clan.”
The story did not have a head and tail.
”Clan? Brother, we are a Clan, what Clan are we making again?”
”It means we will allow the creation of new Clans within our territory, and we will be the leader of groups of Clans. For example, Mac Clan becomes Mac Guild and has multiple Clans under its command, and the Clans run several parties internally.”
It was a concept that anyone who had played an MMORPG game could easily understand.
Bang Hyun-wook immediately expressed his doubts. ”Then it's dangerous, right? If we ever get betrayed…”
”After killing the boss and taking the seat, all they have to do is to fight such monsters as are outside the window. Do you want to do that?”
Bang Hyun-wook, who immediately grasped the situation, took a drink of beer instead of answering.
Jang Sung-hoon's eyes turned to Kim Tae-hoon.
”Actually, they are not just Clans, but there are some parties that have a lot of power. We just need a system, because they're getting bigger. I think it's important to keep in mind to give the Clans a gun if necessary. War is decided by the number of people. Of course, this is not an urgent problem. The immediate problem is the common people. They need a representative.”
Jang Sung-hoon drank a sip of soda and kept talking. ”The bomb that might really explode at any time is the common people like me. Right now the Awakeners are at the center of a group of survivors. It's not a good situation for the public. Two or three out of ten female patients visiting sister Sun-mi are victims of sexual assault. There are such victims among men, too. Of course, none of them confess the damage.”
Jang Sung-hoon's expression gradually hardened.
This was the reality.
”You want to elect a representative for the public, right?” They needed someone to speak for the voices of these people. That way, when the balance was there, the order could be established right there.
”We can't elect people, because we can't run the election in this situation, and we don't have to, because it's not hard to pick a representative. The boss can pick one right away. The question is, who do you pick? In that meaning, can I have that snake?”
At the words he threw out, Kim Tae-hoon drank some coffee again.
”I have an old man named Park Kap-soo, who has been working on leather shoes for over forty years, and he has good skill. I'm going to let him make items with that snake. And at the same time, I am taking this opportunity to recruit technicians who have been hiding or were unable to reveal their skills. I will make a workshop. And that's what we need to do to make a complementary relationship between the Awakeners and the public.”
It was meaningless to have politicians who simply represented the voices of the public.
They had to complement one another.
They needed the public with skills, groundwork, and labor to support Awakeners who hunted the monsters at the risk of their lives.
At the same time, a symbol was needed, which could be used as a reference point when someone would record this work later.
The dead body of the Black Snake would be the most perfect symbol.
”We'll make some items of that leather, and then we'll give them to the newly created Clan.”
At the words of Jang Sung-hoon, Kim Tae-hoon looked over at the dead body of the Black Snake silently.
Of course, Kim Tae-hoon had no intention of opposing Jang Sung-hoon's words. The silence was a positive expression.
”Of course I'm not going to do that for free.” Jang Sung-hoon also knew that, so he took out a folding map with a smile that softened the serious atmosphere.
It was a map of Bucheon City.
”I'll give you my game, instead of taking the boss's game.” Jang Sung-hoon said, tapping his finger at one place of the map filled with his own writing.
”There is a possibility that there is a warehouse of Baek Sung-taek here.”
”Who is he?” Bang asked, scratching his head.
”He is a whale, a whale.”
”A whale?”
”A whale.”
After swallowing his coffee, Kim Tae-hoon intervened in the funny conversation of the two. ”Who is he?”
”He's someone who focuses on dealing with stolen goods and the theft of cultural properties. He deals and takes in everything, so he is called a whale. Of course, he could not keep the stolen goods in his house, so he had the warehouse built separately, and the warehouse is right in Bucheon.”
”At this star sign?”
”It's one of the candidates.”
”You don't know exactly where it is, right?”
”If I had known exactly where it was, I would have deserted from my regiment and robbed it.”
”How do you know?”
”He's a man very sensitive to the theory of divination based on topography, and he wouldn't have made the warehouse just anywhere. The problem is…”