52 Episode 52 - Gwangmyeong City, Part II (1/2)
Chapter 19. Gwangmyeong City, Part II
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
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Gwangmyeong Industrial High School...
It was now used as a hideout of the Messiah, located right next to Mt. Dodok. Of course, the conversations there were always nasty things, from boasting of forced rape to competing with the number of people they had killed. It was a den of the devils in human form. Now it was full of tension.
”He had a gun?”
”Yes, he was definitely holding a pistol.”
”Not a revolver?”
”Choi, tell me straight. was that a real pistol? Are you sure you were not wrong?”
The starting point of tension was Choi. Having survived thanks to the mercy of the monster, Kim, he returned to the hideout with all his speed, and then went to the executive and spat out everything.
The fact that Choi spat out was enough to make the Messiah executives gather in one place even late at night.
”No, it was clear. It was a pistol.”
”You're making us sick.”
The first reason was that Choi's opponent used a pistol, not a revolver.
”Where did he get the pistol? The police armory usually has automatic rifles, but no pistols?”
Normal cops usually used revolvers for many reasons.
First, the first shot could be loaded with blank ammunition, but if they used a normal pistol, they would have to reload it after using a blank. Second, Korean police do not use a gun in most circumstances.
Therefore, in Korea, pistols that are not revolvers are used in two places: the army, or the police commando units, such as the special forces in the police.
”Did he get it from the army?”
It was clear that wherever he brought it, it was associated with a group with different firepower than the general police.
”But you said that he didn't shoot. Hey, Choi. Explain it again. How did the kids die?”
”Well… the moment he dropped the gun muzzle, a sound of the wind suddenly came and everyone fell to the ground with a hole in their temples.”
”The sound of the wind? Explain it correctly, not a stupid explanation.”
”That, that was the sound of the wind. Shiyik, shh! That kind of sound.”
He had killed three people in an instant with a weapon other than a gun.
”He must be a superhuman, damn it.”
It made the Messiah executives more nervous than the fact that he had used a pistol. They couldn't help but notice that some of the men with the marks on the back of their right hands had superhuman abilities.
”Does he use Telekinesis like the captain?”
One of them was the head of the Messiah, Lee Ji-seop.
”But can the captain do that with Telekinesis in an instant…”
”Ha Il-hyun, can I show you if I can or can't? Huh?”
”Sorry, sorry.”
Lee Ji-seop.
He was quite young, sitting on the only fluffy principal chair in the teachers' room, and he looked like a college freshman, never more than mid-twenties. He was a quiet-looking man.
”I'm quiet these days, so do I look funny? Huh?”
”No, no.”
But he was never a kind man.
Would a kind man be the head of a wicked herd called the Messiah?
He was a cruel and mean man.
The world was on its last stage, and there was no more entertainment in the world. Since he was ruthless and evil, he enjoyed bringing people into torture as entertainment.
In the basement of their hideout of Gwangmyeong Industrial High School, dozens of corpses of those who had been killed by Lee were waiting for spring and summer to come.
Of course, he did not become a leader just because he was ruthless and evil.
”Hey, Ha Il-hyun, do you want me to drill a hole in your head?”
Along with the words, the revolver in Lee's pocket floated into the air and pointed at a man named Ha Il-hyun.
Ha's expression was unseen, for in the teachers' room they were talking, only two flashlights were flashing instead of a light. They could see how frightened he was by the constant trembling of the flashlight in his hand.
”Sorry, I'm sorry.”
”Everybody, stay with me. How long are you going to repeat the same story? Are you here to do that? What we need is to find him and find a way to kill him!”
With the words, Lee grabbed his own gun, which he had made fly with Telekinesis, and withdrew it.
His expression was serious.
'Fucking hell.'
It was not a look for just this situation.
'There's been some crazy stuff happening since a few days ago.'
Strange things had been happening in Gwangmyeong City over the last fifteen days. Monsters hiding all over the city began to run away like crazy. Of course, it made it easier for survivors to act. That's why people, who are not even superhumans like Choi Ki-soon, and who didn't have a gun, were able to hunt human beings openly.
But Lee knew that this was not a good sign.
'Everything went wrong when the special forces came to Gwangmyeongsageori Station about fifteen days ago.'
Above all, Lee saw that people, who dressed as special forces, appeared around Gwangmyeongsageori Station.
It wasn't like a rescue team. If they were a rescue team, they would try to find survivors, but instead, they appeared at night when survivors kept quiet. Crucially, they entered Gwangmyeongsageori Station without any hesitation.
'What did they do?'
Then suddenly the monsters began to make a fuss.
'Should I have run away then?'
In fact, he tried to escape then, because Lee Ji-seop, who had already committed a lot of crimes, would be the first to be executed when the military or police were in place.
However, after that, the monsters in Gwangmyeong City disappeared, so he remained. Without a monster, he would be the boss of Gwangmyeong City.
Now, again, a strange one appeared.
'Damn it.'
Lee was so concerned that he could not even participate in this conversation now.
Then the door of the teachers' room opened loudly.
”Hmm?”
”What is it?”
The door opened and everyone who was talking turned their heads naturally toward the noise. But there was nothing in the doorway.
Instead, the sound of the wind came through the open window. Surprised by the sudden cold wind, people turned their heads again.
Only two out of six people in the teachers' room could turn their heads away from the door after the cold wind came in.
Thud! The other four fell to the floor as they were, dripping blood out of the holes in their heads.
”Aahhhh!”
One of the two survivors, Choi Ki-soon screamed at the man floating by the window of the teachers' room on the second floor.
”He, he, he—”
Instead of screaming, Lee jumped up and tried to point the revolver in his hand toward the dark thing over the window.
”Argh!” But Lee could not. His arm pointed to the ceiling, not his front, as if an invisible line had caught his right wrist and pulled it away.
'It's him.' Lee was well aware that it was Telekinesis, and thanks to that, he knew who had appeared now.