76 Episode 76 - A Gamecock, Part II (1/2)
Chapter 27. A Gamecock, Part II
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
4.
A conference room in the Bucheon City Council Hall...
”There is a blue-grade monster coming here.” The comment made by Jang Sung-hoon was shocking enough to snap up the eyes of everyone gathered there, which the key members of the Mac Guild used to share important stories.
”So let's take the necessary supplies, and flee to Yeongjong Island.” Before their surprise was over, Jang came up with a plan to deal with the current situation.
Everyone's faces began to change, as they had no idea what to do.
”Why Yeongjong Island?” Kim Su-ji was the first person in the situation to ask questions.
”First, it's the furthest place we can run.”
”How about Seoul? The Capital Defense Command…”
”Currently, the only bridge that we can cross the Han River is Gimpo Bridge, but the only way to get there is not properly organized. On the other hand, the road to Yeongjong Island has been cleared.”
”Is Yeongjong Island safe?”
”It's safer than here. Because it's an island, there's a low probability of a new monster entering.” Jang answered in the face of the emergency.
”Do we really have to abandon Bucheon?”
Jang, who used to speak fluently before this question, had to shut his mouth. The silence started. After a long silence, Jang managed to open his mouth. ”We should throw it away.”
Bucheon.
Until last year, Jang was in the military service in Bucheon. There wasn't any big affection for him. But now Bucheon had become everything for him. He had risked his life to survive and to protect it. He had tried really hard. It was like his own child!
”The present world is like that, isn't it? We should throw it away if necessary.”
How could anyone say that they would abandon such things easily? But that was also the reality that Jang saw. He did not turn away from reality. He looked at reality more clearly than anyone else.
”Can we get an answer when the master comes back?”
Of course, what everyone wanted at this moment was not reality. It was Kim Tae-hoon, the Guild Master, who they wanted to see at this moment. He was the only one who seemed to wake up from this ridiculous nightmare. The same was true of Jang, so, he had finished preparing for him.
”Yes, I have to let the Master know about this news.
”I'll organize a special unit, and send it to Buyeo. We'll send a total of ten teams.
”Only one of them needs to deliver this letter to the master.”
5.
After reading the letter, Kim kept his mouth shut. The letter was clearly written about his worst-case scenario.
The story was that the blue-grade monster in Sejong City was rapidly approaching Bucheon, and that the Mac Guild had started evacuating to Yeongjong Island.
So far, it had been about reality.
[This is probably someone's trick.]
What came out later was not reality, but Jang's personal opinion. Jang was suspicious of something about the sudden arrival of a blue-grade monster in Bucheon. And even though Jang didn't write it down, Jang, who wrote the letter, and Kim, who read the letter, knew who that someone was.
'The Six Snakes.' The mysterious force, which drove Kim to death later, had played a trick.
Of course, he did not know how. But the other one was definitely sure. 'They've got a new relic.'
The value of a relic that could lure away a blue-grade monster was absolute. Luring includes attracting, as well as pulling away.
Of course, if they had had such a relic, the Six Snakes would have used it in the past. They even had the original edition of Daedongyeojido, which let them check the location of monsters. With the two relics combined, they would have already taken over the Capital Defense Command. But they hadn't.
They were being nice? It couldn't have been. This meant that they had recently acquired the relics that made it possible.
'There is a group that gives out relics.'
His thinking proceeded that far. He couldn't know more than that.
'Four days ago.' More importantly, the special forces moved to deliver this letter to him four days ago.
'The blue-grade monster reached Bucheon two days ago.' According to the letter, within two days of sending the letter, the monster would reach Bucheon. So now, a blue-grade monster might already be running wild in Bucheon. It couldn't be worse.
But at this moment, he recalled the worst situation, rather than sticking his tongue to the worst. ”If the purpose of the Six Snakes was to destroy the Mac Guild… they wouldn't have allowed him to retreat to Yeongjong Island.”
The depth of human malice was unknown.
If the Six Snakes wanted to firmly crush the Mac Guild, it was likely that they had identified the Mac Guild's escape to Yeongjong Island and blown up the only bridge currently capable of entering Yeongjong Island.
If he were in the position of the Six Snakes, he would do that. As soon as he imagined it, an unspeakable tragedy struck him. But he did not grieve.
It was not too late to grieve after seeing with his eyes what he had lost.
”You did a good job.” He thanked both of them for bringing him a letter.
”Oh, no.”
”We just did what we had to do.”
” I will head to Bucheon. Both of you will get back to Bucheon alive.”
And immediately he gave them a terrible notice.
They had lost countless colleagues to get here. If only the two of them were allowed to return, they would be dead. But the two were not discouraged by the fact.
”We'll get back alive.”
”Don't worry about us!”They did their job and made the sacrifice of their fellow workers into a stepping stone for hope, not a worthless dog's death.
Kim clapped the shoulders of the two. At the same time, he promised. 'I will take the price of this blood somehow. Somehow…'
6.
”Hurry, load them in a hurry!”
”Depart!”
Incheon Port...
After Busan port, there was a lot of cargo in Korea, but now the port, which had been silent for almost half a year, was so busy. People and things kept moving on the ship. Jang's expression was tired of seeing this.
'Damn it, damn it, damn it.' He was scared and angry. 'You son of a bitch.'