Chapter 21 (1/2)

“That felt great!”

“This isn’t what we came here for, but it’s hard to meet normal people. It was expected.”

“The world is full of greed.”

“Right. And this place is like heaven and hell where your dreams come true as long as you survive.”

For people who were sick of their lives, Life Mission was a land of opportunity for them to escape reality. It was not impossible to just close their eyes and throw themselves away into the game world.

“Are we really going to support them from the rear?”

“We’ll have to.”

Cha Jun Sung intended on supporting the back as he had said he would. He did not care if he could not catch mutants since he had not entered the mission to gain points.

The goal of this mission was to open Level D for Park Jin Hyuk. They needed to do this for themselves. When their power is suspended, the radius for their activity becomes smaller.

They could become the target for mutants if they fell too far from the party.

He had realized as he did missions that the helper placed them in starting places that were relatively as safe as possible.

As long as they did not go wherever they wanted, they were always placed at the optimal starting point.

“What do you think they’re doing?”

“They’ll have to discuss their plans. Even if their personalities don’t match, they’ll be fine if they can tune them. But it’s dangerous because Carlyle is a maverick who won’t listen to anyone else.”

Cha Jun Sung had spent 10 years in Life Mission. He had been in thousands of parties and he had met all kinds of troublemakers.

Swiping items was commonplace, and there were people who threw others under the bus or ordered their parties around.

What’s yours is mine.

What’s mine is mine.

Your mistakes are your mistakes.

My mistakes are also your mistakes.

He had never ended missions with people like that with a smile.

“Do you think he’s nobility?”

“He could be since he said something about the elite Special Forces.”

There was still nobility in Britain. The boundaries with people had become more relaxed in modern times, but it was difficult to shake off the arrogance of tradition.

His behavior was understandable if he accumulated an enormous wealth and a rich history behind him, though it didn’t change the fact that he was a jerk.

“I’m pretty sure they won’t move from a safe place at night. They don’t have night-vision goggles.”

Cha Jun Sung and Park Jin Hyuk had night vision. It functioned so well that they could see at night as if it were broad daylight. They needed to take advantage of points like this.

“It’s wide.”

“Very.”

Cha Jun Sung examined the forest before him. He could not know how wide the island was. There was no way the helpers would tell them willingly.

The location of the military base was more important than the width of the area. Maybe it was because of the low altitude, but they could not see any towering buildings. It was highly possible that the base was in a basement somewhere.

“Change the vision goggles to thermographics.”

“Okay.”

People were more vulnerable in nature because their senses have degraded in comfortable environments. They would not be able to function without help from their items.

A light came from the vision goggles, changing it to thermographics. It was the disagreeable party members.

“They’re still in the same place.”

“Seems they’re not in a rush.”

The thermographic mode detected heat within 50 meters. Since there was also an infrared mode, they could see organisms who did not have heat signatures as well. The party was not moving. There were a lot of objects obstructing their view, but they could see each movement through the goggles.

“Huh? Ah….. He’s really trash.”

“Hm!”

A Lifer who seemed to be Carlyle was hitting someone who looked like Henry and Martin. He was venting his anger at Cha Jun Sung out on them.

“Is he really an idiot?”

“I’m pretty sure he’s had everything go his way until now because he was born with a silver spoon.”

It might have been the first indignity he had experienced since birth. He was wrapped up in the thought, ‘How dare someone like he’.

“They don’t have a space compression bag and all they have in terms of weapons are firearms with a silencer.”

“50 points.”

It was a good thing that they brought the silencer, but mutants were sensitive to the smell of gunpowder. They needed to have something like a crossbow at least.

As long as other variables didn’t arise, Park Jin Hyuk’s crossbow would work. It was pretty powerful. If hit from a close distance, even a Level 2 would be badly wounded.

A silencer could not be underestimated as an advantage. Since it can be reused, it can be used in slaughter as long as it was not broken or lost.

“I’m going.”

“Let’s keep some distance. Whether we like them or not, we need to help cover the rear.”

The party went into the forest without hesitation. Staying still in one place did not help in completing missions. They needed to go through with the mission even if it was dangerous.

Seuk.

Lloyd and the two men stood in a triangle to protect Carlyle. The rest took in their own boundaries as they went forward. They could not trust Hicks and the others.

Carlyle’s incompetence had been revealed in the fight just now. The first impression of him was of him slumping to the floor at an attack with a sword.

As an afterthought, they wondered how it would have been if they followed Cha Jun Sung instead.

“It’s peaceful.”