Chapter 46 (1/2)
Hatcheries and nests are intelligent. This is unnecessary to say for the headquarters.
If the nest is the head, the womb that produces mutants is the body or arms and legs. There is no reason that something that needs to control hundreds of mutants would not be smart.
Cha Jun Sung hid his inner thoughts. Even if it is not deceived easily, it is still better to fight it in the warehouse than it is to fight in the rest area.
‘So this is how the situation becomes twisted.’
Chun Myung Ik wanted to avoid the nest in order to reduce the damage.
Level 1 and 2 could not harm the force. Level 3 is different. There are a lot of points to be earned if they catch it, but it is wise to go past it if they can.
-[We will decide the order of going back to the warehouse to face the nest.]
They need to create a rotation however they can, whether it is by drawing lots. If they do not, it could end with everyone trying to push it off to the other. If they are chosen, they will just have to think of it as fate.
Chun Myung Ik started with looking at the last group that came in. Maybe because they already passed through once or because they need to fight, their tension was released.
Achoo!
A Lifer who had been moving in the middle, sneezed.
The smell in his saliva filled the nest as it sprayed out.
Kung!
It is a sweet smell contrasting that of a mutant’s. A smell that was once sensed a long time ago, wet the nest’s resting appetite.
-[Bastard! Why would you sneeze! You bastard!]
Ranting was poured on the Lifer who sneezed. As the radio became noisy, the rest area rang. It did not matter if they lowered their voices because they had already been discovered.
26 wombs open and eggs the size of humans come out. It is impossible to distinguish their levels visually. The force rushed to the warehouse.
With so many people, the eggs fell before even half of them could go in. When the eggs hit the ground, they broke and unidentifiable mutants sprang out.
Kiak!
A nest operates the genes of the mutants that it gives birth to as it pleases.
It could even maintain the characteristics of the types that it swallowed. As long as it has nutrients and freedom, it can bring out new types as easy as production.
“Get away!”
“Die!”
Pew pew!
A Lifer was caught and brandished his SMG. It was washed out because it is a level 1. They cannot drag the time. These guys are bait.
There are 26 eggs but 20 hatched. It is obvious that 6 of them will be level 2 and 3.
Level 1 only takes a few seconds, so they fell down as they were killed.
“Hurry up and get in, asshole!”
“Move!”
The entrance is narrow, but nearly 50 Lifers had gathered there. Since it is a lawless situation, their speed was faster than usual.
Zing!
Woah!
When there were about 20 Lifers left, 4 out of 6 eggs cracked. A roar let them know that a muscle monster over 2m in size had been born.
“It’s a Crawlion!”
“Shoot!”
It is a simple and ignorant mutant. Its intellectual level brinks on retardation as it only eats, sleeps, and kills, but its tremendous muscular strength covers this shortcoming.
Its muscular strength alone is 5 to 6 times that of a human. The toughness and thickness of the muscles are reminiscent of elephant skin. Even as it is hit by an SMG, it pushes forward.
Kung!
Bang!
The Crawlion pushed through the shooting and headbutted a Lifer, hitting his chest and making him fly at a wall of the rest area.
With the shock of the pressure on his chest, the protective gear and his sternum shattered, and his ribs pierced through his heart, lungs, and skin.
The more shocking thing was that he must have still been alive because he moved his head.
Kiak!
While 4 Crawlions were hanging in, the number of level 1 mutants increased to 50. Wrapping up was up to the Crawlions.
-[Shit! Chun Myung Ik, you asshole!]
-[If you still have the strength to curse, how about blocking the mutants from the rear?]
When Chun Myung Ik heard the radio come in, he laughed in mockery. The Lifer cursing at him is the one who had asked him for an equal chance to hunt.
He had not known that there was a nest when he had sent the Lifer to the front. How could he have known?
All he had done was allow the 15 Lifers who did not know their place to have the first meeting with a level 3. If they live, they live and if they die, it is their own fault.