Chapter 47 (2/2)

If they rest, there is less of a burden if battle starts.

“I’ll have to rest too.”

Tung!

Park Jin Hyuk laid on his stomach comfortably as well. If it becomes noisy outside, there will be a signal from under them. He will last longer if he starts abusing his neck from then.

Shashak!

“Who’s been playing around since before?”

Someone is grinding his teeth and blowing into the air. It is bothering him.

“Uh…..?”

He turned his head again and his thoughts became paralyzed.

He could not tell if what he is seeing is a dream of if it is real. A monster one and a half times the size of a Crawlion was sticking its tongue out.

Spat!

Ugh!

It was just a short moment of 1 second. Park Jin Hyuk fell off of the container box as he tried to avoid the tongue from reaching his neck.

Shoong!

He did not fall without doing anything. He threw any of the grenades that he could get his hands on. He was not able to check the type. He did not have the time to do that.

Bang!

As the impact grenade went off, the container box was crushed. The force members’ attention went to the source of the explosion. Then they saw the mutant’s body leaping to the side.

“It’s a Spectre!”

It is 3 to 4 times the size of a human, has long malformed arms and legs, 12 rake-like nails, and it is as fast as a Slayer.

[Groups 1 and 2, check the passage. Group 3, fall back and face the Spectre!]

Chun Myung Ik determined the situation as the master of a large guild should. He did not know what had happened, but it had come in already. They need to end it before the situation worsens.

Pew pew pew pew!

Dozens of Lifers brandished SMGs. The Spectre climbed the ceiling and walls to avoid the shower of bullets. It moves like a ghost.

Then it disappeared among hundreds of container boxes. They failed.

-[Put on your vision goggles!]

All of the force members wore their vision goggles. They would not perform to the fullest because of the thickness and number of container boxes, but they had to put them on.

Zing!

The sensor could not get past 2 of them and got stuck on the way.

-[Sniper, sniper respond.]

-[Everyone will have died. I think I was the last.]

Park Jin Hyuk spoke. The Spectre had been going for his neck to break it.

It seems like what he thought had been the sound of teeth grinding was the sound of a neck breaking.

If he had not been able to detect the Spectre’s movement with his senses enhanced through body modification, he would have fallen to the same fate as the other snipers.

‘Where did it come from?’

The Spectre made a round in the next passage. It had tracked the body odor of the force to come through the ceiling of the cargo lift.

It had not made any sounds because it cut through it carefully with its nails.

Everyone had been moving busily. Even if there had been a sound, the force would not have been able to hear it unless it was loud because it was so far away.

The Spectre handled the easy targets first. That was the snipers.

The reason why it left its nails and used its tongue to break their necks? It wanted to avoid having the other Lifers detect the smell of blood.

-[It might go through the passage after creating confusion, so….. Huk!]

Sukukuk!

Chun Myung Ik and Oh Min Ho got flat on the ground. Another Spectre appeared out of nowhere and waved its nails.

Kuhuk!

Kyah!

Its long arms and nails swung around a 7 meter radius. Excluding the 2 who had reflexively gotten on the floor, 3 Lifers got caught on the nails and were ripped into pieces.

‘Hocheon is going to attempt a level D, too? Give some advice, not interference. Stay focused if you don’t want to be wiped out. It is completely different from level E.’

Chun Myung Ik suddenly remembered what he said a few days before launching the mission.

‘Do you think it’s pathetic that 50 people die at a time? Try going. You’ll know if you go.’

29 people died already. But the danger had not passed. Rather, it is getting worse as they go. Annihilation? This is not a dream.