Chapter 132 (2/2)

A few Lifers tried to run away into the sky, but were gnawed away little by little by the smoke.

[Get down!]

Bang!

Hercules self-destructs. He has helped Cha Jun Sung a lot until now, so it is sad that he has died. He can revive him, but it is not a good feeling.

Fragments hit his body. He embraces Argos and protects him so that he does not get injured.

[Now! Use the protect ring and escape!]

“Deploy shield!”

A blue and purple magnetic field forms a strong veil. Cha Jun Sung holds Argos and runs. As the explosion shrinks, the smoke gets closer. It really is persistent.

Bang bang bang!

People use all types of firearms like fever shots and grenades to make a path through the smoke, but no one was able to succeed because they were not as strong as Cha Jun Sung’s.

When the smoke touches the shield, it tries to get through in any way possible. If it goes through, Argos is 100% dead and Cha Jun Sung is in danger.

The shield’s color fades. Its output of power has been raised to 100%, but it is still eaten up by the white phosphorus shell.

“Ah!”

Cha Jun Sung expands the booster to full power. The energy he has left is 2%, but he would rather do everything he can if he is going to die anyway.

Cha Jun Sung escaped from a hell covered in white smoke. The shield broke at the same time.

The battle suit’s energy became 0%. He quickly charged it.

“You don’t think everyone inside there is going to die, are they?”

It is not just 1 or 2 people, but thousands. It goes beyond PK to a massacre.

Cha Jun Sung hears coughing in his arms, and quickly checks on Argos’ state. A shell fragment is embedded near his heart. Blood flows from there but also from his mouth because his lungs have been affected too.

“No! Hurry to the briefing room!”

He needs to go to the briefing room himself. He cannot go if someone else sends him.

[It is too late. The lungs do not matter, but the fragment has gone into the heart. It cannot be regenerated.]

Odin had said before that anything can be cured as long as it is not irreparable.

“The card. What about the card?”

“System… recognition disabled.”

Argos’ space compression bag has an owner recognition system on it, so it locks itself if he dies. It becomes garbage.

When an animal is reaching its death, it predicts that. People are the same. Argos does not want to believe it, but he knows that he will die soon.

“Sweden Stockholm….. Number 235-5….. Payment.”

He handed the space compression bag over to Cha Jun Sung and there is no way that he does not understand what this meant. In exchange for the card, he has asked that Cha Jun Sung help his family go on living.

“I understand.”

“Thank… you.”

Argos stopped breathing. There are 2 reasons why he chose Cha Jun Sung. He made an effort to save him until the end even though it was because of the card, and he is the only Lifer that he can see as he is dying.

“Did this happen because I got involved?”

Fated to die, it seems he could not have avoided death even if Cha Jun Sung had helped him. What is more serious is the massacre. There had been nothing about a white phosphorus shell in the notepad. He could not tell if he had forgotten to write it down or if Cha Jun Sung himself caused it, but it seems like the latter.

Tutututu!

While Cha Jun Sung looked lost, world federation Lifers run over to him. There are a lot of faces he does not recognize, but there are a few he knows.

“Mr. Cha Jun Sung!”

Lim Si Hyuk and Han Chang Jin call his name. Cha Jun Sung takes the card from Argos’ space compression bag and puts it in his own. He will deliver the remaining contents to Argos’ family. He means to pay them the value of the card separately as well.

“What happened?”

“A white phosphorus shell went off.”

“White phosphorus shell!”

Han Chang Jin is appalled. As a soldier, he will know about it in more detail than others do.

“Fall back!”