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#Episode 2. The End of the World (2)
Large mart, 2nd basement level parking lot.
Phew-.
The cigarette smoke that escaped between her lips was carried away by the wind.
Since coming here, Jin Jae-hee has been staring at only one place.
Then a man caught sight of her on the phone and frowned.
“Huh… …? What the. Huh-. Seriously. Hey, hang up for a second.”
The man approached Jaehee, loosening his tie slightly.
The man shouted at Jaehee.
“Hey, girl! Let me see you! Why are you sitting on the hood of someone else’s car and smoking a cigarette? Huh? Do you know how much this car costs?”
Jin Jae-hee paid no attention to the man’s words and just stared at one spot.
The man followed Jaehee and looked at the place.
There was nothing where Jaehee was looking.
There were just cars leaving the mart.
The man clicked his tongue.
“Huh-! Is this woman crazy?”
The man crossed his arms.
Then, a tattoo extending down his forearm was revealed.
Then he came closer to check her face.
At that moment, he was startled.
‘Huh… What is that? Is that a real sword?’
The man was amazed twice: once by her weapons and once by her looks.
White hat and white short sleeves.
Wide slacks.
A real sword worn on the waist.
And although he looks cold, he has an overwhelming appearance.
I would have believed it even if you said he was a celebrity.
‘… … Oh, John. Are you filming a movie? No… … But even if you’re filming a movie, why are you in someone else’s car… … .’
Boom.
At that moment when the man was dumbfounded, Jin Jae-hee threw away her cigarette on the parking lot floor and looked at the man.
The moment their eyes met, the man’s heart began to pound like crazy.
Cigarette smoke was still leaking out of Jin Jae-hee’s mouth.
And Jin Jae-hee said about that man.
“Go up. If you want to live a little longer.”
The tone was cold and emotionless.
With those words she rose from the bonnet.
“Yes… …? No, what?”
Despite his question, Jin Jae-hee headed towards the entrance without saying a word.
That was the moment.
[Nice to meet you… … @#$]
[Hello, Earthlings.]
[Administrator, K. Greetings.]
A blue notification window caught the man’s eye.
And at that moment, black smoke rose up the outer wall of the parking lot.
The black smoke began to envelop the entire parking lot along the walls.
An unidentified black fog appeared from the parking lot entrance.
And notification windows continued to appear in the air.
[I’m sorry, but I’ve prepared a few games to give you a sense of reality.]
[You don’t want to do it?]
[No, no. You have to do it.]
[I’m going to release a few of my cute pets now, but they’re a little hungry. So be careful! How can I tame them so they’re good kids?]
[Just 20 minutes from now. I will change you in 20 minutes.]
[Shall we begin then?]
That moment.
Children with green skin began to emerge from the black fog in droves.
The man thought they were children at first, but in fact they were goblins like those seen in fantasy novels.
“I… … I… … What is that?”
The goblins where the man’s trembling fingers pointed were holding small daggers.
And then he started laughing weirdly.
“Kikkikkikkikkik-!”
“Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!”
“Whoa, whaaa, whaaa, whaaa!”
And then a goblin jumps in.
Woot woot woot!
Soon a whole horde of goblins began to pour into the parking lot.
“Uh… … Huh?”
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“Isn’t that dangerous?”
“Sir, call the police!”
People in the parking lot hesitated and took steps back.
While the people hesitated, the goblin horde continued to charge.
At that time, the people inside the car locked the car doors.
“Kkihik!”
Wow!
But the goblins climbed onto the car and smashed the windshield with wooden clubs.
The people inside were dragged out by goblins, their heads grabbed.
“Ah, ah! Let go of this-!”
“Whoa-! Honey!!”
Soon a terrible sight unfolded.
“Whoa, whaaa, whaaa, whaaa!”
“Cough cough cough, cough cough cough!”
Agh-! Kkuchik, kkuadduk-!
The goblins tore at the man’s skin with their bare claws, pulled out his bones, and munched on the flesh.
Their fingernails and toenails were sharper than those of humans.
By comparison, it looked similar to a shark’s teeth.
“Ah… … Ah! Hey, help me!”
The woman who saw her husband being eaten tried to escape, struggling and trying to unbuckle her seatbelt.
But the woman was still tied up in her seatbelt and her flesh was torn off while she was still alive.
And then a piercing scream echoed through the parking lot.
“Gyaaaaaaah-!!!!!”
“Eww… … Ewww!!!!”
With that scream, everyone ran into the store on the other side.
The man who had been showing off his tattoo also became lost in thought and started to run away.
But only one person.
Only one person was walking in the opposite direction of the fleeing people.
The regressor, Jin Jae-hee.
She drew her sword.
Yeah-.
‘Most building portals in Round 1 start underground anyway.’
This was something I learned through regression.
Jin Jae-hee followed Zion into this shopping mall.
Her primary goal of being assigned to such an ‘area’ was a success.
But this is a large shopping mall.
It wasn’t easy to find him in this large store with hundreds of people.
So the conclusion was one.
‘Kill them all.’
It’s Kang Si-on anyway.
There’s no way he’ll die in round 1.
And he starts from the 2nd basement floor and kills all the monsters in this building.
That’s what happens if you join Kang Shi-on.
Jaehee immediately cut off the head of the goblin that was running towards him.
Shake-! Crunch!
The goblin’s head rose into the air and then fell in an instant.
Jin Jae-hee didn’t rest.
I walked towards the next goblin.
* * *
bang!!!
The moment I saw it, I immediately closed the door.
And then he immediately locked it.
Crunch!
The man next to me shouted at me, dumbfounded.
“What, what is it?! All of a sudden.”
“I smelled rotten.”
“What, what… … ?”
When I opened the door slightly, a rotten smell vibrated along with black smoke.
I couldn’t tell what the black smoke I had just seen was, but I knew that I shouldn’t get close.
There was no time to persuade the man.
“No, but you’re pushing people away? You little brat.”
Boom!
The man grabbed my shoulder and pushed me against the wall.
He was a man of great build, and he began to frown and make a threatening gesture.
“Oh, shit. That’s why I said kids these days are no good? Huh? You have to have manners. Manners. Did you go to the military?”
His words went in one ear and out the other.
I remembered the smoke beyond the door, that fleeting moment.
It was black smoke.
It was stuck to the wall, going up and down, and was scattered.
There was no smoke, so it was not caused by a fire.
Because smoke is light, if it comes from above, it rises from top to bottom, and if it comes from below, it rises from bottom to top.
But what I just saw through the door was happening from the center of the wall.
It was an artificial gas, not a gas generated by a natural phenomenon.
The shape was also a little strange.
It was something that was neither a complete gas nor a complete liquid.
‘……shit.’
Who would have thought that something like this would happen on a day like today?
My heart was pounding.
At the same time, the old man continued to yell at me.
“Are you listening to me? Huh? It’s all about education. Education. Huh? No. How on earth do your parents educate you? Huh?!?”
“Be quiet.”
I just covered the mouth of the man who was mumbling and talking with my hand.
At that moment, the shopping mall announcement sounded.
The old man was startled and trembled.
[We apologize to all our guests. There has been a minor disturbance in the underground parking lot. We ask that all guests… … .]
The citizens there were also bewildered by the sound of the broadcast and looked around.
‘disturbance?’
They said there was a commotion in the underground parking lot.
Even the mart employees at the back of the line looked bewildered, so it seemed like something had happened suddenly.
Tamar-!
And at that moment, all of a sudden, the lights in the large mart went out.
“Uh… … Huh?”
“What, what???”
“Someone turn on the light!”
“Mom… … I’m scared.”
“It’s okay. Just hold on to Mom’s hand.”
Darkness has come.
From then on, people began to get agitated.
People begin to feel fear through the darkness.
I calmly turned on the light on my phone.
Taat-!
I looked at my phone with the light coming on.
I couldn’t help but frown soon.
“… … ?”
Delisting.
In the 21st century, South Korea is leaving the currency zone.
I shook my phone back and forth but the signal didn’t change.
And it was when I looked up again that I realized something was wrong.
“The cell phone isn’t working?”
“Can’t you even use your cell phone?”
“Yeah. What is it?”
“Hello? Hello? Can’t you hear me, Mom?”
People were all looking at the lights on their cell phones as if they had made a promise.
Jiying-.
At that moment, my cell phone rang.
No, everyone’s cell phone rang there.
Tiring-! Tiring! Tiring!
And the notification sounds going off simultaneously.
Light streamed out from the cell phone.
A hologram appears before your eyes.
[Oh, right. Right. I forgot again. I didn’t send you our terms and conditions.]
The text was light, as if written by a child.
I scrolled down on my phone.
[You are currently connected to Area 2.]
[Earthlings have been designated as a ‘space ecosystem disruptor’ according to the 87,439th Space Federation Headquarters Summit.]
[The number of human beings on Earth must be reduced mandatorily in accordance with the summit.]
[Therefore, through the extermination policy, all humans except the required number will be disposed of.]
[This is an inevitable legal area that applies to all living beings under the Universal Peace Constitution, and disruptive species have no right to refuse it.]
[Now, we will select the players.]
[Each player is selected by the administrator of their respective area.]
Server? Player? Connection… …?
The phone window doesn’t even come up, and there’s no internet.
Only this terms window.
And the word disposal.
The moment I realized something was wrong, my first thought was only one.
‘I have to go to my brother.’
The moment humans sense danger, they think about what they need to take care of first.
At that moment, I thought of my younger brother.
My younger brother is now living alone in a semi-basement house.
If this was a city-wide power outage, Jun-ho would definitely be shivering alone in a semi-basement room where the lights weren’t working properly.
Of course, I also thought a lot about the power outage being a positive thing.
This was clearly an act of ‘terrorism’.
‘First of all… let’s leave the shopping mall.’
But before he could do anything, he heard a woman’s piercing scream.
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaah-!!! What, what is that!”
Everyone there looked in the direction of the scream.
It was a window connected to the hallway.
The city outside the window was covered in black smoke.
And beyond the black fog, a giant eye appeared, and a sound was heard from somewhere.
Guuuung-.
A strange, eerie cry.
It was like the cry of a whale in the deep sea.
In the black fog that filled the surroundings, only the eyes were visible.
Dreaming.
His eyes were blinking and he was looking at the people inside the glass door.
Those eyes lingered here for a while as if they wanted to come inside the glass door at any time, then soon disappeared.
The humans who encountered the bizarre creature were instantly terrified.
The old woman’s screams echoed through the air like a ripple.
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-!!!”
With that scream, the panic began.
“Eww! It’s a monster! It’s a, a monster!!”
“Run away! Run away-!!!”
“Eww… …! Mom… … Mom.”
“Ewwhhhhhhhhhh!!!!”
The store quickly became a scene of chaos.
The sudden appearance of a terrifying presence was enough to make people panic.
Everyone started running in the opposite direction of the window.
In this place that was once filled with people, I was now the only one left.
I stood there, staring at the black fog.
I tried to judge the reality I faced as rationally as possible.
There was no need to run away like those citizens now.
Because if that monster had wanted to get in there, it would have done so long ago.
But the fact that you didn’t come in here must be because you were blocked by something.
‘It moved… … .’
What’s important is that the eyes moved.
I concentrated my mind.
I closed my eyes and combined all the information I had gathered so far.
And I quickly grasped the reality I was facing.
The pupils moved.
From east to west.
As if a fish were swimming in the sea, the huge creature slowly began to disappear.
The movement of those eyes was visible for a split second because of the light from the smartphone radiating inside the hallway.
And then the monster disappeared into the black fog.
This is the 7th floor above ground.
Was it a bird?
No, a bird can’t have pupils that big.
‘A monster seven stories tall, or… …a giant flying monster that flies in the sky… …?’
In the worst case scenario, that black fog acts like water.
And a monster that swims through black fog.
If the black fog here acts like deep sea water.
If the space filled with black fog is filled with unknown monsters.
We humans will be a tasty prey to them.
Should we mandatorily reduce the human population?
With the currency zone out of reach, external support is impossible.
At this scale, it does not apply to filming a movie, an event, North Korean provocations, hidden cameras, or natural disasters.
In other words, this is the work of a being that transcends humanity.
A disaster that cannot be solved by human ability, no matter what.
All the guidance windows that just appeared were true.
The end of Earth was initiated by some alien life form.
That was my conclusion.
“ha…….”
I touched my head.
After concentrating for a long time, my head started to hurt.
When I thought about it this far, two questions remained.
The first was a player, and the second was a disruptor to the space ecosystem.
We humans are both players and disruptors of the cosmic ecosystem.
What does that mean?
As of now, I couldn’t tell.
I needed more information, and to find out, I had to survive first.
“after…….”
My heart started pounding wildly.
We had to find a way to overcome this predicament.
I checked my phone again and made a note of the time.
And I remembered scenes from this area.
I took off my hat and quickly put the gift I was holding for my brother into my bag.
I rolled up my flowing sweatpants and folded them so they wouldn’t get in the way while I was running.
And I tied my shoelaces again tightly.
‘Hyung… … I’m going to go to you no matter what. Just hold on… … Just hold on for a little bit. Junho.’
And then I ran out at full speed to find another exit.
I will definitely return to my brother.
Even if the end of all this is the end.
(Continued in the next episode)