Chapter 8
Episode 8 [First Exploration (1)]
The moment the hole opened, Kyung-hoon knew the limits of his ability to move.
“About 40kg? “It’s breathtaking.”
There was no way it could be taken indefinitely. It was also written on the phone that the amount would increase as the level increased. It seemed like I would have to wait until then to get more.
“Phew, then let’s go.”
Kyung-hoon took a deep breath and threw himself into the hole. As soon as
he entered the hole, the hole quickly closed without a trace.
The scene inside the hole was the same as before. A universe with countless twinkling stars. It unfolded again.
Now I knew that those twinkling things weren’t stars. They were doors to some other world.
‘Come to your senses.’
Now was not the time to pay attention to such figures. Kyung-hoon began to follow the flow. A straight line led him to a star in the distance. The star came closer and closer.
Kyung-hoon, who was looking at the star, twitched the corners of his eyes.
“One . “Isn’t it right?”
The star split into two. No, it only looked like one because it was far away, but there were two close together.
And, the line drawn up to the star was divided into two. There are two places you can go.
‘One is the underground lab we first arrived at. The other is the large conference room above ground that we left behind?’
The moment he saw the two exits, Kyung-hoon knew where each entrance was leading.
It seemed that when an entrance was opened somewhere else, a new entrance was added.
I was lucky. This way, I could proceed with the plan more easily. Kyung-hoon decided on the right path to take.
Kyung-hoon flew towards a new exit.
***
A black hole appeared in the conference room. A hole appeared on one side where the long chairs were scattered in all directions.
Kyung-hoon jumped out of the rescue.
As soon as Kyung-hoon came out, he looked everywhere.
‘thank god. ‘It wasn’t as expected.’
A few days have passed since then. There was no way the monster rats could keep guarding.
Gyeonghoon put his military bag on the floor and picked up a long sword and a pistol.
First of all, it was reconnaissance. Kyunghoon quietly and quickly crossed the conference room.
Kyunghoon’s movements were very natural. It was worth working day and night to adapt to my changed body.
The conference room door was still the same as when it was smashed last time.
Kyung-hoon stuck to the wall and looked around the lobby. The lobby was so quiet.
‘I guess it’s not on the first floor.’
Or maybe he went out of the building to hunt. Anyway, this quiet moment was an opportunity.
Kyung-hoon picked up the backpack he had placed on the floor and went out to the lobby. And then I started working quickly.
***
The monster rat couple was in the rats’ nest on the second basement floor of the building.
The male rat had no reason to go out to look for food because all of his children had died, and the female rat was waiting for the missing biped to return.
The two mice, who had been waiting for several days, suddenly bristled their nose hairs.
It smelled. The smell of a bipedal animal was coming from the hallway.
It had finally appeared.
Kaaaaagh!
The two monster rats came out of the narrow door of the nest and started running down the hallway.
It was a wide hallway, but it was filled with giant monster rats running around.
Slap!
The monster rats saw a biped animal running away at the end of the hallway. The rats’ feet became faster.
***
Kyung-hoon climbed the stairs like he was flying.
Fortunately, the monster rats were in their nest. If I had been outside, I would have had to wait until I came back, so I guess I’m lucky. I brought a gun to lure them out, but there was no need to use a gun.
Perhaps because of its size, its smell was just as good, and they noticed it as soon as they entered the second basement floor.
The fact that they could smell things from afar actually worked to Kyung-hoon’s advantage.
This was because it gave them time to escape.
Kyung-hoon, who quickly jumped up the second floor to the ground, listened downward.
Udangtang.
Just as I entered the landing, I could hear the sound of a monster rat.
Is it because of the fur? As expected, the body structure of the animals was difficult to understand. It was so big that I wondered if it could fit through the staircase door, but it seemed to fit in easily.
Since it can go down the stairs, there must be a nest on the second basement floor…
‘It’s following along well.’
The moment he nodded and moved again, a warning sound sounded in Kyung-hoon’s head.
Bang bang bang
‘Why do you do it?’
The sound coming from the stairs was clearly the sound of one animal.
Only one dog follows you? That couldn’t have been possible. There were also two dogs running down the hallway.
Kyung-hoon stopped walking as he felt the hair on the back of his head stand on end. He concentrated on his ears. I felt a tickling sensation in my ears and started hearing all kinds of sounds.
bang. bang. bang.
The sound of a monster rat running up the stairs.
Squeak.
The sound of the lobby door swinging in the wind in the distance.
The sound of the wind and the sound of flying insects.
Various sounds were heard.
Enhanced hearing.
It was one of the things he learned after training for a few days after realizing that his body had become stronger. In addition to his strength and endurance, his various senses had become stronger.
In particular, in the case of hearing, it is not easy to live if it is activated on a daily basis. And when I focused my mind on a specific area like this, my performance got even better.
Among the various sounds, a strange sound came in.
Huh, huh.
Weeeeing.
A low exhaling sound. And, the sound is distorted by blocking the wind flowing through the passage.
All of them were sounds coming from inside the broken elevator door in front.
A monster rat was lurking in the elevator shaft. The moment Kyung-hoon passes by, he moves to attack by breaking down the elevator door.
What the monster rats did was more than what humans did.
A monster rat was following from behind, and a monster rat was waiting next to the passage in front.
If I hadn’t known, it would have been a hopeless situation, but now it was an opportunity.
Kyunghoon took a deep breath and ran forward.
bang!
As expected, the moment Kyung-hoon passed by the elevator door, a monster rat burst out of the door.
Although it was a sturdy elevator door, it could not stop a monster rat that large.
Wow!
The monster rat let out a scream that was uncharacteristic of a rat and flew away, but unfortunately, Gyeong-hoon was not in front of the monster rat.
“I wonder if bullets will work below.”
Kyung-hoon was lying under the body of the monster rat. He was sliding in front of the elevator.
Bang. Bang.
While lying on the floor, Kyung-hoon fired a gun at the stomach of the monster rat passing above.
Bang. Bang.
Fortunately, the weak part was not there. There was.
The translucent membrane surrounding the stomach was pierced by the bullet. Blood splattered out of the monster rat’s stomach, creating two holes through which blood flowed. Whoa! Gyeong-hoon, who had pierced a hole
in
the stomach, immediately stood up as soon as he passed under the monster rat.
There was a hole, but it wasn’t as big of a wound as expected. Moreover, the monster rat that came up the stairs was also running out into the hallway. It was time to run away.
Kyung
-hoon ran until his feet were on fire. Kyung-hoon could run faster than a human, but the guys were following him. It was faster.
The moment Kyung-hoon arrived at the lobby of the building, the monster rats chasing him were no more than a few steps away from him. The
monster rats flinched and stopped walking the moment he stepped into the lobby.
Sniff keut
There was a strange smell in the lobby. It was a smell I had smelled a long time ago.
But all those thoughts disappeared as he saw the humans running away.
Bang!
Kyung-hoon crossed the lobby and fired at the two monster rats that were flinching.
Of course, it didn’t make a hole like it did when he attacked the ship earlier, but it did kill the two monster rats. It was enough to arouse my anger.
Kwang!
The two monster rats, who had hesitated at the unfamiliar smell, started running again.
And in the next moment, the two monster rats were passing through the middle of the lobby.
“Goodbye.” They
passed through the lobby and stood with their backs to the front door. Kyung-hoon looked at the two monster rats running towards him. He pressed the remote control in his hand.
It was a very ordinary TV remote control.
In the other world, the TV would have been turned on, but there were no electronic products around here that could be turned on with that remote control.
Instead, the remote control that had lasted for a long time last night was turned on. The results of the chemical experiment reacted.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Homemade bombs scattered on the lobby floor exploded in time with the TV remote control signal.
We didn’t bring that much because we had to match the weight, but it was enough to blow up a small house.
Of course, the two monster rats were smaller than the small house.
Kaaaaah!
Kaaaaaa!
The area around the monster rats exploded, and the monster rats screamed.
“Are you saying one shot won’t work?”
Kyung-hoon, lying down on the floor, clicked his tongue at the screams of the monster rats.
It would have been nice to end it with a single bomb, but the bodies of the monster rats were very strong.
“Well, Plan B worked out well, so it might not matter.”
After the dust that had risen from the explosion disappeared, the monster rat was no longer visible in the lobby.
Instead, there was a big hole there.
The monster rats seemed to have fallen into this hole.
Kyung-hoon got up and carefully walked towards the hole.
If by any chance I saw a live monster rat, I planned to run away.
Kyung-hoon stood at the edge of the hole and looked down.
Fortunately, there seemed to be no need to run.
Downstairs, on the first basement floor, two monster rats were lying face down. Various fragments were stuck in the body of the fallen monster rat. It was all debris from the lobby floor.
Bursting the lobby floor worked.
The explosive power of the homemade bomb was not enough to cause fatal injuries, but the broken lobby floor created an effect similar to grenade fragments or Cremore’s beads.
As expected, the shield was not invincible just because it was bigger. It just got stronger.
“Wow, I died well.”
Gyeong-hoon spat out the phlegm that had accumulated due to the dust onto the monster rats and shook his hands with a satisfied face.
After deciding to come back to this world, Gyeong-hoon thought about how to deal with the giant monster rats.
At that time, he was not sure where the monster rats would be. He didn’t know, and he could have followed him after he left the building.
He couldn’t risk that kind of risk and explore an unfamiliar world.
“I couldn’t just go through that kind of humiliation.”
Moreover, he was a person who believed that what was done should be doubled.
He did not forget the memory of desperately running away.
Kyung-hoon took a deep breath and looked down at the monster rats. I’ve already had two experiences. The energy I feel every time after killing monsters.
This time, I planned to really feel that sensation.
After a while, a dim light emerged from the dead monster rat. According to the cell phone I picked up, it was clear that it was something called Mana.
He felt energy entering his body and concentrated on that sensation.
A strange sensation enveloped him. A feeling like ascending to heaven.
Kyung-hoon, who gave a small exclamation, soon frowned.
Even though all the energy came in, the strange feeling did not go away.
The feeling of being able to do anything. It feels like even a rock can break. I feel stronger.
It felt different than before.
Gong, gong.
And at that time, the mobile phone in this world vibrated.
Kyunghoon took out his cell phone from his inner pocket.
A new phrase appeared on the phone screen.
[Your grade has increased. You have reached grade E. Congratulations! ]