The Return of Apocalypses Tyrant

@Episode 166

Bang! Tatang–!!!

This place where bullets rained down was not a battlefield, but Sao Paulo, a thriving metropolis in South America until not long ago.

The damage was serious.

It was no exaggeration to say that the city’s condition was perhaps even more devastated than that of the Middle East, which collapsed due to ISR’s activities.

There was damage due to the invasion of monsters, but the reason this place collapsed to this extent was because there were no people to protect the city.

Corrupt police officers used all sorts of methods to survive after the monster invasion.

Not only did he join forces with cartels that were causing various illegal activities, but he also did not hesitate to kill ordinary people to get the head.

They took control of the Brazilian slums called ‘favelas’ and formed a militia, which now had the city under their feet.

“Bow your head, baby.”

In fact, this place, which suffered virtually no damage from the 6th boss monster, the Giant Demon, may have been the city that was able to recover first, depending on effort.

Taang-! Tadadadang—!!!

However, the result of the greed of those in power was more terrible than what the terrorist group did.

“Okay. are you okay. “Don’t worry.”

A hand, thickened by the passage of time, lightly stroked the child’s head.

The old man, who was hiding behind the rubble of a collapsed building amid a hail of bullets, lifted the child up by his waist and said,

“Do you have any friends left?”

The child looked at the old man with wide eyes as he spoke fluent Spanish.

“In Paraisópolis… everyone is gathered.”

The place the child was talking about was one of the largest favelas in Sao Paulo. The old man said while looking at the slums lined with shacks in the distance.

“Hmm, there is quite a distance. “Why did you come here?”

“To get something to eat…”

The child’s eyes turned to a food store whose sign had fallen to the ground.

I came down here with a glimmer of hope, but all I could see were collapsed buildings. It seemed difficult to get anything there.

“What head did you have? I could buy food with that. “As the sixth door closed, didn’t quite a few heads come in?”

But in response to the old man’s question, the child shook his head.

“Everything was taken away.”

“To whom?”

“To the militias. They took it all in the name of protecting the city. And if you don’t meet your quota, they don’t even give you anything to eat.”

“…Quota?”

“That’s the rocky mountain growing out of the cathedral over there. “They are asking children like us to dig for ore over there.”

Black Molar.

I don’t know when it started, but the black mountain appeared in people’s awareness as if it had been there from the beginning.

The surrounding area was full of monsters, and the rocks that formed the mountain were even poisonous.

But what was even more terrifying than that was the appearance of the piled up rocks.

At first, people did not dare to go near the strange skull-like rocks, but as it became known that runes could be obtained from the rocks, the Black Mountain became filled with people.

“Are you saying that it is children like you who are mining the rocks of the Black Mountain right now?”

“yes. that’s right.”

The old man sighed.

The child’s lips were covered with white dead skin cells, as if he had not even been able to drink water properly, and the whites of his eyes looked yellow and black.

“I’ve been to many countries, but this is the first time I’ve been to a place like this. What are the world federation or something like that doing? “Honey, eat this first.”

He took out one of the small bottles hanging from the vest he was wearing and shoved it into the child’s mouth.

“…?!!”

The child frowned at the fishy liquid rushing in without any time to stop it

.

“uh?”

But when he finished drinking it, the child opened his eyes and looked at the old man.

“You feel a little more comfortable, right?

The subtle feeling of fullness that spread throughout my body was something I had never felt before.

“Who is your grandfather? “Are you a saint?”

“LOL, it’s just made by boiling white pufferfish that live in the red zone.”

The old man said it as if it was nothing, but to the child in a terrible hellish situation, he felt like he was greater than any other revealer.

“This grandfather is not grandiose, like a saint. Just an ordinary fisherman. “But I guess I can help you a little.”

“Help?”

“okay. I think I can save your friends. “Can you guide me there?”

“Oh no! Absolutely not! Diego won’t leave Grandpa alone!”

“Diego? “Who is that?”

“He is the leader of the militia occupying Black Maw. There are hundreds of people who follow him. “If you catch it, you will definitely die.”

The old man laughed, lightly stroking the forehead of the child who spoke in a trembling voice.

“But we can’t just leave children like you in a gutter like this. “I also have a granddaughter just like you.”

“I hope it’s that child.”

The child’s eyes sparkled at the old man’s words.

“A granddaughter the size of you? You speak really well. “For leaving your own children alone and caring only for other people’s children, you are called a saint.”

But that was then.

The child turned his head in surprise at the voice coming from behind him.

Tuk-

“…!!”

And the child’s face turned pale as he looked at the officer fainting on the floor.

It was a familiar face.

It must have been someone who followed him after running away from the workhouse.

“Don’t worry. “I also took care of the other guys who stayed behind.”

“You all…”

But there was a face that was more familiar than the police officer’s face, so the child could not keep his mouth shut and just pointed at him.

“Why are you here?”

“That’s something I’d like to ask from my side. “You haven’t heard from me in years. What are you doing here?”

It was Namgung.

“father.”

If the child had been able to understand Korean, he would have been astonished by the titles addressed to the elderly.

“It’s not something to get angry about again, is it? “It’s not like we even said hello to each other.”

He answered Namgung’s call indifferently.

“You guys are on TV all the time, so even if I don’t want to know, I have no choice but to know.”

“If you want to find your father, there’s nothing you can’t find. “There are dozens of eyes floating in the sky.”

His whereabouts could not be found in his previous life.

CCTV in the streets is natural, and even satellites have long since lost their functions due to the invasion of monsters.

But unlike then, modern technology remains intact now.

“It’s not just a matter of finding one person.”

“Is that the guy who caused the death? “I see you guys are still flocking around.”

“I didn’t abandon my unit and run away like everyone else did.”

“For the guy who disbanded the Heung unit to speak in a boastful way… As always, you guys are too backward. This means that the connection and disconnection must be clear.”

He pointed around.

“A guy who thinks he’s Choi Myung-hoon. It was one of your henchmen, right? “With his immature appearance… do you think that such a person is fit to be the head of the World Federation?”

“….”

“It means, are you doing your job properly? Look at this. huh?”

“Myung-Hoon is not as clumsy as you would judge him to be. “The cause of death is also the same.”

“To me, it just looks like we’re playing house?”

“Because work has importance. “We are not people who roam around leisurely and have fun like you do.”

“Look at what you’re saying. It’s you to Abby. Tsk, tsk….”

Unlike the way he spoke kindly to the child just moments ago, his attitude towards Namgung was extremely cold.

“Are you qualified to discuss how I handle things? “If you hadn’t handed over Unit 711 to me, Su-ah wouldn’t have died.”

Nam Ki-cheol’s expression hardened at his sharp words.

“I’m sorry that happened to that child, but it wasn’t my decision to put you in charge of Unit 711. “If you’re going to blame, blame the country, not me.”

Nam Ki-cheol looked at Namgung.

“I was just following orders. Because there were more important missions after 711. Do you understand? “I’m not soft like you.”

Namgung

threw something in front of Nam Ki-cheol, as if waiting for his answer.

“I’m glad you say that. From now on, you too will have to do your job properly.”

“…what?”

“Former Lieutenant Colonel Nam Ki-cheol. It is the call of your country that you so follow. “You should come with me.”

“What are you planning? You and I are on a mission together? “You hated being with me more than dying.”

“I don’t like it. But those feelings are only for partners with whom we must share a mission, not for the tools needed for the mission.”

“Huh, are you saying I’m your tool now? You’ve grown a lot by using people as tools. son.”

Nam Ki-cheol chuckled at his words.

“You are no different.”

Namgung looked at the child in Nam Ki-cheol’s arms.

“Hey kid. “That person isn’t trying to save your friends, he’s just trying to use you to get inside the black molar.”

“…yes?”

“There is no difference between that person and the militia. “Because we’re targeting people who are easy to exploit.”

“The blunt way of speaking is still the same.”

“Is that real?”

Nam Ki-cheol roughly scratched his hair at the child who was looking at him with trembling eyes.

“Anyway, this kid is talking nonsense… It’s not like that, so don’t worry.”

“I’m sure you’re not trying to say that you’ve made a fortune.”

“Isn’t it noisy and doing work? “I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but it’s true that like you said, I also have business on that mountain.”

Nam Ki-cheol shook his hands and said.

“Hey. If you go about 500 meters from here, there will be a house with a red roof. It’s a safe place, so stay there.”

“Friends… are you saving me?”

“of course.”

He stroked the child’s head. As the child ran, he looked back several times.

“It’s different from when you abandoned me.”

“Because you weren’t cute.”

“…crazy.”

Nam Ki-cheol looked at his bewildered reaction and took out a rough knuckle from his pocket and put it on his hand.

“You haven’t forgotten what you’ve learned, right?”

“I don’t need to use what I learned from you anymore.”

“You mean those black summons? Don’t rely on that. “Too much power only destroys humanity.”

“So you’re saying you don’t use any of your supernatural powers?”

“Use it. “I bought some herbal liquors and miscellaneous concoctions for a head price.”

Nam Ki-cheol said, showing various medicine bottles hanging on his vest.

‘Have you really not learned any combat-related skills? Well… that human is such a monster-like little guy. Anyway, it doesn’t make sense to attack the black route with that alone.’

Namgung became even more suspicious of his words.

“Anyway, don’t use that power when you’re with me. Don’t even come forward. Instead, you watch me fight.”

“You said you saw me on TV? You probably know what kind of monsters I killed. “But now you want me to watch you fight?”

“then.”

Nam Ki-cheol spoke with a confident voice.

“You think of me as Marshal Cheolcheon, so there’s no way you came to see me on a government mission. Because your purpose is not the mission, but me. If you want to get something from me….

”

He tightened his knuckles.

“Wouldn’t you like to see me fight?”