Chapter 30 – 030+ Twin Mountains
Kururrrrr…….
Hwanin heard the sound of the torrent hitting the rocks and approached the woman’s corpse.
“…….”
She was not mistaken. A long tuft of hair sprouted from her tailbone.
When I touch it that is drenched in water, I can feel the bones inside.
Are you a man of this world?
I tried holding her wrist, but my pulse wouldn’t run. The same goes for touching the neck where the carotid artery passes.
Hwanin, who puts his hand in his armpit and pulls him to the gravel field, puts his hand on his chest between his greatly swollen breasts and performs CPR.
“…… Whoa.”
She performed CPR for about 10 minutes, but the woman did not come to life.
As she turned around to check the woman’s corpse, her slender arms and legs were full of punctured and scratched wounds from sharp thorns.
Her feet were particularly bad, and they were full of lacerated scars that left the bones exposed.
‘Did he run through the forest naked?’
Bruises were visible on the head, but this did not appear to be a direct cause of death.
He must have lost his mind and was washed ashore, hit a rock, and drowned.
Hwanin’s gaze scans the corpse’s knees, palms, elbows, and back.
Marks as if bare skin had been pressed and rubbed against the ground.
When she pulled back her brown hair that covered her face like seaweed, a face of considerable appearance was revealed. And the bruises in the eyes, the busted nose, and the lips.
“…….”
Hwanin, who was deep in thought with her arms crossed and a serious expression on her face, grabbed the woman’s knees and spread them to the left and right.
Then, the fleshy labia majora opened, and the liquid that must have been inside flowed down.
Hwanin moved away from her corpse and sighed as he rubbed his face with both hands.
“Damn it.”
He wasn’t angry at the woman’s death. Because her Hwanin’s spirit wasn’t sober enough to grieve over the death of someone she didn’t know.
Hwanin’s sigh was directed towards the existence of creatures hostile to humans in this forest.
I don’t know if it’s human because it has an animal tail and ears, but it must be human because it looks like a human.
Hwanin looked around him. The soul that seems to be the owner of this body is also invisible. If there was, I would have found it when I was looking in the cave earlier.
He stares at the dead woman’s corpse with his hand on her waist with a serious face.
Clear signs of assault and wounds on the body.
A scenario was easily pictured in my head.
Women held captive. Harsh act. A woman who can’t stand it and runs away in the middle of a downpour. Wounds sustained while running through the forest. There are no other options for a woman who has reached a river with rapids or a cliff.
Jump straight into the rapids.
“…….”
Hwanin crossed his arms, frowned and began to walk near her.
He was a Hwanin who had been moving all the way from the jungle to find traces of humans, but he had not yet come up with a hypothesis that the people he was looking for would be hostile to the same mankind.
Hwanin’s gaze scans the naked woman’s body again.
C-cup breasts. The weak flab on the side that most men would find attractive. Thighs are also chubby.
‘The nutritional status is good.’
However, if the status is high, it is judged that it is not.
Calluses and scratches from life on the hands and feet are traces of a life that must have been over 10 years. If you are of high status, you must have smooth fingers or calluses from using a certain weapon for a long time.
No matter how well you look at her appearance, she is in her early to mid 20s. It’s suspicious that he’s good looking, but there’s a chance that the average looks in this world are that much…….
In any case, in modern and past history, women were beings to be protected and treated as valuable assets. The important factor in population growth is women, not men.
But how do you treat a woman like this?
I can’t guess the level of civilization because I don’t have clothes, but if it’s to the point where I don’t even give clothes to prisoners or sex slaves…….
‘The hypothesis is too extreme.’
Hwanin, who was rolling her head, shook her head slightly.
It’s not something to think negatively about.
This woman might have come into the woods and she’s unluckily caught and beaten by some gray monsters.
Even so, you need to prepare for the worst.
The worst assumption made by Hwanin today is that the people in this world have a very savage and backward civilization and way of thinking.
According to this hypothesis, Hwanin planned to stay in the forest for several months or even years to develop her psychic powers.
Even though she came into contact with civilization, it is not acceptable for her to fall into a status that is no different from a slave because she has no power.
In fact, after repeating the meditation for the past five days, the number of soul orbs in possession has increased from 10 to 11.
I don’t know if it’s the effect of pearl-colored stones or not, but it’s not a foolish plan because it’s the yard where I learned that psychic powers grow only through meditation.
‘What I need to check now is…….’
What is this woman running from?
If you run away after being kidnapped by someone, be it a monster or a human, there may be other women with a similar situation in the place you ran away from.
If there is a prisoner, if you escape the prisoner and give him grace, you may be able to receive guidance on the way to civilization.
‘I wonder if the conversation will work, but at least I won’t be discriminated against because of my appearance.’
Hwanin took one look at the woman’s corpse and took her ebony spear and started digging.
Over the course of 30 minutes, Hwan-in dug a pit large enough for the woman’s body and buried her safely.
It may not have been intentional, but it is a woman who gave clues to her body that would greatly help her course of action.
Also, if the corpse is left unattended, it will decompose and spread all sorts of bad germs around it, but we can’t just leave it unattended since we don’t know if we’ll have to spend a few more years in this place.
‘It’s probably not that there isn’t a custom of burying them in the ground.’
How dare you humiliate our XX by burying it in the ground?! Hwan-in, who imagined an unspecified number of people attacking him, thought it was pointless, walked around the woman’s grave, called emergency food, and moved on with her.
The branch was more messed up than Hwanin expected.
About 80% of the land area was lost due to the heavy rain that fell for 5 days.
All of the terrain that was hollowed out like a hilly area was muddy water or muddy lakes or reservoirs, and it looked like a hilly island that was quite high, protruding out of the water.
And passages like sea roads connecting those islands.
In some waterholes, an impossibly crocodile-like reptile lay as still as a piece of wood at the edge.
At first I thought it was a real piece of wood. The color and leather texture were those of a fallen tree.
“…….”
Hwanin shook his head as he imagined facing a 3m tall wooden crocodile on an island only 5 to 10m wide.
Dealing with a crocodile on a land that is only about 10 pyeong is the same as suicide.
It is known that crocodiles on Earth run a little slower than humans, but we don’t know what crocodiles in this world are like.
Moreover, as the crocodile’s attacking habit is a sudden attack from an invisible place, a place full of turbid water like that is the crocodile’s home ground.
Hwanin, who was looking at the basin that had become a sea of water from a high hill near the valley, raised his arm when he saw emergency food coming in.
Food good.
Pretty good.
Hwanin calmed down by patting on the emergency food that was shaking his body as if excited by the tidal flight, drew a picture of an animal that lives in the basin on the ground and asked.
“Which ones did you see?”
Quack! Quet.
It was worthwhile to have various training sessions during the 5-day break, so the emergency rations pointed to pictures of bloodsucking horses, jaguars, and camel birds as if grabbing them with their front paws.
And look around the painting and quack? I tilt my head and tilt my head.
‘Have you seen anything else?’
Since Hwanin was drawing the familiar beasts and monsters in turn, he immediately quacked. It is an emergency food that makes you cry while hitting the picture of a frog man and a lizard man with your feet.
Even after drawing pictures of all the animals he knew, Hwanin looked up at himself and said, “Is there more?”
‘It rained so much. It wouldn’t be strange to say that the Great Lakes overflowed and Frog Men and Lizard Men flowed into the basin.’
The problem is that judging from the reaction of the emergency rations, creatures that Hwanin himself has never seen have also flowed into the basin.
At that time, a small commotion broke out at the edge of Hwanin’s field of vision.
A bison, carefully moving along a narrow road connecting islands, is dragged in with its foot bitten by a wooden crocodile that suddenly jumps out of the muddy water next to it.
The bison struggled and struggled, but the strength of the wooden crocodile was so great that it lost its breath and went into the water as if it were being sucked into it.
The surface of the water rises violently, and after a while, it becomes calm with the blood spreading out.
“…….”
Hwanin threw away his lingering feelings and turned toward the twin mountains in the west.
I was trying to get a few soul orbs to be a safety device, as there must be many animals that have escaped to the western Twin Mountains to avoid the flood, but I think it’s better to just climb the mountain to hunt in a place like that.
Arriving at the entrance of Twin Mountain, which is no different from a forest, Hwanin felt the air a little strange.
It’s an expression that doesn’t make sense, but it feels like I’m going through some kind of tight water.
There is something in common with the atmosphere in the waiting room waiting for a job interview or 10 minutes before the exam at the CSAT test center.
‘Is it tension?’
Hwanin, who was slowly walking upstairs, grabbed the spear with both hands as soon as he witnessed a mountain cat the size of a small wolf leaping out with the sound of the grass shaking loudly.
Shaaaaak-!
As soon as the mountain cat, which resembled a lynx, saw such a phantom, it gnawed and ran away.
“…… !”
Sensing a presence from the side where the live cat jumped out, without even a moment to wonder, Hwanin lowered his body greatly and at the same time thrust his spear into the grass as hard as he could.
Fuuk-
As soon as he sensed the feeling that the tip of his spear had stabbed something, he retrieved the spear like lightning and stabbed it three times in a row.
Kyaaaaang-!
Amidst the rustling of grass, a tearing cat’s cry resounds.
As soon as he felt that two of the three attacks had been hit, Hwanin took a huge step back as if leaping, and immediately after that, two wild animals resembling wildcats jumped out of the grass.
Smaller than the wild cat that ran away, but larger than the Siberian husky, they were startled when they saw Hwanin.
I thought the guy I was chasing was fighting back, but it feels like a strange guy appears and is confused.
And that became the catastrophic mistake of the leopard beasts.
Flashingly, the spear drew a terrifying semicircle, leaving a deep scar on the left leopard’s foreleg.
Aaaaa!!
The lizard-patterned beast with a cut on its forelimb that was half-scratched to the bone collapsed, and at the same time, another roar roared and jumped at Hwanin.
“Suck!”
At the same time, Hwanin took a back step and at the same time aimed at the lower part of the wildcat’s jaw and pierced it like a flashlight.
After five days of hard training while staying in a cave to avoid the rain, it was worth it, and the spear blade disappeared as if it were being sucked into the beast’s jaw.
Kegeg…… !
The lizard-patterned beast, whose spear blade had pierced the top of his head, stopped breathing.
Throwing his corpse aside with his spear, Hwanin approached the leopard beast, which had completely lost its mobility.
Kyaoo- A terrifying wild beast with an angry howl.
Without blinking an eye, Hwanin stabbed his side and stirred the place where his heart was supposed to be, and the beast coughed up blood and twisted his body and then limp.
Hwanin, who had easily killed the two, listened for a while and then cut the grass with his spear.
The grass that has grown nearly 2m falls down cleanly, revealing a dead wildcat with stab wounds in its left eye and chest.
These were the first beasts I had seen since arriving at the Twin Mountains, and they were much easier to hunt than expected.
‘Are they the lowest-class soul beasts?’
Or did physical training produce results beyond expectations?
While thinking, the soul that appeared from the corpse was of the lowest class.
Hwanin, thinking that he was weak because he was also a low-level soul, looked up at the mountain, part of which was covered by mist.
For some reason, the power structure of the western twin mountains has collapsed and it feels like it has become a lawless zone.
The mountain cat that looked like a lynx that ran away at first seemed superior to the leopard in terms of specs, but in reality it was being chased 1:3.
Thinking that this might be the reason for the tension in the entire mountain, Hwanin started to climb the mountain more carefully.
“Suck!?”
Hwanin reflexively swung his spear at the same time as he let go of the animal carcass he was carrying at the sound of the wind slicing above his head.
Puck!
Kyaaaaang!
At the same time as a heavy feeling rushes over the spear, the jaguar that was hit in the neck cries out and collapses.
Hwanin felt a cold sweat welling up.
The emergency rations that acted as alarms in the sky were screaming, so I was only vigilant in front, back, left and right, but I never thought I would fall from the tree.
Jaguars here are brown, similar to trees, so it was late to find them.
Fuuk-
Kek.
Hwan-in, who cut off Jaguar’s breath as he was paralyzed by being hit in the neck by a spear pole, took a long sigh and captured the Jaguar’s soul.
With this, you have secured all 11 souls.
8 out of 11 were of the lowest rank, and the lower ranks were only the blue leopard (stealth action), yak (strengthening of the body), and jaguar (increasing leg strength), but Hwanin was reassured by securing 11 soul beads that lasted for 11 hours. Was
“Emergency food. Please be vigilant.”
Long!
Hwanin tied a string made of grass stems to the jaguar’s hind legs and hung it upside down on a tree. Then, he cut open the stomach with a dagger, scraped out all the intestines, and cut the neck in length so that blood flowed out.
The carcass of the hornless gray deer-like animal he had been carrying all this time was also groomed in the same way as the jaguar.
If you put the two together, it seems that the meat alone will come out over 50kg, but both are a pure white meat of a few achromatic systems, so it is a waste to throw it away.
‘Because I also secured the root of the bitter spicy deodeok.’
Once you take it to the valley cave, you will be able to grill and eat 5 kg there.
Hwanin brought a smile to his lips when he thought about tasting spicy food for the first time in a while.
“…….”
Hwanin, who was touching his lips as if it was awkward, confirmed that most of the blood had drained from the two corpses, wrapped them around the vines, and dragged them down the mountain.
