What in these days…
The explanation of the flash is simple.
After concentrating the power of the whole body into Yongcheon-hyeol, it explodes to gain explosive speed.
In other words, it is the same as saying that it is useless except for the momentary acceleration.
Chew!
The heavy wind pressure felt on the back of the head and the fluttering hair.
Realizing that they had come right behind them, Yuseong opened a flashlight to widen the distance.
However, he knew that he would be caught up again before long, so his face was distorted.
‘Too many!’
Even if there were only two or three, at least four or five, I would have dared to try to catch them using skills and weapons, but the number of them could be in the tens or even more. If you stop to catch a few in a narrow aisle that would fill up with three people walking side by side, you will be buried in the overwhelming amount.
‘left? Right side?’
-left!
The only thing he could do was run away following Jerome’s guidance, and Yuseong, who was running in a trance to avoid clutter scattered everywhere, came to his senses when he heard an urgent cry.
“Run! Run faster!”
“Can’t you see those monsters? We need to close the door right away! They’re coming in!”
“You shut up!”
People gesticulating with desperate expressions.
The meteor’s new model, which spread all the strength it had been sucking on, was launched at the speed of a cannonball and escaped the aisle, and at the same time, a thick gate came down from the ceiling and sealed the entrance.
“haha.”
“Were you a runner when you were up there? It was like watching a national team run.”
“…You found your aptitude belatedly. If you survive here, let’s think about quitting this business and changing jobs.”
Yuseong stood up from his seat holding the hand of the middle-aged man who was making a silly joke and looked around.
Huge containers, huge warehouses full of odds and ends, and people looking at themselves with eyes filled with various emotions.
Yooseong, who was making a grimace at the thought of a jackpot, came to his senses belatedly and cleared his throat.
“Hmmmm, sorry. Glad to see there are other survivors besides me.”
“It deserves it. It’s Carmen from the base management team.”
“I’m Jerome, the Titan driver. Rather, may I ask what the hell is going on? Do you know what’s going on on the ground? Has the rescue team started? What are those monsters like?”
It was strange for a person who was barely rescued from being chased by a monster to look so carefree, so I acted appropriately. Fortunately, the subject was the subject, and the people of Jira quickly turned off their interest in Meteor and began to raise their voices individually.
“It’s a test subject! It’s clear that they escaped while conducting a secret experiment at Origin!”
“What kind of experiment are you doing at 9,000m deep? Besides, how many people are here, and if all of them cheated and did something, how many at most? How can such a large number come out?!”
“Then what the hell is that?!”
“…isn’t it an alien?”
“Can aliens come from the deep sea, not from outer space?”
Yuseong smiled bitterly as he looked at the people who were fighting with their own reasoning. It was because I had a rough idea of the identities of those monsters.
‘Deep one.’
A race from the Cthulhu mythos.
As the name suggests, the Deep Ones live in the deep sea and have an appearance that looks like a mix of fish, frogs, and humans.
Yooseong, who was usually interested in various subcultures, realized that the appearance of the strange creatures perfectly resembled those described in the Cthulhu myth, and was almost certain that they were the Deep Ones.
That’s why I was desperate.
‘Damn, it’s funny to say that in a world where fantasy worlds and martial arts worlds exist, but did Cthulhu really exist? No, what time of day is it Cthulhu? Why are enough guys coming out of this place when it comes to games and comics? Aren’t you crazy? My sanity level is dangerous!’
I felt a fundamental level of fear and despair that I had never felt before just by recognizing that there were beings with a cosmic scale that could be seen as children’s play in crises facing the earth.
However, just before his mind collapsed, someone’s cry brought the meteor back to reality.
“Attention everyone!”
Carmen, who had calmed the people down with just one word, continued speaking in a low voice.
“The important thing now is not the identity of that monster, but how to escape from here.”
“Since we sent a signal, shouldn’t we just hold out until the rescue team arrives?”
“It will take at least 48 hours for the rescue team to arrive.
“Then is it possible to deal with those monsters?!”
“If you think it’s impossible, you’ll stay here. I’ll be fine if I can serve as bait.”
“What? This bastard wants to see you…”
kang!
Yuseong, who drew everyone’s attention by knocking on a nearby container, said while staring at Carmen.
“Can you tell me the current status of the base?”
“Casey!”
A blonde woman in the corner tapped on her keyboard, and on the huge monitor hanging on one side of the wall, a huge building that looked like a blueprint for the base came to mind.
A quarter of the area was colored red to indicate danger, and the area was expanding in real time.
“22…Excuse me, 23% of the area is flooded. The damage control function is still working, so I’m holding out somehow, but if the flooded area exceeds 60%, the impact will not be able to withstand and the base will collapse as a whole. At the current pace. If the inundation proceeds, it will be reached in about an hour.”
“Can you launch a route from your current location to Area C-5?”
“Wait a minute… that’s enough.”
On the blueprint, several green lines and numbers that appeared to be arrival times appeared.
“There is a submarine for material supply in C-5 area. We escape to the ground by riding it.”
“Who doesn’t know that? Area C is across the street from here! Even on the way to the next area, those monsters are swarming around. You’re going to go all the way through the base? Do you think that’s possible?”
“I don’t know. But I know one thing for sure.”
“what is that?”
“It is true that if you hold out here, you will surely die whether you become food for monsters or crushed to pieces of meat under the pressure of the water. There are options that make it possible to live even if it is very slim, and options that do not exist at all. If not, isn’t it too obvious which one to choose?”
Beep!
With a sharp beep, one of the lines floating on the monitor disappeared and the time increased.
“I don’t have time to waste arguing with you. Stay if you want to stay. I’ll escape alone.”
“This, this child…”
Did he feel Yoosung’s sincerity, saying, ‘I don’t care what happens to you.’
A man with a shaggy beard shouted while gnashing his teeth.
“…Who doesn’t go? At least you shouldn’t bring tools to fight those monsters!”
“I’ll give you three minutes. Get ready.”
“Damn it! I’m waiting!”
All eyes were focused on the man opening a nearby container and rummaging through the contents.
And seeing those people, Yooseong said in a low voice.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you guys going?”
In an instant, the warehouse turned into a mess with people trying to find weapons.
And Carmen, who was watching it from the side, made an admiring expression.
“He was a good friend in negotiations. It just didn’t feel like a bluff.”
“Because it was sincere.”
If I had time to spare, I would have comforted him with kind words, but now I am in an urgent situation.
It was not a situation to waste time as the worst possible result could be that if you were distracted by the additional reward and dragged out the time to take even one more person, the quest would fail and you would not even get the basic reward you were aiming for.
And three minutes later, a total of 35 survivors rallied.
Yooseong, who looked around at the people holding various weapons, from simple steel pipes to those that looked like work tools, turned his gaze to the people gathered in the corner.
“No matter what they say, we’re not going. We’ll hold out here until the rescue team arrives.”
“As you like.”
Yoosung lightly bowed his head to say goodbye, and decided on each position according to the weapon. Fierce protests came from those assigned to the front, but Yooseong calmed their displeasure with a single word.
“I’ll take the vanguard.”
If you are a person who only gives orders from a safe place, you will not be able to protest against a person who takes the lead in the most dangerous place.
Standing in front of the gate on the opposite side of the one he entered, Yooseong took a deep breath and raised his hand.
“Casey.”
Chunk!
The tightly closed gate lifted, revealing a messy passageway.
Lights flickering as if the electricity wasn’t coming in properly, and sea water rising up to the top of my feet as if water was leaking in from somewhere.
However, the figure of Deep One was nowhere to be seen.
“You think it’s safe here?”
“Keeg
“Hey?!
Scared to speak, the Deep One attached to the ceiling right above the gate fell and screamed.
The moment everyone was about to fall into panic, screaming at the screams containing the power to pierce the mind and the appearance that stimulated instinctive fear, the meteor in front activated the plasma ax and blew Deep One’s head off.
Kwajik!
Everyone’s eyes were focused on Deep One, who died in the blink of an eye, and Yuseong, who was holding an unidentified weapon.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you going?”
People laughed at Yoosung leading the way with a calm expression on his face and followed him.
“What is that weapon?”
“I don’t know. It was just dropped by a person who died fighting monsters, so I picked it up because it looked useful.”
“It looks like a plasma-powered weapon. It’s strange that such a weapon exists at a base like this. Was the company really experimenting with something here?”
“Maybe.”
Yooseong expressed his condolences in his heart toward the company that suddenly became an evil company.
Of course, since it wasn’t a real living experiment, it might be a joke, but I thought it would be inevitable to gossip here and there after the people here escaped.
“You don’t know where they’re coming from, so everyone shouldn’t relax. Casey, pay attention to the condition of the base and guide them. Even if you defeat the monsters, if the passage is flooded and the road is blocked or submerged, you are dead. It’s okay if it’s a little late. You must go the safe route.”
“···I know.”
“Okay. Then let’s go.”
‘Cthulhu? cosmic horror? What kind of times are these days… come any way I’m going to shoot a Hollywood action movie today.’
this is not a game
