Sewerage
A few flowers in a glass bottle.
I tried appraisal to see if it was a material with special effects, but the explanation was disappointing.
“Isn’t that an ordinary flower? Why are you hiding this?”
-It’s an ordinary flower, so you hid it!
“Then why are ordinary flowers… … .”
– Uncontaminated! Ordinary flower!
Kuzan, who seemed to be quite frustrated, burst into shouting and poured out words like a rapid-fire cannon.
-100 years ago, when pollution spread, everything died. So, all the nations and races on the continent built huge cities underground to prevent contamination and took refuge in them. Right here, to the Last City.
“… … .”
– But it’s too late. Even if further contamination could be prevented, all living beings were already contaminated. Okay? Plants, insects, animals, humans, all of them are contaminated!
While listening to Kuzan’s explanation, Yuseong approached the window and looked down.
“This… … .”
The appearance of the world seen through the demonic eyes of truth was terrifying, like a nightmare turned into reality.
The color of magic power was turbid like wastewater in a gutter, and the flow was unstable, as if it would flow backwards or explode at any moment.
Even Naegong couldn’t get out of there.
Even when he first took Cheongmokdan, his internal energy, which was extremely chaste, turned into an unstable temperament with just a little luck.
There is only one thing that is not contaminated.
There were only flowers in glass jars.
-Contamination is not only passed on to the person concerned, but also to their descendants. Generations after the catastrophe, not a single one within the city was free from contamination. That is, until the flower appears.
“In other words, is this flower evidence that there is an uncontaminated area somewhere, and the route to it is recorded on this map?”
– Now I can talk a little bit. hard, hard
Squeak!
As soon as he heard the sound of the door opening, Yoosung hurriedly put the two items in his arms and stood up.
The number and strength of enemies.
Fighting in a situation where everything was unknown was not a good choice.
Clink!
“He’s inside!”
“Enter!”
Yoosung broke the window and threw himself outside leaving behind the sound coming from behind.
-What are you doing?
‘To live.’
The body, which should have fallen down according to gravity, flew toward the opposite building in a semicircle.
It was thanks to the thorny vine hanging on the railing of the opposite building at the moment of the body throw.
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Just before colliding with the building, Meteor spurred the wall to offset the impact and flew through the alley, using bricks and decorations protruding here and there as support.
‘If you think about the structure of the city, you can easily escape from the pursuit even if you get out of sight for a moment. For now, get out of here… … .’
Wow!
A scream erupted from Yooseong’s mouth as he inadvertently turned his head at the huge sound coming from behind.
“booster?!”
Broomsticks flying at terrifying speed, emitting blue flames from behind like jet engines, and hooked-nosed witches blowing various kinds of magic with wands aimed on them.
Yooseong, who had been hardened by the unimaginable sight, came to his senses belatedly and took out the gun he had brought from the knight.
bang!
In the air, even though she pulled the trigger without aiming properly, the bullet calibrated by her marksmanship skill accurately pierced the witch.
At first, they dismissed it as a coincidence, but the witches who continued to see their comrades slumped to the ground and turned to blood clots became contemplative and began to evade.
‘now!’
If you change direction, your speed will inevitably decrease.
Among them, Meteor, who had thorny vines on the broomstick of the witch who was slowing down, pulled it with all his might.
“Kyaaah!”
Yooseong, who glanced at the witch who lost her balance and fell down, stood on top of a broom that had lost its owner and pulled the extension trigger.
Standing on a broomstick that is difficult to control even after sitting down and holding it tightly with both arms, shooting a gun with high recoil is an act of suicide.
Of course, Meteor, whose feet and broom were firmly fixed with thorns, was an exception.
bang! bang! bang!
Every time a gunshot rang out, screams followed, and broomsticks fell after losing their owners.
Eventually, the witches, reduced to about one-third of the original, turned around and fled, as if they had lost their will to fight.
“Whoa.”
Yooseong exhaled a breath he had been holding back and drew his gun, and jumped to a nearby rooftop the moment the witches disappeared.
“Witches riding on broomsticks with boosters. It’s a truly astral world.”
It could be said that it was a world that perfectly suited the quest’s name, [Twisted World].
Yooseong, who came down to the street, entered a nearby store to avoid being tracked, changed into a new outfit, and walked out and carefully walked down the street.
“… … .”
After listening to Kuzan’s explanation, I was able to see things I hadn’t seen before.
First of all, the sky.
What I thought was the night sky was a huge dome-shaped structure, and what I thought was the moon and stars were just numerous light sources embedded in the ceiling.
The same goes for how people look.
When I first saw it, I was just admiring the cool prosthetic limbs, various races, and the splendid and noisy street scenery, but if you think on the contrary, it is the same as saying that there are so many people who are so uncomfortable that they have to wear prosthetic limbs or prosthetic limbs. .
Beep profit!
Meteor’s eyes narrowed at the appearance of a car and an unreasonable object spewing high-pressure steam through the streets.
‘The secret weapon of the elves?’
It could be.
Since the world is infinite and the possibilities are endless, there may be elves who developed and used ancient weapons with similar appearances and functions to Earth’s modern weapons.
But instinctively, I was able to intuit that this world was not such a case.
‘It’s clear that the user intervened. In order to complete the quest, a large number of modern weapons were mobilized. If you think of rifles, tanks, airplanes, biochemical weapons, and lastly, light and fire, poison-spraying weapons, and pollution… … .’
It must have been a nuclear weapon.
As Meteor, who knew how badly taking out and using items from a higher civilization in a world with a lower civilization level would have a negative impact on the clear rank, he had no choice but to put on a tired expression.
“It would have taken a lot of weapons to fight against the whole world, but was the reward that great? No, no matter how coveted the reward is, if that was the case, you would have suffered a terrible deficit and even a penalty beyond the point of not being able to pay for it?”
I can’t quite understand what the hell he was thinking.
However, some facts could be guessed.
‘If it’s true that Earth’s users are doing things in this world, they must have a close relationship with the great powers.’
Users are not the ones who create something out of nothing.
It’s just moving things from one world to another.
It is impossible even for Kang Chang-seok, who is full of rotten money, to start a huge war in this world and supply enough weapons to sustain it.
Even if you have money to buy weapons, it is because an individual cannot purchase that many weapons.
If nuclear weapons were included in the calculation, one more fact could be guessed.
‘There are many countries with nuclear weapons, but is it either the United States or Russia that can secretly support at least a dozen nuclear weapons? If you think about the image, you can also add China.’
Unless all of those weapons were obtained as quest rewards and thrown into another world, the culprit was likely to be one of the users from the three countries.
Of course, I wasn’t planning on finding that user and what to do with it.
There was no separate reward, but Meteor wasn’t a righteous character enough to attack other users.
I just wanted to know what kind of user would be enough to do crazy things like this.
‘When I go back to Earth, I’ll have to carefully look over the data Kang Chang-seok sent me.’
After finishing tidying up, Yooseong let out a long sigh.
Even after walking around the street for quite a long time, it seemed safe to say that I had escaped the pursuit for now, judging from the lack of tracking eyes or suspicious people.
“Let’s eat something first.”
Maybe it was because he vomited out what was inside of him once and fought like crazy after that, so he couldn’t get any energy.
Yooseong, who bought a green skewer with a savory smell from a nearby street vendor and chewed it over, spoke to Kuzan out of curiosity.
‘Did you say this city is about 100 years old?’
-right.
‘Didn’t he go outside at all?’
-I guess so?
‘But how did you not run out of food?’
Even if air or disease can be solved somehow with magic, food is a separate issue.
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Judging from the appearance of the street so far, it seems that the population is not small.
-Oh, that one? I have a farm. It’s polluted, but we grow wheat and vegetables. Even in underground mines, they send a lot of mushrooms and bats.’
‘Ugh. I don’t know anything else, but bats are a bit… … .’
-Don’t worry unnecessarily because you won’t have a chance to eat. The lower classes are in a position where they can’t even see bats or luxurious ingredients such as wheat, vegetables, and mushrooms in their lifetime. There is nothing else we can eat.
‘Then what do the lower classes eat?’
A question posed lightly without much thought.
And Kuzan also answered without thinking.
-bug.
The mouth, which was eagerly crushing the skewer, stopped.
A scene from the movie Winter Train passed through Yoosung’s head.
-There are bugs called black bugs that eat anything and reproduce quickly. Since they became contaminated, they have grown in size and increased fertility, so I catch them, process them, and use them as food. That’s what I’m eating right now. There goes one on the right.
“… … .”
As soon as he saw an insect the size of a human head, very similar to a cockroach, the meteor swept back.
* * *
Dirty streets with all sorts of graffiti walls and trash scattered all over the place.
Originally, the Last City was not very safe except for the upper-class citizens’ districts, but this place was even worse.
It is the last place where people unable to work due to congenital or acquired disabilities, children who have lost their parents or abandoned, people who commit crimes and are pursued, and those who have not adjusted to society arrive.
A young man appeared in this place where ordinary people do not even come close.
The young man, all limbs intact and dressed in proper clothes, seemed out of place in the sewers, but no one quarreled with him.
It was because the young man’s mood was so vicious.
“… … .”
A ferocious expression that said he would kill anyone who caught his eye.
No matter how many times I vomited out everything inside and rinsed my mouth, I couldn’t help feeling better.
‘Giant cockroaches contaminated with radioactivity during the nuclear apocalypse, and the food made from those cockroaches. It’s like a world where only the worst settings of those games and movies were selected and mixed together.’
If he couldn’t substitute food with the Byeokgokdan obtained from [The youngest disciple of Jincheon’s family], he would have seriously considered quitting the quest.
Yooseong, who had been walking around the streets gagging several times, stopped when he found a shabby high-rise building.
‘Is this right?’
-uh. But is it a real store? If it were them, they would have sent someone here as well.
‘To catch a tiger, I have to enter the tiger’s den.’
Sigh.
The moment I opened the door, the smoke and smell of alcohol stimulated my eyes and nose.
People with drugs in one hand and bottles in the other, swaying like ghosts to the music.
At first glance, it was a place that could be mistaken for a den of drug addicts and alcoholics, but Yoosung, who had listened to Kuzan’s explanation in advance, was not seduced by its appearance.
‘The only information guild in the last city. Commonly known as the sewer.’
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