Chapter 234 – Mucous Membranes
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In the end, we… No I.
They decided to rescue Edward’s sister.
If this was the case, the other party had no choice but to follow my decision. Now my opinion in this group was almost absolute.
Ultimately, it is powerless.
After all, in a world like this, force is a gangster.
Even Grace, who was the fiercest opponent, had no choice but to change her mind after I made the decision.
Of course, seeing how I dealt with the flesh monsters lightly, I must have thought about getting the Shelter’s master key as well.
“How long will it take to get there?”
Asked Edward.
“Ha, an hour should be enough.”
“An hour? Really?”
“Two, two hours…”
“…Should I return?”
I try to scare away Edward’s foolish appearance.
“Sah, actually, I’m not sure either. I didn’t measure the time… It won’t take two hours.”
At the sound of the return, Edward is stunned and makes gibberish excuses.
This guy… Can you believe it?
“Carrie, what is that strange suit?”
Seeing Carrie and Grace in well-fitting black suits, Phillip asks if he is curious.
“Huh? This one? Isn’t it cool? Unho made it.”
“But… You heard me?”
Philip tilted his head with an expression asking what he was talking about.
“Yes. It’s Unho’s superpower.”
“That’s a superpower?!”
“Look Carefully.”
Carrie reached her fist on the window of the half-broken car next to her.
– Perseok!
Carrie’s fist lightly broke the car glass.
“Uh?”
She takes out her bare fist and shows it to Philip, showing off.
“How is it? Great.”
“…That’s amazing.”
“Philip, you can also ask Unho.”
“…Done.”
At Carrie’s invitation, Philip coldly refuses.
There is pride in the form…
Still, it was a wise choice.
I had no intention of doing it either, so even if I had asked for it, I would have been humiliated.
We started moving to rescue Edward’s beautiful older sister.
I caught a few more fleshy slimes on the way.
At the same time, I learned that I couldn’t completely kill them with just one incendiary grenade.
Even though the firepower of the incendiary grenade was stronger than Edward’s mediocre ability, it was like that.
Even though they caught fire and suffered, they endured with their strong regenerative power.
Besides, the fire doesn’t catch well if you just light it.
You have to throw something like an Awakener’s fire ability or an incendiary grenade, like Edward, who is constantly burning.
On the contrary, it seemed that a situation would arise in which you would have to deal with a fireball, not a fleshball, if you lighted it clumsily.
Sensing ability enough to detect magic stones.
Force enough to extract the detected magic stone.
And a powerful fire to finish it off.
You need to be able to do these three things to deal with the flesh monsters.
There is no one in our party with that level of ability.
At the very least, Edward, who has flame-type abilities, is a little helpful, and the rest is just a bunch of baggage.
The luggage was a bit more than I thought.
However, it was ambiguous to send his party back and return to this place again.
Could it have been an hour or so?
A heterogeneous landscape unfolded.
We couldn’t help but pause after seeing the scenery.
It must be bizarre.
The landscape covered with dark red fleshy mucous membranes, not only the buildings, but also the floor.
It was like seeing a completely different world.
“It doesn’t seem that out of the ordinary…”
Seeing the scenery, Philip said with a frown.
“Everyone. Ah, it’s nothing. Like this.”
Edward, who gave off the appearance that we didn’t want to go any further, climbed onto the mucous membrane first and then bluffed.
“Stop it. Edward. You carelessly like that…”
When Richard sees Edward like that, he warns him in a way that is not young.
Edward stumbled when the floor he was stepping on wriggled.
“Ahh!”
The guy freaked out and took a stance in a hurry.
I think this guy is stepping on it for the first time too…
“Wasn’t it like this when you escaped?”
The guy looks at us and rolls his eyes. How can I say we won’t go back. It was obvious what he thought.
“…That, that’s right. It wasn’t to this extent when I escaped…”
Edward answered with a sullen face, sighing, as if he couldn’t think of a good answer.
“Unho, look over there.”
Grace pointed to the border between where the mucous membrane is covered and where it is not. Twenty-twenty, the mucous membrane slowly expanding the area was visible.
Seeing this scenery, I am also a little worried.
Is this okay?
I’ll be fine.
The rest of the staff is the problem.
It’s annoying to go back now…
Giving up on being a pretty doctor?
Having a lot of luggage made me feel weak without even realizing it. This is why you shouldn’t be close to a man like Philip.
The ability I showed them is only part of it.
Protecting them is not the problem.
However, I knew very well that they wouldn’t like it just because I showed strong abilities.
This can be seen by looking at the survivors’ camps accepted by Sejong City.
I am an object of fear to those who watched the process of my admission to the survivor camp.
Of course, there is no respect or awe towards me.
The Heavenly Division is a little better, but…
Every time I came face to face with the survivors of Sejong City, I felt the fear they had for me.
In short, they hardly treat me like a human being.
I don’t know if it’s a monster.
It’s not that I’m sad.
There is no reason to look good to them…
I have no intention of being friendly.
I don’t have enough time to be friendly with my girls.
It’s better to be a monster than to look easygoing.
But I want to be friends with the girls here in America.
First impressions are important.
Relationships between men and women often end without even starting if the first impression is wrong.
So, I was doing a little bit of hard work.
However, it is not something a real man would do to make things complicated and protracted for no reason just because he came all the way here and worked hard.
Hardened my heart
“Let’s run.”
“Yes?”
“Edward, show your determination. How early you arrive is up to you.”
If I run with Carrie, who has the weakest stamina, on my back, then only Edward has to work hard.
“Ah, I see.”
Edward nodded his head with a serious face.
– Iron puck! Smack!
We ran quickly, with Edward at the forefront and following him, stepping on the mucous membrane.
“Heo-euk! Heo-euk!”
Edward was quite out of breath.
I’m carrying Carrie, and she’s alone.
It was a bad scene, though.
Contrary to what I thought, there was no great threat while moving.
It might have been a bit of an oversight.
The result of Edward running desperately with the mindset of thinking about his sister.
We stood in front of what must have been a large building completely surrounded by fleshy mucous membranes.
The building was covered in mucous membrane, so I couldn’t even see a hole through which I could enter.
“Is this the building?”
Hehe! Hehe! Yeah…”
However, Edward was breathing heavily and was showing a puzzled look.
Wasn’t he in this state when he escaped?
(Already… Isn’t it too late?)
Carrie, who was sitting on my back, whispered in my ear.
Maybe…
Philip, Richard, and Grace were looking around the room nervously.
“Woon-ho, we’ve arrived, so drop us off.”
I lowered Carrie on her back to the floor.
“Ugh! The feeling of stepping on it is strange.”
She said that, but she didn’t erase her curious expression as she tapped her foot on the floor.
It was stronger than I thought.
“Edward, how about going back? Judging by the state of the building, it’s already…”
Grace gave Edward a cold word.
“That, that can’t be the case. Obviously, at this point…”
– Woe!
While denying reality, Edward creates a flame and burns what appears to be the entrance to the building.
As the flesh wriggles, the mucous membrane is pushed out.
It worked.
“Everyone, look! This is the entrance!!”
Edward said with a bright face.
“…”
However, the faces of the party had a confused expression.
“Um, why…”
Edward asks while looking at us.
This guy… I really don’t know, so I’m asking.
Who would want to enter a building like that?
A hole into a building immersed in black darkness.
It looked like the entrance to a dungeon in Hell.
It was natural for a normal human to not want to go in.
“Unho…Do I really have to go in?”
Carrie asked with a puzzled expression.
Surely…
I didn’t want to enter that filthy fleshy building either.
-Jreuk jreuk jreuk.
Then, I heard a very unpleasant sound from somewhere.
“Fuck! What is that!!”
Philip shouted.
Waves of maggots the size of a forearm started pouring in from all directions.
It was a group of flesh maggot monsters that made me uncomfortable just by looking at them. The snout at the end of the maggot had sharp teeth in a circle.
It looked like a fucking dog with teeth at the end of a huge fire.
I think this is because Edward burned his mucous membrane…
There was nowhere to run.
No, there was only one.
I relaxed and looked inside the building, but there didn’t seem to be any major threats.
“Uh, I can’t help it. This is the only way to get away.”
Edward’s way of saying that seemed somewhat nasty to the point of wanting to punch him in the back of the head.
‘I think you like this guy…’
In the end, as Edward intended, we were forced to enter the dungeon as if being chased and pushed by maggot monsters.
