Chapter 228 – 228. Strategic Retreat

“Kiaaaaa!!!!!!!”

“Pfft!!!”

A lion’s hooves so big that they tear your eardrums.

As soon as he appeared, he screamed as if he was trying to overwhelm the ship.

And that scream attracted all the zombies and ghouls wandering around the area.

Soon, thousands of zombies began to flock here.

[Dangerous.]

“I know!”

Kwaaaaang!!!!

As soon as it finished roaring, it swung its heavy arms towards me.

The arm that struck down like a hammer not only shattered the asphalt road, but also collapsed into the ground, raising dust.

If you get hit properly, even if it’s just me, you’ll take a lot of damage.

Moreover, all the skills that guy had were close combat related, so if I hit and fight properly, I didn’t think my body would survive.

First of all, we have to get Junho out of this scene.

“Mister!!!”

“Uh oh!!”

“Hide behind me after you get out of the car!!!”

There’s a sniper somewhere. Accessories tell you. That there is someone with hostility. Also, its location.

Therefore, I blocked the man’s body as much as possible from the sniper. Cars parked on the roadside should be used as cover as much as possible.

“Uh oh!!!”

“Oh my!!!”

As we tried to take him out, the hideous ghoul, which thought we were running away, started running wild. As if they wouldn’t let us escape from this place.

He threw the car at us.

A midsize sedan flies in. No, wait.

“It’s an electric car!!!”

Boom!!!!

“Oh shit!”

The battery of the electric car exploded, causing a fire with tremendous heat.

The embers that flew out in all directions in an instant light up the darkness. Smoke rose and obscured the moonlight.

It feels like this is causing fires everywhere it goes.

‘It’s so annoying.’

It would be nice to be able to summon the dark spirit, but I can’t summon it.

It doesn’t seem like the dark spirit has disappeared at all. How did this happen?

First, we have to interfere with that ghoul bastard. If we leave it like this, it will throw cars at no end and interfere with us.

“Wol!”

Dark Spirit could not be summoned, but Wolah could be summoned. I thought it would work because this was not a dark spirit, but a familiar handed over by the goddess, but fortunately it seems that only the dark spirit could not be summoned.

“Kaaaaa!!!!”

The ghoul confronted two wolves made of moonlight. It won’t last long. Probably soon the two wolae will be torn apart.

So, I need to escape from here quickly.

Taang!!!

“Ugh!!!”

Bullets flew again.

This time, just like before, the bullet landed in his left shoulder, and a dull shock covered his entire body. It wasn’t pierced, but it hurt terrible.

‘Fuck that.’

I was able to pinpoint its location through the effect of its faded eyes. It means he knows where he is shooting.

But I can’t go catch it right now. If I catch him later, I will break all of his fingers and throw him away as dog food.

“From now on, you have to go alone! “Run and don’t look back!”

“Be careful!”

Fortunately, the man was pulled out safely.

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get to Mulgeum safely through this darkness, but if I try to take care of it more, I’ll die.

Since you’re armed in your own way, I’m sure everything will go well.

“Whoa.”

[Try summoning the dark spirit again.]

“Huh?”

After taking out the man, Agaf asked me to use the skill again.

“What?”

Lamech was summoned safely.

Same goes for the other guys.

[This… Seems to be surrounded by some kind of barrier.]

“What a barrier.”

According to Agaf’s explanation, there appears to be a barrier surrounding Busan. And it is said that the dark spirit cannot be summoned from within.

“Then wouldn’t it be okay to bring him inside the wall he summoned from outside?”

[It would be impossible. The particles that make up the dark spirit themselves are being decomposed. Literally…]

It is a barrier specially created to deal with me.

It meant that there was a barrier surrounding it solely to decompose and eliminate dark spirits.

“You literally want to catch me.”

[Accurate. Moreover, that ghoul. It does not go out of a certain area.]

“Huh? That’s right.”

The evil ghoul who tore Wolah to pieces is panting and glaring at me.

But strangely enough, he is unable to move beyond the line drawn by Agaf.

I guess that’s the area of ​​activity where you can move.

[If you step outside that line, that monster’s body will collapse. There is no way that a ghoul can be given that much power at will.]

The evil ghoul cannot escape Busan. It was said that the moment you leave Busan, that body will fall apart.

An enormous amount of force is injected into the body of a small creature, and it is being forced to move.

“Hmm. How to break the barrier?”

[Does not exist. It’s reaching the realm of God. It’s not at a level I can touch.]

[Me too.]

Both Agap and Ainus are impossible.

Moreover, we have no choice but to destroy the core of Busan, which has become the domain of evil spirits.

And the core…

[The apostle of the evil spirit must be holding it.]

“It’s a pain in the ass.”

For now, let’s just wrestle. We dodged the sniper’s sniping, got the guy out safely, and that weird ghoul can’t follow us.

“Shall I go back?”

I am very tired.

If we start targeting Busan now, I think it will take at least two days.

[I don’t think it’s a bad idea to go back. You look quite haggard now.]

“Really?”

Everyone has been worried about my complexion since a while ago.

Let’s go back today. I tried to do too much in one day. Fatigue sets in.

Mental fatigue that goes beyond physical fatigue. Slowly… I want to sleep.

For the past few days, I have been eating only pills. I feel like I want to drink at least some warm soup.

“Wash. Eat. “I need to sleep.”

[No orgy parties?]

“Hey!”

[Hehe. It’s something to behold.]

“What.”

[Huh…]

[Ainus. You, too, will soon discover this feeling.]

Ignoring the words of Agaf, who was becoming more and more of a voyeur, I followed Junho, who ran away first.

If I had known this would happen, would I have run away together?

No. Since I had to stay and figure out the working principles of dark spirit summoning, evil ghouls, and the mechanism of the barrier, it was right for me to send them first.

******

“Haaak. Haaak.”

Han Jun-ho ran like crazy. He just looked ahead and ran without even knowing whether the path he was taking was the right one or not.

‘What on earth was that?’

He recalled the image of the monster he had just encountered.

It was no ordinary ghoul. It looked like a terrible sculpture crawling up from the bottom of hell.

‘Oh my god.’

With his breath reaching his throat, he hid in an empty building and caught his breath. He saw too many ridiculous things today.

“Ha.”

From living fungi to crazy monsters that use telekinesis.

Despair was about to settle in his heart.

Of course. Humans are creatures designed to despair when faced with an enemy they cannot face.

“Mister!”

At that time, Kang In-ho’s voice was heard. In some ways, Kang In-ho is a fearful creature that is more terrible than the countless disasters we saw today.

‘Yes, the scariest guy is on the same side.’

The despair growing in his heart disappeared as if washed away.

I realized it. In a world of disasters, Kang In-ho is a disaster.

Yes, this is the true savior.

Being gentle, caring for people, keeping morals, maintaining order, and living a righteous life are hypocrites, not saviors.

A savior in the true sense of the word is someone who makes courage spring up just by thinking of it and whose very existence makes disasters tremble.

“I’m here!”

Han Jun-ho came out of the building.

Following Kang In-ho’s voice.

“Huh?”

And he saw.

A monster with a speaker where the head should be.

“Mister! Mister! Mister! Mister! Mister! Uncle!!!!!!!”

The same words were coming out of the speakers over and over again.

The recorded voice of Kang In-ho was amplified and played.

“Oh my.”

Han Jun-ho suddenly looked at the monsters surrounding him with a despairing expression.

Twisted monsters are staring at him.

From a guy with a speaker on his head, to a monster with a bloated body and only a mouth, to a woman with a mouth where her eyes should be.

Strange people came to visit him.

The night gets deeper.

******

“Where did the uncle go?”

I can’t feel any presence.

No matter how hard he ran, there was no way he could have gone so far that no one even noticed him in that short period of time.

[I can’t feel anything.]

“Driving me crazy. “Where did you go?”

There is no way Junho would have been attacked by a zombie or a ghoul. So, were there any survivors in this area?

Perhaps those who escaped from Busan were waiting for an opportunity nearby.

“Lamech, Abalam. Rain.”

I summoned the dark spirits and had them search for Mr. Junho.

“Ha.”

Something went wrong. The situation in Busan was very serious, and Junho’s uncle also disappeared.

“Here!!!”

“Huh?”

As I was looking around the house for a while, the double-eyed Abalam shouted that he had found his father.

“Uuuuu.”

“Get out!”

I headed to the scene, burning the zombies to death with fire.

“What?”

“It was in this condition from the moment I found it.”

“…”

I found Mr. Junho.

However, the situation was a little strange.

“Why…”

There’s a radio stuck in your chest, right?

How is it still alive like that?

What on earth is going on?

I can not know. It’s really full of unknown things.

Is this a time of disaster? Things that go beyond common sense happen constantly.

The survivor’s diary saying that winter nights were full of fear was true.

Everything is twisted and ruined.

Moreover, this did not seem to be the work of a vicious spirit.

Unlike the sinister evil spirit… This one was somehow bizarre and grotesque.

Is there something else?

I do not know. I can not know. Unknown beings continue to appear.

Hiding in the darkness of the night.