Chapter 62 – 62. Let’s Go Home Now

Someone came all the way here.

There are a total of five people detected through presence detection.

“There are five people…”

Because of the presence detection penalty, I had no choice but to say what I had found out, and then immediately put a handkerchief in my mouth to block myself from talking to myself.

Immediately after that, I lowered its presence by adding a magic stone I already had to the ring of perception inhibition.

-Hey, is this right here?

-Uh… I heard a humming sound from here a while ago.

-The compass was also pointing this way.

-What time is it now?

-Not yet.. 11:30.

-It’s not afternoon.. But the gate has disappeared..?

-Fuck… Who went in first…

-Then what are you going to do?

-What should I do? I have to wait. Don’t you have to eat the item?

After overhearing their conversation, they realized that someone had entered the gate and waited until they came out.

I thought they were people who had nothing to do.

‘He looks like a college student… ‘

This is not a situation that can be easily passed. They planned to kill those who entered through the gate and take their belongings. They are damn robbers.

‘You mean to kill and plunder an exhausted opponent..’

Judging by the fact that they even have a compass for tracking the gate, there must have been some who woke up from the first day of the disaster and went in and out of the gate.

‘Whoa.. You damn bastards..’

Unlike the idiots like Dongyeong High School who have no experience and have never entered the gate, there is a high possibility that they are professional killers.

Moreover, he is completely alert and waiting for someone to come out. It was impossible to launch a surprise attack.

‘Climbing down through the window is too risky…’

In the end, you have to kill those five guys and leave.

There is no reason not to kill.

‘I want to take a break now, but you bastards… ‘

It’s annoying people.

I have to go home quickly, wash up, open the reward box, and build the golden labyrinth quickly.

They probably advanced this far because there weren’t any Dongyeong High School guys wandering around here, but they were caught by mistake today.

“Hmm.”

I exhaled through my nose and left the office I was hiding in.

At the same time, magic stones were added to the magic shield bracelet to prepare for long-distance attacks, and magic stones were also added to the warrior’s old ring.

Both are Youngsik’s quality maintenance items. As my quality maintenance skills grew, I was able to register three items with 0.1 liter of blood.

Anyway, I thought they might have guns, so I deployed my magic shield. I thought it would be better than getting hit directly.

“Uh? There’s someone over there.. That’s an item..!”

“As expected, there was someone who ate the gate..”

“You’re alone.”

“It’s a mess if you’re alone.”

The five young men each held their own weapons and glared at me. Their attire was quite combative. They wore work gloves, masks covering their faces, and hard hats to protect their heads.

But strangely enough, one of them was wearing only a pair of sweats and his wrists were tied, covered in blood. He was even wearing an eye patch. Maybe he was a prisoner captured on the way here.

‘But those bastards… They don’t have guns… !’

The distance was quite far, so I thought they were going to attack me from a distance, but they were just looking at me with nervous eyes.

In a world where zombies roam and armed forces roam the streets, there are few people crazy enough to shoot a gun without thinking, but if they had one, they would have pointed it at them first to threaten them.

However, they just confronted me with the meager weapons they had as if they were the best weapons, and did not take any action. So I could tell that those bastards didn’t have a gun right now.

Still, I was able to quickly detect the ability before they could react to my actions.

[Increased recovery (A)]

[Effect: Increases resilience and recovery speed from wounds or diseases.]

[Handicap: When you heal others, your sanity level decreases quickly.]

[Incompetent person]

[Sharing Pain (B)]

[Effect: The pain you receive is shared equally with the designated opponent.]

[Handicap: Cognitive ability decreases slightly when using the ability.]

[Penalty: When using Pain Sharing, you will feel compassion for the person in pain.]

[Incompetent person]

[Increased pain (A)]

[Effect: Doubles the pain when attacking the opponent.]

[Penalty: The target affected by the increased pain will develop extreme hatred towards you.]

‘You have annoying skills..’

Thanks to that, I was able to figure out what their strategy was. I could also understand the purpose of that prisoner.

‘The skill that the guy with his wrists tied has is pain sharing. The skill that the guy who is dragging him around increases the pain. That guy inflicts damage by increasing pain and hurts the opponent by sharing pain..’

The guy next to you with increased recovery will be there to heal your wounds… The most difficult thing here is if you kill the guy with pain sharing. Then the pain of death is also shared. It could also be used as a kind of self-destructor.

‘If I get hit by that skill, I can’t kill that guy here…’

First, you have to unlock its abilities and then kill it. And to do that, we had to keep that guy alive and take him to our hideout.

The skill that the woman named Yu Mira who was brought back to life in the auditorium is the seal of her ability. If I were to fall victim to that captive’s skills, I had no choice but to seal that bastard’s abilities and then kill him.

‘You have to be careful not to let the one who shares the pain die while subduing the others… Those guys… If more than one of them dies, there is a high possibility that they will just kill the one who shares the pain..’

I would rather lose my tools than die. That means that if that doesn’t work, by killing the guy who shares the pain, I can kill myself as well.

‘Fuck… It shouldn’t be a difficult fight… It became difficult because of the skills those guys have… No… Isn’t that a problem if that bastard can’t understand me properly?’

What’s important is that you don’t get assigned to someone who shares that pain. He hasn’t taken off his eye patch yet, so I just need to make him not see me when he takes it off.

What would happen if a fairly bright light was suddenly shined inside an already dark building?

‘It’s actually a flashbang… ‘

I placed my hand on the magic stone I had kept in my left pocket and took out the solar flashlight from my inventory.

When I moved first, those who felt suspicious immediately broke the standoff and tried to subdue me.

“Designate that guy!!”

The blindfold has been removed from the guy who shares the pain.

-Click.

“Ugh!!! Snow!!!”

“Fuck!! What is that!!!”

But I was faster. Just before his eye patch he came off, I fed the magic gemstone into the solar flashlight and immediately turned it on.

A tremendous amount of light filled the hallway and illuminated the guys standing guard at the entrance to the stairs on the 7th floor from the front. The looters fall down while clutching their eyes.

‘It was eaten..!’

When I turned on the flashlight, my eyes were closed and my head was half-turned, so even I had poor visibility.

When they can’t open their eyes, you have to kill the one who shares the pain as quickly as possible.

The distance from here to where those guys are is quite far. Can’t help it. Even if we summon all the zombies inside the building, we have no choice but to shoot now.

-Taang!!!

Bullets fly. To the person who shared the pain, who stood at the center among the five people.

-Whoops!!!

It was a hit. A hole opened in his chest, and blood flowed from his chest. He doesn’t seem to have the spirit to use his skills. If I want to use the spirit-body transaction, I have to kill that guy first.

“Oh my!”

“Fuck..!!”

The remaining guys were very confused as they fired their guns first. It must be embarrassing because the way you’ve always won is blocked and you’re even holding a gun.

If I didn’t have insight into their abilities, there was a high possibility that I wouldn’t have been able to read their moves in advance and would have been defeated.

“Whoa… You damn bastards.”

I put the gun in my inventory and immediately pulled out the machete. Now is the time to cut them to death.

******

[Survival has increased rating.]

[Survival level 7 → 8]

Survival level has risen. It’s strange that it doesn’t go up after killing so many people.

“Haa…”

After slaughtering all four remaining people, they even cut up and killed all the zombies in the commercial building. I searched through the remaining corpses, took three items, and then traded the corpses for spiritual and physical transactions.

Unfortunately, the two non-awakened people did not receive any compensation, but the three awakened people were traded for one green reward box. I don’t know how many boxes I got this time.

I gained a lot as much as I worked hard.

“Wow…”

I feel empty, probably because I vomited after eating chocolate earlier. I was nauseous and took out the bottled water Saeyeon had given me from my bag and drank it. I rinsed her mouth and sprinkled the remaining water on her face to calm her mind.

“Ha.. Fuck.. Let’s go home…”

I got out of the commercial building. Now it’s really time to get some rest.

“Haa…”

It was a little difficult, perhaps because I was already two days worth of fatigue despite taking acute stimulants.

At that time, someone approached from afar.

‘Fuck.. I heard a gunshot..’

I immediately prepared for battle.

“Oppa.”

“Ah…”

It was Ayun who approached.

“How..”

“I took the people there and they didn’t come back so I came to look for them. I wonder if I might have entered a dungeon.”

For a moment, tears came to my eyes.

“Thank you.. Ma’am.. I’m crying.”

“What? Brother, are you crying? My brother must have had a really hard time. Come on, I’ll carry you on my back. “Let’s go home.”

“Uh.. It’s a bit weird to carry someone on my back..”

Ah, Yuni’s strength is so high that she should be able to carry me on her back… But still, if I carry her on my back, I won’t be able to respond to her emergency right away, so I walked to her apartment with her being supported by me.

“Inho!”

“Ah, sister..”

When I arrived home, Saeyeon, who was in the middle of setting the table, and Hyuna, who quickly came over and hugged me tightly.

“Inho, hurry up, take a shower, eat, and rest quickly. Good job.”

“Huh. I worked hard.. Really..”

I finally came home.