Chapter 151 – 151. Anyway, I’m the Leader

Squeak… Squeak…

I heard the footsteps of someone walking upstairs, and at the same time, powder dripped from the ceiling and creaked. At the same time, the corpses of the humans hanging from the hooks shook along.

Every time that happened, the hook hooks engaged with each other, making the sound of metal scraping, and Jo Joon frowned at the harsh metal sound in his ears. At that time, Bayou muttered in an annoyed voice.

“Looks like there’s someone upstairs…”

“Right. He must be a pretty heavy guy.”

At Bayu’s slightly nervous words, Nick looked up at the ceiling with an expression of interest. Joon, who followed them and focused on the sound coming from the ceiling for a while, soon felt the sound disappear and looked around him again.

‘Smell…’

The corpse, whose intestines were emptied by a split stomach, exuded a poisonous smell several times more terrible than that of zombies. In addition, the blood and ooze that flowed from the bodies of the corpses gathered on the floor to create a sticky, rotten puddle of water, and red mushrooms that grew all over the room using it as food spewed out spores, adding to the discomfort.

In addition, the strangely cool air made me feel depressed and disgusted. It was an environment that was difficult for ordinary people to endure with sober mind. However, none of them vomited or struggled.

Jo Jun, the apostle of evil spirits, may not be shaken because he has often seen terrible scenes. Because he had risen to the level of playing with human beings by attaching and attaching them.

However, it was quite strange for Jo Joon that even Bayu and Nick remained calm, as if they were not too shocked by the horrors in front of them.

‘It must mean that they also lived as formidable lives as I did…’

Through their indifferent reactions, Jo Joon was able to guess without difficulty that they, like him, must have had a bloody life. Of course, since they’re still alive and have enough skills to participate in an event like this, it’s only natural in a way.

“Hey. Look at all the dead bodies. There are also some non-humans here… Is this, a beast? There are lizard people too. It seems that not only ordinary humans were groomed, but even pseudo-humans were caught and killed as soon as they were caught. Rather, where did the intestines go?”

“Hey, Kojaeng. I don’t really care where the guts went, so keep your voice down, okay. I’m going to die of noise.”

“Hey Chink. You’ve been arguing with me since earlier… Isn’t that enough? I have a limit to my patience.”

“Will you lower your voice a bit? There’s something strange going around upstairs, and it’s fucking annoying to have to raise your voice like that. You, don’t you actually want to kill us all?”

“I am writing a novel. I think you really want to do that like a chimney. I don’t know if he’s deliberately trying to cause a commotion by getting into a fight.”

Looking at the two growling at each other, unable to hold back for a moment, Jo Joon washed his face dry. It was because the two of them growled like dogs fighting over barbed wire.

“Both. Do that. We can’t even attack each other anyway… I don’t know what the fuck is going on. Find out where they live and fight outside. Stop fucking around here.”

At Jo Jun’s words, Bayou clicked his tongue and turned his head away, and Nick shrugged his shoulders as if he had done nothing wrong, then began to check the shapes of the corpses hanging on the hooks.

‘Damn it… Even the spawning place sucks, but the cubs who came with both lost their heads… Is it because of the confidence that they can win no matter what comes out? Or are they just crazy people?’

Joon didn’t know. Somehow, I was stopping the two people in the middle, but… Slowly, that too came to its limit. Jo Joon lacks patience with his misbehavior.

“Sheesh… You damned nosed bastard…”

Bayou muttered annoyed words over and over, as if he was dissatisfied with the end of the nervous war with Nick due to Jo Jun’s intervention. However, like a sane player, he didn’t just complain without doing anything. Bayou fiddled with the elongated wall to find an exit from the room, where even breathing was stuffy.

Because there was no door where I could see it right away. That said, it must have been hidden somewhere, and when Bayu saw it, he wondered if there was a device on the wall.

On the other hand, Joon looked back at Nick and Byu for a while. Then, the reasoning that had been cut off while mediating the quarrel between the two resumed.

‘Let’s see.. Why did we wake up in a place like this… I heard that it was definitely sent somewhere in the mansion in the announcement, but is this place also included in the mansion? Did the family head eat cannibals? I don’t think so.’

According to what Jo Jun heard from the jeweler, the place called Jeon-yul Mansion was an ordinary mansion where their maker, the family head, lived. And as far as he knew, the owner of the mansion, the unknown head of household, was a puppeteer who was crazy about dolls, not a person who enjoyed cannibalism and indulged in strange pleasures and organized a training for a priest.

However, it was difficult to see the scenery unfolding before his eyes as it was a scene that would appear in a place where humans live. As for the manicured corpses hanging from the hooks, as well as the obnoxious mushrooms clustering on the walls and floors. Everywhere I looked, it felt like a nest of crazy monsters.

‘I bet this isn’t my lucky number again and blowing our group off to a strange place… Yeah, probably not. I don’t think so. Come to think of it, the mansion has changed owners several times… And this is a mansion where time is twisted…’

Joon made a reasonable reasoning in his own way. According to the preliminary information of the mansion he received, this mansion was in a state of being strangely twisted as the owner changed, and the time axis was also jumbled. Jo Jun thought that perhaps they had fallen into a different era than the time when the family head took care of the mansion.

‘Yes, we fell into the thrilling mansion of a completely different era than the era of the puppeteer’s family.’

Joon made an inference close to the correct answer.

‘Then this… To get the signet ring requested by the jeweler, you might have to find a time slot where the signet ring is available. If that’s really the case, the difficulty here is too high…’

Jo Joon didn’t know how to find the time zone where the householder was alive. Moreover, saying that there is a separate era with a key might mean that there is also an era where you can escape through the exit… A cold sweat broke out on Jo Jun’s back.

‘I have to figure out how to get through time…’

Jo Joon took out a phase-pointing compass and a double helix pocket watch from his bag and put them on his waist and neck for ease of use. A phasing compass is an object that allows you to point to a location and make the compass point only to that location. When Joon found an exit with it, he intended to designate the exit he found.

Because securing an escape route is always important.

‘Pocket watch.. The time zone I belong to.. So it allows me to go back to that time zone in 2022.. I’m not sure if this is the past or the future, but for now, I can go back to the normal time with this.. And I think the exit will be in 2022, when we live, not in the past or future, but in the present.’

As Cho Joon thinks, the exit exists in the era in which Jo Joon lives, that is, on a day in 2022. So those who had the double helix pocket watch meant that they had a better chance of finding the exit.

‘I don’t know how many times there will be a twist, but… I’m quite happy with the fact that it’s easier to find the exit.’

While Jo Joon was thinking about that, Nick looked around the human slaughterhouse and found something.

“Oh no… Here is a living human.”

“What?”

Bayou, who was looking for a door to get out of, and Jo Jun, who was wondering whether it would be better to find the exit from the mansion, approached the place where Nick was at the same time.

“Ugh…”

Nick was standing in front of a man hanging from a hook.

“Are you a human before being slaughtered?”

“Maybe so..”

“Let’s wake up first.”

“Wait, I don’t even know what he’s doing… Oh my.”

Despite Jo Joon’s dissuade, Nick pulled the man from the hook without hesitation.

“Keep it off…!”

When the hook was pulled out, Bayou quickly covered the man’s mouth, who was about to scream in pain. The man who soon regained consciousness looked up at the three men looking down at him with a terrified face.

For reference, he looked like a Middle Eastern man.

“!$^@%#%!#$!”

“What is he saying now? Is it French?”

“Well. You won’t understand it at all, but… First of all, it’s not Chinese…”

Nick and Bayu couldn’t understand what the man was saying. It was the same with Joon.

‘I think it will give you a clue. It’s not the time to save. I need to use the potion now…’

Jo Joon took out the potion he had received from Hellus in preparation for this situation.

It was a potion made from fairy dust spilled by a pixie with suspiciously good language skills. It was an item that he tried to save as much as possible except when it was really urgent because the quantity was not much, but Jo Joon decided to drink the potion when the only existence that seemed to be able to explain the current situation appeared. He also passed a bottle of potion to the man he was supposed to talk to.

-Gulp…

After drinking the sour potion from a small bottle, Jo Joon and the man can finally understand each other.

“You want to save me.”

“Looks like an interpreter item.”

“Okay. And just in case, there aren’t many.”

Joon gave a rough answer to Nick’s words, then approached the man who was crawling on the floor and put the ceremonial dagger to his throat and spoke. Nick’s eyes widened at his aggressive behavior. However, he did not intervene. It was because Nick knew that fear is more useful than warm words to communicate with a panicked human.

“Hey.”

“Hey… Yes…”

“Tell me everything you know. This mansion and everything right now. ASAP.”

We had to extract as much information as possible before the effect wore off. Because I couldn’t use it in a state where I didn’t have a few bottles. For about 10 minutes, the man spoke gibberish and told Jo Jun what he had been through. Jo Joon took out a notebook from his chest and wrote down what he said.

“Right. I get it.”

“Yes. Hey, live now.”

-Good luck!!

Jo Jun, who extracted all the information he could hear, slit the man’s throat and offered it to Carshinax. However, it was not a sympathy. It felt like something was blocking it. The connection with the evil spirits was very blurred.

At that time, Nick, who had been watching Jo Joon’s actions, grabbed Jo Joon’s shoulder, embarrassed by the momentary act of murder.

“Hey! What are you doing! Are you killing me all over again? Didn’t you say you would save me?”

“I was a powerless incompetent anyway. He didn’t know too much either. He was a guy who was only a burden to carry around without saying a word.”

“Isn’t that something you have to take with you to find out? And they say there is an item for communication.”

“Is that your item? It’s my item Why should I waste consumables for this incompetent bastard? Stop talking nonsense.”

Nick stared Joon in the eye. He is as if he is being charged with guilt.

“What. Whatever. If you stare at me like that, why should I apologize to you? You are laughing.”

Of course, Joon wasn’t weak enough to give in to Nick’s threats. Rather, Joon held the dagger in reverse and provoked Nick.

“We’re busy living right now, so are you arguing that you killed an idiot? Are you kidding me? You may feel that your life is no big deal. I love myself the most Luggage is an envoy.”

When Joon showed no signs of backing down, Nick sighed and told him what he thought.

“Haa.. I wonder if it was necessary to kill him like that. You can just let it go and let it run away. Maybe he knew how to get out.”

“I already asked if I knew the way out of this room. He said he had no idea. In the first place, it was said that it was the first time that there was such a space in the mansion. If you knew but didn’t tell me, it’s a scheming bastard, so it’s right to kill it quickly, and if you didn’t know at all, it’s a useless burden, so it’s better to kill it. Are you okay? It’s not that I didn’t kill without a front and back. It was useful, so I made you a Buddha.”

“Haa… That’s it. I can’t talk. Ok, I get it Got it. Still, the act of recklessly trying to kill people in front of me… It would be better to fix it.”

“You’re laughing.”

Joon heard Nick’s threatening threat and immediately snorted. Nick no longer responded to Joon’s words.

In the meantime, Bayou, who had been watching Jo Jun and Nick’s argument, felt that the two had a lull in their argument, so she hurriedly approached Jo Jun and started talking to him.

“Hey, Breads. Killing that bastard… I’m all for it. By the way. Wouldn’t it be right to share what he said as a team?”

At Bayou’s words, Jo Jun smiled. Joon Joon was so dumbfounded.

“Fuck you, you bastard. You’re going to eat the information I got while writing items raw? If you want information shared, you have to pay a fair price for it.”

“To pay for it..?”

“Okay. If you want to get information shared and get out of the mansion safely. Don’t vomit at my words in the future. Don’t even bother unnecessarily with that guy. You’re not kids. If you argue and fight in front of me one more time, I’ll just throw you both away and run away all alone. I now know how to get out of here.”

“No, you coward…”

“Shut up! Don’t want to go out Do you want to be stuck here forever! Byu You were here alone! I’m leaving!!”

“Kuh… Lower your voice… Damn it…”

“Heh heh. If you twist it like that, you should have brought the items well. You bastard.”

Jo Jun could hear quite a lot about the mansion from the man he just killed without a second thought. He also figured out how to move time and what kind of time zones are woven into this mansion.

‘With the information we have now… We gain the upper hand. As long as I can’t kill or attack these damn teammates, I’ll have to use other means to get the upper hand.’

Now that he has the most important information to attack the Tremor Mansion, Jo Joon has decided not to endure the gags of his team members in frustration anymore.

Finally, the time to whip the members will come.