Chapter 206 – 206. Acquisition of Information

“Patrol 1 entered with cameras. Be sure to take a picture of what the inside is like.”

At Michael’s words, the five Awakened Warriors armed with iron armor nodded and jumped into the hole.

Thanks to the blacksmith class, Nick’s base was able to produce iron weapons and armor on its own, and was relatively rich in armor.

“Wait for 10 minutes and if you don’t come out, a barbarian patrol will enter.”

Michael had no intention of going inside in a fistfight.

True to the name Narak, Michael expected that down there would be the main arena of evil spirits, so he didn’t think to rush into it.

“Hmm… Erickson. How many minutes have passed?”

“Nine minutes passed. Oh, ten minutes now.”

“You’re not coming out..”

“Shall we send in a barbarian scout?”

“I will.”

The first scouting party could be seen as a discard card. In the first place, Warrior was the most common class, so it was put in with the thought that it would be worth it to lose.

Moreover, I didn’t even expect much because I chose those who caused some problems in the camp and put them in. Even if they died, they were no problem.

“Bavarian team. Ready.”

“Five warriors couldn’t escape. If it was dangerous, I would have come out right away. However, the fact that it did not come out means that there is a high possibility that the entrance will disappear when you enter. Maybe everyone will scatter the moment they enter. However, return alive as long as possible.”

“Hehe. Got it Michael. Don’t worry too much. I’ll take a quick look and come back.”

Oliver, the leader of the barbarian team, smiled and patted Michael on the shoulder.

Oliver was Michael’s comrade-in-arms who had survived from the day the disaster began until now, and was one of the important people in the camp that Michael believed. That’s why Michael believed that if it was Oliver, he would surely be able to return alive with important information.

Soon, ten barbarians jumped into the hole in the abyss, praying for a safe return.

About 20 minutes after that.

Only one member of the crew, holding the dead Oliver’s left arm, returned home covered in blood.

“What… Why only you…”

“Eh, Michael.. This.. The captain told me to give it to him.. Kuh-heo-eok…!”

The sole survivor handed Michael the camera that was held tightly to Michael’s left arm, to be exact. Then, vomiting blood and maggots, he collapsed and died.

Soon his body swelled up rapidly and larvae began to squirt out as they tore at his skin. The caterpillars were quite large, toothy and aggressive.

“This!”

Michael and those nearby quickly incinerated the sole survivor’s body. It happened before Michael could even figure out if something had infected him.

‘What the hell… What’s the condition down there…’

Shortly after being shocked by Oliver’s death and the bugs the survivor had vomited up, Michael quickly checked the video, grasping his senses.

The contents of the video were gruesome.

The place where the barbarian patrol arrived was a very dark place. When I illuminated the surroundings with the light source I brought with me, it was a cave filled with water up to my ankles and blue eggs embedded in the walls, floor, and ceiling.

From there, the barbarians started wandering around to find a way out, and soon the hagfish-like insects tore the eggs one by one and crawled out, moving on the water and eating the bodies of the barbarians before entering the interior.

In this way, they were infected by unknown insects and died.

The infected all died, regurgitating maggots from their mouths, like the last survivor who had just died. Ten people entered and all ten were infected, and only three barbarians, including Oliver, survived without dying immediately.

‘It’s impossible to discern what those insects are with just the camera screen.. I have to go in myself.

The video from the camera ends with Oliver being swallowed up by arms extending from the wall and being sucked into the wall while taking a breather. His severed left arm must have been cut off before Oliver was completely sucked in.

Anyway, one of the two remaining survivors managed to get out, holding Oliver’s left arm, and the other would still be down there.

Michael expected him to be dead too.

“There is no point in further reconnaissance. Anna, get ready. We have to go in Have all the priests on standby… Call Aran too. There is no answer to the player alone.”

Realizing the difficulty of Hell through the video, Michael summoned all the base’s best forces. It seemed like it would be a difficult journey.

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Hell was a much more dangerous place than I thought. It’s a place where you don’t know what you’ll die if you enter blindly without prior information.

The Black Market Underground was similarly dangerous, but at the time there were two experts in the Black Market Underground named Cheshire and Ayla.

To be honest, if it weren’t for the two of them, the black market’s basement might have been impossible to conquer. I think I did a hard carry by calling Kishria at the last minute, but I wouldn’t have reached that point without Cheshire and Ayla.

So again, you need expert advice.

‘Hey, evil gods, can we talk?’

On my way to retrieve Henry’s head, I paused to speak to the demons.

I wondered if it was a separate place from Hell and Abyss, and since Hell seems to be the realm of demons, I wondered if there was anything I could do to help.

Of course, I am well aware that talking to me is an act that consumes the law of cause and effect, but I still had to ask the question because my life depended on it.

[Narak and Abyss are different. The abyss is a place much deeper and gloomy than Hell. Also, I’ve already got my hands on it. Any more help is difficult.]

[And since you are hungry, make an offering. More.]

A reply came back from Carshinax that seemed to be as brief as possible. As expected, Indicron seems to be in a difficult state to answer, and it feels like Carshinax also finally answered.

Conversation was originally difficult on the ground in Botamillaya.

‘I’ve already written my hand… Ho-oh.’

It seems that he already wrote something before I even asked for it. It is completely under the care of evil spirits.

More than anything, thinking that I have a strong ally makes me feel better.

I looked for Henry’s head again with a small smile on my face.

‘No, where did you go…’

But why not?

Henry’s head was missing, as if he had a foot on his head. So I decided to ask the slaves who were working.

“Hey, haven’t you seen the living head?”

“Yes? Ah.. That’s in the playground garden.

As the nameless slave who was washing the windows in the middle of the day said, Henry’s head was rolling around in the garden that had been created in the playground.

“What, what are you guys doing!!”

“Ah, Mr. Master…”

“Hey… That’s…”

The kids were playing, scribbling on Henry’s head with a marker.

These children are the children of survivors who were originally at Hyo-seon Girls’ High School, and they are children whom Hee-seon noona didn’t kick out because she likes them.

Still, they couldn’t do anything and feed them for free, so they spent most of their time watering plants and doing simple labor in the playground garden with plant farmer Joo In-hye.

Of course, half of the work was for play, and the rest of the time was spent learning Korean or simple arithmetic.

“Whoa. It’s okay, everyone, stop crying and go to your work. And if you touch his stuff carelessly, you will get scolded.”

“Yes.. I’m sorry.. Mister..”

“If you know, go ahead and go.”

I’m annoyed, but I didn’t break Henry’s head, and Henry was laughing as if he enjoyed playing with the kids, so he decided not to scold me too much.

You can’t just make human sacrifices to your kids just because you’ve scribbled them on their heads. And perhaps the parents or guardians who have heard of the commotion will scold the children instead of me.

‘It’s not the kids who can’t understand the language…’

Since I’ve already experienced countless deaths, I’m aware of the fact that if I do something wrong, I can be kicked out, so I won’t do that in the future.

Above all, if you do harm to children, the public will be outraged. No matter how much my slaves are, I need to take care of the public sentiment as long as I don’t exterminate the good gods.

It would be a big deal if a large-scale rebellion broke out due to the servitude of the good gods… No, but it doesn’t make sense to rebel just because the stigma was lifted…

‘If you think about it, I’m not the best dictator..? Protect me from zombies, I am the first to move in case of a crisis, and I have never starved people, fix their disabilities, get rid of those who don’t work and goof around, get rid of the old idiots, and treat me when I’m sick…’

In particular, the fact that people with intellectual disabilities were turned into Alcid infection had a great effect on restoring public sentiment. I can’t help but be moved by making people who couldn’t understand words their whole lives into normal people, albeit a little ugly in appearance.

‘I’ve been living just for my own gain… I’ve been earning extreme profits, so everyone around me can live well together, right?’

I decided not to be a savior, but somehow I feel like a savior.

“Hey, Henry. Graffiti on your face. Is it okay?”

“Haha. Well, it’s kids, so maybe that’s okay. And I asked to get it out. It’s stuffy inside the building… I wanted to see the sunlight.”

Henry laughed like it was nothing. What’s more, the kids didn’t take it out voluntarily, and Henry asked to take it out, so it seemed like they brought it out and played with it.

It’s a more carefree head than you think.

“Hey, Henry. The entrance leading to Narak has been opened. That’s why…”

“What..? Whoa… For some reason, I thought I smelled an unpleasant smell of blood…”

Henry smiled with sharp eyes. He looked very excited. He seemed excited at the thought of going to find the body already in the abyss.

“So I have a few questions for you.”

“About Narak?”

“Yes. Two of my slaves just went in and out…”

I told Seonjae Lee and Hoon Lee what I had heard and asked questions about the internal structure and dangers of Narak.

“Huh.. It seems that the entrance to the second fucking area in Hell has opened. At least it seems to be the place where the seeker is located.. It’s fortunate…”

“Are you a seeker? With multiple arms…”

“Okay. We call them the Seekers of Hell. They are the ones that help you survive. As long as you don’t go against their wishes, you don’t have to fight.”

“Aha.. But what do you mean by the second thing that sucks?”

“Hmm.. Where should I start explaining… First of all, Hell is made up of 4 areas in a big way. The most fucked up of them all is the Caged Nest. Worst place, infested with bugs everywhere.”

Henry’s explanation began.

He was very quick to the bottom.