Chapter 249 – 249. He Is Never Caught Off Guard

The leader building of the Eastern US Camp.

There, Ericsson was looking for people to send into the Maw. He had already sent about 20 slaves to Hell from the Korean side, so he had to send an appropriate number to the Eastern US camp as well.

‘First of all… Mainly men over 40 years old without family… Except for those with strange ideas…’

Erickson picked out older technicians from among the unmarried men with no friends or family whom no one would find if they went into the abyss. Now we can bring them in and speed up the civilization of the Maw. Furthermore, he intended to teach parasitic humans both English and Korean to use as interpreters.

– Smart smart.

Then someone knocked on the office door.

– Mr. Erickson. It is a messenger from Korea.

“Ah, yes.”

Soon the door opened and Helen with a puzzled expression entered the office. After losing her younger brother, Roy, her personality got really bad and she was living a ruined life, swearing at people around her and getting drunk every day.

Then she returned here with her orders from the Korean camp.

With a wooden box containing something.

“What is this?”

“I don’t know. Bring it.”

“Aha… Over there Helen.”

“Why. What.”

“Are you… Are you okay?”

“What.”

“No, no.”

“Ha.. I’m coming.”

“Yes.. Be careful.”

Helen closed the office door and went out. I’ll probably stay at the American camp for a while.

Erickson looked at her sadly as she walked away and opened her wooden box. Inside was a large flag rolled up. A letter in Anna’s handwriting was also enclosed on the flag.

“Mmm…”

Erickson read the letter carefully. It was an order written by Anna, who could understand some Korean, after hearing Jo Joon’s words.

“Put a flag… In the center of the camp… And proclaim the three codes of conduct outlined below… Two out of five? What is this?”

Erickson set the letter down on his desk and checked the flag properly.

[Banner of War Criminals: Five rules of life can be enforced on defeated groups. Penalties can be imposed automatically for non-compliance with the norms. You cannot take a life as a penalty.] [Usage-Place the flag in the center of the group you want to dominate, then say the five rules. Finally, set the penalty and you are done.]

“Aha..”

It was only then that Erickson could clearly understand the meaning of the letter.

Those who had not yet been enslaved had to abide by five rules if they wanted to live like human beings in the Eastern Camp. This is because those who do not follow the rules will be punished appropriately. Of course, there was no veto. Since this was a reward for despising the losers, it did not consider human rights or personal freedom at all.

Erickson went to the municipal office in the center of the camp. He then installed the flag, imbuing it with a five-point code of conduct.

“First. Absolutely obey the orders of Cultist Jang Jo-Jun.”

This was the most basic rule.

“Second. A ban on all acts of terrorism against Chester Camp. Third. Do not run away from Chester Camp on your own.”

These rules are also the basics of the basics. It was also necessary to completely ban the act of running away from the camp and leaking information about the Chester camp to others or committing terrorism.

“Then next…”

Ericsson pondered over the remaining two codes of conduct. Then he thought that the atmosphere at the camp had been stagnant lately.

“Fourth. Non-awakened adults must work diligently for at least 14 hours a day, except Sunday.”

Ericsson himself, who can be said to be the actual ruler of the camp, works all day, and he is very angry when he sees non-awakened bastards with a lower rank than him not doing their job properly and playing casually.

‘You idiots who didn’t work, played and ate.. Fuck you all.. I can’t work alone without a holiday.. You guys should work too.. Work till you die…’

This was Ericsson’s true intention. He wasn’t like this from the beginning.. He was influenced too much by Jo Joon.

Ericsson, who was once a social activist who shouted that he should work hard for the promotion of workers’ rights at the university, but now, seeing the workers playing around, he felt like his stomach was boiling and his hair was going to fall out.

He had to do so much alone that his personality was twisted. Yes, he was impatient to exploit the workers.

“The last fifth. The non-awakened are to fully obey the orders of Erickson, the camp manager.”

Ericsson smiled as he said the final rule. He dared to have Zhang Zhaojun, but he couldn’t set a rule for absolute obedience to him, so he timidly specified a code of conduct, euphemistically ‘to fully obey’.

In the meantime, there were too many people who disapproved of Ericsson or cursed at him behind his back. As a middle manager, Erickson wanted to wield power and punish those who disapproved of him at will.

Of course, I intended to do it within the scope allowed by Jang Jo-jun. Erickson had no intention of going wild beyond the proper line because Jojun Jang didn’t like people who messed around much more than he did. He just wanted to stop the people who hated him for no reason and pointed fingers at him. This is because continued slander, no matter how strong-willed and broad-minded a person is, eventually leads to stomach cramps and hair loss due to extreme stress.

In any case, Erickson was very quick-witted, and he knew very well that the moment he got on Jang Aim’s nerves even a little, he would disappear without a trace and someone else would take his place. Perhaps he would be subjected to public torture and execution as an example.

‘Just imagining it is terrifying…’

Of course, he wouldn’t throw it away so easily, but somehow Ericsson was always careful not to catch Jo Joon’s eyes.

“Well then…”

He established five norms. Now it was time to decide the penalty for breaking it.

“If you break the rules, you will get constant severe headaches and lose your sight until you are forgiven by me or the cultist Jo-jun Jang.”

Now, anyone who went blind after suffering for no reason could be regarded as a person who had broken one of the five rules. He could not take a life as a penalty, so he set it to pain.

“I proclaim the rules.”

Soon, a wide range of waves emanated from the flag of war criminals installed by Ericsson. It spread all over Chester, the eastern US camp, and was engraved in the heads of all those who belonged to the camp.

“Eh, Erickson!!! What is this!!!”

“Fuck!! What kind of dictatorship is this!!!”

“What are these rules?! I can’t fucking admit it!!!”

Soon, protests poured in from all over the place. Erickson looked up at himself and down at the shouters. There were no Awoken among them. Because Jang Jo-jun has already enslaved all the Awakeners in the Eastern Camp with great care in the Maw.

Therefore, the only ones shouting now were the powerless non-awakened. It wouldn’t be strange if they died anytime.

“Shut up everyone.”

Ericsson spoke coldly to them.

“If you don’t go back to work right away… I’ll consider you disobeying me. Do you want to be pursued for disobeying orders?”

Any disobeying Ericsson will result in a penalty until he forgives you. In the end, the people gathered had to start working again, swearing at Ericsson.

“Keuuugh… That fuck…”

“I think Ajouji is the dictator here..”

“Two. It’s dirty…”

Soon the people dispersed again. Ericsson smiled as he watched them leave. Now the goofballs will disappear and the eastern US camp will develop a little more.

Then Helen came up to him.

“Huh? What’s the matter. Why is your face like that again?”

Erickson came out of the city hall and approached Helen, who was sitting in the entrance. I thought she must have been shutting herself in her closet somewhere and drinking her alcohol, but since she was walking around outside, she was amazed.

“Hey. Erickson.”

“Huh..?”

“Something is… Strange.”

“I want you to tell me straight up what’s wrong.”

“It’s just… Strange… Something… Is coming.”

“What?”

“I don’t know. I informed.”

Soon Helen trudged back to her cramped trailer house. The house where she once lived with her brother.

“That guy.. Must have felt something…”

Ericsson hurriedly descended into the abyss. If Helen wasn’t feeling anything strange because she was drunk, she meant something was coming to camp on the East Coast.

“Hey, tell Jo-Jun Jang. There’s going to be a problem with Eastern Camp. If she says Helen told her, she’ll understand right away.”

Korean slaves were not under his jurisdiction, so Ericsson spoke cautiously. He went upstairs immediately after delivering the report.

About 10 minutes later in real time, more than a hundred fully armed mushroom people and a thousand parasitic hosts came up from the abyss in a row.

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A raiding party of about 30 men moved forward through the forest. Their target was the eastern US camp…

Hehe… I’m starting to see… The prince’s palace…”

Mei Ling licked her lips and checked the faces of the people walking around the camp. There were no mushroom men or parasites among them.

“There are monsters. Nothing?”

“Uh… That, that’s…”

Becky and McLean sighed, saying that there could be no such thing as the scenery of Eastern Camp, which looked so peaceful. As they escaped, they saw tens of thousands of black bugs, mushroom monsters, and skeleton monsters with strange root plants.

“Hmm… Well, does it matter?”

Mei-Ling passed it over without thinking. Because she didn’t come to occupy the camp in the first place.

Their purpose in coming here was to destroy the camp and to commit acts of terror on a large scale. Mei-Ling intended to destroy Jo-Jun’s everything and then destroy him thoroughly. She wanted to make her so crippled that she couldn’t do anything, lock her up in her closet, and raise her forever. I wanted to put everything else aside and be alone with Jo Joon.

“Prepare an unquenchable fire.”

“Yes.”

The two-meter-tall black Mustang gently put the large box he had been carrying all this time on his back to the ground. The box was filled with glass vials containing a green liquid. Soon, 20 Assassin Class Awakeners were given 3 bottles each of a glass bottle containing a liquid called ‘Unextinguished Fire’.

This was the work of Ryujin, an Alchemist class holder, and was the worst weapon of war, causing more serious damage than white phosphorus.

“Everyone move.”

The Assassins who had been rationed with glass bottles soon scattered. They will now spread out around the camp. So, I thought of throwing the glass bottle and lighting up a flame that would never go out no matter what for the next two days.

It was a plan to shake Jo Joon’s mentality by lighting a fire to block the way out, leaving only one way, and killing those who escaped there.

Haha.. Haha.. Run away and everyone will die..”

Meiling smiled as if she was expecting Jojun’s already distorted expression.

-Shasasasat.

And there was a being watching it.

It was one of the offspring of the jet-black wheel that Jo Joon had released on the day that had already dominated the eastern U.S. Camp. Before Helen could sense anything of her, they had already observed the aliens approaching the camp.

Visitors who came. A total of thirty two.

About 20 people are approaching the base carrying a strange disease.

Among the remaining 12, a female human being encountered in a strange building in the past was captured.

Target confirmation has already been completed.

Who will have to run away now?