Chapter 545 – Infighting

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Taang-! Bang!

Agents shooting pistols straight ahead in a long, oval-shaped hallway.
The bullets that flew through the air hit the heads of the charging monsters, but they simply ricocheted off the bullets and without slowing down, they attacked the agents.

– Kruck! Kyaaaaagh!

Armed with something like a pistol, you can’t pierce the blood armor of a D-class monster.
In an instant, the monsters that approached right in front of the agents’ noses opened their mouths while dripping green saliva.

Kwajik-!

“Quaaaaa!!!”

It was a brutal massacre that followed after the monster at the forefront broke the arm of one of the agents.

-Kooooo!!

Demonic spirits roaring and preying on agents.
One of the middle-aged agents, who was firing a pistol at those disgusting creatures that ate humans, gritted his teeth and shouted.

“Shit…! Retreat! Go to the restaurant! There’s a barrier, so you won’t be able to break through!”

Despite the sudden surprise attack, they regained their composure and started retreating following the middle-aged agent’s lead.

Fortunately for the agents, the monsters only ate other agents who had already died, but did not pursue them.
Using the sacrifices of the agents in the forefront as a stepping stone, the middle-aged agent took the rest of the staff and arrived at the restaurant, which was tightly closed with a strong barrier.

He turned on the authenticator with urgent hand movements and tried biometric authentication with his eyes wide open even in the midst of fear, and he had no doubt that the restaurant would open soon.
However, the emotionless machine sound coming from the authenticator was enough to puzzle the agent.

[Authentication has failed.]

“What…?”

The agent opened his mouth as if it were absurd and tried to authenticate again, but the answer he heard was the same.
Authentication failed. The biometric authentication didn’t work at all, and the result was the same even when I entered a password to forcefully open and close the door in case of an emergency.

“This crazy…!”

-Kooooo!!!

The roar of the monster could be heard from the curved passageway, as if the predation had ended just in time.
The middle-aged agent, impatient, knocked on the door of the restaurant with bloody tears.

Bang! Bang!

“Please open!! Who is there!?”

To him, a relief pitcher appeared.

-Who is it?

A woman’s voice came from inside the restaurant.
Seeing the name [Amy] Floating on the authenticator attached to the wall, the middle-aged agent smiled and replied.

“It’s Tommy from the same platoon! Dozens of D-class monsters have appeared in the passage! Open the door first!”

Pushik-!

As soon as the words were finished, the door opened left and right with a heavy sound.
Tommy poured into it with the other agents, quickly shutting the dining room door again, and sat down on the floor to catch his breath.

“Ha ha… Ha… Damn…”

Then Amy came over and she squatted down in front of him.

“I heard the emergency siren, but… Did the real monster appear?”

“Okay…! More than 10 agents died in an instant…! Damn… Where did you come out of nowhere… Didn’t you guys get attacked or something?”

“We… No, we didn’t.”

“Good luck. It would be better to contact the Command Office first. Never go out.”

“It won’t matter if I go out. Because we are not the target.”

“What?”

“No. Are there agents in need of treatment?”

Amy spat out an incomprehensible word and approached the agents scattered on the floor.
Looking at her back, Tommy looked around the restaurant.

The agents she brought were all male, while the dozens of people sitting in the restaurant were all female.
It seems that the emergency broke out after going to a meeting and evacuated… But that wasn’t the problem.

‘What’s so… Harmonious?’

As I thought, the atmosphere in the restaurant was very harmonious.
Smiles bloomed on the faces of the female agents talking quietly.
Despite the emergency, even though it was clearly stated that there were sacrifices by other agents.

When Tommy, feeling suspicious of her, gets up from her seat and tries to ask Amy something of her, who asks if the agent is okay, who is bleeding from her arm.

– Kreuk, Kreuk, Kreuk…

A monster’s cry was heard from outside the restaurant.
Tommy, taken aback by that, gestured to everyone to be quiet.
While everyone is holding their breath,

Jerk, jerk.

Just in time, Amy, who was near the restaurant door, headed for her authenticator.
She approached her device, making ominous footsteps for some reason, and touched a corner of her authenticator, paying no heed to the male agents’ questioning gazes.

Push profit-!

Then, the security wall of the reliable restaurant, which seemed not to allow the enemy to enter, was opened.
At the same time, a red thread stretched out on both sides of Amy.
Dozens or hundreds of them began to pierce the entire body of the male agents with puzzled expressions.

Fufufufufu-!

“Keoeouk!?”
“Keuk…!”

Tommy was among them, who burst into screams and collapsed like autumn leaves.

“Ouch!”

As he collapsed with his throat pierced, there was no question in his mind as to why Amy had opened the door to the restaurant.
It was because I had seen more embarrassing scenes.

‘Muh, what…’

Female agents sit calmly and chat while their colleagues are dying.
Even when some monsters entered the restaurant and broke the heads of the fallen male agents, they only giggled and didn’t move.
Some were even sipping coffee as if they were enjoying a good scene.

What was even more absurd was the behavior of the monster.
There are dozens of prey sitting still, and I couldn’t understand why they chose to kill only the male agents without even paying attention to the female agents.

What the hell is going on right in front of your eyes?
Tommy, who had such doubts even in the midst of the severing of his life,

“Bye.”

Looking down at her fallen self, Amy widened her eyes as she pointed the gun at her with a wide smile.

Taang-!

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The massacre wasn’t just taking place inside the restaurant.
Demonic spirits appeared in the auditorium, various conference rooms, and even in the agents’ quarters and attacked the agents.

Most of the places were helpless, but there were rare places where the fire of counterattack was lit.
It was a shooting range and training ground with various weapons.

Do-do-do-do-!

– Keek!
-Kuwouk!

“Take a taste, you fuckers!!”

Standing at the entrance, holding an improved machine gun, the agent cursed and turned F-rank monsters into pieces of meat.
After dealing with the monsters around him, he widened his eyes when he saw a female agent staggering towards him with her arms bleeding from the corner.

“What…?”

I was surprised to see that the monsters came out of the place where there were so many.
However, as an agent of the headquarters, he quickly sorted out the situation.
A male agent shouted, judging that she was attacked in front of her eyes, but she was not killed and only injured.

“Come fast! I will close the door!”

Then, the female agent ran in with all her might, bowing her head next to the male agent and panting.
The agent who patted her on the back for encouragement said.

“Great job. Go in and rest.”

“So, how many are there?”

“What?”

“Agent…! How many are there…!”

“There are about twenty people inside.”

“Okay…?”

Upon hearing the answer, the female agent’s eyes went blank in an instant.
The male agent, who couldn’t see her eyes because she kept her head down, felt sorry for her, thinking that the female agent was worried about her colleagues.
And that was his last thought.

Pooh-!

The female agent, who thanked her for her hard work, turned around and stabbed the male agent in the neck with a knife instead of going inside her.

“Keep heo heo…!?”

A male agent who collapses forward with a dying breath, and a female agent who swings her sword wildly and hacks at the agent with an obscene smile on top of him.
The scene of her killing her comrades without hesitation was broadcast to the command room through a camera that illuminated the training ground.

“… Such crazy…”

Herschel, who was looking at the monitor with a desperate face, muttered something without even realizing it.

Outside, monsters attack and agents who stab their colleagues in the back are playing the game, but inside, the agents are pointing their guns at each other…
It was strange if you didn’t go out of your mind.

But he was in a position to oversee the headquarters.
That’s why, even if such a senseless incident happened, I had to somehow regain my composure.

According to the information being transmitted from dozens of monitors in the command room, all of the agents behind the scenes were women.
Same here. Unlike the perplexed male agents, the female agents were pointing their guns at their colleagues with faces as if they knew things would turn out this way.

Why the heck did this happen?
The reason seemed right to find out later.
No matter how much I think about it now, I can’t come up with an answer.
That was Herschel’s conclusion.

In the eyes of the female agents who were watching them, the feeling of being careless was engraved.
He seemed to be enjoying his own reaction to what was going on.

To act now.
Having made up her mind, Hershel quickly moved her body.

Widely!

“Ah!!”

Herschel took the agent’s gun in the blink of an eye based on the movements he had on the front lines when he was young.
Thankful that he was not yet old enough, he rolled his body towards the male agents, his allies,

Taang-!

Without hesitation, he shot the female agent in the forehead who had just taken the pistol from her.
The agent couldn’t even scream at him and collapsed behind him like a wooden stone.
When all male agents, including Hershel, believed in her death,

Whoops…

The body that had collapsed stood upright against the force of gravity.

“What…”

Herschel’s mouth fell open as he watched.
The same goes for other male agents. Everyone’s eyes widened in amazement at the agent’s condition.
However, the real surprise was from now on.

Swoop.

As the agent shot by Herschel opened her closed eyes, the bullet half lodged in her forehead pushed itself out and landed on her floor.

The agent raised one corner of her mouth as if she had been murdered, laughed at Hershel, who was making a puzzled face, then pointed the palms of her hands toward the ceiling and knelt down with her.
She said as if she was praising someone.

“The teacher’s blessing… Thank you.”

OK,

Iron-! Clap!

All the female agents in the command room voluntarily dropped their guns and knelt on the floor like that agent.
Then, unanimously, they thanked the invisible God.

“”Thank you.””

It looks like he was possessed by pseudo-science.
Herschel, who was stunned for a moment at the bizarre sight, shouted to the male agents who were still in their fading state, hoping and hoping that Yoo Seung-hyeon and Rachel would return quickly, or that Grace and Irene would notice and appear.

“Conquer! Right now!”

At the same time, the inside of the command room turned into an abyss with the sound of gunfire from agents hiding in search of a place to take cover.