Chapter 116 – JJ(1)

“Wow… What kind of monster was he that broke his hands? But is it really broken? So, does it hurt to touch you? Can I touch you? I want to see you in pain…”
“Shit..! Shit!!! You screamed in pain? How? Did it hurt a lot? Missing such a good view..!! Aww!!! I should have gone!!!”
“It’s really too bad. Missing the scene where you cheeky bastard is in pain.”
“… “

Kim Ji-hoon, Kwon Joo-hyuk, and Ahn Tae-jin, who put aside the news of my injury for ten days and came to see and express their regrets.
In addition, Yeo Eun-jung adds a word.

“It’s really unfortunate. If it wasn’t for Dasol, I could have put my finger bones together the other way around.”

Yes, like Yeo Eun-jung said, I was able to punch the giant without any worries, and even though her fist was smashed, I did not have any worries because of Da-sol’s presence.
Because he’s been doing really well.
By the way…

“Did you see?! Aren’t you all going away?!”
“Even if I get hurt, my temper is still the same…”
“You are less injured. That kid should be hurt more.”
“I wish I could see it with my own eyes then.”
“I agree too.”

Not only the four of you, but also the open hallway and the infirmary’s windows, are all flocking to see if they think I’m injured and can’t run amok.
People flocked to see me with their own eyes.
But maybe the reason they gathered like this was because of anxiety rather than a fun spectacle.
It’s a completely different situation than when you’re being chased by girls in the morning.
A monster so strong that my fist could be smashed, and running away without being able to kill it is no different from living with unresolved anxiety in a corner of my heart.
There is no law saying that monsters that also appeared there shouldn’t appear in this shelter, and if they do, Kang Ha-jin can’t help it either.
The shelter will collapse and you can’t even guarantee your own life.
What, this kind of anxiety?
But now is the time to face the reality that is right in front of you rather than worrying about things that haven’t happened yet.

“Hey, Yeo Min-jung. Are you quite relaxed?”
“What?”
“As you said, if Dasol didn’t exist, I would have been treated by you or another doctor. But now you have Dasol, right? That means you’re useless. It means that I and the rest of us no longer need an ordinary doctor like you. Because the real doctor showed up.”
“… “

Yeo Min-jung’s face darkened at my words, and another doctor and five nurses in the infirmary also hardened their faces.
Well, from now on, it will be a little harder.

“Hey, Kim Hyun-joon.”
“Shut up. I don’t want to mix with you. Even after washing, the smell of your filthy vomit still remains.”
“Noisy. Cut the coins given to doctors and nurses from today. And I don’t care about Dasol.”
“Don’t order me. And making that decision all of a sudden… “
“Mister… I’m sleepy…”

Dasol’s voice cuts off Kim Hyun-joon’s words.
I am the patient, but Dasol, who was sitting on the bed in the infirmary and treating my broken hand, suddenly rubbed his sleepy eyes and collapsed on the bed and began to sleep.
It may be a very sudden and embarrassing appearance, but since he had seen it once, no one was particularly worried or surprised by Dasol.
And the conversation between me and Kim Hyun-jun continues.

“Did you see it? This is why you have to give away coins to Dasol. What if Jihoon and Taejin were injured enough to die at the same time? But what if Dasol falls asleep while treating only one person?”
“I am three years older than you! Taejin is not going!”
“Is that important now? Oh, you answer me while I’ve been talking. What should I do when such a situation comes? Kill you Or kill Jihoon?”
“That… “
“Yes, you should raise Dasol’s physical strength stat in advance to prevent such a situation from happening.”

Instead of Ahn Tae-jin, who couldn’t answer while watching other doctors and nurses, including Yeo Min-jung, Yeo Min-jeong directly gave the answer that everyone knew.
But as if she had more to say, she continued.

“Isn’t that why Dasol can’t rely on just one person?! If something goes wrong, Dasol will definitely need our help!”
“Then you can get help. You can pay for that help then. Why do we keep paying the price for something that never happened?”
“… “
“Is there such a thing? If the favor continues, Dooly… No, I know it’s a right. So from today, the coins given to you guys will be given to Dasol. Well, formally, we have to go through a meeting, but you know that, right? That this is not a problem worth worrying about.”
“… I’m going to get some fresh air…”

Behind Yeo Min-jeong, who was about to go out into the hallway while muttering to herself, she said the last thing she had to say.

“You don’t have to come back here, just go out there and hunt. I have to pay taxes from today. You know people who don’t pay taxes get kicked out of shelters, right?”
“… “

Yeo Min-jeong, still with her back to her back, turned her head and looked at me as if glaring at me, and exited the infirmary through the path cut on both sides by the people blocking the door. At the same time, Min-seo pinched my side.

“Ah!! What’s the matter?!”
“It’s naughty, really! Do you really have to say things like that to feel refreshed? Not being sincere.”
“Uh?”

What’s not true?
I mean seriously…
The moment I was about to say again that I was serious, one of the nurses hesitantly approached Minseo and me.

“Excuse me… Do we really have to hunt from today too..? I’ve never done this before… “
“No, you don’t have to. After all, Dasol cannot take care of all the patients alone.”
“What do you mean, sister?”
“Think about it, Juha. Do you have a sense of how much physical strength Dasol needs to raise to heal even those with minor injuries? And say that Dasol can heal a lot more people than he does now by raising his stamina stat. But there are hundreds of people here alone, and dozens of people who get one or another minor injuries every day. But what if Dasol treats such people alone and then fails to treat the critically ill patient?”
“Ah… Then what should I do?”
“While running the infirmary as it is now, Dasol only treats patients who are in an emergency or cannot be treated by doctors. Also, after raising the physical stat and checking how much power you can use according to the stat, when you really don’t need the help of the doctors and nurses anymore, it’s not too late to do what my brother said. Of course, as time goes on, it will be difficult to start hunting later, but that’s not difficult with a little help from the side. My brother was thinking this way too, so you did it on purpose to make fun of him?!”
“… Yes. Of course.”

He hesitated for a moment, but answered very naturally.
He thought no one would notice…

“I had no idea.”
“That’s right. She obviously hesitated before answering.”
“Yeah, I thought too deeply for Ha-jin.”
“Yes. If it were him, he would have just wanted to pay it back because he didn’t want to make fun of himself.”
“… “

From Kim Hyun-joon to Kim Ji-hoon, Kwon Joo-hyuk, and Ahn Tae-jin, everyone noticed that I just said it without thinking like Min-seo.
Quick-witted kids…
But there’s one thing they haven’t noticed.
The fact that Dasol completely healed my right hand before I went to sleep.

Kwak!!!
Swoop-
Kwak!!!

As I repeatedly opened and closed my right hand, which I was able to curl up as hard as I could, I glanced at you, and a smile appeared on my lips, and their faces hardened quickly.

“Today is a match like a real battle. Ah! If you run away and get caught, I will beat you with all my heart, so let’s just be polite.”
“… “
“… “
“… “
“… “

You guys who are speechless and me lifting my butt off the chair.
And the cries of the four bastards at the same time.

“Run!!”
“If you get caught, you might really die!!”
“My left hand should have been broken too!!”
“Don’t come after me! I still carry a pistol!!”
“It sucks. I searched all over!!”

I started chasing after those who ran away and caught them one by one and beat them coolly. Although I was quite rebellious, I ended up going to the place where the three doctors I had saved from the International Vaccine Institute with Kim Hyun-joon, who was beaten and pouted like the others, were there. Headed
Now is the time to hear the details.

“I have a few questions. First of all, the giant, when did it appear and how many are there? And when did the soldiers of Unit 707 leave to go to the shelter? Lastly, why did you do such a crazy experiment on your body as well as collectively? This is everything for me, so if you have any questions, ask.”
“Don’t talk to me.”
“… Little pup.”
“You’re a jerk..! Whoa…”

Kim Hyun-joon, who calmed himself down with a deep sigh, nodded his head like a judge giving him the right to speak.

“Rather than answering each one, I think it would be a better answer to talk about what happened at the research center from the beginning. Still, it can be a long story, so I’ll try to summarize it with the main contents after the special forces arrive.”

The story of Sung Joon-myung began like that.
The story that was skipped in between was added to the story by the two doctors I had saved sitting next to me, and the story, which continued for quite a while, ended with Sung Joon-myeong using his body as a test subject and confining himself.
From their point of view, everything would be an epic poem that captures their survival and struggle, but to my ears, the contents that are just useless words are briefly summarized as follows.

First, the giant first appeared at Seoul National University about 15 days ago.
The only giant confirmed so far is the one I defeated, and the ruined Seoul National University is the work of that guy.
But if it’s 15 days ago, that’s almost exactly when I first encountered a mutant.
Second, two days after the giant appeared, the special forces left the lab to join the shelter and seek help.
Well he’s been missing for 13 days, so it’s hard to believe he’s alive.
Third, all college students who could fight zombies moved along with the special forces, so there was only a small amount of coins given by the people who left the shelter.
However, it was not enough to last for 15 days, and in the end, it was said that he injected a zombie virus into his body as part of his hunger and thirst, extracted some of the components of the vaccine so that it could not be cured, and endured until the rescue team arrived in a semi-mutant state.
Because once you become a mutant, you won’t feel hunger or thirst.

“So those who survived were lucky, and those who became mutated were unlucky?”
“It’s terrible, but you can say it…”
“He is really irresponsible. If you say that, what will become of the dead?”
“No! The warden deliberately entered the experiment with the improved vaccine first so that such victims would not appear. After confirming that the warden was safe for several days, we voluntarily received progressively improved vaccines.”
“Yes, that’s right. Of course, I wasn’t sure that I would see the same results because only the director had the experimental data… For us, it was the same whether we starved to death or became zombies and died… Still, in case we became zombies, we imprisoned ourselves in order not to harm others.”

As for me, I would have chosen to fight the zombies, so I couldn’t sympathize with them, but I understood why everyone in the lab was doing that.
By the way, there is only one giant, right?
Of course, there’s only one monster around the research center, so there’s no law saying there shouldn’t be more monsters like that elsewhere, but for now, I can put my mind at ease.
Especially thanks to the bridge Kim Hyun-joon had blown up in advance.
The only way for him to invade this place is to cross the Han River, because there is a huge monster just like him living in the Han River.
But if the two fight, who will win?
Are you going to fight when the two of you meet?
Wait for a sec.
Those two huge monsters fight… Makes the two fight each other…

“Heh heh… “
“What is that, that bad laugh again?”
“Hyunjun Kim. Do you know this lion idiom? It is now.”
“Jayjay? Doesn’t that mean defeating barbarians with barbarians?”
“Yes. Defeat another Kim Hyun-jun with Kim Hyun-jun.”
“The metaphor is not appropriate. Maybe if Kang Ha-jin defeats another Kang Ha-jin?”
“Well, anyway, can we try that?”
“… You can’t… “
“Yes, we’re going to fight that giant and that fish monster.”
“But why do you have to? Both of them can’t come to the shelter anyway. But we don’t have to do that even if we take the risk… “
“Yes. Think carefully, did you catch that big arach in the tunnel and get the characteristics?”
“… It did.”
“I caught a mutant and got a trait. And now that I think about it, I got it even after capturing the queen. So why don’t you give them better traits? If so, why do we need more than this?”

Good traits are directly related to strength, and strength is directly related to our lives.
They say that there are no giants around here now, but you never know when a giant will appear and when a monster stronger than that giant will appear.
Therefore, we need to become stronger as soon as possible, and in order to become stronger quickly, it is more effective to acquire one strong characteristic than to collect coins and raise stats.

“It’s strong.”
“Why?”
“Give me one. In that case, I will join your operation.”
“Call. Instead, we need a weapon capable of sending them in one shot. I don’t think we can kill them with our own strength right now.”
“That makes me ready. Instead, you should also add some coins.”
“How much?”
“As much as possible.”
“… Are you sure it’s a weapon?”
“At least it’s a surer weapon than your weak fist.”
“It’s a weak fist… Who was it that was beaten and moaned?”
“It didn’t suck! But… I only shed a few tears from getting hit in the eye…”
“Because if it sucks, I’ll punch you in both eyes this time.”
“What if it’s a reliable weapon?”
“If it’s a sure weapon, I’ll give you my eyes.”
“South Asians are middle-of-the-road. Are you sure you promised?”
“Yes, so prepare a reliable weapon.”

That’s how Kim Hyun-joon and I started preparing for the fight against the giant monsters.