Chapter 323 – Just Be Strong

People are gone
This fact was found out in the process of rechecking people’s information under James’ instructions, and the number was…

“Currently, 873 people are missing.”

A number slightly less than a thousand.
Considering the whole of Melbourne, which has 30 million people, it’s not a very large number.
And it wasn’t too strange when the shelter was in its early stages of establishment.
People fighting against the swarming monsters.
Because Melbourne was the place where people fought against monsters in order to become stronger, protect others, and survive, resulting in massive deaths every day.

But now it was different.
Even now, they are still fighting monsters, but Melbourne is stable and deaths are rare.
And even if there are deaths, access control is ensured, so each sector immediately identifies the deaths and conveys them to the allied forces to perfectly grasp the information.
Of course, James had now disbanded the Confederacy, but such basic tasks were still being performed, so it was very strange that people would disappear without any records.

“I can think of many reasons why people are missing. First, a murder within Melbourne. Without eyewitness reports or testimony, nothing can be learned about a murder in Melbourne. Of course, there are cases where people with tracking or detection characteristics catch the culprit, but the probability is very low. But as low as the odds of finding the killer are the odds of people disappearing as a result of a murder.”
“Why?”
“Because the body was not found anywhere. For now, of course.”
“There is no body… But if the killer doesn’t leave a body behind… “

After hearing Amy’s answer, An Tae-jin’s gaze, which had been muttering to himself with his head slightly lowered, slowly turned to the side, and where the gaze stopped, his head was sitting.
It’s also the head that’s eating very fresh raw meat that looks like it’s dripping with blood…

Chomp! Jjook!

“Khehehe…! It’s delicious!”

Seeing him sucking his fingers and eating so deliciously, the throats of those who followed Ahn Tae-jin for no reason had their eyes wet.

“I also had a bite… No, this is not it! Hey! Head!”
“What?”
“Did you kill and eat people?”
“What?! Did Ahn Tae-jin see me as such a savage monster?!”
“… Why are you talking like that…”
“My hobby is watching historical dramas these days. I brought everything from Yongsan.”
“Ah… So it’s been quiet lately…”

Ahn Tae-jin nodded at the words of Joo-ha, who hinted at him from the side, and moved his gaze to the head, which was muttering to himself again.

“Of course, if you give it to me, I won’t speculate… No, if it wasn’t for the owner, I would have eaten everyone here… Khumm..! I made a mistake. Anyway I didn’t eat. Not yet.”
“… Well, the answer is now.”
“Then don’t call me until you finish this. If you call again, I will eat your heart.”

Haven’t eaten yet.
It was a rather awkward answer, but Tae-jin Ahn nodded her head to Amy, who was hosting the meeting, as if to tell her to continue.

“If it’s not murder, the second possibility is that he went hunting without going through official procedures.”
“Huh? Did you sneak out? Why?”
“That… “
“I will answer.”

Minseo tilted her head and asked, but instead of Amy, Paul offered to answer.

“This is because if you go out officially through the gates in charge of each sector, you will have to pay almost half of the coins, such as tolls and taxes.”
“Half? Wow… Overpriced…”
“So everyone is coming our way.”
“Ah~ that was the reason why people kept increasing at the hunting grounds. People complained a lot about that.”

Minseo, who solved her questions with Paul’s answer and Kim Hyun-jun’s comments, glanced at the strongest people sitting in a row on one side, and Amy continued her words again.

“As for this part, we are currently exploring the surroundings in each sector, so we will know soon. However, seeing as there has been no contact so far, this is probably not the reason why people disappeared. Then, the last reason we can assume is kidnapping or voluntary departure.”
“Amy, even with the kidnapping, voluntary departure? Are you saying people left Melbourne on their own feet?”
“Assuming it is.”
“The reason is?”
“Either you are confident of surviving, or there are better places to live than Melbourne, or you are hypnotized or hallucinating. Of course, these are all assumptions. As of now, nothing is certain.”

Currently, in the temporary conference room, the strongest people including the Frenchman Pierre Amalique, the person in charge of Sector 4 who just talked to Amy, and the key figures of Altona are all present.
It was judged that the reason people disappeared was not a matter of simple disappearance or kidnapping, but that Lia had something to do with her dream, so she summoned everyone at once, including the heads of people who were eating lunch.

“What we need to do now is to prevent more people from disappearing and to find the whereabouts and causes of the missing people. And currently, unlike other places, there are no missing persons in Altona. We also need to find out why there are no missing people in Altona. Hyunjun Kim, please help us to find out the reason.”
“I will.”

He was flying in the sky a little lower than before, but James’ words that flew up again had power.
Of course, the one who doesn’t work… No, there were monsters too.

“Hey, crazy.”
“… Did you call me?”
“Is there anyone else besides you who is talking?”
“Whoa… What is your business?”
“Could it be that you called me and not my master?”
“Yes.”
“Haha~ haha~ Is that bastard crazy? Where should I come and go to this body?! You crazy bastard!”

After eating the sashimi he had brought for lunch, the head jumped up and glared at James.
Although he lost his strength because he was properly beaten by Ha-jin, Head-ri had in his mind the incident at the beach last time when he was unilaterally beaten by Ha-jin’s order not to respond.

“I accept challenges whenever I want. Don’t argue for nothing and take on the challenge formally.”
“Challenge? This body is the great King of Ratuan! If you want to take on a challenge, you fool, you have to do it!”
“Is it? Then I won’t challenge you. Excuse me then.”
“Wait a minute! Why are you just leaving?!”
“It’s bothering.”
“… “

The head, which was momentarily dazed by James’ very simple and plain answer, couldn’t hold back the anger that bubbling from the inside and roared.

“Oohhhhh!!!! Come on! Headsman!!!!”
“Be patient, even if you fight now, you will lose.”
“Leave it, you mutt!!!”
“… I’ll kill you first.”
“Try it!!!”

Snap!
Snap!

Kim Hyeon-joon, who still had scars on his face from lying around with Ha-jin, rolled on the floor with his head this time.

Knock!!!

“Kreurreu..!!!”
“Leave it, you stupid son of a bitch!!”

Hooked!!!

“Ah!!!”
“Ugh..!!!”

The head that bit off Kim Hyun-jun’s head and Kim Hyun-joon who stuck his finger into the head’s nostril.
And the people who watched it shook their heads in unison.

“Is it a side effect to power? Like Ha Jin-hyung, the leader also becomes childish as he gets stronger…”
“Ha… Embarrassing, really…”
“Oh right! Over there, Amy!”
“Yes, please.”
“But what about my brother?”

Ha Jin-man, the most important person in Altona and Melbourne, was the only one not seen in the conference room.
Meanwhile, Hajin, who did not attend the meeting…

Doo doo doo doo!!!

I was sitting in the helicopter with the loud sound of the propellers reverberating.

“But can we really use this as we please?”

Jin-Hwan Woo, who was the official helicopter pilot of the Yongsan Shelter, asked Ha-Jin, looking out the window with a sullen expression.

“What belongs to others is mine, and what belongs to me is mine. Everything except other people’s girls is mine, so don’t worry about it~”
“If you do that, then… But where are you going now? Can we just keep going like this?”
“For now.”
“… “

Woo Jin-hwan also closed his mouth and drove the helicopter at the appearance of Ha-jin who kept his mouth shut with a blunt answer, and the helicopter with the two of them started wandering around Australia without a destination.
The disappearance of people, the work of preventing an unexpected summons.
I don’t know about the former, but the latter is very important, and if the former is connected to the latter, both are important, but Ha Jin was not interested in either.

‘It’s going to happen anyway, so what.’

What will happen anyway
If Leah had her dream, it must happen.
You can’t stop it.
However, results may vary.
So Ha-jin condensed what he had to do right now into one thing.
To face the monster that ran away again and gain the power to defeat it.
What Ha Jin was trying to do now was to secure one talent he hadn’t filled yet and maximize the efficiency of the rest.

“What a good guy… Stop for a minute!!!!”
“Why… Why?! What’s the matter?!”

Dripping- chin!!!
Aaaaa!!!!!

Wind pouring in with the open helicopter door.
And Ha-jin, who smiled at Woo Jin-hwan, who was staring back with a surprised face, spat out the words lightly.

“I’m having a cup of coffee with a car nearby. I’ll be back soon.”
“… That crazy guy…”

The reason Woo Jin-hwan can openly curse at Ha-jin is because Ha-jin has already jumped from the helicopter, and the reason he cursed is because he jumped without a parachute from an altitude of 900 meters, which is about 350 meters higher than L Tower, which is slightly over 550 meters high. Because it fell
And the swearing and shouting that came out belatedly.

“Crazy… What are you going to do by going there alone?!”

Black dots visible under the helicopter.
The numerous dots that were so close together that you could hardly see a gap were the legions of monsters marching into Melbourne.

Woe!!!

The king of monsters screaming with his arms outstretched with wings spread.

“It’s a bloody festival!!!!”
“Kuaaa!!!”
“Quaaa!!!”
“Kaaaaagh!!!”

At the king’s intense cry that shook the atmosphere, millions of monsters roared all at once, and began to advance with more ferocity toward Melbourne, where the thick human smell wafted.
And another king whose king is also felt.
Like himself, the king of Ratuan, who had awakened the power of a real king, felt the energy of his head and was uplifted.

“Hey Ratuan..!!”

Tuduk!! Tuduk! Dududuk!!!

Veins sprouting from the skin that looks rough, tough, and hard like a dinosaur.
Two red eyes that glowed with anticipation and excitement for the upcoming battle, sharp and thick fangs exposed beneath them, and strong fingernails and claws that could cut through steel protruding from fingers and toes like water.
Wings sprouting from the back and muscles all over the body.
The ferocious aura reminiscent of a gargoyle and the king, who has a gigantic size of more than 5 meters and can look down on his subordinates, exudes an aura that is just as ferocious as the appearance that he exudes in an instant.

Swoop-

After removing the mouth holding Kim Hyun-jun’s head and the hand holding the hair, the head of the head raised his body slowly, leaving Kim Hyun-jun hanging by his hair, and Kim Hyun-jun also raised his body with a chilling feeling in the moment.

“Head… “
“Kreurre..!!!!! Aaaaa!!!!!”

When another king threatens him, unlike before, his head exudes the savage energy that a true Ratuan king can radiate.
Altona’s core powers who knew the head, as well as the heads fighting like children and the strongest people who looked at Kim Hyun-joon, instinctively raised their arms in surprise at the momentum of the head spewing out with a roar that seemed to burst the eardrums at the moment. Defended one’s body
Of course, not only Paul, who had already pulled out his military knife, but also James, who was staring at the place where he could feel the vicious king’s energy, turned his head at the vicious energy of the head that he felt behind his back.
And the head that spurts the floor and shoots out.

Shaaaaa!!!
Aaaaa!!!!

The head jumped out of the outer wall of the building, which had been shattered by the swinging nails, and at that moment…

“Huh?”

The body of the head floating in the air with its head tilted began to fall down the building.

“Aaaaa!!!! No!!!!!!”

It’s not a scream that you shout because you’re worried about yourself falling.
Just… Just… Pity? It’s just a cry burst out by similar emotions.
Because the aura of the ferocious king who had exalted him had disappeared.

Wheeeee!

“Wow!! So fucking fast!!!!”

Ha Jin falls from an altitude of 900 meters at a tremendous speed.
And the king’s face lifted up with twinkling eyes.

“Who are you… “
“Excuse me for a moment~”

Took-

The raised face of the king and the two soles of his feet touching his broad face.
And…

Aaaaa!!!!!!!!!!
So, so, so, so, so, so, so!!!!!

Dirt dust spewing out like an explosion through cracks in the ground with a tremendous roar and a roar.

“Keeck!! Keck!! Big!! Big! Big!!”

Ha Jin, who inhaled the dust as it was, coughed at her and waved his hand in front of his face to blow away the thick dust.
And with a downward gaze, Ha-jin lifts her right foot and left foot in order to check her shoes.

“Ah, sir… I’ll have to throw it away… Next time, we have to land somewhere else.”

Looking at the king’s brain and shoes messed up with blood and flesh that had exploded, Ha-jin frowned at him and slipped out between the small gargoyles standing blankly.
He didn’t have to fight separately.
Because the king had died, the gargoyles had become stone statues just like in a myth, and were crushed to the ground by the blowing wind.
Meanwhile, Ha-jin, who made the king and millions of monsters disappear as soon as he landed on the ground after jumping out of the helicopter, waved his hands into the air and shouted.

“Woo-san~~ here, here~~ give me a ride again~~”

And the message window that popped up in front of Hajin’s eyes.

[Acquire 64711 coins.]
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