## Chapter 2622 – 2622. Eternal Eden

The Knights Order is currently the largest military organization in South Korea.

It consists of four Knights Orders. Among them, two were mobilized for this mission in America.

The 1st Knights Order, Thunderbolt, and the 2nd Knights Order, Eagles.

The atmosphere of the two Knights Orders was different.

The 1st Knights Order, Thunderbolt, was a place where the elite of the elite gathered. They always pursue perfection. Even when they are resting, they are more cold-blooded than anyone else when performing a mission. They prioritize faith when carrying out their duties.

The 2nd Knights Order, Eagles, was a gathering of battle maniacs influenced by their Knights Order Commander, Choi Hyejin. They were perverts who found their worth in battle. They were the most belligerent among the Knights Orders. On their days off, they would fight each other and sometimes die and resurrect.

That’s how rough the 2nd Knights Order was. The roughest of them all was none other than the Knights Order Commander, Choi Hyejin.

“Gooooooo!”

Choi Hyejin dashed down the avenue. She stepped on the cracked road and jumped over the cars blocking her path. Then, if she saw an enemy, she would bash them with her bat. She destroyed streetlights that she didn’t like and looted fancy-looking stores for fun.

She just rampaged as she pleased.

-You’re not a person, you’re like a beast. Even a chimpanzee is smarter than you. Do you have no intention of carrying out your mission?

Choi Hyejin didn’t care about the criticism from the artificial intelligence, Jena.

“I am carrying out my mission! Rampaging! That’s what I’m good at!”

Naturally, the US government mobilized military units to stop her. But they couldn’t stop her. Choi Hyejin’s power was the highest within the Knights Order. In terms of raw power, she was second in Korea. The first was Sung Yoojin.

Even Sung Yoojin was inferior to Choi Hyejin in terms of pure physical ability. Choi Hyejin’s ability, ‘Golden Body,’ was the ultimate ability in the physical enhancement category.

Thump, thump, thump.

A tank appeared in front of her. The tank driving on the road was targeting Choi Hyejin. The gun barrel aimed at Choi Hyejin fired shells without hesitation.

Choi Hyejin saw the gun barrel aimed at her and ran to the side to dodge. She had a sense that she couldn’t explain in words.

“Dieeeeeee!”

She approached the tank, running zigzag on the road to prevent it from aiming at her accurately. The tank’s machine gun sprayed bullets, but she kept running while getting hit. Her combat suit could block machine gun bullets. Of course, it didn’t absorb all the impact, but… Choi Hyejin’s body was extraordinary.

Choi Hyejin swung her metal bat on top of the tank. The tank’s machine gun was smashed, and the top of the tank was dented. It didn’t even take her a minute to turn a tank into scrap metal.

“That felt great!”

If you have power, you want to use it. Choi Hyejin was very satisfied with her rampage after a long time.

-From now on, can I call you a brainless gorilla?

“What are you saying, you AI? Should I smash your main body? If I ask Sung Yoojin, he’ll probably do it a few times.”

-…….

The knowledgeable AI, Jena, immediately shut her mouth. This ignorant gorilla was the type to do what she said. And Sung Yoojin, who was lenient with his woman, would likely grant that request.

Thud, thud, thud, thud.

A helicopter flew in from the sky and fired bullets at Choi Hyejin. Choi Hyejin quickly entered a nearby building.

“Damn it, this is annoying. Helicopters are cheating.”

Choi Hyejin didn’t carry any other weapons except for her specially made metal bat because they were annoying. She could run and kill enemies at a distance, but it was difficult to close the distance with enemies in the sky.

-I’ve requested support from a nearby Knight Order member. He’ll take care of the helicopter soon.

“Oh, okay. Good job.”

Indeed, the helicopter that was chasing her began to attack elsewhere.

Choi Hyejin suddenly looked around and moved somewhere.

-Where are you going? That’s not a combat zone.

“I’m going where I want to go. I have a feeling there’s something fun there.”

The place Choi Hyejin headed was underground. She smashed the floor with her metal bat and went down into the basement. An underground passage with sewage flowing through it. Fortunately, her combat helmet had a gas mask function, so the smell of the sewer was filtered out.

Jena watched Choi Hyejin’s sudden actions without saying anything. She had already received a heads-up from Sung Yoojin.

「Individual Name: Choi Hyejin
Potential: ★★★★★
Awakened Ability: Golden Body.
Traits: Instinct, Purity. Warrior. Sixth Sense.」

Information about Choi Hyejin’s abilities and traits. With the help of Sung Yoojin and Chun Bu-kyung, her fourth trait, Sixth Sense, was added this time. To explain the ability of Sixth Sense in a game-like way:

Sixth Sense: Amplification of senses. Sometimes beneficial events occur.

In other words, there was a high probability that Choi Hyejin’s actions would be beneficial.

Splash, splash.

“Ugh. This water is so dirty. It’s black and slimy.”

-It’s a sewer, so of course it’s dirty. …Wait. It’s too dark to be just sewage. I’ll turn off the gas mask function for a moment to check.

“What, ugh! The smell of oil! Turn the gas mask function back on quickly!!”

-It’s on. I can’t be sure without an accurate analysis, but… the black water flowing in the sewer is likely oil.

“Really? Damn it. This is going to be a disaster if I swing my bat wrong.”

Even a small spark from friction could cause it to burst into flames.

“What kind of idiot is pouring oil into the sewer? Doesn’t the US government manage their sewers?”

-Looking at the state of the sewer, it hasn’t been long since the oil mixed with the sewage. Also, the facility itself seems to have been modified once.

“So, what’s the conclusion?”

-This sewer itself may not be an ordinary sewer. A kind of testing ground? Something like that.

“What kind of experiment?”

-Well, it’s too dangerous to experiment with chemicals in the city’s underground… Animal testing with rats or cockroaches? The tenacious vitality and excellent breeding ability of rats and cockroaches would be quite valuable if used properly.

“Come to think of it, there aren’t any rats or cockroaches in this dirty place.”

-That’s probably because of the oil. The smell of oil and the fumes are toxic in themselves.

Choi Hyejin didn’t turn back despite hearing the ominous sounds. She continued to move forward and finally saw it.

A giant sewer rat was lying sprawled in a particularly large space. The 3-meter-sized sewer rat was grabbing corpses and food waste with its front paws and eating them. There was a squeaking sound from the ceiling. The rats were putting food waste and corpses into the giant sewer rat.

Where there is an input, there is an output. Black liquid was dripping from the giant sewer rat’s anus. It was excreting oil instead of poop.

-I never thought such a miraculously blessed creature would exist. Knight Order Commander Choi Hyejin. Your existing mission is canceled. You must kill that rat immediately and bring some of its corpse back to Korea. To tell you how important this mission is….

“I know how important oil is.”

Choi Hyejin rushed towards the giant sewer rat. The sewer rat, which had been greedily eating food waste and corpses, raised its head and reacted. The sewer rat swung its tail and hind legs.

Choi Hyejin dodged for now. The tail was one thing, but the claws were dangerous. What if she accidentally bumped into them and a spark flew? This space full of oil would catch fire. Choi Hyejin’s combat suit didn’t have fireproof capabilities.

“Squeak, squeak!!”

The sewer rat used its front paws and mouth to attack. Its speed was considerable. An ordinary person wouldn’t have been able to react and would have been hit.

‘The attacks are so simple. It’s so easy to dodge.’

Choi Hyejin unconsciously compared it to Sung Yoojin in her mind. It couldn’t be helped. Sung Yoojin was the strongest person she knew. It was because she had learned while being hit by Sung Yoojin.

‘Sung Yoojin’s attacks, even the simple ones, were hard to dodge.’

Objectively speaking, Sung Yoojin was slower than the mutant in front of her. Of course, that was when Sung Yoojin wasn’t using acceleration. Yet, Sung Yoojin’s attacks were hard to dodge.

‘Distance. Sung Yoojin knew how to control distance and speed. Deceiving the sense of speed that I feel. That means I get hit even though I know it. Annoying.’

She easily dodged the sewer rat’s attacks and found an opening to strike. Her metal bat, swung back to its full extent, fell on the sewer rat’s head.

Thwack!

The sewer rat’s head exploded. The sewer rat’s huge body fell to the ground and didn’t move.

-To think that you’re not an enhanced human. The abilities of the awakened are amazing. If your brain was just a little bit smarter, you would have become the best human.

“Shut up. I just need to take this, right? Ugh. This is so dirty.”

-…Was it really necessary to take the eyeball?

“It looked the most intact. It’s better than a crushed brain.”

-You are to return to California.

“Son Tae-hyung. What about that old man?”

-He has just completed his mission.

Son Tae-hyung’s mission was to assassinate the Vice President while drawing the attention of the Knights Order. In other words, the Vice President had just died. Originally, at this point, Choi Hyejin would have self-destructed along with the other knights.

“Damn it. I didn’t get to play much. But is it okay to leave this like this?”

It was impossible to take the entire corpse. It was too big.

-The giant sewer rat is probably a mutant test subject. The fact that there are no people at the test site indicates that the project has already ended. This sewer rat is probably an individual that they failed to dispose of. Or they left it for another purpose. Anyway, we got something good.

Three days later, Choi Hyejin returned safely to Yeouido, Seoul.

• • •

The 1st Knights Order Commander, Son Tae-hyung, killed the Vice President. The pieces of his corpse could not be recovered. They decided to be satisfied with the fact that they had succeeded in their revenge.

The death of the Vice President meant the death of the federal government. In other words, an era of every man for himself had begun in the United States. In other words, it was a warring states period. The possibility of a powerful force unifying the United States… was non-existent for now.

‘I guess I don’t have to worry about the US anymore. America is too far from Korea.’

The CIA had gone into hiding. No one knew where they had gone. It would be good if they disappeared completely, and even if they didn’t, they wouldn’t be able to exert the same overwhelming influence as before.

‘I did kill the Vice President… but no one seems to care about the identity of the Vice President’s assassin.’

The US had collapsed, so it seemed like they didn’t have to fear retaliation from the US.

Next was the giant sewer rat’s eyeball that Choi Hyejin had brought. We named this giant sewer rat the Oil Rat. This Oil Rat excretes oil when it eats something. It ate food waste and rotten corpses well.

It wasn’t difficult to breed the Oil Rat. It was easily successful when artificial insemination was performed on ordinary rats. According to Bionics Yoo Seo-jung, it was a modified mutant created by the hands of another bionics. It was a creature artificially created by someone in the US.

‘It’s highly likely to be the CIA.’

Thanks to this, South Korea became an oil-producing country.

However, the efficiency was not as good as expected. In this era, it was not easy to obtain food waste. Zombies or corpses? If you put them in a decomposer, they can be used as other resources.

‘Even though there’s the disadvantage of high maintenance costs, we don’t have to worry about oil anymore. We won’t be in a situation where we’re struggling because we don’t have oil at a crucial moment. Let’s have a drink.’

He gulped down the wine on the table.

[Ending the game.]