Chapter 472 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

I just pack a few clothes, pack my things, and get ready to go on a trip.

“Do you need anything else?”

“Originally, when traveling in post-apocalypse, local procurement is important for most supplies.

When I see my heart beating at the word adventure or travel, it seems that there is still a boy inside of me.

Anyway, I don’t carry anything but clothes and some gold. Even food is sourced locally.

To the locals, it may seem like a leisurely and deceitful journey, but anyway, traveling is for fun.

“Take care of the kids while we’re away”

“Don’t worry too much. I’ll take care of myself.”

“Once I’ve been entrusted with the authority, I’m sure I’ll be able to issue pretty much any order.”

“Thank you, Mr. Jesu”

When we were away, we entrusted Mars to Choi Gil-hyun, the most reliable person. He is my rival and my nemesis, but he is just as trustworthy as that.

Even in the worst case, he won’t take over Mars. Horizon’s artificial intelligence, which controls Mars, is impossible because it absolutely listens to us, let alone the three principles of robots, and if you want to hack it and change it completely, it is impossible.

More than anything, he’s not like that.

“Buy souvenirs when you come”

“If you have it, I’ll buy it”

I wonder if there’s anything worth buying as a souvenir in a world where civilization has been destroyed.

Open the dimension gate with the coordinates Shion obtained and go through. Passing through the rift, crossing the rift, heading far away from the dimension we were in.

No, the original dimension is also quite remote, but it’s more rural here.

“I’m excited about what kind of place it is.

“They say that a man is a child no matter how old he is.”

“How long have you been back as a man on the road?”

“I was upset because she showed her changed face first, not me.”

“If you openly say you’re angry, you’re not.”

“Huh!”

Oh, my wife who pretends to be pouting is so cute.

Anyway, we arrived at our destination slowly. Because the coordinates were set correctly, a rift leading to a planet within the dimension opens.

Soon, we stepped into a world that had been destroyed.

The first thing I felt was the temperature, the temperature. The heat rising from the floor and pouring down from the sky was not scorching, but murderous enough to make one’s flesh ripen.

And a desert with nothing but blinding sand. Even wearing shoes, you can feel the texture of the fine sand particles.

“Five!”

“It’s good that you wore light clothes”

In a world that has been destroyed, a wide desert that fills the field of view welcomes us.

No, even with my own eyes, the desert is vast. No joke wide All over the horizon is desert.

…….Isn’t this as wide as a desert?

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I started to figure out the situation first. The post-apocalyptic world has many ways to perish, so there are many things to prepare or deal with accordingly.

If it was a zombie apocalypse, you would have to start by capturing a shotgun, but if it was a desertification apocalypse, you would need to replenish moisture first.

“Looks like water shortage post apocalypse. Water is the most important thing, right?”

“I will throw away the thick clothes I brought.”

“No, just in case you don’t know at night, so take it with you.”

Desert nights are cold. I don’t know how it is here, but once I have it, there’s no harm in it. It doesn’t matter how many bags you have anyway.

“Well……”

“What’s the matter?”

“Something seems stuffy in the air.”

“…Ah, that’s right. There’s something faintly mixed in the air.”

If Xion, who secretly eats radium chocolate for dessert without my knowledge, considers radioactivity to be a snack or vitamin, and finds it unpleasant, then it means that it is not a material thing.

Couldn’t it have been something that developed through the research on this ability and then collapsed and turned into a desert? Of course I’m not sure. Even if it’s the same end, there must be countless ways to get there.

“Let’s move first. Get on the shoulder”

“I can walk too”

“You’re going to sink into the sand. Come up quietly.”

I burned Zion and walked through the desert. If it hadn’t been for the stupidity of wearing thin clothes, I would have been steamed to death.

The murderous heat, no, the temperature that makes me wonder if the sunlight is malicious is breathtaking. If it wasn’t fortunate that we were transcendents, we would have collapsed from heatstroke long ago.

“But are you okay? I like walking around like this, but you don’t like being uncomfortable.”

“The heat energy is reflective, so that’s fine”

“Are you going to use the air conditioner rudely by yourself?”

“Will you do it too?”

“No, that’s fine. Then it doesn’t feel right.”

Even though it moves at a fairly fast speed, all you can see is the desert. The planet itself is slightly larger than Earth, but most of it appears desert. Population… About 300 million?

Not too much for a planet’s size, but a lot for a post-apocalypse. I guess it’s true that it’s been a while since it was destroyed.

“What is it like to meet someone for the first time?”

“Ah, the Easter egg of the Absolute of Creation?”

“Yeah, I told you to cherish the relationship you first met.”

After hearing that, I met Suni in Moorim and Momo in Tiv Civilization. Does it feel like a first-run limited confirmed gacha?

When I didn’t know, I didn’t care, but after I knew, I was interested. Who will you meet for the first time here?

“Hmm? Who’s coming from over there?”

“It’s not a person, it’s a boat… I think it’s similar?”

It uses the sand of the desert as water, no, if you look closely, it floats weakly. Feel like a hovercraft? Of course, it’s similar, but it’s a slightly higher technology.

It’s a little smaller than a small yacht, and it’s actually a boat, but it’s attached to something and there are clear signs of remodeling.

“I saw that in Mad Max! 8 cylinders! 8 cylinders!”

“But that’s not a car. I wonder if the engine used that engine too?”

The dimensions and planets are different, but is the technology the same? Besides, I see something like solar panels on the deck. Wouldn’t it be a fairly advanced civilization if a ship of that size could cover the energy with only that technology?

Looking closely, there was only one person on board. It’s a woman too.

……….Female?

Somehow, I have an ominous feeling?! No, it would be better if it was in a sexual sense, but there is only one person who knows but does not know!!!!!!

Wooooo!!

Soon the boat stopped in front of us. The deck opens and the woman inside jumps out.

The first thing that caught my attention was the dark skin. I don’t think I’m black, but my tanned skin, like a tan, feels healthy.

And the appearance needs no explanation. Except for the color of his skin, he looks just like anyone we know.

“I can’t help it!”

“Is that greeting common to Ruri!”

“Anyway, give me everything you have.”

“Your first encounter was a robber in the desert!”

“If possible, call me a pirate! There’s no ocean, so the desert here is like an ocean! Most of the planet is desert! It’s Captain Ruri Ruri, the desert pirate!”

Compared to Ruri from another Earth, she looks a year or two younger, and there are differences such as dark skin that seems to have been heavily tanned, but her appearance is roughly similar. His hair is also black, and on the other hand, he looks oriental.

Their personalities seem to be almost the same, but… Well, it’s just Ruri’s characteristics anyway. The Ruri who have awakened the Ruri-Ruri Network with God-Ruri-Ruri as a relay are all insane.

It can be said that it is the process of a pure child who does not know about the community becoming corrupted.

“Anyway, come in first. The sunlight is so bright that it must be very difficult to walk in this scorching sun. You have to ride this for a few days to get out of the nearby town.”

“It’s not an exaggeration to say that the desert is the size of the sea.”

“Thanks to you, things like water are very precious.”

Shion and I were welcomed by Ruri and boarded the ship.

Aside from the function itself, it is quite a cramped interior for three people to ride. However, it is too hot outside to be outside the ship.

Fortunately, the inside of the ship is quite comfortable. The room temperature is approximately 30 degrees. Compared to the murderous heat outside, it’s a cool place with the air conditioner on full blast.

“I gave you the coordinates in the middle of this desert to pick you up on purpose. You came at the perfect timing.”

“Did you plan everything?”

“I have a plan!”

“I’m congratulating myself”

There are at most three cabins inside the ship. That was about it, except for the bathroom.

One of the three is the captain’s room, and the other two have kitchens or storage rooms, so there’s practically only one room left.

However, in the midst of the destruction of civilization, a ship with such technology is considered a luxury. At least there are some facilities.

“Anyway, there’s something like the language here, so look at it and learn it. The language here is phonemic like Hangeul, so it’ll be easy to learn if you learn the tricks.”

“Um… I’ve learned it.”

“Fast?!?!”

“Ah, I envy that. I can only read at most.”

“In the end, isn’t it a matter of the combination pattern of characters? Rather, there are many similarities with Hangeul, so it was easy to learn.”

Simple memorization, arithmetic, and pattern problems are not an obstacle to Shion. It’s Hanon, which is no different from a human supercomputer. It’s like learning a language by downloading it.

Of course I had to learn it myself. Thanks to the blessing of the Wisdom Road, there is no problem in reading, so the learning speed is fast, but it takes several days.

Write, because there is such a difference in the way you roll your hair, when you have a child later, you want your child to look like Zion’s hair. Of course, you should use your body to resemble me, not Zion.

……. Let’s not think of the case where my head resembles Zion’s body, um.

“Isn’t there a separate destination? Then can I go in the same direction I went?”

“Do whatever you want. It’s like a guide, but you have to listen to the locals.”

“Instead, I’ll get a good amount of the guide fee.”

“Huh? Wasn’t it free?”

“Don’t think of me as the same person as Ruri over there. I’m not a Luri from the Luriji district who lives in this world forever! But I’ll do my best to be an acquaintance!”

A strange species like Hagisa Nuri is also born, but not all Ruri are the same Ruri. The soul itself may look the same, but the contents are different.

There is no way that Ruri, who grew up being loved and received ordinary love on Earth, will be the same as Ruri, who has lived a harsh life in this ruined world.

In short, should I say that they are different people with the same appearance? Twins separated as children and raised in different environments? Just look at it that way.

Sometimes even the race is different, but this time it didn’t seem like that. At least outwardly, he was human.

“Is it gold?”

“You have to go all the way to the city to sell it, but it’s hard to get there? I don’t even pay for the battery.”

“Then?”

“Worth it with your body!!!”

“No, this bitch?! It was like that before, but it reveals its raw robbery nature!!!!”

“If you don’t have money here, you’ll have to pay for it with labor, right?”

“Then did you say that from the beginning!”

Hehe, Ruri-Ruri-sama, now able to command the strongest on this planet on an hourly basis, is a great victory!”

It’s not a bad thing to take advantage of. We still don’t know much about the ecology or situation of this place, and even the language that takes days to learn was easy to learn.

Besides, you don’t think Ruri is talking to us here in our language, do you?

Ruri over here is talking in Korean. It’s much better to have someone you can talk to than going to town and starting with body language.

“But where are you going to pamper yourself?

“It’s nothing”

The ship runs through the desert sea without hesitation. Undeterred by the sandstorm, they move forward, not knowing what might be.

The same goes for Ruri. We are running toward the unknown, toward our dreams.

Personally, I just enjoy it. I have a feeling it will be a pretty fun trip.

“I’m looking for Yuto, the only paradise on this planet that hasn’t become a desert.”

Huh? What did you just say?

Is it the same name as the real name of some great king?