Chapter 476 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

The means of transportation they rode is a hover bike. Because it floats on the desert sand like a drum, it is less affected by the terrain and is faster.

If not, it is natural that it would not be possible to move quickly through the sand with wheeled vehicles.

“The windmill looks remodeled, but the personal equipment is unusual.

“It looks like they’ve been training quite a bit, too. That’s as regular as the military.”

“They’re not just mad dogs, they’re hunting dogs that lick the soles of nobles!!!! I knew these bastards!”

In this world, most of the names of those in charge of armed forces seem to be unified with dogs.

It seems that those who specialize in searching for artifacts like Ruri are called wild dogs, those who run amok like outlaws are called mad dogs, and those who have been raised by someone and became limbs are called hunting dogs.

“I’ll cover you, go and fuck it up”

“What would you have done without me?”

“If so, you must have been hiding so much that we wouldn’t even meet you in the first place, right?”

The weapons they had were consistent. It’s a pretty cool weapon that’s half a crossbow and a firearm like Lurie’s.

I wondered why there was such a thing as a crossbow without a firearm when there was such a thing as a hover bike, but when Ruri fired one shot, the question was solved at once.

Tuwoong!!!!

Before I rushed at them, the two-finger-length bolts I shot from Ruri’s crossbow killed one guy hundreds of meters in front of me instantly.

I didn’t just kill him, but my face was puffed up like a watermelon burst! And it looks like it’s flying

“Hey, the power is good”

“It seems like a firearm-like technique developed by sticking to a bow instead of a gun!”

It seems that there is something that increases the power. Anyway, I spurred on the sandy bottom to deal with the swarming guys.

Close the distance of hundreds of meters at once and approach them. Dozens of tactical crossbows like the one Ruri had were aiming at her.

The crossbow fired with a short time difference, I waved my hand to knock it all off, grabbed the nearest one with the hover bike and threw it away.

Quaang! And hear an explosion. It’s the same story as giving up one’s life at the point of riding something like that in the first place.

“It’s a reinforced soldier! Aim for the vitals!!!”

“Don’t retreat! Catch up and kill me!!!”

The crossbow continues to fire. Unlike normal firearms, it seemed that the loading speed would be slow, but as soon as I twisted something on the back of the crossbow, it was loaded. At least it has the power and rate of fire of a decent shotgun.

Missing or deflected crossbow bolts explode or create sand dust. I ignored them all and proceeded to destroy them one by one, reducing the number from dozens to just a few.

In a hellish situation, someone gasps and shouts.

“Heuk! I’ve never heard of a monster like this!!!!!”

“Yes, I joined in the middle. You seem to know something?”

Baaaaa!!!

One was struck and stunned, and the others kicked fragments of the smashed hover bikes and ripped open their stomachs. Guts and blood from their stomachs soak the desert sand.

As the blood evaporated in the heat of the desert, it seemed like a red haze rising. Awesome! You guys are pretty friends!!!

Dozens of soldiers were annihilated in an instant, and only one remained. Still, his future is uncertain. He’ll die if he doesn’t.

“What, why did he come here?”

“Ejaculation Listening”

“Okay!”

If it’s just an outlaw raid, hey! Filth is disinfection! It’s enough to catch them while thinking of things like the Mohicans who say the same thing, but they are an army disguised as outlaws.

The training is well done and the weapons are consistent like standard weapons.

Since you said Ruri is being chased, how did you find it and what do you know… Well, shouldn’t you think about the way forward when you know about that?

Soon, Ruri restrained the guy I caught. He binds his wrists with wire, disables his hands and confiscates his weapon.

“It’s such a waste. It would be nice to save these things and sell them in the city.”

“Come to think of it, I’ve never seen money here. What do you use for money? You don’t use coke bottle caps, do you?”

“This is this”

Ruri chuckled and took out one of his pockets and showed it to me.

It is something like a small piece of quartz the size of a finger. They are of various shapes and colors, but most are white. Seen from the Earth, it seems like something that would only be used for simple contemplation, collection, or playing with air.

However, it is not an ordinary crystal piece because it is possible to know that there is something insignificant in it.

“It’s a special treatment for a piece of quartz. It can be used as a power source by itself.”

“Efficiency?”

“There are some deviations, but one piece of white can roll a drum for 15 minutes.”

“It’s been quite a while. What’s the unit or unit called?”

“Eng, depending on the number, 1 or 2, roughly like this. And the darker the color, the bigger the unit.”

“Hoo”

The pouch Ruri had contained dozens of quartz pieces. The darkest of them all was reddish quartz.

There are many other colors, but most are pale. Maybe if the normal white color is in the unit of 1,000 won, the dark one can be thought of as 10,000 to 50,000 won?

“If it can be used as fuel, where does it come from?”

“Nobles. No, it’s the nobles who circulated this as currency in the first place. They specialize the quartz mined in the mine and use it as a power source and currency.”

“What about inflation? What are you going to do with it?”

“If you’re worried about that, then this is the end of the century? And even if there’s a lot of quartz, special processing is limited, so there’s a limit to the amount that can be printed.”

“Hmm”

It’s a pretty interesting currency. Hagisa, if the world perishes, things like money will be shreds of paper. I kind of shook my head.

The aristocrats circulated money and made zero into a key currency. Because they can only take out themselves, the threat is only for each other, and at least to exert absolute power against the beings below… It tastes pretty rotten.

Even in the post-apocalypse, the taste of human desire is quite bitter. However, for my personal taste, it was bitter like the taste of coffee.

“What do you think?”

“Even quartz contains weak ectoplasm. To be precise, it is coated with ectoplasm.”

“Considering the nature of Ectoplasm, I think I can roughly understand why it was destroyed…”

The smallest unit of the soul, the spirit. And ectoplasm, a high-density spirit material.

If you ask what the difference is between the two, youngja is a protein, and ectoplasm feels like tofu. Ectoplasm is hardened by adding various additives.

Spirits are not inherently material. You cannot come into contact with it in a normal way, and only a very small amount is dissolved in the world like gold in sea water.

Ectoplasm is to somehow extract such spirit energy and use it more efficiently. On the one hand, it is similar to spiritual power, but it can be regarded as a branch of supernatural ability that is closer to material. Originally, even the supernatural powers such as mana and internal energy contained spiritual elements.

However, if there is one problem, it may not be possible to extract the spirits, but a lot of contamination occurs in the process of manufacturing them into ectoplasm.

It feels similar to using explosives to extract rare earth elements. So, quite a few dimensional civilizations are putting various restrictions on the ectoplasm manufacturing process.

“Even in Delta Castle, the ectoplasm manufacturing industry has a lot of pollutant problems, so we are still researching an efficient method. How shocking is this civilization?”

“Is that roughly the cause of the extinction? Hmm… I think something is missing.”

Anyway, the civilization before the fall of this planet had enough technology to extract spirits and manufacture ectoplasm. Although the genre is a little different, it is said that it probably had the technology of a few generations before the extinct TV civilization.

For reference, there is a difference of dozens of generations between Earth and Tiv civilization. In the first place, it’s only been 20 years since Earth confirmed this ability.

Anyway, we packed our things and set off again. It’s a bonus that one load has increased.

Well, it’s up to us whether to take it or throw it away.

“I’ll just sprinkle a bowl of cold water on you and make you awake.”

“It’s not even going! Aaaaa!!!!”

The hunting dog survivor I brought with me decided to leave it alone until I came to my senses. I passed out from one bite anyway, so it will take some time to wake up.

After some time, it became night. To camp in the middle of the desert, you must have a tent or something, but the fact that there is a drum is a relief.

Although it’s a bit cramped because of one load, it can be put in the storage room.

“But it’s not the uncle, it’s the aunt.”

“When you die, you are a corpse after all.”

“Isn’t it too blatant to suggest that you will kill?

“I don’t know. It’s a kebab.”

As the helmet to protect her head and keep out the sand dust was removed, her appearance, which was decidedly feminine, came into view, albeit with a short bob.

Of course, her skin is dark like Ruri’s…But I don’t know if she has breasts or not.

Perhaps because she has a rough job, she is not well managed, so her charm as a woman is poor. She’s even worse than Ruri.

I don’t know if there will be demand for certain classes. I mean, people who like boyish stuff.

“Turn it off”

“Oh, I woke up”

“Should I prepare tools for torture? I have several tools.”

“For now, just a knife”

“Here’s a dagger”

She opened her eyes, catching all of her stupor. And the first thing she says is…

“Water……”

“It’s perfect for a last supper.”

Ruri brought out a cup of water and put it to her mouth. With her dry lips, she covets the water according to her instinct.

After coming to her senses, she looks around her and grasps her situation. When she saw Shion, whose fair skin and silver hair were blatantly exposed because her face was not covered, she stunned and tightened her complexion, and her momentum died.

“Once a name”

“Yes?”

“Ruri, how much water can you purify by replacing one person?”

“Even if I can’t drink because I’m uncomfortable, I can take a shower.”

“Hey?!”

I said it as a threat, but it’s not Ruri.

The corpses from earlier were busy and passed over, but if time was tight, humans could be turned into water pretending to be humans. The will to do so is peeking in her eyes.

Anyway, the threat worked. After understanding the situation, she began to answer meekly.

“Ji, my name is Jingyo.”

“Where are you from?”

“I, the southern nobleman, in the domain of Lord Jinrang…”

“What’s the purpose?”

“To kill the wild dog Ruri and retrieve the belongings”

“As expected”

Ruri nodded her head as if she knew that.

The rough situation had already been guessed, but one question remained.

“Why did hunting dogs under the aristocracy capture and use the belongings of mad dogs?”

“That’s… That’s how it was ordered.”

“The reason is?”

“It needs to be seen as something done by mad dogs…”

Their only miscalculation was me.

Ruri is just a terminal of God, not God-Ruri-Ruri. When he dies, he dies eventually. There is a limit to what you can do against these troops, so in the end you will only die in pursuit.

That’s why he tried to survive even by using me on purpose… Hmm, is it luck or is it the guidance of the Absolute Fate?

“Is that so?

“It’s very easy to summarize when you say that.”

“But with this, you can see that the North and South are not well connected. Also, the northern nobleman Yugwi, who spread information by contacting him, has a bad head.”

“Yeah, just look at it.”

It’s something that I would consider to be a climber.

Compared to Zion, I can’t be crazy and I’m at the level of a gutter. When I say that, what level do you think it is? In the first place, if Yeouiju is precious, rumors should be reduced and tracked secretly.

“I knew roughly what to do with this guy…”

“Sah, if you spare me, I’ll serve you wholeheartedly! My, please, please, please, save my life!!! Please!!!!”

“A dog is just a dog”

Whether it’s a hunting dog or something, in the end, it’s bound to stand in front of people. It’s not for nothing that people say that dogs are man’s best friend.

“Die, it’s a waste of water!!!!!”

Although only Ruri was vehemently opposed.