Chapter 479 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

I also have my own conscience. Of course, that conscience is a little twisted for an ordinary person to think of, but it still has enough conscience to feel pity when you hear that a girl of the age who can barely attend middle school is selling herself.

On the one hand, it is also an unavoidable part. Where there is demand, there is also supply, and prostitution is one of the oldest professions in human history. Even monkeys prostitute themselves if taught the concept of money.

You can make money with just one body, but in a world where morals and ethics are thin, no one would say anything if a girl sells her body. There is only bargaining.

A mixed feeling permeates the mouth. Looking at the slightly trembling eyes of the child, it seems that he himself is not used to this.

Moreover, the fact that such an offer is made at the market in broad daylight, not at a window, is evidence in itself.

“I-I…Don’t you like it?”

“…….”

How do I do this

Giving up is a simple thing. After all, it was the first stranger I had ever seen, and I had no obligation to help.

I didn’t want to just let it go. Giving condescending help when you can help is disgusting hypocrisy, but if you help like that, the limit disappears.

I am a demon king and a murderer. Helping someone is a negative act. It can only be destroyed and killed.

And there are countless other people besides this child to be saved by the fate of talking to me. It is not this child that must be saved, but the civilization of this world.

“When I sell flowers, I prefer to do it at night rather than during the day, and in a place other than a market like this.”

“Ah……”

“It looks so skinny that there’s nothing to hold on to. Buy some rice with this.”

All I can do is at most a few pennies. A bowl of soup is about 1 young, so even if you give me a few, you should be able to last for several days.

He wants to give all the money he has, but this kid doesn’t even have the strength to keep it. In fact, unless he’s going to save the person’s life itself, he shouldn’t have helped in the first place. That’s why I call it hypocrisy.

“Go, thank you…”

Hearing gratitude for hypocrisy makes me uncomfortable. It’s proof of the remaining humanity I have, so I’m relieved on the other hand.

The girl disappeared among the market crowd. It is up to you to decide where to spend the money I gave you. Even if you sell your body to someone else…

Soon I joined Zion again. Fortunately, it seems that nothing has happened there.

“What happened?”

“I’ve seen some cruelty in this world”

After buying all the goods, I returned to the inn and met Ruri. I’m in a light state without any luggage.

“I got quite a lot of things instead of cash. Arrows, bombs, and household medicine… Well, I won’t worry for a while.”

“Isn’t there something ugly in the middle?”

“A bomb is essential for excavating ruinshaha! Art is an explosion!”

“Come to think of it, I’ve only heard of ruins, but I’ve never actually been there.”

“Do you want to go?”

“Are you nearby?”

In this era of destruction, the ruins refer to the facilities before the destruction. A place like a shopping center is also called a ruin in this era.

The world after it was destroyed in the first place is only consumed. In order to cover that consumption, self-sufficiency is not enough, so there is no choice but to excavate the self-interest of the civilization before the collapse.

“There must have been a ruin under the management of the city near here. Usually, a city is built by picking a site where there are ruins worth excavating or basic facilities.”

“If it was a place like that, wouldn’t it have already been robbed?”

“You’re not going to look for something like that anyway, are you? Also, do you know?

“Hmm”

When I glanced at Shion to ask for his opinion, Shion nodded and replied.

“I am in favor. I am personally interested”

“If Shion-nim says so, then I…”

“Then it’s decided to go. First of all, I’ll make some rough preparations! Let’s sleep at the inn today.”

The inn where we ate during the day was divided into two large rooms where we could sleep. Of course, one room is for men and the other is for women.

It was quite inconvenient to have dozens of people crammed into one room, but the women’s room was quite spacious, so it seemed okay. I’m used to sleeping like this, so there’s no problem. Even if I sleep less, my body is not tired.

When morning came, we had breakfast again at the inn and went out of town to board the Drum.

“If you go west from here, there are ruins. There are still excavated items from time to time, so if you’re really lucky, you might get something.”

“It feels like a treasure hunt.”

“But the security facility is still alive, so you should be careful.”

“What?”

“Oh, that’s right. I forgot you were here.”

Well, even if it’s something like satellite bombing to destroy a planet, it’s meaningless to me, but it’s unlikely that the facilities of the destroyed world can threaten me. Other people risked their lives, but for us it was like going on a picnic.

After moving west for about an hour, the ruins appeared. I saw a few things like huge trucks with functions like hover bikes standing there, and I saw weapons like crossbows mounted on top of them.

The reason why it is called a crossbow rather than a crossbow is because the size is different. It was like a crossbow the size of a human body, and its arrows were pointed this way, as if it would shoot.

“Wait a minute. I’ll get permission and come.”

“Do I need to get a separate permit or something?”

“I’ve already got an entry permit from the wild dog den in the city. Just show it and that’s it.”

Soon after, Lurie got off the Drum, approached the person in charge, and showed him the permit.

Come to think of it, I don’t know how to make paper here. It seems that there is a supply enough to be used well in the market, but where does a separate factory work?

“Okay. Get your equipment and go!”

“Treasure hunting is always fun”

“I hope you find something good, Shion-nim.”

“I should have found something plausible, I mean…”

Although it must have been a facility from a long time ago, it did not succumb to the climate of the desert and still remained in shape. It may have been a roughly four-story building, but judging from the broken traces, it may have boasted a larger scale than that.

Since I don’t know the architectural style here, I don’t know what purpose the building was used for, but I don’t think it’s a simple facility given that it’s quite spacious.

“There are a lot of traces of robbing from the entrance. Someone stole everything that made money in case it wasn’t bastards.”

“I know who isn’t a wild dog.”

“If they’re a dirty dog, I’m a dirty dog!”

“After all, that means there!”

Traces of weathering or broken from old are conspicuous. Shion is interested in architecture, so he carefully looks at the form and style of the building, and it seems to be quite interesting.

Ruri started to enter the ruins with her crossbow at the fore. Jin-gyo moves forward little by little, guarding the group’s rear.

“I wiped it all off, so it doesn’t look like a big deal.”

“I don’t see a single autonomous armored personnel carrier or drone in the security facility. The only way to make money is to take off the metal from the structure and sell it…”

“Looks like it was someone’s mansion. Considering the weight of the building and the size of the facility, there must have been about 6 floors above it, but the road going down to the basement is worn out and collapsed.”

“… Huh? Underground?”

After hearing Shion’s words, Ruri expressed her doubts.

“I roughly figured out the structure with the radar’s Winry, but there is something like an elevator passage connected to the basement.”

“Wait a minute. I don’t think there was anything like that on the map of the ruins I got from the wild dog’s den.”

Soon after, Ruri unfolded the map and showed it to Shion. Shion grasped the location and map of the elevator he had grasped, and clearly grasped the structure.

“Originally, the elevator was connected only to the top floor, so it seems that it was not found after it collapsed due to deterioration.”

“If it’s the top floor of a mansion like this, only the owner would use it… This smells like money, doesn’t it?”

“Anyway, it seems that it’s not a little bit, but quite a lot. You’re Zion-sama!”

“Immediately, GAZaaaaa!!!!”

The elevator shaft Shion found was connected only to the top floor. However, now that the upper floors of the building have been destroyed or removed, the original passageway must have been lost, and a nearby wall had to be torn down to access it.

Ruri, Shion, and Jinkyo shared each other and detected the exact location. As soon as I was convinced, the next task was entrusted to me.

“Please break down this wall”

“Hmm, sure there’s room in the back.”

“There’s space behind the pillars!”

“It’s not a pillar, it’s a wall. Anyway, can you break it?”

Let’s clench our fists and let out lightly, kwaang! And the walls are smashed And an empty vertical passage greets us.

Luri cheered when she found a place that wasn’t on the map. It feels like we’re on an adventure, so the excitement is big, but Ruri has a strong feeling of aiming for a fortune.

Jingyo glanced down at the shaft and said.

“It’s quite deep, so I think you’ll need a rope to get down, but…”

“Is that necessary? You can just fly down. Prepare a fire.”

“Yes?”

“Lights are ready!”

I used telekinesis to lift our party up. Then, as if falling lightly down a shaft, it slowly began to descend.

When Jin-gyo saw my ability, his expression was filled with amazement. It’s not like there isn’t a superpower in this world, so why are you surprised?

“Worst sir, are you by any chance a shaman and not a reinforcement?”

“Are there other kids who do this?”

“Yes, but shamans are rare, so if you go to a big city there should be one or two…”

Unexpectedly, it seems that there are people with special abilities, but they are rare. If it was easy to get into Hagiji, Ruri would have been learning it from the start.

Relying on the light Ruri held, she slowly descended the dark vertical passage. The depth was quite deep, and even when this building was intact, it seemed that the bottom was deeper than the top.

But eventually it hit the floor. Hard texture, not stone or anything like that, but metallic texture.

Tung Tung! When I tapped on it, it was something empty. I guess this is an elevator.

“Hmm, the material is sturdy and there doesn’t seem to be a door to enter, so I need a cutter first…”

Kwaji Jijik!!!

“What?”

“……No. I made a mistake, the worst.”

Tear the thick ceiling of the elevator like a piece of paper and step inside.

The interior of a near-futuristic elevator that does not match the things of this world that we have seen so far comes into view. But the important thing is not this elevator, but where it is connected.

“Do you open it?”

“Since there are no lights in the elevator, it seems that the facility is stopped, but it’s not absolute, so let’s be careful.”

Deed Deuk!!!

I forcibly opened the elevator door and entered the underground facility. The old, dusty and sandy interior greets us.

The first thing that caught our eye was a dried-up corpse. As if they had been mummified, the corpse, with no moisture left, was strewn about on the floor of the underground facility.

“Anyone who can get down on the elevator connected to the top floor must be the owner of this building. But why are you dead here?”

“It’s thin and I can’t see it very well, but there are traces of being stabbed in the back. I think this is the cause of death, the worst.”

“But it’s kind of weird.”

The problem is that the body remains mummified.

Human corpses begin to decompose the moment they die. I don’t know when this world was destroyed, but it wasn’t at least 1,200 years ago, so it wouldn’t be strange if only bones remained of human corpses, even if it was roughly a thousand years old.

The fact that it remains as a mummy rather than a white bone means that no decay has occurred. Did something else work on the body? Or maybe humans before the destruction were special.

“There’s something shining over here. But this…”

Jin Gyo discovered something and reported it to us.

There, something like a capsule for one person hummed and vibrated with a weak light.

“This…Is a cryopreservation device that nobles used to use.”

“Is this still running?”

If a machine runs for hundreds of years without maintenance, it is natural for it to wear out and break down. It would be even more so if it was a precision device, but it is amazing that it is still working.

Shion inspected the capsule and came to a conclusion.

“Anyway, it seems to be a facility using ectoplasm and spirit particles. That’s why it’s relatively intact despite a long time.”

“Ah, if it’s a skill related to spirits, it will be less affected by time… So there’s a point.”

If it is a simple material, it wears out over time, but the spirit is relatively free from its influence.

In the first place, since the soul is a material that forms the formless, the technology using it is also long-lasting. Even if it contains only a small amount, it can easily endure for hundreds of years.

Anyway, the fact that the cryopreservation device is still operating is proof that the person inside is still alive. A human before destruction who had been dormant for a very long time.

“I can disable frozen sleep, how do I do that?”

“That’s a lot of fun. I approve Final Fusion!”

“Okay! Program Drive!!!!!”

“No, here’s GaoGaiGeo! What are you going to do to find something?”

Kwajik!!!!

Shion struck the panel with the force to break it and turned off the freezer.

Fish Yi Profit! The capsule opens with the sound of air escaping.

And whoever was inside…