Chapter 482 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

Apparently, he had nothing to do with that girl.

To put it bluntly, it’s about the girl who tried to engage in prostitution and the person who rejected it.

But as much as I felt pity and sympathy for the girl then, I felt very dirty at the current situation.

“Hey”

“What is it… An outsider?”

The driver of the cart was a man in a shabby outfit, not much different from the corpses on the cart, who was wary and hostile to me.

“What are these corpses?”

The man got angry and tried to shout, but when I growled and slightly threatened him, he just collapsed.

The vigilance became fear and began to tremble. I ask what I wanted to ask for an assessment hearing.

“I asked what these corpses were.”

“That, that… These are the corpses from the quartz factory.”

“A quartz factory?”

“Yes…Sometimes people die like this…”

I’ve heard it from Ruri. Spirits, which are currently used as currency, or to be precise, special treatment for quartz are said to be produced only by nobles.

However, considering the culture of this world, it is highly likely that the special treatment is the ectoplasm manufacturing process. Ectoplasm also generates contaminants during the manufacturing process.

………Do you think such pollutants are good for humans?

Upon checking the dead girl’s body, her fingertips were discolored. She is a strange discoloration even considering the hot weather here on a body that has just died.

“I will take this child’s body.”

“Yes? It doesn’t matter if you do, but…”

A girl whose name I don’t know He died without help, and all he could do was take the body and give it a simple funeral.

However, if left as it is, the child’s corpse is not a corpse, but only used as material. There is no time to burn or bury corpses in this poor environment, so even now, they may be taking them to be used as fertilizer.

“Do you know the child?”

“I don’t know kid”

If you ask if you know or don’t know, in the end you don’t know. Because she can’t claim to know someone she doesn’t even know her name.

I felt the bitter taste of the post-apocalypse. However, it was more bitter than the taste I had accepted while enjoying it.

I burned the child’s body in samadhi evolution, leaving only her powder. And sprinkled outside the city, at least allowed them to return to nature.

It’s a simple task, but who would do it for that child? She couldn’t help me even if she called me hypocrisy because she didn’t help me when I could have helped her.

She buried her child with Zion and returned to the city. Even though it was a bit late, Ruri was still awake and not sleeping.

“Ah, you must have seen a corpse from a quartz factory.”

“Did you know?”

“I think asking for that is like Iron Man asking Captain. I knew it if I said the conclusion.”

“Is that where you are?”

“Originally like that”

If you’re in a bad mood, you have the power to destroy the whole thing, but I didn’t.

Factory, aristocrat, even if they are torn to pieces with a harpoon, the dead do not come back and only increase the number of people in the same situation as the child in this collapsed city.

“The quartz factory is a place to go if you can’t even sell yourself. As it’s a major industry under the control of nobles, it pays quite a lot, but it’s just as dangerous. It looks bad.”

“It’s like watching the children of workers during the industrial revolution.”

“It must be one thing to change people. But to die like this after only working for a few days…”

Did he go to such a place because he couldn’t sell himself to me, or did he end up like this because even that was not enough? I felt a bit distraught, and on the other hand, I was able to realize once again that this is a fucking world view.

When she wanted to have a drink, Ruri quickly brought her glass. She’s drinking, of course, the cedar cactus liquor she’s had before.

Jin-gyo and Baek-hee went in and slept, but they heard snoring and it was quiet.

Well, there is only one sound.

“Come to think of it, you’ve had a hard life too, no kidding.”

“Will you do it alone?”

“I’m happy, even if it’s in the present tense”

“If I succeed, I will be like that too.”

The pieces of the puzzle are slowly coming together.

It is difficult to know where to start with the piled up puzzle pieces, but the more they fit together, the faster it progresses. We are now half way there. If you go a little further, you can see the finished picture.

“The fact that the ectoplasm process can be used even after destruction is proof that the technology before the destruction was excellent, but it can only be the reason for the destruction.”

“Like the reason we can’t stop nuclear power generation even if there is nuclear waste.”

“I don’t know if that’s the original reason, or if there’s something extra, but at least it’s clear that it comes first.”

“It’s cheap even if you perish. A guy who takes shit and doesn’t clean up has nothing to say even if he gets beaten up.”

Ruri exhaled bitterly.

In fact, anyone living in this era had enough qualifications to curse the empire of the past. Even if the people of the empire in the past were in the billions, they were laggards after all, and they couldn’t complain even if they spit, let alone thanked, for the situation in which they passed on a shitty world to their descendants after pooping.

It is not for nothing that the earth is saying that we should pass on a clean earth to our descendants due to environmental problems.

“Actually, the nobles continue to use that ectoplasmic technique…… It means that in the end it will only be consumed. Are you crazy?”

“This is why we must quickly find paradise. We need a land where we can rest in order to somehow start over from zero.”

“Come on, this trip is quite interesting, so I’ll watch it till the end”

“Do you know how long it will take?”

“Looking at the current situation, I don’t think it will take long.”

“Hagisa, seeing how progress has been made since Mr.

After drinking moderately, I felt better. While honoring the dead child whose name he did not know, he prayed that he would go to a better place.

May your next life be comfortable.

*        *    *

We set off for our next destination early in the morning. With five members in the party, the inside of the drum became cramped, but it was still usable.

For now, Ruri and Jinkyo use the captain’s room, Baekhee and Shion use the remaining room, and I sleep in the storage room. Ruri was so organized that there was enough space for one person to lie down and sleep.

“Come to think of it, did you say it was a cradle? Your current destination.”

“Oh, that’s right. Do you know anything?”

“Looking at the map from before, this place looks like the southern subcontinent.”

“Continents? Ah… Once the seas were blown away, there must have been continents.”

“But there was a sea, but it all dried up or became a desert, so there was nothing? It’s fortunate that it’s easy to get salt.”

Salt is a major problem!!! Not kidding, for real!!!

Water may be more important now, but once that is met, the next thing you need is salt. Salt is essential because the human body eventually needs salt.

It was not for nothing that in the past, countries pushed the salt business as a national project and there were wheat merchants who refused to do so. That’s because it’s so necessary and so much money.

But if it’s here where the sea is dry… To be honest, you’ll be able to get salt if you go a little further, so on the other hand, you’re lucky out of misfortune. Maybe that’s why even though Ruri doesn’t have money, she always packs necessities like salt.

“There is only one place that can be called the cradle of the lower continent. A preservation facility for the reconstruction of civilization. It was built in case of emergency, but it’s probably there because it has all the necessary facilities.”

“What do you have?”

“It may be fine for now, but there are tens of thousands of seeds and automated facilities that can grow them, as well as environmental purification facilities, as well as 30,000 dragon-class autonomous armored personnel carriers and 10,000 fighter destroyers…”

“What kind of Terracotta Warriors are you?”

“……..And there are control facilities for the strategic satellite for orbital bombardment, Mir, and the strategic satellite for information warfare and surveillance, Nuri, on the ground.”

“Ah, Nurinuri!”

“You seem to know me pretty well, don’t you?”

“Because the budget that went into building it wasn’t a penny or two.”

There are many things, but the most important thing is the environmental purification facility. Wouldn’t it be possible to use it to turn this deserted world back? If you have your own terraforming equipment, it’s not a problem to create the paradise that Ruri wants.

In addition, if there is an important military force, the icing on the cake. Those who have treasure will only be taken away if they do not have the strength to protect it. So force is also essential.

“I don’t know how much time has passed, but it’s a place prepared for emergencies from the beginning, so there’s a high chance that it will be safe.”

“Come to think of it, things here last quite a while…”

“It is most likely a characteristic of spirits.”

“It might be because Hagi Knight’s spirit child lineage is not bound by the laws of physics from the beginning.”

If you think about it, the water lizards we saw before disregarded the law of conservation of mass and held more water than they weighed. Even a single piece of flesh would have 1 liter of water, but the weight is the same as its appearance.

The civilization here is a civilization based on spirits. Since spirit technology was incorporated into ordinary facilities, it is not strange that traces of it remain even after the world has been destroyed by stepping back in time.

Ah, if you think about it, the reason might be that Baek-hee’s maternal grandfather’s body, which wouldn’t be strange if only bones remained after it had rotted, was mummified.

If you think that Yeongja served as a good preservative for the body, the body will not rot but become a mummy.

“I gathered information from the Den of Wild Dogs. To get here, you have to cross a canyon, and it’s quite a long way. Above all, I heard that there is a Den of Mad Dogs occupying a water source in the middle.”

“A mad dog?”

“Yeah, those outlaws who really abandoned their human duty”

“The only good mad dog is a dead mad dog”

Jin-gyo, who had been quietly listening to the story, spoke for the first time. She was quite hostile in her voice, so it was obvious that she had no good feelings.

Jin-Gyo, who captured the equipment of the mad dogs and attacked us the other day, must have known what kind of guys they were. This is the story of this place where we, who are not people here, and Baek-hee, who is a person from a long time ago, are alone with Ruri.

“Having control of a water source means having that much number, strength, and control. Small packs of mad dogs are widespread, but large packs of mad dogs are few and far between.”

“Outlaws listen to control?”

“I’ll need that much strength. It’s probably a reinforced soldier.”

“Come to think of it, I’ve heard the word reinforcements a few times, but what exactly are they?”

“Aristocrats who have gathered quite a bit of power are people who have been injected with a special serum that can be produced. However, the failure rate is high and the amount that can be produced is small… In fact, it is difficult to become a reinforced soldier unless you are related to the nobles.”

“Didn’t you buy it on the black market with the money you earned from looting?”

“Ah, there is such a way. But after all, isn’t the serum on the black market also obtained from nobles?”

“I thought about getting a serum from the northern black market, but I gave up after seeing the bid for 30,000, probably.”

“Isn’t it the money that comes out when you catch 3 water lizards?”

In this case, I don’t know if the serum is expensive or the unit price of the water lizard is high. But in the end it doesn’t change that it’s expensive.

Here is the rich and the poor. Only those who have, those who do not have are poor.

In any case, it was likely to be a pretty exhausting trip. There will be pursuers, and there will be outlaws.

Beep beep beep!!!!

“Huh? What’s it ringing? Doesn’t it sound like the sand tiger from last time?”

“What the fuck!!!! A big fucking guy is coming!!!!”

Koo-goo-goo-goo-goo-goo!!!!!

A huge vibration echoes in the distance. Since the drum ho flies with the hover function, vibrations are not transmitted to the hull, but the entire land vibrates and the sound of pushing sand is clearly felt.

Soon, something of a gigantic body emerges from the sand. An elongated, or rather elongated, body protrudes and attacks the drum arc.

“Prepare for an emergency turn!!!!”

Ruri broke the control stick to avoid him. Soon, a jaw full of what looked like gigantic teeth came crashing down on the spot where we were just two seconds ago.

Wooooo!!!!

No matter how much sand piled up, its own strength would be no joke, but as if it were water, it disappeared into the sand.

“What is that Mongolian Death Worm?!”

“Isn’t that a starfish! We need Mr. Bart Germell!!! A shotgun! A fucking big shotgun!!!!”

“When are you bringing the material for a creature movie again?!”

“Not anytime! It’s a relatively hot work with 6 episodes coming out in 2018 as well!”

“He’s a sandy dragon called the loser of the desert! He’s an omnivorous bastard who can live even if he eats sand, so he’s a bastard who eats everything that passes by!!!”

“Why did such a guy come into the realm!?”

“How big is that bastard’s territory!!!! Usually the probability of not meeting is higher than the probability of meeting on the way!!!”

“After all, isn’t that just bad luck!”

“Aaaaa!?!”

“What is that monster?!

“The second wave is coming!!!!”

Wooooo!!!!

Again a huge body rises from the sand. A gigantic insect-like creature with a body length of tens of meters and a mouth that could swallow even a drum in one bite attacks us.

Do you see me as a bojagi because this bastard wants to see you?

“Open the hatch! If you’re that hungry, give me a taste of your fist!”

“What are you going to do with a monster like that!”

“If you don’t know, you’re out!”

I climbed onto the deck of the Drum. I can see the mouth of the guy coming with his mouth open.

You don’t even need to use a separate skill. Kick off the deck, jump and strike the guy’s mouth. Whoops! With the sound of meat being mashed, teeth flew out.

On the one hand, as if watching slow motion, his huge body slowly but quickly fell. It was a sight that could only be seen in a creature movie with a lot of CG.

Whoops!

Soon after, he uttered a line of memories to the one who collapsed on the sandy ground so that Shion would like it.

“You got the wrong number today, you bastard!!!”

I bet there won’t be a guy who breathes fire from his butt!!!