Chapter 485 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

According to Ruri, this is probably the last place where supplies can be properly supplied.

There are often small cities, but there are not many places with the scale of this place, so he said that we should start after supplying as much as possible.

“There are so many things to pack. You have to buy arrows and get good equipment… Come to think of it, Baek-hee doesn’t have any weapons, so she has to carry something. Right?”

“You mean the weapon?”

“Do you know how to write?”

“I’ve dealt with bows. In the original empire, bows are essential liberal arts.”

“Somehow, all the weapons excavated are like this.”

Ruri tapped her crossbow and said.

Come to think of it, I’ve never seen firearms here. Most of them are fire-based weapons like crossbows. Unlike firearms that can be fired by repeating firearms, the efficiency is inevitably bad as long as the process of pulling the bow is necessary, but was it because it was cultured?

On Earth, bows are used for hobbies and sports. The meaning as a weapon has faded (it doesn’t mean that they don’t use it as a weapon), so they usually use guns, but they seem to have chosen romance over efficiency.

Awesome, romance is good…What is the efficiency! I have a dream! It is the law of romance to surpass efficiency from above!

“But with the money I have now, I can buy a very good weapon. Personally, I wanted to buy something like a fully mechanical crossbow, but I can buy it this time!”

“Mechanical?”

“Why is it like something out of a Van Helsing movie?”

“That’s going to be so damn cool!!!!!”

It’s a crossbow, but it’s on the magazine, and it’s doo doo doo doo! Are you talking about going out in a row? Shit, I don’t use weapons, but if that’s enough, I’m willing to listen to it as a hobby!!!!

Anyway, I decided to go shopping for new gear.

The place that sells weapons was located in a nicely built building in the downtown area of ​​the city. Considering that it is not just a simple building but also has a security function, this seems to be a store managed by the city.

“I thought there would be something like a workshop, but no?”

“Usually expensive equipment like that is found in ruins or made in cities. It’s because most of them are monopolized by nobles.”

“Hmm…”

Baekhee looked around at the equipment inside the store and put on a dissatisfied expression.

Actually, Ruri and Jingyo were looking around at this and that with her sparkling eyes, but she didn’t seem to like it very much.

“It’s all just bad stuff.”

“I thought it was polite to thank the person who bought me meat and shut up and eat it.”

“But can’t you help it be true?”

“You have to take into account that technology sucks in this era. No matter how much you shine at that time, what will you do? In the end, it will collapse and become a past that no one knows about. How long will you be touching the dead people?”

“………”

“Aren’t you talking too much?”

“I want you to see reality”

Still, Baek-hee, perhaps accepting it deeply, started shopping quietly. Ruri also picks up a mechanical crossbow from among the items in the store and gauges its performance.

A cylindrical magazine was attached, and two crossbow strings were also attached. The buttstock was lined with leather for comfort on the shoulder, and blades could be attached for close combat.

“Ah, you have eyes to see. It’s an automatic crossbow that can fire 120 rounds per minute. It consumes zero fuel and is lightweight, so it’s easy to carry around.”

“This is pretty good… How much is it?”

“The original price is 1050 young, but if you buy it now, I’ll give you a free magazine.”

“You take city notes, too?”

“Of course”

In addition to crossbows, there were bows. In fact, bows have less penetration than crossbows, but they have good rate of fire. However, this is a normal standard.

The crossbow here is also quite fast, so I wondered if the advantage of the bow would die, but there was something like a compound bow. In addition, unlike crossbows that use quarrels, bows specialize in their own arrows, so it seems to have differentiated them.

“This is the best”

“You have eyes that see even customers. It’s the best bow in our store…”

“Price is?”

“It’s 820 Young”

“Guwaaaaagh! Spending more than 2,000 yen a day!”

I can hear Ruri’s wallet being robbed!!!

First of all, the weapon is aligned. However, the armor remained.

…….Today’s shopping resulted in a large expenditure of more than half of the amount obtained by catching a water lizard.

“Life is free. To come empty-handed and leave empty-handed…”

“Why did you sit down and relax?”

“Her wallet becomes light at once, so the time for wise men is coming. Well, honestly, if I hadn’t made money, I wouldn’t have this either.”

“Know that it’s because of me”

“Since I can’t give you the first time in return, should I give you a girl from the back?”

“I don’t need that”

“Behind……?”

“Ah, a pure person here!”

It was fine shopping. Although the expenditure was large, it was a small amount if the by-products of sand dragons were sold on the black market. Even if you can’t do it, tens of thousands are said to be received, so spending within 10,000 is not a big deal.

Anyway, I felt something was missing, so I glanced around and saw Jin-gyo being wary of the surroundings. Besides, like Shion and Baekhee, her face is covered with a cloth, so she seems to be hiding something.

“What are you doing?”

“Ah… I covered my face just in case. Some people will recognize me.”

“Come to think of it, did you say that the owner of the city here and the owner of the city where you were had a bad relationship?”

“There are quite a few enemies involved, so you’d better be careful.”

“Yeah, well done”

The ominous look doesn’t go away. It feels like something will happen soon.

However, I am preparing for it to reduce the possibility of causing problems, but I do not know where the beeping will come from. If it’s my ability, I can see the future, but I can’t because I’m crazy.

“This is why you can’t do it with Moon. If you become a transcendental person, you will become a loser.”

“Rhyme is bad. But isn’t Ruri science?”

“Dog drip is calculated and hit!”

“The two of you are done, should we go back to the dorm if there are no schedules after that?”

“Would you like to visit the black market? I can’t buy expensive things with the money I have right now, but since it’s not just 10,000 units, I might be able to buy something else.”

“That will be fine.”

As Ruri suggested, we headed to the black market. I could see a group of people in pretty slick outfits gathering, likely to be customers of the black market just like us.

Some of them had a strange feeling. There were people who were physically strong, even though they were reinforcement soldiers who received reinforcement serum.

“Aren’t you a witch doctor?”

“Oh, is that so?”

Spiritual power is power that can be used even in a world where this ability does not exist. This is because spiritual power is not an element given from the environment, but a power that comes from the soul itself.

However, it is difficult to acquire and difficult to handle. Since normal humans are bound to the body, not the soul, it is difficult to manifest spiritual power unless one has awakened from the state of the soul or experienced a crisis of death.

On the contrary, if there are advantages, purity and efficiency are good. Perhaps, among these abilities, it will be at the top of the list. It is easy to harmonize with other supernatural powers, and even a small amount can emit efficiency beyond imagination.

“It looks like he has a shaman as his escort. Ah, how is his skill?”

“Very”

“If you judge objectively?”

“I think it’s enough to burn down a village. Ah, it’s because metaphors seem to be specialized in the ability to ignite.”

The shape of the overflowing spiritual power looks like a haze like fire. Spiritual power is the power of the soul, but since it is easy to respond to emotions, it is often seen in that form.

Anyway, we entered the black market. Despite the name of the black market, no one has a face covered, and seeing that it is openly, I want it to be half official. It’s a good place to be in the middle of the day, but if you build a building, it’s natural. It’s not almost blindfolded and howling.

Slightly over a hundred people crowded around. Most of them brought escorts, and there were not many wild dogs like Ruri. About twenty at most?

“……There are quite a few.”

“Is there a lot of twenty people?”

“How many stray dogs do you think are rich enough to come to the black market? The ones who retire after eating one round are smart, those who gamble or flirt with women are normal, and those who prepare for the next round are circumspect or crazy.”

“You are the last”

“Anyway, there aren’t many wild dogs with a lot of money. Even if there were, a pack of wild dogs would spend public money, and there are few of them with a budget of more than 10,000 units.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to keep an eye on it?”

“Let’s see and judge for now. Ah…”

At that time, a wild dog passes by our group.

It looks like it has been washed and smelled, but it smells like a rotting corpse. Oh, of course, the smell is not simply the smell of a person who killed a person.

Actually, it’s not a physical smell, it’s dependent on my senses, but rather, it’s very certain because of my nature.

A man who has killed a man smells of blood… But a man who has eaten a man smells like a rotting corpse.

These guys are the ones who have a taste for human flesh.

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Before survival, people lose all value. Gold is just a piece of metal, and even ethics is just an illusion.

If you choose something other than life in front of survival, it becomes a belief, but usually there are not too many people like that.

In the midst of starvation, if the only thing to eat is a human corpse, how will you choose? In this world where drinking water is scarce and even food is scarce, it is natural for people to eat human flesh.

……. But among them, there are people who feel guilty, suffer, regret, and reflect, and there are people who have tasted it and crossed the line as a human being.

If they ate human flesh in front of survival, they could understand it even if they didn’t understand it. However, the moment he voluntarily prefers human flesh, he crosses the line as a human being.

“……You mean eating the same person?”

“There’s nothing special about it.”

“Mad dogs are faster at finding uneaten than eaten.”

“Well, I knew there would be people like that, but I didn’t expect to meet them in a place like this.”

Baek Hee-man was astonished at their behavior. If her ethics were limited in the days of a civilized society, it was honestly a natural reaction.

Those presumed to be mad dogs who had now gathered in the black market were divided into groups of 4 or 5 and scattered around the corner of the black market, pretending not to be part of each other. However, the smell of rotting corpses common to them could be discerned even if it was hidden.

Other places like this might have confiscated weapons upon entering, but the world is the world, so weapons are usually allowed.

And usually, if you don’t want to hostile the city, you can’t touch these facilities. Unless you’re crazy, you don’t do that, but they were such crazy people.

“Yes! Let’s start the auction now! The first thing to come out is a 15-year-old twin brother and sister!!!”

“…… Buying and selling people?”

“Ah, there was something like slavery everywhere. Humans aren’t such a wise species. There are people eating people over there. What do you want?”

I decided to watch and watch the auction. The first thing that came up was pretty twin siblings.

Seeing this makes me feel pretty confused. It goes back to the days when ethics were savage and barbaric, showing the reality of revealing ugly desires, but there is virtually no way for me to stop it.

If Ruri reached the cradle and built a paradise, there would be some possibility, but it is impossible for me personally.

In the first place, I said that civilization management is a joke. So the Mars civilization is all about punishment, right?

“They’re very cute siblings, the boy is pretty, and the girl is still a virgin. We could take the first two of them in one day. The feeling of putting a brother and sister in the same bed and raping them at the same time… Let’s start with 300!”

After some time, the twins were sold for around 460 yen.

It’s not even worth our bath, but it was to show the value of people of this age. It is said that the lives of two children are worth less than the money spent washing people.

“Yes! Next is the excavation of the ruins! If you just pour water on it, it will consume a small amount of spirits to make ice at any time! The auction starts from 200 spirits!!”

There are some things we don’t need and some that look quite usable, but first of all, we continued to pass.

The moderator also uploaded the by-products of sand dragons that we put up for auction before we knew it.

“It’s the spirit stone of the four dragons! The bigger ones are very useful. I think it’s better for the representatives of the nobles to buy them… Let’s start with 30,000 spirits!”

The Spiritual Stone of the Four Dragons that we uploaded was eventually sold for 45,000. Unexpectedly, after a fierce auction, Ruri smiled in delight at the fact that she received a price that exceeded the market price.

And it was the final turn of the auction. It’s when the most important stuff comes out, and that’s why the mad dogs were still quiet.

“Last item for the day. Yes, the one you’ve all been waiting for. This is… An enhanced serum!”

A special serum that turns humans into fortifying diseases. I’ve heard of it, but I never thought I’d see it here for the first time.

A near-futuristic test tube was filled with liquid on top of the podium. There are serums that feel like you just stick them in and inject them.

And the mad dogs who were aiming for that time began to act.

“Oh, I want to eat popcorn.”

“You were really bad”

Shion was the only one watching with curious eyes.