Chapter 492 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

The long-awaited good feeling of seeing something good fell into abyss in an instant.

It feels like a precious jewel that sparkles and shines in the poop. Even if you take it out and wash it clean, the value of the jewel that was once thrown into the poop will decrease. Even if other people don’t know, I myself don’t have such an ideal value.

And I intend to take those losses from them.

Back on the Drum, he told his crew to prepare for battle.

“Ruri, take the kids up on the deck. Get ready for battle.”

“What is it?”

“They’re mad dogs”

“……I can roughly guess from the look on your face, but why are you so upset?”

“Just a little”

“I don’t know what happened, but let’s catch our breath and go.

“Isn’t this story a premise of torture? Isn’t that a bit strange?”

“Aren’t you my husband?”

“Ah, that’s right”

“You can understand right away, Baekhee-nim seems to be part of our group as well.”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa…”

At Zion’s advice, I took a deep breath.

There was a time before that mad dogs in the black market messed with Shion, and he was pissed off. If you ask if your current anger is the level of your anger then, you can answer ambiguous.

Since Zion is my number one priority, is it worth getting angry at Zion for spoiling my mood?

One difference is that the direction of emotion is different. In the case of the former, it feels like an explosion, and in the case of the latter, it feels cold.

The difference between trying to harm something and tainting it… It would take me quite a while to explain even to me, a civil servant, so let’s move on.

“Over there! Over there… Huh?”

Gradually the village gets closer. At the top, Fig smiles faintly, but his expression gradually distorts.

It was because there were apparently unsuitable people wandering around the village.

Armed, men with eyes glistening with madness as if smeared with something black and red are taking over the village.

If we can observe them, they can observe us. No, on the contrary, since our movement causes a sandstorm, it is highly likely that he was aware of it much earlier.

As proof of that, they have already finished their combat readiness. The mad dogs are not crazy, they are not fools, they use the stone walls built to protect the village as cover and aim their crossbows this way.

“Do you think it’ll be a bit tough if we fight like this?”

“I’ll have to suppress the steamer.”

Like the last time I fought Kiyoung’s reinforcements, I raised wind and sparks.

Originally, there is a saying that in order to attack a castle, you must have three times as many troops as the water castle. No matter how low the barrier is, if there is cover, it is natural to have a hard time fighting.

So let’s break that advantage.

Wooooo!!!

“It’s a sorcerer! Those bastards have a sorcerer!!!!”

It seems that the intense airflow and the warm heat can be felt even at a distance. Do you feel good enough to be faithful to your instincts? However, regardless of their reaction, I triggered the storm and flames and sent the destructive power to their stone walls.

Aaaaa!!!!

A stone wall made of stones the size of a human head explodes as it is. Some died instantly after being hit in the head by a flying stone, probably caught in it.

I didn’t let him die in the aftermath of my attack, but there’s nothing I can do about that. But lucky for those who are so behind.

At least it won’t come out of your mouth to kill you.

“They’re mad dogs! They’ve taken over the town!”

“Those bastards…!!!”

The wild dogs upstairs growled and shouted. It’s the first time I’ve seen other people’s reactions to seeing a mad dog, and there’s deep disgust and hostility in their eyes.

Some even feel hatred. I had a vague idea that perhaps someone close to me was killed by a mad dog.

Fighting! Quaang!!!

Then someone fired a crossbow. I didn’t get hit by them, but I destroyed the stone wall and flew its fragments. That becomes a signal and a battle begins.

Arrows fire at each other. Although it was a distance, it was a distance worth trying for a life for a sufficiently skilled archer. A few flew towards us and aimed at our children behind us, but they caught the arrows with telekinesis and sent them flying.

“That guy! That guy is a reinforced soldier! Shoot that bastard first!!!!”

“Die aaaaa!!!!!”

“I’ll chew and eat your baby’s eyes!!!!”

I walk proudly and enter the village through the broken part of the stone wall. The arrows aimed at me aimed at the vital points, but even if they were hit, there was no damage. Heavy weapons would be useless, but with such a small size, it is meaningless.

Wooddeuk!!!!

“Oh ahhhhh !!!

“Once a guy”

I didn’t kill them. Just break a few limbs and you’re done.

The real fun lies behind this. I wouldn’t mind if they took over a town, but it’s important that they made me feel bad enough to get me involved.

What kind of hypocrisy is it when you can’t even get revenge on the child you saw before?

The difference between a fig and a girl whose name is unknown is the difference in the object. It is said that it is a realistic problem that can be solved only by changing society, and a problem of whether or not there is an object to take out anger when it is clearly wrong.

In short, the problem that cannot be fundamentally solved even by destroying a city cannot be the same as the problem that can be solved by destroying mad dogs in front of us.

“Die!!!! Die!!!!!”

“You… Are you a drug addict?”

“Ahaha! Ahaaaaa!!!!”

The madness shines, but the pupils are closed and a faint sweet smell is emitted. I’m not sure about the type of drug here, but his attitude is more of recklessness rather than panic or fear. That, in the end, comes down to drugs.

It’s not particularly strange that they do some drugs because they are greedy for pleasure. It would have been strange if it had been more wholesome.

Clap!!!

“Don’t move you bastard!!!”

When you’re in full swing and subduing them, you hear the cry of a mad dog.

The guy was aiming a crossbow. Of course, the target was not me, but the woman he had.

Feeling the touch of an arrow pointed at her own temple, the starving, skinny woman trembles and sheds tears and murmurs softly.

“Sah, save me…”

“…….”

What is this baby? Do you think the hostage will work on me?

As soon as I stopped, he took a step back and distanced himself with a mischievous grin, as if he thought the hostage had worked.

His short-cropped hair looks greasy and dirty, and his teeth are yellow when he smiles. It’s not just because you didn’t brush your teeth, it’s more like discoloration from inhaling medicine.

Hehe, that’s how it should be. Huh? Sorcerer… No, reinforcements? Anyway, that man, I don’t know why you suddenly invaded, but why don’t you make a deal?”

“You mean. What’s she worth to me, taking her hostage? Don’t you think she’ll kill you too?”

“But didn’t you stop?”

A headwind carries the rotten smell. It’s not the smell of unwashed body odor, it’s the smell of someone who voluntarily ate human flesh.

I sneak a peek at the plaza in the center of town. Crackling, there is a burning bonfire with bones scattered on the floor around it.

It’s obvious what kind of bone it is.

“It’s not a different story. I’ll free this woman if I can get out of here unharmed.”

“Will you only take care of yourself? Colleagues? They were only broken in one place, but they didn’t die?”

“Huh… Do you think a mad dog would take care of something like that?”

“Well, I knew that.”

What they care about is pleasure and self-consolation. They are the evil of the world, and they are nothing more than beasts.

A wild dog like Ruri or a hunting dog that Jin-kyo worked for may be titles, but the mad dog that they call them is the meaning of the name. They’re just crazy dogs, they’re not human.

If you have a human mind but have the shape of a monster, isn’t it human?

It has the mind of a monster, but is it true that it has a human form?

At least I was able to sort the problem out with certainty.

“Answer quickly, or this woman’s going to blow her head out, huh? You know when you shoot at this street, her head gets blown out, right?”

“I’m a bit late to say this, but… Why are you holding a hostage right in front of me?”

“What?”

Wow!!!!

The invisible power of telekinesis struck the guy in the head. Oh, I didn’t kill him. It just stunned me.

Because he doesn’t even have the right to die.

*        *    *

It wasn’t until I subdued him that the cleanup was over. All that remains is to identify and secure those who survived.

But few survived. All the men have already died, and at most only a few women have survived.

No, the surviving woman is not in very good condition either. Isn’t it obvious that the pleasure-crazy guys kept the woman alive?

“Sister! Rapeseed sister!!!”

“Mu… Hwa? Is it a fig?”

“Sister……!!!!”

“Aaaaa!!!!”

The women were confined to one house. However, the place where they were confined was not a place where people lived, but a place close to a pigsty.

It may have been clean at first, but if you treat it here because you can’t even go to the bathroom, it will eventually become full of filth. People get sick living in places like that… There were already a couple of corpses.

The condition of the women who were imprisoned was not very good. Even if you can’t do it, it’s such a look that you have to treat for more than a few months.

“…It’s quite gruesome.”

“Did you come to see something you couldn’t see, Ruri?”

“This way, I can truly torture you later. Oh, will you let me help you too?”

“See once”

Exactly four women survived. At least that was the case, including the woman he had rescued from the previous hostage situation.

This is a village where at least dozens of families lived. Even if there was one woman in each house, there would be dozens, but only four survived.

Even with the number of corpses in the confinement house, there were only 6 of them… A fairly small number. Some people died when they raided and took over the village, but where did the rest go?

No, there was a place I guessed roughly.

“First of all, take the people out and feed them something. Porridge…No, it’d be better to make a bland meal and eat it.”

“Because I haven’t eaten in a while. Okay.”

I don’t know how long it’s been since they took over this town, but at least not every few days. I know because I’ve experienced it and seen it often, but even if humans starve, it’s still bearable.

Also, the bone mounds in the town square piled up by mad dogs… Don’t appear in a day or two. Two weeks at the shortest, about a month at the longest.

And the women wouldn’t have eaten at all. I don’t know if you don’t have anything to eat, but if you don’t have anything to drink, you die much faster in this world.

“Whoa…”

There is a faint but fishy smell in the house full of filth. It came from the bodies of imprisoned women.

Perhaps they were raped by rabid dogs, but got the little nutrients from semen. Objectively speaking, semen is a pretty good source of nutrition.

………… But that’s not enough.

No matter how nutritious the semen was, problems with quantity and so forth remained.

If so, how have they survived so far? What do you eat

“I’m going to take people out, but what about you?”

“Wait, I want to check something.”

Ruri also left, and Muhwa and the surviving village women also left this house.

I sneakily examine the body of a woman lying dead. It is covered with filth and half-rotted, giving off the smell of poetry, but among her dogs, human teeth marks were found on her arms and legs.

It looks like someone has bitten off flesh. Of course, there is a possibility that this is the work of mad dogs who eat human flesh…

These teeth marks were not of a man, but of a woman. That’s at least 2 people. Other information was unknown as time passed.

No, even if he had known, it wouldn’t have changed much. Because the emotions you can have here are obvious.

“All values ​​fall below survival.”

Is there really a sin for those who ate people to live?

Legally, morally, ethically, humanely… Soon, instead of concluding, I burned the body and incinerated it. Destroyed the evidence. Even if someone questioned me, I would just say that mad dogs did it.

At least I thought they were innocent.