The Virus Spreading in Ulsan (3)
Park Su-beom stared at the bulletin board and smiled.
"Just asking for help in a place like this. The escapees must have been desperate, huh."
"What, they just tried to think a bit and said another train. How cute."
Anyway, escaping from here was impossible.
Hundreds of ghouls had already surrounded the area.
So he decided not to worry about it.
Let the ghouls deal with it on their own.
Park Su-beom was focused on his other tasks.
But he saw a subordinate rushing towards him urgently.
"Urgent situation! All the ghouls outside are dead!"
"What?! That's not possible! Did the escapees kill all those ghouls?"
Park Su-beom couldn't believe his subordinate's words.
Outside, there were hundreds of ghouls, not just a few.
Along with that, nearly fifty infected monsters.
Yet they were all dead.
Even by those who didn't seem to have any special abilities.
But the subordinate shook his head, saying it wasn't the case.
"That's not it. Other people appeared."
"Other people? How many?"
"Four."
"Four?"
Just four people to take down that many ghouls.
Even ordinary awakened couldn't do it.
'A ranker?'
Park Su-beom thought one of them must be a ranker.
Without a ranker, this wouldn't be possible.
"Should we retreat?"
"No, keep going."
"They might come here soon."
"Even so, what can we do? If we stop here, will that person leave us alone?"
The subordinate trembled with fear at those words.
Park Su-beom also trembled, calming his own shaking hand.
He knew what would happen to them if they returned without any gain.
"Go stall for more time. There's not much left now,"
"Understood."
"And if it comes to it, use that thing too."
"That thing?"
The subordinate hesitated.
"Yeah. Why?"
"No, understood."
With those words, the subordinate bowed his head and left the room.
"Just a little more and it will be complete."
Park Su-beom continued his work.
Actually, this place wasn't that important to them.
If this was completed, it was just a place to discard.
He just needed to buy time until then.
Then the scene shifts to Hyeong-ho's group leaving.
"Are you really going inside?"
"Yes."
"Then I'll wish you good luck."
With greetings, Hyeong-ho's group departed.
According to what they said, one of the people they saw inside was Kim Su-ro.
Based on the description and name, it was definitely Ah-ra's father.
That meant Ah-ra's family was inside.
Since it was confirmed, they couldn't just leave.
Moreover, they were holding people hostage and turning them into ghouls. Who knew what they were planning, but they couldn't just leave them like this.
They arrived at the entrance of Ulsan Station.
As they tried to enter, ghouls came out to greet them again.
Now, honestly, they'd seen too many, it was getting boring.
Charging towards those ghouls were lizardmen.
Following orders, they accurately controlled the ghouls' bites with swords and slaughtered them.
Kwaaang! Kwaaang! Kwaaang!
Now, ghouls weren't opponents at all.
After dealing with the ghouls, they entered Ulsan Station.
Hyeong-ho's group looked around to find the place where the people they mentioned were held hostage.
Then.
Kung. Kung.
Something approaching with a loud sound.
Turning their gaze that way, an overwhelmingly large creature was walking towards them.
"What the hell is that?!"
The thing approaching them was a wolf.
But it wasn't a normal wolf.
It was at least the size of two or three combined, with a massive body, and its eyes were blood-red from virus infection, a giant wolf monster.
"Kuhahaha. No matter how strong you are, these guys will be hard to stop."
With that, a person appeared.
The guy standing near the wolf was probably the mastermind of this commotion.
"Ssaem, don't worry. I have it."
Jin-hwan stepped forward boldly.
After confirming that the ghouls were his enemies, Jin-hwan confidently extended the Bible-like tome forward and shouted.
"Heal!"
With bold words, the heal.
It hit the infected wolf exactly.
The guy wrapped in bright light.
But that was it.
Kreeee!
Or was it because it was a strong one?
Jin-hwan's attack didn't work at all, and the wolf charged straight at them.
[Fire Ball - Fire Ball]
※ Summon of Fireball
[Lower Rank Spirit Summoning]
※ Summoning the lower rank water spirit Roa.
Jin-ri used magic, Ah-ra summoned a spirit to block the wolf's charge, but the guy didn't flinch from the attack either.
"This is quite troublesome."
But I didn't panic.
After precisely staring at the guy, I activated the petrification ability.
After stopping the guy's movement, I planned to cut off his neck.
But the petrification ability didn't activate.
'Damn it. Maybe because he's infected.'
The wolf's eyes weren't focusing.
Probably because of that, it couldn't precisely stare into my eyes and thus not affected by petrification.
"Scatter! Everyone!"
Kreeee!
With my words, they scattered in all directions to avoid the wolf.
Kwong!
The wolf rammed into the pillar where we were.
The pillar shattered from the wolf's powerful charge.
The wolf immediately regained posture and started looking around for targets to attack.
Kwrooooo!
Again, the wolf charged energetically.
Well, it's a pity the petrification didn't work, but there were plenty of ways to deal with it.
[Summon Slimes.] X 10
Green slimes appeared around.
"Puhahaha. Just slimes?"
The guy looking at the slimes and mocking them.
He seemed not to know how the outside ghouls died.
At the same time, the lizardmen grabbed one slime each and ran straight at the wolf.
Dadadada.
The lizardmen ran at high speed.
And soon threw the slimes at the wolf.
Slap!
The slimes stuck precisely to the wolf's body.
And the attached slimes weren't just one or two.
Slap! Slap! Slap!
The lizardmen quickly moving and sticking slimes all over the wolf's body.
Was it ten slimes that stuck?
[Special Ability - Self-Destruct Drop]
- A powerful 'bomb' is installed on the target.
Immediately, bombs were installed on all slimes' bodies.
At the same time, the slimes' bodies turned bright red like red slimes.
And then.
Kwaaang!
Kwaaang!
Kwakwakwak!
With tremendous explosion sounds, the slimes burst.
Because ten slimes exploded at once, the sound and intensity were on a different level from when one exploded.
Crack! Crack! Jingarang!
The shockwave shattered all the glass making up the building, and nearby objects flew everywhere.
'Is the building collapsing?'
Probably, in the indoor, we had to refrain from using this explosion.
'Still, this much, it should be dead.'
Since the virus-infected monsters had very weak defense, even if that guy was a monster, he should have died.
Groooook.
The wolf making a sound as if still alive.
But his whole body was almost shattered, making movement impossible.
"Damn! How did I get caught so easily! Hey! Get up!"
Maybe it was a secret weapon.
It was certainly much stronger than normal monsters, but it didn't put up much resistance against me.
Puk! Puk!
The guy kicking the wolf's head to make it get up.
But at that moment.
Kraaaak!
"Eh? What?"
Simultaneously as the wolf's mouth opened, it bit off the guy's leg.
"Uwaak! My leg!"
The severed leg.
But it wasn't the time to worry about the leg.
The virus spreading rapidly.
"Help... help me!"
The guy shouting at us.
But soon the guy turned into a ghoul.
Just a ghoul exploring nearby living beings.
The lizardman cut off the neck of such a guy.
At the same time, he finished by shattering the wolf's head that still had breath.
'Is this guy the one spreading the virus?'
Even so, it was his ability, so why would he turn into a ghoul himself.
There must be other guys besides this one.
But first, find the people locked up here.
Since we didn't know if they would harm those people, we urgently searched the surroundings and found the space where people were confined.
Dozens of ghouls gathered in a specific place.
Since it seemed suspicious, we killed the ghouls and approached the space.
'Is this it?'
After breaking the locked door with a lock and opening the closed door, there were people inside.
"Mom!"
"Ah-ra! How did you get here?!"
Ah-ra saw her mother inside the door and ran to hug her.
Parents who were thought dead.
But seeing them alive like this, how happy it would be.
Ah-ra's mother was the same.
Ah-ra and her mother hugging each other, shedding joyful tears.
'This seems to be a place with normal people, then?'
Realizing there was a high possibility of people in the place where ghouls were gathered, we quickly searched the surroundings again.
'Is this the place?'
Another place where ghouls were gathered.
After killing the ghouls, opening the place, there were several people who seemed to be awakened locked inside.
"Come out quickly. The other hostages have already been rescued."
At first, people didn't understand my words, but after seeing the explosion sound from earlier and that most ghouls around were dead, they ran to their acquaintances' places.
'Who is the mastermind of this crazy act.'
Why were people locked up, and what were they doing here.
After telling the people to evacuate to a safe place with the students, I searched inside Ulsan Station alone.
'What's this?'
A underground warehouse-like place in Ulsan Station.
Ghouls were gathered here too.
Kwaaang! Kwaaang!
After killing all the ghouls, a certain door appeared.
Not a normal door, but an iron door.
'Is this door locked too?'
I thought all the people who were already confined had escaped, but maybe not.
Screech.
After swinging the sword to cut the lock,
Push the closed iron door with hand.
Kukukuku!
And inside, one person.
"A kid?"
A cute little boy who looked like an elementary school lower grade.
A girl holding a cute rabbit doll tightly in her hand trembled all over and looked at me.