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EP 28 – No Country for Superman (12)
“So… … . Korean and European hunting grounds are geographically located in the same place. Most of the monster types and habitat ranges that appear overlap. However, there is a significant difference in the risk of monsters appearing in the hunting grounds on both sides.”
“… … .”
“This is clearly abnormal.”
I marked a few things with magic on the map of Australia pasted on the whiteboard.
A typical monster’s habitat, the location of the nearest nest, and a stronghold located nearby.
The conclusion is simple.
“As you can see, there is no reason for a difference in the dangers of monsters. This isn’t a sandy desert, it’s a rocky desert, and there aren’t even a lot of wetlands or ruins, so bizarre monsters don’t come out often.”
“… … .”
“But the fact that the monsters on the European side are stronger… … . There must be something we don’t know.”
I looked back at the audience in a serious mood.
However, the atmosphere of the left was not at all serious.
“… … .”
Seol Jin-woon looks at the map seriously.
Yeo Do-yeon who doesn’t know what to do because she’s sorry for me.
Lumiere, who has been unable to make eye contact with me since before.
And even Pi Chae-won, who alternately looks at me and Lumière with strange eyes.
I couldn’t believe these were the best hunters I knew.
But what to do?
When something happens, it must be rectified somehow.
Like a politician, I laid an iron plate on my face and held the weight.
“… … A special investigation team will be formed under the authority of the WPO Vice-Chairman. Please investigate this case as urgently as possible. It is a matter of the lives of many hunters.”
great.
player’s point of view.
“… … Baby, what’s wrong?”
“Yes?”
Cheon Geum-soon, who always looked tired, had very smooth skin. Of course, the dark circles didn’t disappear, but my impression was sharpened.
Life seems to be fun these days with some money.
She was worried about me with a mischievous smile.
“In the past few days, my face has gone away… … . Aren’t you sick?”
“… … under. haha. Could it be?”
“Would you like a little bit of black goat? I got a gift from Samsung. very.”
“The animals I hate the most are the black goat and the black goat. Anyway, don’t worry, I’m fine from now on.”
what’s okay It is now on the verge of collapse. The body is the body, but the mind is too hard.
It was because Yeo Do-yeon and Seol Jin-woon, who received my request, wandered through the desert like that, and found no clue about this abnormal situation.
Why did the monsters of Europe suddenly become strong? Maybe there is a threat that I am not aware of? Maybe this is why Lumière doubts me?
Anyway, it could be said that it was self-sufficient, but it was a lot of hardship these days. That’s what it looked like on the face. Cheon Geum-soon tilted her head and looked at my expression.
“Ugh. What do you think is going on? Just talk to me. What is there to hide between us… … .”
“What are we to?”
She answered with a smirk on her pretty face.
“A close relationship?”
“… … Well, it’s a secretive and steamy relationship.”
Of course, there was no way I was going to confide in this woman because I was crazy. It would be better to hand over the presidency of our country to a monster.
I turned the topic to business.
“Anyway, the magic stones will be released as soon as they come in. While I’m lowering the magic stone price, please don’t interfere with the salary of the hunters by fiddling with the hunters’ settlement money. Of course, you can only do that for a while.”
“That’s easy.”
“good. Investment in pension funds will probably start at the end of the year.”
“Hmm… … . It’s a little hard to eat even the money on your nose, but… … .”
“Huh. The National Pension is money buried in your nose? Well, it’s just to get some money, so if you ignore the people like that-“
“I will not accept investment from pension funds.”
“It is a wise choice. Oh my, there should be many entrepreneurs like our CEO Chun in Korea… … .”
“Iknow, right!”
Maybe it’s because he’s earning a lot of money these days, and CEO Cheon’s personality was more generous. She smiled softly and looked at me.
“Anyway, it’s great that the government is stepping up to grow large companies like this. right… … . In society like this, we have to push and pull each other in order to have a friendly taste. I will take another picture next time.”
“I am going for number two. It’s the People’s Party.”
“Oh right. It was a coalition cabinet.”
Could someone who knew what a coalition cabinet was doing made a mistake?
It seems that he secretly teased me.
With that thought for a moment, Cheon Geum-soon threw a bomb.
“But, Minister.”
“why.”
“Aren’t you kidding me with the hunting grounds?”
“what?”
“No, I was wondering if it was something like that by giving someone a good hunting ground. Why did you do that a lot in Korea? They only love Samsung and give me Gangwon-do… … .”
“I’m not the kind of person who is so rude with food.”
President Chun nodded his head as if he had not seriously asked.
Or maybe it was a rough idea, but I decided that I wasn’t going to ask it seriously.
She just crossed her legs with a mysterious expression.
“Hmm… … .”
“What’s wrong?”
“It is not. The amount of magic stones coming in these days has decreased a bit… … .”
“Then tens of thousands of hunters are sitting beating monsters all day long. Will the monsters decrease or increase?”
“Of course I took that into consideration. But even taking that into account, the A-grade manastones have been reduced a bit too much.”
“… … Let’s listen.”
Perhaps she noticed that my mood was unusual, she smiled softly and accepted the interrogation.
“I do not know… … . There are some superstitions among Hunters. Even if it is the same amount, it is better to absorb one large one than several small mana stones.”
“That sounds baseless. Manastone absorption efficiency, that is, mana aptitude is a matter of talent. Even if you eat the same manastone, each person’s level of strength is different, but what a strange superstition… … .”
“Gam Ji-yoon catches sea monsters. So it’s a rumor I saw. It is said that the more you eat a large manastone, the stronger you become.”
“… … Hmm.”
“Anyway, at that level, it’s not at a level where the money is not worth it. So, the premium is quite high for large manastones. To the extent of being traded on an auction house.”
It was the first time I heard it. In fact, even though he was the Minister of Portrait Management, he was far from this kind of information. After all, I am a person who paints stamps, not active duty.
I asked her.
“By the way, what kind of bastards dare to auction a manastone? Aren’t you using the Superintelligence Support Agency’s exchange office?”
“Ah, ah! Well, it’s something that happens sometimes among the upper classes! And it’s customary to give and receive little by little on the hunting grounds, and, yes, it is!”
“How do you know that, Mr. Chun?”
“Ah, anyway! That’s why PMCs manage gemstones that weigh over 10kg very preciously—”
“Doesn’t managing it in itself mean you’re willing to do an auction?”
“ah! A little! Go on!”
“Oh, yes. We’ll see you just once.”
“Hey, you make people so difficult with things that don’t even cost 5 billion… … . eh.”
She pouted her lips and blew me away.
“Anyway, manastones that are grade A or higher have dried up at some point.”
“… … Are you saying it’s expensive? Isn’t that just what you picked?”
“There is no reason to choose only A-class to hunt when the PMCs decide their jurisdiction to hunt. If you go into someone else’s land and poach it, you can be buried in the desert, leaving only your neck.”
“Hey, is there anyone other than Jiyun who would be poached in a land that is several dozen times larger than the Korean Peninsula?”
“So it’s weird. Class A monsters are disappearing abnormally quickly.”
“… … .”
* * *
“European monsters didn’t get stronger. Our monsters have weakened.”
“The number of Class A monsters is decreasing abnormally. Since the strong monsters are gone, the risk in the area has been leveled down.”
“I will go to Darwin Air Force Base to request satellite information. I’ll have to check to see if the monsters have moved on a large scale. First of all, sister, check out the Korean hunting grounds with Seol Hunter.”
Whoa. Yeo Do-yeon let out a light sigh and sat down on the corpse. The monster’s body was quite soft, but the bloody smell was so bad that it wasn’t a very good chair.
“Shit… … .”
I’ve been looking for something for the first time, but there’s really no answer in this damn desert.
In the first place, Australia was a larger land mass than continental Europe, and even the hunting grounds controlled by Korea were larger than Korea.
I’d rather find Kim Seobang in Seoul, but in the desert overflowing with monsters, I was looking for ‘I need to find something, but I don’t know what it is, and I’m looking for something suspicious.’
Do you think Yeo Do-yeon, who never gets tired, is mentally exhausted and sits on the floor?
Still, there were two things that moved her.
A sense of guilt and guilt over the fact that he almost ended his brother’s political life.
It was a relief that the person doing this was not alone.
“hey. Jinwoon.”
“yes.”
“Did you find anything?”
“no.”
“But why are you standing around like that?”
“I’m looking for something.”
Seeing that there was no answer, Seol Jinwoon was also very tired. After wandering around for a while, he cut off some of the monster’s necks and returned empty-handed.
And so were the others who returned empty-handed.
“Sister ah… … .”
“hot. Don’t give up.”
“Child… … Busan accent Joe, Joe!”
“It’s Tongyeong.”
Marshal Yeo Da-sol ran and clinged to Yeo Do-yeon, and after that, Marshal Jo Jung-sik walked with her hands in her pockets.
“Reporting the Coordinating Marshal. I searched the desert like this, and there was nothing.”
“yes? The ogre I killed earlier had a hook on it.”
“Then they say there is nothing but X.”
After hearing the conversation between Jo Jung-sik and Yeo Da-sol, Yeo Do-yeon showed a benevolent smile.
“If you squeeze these things, you’ll break your head… … .”
“Aww, what a harsh thing to say. Are you talking to the same sheriff? Did I return the weekend and crawl out?”
“The caterpillar baby… … .”
Yeo Do-yeon threatened Jo Jung-sik by taking a knee-kick pose with her long legs.
When Jo Jung-sik stepped back, panicking, Yeo Do-yeon cleared the atmosphere once.
“okay. After the search is over, let’s take a look at the special features one by one. Once I scattered all the way from the cliff over there to the gravel desert beyond, is it a sand dove in the crevice of the cliff? It didn’t matter, except to harpoon one of those B-plus flying monsters’ nests.”
Seol Jinwoon shook his head.
“So am I. There is nothing special about the entire C area. Flying monsters weren’t very active in the heat either. Because of the weather, there were very few monsters on the ground.”
Jo Jung-sik, who had searched for it and found nothing, surprisingly revealed some information.
“It’s a class A large paper… … . First of all, there were no sandworms in the rocky desert. Is it because the lipid is hard? Instead, I saw some golems. It’s a gooey liquid monster, but here it’s a mixture of rocks and weeds, so it’s called big. It caught fire well and Dasol threw incendiary bombs, so it was easy to deal with. There seem to be a few ogres living on the other side of the river. Hunters from here called them sand monkeys. I paid for it and took care of it, but I don’t pay taxes on this, right?”
“… … .”
“Ah yes. Anyway, there is no class A except those who have adapted to the desert. And the only people who have adapted to the desert are mostly second-generation monsters born on Earth. I don’t know why, but since the Class A monsters disappear, I thought that there is a possibility that subspecies or hybrids will disappear as a whole, and the monsters will become weaker.”
Dasol Yeo arranged the long sentences.
“Today’s search is also in vain!”
“Ugh.”
Yeo Do-yeon lightly stretched and concluded.
“… … So will you go back today? I think this area is over.”
“Yeap Lee!”
As Dasol Yeo cheered as if waiting for her to leave work, the four hunters began to move heavy steps.
The sunset fell in the desolate desert. The shadows of the hunters continued for a long time.
The slender wildflowers that bloomed in the huge canyon swayed, and the ruins drawn on the horizon shook like a mirage.
“Nice view!”
When Dasol Yeo honestly shared her feelings, the rest of the hunters agreed.
“okay. The scenery is nice.”
“Except for the fact that there are more than 30 monsters in sight right now. Mined turtle, saw-beaked vulture, venomous snake, rock crocodile, sand monkey… … .”
“How did you memorize Jungsik?”
“It’s an observer’s skill. And in fact, half of it is something I just made up.”
“Are you crazy?”
Dasol Yeo intervened in the conversation between Yeo Do-yeon and Jo Jung-sik with the feeling that I would protect the man I spit on.
“Wow! The canyon here is huge! I think it’s bigger than the Grand Canyon?”
“Have you ever been?”
“no!”
Dasol Yeo turned her back to the setting sun and smiled mischievously.
“How are you? The world is ruined.”
It was a feast for nothing.
Dasol Yeo suddenly clings to Jo Jung-sik and starts to slap him, and Jin-woon Seol shoots a sword at the approaching monsters with a rather precocious smile.
“… … .”
And Yeo Do-yeon was walking along the edge of the canyon while watching the red sunset.
As I am walking through the open desert of Australia, the old thoughts are creeping in my mind.
“ha… … .”
I’ve been to the Grand Canyon twice in my life.
My parents are lawyers, so I often traveled to the United States when I was young. It was then that I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time. I was so young, I can’t remember the details, but my mom hit me hard because my dad almost accidentally dropped it into a canyon while riding it.
Before Seung-moon was elected to the National Assembly and took office, he went on a family trip once.
Then I saw the Grand Canyon one more time. I happened to meet a Korean YouTuber and had lunch, and after seeing Seungmoon, I was surprised to hear that he was elected as a member of the National Assembly, so I filmed a video.
Anyway, Yeo Do-yeon has seen the Grand Canyon twice.
A majestic red canyon. A superb view created by the earth.
“… … what?”
But no matter how much I thought about it, the canyon in front of me had a slightly strange shape.
It’s not a canyon, it’s like the ground is hollow-
“… … !!!”
Having realized something, Yeo Do-yeon jumped down the huge canyon.
Woo!
When she fell hundreds of meters down, a crater appeared like a meteorite, but Yeo Do-yeon looked around in a cold sweat, not paying attention.
When the person I was walking with jumped off the cliff, three hunters rushed to Yeo Do-yeon.
“Why are you jumping all of a sudden! Were you cold? really!”
“There is no such thing as this gentleman. What is it? What came out?”
“sister! it’s okay!?”
Seol Jin-woon, Jo Jung-sik, and Yeo Da-sol approached Yeo Do-yeon, but she looked around as if they could not see them.
Yeo Do-yeon mumbled something like a crazy person.
“this… … This is what I mean… … this… … Ha, X feet… … .”
It was unusual behavior.
Dasol Yeo wrapped her arms around her as if she was afraid, and Jo Jung-sik pulled out a dagger and began to be alert.
Seol Jin-woon approached Yeo Do-yeon and asked.
“sister. Why are you?”
“… … hey. Jinwoon.”
“Yes.”
Yeo Do-yeon’s expression was colder than ever.
she opened her mouth
“Whether I am Jormungand or what. Have you ever caught a sandworm the size of an opera house?”
“Ah yes. I saw it on the news.”
“I heard something from the shelter people back then. A monster that evolved like a desert snake escaped the bombing and went into the sand. But in the sand, there are no natural enemies, so it grows like a sea monster.”
Yeo Do-yeon started biting her nails.
A slight fear spread among the Hunters.
“Well, from what I’ve heard, if a giant earthworm roams the ground, it’s threatening even if the most X-like thing doesn’t come up. It is said that if a tunnel is drilled underground, the ground will be completely extinguished. It collapses like a sinkhole.”
“… … .”
“Like this canyon.”
There were no words in Yeo Do-yeon’s words. It was evidence of her unstable psychological state.
However, Seol Jinwoon clearly understood what she was talking about.
“… … Are you saying that this gigantic canyon was created by sandworms running deep underground?”
“okay.”
“… … It’s a little bit strange.”
There was logic in Yeo Do-yeon’s words, but Seol Jin-woon’s reason for denying it was simple.
“Isn’t the canyon too big?”
“……”
“If this canyon is ground erosion caused by an underground monster, it is said that the monster is bigger than this canyon. Common sense is that a monster of this size is rare even in the sea-”
Yeo Do-yeon’s finger stopped Seol Jin-woon’s words.
She pointed to this gigantic canyon with an expressionless expression.
“hey.”
The canyon was huge indeed.
“What canyon in the world is the same width as measured with a ruler?”