Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 416



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Episode 416 168. Possibility (1)

A large number of monsters crossed the river.

There were 22 monsters that took part in the initial attack, all of which were medium-sized.

The explosives placed in the river were detonated at the agreed signal.

Boom!

With a loud noise, the frozen river shattered into pieces, sending up tall columns of water.

With water columns rising everywhere, the natural barrier of flowing water has once again taken shape between us and the monsters.

The approaching monster turned towards the bridge without a moment’s hesitation.

Bang! Tata ta tang!

As streamlined unmanned machine gun emplacements opened fire, stalling the enemy and forcing them to gather in one place, artillery batteries in the rear prepared to open fire.

I took off my gloves and checked the wind with my fingertips.

The wind was calm today.

Immediately after the communication that the bombardment had begun, gunfire was heard in the distance, followed by the ear-piercing sound of shells hitting the ground, and a series of terrifying explosions in the strike zone designated as the kill zone.

In the midst of the flames and explosions, the monsters try their best to spread their reflection fields, but the shells they teleport only appear somewhere far away and cause meaningless explosions.

In the midst of the merciless strike, the monster hordes were transformed into particles of light one after another.

However, not all monsters follow our lead.

Instead of heading for the bridge, two monsters tried to return to the unexploded river and land on our shore.

Whew Whew Whew—

The tanks moved out with a heavy engine noise and opened fire.

One was easily destroyed, but the other fired a gray-white explosive warhead reminiscent of a multiple rocket launcher, causing a massive explosion in the surrounding area that was enough to kill people.

The blast didn’t penetrate the tank’s thick armor, but that didn’t mean it didn’t cause any damage.

The tracks of one of the tank cars broke.

It just so happened to be the latest domestically produced tank.

The result of forcibly reattaching and patching consumables due to a shortage of parts and failure to replace them on time has exploded at the most dangerous time.

A tank towing vehicle was immediately dispatched, but tanks are not easy to tow and even harder to repair.

This means that a single main battle tank will be unusable for at least 24 hours, if not longer.

Monsters don’t give you a moment to rest.

As soon as the first wave was destroyed, the second wave slowly approached us again, leaving gaps in between.

I spoke to the Engineers and asked them to blow up the section of river that led to the outskirts.

We must stop the monsters from crossing the river.

There will definitely be casualties.

There is no choice.

Medium-sized – Combat monsters are weapons of mass destruction, with a length or height of at least 10 meters, equivalent to a tank in human terms.

Although it does not have a machine gun for personal killing like a tank, it is armed with a reflective field with stronger durability than its smaller brethren and even has a limited amount of bio-armor that its smaller brethren do not have.

The so-called monster species. So, the question of what the criteria are for distinguishing between small and medium-sized species was raised among soldiers and volunteers because small and medium-sized species are not widely known in the public.

Some guys are classified as medium-sized even though they are small, and some guys are classified as small even though they are medium-sized.

The distinction between small and medium-sized breeds was created by the British.

The British have a tendency to classify things by their weight rather than their size.

Americans, perhaps their brothers, have similar habits, and as a result, world standards are set according to their tastes.

There’s nothing I can do.

In the first place, before the war, the entire world was structured around a single currency called the dollar.

No matter how much of a mental victory they may have, it is an undeniable fact that they are the ones who control the world.

Would the Melon Mask have become so big if it had been born in Korea and not the US?

I am not trying to criticize Korea for being a closed society.

The story is that he was able to benefit from it because he was born in the center of that successful world.

Anyway, going back to the classification of monsters, the international standard takes the approach of estimating the weight of a monster and then classifying the species of monster based on that estimated weight.

There was some basis to it.

Although it is said that the monster itself is impossible to analyze, one small monster known as “White Beauty” happened to step onto a highway scale used to detect overloaded vehicles, and the weight it weighed when it hit the ground was recorded with astonishing accuracy.

So, for the first time, humans obtained the data on monsters that they had been desperately seeking.

Well, the only thing that was revealed was the weight, but it became known that the weight of the monster could be measured, and scholars were eager to collect at least that data.

As a result, two laws were discovered.

One. A monster’s weight tends to be directly proportional to its volume.

2. The monster is estimated to weigh about 0.7 tons per cubic meter (so-called rubé).

The Hunter leadership, led by Britain and the United States, did not choose the pound sterling as their last conscience.

Anyway, based on this premise, an attempt was made to measure the weight of the monster.

From here on out, it’s puzzle territory.

Monsters of various shapes are cut out and differentiated in Photoshop, then cut into pieces and stacked in the empty spaces to form a hexahedron that is easy to calculate.

And the weight is estimated through the number of monster cubes created through this manual work.

When we classified the various types of monsters by weight, surprisingly, we got a result that divided them into infiltration and combat types.

Accordingly, a classification system emerged in which small species are those weighing less than about 20 tons, medium species are those weighing from 20 to 45 tons, and large species are those weighing more than that – the exact figures for extra-large species were not provided because they can be distinguished with the naked eye.

There was some criticism that Britain, with its strong naval tradition, was being too stubborn in distinguishing between ship types based on the displacement of the ship. However, since using a different standard would have made the distinction between small and medium-sized ships ambiguous, it was adopted as is and has continued to this day.

Anyway, except for the long and large-looking ones like the dancer type or spider type, the medium-sized breeds are generally larger and heavier than the small breeds.

Not to mention the large bells.

You can know this by seeing it for yourself rather than judging it by a uniform standard.

The combat type is different from the wave.

thud!

Just as the IAMJESUS ​​wave briefly caused a daze, most people would not be able to control their minds when a large number of medium-sized species create waves in succession nearby.

In an all-out war situation where many medium-sized or larger combat-type monsters are pushing in, there isn’t much that our old-school hunters can do.

There is something I repeatedly emphasized to my subordinate Hunter when I was working in Paju.

“Remember, our role is firefighters.”

Even for the firefighters, this is a mission that involves using short-distance teleportation abilities of small-sized firefighters to infiltrate the rear of the kill zone, not putting out fires against medium-sized firefighters.

Right now, right in front of my eyes, a medium-sized species is coming towards me, crossing the frozen river.

This is an annihilator type nicknamed the Exterminator.

It has a torso with eight legs and a pedestal, and is relatively large among medium-sized species, close to a large species, and has firepower commensurate with its size.

Although I managed to defeat him with great difficulty along with King, there is no Awaken with a mental strength as strong as King, let alone an Awaken with an over level 10 like Jeon Si-hoon.

There has been a problem with the transmission of Necropolis since early yesterday morning. Naturally, there has been a malfunction in NP equipment as well, and regular Awakens are under extreme stress to the point where they cannot function properly.

You can’t even use a tank.

A fragmentation attack with a shotgun-like trajectory similar to that of an annihilator-type shell can penetrate the frontal armor of an older tank at a range of 1,200 meters.

For the newer tanks, although there are no exact figures, it is known that they are indestructible from at least 800 meters away, but those newer tanks were carried to the rear.

That means we have to deal with this guy.

There are ways to use artillery attacks or air support, but artillery attacks could destroy the infrastructure we have painstakingly built, such as the telephone network and power lines, and I would like to save air support for the future.

So, the method we prepared is the “German way.”

Just because it has Germany in its name, you might think it would have some kind of advanced or military know-how, but it doesn’t have any.

It’s an incredibly stupid way to do it, which involves digging deep trenches, hiding inside them, waiting for monsters to pass by, and then using your hunter weapon at close range.

The reason it’s the German way is because in the old war, when the Germans fought against tanks, they dug trenches like this, waited, and then planted magnetic mines.

Naturally, many people die, but surprisingly, it is a tactic with a high hit rate when dealing with medium-sized creatures.

As of the latest version that I know of, I believe it is the most cost-effective tactic with the highest success rate compared to mortality rate among the tactics attempted by the Chinese military.

Of course, I’ve never actually done it.

There was also a lot of opposition to get to this point.

“There’s no reason for you to go that route, senior. What if you die there?”

“It’s not a good habit for a commander to stand in front, not like Lu Bu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Think about what happens when you die. Everything could fall apart.”

“Isn’t it something you can just ask your subordinates to do? Is there really a need for Captain Park Gyu to show you an example?”

But it must be done.

Everyone is expecting the city to be destroyed to some degree, but the probability of the city’s destruction that I see is significantly higher than what other people see.

They project the future with vague figures like 50% or high probability, but I see a 99% chance that we will be destroyed.

It’s such a desperate fight.

In the first place, the fight is not even considered.

Although I’ve had the luck of attracting the general type, I think I need a few more strokes of luck to achieve true victory.

So, what may seem like a trivial mission to others, to me, is part of a long acrobatic feat to kill the bastard.

Swish-

I can feel the bastard’s heavy body rising up onto the ground, stepping on the riverbed.

Soon the axis began to shake gently.

That’s him.

The bastard is coming towards us, waving his eight legs diligently.

Look at the sky.

Above the narrow, hollow hole, the air is -10 degrees Celsius and the fleeting, clear blue sky floats up, giving me light.

“Phew······.”

All radios were turned off just in case.

My body is cold.

Even if you wear winter clothing, this is a land that experiences a cold wave of temperatures below -10 degrees Celsius for several days.

I can feel the cold air from the entire mud wall seeping into my body maliciously, trying to freeze everything I’ve ever done.

There is no risk of frostbite, but the cold air will make your body dull.

I move my body from time to time and gauge the location of him and me through the vibrations he makes.

The rumble of the axis grows louder.

I thought it would come in the right direction, but it didn’t.

A slightly detoured route.

The bastard approached within 100 meters.

The most dangerous moment.

Almost all monsters have the ability to sense.

So it’s impossible to hide from them.

However, they do not show any particular reaction to the humans they detect.

But that too is a case-by-case basis.

The story is that whether a monster attacks a detected human or not depends on luck at that time.

More specifically, it is said that people who have weapons and the intention to attack are more likely to be attacked.

But even that isn’t accurate.

We still don’t know anything about the monster.

What I believe, however pathetic, is luck.

I hope he doesn’t attack me.

It’s a messy faith, almost volatile, but I know how much luck the path I have to walk requires.

If I can’t even get past this, then I guess I’ll have to die.

If you’re lucky, you might be able to jump out of the trench just in time.

The vibration is getting closer.

80m distance.

Getting closer.

Booths-

He came so close that the dirt started to fall.

Within 50m.

My heart starts pounding.

I saw the weapon in his hand.

Monster Punch.

This is a crude, improvised piece of equipment that most of the soldiers guarding the trenches have in their hands.

Even this is what I asked for.

I have to show that I can take down that monster with this guy.

I have to show that even this crude weapon can take down such a fearsome monster.

Who would guard the trenches if they didn’t even show that much potential?

In the midst of my anxiety, the distance between us became even shorter.

30m, 10m.

and.

Booths-

He passed me by.

The pounding in my heart stopped.

He ignored me.

The opportunity has come.

I immediately grabbed the Monster Punch’s plunger-like pump and started the piston movement.

Shh- shh- shh- shh-

You must piston until the blue sample indicated on the circular body turns red.

Shh- shh- shh- shh-

It’s so dirty and sticky.

I know it can’t be helped, but it’s really annoying.

But this guy is probably the only way for ordinary people to stand up to monsters.

I will take up the spear of these common people and confront him.

however.

Booths-

Suddenly the vibration stopped.

The next moment.

thud!

A merciless shockwave erupted from just above.

“Ugh···!”

I let out a groan that was against my will, and briefly regained my senses.

What is going on?

Kwaaaaang!

There was a loud noise.

This is a fragmentation attack.

The Annihilator type fired its burst gun right behind him.

I finished the piston movement feeling both relieved at having survived and angry at having been ignored.

[ POW! ]

A crude indicator told me that the dull charge was fully activated.

I immediately jumped out of the cave-like trench.

Right in front of me, something huge, gray-white, blocks my view like a wall.

Monster.

My enemy.

The object of my hatred.

I aimed the monster punch straight at it and pressed the fire button.

Cheeeeeeek-

There was a crude firing sound from the RPG-shaped launcher, but that was only for a moment.

Swoooooooo-

The bastard flew towards the monster’s large body, letting out the rocket’s characteristic ear-whisper.

Kwakwakwakwang!!!

As its name suggests, the weapon pierced the monster’s torso and caused a devastating explosion inside its body.

The bastard’s huge body rose once and then fell to the ground.

I watch, keeping my balance, as the axis of the earth shakes violently.

Another monster transforms into particles of light.

I just turned on the communicator.

“This is Professor. I defeated the Annihilator type.”

It’s a small victory.

It may be a fleeting victory.

But if I could increase the odds even by 1%, I would do it again.

“······.”

I looked up at the sky.

The sound of a jet plane could be heard faintly in the distant sky.

If I remember correctly, it was an American fighter jet.