Regression Sword Apocalypse Reconquest - Chapter 89
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Episode 89
A mining car runs on rails and through the air.
Kookung! Kwakwakwang!
A burrowing bug chasing you at a frightening speed.
The cave rumbles and rocks splatter toward the mining carts as he passes by.
The gaping mouth of the burrower creaks as it passes over the corner of the mining car.
“AAAAAHHHH!”
“Eww!”
The passengers screamed. Choi Sung-hyun was among them.
Sehyuk thought that it might be the loudest voice he had ever heard from Choi Sunghyun.
‘It’s so surprising that my liver will fall off.’
I understand how you feel. There’s nothing I can say about it.
If I were to see before my eyes the ugly visage of a giant man-eating insect twice the height of an adult male, wouldn’t it be more normal to be surprised?
Even though it only touches a very small area, there is no problem running.
Of course, Sehyuk is watching the situation calmly.
In the meantime.
Sehyuk had one question.
‘The five-colored ore hanging from the back of the earthworm, isn’t there something that shouldn’t be there?’
It was a pretty serious topic.
What he shouldn’t see is that he can’t help but doubt the trustworthiness of Lee Myeong-cheol and the rebel engineers who are making complicated faces next to him.
‘Groundworms have a habit of slowly growing the hard parts of the food they eat into their shells.’
And Sehyuk saw it clearly.
Human bones found between the shells of the earthworms.
‘It’s impossible for the human being to have completely digested what he ate today, and it’s impossible for him to grow that much if he only ate a little.’
That means only one thing.
‘These kids are the same. That’s all they have.’
Human sacrifice.
It means that they have been feeding humans for a long time.
I couldn’t have seen it wrong.
Sehyuk has good eyesight. He saw the burrower at very close range.
And if you look at it again, you can see it clearly.
While I was thinking about that.
Things are getting worse.
The speed of the mine cart, which had been running endlessly through a dark tunnel and a slightly larger cave, began to slow down.
Se-hyeok grabbed Lee Myeong-cheol and shook him with a crumpled expression.
“Lee Myung-cheol! Why is the speed slowing down?”
“It’s a self-propelled mining cart with maximum energy! It’s been so long since I’ve ridden one that I’ve almost forgotten!”
Rattle. Rattle. Rattle.
Meanwhile, the mining car continues to rock erratically and gradually slows down.
“Damn, if we just go a little further we’ll reach the lava zone….”
As the saying goes, beneath the tracks on which the mining cars ran, a pit with no end in sight gradually appeared.
If it were to run completely through the air, even the burrower would have to give up the chase.
But that didn’t happen.
The speed of the mining cart gradually slows down, and the massive body of the burrower gets closer and closer.
A burrower that caught up with a mining cart and came right up next to it.
The burrower and the mining car run side by side, and the burrower gradually starts to pull ahead.
At one point, the bug overtakes the mine car, its huge mouth opens wide and leaps upward, attempting to swallow the mine car.
Lee Myeong-cheol clenches his fist.
“All begin firing warning shots!”
Tata tata tang!
Lee Myung-cheol’s men take out guns from their arms and shoot into the monster’s mouth.
The burrower hesitates at the shot.
However, the positive situation did not last long.
The burrowing beetle, which seemed to be hesitating for a moment, began to shed a strange light on its shell.
Ting! Ting!
The bullets that hit the shell ricocheted off in all directions.
“Eww, ugh!”
A worm quickly devours one of Lee Myeong-cheol’s subordinates.
At that sight, Lee Myeong-cheol’s subordinates fell into panic.
If we continue like this, we’ll all get eaten.
Sehyuk used his wit and pointed downwards.
“Over there! Go in there!”
There was a narrow gap in the pit below the minecart tracks running through the air, too narrow for a burrower to enter.
There was no choice. People abandoned the mining carts and threw themselves into a cave where the worms could not enter.
“Eww!!”
Blood splattered with a crunching sound. A few more people fell behind in the process, but there was nothing I could do.
Before we knew it, a burrowing beetle was sticking its bizarre face through a narrow gap and flicking its tongue at people.
The last person to enter groans as he sees the sight, one of his arms torn off.
The only good thing is that he didn’t get in.
But the burrower did not give up.
Once again, the giant burrower blocked the cave entrance with its body.
A completely blocked cave. Before you can feel relieved that you survived, the path is blocked with no light coming in, and the expressions on people’s faces instantly turn rotten.
“Aren’t we trapped in the back?”
When someone mentions that fact, the mood among the people around them becomes tense.
“If you escape through the other side of the cave… oh, it’s a dead end.”
Lee Myeong-cheol makes a serious expression.
The distance at which firing a gun will result in a misfire.
Cha Ye-seong’s explosion magic was obviously out of range.
Besides, the bastard was vibrating his body and slowly trying to collapse the cave.
This time again, time threatens Sehyuk’s life.
‘I guess it’s an elite monster.’
Not only is it protecting its head, it’s also trying to trap it inside and slowly dry it to death. It’s highly intelligent.
Those who are affected are dying.
“Then, what should we do?”
Lee Myung-chul’s face turned pale. It was unusual for him to maintain a calm demeanor.
Sehyuk also couldn’t come up with a surefire method.
However, there was something worth trying.
“Calm down, Lee Myung-chul. Let’s do what we can.”
And then, Sehyuk looked back at Choi Sunghyun.
“The radar I saw earlier. Didn’t you say it could be fixed?”
Sehyuk took out the three broken radars he had brought for research and the experiment report on the underground worm reaction research.
These are items I brought because they seemed worth studying.
All eyes are on Choi Sung-hyun. Choi Sung-hyun blushes.
“It seems possible, I’ll try.”
Sehyuk turned his gaze to Lee Myeongcheol.
“Lee Myeong-cheol. If you activate the radar, can you definitely control the movement of the insects?”
“Yes.”
“Okay then. Choi Sung-hyun, try to keep only the part that controls the movement of the bugs as much as possible.”
Sehyuk looked at the space blocked by the burrower.
If we threw a radar through that gap, it seemed like we could at least buy some time to escape.
“I see. Then I guess I can shake it off.”
Lee Myeong-cheol’s face brightens.
“I remember this area. There’s a section where they’ve laid bombs on the ground while they’re expanding the cave. If we blow them up, we’ll be able to get rid of those burrowing bugs.”
“Is there any way to detonate it?”
“there is.”
“good.”
After a short while, Choi Sung-hyun was fortunate enough to have some of the radar’s functions restored.
Leave one for research and start the operation.
Sehyuk calmly threw the radar into the gap between the monsters.
Then, the body of the burrower blocking the entrance begins to shake.
Gyaaaah!
A bug that follows the falling radar to the ground while shaking its whole body as if it is against it.
Taking advantage of the gap, people including Cha Ye-seong, Choi Sung-hyun, and Go Jeong-hwan get on the mining truck one after another.
Rattling! Rattling!
The mining car starts operating.
thud!
Meanwhile, the entire cave, including the mining car, began to shake.
Looking at the floor, I saw a bug writhing around in its cave while falling to the ground.
As if trying to throw the group off.
“Hey! So how do you detonate a bomb?”
Se-hyeok looks at Lee Myeong-cheol, who is not getting into the car in a hurry.
“100 million!”
Lee Myeong-cheol smiled at Se-hyeok, then kicked his subordinate to the ground, stepped on his arm, and snatched the gun away from him.
“Please, save me! I don’t want to die!”
The fallen soldier began to pleading, panting heavily. Se-hyuk, who was slightly away, could clearly see his bloodshot eyes.
“I can’t help it. I’m sorry.”
And Lee Myeong-cheol held a gun to the head of his subordinate who did not want to die and kicked him with his foot.
Lee Myeong-cheol’s subordinate falls into an abyss with no end in sight.
After that, all that could be heard was the crunching sound of the monster’s teeth chewing and swallowing something.
It happened before Sehyuk could even get up from the mining car and run towards it.
The familiarity of the movement made it clear how much of an effort it had been.
Sehyuk glared at Lee Myeongcheol with a distorted face.
“Is it really necessary to go this far?”
“It’s a stack of bombs, so you have to throw something heavy on it to make it explode.”
Kuwagwagwang! Kuwagwagwang!
A red light flashes from below, and the inside of the cave briefly brightens and then darkens repeatedly.
The end of Lee Myeong-cheol’s words were buried in the vibrations that shook the cave and could not be heard clearly.
Knock knock. Knock knock.
The cave begins to tremble slightly. Small rocks continue to fall from the ceiling and hit the tracks.
The old tracks, including the mining cars, were shaking uneasily.
“What are you doing? Why don’t you get on board quickly?”
Lee Myeong-cheol naturally gets on the mining truck.
A mining car slowly moving forward.
Crunch!
And, Lee Myeong-cheol’s subordinates aimed their guns at Se-hyeok and his group as if they had already experienced it before.
That too, not to Se-hyeok, but to Cha Ye-seong, Go Jeong-hwan, and Choi Seong-hyeon.
“Those guys are crazy. Each one is quick to judge.”
They know it too.
Sehyuk has the ability to block gunfire, but his colleagues next to him do not have the ability to dodge bullets coming from such close range.
If it was Cha Ye-seong who was hiding a small dragon, it would be okay, but Go Jeong-hwan would also get hurt and Choi Seong-hyeon would definitely get seriously injured.
I couldn’t just leave it like that.
Kwakwakwakwang!
And then, eventually, the ceiling collapses.
Rattling! Rattling!
A mine car slowly runs along the tracks. As if chasing after it, the stones from the collapsed ceiling fall down, destroying the tracks.
It was a sight only to see the pursuer change from a burrower to a collapsing ceiling.
And then things get serious again.
“At this speed, I think I can catch up!”
A soldier at the rear with a frightened face shouts at Lee Myung-cheol.
Before he could finish speaking.
The ceiling collapses.
Boulders of rock cover the mining cart.
Kwakwakwakwang!
“Oh, I guess I’ll have to speed up.”
Tata tata tang!
Lee Myeong-cheol draws his pistol like lightning and fires it at the last mine car in the long line of mine cars, which is on the verge of being swept away by a pile of rocks.
Ting!
And with that gunshot, the old chain that holds the mining car together breaks.
The last mining car stopped dead in its tracks.
A huge wave of debris and rocks fell over it, swallowing it up.
“Hey, Uncle!!!!”
And in that last mine car, Go Jeong-hwan and Choi Seong-hyeon were also riding.
Cha Ye-seong, who saw the sight, cried and tried to get out of the mine car. Se-hyeok grabbed Cha Ye-seong by the arm and sat her down again.
Of course, Sehyuk has no intention of staying still either.
“I’ll give you one last chance to make your excuses, Lee Myung-cheol.”
Sehyuk with a cold expression.
At that expression, Lee Myeong-cheol simply smiled leisurely again.
“Shouldn’t we survive?”
There was no trace of emotion in that appearance.
“I have lost many of my comrades, so wouldn’t it be fair for you to give me Sehyuk as well?”