This Is Not a Game - This Is Not a Game chapter 142

I’m tired

The moment the train derailed, the shock came to the point of dizziness.

Yooseong, barely holding on to the string of consciousness that was drifting away by biting his tongue, took out a recovery potion and drank it.

I vomited up more than half of the contents in pain as if my intestines were being squeezed, but the remaining amount was enough to improve my condition.

The condition of the carriage was a mess.

All the windows were broken, and one wall was torn as if it had been bitten by a gigantic beast.

After listening to the surroundings for a while and confirming that the sound of the zombies was not heard, Yooseong unfastened his seat belt and checked the soldiers’ condition.

Fortunately, there were people who were on the verge of death, but no one died.

Yooseong, who looked at the soldiers with charred complexions, smiled bitterly and took out a recovery potion.

‘I didn’t expect much, but this time I’ll have to completely give up on clearing the high ranks.’

Even if the same item is used, the degree to which the usage rate of the artifact increases for each quest is different every time depending on various requirements such as civilization level or type.

In addition to the difficulty level of this quest, the level of civilization was also quite high, so it seemed that the usage rate of artifacts would not go up easily, but I used enough items to offset it.

Different types of potions, various guns and bombs, plasma axes.

If you add the tentatively named puppet skill this time, it was almost certain that there would be a number that was not insignificant, whether it was a skill usage rate or an artifact usage rate.

“Uh, this is… … .”

“Are you okay? How many do you see?”

Alex, who was making a hazy expression as if he had just woken up, barely came to his senses when he saw his fingers shaking in front of his eyes.

“… … three?”

“You look fine.”

“Ugh, what the hell happened?”

“Heavies were blocking the tunnel, so I pushed them away.”

Shocking content that doesn’t suit a calm voice.

Alex, who was staring blankly at the meteor, shook his head.

There were many things I wanted to say, but I wasn’t in a situation right now to talk about them.

Meteor, who healed the others by feeding them potions, came out of the train through a torn wall.

“Oops!”

Someone vomited, but no one bruised him.

It was just desperately holding back, and anyone who wanted to vomit in front of the scent of blood that pierced their nose and the mass of flesh that had become so muddy that it was impossible to recognize the original shape was the same.

“… … Let’s get out of here.”

I had seen all kinds of things to see and do in the last 10 days, but this was a scene that was on a different level from those things.

People moved on, being careful not to step on the flesh.

Fortunately, the distance to the station was short and the zombies did not appear anymore.

After coming out of the subway, the group looked at the quiet street and relaxed a bit.

Unlike the city center, there were few cars parked on the road, and there were no zombies.

‘I was worried about how to get out of the city, but I’m glad I did.’

If you find an abandoned car, you will be able to get out of the city easily.

The armed forces are faithful, there are companions, and an escape plan has been drawn up.

There was only one problem left.

‘… … You’re right here, right?’

Although he looked for the address on the envelope, which was the only clue, there was no guarantee that Choi Kang-shik’s father was actually here.

I went through all kinds of hardships, but I thought, ‘Isn’t this mountain?’ If the same situation came up, this quest could have been the worst deficit ever, receiving a lot of penalties due to minus karma and low-rank clearing while using items as they were.

No, it would be fortunate if I could clear it.

If you don’t care, you could fail to clear it because it became a beehive by the soldiers who thought you were caught.

‘Isn’t that right?’

-uh.

A building located under a remote mountain.

Yuseong, who was about to give an order to enter immediately, remembered something belatedly and hurriedly stopped the soldiers.

“for a moment. Before entering, is there anyone among them who doesn’t know Dr. Choi’s face?”

“… … Doesn’t seem like it. But why do you ask that?”

“It would be fortunate if Dr. Choi was safe, but in that case, there is a possibility that he has turned into a zombie. In that case, you can use the vaccine to recover, but if a bullet hits a vital spot, there is no way to save it.”

“You mean you have to check the zombies’ faces and pull the trigger?”

“As you saw earlier, there are emergency medicines that can heal most injuries, so there is no need for that. Instead, I would like you to first aim for areas that can cause loss of mobility, such as the thighs or feet, and subdue them before confirming the kill.”

It’s better than checking each face individually, but considering the environment where enemies might pop out and the aggression of zombies, it could be said to be quite dangerous.

However, everyone nodded their heads with firm faces, and not a single one showed a refusal.

If they are bitten by a zombie, they can be cured with a vaccine, but they cannot bring the dead back to life.

Even if they were bitten by zombies, even if they died, they had to save Choi Hyeon-seong in order to restore the world to its original state.

“Let’s go.”

The soldiers, led by Meteor, started moving towards the building, being wary of the keys.

Not a single zombie existed around the building as if they had all moved elsewhere.

Instead, the moment I opened the door of the building, zombies popped out as if I had been waiting.

aaa!

Blood gushed from their thighs, and the zombie that rushed at them tumbled on the floor in an ugly shape.

Yooseong, who confirmed the face of the struggling zombie, put the gun between his forehead and pulled the trigger.

bang!

Hearing the gunfire, everyone raised their tension to the extreme in preparation for the coming zombies.

However, 10 seconds passed, 30 seconds, and 1 minute passed, and not a single ant appeared, let alone a zombie.

Yuseong’s eyes were filled with wonder.

Although it was a large building, the two gunshots were by no means small.

Gunshots echoed throughout the building, so even if you couldn’t find the source of the sound, you should hear zombies running or screaming, but it was so quiet.

“Looks like there are no zombies.”

Yoosung shook his head.

Like the zombies wearing earphones I met on the first day of the quest, there was a possibility that I couldn’t hear it or was in a place where I couldn’t hear it.

“We split into two teams to search. I’ll take the left.”

“Then I take the right side.”

The first floor consisted of convenience facilities such as convenience stores and lounges, as well as restaurants.

However, there were no zombies anywhere in the many rooms and spaces.

There are traces of zombies such as messed up furniture and bloodstains left here and there, but there are no zombies.

Yuseong, who was tilting his head at the incomprehensible situation, joined Alex in the lobby after finishing the search on the first floor and went up to the second floor.

The atmosphere on the second floor was completely different from the first floor.

If the first floor felt like an ordinary company, the second floor had blood stains everywhere, but the ceiling and walls were pure white, giving off a kind of laboratory-like atmosphere.

‘I think I found it properly.’

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Judging from his job as a scientist, it was very likely that Choi Hyeon-seong worked here.

The worry was somewhat reduced, but a new question took its place.

“It’s not here either.”

“I think there were zombies… … . Like zombies flocking after seeing a crashed helicopter, did they hear the commotion nearby and go somewhere else?”

“Even so, there can be no zombies like this. They don’t know how to open doors and they don’t know the structure of buildings.”

It might be the lucky zombies near the entrance, but the chances of those in the room or on the upper floors not leaving the building were not very high.

I wonder if I would have thrown myself out of the window.

Even so, there should be traces of the fall, but no broken windows or bodies with broken necks could be found anywhere around the building.

“For now, let’s continue the search.”

The third, fourth, and fifth floors were all no different from the floors below.

And the moment they went up to the 6th floor, the party was finally able to find the zombie they were looking for so much.

To be precise, it was the corpse of a zombie.

It’s not strange that zombies are dead.

As long as they don’t get scared and harden, ordinary people can handle normal zombies enough.

But the zombie’s wounds were very strange.

‘What the hell did he kill with?’

There is a hole the size of a fist in the heart area, but there is no sign of bleeding.

Yooseong, who was examining the wound while lifting his clothes, found something and his eyes shone.

Melted flesh and blackened clothes.

It is a trace that seems to have been seen somewhere.

‘Plasma weapon? It’s certain that I was hit by something with a super high fever.’

“Sergeant Alex, can you guess anything about this wound?”

“Looking at the size of the hole, it’s clear that it was stabbed, but it’s strange that there’s no bleeding. The skin seems to have melted and covered the wound… … . I don’t know what weapon they used.”

“Could it be something like a laser?”

“There’s no way a laser weapon capable of this level of destructive power could exist in reality, right?”

“It’s a joke.”

Alex didn’t seem to notice anything at all, but since Meteor is a world where science has developed enough to popularize nanomachines, he thought it wouldn’t be strange to have a weapon capable of such destructive power.

‘I heard he’s a great scientist, but he must have been able to make this kind of weapon.’

The higher I climbed, the stronger this thought grew.

The increasing number of zombie corpses and various wounds proved it.

Melting wounds, shredded wounds, neat wounds.

None of them were wounds that could not be inflicted with ordinary weapons.

“It looks like there are or were survivors up here.”

If Yuseong paid attention to the zombies’ wounds and weapons, Alex and other soldiers paid attention to the increasing number of corpses.

The higher the level, the more zombies means there was a human, the target of the zombies, and the fact that all of them were dead meant that the humans defeated the zombies.

It is unknown whether he was hiding because he was wary of a stranger holding a gun, or if he had left for another place, but the soldiers who came to the conclusion that there was a high possibility that Choi Hyeon-seong was still alive showed a relieved look on their faces.

Of course, that was only the position of the soldiers, but Yuseong, whose purpose was to rescue Choi Hyeon-seong, had no choice but to put on a rotten expression.

If Choi Hyeon-seong had really left, there would be no way to find it anymore.

If you left a separate trace, it wasn’t impossible to track it based on that, but in that case, there was a problem that the quest would be too long.

‘I’ve already consumed more than 10 days, and the items I’ve used so far aren’t few. It’s definitely a loss to do this quest any longer.’

If Choi Hyeon-seong could not be found here, Yuseong planned to escape the city and complete the quest by satisfying only the basic conditions.

Yooseong, who was going up with a mixed expression of anticipation and anxiety, blinked his eyes when he found a bulkhead blocking the way to the top floor.

A metal wall that looks so hard that even a bomb cannot break through it.

Yuseong looked at the soldiers pacing around to open the door, and took out the plasma ax stuck in his waist.

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Jigsaw Jigsaw!

Everyone’s attention focused on the sound of the purple blade being created.

Yoosung focused on cutting out the wall in front of him, ignoring the gaze of the soldiers who demanded an explanation.

Empty!

Part of the bulkhead was cut away, revealing what was inside.

The rotten smell stinging my nose, bloodstains everywhere, zombies looking this way as if they had heard the sound from earlier.

And while looking at the futuristic weapon in the hands of the zombies, Yoosung muttered inadvertently.

“I’m tired.”

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