This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 64



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 064

58. Promise (7)

We followed the remaining footprints.

Not far from where we found the blood trail, we found a pile of dead bodies.

The snow-covered, pure white military uniforms looked familiar.

“There are two teams.”

It was expected that the two teams would have internal strife, but it was a different story to come face to face with the corpses that were truly horribly dead.

“Crazy… Are soldiers from the same area really shooting each other? No, Heydam, just a moment… … !”

As I lunged forward and turned the body over to identify it, Plato freaked out and pushed me away.

“I will do it. Even if you are Master Haydam, this is not right.”

Well, yeah.

There’s no need to show a ten-year-old kid digging through a corpse.

Plato stood up only after examining the corpses one by one.

Even in this cold, beads of sweat formed on Plato’s forehead.

He spoke with a breath that was hard to tell if it was a sigh or a sigh of relief.

“Team 2’s team leader and new officers are missing… … .”

I thought that the team leader of Team 2 was targeting the new officers.

Why are these guys dead here without Lucas and Bones?

Were there any guys mixed in who opposed what Team 2’s leader did?

While Plato was distracted, I checked some of the bodies. It seemed like some of them had been shot in the back.

The guys all glared at each other as if they felt wronged.

‘Aha… Team 2’s leader had a dream about a killer whale.’

The commander looked down at the corpses with a cold gaze, then spoke to us.

“Let’s look further. There might be guys lying around somewhere else who aren’t here.”

We left the bodies there and went deeper.

‘This front is… … .’

Looking at the surrounding terrain, we realized that this was the crevasse area where we had given up and turned back.

As I was giving Plato my attention, a voice was heard from ahead.

“Save me… Save me… … !”

The sound of someone desperately screaming for help was buried in the snowstorm and sounded eerie.

After stopping Plato from running towards it, he carefully advanced forward, scanning the snow with his gun and avoiding crevasses, and the voice came a little more clearly.

“Over here! Save me!”

The sound was coming from a crevasse about 1 meter wide.

It’s a crack I didn’t see when I came here before.

It was probably covered with snow so it wasn’t visible, but it looks like someone fell in while passing over it.

Looking down, I saw the team leader of Team 2 hanging in a crevasse.

“dismissal!!”

As we looked down from the cliff, the team leader cried tears of joy.

“Oh… … ! Oh my god, thank you, thank you… … !”

The only one hanging was the team leader of Team 2.

I looked down to see if anyone else had fallen down there, but all I could see was guns and combat rations scattered in a mess on the cliff that jutted out a little further down, seemingly dropped by the Team 2 leader.

No trace of anyone else falling further could be found.

‘The new officers ran away to the other side.’

I asked the team leader who was still hanging on.

“What happened?”

“Hey, first of all, if you could lift it up a bit… … .”

I tried to stop the naive Plato who was about to lift him up straight away, and then looked down and asked again.

“I asked what happened. What are all those dead bodies over there?”

A look of disappointment passed over the team leader’s face for a moment.

It seemed as if they hadn’t expected us to have come through a pile of corpses.

But like a seasoned executive, an explanation quickly poured out of his mouth.

“It’s the new officers’ fault! Bones and Lucas, those two guys rebelled… …!”

“That’s what two new officers did?”

“yes yes……!!”

I crouched down on top and asked sarcastically.

“Then why are you hanging there?”

“Well, well, I was running away… …!”

“So. Why are you still hanging on? If I had decided to kill you, I would have just knocked you down while you’re hanging here.”

“No, they didn’t see me fall in here and passed by!”

“okay?”

“Yes! So, Heydam, please… … .”

I ignored his desperate pleas and continued speaking.

“If there was someone walking around trying to kill me, I would hold my breath and hang on… I could hear you begging for your life from far away.”

“That, that is… … .”

“Are you going to keep joking? Just be honest with me. If you’re honest, I’ll hand you over to the military court, but I won’t kick you out of here.”

Even though I spoke nicely, he didn’t seem to understand, so I spoke a little more forcefully.

“We already met the new officers earlier. Why did my father and I come here? I know the details, so don’t think too hard and just say it quickly.”

Plato looked at me with astonishment.

The face was one of surprise at how someone could lie like that without even taking a deep breath.

However, the eyes of the Team 2 team leader wavered as if it made sense that the commander who had ordered them to return would not have come all the way here without a reason.

“No answer? We’ll just go.”

“wait a minute!!”

The hanging team leader hesitated for a moment, panting, then began to speak as if he had reached his limit.

“Lieutenant General Max… ordered me to do this… …! I didn’t want to do that to the new officers, but I was threatened… …!”

‘Lieutenant General Max?’

If you’re Lieutenant General Max, isn’t he Bones’ adoptive father?

That guy threatened the team leader of Team 2 to kill the new officers?

I looked at the commander once.

But the commander shook his head briefly from side to side as if he didn’t know anything about the story.

I looked down again and said.

“You will have to testify properly about that even after you come up here.”

“Oh, of course! So please… … .”

“Platon.”

“I will help you.”

Perhaps thinking that it would be difficult for Plato alone to pull the guy up on the slippery snow, the commander stepped forward and grabbed one of the guy’s arms to try to pull him up.

It was that very moment.

-Koosh!

For a moment the ground shook and Plato and the commander lost their balance.

The two men let go of the Team 2 leader they were holding in their hands.

“Eww!”

There was no problem up to that point, but the problem was that the earthquake didn’t stop there.

-Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

This wasn’t just an earthquake.

The sound of something huge moving, shaking the axis.

‘Large monster!’

As I stood up, holding the gun, a feeling of the ground sinking went up my spine.

‘Fuck!’

The edge of the crevasse began to collapse due to the vibrations caused by the movement of a large monster.

As I instinctively crouched to brace myself for the impact of the fall, something violently shoved me to the side.

-puck!

I was thrown sideways by a strong impact and fell onto the snowdrift outside the collapsing crevasse.

“What the hell.”

The commander who had pushed me to safety let out a small curse and collapsed down.

“father!”

I screamed without realizing it and tried to grab the commander, but he twisted his body to avoid my touch.

I guess it’s because I knew that if I held on to him, we’d just fall together.

“crazy!!”

I looked down the cliff urgently.

Fortunately, the three people, including the team leader of Team 2, seemed to have fallen not at the bottom of a steep cliff, but on top of a glacier that jutted out in the middle.

The three people who had been squirming for a moment soon got up, so it didn’t seem like they had suffered any serious injuries.

“Are you okay?”

When I asked, the commander stood up, regained his composure, and gave an okay sign with his finger.

Looking at the glacier that the three people were standing on, it seemed to be narrow in area, but it was surrounded by a long cliff, and it seemed to be a terrain that had been created like steps by the glacier being eroded by the earthquake a little while ago. I sighed as I thought it was not a terrain that would collapse easily.

However, the problem was that the crevasse, which was originally about 1m wide, had been cut down on both sides, creating an incredibly large hole.

When it was 1m wide, you could easily stretch out your arms and hold on to the crevasse if you made a mistake while pulling it up, but now, if you’re not careful, you could end up falling down a thousand-foot cliff.

‘Can I pull it up by myself…?’

If there was a rope, there was one.

Because I already have a lot of ropes, guns, etc. in my inventory.

Up until now, I’ve only used the guns I was given because I had a sight, but in fact, I also have a gun that has more destructive power than the gun I’m holding now.

These are the weapons I brought with me when I went to hunt crocodile fur last time, and when I came back, I reported them as lost because of the unicorn zone players, and so I took them as is.

Now that I’ve confirmed that my body is stronger than I thought, I can take out the other guns I have in my inventory and use them.

Anyway, I have a rope and I am strong, but it is impossible for me to pull up a grown man by myself.

Even if I offered to pull them up, it was obvious that the Commander and Plato would refuse.

It would be nice to have somewhere to tie the rope, but this is a snowy field.

The Commander and Plato would know better than anyone that there is no such thing.

‘I guess I should go find those new officers.’

If you join forces with them and offer to lift them up with a rope, neither of them will refuse.

Meanwhile, Plato and the commander seemed to be subduing and tying up the team leader of Team 2.

Can you make that kind of judgment in that situation?

He’s not a commander for nothing.

I spoke downwards.

“I’ll go find Lucas and Bones. If the three of us pull him up together, we’ll be able to pull him up somehow.”

“Are you okay alone?”

The commander also seemed to have noticed that the earthquake a little while ago was caused by the movement of a large monster.

“If I move alone, I won’t have to worry about being caught.”

If a small child like me were to run around on a snowy field in a blizzard wearing a white military uniform, it would be difficult to determine their location with the naked eye.

Besides, the smell of blood from the pile of corpses I just discovered will be vibrating, so I don’t have to worry about aggro being drawn to me.

Judging from the fact that the footsteps that were heard until just now have gotten farther away, they must have smelled the blood coming from the graveyard and headed there.

“Please don’t climb up for no reason and stay still.”

As I blurted out the words as if joking, the commander snickered and gestured for me to go.

So I left the three men under the glacier and went out to find the new officers.

The first place I headed was towards the pile of corpses I had discovered a little while ago.

If the large monsters were really heading that way, then the next place they would head would be towards the new officers.

When I got to where the pile of corpses was, I realized that it was X.

‘The bodies are gone… … .’

Judging by the fact that the bloodstains were still there but the corpses were gone, it was clear that the monster that caused the earthquake had passed through here.

But the footprints he left behind were not ordinary.

“What is this… … .”

The large monsters I had fought in the morning had footprints of a size I had never seen before clearly visible, as if they were child’s play.

Even the snow flurry that covered the sky and scattered around was not enough to cover up the footprints of that size, as the footprints were clearly visible far beyond.

If you look at the direction you are heading, you can see that you are moving forward with a purpose.

‘There are injuries among Bones and Lucas as well.’

He must have been chasing the scent of blood.

How far did you run in the direction of the footprints?

In the distance, a huge figure could be spotted standing in the snowstorm.

It was… too big to be called a monster, and too small to be called a snow mountain.

At first glance, it looks like a huge hill is moving.

It was slow, but it was so huge that it was moving further away with every step I took.

I took the bike out of my inventory.

I just did one a little while ago, but I didn’t know I would end up using it right away.

As I approached on my bike, the huge figure that had previously been visible began to come into clear view.

When I figured out the guy’s identity, I was quite embarrassed.

‘Why is that guy here?’