This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 65



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 065

58. Promise (8)

The monster before your eyes is a yeti covered in white fur from head to toe.

The legendary monster, the snow giant.

As far as I know, he shouldn’t be here right now.

‘Because that guy doesn’t attack humans.’

Humans are too small to even be of any use to those bastards.

A monster that usually lives far away from the area, eating large monsters, and is known to control the weather through the jewel attached to the center of its forehead.

‘Then was this sudden snowstorm also his doing?’

A being with the ability to control the weather, closer to a spirit than a monster.

Why would a guy like that come all the way here and target those new officers?

‘Are you really a player?’

Just in case, I turned on the character view targeting the snow giant.

If you’re a player, character browsing should work, but the system doesn’t respond.

‘That means you’re not a player… … .’

Even as the distance grew closer, the guy stood still without moving an inch.

‘You’re looking at something.’

If anything was discovered in this snowfield, it would be the new officers.

I jumped off without slowing down the bike.

Anyway, the bridge wasn’t long enough to stand safely.

The bike barreled straight down and crashed into the guy’s butt, but the guy seemed unscathed and only scratched the spot a couple of times with his hairy hands.

Still, there was no need to worry about not being able to hit the bastard.

‘After all, it’s a monster.’

After rolling a couple of times on the snowfield to regain my balance, I pulled out the largest gun in my inventory.

This gun cannot fire in bursts, but it is equipped with bullets specialized for melting the flesh and hide of monsters, making it a weapon that can easily penetrate a monster’s thick chest if aimed properly.

Even if it’s a snow giant, since its body is a monster, the part that gets hit by this bullet will melt away without a trace.

Of course, even if it had such great destructive power, it would be useless if it couldn’t hit the jewel, so even if such a weapon was developed, it had to be used in a large-scale punitive war.

Even if I taught you the method of identification to help you figure out the location of the jewels, I didn’t expect that you wouldn’t be able to use it except for the corner lady.

The only good thing is that this jewel is attached to its forehead.

The unfortunate thing is that this guy’s forehead is hanging way up high.

“Get down!”

I yelled, aimed for the bastard’s stomach and pulled the trigger.

A huge nail-like bullet tore through the bastard’s flesh, melting it and flying out the other side.

“Wow!”

This time, the guy seemed to feel pain as his body shook violently. When I looked through the hole in the middle of his body, I saw Lucas with a surprised face and Bones with a tearful face.

I swallowed a laugh as soon as I saw Bones’ face.

Lucas shouted at me like that.

“Heydam! Up there!”

I put the gun down without hesitation because it didn’t fire in bursts and needed to be reloaded.

Then he took a smoke grenade out of his inventory and shot it over my head.

As thick clouds gathered overhead and blocked the monster’s vision, a giant hand came down through the clouds and failed to catch me, and just flailed in the air.

Meanwhile, I ran towards the other side, clinging close to the guy’s body, to join the new officers.

Meanwhile, I could see why he had been called out here.

‘Are those… those guys from earlier?’

I could see the corpses of large monsters, still partially digested, flowing out between the melted organs from the bullets I had shot.

They escaped across the crevasse, but it seems they encountered a snow giant on the other side.

In order to avoid being eaten by the snow giant, we ran back towards our area, and the snow giant that was moving while eating them reached here.

‘In the end, I couldn’t find out anything about the strange monsters.’

If there’s one thing we can figure out, it’s that this snow giant is definitely not a player.

If I were a player, I wouldn’t have any food left in my stomach.

But as if to prove that the guy was a monster from outer space, the hole I made was healing quickly.

The guy was still searching for me through the smoke cloud as I turned back, but while he was distracted, I ran as fast as I could and joined the new officers.

“Heydam!”

Lucas greeted me with a strange expression of mixed joy and disappointment.

Unlike Lucas, who was holding a gun in his hand, Bones was lying face down with blood pouring from his shoulder.

“Why is that kid still lying down?”

“Ah, that’s… … .”

When Lucas glanced at Bones with an embarrassed look, Bones spoke in a crawling voice.

“Okay, then just leave me alone… … .”

Before the word “run away” could even be said, I slapped Bones across the face.

Lucas looked at me with astonishment as I slapped the injured man’s cheek.

“Heydam!”

“Don’t joke around, Bones. You can still move.”

Instead of feeling resentful or angry when I hit Bones in the face, he just lowered his head.

“Isn’t it because of this kind of person that my father abandoned me?”

“bone.”

This time, instead of slapping him, I put my hand on Bones’ shoulder and said,

“Do you really believe, Lieutenant General Max, that your father tried to kill you?”

At those words, Bones looked at me with a face that suddenly came to his senses.

“Are you going to doubt your father just by listening to that crazy guy?”

“Well, then… … .”

“I don’t know the truth either. But I will at least check for myself. Whether my father really abandoned me.”

Actually, I was suspicious from the moment I heard what the team leader of Team 2 said.

Because, as far as I know, as a former sector raider, the team leader of Team 2 has never done anything that would warrant being threatened by Lieutenant General Max, and he was a very loyal Hayden faction officer while I was raiding the Cola sector.

I think the team 2 leader was targeting Bones by talking about Max and other things in order to get rid of Max.

Lieutenant General Max is an officer who is trusted by his soldiers because of his very good personality.

If Lieutenant General Max tried to kill Bones because Bones didn’t do what he wanted, then the other sponsored cadets would turn their backs on him as well, so we have to assume that this was a plot by the pro-Hayden faction.

Well, there’s no way a colonel like me could have come up with something like this on his own…

‘It seems like that gentleman Josef has no intention of retiring gracefully either.’

Anyway, as I told Bones, it would be faster to go back and check it myself.

“Let’s do some first aid with this.”

Lucas looked at me with a rather fearful expression as I took the first aid kit out of my inventory and handed it to him.

“Where on earth did you get that from?”

You wouldn’t believe me even if I told you there was an inventory, so why are you asking?

“Get some treatment. I have to go save His Majesty.”

“yes?!”

This time, both of them shouted.

Bones seemed to have come to his senses somewhat and stopped packing his gun and asked me.

“Is it possible that Your Majesty is also in danger?”

“He fell into the crevasse over there. Luckily, he didn’t fall too deep and wasn’t seriously injured. We have to go and pull him out.”

“I will treat you quickly.”

“Hurry up. Our lives are in danger right now.”

Despite the snow giant being right in front of him, Lucas was so lost in thought that he poured almost all of the disinfectant into Bones’ wounds, causing Bones to scream.

“What the X!! Are you trying to kill me?!”

“Didn’t I just tell you to leave me to die!”

Looking at them like that, it seems like they’ve both recovered mentally to some extent.

‘The problem is the snow giant in front of us… … .’

Lucas and Bones are actually more calm now because they don’t know what a snow giant is.

Perhaps because he saw me catch large monsters as easily as a cat catches a mouse, he thought that even if the monster in front of him was a bit large, he could kill it.

‘But… it’s impossible.’

It would be nearly impossible to hit the jewel on his forehead by shooting from below, unless he were to bow his head.

We could shoot his legs to knock him down, but there’s no guarantee that we won’t be crushed by his falling body.

Above all, even if you could poke a hole in the bastard’s body, it would be difficult to inflict a blow big enough to make him lose his balance.

Even if you shoot at the leg, the wound will heal from where you first shot before I can completely cut off the leg.

‘What should I do…?’

But then something unexpected happened.

The snow giant, which had been ploughing through the snow to catch me in the smoke grenade, started running towards the direction I came from, dragging its heavy body without paying any attention to us.

“That guy, I think Heydam ran away over there.”

“Fuck, I’ve been watching you for ten years.”

Bones, who had returned to his usual self, swore and said it was fortunate that the bastard had gone somewhere else.

My expression hardened.

It’s a good thing that the bigger the monster, the lower its intelligence, so it just passed us by.

The fact that the guy was heading in the direction I came from means that the commander was at the end of it.

The other two guys also noticed my expression and seemed to have noticed something.

“Could it be that Your Majesty is in the direction that guy is going?”

I nodded, and just as I nodded, Bones ran off somewhere, crashed into the snow giant, bounced back, and started digging out the bike that was buried in the snow.

“What are you doing standing there! You have to follow me!”

That guy Bones was kicking and screaming on the floor just a moment ago.

Still, it’s fortunate that he’s doing his part as long as his mentality is sound.

If not, it wouldn’t have been worth it for me to take the risk and come all the way here to find it.

With Lucas in charge of driving, I rode in front of him, and Bones rode behind him, and as soon as we started the bike,

The snow giant was already far away.

“But what on earth is that?”

Bones asked at the top of his lungs as he rode his bike.

“Snow Giant! A legendary monster!”

“Legendary monsters? Are there such things?”

“He’s not originally from this neighborhood!”

“My eardrums are going to fall off! Both of you be quiet!”

As we were talking, shouting at each other with Lucas between us, Lucas, unable to bear it any longer, suddenly shouted.

The snow giant had wide strides but moved slowly, so I was able to catch up quickly.

The problem is that even if you catch up, there’s no real solution.

We parked our bikes a little ways away from the direction the snow giant was walking and watched it walk away.

“… How do I stop that?”

Lucas asked, looking up at the head of the guy who was barely visible after tilting his head back for a long time.

“Should I hit it with my bike?”

“I tried that earlier.”

I replied to Bones and watched the guy quietly.

If we continue like this, we will soon reach the crevasse where the commander is.

In fact, it may pass without any problems.

I followed him in a panic, worried that the crevasse might collapse again due to the earthquake that occurred as he moved, but he had slowed down considerably, looking around the snowfield as if he was looking for me.

‘I hope he returns to his own territory without any problems… … .’

We kept our distance from the guy and chased after him slowly.

I decided that it would be better to pray that the thing would go away quietly rather than provoke it unnecessarily and cause the crevasse to collapse.

But as if mocking my expectations, the guy who had reached the crevasse began to reach down the cliff.

“What are they doing now?”

Lucas and Bones looked puzzled by his sudden actions, but I immediately knew what he was doing.

Because he knows who’s where his hand is reaching.