This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 66



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 066

58. Promise (9)

“…They’re doing that to catch the people below.”

At the same time, the Luna Moon ring she was wearing began to heat up.

It seemed like he was urging me to hurry up and save the commander.

‘wait.’

I have no intention of letting the commander die either.

I just need some time to think.

Lucas screamed in shock as he quietly coaxed the ring.

“Could it be that Your Majesty is down there?!”

Fortunately, the Snow Giant’s arms were not long enough, and as soon as I confirmed that the hand that was swinging at the bottom of the cliff was empty, I spoke to the other two guys.

“Get down.”

“yes?”

“Get down.”

The Shinam officers, like trained soldiers, hurriedly got off their bikes at my command, but their faces were still filled with questions.

“What are you trying to do?”

“I’ll lure him, and once he’s gone, you can use this to pull up the people below.”

As I said that and handed over the bundle of rope, Bones and Lucas looked at me as if they couldn’t believe their eyes.

“Where on earth does this come from?”

I ignored Bones’ question and started the bike, but Lucas asked me urgently.

“Wait a minute, lure? What are you trying to do? You can’t possibly-”

“Go.”

Before they could stop me, I started the engine and started moving forward.

The direction I was heading was in front of a crevasse, a little away from the snow giant that was struggling to rescue the commander and his party.

Once I was a bit further away from the cliff where the commander was, but still within his sight, I jumped off the bike again.

The bike was seen rolling forward, unable to keep up with the speed, and crashing down the cliff.

‘This is what I will look like in a little while.’

I kicked the snow out of my feet and looked towards the snow giant.

Looking from the side, I could see the commander and Plato on the cliff, crouching low against the wall to avoid being caught by the snow giant.

Team 2’s leader was lying on the floor, tied up.

‘The commander is in a terrible state.’

Given the commander’s physical abilities, he could have easily avoided the fall, but he would have been unable to escape because he had to push me to safety at the last moment.

The reason you saved me even though you knew I would fall down is because you believed I was Luna Moon’s child.

“ha…….”

This is really crazy though.

There was no choice here but to rescue the commander.

Just as the Commander tried to save me at that critical moment, I, too, must risk my life to save him as his ‘son’.

That was my promise to Luna Moon, and it qualified me to live here as ‘Haydam Goodman’.

Just then the wind started blowing in the direction I wanted.

From where I stand to where the snow giant stands.

“It’s a good day to fall.”

I pulled out the dagger I had on my waist, raised my left arm, and swung it downward.

As the skin split and blood began to flow, the snow giant was seen stopping in the distance.

It wasn’t long before the snow giant sniffed around and looked this way.

On one side, Lucas and Bones were seen running towards me, shouting something.

However, there is a limit to how far a human can run through a snow field.

The snow giant started running towards me, leaving the humans who were trying to poison him behind.

It seemed certain that the snow giant would arrive before the new officer guys.

‘good.’

Instead of running away, I stood precariously on the crack, took out a handful of star candies, and popped them into my mouth.

As soon as it touched her lips, the star candy turned into blue particles and permeated her body, and the long wound began to heal quickly.

After making sure the wound was healing, I set off a smoke grenade at my feet, then fired white grenades and signal flares at the guy’s face indiscriminately.

An action intended to draw aggro rather than deal damage.

The snow giant ran at a fast pace, his mind racing wildly.

After firing all the bullets I had, I started shooting at the guy’s feet.

The distance between us and him grew closer and closer.

‘Is this not enough?’

Since it was a bullet made for use against large monsters, it didn’t seem to have much effect on glaciers, which were not monsters, and it didn’t destroy the ground the snow giant was standing on.

But it was almost a miracle that the glacier collapsed and only the guy fell.

My real plan starts from here.

“I can’t help it.”

I threw the gun I was holding at the snow giant, and the snow giant knocked the flying gun away with one hand as if it was ridiculous.

As the snow giant, who was almost right in front of me, reached out to grab me, I jumped up onto the smoke cloud, knife firmly gripped in my hand.

The moment the snow giant changed direction to catch me.

“Wow!”

The snow giant’s feet sank into the smoke cloud.

Because the ground was intentionally covered with smoke bombs, I didn’t realize that I was jumping into the air and ended up stepping on air while chasing after it.

Of course, I also jumped off the cliff to trick him.

I dove into the smoke cloud and simultaneously plunged my knife into the glacier.

Kagagak!

Because the knife didn’t sink into the glacier all at once, I slid down the steep cliff.

The snow giant stretched out his arms to grab the glacier, but his furry hands were unable to create friction like mine, and he was unable to slow down.

The bastard fell down helplessly.

‘Even if he falls like that, he probably won’t die.’

As I watched the snow giant fall, I took out another knife and stuck it into a crevice in the glacier.

Kak!

This time, I got it right, and instead of slipping, I ended up hanging in the air with a chin-catching feeling.

It felt like I had fallen quite a bit, but when I looked up, it wasn’t that deep.

“Heydam!”

“crazy!”

Lucas and Bones, who came running late, saw me from above and started yelling at me, but I couldn’t understand what they were saying because they were both talking at the same time.

“phew…….”

Now all we have to do is hold out until they bring it up.

I looked up while thinking that.

The movement of the clouds was unusual.

Above the still snowy sky, a thunderstorm was beginning to gather.

“Could that be… … .”

I frowned with ominous foreboding.

As explained earlier, the snow giant deals with the weather.

This blizzard that has been falling fiercely for a while is just the snow giant scattering it to hide his huge size.

‘Then that thunderstorm was also called by the snow giant… … .’

A golden flash of light flashed through the clouds, accompanied by a heavy, rumbling sound.

It was at that very moment that a bolt of lightning struck the knife I was holding.

“Fuck!”

Rather than being struck by lightning and fried, I chose to fall, so I let go of the knife before the lightning struck.

Quagga River!

The spot where the lightning struck flashed and then burst like popcorn, disappearing further and further from sight.

It’s good that you avoided the lightning, but from now on, you’re like an airplane without wings.

I tried to think of something in my inventory that might be helpful right now.

But I didn’t have anything prepared for a crash.

Or a miracle happens.

All I could do was pray that my body would be strong enough to hold the star candy to my mouth even if I fell down here.

But the next moment, what stopped my fall was not a miracle or anything, but a snow giant.

“What… … !”

A hairy hand shot out from beside me and snatched me away.

As I looked to the side, holding back a scream that was about to burst out from the force of the grip that seemed like it would break every bone in my body, the snow giant had found a cave in the crevasse and was hanging there, snatching me away.

Without hesitation, he brought me, which he was holding in his hand, to his lips.

As I got closer to him, the golden jewel embedded in his forehead caught my eye.

‘I’d rather hit someone than be eaten.’

I managed to free one arm from the guy’s grasp, then pulled a grenade out of my inventory, pulled the pin out with my index finger, and threw it into the guy’s gaping maw.

It wasn’t enough to throw it all the way to the forehead.

The grenade rolled gently down the bastard’s throat and exploded, sending the bastard screaming in pain and throwing me into the cave.

“Huh!”

I couldn’t hold back my groans any longer from the shock of rolling around inside the cave.

I barely managed to stop myself by bumping into the cave wall, and I reached for my waistband and brought the star candy to my mouth.

As the wound healed, the pain that felt like every bone in my body was crumbling slowly subsided.

I let out the breath I had been holding and lay face down on the cave floor.

“Ugh, ugh… … .”

I survived because he threw me into a cave instead of down a cliff.

But things weren’t going well.

Although star candy can heal wounds, the more serious the injury, the longer it will take to recover.

The only good thing is that my body is strong enough to withstand this shock without losing consciousness.

I couldn’t just wait until everything was fully recovered.

Because the guy who threw me into the cave was running at me, screaming in rage.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

What are the odds that he’ll be able to shoot a gun in his mouth and pierce the gem on his forehead while being eaten by that thing?

Even though I had hopeless thoughts, I escaped from the guy and ran into the cave.

Because the cave was filled with thick stalactites and stalagmites made of glaciers, the snow giant, which was not very fast to begin with, quickly fell behind due to the obstacles.

But the sharply jutting stalactites and stalagmites were also dangerous to me.

I was running without thinking and felt something running down my cheek. I wiped it and found blood flowing down.

I think I must have gotten cut by a icicle hanging from the ceiling without even realizing it.

At that moment, a thought flashed through my mind.

‘Wait a minute, is this… … .’

I ran like a crazy person, looking at the ceiling.

The cave ceiling was getting higher and higher as we went deeper, and the icicles hanging overhead were getting bigger.

All or nothing.

Anyway, if I can’t catch him with the firepower I have now… … .

“Hey! You stupid giant bastard!”

I stopped at a suitable place and called the guy over by randomly shooting the ceiling with the gun I took out of my inventory.

At one point, a guy who had lost track of me and was wandering around heard me shooting and started running towards me, and the whole cave started to shake as if it was going to collapse.

On the contrary, it is a good thing.

The more he runs around, the more cracks will form in the icicles attached to the ceiling.

I waited breathlessly for the guy to rush in.

Even I couldn’t get very far to shoot the goblin down just in time for him to rush in.

It’s a problem if you fall before he gets there, and it’s also a problem if you fall after he gets there.

“Kwaaah!”

When I noticed that the bastard was roughly breaking through the stalactites and coming inside, I aimed for the large, sharp icicles on the ceiling and started shooting.

Even though the bastard was getting closer, I didn’t lower my gun.

The moment the bastard raises his arms high and screams.

Damn it.

A cracking sound echoed through the cave, and a huge icicle that had been perched on the ceiling for years fell down on the snow giant’s head.

The moment I saw the sharp tip of the spike sink into the bastard’s head, the bastard’s hand flew up like a whip and struck me hard.

“Ugh… … !”

I was hit by the arm that the snow giant swung and was sent flying into the cave wall.

But the sound of me hitting the wall was drowned out by a louder noise.

Kookung… … .

It was the sound of the icicle that had pierced through the bastard’s head and landed on the cave floor at the same time my body was sent flying into the thick cave wall and crashing down.

“Gasp, gasp… … .”

The snow giant stopped moving, but I couldn’t move either.

‘I think my spine was damaged when I hit the cave wall a little while ago… ‘

No matter what I did, I couldn’t move a single finger, and terrible pain enveloped my body.

Still, I had to raise my head and check on the guy’s condition.

Monsters aren’t beings that die just because a magma pierces their body.

‘please…….’

I hoped the gem on my forehead would shatter when I got hit by the icicle.

When I finally turned my head to look at the guy, the golden jewel embedded in his forehead was still shining brightly.

The icicle that was skewering the snow giant missed by a hair’s breadth.

I laughed.

‘Ha, shit… It’s X.’

Of course, you won’t be able to recover your body and attack me right away, but that’s the same for me.

Even though I could just bring the combat rations in my pocket to my mouth, I couldn’t move a single finger right now.

If only I could have killed that bastard with the attack a little while ago… … .

‘Even if the district guys come to rescue me, he’ll recover before the rescue team arrives.’

I sighed and closed my eyes.

I had a gut feeling that death was coming.

‘What am I doing, trying to save an NPC?’

But I have the pride of a veteran, so I couldn’t just wipe my mouth after getting help from an NPC.

Still, I didn’t feel as scared or as resentful about dying as I thought.

Not just because I thought maybe I wouldn’t die, but would be logged out of this game world.

I thought death would be cold and scary, but it felt warmer and more comfortable than I thought.

Rather than feeling cold, it feels more like holding a warm stone in your hand… … .

‘…hmm?’

I opened my eyes wide with an inexplicable sense of discomfort and looked down at my fingers.

Luna Moon’s ring was emitting a bright light, warmly enveloping my body.

“what?”

‘no way…….’

There is only one possibility that comes to mind now.

The unknown ego that resides in Luna Moon’s ring.

I had already noticed that there was something else in the ring.

But I gave up because it seemed like the snow giant had no intention of helping me even before he died.

When I was really in danger of dying, it seemed like he wanted to help me.

‘You’re finally getting married.’

Let’s go and see.

‘Who the hell is in the ring?’

As scary as it was to think about it, the bright light that was radiating out was sucked into the moonstone embedded in the ring.

Something pure white popped up.