Heavenly Inquisition Sword - Chapter 1518



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Episode 1518. The Real God

As the broadcast to evacuate was repeated, the large man who had been hesitating began to move again.

His movements were as fast as a tiger’s, unlike before.

They are running at full speed in an attempt to shake off the pursuing police officers.

At that moment, Police Officer Lee Jae-yoon’s gun fired.

Taang―!

Police have been steadily replacing .38 caliber pistols with smart pistols for the past decade.

Because the .38 caliber pistol had such high penetrative power that it could have killed a criminal suspect.

So, we developed a non-lethal pistol and distributed it to frontline police officers. It is called the smart pistol.

Of course, the smart pistol’s live ammunition has weak penetrability and cannot penetrate even an ordinary person.

The bullet hit the man in the thigh, but he did not stop running.

A smart pistol, not even a .38 caliber pistol, wouldn’t have been able to hurt him.

People who had been standing still listening to the evacuation announcement began screaming and scattering in all directions again.

As the man ran away after being shot, other officers also drew their pistols.

Bang! Bang! Taang!

One of the bullets struck the man in the back and bounced off.

The clothes clung to his bulked-up upper body, making it look like plastic BB bullets were bouncing off.

The man was shot but quickly disappeared into the market.

The police officers who had been staring at the market with blank expressions soon hurriedly returned to their fallen colleagues.

At that time, urgent live news was broadcast in real time from the billboard installed on the exterior wall of the building.

Yeonjeokha and Yeonseoyeon stood in India and looked at the outdoor billboard.

The battle scenes were being relayed in real time by cameras installed at Black Spear in Seoul, Suwon, and Chuncheon.

In Seoul, a giant creature that looked like a bean worm was crawling out through the Black Spear.

It looked like a bean worm, but was as big as three tanks attached to each other.

The tank metaphor was used because the soldiers’ K12 rifle bullets bounced off the bean bug’s skin.

Finally, a K21 infantry fighting vehicle came out and fired its 40mm machine gun.

The one that came out of Suwon resembled a fox.

Unlike the bean bugs of Seoul, the civets of Suwon were as fast as their many legs.

The guards had already crossed over and were mixed up with the K21 infantry fighting vehicles.

The 40mm machine gun shells of the K21 infantry fighting vehicle pounded the raccoon and other K21 infantry fighting vehicles without stopping.

It was impossible to tell on screen whether the shooter was firing indiscriminately in a panic, or if he was doing so out of necessity after mixing in with the foxes.

The case of Chuncheon was even more serious.

If Seoul and Suwon were ground-based, the one coming out of Chuncheon is an air-based one.

The creatures with brightly colored skins like silkworms circled counterclockwise in the skies above the Black Spear as if they had lost their bearings.

The problem is that those monsters are pouring out of the Black Spear.

The sky above Black Spear sparkled brightly like a field of flowers in spring, but the faces of the citizens were filled with fear.

A caption appeared below saying that a KF21 squadron accompanied by drones had scrambled from Gangneung Air Force Base, but the sky was filled with strange creatures.

Yeon Seo-yeon, who had been frowning, finally said something.

“You’re a bomber! You always brag about exporting K-239s, but shouldn’t you be firing multiple rocket launchers? You’re going to have to wait for fighter jets to arrive.”

As expected from someone who had sent a family member to the military, the names of weapons came out of her mouth easily.

In fact, the ground-to-air guided missile Cheongung is more appropriate than the ground-to-ground missile Cheonmu, but Yeonseonyeon brought up Cheonmu, which has been frequently exposed to the media.

Her words were translated through the phone, but Yeon-jeok didn’t understand them.

But he could tell that the situation was not normal.

‘The modern era has its own problems.’

In the past, people died from bandits, famine, and infectious diseases.

I used to think that modern life had become a better place to live, but looking at the large billboards, I don’t think that’s the case.

Thanks to scientists, our quality of life has improved incomparably to what it was in the past, but I don’t know what to say about the fact that these scientists have caused this problem.

Yeonjeokha asked Yeonseoyeon, who couldn’t take her eyes off the billboard.

“But I don’t have to evacuate?”

“It’s okay. It’s Seoul. Besides, that bean-like monster moves slowly, so it’ll take a month to get to Incheon. The military will take care of it before then. By the way, the soldiers shouldn’t get hurt… … I wonder if our Junwoo is okay… … .”

“Where is Junwoo?”

“Inje, Gangwon-do.”

“Is it close to Seoul, Suwon, and Chuncheon?”

“You could say it’s a bit close to Chuncheon.”

“Oh my.”

“It’s okay. The distance between Inje and Chuncheon is about twice that between Seoul and Incheon. If you think about it that way, Incheon is more dangerous than Inje where Junwoo is. The fighter jets are here!”

At her words, I quickly turned my gaze to the outdoor billboard.

Sixteen fighter jets fired sleek masses toward the flower field that had formed in the sky.

“What are you shooting now?”

“You don’t even know what a missile is?”

“ah…….”

Meanwhile, a huge explosion occurred in the sky over Chuncheon.

It looked as if flames were burning the flower garden.

A change occurred in the movement of the monster that had been spinning counterclockwise.

As the outer belt was released, colorful monsters flew towards the fighters.

Then, the tails of the monsters larger than fighter jets suddenly swung and started spewing out green mucus.

The speed of the slime was no less than that of a missile.

The fighters rotated their fuselages to avoid the slime, but not all were successful.

A fighter plane hit by the slime fell limply to the ground.

There was no sound, but a crimson flame rose from the middle of the city.

Fighter planes circled the flower field, firing missiles one after another.

Because the monsters were swarming, no missiles missed.

But there were too many monsters compared to the number of fighters, 13.

Contrary to news reports, the drone was not seen.

As the fighter’s missiles were about to run out, another black missile came flying in from across the sky.

A subtitle appeared at the bottom of the screen that said, “Cheon-Gung-3 Surface-to-Air Guided Missile.”

Soon, the entire flower field over Chuncheon was engulfed in flames.

The firepower of Cheongung-3 was incomparable to that of the KF21 squadron.

Creatures with destroyed wings fell to the ground in circles.

Most of the creatures that fell to the ground were motionless, but a very small number of them seemed to have a nervous system disorder and were flailing around, spraying green mucus in all directions.

Everywhere the mucus hit, holes appeared.

As time passed, the number of strange creatures covering the sky over Chuncheon quickly decreased.

Finally the sky cleared up.

Citizens who were watching with anxious faces on the street shouted, “Wow!”

Yeonseoyeon also jumped up and down in excitement and shouted.

“Enough! I defeated them all! You monsters! Do you know where this is? This is the Republic of Korea, the world’s fifth-largest military power! You picked the wrong opponent!”

The monsters in Seoul and Suwon were eradicated much more easily than in Chuncheon.

South Korea is a country with a powerful mechanized infantry force that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States.

Many buildings near the Black Spear were destroyed, but the monsters that resembled beetles and civets could not last long and all died.

Unlike Seoul, Suwon, and Chuncheon, where the Black Spear was located, Incheon was peaceful.

Although it was surprising, it was similar to damage to a specific area due to a typhoon or earthquake.

After a while, the evacuation warning was lifted and people returned to their daily lives as if nothing had happened.

It was the same for Yeonjeokha and Yeonseoyeon.

The two called a taxi and went to Songdo International University’s Korean Language Institute.

However, they did not accept me, saying that the recruitment date had passed and classes had already started.

Yeonseoyeon begged him to please do something, but it was no use.

After a while, Yeon Seo-yeon grumbled as she left the Korean language school.

“Anyway, these kinds of institutions are inflexible. If it were a private academy, I would have said, ‘Come quickly.’”

“I’m okay with private academies, too.”

“Okay, let’s go to the academy. Actually, there’s not much difference between an academy and a Korean language school. You just have to be good at Korean, so there’s no need to go to a Korean language school. Right?”

“of course.”

I chuckled inwardly at her quick self-rationalization.

The reason she was the one who brought him to the Korean Language Institute when Yeon Jeong-woon told her to look for an academy was because of that.

After registering at a Korean language school near their home, the two headed straight to Seokgyeongjang.

As expected, Yeon Jeong-woon was sitting alone in the empty hall, watching the TV news.

Yeon Seo-yeon sat down next to her father and said.

“I was told that I couldn’t go to a Korean language school, so I enrolled in a school near my house.”

“Good work. Did you see the news?”

“I saw that fight with the monster from Black Spear. They were playing that all over the billboards.”

“I don’t know if Junwoo is okay. I should go see him sometime this week.”

“Is that because it’s close to Chuncheon? It’ll be fine. Besides, only fighter jets were mobilized in Chuncheon. The place Junwoo is in is an infantry division.”

“I just got out. They’re mobilizing the military to deal with the fallen monsters.”

“is it so?”

“They say there are many monsters that live and struggle without dying.”

“Then it’s a big problem… … .”

Yeon Seo-yeon frowned.

Concrete buildings are melting from the monster’s fluid, but they’re sending in infantry…

But since the police couldn’t deal with it, they couldn’t criticize the military for sending in troops.

I just silently listened to the conversation between the two women using the interpretation function of my cell phone.

Yeon Seo-yeon, who had been watching the news for a while, asked.

“I heard there won’t be any more monsters in Black Spear?”

“I see. From now on, they’re going to broadcast it live 24 hours a day. I guess they’re going to be monitoring not only the soldiers deployed on site, but also the civilians.”

“I wish they had reinforced the barrier. It looks like it’s going to break through easily this time.”

People holding picket signs appeared on the news screens showing the streets of Seoul.

Soon, the voice of the anchor who was at the scene followed.

―Meanwhile, members of a group called ‘The Universe’ began a protest demonstration in Yeouido, saying, ‘Don’t hide the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, reveal it.’ Today, at around 10:20 AM, with the release of the Black Spear’s strange life form, the existence of extraterrestrial life forms has become more certain, so let’s hear the claim of ‘The Universe’ that they communicated with extraterrestrial intelligence. I am the Korean branch manager of ‘The Universe.’ Branch manager? Please tell us.

Then a bespectacled man who looked to be in his 40s took the microphone and spoke.

―Hello. This is Kim Jun-young, the Korean branch manager of ‘The Universe’. Among the superhumans called mutants, there are quite a few who have received signals sent by extraterrestrial intelligence. From our human perspective, extraterrestrial intelligence can be considered gods. Up until now, gods have existed only in our concept! However, from now on, you will be able to see them with your own eyes, as if looking in a mirror!

―Ah, yes, I listened carefully. So far, the words of ‘The Universe’ Korea branch manager, Mr. Kim Jun-young… … .”

―The creatures that appeared in Seoul, Suwon, and Chuncheon today are messengers of God! You must not kill messengers of God! The price of killing messengers of God will come back to humanity tenfold and a hundredfold! The government must not be hostile to extraterrestrial intelligence! Recognize and worship the real God, not an idea! Otherwise, God’s wrath will be incurred and humanity will go extinct! These are not my words! These are the words of God to humanity!

The screen immediately changed to the newsroom, perhaps in shock at Branch Manager Kim Jun-young’s extreme words and actions.

The anchors then changed the topic by exchanging light jokes.

When the CCTV footage from Seoul, Suwon, and Chuncheon appeared on the news screen again, Yeon Jeong-woon turned off the TV.

Yeon Seo-yeon, who was blinking with a bewildered expression, muttered as if talking to herself.

“The broadcasting station must be crazy. Seeing them interviewing such idiots… … .”