Infected - Chapter 537



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Side story episode 24

When the war between the two forces entered a brief lull.

A park in the city center, not far from the governor’s safe zone.

Two men were crossing what was now a park or a jungle.

Maybe around Gaon’s age.

The smaller of the two said with a smirk.

“Things are taking an interesting turn.”

“therefore.”

“What do you think will happen?”

“What… If you keep doing this, you’ll probably end up coming to see the teacher soon.”

“Ha, but I’m talking about the kid who came from Seoul.”

“Woman? Or man?”

“female.”

“Why? Are you interested?”

The small man laughed in a bewildered manner.

“No, I’m just curious who would win if they faced each other.”

“Hey, talk some sense.”

“No. Honestly, I don’t know. From what I’ve seen of them fighting, there doesn’t seem to be any animals involved.”

“But that won’t work for him.”

“Really? I thought it might work if we both went at it together. But that woman wasn’t like that. It felt a little different.”

“Just say it’s good if you like it.”

“Oh, I told you, that’s not true.”

The small man spoke with a frown.

“And the two of us can take on him? Man, this guy is absolutely crazy. Come on, you punk.”

“You have to try to know whether it’s long or short. It’s true that I’ve never really tried it.”

“You do it a lot. I don’t want to die.”

The two people walked along, exchanging light-hearted jokes.

At the end of the park a man appeared.

The man was smoking a cigarette, his gray hood pulled over his forehead.

“…wait for a sec.”

The small man stopped, grabbing his colleague by the collar.

It was an instinctive sense of danger.

“No. I’m just smoking.”

“This is a place where no one lives. And look at the face. They can hear our voices and still not look at us.”

A scene that appears ordinary at first glance.

However, the sight of him standing in the shade under the overgrown vines with his head half-bowed was quite grotesque.

“I see… … ?”

The two stopped as if they had made a promise and glared at the man.

But the man didn’t respond.

Just like from the beginning, he just smoked without saying a word.

“… … .”

The small man tilted his head.

It was strange.

The feeling that is clearly emanating is one of murderous intent that goes beyond killing.

Why isn’t there any reaction?

Even if the two people changed direction and ran now, it was a distance that would be impossible to catch up with.

“Let’s go and see.”

“okay.”

Instead of changing direction, the two decided to pass by the man.

At the same time, he put his hands into his jumper pockets.

The sensation of cold iron was transmitted to my palm.

Thud! Thud!

When the distance between me and the man was reduced to a few meters.

The man who had been standing there blankly like a totem pole suddenly took a step forward.

The two quickly stepped forward to put some distance between them.

Goosebumps appeared on their arms as they faced each other in a triangle.

From a distance, it looks like a single light step.

However, the direction of the foot’s progress was exactly across the two.

If I had moved like that, I couldn’t guarantee what would happen next.

A small man looks at his colleague.

Then his colleague nodded with a similar look in his eyes.

It was no accident.

The feeling coming from the air was definitely that of a master.

One of them took a dagger from his bosom, the other a hatchet.

Even though not a single word was exchanged.

The atmosphere naturally led to battle.

The man still stood motionless, his feet still out.

That in itself was enough of a reason for them to attack each other.

Two people moved first.

As the small man who had kicked the ground swung his dagger, his comrade, who had narrowed the angle on the other side, swung his hatchet.

Movement so fast you can’t believe it even if you see it with your own eyes.

The target was the shoulder.

You shouldn’t kill them, even if it’s just to find out their identity.

but…….

The man took a step back without the slightest hesitation.

Sharp daggers and axes were easily avoided by simply moving one’s feet.

These two were no pushovers either.

As soon as the weapon swung through the air, he twisted his body and continued his attack.

It was by no means a joint venture that could be completed overnight.

A feast of attacks that even an ordinary person, no, a skilled master would inevitably encounter.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

But the ones who were surprised were the two people.

Because he was the first man to dodge all six consecutive attacks.

It also entered at a narrow angle from both sides at the same time.

fault!

The small man who had distanced himself again tilted his head.

A strange sense of discomfort enveloped him.

What should I say?

It was as if the opponent had memorized all of his attacks.

If not, you can freely increase time.

Either way, it was a ridiculous situation.

Besides, looking at his face, it was clear that it was our first meeting.

The two men turned around and asked, lowering their weapons.

“…What are you?”

“Where are you from?”

No answer came back.

All that came back was a provocation that involved snapping fingers.

“Ha, this is making me mad.”

“therefore.”

“It won’t work… … .”

puck!

The moment I turned my gaze to my colleague.

The small man lost his balance and fell over with a dull pain in his chest.

He quickly rolls back to his feet and grips his dagger tightly.

“Ah, shit! I’m talking… … .”

But the man was already right in front of her.

Thud! Thud!

His movements were so fast that it would not be an exaggeration to say they were at the speed of light, and his colleagues could not even think of keeping up.

Red drops of blood spurted from his face as he fell again.

A throbbing pain felt in the bridge of the nose.

In just two strikes, his nose was shattered and his teeth were broken.

“What, what is it!”

While crawling backwards while holding your nose.

The comrade who had closed the distance swung an axe at the man’s back.

And then something crazy happened.

widely!

He struck down the flying hatchet with his bare hand and then caught it with the other hand.

“… … ?”

The comrade who lost his weapon in an instant was so shocked that he stopped.

I showed an opening without knowing it.

I tried to distance myself belatedly, but the man attacked me first.

A speed so great that it feels like an afterimage is left behind.

Before I could even catch up with him with my eyes, a hand flew in from the left or right and struck my chin.

Snap!

My colleague fell over, flipping over the whites of his clothes.

The small man left alone had trembling fingertips.

This could hardly be called overwhelming.

He was a person who lived in a completely different world.

A sense of alienation, as if an adult were fighting with a child.

Completely overwhelmed by the atmosphere, he waved his arms like a child.

“Now, just a moment!”

I wonder if it works.

The approaching man stopped.

“Why, why are you doing this! Are you crazy?”

“… … .”

“Fuck, say something! Can’t you? Wait a minute! Don’t come near me!”

The confidence that was there at first disappeared without a trace.

Only the herbivores remained, crushed by fear and the cowardice of begging for their lives.

The man grabbed the man by the neck, which was crawling on the floor, and slowly lifted him up.

It was a power close to monstrous strength.

At that moment, the cutter knife he had been secretly holding aimed for the man’s neck.

widely!

This time it was a failure again.

The man grabbed her neck with one hand and grabbed her wrist with the other hand with incredible ease.

Crack!

The fingers holding the cutter were bent at an unbelievable angle.

“Ahh!”

By the time the screams of grinding iron ended.

The man’s thick palm repeatedly struck the sunken nose.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Then he threw it on the floor like trash.

* * *

When the two people opened their eyes again, a long time had passed.

Of course, the location has also changed.

Instead of sitting in a park with vines and weeds growing like a forest, I was sitting in an indoor space I had never seen before.

And that too with his whole body tied tightly to the chair.

“eww…….”

As the small man raised his head, a thick clump of blood that had been stuck in his nose flowed down the corner of his mouth.

It was an unbearable pain.

It seemed like my nose wasn’t broken, but had completely collapsed.

Maybe it had completely sunk in.

I slowly turned my head to look to the side and saw my colleague tied up in relatively good shape.

“Hey… … . Come to your senses… … .”

They were telling each other to come to their senses, but anyone could tell that neither of them were in their right minds.

Around that time.

A pair of familiar combat boots appeared in front of the two people.

It was that guy from earlier.

The man grabbed his unconscious colleague by the hair and slapped him harshly across the face.

Crack!

“Whoaaah! What the heck!”

The coworker screamed in horror as soon as he made eye contact with the man.

“Ahhh! Aaaahhh!”

The battle just now left a trauma.

On the other hand, the man stepped back with a face of no emotion and stared at the two people.

With a face that clearly shows the traces of a fierce life.

“Ugh, why are you doing this to us? What do you want?”

The man did not answer.

This time, my colleague spoke.

“Please, please tell me why. Okay? There’s no good in messing with us. If you do that, you’ll really get screwed.”

This time there was no answer either.

Then, a small man, driven mad by the extreme situation, started screaming loudly.

“Speak! Speak! Speak, damn it! Please! Say anything!”

It was obvious at first glance that he was not in a normal state, as he was screaming so viciously that the blood vessels around his eyes were about to burst.

The man who approached them as if ignoring them rummaged through the jumpers he had taken off of the two people.

Then, green powder poured out of the inside pocket.

It looked like ground up weeds or plant leaves.

The man sniffed for a moment and then laid the powder neatly on the table.

The expressions of the two people who saw that scene brightened for a moment.

“Oh, was that why?”

“This is crazy!”

“Then don’t say that! Oh, what did I say… …”

While the two people were making a fuss, thinking they had figured out the other’s intentions.

The man held a sharp hatchet.

“This old man has a rough side. Do you think we can do business with him from the start? No, more importantly, where on earth did he come from?”

“Let me get this out of the way first. Okay, I understand. I’ll make a deal. It’s not that hard.”

“Who told you that?”

He goes around talking nonsense.

But the man was thinking differently.

Thud thud!

An axe that looked like it would split flesh at the slightest touch loomed before the two people’s eyes.

At this point, without a word, someone proposed an outrageous condition.

“I’ll give it to you for free! No. Okay, I feel like it. Check my pants pockets!”

“Me too, me too! Actually, I rolled up one in my socks too. I’ll give you all of them. Okay? So calm down for now and put that down first.”

The man put the hatchet down on the ground for a moment.

Then he grabbed the finger of the man sitting on his right and wrapped the rope around it.

“Hey, wait a minute. What are you doing? Let go! Let go! Don’t do it!”

“Is this crazy old man a serial killer or something?”

There have been several rounds of speculation.

After confirming that his fingers were tightly bound, the man swung his hatchet without mercy.

Kwajik!

The severed finger rolls on the floor.

“Ahhhhh!”

They screamed and screamed, but unfortunately there was no one to help them.

The area is a ruined city center with no survivors.

It was an area where even common zombies did not roam.

The man pushed the fallen finger away with his foot and walked over to the left chair.

It is now an established fact that the man’s purpose is not the green powder.

Then there is only one thing left.

He’s a madman who captures anyone and brutally murders them.

His face trembled with fear.

The man’s attitude of not even giving a simple answer was like that of a grim reaper.

The small man began to sob without realizing it.

“Please, please say something… … . Sir, why are you doing this? We’re not bad guys. We really aren’t.”

Whatever.

The man wrapped the rope around his thumb and grabbed the axe as usual.

“Wait a minute! Not the thumb! Cut off the little one instead! If you cut off the thumb, you won’t be able to hold anything!”

Stop.

The man who was about to swing the axe glared at him.

Shiny eyes reflecting the candlelight.

An abyss that seemed to have no humanity was weighing on the other person as if it was going to swallow them up.

and…….

The man opened his mouth for the first time.

“It’s okay. I’m going to cut it all out anyway. Until I hear everything I’m curious about.”

Kwajik!

“Kwaaaaak!”

The small man swore like crazy and then fainted.

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