When I Returned to Farming, National-level Big Juniors Flock - Chapter 54



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54. Kang Seok

“Hey, you still can’t find it?”

“Only one body was found. I think they ran away already.”

“We’ve blocked all the entrances right now, how are those guys going to get out? Look for them carefully, we need to move quickly too.”

The mercenary said, half annoyed.

It’s not a very large facility, but no matter how hard you look for the two enemies, you can’t find them.

It was clear that it had come in, and it was clear that it had come out, but it was not visible.

“Oh, wait… Was there a passage like this originally?”

The mercenary stopped for a moment and said.

He had checked the entire interior of the facility, but a passageway that seemed new to him appeared.

This wasn’t just his own illusion.

The other team members also nodded in agreement.

“I was definitely heading towards storage unit number 3… What is this place?”

“Did you take a wrong turn? Anyway, you guys just keep looking. I’ll check where you came from and come back.”

The man went back the way he came.

But even as I went back the way I came, the feeling of awkwardness continued.

This strange feeling that it’s definitely the way I came, but it doesn’t feel like the way I came.

If I had been a regular idiot, I wouldn’t have noticed, but I was flustered because I had never experienced anything like this while working on a mission.

But the real embarrassment started from now on.

“You… why are you coming out of there?”

“uh?”

A man who encounters his colleagues who had split up in the opposite direction.

Even though I had walked much further than I came, I didn’t come out of the facility lobby as they had told me to, and instead I ran into them going deeper.

They both started to move together, both of them very confused, and soon they sensed that something was wrong.

“What, what! You’re still wandering the same way you came? Are you going around in circles or something?”

“No… That’s not the way I came. It’s changing little by little.”

Sweat poured down the man’s forehead.

Something is seriously wrong.

A feeling as if one were trapped in a maze-like gate pattern.

But more than that, even though it felt like I was walking the same path, the surrounding environment was constantly changing little by little, from the width and height to even the small patterns on the walls.

It’s as if the terrain itself is constantly changing.

Kookookookook!

And at that moment.

Suddenly, all entrances were blocked.

As the bewildered hunters stood still, the ceiling gradually lowered and the walls came closer, narrowing the space.

“Oh, space is pushing in!”

“This is crazy! Break it and get out!”

“Oh, it won’t break! It won’t budge!”

The hunters swung their fists, but the unbelievably strong wall did not budge.

Even swinging a sword didn’t cause any damage, let alone damage.

The hunters are in complete panic.

“This… this is crazy…”

Kuuung!

Their vision darkened.

***

“Is it the end?”

Oh Hyeon-seong, who had been holding the ground, got up from his seat.

All mercenaries within the facility were annihilated.

Those who were trapped underground and destroyed without ever encountering the enemy.

But it didn’t flatten or burst the entire body.

Why did you come here and how did you end up meeting me?

The purpose was to capture them and interrogate them.

As we leisurely walked down the hallway, we saw that the rooms had been restored to normal and were littered with hunters who had collapsed from pressure and suffocation.

“Three…oh my god.”

Gil-Sang Lee stares blankly at the sight.

Crackle! Crackle!

At that moment, a radio call was heard from within their arms.

In the poor sound quality, an unknown foreign language flowed out.

As for Lee Gil-sang, he obviously has no idea what is being said and has no idea what is going on.

But Oh Hyun-seong understood everything that was being said over the radio.

“These guys aren’t all here. It seems like there’s a separate main force. I don’t know how many people they brought, but we should get out first. The mercenaries are coming.”

When contact with them was lost, their main force realized that they had been annihilated and began to rush towards this place.

I couldn’t hear anything more as I had changed the radio channel, so I couldn’t get any more details, but at least it wasn’t a good idea to keep sitting here.

So they came out of the facility.

Kwaaaaang!

But at that moment, a huge explosion erupted above them.

Part of the hidden facility was destroyed, and half of the entrance collapsed due to the explosion.

Oh Hyeon-seong and Lee Gil-sang hurried inside amidst the pouring debris.

“Oh, you’re crazy! Wasn’t that a tank just now?”

“They’re not tanks… they’re just crazy guys.”

Oh Hyun-seong glanced outside, letting out a hollow laugh.

A group of mercenaries already surrounding the area.

There were at least a few hundred of them, and they even had armored vehicles with them.

They also brought an IFV with a main gun.

Even if it is a no man’s land, bringing something like that overseas is not something that a criminal organization or a group of mercenaries would be able to do.

“You guys, DeSanto, you’ve really got your eyes on this.”

The name of the company mentioned in the mercenaries’ radio transmission.

Multinational food company, DiSanto.

It is a mega-corporation with more power than a single country, located in South America.

It monopolized all businesses in South America, including communications, logistics, and defense, centered around the global food business.

When Oh Hyun-seong’s strawberries became a sensation in Korea, the product that was most compared was their Black Label grade premium strawberries.

But such a huge company sent a group of mercenaries to North Korea.

‘Well… there’s no way the information would have only spread to Lee Gil-sang.’

If it was a secret seed vault, it would have been a huge enough bait to catch DiSanto’s attention.

A value so enormous that it could buy an entire country.

If it was the DiSanto he knew, it was obvious that he would try to take over a small country even if it meant destroying the entire country.

The seeds of today have much greater value and influence than oil, which was called black gold in the past.

“But… your liver is really swollen. To think that you would cause such a fuss here.”

Oh Hyun-seong smiled.

This is Korea, not some small country in the corner of the country.

As the front line of the worst demonic realm, the Great China Front, this country has blocked several waves of giant monsters.

Kookookookook!

Oh Hyun-seong summoned Melts.

The creature’s true form, a giant golem, appeared, filling the space, not in a tangible form.

At that sight, Lee Gil-sang was so surprised that he almost fainted, but Oh Hyeon-seong calmed him down and gave him instructions.

“The artillery fire is coming this way. Can you stop it?”

Melts nodded and planted both arms in the ground.

Then the earth around them began to move and envelop them in a circle.

Rather than surrounding the entire facility, they decided to protect only the area around them.

This is to maximize defensive power.

They were just sitting there, huddled together inside the facility with Melts.

“I… If we continue like this, there’s no answer, right? If we break through now, it seems like the encirclement will be the least…”

“No, just watch quietly. There’s no need to exert unnecessary force yourself.”

Oh Hyun-seong didn’t just summon Melts.

Just like when the upper spirits, Albert and Meltz, were first summoned, they were summoned with a powerful wave effect on purpose.

If their presence is fully revealed, the observation system of the gate will detect waves at the level of an S-rank gate.

If this were normal, the administration would have detected the ripples.

Last time when Melts appeared, there was an S-rank level ripple effect, but thanks to Han Su-yeon giving separate instructions, there wasn’t as much of an uproar as there was with Albert.

It was just a bit of a grinding mess within the administration.

However, the area under the jurisdiction of the National Disaster Management Agency is the entire territory of South Korea.

This place was not South Korea’s land.

Outside the border where monsters swarm, the special forces of the ROK Army were constantly monitoring this area.

“Now, he’s coming.”

***

Hunters surround the facility and stand guard.

In fact, the entrance to the facility itself had already been completely destroyed and wide open for a long time.

But the barrier of land surrounding it beyond was a problem.

It seemed to have been created with the Hunter’s ability, but it wasn’t easy to bombard it and try to break through it.

Kwaaang!

“Oh, it’s annoying! Just when I think I’ve gotten through it all, it starts playing again right away!”

“Don’t be impatient. Time is on our side anyway. Even if we hold out, it’s obvious that there’s a limit.”

All kinds of abilities require magical power to maintain and restore.

Just having been able to hit a wall as big as that and withstand the bombardment up until now would have drained the magic power of any average hunter several times over.

It was amazing that they had lasted this long, but it was obvious that there wasn’t much left.

A Hunter with exposed supernatural powers who has lost all of his magical powers is an easy prey.

But at that moment.

Woohoo!

“uh…?”

“Wh, what are you talking about?”

An eerie sound suddenly comes from somewhere.

All the hunters present turned their gaze to the sky.

Suddenly, it appeared and was flying over their heads. It was none other than a bomber.

“This… this is crazy…!”

Kwaaaaang!

“Kwaaaaah!”

The bombs rained down and the screams continued.

The hunters tried to respond, but they were helpless in the face of death pouring down from the air.

What the bombers are spewing out are magic bullets to annihilate the monsters.

It was a monster weapon of a different dimension from ordinary explosives, but its power was so great that it was not even handled domestically.

If you project something like that to deal with monsters, there won’t be any cities left for people to settle down and live in.

But it was a no man’s land where only monsters swarmed, and outside the border, there was no problem.

Kookookookook!

The sound of dense artillery fire followed the area swept by the bombers.

The hunters’ screams gradually died down.

***

Thud!

Above the ground, only black smoke is rising.

The storage facility was completely devastated.

Even though it was buried underground, it was so scorched that no original form remained.

However, there were two men who crawled out from the rubble.

They came out a long time after the shelling stopped.

“Wow, you cooked it so noisily.”

Oh Hyeon-seong shook his head and looked around.

The hunters who had surrounded them naturally disappeared without a trace, and the armored vehicle also melted.

The original forest was completely gone, and the terrain itself had changed.

Ddddddd!

At that moment, a line of vehicles appeared approaching, cutting through the flat terrain.

All vehicles are painted in military colors.

Armored vehicles equipped with gruesome equipment appeared and stopped next to them, and Lee Gil-sang, frozen solid, clutched his chest as if he was having a heart attack.

Squeak.

A group of military hunters got out of the vehicle.

They are not just simple soldiers.

There were several big-time hunters within the Special Operations Command, enough that even an outsider like Lee Gil-sang was familiar with their names and faces.

But not only are these people gathered in one place, they are also lined up in a row.

Thud thud.

A man walked out between them.

The man, whose face was the only one Oh Hyun-seong knew, came and stood in front of him.

“senior.”

Kang Seok of the Special Operations Command.

He looked up and faced his old senior.

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