Chapter 162
Kyle: Not edited.
What in the world were the people in this country eating?
Looking at the women leaving while squealing reminded me of Soo-ah. I had not seen them for only a week but I already wanted to see them. I had lived well alone before so it seems I've gotten used to people too much.
The situation got cleared after I greeted and took pictures with about 100 people.
To think that half of the 200 people would be my fans.
I did wonder what was happening in this country but it was good that it went well thanks to it.
John opened his mouth again.
"So there's a really strong guy killing people I see."
"There's a video recorded so please take a look at that."
I took John to the van. He admired the interior that was much larger and forcefully sat down in front of the display.
The video of the eagle dying soon started playing.
The dead hunters and completely destroyed vehicles. And the white haired muscle man standing in the middle alone.
"It's certain that he's alone. But isn't it difficult to see it as him killing all of them?"
"I have confirmed several similar scenes on my way here. Also, if it wasn't him there wouldn't have been a need to kill my recon unit."
To tell the truth it was only one place. But he would only listen if I say this much.
"That is true but…… Isn't there a need to look into this more for now?"
"Must you contact that guy no matter what?"
"It wouldn't matter to you because you're not a part of this country. To us New Alaska is an important link connecting us to the continent. If we didn't take this chance when Russia is being pa.s.sive we have no choice but to be isolated forever. In that situation, should we look into it if incidents that we can't make heads or tails of are happening by risking our lives."
"You have great patriotism."
"Isn't that the same for everyone? I also know it as you fighting for your own country."
"That is……."
To be honest, I was a bit surprised as well. I thought that I didn't have much affection for the country called Korea.
I had a lot of complaints about the government and I didn't like the society that only wanted to increase the number of poor people.
It's not like I thought that it would be good if such a country got ruined.
However, once I started fighting the Chungho Group, I somehow naturally ended up helping the government team.
There wasn't much to patriotism. It was a natural phenomenon like an arm bending inwards.
Even so, I had only entered after calculation. The chance of winning was much higher and if it was truly dangerous enough to be risking my life, I wouldn't have gone in taking my team members with me.
But it was surprising that the Americans that had high individualism came out like this.
"America is a great country. We had overcome shock in the past and united our power to endure until now. But the fact that we are isolated makes it difficult to increase our chances of growth."
"America currently has a lot of food product yes?"
"Yeah. If it was possible to export that it wouldn't be difficult to regain our former glory."
Modern agriculture needed cutting edge technology. Monsters made it impossible to spread seeds on a large plot of land and collect it using a machine.
That's why people use accelerated growth using dungeons or use a way of blocking monsters. The ones that were developing the former was China while the one that developing the latter was America.
That's why, the one that would dislike the road from opening the most would be none other than China.
If I was in such a situation, I would send a bunch of high level hunters and try to prevent Americans from settling down in New Alaska.
I started thinking if China didn't know what I was thinking.
However, this place was an area bordering Russia to the end. No matter how close of a relations.h.i.+p Russia and China have, it would be impossible to deploy an army to another country.
If their opinions matched then it would possible to deploy hunters. However, it would still be impossible above a certain number.
From Russia's perspective, the eastern end was not a land that the government's hands reached well after all. If a large number of Chinese hunters were to enter that kind of place there was a high chance it would become a situation like putting a cart before the horse.
Then what can be thought of is sending a small number of powerful hunters and destroying the American hunters. It wasn't like Russia didn't have any level 10 hunters but it wasn't like they would leave the capital for this cold place where nothing even existed.
Thinking up to this point, I started thinking that the hunter we just saw might be
I was pondering whether to say this to John or not but didn't. It was a problem where 3 nations would be involved. There was no need for me to recklessly interfere.
This kind of thing could be known soon even if it wasn't for me. America was probably suspicious of this as well. The problem would be that they don't have conclusive evidence yet I guess.
If they could catch that hunter the truth would be revealed but it would only be possible if America moved their highest level hunters.
There is a low chance of a level 10 personally visiting so it would only be possible if the American government stepped up.
For that to happen more time, no, more casualties would be needed.
Also, there was a human being that wanted to be the basis for that was in front of me right now.
"You might really die. No, you will die with a high chance."
"Isn't that impossible to know without fighting? It seems like you have been scared by the enemy too much. Or are you looking down on me?"
John's eyes narrowed. Of course, it was difficult to judge these things with just a video.
The number of John McLain's team was 200. It was a mid size raid team and there were quite a few level 8 hunters. It would be possible to catch a level 10 hunter with this.
However, I didn't have a good feeling about it. Instantly killing a monster 100 meters in the air, throwing away level 5 items, and more than anything, Edward's reaction was not normal.
He was at least several times more sensitive to an enemy's power than me who was a human. That kind of guy got scared from something several kilometers away.
At this level it would be a Vampire Lord or something greater than that.
"I thank you for your advice. However, it's an embarra.s.sing thing for a hunter to be scared before even fighting."
"Even if it's embarra.s.sing it's much better than dying."
"…… That might be so. Either way, we are planning on continuing."
"It can't be helped then."
I said so and let out a sigh.
[s...o...b..e oppa. What are you doing?]
"I'm working."
[I'm on my way home after finis.h.i.+ng work.]
"There weren't any problems?"
[An irregular appeared. An item didn't come out though.]
"That's a shame."
[Instead Exotic Matter came out.]
"Oh…… That's not bad."
An exclamation came out on its own. Exotic Matter was matter outside of rare earth metals among ores.
It became impossible to a.n.a.lyze particles due to the Large Hadron Collider getting destroyed during the Monster Wave now so ores with substance that didn't exist before were all being called Exotic Matter.
Also, that kind of ore was being sold at a really expensive price.
There was a reason for that as Exotic Matter dropped form level 9 to 10 monsters all raised the efficiency of all development processes to the extreme.
It wasn't at the level where they raised it by 30% or 40%.
At the very least 100%, at times it even surpa.s.sed 1,000%. It seemed impossible but it actually worked like that. The reason humans didn't run out of energy even while monsters were swarming all over the world was because of this after all.
There were voices saying that this ignored the so called Law of Thermodynamics and soon disappeared but those voices disappeared completely once it was confirmed that a miniscule amojunt of ma.s.s was lost when it was used as a catalyst. In the end, the conclusion that Exotic Matter itself had energy was made.
Just that it was weird how there was much more energy coming out than when calculated by ma.s.s ratio. Experiments were continuing from various perspectives but it was pretty much concluded that it would be impossible to know unless the Large Hadron Collider worked again.
But since it was being used well without knowing what it was, the only ones feeling critical minded were the scientists.
"How much is it worth?"
[20b.]
"It's not bad? There's no one injured?"
[Mister Young-gu got hurt a bit. He was soon sent to the hospital after emergency treatment with potions so he should recover soon.]
"I should wish him well."
He was a person that had almost never gotten hurt when with me. Even so, it was good that he at least didn't die.
After ending the call with Soo-ah like that I pointed at Die Hard who were disappearing while raising a cloud of dust and opened my mouth.
"Let's chase after them."
"Are you really going to do it? I don't really want to though."
He rubbed his neck with the choker on it. It was the Necklace of Confinement that Soo-ah used to have. He wouldn't die as long as he had that so he had too much fear for a monster.
"I'm not going to get too close. I'm thinking about staying at least a kilometer away. No matter how strong he is he shouldn't be able to do anything at that range."
"I have a bad feeling though……."
"I just want to check if my feeling is right or wrong."
I have no reason to fight him so I will avoid it. However, there was now a bit of a reason. I quite liked team Die Hard and I was quite curious about that serial killer's ident.i.ty. If he was really a Chinese hunter.
Or if he was a person from Russia. That's why I had secretly attached a listening device on John McLain when he entered the van.
It wasn't an item but a 100,000 won worth subminiature mike I bought on the internet. It was a bit expensive because it could communicate through the satellite but I had gotten it because it was said that 1 more was given if you bought 10. There were many other miscellaneous things here and there in the van.
I was hunting while putting my life on the line in the first place so I had to use everything I could.
So we slowly went north following the road Die Hard took.
– What kind of guy are you?
I could hear John's voice. It seems they met him faster than I thought. I told Edward to speed up the van. I wanted to confirm what was happening first.
We went up the hill of ice that the other vehicles had gone around. The level 1 Snow Chain had the adhesion to go up cliffs at a 90 degree angle. There was no problem with a hill that was merely slippery.
An explosion could be heard from over the hill.
Together with screaming.
The communicator on John already didn't function anymore.
"d.a.m.n it. I'll go ahead so follow!"
I opened the van door and jumped out. I summoned the Dancing Sword to jump in midair before my feet touch the ground.
The continuous sounds of explosion and rupturing. I had no idea what was going on.
With an impatient heart I ran as fast as possible.
As I jumped a few times like that the horrible sight below the hill appeared soon.
"Huh……?"
What could be seen in front of my eyes was a huge crevice.
The dozens of vehicles and 200 hunters were gone without a trace and only the white haired man remained looking at the sky.
For now, I had to a.s.sume that team Die Hard was annihilated. There was no chance a human could survive falling into a crevice that was who knows how deep.
His sight landed on me.
The moment I felt threatened I stepped on the Dancing Sword to change my direction.
Boom!
A tremendous amount of energy that pa.s.sed by me could be felt.
It felt like my entire body was getting mangled up even though it missed by several meters. I barely found my balance and landed on the ground.
What in the world was that.
I inspected the guy. The gloomy eyes that were looking at the camera in the video, looking at it in reality it looked darker and heavier than ever.
Name: Baek Gyeong (Copy)
Skill Name: Infinite Power (10) (Copy), Metamorphosis (10) (Copy)
Additional Technique: Dimension Gate, opens a dimensional entrance by ripping s.p.a.ce. Cannot move long distances.
Hadron Canon, fires a high concentration energy that disintegrates enemies in a straight line.
Proficiency: 100
Equipment: Leather Armor of the Abyss (10) (Copy), Sword of the Abyss (10) (Copy)
Characteristics: In an extremely unstable state. Has a very high chance of causing disintegration.