[Episode 03] Sheep Hunt (1)

After the meal, Ha Dong-gun’s party first went down to the first floor of the apartment.

“Dong-gun. Is there a need to check the first floor? Looking at it earlier, the windows are all broken, and the condition is not reasonable.”

“I’ll have to check though. Did you hear what Jaehyun said? We are here as a rescue team now.”

The first task given to them was to find all the survivors spread throughout Building 114 and send them up to the 30th floor.

Kim Gun raised his glasses and asked.

“…But why do we really need to find survivors? I guess it wouldn’t matter if we just started the operation.”

Then Moon Byeong-ho sent him a cold gaze and opened his mouth.

“Are you suspicious of him now?”

“…No, it’s not like that. I mean···.”

At that time, Ha Dong-gun stepped forward and conveyed Kim Jae-hyun’s intention.

“As you all have heard, the key to this operation is to bring a large number of goblins into this apartment. It would be fortunate if the plan went well and we could take care of everything, but if we do something wrong, the survivors on each floor could be in danger. So you want to take precautions before that.”

In fact, Kim Jae-hyeon had never given such an explanation, but Ha Dong-gun’s words sounded plausible.

“Such deep meaning! It’s a job to ensure the safety of the survivors! Okay, okay!”

Kang Duk-soo nodded his head and continued.

“I knew you were an unusual person from the first impression, but you seem to be a great person.”

At his words, the two women trembled in sympathy.

“that’s right.”

“Don’t you think you are very handsome?”

“Oh come. What is Yoo Hye-rin~ Are you interested?”

“Ugh. little?”

“Look at this. Do you think you are serious?”

“sister. I’m in my 3rd year as a solo artist. Now is the time to start dating.”

“Ahahahaha. It’s really funny.”

Kim Geon glanced at his party with a slightly uncomfortable expression.

‘…everyone is strange.’

I couldn’t understand how much I trusted him after knowing him for so long.

‘I admit that he looks good and has good skills, but…’

Kim Geon was a person who did not trust people well.

He prioritizes rational judgment over emotion and values logical thinking.

‘…Especially Moon Byung-ho bastard.’

It was as if he had become a fanatic of the man, perhaps because he had said he would help save his grandmother.

Then Ha Dong-gun opened his mouth.

“Stop the chatter and let’s get started. You never know when a goblin will suddenly pop out, so everyone stay alert.”

“OK.”

“Yes.”

So the search for survivors began.

“Let’s start with Room 101.”

Fortunately, it was not difficult to enter the units on the first floor.

It was thanks to the fact that the front doors of rooms 101 and 102 were both wide open.

“Ugh…”

The condition of the households on the first floor was much worse than expected.

The condition of room 101, which was once home to a group of goblins, was literally no different from that of a wild cave.

Although the time they stayed was only a few days, the traces left by dozens of goblins were more intense than expected.

“Ugh. smell.”

The excrement and leftover corpses they had eaten were rotting, giving off a serious stench.

“Let’s start the search.”

Even without Ha Dong-gun’s instructions, everyone scattered and looked inside.

“There is no one here.”

“This room too.”

“It’s the same here.”

The moment the search was about to end without much success.

“Woo-wook. Oooh!”

While checking the inner room, I heard the sound of Yu Hye-rin regurgitating all the dinner she had just eaten.

Ha Dong-gun, who hurriedly ran to Yoo Hye-rin, found something and couldn’t help but frown.

“Hyerin-ah, are you okay?”

“Oh, sister. There, there, there are dead bodies…”

Inside the bathroom, there were piles of human corpses that the goblins had eaten.

So many people died that there seemed to be dozens of bodies in the bathroom.

He had seen human corpses while fighting goblins for ten days, but this was the first time he had seen such a brutal sight.

Donggun Ha said.

“…it seems that no one is here, so move on to the next one.”

The situation in room 102 was not much different.

The whole house was full of smashed objects, and in the corner of the bathroom, human corpses were piled up in layers and rotting.

Fortunately, we did not encounter any goblins during our search.

“Let’s go up to the second floor.”

The situation on the second floor was not much different.

If you break the window outside, it is a structure that can penetrate enough, so there was no choice but to be exposed to the goblins defenselessly.

Fortunately, things got better from the third floor.

It seemed that the hallway was full of goblins’ excrement and urine, but the front door was firmly closed.

thump thump

Ha Dong-gun lightly knocked and then said.

“Are you in the survivor?”

thump thump

“If you are inside, please respond!”

However, from the third floor, problems arose in a different sense.

Since there is no way to open the solid iron door, it is impossible to go inside and check.

So, if there was no response after trying moderately, I had no choice but to give up.

“Let’s go up.”

That was when I reached the 5th floor.

thump thump!

“Are you there! I’m here to the rescue! Please respond if you are inside!”

The time when I knocked on the door without much expectation.

clap.

The door opened for the first time.

But it wasn’t completely open.

There was a safety ring lock, so it was impossible to open the door forcibly from the outside.

A man stuck his head out through the crack in the slightly open door, looked over at Ha Dong-geon and his party, and then asked.

“Are you really a rescue team?”

“you’re right.”

The man demanded without retiring his suspicious eyes.

“Well, can I get you some water? My throat is so dry.”

At that, Ha Dong-gun took out a 2L bottle of Samdasoo from his backpack and handed it to him.

“Here it is.”

When Ha Dong-gun handed over the water without saying anything, the man looked at him blankly in surprise and then asked again.

“Are you a real lifeguard?”

“It is not affiliated with a state agency, but it is true that we are here to rescue the survivors in this apartment. If you join us, you will not have to worry about water or food.”

The man stared at Ha Dong-gun, then closed the door with an expression of determination.

“…”

And after a while, the door opened again.

clap

The second open door was not locked.

Behind the man standing in front of the front door, a boy who looked like a high school student and a girl who looked like a middle school student were standing awkwardly behind him.

“I don’t know what you mean. I’ll believe it. You mean if you follow them, you won’t have to worry about food?”

“of course.”

The man nodded and held out his hand.

“My name is Jeongsoo Hong. i look forward to.”

After lightly shaking hands, Ha Dong-gun gave instructions to the party.

“Gayoung and Hyerin. You guys take them to the 30th floor and then rejoin them.”

“yes.”

“Yeah.”

Hearing that, Hong Jeong-soo hesitated and asked.

“The 30th floor? Aren’t you going to the first floor?”

Hong Jeong-soo, who had been hiding in the house ever since the monsters appeared, was completely unaware of the current situation.

Then the daughter next to him opened her mouth.

“Dad too. It must have been a helicopter. Go up quickly.”

It was all the same that the daughter was unaware of the situation.

Gayoung Kim said to them.

“It’s not like that, but if you go up, you can have a warm meal and take a shower.”

It was Hong Jeong-soo’s son who responded to those words.

“A shower?! Really?!”

Gayoung Kim smiled at him and answered.

“of course. Even with warm water.”

Then, the son urged Hong Jeong-soo.

“What are you doing, Dad? Let’s go up quickly.”

“Oh, yes. yes.”

***

[The number of citizens has reached 90.]

[Citizens earn 90% more EXP and payout.]

This brought the number of citizens to 93.

I checked the specs of the newly joined people through the citizen management window, but there was no one in particular.

‘Is there only one person out of 93 who has awakened their abilities?’

Ha Dong-gun was the only one who had the awakening ability.

‘Still, there seem to be people who look quite usable, so I’ll have to form a separate team.’

Among the 83 people Ha Dong-gun has rescued so far, some are quite high level.

What they have in common is that they are all owners of solid bodies through steady self-management.

Among them, there was a man with a level 15, but his whole body was full of muscles, as if he could be a bodybuilder.

‘The eyes of the absolute.’

When I used the skill, I looked down at the emergency exit. The six newcomers stood there, catching their breath.

“This way.”

Following Ha Dong-gun’s guidance, they headed to Choi Hyeong-jun’s house.

The front door of Hyungjun Choi’s house was left wide open, and thanks to that, the scenery of the house came into view.

The first thing I saw was the many shoes that filled the entire hallway.

There were so many of them that even outside the front door there were rows of shoes.

It was like seeing the front door of a room where a lot of people gathered especially during college MT.

“You can go inside.”

“···Yeah.”

More spectacle was, of course, the scenery of the house.

A large number of people filled the house as if they were having a home party.

It was unavoidable because more than 90 people entered a small space of at most 30 pyeong.

Most people were standing because there was not enough space to sit or lie down properly.

Hyungjun Choi’s house has been completely transformed into a shelter for survivors.

“Who didn’t get rice balls?!”

“here! It’s our turn!”

“Can you pass this to them?”

Furthermore, Park Hye-won became a restaurant lady and was constantly cooking.

In one corner of the kitchen, Choi Na-yeon and Choi Seo-yeon, who should have been sleeping in the main room, were sitting close together and dozing.

Due to the appearance of uninvited guests, they were suddenly kicked out of the living room.

‘······I’m sorry.’

Still, I couldn’t help it.

In my heart, I wanted to bring some of them into my house, but only me and Choi Hyeong-jun, who were registered as vassals, were allowed to enter and leave my house.

‘Should I bring the kids?’

All of Hyungjun Choi’s family were now able to register as vassals.

It meant that not only the reliability level of 50, but also the level of loyalty reached 30.

In my heart, I wanted to accept the two children as my vassals right now and put them to bed, but I couldn’t bear it.

‘It’s such a waste.’

The moment you register as a vassal, your level rises significantly and you gain special abilities.

In addition, the efficiency of earning experience or money was twice as high as that of other citizens.

It was impossible for kids who hadn’t even entered elementary school to hunt monsters, so I had to put up with it.

‘The vassal registration must be used for a party unconditionally.’

Or, among those who had newly joined, he intended to receive them as vassals, mainly those with high levels.

♬♪♬♩~

I heard a ringing sound and unlocked the Absolute Eye skill.

Then he went to the front door and opened the door.

‘Be open.’

It was Ha Dong-gun who pressed the bell, and he entered the front door.

The space permitted to him, who had not yet attained the qualifications of a vassal, was just there, so he stood there and started reporting.

“Those who have joined now are the last survivors.”

“Did you go through all the floors already?”

“Yeah. I just checked the 29th floor and am on my way.”

“You worked hard.”

It was regrettable that we couldn’t fill 100, but 93 is not a bad number.

‘Hyungjun Choi’s house is almost full, so this should be enough.’

A whopping 90% bonus EXP.

Even if 70% was distributed to each of Ha Dong-gun’s party, he could eat up to 120% of the experience.

“Wait.”

With Ha Dong-gun in front of me, I closed my eyes and used the skill.

‘The eyes of the absolute.’

This time, the place where the eyes of the absolute was used was not in the corner of the house, but where Choi Hyeong-jun was.

He was working hard on something on the emergency exit stairs.

It was the work of diligently cutting and peeling something, connecting them again, and laying them on the floor of the stairs.

After concentrating for a while, he straightened his back and stood up.

‘Release the eyes of the absolute.’

The preparations are over.

I said with a meaningful smile toward Ha Dong-gun.

“Then let’s move on to goblin sheep hunting, step two.”