Clearing the Game at the End of the World Chapter 241

Chapter. 13. The Hunter, the Scavenger, and the Swordsman (7)

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Woojin was busy today.

Although he pretended to say nothing, he was equally glad to see Ian again after going through life and death.

So, I tried to deal with the patients I had to see today as quickly as possible and at least prepare a decent dinner…

“Ugh… doctor… I’m dying…”

“I have no strength in my back. “I still have 40 more years to use it…”

“…damn you bastards.”

The number of patients increased.

Woojin picked up a hard medical chart and hit the men’s bruised and swollen heads one after another.

“very.”

widely!

“They’re good at it.”

Percussion!

“It’s an act.”

Just!!

“evil! “Why am I the only one in the corner?”

“Give the ugly guy another piece of rice cake, and give the good guy another beating, you bastard.”

Woojin let out a deep sigh as he watched Ian rubbing his head with a quite wrinkled face.

When I first saw him, I wondered how Desmont, a quiet young man in the world, became such a bastard.

Woojin, who lamented for a moment, realized that it was spitting in his face and shook his head. Woojin was the only person who rescued Ian from that burned-out hill, and while he was recovering, Ian acted hard as if he had no emotions.

“okay. How did you get into a fight with these guys? I want to tell you in advance that, as the head of this disease and illness complex organization, if you touched my children for no reason, I can’t ignore it. In particular, Moonglow is a valuable product that solves sky-rocketing drug prices.”

“Well… there was some misunderstanding.”

“oh. Misunderstand. That’s the best excuse. In Romeo and Juliet, the Capulet family member also died due to a misunderstanding. It was also a misunderstanding that caused the debauched teenage man and woman to commit suicide by drinking poison. How are you going to follow in the footsteps of old sages this time? Should misunderstandings grow like a snowdrift and I have no choice but to write you off as the Moby Dick raider, or should I tell you now?

Ian chose his words as he watched the old man’s stubborn eyes close to the bottom of his chin. Woojin was a good person, but he was also an old man who grumbled for over a month once his feelings were hurt.

“Well… I thought these guys earned enough money to get away with BDSM.”

“What’s the point if I hit it? Are you saying you only go to the most dangerous battlefields? How could such a life be good unless you were a war maniac living somewhere? Even if it were me, if I had a recipe like this, I would beat it up and start a business, you bastard.”

Woojin clicked his tongue and wiped Ian’s face with an alcohol cotton pad. Although Ian had a good physique and strength, it was inevitable that he would get swept up here and there as two of his equally strong subordinates desperately tried to stop him.

“therefore. I tried to understand it with the same mindset, but when I heard that people who used to eat together every day went on to open such a prosperous business without saying a word, it seemed a bit… right? I wonder if I was that untrustworthy. “It was a means of doing business, and it felt like shit that he had our BDSM jumpers hung up like that and then kicked in the ass like that.”

“So I hit it. But they said it was a misunderstanding. So you’re saying it wasn’t actually true?”

“The guy next to you, the white guy’s twin brother, is the real merchant who brews and sells the Moonglow-approved liquor. “This guy said he was helping out while he was at the dome.”

“Ah, somehow I know the faces of all the union members, but the person I know looks a little different. “What about the black one?”

“I haven’t asked that question yet. Hey Budlam. Why did you come? “It turns out that you are Dorian’s brother, or is there some kind of secret about your birth?”

“If she and I were from the same litter, that moment would be the end of the racial debate. Well, this guy Dorian said he had a good short-term job, so I just followed him. “He gives me a lot of money and lets me drink for free. Who does that?”

This was why Ian, who knew why that sturdy bald black man was working so hard to earn money, couldn’t help but be astounded. Although I couldn’t rest at the dome after returning after a long time, I came to work part-time with a friend.

“You’re crazy.”

“It’s pure.”

In Ian’s mind, he couldn’t accept the emotions of his subordinate who was showing a white smile while raising his thumb in front of him, so he turned his head away.

“Well, anyway. “That guy came to work, and the guy next to him followed.”

“Then it’s entirely your fault. “Take one more hit.”

Woojin roughly swung the chart and hit Ian in the face, then looked around at the roughly arranged hospital bed. One patient with a compound fracture had just undergone major surgery to remove nearly half of his left leg bone. They said there was a fight there, so they hurried to the by-product market and came back, and they even dabbed alcohol on the faces of these lumps, so it must have been dark outside.

“…He came in with a solemn look on his face. “Is there anyone who will worry if you are late?”

“Quite a bit. I contacted you in advance because I had a contact method prepared, so don’t worry about it. By the way, I guess there’s nothing else to do now?”

“I know, guy. I took care of it before anything else happened. Follow me. I couldn’t even eat lunch and my old body was so hungry that I couldn’t even talk. Let’s start with dinner. “We will have a lot to talk about with each other anyway.”

The old man pushed the wheelchair with a sullen expression and took the lead among the three people with swollen faces.

Woojin led them to a place that looked more like a shelf-type warehouse than a restaurant, and led them to a place piled high with canned goods. There were a few small tables between shelves and a wood-burning stove, so it seemed like people usually ate their meals here.

“Fresh food is on the other side. “Choose whatever you want and eat it.”

“Elder, is it really okay to just pick and eat?”

“Huh, black market owners have different distribution methods than common people like us! thank you for this food!”

Dorian and Budlam, who were offended by Woojin’s words to eat whatever they wanted, began to choose all kinds of canned food one by one and place them on the wood stove. Ian also had a taste for it, so he chose about five or six and put them on top. Of course, the taste and freshness were not comparable to foods made with raw meat and fresh vegetables, but the taste of artificial sweeteners of the past, which are now difficult to taste, gave them old pleasure.

Because it was difficult to obtain, canned food was more expensive than fresh food.

After filling his stomach and having a drink as an accompaniment, Woojin barely opened his mouth until the atmosphere relaxed.

“Before we talk, let’s guess why you came. “This black-and-white idiot who is so righteous as to turn the eugenicists’ uniform upside down is here for personal reasons.”

“The four Metal Joes came down fully armed and full of life, but as soon as they saw me, their faces brightened up, so it wasn’t a visit out of resentment. Then there is only one reason to come to this deep black market. “It has something to do with the by-product market, right?”

“…..”

When Ian nodded heavily, Woojin pointed at Ian with a fork.

“That’s understandable. At first glance, that person must have instigated it. “What about morality, what about the new era?”

“Did you at least plant a surveillance camera in the president’s office? “You know it very well, right?”

“It’s obvious that you, who only cares about what has exploded and what will explode in the future, can move like this. In fact, I once gave a speech at the Dome on this topic. Does that mean that person is also very eloquent? “If you just look at what is being said, they say that it is inevitable to accept the new era, but as I listen to it, I see that the empty space between words and the side effects of the new era stand out more.”

“…Honestly, it’s a bit like that, isn’t it? Even if they are mutants, they were once humans. “It’s a bit difficult to make something by tearing, slicing, and pulling.”

When Ian trailed off as if he was having a hard time explaining it, Woojin waved the chart as if stirring up words scattered in the air.

“Yes, yes. Let’s raise the question just enough and start the story. Let’s see… When I was captured, it was probably after the fight between Dom and Raptor, right?”

Woojin’s wrinkled eyes became thin and distant, as if examining the past years. Woojin was a strong man who Ian respected, but his mouth became crooked as he pondered over the years, probably because it was a difficult time for him as well.

“okay. The Raptor Society came in and said they wanted to take over the entire District 43. I was attacked by reptiles who wanted to eat my hospital balls, and they tried to kill me, and, well… I got robbed. “Even if there were hundreds of turrets, they couldn’t stop tank rounds.”

Ian calmly listened to his story. Even to put it mildly, it must have been a fierce battle. Woojin himself was once a mercenary skilled enough to be called a legend, and there were many people in the hospital other than Woojin who were indebted to him and helped run the hospital.

“So… I got caught. Then, as I said during the day, my legs were cut off, I became crippled, and I ended up doing medical service for those guys.”

“I wouldn’t have said that I would be a good doctor given my personality….”

“Tsk. So I suffered a bit from being needlessly stubborn. “I told him to just comb it out, but that guy named Kesselring… he’s a bastard beyond imagination.”

Woojin paused for a moment and pointed his finger at Ian. When Ian handed him the bottle of alcohol he was holding, Woojin gulped down the drink and continued talking while quenching his appetite.

“okay. This doctor, Woojin, was scared by the threat of that bastard with no blood on his damn head. Jimmy, you’re all old and embarrassing. I’m old too. “Not only my body, but also my mind has aged…”

Letting out a sigh mixed with the smell of alcohol, the old man’s story flowed between the four of them.

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At that time, Woojin said he was planning to die anyway. It has no legs, and has been captured by those who use people to run the tank. He had lived enough to live, so he thought there was no need to dwell on it.

So, even when he saw the torture instruments neatly hung on the white wall of a neat room called the ‘counseling room’, he was confident.

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“Tsk! f*ck you. If you don’t do it, don’t do it.”

“Hmm. “There can’t be any good in coming out this stiff.”

“When you get old, you naturally become stiff. Same goes for joints and lower back. No matter what you do, nothing will go well with those reptilian bastards, so just kill them, you bastard. Why is it easy to give orders from afar, but scary to kill directly? “The commander is as cherry as he looks.”

Kesselring wiped the thick phlegm from his chest and was slightly impressed by the old man’s unwavering appearance.

He was the one who poured the oil that his subordinates had just squeezed out of the old man’s leg into the gas tank right in front of the old man’s eyes. The oil, which had a red tinge, was a special medicine that taught the captives captured by the Raptor about their predestined fate and made them compliant, so the old man thought that he would have become compliant enough by then.

But instead of being discouraged when he saw that, the old man became even more furious. Even though he was feverish all over because he only managed to stop the bleeding, he almost flipped the car over by sticking the hidden needle into the driver’s eye, and he cursed until he was hoarse. Even after being tortured, his eyes remain the same as when he first saw them.

I thought I was going to die because I was an old man and didn’t receive proper treatment, but now that I look at it, it doesn’t really seem that way.

‘….What a shame.’

Kesselring was an efficient man. From the moment he learned that the old man, whom he thought was a mercenary hired by the hospital, was the director of the hospital and was reputed to be the most trustworthy among the local doctors, Kesselring thought that placating the old man would be much more efficient than letting him die like this. So, while I was busy, I personally came here.

Kesselring threw away the gloves he had wiped off the phlegm and put on new ones, then bent down and looked the stubborn old man in the eyes.

“If you want to go that far into our Raptor’s oil storage, I won’t stop you. But isn’t that talent a waste? Woojin, Raptor is willing to treat you as a doctor. Even so, as the number of mechanized infantry increased, the shortage of medical personnel was becoming apparent. You probably know the saying that even if you end up in a dog poop, life is better. “If you are from the past, you should listen to the old sayings.”

“under! They think that just because they talk about humans, all animals become humans. Dog shit field? Dude, it’s a shithole so it’s worth rolling around in. The road you guys take is a corpse field. If something gets dirty, you just have to wash it. However, the blood on the hands that killed someone cannot be erased by washing. If we keep those guys alive, will we just end up killing more people? I’ve been going back and forth for the past few days, going back and forth to the afterlife for some counseling, and they said that the karma of the people I killed when I was young is already over the limit. “I wasn’t able to pay off all the interest while working as a doctor, but I have no intention of adding to my debt in the afterlife.”

“Ultimately, I have no desire to serve the Raptor Society of my own free will.”

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Phew.

Kesselring sighed deeply. Although it is very unpleasant and irritating to his personality to only use about 80 or 70 of the resources that can be utilized at 100.

‘It’s much more efficient than not being able to use it at all.’

“Let me in.”

When Kesselring signaled to his men outside the door, the waiting men came in, dragging a man tied up like a bee. Kesselring checked the chamber of his pistol.

“This….”

“Even the old man must know this face. Raptor soldiers are all skilled soldiers, so they are used to taking prisoners while killing enough. Whether used as labor, meat, or oil. “Humans are much fresher and more useful when they are alive than when they are corpses.”

Woojin gritted his teeth as he looked at the people who came in looking miserable. They are all people who worked at his hospital. From the blunt and large pharmacist to the nurse, the elderly man of his age and his young granddaughters who stayed at the hospital and helped him with chores.

“I’m not a fan of threats. “It takes a long time, the subject’s will is irreparably damaged, and it ultimately leads to a decrease in work efficiency.”

Kesselring shook his head with regret, then raised his gun and shot the man next to him in the temple.

The body of a man who could not even breathe was dragged out, and soon after, a plastic bottle filled with yellow oil was brought into the room.

One corpse, one bottle of oil.

Kesselring found several empty plastic bottles in a corner of his ‘counseling room’ and lined them up next to the full bottles.

The people who had been beaten to the point where they couldn’t even cry could only tremble at the sight, and no unnecessary conversation continued between Woojin and Kesselring, who were glaring at Kesselring as if their eyes would pop out. Kesselring had already tried to talk to him enough.

Crash. Taang-!

The nurse who made all kinds of snacks for the elderly person every day collapsed. After a while, he came back with a full plastic bottle.

“stop….”

Crash.

Taang!

The big pharmacist, who had been fighting with patients who were trying to force him to get more medicine, came back with a full plastic bottle.

As Kesselring’s mechanical eyes turned to the next target, Woojin’s mouth, which had been letting out an animal-like groan, eventually opened.

“Stop… stop! Don’t worry! I’m telling you to stop! “You damn beast-!”

Taaaang!

dump.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu….!”

In the end, after filling up four plastic bottles, Kesselring stopped the murders that continued in silence.

“how. Would you like to fill another bottle? “For small children, the amount is small, so even if you put both, one bottle would probably be just fine.”

Woojin ended up lowering his head when he saw the two children who were so lost that they couldn’t even cry. I knew very well that these were people who would die at the hands of the Raptor in one way or another, and that they would die in the end no matter what, but the sight of them going from humans to resources in a split second was the most visual expression of considering their lives as meaningless. It was so terrible that it was difficult to bear.

“…Where is the treatment room?”

match. match. match. match.

“That’s it. That’s the attitude, old man. Always, always. Prioritize the work assigned to you by Raptor above all else. “Unless you want to fill the rest of the bottle.”

Kesselring wiped the blood-splattered face and front of his uniform with his white gloves, then threw the dirty white gloves at Woojin’s face and said:

“I will give you the oil to commemorate the restoration of our relationship. Winter is coming, so there must be a lot of places in need. “Use it as if it is their last warmth.”

Kesselring, who had a satisfied look on his face as if things had finally worked out properly, massaged Woojin’s shoulder as if to cheer him up and headed for the door. He grabbed the doorknob and looked back at Woojin with a smile on his face, as if he had forgotten for a moment.

“ah. If you’re going to be with those kids, please ask for one. “He also happens to be a doctor.”

“….what.”

“If your children stop running, pay special attention to their health.”

“what?”

Woojin looked back, his face turning white. Two teenage girls staggering around with blank, dead eyes and unable to cry.

It was such a harsh shock to an old man who remembered the children playing in his hospital.

“Isn’t it all Raptor’s property? “It’s loyalty that lasts generations… I like it.”

Hot hot hot hot.

Kesselring’s dry laughter filled the room.

Woojin pondered for a long time the feeling of the hand remaining on his shoulder. That voice too. Even the eyes. Everything from the way you walk to the way you speak. Shame and sorrow. With seething anger.

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“That’s how I became Raptor’s doctor.”

“You f*cking bastards….”

A creepy sound came from Ian’s mouth during Woojin’s monologue. It was the sound of iron teeth grinding against human teeth.

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fantasy,