[Episode 14] Vampire (4)
I knew from the time he started hunting people openly within his territory, but Jegal Seong-gyu was definitely a man without a back.
Toodoodoodoo―
Jegal Seong-gyu openly stormed into the apartment complex and brandished his gun whenever he spotted vampires.
It’s clear that you only gave 100 rounds, but you’re firing continuously instead of burst fire.
‘Is he crazy?’
I’ve heard that when you become a low-level vampire, your intelligence becomes human-level, but looking at that, isn’t it lower than that?
“Keeeeeek!”
Anyway, Jegal Seong-gyu cleared out the lowest-level vampires guarding the entrance with a barrage of gunfire and then entered without hesitation.
‘Are there not as many vampires as I thought?’
But that wasn’t the case.
“Kwaaah!”
As soon as he entered the hallway on the first floor, the lowest-level vampires rushed towards Jegal Seong-gyu.
Toodoodoodoo!
“Bam!”
Jegal Seong-gyu fired a barrage of bullets at them, emptying one of his magazines.
By now, I’ve killed close to ten vampires, so it’s a pretty good result considering I was just shooting them indiscriminately. I guess it’s because I was shooting at the ones who were crowded together in the hallway.
Click! Click!
“What the heck!”
After confirming that the bullets were not going out, Jegal Seong-gyu did not even think about reloading the magazine and instead pushed forward with his claws.
“Kyaaaaah!”
Jegal Seong-gyu’s fingernail pierced the heart of the lowest-level vampire who was staggering after being shot.
‘He’s crazy!’
Watching him continue his close combat, I could also understand why he was abandoned by the guy who turned him into a vampire, Sang-hyuk Ahn.
“Ahhh! Let go of this!”
The lowest-level vampires he has ever subdued through melee combat are only two.
One of them was a vampire that had been shot and was in a state of paralysis. This means that he had actually only caught one with his skills.
After that, he was captured and subdued by the lower-level vampires whose numbers had increased.
‘storage’
The gun and magazine that Jegal Seong-gyu had were immediately confiscated.
“Let go, you guys!”
A woman approached the subdued Jegal Seong-gyu, making a clicking sound.
“I heard a loud noise so I wondered who it was. It was Sunggyu oppa?”
“Yeah! It’s me, you fu*king bitch!”
The woman took a deep breath and said.
“Brother. Don’t you know why you were abandoned?”
“what?”
“You’re stupid. Look at it now. You can’t even handle the lowest-level vampires. You can’t even take care of yourself, and you just waste food.”
“Eww!”
The woman covered her ears in an exaggerated manner as she saw Jegal Seong-gyu shouting in anger.
“Hey, be quiet. But didn’t you just hear a gunshot? Didn’t they come barging in with a gun?”
He looked around Jegal Seong-gyu’s body, but there was no way he could find the gun and bullets that had already disappeared into my storage.
The woman brought one of the lowest-level vampires that had been shot by Jegal Seong-gyu to her side and examined the wound.
“You were shot, right?”
“…yes.”
The lowest-level vampire nodded awkwardly.
The woman turned her head towards Zhuge Liang again and asked.
“So where did you hide it? The gun.”
“Whew!”
Jegal Seong-gyu spat at that woman.
The woman who had been hit squarely in the face gave instructions with a stiff face.
“Kill him.”
As soon as her permission was granted, the lowest-level vampires began to hastily sink their teeth into Zhuge Liang’s body.
“Kuaaaaak!”
That was the end of Zhuge Liang.
[Citizen Jegal Seong-gyu has passed away.]
and.
“Cruck. Cruck!”
One of the lowest-level vampires that had sunk its teeth into Jegal Seonggyu’s body began to tremble.
“huh?”
The woman who saw it tilted her head and said.
“What? It seems like it’s in better nutritional condition than I thought? I didn’t know it could evolve.”
The body of the lowest-level vampire swelled up and down, then sank, emitting pure white steam from its entire body.
“Look around to see if there’s anything like a gun.”
The female vampire looked down at him expressionlessly and sniffed.
“What is that smell?”
At that moment, I used the ring of communication and spoke to Seo Ye-jin.
[Yejin, get ready.]
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Hurrah!
The flames flickered and the gas that had filled the hallway reacted.
Kwakwakwakwang!
All the vampires gathered there were swept away, as well as the mice hiding in a corner.
Click─!
The situation ended with the mouse’s last words.
[You have hunted the lowest level vampire (Lv. 18).]
[You have hunted the lowest level vampire (Lv. 18).]
[You have hunted a low-level vampire (Lv. 28).]
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The alarm for the hunt rang out dizzily.
‘It was a lot closer than I thought!’
If you level up soon and expand your territory, there’s a good chance that the area where these guys are will be included.
‘If it weren’t for Zhuge Liang, I wouldn’t have even known about their existence.’
Since they didn’t know about the existence of vampires, they probably granted them citizenship without much thought.
It looked like it was quite large in scale.
It was dizzying to think that at least a few dozen vampires had gained citizenship and were roaming my territory.
‘I’m so glad I found out now!’
The plan was to exterminate them before they could be incorporated into the realm.
There was no need for others to step forward.
Now that they knew where they were, it wouldn’t be that difficult to wipe them out just by using Seo Ye-jin’s mice and Yoo Hye-rin’s poison gas.
[Seo Ye-jin. Yoo Hye-rin. Please come up to my room.]
I used the ring of communication to call them and then stood up.
Choi Hyeong-jun, who had been sitting quietly next to me, opened his mouth.
“Are you leaving already?”
“Yes. Please take good care of the children.”
“Don’t worry.”
The children rescued there were first left at Choi Hyeong-jun’s house.
Currently, Park Hye-won, Choi Hyeong-jun’s wife, was diligently washing the children in the bathroom.
The moment I was about to go home to begin the full-scale operation to exterminate vampires, I ran into Yang Ha-yoon, who had just finished showering alone.
“Sir? Where are you going?”
There was a look of anxiety in the child’s eyes.
Even though we haven’t known each other for very long, he is afraid of falling.
I guess it’s because I’ve been through something like that.
I smiled like a clown and spread out both my hands.
and.
‘Shop open. Buy chocolate!’
Like a skilled magician, he picked up the chocolate he had summoned from the air and handed it to Yang Ha-yoon.
“The old man will go out to work for a while.”
Yang Ha-yoon looked up at me after receiving the chocolate and said.
“That’s right. Since you’re a member of the rescue team, you’ll have to go save people again.”
“…okay.”
He said, stroking her head.
“I’ll be back soon”
That was when.
“Sister. I’m Choi Na-yeon! What’s your name?”
Choi Na-yeon stepped forward and approached Yang Ha-yoon first.
“Oh, me? I’m Yang Ha-yoon.”
“Me too, chocolate!”
This time, Choi Seo-yeon intervened from the side.
He said this while looking at Yang Ha-yoon surrounded by her younger siblings.
“Are you able to take good care of your younger siblings?”
Yang Ha-yoon nodded with a faint smile.
“yes!”
“Please.”
So I left the kids with Choi Hyeong-jun’s family and went home.
While waiting for Seo Ye-jin and Yoo Hye-rin, I was looking through the citizen information windows one by one.
It was to check if any vampires or similar things had gotten in.
The first to arrive was Seo Ye-jin.
Looking at Yoo Hye-rin through the eyes of the Absolute, it seemed like it would take some time for her to get here since she was working at another public facility.
Crunch.
As I opened the door, Seo Ye-jin came into the house with a familiar look.
“Excuse me.”
Seo Ye-jin checked my face while I was sitting on the sofa and asked cautiously.
“Jaehyun, do you have any concerns?”
Since there would be some time left before Yoo Hye-rin arrived anyway, I talked to Seo Ye-jin.
“I was checking the citizen information window. Did you see it just now, Yejin?”
“Yes. What about those people? They don’t seem like ordinary people…”
“It’s a monster.”
“yes?”
He explained to Seo Ye-jin, whose eyes were wide open.
“Did you see them sucking blood towards the end? They’re vampires.”
“But wasn’t that guy a citizen? I remember he started from within the territory.”
“This is something I just learned, but it is possible to grant citizenship to vampires.”
Seo Ye-jin thought carefully about what I meant and then asked back.
‘Does that mean that humanoid monsters like zombies and ghouls can also obtain citizenship?!’
“I don’t know that much yet.”
Because there have never been any zombies within the area yet.
“But in that man’s case, you could say that he was a little special. He was originally an ordinary human being like us.”
“yes?”
“I think that’s how I was able to obtain citizenship. Even though I was bitten by a vampire and became a vampire myself, I was still human before.”
Seo Ye-jin, who had been quietly listening to the story, asked.
“Isn’t that similar to the zombies we saw in Nampo-dong? Those people were probably human at one point too….”
Listening to Seo Ye-jin, it certainly seemed like they would be granted citizenship as well.
“That’s why I’m worried. Is there a vampire somewhere in the area that’s sucking people’s blood right now?”
I was checking the citizen information window randomly, but I was so busy just checking the citizens coming in in real time while the automatic citizenship granting system was being canceled.
Moreover, as the number of citizens approached 30,000, it was difficult to distinguish whether they were the people we had identified just by looking at their names or not.
At that time, Seo Ye-jin said.
“When I first received citizenship, you forcibly teleported me here, right? Why don’t you do it like that?”
It’s not that I haven’t thought about it.
In the case of people who have lost consciousness due to malnutrition or dehydration, there have been instances where they were given emergency treatment or teleported here using quests.
‘But the cost of teleporting just one person is thirty million won.’
As the territory expanded, it became increasingly expensive to bring people from the outskirts here.
Even if we just move a thousand people, it will cost 30 billion.
‘It’s better to spend money to remove the status effect than to do that.’
If we could just improve the symptoms of dehydration and malnutrition and deliver supplies, people would be able to survive on their own.
It was the same with explaining to people the system of shops and monster hunting.
In the past, there was a quest to find Kim Da-bin, but now that the population has grown too much, it is no longer possible to handle it that way.
‘It’s much better to increase the number of people in the relief team than to utilize the quest grants!’
Currently, the relief team is operating by providing simple system explanations to healthy people and sending those in need of rescue to the medical team.
However, due to a chronic shortage of manpower, the situation is such that it is not possible to handle the population that is increasing in real time.
‘Besides, I don’t want to reveal that you can set death as a penalty if possible.’
Because no one would welcome the fact that they could kill at any time.
‘What a headache’
I’ve had similar issues many times, although not necessarily because of vampires.
I also thought about giving everyone a quest so that if they harmed someone with citizenship they would be penalized, but that seemed too extreme.
If someone labeled you a ‘potential criminal’, what would you think of them?
‘It’s obvious that we’ll lose public support’
I didn’t want to cause unnecessary trouble.
‘In any case, it is true that my intervention is inevitable.’
But there were limits to what I could do alone.
I couldn’t just focus on this.
‘It would be nice if there was a way to distinguish citizens’ tendencies.’
That was when.
[An entity that satisfies the conditions for acceptance as a citizen has approached the corner of the house.]
[Would you like to offer citizenship?]
As soon as I turned off the system that automatically grants citizenship, this annoying message came back.
I sighed softly and checked the information about the new citizens coming in.
‘No problem. I’ll offer you citizenship.’
The moment they accept citizenship.
[The number of citizens reached 30,000.]
[As the number of citizens reaches a certain level, the ‘Achievement System’ is opened.]
It was the emergence of a new function that would overcome this situation.
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