Escape from Gosiwon -1-
Escape from Gosiwon
“Ugh, I’m dying.”
I threw myself on the worn-out bed.
The bed creaks and screams.
I was no different. Eggs were all over my body, and every time I moved, my muscles would scream, and the world would shake and try to knock me over.
‘Trait conversion isn’t omnipotent either.’
The fact that your body changes when you change your traits is a huge advantage.
The problem is that there are aftereffects.
It was okay when simply deleting strength or vitality, but the aftereffects of mutation deletion were coming late.
‘If you delete a mutation at a high level, you might die.’
It’s amazing that you can turn from a mutant into a normal human.
Maybe in the future it will save my life once or twice.
With that thought in mind, I quietly closed my eyes.
A feeling of sinking into a swamp came over me, and soon pitch-black darkness reached out to me.
“Ugh······”
I slept like I was dead.
What’s painful is that I was only slightly awake during all this.
“You f*cking XX bitch, you f*cking XX bitch, you’re gonna die!”
“Why am I XXX to XX! Doctor XXX even introduced me to XXX!”
“XX is still like that!”
That’s why I could hear all the noise.
Daily life in a goshiwon.
The sound of someone fighting.
It was a familiar voice, but my half-asleep mind couldn’t recognize whose voice it was.
I just kept repeating the cycle of moving away and then coming back.
How many more hours passed?
A chilling, piercing scream tore at my eardrums like a knife.
“Ahhhhhhh!”
A scream that forcibly rips open your eardrums and penetrates your brain, making you unable to wake up, whether you are in a light sleep or deep sleep.
I suddenly raised my upper body.
It was dawn.
A goshiwon room without a single window. The smartphone on the nightstand was displaying 5 AM.
“what?”
“what’s the matter?”
“Why are you like this so early in the morning! Get some sleep, get some sleep!”
Neighbors who noticed something strange stuck their heads out and spoke up one by one.
But soon he shuts his mouth.
“Whoaaaaaaa······”
It was because the groans, mixed with despair and fear, resonated in a long, low tone, as if the wind was blowing.
It’s not just a scream or a groan.
A sinister and eerie sound that makes your hair stand on end the moment you hear it, one that lets you know immediately that something is clearly wrong.
I instinctively kicked open the door and ran out.
It was the same for everyone.
Some women even came out carrying kitchen knives, and some men even came out carrying baseball bats.
“where are you?”
“The management office! It was the management office!”
“The management office?”
“What, did you get stabbed by a knife?”
The management office is right next to the entrance.
A place where anyone coming and going must have their face checked.
As soon as we stood in front of the management office, the door opened and someone walked out.
Open eyes.
Drool dripping from my mouth.
Steel jaws mounted half-rotted.
The teeth of the gears are planted haphazardly.
He looks like he was experimented on by a mad scientist.
The knife in my hand is covered in blood!
“f*ck, shit.”
“f*ck.”
Through the open door I could see the landlady collapsed.
The pool of blood is spreading.
A body trembling. The amount of blood loss is already fatal. If the priest of the temple does not come and use his divine power, he will not survive.
“Hehehe!”
Steel Jaw, Mr. Lee laughed with a pout.
He looked at the knife in his hand and shook it playfully.
“Rain, it’s raining! Rain, it’s raining!”
The residents of the goshiwon frowned.
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“That kid took some pills.”
“A person who goes crazy even when he doesn’t drink alcohol also takes drugs?”
“Let’s get out of the way. We’re not the police. What are we going to do by arresting that guy?”
If I get stabbed for no reason, I’ll be the only one who suffers.
Such a consensus was formed.
I stared at the steel jaw, my fist clenched slightly.
‘Should I catch it?’
You can catch it.
No matter how much drugs you take and how much you wield a knife, you are still just an ordinary human being.
Even though I’m not even level 1, if I use my strength and bright eyes traits to throw a few pieces of furniture and charge, there’s no way I can’t catch it.
But there is no reason why that should be the case.
I glanced at the collapsed woman in the management office.
Self-inflicted.
I sold my jaw and teeth to an unlicensed peddler, thinking I could make some money from it, because I was a little behind on my rent, so this is the karma that has come upon me.
Why don’t you just urge them a little and apply for forced execution in court?
It’s pitiful that he got stabbed, but what’s truly pitiful is his steel jaw.
Maybe a steel jaw is what my future looks like.
Without another thought, I turned around and got out of the way.
So that the steel jaw can pass through.
But the behavior of the steel jaw was completely different from what I expected.
Instead of passing by quietly, he ran towards me screaming.
“Chukkoo!”
This kid?
The distance is only a few meters.
A situation where you could be hit if you’re not careful.
As if by chance, a fire extinguisher covered in dust caught my eye.
A stick.
The fire extinguisher was secured to one side of the wall, but it was no match for my strength as I tried to pull it off.
Boohoo!
Just swing it.
The fire extinguisher was roughly lodged in the steel jaws.
Phew!
A crisp, crackling sound.
It hit me right in the left temple.
My eyes, which were already full of flavor, slowly open.
Clang!
The sword fell with a clang, and the wobbly steel jaw gave way.
One blow.
That was enough.
Like dealing with an alcoholic who is on drugs.
“Hiya.”
“Wow, that’s amazing.”
“I heard that Mr. Lee also played a song when he was young······”
“As expected of a warrior! He lives up to his name!”
“Hey, you’re not dead, are you?”
“I’m not dead.”
When I put my hand on the carotid artery, it was beating vigorously.
I pretended like nothing happened on the outside, but I let out a sigh of relief on the inside.
I was a little scared.
No matter what country you are in, beating people to death is like that.
The hedgehog head is fine, since it’s already turned into a monster, but the steel jaws aren’t.
“Shouldn’t we call the police?”
A young woman in her early twenties asks, trembling.
Then the balding old man snorted.
“Police? Will they come if I call them? They won’t come even if I report them! I said I didn’t touch the neighborhood park over there in the first place!”
“But, but someone died.”
“How many people die in South Korea every day? If you want to report it, do it. But do you know? The police are a real nuisance. Sometimes, the innocent reporter gets turned into the perpetrator and gets punished.”
“No way.”
“I’m telling you, it’s true? I saw it with my own eyes. Don’t you know how blinded by the results these salty guys are? And you can report it, but wait a little while.”
“why?”
Instead of answering, the man went into the management office.
After looking at the old woman with her legs crossed, he clicked his tongue a few times and then took a piece of wire out of his pocket.
The other man shook his head.
“Listen, Mr. Yang. A person has died. Is that what you want to do?”
“f*ck. A corpse can feed you. Then just go to your room and sleep. I’m going to give you bread, so don’t take it.”
“No. I’m not saying I won’t accept it······”
The bald man took the wire to the safe in the corner.
I put the wire into the lock and turned it a few times skillfully, and with a click, the safe opened.
Gulp.
Someone swallowed their saliva.
Soon the vault door opened and the inside was revealed.
A few wads of bills visible inside.
The balding man who had opened the safe spat on one side.
“Hey, huh! What the heck? You were taking money so viciously, and now all you get is 600?”
“Six hundred? Six hundred?”
“f*ck. I should have just had it all.”
The bald man looks over the gathered people.
Because it was so noisy, all the people living in the goshiwon gathered together.
Although it is a small goshiwon, the walls are like a chicken coop, so there are at least 20 people in it.
If you divide it by the number of people, it doesn’t even come to 30 per person.
I waved first.
“I’m done.”
“Oh, Mr. Warrior should receive the most.”
“I’ll just consider it as paying rent.”
Just hearing someone die is enough to make your heart race.
But, standing next to the corpse, he calmly opened the safe and planned to divide the money inside.
What was even scarier was the mindset of these people who thought nothing of this.
Even the girl who had asked if she should report it to the police had eyes sparkling with anticipation.
‘I have to leave the room.’
No, I should just leave this neighborhood.
Wouldn’t it be better to go to downtown Seoul, or even to a neighborhood where middle-class people live?
Even near the neighborhood park where I collected the trait a few days ago.
“I’ll go. Just pretend I never happened.”
“Oh, right. I’ll make sure to clean up the mess. We’re both equally afraid of the Iron Fist faction.”
“Iron Fist?”
“Oh. It’s a gang that’s been taking over this area lately. The boss there is a persistent person, so if you get involved with him, it’s going to be a headache. The lady here must have been paying bribes to them too.”
The girl who was listening asked with concern.
“Then, isn’t it wrong to share this?”
“If you’re scared of that, then don’t take it.”
“No, that’s not it.”
“We don’t know anything. Just tell them that they’re dead when you wake up in the morning. The rest will be taken care of by the Iron Fist faction. We don’t know who this building will go to, but the Iron Fist faction will be fine as long as they receive the bribes regularly. And Mr. Lee······”
The balding man locked the safe and looked down at the fallen steel ledge.
The nearby residents exchange secret glances.
“We’ll just take care of it ourselves.”
“Oh, that’s right.”
The girl backed away hesitantly with a frightened look on her face.
He snatches a few Shin Saimdang pictures that were assigned to him as if he was snatching them away and runs up the stairs.
The bald man clicked his tongue.
“I won’t be seeing that girl again in the morning.”
“You’re not going to go around spreading the word, are you?”
“No way. And what good would it do? That girl is an accomplice too.”
“but.”
“Mr. Warrior, you haven’t been friends with us since this morning. Do you understand?”
“All right.”
I also returned to my room.
I don’t have any luggage. All I have is a few worn-out clothes and some odds and ends.
Instead, there was a bag.
Contains 12 million won in cash, over 100 level 0 magic cores, and 1 level 1 magic core.
As I lifted the heavy bag, a chill suddenly went down my spine.
‘I slept really hard last night.’
I was so tired that I couldn’t sleep well.
Although I was half awake, I couldn’t properly perceive the outside world.
What if someone opened the door and came in?
What if you quietly stuck a knife into my heart?
He would have died without even making a sound.
The scene of the bald man picking the lock that I had just seen flashed before my eyes.
He probably came from a family of thieves.
There’s no way that a bald old man is the only one in this goshiwon, or in this goshiwon alley, who knows how to pick a lock.
And these people are the kind of people who would kill people without any qualms if they could get ten million won in cash.
‘It’s dangerous.’
I need to get out of here quickly, not just for my mental health, but to save my life.
I picked up my bag and quickly crossed the hallway.
The residents of the goshiwon were still gathered and making a fuss in the management office and the hallway outside the management office.
“······Strangled with a rope······”
“Don’t do that, just tell Mr. Park······”
“The body is more alive than a corpse······”
“······Auntie’s daughter······”
“······My younger brother······”
“······Iron Fist Kim Cheol-kwon······”
No one looked back at me.
Oh, there was one.
He takes one look at my bag, then pulls away and walks inside.
It looks like they’re trying to take the remaining luggage because they’re packing in a hurry.
At this point, I can’t even laugh.
“Oh my.”
I went down to the neighborhood park where I had collected the traits and sat on a bench.
The day was slowly dawning.
The long shadows seem to scratch the world like the claws of a witch.
‘We have to move.’
Even if you lose your mind, you won’t be able to eat or drink.
You promised.
I will survive.
To do that, we need to let today’s work slide and move forward toward tomorrow.
I have money and ability.
What’s so hard about being dead?
When I think back to when I was scammed out of my deposit and had to move into a goshiwon, this is nothing.
I have some credit card debt, but I can pay it off quickly if I just keep using my credit cards.
“let’s go.”
Now that I’ve escaped from the goshiwon, I need to find a house, a room first.
I rushed towards the real estate agent’s office that I had checked out in advance.
