Cave Cleaning -1-
Cleaning the cave
“You’re a new member of our team?”
The deer looks me up and down.
A face that is obviously unsightly.
Don’t you like me? I don’t like you either.
“Don’t mutate. If you do, I’ll kill you.”
After saying those words, the deer closed its eyes.
I also just sat down in an empty seat near the front of the bus.
The men sitting in the back are gossiping.
“That kid won’t mutate right away, right?”
“Even if you’re a beginner, you can probably hold out a few times. After the schedule is over, you don’t have to worry about anything.”
“Well, you just need to get the inhibitor.”
“All we have to do is make money.”
“Damn it. What the hell am I doing just to make a few hundred dollars?”
“Is it common to find a job that pays this much in our situation? If we try, we’ll become superhuman.”
“Whew······I envy you, Deer Lord.”
The men’s gaze passes over the deer.
The situation is similar. One part of the body is grotesquely deformed or a strangely shaped prosthesis is inserted.
An old man with porcupine spines instead of hair. An old man with eight steel tentacles instead of legs, like an octopus. An old man whose body is half-zombified.
But there was a crucial difference.
An old man said with an envious look on his face.
“Last time, Noru-nim took a photo of the magic reflection and said that the magic circuit was faintly visible.”
“Huh, really?”
“That’s what I said.”
“It wasn’t taken at all?”
“No. If that were the case, you would have gone to the Superhuman Tower a long time ago and received level 1 certification.”
“I’m so jealous. I’m so jealous.”
“It’s not level 1, but it’s at least level 0.9.”
“The world is unfair. Some people roll around in this shithole for months and just lose weight, while others gradually become stronger.”
“Do you realize now that the world is unfair? If you were a kid, you should have studied hard and entered a magic university.”
“What can I do if I don’t have a clue?”
Once the magic circuit is established and the characteristics are unlocked, that is level 1.
I looked at the deer with renewed eyes.
‘It’s Segin Seine.’
According to the Arcane Seoul settings, a level 1 superhuman has a combined combat power similar to that of a rifleman. A level 2 superhuman is like a heavily armed special forces soldier.
That means that the guy who looks small on the outside is slightly weaker than the rifleman.
It’s nothing?
you’re welcome!
It is said that its bare-handed combat power is similar to that of an automatic rifle, which makes it an excellent human weapon.
And you’re going to walk around naked as a superhuman?
They carry all kinds of magical science equipment with guns hanging from them.
‘If I suck up some magic and develop my special ability, I’ll become a superhuman.’
It’s not called R-rated for nothing.
After a while, the driver came into the bus. He frowned at me sitting in the front seat, then handed me a plastic bag as if he was throwing it at me.
“Are you a newbie? It’s a suppressant, so take it at the end of each schedule. If you don’t take it, you’ll die.”
Anyway, they say that people at the bottom are all short-spoken.
I took the plastic bag without saying anything.
The plastic bag contained two 1cc syringes and one 2cc ampoule.
Inhibitor.
This is something I heard an explanation about from the head of the human resources office yesterday.
‘You said it was a three-day schedule.’
Three consecutive days of purification.
If you are an ordinary person, something will definitely go wrong.
So, at the end of each day’s schedule, you take a suppressant to suppress the magic contamination, and on the last day, you deal with it yourself.
Either run to the temple and be purified, buy holy water and drink it, or find another way to solve it.
‘I don’t need it.’
This is due to the combination of pollution resistance and vitality.
If it seems risky, you can get a few more related traits and equip them.
Because trait switching is a new feature.
I roughly stuffed the plastic bag into my bag.
Even though the bag was full of water and kimbap, it somehow fit.
Soon the driver sat in the driver’s seat.
Vroom!
The bus vibrated.
Engine noise like a cultivator.
It was clearly different from the cars with magical science engines that ran smoothly.
This is a diesel engine.
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The deer sitting behind the driver’s seat grumbled.
“When on earth are we going to replace the buses? How many years are we going to keep running these old crappy things?”
“You know, our boss trembles over even a 100 won coin.”
“I need to quickly become a superhuman and renew my contract.”
“Oh, everything will be different if you become a superhuman. The director promised to give you an apartment and a personal secretary.”
“Is that true?”
“Of course. Just become a superman.”
A completely different attitude from when I deal with other men.
The driver was busy giggling and trying to please the deer.
The deer snorted and closed its eyes again.
Rattle rattle.
After a long drive, the truck arrived in front of a huge concrete structure.
[Capital Area’s First Landfill]
The sign hanging from the rickety steel tower creaked and shook.
Oh, this is the place.
The place I had in mind from the beginning.
In the early days of the game, when there were no Jirisan Magul or Baekdusan Magul, it was also a place where the Angbal Kim warrior party would automatically hunt.
“Whoa.”
“I’m here again.”
“Money is the enemy, it’s the enemy.”
The driver picks up his smartphone and makes a call to someone.
Then, after a long time, the side door of the concrete structure opened and a man came out.
“Hwaaam.”
A man wearing a civil servant ID card.
After taking a quick look around, he hands Deer a card key.
“Are you the player manager’s team? You worked hard today too.”
There was a small post-it note attached to the card key.
The deer looked at it and raised the corners of its eyes.
“This time it’s five places?”
“Isn’t more the better?”
“That’s true, but······”
“Please take care of me today too. I hope something happens.”
The official got out of the way.
A look that doesn’t show even a hint of passion.
The deer frowned and looked at the post-it note, then turned its head.
First, he looks at me and sighs, and then when he looks at the other men, his expression becomes very serious.
The last time I saw the hedgehog’s head, it was so distorted that I almost crumpled it up like tissue paper.
“Mr. Kim.”
“Yes, sir.”
“The old man is out.”
“Huh? Get out? What do you mean?”
“It’s too dangerous. Be honest. You didn’t even get purified properly this time, right? The contamination is too severe. If you make a mistake, you’ll be gone. It’s not just a magic disease, you’ll be completely mutated.”
Everyone’s faces hardened with seriousness.
The atmosphere became tense, but the hedgehog head just chuckled.
“Hehehe, Deer Lord. Are you saying this because you don’t know my circumstances?”
“I know, I know. But is that more important than life?”
“Sir, I’m more afraid of the debt collectors I’ll meet on Saturday than of being mutated. If you don’t pay, you know? You’ll have your skull removed.”
The hedgehog’s head poked its head in.
Hair with unusual deformities.
It was probably fused with the skull as well.
That’s why debt collectors covet hedgehog heads.
The deer crossed its arms and stared at the hedgehog’s head.
“So. I have to get in somehow?”
“Yes. Five hundred is enough to pay the interest and principal and have a drink. If you have your skull removed and have a bowl turned over, is that how a person can live? Even if you die soon, you should say that.”
“I might really die.”
“This is something I have been prepared for since I came into this world.”
The hedgehog’s head smiled broadly.
But I can’t help but feel my fingers tremble as I roughly put them together.
The other men kept swearing.
“Shipple.”
“What a f*cking world.”
“I would have no more wishes if it had just completely gone downhill.”
“Whew······Do as you wish. Even if I die, it’s you who dies, not me. Is there anyone who can go back even now?”
The deer’s gaze briefly passed over me.
And you’re not going home after all?
That question sparkled on the surface of his eyes.
Ignore it completely.
I’m in a hurry too.
If you don’t pay your rent or your credit card bill, you never know what will happen.
As the landlady said, it would be good if we did some forced labor, but it can’t end there.
“Let’s go in.”
Go through the side door.
A dark space greeted the team.
Knock, knock.
A huge bunker-like space made entirely of concrete.
It was extremely humid inside. Water droplets kept falling from the ceiling.
There were puddles of water here and there. They were covered in mold, as if they hadn’t been cleaned properly. There were even mushrooms growing in the corners, so it felt like I was in a giant cave rather than an artificial structure.
Moreover, the putrid smell emanating from the entire space was so bad that it made my nose tingle.
As if I had entered a garbage dump.
“J-13 area······”
A deer leads the way as if it is familiar with the situation.
After walking for a long time through narrow passages and turning several right-angled corners, I finally arrived.
[J-13]
A copper plate covered in rust.
Beneath it, red electric lights blinked dangerously.
“Ouch, dust.”
Phew!
The deer’s breath blew dust from the electronic control panel.
Using my breath as a signal, the men took something out of the bag they had brought.
Things like gas masks and scarves.
The hedgehog head glanced at me from his gas mask.
“What didn’t you bring?”
“yes.”
“Well, should I give you something?”
“Okay.”
“Oh, right. Then the person disappears.”
“What good is it if it’s not even an artifact?”
“That may be true, but the human heart… Oh, no. What can you do when you can’t even protect yourself?”
Contamination magic isn’t a poison gas, and it’s impossible to block it with a cheap gas mask or scarf.
The deer and the other men heard me, but they turned their heads slightly and looked away. Then they wrapped their scarves around their gas masks, which were completely ineffective.
Wheeing.
The door opened when Deer held up his card key.
Ki-ki-ki-ki!
The door swings open with a loud noise.
Immediately afterwards, a pungent smell wafted from inside.
Black smoke rising in puffs.
The men turned away in disgust.
“crazy!”
“It was a f*cking mess!”
“This is so bad!”
It’s a polluted magic.
A problem that arose as urbanization progressed rapidly after modernization.
The negative thoughts, negative dimensional magic, and pollutants that inevitably arise in a megacity combine to create a problem that, if left unchecked, can lead to even bigger problems in the future.
Naturally, modern urban planning has focused on controlling pollution magic, and the world’s first landfill, originally intended for golf, is now being used as a pollution magic induction facility.
“I’m going to shit some blood. Everyone get ready.”
Everyone takes out the shovels they had prepared in advance.
Me too.
My hard-earned money went into this too.
My already light bank account balance has become seriously empty after buying things like bags, kimbap, water, and shovels.
“Go.”
Ki-ki-ki-ki-ki.
The deer put his card key on the second iron gate control panel.
The massive steel door creaks open.
Phew!
The polluted magic power erupts as if it had been waiting.
The concentration is so thick that it obscures vision like fog.
To the point where you can barely distinguish between your own hands and the person in front of you.
Even in the midst of all this, monsters were seen crawling out.
Black lumps of monsters that look like they were roughly made of crude oil, tar, and rotten mud.
Contaminated slime.
Although it was a level 0 contaminated being with fighting power similar to that of a neighborhood stray cat, there was another reason why it was scary.
The old men were making a fuss.
“Hold your breath, breathe!”
“Ugh!”
“Do it quickly! Do it quickly!”
“Euratchacha!”
The men in the lead swing their shovels hard.
The rippling, polluted slime shakes violently.
There was no actual damage. Instead, the body of the contaminated slime was lifted up as if digging the ground, and it was thrown forward in a large way.
“doesn’t exist!”
“Keep going!”
“Pull out the magic core! Quickly!”
There is only one way to kill a contaminated slime.
It is to destroy or remove the magical power core located somewhere in the body.
It goes without saying, but it’s never easy.
Because the body of the polluted slime is so black and its magic core is smaller than the nail of a little finger.
So it was a shovel.
If you scoop up the body as much as possible with a shovel and scatter it in all directions, the moment the magic core enters it, the connection will be broken and the contaminated slime will die.
Phew! Phew!
The polluted magic erupted and tormented the cleaners.
Black sweat drips down the men’s foreheads.
Was it my imagination that the spines on the hedgehog’s head had become sharper and had begun to take on a metallic sheen?
“Eww!”
The deer was digging furiously.
Much faster than the old men.
Almost twice as much.
But that was all. Deer was not a warrior type, but a strengthened type. As a Deer that was not even properly awakened and was not even level 1, there were limitations.
“Get out of the way.”
The day will pass like this
Unable to stand still, I step forward and the deer glares at me.
“Where did you get the new kid?”
“Shut up. Haven’t you even been in the military? Who would do something like that?”
As a former sergeant in the army and someone who has done some hard work, I thought it was child’s play.
He grabbed the shovel tightly and thrust with all his might.
“Gulp!”
A weird sound and a shitty feeling.
Ignoring everything, he kicks the shovel again.
A shovel that goes in so deep that you can barely see the head.
Finally, it floats up and spreads forward.
“Huh?”
“wow!”
My movements are precise and measured, as if I were performing a ritual.
As the amount sprinkled was nearly five times that of what the deer and other men had been spreading, cheers erupted from those around them.
The excitement quickly turned to astonishment.
Push. Push.
That’s why the polluted slime collapsed, emitting black smoke.
“What, what is it?”
“That’s ridiculous!”
“I killed the slime in one shot!”
Of course.
[Treasure Hunt] trait to find rare loot.
Because of that, I could see the blue glow shining inside the polluted slime.
This is the magic core of the polluted slime.
Rarely, you may find used electronics or consumable items, but this is only occasionally.
“oh my god······”
“Does that make sense?”
“Beginner’s luck, huh?”
“but.”
“Even a veteran like a deer can’t do it, but the rookie just got lucky.”
To conclude, you are wrong.
I could slaughter as many slimes as I wanted.
But what I chose was a waste of time.
Even though the blue light dot was clearly visible, I avoided it and lifted my slime body off.
‘There’s no need to show everything.’
But it was still fast.
I was doing the work of five people by myself.
Bam! Bam!
Slime debris spraying like water.
Thanks to this, the contaminated slimes in Area J-13 were quickly cleared out.
Just 30 minutes.
It was several times faster than usual.
