Cave Cleaning -2-
The old men opened their mouths wide.
“Am I dreaming?”
“You’re crazy, you’re crazy.”
“I really want to.”
“You have to live long to see this.”
The hedgehog’s head shook its hand.
“Perhaps, a superhuman?”
Whoa, my head spins.
The old men were suddenly emitting light from their eyes.
A word with such powerful destructive power.
superman.
The stiff deer swallows dry saliva.
“Sir, are you really a superman?”
“no.”
“How can you do this if you’re not a superhuman?”
“I told you.”
I just shrugged my shoulders.
“I heard you went to the military and came back.”
“ah······”
“Are you, by any chance, from the Legion?”
“Western Army? Or Eastern Army?”
“It makes sense if you’re from the Legion.”
This world is similar to the original world in many ways, but there are also many differences.
One of them is the military.
Originally, unlike other countries around the world, South Korea had a volunteer military system.
The lack of manpower resources is replaced by two legions.
A powerful private military corporation, a profit-seeking group of warrior-type superhumans, and even a power group within the country granted local autonomy.
“Just do some work.”
Thud thud!
I walked around and collected the magic cores from the crushed slime fragments.
The fragments containing the magical core were slowly regenerating, so collecting them was easy.
The old men also got up and helped me.
“Should I give all of these magic cores to this hyung?”
“Let’s do that.”
“If it weren’t for this guy, I would have had a lot of bloody poop.”
“It’s not expensive, you know.”
It is said that in the old days, even level 0 magic cores were a valuable resource.
Not now.
The only machines that can be powered by level 0 magic cores are home appliances such as TVs and refrigerators, and it is much cheaper to pay electricity bills than to use expensive magic science devices on them.
The old men collected level 0 magic cores and gave them to me.
Only Deer refused to give him the Magic Core.
“This is mine.”
The deer caught only two slimes.
It’s a number that can’t even be compared to mine, but I guess they plan to collect even that.
The men who had been collecting and handing out magic cores also took a step back as they watched the level 0 magic cores being roughly shoved into the bag.
“hmm.”
“Do as you wish.”
At first glance, the deer appears to be in a bad mood.
The back of his head was stiff and turned.
I laughed inwardly.
‘You’re young.’
You’re upset because you weren’t treated like a captain, right?
Since we were destined to say goodbye after seeing each other for a few days anyway, I decided not to worry about it.
What I received were 21 level 0 magic cores.
It’s trash to others, but it’s a treasure to me.
I bowed my head politely in gratitude.
“Thank you.”
“Thank you. We should be more grateful.”
“Thanks to you, it was easy······ No, I did it.”
“That’s right, that’s right. It was easy thanks to our junior. If not, I would have sweated a lot and consumed a lot of magic power.”
The speech and the title have also changed.
I chuckled to myself and sat down, leaning against the concrete wall.
“Let’s finish up quickly and go. We have to go around one more thing today.”
“Whoa, I’m going to die.”
“I feel like my lungs are melting already.”
“Damn. If only it weren’t for that damn gamble.”
The old men sat around the wall, muttering and talking.
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The deer was lying down far away, all alone.
After taking one look at me, who was not wearing any protective gear, he took off his scarf and gas mask and began to take deep breaths.
It looks like he feels competitive towards others.
I ignored it and closed my eyes. I had never practiced danjeon breathing or meditation before, but I thought about concentrating my consciousness below my navel and took a deep breath as long as I could.
Ugh, haa.
Wet-wet- huuup-
A long, low breathing echoes around my ears, and contaminated magic tickles my lungs.
No, it stabs.
This dirty feeling, as if my lungs were completely invaded by an alien magic and my heartbeat was distorted at random.
“Hoooo.”
I consciously puffed out my chest.
I took a deep breath, thinking that I was taking in as much magical power as possible. At some point, my stomach started to feel hot and my whole body started to tickle.
Acquire [Magic Absorption] trait.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a mass of black smoke rushing towards me. The entire J-13 sector was noticeably brighter. To be exact, some of the contaminated magic had been purified.
“Wow!”
The deer ran out and vomited profusely.
“Hey, Deer-nim. Are you okay?”
“Wake up!”
“Hold your breath, breathe!”
“What did you do?”
“Why did you take off your gas mask? Sir Deer, you’ll die!”
I shook my head slightly.
Are you like me, who minimizes the side effects of magic contamination with pollution resistance and replenishes stamina consumed with vitality?
Besides, I, Kim Jeon Sa, am a warrior type superhuman.
Even though he hasn’t awakened yet, he has the highest contamination limit among the four major series of superhumans.
Since the deer is a reinforced soldier series, there are bound to be differences.
“Hoo, hooah.”
I took a deeper breath and accelerated my absorption of the polluted magic.
In fact, removing the contaminated slime was only the beginning of the cleanup of the contaminated area.
The real job was to absorb the polluted magic.
To put it simply, you can think of it as a human filter.
A job that throws oneself into a polluted facility filled with polluted magic and absorbs the polluted magic to its limit.
That’s the den cleaner.
Even in a world of dead ends, it was the deadliest of dead ends.
“Wow!”
“Coolook!”
“Kekeke! Keheek!”
The men ran out one by one.
Far out in the hallway, he was vomiting, having diarrhea, sweating, and making a real fuss.
How could it not stink like that?
I thought it smelled rotten from the moment I first came in, but I guess it was because of that.
The hedgehog head that had been pouring out outside came in and looked at me with blank eyes.
“Ugh, ugh. Are you okay, junior?”
“I’m fine.”
“Huh······ A real superhuman is here.”
The hedgehog’s head glances at the deer and me absentmindedly.
The deer screamed in anger.
“Hey, what are you looking at?”
“No, sir.”
A hedgehog head that is startled and sticks to the wall.
I stared at the back of the hedgehog’s head.
It is definitely not an illusion.
The hedgehog’s spines were more than twice as long as when I first saw it, and their metallic sheen gleamed under the dim fluorescent light.
A few hours later.
All polluted magic was purified and the green light turned on.
The old men clapped with bright faces.
“oh my god!”
“It’s over already?”
“It was supposed to take two more hours!”
“It’s thanks to my junior who endured for so long.”
“Thank you, junior!”
“Look at my hair. It’s not pointy yet, is it?”
“Oh. I’ll hold out for a little while.”
“You are truly amazing.”
“If only I had my junior, today’s work would be easy!”
The men bowed their backs.
Words of praise poured out in an incongruous manner.
But once I clenched my fist, I knew things weren’t going well.
Squeak squeak.
My fist doesn’t clench well.
Because the polluted magic of Sector J-13 was thicker and more gloomy than I thought.
Even the body of Kim Jeon Sa, who was equipped with pollution resistance, was already filled with a serious amount of pollution magic.
‘Should I take a suppressant?’
The original plan was to endure without being hit by the inhibitor, but because of the magic absorption characteristic, much more contaminated magic came in than planned.
I decided to think about it later and got up.
“Let’s go to the next area.”
“Yes, junior.”
The cleaning of the cave went smoothly.
In the next area, it took 30 minutes to remove the contaminated slime.
After that, I spent a few hours inside, just breathing.
“cadet!”
“Eww!”
“Wow!”
The men made a gasping sound.
It no longer ends with just vomiting, diarrhea, and cold sweats.
Blood gushed from the eyes, nose, and mouth, the skin that was slightly exposed was covered in boils, the prosthetic body fell off, and the deformed body became even more bizarre······
The same was true for deer.
The legs were already strangely bent to begin with.
Now more than twice his size, he twitches his muscles like a horse.
“Huh, huh.”
The good news is that it ended before it got any worse.
Ding!
A green light flashed as a cheerful sound was heard.
At the same time, sighs erupted here and there.
“I survived······”
“I really thought I was going to die.”
“Wouldn’t it be better if I died?”
“We don’t have time to do this. Let’s get back on the bus quickly.”
“Let’s go, quickly.”
I trudged out of the concrete structure.
But that didn’t mean I could go out.
The only places we can go are the parking lot and the restrooms and shower facilities on one side of the parking lot.
When asked why he couldn’t go outside, the hedgehog head answered, picking at the calluses on his face.
“That’s because we have to run the magic purifier and contamination detector once for quarantine purposes.”
“Why is that?”
“It’s not just for a day or two that civil servants here don’t like to work. And when they’re supposed to do it three times, they do it once, and when they write on the documents that they did it three times, they sometimes take it out through the back door.”
“ah······”
This is a fantastic cola of laziness and greed.
I washed my body with water in the shower room.
For some reason, I couldn’t find even a single shampoo or soap.
Saving money here too?
I stare at myself in the mirror, cursing inwardly.
“It’s a sight to behold.”
His face was covered in dead skin cells like fish scales.
The hair was also deformed, with the ends split in a Y shape.
Here, the pupils are filled with oil-like stains floating on water.
Well, this is nothing.
Compared to a hedgehog that has changed into a human hedgehog, or a deer that has twice as much legs.
I came out of the shower and returned to the bus.
The engine was off.
Because the sun has set, I can’t see inside properly.
The deer came in with the smartphone flash on and started complaining.
“Oh, that guy, really. He took my car keys again.”
“It’s always been like that. Even in winter.”
“Even if you did that back then, it’s the same because you’re doing this.”
“What can I do when the boss tells me to do something? That guy needs to make money too.”
“It’s June now, how can we sleep without air conditioning?”
He grumbles and sits down in his seat.
I reclined the chair as much as possible, lay down, and took out the plastic bag.
Inject inhibitor into 1cc insulin syringe.
He stuck the needle into his arm and pushed it in roughly.
“Huhhhh.”
A deer groaning.
Surprisingly, my enlarged legs quickly regained their original shape.
The same goes for the face, which has grown a lot of hair without one knowing it.
In just over ten seconds, the once tall monster transforms into a small young man.
“Ugh!”
“Ugh.”
It was the same with other old men.
A change so drastic that it almost seems like a miracle potion.
But instead of administering the inhibitor, I took out some kimbap and water.
‘There’s no way something like that wouldn’t have side effects.’
Because it’s cheap.
The first thing you notice about Director Choi is that he gives off a Susanoo vibe.
The likelihood that the author provided a quality inhibitor approaches zero.
It’s definitely the lowest level, maybe even some kind of drug.
In this world, drugs are much cheaper than quality medicine.
“Oh, good.”
As expected, the deer’s eyes were dimly open.
“Phew.”
He puffs on his electronic cigarette and exhales a long puff of blue-green magical smoke.
Add a few more syringes here and there.
After sticking a few more needles into his arm, he finally laid back down with a satisfied look on his face.
“Huh······It’s heaven.”
A completely relaxed expression.
Drool dripping from my mouth.
It’s a really disgusting scene.
As I turned my head slightly to turn away from the sight, a hand suddenly appeared next to me.
“Junior, would you like to do one?”
Hands covered in thorny, hairy bristles.
It had a hedgehog head.
He was holding a cigarette that looked like a cigar, and he was handing it to me, an object that gave off a strange smell that irritated my nose just by looking at it.
I knew it was drugs the moment I saw it.
No, this guy is in a lot of debt and he uses drugs?
I waved my hands with a blank face.
“Okay.”
“This is a really good product. It has few side effects and is very effective. They say that if you smoke one, you will go straight to heaven.”
“It’s really okay.”
“Well······ Okay, I understand.”
The hedgehog’s head took a cigarette without thinking.
When lit, the magical power burns and quickly turns into a fluorescent flame, and a sweet scent rises from between the petals dancing dizzily.
The bus quickly became a raccoon den.
The noises the old men, or rather the pharmacists, were making were so loud that my ears were about to rot.
But instead of getting out of the bus, I chewed on the kimbap covered in magic smoke, shivering.
‘I’m dying. Seriously.’
The body is tormented by the smell, and the mind is torn by groans.
An attack that is both physical and mental.
It was the moment when the conditions for the flowering of a new trait were met.
