Ch. 8 — Guemho Station
On my journey there, I kept talking to the system asking it more about the mechanics of this world. It surprisingly knew things that were not mentioned in the novel or in the epilogue.
When I reached Guemho station. The guy... what was his name again?
[ Bang Cheolso - Leader of the Cheoldoo Group ]
I walked up the platform and kept my head low as I blended in with the other survivors. He was going on with some freedom leader speech or something but I payed no interest in him and just sat behind groups to stay hidden.
A few moments passed by and Bang Cheolso and his gang we're rounding up some people to accompany them up in the city to get supplies, everyone in was hesitant to volunteer and the whole place we're enveloped by chatter.
"YAH DO NONE OF YOU WANNA EAT HUH! Anyway we'll just take you eh?? You're young and you can help your grandpa this way. Heh" A gang member spits out grabbing the arm of a lady.
Everyone gasped and whispered around me as the young lady was resistant to the gang members, the old man, her grandfather was even pleading with them to take him instead.
"Yahhh you seriously gonna take her?? She's much to skinny"
I spoke up directly and everyones eyes we're suddenly on me.
[ Trying to play hero? HAHAHAHAHAHA ]
This damn system!
"I volunteer in her place!"
This feels like hunger games man...
[You are now nicknamed: Lochness Neverdeen]
I glare at the stupid blue screen in front of my face. 'You are not funny.. remove that shit immediately.'
"EH? You?? A small child like you?? Will volunteer?? YAH DON'T MAKE US LAUGH" another gang member chimed in and pointed his sword at me.
I raised my eyebrows at him and walked towards him with confidence in my steps. "So? You need volunteers right? Well, Here I am!"
[ You look stupid ]
I SWEAR I'M GONNA HIT YOU! YOU DAMMED ROBOT!
After some push and pull I finally got them to take me. We we're now walking towards the convinience store while sticking close to the buildings in order to avoid the giant monsters roaming around the streets.
Once we reached the convinience store they ordered me and a few others to gather some supplies in the bags. The moment I was out of their sights I immediately shoved some extra foods into my bag.
"Yah... what're you doing there?"
A voice whispered to my ear which sent shivers down my spine.
"Nothing" I reply to the man standing infront of me, deliberately dropping the food in my hand and bending down to pick them up.
"Just checking them, making sure they aren't expired yet. You know?" I reply as I stand back up placing the food inside the bags they handed us. He cackled loudly and boisterouslly called his friend over.
"Yahhh you try'na steal aren't you?" He says grabbing my wrist and bringing his face close to mine. "Try'na pull a quick one?"
His friend immediately put his sword against my neck and backing me up into the wall behind me. "Hey! Should we just leave this one here to die? Ah? It's no use to us anyway."
Another one came near me and brushed his lips against my face and down to my neck, I instantly turned my face away but he grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him. I could hear his friends cackling at what he was doing.
Just when he was about to lean into my neck I kicked his stomach and used my [Wheels of Wind and Fire Lv. 1] as I used my other foot to kick myself off the wall, leaving a trail of fire that quickly spread to their clothes.
As they panicked, one of them scrambled to grab a water bottle and splashed it onto himself yet it did nothing to put out the fire. One even tried to use his stigma to put it out yet it still didn't.
I could hear their panicked shouts and yelped as the fire burned them and I hurriedly picked up some more foods shoving them into the shopping bags they provided, while I grabbed even more for myself and placed them inside my Horder's Bag.
As me and the other incarnation that were with the group walk back to the entrance of the station None of us dared to speak. When we reached the place the gang members noticed that the ones accompanying us we're missing.
"Where's the others?" A member asked us from behind the gate, no one answered. Growing impatient he banged his sword on the gate and yelled once more making everyone flinch at the sound.
"Really? Nobody? Fine." As he uttered those last words he spat at the gates and motioned for two other members to lift the gates.
As the two lifts the gate three more grab the grocery bags and toss them in while the men grab us and remove the masks on our faces exposing us to the fog.
The poisonous fog enters my lung fast and it feels as if hell fire had just ignited inside. I cough out and grab my throat desperately, as the men push us out to the streets and yell out to attract the monsters nearby.
The other incarnations around me try to resist but the fog weakens the body until the point where they're legs are giving out beneath themselves. I struggle from the hold until I finally manage to break out from the man's hold.
[3,000 coins have been used to level up stats]
I grab my spear from behind and use my [Wheels of Wind and Fire Lv. 1] to circle the men holding us, and in one fell swoop slice off their heads in one go. I gather up the two passed out incarnation and go back to gates where the men have lined up in defense.
I quickly lift up the gate with one hand and run inside the station, dragging them with me.