The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 79

Hunter Hunting

Mangyeong’s water supply.

There, the corpses of abandoned workers were frozen.

All of them were those who suffered while supplying water to the faction.

Nevertheless, the work of supplying drinking water could not be stopped.

The task of drawing water had to be done regardless of the time.

Tonight, as night deepened, the people of Mangyeong moved.

But this time it wasn’t the workers.

They were Zion’s elite squad.

“……”

The sounds of insects and bonfires were faintly heard.

Arrows fired by the enemies were stuck in the riverside, and small monsters roamed among the tall grass.

And again, people began to move through the grass.

Not a single person made a sound.

Zion’s elite squad, lowering their posture, slowly began to cross the river.

The target was the human hunters.

They were positioned on the rooftop of a building about 200m away from the riverside.

Even now, Mangyeong’s oil bombs were flying towards Dong-an in the sky, and below, Kang Zion’s elite squad was secretly approaching.

One hundred elite members.

They were the unit that had performed outstandingly when Zion took over the police force.

A group of assassins who secretly hid, stabbed the enemy in the back of the head, and learned and honed killing techniques from Choi Myung-joon.

Their preparation was thorough.

To prevent the blade from reflecting in the moonlight or torchlight, they even painted the blades of their swords with black paint.

They were true ‘hunters’.

* * *

Although a full-scale war between Mangyeong and Dong-an had not yet broken out, a subtle political war using other factions had effectively begun.

Both sides were in sharp conflict over the natural water resource of Anyangcheon [a stream in South Korea], and now their blades were touching each other.

The two human hunters, looking at Anyangcheon, were silently on guard.

They were the two who had brutally shot and killed Mangyeong’s workers with arrows until now.

Then the man spoke to the woman first.

“What I said before, sunbae [term of respect for a senior colleague or mentor]….”

“It’s okay. I’ve forgotten it now. So stop talking.”

“….Yes.”

The world changed rapidly after the apocalypse began.

The existing order collapsed, and the meaning of life changed.

The human hunter man knew that what they were doing was wrong.

But if they didn’t do this, they would surely face death, so they had no choice but to carry out the orders.

Before the apocalypse, the man was a college student.

Twenty-four years old.

Now he must be around twenty-six years old.

As the woman continued to remain silent, the man looked ahead and quietly opened his mouth.

“I just wanted to share something… That’s why… I did that… My whole family is dead too. Parents, siblings… But I’m just simply…”

The man was still leaning against the window frame, looking at the dark city.

Then he grabbed his head and shouted a little.

“Ah-! I don’t know. Just. I’ve never been like this before? But… whenever I see you, sunbae….”

The man clenched his fist so hard that the blood vessels stood out.

He then looked at the woman and said in a slightly louder voice.

“But I was really sincere. I really…!”

But the man, looking at the woman, couldn’t continue speaking.

“Ah.”

Glug, glug.

There, the woman with a knife in her neck was vomiting blood while someone was gagging her.

“…Sunbae?”

The man’s pupils began to shake wildly.

And naturally, he turned his eyes towards the long-haired man standing behind the woman.

The long-haired man smiled as he stabbed the knife in.

“Wow… how romantic.”

A sly voice like a cunning snake.

It was Choi Myung-joon.

Choi Myung-joon began to twist the knife stuck in the woman’s neck even more.

Up, down, up, down.

Every time Choi Myung-joon twisted the knife, her blood splattered everywhere.

At the same time, he was covering the woman’s mouth with his large hand to prevent her from screaming.

The human hunter man trembled.

Then he hesitated and took a step back.

There was nowhere to escape here.

From the beginning, they were warriors of Dong-an under the orders of ‘Park Ji-soo’, but their affiliation was not with the warriors of Dong-an.

This was because they should not harass them as members of Dong-an in order to confuse Man-an.

Choi Myung-joon folded his sleeves after putting the knife in his mouth.

His hands were covered in blood.

In front of Choi Myung-joon, the human hunter man trembled and stuck to the opposite wall.

“So, you’ve been killing people so brutally, and you guys were flirting and filming erotic movies here?”

Choi Myung-joon chuckled and finally pulled the knife out of the woman’s neck.

Thud- Chwaaa! Thump!

The woman fell to the floor as she was, spitting blood and twitching.

Aguk.

Choi Myung-joon put the knife in his mouth and began to fold both sleeves.

“Please save me….”

“Save you?”

“Please… we couldn’t help it…!”

“…D, don’t do this. Please!!!”

“Don’t do this?”

Thump-!

Choi Myung-joon grabbed the man’s hair and lifted him up.

Then he looked into his eyes and said.

Choi Myung-joon’s face was still full of smiles.

“Why shouldn’t I do this?”

“……Ugh……!”

“You guys did it too. Why can’t I?”

“Ugh…!!!”

“Why… you guys enjoyed it so much, can’t I enjoy it too?”

Clang-.

At that time, Choi Myung-joon took out a sashimi knife from his pocket and handed it to the man.

Then he took a few steps back from him.

Choi Myung-joon was holding a knife, and the human hunter man was holding a sashimi knife.

The difference between their weapons was clear.

Choi Myung-joon chuckled and said.

“Struggle more. Make it fun to hunt.”

“Ughhh…! Ughhh!!! Uwaaaaaaaa-!!!!!!”

The man holding the sashimi knife rushed at Choi Myung-joon.

Choi Myung-joon smiled as he watched the man rushing to kill him.

“Ah, that’s it.”

Stab-!

“Ugh… Uryaaaaa!!!”

“Aaaaaaack!!!!”

While Choi Myung-joon was hunting, the elite squad was running around the building.

The human hunters of Dong-an were no match for the elite squad.

The elite squad was a group that had forgotten the guilt of killing.

A group that believed that killing was justified by Choi Myung-joon.

There was nothing to stop the predators who had nothing to fear.

Especially, fighting inside such a narrow building was the best environment for the elite squad.

They had already won against the police, who had more combat power than this.

The human hunters fell one after another, spitting blood.

This place was originally a complex shopping mall.

Karaoke rooms, elevators, escalators, glass doors, inside the shopping mall, restaurants, and even restrooms.

This place, stained with the blood of human hunters, was truly a stage for slaughter.

They couldn’t escape the building thanks to the elite squad surrounding the building.

Some people were in despair and even tried to hide by burying their heads in the toilet bowl.

They knew that it would not be effective as a hiding place, but they wanted to hide in any hole.

Thud, thud.

Choi Myung-joon walked down the hallway, holding the human hunter man’s neck.

“Hey kids-! You have to catch at least one alive? Cut off all the heads and bring them to the first floor!”

“Yes-!!! Hyung-nim [term of respect for an older brother or male friend]!”

When Choi Myung-joon shouted, the elite squad who were committing murder all over the hallway shouted.

Choi Myung-joon, who came down to the first floor, threw the man’s head among the layers of gathered heads.

Then he approached the woman who was trembling in the middle.

Near her, an elite squad woman was grabbing the hunter woman’s hair and standing.

“Is she the one you’re sending?”

Choi Myung-joon naturally put a cigarette in his mouth and asked his elite squad subordinate.

The subordinate nodded.

“Yes. I think she’s suitable.”

“Hoo-.”

The cigarette smoke that Choi Myung-joon exhaled hit the hunter woman.

“Hngh… Hnghh… Hnghh….”

Choi Myung-joon only smoked for a while, listening to the woman’s sobs.

Then he squatted down and made eye contact with the woman.

There was an order from Kang Zion to spare only one person here.

An order to kill everyone else and spare only one person.

Choi Myung-joon heard Zion’s order.

But he didn’t understand it as meaning to spare only one person.

Choi Myung-joon said while smoking.

“Send her.”

Then he turned around.

Subordinates were putting heads in sacks and coming down to the first floor one by one.

With this, the human hunter subjugation was complete.

The water problem that had been constantly bothering Zion was solved at once.

“Okay, let’s go.”

Choi Myung-joon completed his mission and left the building.

Inside the building they left, headless corpses were now scattered everywhere.

* * *

After starting the bombardment towards Dong-an, the third morning sun rose.

Now there should be a reaction soon.

The fire that burned all night did not go out easily.

I spent the night looking over the battlefield and receiving reports from each commander.

The catapult was perfect, and the news was that Choi Myung-joon’s elite squad had effectively subjugated the human hunters.

The primary plan was successfully completed.

With this, Dong-an will have no choice but to quickly end the war.

Park Ji-soo of Dong-an would not be foolish enough to divide the front into two.

Dividing the front into two is a foolish act.

Germany and Japan both fell that way.

Park Ji-soo cannot be unaware of that fact, which can be easily learned through school history class.

What I wanted was only one thing.

To bring Park Ji-soo to the negotiating table.

Anything could only proceed if she paid more attention to Man-an than to Uiwang.

Whether it’s war or cooperation.

Anyway, this incident appeared to be a war waged by a third force in Man-an to the outside world, but in reality, it was being played out in my hands.

Park Ji-soo cannot be unaware of that fact.

She was a monarch who quickly understood the system, just like me.

I contacted Madam of Bisan to prepare a negotiation table with her, and as a result, it was successful.

Madam made a deal to arrange a meeting with Park Ji-soo and promised not to sell Man-an’s information to Dong-an again.

The plan caused a chain reaction like dominoes.

My small plan, which was a small domino, was now trying to bring down the leader of a huge force.

There is not much left now.

The day I take Anyang City into my hands.

And today will be the day to announce that beginning.

But something unexpected happened.

“My lord-!!!”

A messenger hurriedly opened the rooftop door and came in.