The Regressor Only Protects Me [EN]: Chapter 60

#60. Checkmate (1)

A day passed, then two.

In truth, counting the days was meaningless.

Except for the troops the Sergeant Major pulled out and Kang Si-On’s work crew, everyone else stayed inside.

Thus, quite some time had passed since they last saw the sun.

In the meantime, six police officers had been murdered, and 35 citizens had been executed.

Every time a police officer died overnight, citizens were executed in multiples of that number.

It was all a witch hunt.

The police’s investigative capabilities were insignificant compared to the old world.

In fact, from the police’s perspective, their goal wasn’t to find the ‘culprit’ but to exert oppressive influence to control internal order.

The heads of citizens began to gather under the guillotine.

‘Toontoon,’ sent from Dongan District, [likely a creature or entity that feeds on death] licked the frozen necks of the executed where the heads gathered.

And it chewed on the human flesh it had licked and melted.

After a week, Si-On’s special forces finally began to move.

More precisely, it began the moment Si-On advanced his pawn towards the Sergeant Major’s main force [a chess analogy, indicating a strategic move].

* * *

Deep in the night, when everyone was asleep.

The police officers doubled the patrol personnel to prepare for any incidents that might occur overnight.

They narrowed the patrol intervals and took measures to respond to crisis situations at any time.

Two police officers walked among the sleeping people, holding flashlights.

Because people were lying down to sleep haphazardly everywhere, the police officers had to step carefully, avoiding people’s bodies.

The patrol continued all night.

The two patrolling police officers walked deep into the citizens’ residential area, and the senior officer, judging that there was no problem, tried to turn back.

But the junior officer who was following stopped and began to tremble.

“Hey, what’s wrong with you?”

The senior officer shone a flashlight on her and asked.

Then the junior police officer trembled, holding the flashlight in her hand, and replied.

“…Senior. Doesn’t something… something feel strange…?”

“What is it, you little punk? Why are you making me uneasy?”

“Hey-! If the patrol’s over, come here quickly.”

From the entrance, three or four police officers shouted at the senior and junior officers.

They were additional troops deployed in preparation for the recent incidents.

The senior officer looked back at the entrance and shouted.

Without caring whether the citizens were sleeping or not.

“Ah, yes! I’m coming!”

And the senior officer approached the junior officer who was following and gently grabbed her shoulder.

The junior officer’s face was pale with fright.

As if she had encountered a ghost as a child.

“Hey, don’t be nervous. We’ve deployed a large number of troops for this patrol. Nothing will happen. We’ll protect you even if something does.”

“…No. Se, Senior. Th, that’s. It’s too strange.”

The junior officer was trembling, but she was glancing around, looking around.

The senior officer followed her and shone a flashlight around.

All the citizens were lying on the floor, sleeping.

“What’s, what’s strange. Why.”

“Th… th. Th… that. Th, that’s. It’s too quiet.”

“Quiet, why? It’s natural to be quiet because everyone is sleeping.”

The junior officer, who had been trembling, looked at the senior officer and barely whispered.

And the junior officer’s words were shocking enough to the senior officer.

“No one… snores. Or grinds their teeth… or coughs… It’s as if everyone… is pre, pre, pretending to sleep…”

“…? !”

Now the senior officer also found it strange and carefully looked around.

This was a residential space where over 100 people were sleeping.

The time was already late at night.

But no one snored, ground their teeth, or coughed.

That meant everyone was pretending to sleep.

“Ha… haa… You bastard!!!”

The senior officer’s face turned pale in an instant.

Feeling the crisis, the senior officer immediately shouted to the additional troops at the entrance.

“Pre…!!!!!!!!!!!!”

But it was already too late to respond.

At that moment, the citizens who had been lying down all stood up and attacked the police officers.

* * *

Thud! Gulp. Gulp.

The kitchen knife squeezed between the junior police officer’s ribs.

The junior police officer pushed the man away and said desperately.

“Can’t you spare me…? Mister… I’m only 27 years old… I haven’t even gotten married yet… and I barely passed the police exam… I’ll live a good life now… please….”

“Sorry. I’ll kill you quickly.”

“No… no. Please spare me… just….”

“I’m sorry. I’ll kill you quickly. I’m really sorry. We have to live, so you have to die.”

“It’s too much… isn’t it too much… we’re all people… right?”

“I’m sorry. But it hurts more if you move? Ah. Take your hand off your face. I can’t see well.”

Thud.

The man pulled the knife out of the junior police officer’s stomach and stabbed it back into her neck.

The junior police officer’s blood-stained hand pushed against the man’s lower jaw, then fell powerlessly.

The man got up and looked around.

The battle had begun.

Skin and blood began to splatter everywhere.

The bloody battle between police officers and citizens had finally begun in the hallway and residential area.

People each held weapons and began to hunt down the police officers wandering around the hallway indiscriminately.

The man who killed the junior police officer slowly walked out into the hallway.

And while looking for another police officer, he didn’t notice the presence approaching from behind and was struck in the back of the head with a club.

Crack-!

A sound of something breaking was heard, and the man fell to the floor.

Even though the man had fallen, the police officer holding the riot baton indiscriminately struck the man’s head.

Squish-! Squish! Squish! Squish!

The circular skull was crushed, and he kept hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting until it became a deflated soccer ball.

A woman ran up to the police officer who was indiscriminately hitting the distorted head and stabbed a dagger into his left forearm.

“Ugh…!”

As the police officer fell, two or three citizens nearby clung tightly to him and stabbed him indiscriminately in the order of thighs, abdomen, liver, large intestine, heart, arms, and neck.

Because the woman was holding a small dagger, she had to stab several times to inflict a fatal wound.

Swish-!

“Kyaaak-!”

A woman was stabbing indiscriminately when the knife hit something hard and slipped, cutting her hand.

The woman was startled and groped around with her hand to see where she had stabbed.

A hard sensation was transmitted from her fingertips.

“Damn it… it’s hard. Hooo… hooo… hoo….”

It was a skull.

The woman stroked the skull, selected a soft part, and stabbed only that spot.

Thud, thud, thud.

The woman stabbed that spot three times and turned her head to look for another police officer.

Whoosh-.

At that moment, a police officer swung a riot baton at her head from behind.

Thwack-!

The woman’s head was shattered, and she died instantly.

The police officer who smashed the woman’s skull just swung the baton indiscriminately.

Whoosh- whoosh- whoosh-!

Then he was ambushed by three men rushing from the side door and hit the wall, breaking his neck.

Snap!

The police officer, whose neck bone was broken, died spitting blood, but the three men, unaware of that fact, stabbed the police officer’s stomach indiscriminately.

Each of the three men stabbed the police officer’s body exactly nine times.

As the three men stabbed and confirmed that the police officer was dead, they turned their heads again and set out to find other prey.

On the opposite side, a large police officer was walking with two or three people holding shields in front.

The three men hesitated and confronted the police officer.

The police officer did not hesitate.

Holding the riot baton, from top to bottom.

Whoosh-!

The riot baton began to smash the men’s heads.

Pop! Squish! Squish!

The first swing fractured the shoulder bone, the second swing cracked the skull, and the third swing hit the eye and blinded him.

The riot baton, which had no mercy, was powerful enough to kill a person instantly with just one swing.

The police officers moved systematically, unlike the citizens.

The police officers, who had completely knocked down the three men, advanced slowly.

Two more police officers stuck to them from behind.

Then one more stuck to them from behind.

The police officers blocked the hallway with their shields raised and advanced slowly.

The police station hallway was filled with darkness.

There was nothing to see, but it was full of sounds.

Screams and groans, the sound of something breaking and cutting, the sound of windows breaking or cutting through the wind.

“Shield-!!!!!!!”

The chief police officer shouted, spitting.

The police officers, who had reorganized their ranks, connected their shields in the hallway and prepared for the approaching citizens.

One of the police officers holding a shield muttered.

“I’m going to kill all these bastards… I’m going to kill them all… I’m going to kill them all….”

And the chief police officer shouted.

“Stone-!!!!!”

Swoosh- Thwack!

A stone flew through the dark hallway and hit the shield.

“Brat-!!!!!”

Swoosh- Clang!

This time, an empty bottle flew and shattered as it hit the shield.

From the front, the sound of groans and cries for help could be heard.

A police officer covered in blood crawled towards the shield wall, but no one helped her.

And while the front shield police officers were holding out, reinforcements from the 4th and 5th floors began to arrive on the 3rd floor one after another.

Now the police force blocking the hallway exceeded 20 people.

“Don’t let a single bastard through!!!!”

“Aaaaaaack!!!!!!”

“Aaaaaaack!!!!!!”

The massacre that had continued for several minutes had now entered a lull.

The citizens who had launched an attack from the 2nd floor were struggling to meet the police force on the 3rd floor.

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiit-!

At that moment, thick fire extinguisher smoke began to fill the hallway.

Then, the hallway resembled a battlefield.

The smoke filled the air, and silence followed.

And there was one fact that the police had overlooked.

Kang Si-On’s special forces, who had been imprisoned in the detention center.

Thump-.

A dark hallway.

A man walked across the floor filled with blood.

His footsteps spread evenly with the smoke.

The man held a paring knife in his hand.

He was a loyal subordinate of Si-On, who had already killed several police officers and advanced to this point.

Choi Myung-Joon.

He looked at the shield wall and smiled almost in despair.

“Ah-.”

The police officers holding shields in the front row hesitated at the appearance of Choi Myung-Joon.

Even for the police officers who had good physiques within the police station, Choi Myung-Joon’s physique was overwhelming.

No one was not afraid in front of him.

Choi Myung-Joon walked forward and tied his hair with a rubber band that was tied to his wrist.

And he quietly ordered.

“Don’t leave a single one alive. Kill them all.”

The moment Choi Myung-Joon gave the order, the special forces began to charge indiscriminately from both sides, centering on him.

“Uwaaaaa!!!!”

“Aaaaaaaa!!!!”

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Aaaaaaack!!!!”

The special forces charged, making desperate cries like the roars of animals.

They held axes and hammers in their hands.

Their rush was without a moment’s hesitation.

Of course, the police force had no intention of backing down.

Now that it had come to this, they had no choice but to subdue all the citizens.

“Prepare for impact!!!!”

The police strongly gripped their shields and blocked.

“Kill them all!!!!”

The citizens charged with weapons in their hands.

A narrow passage.

The two groups finally collided with each other, with shields in between.

Bang-!!!!!!!! Kwang! Bang bang bang! Bang! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thump! Thump! Bang! Bang bang bang!

“Pushhhhhhhh-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The man who was close to the shield shouted desperately, and the special forces began to push the shield wall with all their might.

The special forces fearlessly pressed their bodies against the police’s shields and began to push the shields away.

But the police officers never backed down either.

“Hold on-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

More strength, more people continued to flock to the center of the hallway.

Police forces coming down from the 4th floor hallway.

Citizens coming up from the 2nd floor hallway.

They continued to flock to one place without stopping.

Clang, clang, clang!!

The advance team that had charged earlier was wearing helmets as Si-On had ordered in advance.

So even if the police officers struck down with riot batons from above the shields, it was useless.

The police force began to be pushed back.

After all, it was natural for the police force to be pushed back by the number of people alone.

But the police had prepared tear gas in advance in preparation for this situation.

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiit-!

They immediately sprayed tear gas at the special forces in the front row.

They sprayed it, aiming for the gaps in the helmets.

And when they struck with riot batons along with it, they couldn’t withstand it no matter how many helmets they wore.

“Uwaaaaaaaack!!!!”

“Aaaaaaack!! Aaaaaaack!!!”

The citizens began to be pushed back again.

The special forces members who had been pushing the shields in the front row began to fall one by one.

The police dragged the fallen special forces members one by one and beat them indiscriminately.

The police were elite forces who had undergone training for riot control, and the citizens, who had never fought before, simply charged.

So the citizens had no choice but to be pushed back.

The police officers advanced slowly and surely.

Even if their comrades fell under their feet, even if blood splattered, even if their comrades next to them were stabbed in the shoulder, they advanced.

But the citizens had ‘him.’

Thump, thump, thump.

Choi Myung-Joon walked like a beast.

His eyes were like a tiger’s, and his fluttering long hair was like a lion’s mane.

Choi Myung-Joon stepped on the backs of the citizens in front of him and climbed up.

One step, two steps.

He climbed and climbed, stepping on the backs of the citizens.

He jumped in an instant.

It was a strategy that Si-On had planned in advance to counter the police shield wall.

The police officers in the front row looked up blankly at the sight, even though the situation was urgent.

Whoosh-.

The giant man floated into the sky.

Some police officers even sighed at the sight.

Choi Myung-Joon stepped on the backs of the citizens and jumped over the police’s shield wall.

The police chief who was watching it quietly muttered.

“What the hell.”

Then he flew in.

Making a strange cry.

“Kkyaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Thud.

Choi Myung-Joon jumped over the shield wall in an instant and was located behind them.

And his massacre began.

Thud!!!!! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

Choi Myung-Joon was a beast.

He began to stab the police officers gathered in the rear without hesitation.

The knife is a rhythm.

Putting a knife into a person, taking it out, putting it in, taking it out, putting it in, taking it out, putting it in, taking it out.

With such a rhythm, one by one, one by one.

Like a fisherman pulling a fishing line, he put the knife into the police officer’s body, took it out, put it in, and took it out.

Novice knife wielders stab the target several times to kill them for sure, but true knife wielders only need one time.

If you stab accurately, even once, the enemy will completely lose their will to fight and fall.

“Kyahahahahaha! Ahahahahahaha!!!!! I’m happy!! I’m happy!! I can kill so many cops like this!!! Kyahahahahahaha!!!!”

Choi Myung-Joon shook his tied hair indiscriminately and continued to stab with a bizarre laugh.

Two or three police officers clung to Choi Myung-Joon to subdue him, but he was already blinded by blood.

Choi Myung-Joon forgot the pain in his body because of the pleasure in front of him.

Swish, swish, swish.

Following him, several special forces members jumped over the shield wall.

With that, the police shield wall collapsed in an instant.

After that, a brutal killing spree continued.

Citizens, police, men, and women were all entangled, stabbing indiscriminately at any visible skin.

(Continued in the next episode)