The Little Prince in the Ossuary

# High winds (11)

Large troops evaporated before arriving at Rangers, leaving only blood and scars all over the airport. There were no small flesh points or bone fragments left. Human or mutant. The missing soldiers either became the new hosts of the plague, or they all went into the bellies of the mutants.

Past variants have left behind bone marrow extraction, but lately it has also become more common to swallow. It dissolves everything with enhanced gastric acid.

Given the emergence of variants such as Hunters and Whippers, this was a natural change.

However, it has made it difficult to contour the attacks that swept through here.

“The scamper.”

The other officers turned to winter. Winter said, pointing to the scattered bloodstains.

“There's a reinforcement camp here. who is small and agile among special variants. Given the amount and range of this bleeding, the sprayed form, it's a relatively small, lightweight variant that's hanging on the arm and struggling. Around here……. ”

A winter where death approximates the past.

“…… You were bitten, and then you got into a fight, and you lost your focus, and then you fell backwards. There's less blood in the radius. And at the same time, as you move it to one side, the density of the distribution increases. This means that the bleeding has decreased in height. It's rounder, but you can also see that there's a lot of little drops of blood around it that are concentrated in one toxic spot. which is the impact of crushing the buttocks. I think the direction is blocked on the other side of my body. ”

“How did you know it was a reinforced species? ”

Winter caught hold of his sleeve to the 217 regimental commander, revealing his excitement.

“Ordinary guy's teeth don't get stuck in new combat suits. when you hit them with an animal, that's average hunting dog. It was the same reason I decided it wasn't an adult metamorphosis. ”

“Hm. It's hard to believe in the catalog specs claimed by the manufacturer, but the way the commander put it, it seems to be proven in practice. ”

“Yes, but the bloodstained marks must have been made by pushing them backwards…. I finally got rid of it. I turned around, put my hand on it, and I got up, and I was bitten by a speedster who was running again. And this is where they struggle to the point of death as they fall again. ”

Winter stepped on its new footing. It was the center of a dark red puddle. A handprint of the same color remained behind the banner.

“Sounds like it to me. Was one of your stepsisters a cop? ”

331 Col. Davidov answered that winter did not stop.

“It's just an experience. ”

“That's amazing. ”

The colonel's words spill into one ear, and winter looks around. Every place I looked, there were traces of death. At the center of the airport building, it looks like more than one of the troops attacked here.

Winter sighs.

“I don't understand. ”

“What do you mean? ”

“I understand that multiple scampers have breached the perimeter. They don't act alone. If it was just one individual, it wouldn't have pushed us this far. The scars on the wall are so low that it's hard to see that they were dealing with other variants. ”

“But?”

“The distance between the signs of war and the perimeter defense line is too wide. There are too few traces in between. Instead of being pushed from the outside inward, there seems to be a different battle between the inside and the outside……. ”

“There might have been as much time gap as there was space. The invasion of the mutants took place twice, and the troops who gave up their perimeter defenses in the first engagement may have regrouped here. The blood left in the middle is probably from the wounded. ”

“Makes sense, but the signs of war here are too medium-sized. Too many bullets fired in the wrong direction, I'd say. It's also strange that glass is more than half intact before and after buildings. because the variants usually have a broad front. ”

Tight and narrow front is the only way to split into machine guns and grenades. Since jumping into a defensive line in any number of directions is the priority, if there are controlled individuals, the variants are pushed to a low density in as wide a front as possible and in many directions. It makes it difficult to concentrate your firepower and inhibits the effects of your concentration.

This time, Captain Graff asked.

“So there must have been some kind of internal attack? ”

“Very likely. ”

“A latent burst of infection... is not very convincing. ”

The captain ponders over his assumptions. Infection by the Whipper has a latent phase, which would explain the outbreak in the ground, but it doesn't explain how many people who are so infected have been mutated to the camper. The captain said in an unconfident manner.

“Could it have been that the Whisperer was on ambush with a new characteristic? If he gets infected, we'll have a scamper. ”

Winter was negative.

“Well, it's transformed based on the human body, but isn't it hard to ignore the mass? It might be possible to change over time, but it's not a good story for this scene. ”

“I see. ”

Seeing the captain retreat easily, Brusilov, commander of the 217th regiment, commented. Point your finger at the ground.

“If they dug a tunnel, it would make sense. ”

Colonel Davidoff frowns.

“Are you kidding me? All steel concrete down here, I bet. How can you dig up something so crunchy that it makes noise? What about vibrations? Did all the troops stationed here go deaf? ”

“That's it... ”

Winter is upon us.

“It's worth checking out. There's nothing to lose by being careful. Let's double-check the features that might have been disguised by the double whipper. ”

“Well, if that's what one colonel says. ”

Davidoff shrugs. The gesture of not stopping them.

However, there were no discoveries of these discussions, like dungeons. Soldiers tapped the floor and looked twice, but there was no harvest. I couldn't find the Whipper. They would change the color and texture of their skin and twist their skeletons to mimic rocks or piles of dirt, bushes, and big tree trunks, but the airport was a strange place to be.

As I looked around, winter stopped in front of a wall for a while. In the corner, on the cracked wall of the stem, there was a graffiti I had seen a long time ago. This is a drawing of a character with no eyes and a long nose sticking their face halfway up the wall.

Next to it was written in a crooked text like this.

Kiloi travel. (Kilroy was here.)

Winter smiles faintly. The writing must be terrible because of the high writing. When I saw the same graffiti at Ataskadero Psychiatric Hospital, I asked Jeffrey and his platoon members who were called Killroy.

However, I did not smile for long.

It was because of the other graffiti below and the old bloodstains.

‘No, rather than doodling……. ’

It's more like a record of fear and despair. There were numerous repeated cries to God. Although it was written in Mexican Spanish, there were many sentences worth recognizing without correction in winter.

"Lord, save me! (¡Que Dios se apiade de mí!)

From left to right, all the long walls look the same. Someone draws a cross, and someone draws a red X mark on it. With a sentence that curses God.

There was a rough skid mark where winter faced the wall. For whatever reason, he drove his car in here and crashed into the wall. Assuming this happened early in the spread of Mogelons, it might have been a struggle to get into a sealed airport. To leave the plague somewhere safe. How many people would have flipped their eyes if they saw the airplane coming and going from a controlled airport.

Or it could have been after the fall of Mexico. The result of the struggle of those who were trying to break through the mutants, find the airplane.

When I fold my imagination and look at the wall again, I feel scattered.

Jacques. The sound of fallen concrete crumbs crushing against a firm foot. Winter turns its head. The approaching person was a Ranger commander with a communicator.

“Have you looked around? ”

“For now.”

“Is everything all right? ”

“I see.”

In winter's positivity, Captain Graff revealed a slight relief.

“I knew it. We wouldn't have missed it if we had a clue. ”

“It's a ranger. Just in case, I didn't doubt your abilities. I just wanted to be cautious. ”

“Don't say that. I think it was a natural process. ”

Captain opens his chest.

With the exception of the sound of the barbed wire, it began to rain again in Oaxaca City through an unparalleled day and around sunset.

Winter finds officers and soldiers on guard duty with a warmer.

“Is this hot and humid on a hot day? ”

To Lt. Gen. Song Jeong-hoon, first platoon commander, who was buried in a dull mood, winter smiled.

“Why don't you just put something hot in the thermostat? They put mezcal in the freezer all afternoon. ”

“Mezcal?”

“Liquor. Specialty here. ”

The lieutenant Song reflected and took the cup. Soldiers at the same level have expressed expectations.

Mezcal is a spirit made of dragon snow stems. It was the same opinion between the Rangers and the Air Force Command that they would be disappointed if they came to their homeland without even tasting it.

But I'm on a mission now. Winter was really only meant to be tasty.

“I won't give you much. It's a strong drink.”

“Ah……. ”

“Captain Park will be upset if he smells like booze. ”

To Jeong Hun, who remembered his disappointment and became dull, winter followed only about half a dozen Venetian mezcal. The size of the glass makes it look smaller. Jeong Hun swallowed a lot of unfortunate tea in a heartbeat. It seems to be hard to make big, frowny impressions.

After the cup returned to the soldiers, Jeong Hun looks up at the sky.

“The weather is like the rainy season in Korea. ”

“Do you miss it?"

“I'll even miss it. Now we have to create a new home. I think we're almost there. ”

The winter that was not worth saying back to this elegance turned the other way.

“ ……? ”

Winter points to the stones scattered outside the fence.

“Do you see that? ”

“What are you talking about? ”

“Those concrete pieces. ”

“Ah. Is there something wrong with that? I checked during the day that there were no whippers. ”

“…… here it is. I'll be close by. ”

Winter, when the thermostat was lowered, went through the entrance opened for the armored car to the airstrip next to the airport. There were no obstacles to vision in the agricultural areas where sound barriers were removed.

Kiloi?

There was a piece of Killroy on a piece of concrete that fell down the field shaft. Winter collects the nearest fragments and puts them together. The painting is complete. I see other graffiti and blood. Winter, as you stare through, turns your feet.

Shortly after, the winter entering the airport faced the golden wall of courtesy with a distance. With a full platoon of Rangers.

“Is that it? ”

In response to the nervous platoon commander's question, winter answered:

“Now we can find out. ”

Heave-ho. Winter, with the rifle repaired, aims at the wall and scratches a magazine with automatic fire. Kakacakan! It's an indoor shot that makes it sound sharper.

As a result, discolored blood spilled from the perforated wall.

The red bitten kiloy opens his eyes.