The Returner
11: 00. That's not why I came back! -3
The site was already under control.
Civilian evacuations have taken place and vehicles are under control.
“ID, please. ”
The rookie who saw the siren on the vehicle asked for an ID. Choi Jung-hoon gave out his badge and ID.
The rookie who confirmed his identity greeted him briefly, and Choi Jung-hoon nodded and drove the car inside.
“The Gate appears everywhere, right? ”
“There are no lines. It appears in the middle of the road. Fortunately, it's either already built or it doesn't appear in one place and destroy it? That's it.”
“What about water? ”
“Yes? What are you talking about? ”
“If it appears anywhere, it appears in the middle of the ocean or in the ocean. Or doesn't it just float in the sky? Are you going to run out and die as soon as you get out? ”
A picture was drawn in Choi Jung-hoon's head. Monsters spill from the gate in the middle of the deep. However, as soon as they poured out, all the fish grabbed their necks and were drowned as they came to their senses....
Choi Jung-hoon shakes his head.
“No gates in the air have been reported yet. I don't know if it came from inside the sea, but there aren't any monsters from the coast, so I'm guessing there weren't any gates or all the monsters from the gate drowned. ”
“Oh, right. ”
Lee Hyuk tilted his head.
Like I said, the Warp Gate summoning location isn't random?
The summoning location is not random, but only land monsters. I smell something calculated.
‘Just checking, just checking. ’
He says he's going to dig up the plot, and he doesn't want to go around poking and prowling. But it's okay to check the gate in front of you.
As the vehicle went a little further down the road, I saw the wheeled armored cars I had seen before. I could also see that there was an appliance installed on the side of the tall building.
Choi Jung-hoon stopped in the corner and opened the door.
“Get off.”
“Can't I stay here? ”
“It's okay, but it could be more dangerous. ”
“I'm coming down!”
Lee Hyuk immediately untied his seat belt. Life is precious.
Choi Jung-hoon led Lee Hyuk into the tent installed behind the two wheeled armored cars.
“Loyal!”
“Yes.”
The soldiers who saw Choi Jung-hoon saluted, and Choi Jung-hoon lightly saluted.
"Wow, you're taller than he thinks you are. ’
In the meantime, I thought you were just a minor official just by doing errands and being swarmed by a young woman like a faggot, but the force was overflowing.
It turned out that that dandy suit and his well-groomed hairstyle were no joke.
“What do you think?”
“I think I have about an hour. ”
A middle-aged soldier watching the situation in front of the monitor answered Jung-hoon's question.
“You didn't call for backup? ”
“You agreed to stop supporting Level 1. Why did you come?”
“I was just passing by. ”
“I don't think we have much work to do. ”
Choi Jung-hoon smiled bitterly.
Ex-Defense Command.
He's called the Guardian.
A new organization created by the Ministry of Defense with the intention of cultivating an army specialized in monsters.
The Master and the Giant needed a new unit, different from the old military system, because they could not respond to randomly generated gates in various places with different modes of practice and focus on defending each region.
However, KSF, which is the center of the weapon and the center of its capabilities, has the same objective, but in a completely different way, so there has always been a small conflict. Even if it wasn't the vineyard, it couldn't mix like water and oil.
It was said that even Colonel Jeong In-su who was in front of me was not happy, but this was a very mild response for the Defense Department.
“What about her?”
Captain Jung In-soo pointed to Lee Hyuk.
“Oh, I was just passing by. ”
“Are you a prodigy?”
“No, he's still a civilian. ”
Colonel Jung In-soo's face distorted.
“Hey, Jung-hoon Choi. Are you out of your mind? Bringing civilians into the area? ”
Choi Jung-hoon frowned as he watched Captain Jeong In-soo's reaction. I said, "Not yet," and he gave me some room, but coming out like this meant that I would catch a bag.
Nothing we couldn't handle, but now that KSF's deployment is gone, the Pentagon has taken full responsibility. If you bring in a civilian identity and have an accident, the problem will get serious, so it's not something you don't understand about reacting. Then I'll just have to get rid of it.
“We take full responsibility. ”
“Are you talking about Choi Jung-hoon or your neighborhood? ”
“I lose at KSF. ”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I'm sure. ”
Jung In Soo took one step to clarify the responsibility. There was nothing wrong with being in charge.
“Then I'll take a look around the gate. ”
“Careful. Don't get into trouble. ”
“Haha, don't worry. ”
Out of the tent, Choi Jung-hoon sighed. Those varmints aren't cooperating. In the meantime, KSF has rescued them a few times without even thanking them.
“You're such a jerk. ”
Lee Hyuk grumbled. It was like Choi Jung-hoon only swallowed the words in his mouth.
“Well, did you get a kick out of it? If you're a soldier, let's put some boats in. ”
Oh, yeah?
There's a pretty decent harvest coming in.
Surprisingly good social style?
The evaluation of Lee Ji-hyuk Choi changed from "risk factors to increase the probability of stressful cerebral infarction of boss if he lives at work" to "the type of person who might be surprisingly sensitive even if he eats himself to death if he lives at work."
“I'm just nervous. It's going to be a battle soon. ”
Choi Jung-hoon approaches the gate that was built over the Barricade.
“This is the gate. It's not usually that easy to come and see. ”
“Oh, yeah. ”
No matter what Choi Jung-hoon said, Lee Hyuk's eyes were fixed with a gate.
Isn't this the real Warp Gate? ’
What I saw in front of me was a familiar door.
A blue door that looks like a mirror.
Magic varies from school to school, and it varies slightly from person to person. However, because the essence had the same side, we could see how it was done.
What he sees now is clearly a warp gate.
Although the format was different from the warp gate he was aware of, it was the same purpose at a glance.
"Can you cancel this with Mana interference? ’
Worth a try, but not right now. It was not possible to do it in front of others, nor was it tempting to hand over information to those who created this gate that there was someone who could interfere here.
Moreover, the gate is no great magic, and if it is cancelled, it will be reborn elsewhere. It didn't mean a word.
“How do you distinguish that level? ”
“Look at the size and distinguish. Gates no more than 1m are classified as level 1. On top of that, the steps vary in size. The 10 Level Gate has been found to be the best. ”
By Lee Hyuk's standards, it was a crude way.
Humanoid monsters can make it through this passageway. If they make it out of a Level 1 gate, this gate will literally become a Hell Gate. But I didn't want to interfere because there must be some kind of standard here.
“Once this blue turns completely red, the gate will open. Time remaining……. ”
Choi Jung-hoon turns his head to look at the timer.
“I have about 15 minutes left. I have to step back.”
Lee Hyuk looked at the timer curiously and asked.
“How do you measure the time? ”
“The principle is surprisingly simple. I'm just measuring the time of color change by units. ”
“Yes?”
“When you go from blue to full red, the door opens, measuring the change in color in real time and estimating the time it's going to be completely red. ”
“Oh, that's just it. ”
Measuring color, not Mana.... It was a simple but unexpected way. Lee Hyuk, who was writing a formula to calculate the tuning of Mana, laughed.
‘Whatever you're thinking, magic comes first. ’
Now that I've learned magic, I should put aside the idea that I might be superior to ordinary people.
“Now let's get out of here. You can go back there and watch. ”
While Lee Hyuk was thinking about it, Choi Jung-hoon picked up the ringing phone and answered the phone.
“Yes, sir. This is the scene. No, but you should come. Even if it's irrelevant, we don't know what's going to happen. Please keep a few civilians on standby as you may not be able to respond too late. You don't? ”
Choi Jung-hoon was anxious to hang up the phone.
“What if I don't? You shouldn't be without it. Why don't you have it? You sent backup? No, our jurisdiction is here. Why are we evacuating and sending backup to the other side? ”
Jung-hoon, who was holding the phone for a long time and vomiting, hung up.
“Screw it, really. ”
Choi Jung-hoon found Lee Hyuk standing next to him and smiled again.
Is that chameleon or what? ’
Emotional changes are natural.
“Oh, there's a landmine now. Let's step back. That way. That should be good. ”
“Yes.”
Lee Hyuk followed Choi Jung-hoon to the rooftop of a building a little further away.
“I can see that. ”
The gate, which has almost turned red, and the armored cars and infantry troops surrounding it, clearly stand out.
Behind the gate is a huge concrete wall that you don't know how to build.
“What's that? ”
“Rapid hardening concrete. We've talked about replacing it with Securefoam a few times, but I still use it. ”
“Q... Q? What, the circus? ”
“Circumference. Hardening Styrofoam. It's fast, it's inexpensive, and we're constantly talking about stability. I just need to make the frame thicker, and I don't know why I keep talking nonsense. It's a fence, isn't it? ”
Lee Hyuk focused on the gate, leaving Choi Jung-hoon who couldn't understand what he could not understand on his own.
At that moment, the gate begins to emit a bright light.
“It looks like it's starting. ”