The Returner

3. You are still bad at lying (3)

“Tom! Where are you going, Tom? ”

Brian rushes along his son running to the waterfront.

“Him? ”

I told him not to go to the waterfront, but he keeps going to the waterfront. I've told you many times that it's dangerous to drown while playing over there.

Brian hurries after Tom.

“Dad!"

But Tom turned around and jumped at him.

“Tom!"

“Bug! Bug! ”

“Bugs?”

Looking at where Tom was pointing, a black cockroach the size of a baby nail flew towards them.

Brian laughs in vain.

“What a fuss with a bug, this guy. ”

Brian rubs Tom's head and smacks the flying fly with his bare hands.

It stings.

However, Brian hurriedly lowers his head and looks at his hands, feeling like something was shot.

“Ugh!”

Red blood runs through the middle of the palm of your hand.

“What the hell! Shit! ”

I just punched a bug, and it's like this.

I try to press down on the wound on my hand thinking it's not bad luck, but my head suddenly pings.

What is it?

You start to feel nauseous and then vomiting starts to kick in.

“Tom, Tom! Mom... ”

Brian falls to the ground unconscious.

“Daddy!”

These things started happening all over the United States.

Christopher was concerned about the second wave of damage.

“So!”

Christopher grabs the phone like it's broken.

I could hear the sound of a burglar.

“Oh, shit! ”

A concern began to arise.

The bugs started attacking people. The insects that have been moving forward calmly attack the humans as if they were all on fire.

At the same time, the panel starts to fire.

“Three more in Phoenix! There are victims in Las Vegas as well. ”

“I know!”

Christopher yells nervously and throws his phone to the ground.

“God damn it, what am I supposed to do! ”

I have no choice.

“I don't want you to catch the worms! ”

Mankind's numerous defensive crabs and gate countermeasures quickly render it useless.

Even in the battle with those giant monsters, humanity was eventually overcome by these tiny insects and is now utterly helpless.

“Aaahhhh!”

Christopher screams, unable to cope with the rotting insides.

“Director!"

“Damn it!”

I know you want me to calm down.

I know you have to calm down.

But what am I supposed to do if I can't calm down?

I'm not going to calm down.How am I supposed to calm down?

“What happened to the defense team? ”

“It's not working! All kinds of pesticides that exist are useless. If you raise it above this level, it will become a killer, not a pesticide. ”

“Beat him with your hands! ”

“It's called steel strength. Gathering is almost impossible. I can't do it without the firepower of a gun. How can I shoot a bug with a gun? ”

“Ugh…. ”

“They say flamethrowers work a little bit, but the distance is extremely limited. We have to control where the bugs live in the napalm, and now they don't live as a group. One by one, one by one, if you go down, your country will be destroyed before you catch all the bugs. ”

Christopher grabs his head.

I'm undercover.

There is no way.

“So we're just gonna let go? I don't think this is a disaster center, you sons of bitches! I want you to find a way! ”

“Yes!”

“Poison or radiation, whatever it takes to stop it! If we don't have a way, at least keep it from spreading further around the fire wall! You know what I'm saying? ”

“I understand!”

“Director!"

“Why!”

“I... need you to take a look at this. ”

“What?”

“This is……. ”

Christopher turns his man's screen nervously.

“ ……. ”

Then I lost my words.

“This is the situation? ”

“Yes.”

Losing his words, he glances at the screen and sits down.

Grasp the tip of the cigar with a trembling hand and light it.

However, the match didn't even catch fire with the shaking hand.

“Oh, shit! ”

Christopher throws his cigar around and gives me a bad headache.

“Did you really abandon the Godlike? ”

His face begins to bleed to death.

“Call the teleporter first. I have to go.”

“I understand.”

“... Nothing comes out of my mouth but cursing. ”

Damn it.

“Damn it.”

Lee Hyuk blasphemed as he looked out the window.

“What's going on? ”

Lee Hyuk sighed, unable to answer Choi Jung-hoon's question for a moment.

Things started going in the worst direction he could think of.

There were three directions in total.

What will happen to those bitten by worms?

Die, survive, or…….

“Undead.”

Lee Hyuk gritted his teeth.

In front of his eyes, I could see people's bodies turning gray.

My head falls off and the skin around my lips crumbles.

Those who started the seizure were already bound with restraints. But even in that state, he was trying to bite off the medical staff.

“Tell them not to bite. ”

“Yes.”

The undead aren't a collection of pathogens, and once bitten doesn't mean it turns into the undead, but it can't hurt to be careful.

Zombies only express themselves when biters are dead.

If you don't die, you will become a natural healer.

But it was different when a living person turned into an undead.

Black Magic is transforming the body.

Lee Hyuk chewed out his mouth and turned his head.

“You don't look so good. ”

“... Where did he go and now he's sneaking his face? ”

“You're in a bad mood. Right?"

Lee Hyuk revealed this in the voice of the appendage, which did not change a bit.

“You'd better be careful what you find out. ”

“Because it's not someone else's job? ”

“Shut up before I rip that throat out, will you? ”

The appendage shrugs.

A man who spits out poison just by opening his mouth.

It was at the point when Lee Hyuk was pushed to the extreme and began to be called the left of destruction.

I could see how desperate he was when I saw him hiding in the deepest depths of Lee Hyuk.

“I don't understand. Isn't that supposed to be someone else? It's not your job to excite others whether they become undead or not. ”

“You don't have to worry about your lizards living as objects because they are never known emotions. ”

“Is that a compliment?”

“It's offensive.”

The appendage sighs.

“So what are you going to do? ”

Lee Hyuk's eyes lit up.

“What can I do? I have to find the man who caused this and watch his magic scatter." ”

“Isn't it more likely to be struck twelve times in a row by lightning? ”

“You can get hit that much in a row if you want to. So this could work, too. ”

“Just as the odds of being hit twelve times and surviving in there are different, can you kill him? ”

“Of course.”

Lee Hyuk said with a stiff face.

“But we don't have a choice. ”

“Choice?”

“It's about whether everyone dies and I take the last step, or I die and everyone else dies. The latter is good if you choose. ”

“The former seems wise. ”

“Humans choose the latter. There's a saying that it's better to sell first. ”

“If you were a normal human being, you would definitely choose electrons. ”

“I'm a little special, aren't I? ”

“ ……. ”

Appeldrich realizes he can't change his mind in a word.

“You're really going to fight. ”

“Yes."

“With the Demon King?”

“Yes."

The face of the appendage distorted for the first time.

“Wake up, Ji-hyuk! You're only human now. Your immortality and immortality are gone. You are no longer the soul of immortality, nor the throne of destruction, nor the ninety-ninth Demon King. You collapse when you get hurt, you die when you get stabbed, you're just a weak man. ”

“I know.”

“You do? You know what happens when you show up to the Demon King now? It won't last 10 seconds and you'll be a piece of meat." Don't you know that? ”

“I know.”

“But why? ”

“I told you, I don't have a choice. ”

“Only with this.... ”

Lee Hyuk shakes his head.

“This is not the only problem right now. Once the Demon King comes to this land, he will surely come for me, and I will have to wait for it, except for my neck. That's not my style. ”

“Yeah, that's not you. ”

“... I thought you were going to curse again! ”

“I know you won't listen to me no matter what I say. You've never listened to me from the past. ”

“Because you always want the impossible. ”

“Let's just say that. ”

I don't want to fight anymore in the meantime.

“Is there really no other way? ”

“Look."

Lee Hyuk pointed to those who were turning into undead in the window.

“How long do you think it will take for the mutation to complete? This isn't the only problem. There are a lot of bugs out there right now. Maybe there's a limit to life because they don't have magical powers. A month? But I assure you, humanity will be wiped out in the full moon unless there is a way to purify them. By then it'll be too late. ”

“ ……. ”

“If we don't conserve power, we lose the fight. Even if you barely survive, you will lose the ability to fight the gates that open after that. ”

“Definitely.”

“So we fight now. ”

“You're right about everything else, but you still are. ”

“What?”

“Nobody trusts you but you, huh? ”

“ ……. ”

“A reasonable person would gather talents from all over the world to come to the United States to catch bugs. Millions of bugs, but that's what it would take to combine the powers of the world. ”

“You're not wrong. ”

“Yet you still take the shortest path alone. ”

“ ……. ”

“Isn't that why you came here? Because you don't want to be alone? ”

“I came here to die. ”

“You're still a bad liar. ”

“Thank you.”

Looking at Lee Hyuk, who smiled bitterly, Apeldrich sighed.

“You know there's another way, right? ”

“I don't know.”

“You know others can come with you, right? ”

“I'm not going back there even if I die, you damn lizard. ”

“I knew you'd say that. ”

The white space opens as the appendage stirs its hand into the air.

“Huh?"

Something slowly flew into Lee Hyuk while floating in the white space.

“Huh?"

Lee Hyuk's eyes widened.

An unexpected object landed on his hands.