The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 380
Episode 380 Legion
“We… lost.”
Listening to Han Yi-seo.
I looked at the giants.
“The monsters of the Demon Demon World… like that.”
“…is it our turn now?”
The giants who came to defeat the demonic beasts of the Demon World.
They also seemed to be hurt.
The number was also lower than before.
‘Eight.’
Despite overwhelming inferiority, the enemy’s number was reduced by four.
You could say it was a huge struggle.
To be honest, I can’t even guess what kind of battle was going on while I was unconscious, so that I was able to kill four giants while outnumbered.
but.
-Now is the time to end it.
In this world.
Saying that we lost but fought well had no meaning.
Quaaaaang….
The giants begin to break down the barrier.
The batteries installed on the outskirts of the wall, which still remained intact, caught fire.
-Laughable resistance….
“Ouch…!”
A huge spear of ice flew out of the giants’ hands.
They shot down tanks and artillery batteries.
“Even the artillery batteries.”
“…It’s over.”
Even artillery fire, which was one of the biggest reasons we were able to endure until now, became impossible.
People’s expressions become tinged with despair.
…That moment.
“…Hold on just a little longer!”
Someone shouted from a crack in the collapsed wall.
A person who was leading the association’s battle.
General Cho Beom-seok.
“Just hold on for as long as possible!”
Even when the batteries installed on the wall were destroyed by the monsters’ attack.
He clung to the battery that was still intact and was adjusting its position alone so that he could attack the giants.
“Hold on more.”
It was a huge fight, though.
People who saw this gritted their teeth and responded.
“It’s over now.”
“Even if I try to hold out here for a few more minutes or tens of minutes, what’s the point?…”
I wonder if I heard those people’s words or not.
The old man shouted as he somehow pulled out the cannonballs buried in the rubble of the destroyed wall.
“If you hold on, there might be change…!”
Although I am not sure of this myself.
An old man who keeps repeating those words over and over again.
“…General, you don’t give up until the end.”
Han Yi-seo saw that and said with a strange expression.
“No matter what, he is a truly amazing person. “You haven’t given up even after coming this far.”
“…Have you completely given up, Mr. Lee Seo?”
“There’s nothing we can do if we come this far.”
She turned her head again.
I looked at the giants who were trying to completely destroy the half-collapsed barrier.
“Still, isn’t this a bad fight?”
“…?”
“I thought about this a while ago, but if we hadn’t decided to fight like this. No, if it weren’t for Youngjun. “It seemed like we would have been destroyed by now.”
I looked up at her face in confusion.
Her expression was not visible as she looked at the giants.
“I heard it from General Cho. I was almost kidnapped when I headed to the center for the last meeting. If General Cho had been killed at that time, the bodies of the awakened people in the southern branch, including him, would have fallen into their arms. “There are many experts in large-scale battles in the southern branch, so the enemy’s strength must have been greatly strengthened.”
“….”
“If the enemy had dragged the monster up in that state, we would have been helpless as we didn’t even know that the enemy knew our information, let alone the real identity of the enemy.”
She shrugs her shoulders.
“After that meeting, it was decided to organize an expeditionary force. “It wouldn’t have been surprising if humanity had already been extinct by then.”
Although it is meaningless to assume what if.
If only they continued to fear the source of that cold.
It must have been as she said.
“But we took our time and held on until now. “The time I endured like that was at most a little over a month.”
It was Han Yi-seo who still had her face turned away.
I could guess that expression.
“Still… I guess this wasn’t a bad fight?”
“….”
Because my voice was trembling.
Fear fear.
“If this is enough… I will be satisfied even if I die…”
In a situation where death is right in front of you.
To somehow overcome that fear.
He may have the face of someone trying to act aloof.
But…
“That won’t be it.”
“…yes?”
“I can die satisfied. “That’s nonsense.”
I opened my mouth, interrupting Han Yi-seo.
“There’s no way a death like this would be satisfying.”
“….”
It’s hard and it’s not easy to open your mouth.
Still, there is something I want to point out.
“For the first time since the end of the world, I saw a human being murdered. “The sight of a human being suffering an unwanted death is much uglier and more disgusting than I thought.”
“….”
“No matter how hard you try during the process, you will never be able to achieve it satisfactorily.”
“Why are you suddenly saying that?”
At my words.
She said through gritted teeth.
“I know I shouldn’t say this to Youngjun, who has worked so hard all this time, but… we are all doomed to die here. “I’m destined to become that ugly, disgusting figure that Youngjun mentioned!”
“….”
“No, they plan to use our bodies, so it might not end up like that. At least on the outside it will look fine. But you know? “That situation could be worse than becoming a gruesomely murdered corpse!”
It is a situation where death is just around the corner.
Some people try to accept death with a detachment.
That too is just effort.
“I just wanted to die with peace of mind.”
No matter how hard you try.
Because there is no way I can accept the end of my life with detachment.
She too.
No, everyone here.
I gave up and let go of everything.
In fact, you probably want to live somehow.
and.
That’s what I can say to those people.
“Don’t give up hope.”
It was nothing more than a banal consolation.
“…under.”
Han Yi-seo said with a laugh.
“Hope… are you still looking for that?”
“….”
“Now that even you, who were our last hope, have ended up like this… Nothing like that…”
And.
At her words.
“…Fuha.”
I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
“…What’s funny?”
“No, I didn’t laugh to laugh, but I thought it was a bit elaborate.”
“What…”
At my sudden laughter.
Han Yi-seo, who seemed to have a good personality, started to frown.
“Hope. “Since when was I your last hope?”
“…?”
I ignored that appearance.
He said while lying down on the floor.
“You were the one who told me about hope.”
“yes?”
I remembered what Han Yi-seo told me
when I first arrived in Gyeonggi-do .
-People are all tired and having a hard time… The spirit must not be sound at all. You asked how our group can run properly? That’s the answer.
-hope!
“Cough… You were the first to tell me not to give up hope.”
“….”
“It was you who told me what that hope was.”
After moving to Gyeonggi-do.
Everything I experienced here was difficult and felt like hell.
I thought a lot about why I had to go through all this trouble.
But the reason I was able to survive somehow.
When I first settled in that northern branch.
People gathered in a small room and listening to the radio.
It was because I saw them.
‘It was worth it.’
Even though it is a damn hard thing to do.
Because I was able to realize that the act had value.
“It’s funny that you say things like there’s no hope.”
How important it is to hold on to hope and survive.
Because I realized it then.
“I said it was an okay fight, right? “I only lasted a little over a month, but isn’t that bad?”
“…Are you trying to tell me that it’s not okay?”
How did you take my words?
Han Yi-seo said, clenching her fists in anger.
“Are you trying to say that I could only survive this much even with the help of people like you?”
“No, no. “You seem to be misunderstanding something, so let me clarify.”
Cough.
“It’s not that bad… It’s not that bad!”
“…?”
Even with blood leaking from my mouth.
He said, unable to hold back his laughter.
“You guys did a great job.”
“…You guys. Youngjun, why did you start earlier?”
At my words.
Han Yi-seo said, frowning as if she sensed something strange.
“Are you talking as if Youngjun is separate from us?”
Her point was quite poignant.
okay.
They and I were different.
They say that if they continue like this, the situation may change.
Beyond the vague.
I was only holding on to that thin hope that was too white to be seen properly.
Holding on to only that shallow hope.
I have fought to survive somehow and have endured until now.
‘It’s a big deal.’
I’m sure.
In this regard, they are better than me.
Of course.
I don’t think I could have done that.
‘Those who have clenched their teeth and held on until now, holding on only to a vague hope with no certainty.’
and.
‘A person with firm conviction… who knew that he only had to endure for a certain amount of time.’
Because their resolutions are bound to be different.
“Keu….”
“…?”
I somehow move my trembling hands.
floor.
I put it where my shadow is.
[Shadow Curtain]
A hand penetrated the shadow.
I retrieve the item I was looking for.
“Ugh!”
Let’s try our best to lift something that was too heavy to lift.
Seeing that, Han Yi-seo opened her eyes wide and shouted.
“radio…?”
The radio that people in the northern branch gathered in one place to listen to.
Because it was the radio she gave me.
– Jijijik… beep….
Unlike what I heard in the past.
No voice came from the radio.
Only crackles and beeps.
All you can hear is an unidentified noise.
“This radio too… “It looks like it was cut off in the end.”
Her complexion became even darker when she heard that sound.
but.
“no.”
“yes?”
“It’s exactly the opposite.”
I knew.
“This noise is not caused by a lost connection.”
“What is that…”
“What can I say more than that…”
crackle.
Beep beep.
I can’t wait to hear that sound.
Laughter leaks out.
“It’s a sound they make to convey their meaning more clearly.”
What they were trying to convey was extremely simple.
Even if you don’t have a notebook to take notes.
A message that is short and simple enough to be interpreted just by hearing it.
-Goes.
I looked at the status window that was turned on in front of me.
[Steel Legion (100%)]
This number was a bit low until recently.
Everything was filled.
“therefore! “What on earth were you talking about earlier…”
Was my anger rising due to the fear of death and me repeating incomprehensible words?
The exact moment when Han Yi-seo burst into tears and was about to scream.
-Tiring.
“…uh?”
Change has begun.
* * *
Miserable and servile.
These are people who have endured and survived so much that you wonder if they want to live like that.
And now even that resistance is over.
It was a time when I fell into despair thinking that everyone would lose their lives.
[Important Notice]
[World Event – The first round of Conquest War is over!]
As if making fun of them.
A very light message appeared.
[A force that has achieved a 100% capture rate of a region has been born!]
[Achieved region – ROK.17]
[Great region – As the first person to achieve the occupation war event appears within ROK, the occupation war event within the great region ROK has been launched. It will end in the first place!]
It suddenly appeared in front of me.
A status window telling an unidentified story.
“…The occupation war is over?”
“What does this mean all of a sudden?”
Not everyone knows the English text.
When those giants stop and stand blankly even when they are trying to cross the barrier.
[With the end of the Conquest War event, the beginner protection system will be weakened.]
[After 30 days, the beginner protection compartment will be completely removed.]
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
…”
behind their backs.
There was a feeling.
At that sight.
“What about that?”
People, of course.
-What do you mean?
Even giants who have just crossed the barrier.
I lost my gaze blankly.
Coo coo coo coo coo….
That’s right.
A black barrier that burned everyone who approached without leaving even a trace of powder behind.
Oh my….
It was declared that it would never be overcome.
From beyond that barrier.
{Citizens of Gyeonggi-do, rest assured.}
Something.
Something ridiculously huge.
{We are an army.}
Because we were coming over.