Player of a Ruined World - Chapter 63

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Player of the Ruined World – Episode 063
Lee Kwanghyun’s face flushed as he stared at Kim Miyeon, and she offered a bitter smile in response.
“Don’t panic… Don’t shake. I’m not dead.”
“You keep telling me to be careful! You keep saying it’s dangerous, so what am I supposed to do if you get hurt!!”
“…Is now really the time to be angry?”
Blood was flowing from Kim Miyeon’s side.
The healing factor from the 5th Party was rushing to treat her, but the wound wasn’t closing easily.
Lee Kwanghyun crouched beside Kim Miyeon and fixed his gaze on her injury.
If the bullet had passed through, the healing factor would have completely cured her by now, but it seemed the bullet was embedded in her body.
The fragmented bullet kept piercing her blood vessels, causing bleeding to resume even after treatment.
“Miyeon, bite down on this.”
Lee Kwanghyun placed a cloth between Kim Miyeon’s teeth.
“Tweezers, do we have tweezers?! Anything works as long as it’s thin and long…!”
“Here!”
A student handed over a small pair of tweezers.
Please let the bullet not be embedded too deep.
As Lee Kwanghyun grasped the tweezers and looked at Kim Miyeon, she nodded firmly while clenching the cloth between her teeth.
The tweezers entered the wound without anesthesia.
Kim Miyeon’s eyes widened as wide as lanterns, and muffled whimpers escaped from her mouth as she bit down on the cloth.
“Hold her tight!”
As Lee Kwanghyun shouted, the students grabbed Kim Miyeon’s limbs to keep her from moving.
Bang!! Ting-! Ping!
Meanwhile, bursts of gunfire echoed from the 1st Floor, and ricochets struck the stairwell railing.
The high school students were providing covering fire, but they weren’t shooters.
Firing crossbow bolts at an invisible enemy was futile.
Click!
Finally, the bullet was caught in the tweezers.
As it was pulled out, blood surged from Kim Miyeon’s wound.
“Heal her, heal her quickly!”
The healing factors from the 5th and 6th Parties quickly placed their hands on the wound and began treatment.
From their fingertips, a shimmering azure energy seeped into Kim Miyeon’s wound, and finally the injury began to close.
“Miyeon, Miyeon, stay with me! Miyeon!”
“Ah… don’t shake me.”
As Kim Miyeon spoke in a weak voice, Lee Kwanghyun held her in his arms and let out continuous sighs of relief.
His wife’s irritated demeanor was proof that she had survived.
“Uncle!! I think we need to go higher! They have machine guns!”
“It’s a rifle. K2.”
“Sir?”
“No time to explain. You all take Miyeon and head up.”
As the students helped Kim Miyeon up the stairs, Lee Kwanghyun gripped his pistol once more and checked his remaining ammunition.
Only twelve bullets remained.
Kim Miyeon had left behind a crossbow, but it held only four bolts.
Thud—
When Lee Kwanghyun heard footsteps crossing over the barricade on the 1st floor, he hastily took position and aimed his rifle.
“You damn bastards!! Where are you hiding?!”
Those men approached the stairs, bellowing at the top of their lungs.
Bang!!
As Lee Kwanghyun pulled the trigger, the temple of the man who had been huffing and puffing burst open, and crimson spray painted the wall.
“Up, up there! There’s still more up there!”
“Didn’t you say someone got shot?!”
“I said one got hit, not that all of them did, you idiot!!”
A ragtag bunch that couldn’t even communicate properly.
How had these guys even gotten rifles?
Ping—! Clang clang clang—
In that instant, a round object flew up the stairs.
Lee Kwanghyun instinctively grabbed the sphere and hurled it back down to the 1st floor.
Boom!!!!
With a deafening blast that assaulted the eardrums, the barricade shattered, and cement dust fell from the ceiling along with thick smoke.
“Cough— cough!”
Lee Kwanghyun coughed violently and rushed upward.
They even had grenades.
Where the hell did these guys come from?
Rat-a-tat-tat—! Rat-a-tat!
Footsteps echoing through the gray haze of smoke.
But Lee Kwanghyun possessed the Shooter’s ability to perceive presences even through the smoke, so he suppressed his cough and raised his rifle.
Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
Tinnitus had already robbed him of hearing, and his vision swayed like rolling waves.
Yet with nothing but the resolve to hold this position, I risked my life to defend the 2nd floor.
Vroom— vroooooom—
In that moment, the sound of a car engine from a distance.
Unclear due to the ringing in my ears, but the engine sound was definitely there.
I hurriedly rose and rushed to the emergency exit window.
Vroooom—! Honk—! Beep! Honk!!
I could see two vehicles speeding toward Building 118, blaring their horns loudly.
Sparks flew relentlessly from the vehicles’ exteriors as the invaders seemed to be pouring concentrated fire, yet the two vehicles sustained no damage and continued accelerating.
Following that, the passenger door of the leading vehicle opened, and a man jumped out, rolling across the ground.
Before I could even think that it must hurt terribly, he sprang to his feet and slashed the arms of those aiming rifles with a long blade.
Simultaneously, the heads of the invaders were severed.
“Doyun… Doyun!!”
Lee Kwanghyun clenched both fists tightly and greeted Party 1 and Party 2, who had finally arrived, with fierce enthusiasm.
The Invaders came armed with rifles and grenades, but they were no match for the Hunting Dog League members returning in their modified vehicles.

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The moment the first and second squads arrived, the situation was resolved in an instant.
The Invaders had brought a total of twelve K2 rifles.
We collected them all and stored them separately.
“So, you came from Gangnam?”
I questioned the captured Invader, and he answered while trembling on his knees.
“Yes, yes. That’s right. We came from Gangnam.”
“Why did Gangnam survivors come all the way to Seongdong-gu?”
“We heard that taking over the Safe House would give us a lot of points…”
“That’s all?”
As I raised my eyebrows and asked, he licked his lips and alternated his gaze between the League Members.
They all glared at the Invader with menacing expressions.
Some of us had been shot, others had been slashed with blades.
If we hadn’t received treatment from the Healing Factor in time, there would have been casualties.
He swallowed hard and opened his mouth.
“W-we know. We thought that anyone who cleared the Safe House episode wouldn’t be weak…”
“…”
“But… we couldn’t stay in Gangnam.”
“Why, what’s wrong with Gangnam?”
“That place is hell.”
At the man’s words, I tilted my head without thinking.
Looking at Park Sangil beside me and Elder Chulmin, Park Sangil stepped forward and spoke.
“Here or there, it’s all hell.”
“No! Gangnam really… really isn’t a place for people to live!”
“Tell us the reason, you bastard. Don’t stammer.”
As Park Sangil furrowed his brow, the man opened his mouth with a troubled expression.
“In Gangnam… there’s a massive organization.”
“An organization?”
“It’s called ‘The Great Dominion,’ and it’s full of demonic bastards. I heard the Great Dominion members even eat human flesh.”
At the man’s words, Park Sangil’s eyes twitched.
The students who had been frowning also seemed flustered by the mention of cannibalism and began exchanging nervous glances.
Thud- thud-
Following that, Park Sangha stepped forward and grabbed the man by the collar, asking.
“Where’s their main base?”
“…Huh?”
“The Great Dominion’s main headquarters.”
“D-don’t touch those bastards. They’re truly viciously evil.”
“Who’s worried about whom? Just answer the question.”
“That’s a hornet’s nest! If we attack them… there will definitely be retaliation. Other Survivors could be put in danger too!”
There was no hint of deception in the man’s expression.
He looked genuinely terrified, unwilling to even approach that place.
But wait—if we provoke The Great Dominion, they’ll harm innocent people?
I crossed my arms and asked.
“So if we don’t attack first, The Great Dominion won’t bother killing people on their own?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“That doesn’t make sense. If we don’t attack first, we won’t be attacked. So what makes them demons?”
“Ah, really… I can’t explain this properly. Unless you see it with your own eyes, no amount of explanation will help.”
Crack!!
In that instant, Park Sangha slapped the man across the face.
I looked at Park Sangha in shock, and he met my gaze while speaking.
“Don’t listen. It’s a trap.”
“…”
“They’re trying to lure us to Gangnam.”
What?
Confusing us with contradictory statements, then manipulating us into verifying it ourselves—it was entirely plausible.
Yes, it was a possibility worth considering.
To see through it so instantly.
Park Sangha, having spent time plotting scenarios, had sharp instincts indeed.
Park Sangha drew his curved blade and raised it high.
As Park Sangha moved to kill the man, Park Sangil stopped him.
“Wait. We still have questions.”
“Nothing more to ask. Either way, once the second episode ends, the third will begin. We have no reason to get involved with those Gangnam bastards.”
“These guys came from Gangnam.”
“…”
“Don’t you get it? The Great Dominion can cross the Han River too.”
Park Sangha bit his lower lip in contemplation, then clicked his tongue sharply and stepped back.
Park Sangil crouched down to meet the man’s eye level and asked.
“Where in Gangnam do we find them?”
“N-Nonhyeon-dong, sir.”
“You’re certain?”
“Of course. Why would I lie?”
“Then why didn’t you join The Great Dominion? Why act separately?”
“I told you. They’re a psychotic group.”
The man shuddered as he spoke.
Park Sangil snorted at the man’s absurd reaction and spoke.
“You don’t seem that different to us.”
“C-compared to them, I’m perfectly normal.”
“Where did you get the gun?”
“I obtained that in Nonhyeon-dong as well.”
“There’s no place selling rifles in Nonhyeon-dong. How did you manage that?”
“There’s a military base near Nonhyeon Pass. I got it from a deserter stationed there.”
The man spoke freely even after being slapped.
Park Sangil exhaled a sigh and rose from his seat.
He brushed back his bangs, pondered for a moment, then looked at my face and asked.
“What do you want to do?”
“We need to verify.”
“Will only Teams 1 and 2 move this time?”
“No. We can’t engage in a full-scale battle when we know nothing about the enemy.”
“….”
“We conducted reconnaissance before dealing with the group before. Let’s confirm from a distance first.”
“We can’t verify inside The Great Dominion itself.”
“I’ll use this one as bait. Just you, me, and Sanghun will go.”
At the mention of being used as bait, the man kneeling panicked and jumped to his feet.
“B-Bait? You said you’d spare me if I told you everything!”
“We’ll keep our word—we won’t kill you with our own hands.”
“If I go to The Great Dominion, I’m as good as dead!”
“Why should I care about that?”
As I asked with a frown, the man’s expression went blank.
This man had shot at our group.
He was the one who pulled the trigger until the end.
If his ammunition hadn’t run out, I might have been hit by his bullets.
Just let someone like that live?
I don’t think I have the kind nature to manage that.
“Makers, please master the manufacturing method of the recovered firearms. We’ll produce rifles too.”
“Doyun, we need to remake the handguns we were using.”
At Park Sangha’s words, I tilted my head, and he showed me a single handgun.
“The ammunition made with Points seems to be the problem. The handgun can’t withstand it.”
“Yes, please remake the handguns as well. Real weapons have difficulty withstanding ammunition made with Points. We can’t even repair them.”
“The trajectory seemed odd when pulling the trigger too. Is that also because of the ammunition made with Points?”
“That’s possible. Please remake and test it.”
Park Sangha nodded, then pointed to the parked modified vehicle and asked.
“What about the modified vehicle? Does it need repairs?”
“Please check it once. And I heard there are grenades—please verify if we can master their manufacturing method as well.”
“Understood.”
“Everyone else, collect the bodies and prepare defenses. More of these types might attack.”
It might seem cold.
But because it was necessary, I made only rational judgments.
No voices of objection were heard.
Since everyone deferred to my judgment, I hauled the kneeling man to his feet and dragged him toward Vehicle 1.
“Get in.”
“Save me, save me!! Someone help! Someone help!!”
Cornered and desperate, he screamed into the void where no one would listen.
I tilted my head and asked.
“Do you want to die right now?”
“…!”
“You spoke of The Great Dominion—whether they’re truly demons or not, you’ll see for yourself soon enough.”
Park Sangil and Park Sanghun sat in front, while I shoved the Unnamed Man into the back seat.
He screamed like a pig being dragged to the slaughterhouse.
I pressed my curved blade against his throat and spoke.
“Hey, keep making noise and I’ll slit your throat right here.”

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