chapter 11
first job
The old man let out a low laugh.
“Then, if there are numbers 1 through 10 here, what level do you think your skills are?”
It was a pretty cryptic question, but Siyoon didn’t hesitate.
The card he drew was the number ‘5’.
Seeing this, the old man slightly raised his eyebrows, then tore the tail of his mouth.
“My skills are halfway there? hehehe… this kid.”
He murmurs as if in a low voice.
Then he drew the number 3 card with his wrinkled hand glowing with attributes.
“Even this is generous.”
“You’ve already decided on the answer, but you’re asking well.”
However, that was Choi Si-yoon’s goal.
Siyoon already knew that this old man would play pranks like this.
It was because ‘Park Hyeon-soo’, a hero specialized in assassination, was a representative dirt spoon hero, so most of the quests related to him came from such a shadowy place.
I knew this late-night diner well because I had been to it numerous times while playing as Park Hyun-soo.
Perhaps if he had chosen that because the number 3 card would shine, the old man would have drawn the number 1 card.
He had several reasons for pulling this prank on his new guest.
But one of them was that if you exaggerate your skills on this floor, you exaggerate it, and there are few people who reduce it.
This was one of his know-how to maintain a high success rate of requests while constantly receiving new faces.
“So, do you have any complaints? Leave me if you don’t like me.”
“Okay, what kind of work can I give you?”
“It should come out like that.”
Not knowing that everything belonged to Siyoon Choi, the old man quickly retrieved the card and put it back into his arms.
“I hope you don’t get too offended. Put yourself in my shoes. What would you trust and hand over an important task to the guy you saw for the first time? There…”
The old man glanced Siyoon up and down.
“No matter how you look at it, you don’t seem to be strong enough to draw the number 5 card.”
I didn’t feel an unusual momentum, and I didn’t feel a lot of mana.
Even from the outside, it seemed that there was no mediocre armament.
There was not a single impressive part except that antique that blurs the impression.
In the experience of the elderly, this case was generally a breadwinner.
‘At most two.’
It wasn’t a lie when he said he was generous with even the number 3 card.
Even so, the reason he picked the number 3 was because of his guts to call the number 5 card without hesitation at the seemingly pointless subject.
‘In this case, it’s like an idiot whose liver was swollen and popped out.’
Or a guy who firmly believes in something.
“I like what you think.”
Of course, Siyoon, who was clearly reading the old man’s thoughts, just let out a low laugh.
“Because it’s something that needs to be shown as a result.”
“hahahaha! He was a nobleman more communicative than I thought.”
He opened the locked drawer under the nightstand with the key on his waistband.
“then. In the end, this floor is the result. Show me the results. The employment contract will be written at that time.”
The old man took a brown paper bag from a drawer and put it on the nightstand.
“Looks like you’re not from here, how much do you know about these 4 buildings?”
Siyoon slightly twisted his gaze and shook his shoulders, and he smiled.
“This is an abandoned city. A new city project that was once promoted by Chairman Ho-Jun Choi, but was stranded. It’s a sort of… sewage plant rooted in it.”
‘It’s a sewage treatment plant…’
That was a pretty naked analogy.
“You must have seen it on the way there, right? The poor outer walls along the city limits.”
When Choi Si-yoon left Building 1 and moved to Building 4, he remembered the gray old structure he saw at the far end.
It was a kind of wall that protected the city from the wild beasts outside.
People here often called it the ‘exterior wall’.
If a gate disaster occurs and the outer wall collapses, the city will immediately activate the inner wall hidden underground.
And the inner wall was designed to cross exactly between the 1st and 4th buildings.
To protect regular employees inside the inner walls.
In a corporate state, regular workers were aristocrats, while non-regular workers and unemployed vagrants were commoners and lowly people.
In the event of an unmanageable situation under such an idea, abandoning the 4th building along with the outer wall was the city’s basic emergency response manual.
“Who cares about a sh*t trough that’s just enough to drain the city’s filth?”
“What do you want to say?”
“The work between filth is to be handled by filth. Because there is no one to clean it.”
The old man chuckled, unsealed the envelope, took out the contents inside, and showed it to him.
“My name is Jihoon Kwon. The magical attribute used is fire. The magic that can be used is probably a 3rd rank account.”
Siyoon looked closely at the photo.
“He’s the guy who burned and killed the employees of a SI company that was subcontracting two days ago to build GB Finance’s ERP. The reason is… Well, you don’t know anything. Just know that he’s an asshole.”
His eyebrows moved slightly. This was a quest I had done while playing Park Hyun-soo.
There were hundreds of small quests like this in the Heroic War, but the characteristic ‘complete memory ability’ made me remember all of them, so it was certain.
“The other accomplice was already taken care of by another service, but it seems that this guy was the one who leaked into the wanted person network managed by Hanam Construction anyway, as if he was not lucky enough to be there.”
“The wanted ones must be the guys who subcontracted to that SI company.”
“Exactly, it’s the one who gave the subcontract to the subcontract. well anyway.”
The old man tapped the paper and said.
“The compensation is 1.8 million won excluding commissions. On the condition that life and death are not asked. If you catch him, take his thumbprint with this and wait. Then the sanitation workers will come.”
Sanitation workers were a kind of slang term for contract workers who received a subcontract from a service company run by such elderly people and did cleanup of corpses.
Siyoon took the fingerprint reader the old man gave him and drank the coffee.
“See you soon.”
“I hope so.”
Leaving behind the grinning old man, Siyoon climbed the dark stairs again.
Then, the one who greeted him was Kim A-ra, an employee who was still trembling.
“what? Are you leaving already? Guest, how about having dinner while you’re here?”
Siyoon, who had been looking at her in silence, answered as she passed her.
“next time.”
“…”
salty. He seemed to hear a voice, but he ignored it and left the restaurant.
Looking at Siyoon’s back, Kim Ara entered the kitchen humming a song.
“Payment in installments!”
An old man was washing the dishes in the kitchen.
“Uh, draw our granddaughter~.”
At that moment, with a click, the kitchen door is locked. At the same time, the smile disappeared from Ara Kim’s face.
“therefore? how is it? Newbie.”
As she leaned against the kitchen door and crossed her arms crookedly, the old man scratched his head with his index finger.
“I don’t know yet. He seemed to have the guts, but…”
“Hmm···.”
Kim Ara, who was silent with her arms crossed, nodded her head and agreed.
“Certainly, it didn’t look like a rat. I don’t know if this is going to cost money to clean up the wrong corpse.”
“Originally, this floor is like that, isn’t it? dragging.”
“That’s right.”
As usual, she fumbled for a pack of cigarettes, feeling sorry for her.
“···madam. It’s office hours.”
“miss. Why don’t you think about your health and give up?”
“Leave the nagging. If you’re doing this at this age, if you’re an inspiration, don’t you get stressed out?”
At the same time, ding-dong! and the bell rang.
“Yes! I’m going~!”
Kim A-ra, who suddenly changes in an instant and runs out with a bouncing step.
The old man who watched this smiled and shook his head.
“I can’t get used to it whenever I see it…”
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Siyun, who went out into the street, moved her steps without hesitation.
In fact, even if you didn’t know anything about this quest, there was a place where those rats could hide anyway.
Abandoned history, discontinued housing districts, closed railroad sections…
However, the advantage of knowing in advance greatly narrows the options.
Siyun, who perfectly remembers the road thanks to her characteristic ‘perfect memory ability’, walked past a familiar alley for a while.
Then, little by little, people become rarer and the noise goes away. He raised his head and looked at the sky.
The place was being built, but the apartments were blowing away bizarre groans along with the wind.
As he passes through the iron construction fence and enters, eyes are drawn from all over the place. All of them, all wearing mats, trying to spend the night relying on the wood fire in the drum.
As soon as Siyoon’s eyes met, a tramp groaned in fear and hid himself.
These were people who had already learned fear to the bone. There were many of these people in this city. And no one cared about them. even themselves.
As we moved across the discontinued apartment complex, the old structure we had seen in the distance moved closer.
outer wall.
Contaminated with all sorts of rubbish and spray paint, this place is a haven for the nameless.
Siyoon raised her head and looked at the end of that high outer wall.
There, the headlights monitoring the outside flashed periodically.
If I narrowed my eyes faintly, I could see the security guards under the group’s affiliates standing guard from above.
However, their mission is only to watch the outside on top of that high outer wall.
Even if a big fight breaks out under the wall right now, he won’t even pay attention.
Siyoon turned around and walked along the outer wall.
As I made my way through the dark and dreary air, I began to see more drums than before.
They were all huddled near a burning log fire near an abandoned sewer tunnel.
He passed through the dirty road littered with feces and urine and entered a dark tunnel.
Those there looked more serious than those I had just seen in the apartment complex.
They didn’t even care if anyone came in or not. I just stare at the light of the drum with blank eyes.
However, Choi Si-yoon is looking at the end of this tunnel.
It was a man who was alone with the drum, unable to blend in anywhere as if he had just arrived here.
In an instant, the man’s eyes met with his head raised.
“…”
Soon, his mouth opened and the cigarette he was chewing on fell to the ground.
“What the f*ck!”
Magical power that suddenly rises with a single swear word.
At the same time, a red-hot fireball was shot at Siyoon.
At that moment, the trait ‘Bullet Time’ that I bought at the trait shop was activated.
● Attribute ‘Bullet Time’
– Rating: Hero
– You can accelerate your perceived speed during battle. Everything that can be observed with both eyes seems to flow very slowly.
With the surroundings slowing down like slow motion, Siyoon could easily avoid the fireball by turning her body slightly.
Seeing that, Kwon Ji-hoon opened his eyes wide and started running into the tunnel in a hurry, as if he had judged that it was not his opponent.
“How so fast…!”
However, as if there was nothing urgent, Siyoon slowly walked inside where he had disappeared and assembled a silencer on the pistol.
“Damn it! It’s a dead end!”
Of course, it was because the other side of this tunnel had long since collapsed.
He was already well aware of that fact.
Eventually, Kwon Ji-hoon, who reached a dead end, looked back at Si-yoon with a nervous expression.
“Kwon Ji-hoon. Right?”
“Oh, don’t come.”
He drew a dagger from his bosom and threatened.
Either way, as Si-yoon approached, ignoring him, Kwon Ji-hoon shouted as if the tunnel was about to leave.
“I told you not to come!! Do I look funny?!”
Then his dagger burned wildly.
The bright red intensity lit up the dark tunnel and swayed like a snake.
It was clear that the fire attribute magic sword was perfect for him who uses fire attribute magic.
However, Choi Si-yoon, who already knew very well that the reason he had been able to survive so far was because of that demonic sword, was not surprised at all.
“Are you going to answer the question first?”
“It’s cracking!”
“That face. Kwon Ji-hoon is right.”
Si-yoon, who clearly checked his face just in case, pointed a gun at Kwon Ji-hoon and threw out a warning.
“If you surrender meekly, I will spare your life. I didn’t mean to kill him.”
“Patience. Who would believe that…”
Kwon Ji-hoon, who was about to shout that, stopped talking and frowned.
His gaze turned to the automatic pistol Siyoon was holding.
“her···.”
He laughed in disbelief and muttered as he wiped his face.
“Ha, f*ck. Could that be a gun?”
“…”
“Crazy, where the hell did you get that antique? Wow, it feels like I’m seeing you in 10 years. hahahaha.”
Then he stomped his feet hard and screamed.
“aaa!!!”
The magic power of the dagger he was holding began to vibrate violently.
“You were scared for nothing. really.”
Kwon Ji-hoon, who opened the barrier in front of me, tapped the blade of the dagger and said,
“I don’t know what time period you idiot live in. It’s common knowledge now that a crappy knife like this is mightier than a gun like that. Yes?!”
Kwon Ji-hoon rushes towards him in the blink of an eye, as if he had used body strengthening magic.
His mouth opened as if the flames spewed out from his dagger would swallow Shiyoon.
“If you don’t know, look for it!”
However, Siyoon just pulled the trigger with a calm expression.
Fish-! The bullet fired along with a gasping sound pierced the inside of Kwon Ji-hoon, scattering blue flashes.
‘Stupid bastard.’
Kwon Ji-hoon rushed at him and internally laughed at Si-yoon.
Until his defense magic was shattered intact by a bullet.
“…!?”
‘Is there a barrier?!’
Startled, he quickly turned around, but there was no way he could dodge the sonic bullets at close range.
“Aagh!”
Pain for the first time in my life rides down the spinal cord and sticks.
Kwon Ji-hoon tried to open the distance by summoning a fireball as soon as possible.
“Muhh…!”
However, his body did not move as he intended, and he let out a confused moan.
His gaze moved to the bullet-grazed side.
“!!”
And then I couldn’t help but be shocked.
Along with the blood flowing over the affected area, something black was spreading through the veins.
‘This is a curse…!’
It was the effect of the [weakness] that Siyun had imprinted on his pistol.
‘What the hell…how!’
It’s not even a magic palace, but is it possible to do something like this with a gun?
His gaze turned to the pistol Siyun was holding.
On the barrel of that pistol, something that looked like a magic circuit was engraved.
“Mi-crazy…!”
Si-yoon approached Kwon Ji-hoon, who was trembling and unable to resist the curse.
“My, please… Sa, save me.”
Then Puck. The sound echoed through the tunnel.
“…”
After disassembling the muzzle silencer and putting it in his bosom, Si-yoon took out a fingerprint reader from his pocket and rummaged through the fainting Kwon Ji-hoon’s fingers.
“Can I do it like this?”
When he placed the recognizer on his thumb, a green light and a voice message were output.
[Titling! Check vital signs and stunning response. Call Team B.]