Return (1)
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“Hyung, what was the place where the gate gauge was 0 like this?”
The younger brother saw the ‘0’ on the gate gauge probe in his hand; he didn’t remember, so he asked his brother.
“Call me, Guild leader.”
“Do you want to be a guild leader?”
“Just!”
He gave a honey balm to the crown of his brother, who dared to climb on his horse.
“There are two now, but one day I will grow to over 100 medium-sized guilds. I have to adapt now.”
“Oh, why are you hitting me? I will grow. Only on the C-level theme.”
The younger brother stepped back, stroking his head on a honey bald shot.
“You are C-class too. Shut up and check it out soon.”
“What is gate gauge 0 like this?”
When the younger brother showed him the gate gauge, he looked at the kid like apathetic.
“What is it, it is a dungeon without monsters. Remember some. That’s why we came in with only mining supplies.”
“Look at this; you have to hunt monsters and get stronger quickly.”
His brother, who seemed to be pathetic, wanted to be strong by catching monsters as soon as possible.
“Hey, the guild that can’t get anything like this is overflowing. Don’t make noises; follow me quickly.”
His muttering comforted his younger brother, leading the way over the gate.
When he walked through the gate, he moved his steps in the sense of motion, accompanied by motion sickness and the air’s feeling of walking.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he looked at the surroundings, relying on the subtle light flowing from the gate, and was amazed by In-young’s appearance standing in a dark cave.
“Ugh-oh!”
“finally.”
In-young, standing in front of the gate and trying to crawl over the gate again, heard a stranger’s voice.
Older brother tried to question the man in the Korean language he had heard.
Suddenly, his brother, judging only by the fragmented situation in front of his eyes, wielded a pickaxe like a baseball bat.
“die!”
The creature inside the gate, which no one else known, was considered dangerous.
However, the man, without looking back, grabbed his brother’s shoulders then sits on the floor just before the pickaxe reached the back of the head.
His swinging younger brother began to look at the appearance of the man who raised him without harming his brother and slowly began to observe the strange man’s color.
It was difficult to guess the man’s age due to the scattered hair and the shaggy beard, but the clumsy muscles seen between the worn clothes gave a tremendous sense of pressure.
There was no difference between the man and the strength even if he only looked at the gripping force of the brother who fell over and saw it, but fortunately, it seemed not to be hostile.
When he met eyes with his younger brother, he was awakened, slapping his cheeks clapping himself, struggling with amazement, and standing upright with strength in his legs.
“Oh, you were surprised. The gate here is the gate that was assigned by our guild, but I think it is wrong. Where are you in the guild?”
“Is there Korea beyond the gate?”
The man who was questioned by his brother asked the question in reverse.
“Of course, it is Korea. You must have been there too.”
He replied, but the man was silent.
“Please go ahead. I don’t know if there’s anything; maybe you can’t do what you wanted. But it is illegal.”
He felt awkward about the silence of the man, so he asked him to go out.
“If you go out, where is the entrance to the gate?”
He frowned at by the man’s question.
Is there anyone who doesn’t even know where he came from?
“Of course, next to Bundangcheon. Did you have any memory loss?”
In response to the older brother’s words, the man, without an answer, folded his arms and slightly bowed his head, thinking for a moment and smiling.
The face was not visible in detail, but it must have been a charming smile.
“Maybe there will be no minerals. Instead, give it a gift and continue to bend it to the left, there will be a gift.”
The man lifted his head and said that there would be no minerals and exited the gate.
At that point, the older brother tried to catch the man, but he couldn’t even find him because he quickly went out.
He didn’t have to follow the man’s order because he didn’t have any mining equipment anyway, and he didn’t seem to have any loads.
“Why were you down? You almost killed him.”
The younger brother who came to the side trembled as he recalled the situation he had distressed.
“Hey man, it might be someone who accidentally came in, but you’re swinging, you’re crazy!”
“… No, my brother is falling, I wonder if he was attacked.”
The younger brother, who was a bit depressed to answer his brother’s reprimand, was a bit unfair.
“I thought that my brother was in danger, so I rushed to him, “
“I have been attacked, but are you guaranteed to win? You have to run away.”
He understood its meaning, but it was so embarrassing that his face blushed.
“If I run away, leave you behind; Don’t be a dog, but walk ahead.”
As the older brother understood his brother’s heart, he glistened brightly and walked in front of the younger one with a smile on his head.
He led his younger brother, who grumbled, saying that his head was broken, then walked along the left side of the road that the man pointed out.
Cave was dark, but there were torches all over the place.
The wind continued to blow, but at some point, it struck a different smell.
“Hyung, this…”
“Yeah, it smells of blood. Put it all down and just pick up a pickaxe to use as a weapon. Let’s go slowly.”
His younger brother tried to say something, firmly believed in the gate gauge.
Grabbed the torch hanging on the wall and slowly moved forward.
The smell of blood gradually getting intense, and his head was getting messed up, but his brother seemed to have no intention of turning back.
He murmured into how far he could find the source of that smell and bent once more to the left to see a full cavity.
Tears of monsters that couldn’t be counted, blood formed a small lake, and bodies were stacked in layers.
“tongue…brother.”
“They’re all dead. I don’t even have an immovable guy.”
“It’s not like that.”
The younger brother finally vomited, as if his head were dizzy with the bloody scent.
“My little man has such a weak stomach, Woo-wook.”
The scent of blood in their nose and the smell that came from the place mixing together had emptied the stomach of his younger brother.
The brother, who had burned all the food in his stomach, wiped his tears while grabbing his sore throat after there was no longer anything coming out.
They lifted their heads and saw each other’s tears and runny noses. At the same time, they burst into laughter and laughed for a long time.
“Hey, let’s go out and get some equipment.”
“What will you do when someone comes in?”
“I’m going to come and go, so I’m guarding it at the gate entrance. I have to buy some masks to dismantle the monster anyway.”
God is moving to the gate’s entrance, but in the head of the elder brother, the signs of the death of monsters and the man’s appearance passed by.
“But did those monsters kill the man?”
“Maybe? Brother, why was the gate gauge zero?”
When the gate was created, the detector reported to the association. The association measured the gate gauge, handed it over to the assigned guild for conformation, and re-confirmed.
However, the younger brother wondered how the monsters were in that place where the gate gauge was zero.
“I guess I just came in and caught it before the association even measured it.”
“is it?”
“Yes. But I don’t even have any by-products, so I think Huntington is a lot of money.”
“At first glance, the monsters didn’t seem to have a mana stone…Brother, would you get some money if you sold them all?”
“Of course.”
Laughing and laughing, they reached the entrance of the gate and went out of it.
They drove back to their home to pack tools to slaughter.
The memory of their encounter with the stranger disappeared in his head because his brother was blind to the money they would earn by dismantling the monsters.
He forgot that the man had no weapons.
* * *
When sitting on the steps of a subway station, one of the ten passers-by, a man from Mongol who could give money, shook his hand on the road to catch a taxi after leaving the gate.
However, the taxis marked as empty were slowed down and overlooked at him.
He waited for a while, but there were no taxi stops.
The man sighed deeply and eventually stopped the taxi, trying to pass.
The taxi driver made a quick step on the brake and fortunately didn’t hit the man.
“Hey, you crazy kid, have you turned?”
The driver asked as he stepped out of the car with great momentum; he spits out a swear, but when the man’s shabby muscles came into his eyes, he quickly turned around with a frustrated sigh.
“I don’t have to be in a hurry! I’ll keep my eyes open!”
He got on the car quickly, with a look that he wasn’t afraid, but he had already grabbed the handle of the passenger seat.
The driver quickly locked the door, but the man pulled the handle.
“Open the door.”
“Ah…Yo, I’m sorry for cursing.”
He quickly apologized, but the man was unwilling to release the handle.
“I don’t have any money, but I have some mana stones.”
“Are you a hunter?”
The taxi driver dropped the window slightly when he heard mana stone.
“I’ll give you a mana stone, so please bring me to Gwanak-gu Office.”
“Oh, even Busan is possible with the lowest mana stone. I’ll take you like a bullet. “
At the taxi driver’s end, the man tried to take out the intermediate mana stone, then put it back in his arms and showed it out.
When the driver saw the mana stone, he quickly opened the door and started to step on the accelerator as soon as the man rode.
Staying beyond the gate for a long time, his money sense was dull, so he didn’t know how much to pay for the taxi, but he was glad that the driver took out the most inferior stone.
He ate most of the mana stone while he was beyond the gate but was glad that he had a small amount of food to eat, and its effect is minimal.
The taxi driver drove like an acrobat when he saw the stone, and within 30 minutes came to Gwanak-gu Office.
“I will get off here.”
The man got off when we arrived. The lowest mana stone was placed in the hand of the driver.
“Oh, thank you. Take care of your body.”
He hasn’t worked as a hunter, but he doesn’t deny it. He greets him lightly and gets off the taxi.
He tried to go home to trace his memories, but the streets changed so much that they used to be.
On the cold November road, he barely walked back and forth, barefoot, and stuttered his memories. He walked into the residential area and walked in front of a house.
It seemed that he felt the reward he had endured while suffering from a promise without promise, such as ‘I’ll be back someday.’
When he put his hand under the pot in front of his house, there were many cold keys, just like 20 years ago.
The texture seemed to shed tears, but he forced his eyes to endure it, put the key in the keyhole, turned it, and then pushed the door.
Click!
Along with the sound of the door opening, the door opened with the rusts of the rusty hinges.
The man took a deep breath with the door open and then pushed his right foot forward to cross the gate.
He felt popular in the house when he approached the entrance on the 1st floor beyond the gate.
“Hello?”
When he heard the voice coming over the front door, tears that he crawled around endured.
He couldn’t say anything because he was thirsty, so he stood tall like a net. In-young, who found his figure in the living room beyond the opaque front door, slowly approached.
“What are you doing? This man must open the door to come in.”
The woman who opened the door was an older woman in her 60s who could be called a grandmother.
The woman, who opened the door, looked at the man’s face and froze.
The man couldn’t speak for a long time and only shed tears and spit out the words in his mouth.
“Mother…”