Haroon

Harun finds the forge of Baran after successfully completing a dark trade and picks up some solid cash, meeting Harun who was waiting for him.

“Follow me!”

She dragged him to two shops in the black market. It was a kind of wholesale shop where you could buy items of each kind at once.

Shopkeepers were able to help pay for workers and escorts by offering them a discount on the large deal, which was made with sea urchins and faces.

“That's a lot of sheep. ”

Medicine was not very bulky, but it was a huge burden for food. Baran has decided to be in charge of the convoy, and the Harlan sisters have decided to go with him, so he needs at least six workers, apart from them.

The next day, Baran told me how he contacted them, that he decided to meet with the warriors in the town of Entertainment to escort his workers. The sea was ready to travel within hours with the help of the brothers and sisters.

“Now we have to choose a weapon. ”

Serran guides Harun to the armory.

A hidden armory emerges after punching one of the office walls with his fist according to certain rules. Perhaps the black-market forges all had this kind of space.

From gunpowder weapons to old-fashioned weapons like knives and helpers, to beam guns and beam blades, the arsenal was fantastic.

“A variety of explosive ordnances are great inside the Union, but things are different outside. Mutant creatures with special structures don't get hurt by gunpowder weapons. Conventional weapons are only as effective as flamethrowers and beam blades. Of course, the army-owned plasma rays are the best, but they're too ineffective for the cost. It's a very energetic board. ”

Harun's eyes gleam as he listens to Serran, and he sees the weapons on display in the armory.

“Here's a sword for you to use. ”

Serran picked out a sword.

A sword forged in Damascus, made of countless folds of cast iron. I could tell by the unique symbols. I liked the glow of the Parry Day.

It was well centered, and most of all, I liked that it was similar in size and shape to the Bone Sword used in the current game.

“It is by far the most prestigious sword my grandfather ever made. This sword is priceless, but I hope you're telling me there's no one else to use it with. It's a greedy item for Harlan. ”

Serran said it as if he was being compassionate, but Harun didn't believe it. In fact, no matter how much a master makes, if a sword costs 30 million won, the dog that passed by will laugh.

I think I'm in love with him! ’

I didn't know if he was losing money or whether he was lucky enough to get it, but it was clear that I liked the sword.

Woohoo.

After hearing the slight vibration of the sword, I didn't pay any attention to the price. I fell into the sword. Serran smiles as if he understood.

“I was like you when I had my first sword. I felt like I was meeting a friend for the rest of my life. Of course I still feel the same way. ”

Serran was right. Harun has no friends except Bell, whom he made his brother. But I felt a strange attraction as I held this sword. I could feel a fate that seemed to last a very long time through a fine vibration.

“This is the secret passageway. ”

After a long walk in a closed subway trajectory, Harlan points to a playful doodling on a concrete wall. The exterior of the door can never be seen as an entrance to any place, but as she rotated the small projections around the four corners in an orderly fashion, a door made of magic fluttering light appeared.

However, the space was a small door that only one person could bend over to enter.

She relentlessly pierces the light and goes inside. Harun followed, followed by a number of people who were carrying an enormous amount of burden, including Menserran and Baran.

The passageway was wider than I thought. When I looked at the small iron door, it appeared as an emergency place to put tools and tools while on the old subway, but when I stepped inside, Harun, a wealthy figure, was high enough to stand properly and wide enough for two people to walk side-by-side.

‘If only Hark had followed me...' ’

Hark, who had been killed before, was still about 300 kilograms tall, although he was a less-grown individual. Hark had a keen sense of smell comparable to that of a dog, the most ferocious and vengeful of all mutants.

At that time, the dead man walked into this passageway following the trail of a group of nines who cut off two of their claws.

“Many of these secret passageways were built in the early Union days. In the struggle for power, the Senate created dozens of these passageways to escape from Union. But over time, these secret passageways were forgotten by them, and several of them were discovered by outsourcers who wanted to enter the Union, and by interacting with artisans like us and outsourcers who needed resources to catch new trading ships. ”

Harun listens to the descriptions of the pearls and sees the luminescent rod mounted on the ceiling of the passageway. At this time, an artifact of the Apocalypse that cannot be seen at all. The wand that illuminates every 3 seconds is embedded in the ceiling at a narrow interval, allowing us to see things that are cloudy but blurry.

“This is the main corridor used by artisans, including us, and outsiders in the town of Entertainment. There are other vendors' passageways. ”

“Couldn't have just left it alone at Union. ”

I heard from Harlan that black market merchants also pay significant taxes to Union collectively. although, of course, it wasn't tax, it was protection. However, he sometimes committed serious crimes such as robbery or rape among the outsiders who came to Union, so he asked if he would not just let the secret passageway go.

“Well, sometimes these secret passageways get caught up in the defensive force and become closed, but in that case, they can. ”

Then you should know that. Harun had already seen a lighted door in front of a seagull that had walked within a kilometer.

Harlan doesn't leave immediately, but waits for the group.

“Before you go, make sure you get dressed and wear your glasses. ”

People put their luggage down for a while and tidied up their clothes. I wrapped a thick, long cloth around my clothes and wore safety glasses so that no place was exposed.

“Outers can still adapt to the outside environment for hundreds of years and only expose their skin for a short time, but people living in barriers like ours should never be exposed to acute cancer if they come into direct contact with alien air or receive sunlight with strong UV rays. The same goes for breathing. You must wear a mask that filters even the finest dust. The alien air is still full of pollutants, including radioactivity. ”

Harlan paid particular attention to Harun, who was first to leave the barrier.

“Got it.”

Harun wrapped his whole body around a large, thick cloth on top of a hard leather like a mummy. It was easy for Harun who had done the dusting in the street.

“If it's too tight, it's uncomfortable to move, so you don't want to loosen the knot. ”

Harun wrapped the cloth again, following Harun's advice, wearing a mask and safety glasses with the last of the filters and covering the area with a cloth.

“Come on, let's go. ”

The seaweed comes out through the door, which is flooded with light. Harun followed her with excitement and anxiety.

“Hmm!”

The sun, which I had never seen or met, came in with a strong stimulus that blinded his eyes. It was a sun with a clear and intense light that could not be compared to the sun that crossed through the barrier made of energy.

The ground outside the barrier was a desert with endless sand stretched out. Rising deserts were beautifully shining with sand, vast glass layers and pieces of glass of all sizes.

Glass sculptures, called Textile Glass, were molten sand in high temperatures over 5,000 degrees Celsius in a nuclear explosion.

At the end of the world, these glass layers and glass shards were also found in several deserts, as evidence of an ancient civilization long enough for their ancestors to wage a nuclear war.

Harun's heart leaps as the sun shines in his eyes as if it were full of jewels.

Harun smiled brightly as he looked at Harun.

“Cool, isn't it? The first time I came out was the sun and the beautiful sparkling sand ocean. ”

“That's really cool. ”

Harun was speechlessly touched by the profound emotion of encountering the unknown for the first time, even though his skin was tightly packed so that it could not be exposed.

I looked back and saw an energy barrier that was scattering by sunlight over a wall made of high concrete. The barrier was shaking slightly and was going up in the sky.

‘If it wasn't for Beyond, if it weren't for Belle, he would have died a lifetime of misery and ignorance in there. ’

Thinking about it, I felt that the days I had lived were meaningless.

“Come on, let's go. Variants such as Hark and Org are often active from the early evening when the sun goes down and the temperature goes down, so it's difficult, but we have no choice but to move at this time. It will be hard enough to lose your mind, but resting in the heat is like putting your life on the line, so you'll never rest until you reach the meeting place.It will take you five hours to get there, so keep your strength up and follow me. ”

It wasn't just the time to watch, as Baran said. The last time, people opened the "Youngsters" set on their backpacks. Young Mountain is a kind of shady mountain used by Inners traveling outside the barrier.

Harun sets foot on a sandy land. They all took a step behind Baran.

It's hot!

The soles of my feet start to burn even after a short walk. Harun, who wears thin breathable leather shoes, insists that the sand will soon be scorched by the sun, even though the seaweed makes him wear walkers with high heels and floors.

At first, the sand was warm, but then it made me feel hot as if I was walking on a heated iron plate. Not only that, the whole body started sweating with the heat from the rising sun.

Then Harlan came to him.

“Hot, isn't it? It's going to be hot. Nowadays, the barrier rises to almost 55 degrees Celsius in the middle of the day. No matter how much profit you have, it won't be easy to shade you. When I first got out of the barrier, I almost died of ripeness, even in the early winter. You'll sweat a lot, but you have to be patient. If I accidentally expose my skin because it's hot, I'll die soon. Even if it's hard, you just have to walk behind the person in front. ”

Harun nods, his eyes tingling because of the sweat already flowing. Before wearing the safety glasses, I saw a band made of thick cloth on my forehead, but I regretted it inadvertently.

Damn it!

My swearing speech came out by itself.

Hard leather, much poorer than that of Beyond, quickly begins to cling to its bare flesh as it absorbs sweat. Hard leather was getting stronger and stronger, causing severe discomfort.

“Are you out of your mind? ”

Harun said she would wear hard leather, and the Harun sister said, Harun insisted on wearing a hard leather fabric made of leather, even though it was hot even though he wore clothes made of special cloth that breathes well and absorbs sweat well.

“The warriors of Entertainment Town will protect us. You don't have to be so armed. ”

I dried up Baran later, but Harun didn't listen to them because he thought he should prepare for Hark's raid and his habit in Beyond remained strong. They were so stubborn that eventually they gave up, but their eyes were full of worries.

I had not walked for less than 30 minutes, but I was eager to throw away the burden on my back, as well as the hard leather and clothes I was wearing. My body is getting heavier and gradually burning in the flames.

I was so honored to see the workers and the Harlan sisters walking around with that heavy burden. I thought I trained myself terribly through Beyond, but now I see too much of my own flaws.

I fell to the end of the procession.

“Huff! Huff! ”

Every sensation was exceeding its maximum, even the roughest breath without knowing it. Others were also focusing their minds on making the endless stretches of sand difficult.

I'm just like this, right? ’

I thought I was stronger now. I was proud and confident of killing Hark. You may not be a ranker in the game, but in reality you think you're pretty strong.

‘I lost my temper again. ’

Harun bites his lower lip firmly.

The sight was blurring as well as the pain of perspiration entering the eye with a needle. It's hot, but I can't open my eyes properly, so I'm dying even more. At this rate, you will fall even before you reach the place where you promised to meet my party.

Let's die! ’

Harun continues his messenger walk.

“Hook!”

You hear a sudden burst of breath.

It is because the unbelievably hot heat was drawn through the soles of the feet. I couldn't afford to feel Mana. The heat rose to the top of my head in a moment, and my body was staggering with dizziness in an instant.

Knng!

As the nasty blood came out of my lower lip and stimulated my tongue, I was a little distracted. The intense heat that spreads through every corner of the body, as if the whole body had fallen into a pit of fire, has gone beyond the limits that can be expressed by the word pain.

My bones burn and my flesh melts. The intense pain slowly began to dissipate, as if the cells had melted down like candlesticks and melted down the neurons together.

Despite that, the will and instinct to walk forward made his feet constantly move, connecting the sophisticated parts of his messenger-walking skills.

Harun was walking, but unconscious, with only one will and instinct to keep the heat flowing into his body through his feet. However, others were also unable to pay attention to the heat and struggle in the hot desert, so Harun followed behind.

Glug glug!

Finally, a flame rises from the soles of your feet to the ends of your head. The flame that creates a constant flow of heat rises to the tip of my head, and I can't find a place to go out, so I turn back inside my body. It was not the way that it had risen, but the other way.

Harun, who lost his mind while being eroded by the heat as if his entire brain nerve and head were melting, continued his willingness to walk and now his messenger walking skills were imprinted on every corner of his body.

Whoa!

It seemed like all the blood vessels had evaporated. The hot heat that rose from the feet combined with the heat that continued to flow around the body once and for all. I gathered my strength there for a while, but I turned the other way once.

The heat coming down from the penis rises up along the spine just above the tailbone, and then stays on the crown of the neck for a while, then down to the center of the chest, past the forehead and the people. I returned to the lower ship, where I had taken up residence as soon as I opened it for a while.

At that time, Harun was released from extreme pain. I watched the flow of heat indiscriminately, as if it were someone else.

The heat that was located deep in the lower ship became a whirlpool and increased its density. It condensed to be small enough that it was released like a fog and became one with the heat coming up from the feet again, walking the path of manners.

Strangely, I felt no more heat.

The bones, flesh and neural circuits revealed themselves again as if they were regenerated. I began to feel the vitality of my whole body like rain on a dry reservoir that revealed the floor.

What is it?

Something unexpected happened. A strange and surprising phenomenon that had nothing to do with his will. Harun watches the heat grow very gradually.

It was no longer a flame. I don't know how the fire changed its shape, but it was like lava now. It is transformed into a viscous, extremely dense liquid or gas, as if you could hear it flowing.

Harun was fascinated by the strange phenomenon that was happening inside him endlessly, forgetting the passage of time.

“Almost there. ”

Through the earphones, you hear the weary, fragmented communication of the leading blur.

Like a person who went out and came back home, Harun's consciousness returned at that moment.

“Phew!”

Harun takes a deep breath without me knowing that something has changed. I didn't sweat or feel any heat. My head was clear as if I was sleeping well, and my body felt that vitality to the end.

Where they arrived, there was a giant tree half way down in the sand that didn't know when they died. The dead tree stood still as if it were a mummy, but it was still so big that it was in a pretty wide shade.

The people in the shade settle down and collapse.

“Huff! Huff! I've been walking for five hours straight down the stairs and I'm dying. ”

Serran. But she and Baran move their arms to find the bucket, and all the others, including Harrow, are stuck in the shade.

I could see the vaporized saltiness caused by the evaporation of sweat through the thick cloth they were wearing when they fell without a beat. The process of perspiration and evaporation is repeated.

Five hours on foot? ’

After about 30 minutes, I did not notice any time flow at all. Harun slowly lowers his heavy backpack and wipes his glasses with his sleeve.

“Wow! You're amazing. How did you get out in the desert in the middle of the summer to be so forthcoming with us veterans? ”

“Phew! I wouldn't say that. I could have died in all the clothes and all the tops, and I came all the way out here in hard leather, and I couldn't breathe. We've been in this desert more than ten times, and we're about to die. ”

Hearing the admiration of the Harun sisters, Harun can't help but smile.

Harun walks slowly in a circle and captures the trees and the surrounding landscape in his eyes.

Desert looks a little different, bounded by a dead tree.

As far as the barrier to scatter sunlight could be seen, if it was a desert where dust winds blow from time to time, the other side was a pale red wasteland. Although it was not a desert, it was also a barren land with little life.

I still feel a little better about the color change.

The desert is finally over.

Harun was fascinated by the mysterious alien landscape he was dealing with for a long time, then returned to the shade. Baran and Serran had just taken off their security glasses and masks and sat in a tent that had been temporarily set up using a tree.

The faces of two brothers with natural warrior physique and stamina became very thin in a few hours. The dark circles appear under the eyes and the whole face is white because of the salt. I could see how much mental and physical fatigue I endured in that short period of time.

“You can take off your glasses for a while in the shade. And from here, the radiation levels and the concentration of pollutants are significantly lower, so you can take off your mask for a while. But it's still dangerous for more than half an hour, so watch your time. ”

Baran gives Harun a pouch of water and pays attention.

“I understand.”

Having received the water bag, Harun unscrews his glasses and mask by loosening the cloth around his head and face.

“Hehe!”

Taking a deep breath, an open atmosphere enters through your nose. I felt very fresh because of the feeling of taking off the awkward mask even though it was dry air.

Harun closes his eyes and turns away, trying to calm down inside him. He says a few words, "I'm sorry that Baran saw that."

“North or east of Union, it's a wilderness just an hour away, and it's really hard to walk through the desert for five hours. But what can I do? We got the geography wrong. ”

Hearing this, Harun's consciousness turns inward.

‘This is what Mana in Beyond says, the real Ki Qi.' ’

It was the first time I could feel reality. Located deep within the lower ship, I focused my consciousness on a small lump of rice that was curled up like cramped rice. A mass of gash that was emitting heat like azirang felt like a resembling lava.

Harun tries to move the spirit. However, Gigi, who felt like a living creature, did not feel moved as if he had not heard his words. I tried a few times, but it didn't work.

Harun finally raises his hand after wrestling with the immovable creature as if it had nothing to do with him, even though it was in his own body.

"Oh, my God! ’

With a sigh, Harun opens his eyes and sees those still lying dead. The Baran and Serran sisters, like the workers, fell asleep wearing safety glasses and masks and carrying pillows.

Harun also recalled Baran's advice, and once again put on his glasses and mask and invited him to sleep, but his body was full of strength and vigor as if he had just woken up. Finally, Harun gets back up from his seat and walks a small circle, spreading a messenger walk.

Harun is constantly circulating the energy of the hot earth he absorbed while walking through the desert.

‘It's gotten pretty big now. ’

At first, the mass of chi, which was smaller than the rice, could barely feel its presence, was now enlarged to the size of a bean. And Gigi's passageway also felt much widened with continuous circulation. The fine-grained passageway that flowed from the passageway of the chi to each part of the body was also a little widened with the rapid circulation of the chi.

After more than two hours, the group awakens from a deep sleep, like death. The sun shining intensely in the sun was floating just above his head.

“Harun!”

The sound causes Harun's senses to settle inside his consciousness to turn outward. Along with him, Gigi's cycle naturally stopped, returning to the depths of the lower ship at an incredibly fast rate.

“You didn't sleep in that state, did you? ”

You look at him in wonder as if he woke up from his sleep.

“I meditated and fell asleep. ”

“Meditation, by the way. I have never seen anyone wear equipment and meditate like that before. ”

Seeing her smile, you don't seem to believe Harun. Maybe you think it's a freak.

‘Whatever. ’

Harun didn't feel the need to explain.

“Here they come! ”

I looked back at Serran's cry, and there was a row of souls lined up in the red wilderness rising like a furrow of hot heat. Baran blows his little horn on his neck and sends a signal to you with a sharp whistle.

Thirty minutes after the snowfall, they arrive in the shade created by the giant tree. A group of nines from the village of Younghueng.

Their outfits are no different from Harun's. Their backs were covered with a white cloth and covered with a mask. Their backpacks looked heavy enough to look at were floating high above their heads.

What is unusual is that they brought three animals that were hanging their cargo. The animal with the small humps on its back had wide, furry soles, and the gygo was about twice the height of an adult man, head to tail.

The people who came into the shade hurriedly removed the mast from their faces and took off the cloth wrapped around them. Like Harun, they were wearing leather armor and crescent-shaped swords.

“Welcome, Nine. I struggled to get here.”

“Why bother? This is how we get around. You guys did well.”

Harlan and Serran share a joyous afterlife with Nine. The men embraced each other's shoulders as if they already knew. Harun, who was left alone, approached an animal he had never seen before.

Grrr!

Harun's approach widens his nostrils as if the animals were a little nervous and makes a strange sound, but he doesn't go out of the shade. Harun curiously approached the animal and looked around.

Is this a camel? ’

But it was a little different from the pictures or footage he saw. The hump is similar, but the animal does not have a large hump, but small humps the size of its fists rise on its hind trunk. And most of all, it was their teeth.

I knew camels were herbivores, but they were completely different. They had fangs. It appears to be a carnivorous animal with a structural tooth similar to that of Humans. Three toes were very large compared to the length of the leg, and long enough to show hair from the outside.

“I'm Lanadoo. ”

Turns to you, it's a nine-man. He looks tired, but his eyes glow. I see people resting in the shade behind her back and talking.

“It is thought that the camels of the Apocalypse mutated and evolved into animals. Unlike camels, it's a carnivorous animal with strong vitality. It can carry up to 300 kilos, and once you drink water, you can survive without enough food for a month. He has the ability to find grass that grows in the Wasteland, and three of them have the power to deal with Hark. ”

“Fantastic.”

Of course, a creature that survives beyond the swarming barrier of mutants should not lack special abilities.

“No animal runs faster than this Lanado in a short distance in the desert or meadow. Hark can't catch them unless they raid them because they have too much Stamina. ”

Even Hark, who was surprisingly fast, was a remarkable animal if not easily captured.

“I've been taming since my great-grandfather, and I've only eliminated a few beasts, but I haven't burned anyone yet. If they don't feed them enough, they run off into the wild, so they have to pay a lot of attention to their food. ”

“I see.”

Harun listens to Nine and strokes one of Lanadu's heads. The bristles of a finger length were very soft. I could feel his body temperature through his palms. Surprisingly, Ranadu's body temperature was so low that it felt cool.

‘Maybe that's why you can withstand this heat. ’

His hands sweep past his head, swarming his spine lined up. When Nine, who was looking at Harun for a moment, was about to say something, Harun summoned her.

“Nine, eat! ”

At that moment, Nine makes a small crease on the back of her nose and turns her head toward Harlan.

“Okay.