chapter 7
Are you crazy? why do i say
Twenty minutes have passed since I left the ant’s nest to escape.
The footsteps finally stopped with a hard sound from the children’s mouths.
“When can I go out?”
“You just have to go a little longer.”
“That’s the fifth time already.”
“This is the best.”
If you escaped by yourself, you should have already escaped and have plenty of time left before this is the normal time.
However, if you move as a group, the story is completely different.
‘It’s tough because we’re going out with more than 20 kids.’
I opened the map again and checked the route.
The total number of executives is six, excluding the chief of staff.
Assuming that one of them died while visiting the jailer, five.
When passing through a narrow place like an ant den, it was difficult to avoid the eyes of the five.
‘Even if you’re not the warden, you’ll soon realize that we’re not there.’
Even though it was mealtime, there was a very high chance of being heard in the ant’s dormitory, where there was no sound of a human being.
Unless one or two people disappeared, as long as everyone disappeared, they would unconditionally suspect that it was a group escape.
It was only a matter of time before the executives turned on the lights and found us.
‘It’s fortunate that there are no executives with skills.’
The main skill is a privilege given only to the main characters in the Paddy.
The default setting is that, in normal cases, you still don’t know how to use it properly or you may not even know it exists at all.
But that didn’t mean you could underestimate the guard.
Twenty children who eat dog food and five strong adult men who eat meat every day.
If these two fight, it is not clear who will win.
“There’s really only a little left, so walk with all your might, and if you give up, you’ll get caught by the guard and be beaten and run after you.”
What the children needed right now was not warm encouragement.
The fear of being beaten to death by the guard and the despair of returning to that gloomy life again.
These two boasted the best efficiency in the short term.
“in action.”
“Yes…”
The children then continued the hardship and moved their legs with fear-soaked faces.
Naturally, this situation had not already been calculated.
‘To do this, I got a map and figured out the executive’s movement for a month.’
If twenty people simply calculated the way out of the anthill, the route came out in a day, not a month.
But what if the escape route for 20 people does not overlap with the movement of the five guards? It was possible because he was a dead person for even a month.
The guards in Lee Seok-hyun’s introduction were random every time a new game started, so I couldn’t even memorize them.
Fortunately, the number of guards that come out at random is fixed.
‘I barely wrote it while pulling out all the memories I didn’t have.’
Therefore, although the current path we are walking on may be slow, it was an optimized route so that the guards did not detect it.
for example.
“Here are the traces of the children passing by! I’ll be there first! Everyone, follow me quickly!”
If the guards are chasing us through the footsteps, as we just did.
“Listen to me from now on, we’re going to run to the executive’s quarters now. Run at the risk of our lives.”
“Everything, if I run, won’t it catch?”
“Then you’ll either get caught by the guard while walking and die.”
“Ah… I see, I’ll run!”
It was like looking for a detour route and considering all the cases of making an escape route.
‘I’m glad that Kim Hyuk-jun is cooperative.’
I thought they would be sarcastic because they were old, but they were quietly encouraging the children with less stamina at the back.
It was a great blessing to be able to move as one without the children falling behind.
‘There are a lot of escape routes in the anthill, but we only have one out of them.’
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Just going there would have changed my life 180 degrees.
Of course, it took a lot of luck, but anyway, that wasn’t the point now.
‘It’s impossible to hide the footprints of the 20-year-old children.’
If that’s the case, you can move to places where there are a lot of footprints from the beginning.
The jailer’s dining room, the guard’s lounge, the manastone locker, etc.
All of them were located close to the exit, so they had to hide while visiting one by one.
‘Because they’re kids, you’d think they would have run to the escape right away.’
However, there were several exits, and if the entrance was blocked, the personnel had no choice but to disperse.
And finally, one adult male and twenty malnourished orphans.
And then there was a good enough chance to win.
When the children are running out of time, use Arachne’s breath to stop them and it’s over.
“I’m going to rest here for 30 seconds and then I’ll move right away. Take a break, don’t sit down, lean back and rest.”
The reason for not moving immediately was to disperse the guards.
At first, they all move together, but if they are not found after time passes, they will eventually disperse.
The guards go separately, and the farther away they are, the higher the probability of escaping.
“After 30 seconds, follow me.”
I have to walk a little faster from now on.
After saying that, he walked away silently again.
“aa!!!”
As I left the guardhouse and headed for the exit, I heard the guard’s scream.
‘I got it.’
Perhaps his ankle was cut off by a spider web installed in front of the warden’s office.
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Judging from the screaming, it looks like he wasn’t caught in the spider’s web that cuts off the upper body in front of him.
It was very sad.
‘If only the arm touches it, it will be installed around the neck.’
Stop regretting the past and focus on the present again.
If one guard was incapacitated, it was safe to say that one more was actually reduced.
‘Yeah, he didn’t die and screamed, so one more guard would have gone there.’
In that case, there are actually four guards wandering around the ant den.
One is three if you are rummaging through the ants’ quarters.
If it was three people, it was a number that could afford a little bit of leeway.
“It’s really close now, so everyone speed up a bit, can you feel the light coming in from outside? It’s a little brighter than usual.”
“That… that’s…!”
“That’s right! It’s true!”
“Yeah, that’s true.”
When everyone has hope and spit out one word at a time.
As if treating that hope as a piece of garbage, Mannis stood in front of me with a vicious smile.
“how…?”
I was so startled that one of the children spoke in disbelief.
Manice applauded as if delighted with even such a reaction, and laughed toughly.
And I.
“Puhahaha! So how? How? Of course, that’s where your kids move… billions…?”
As soon as he saw Manis, he used Arachne’s touch to pull out the spider’s web.
The launched spider’s web wrapped around Manice’s neck without a sound, and as it was tightened, the neck dropped.
“Whew… Whoops…”
second murder.
My hands and feet were shaking and I felt like I was going to collapse, but even that time was wasted.
The guilt of murder and the breakdown of morals were enough to do after escaping from here.
‘Anyway, they’re cheap scum even if they die, so I did what I was supposed to, so let’s focus, focus.’
For now, just focus on escaping.
That was my duty to the 20 people who believed in me and followed me.
“let’s hurry!”
Now there are two, no, three guards left.
It was impossible to rule out the possibility that the guard who had searched the ants’ quarters would chase after them.
The person who had his ankle cut off needed first aid, so the one who heard the scream will not be able to follow.
“You just have to go around this way!”
I used Arachne’s Breath and moved quickly while manipulating the web.
There was only one corner left until the escape, and I could see the warm sunlight shining on the inside of the ant’s den.
“It’s all here!”
At the end of the hopeful voice of a child, the moment when we met the way out with our own eyes.
“No.”
A second despair stood in our way.
Directly behind you can see an escape route filled with sunlight and meadows.
Despair obscured the sunlight, cast shadows, and plunged us back into darkness.
“Lee Seok-hyun, you bastard, I knew when I was going to hit you big.”
I didn’t know it would be this much.
After saying those words, he strode towards us.
“Belbart.”
“Uh-huh? I don’t even use honorifics anymore, is this because the badge of rank has been lifted? On the subject of an orphan.”
I decided not to think about how Belbart got in the way of the way out.
All I can think of right now is how can I break through him and get out of here.
‘Neck and cuffs… chain mail on the ankles, I know I have Arachne’s breath.’
When I asked why I didn’t see this clever bear-like guy, it was for thorough preparation.
“I heard the scream and realized, ah… this bastard killed the warden? And he also stole Arachne’s breath. He’s really smart. Extraordinary, very.”
But now it ends here.
Belbart opened his arms wide and took a stance that no one could escape.
I immediately pulled out the Explosive Magic Scroll I had kept from my pocket.
“Belbart, do you know what this is?”
“Explosion Scroll? Huh, did you have that too? The Warden is very sneaky.”
He strode towards me as if he had not yet grasped the situation, and I immediately tore the scroll a little.
Curl rumble!
It was only torn a little, but the sound that seemed to be about to explode at any moment filled the anthill.
“See? I’m serious. Either way, I’m going to die because I’m caught by you guys, or I’m going to die because I’m in an ant den.”
“…So what do you want to do?”
Now it makes sense
Belbart did something he didn’t even want to do, raising both his hands upwards.
On the surface, it looked like surrender, but in fact, it was a waste of time.
‘I’ve just heard the roar and when the guards come, they’re probably trying to attack them back and forth.’
Who do you see as a beginner?
Lee Seok-hyun’s introduction was in my head, even if it wasn’t crisp, so I could clearly see his intentions.
“Guys, you guys go out first, and when Kim Hyuk-jun leaves, just walk blindly in the direction I told you, and that’s it.”
“Who let you go?”
“If you don’t like it, why don’t we all just die together?”
“…”
“Otherwise, shut up and be still.”
Belbart had a strong obsession with life than anyone else.
Trash who kidnaps children because he wants to live rich and wants to rule others.
There was no way such a man would give his life to catch a few children.
‘Perhaps he’s just thinking of dealing with me now and getting the kids back.’
It’s never going to happen though.
I got the kids out first, looking at Belbart.
The children hesitated at first, but, following the instructions of Kim Hyuk-jun, they passed the Bell Bart one by one.
“Okay? Now put that scroll down and let’s talk in our own words, huh?”
As soon as the children left, Belbart put down his hands and slowly approached.
As soon as I made sure that even Kim Hyuk-jun went out of the way out.
“Are you crazy? Why do I say it?”
Without hesitation, I tore the Explosion Scroll.
“Hey, what the f*ck!”
As soon as he saw the torn, he turned his back and fired a spider’s web on Belbart’s back as he ran.
“Didn’t you leave something behind?”
“Crazy bastard!”
A scroll was attached as a gift to the man who ran without looking back.
I also ran towards the way out so the fire fell on my feet.
Kwagga Gaga!
In the blink of an eye, the scroll caused a huge explosion.
I hugged Belbart’s corpse, which had a hole in the middle, and stretched my hands upwards.
Now it was Heaven’s turn to help.
‘I saved the children, but if you’ve made it this far, please help me.’
If you have a conscience, it is right to save them.