chapter 4
4 – Slum Villains-2
The monster was a goblin. It’s hard to find low-level monsters like that in downtown areas where heroes live, but they’re relatively common in slums like this.
Bee Eun-hyun kicked the corpse of a goblin who had been injected with etiquette and turned into a goblin. He always pushed back.
It is a goblin that is treated as a trash mob in most subcultures, but it is still at the level of a minimum combat power meter.
In the case of ordinary people, only adult males who have been trained to a certain extent can deal with goblins. It was definitely not a weight class for a 10-year-old kid.
Of course, this is a story of hand-to-hand combat.
I don’t know if it’s between the strong, but the weight class of the weak is easily overturned by the presence or absence of weapons. Earth was especially like that.
You don’t have to use a gun as an example, there are many videos on the internet where an ordinary person holding a training knife beat a well-trained soldier.
What Bieunhyeon used was an artifact that received special treatment among them. This meant an object that exhibited paranormal phenomena.
In a word, it can be seen as the tool version of the Awakener.
However, it is necessary to differentiate. Artifacts are not items that appear in RPGs. Wearing it did not increase the user’s ability level.
To compensate for the paper-like durability of ordinary people who are prone to fatal wounds even with a pistol, it is a difficult task unless it is an artifact related to defense from the beginning.
Still, it has power beyond common sense, and boasts much better performance than normal objects.
If you can get it, get it unconditionally, and there is no reason not to use it.
Eunhyeon Bi also doesn’t know how much he worked hard to get Tommy.
In addition to the content dealt with in the manga, all the elements added in the game were present in this worldview.
Thanks to this, there are literally hundreds of unidentified artifacts that Bi Eun-hyeon came into this world and knew the identity of!
All artifacts have an ego. Maybe that’s why, unless you’re the one you chose, you don’t even react to those who don’t know your value.
That’s why there are so many unidentified artifacts.
Since it is unidentified, no one knows that it is an artifact. Of course, you can get it at a ridiculously low price compared to the original price.
But money was not enough. There was very little money to buy cheap things.
It was only natural that Bi Eun-hyeon was only 7 years old at the time she possessed it.
There were three auction houses in the metropolitan area. The minimum auction price for all of them started at 500,000 won.
How can a 7-year-old kid have more than 500,000 won? It’s not even a gold digger.
Bi Eun-hyeon turned on the light in his eyes and helped him with the housework. He received 500 won per case and saved the money one by one. In the meantime, the sale of the auction house did not wait.
For about two years, dozens of unidentified artifacts were sold to an unknown person, and were never put up for auction again.
Then a wonderful opportunity came.
An item that has already been put on the auction house three or four times, but was not sold even at the base price of 500,000 won.
That was ‘Tommy’. Tommy was a submachine gun, disguised as a cheap plastic toy pistol, hiding himself.
‘Thanks to him, he was able to win the bid.’
Well, who in the world would apply gun control laws to a cheap toy and invest 500,000 won?
Bi Eun-hyeon, who has obtained Tommy and is equipped with the minimum amount of armed forces, can now walk around the slums as if he were going through the slums when he is not helping his parents with their work.
In other words, it was said that the slums were a dangerous place for ordinary people without offensive artifacts.
Still, Bieunhyeon really liked this place.
It is said that it is to respond immediately to risk factors, but CCTVs really existed everywhere in the metropolitan area of Cheonlim.
So, when I was walking down the street, I felt strongly that someone was watching me.
‘That’s not impossible.’
In this worldview, there is an Ex-class villain known only to the public as ‘Big Brother’.
Its identity has never been properly revealed, even in the comics. Therefore, it is unclear whether it is ‘he’ or ‘she’.
He was not too involved in the story, and in fact was no different from a MacGuffin, he had the blessing of being called the “Panopticon”.
It is possible to unilaterally monitor humans who know their faces and true names, regardless of space. A superpower with such an absurd setting.’
Although it is limited to humans, Big Brother has managed to escape the international investigation network every time by using the divine protection that exerts omniscient performance in information warfare. And the manga serialization was not caught until the end.
‘No matter how much it is, it’s too self-conscious to have an evil worldview spying on a kid like me.’
Anyway, the toxic feeling of being watched disappears here.
By the way, even if you behaved unbecoming a 10-year-old, no one would know unless there were eyewitnesses. That was great.
Bee Eun-hyeon looked at the thugs lying on their stomachs and smiled sinisterly.
The noise that was bothering her ears stopped. Cheol-ho Kim tried to raise his body, which had been lying on his face.
“Keep it!”
Right by the bedside was the goblin’s dead body with its eyes turned upside down. A stinky, dark blood flowed from the hole in the body pierced by the bullet.
Ten years of immersion in Samhopa. Although Kim Chul-ho had been through all sorts of incidents, he was lucky enough to not encounter monsters. Not to mention, he never saw the monster’s corpse at close range.
My stomach was bloated at the unfamiliar scene. Kim Cheol-ho put his head on the ground and retched.
‘What? Is this disgusting for people who live on a knife-bap?’
He was Bi Eun-hyeon, who mainly played virtual reality horror games on Earth and was overly accustomed to the grotesque. He didn’t understand the mediocrity of a thug.
Looking at that tail, it didn’t seem like there was any need to intimidate me further with a gun. Tossed Tommy backwards. Then he disappeared from the air.
Appearing at the moment the user wants, and disappearing whenever he throws it away. That was one of Tommy’s Artifact abilities.
“Come on, gentlemen. Please wake up.”
The three of them trembled at the boy’s voice. As if they had promised in advance, they carefully lifted their heads.
After that, I turned my head left and right and looked around. After making sure it was safe, I slowly got up.
Oh Byeong-deuk, the head of Samhopa’s collection of orphans, thought while shaking off soil-stained clothes.
The kid in front of you.
This guy, who is estimated to be of elementary school age, is not unusual.
I expected it from the moment I picked up a submachine gun that was supposed to be quite heavy, but at first glance, the goblin was bigger than a normal one.
Even if I can’t do it, it will weigh 30~40kg. I pushed it all the way to where Kim Chul-ho was using only my feet.
‘It means that the legs are not normal.’
However, this speculation was an illusion of Oh Byung-deuk, who overestimated Bi Eun-hyeon’s bold behavior against the gangsters.
The goblin’s corpse, which had been ripped to pieces as hundreds of bullets pierced its body, was considerably lighter, as evidenced by its mangled shape.
Even in elementary school, a boy gains quite a bit of strength when he is in the third grade.
It was possible to move the corpse, which was lightened to about 10 kg due to the flow of intestines and leaking blood, by foot.
‘A strong orphan….’
Oh Byung-deuk thought Bi Eun-hyeon was an orphan.
That was common knowledge in the slums of Cheonlim.
Abandoned orphans, like all children in difficult circumstances, grow up early.
Anyway, they realized that the weak themselves could be the target of a crime.
So I always hid in a stinky sewer-like place that adults don’t like.
The grotesque of the encroaching water had good qualities for humans, though it was rare. Typically, sterilization.
It was thanks to him that the orphans were able to survive by getting stuck in the stinky sewers and eating leftover food from nearby bars (brothels).
‘Ah, is he an Awoken?’
After much thought, Byung-deuk Oh came to that conclusion. It was very likely.
Not all Awoken’s physical abilities are superior, but on average, the Awoken’s strength is different from that of ordinary people.
It wasn’t even limited to body age.
Among the orphans Oh Byung-deuk had seen in the slums so far, those who were so confident were strong enough to win half of their fights with adult men.
This was quite a feat, considering that the orphans found were at least 12 years old.
In the slums, no, in this world, power is more important than anything else. That’s why it was possible to receive a rich reward if you presented an awakened orphan who would be a great help to the organization in the future.
Considering the young bastard’s appearance, the fact that he’s not a woman is unfortunate in many ways.
‘Anyway, this pole is a pole.’
Byung-deuk Oh pretended to undress his clothes so that Eun-hyeon couldn’t hear him, and conveyed his intention to his assistant, Bong-man Kim, using sign language only used in organizations.
-Bong Man-ah. That guy seems to be an Awakener.
-I think so too.
-Persuade, right?
– Of course. You should never miss that one.
“Baby, we were sorry a little while ago.”
Oh Byeong-deuk, who finished exchanging opinions in sign language, handed over an apology that he hadn’t even thought of as a representative. To this, Bi Eun-hyeon replied.
“If you are still alive, tell me then.”
Click, Ting!
There was the sound of a lighter being turned on.