Chapter 49

49 – Flame-spewing Crocodile, Part I
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Chapter Eighteen. Flame-spewing Crocodile, Part I
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The Sungkonghoe University Stadium in Guro District, Seoul…

Krr…
It was now a place of nightmare.
Hundreds of Wolf-crocodiles, covered with fur like wolves, filled the grounds. The Wolf-crocodiles were eating there. Their meal was also like a nightmare.
The sound of them eating their prey alive using the strength of their powerful jaws was more terrible than anyone could imagine.

Aaaaaaargh!
The screaming of humans being eaten was the wonderful background sound of such a nightmare.

Save me, please, please…

Of course, the background sound did not last long. Three Wolf-crocodiles bit the head, body, and legs of a human who was still alive and crying much more eagerly.
Crunch!
The man who prayed for God disappeared with the sound of bones crunching, a snack for the belly of the Wolf-crocodiles, becoming a meal.
The scene was repeated all over the place.
Screams broke out, bodies were crushed, and there was a gruesome sound.
The peak of the nightmare was a huge Crocodile coiled in the center of the playground.
Fahrrrr…!
The Crocodile with yellow eyes spat out the bright red flame through its mouth and nose every time it breathed. It was the boss of the hundreds of Wolf-crocodiles, the Flame-spewing Crocodile.
It was a tyrant that not only monsters, but even its own pack of Wolf-crocodiles were afraid to meet its eyes.
It didn’t seem very happy now.
It had a land which was full of food and the food was rich enough for its pack to eat every day.
In addition, it made a lot of efforts to defend its land. It destroyed the wandering monsters that broke into its land, and it went directly to the monsters who challenged its own stronghold and burned them with bites.
But it lost the land one morning, because of an unknown change of heart of a monster that it could not approach. Without knowing the reason, the Flame-spewing Crocodile had to lose the land and start a journey to find a new home, with the hundreds of its pack.
It was angry because an unidentified monster had emerged and had gone hunting its pack.
It was not even a hunting for hunger but as a warning to the Flame-spewing Crocodile.
‘This is my territory.
Don’t come in.
I’ll kill you all when you come in.’
The mere thought of it made the Flame-spewing Crocodile tremble with anger, and it could not tolerate the provocation. So the Flame-spewing Crocodile waited.
It hoped it would have the time to find the damned bastard and bite him!
Kyaaa!
A Wolf-crocodile came over the Flame-spewing Crocodile eagerly.
The Wolf-crocodile with orange pupils was not much different from other Wolf-crocodiles in appearance. It came to the Flame-spewing Crocodile, racing over the bodies of Wolf-crocodiles tightly packed in the Sungkonghoe University Stadium.
It carefully set the skull in its jaws in front of the Flame-spewing Crocodile. The moment it saw the skull, the coiled body of Flame-spewing Crocodile uncoiled itself.
It raised its huge body, stood upright on its legs, and let out a roar with flames toward the sky.
Goohh!

The Southern Intersection of Yeokgok Station…

The time on the wide road, which is visible right from the station, was suspended at December 31, 2016.
By that time, the cars that filled the road were lying in a pile without their owners, and the snow that had fallen on them was piled up and frozen hard.
Bang!
A group of three hundred Wolf-crocodiles moved past the stopped clock.
Bang, bang!
The Wolf-crocodiles on the road were better suited than ever to the word ‘rush’.
They smashed into everything in front of them, knocking them away and making a path. It was like a river of fur running by. Nothing seemed to stop the Wolf-crocodile group from rushing on.
It was a huge bone that stopped the rush of the Wolf-crocodile group, which seemed unlikely to stop. It was obviously the head of a Snake, but its size was such that it could not be called a snake.
The Wolf-crocodiles, who were terrified in front of the skull, retreated in horror, rather than rushing by.
Even though it was only a skull, the Wolf-crocodiles were instinctively aware. The owner of this skull was a monster equal to their leader.
Of course, they could not be afraid of just bones. What was dead was dead, and in a world of the law of the jungle, even the most frightening being was nothing if it was only bones.
Their fear was for the skull’s owner who made the Black Snake into this shape. Moreover, the skull was a warning. It was a warning that everything approaching this territory would exactly turn to this.
Naturally, fear began to spread among the pack of Wolf-crocodiles.
Thud!
It was the Flame-spewing Crocodile that trampled on that fear without mercy.
The Flame-spewing Crocodile, which was at the rear of the group, went ahead loudly in front of the group.
The Flame-spewing Crocodile didn’t advance quietly. No, rather, it took each step with all its might, as if it were kicking its feet louder.
The footsteps shook the earth, and also broke the fear spread among the Wolf-crocodiles.
Very quickly, the Flame-spewing Crocodile, standing in front of the skull of the Black Snake, raised its body.
The Flame-spewing Crocodile standing on its legs shut its mouth tightly. Its body began to swell up.
The moment it opened its mouth, a huge blast of fire burst forth and began burning the skull of the Black Snake.
Quaaaaaa!
It was a declaration of war, to kill the owner of this land and take the position itself!

Fire!

The owners of this land were willing to accept the declaration of war.
Boom!
The battle has begun.

Kim Tae-hoon said,
I’ll give you a week.


However, he failed to keep the promise exactly. He earned ten days, three more than a week. Of course, it was enough to get a supply ammunition and weapons.

Fire!


Fire!

It was even enough to recruit soldiers to deal with such secured firepower.
Boom, boom, boom!
The recruited soldiers’ memories of more than two years in active service were clearly drawn.
Ten days was enough time to choose the stage and decorate it with all the preparations made.
Of course, the Mac Guild did not refuse to declare war on the Flame-spewing Crocodile.
As soon as the Crocodile spewed flames toward the Black Snake’s skull, the artillery units of Mac Guild, who were waiting, immediately began firing.
The launch of the artillery came down on the pack of Wolf-crocodiles.
Kyaah!
The tough fur of the Wolf-crocodile was worthless in front of artillery fire. The Wolf-crocodile began to blow apart.
It was an attack that a group of Wolf-crocodile had never encountered.
It was also the first counterattack that the artillery, who were constantly loading shells into a 60-millimeter mortar, had experienced so far.

Fire!


Fire!

That’s why the artillery, who were shouting to answer the command with the order, cried out, pressing down against the unceasing roar of shells bursting out.

You, motherfucking monsters, all go to hell!

It was the soldiers who would use the weapons that the Mac Guild had secured while gathering weapons and ammunition for rifles, machine guns, and mortars.
At first, there was some concern.
There were very few people who went to war because they liked it. It was very dangerous for the public, who were not Awakeners, to fight against the monsters.
They thought that there would be applicants, but they didn’t think there would be too many. But that concern disappeared as soon as the recruitment began. Applicants poured in.
Most of the male survivors had undergone the military draft; it was the obligation of all Korean men. However, it wasn’t a reason to apply for the position.
It was to vent their anger about not even being able to make a frantic last-ditch effort, rather than counterattacking after the monsters appeared.

Wow!

‘Right, I didn’t miss the target.’
‘I’ll kill one more for sure!’
So they were serious. No one tried to be lazy or skip out on training somehow, as they had done in the military service.
Regardless of age, the volunteers from the artillery tried to recall the memories and the knowledge they had learned in the military service as much as possible.
They showed their will to survive!
Kyaaa!
And it was the same with the Wolf-crocodiles exposed to repeated bombardment. The Wolf-crocodiles came here to survive, too. They did not intend to be vulnerable.
Above all, the leader of the Wolf-crocodiles, the Flame-spewing Crocodile, was still standing on both legs during this bombardment.
Goohh!
The Flame-spewing Crocodile’s cry exploded. The cry changed the whole situation in a flash.
Kyaaa!
As soon as the Wolf-crocodiles heard the cry, they started to run again, ignoring the shells.
At the same time, the endless bombardment coming down stopped.

Uh-oh…

Fear.
The fear of the Flame-spewing Crocodile was an irresistible attack to the public, and the behavior of those who constantly put the shell into the cannon shells stopped like a broken doll and began to distort.
Some of them flopped down and suffered from a spasm, bubbling at the mouth while lying on the ground.

Retreat!


Retreat!

At that moment, the Awakeners began to load the artillery into the prepared vehicle, and they were about to leave the area with them, after being exposed to the fear and unable to do anything.
But not everyone was ready to run away.
Rather, at this moment there were those who chewed and swallowed the pill that made them resistant to the fear, and waited for the Wolf-crocodiles to come. They were in the most dangerous place to buy time for their colleagues to escape, holding the claymore triggers in their hands.
Even though they had the pill that would increase their resistance to the fear, their bodies were trembling in fear of the Flame-spewing Crocodile, but nonetheless, they did not take their eyes off the Wolf-crocodiles.
They waited, and pushed the triggers.
Explode!

Bam bam bam!
The rain of iron beads began to pour into the front of the Wolf-crocodiles that were rushing wildly down the road without seeing anything.
Kieeeeh!
Their power was frightening.
The Wolf-crocodiles running in front quickly became a pile of dead bodies.
Even eerier was that the Wolf-crocodiles did not stop rushing forward after pushing the bodies of their fellows out of the way.
‘Fucking monsters!’
‘We’ve been ready and then attacked, now we’re going to be chased!’
The earlier gunfire was no longer heard anywhere. The situation had turned.
The Flame-spewing Crocodile was now walking down the path created by the wild rush of the Wolf-crocodiles. It was getting ready to smash, chomp, and burn with flames the enemies that were trying to run away.
Shiyik!
A Sword made a long cut on the hide of the Flame-spewing Crocodile that was not be hurt by the artillery. It prevented the rush of the Flame-spewing Crocodile.
The cut was so painful that its yellow eyes flashed, and it began to look around.
Kaaah!
But its eyes, which scanned everywhere, could not find the culprit that hurt its body.
It was not possible to find him, since Kim Tae-hoon, the main culprit it was looking for, was floating above its head…
‘It’s been a long time since I shot this against a living thing. Probably four years?’
…while holding a Panzerfaust 3, an anti-tank rocket launcher, on his shoulder!