Chapter 198

Episode 198 [ New York (4)]

Rattling.

The track car carrying the family moved quickly on the tracks.

It was a track car with only seats on wheels, but it was equipped with a mana stone engine and ran quickly on the railway.

“It’s too dark. “Do we live here now?”

The mother held her whining daughter in her arms. It was the daughter who abandoned her doll and dog.

As a mother, there was nothing I could say about making her live in this dark place even though she couldn’t do anything better.

“But it will be safe here. “You’ll have a lot to eat and make a lot of friends.”

“You just need Bailey as a friend...”

My daughter muttered softly. Even after a long trip around South America, my daughter still hadn’t forgotten about the dog.

“Look here. You said the station you passed by a little while ago was a station where wheat and vegetables were grown, right? “The station we pass by now is a station where pigs and sheep are raised.”

To divert the attention of a child who was becoming depressed, the father pointed to a station that was quickly passing by.

Steel cages containing pigs, sheep, and chickens were piled high on the complex platform.

“It’s a pity...”

The child’s expression got even worse as he looked at the livestock trapped in the iron cage. It had the opposite effect.

The child’s mother glared at his father, and the father scratched his head.

“Now you have powers too. “All you have to do is increase your strength and save everyone. You can release the animals trapped here, let people live on the surface, and go see Bailey again.”

At her mother’s words, little Isabel nodded with a strong expression,

“Yes! I can do it.”

At her words, her mother hugged her tightly with an apologetic face.

*

Isabel hugged Bailey tightly. The dog licked the back of her hand.

A little while ago, she remembered the first time she passed by this railroad.

When she was very young. It was a memory of, but I remembered it like it was yesterday.

Unlike the time when she rode the Manastone railway car with her parents, she was holding Bailey and walking on the railway with a new colleague. A new

station approached in front of the group.

[Canal Street]

Light There was no platform, but she knew right away what station it was.

“This is a station where crops were grown. After this station was taken over by monsters, bread stopped coming.”

She repeated her father’s explanation to the group.

The area around the platform was full of traces of battle.

Broken walls, trenches, dead plants, and scattered dirt. Large rats quickly ran away through the dirt.

Isabel saw the rats and body. He flinched. The hunting habit still remained.

“There’s no body here either.”

“Yes. Monsters and mutants love human corpses.”

Isabel calmly responded to Kyung-hoon’s words. She then warned the group to be careful.

“You have to be careful from the next station where you raise the animals. From that station, it is mutant territory.”

Isabel bit her lip.

After the Ratman monsters destroyed the underground city and returned to the surface, this underground city was taken over by other monsters who had been pushed down by the Ratmen. However, those monsters also could not reach the station located in the deepest part of New York City. I couldn’t get to it.

Monsters who had abandoned humans were settled there. Mutants who ate monster meat and killed their colleagues were there. As Isabel said, the

platform at the next station, Pullen Street Station, was guarded by mutants.

The mutants were still wearing tattered clothes. However, there were many mutants who took off their clothes and ran around on all fours. The

mutants without clothes no longer looked like humans.

There were mutants with beaks as sharp as those of birds, and mutants with thorns all over their bodies. They were no longer human in appearance or movement.

They stood guard as loosely as ever.

This area was their land, recognized by the Lord of Manhattan.

No

one would invade their kingdom except the occasional petty thief. I couldn’t do it.

But today was different.

Boom, boom, boom...

The mutants fell to the ground one by one from behind as bullets flew from somewhere.

Boom, boom!

What the mutants around the station noticed was when only the mutants behind the pillar remained. .

Squeak!

The startled mutants screamed and one mutant tried to run up the stairs.

Boom!

But as soon as that mutant left the pillar, his head exploded.

It was all Kyung-hoon’s sniping.

-It’s enough to just deal with the attacking enemies.

Everyone in the party agreed with Eve’s words.

Drones came out of subspace, and small robot spiders clung to the walls and moved around.

Instead of the party, they were guards who would check the inside.

“Then . Should we go meet Isabel’s parents?”

Isabel nodded slightly at Kyung-hoon’s words.

The World Trade Center area, the core of New York City.

It was where key facilities such as political and military facilities and professionals lived.

Isabel’s parents were also among those professionals. Her mother was a doctor and her father was a mana stone engineer.

Thanks to that, she was able to stay here in the World Trade Center area, but contrary to her mother’s wishes, she was an outsider and was unable to make friends. The large subway plaza was filled with iron plates and It was divided into various partitions.

Exchanges, warehouses, slaughterhouses, offices, armories, etc. The underground plaza divided by partitions was like an underground city made up of a complex maze.

However, the partitions and steel plates were all broken and torn off.

What should have been walls became passages. And the place where the passage should be was blocked with trash.

A drone was attached to the ceiling and scanned the maze-like square.

Mutants were running toward the underground platform.

-In the next passage, turn left and go straight and stop for a moment.

Eve and the others are there . gave instructions.

There was no reason to grapple with mutants in a maze like this.

The group moved quickly to the place Isabel had told them, with Eve’s guidance, and

the group left the subway station a while later and found themselves in the underground parking lot of an unknown building. I entered.

The parking lot was empty.

The stairs and entrance to the parking lot were tightly blocked with rubble.

Abandoned cars were seen everywhere, and cubicle houses made of boards and iron plates were also seen here and there.

Isabel walked towards one of the cubicle houses.

She I stood in front of the entrance blocked by an old cloth and took a deep breath.

My heart was pounding.

I didn’t know that my mom and dad might be waiting behind this cloth.

Phew. Phew.

But with a deep breath, she returned to reality.

Isabel lifted the cloth.

“Ah...”

The inside was empty.

Old books were rolling around on the floor, the messy beds and spilled dishes were still there from that day.

She went inside.

Snap.

The fountain pen caught on her foot rolled forward.

The rolling fountain pen The silver stopped when it hit the jeweled hairpin in front of her.

Isabel stopped, looked down,

and sat down quietly.

“Mom, Dad...”

She carefully picked up the hairpin and fountain pen.

There was black blood on the hairpin and fountain pen. There were traces left.

It was the hairpin her mother had been wearing in her hair that day and the fountain pen her father had put in his pocket.

Isabelle’s father and mother were not there.

But she was able to find traces of her parents today. She had

the hairpin and fountain pen in her arms. She hugged her and bit her lip.

She decided not to cry. She wasn’t going to cry.

Tears were running down her cheeks, but she didn’t know she was crying.

Squeak.

Bailey sat down next to her and put her head on her feet.

Shane quietly kept her quiet. He was standing behind.

Then Gyeong-hoon turned around.

“Please protect Isabel.”

He pulled out his sword from subspace,

“Call in all the mutant locations you have identified, and find where the leader is.”

– I understand.

As an orphan, Gyeong-hoon did not know his parents. But strangely enough, he could feel her pain and sadness.

Gyeong-hoon was angry. The sword became red.