Chapter 66: A Mere Insect

Transformed into Cosmic Horror in a Sci-Fi Universe – 66



“What, what the… ugh!”

Even though an incredible event had occurred, where a person disappeared entirely, no one could pay attention to it.

They were now suffering from an excruciating headache, as if their heads were about to be torn apart. No, they would rather have their heads torn apart.

“Argh…!”

“Save me…!”

But this was not just their problem.

“Argh! My, my head…!”

The driver of the armored vehicle.

He, too, was struck by the same headache.

Due to the immense pain, the driver naturally could not drive properly.

The armored vehicle, which had been speeding forward with the accelerator fully pressed, began to veer off course and crashed into a building on the side of the road.

Boom!

Crash!

Since it was a heavily armored vehicle, the building was demolished and collapsed, but the people inside the armored vehicle were not unharmed.

Hearing another crash from the side, it was clear that the vehicle following behind was in the same situation.

They were the same.

“Ugh…”

“Ugh…”

Due to the impact shaking the interior, all the passengers in both vehicles were completely twisted and crushed.

Those who had been wearing seat belts survived, but Son Yoojung, who had been left unrestrained, was completely crushed and died instantly.

Naturally, the driver and the front passenger, who took the brunt of the impact, also died instantly.

It was a catastrophe where only a few of those in the back managed to survive.

‘Damn… what the hell is this…’

Corporal Kim Jiwoong, who had only broken an arm, struggled to get up inside the armored vehicle.

“Hey, hey…!”

He shook Private Lee Jinsoo, his closest friend, but his neck was broken, and he was dead.

The others were either dead or severely injured to the point of dying if left unattended.

The situation in the other vehicle was likely similar.

“Huff, huff… what is this. What happened.”

In such a sudden situation, Corporal Kim Jiwoong felt like his mind couldn’t keep up.

Having already killed several people, seeing corpses wasn’t that strange to him.

In the unit, he had already seen his comrades being torn apart by zombies in real-time, so the death of his comrades didn’t feel new.

But the reason he was confused was because of what had just happened.

The woman had disappeared, and the headache gradually faded until it was no longer felt.

He only felt the pain of his broken arm.

So he had time to think.

‘What was that woman?’

She had suddenly disappeared.

Was it a dream?

No, the other woman was still there.

She was dead, her body completely crushed, but she was there nonetheless.

So the woman from before wasn’t a dream.

But how did she disappear like that?

Was the headache that felt like his head was going to explode also because of that woman?

Was it some kind of special ability?

In a world with zombies, such things might not be so strange.

He was confused.

But there was no time to sort it out.

Everyone except for a few had died in the accident.

Those few seemed like they would die soon as well.

In reality, Kim Jiwoong was the only one left alive.

However.

Thud! Thud thud!

There were banging sounds from outside.

The zombies had heard the commotion and were gathering.

They must have smelled the blood soaking the inside.

“Grrraaah!”

“Gyaaaah!”

They were frantically banging on the vehicle to get inside.

‘Is this how I die?’

He sighed deeply, thinking it was a rather futile death.

But then.

‘No, damn it.’

He felt that this wasn’t right.

He was going to be the protagonist of this world.

So he couldn’t die in a place like this.

This was just a small trial.

He had to overcome it somehow.

‘I will survive no matter what. Even if I have to eat the flesh of the dead… I will survive.’

And that damn woman.

He vowed to find and punish the woman who had put him in this situation.

Kim Jiwoong gritted his teeth as he made this resolution.

Then, as he got back up and started thinking about how to deal with the zombies outside, he noticed something strange.

Rustle─

“…Huh?”

He began to see something unusual.

Through the window of the armored vehicle, he could see the outside.

Although it was hard to see clearly because of the zombies, in the distance.

The ground and the sky…

“…are disappearing.”

Just like that woman earlier, just like the tape that had bound her body.



They were turning into dust and disintegrating.

The ground, and even the sky, which shouldn’t have a tangible form.

‘What is this? What the hell is this?’

It was an incomprehensible sight.

He could have thought that the woman had some kind of superpower.

But this… this was beyond explanation.

The world was crumbling into dust and disappearing.

The ground, the sky, the buildings, the trees, everything.

It was as if this world was being erased by someone’s hand.

And the zombies were no exception.

The zombies were also disappearing.

“Argh!”

“Run!”

People who seemed to have been hiding in nearby buildings screamed and tried to run, only to turn into dust and vanish.

It wasn’t a dream.

It was reality.

It was something happening in real life.

“Ha, haha.”

At that moment, Kim Jiwoong realized.

He realized that understanding and thinking about the situation meant nothing.

There was nothing he could do but wait for his own disappearance in this place.

He couldn’t do anything.

When he first fled with the armored vehicle, he thought he would become the protagonist of this zombie apocalypse.

Even until just a moment ago, he thought so.

He believed he was the protagonist of this story and that he could survive and achieve everything he wanted.

He had the weapons and firepower, the determination and ability.

But none of that mattered.

In the end, they were all mere insects, disappearing at the whim of someone’s interference, at a mere change of mood.

And he was no different.

He was a feeble human who could do nothing in this situation but wait for his own disappearance.

‘Ah… this is the end.’

That woman.

The severe headache and her disappearing figure.

Was she the god of death?

Or something beyond that… something that created this world?

Had she come to deliver the death sentence of this world to insignificant beings like them?

He didn’t know.

He just didn’t know anything.

He couldn’t do anything, and he couldn’t know anything.

A mere human, in the end, was just that.

All the passengers died in a single accident.

Living in a trivial world that could be erased at a mere whim.

Feeling omnipotent just because he had two armored vehicles.

He was nothing more than a speck of dust in a tiny universe.

‘It’s futile.’

What he felt was just futility, emptiness, and helplessness.

And so, Army Corporal Kim Jiwoong disappeared along with the world.

Rustle─

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[ Hmm, as expected, a typical zombie apocalypse isn’t very fun. I just had an unpleasant experience by possessing a woman for no reason. ]

If I had known, it might have been more interesting to possess a man or a soldier… but honestly, the soldier side is unpleasant.

I don’t think the male side would have been that fun either.

It seems better to erase it and create a new one.

Maybe it’s better to recreate it with a superpowered theme in an apocalypse setting.

[ You’ve erased another world. ]

[ …? ]

Before I knew it, Idra was beside me, looking at me with eyes full of melancholy.

Oh… that startled me.

Having a woman of such blinding beauty right next to me was quite surprising and refreshing.

But perhaps because her presence and appearance felt so grand and divine, even if I had any sexual desire, I wouldn’t have been aroused.

She truly embodied the term ‘goddess.’

It wasn’t an exciting or lovely kind of beauty, but a divine and worship-worthy kind of beauty.

Anyway, she looked at me for a moment, then quietly watched the spot where the apocalypse world had disappeared, and slowly closed her eyes.

[ A prayer for the lost and unfortunate lives…. ]

How can her heart be so kind?

She seems to care and worry about the creatures of the universe more than I, who was originally human.

Maybe that’s why the guilt that had disappeared… is not coming back at all.

A boring world deserves to be erased.

After all, I created it.

These beings wouldn’t have existed in the first place, so it’s up to me what I do with them.

…Wow, my mindset is really trash.

It’s truly the mindset of an outsider.

But why did she come to me instead of watching the elves she was so fond of?

It doesn’t seem like she came just to pray for the vanished universe.

[ What is it? ]

[ Ah, could you come over here for a moment? ]

As if she had just remembered what she needed to do, she stopped praying and led me to where the replica of the original universe was.

Oh, she held my hand.

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Well, if you consider my form as a giant, then it’s the part where a hand would be.

It might be more accurate to call it a part of my tentacles.

[ Look at this. I gave my beloved ones some special abilities. ]

Anyway, she proudly showed me the state of the original replica universe.

Specifically, she was showing the current situation of the elves living within it.