13 13. Resident Evil




 The next day, we went to Nihonium in the morning, but we were on the ground floor, not the basement level, not the second floor.
 And I didn't go to the back, I stayed at the entrance the whole time.

 I waited for the skeleton to come out, then I pushed that guy out of the dungeon and shot him down with my gun.
 If you take it down after you get out of the dungeon before it disappears, it will drop a single frozen bullet.

 Skeletons don't have much area to aim at, so you'll need to fire an average of five bullets here and there to defeat them.
 It's calculated by using five normal bullets and converting them into one freezer bullet.

 That's fine in itself, you can get a lot of normal bullets with the sleeping slime haggler.
 The problem is that it's hard to wait for skeletons to appear.

 By the way, even if you try to drag him out from the depths of the dungeon, you'll end up fighting back against the rampaging skeletons and defeating him in the process.
 In the end, it's safest to wait here.

 That's how I kept going in the morning, and I got ten frozen bullets.
 It took me quite a while, so I must use them carefully.

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 In the afternoon, I met up with Emily in the basement level of Tellurium.
 We formed a party and took down the sleeping slime.

 If we hit it, we would get one shot with a regular bullet and one shot with Emily's hammer.
 The carrot hunt was going well, and I was going to make quite a bit of money today.

 It's going well, so let's give it a try while ...... enemies are weak.

Emily.
Yes, sir.
I'll follow up with you, and when I come up with another one, you just charge in.
Okay.

 Emily nodded instantly, without asking for details.
 It was kind of nice to know that she put all her trust in me.

 After a short walk, a sleeping slime emerged from the ground ahead of us.
 The distance was about fifteen meters, and Emily quickly rushed forward with her giant hammer.

 With about five meters to go, she kicked the ground and pounced on it, swinging the hammer at it.
 Aiming with bullets.
 I sharpen my nerves and pull the trigger.

 The bullet caught the center of the sleeping slime.
 The moment it hit, the magic circle spread and the slime froze to a clickety-clack.
 It became a block of ice that was nearly twice its original volume.

 Emily swung the hammer down as it was with a staggered and unstinted movement.

 Boom!

 It was such a big blow that the cave shook, the frozen slime shattered, and then the carrot dropped.

 Not good.
 I stop it from moving with the frozen bullets and hit it with a strong attack in the meantime.
 It's an effective pattern I learned in the game, but it could be used here as well.

 The problem is the effect of these freezer bullets.
 How strong is the enemy you can freeze? What kind?
 What's the range you can freeze?

 I'd like to get a better grasp on that, otherwise it's hard to use in a pinch.
 Well, it just takes time, acquiring frozen bullets is easy, so I'll get them steadily and try them out occasionally.

 As I picked up the carrots while thinking about this, Emily asked me with a twinkle in her eye.

'Yoda-san is amazing! What was that?
As you can see, it's a bullet that can freeze your opponent in place. We have a limited number of them, so we can't go on a rampage.
But it's still amazing!

 The combo with the freezer bullets worked for now.

 We then hunted down as many carrots as we could carry, roughly 20,000 piro, and tried to get out of the dungeon.

 We went back to the basement floor and were just about to go up to the ground.
 Outside, we noticed that it was raining heavily.

 It was raining sideways, and a strong wind blew in with the rain inside the dungeon.

 Pica! Rumble rumble .......

 The sky in the distance glows and a thunderclap roars a few seconds later.

'It's raining, sir.'
It's amazing, it's like an overturned bucket.
It's just that I can't leave.
We'll just have to wait it out in the dungeon: ......

 I glanced at our carrots.

"These carrots are okay, right?
Yes, sir.

 Emily, who I've been working with for a while now, immediately understood my concerns and gave me a quick answer.

Haggler gets it when people aren't around. They'll be fine when you're around them all the time.
Okay. Okay.

 I sat down on the ground in peace. I kept my gun in hand, ready to aim at the slime whenever it came out.
 As I did so, I looked outside.

 It was pouring down like a downpour and the ground was hollow and flowing like a river. It was like a typhoon.

It's not surprising that some of these rains could collapse.
'When it rains hard, the house can collapse.
I don't think we'll be able to afford it. It's an old apartment.
'It's all right. And even if it collapses, the city of Nazarov is just a stone's throw away, and Cyclo is a town where you can get building materials cheaply.
Yeah? Oh, right, so Nazarov has a lot of dungeons that drop building materials, and since it's close by, it's easy and cheap to transport.
Yes, sir.

 I see.
 I'm beginning to understand this world more and more.

 It's a world where everything is dropped in dungeons - in other words, everything is produced, and people's livelihoods are based on that.
 For example, I live in Cyclo, which has five dungeons where you can get a lot of vegetables for a fraction of the price, but meat and alcohol transported from the most distant cities is a bit more expensive.

 The logistics are not so well developed, so the price reflects the distance.
 This is the world I'm beginning to understand.

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 Eventually the rain stopped in the morning of the next day.
 On the way back to Ciclo, carrying carrots, we came across a disturbance.

 There were two people screaming, a middle-aged man and a young man.
 The middle-aged man was dressed in fancy clothes and shiny rings and necklaces, and the young man was dressed like an ordinary adventurer.
 They're arguing by the cliff.

 I was curious, so I went up to him and asked him.

'What's going on?'
There was a baggage accident, with the rain yesterday.

 A young man with an adventurer's look answered.

'A baggage accident?'

 An unfamiliar word came out, and I looked to Emily next to me for an answer.

'Cyclo is an agricultural city with five dungeons all producing vegetables, there are a lot of things missing, so we import a lot of things from other cities.
Yeah, you were talking about that last night.
Sometimes there are accidents in transit. "And when we talk about baggage accidents, it usually means that the cargo has fallen somewhere, has drifted away or is gone.
'Ooh!' Ah, so it's under this cliff.

 The two men realized what it meant to be fighting in front of the cliff.
 The men nodded. I glanced down as I approached.

 It was a pretty high cliff, and I could see what looked like a magic cart at about 20 meters, pretty deep.

"Is that where you dropped your load?
It rained last night.
I see.

 I'm relieved.
 I'm glad we spent last night in the dungeon.
 If I'd forced myself to leave, I'd have dropped the items I was selling like that, too.

 Even if you're using a magic cart, it's easy to lose the ones I have.
 Yeah, just don't force yourself to leave...

Wait, that's a long way down the cliff, which means...?
Yes, sir. It will be a haggler with time.
Oh, right!

 I remember that and realize how hard it is.
 You take another look at the cliff, there are no people underneath the cliff, and a quick glance at the cliff is 20 meters away.
 At this rate, that stuff is going to be packed up and turned into something haggard.

'But at least it's outdoors.
Well, it's outdoors, and it's not like it's going to happen right away, so we can just get rid of it even if it does.

 It would be a loss of luggage, but it's better than causing human casualties, right?
 I thought.

'That's what's feminine about it.
"Feminine?

 Emily shook her head. You don't know.
 She looked at the man and asked with a look.

'It's a kind of monster,' she said. They are a kind of monster, they are transparent and have no definite shape, and you only catch a glimpse of them the moment they attack someone.

 Is it a gas system or a ghost system or something like that?

'Their aggression is pretty strong there, but the tricky part is that they can possess humans and use them as a breeding nursery. It doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman, they'll find themselves possessed and impregnated in large numbers.
Ugh. ......

 It's making me feel sick.
 What a story, and I mean, it's a very bad story.

That's why I have to get rid of it before it becomes a haggler.

 The young man looked at the rich man.

'You've got to be kidding me! How much do you think that load is worth? It's three million piro at cost.
But we have to burn it while it lasts.
You'll have to figure out a way to pull that thing off.
I can't! Look! It's stuck between some weird rocks and is that deep. There's no way to pull it out. We'd better make it disappear all at once.

 The men struggled.
 The adventurous man insisted that he would burn it before it turned into something bad, while the rich man ranted that it was a loss and that he should do something about it.

 I know what they both mean. Of course I'm in favor of incineration.
 Of course I'm in favor of incineration, but if we're going to release too many troublesome monsters before it's too late...

 It's too late.

"Anyway-- whoa!

 The mature man suddenly screamed out, looking up to the heavens, trembling, and blowing white foam from his mouth.
 I can see something faint and clinging around his body.

''Eei!''

 The young adventurer man held up his hand and fired an arrow of fire - an attack spell.
 The arrow missed.
 The mature man dodged it with great speed.
 It wasn't a man's move, it was manipulated.


''Ugogiyah!''

 The man screamed.

 Quickly, he pulled out his gun and fired in rapid succession.
 He was moving too fast to miss.
 A manipulated, adult man, faster than a cocrosstime!

 I hastily loaded the bullets and fired even more in rapid succession, firing as hard as I could.
 I made sure to scatter the bullets as much as I could, and I ended up firing nearly 20 rounds, and finally took down the monster.
 Bullets dropped from the haglemono and fell to the ground, but this was no time to pick them up.

 I hurriedly looked at the bottom of the cliff with the young man.
 The magic cart is starting to (...) break down from inside, something comes out of it.

"No, no, no, ...... that's an expensive ......
You can't do that again-- agh!

 This time the young man started grunting.
 Before he could think, he fired his gun in rapid succession.
 Anyway, he fired in rapid succession - firing wildly and shooting around the man.
 After firing, the man fell to the ground like a threadbare doll.

 Bullets dropped, the monster fell.
 We don't know if the young man is alive or dead, but we don't have time to check.
 I looked down the cliff, I could see that monster faintly in the distance.

 Right now, the magic cart is about to come out of the pack in droves.

Run, Emily!

 I shouted as I loaded the bullets.
 I screamed because I heard the word "nursery" or something bad earlier.

 I peeled the muzzle down and put my finger on the trigger.

“--!

 Before I pulled it back, I remembered something.

 Reloading the bullets, reloading all I could find.
 I wanted to test the effect more, but--it had to be done!

 I put all the freezer rounds I could find in the carts.
 I put all the freezer bullets into the magic cart, which was turning a lot of cargo into haggles.

 Immediately afterwards, a huge block of ice was created.
 With the magic cart in the center, a huge ice of ten meters in diameter.
 Many translucent monsters, feminis, were trapped inside it.
 It was like konjac inside a jelly.

"Yaaaaaah!

 Emily has jumped!
 He jumped down a 20-meter cliff and swung the hammer down as hard as he could!

 Boom!

 Gravitational acceleration plus a huge hammer, Emily's blow shattered the entire frozen magic cart of feminis.

''Emily!!!!''

 At the bottom of the cliff, next to a monster that disappears without dropping anything.

'I got it right,'

 Emily had a big smile on her face.