Damned 13th Regression – 235



<Regression number 13 is damn right, episode 235>

Kane who put the seed box into his inventory and carried the seedlings on his back stood up.

The sapling was a living thing so it was not included in the inventory.

As Kane went out into the street carrying dozens of saplings everyone’s attention was focused on him.

The sheriff approached me with a rotten look on his face.

“hey. “Get out of town.”

“······I’m leaving now.”

“Get out and never come back.”

Kane was moved to tears by the sheriff’s absurd persecution.

“Why should we do that? “I didn’t do anything wrong.”

“People come to you because they are scared of you. “I don’t know how many people you killed before you came here.”

“Kill someone? I’ve never killed anyone! “You know what happens when a Hunter kills someone!”

thud!

The sheriff headbutted Kane.

Despite the strong impact Kane did not move even one step.

The sheriff bellowed like an angry bull.

“Then the fuck at least do something about that hunter outfit! “The bloody thing is still on your hood!”

Kane suddenly realized.

His hood wasn’t just dirty.

The dark red blood stains remained.

“No this is not human blood. “Wandering around hunting and grooming wild animals…”

“People here can’t tell the difference! The blood-soaked hunter bastard is afraid to walk around the village with his own two feet up! Is your head like a stone? “Don’t you understand?”

Sheriff Billy waved his ocher uniform.

“Look at me. Are they heavily armed with armor like you? It’s just ordinary clothes! This isn’t Babel where no one thinks it’s strange even if you walk around covered in monster blood! Earth! earth!”

“······.”

“Now there are no monsters to kill! There is no reason to wear armor and wield a sword! If you’ve been on Earth for more than a year just get used to it! People are anxious so take off that smelly armor and wear proper clothes!”

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Kane was speechless due to the waterfall-like shouting.

The sheriff pushed Kane away with the bat.

“I speak for the last time. From now on don’t even think about coming into town wearing armor. “If you get caught it will be in my hands.”

“······sorry.”

Kane bowed his head and stepped back.

“Where is the clothing store here?”

“It’s a rural area so there’s nothing like that. Make it yourself or buy it from another city. “You do the same!”

The villagers’ gaze was not kind.

“Well said Billy.”

“This is the guy who was running around somewhere. “I can’t sleep because I hear the sound of bombs exploding in that human land morning and night.”

“dad! “Is that person going to be caught later too?”

“That guy was caught because he was a drug smuggler. “If that guy secretly hid some medicine he would follow me.”

Harsh criticism was poured out on the stranger who had a conflict with the sheriff.

Kane looked back at the man who brought the child out.

“What are you looking at?”

“I don’t do drugs like that friend.”

But I understood Hunter who does medicine.

I probably needed something to take.

Kane swallowed his words and left the village.

Goong!

Kane planted a sapling in the ground.

I kept falling sideways so I roughly hit the ground and compacted the ground.

“Whoa~.”

He sighed.

All I have left is 2 dollars.

I ate a lot of rice.

I tried going to a clothing store but I actually didn’t have money to buy clothes.

Kane munched on the cactus he had pulled out instead of rice.

‘Everyone hates hunters.’

Sheriff Billy also appears to be close to the village people but life in the village may not have been easy from the beginning.

Even if you are from the same region a hunter is a hunter.

It is obvious that everyone would have looked at him with fear and discomfort as he suddenly returned after being away for 20 years.

‘But now that an outsider comes we will become more dependent on him and become more united.’

It’s been a year since Billy came to town as sheriff.

He will be desperate to gain the trust of the villagers by chewing on other hunters.

Hunter returned to Earth and many things changed.

Many people hated Hunter.

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When the monsters disappeared the hunters became hated.

I walked around and saw many protests.

‘Hunter stole a good ordinary person’s job!’

‘Murderers roam society without being punished by the law!’

‘Oppose free fiefdom! ‘No to return compensation!’

‘The land of the country is the land of all its citizens!’

There were also people who openly grabbed the collar and started a fight.

“You fucking murderer! “You took my work away!”

Hunter who was caught by the collar grabbed his hand and protested.

“Man we went to Babel instead of you and fought for decades! “Out of 20 million people we are the only ones who came back alive. Isn’t this too much?”

“what? “Who told you to go!”

The man spat and pointed.

“You didn’t go because you wanted to either! They were taken by force! It’s your job to protect the world! They went crazy trying to survive! Before I went I was campaigning about how strong I was but now I have even more! Those damn tunnel killers! “I should have searched for everything at Babel!”

“this person….”

“why? Are you pissed? Then try killing me too! “You guys did a great job!”

“this…!”

The enraged Hunter’s hair stood on end.

It’s like a bug that isn’t even a fistful’s size is grabbing your collar and going crazy.

This is something I could never have imagined in Babel.

If you lose your courage in front of a strong person you will feel pain in your bones.

In Babel the hunter’s patience was cut short by an old man who did not know the obvious.

“What a fucking old man!”

Crackle!

“Kwaaaak!”

The old man’s grip on his collar was crushed.

At the same time a terrifying pressure emanated from Hunter’s entire body.

A kind of accidental combat stance.

The image of a hunter in a dungeon popped out.

“Hey! monster!”

“Keu ok.”

People fled some collapsing with breathing difficulties and heart attacks.

“omg!?”

Hunter urgently waved his hand at the disaster he had caused.

“Wait a minute I didn’t do this on purpose. This old man goes first…”

Let’s go!

The spear fell from the sky and pierced the hunter from the top of his head to his groin in one go.

The scattered pickets were stained with blood.

‘The fight between Babel and Hunter is not war!’

‘Hunter is not our soldier! We never sent them to fight! Why do they want compensation from us!?’

‘Death to the reward thugs who returned from Babel!’

‘Tunnel killers! Get off the planet! Get back to Babel!’

Thousands of Hunters died on their home planet.

For causing bloodshed or for attempted murder and attempted destruction of the world.

Tens of thousands of hunters were captured by Joo Gong-hyeok’s enforcement agencies.

Those who distributed Babel drugs and items were sent to prison and those who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder or various mental illnesses were locked up in the Hunter Psychiatric Ward.

All hunters are strictly controlled and have bracelets attached to their wrists so that they can be captured and shot at any time.

Joo Gong-hyeok ruled the hunters with a strict iron fist and reduced friction with civilians as much as possible.

Humanity and Hunter.

A conflict between two human beings on Earth.

The world was in transition.

Twenty-two years after the advent of Babel humanity has come to terms with a long civil war and chaos.

Countries that had reorganized their systems were in the midst of a new revival by re-extracting fossil fuels such as oil and operating agricultural machinery and factories.

For humanity which has finally recovered from the situation of the early 1900s the 700000 hunters were a shock enough to collapse the social system.

Either in a good way or in a bad way.

A professor said on TV.

“It’s a kind of singularity.”

“Singularity?”

“Yes there was a theory like that in the past right? When the technological singularity comes machines will completely replace existing humans in factories and research and development. “Similarly humanity has faced the ‘Hunter Singularity’.”

“Can you explain the Hunter Singularity in detail?”

The professor uploaded data on hunters who entered the industry.

“Architecture hunters can build dozens of stories at once.”

“Yes as long as I have the materials.”

“Plant hunters can harvest the crops they plant today tomorrow if they put their mind to it.”

“Yes it will devastate the land but I heard it is possible.”

“Metal hunters boast an enormous production volume that puts modern high-tech industrial complexes to shame.”

“I heard you don’t need any machines except for their own items?”

“Yes. Even machines lose their jobs to hunters and ordinary humans can’t be a match for them. If hunters decide to do even simple menial work there will be no room for civilians. It’s a shame that Director Joo Gong-hyeok gradually introduced hunters into the industry to prevent social collapse and hyperinflation caused by large-scale unemployment. “If we had allowed unlimited free competition civilians would have already lost all their jobs.”

The professor burst out laughing.

“Next year we plan to go into space and mine asteroids. Because there are no jobs for hunters on Earth. “This is actually completely crazy.”

The announcer summarized the story.

“In other words does the Hunter Singularity refer to a phenomenon in which hunters replace existing humans in all jobs?”

“Yes. In simple labor it is possible to measure how many people a hunter serves but in the energy field such discussions are meaningless.”

The professor presented the status of the new energy industry.

“Solar power heat and various types of clean energy are generated infinitely with just one skill of the hunters. “Once the power infrastructure which is scheduled to be completed next year is completed there will be lights from remote areas of Africa to the North Pole.”

“Electric lights outside the capital. “It feels like it was 20 years ago.”

“I don’t know because you’re young but it’s not like everyone used electricity like water 20 years ago. It was a dreamlike story for people in undeveloped areas or poor countries. But hunters are trying to bring back a better era than the past.”

“But Professor many people around the world have been laid off their incomes have been lowered and they have no money to buy food so a temporary rationing system is being implemented. What do you think about that?”

“It is because of the hunters that they lost their jobs but it is also because of the hunters that temporary rations are possible. From buildings to food they produce infinite goods within the range that the Earth can sustain. “If the basic income system for humanity announced by Director Joo Gong-hyeok is applied next year it will only be seen in books on the current standard of living.”

A picture of an ordinary family from 2018 the golden age of humanity appeared on the screen.

“Just like 20 years ago computers refrigerators and TVs will be arriving in every home and kitchens will be overflowing with the groceries you want. There might even be a private car in the yard.”

“Really? professor?”

“If you look at the abilities of the hunters it is not a dream. Maybe in just 10 years the concept of economy will disappear. Economy is about how to efficiently distribute and consume limited resources. What does the economy and capitalism mean in a world with infinite resources and infinite supply? Those of you who studied academics 20 years ago will know what this means.”

The professor spread his arms wide as if performing.

“Utopia is not far away.”

The announcer’s eyebrows twitched.

“Ah is that so? But if we depend on hunters for everything wouldn’t humanity become a slave to hunters? “These are livestock that sit still and only eat the feed produced by hunters.”

“hmm….”

The professor’s expression hardened at the harsh question.

“Livestock is a very offensive word.”

“Wouldn’t it be possible to look at it from that perspective?”

“Yes but let’s think about it calmly. Hunters work hard and bring goods to humanity. Humanity enjoys a rich life with it. Which one is the slave and which one is the master?”

“….”

“What matters is how much hunters can control themselves. If they decide differently the infinite potential of hunters will appear in a negative direction. For example a dystopia where a dictatorship is established by hunters who monopolize resources. So we need to have continuous conversations with Director Joo Gong-hyeok and build amicable relationships with the hunters around us. Harmony not confrontation and conflict….”

“Fuck you! “Bullshit!”

“yes?”

Clap

The announcer aimed the silver pistol at the professor’s forehead.

“You communist professor! “I took money from Joo Gong-hyuk!”

“omg! “Miss what are you doing now?”

“shut up! “Aren’t you ashamed of betraying humanity and sticking with those Hunters!”

Taang!

The camera shook and a gunshot rang out through the TV speakers.

When the shaking stopped a third person was captured on the screen.

“Excuse me during the broadcast.”

Hunter Executor Julia Froebe dropped a bullet right in front of the announcer.

The executioner looked down at the announcer with cold eyes.

“I was observing this broadcast.”

“know! “That’s why I shot it!”

bang! bang! bang! bang-!

The announcer fired his gun repeatedly and shouted loudly.

“Dear human beings! Don’t be fooled! We must not be slaves to Hunters! We must harvest grain with our own hands and stand on our own two feet and walk! Instead of leaving everything to Joo Gong-hyeok and the hunters we must think and decide for ourselves!”

Click click.

A meaningless empty sound rang out from a pistol that had expended all its bullets.

Julia dropped a handful of bullets on the floor.

“Have you finished what you wanted to say? “I waited for you because I was afraid that if I stopped you in the middle it would be seen as a coercive image.”

“It’s not over yet! These are cosmic horrors from Babel! Joining hands with these people is a loss of human dignity…”

The announcer was dragged to the edge of the screen.

Rather than feeling glad that no one died people watching the broadcast felt helpless and unable to protest.

Not all humans can understand the unreasonable changes of the present for the future.

There were many people who were terrified by the world changing at an unpredictable pace and the movements of hunters with power beyond imagination.

Hunters were equally dissatisfied.

‘Which one is the slave and which one is the master?’

‘Are you saying we are slaves and humanity is our master? ‘Are we not even treated like human beings?’

‘I resisted the devil’s temptation and came back from fucking Babel but should I be treated like this?’

Although dissatisfaction was rampant all those who could cause trouble had already been killed by Joo Gong-hyeok a long time ago.