Damned 13th Regression – 268



<Regression number 13 is damn right, episode 268>

Side Story – Third Destruction (5)

Most evil deeds in the world are committed by ordinary people who do not worry about good and evil.

– The Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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The Hunter Countermeasures Meeting was initially concluded.

The Mongolian incident occurred along the way causing a setback but this marked the end of the first greeting between humans and hunters.

The two percent who survived Babel: Hundreds of thousands of hunters who gathered in Tiananmen Square dispersed across the globe.

The hunters who met with their family and friends were busy showing off their superpowers and bravery.

Geumui Hwanhyang (錦衣還鄕).

As the saying goes hunters came back from the battlefield wearing rare items instead of silk clothes.

The returning hunters were happy to see the dog poop and were filled with joy.

Despite the fact that the dictator was assassinated as soon as he arrived it was quiet and peaceful for a while.

Until the hunters came out to do ‘filial piety’.

They first wanted money.

Coast of Angola western Africa.

The seismometer shook and a tsunami struck a small fishing village.

A few hunters were floating in the distant sea.

“Puh-ha!”

A black-stained hunter rose to the surface.

Put black liquid in the canteen.

“This is oil right? The smell was terrible. It came in through the nose. Sniff!”

A hunter who dug an oil hole with his bare hands at the bottom of the deep sea blew his nose vigorously.

Other friends were greatly impressed.

“This is my first time seeing oil in real life.”

“me too. “A long time ago I just cleaned out gas pipes.”

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“Hey~ Is this black gold? “Are we also oil rich with this?”

“What should I do now?”

“I don’t know. “For now put as much as you can carry in your inventory.”

They say ‘Yay oil oil!’ ‘We’re rich now!’ He shouted and dived under the sea.

Joo Gong-hyeok who appeared on the scene was speechless.

“…What are these bastards doing?”

“I guess I’m on drugs.”

The teleporter said seriously.

The sea was dyed black and drunk hunters were splashing around gulping down petroleum instead of alcohol.

“What were you thinking when you did something like this?”

When I asked that question they answered naturally.

“what? Of course I was trying to make money by digging for oil.”

The attitude was “What’s the problem?”

“Just because you dig oil and sell hot springs along the way doesn’t mean it’s yours.”

“what? Where is that? “We dug it with our own strength right?”

“that’s right. “Where is the owner of the sea?”

“Joo Gong-hyuk you are Asian but are you meddling like an albino with no taste for food?”

African hunters were angry at the absurdity.

Joo Gong-hyeok slowly pressed the bridge of his nose at his majesty.

‘Where does the problem come from?’

The fact that these kids were born in a country without compulsory education and have not received basic education such as property rights or public goods?

Is it the perception that because you are a former pirate or tribal warlord you can steal everything and take it first when you come to Earth?

Or is it the carelessness of mindlessly drinking and then flying to the sea and digging for oil as a joke?

My head hurts.

Even though all the oil that was gushing out was harvested marine pollution was already serious and the tsunami they caused wiped out coastal fishing villages.

These innocent idiots who don’t even know the concepts of ocean pollution or tsunamis have powers beyond their means for which they cannot take responsibility.

Kasali the leader showed his white teeth.

“Don’t be like that. I made a mistake after drinking. These idiots have no concept of country or land but I am different. “I was planning to ask for permission later.”

“Kasali~ You’re the idiot. “When Nara people came to visit yesterday they said they would talk about it later.”

One of Kasali’s eyebrows twitched unnaturally.

“Mutari….”

“The people of the country? “Have government officials come to visit?”

When Joo Gong-hyeok grabbed the tail of his horse Mutari who made a mistake was startled.

“Uh so you’re not a government official you’re a company person?”

“What did you say when you came looking for me? “I’m sure you didn’t sell the item right?”

The atmosphere among the Deus Hunters including Joo Gong-hyeok became difficult.

Money was needed for ‘filial piety’ and ‘golden return.’

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Thus hunter items were released like a flood into the black market to make quick money.

It was smuggling that Hunter representatives did not allow.

The purple coin which was the subject of research and a national strategic resource became a waste of money and top coins that only come from Babel entered the research institute.

Corporations and speculators bought up any Babel product and even the government contacted Hunter to do backroom deals.

Drugs and Gishinjok items were the items that were easiest to convert into cash.

Some even ended up getting jobs.

He became a government secret agent and civil servant bragging about his success to his family or joining a company to show his abilities.

The director of De Beers the world’s largest precious metals company groaned when he saw his desk full of diamonds.

“…It’s indistinguishable from the natural product.”

“It’s all real.”

Hunter then ripped off a corner of the desk and held it in his hand.

Hydrogen and foreign substances leaked out through the cracks of the fingers and the arrangement of the carbon molecules in the charcoal lump was rearranged inside.

Shake-

A freshly created diamond fell onto the glass of the desk.

“Don’t touch it yet. “Because it’s hot.”

Hunter slowly cut a small diamond with his fingernails.

He asked how much he could buy for the diamonds he brought and if he would hire him.

The director saw a brilliant jewel rising before his eyes.

‘It’s great but this…’

If others also produced diamonds to their heart’s content it was obvious that diamonds would lose their value.

If that happens De Beers the company will be finished.

How much should you pay for a diamond that comes out in just 3 seconds?

‘What is going on in the world?’

The director was in deep confusion.

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As hunters skilled in chemistry secretly made jewels and those who were more skilled even made gold the government-employed scholar was mesmerized.

Even gold the basis of currency has lost its value.

It was obvious that the gold stored in the national treasury would soon be reduced to yellow heavy metal.

The oil company that signed a contract with several hunters to scan oil deposits and even help with drilling had a smile on their face but then got hit in the back.

This is because it has been reported that hunters can produce infinite amounts of pollution-free energy including electricity and heat.

It was a crisis that went beyond the plunge in oil prices and that old-fashioned fossil fuels that cause environmental pollution might be completely phased out.

This was just the beginning.

All goods produced by hunters were no different from fraud.

Hunters who produced infinite goods were fraudsters who made all the goods and resources they touched worthless and put the companies and workers involved in them in fear.

Although a hunter is just an individual he produces infinite goods and easily handles the work of 10000 people.

This is not an exaggeration.

Assuming there is no natural premium if hunters can produce diamonds to their heart’s content there is no longer a need to dig up diamonds in mines.

Then there is no need for mine labor and there is no need to build mining equipment to mine ore.

The diamond cutting machine also uses fingernails and there is no need for many people in the company except the hunter and his assistant.

Artificial diamond technology and equipment are also being discarded as they do not make money.

It requires labor and industrial technology and tasks that require the cooperation of multiple companies are handled alone.

Digging a tunnel requires hundreds of workers every day heavy construction equipment tools consumables restaurants and lodging.

Hunter doesn’t need anything. No heavy construction equipment or tools are used and only one person is enough for a restaurant or lodging.

It renders all related additional industries meaningless.

So even though it may seem like you are doing 1000 people’s worth of work in reality more work is lost.

It was clear that the more hunters participated in the social economy without control the more chaos the society would fall into.

It’s only been a week since Hunter’s return but the world has booked a Great Depression and a bankrupt party.

Of course if humanity does not perish by then.

Hunters were still obsessed with money and wanted to go to the government and companies to be recognized for their abilities within social rules and to rise higher in the world.

But some hunters laughed at them for doing something stupid.

If you deviate from the stereotype it’s because those things actually had no meaning to Hunter.

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“Keueuung!”

A muscular hunter who was drinking at an entertainment bar clasped his hands together.

The girls on both sides cheered with excitement.

“and! “Oppa can you really make diamonds?”

“I heard you can make it!”

“It was really crazy. “If it really comes out as a diamond I won’t charge you for breaking the table!”

“Of course you bitch!”

Hunter broke the table and held it with both hands saying he would pay for the drinks with diamonds. He carefully opened his palm.

“What the fuck doesn’t work?”

The result was a lump of black charcoal.

Kim Seong-chun who imitated his friends making diamonds scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

‘Diamonds are carbon? ‘Isn’t it made by roughly holding a piece of wood and applying pressure?’

This was possible for a production hunter who was well-versed in molecular structure but it was difficult for Kim Seong-chun a former lineman who only wielded a sword.

The young lady held her nose and frowned at the result that gave off a burnt smell.

“Oppa no matter how you look at this it’s not a diamond is it?”

“I’m not feeling well. “Three punishment.”

Seongchun Kim flicked a navy blue coin from his arms.

“It feels like it’s been a while. Calculate it with this. What is a diamond? “This is more expensive than diamonds.”

The face of the young lady who received the navy blue coin darkened.

“Hey can you give me something other than the coin? “We decided not to accept payment in coins anymore.”

“that’s right. I heard the price of this has dropped. And where do we receive these things and sell them?”

Seongchun Kim snorted.

“Ha look at this.”

“Aaaah!”

The young lady was burned by a lump of charcoal thrown by Kim Seong-chun.

“These bitches are trying to climb up and trick me? They said it was okay just the day before yesterday but now they’re confiscating it like this? Huh~ If it were like the old days this whole store would have been destroyed but I’m holding on.”

Seongchun Kim left the entertainment bar spitting loudly.

He came up the smelly basement stairs and was about to exit into a busy entertainment district alley.

I saw familiar faces standing in the alley.

‘Fuck.’

It was caught wrongly.

Babel’s most famous gruesome face has arrived.

“Kim Seong-chun.”

“I’m sorry I won’t do that again.”

“I will be arrested for reporting 17 counts of assault threats revenge and vandalism.”

“What the fuck are there so many?”

The attention of the street was focused on them.

Just looking at it it’s a confrontation between returning hunters.

I was secretly looking forward to the swordsmanship of the hunters whom I had only heard about through rumors.

As the attention of those around him gathered Seongchun Kim tightened his grip on his face.

‘It’s our neighborhood and if it’s dragged on everything will be ruined.’

He stretched out his head scratching it.

“Where are you taking me?”

“New York Temporary Detention Center.”

“Huh you want me to show you around America? Mr. Gonghyuk do you think you have a lot of time now? “They even care about people like me.”

He cleared his ear and spat.

“I’m sorry but I’m not going there. Why am I going? I’m not going! “I can’t go!”

Seongchun Kim screamed loudly.

The hunter enforcers who stood with Joo Gong-hyeok looked around.

The uniformed hunters were so conspicuous that people were gathering more and more.

They don’t know it but Kim Seong-chun’s heart was pounding like crazy.

Kim Seong-chun felt a strange joy as he risked his life.

‘It’s fucking true right?’

Joo Gong-hyeok who is famous for killing people stayed still even when he stretched out like this.

In Babel if a criminal approaches you they are immediately killed but on Earth why does it end with arrest?

It’s simple.

If the ‘Hunter’ goes on a rampage it will leave serious damage to the Earth.

In other words it was a promise that I would not kill him so please follow me quietly and not resist.

‘Could even Amman Joo Gong-hyeok kill me in the middle of the street?’

Kim Seong-chun was filled with confidence but when he saw Joo Gong-hyeok’s sunken eyes his heart sank again.

“Look at your eyes. “I would even commit murder.”

“….”

“Are you coming?” Kill it! Do you think I’ll just die even if I die? Okay why not dance a sword dance with me in the middle of the city! Onlookers! “I’ll show you a Charyeok show!”

Kim Seong-chun turned around in triumph as Joo Gong-hyeok remained as still as a stone statue even after spitting and spitting for a long time.

“If you’re going to catch them catch them. Stretching out without doing anything…”

Kim Seong-chun’s face which had been chattering crumpled like a crumpled pizza.

People saw a huge hand squeezing their head.

Kim Seong-chun’s head which had turned into mapo tofu disappeared and his headless body disappeared into a huge hand.

‘It’s difficult to kill a small piece like that with just one hit.’

Joo Gong-hyuk took out his avatar and sighed.

I had to aim for the moment when Kim Seong-chun’s attention was distracted.

If he reacts reflexively it will be a disaster.

At the cost of the destruction resonance Joo Gong-hyeok lost many things.

The only way to instantly kill an opponent with an uncomfortable body is to activate the avatar.

Joo Gong-hyeok spoke in a hushed voice.

“Unfortunately Seongchun Kim was not found. However traces of suicide remained in his home.”

“All right.”

The teleporter opened the portal.

“Rather than that you should go right away. “This time it’s Malaysia.”

“okay.”

Since returning to Earth Joo Gong-hyeok has traveled the world without sleeping even a wink.

Despite such efforts the situation only worsened.