Hoarding in Hell Novel

Chapter 36 Experienced Newbie (2)

Everything was incomprehensible to Hyunmoo. Park Seo-moon sharpened this.

“The strange thing is that you brought the wooden timber you brought with you! I said I came to watch the broadcast of the famous hunter BJ Yasum! I didn’t bring any equipment properly…”

“No, it’s okay to talk about YouTubers. Hyunmoo. Why did you think the instructions were weird?”

It was No Haeul who intervened. She was looking at Hyunmoo with a funny expression. I wondered if it would appear that Hyunmoo was flirting, but the inspector asked this much question, but it was vague that he didn’t answer.

“Goblins are not a race that has a particularly good sense of smell compared to other monsters, but dead grass and fresh grass have a different smell. Plants release an alarming toxin when they die. Those who aim for are more dangerous.”

“But if you don’t watch over your head, goblins do surprise attacks…”

“That’s a very humanistic idea, and goblins are short, so they don’t like high places either. You’d better be careful about underground waterways and tunnels. Why would you jump from the top when the forest is so thick?”

No Haeul made a surprising expression. Park Seo-moon’s face turned red and blue, and when she was about to utter her anger once more, No Ha-eul intervened again.

“Kang Hyunmoo, have you ever caught a goblin?”

Maybe over 50? It’s an ambiguous career to get into.

“I studied hard.”

“That’s right. But Park Seo-moon’s opinion is not wrong.”

Park Seo-moon looked at Hyunmoo with a look at him. But Noh Ha-eul said later.

“If only ten years ago.”

Park Seo-moon’s expression hardened.

“BJ Yasum is a person who runs in a 3-star dungeon right now. I think Park Seo-moon is talking about watching a video that BJ Yasum took a long time ago, but then the strategy was discarded. 1-star dungeons aren’t always the same, and the goblins are getting better day by day. The countermeasures are evolving. I wouldn’t say it’s useless, but it’s outdated, but Kang Hyunmoo’s opinion isn’t quite right either. 1-star dungeon goblins aren’t that smart. You seem to be talking.”

Noh Ha-eul said with a subtle smile.

“It’s as if you’ve experienced a high-level dungeon.”

Hyunmoo just shrugged his shoulders. Park Seo-moon snorted as if it was ridiculous and muttered.

“Hey, it looks like you’ve read quite a bit of books at the top of your desk, but even if you do, the actual battle is just like that…”

Then a rustling movement appeared in the bush on the right. Hyunmoo was the first to move. Rather than trying to protect anyone, his body moved reflexively.

The moment Hyunmoo’s feet kicked the bush, something jumped into the air. The newcomers screamed a little at the sight of the goblin jumping out of the bushes.

They’ve all been studying goblins, but they’ve never seen or heard of anything like that.

The goblin had no head.

Boom, Degur… … . Belatedly, the goblin head fell to the floor and rolled.

Hyunmoo’s neck was pulled out at once by the kick that Hyunmoo had pulled up, but it has now fallen off. There was not a drop of blood on Hyunmoo’s shoes. Hyunmoo looked at Park Seo-moon and asked quietly.

“What’s the angle?”

The newcomers let out a silent scream and looked at Hyunmoo.

‘You didn’t swing the pole!’

Hyunmoo also swung his wooden wooden beam in the air with a shy expression as if he had just remembered that fact.

However, Park Seo-moon seemed to have taken it in a slightly different sense. He said nothing, his face red.

Noh Ha-eul opened his eyes and looked at Hyunmoo.“…But I’m glad that it doesn’t seem like a party that wasn’t ready at all. Let’s keep going. All of these things count towards the score.”

***

Although there was a bit of a fight in the beginning, the dungeon attack proceeded with ease.

Although Park Seo-moon looked a little lacking, he used his size and hammer well. He seemed to relieve stress by catching the goblin as if he were bravely catching a mole at the front.

The party members followed suit and captured the goblins using their own weapons and abilities.

Everyone was moving forward energetically with the movement that worked out better than expected.

Naturally, the Cheonggye dungeon was one of the easiest among the 1-star dungeons. Because of this, it was closer to a place to understand the mindset to kill living things, whether you can withstand a life-threatening stressful situation, and the spirit of cooperation rather than your skills.

‘Everyone is doing well. No one seems scared or stressed.’

Noh Ha-eul drank a hangover remedy and thought. The other party members were hunting with ease because a man named Park Seo-moon pulled aggro well from the front.

If he had a quick temper and wasn’t irritable, he would have given him a good score, but it was a pity.

‘In the dungeon, teamwork is more important than skill.’

The higher the level of the dungeon, the harder it is to survive alone. Some people try to play solo while dreaming of being single, but that’s not even a dream from 4 stars. Lee Ji-tae, Korea’s top figure, has never broken a 4-star solo.

And this is where the problem starts. What if the dungeon reward came out too generously than expected? Or if there is a hole in the party members?

So like it or not, you have no choice but to belong to a clan.

‘At least the clan members do not have to hit the back of the head.’

People become more afraid of monsters than monsters when they suffer from suspicious demons in a dungeon. Because of this, not only No Ha-eul, but also headhunters pay close attention to the personality of the hunter.

‘There is no plausible reward yet… … .’

“Kill them all!”

Park Seo-moon smashed the head of one goblin while shouting loudly. Park Seo-moon was acting particularly cruel.

The fact that I had been hesitant to Hyunmoo for a while seemed to keep me interested.

However, when he found out that the goblin was an easier opponent than he thought, he fought harder as if to make up for it.

At the same time, he did not forget to glance back at Noha-eul. It wasn’t just Park Seo-moon.

When the other people realized that the dungeon wasn’t too dangerous, they weren’t concentrating on the battle, they were trying to stand out from Haeul’s eyes.

Noha-eul is an executive of one of the three major clan, compatible mama, so she thinks that if she catches her eyes, she might be invited to join. Of course, Noh Ha-eul was not paying attention to any of them.

Kang Hyunmoo was the only person who didn’t seem to care about Noh Haeul.

He did not find any tension or excitement peculiar to the expedition at all.

That’s not to say that I’m sacrificing myself. Rather, he was walking behind him as if he had come out of a walk with his wooden poles draped over his shoulders.

‘Aren’t you thinking about getting a score? No, but where did you hear that name?’

Apparently, my colleagues talked about it quite loudly, but I can’t remember. In fact, the baseball team I was cheering for yesterday lost so badly that I almost forgot the name of the clan leader.

However, if you look at the skill of kicking up the goblin’s head earlier, it is clear that he is a dungeon experienced. I don’t know if she’s logged in or not, but she might get in trouble if she’s stronger than her.

‘I don’t see any signs of that yet.’

It was then that the ranks began to slowly collapse. When the dungeon was easier than expected, the team members started playing separately, knowing that Park Seo-moon was worth trying even if he didn’t take the lead.

Park Seo-moon, too, was more focused on killing goblins than defending.

‘Now is the start.’

It was time for teamwork to crumble.

At the moment when teamwork began to break apart due to sympathy or greed, Noh Ha-eul was about to start a full-fledged evaluation.

At that time, Noh Ha-eul suddenly felt something strange.

“there…….”

The party members who were preoccupied with hunting stopped hearing Noh Ha-eul’s voice. It was also the time when a battle was about to end.

Noh Ha-eul’s expression hardened. Not a single person who had been participating in the battle until recently had been seen.

“Where did Kang Hyunmoo go?”

***

‘You’re really weak.’

Hyunmoo felt complex emotions as he saw the goblins being slaughtered.

The goblins rushed towards the new hunters without surprise, but were blocked by the shield, and their heads were broken and they were busy dying.

He can’t even speak a proper language, his weapons are at the level of stone knives and axes, and he has no strategy or anything.

Sometimes they jump out of the tunnel to make surprise attacks, but they are easily detected due to the loud squeaking noises they make.

Hyunmoo shook his head. If they were Red Cap Goblins, they would have been dead from the moment they first met them.

He might have survived as long as he was wrathful, just as he was easily slaughtered.

‘It’s also a head-on breakthrough against a group of goblins. That’s crazy.’

Now, despite having a clear advantage against goblins, Hyunmoo still felt reluctant to face a fair head-to-head confrontation.

There’s a way to win without getting hurt, but there’s no reason to need blood.

Of course, the goblins here are weak enough to feel like a completely different creature from the red cap goblins. I could even understand why No Ha-eul appeared in such a negligent attitude.

Hyunmoo slips away unknowingly. Hyunmoo, who had the stealth ability to fool the Red Cap Goblin, was easy to fool No Ha-eul.

‘I feel a little sorry for Noh Ha-eul. But if you stay like this, your score will be bad… … .’

Hyunmoo smiled broadly.

‘Would you like some seasoning?’

***

“Mr. Kang Hyunmoo!”

Finding Kang Hyunmoo who had come out through the grass, No Haeul hurriedly approached him.

“Are you okay? Are you hurt? Where the hell have you been?”

“Ah, I came to urinate, but everyone seemed to have fallen far away. I almost got lost on the road, but the trail was so noisy that I followed it.”

Noh Ha-eul’s expression was suspicious. He couldn’t possibly have missed someone he was missing just for that reason. However, it was also true that Hyunmoo really disappeared and then returned calmly.

The dungeon is wild. No matter what happened to the departed or left behind, his colleagues were not held accountable.

While No Ha-eul hesitated to ask, Hyunmoo joined the ranks. Park Seo-moon made a laughing face.

“Heh, it looks like you got tired of being scared, didn’t you?”The party, who seemed to have a crush on Park Seo-moon, because Hyunmoo broke Park Seo-moon’s prettiness when they first entered, is now cold.

In their eyes, Hyunmoo was nothing more than a coward who was behind them while they fought hard.

“Anyway, I’m glad you’re back. I’ll give you a break, so please tell me first next time.”

Hyunmoo replied with a shrug of his shoulders. The party started moving forward again through the grass. Whenever a goblin pops up, be prepared to hit it right away.

But after a while, the party started to feel strange.

The goblins that came out so much didn’t come out at all.

***

The forest was strangely quiet.

Even the rookie group, who joked and cursed when the goblins popped out, felt frustrated by this strange silence.

In the awkward silence, all I could hear was the sound of footsteps and the rustling of the bushes.

“I… Inspector-sama, are you only gathering like this at the beginning?”

Noh Ha-eul was also confused. I don’t often work as an inspector, but I often visited Cheonggye Dungeon when I was a freshman.

There were times when there were many goblins, and there were times when there were few, but it was the first time that they disappeared so suddenly and cut off.

“Well. But it’s not a bad thing to have fewer monsters.”

Noh Ha-eul tried to explain in a positive way. The newcomers seemed relieved, but Noh Ha-eul did not. It’s been a long time since I’ve stopped drinking and came to my senses.

She’s been through something like this before.

That’s when an existence that was far more dangerous than the Hunters appeared.

Hunters in the dungeon are beings that need to be driven out. But even those monsters are frightened and run away from beings that live in the same dungeon as high-ranking predators that attack monsters.

They usually occupied the position of the boss or elite of the dungeon. However, such a phenomenon only occurred in high-level dungeons with 3 or more stars.

‘But the boss level in Cheonggye Dungeon would be the only goblin chief and goblin shaman, right?’

They are the ones who command and inspire the goblins. There is no reason to avoid it. I don’t know if I’d rather run with momentum.

‘Something is wrong.’

It is not uncommon for a dungeon to cause something unusual. Dungeons always evolve and change like living creatures.

I was concerned that this happened suddenly in the relatively stable Cheonggye dungeon, but I didn’t worry too much.

‘If it’s a car, I’ll have to send the newcomers back and explore on my own.’

She is a middle-class woman who has also participated in the 3 star dungeon raid. Even if only a one-star dungeon caused something unusual, by quickly recovering the hearthstone, the newcomers could be sent back without victims.

Noh Ha-eul suddenly turned his gaze to Hyunmoo. It happened after he disappeared and returned. There was something that bothered me, but it was only heart attack.

“Come on, Inspector! Over there!”

Then one of the newcomers pointed to one side of the bush and shouted. Noha-eul hurriedly ran towards it.

What popped out of the bush was none other than the corpse of a goblin.

His neck had been horribly torn off by something powerful. He didn’t even notice it and didn’t show any signs of resistance.

The newcomers have already killed countless goblins. But I had never seen such a body. This lone dead goblin carcass instilled a strange sense of uneasiness in them.

One of the newbies asked in a whisper.

“Is anyone else in but us?”