MTL - Solo Leveling (Only I Level Up)-Chapter 2

The hidden entrance looks like a cave, but the darkness in the depths seems to swallow everything up, and nothing can be seen. Song Zhiguo activated his ability, raised a ball of flame and threw it into the path leading to the deep place.

Flames flew forward, illuminating the interior of the entrance. The entrance stretches forward continuously, seemingly endlessly. After a while, the flame stopped moving forward, fell to the ground and died out shortly after.

The entrance was once again swallowed by darkness.

"Hmm... everyone, gather here. Let's discuss it."

Song Zhiguo, the person in charge of this group battle, asked the hunters to gather at the hidden entrance. Meanwhile, Seong Jin-Woo's treatment just ended, so he and Hyo-hee also joined the discussion.

Song Zhiguo glanced at the hunters around him and began to speak.

"As we all know, until the boss of the dungeon is not killed, the portal will always be open. Now, we have cleared all the monsters, and the portal is still not closed, which means that the final boss is not here."

Song Zhiguo pointed to the hidden entrance.

The hunters present exchanged glances silently.

No one disputes this point of view.

Song Zhiguo continued.

"In principle, we should feed the information back to the association and wait for orders, but... if we do that, we may have to hand over the credit for killing the final boss to other hunters. In that case, we may get The rewards are less and less.”

The hunters present frowned upon hearing this.

Especially Park Xingfeng, his expression became stiff. He really needs more money to support his pregnant wife and children.

'Postpartum care is expensive now...'

If so, it wouldn't make any sense for him to risk his life in this team fight.

"So I am more inclined to kill the final boss together before leaving the dungeon... What do you think?"

The hunters fell silent.

"..."

"..."

Now no one knows the situation of the hidden entrance, so they cannot guarantee their own safety.

But this time the difficulty of the dungeon is very low. Therefore, the difficulty of the hidden dungeon should not be very high.

"Cough, cough."

Song Zhiguo cleared his throat to draw everyone's attention back.

"We've got seventeen here. So, let's vote, how about? Once a decision is made, no one can disagree. Is that okay?"

After hearing Song Zhiguo's suggestion, everyone nodded, and no one objected.

"I voted yes."

Song Zhiguo raised his hand.

Then, the hunters who were still looking at others raised their hands one by one.

"me too."

"Count me in too."

The first person to raise his hand was Pu Xingfeng, followed by Wang Jianshe and other hunters.

Of course, many people voted against it.

"It's better not to go."

"I think it would be better to wait for the association's decision."

When it came time for Cheng Jin-Woo and Xiao Xi to vote, the votes of both sides were evenly matched.

"Feel sorry......"

Xiaoxi bowed to Song Zhiguo, and then joined the 'don't go' camp.

Now, the number of votes to go and not to go is 8:8.

draw.

Song Zhiguo looked at Cheng Jinwoo who was still hesitating, and asked.

"Xiao Cheng, what about you?"

Chapter 2 Double Dungeon

Now, everything will depend on Seong Jin-Woo's answer.

Cheng Jinyu tightly held the E-grade spar in his hand, and glanced at Xiaoxi beside him.

Xiaoxi shook her head at him.

She looked very worried.

In fact, Cheng Jin-Woo is also the same. Normally, he would never take the risk of doing something dangerous. It's not just that his strength doesn't allow it, he doesn't have enough courage himself.

However, Seong Jin-Woo also has a younger sister who is going to college soon.

'I have no savings...'

Cheng Jin-Woo is twenty-four years old.

He was supposed to enjoy a good college life on campus, but he had to give up because he had no money. He didn't want his sister to repeat his mistakes.

Right now, he really needs money.

Pu Xingfeng was not the only one who urgently needed a large sum of money.

Cheng Jin-Woo raised his hand.

"I'll go as well."

Just as he finished speaking, he heard a helpless sigh from the side.

The path stretches toward the unknown infinity.

Song Zhiguo and several stronger hunters were exploring the way ahead. Song Zhiguo raised a cluster of flames in his palm, illuminating the road ahead.

Wang Jianshe walked beside Song Zhiguo and asked, "Have we gone too far? I think we should also consider any retreat."

"How long have we been walking?"

Wang Jianshe glanced at his watch.

"Should have been walking for forty minutes."

"The portal will completely close an hour after the boss is killed, so we should have another 20 minutes."

"Then if we still can't find the BOSS in the next twenty minutes, let's retreat."

"That's the only way to go."

Song Zhiguo nodded in agreement, and then pointed behind him.

"Old Wang, it's dark in front, you can walk behind me."

Wang Jianshe stared at Song Zhiguo's flame for a few seconds, then took out the hunter's special mobile phone from his pocket, and turned on the flashlight.

Then, the road ahead brightened like daylight.

"..."

Song Zhiguo looked at the flame in his hand, then at Wang Jianshe's cell phone, and began to search his pocket silently.

***

Cheng Jin-Woo, who was seriously injured, and Xiao Xi, who had no combat experience, walked at the end of the team.

Cheng Jin-Woo scratched his neck.

"Well, I... apologize to you."

"What's wrong?"

"That's right, that's the one that just dragged you in."

"It's okay, you don't need to apologize to me."

Cheng Jin-Woo carefully looked at Xiaoxi's expression.

It doesn't look like it's okay at all!

Cheng Jinyu tilted his head to observe Xiaoxi's face, and asked cautiously.

"Are you...really not angry?"

Xiao Xi finally turned her attention to Cheng Jin-Woo.

"How can you not be angry. Are you still in your head? If the stab wound was a few inches higher, you would have an extra hole in your heart. And your arms and legs are full of wounds. I spent It takes so much effort to heal you, but you rush to another dungeon! And you don't even know what kind of place it is!"

Facing her barrage of questions, Cheng Jin-Woo was speechless.

But, she was right.

Thanks to Xiaoxi, Seong Jin-Woo can continue to live. Without her timely treatment, Cheng Jin-Woo's life may be difficult to take care of himself, let alone do the work of a hunter.

'Thinking of it this way, don't I owe Xiaoxi a lot of favors? '

Whenever the portal is opened, the association will always entrust Xiaoxi to heal the injured hunter. Moreover, every time Cheng Jin-Woo participates in a team battle, he will receive treatment from Xiaoxi.

"It hurts, right? Bear with it a little longer."

"Have we met... before? Is that...?"

"Are you injured again?"

"We see each other often."

"Your name is Cheng Jin-Woo? Um... are you okay?"

"Perhaps you are not suitable to be a hunter..."

"You're here again..."

"Let me see your arm. Not this one, just put a Band-Aid on this one. I'm talking about the broken one."

Recalling these, Cheng Jin-Woo felt very guilty.

"..."

Seeing that Cheng Jin-Woo became a little depressed, Xiaoxi felt a little regretful, and felt that she shouldn't have reprimanded him like that recently, so she slowed down her tone.

"You really know you're wrong?"

"I really know."

Xiaoxi thought for a while, then raised her eyes to look at Cheng Jin-Woo, and slowly opened her mouth.

"If you feel sorry, then... buy me dinner."

What an unexpected request.

Cheng Jin-Woo looked at her in surprise, and found that she was smiling mischievously like a little girl.

'Little girl...'

But Xiaoxi was indeed a young girl who had just turned twenty.

She said that she will be 21 years old next year, right?

If she cut her hair short and put on a school uniform, she would look like a youthful and sunny female high school student.