Episode 160 [Silo (3)]
Bang!
As the researcher flew away, the soldier guarding the door pointed his gun at Kyung-hoon.
Was his name Liam?
Kyung-hoon stood up and looked at the researcher with blood streaming from his mouth.
Kyung-hoon felt sorry. I tried to help him, but he suddenly punched me…
Kyung-hoon tapped his head with a dumbfounded expression.
“This is what happens if you lose your mind even for a moment.”
This made it difficult to even trust my feelings.
Kyunghoon looked around. Everyone was looking at Kyung-hoon with surprised faces.
“Is this something that keeps repeating itself? “For that matter, the reaction is realistic.”
“Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
The researcher asked Kyung-hoon while wiping away the blood.
An S-class combat awakener generated mana and struck with all his might, but was barely injured.
It seemed like even his strength had been reset.
Kyunghoon shrugged his shoulders. It didn’t really matter anyway.
“Well, it would have been nice if we hung out once.”
The moment he realized that it wasn’t reality, this fantasy stopped being a problem for Kyung-hoon.
It was a great illusion that even S-class Kyung-Hoon was caught up in, but he also had experience with overcoming the monarch’s mental attack.
Kyunghoon took a deep breath. He looked inside himself.
“Are you okay?”
Dominic’s words began to trail off.
Kyung-hoon raised his mana.
With your head, not your body.
The world became slower.
He poured the mana he had drawn into his head.
Pajik.
The world started to break apart. The floor cracked and the walls collapsed.
Voices broke and people streamed out.
And Kyung-hoon came out of his body. The world became increasingly distant.
In the end, the world turned dark.
***
Kyunghoon opened his eyes.
Domimic, who was questioning him, was nowhere to be seen.
Kyunghoon looked around.
A pattern drawn on the floor. High ceilings. And the circular railings on each floor.
It was the inside of the silo we saw a while ago.
But it was completely different. Everything was old and full of dust. The door was rusty and the walls were cracked.
Fortunately, the pattern was still intact, but it seemed like it had been abandoned for a long time.
And the corpses of the monsters were left desiccated on the floor.
And even those with only bones left.
Everything was just like I saw in the fantasy. It felt as if time had passed just like the last scene of the fantasy.
Kyung-Hoon tried to pull up Mana.
Wooooow.
Light stayed in his hand. This time it was proper power. It wasn’t an illusion now.
Shane wasn’t leaning against the wall like in the vision. I was lying next to Kyunghoon.
The robot was motionless like in the fantasy.
Kyunghoon took out his cell phone.
“Eve?”
The phone lit up, but Eve did not answer.
Gyeonghoon carefully poured in the mana. I wrapped my phone around the same way I felt when I wrapped my head.
Ugh.
-master?
Eve’s voice was heard. Kyunghoon sighed. Fortunately, his mana worked.
The prediction was not wrong. Eve and the robot also suffered a mental attack.
-It’s barely back to normal. Strange errors kept coming in from outside, so we had no choice but to force a shutdown. What on earth was that? I was very worried.
It was also a mental attack. Is AI also subject to mental attacks? I didn’t know.
Kyunghoon woke up Shane in the same way.
Shane was in the same situation.
“I tried to block it by using my mana, but it was impossible with my mana.”
It was a mental attack that even S-class awakeners were caught up in. There was no way it could be easily prevented.
[So is it okay now?]
“It seems okay now. “I’ll have to check.”
Kyung-hoon looked at one corner of the underground plaza.
The door leading to the basement was open, hidden in an inconspicuous corner.
*
Kyung-hoon first explained the vision he experienced to Eve and Shane.
After hearing Kyung-hoon’s story, Eve briefly summarized the situation.
-So there’s an awakened person down here that repeats the scene and spreads illusions when frozen.
Shane tilted the camera.
“How do we keep these powerful traits going?”
“We should check that out.”
Gyeonghoon took out the Samjeonggeom from his backpack. And the robot also fixed its machine gun.
Both of them were on the verge of blowing everything up.
The robot and the awakened went downstairs through the open door.
I saw a long passageway where monsters had fallen.
“Some have scars and some have no marks. “That’s strange.”
The robot tilted its head when it saw the mummified earthworm monsters.
As I continued through the passage while checking for monsters, I saw a blocked iron door.
In front of it lay many monster corpses, human remains, and a mummified person.
Shane looked at the monsters’ corpses again.
“The monsters here are all wounded and dead. Did that awakened person kill him?”
Kyung-hoon was standing in front of the corpse of the awakened person that Shane was talking about.
He was an awakened person who had been dead for a long time and had been mummified. Unlike other people, the dead awakened man was wearing clothes made of iron plates and various fabrics.
He was holding a spear with a mana stone in one hand. It was a spear full of blackened blood.
[It’s the same as the last scene the owner mentioned.]
Kyung-hoon nodded at Eve’s words.
“What I experienced was probably experienced by this awakened person here, not me.”
[So, was it an awakened person who came through the portal?]
Gyeonghoon took the spear out of the dead awakened person’s hand.
When I looked at the window sill, I saw a roughly engraved phrase.
[LA City]
“It’s not a portal, it’s an awakened person from the city.”
Only then did Kyung-hoon realize why the conversation in the fantasy was strange.
“Monsters followed through the hole that this awakened person made. That’s why people got angry at that time…”
That’s why Kyung-hoon’s power in the fantasy also weakened.
Kyung-hoon played the role of this awakened person in the fantasy.
“I guess the story got mixed up because I went in.”
Gyeonghoon looked at the remains next to him. It was Vanessa. The person he had been talking to just a moment ago was lying down as old remains. Gyeonghoon raised his sword. Pugh. Although it was a 1m thick iron
gate,
it
could not block the S-class awakened person’s three-pointed sword. There was none.
It penetrated deep through the black iron door, as if it were going through the head
. Gya
gya gya
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The cut part moved backwards.
Behind the cut door, the inside was visible.
Wow.
The machine was still moving.
Kyung-hoon and Shane entered the lab.
It wasn’t that different from the one in the fantasy.
All the refrigeration devices are now. The only difference was that it was running and that everyone was inside the device.
Kyung-hoon walked up to the coffin-like device. He wiped away the frosted glass.
The soldier he had seen in his fantasy was lying there. He was frozen with a look of horror on his face. “Can’t we tell if he’s alive
?”
[Could you please connect the cell phone to the terminal?]
At Eve’s words, Kyung-hoon connected the cell phone to the machine in the center.
[We are checking. Please wait a moment.]
After a while, Eve gave the answer.
[Brainwave check total of 8. The dog’s brain waves are maintained.]
Gyeong-hoon asked with a surprised expression,
“So was it successful? Are they all still alive?”
[….No. It was a failure. There are no survivors.]
Kyung-hoon looked puzzled.
[Heart stopped. Blood circulation in the brain stopped, most of the cells were destroyed. All the people sleeping here are dead.] “The
brain waves are “I heard there is.”
[It doesn’t make sense scientifically, but it seems that the mana flowing from the mana stone and the characteristics of the awakened person maintain the brain waves.] [Moreover,
brain waves do not come from each frozen human’s head. All brain waves are measured from one frozen human’s head. [It is becoming.]
Eve’s words were no different from saying that everyone here had become ghosts.
Kyung-hoon looked into another refrigeration device at Eve’s words.
Dominic Cove.
The name engraved on the researcher’s name tag was visible through the glass.
[ What are you going to do?]
Eve asked.
Kyung-hoon, who looked at the researcher’s face for a moment, answered,
“We need to stop.”
They became ghosts and were repeating their last moments for a long time. In addition, everyone who came here was caught up in the dream. It was a terrifying
ability that even an S-class person could be caught up in. He
could not just leave it alone.
Kyung-hoon approached the machine in the center. I went,
“Can I destroy this?”
[It is a system maintained by the mana stones of the four machines. If you just destroy the central machine, everything will stop.]
Gyeong-hoon raised his sword.
And the world changed.
Numerous earthworm monsters were filling the hallways. The monsters would come closer if they hesitated. It was coming.
A long spear was held in Gyeonghoon’s hand.
Gyeonghoon sighed. He had entered the dream again.
It was also the last scene before he died.
“I did something useless…”
Vanessa’s voice came from next to me. .
“It seems like some kind of automatic defense mechanism.”
Kyunghoon turned his head in surprise.
Just as in the vision, Vanessa was standing next to him.
But Vanessa’s appearance was different then. She was checking her body here and there with a curious look on her face.
“no way? Eve?”
“As expected, master. “You guessed right.”
“How did you get in?”
“We did not reject external intrusion, but accepted it. “It was implemented this way.”
“Why did you come in dangerously?”
Eve, disguised as Vanessa, grinned.
“It is a human characteristic, but I thought it might be possible to analyze it because it is transmitted through machines. There is a high possibility that it will be of help to the master.”
“So is analysis possible?”
“Unfortunately, this is the limit. It seems difficult to understand everything. “It will take a long time.”
Kyunghoon shook his head.
Although she was speaking calmly with her mouth, she looked like a child seeing this amazing world for the first time.
Slurp slurp.
While the two people were talking, monsters came right in front of them.
Eve said, looking at the monster.
“There is nothing more to collect. “You can break it.”
As she spoke, she looked very disappointed. However, something felt very awkward because she had the appearance of a middle-aged woman.
Kyung-hoon raised the window.
“I have a general idea…”
As he pushed in the mana, the spear glowed brightly.
Kyung-hoon swung the spear down.
Bang!
It was not a monster, but a spear swung into the air. Instead of a monster, the spear broke the world.
I heard a scream . A sigh of relief was heard.
And the world collapsed in an instant.
Cracking! Cracking! When
Kyung-hoon blinked, he saw a broken machine.
Sparks flew out of the machine.
The machine was cut in half by the sword he swung. [
It was an amazing experience. Humans experience the world that way.]
Eve’s excited voice was heard.
“Ugh, is everyone okay?”
Shane moaned from next to me.
Shane was down on one knee. He got up and sighed.
“It’s hard. “This time, I blocked it without shutting it down, but all I could do was hold on.”
One AI jumped into the illusion and the other AI blocked it.
The two AIs made different choices. Like humans, AI was growing differently.
Kyung-hoon wondered how different the destinations of these two would be.
Kyung-hoon put his phone back in his pocket and looked into the window of the freezer.
The body was still frozen. However, he didn’t look as frightened as before.
Kyung-hoon hoped everyone could rest comfortably now.
After a while, he looked up, looked at the devices, and muttered.
“Would it be helpful if I took it to the other world?”
[You can take it, but it won’t mean much. [The entire structure has been figured out.]
Kyung-hoon shook his head at Eve’s words. The child I saw a little while ago was nowhere to be seen.
Competent and great AI is back again.
It was time to talk for a while.
thud. thud.
The sound of something crashing was heard from above.
Kyunghoon and Shane both looked up.
I heard it in a fantasy. It was the sound of monsters falling to the floor.
“As expected, all living beings that entered this were affected by an illusion.”
Shane nodded at Kyunghoon’s words.
“That was the corpse of a monster that died without any wounds.”
[It appears that his characteristics have become stronger because he has been eating monsters that have entered the silo for a long time.]
Dominic had been eating monsters here through illusions for decades.
“Do you think you made it to Class A?”
[Let’s check?]
Kyung-hoon shook his head at Eve’s words.
It was a meaningless story now.
“Let’s deal with the guy who came in first.”
Kyunghoon nodded at Shane’s words.
Kyung-hoon took out a rifle from his backpack. He threw the gun to Shane.
“Please use this gun first.”
Shane, who received the gun, tilted his head.
“This is a regular gun. Why is this? It won’t work.”
“I need to check something briefly.”
Gyeonghun lifted the spear. It was an old spear wrapped in a dirty cloth. The spear held by the dead awakened man. The
green mana stone on the tip of the spear sparkled.
