Episode 225 [ Satellite (2) ]
East of Cuba, Central America. Virgin Islands.
After the islands began to be isolated by monsters, people disappeared from the islands.
There were no ships passing by, and the people who lived on the island escaped to Cuba.
Although they had become forgotten islands on the continent, many people still lived on one of the islands.
An island where EVs were gifted to the British imperial family.
The Settlund. It was an island now called EV Island.
The island, which had been used as an EV training center and various factories, was now in a state of tension.
Everyone who was outside went inside the building and looked out the window.
The place they were looking at was the central square that people had used as a resting place not long ago.
But now, a large hole has been created in the center of the square.
The hatch of the underground rocket launcher was opened.
Below the hole. On the launch pad, a white two-stage rocket stood pointing toward the sky.
There was a moving EV symbol engraved on the side, and the name of the rocket was written underneath it.
Electron Volt.
Electronic volt. Researchers’ pun on EV became the name of the rocket.
The area around the rocket was empty. Everyone evacuated to a safe place in time for the rocket launch.
Rather than returning to their quarters, researchers and technicians watched the rocket launch through bulletproof glass in a lobby prepared outside the launch pad.
And in the launch control room next to it, about a dozen controllers were sitting in front of the console and controlling the launch process.
[10 minutes before launch]
The controller’s voice counting down rang throughout the island.
[Activates the internal mana stone generator.]
The rocket seemed to tremble.
Kyung-hoon and Dr. Hye-rin were standing behind the control room, looking at the rocket.
“It’s finally time to leave.”
Dr. Hyerin muttered in an appreciative voice.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“What did I do? I’m just a biologist. “This spaceship was created by the combined efforts of Eve and EV scientists and SG Electronics engineers.”
She waved her hand away at Kyung-hoon’s words, but Kyung-hoon knew well how much effort she had put into this matter.
While Eve solved the technical aspects together with scientists and engineers, Dr. Hyerin, or rather CEO Hyerin, handled all the rest of the rocket development, including financial management and personnel management.
While Marcelo was in charge of the island, Hyerin was the CEO of SG Electronics and also the person in charge of rocket development.
Perhaps thanks to the two years that passed, her expression also changed to become more relaxed.
My dealings with Kyung-hoon have also become calmer than before, and Kyung-hoon has also become much more comfortable.
[The atmosphere is stable. Temperature: 24 degrees, Humidity: 80%. The Mana Cloud has now advanced 50 km to the west. Weather conditions. [Good condition.]
Kyung-hoon had a bitter look on his face.
The mana cloud where the flying monsters are hiding has become one of the weather conditions.
It was a ridiculous thing, but it was also unavoidable if the rocket was to be launched safely.
“It would have been nice to have seen Mr. Marcelo too…”
Dr. Hyerin looked around and looked disappointed.
Marcelo was currently in South America with EV awakeners from the Americas.
Officially, it was to deal with monsters running rampant in various places while South American awakeners and troops blocked the U.S. military.
EV was an organization of awakened people around the world. Although they continued to be oppressed, it was still too much to be openly hostile to the United States.
However, EV awakeners in South America were unofficially participating in the fight against the US military.
Kyung-hoon and EV were secretly helping them.
To be honest, I wanted to openly fight with the United States, but it wasn’t the situation yet.
In order to show its teeth to the United States, it had to at least eliminate the monsters around the Eurasian Union.
[5 minutes before launch. Flight course system completed.]
Time passed quickly.
[Ready for launch completed 1 minute before launch. Increase the output of the external disturbance device to maximum.]
The sea and sky seemed to have blurred a little. It was because of a vision disrupting device.
People approached the bulletproof glass.
There is not much time left until the two-year results are released.
[Electron bolt engine running 20 seconds before launch.]
Finally, the engine light came on. From now on, cancellation was impossible.
Hyerin started biting her nails and Kyung-hoon asked Eve.
“You’ll be okay, right?”
-yes. All systems are normal. No need to worry.
In response to Kyung-hoon’s question, Eve whispered softly.
Kyung-hoon’s nervousness calmed down a little.
[15 seconds before launch. Waiting for the final countdown]
After a while, the final countdown began.
[9 8 10 seconds before launch….]
The people in the control room, the researchers and technicians in the lobby, and everyone on the island began to follow the countdown on the broadcast.
Everyone who remained on the island now knew what the underground rockets were for.
Mana detection satellite. With this satellite, humans who had been attacked until now finally learned the enemy’s location.
The expectations of the islanders were no different from those of the researchers who created rockets and satellites.
Kyung-hoon, Hye-rin, and everyone on the island shouted as loud as they could.
“Five! pho! Three! two! one!!”
Even before everyone’s last shout together was over. A tremendous sound filled the island.
Kwagwagwagwagwa!
Smoke filled the underground launch pad.
Quaguaguagua.
The rocket broke through the smoke and began to soar into the sky.
Everyone looked up at the sky blankly.
[Projectile enters supersonic speed]
[Main engine stops]
[Second stage rocket propellant combustion begins.]
As the broadcast continued, the rocket continued to soar upward.
After a while, the rocket disappeared from everyone’s sight and the controller’s voice was heard.
[Mana detection satellite separation completed. The launch was successful.]
Waaaaa!
A huge roar shook the island.
In the control room and lobby, people hugged and cheered.
Hyerin also smiled brightly, but Kyunghoon only smiled.
He was very happy, but now he was more curious about the results the satellite would send.
Googoo googung.
After a while, the hatch on the underground launch pad closed again and the island returned to its normal life.
People returned to the factory, to the office, to the training center, talking about the rockets they had launched.
But it was not time for the underground control center to rest yet.
They continued to wait for the satellite to enter orbit and send a message to mission control.
4 hours later.
“Communication from the vault!”
The first communication came in via satellite.
Kyung-hoon covered Hye-rin, who was sleeping face down on the desk, with his outer clothes and approached the central monitor in the control room.
“All systems on the Mana Detection Satellite Vault are normal. Initial scan completed. “Accuracy 20%,”
the report continued.
While the satellite orbited the Earth to enter orbit, the Mana Detection Satellite began its work. The mana spread throughout the Earth was confirmed.
“Put it on the screen.”
“Accuracy will be greatly reduced.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
The main monitor that showed the status of the satellite changed to an earth map. The
satellite’s orbit, which draws a sinusoidal curve, was displayed, and then the map began to be colored. Perhaps
because the accuracy is still low, it does not look as clear as the satellite in the other world. But there
was something that could be known from this alone.
Yellow dots were spread all over the map.
It was a monster of a major level.
Although it was not even a quarter of the number seen on the satellite screen of the other world, it was a much larger number than expected.
“When did something like that happen?” “It’s become more, right?”
Fortunately, the red dot. No overlord-level monsters were visible, but a pink dot was marked on the map.
There were more monarch-level monsters.
The pink dot was located in Morocco, in the northwest corner of Africa, almost bordering Spain.
-That pink dot was the person commanding the African monsters. It seems to be a monarch-level monster.
Gyeong-hoon agreed with what Eve said.
It was clear that the monarch-level monster in Morocco was leading the African monsters.
But that monster seemed difficult to touch right now.
There were yellow dots around the pink dot. It was stamped.
That monarch-level monster was leading and moving legion-level monsters. There were
more pink dots.
One pink dot was on the land of Indonesia, which had lost contact, and another was on the Himalayan Mountains north of India.
And the last one was on the map. One dot was between Manchuria and Russia. It was stuck on top of the Daxinganling Mountains.
Kyung-hoon took a step towards the screen.
“It’s him.”
-Yes, I think I found it.
The screen was enlarged. Yellow dots were also visible around the pink dot.
There were also many monarch-level monsters here.
It seemed difficult to deal with them with just the EV special operations team and Kyung-hoon.
However, the monster in Morocco The situation was different from the monster. It was an enemy right in front of us. Kyung-hoon had no intention of backing down.
“Notify the governments of each country and prepare everyone. If we can’t do it on our own, we will destroy it with the power of the union.”
It was the Eurasian Union and the Awakened Association that prepared for that purpose.
– I understand.
Eve responded vigorously to Kyung-hoon’s instructions.
Kyung-hoon left a message to the controllers in the control room asking them to work harder, then picked up the sleeping Hye-rin and left the control room. .
When Gyeong-hoon left, the controllers held each other’s hands and rejoiced at the success of the satellite launch.
Even when the controller was not looking, the accuracy displayed on the screen continued to increase.
21.01% 2102%….
The color painted on the map while the accuracy increased. The dots became more and more elaborate.
Dots appeared on mountains, lakes, and the sea, and dots appeared in cities.
And yellow dots appeared in Moscow and Washington for a while and then disappeared.
***
The next day, 20km east of Qiqihar City, Manchuria.
The Korean Army’s 6th Division again They were cleaning up after one fight.
Robots were walking around checking for dead monsters, and soldiers were loading dead monsters into trucks.
Youngcheol sat on a rotting tree stump and watched the scene. The
monster was carried like that . They seemed to be collecting mana stones from the rear and processing the corpses separately to extract useful things. The
world they woke up to was very different from their previous life.
In the previous life, it was common to deal with them indiscriminately and trade them to guilds or merchants.
In the meantime, there were accidents . It happened often.
There were soldiers who became contaminated by eating corpses, and there were many murders while stealing mana stones.
‘This place is different.’
This world was handled so well.
Even now, it was clear that a wave had occurred across the entire planet. In my previous life, most countries, including Korea, were destroyed in this one wave, but this world was holding on very well. The bodies were placed in the truck
. In fact, the soldiers had gone far away to avoid him.
The soldiers in the same platoon were still avoiding him. They had not yet become friends.
Of course, Yeongcheol had no intention of becoming friends.
The expressions on the soldiers’ faces when they saw him were different from before. The soldiers were not ignoring him, but were having a hard time with him.
It was a change that occurred after changing to E grade.
‘In the end, this world is no different.’
Youngcheol laughed inwardly when he saw the soldiers’ expressions.
But there were also people who did not change.
The Land Awakened Gyu Gyu, who was assigned to fight with him, did not change from before even though he showed his skills and his level increased.
“Oh my gosh, can’t I get some rest?”
Even now, as the regular season approached, I was grumbling to my heart’s content.
“Is there a problem?”
Unlike when he ignored the soldiers, Yeongcheol politely asked Gyujeong.
It was a useful awakener. There was nothing wrong with becoming friends.
“Oh well. They told me to move again because I had to operate with EV. “When are you going to let me rest?”
Youngcheol frowned at Gyujeong’s words.
“Is the entire unit moving?”
“No, I guess only some of them are moving, so I was the only one in this platoon who called me. “I heard you’re really trying to manipulate me and it’s gone too far.”
‘Only some?’
Yeongcheol quickly stretched out his body.
“Can’t I participate too?”
Gyu-jeong was a little surprised by the sudden words, but quickly nodded.
“Everyone will like it, right? “It looks like we need a lot of skilled awakeners.”
“Then I will participate too. Please take me with you.”
“That’s right.”
Gyu-Gyu nodded with a puzzled expression at Yeong-Cheol’s words.
Yeongcheol grabbed his sword and stood up.
He took the lead and walked towards the division headquarters.
“Hey, let’s go together.”
Gyu-Gyu called out to him from behind, but Young-Cheol did not stop walking.
It’s an operation with EV.
I was finally able to take one step closer to that unknown organization.
Gyu-Gyu, who was following behind him, narrowed his eyes.
The object of surveillance immediately bit off the rice cake that was thrown. As expected, he was not an ordinary awakened person.
“Let’s go together!”
Gyu-yu also hurried his steps after Yeong-cheol.
