Chapter.7 Masquerade (22)
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A tower made up of a cube-shaped cavity carved entirely out of the natural rock terrain and countless mechanical parts standing tall in the middle of it.
The tower, located at the top of numerous stairs that required a long look up from the professor’s entrance, had the majesty of a temple, contrary to its essence as a collection of the latest technology from the old world.
A beauty that is hard to find in this era where the only architectural beauty is functional beauty.
In this era where people pull the trigger on a potato or a small piece of iron without hesitation, this gigantic facility that was almost a work of art, built without even the slightest construction equipment, clearly showed how much the people of the Dome revered this central power plant.
‘It is no exaggeration to say that one central power plant is responsible for the life of the entire city, so in some ways, it can be seen as a god.
The professor frowned slightly as he felt his knee becoming wet.
‘Blossom. ‘It’s flowing down the stairs.’
[It looks like they were really killing it from above. Each other.]
Kwasik!
Kagagak!
The professor at the bottom of the stairs couldn’t see the battle scene clearly, but he could still see the exosuit’s swinging silver arm and the weapon in its hand.
[Shield and… hammer?]
‘The scraping sound is mixed with an engine sound, so I guess there’s someone using something like a chainsaw.’
[Why are you fighting with something like that, leaving behind normal weapons? What… could it be a ritual or something?]
‘It’s not that I don’t use it, it’s that I can’t use it. Here. The exo suit’s main weapon, the pulse rifle, or large-diameter bullets that can pierce shields. If even one foot accidentally lands on the tower of the central power plant, not only the people here but the entire city will be caught in the explosion.’
The professor frowned as he checked the exosuit weapon that Hyde recognized the moment the tower’s flash passed by. Booster Hammer. A weapon so powerful that it can blow away a combat vehicle, not just destroy it. The shield side is an energy shield. In the current situation where firearms cannot be used, it is a top-class weapon that has nothing to compete with in terms of attack or defense. This is even the most important facility in the dome. Even the Executive Department would not have been able to carry out construction by installing a shield absorber here, so the exosuit would have been able to crush the Executive Department under the protection of the shield without any hindrance.
Let’s go!
‘Why am I being pushed out?’
Just by looking at the momentary images of the sparks and flashes of the tower as the weapons collided, it was clear that the exosuit was being pushed back by a long time.
Teuong!
At that moment, something heavy flew from above and landed next to the professor.
It’s an arm. Of the exosuit.
‘Intervene.’
Although nothing has been confirmed about the identity of the enemy or their armament, if the two exosuits fighting above become incapable of combat, there is almost no chance of recapturing the central power plant.
Slap, slap, slap!
The professor ran up the blood-soaked stairs.
Although I thought for a long time, I was dazed for about 89 seconds. The situation is too urgent to take action while considering all the circumstances.
Thanks to this, the professor had to constantly think while jumping towards the enemy.
‘I don’t know how they’re dealing with the exosuit, but at least it’s not heavy equipment.’
There were no traces other than the exosuit on the way here.
It is not possible to drive a tank all the way underground, so if the enemy were equipped, they would only have exosuits or weapons that can be carried by a person.
When I listened closely, the only sound I could hear was that of two exosuits, so I naturally thought that the other person was dealing with the inspection department with something like a special weapon.
‘I thought there was a good chance if I took advantage of the opportunity and sniped…’
Kwakagagak!
Boom!
It was a special firearm.
With bloodshot eyes, he wields a large chainsaw where his right arm should be, wears a
bluish shield on one hand, and uses a hydraulic piston-like fist to hit the exosuit’s hammer, showing output similar to that of an exosuit with a human body. people.
There were about five such half-machine people.
[It looks like a single gun won’t even get you anywhere?]
‘You have to try to know that! Still, compared to an exosuit with a full shield, there is quite a bit of exposed skin! There are quite a few corpses on the floor!’
Taang!
Before his enemies even recognized him. It was the perfect situation for sniping. What the professor, who was lying face down at the end of the stairs, was aiming for was a man who, among the five mechanical men, was wielding a great sword with flashing laser blades on both edges…
Kaaaaang!
“Uh….”
[Sometimes you have to know things without even trying them, you idiot! The location was revealed for no reason!]
The sword that was swinging at the exosuit instantly reversed and blocked the bullet aimed precisely at the back of his head. The man, who was swinging a sword that looked more like a large oar than a sword and could only be used on large equipment such as an exosuit, as if it were a light twig, recognized the professor at the moment the nozzle flash flashed and raised his sword like lightning to defend himself.
‘Even though both blades have laser blades instead of iron, you can swing an object that appears to weigh more than 10 kg at that speed? And that precisely?’
[What the hell! Why is something like that here!]
‘I don’t know, damn it! ‘It’s my first time seeing this too!’
The man, who looked down at the smoke rising from where the bullets were trapped, broke away from the line fighting the exosuit and turned to the other side.
The red lenses that replaced the eyes were looking exactly where the professor was.
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“Are they reinforcements?”
That was exactly what the person who found the professor said. The moment I turned the muzzle towards the guy who was swinging his fist instead of the sword wielder, the laser blade that came in an instant cut off the butt of the rifle that the frightened professor was wielding. The blackened cross-section was as clean as marble, and it was not the type of laser blade with good output.
[I avoided blood! It’s not so much that you can’t see it! It’s just so damn fast!]
‘What do you do if you see it! ‘My body can’t keep up!’
[You speak well! How can I pray for your life!]
Oh my!
Seung-!
“Ugh! “That bastard has no intention of having a conversation!”
I jumped down the steep stairs and dodged the sword that was trying to split my head vertically, but the gun I held out to block was cut in two. This means that the 2040 model alloy firearm was cut cleanly like cutting tofu!
[husks! It’s a personal opinion, but we’ve caught a lot of monsters so far, but this doesn’t really seem like it!]
‘Damn it! The only people here are the executive branch, so where on earth did people like that T-3000 come from?’
Taang!
Now that it’s like this, it’s all a matter of judgment.
The professor threw away the useless rifle and quickly pulled out a pistol from his pocket and shot the guy. I didn’t shoot thinking I would get hit. I’ll stop it. We have to stop it!
Peeing!
‘also!’
A sneer appeared on the man’s face as he blocked a shot that slightly missed his head. It seems like shooting like that won’t work even if you shoot it for the rest of your life.
Of course, the professor knew it well.
“hey! Believe! If we can’t stop all of this! “We’re all going to die!”
Slam!
The professor slowly lifted the pistol hanging in both hands upward. The mechanical man’s feet, knees, waist, chest, and above the head. Toward the towers of the central power plant, where vast amounts of stored power wriggle.
Then, the machine man’s confident face instantly distorted and
Ta-Taang!
Pee peep!
I blocked a bullet fired at a distance from the guy’s body.
“You bastard!”
“oh! I guess you’ve abandoned your cool guy image? If I were a normal person, I wouldn’t commit suicide like this, but since you’re so talented, I decided to try it! Are you confident? We have to stop it! must!”
Puddeuddeuk!
The professor chuckled as he looked at the mechanical man, who was furiously grinding his teeth but couldn’t get close to him.
“Strategy always has to go in a direction that the opponent doesn’t like.”
[Hey, what if that guy pretends to be crazy and doesn’t stop me?]
‘It’s okay, it’s okay. Would they have made the heart of the city so shabby? That generator is pretty sturdy. If you don’t hit the weak part directly, it will explode and not do anything.’
A part that emits light periodically. Since I was aiming at the dark area and not the area visible from the outside, even if that guy was really mad and didn’t stop it, there was little chance of a major accident as he imagined.
[Is the probability low?]
‘It can’t be there at all. It turns out that the dark part is the weaker part-‘
[Hey!]
‘There can’t be no risk at all!’
Tatang! Tatang!
The professor continued shooting toward the tower to stop the guy who was about to attack at any moment.
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First of all, I succeeded in tying up my opponent with an attack. The guy was constantly tracking the firing lines of both gun muzzles with his eyes while gritting his teeth, and it seemed like he didn’t want to die.
‘The problem is that I am also caught up in this situation.’
While the professor is aiming at the tower, he cannot attack. However, the moment you run out of ammo for a moment, accidentally use up both ammo, or run out of ammo altogether, the current one-sided attack power goes back to the other side. In the end, if you don’t take the risk and catch him, it’s only a matter of time before you get cut in two by that laser blade.
So,
“I have no choice but to take adventures!”
Taang!
Aiming for the upper left corner, the guard opened wide as the guy’s greatsword blocked the bullet, and the professor dove into the guy’s arms with all his might.
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Seung-!
Now that there are bullets left, the professor can take the lead. Even though he guided the opponent’s movements and moved, the speed at which the guy’s blade followed him was faster than the professor’s movements.
Taang!
The great sword that falls gently like water toward the professor’s head from the upper left corner follows the trajectory of the bullet fired from the right hand and strikes the bullet.
‘It’s faster than I thought.’
The pistol in his right hand burst into flames, and before his left index finger could pull the trigger, his greatsword was already rushing downward.
‘I thought it would be difficult to attack if long weapons were attached…!’
You don’t even need to move your arms for a moment, you just need to turn your wrist to turn the gun pointed at the tower towards the guy and pull the trigger
.
As soon as the guard opened, the guy’s knee flew towards my face with the sound of cutting through the wind. This was also an incredibly fast speed that I would not have been able to follow with my eyes if it were not for the sharing of consciousness with Hyde. If you avoid the knee, the great sword will fly again. When that happens, the muzzle that was pointed at him turns outward again and –
Taang!
‘Shit! There is no gap!’
The shooting to survive continues.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-tang!
All of this happens between the bullet being fired and the pistol’s slide moving back and forth.
The battle continued as many bullets were fired, and red blood flowed from the professor’s nose.
I used Hyde’s senses to follow the attack and defense at the speed calculated by the mechanical device, but my head hurt as if it was going to break.
‘7 8…’
Taang-
Bang!
[No ammunition!]
‘9!’
A newly replaced bullet shell before digging in. In the battle that continued in the blink of an eye, there was no time to reload, and only a few seconds after entering the machine man’s arms, the pistol he was holding in his left hand let out an empty cry due to the empty bullets.
Consciousness accelerated to its limit reflected the mechanical man’s fishy smile.
A huge laser blade slashes towards the left arm holding the empty gun, as if not giving it another chance to fight back.
[Please come out! please! please! please! It’s my body!]
‘Come to your senses, Hyde! ‘It’s not over yet!’
The professor smiled at the mechanical man as he watched the great sword falling towards his left arm.
“I caught it!”
Faba Park!
A shield-specific repulsion sound that is heard instead of the sharp cracking sound just before the great sword splits the left arm vertically.
“Even a cheap anti-personnel shield can be deflected at least once!”
Bolt rifles and portable anti-personnel shields obtained from the inspection department’s arsenal using all kinds of rhetoric.
The professor deflected the greatsword by using the shield he had already held in his hand, and aimed the muzzle of the pistol with the last shot on the right at the guy’s head.
“Blame you for holding a cold weapon and fooling around with a gunpowder weapon! “Half terminator bastard!”
Taang!
Pow!
The last shot that was created by pouring everything into it went straight into the machine man’s head.
The bullet went straight through the mechanical man’s eye. The man’s head was thrown back as blood spurted out along with red lens fragments.
It’s a success. The hastily made plan fit like a cogwheel and went perfectly as he had planned until the end.
Just
a little bit, a little bit!
“Then… you should have known that the Terminator… won’t die from one small bullet like that!”
It was only a defeat for the professor who did not expect that the enemy would be tough enough to survive even if his head was pierced.
Slam! Slam!
The sound of laser blades burning the air fell above the hollow sound of an empty trigger being pulled.
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Wow!
Must live. I decided to live, so I have to live somehow.
In my accelerated consciousness, I saw him instinctively raising his arm and the glowing green blade of a laser blade falling down like a guillotine on top of him.
‘I couldn’t turn on the generator… Vex Ian…’
The machine man’s flashing red eyes. Mouth filled with the smile of a winner. The professor closed his eyes. A hot sensation passes through my arm. A painful heaviness that burns the entire arm as if touched by fire…
‘….? ‘This isn’t it.’
The professor, whose arm was cut off and broken at GG, was worth three figures, knew the feeling of having an arm cut off better than anyone else in the world. It feels like I’m being hit with a heated iron due to a heavy impact, but it doesn’t feel like the whole thing is on fire.
Whoa!
Above all, it felt like the blade was blocked by my arm rather than being pushed into my body, and my body was being driven into the ground by its terrible force.
[That’s it! That’s it!]
‘Ha Hyde?’
I had a terrible headache that felt like my head was going to explode, and my arm still felt like it was on fire, but it wasn’t cut off. If the laser blade had split my body in two, the impact wouldn’t have been so severe as it would have received its full force.
‘What on earth happened…’
The professor carefully opened his tightly closed eyes.
The first thing that catches his eye is the terrifying green light of the laser blade blade resting right in front of his face. The astonished cyborg face seen behind it.
And…
his left arm was covered in black leather from the fingertips to the shoulder, like the arm of a monster. The laser blade was held in its left hand.
The professor who read Hyde’s consciousness instantly understood what he did and how.
“You… what did you do to my body!!”
[What the hell! It’s my body! I created the true body I had been longing for from the inside out!]
Kwajik!
Hyde cheered and destroyed the laser blade in his hand.
A state in which the consciousness of the owner of the body has left.
A living, functioning body.
And Hyde’s memory remains clearly on the professor’s left arm where he lost consciousness!
[I told you! I know 100 times more about using my body than you! I thought it would be possible if I just knew the mechanism!]
“This is such a ridiculous thing…!”
It was a type 3 variant. The mutant virus recognized the ‘left arm’ that escaped the professor’s control as a dead body and mutated his left arm into a type 3 variant according to Hyde’s memories remaining there, into the form he most desired.
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