Chapter.9 Star Fall (1)
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The next morning, the professor woke up with a hangover and a headache to find his friends huddled together in the living room.
“Ugh, I’m dying. Corduroy water… give me some water…”
Corduroy, who was flying about with some kind of bustle, found the professor standing up with a disheveled face and took the cup of water he had prepared before-
“That’s what everyone else here was drinking… Wow! “Master!”
Clang!
“There’s blood on your head!!!”
I dropped it.
“Umm… I touched my hair without thinking and scratched it with my fingernail.”
As I was living in a bit of poverty in the wasteland, at some point it started to snow at 6 o’clock in the morning! I woke up What does a hungover person do as soon as they wake up? ‘Ugh, my head…’ and I was holding my head. The problem is that my hand is a weapon that can crush my head like a tomato if I hold it like that.
[At least the headache has been resolved. If you turn your brain into juice, you won’t even be able to feel a headache, you idiot.]
‘…I’m not going to say thank you. Just put it back quickly.’
If Hyde hadn’t stopped his hand because he was scared, he would have been seriously hurt.
This left arm. With blood leaking from a scratch on his head, he came to his senses and demanded that Hyde return it immediately, but he
said, ‘It’s your body!’ If you take it, you should know how to use it!’
[Hehehehe. This is a bit difficult for Professor Park, a poor non-major who owns nearly 90% of his body but doesn’t know how to use it properly, to understand. Transforming the body is an area that requires relying on inspiration, which is closer to art than technology….
] And what is the conclusion?’
[Haha I can’t. S***!]
…. That’s right. From now on, until Hyde or I figure out a way, I will have to live with this disgusting, black arm for a long time, possibly the rest of my life.
‘I need to refrain from consciously moving my left arm for the time being. ‘If you’re not careful, there could be a hole in the shelter.’
Although there were many inconveniences, there were also some conveniences. You can sweep up broken glass like this with your bare hands. This is something we will have to look into step by step in the future.
“But what are you guys doing gathered here?”
The professor spoke as he roughly swept up the broken cup and drank the cold water Corduro had freshly poured for him.
It’s not that it wasn’t, but the guy who normally would have been worried about his arm or his wound took a quick look at the professor’s bleeding forehead and then turned his head toward the kitchen with a grim expression on his face.
“Why is there something in the kitchen – wow!”
“Shhh! “Don’t disturb me!”
Ian, who seemed at a loss as to not be the protagonist of the tragedy we heard about last night, grabbed the professor’s shoulder as he was about to enter the kitchen and pushed him down behind the sofa where they were hiding.
“No, Jambex, you too? Why did you come out sick-”
“Cynthia, that kid is using the kitchen! “I think you want to make breakfast for us!”
“what? Why him? “Corduro, were you busy this morning?”
“no! There was nothing more important than taking care of my masters! “I went to make some clear soup with the remaining ingredients, but the new lady was already in the kitchen!”
Jiying –
In response to the professor’s question, Corduro shook the lens wildly and took out the video recorded in the morning.
‘Miss Cynthia? ‘Aren’t you asleep?’
‘I usually wake up at this time.’
‘okay. But why… Oh my! You shouldn’t touch that! It’s shiny and pretty, but it’s not a toy, it’s a sword! knife! If you touch it, ouch! Because it’s a dangerous item…!’
‘you’re stupid?’
‘yes?’
‘If there is someone in the kitchen holding cooking ingredients, a cutting board, and a knife, what is that person doing?’
‘That’s him… the one who cooks?’
‘okay. My mom said it was bad to steal from others, but food is really precious. Leaving it to a stupid person like you would be wasting precious food, so this is my own from now on. got it?’
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Ji-ing- Tak!
“It happened like this.”
“Ugh! Isn’t it so amazing? “The kid is so smart!”
“Do you hear that regular sound of cutting? You have very strong hands! “Just by hearing the sound, I can tell that the posture of holding the knife is correct!”
“…So, all three of you were stuck behind the sofa like this, making old man-like faces?”
no wonder. I heard that the guys who drank and became as drunk as me were strangely excited. It was thanks to that kid acting funny all morning.
[But isn’t the corduro version much more delicious? That guy is talking about a drone, but in fact, this entire shelter is his body, right? I know there is something like an automatic cooking system in the kitchen?]
‘Leave it alone. They say he was a child who moved around and was adopted by many homes. Imagine that that child lost his parents, lived in another house, and was kicked out several times. ‘How much did you notice?’
A boy who has already lost both his parents while still whining and throwing tantrums at them has found his own way to survive.
“Hmm! That’s good news. When I was young, I loved my dream house, so I did chores without anyone telling me to. “That kid seems to like this place.”
“You idiot! Being in a similar state to Joe back then means that he was hurt to the point of becoming a sociopath!”
“Holy shit, damn it! I can’t believe I didn’t think of that! Go right now and…”
Quack!
This time, the professor grabbed Ian by the back as he ran and pushed him into the back of the sofa.
“Just go to the table and wait. All we have to do is gobble up whatever that kid has done as if it were some unrivaled delicacy in the world. Then, that guy’s mind will feel a little more at ease. “Proving your usefulness is the easiest way to be recognized as a member of the organization.”
“Hepburn! We don’t take Cynthia like that-!”
“It’s because that child, not us, is taking it that way. It’s not something that can be resolved in a day or two. It’s a kid. 10 year old. It would be more convenient to let them get used to this place naturally rather than forcing them to say, ‘I will live happily here from now on.’ The way you talk, you don’t look that young. “Children in the wasteland grow up quickly.”
As the professor said that, he peeked over the sofa. KILL with a big door on his back! A girl stands on a wooden chair and wiggles hard, wearing a large ankle-length T-shirt with the words written on it. Looking at that cute frown, it seemed like the professor’s hangover was melting away. guy. It’s cute, very cute.
“I’ll have to change the kid’s clothes later. There are a lot of pretty clothes sent from Dome. Why are you wearing something like that? Isn’t that Ian’s clothes? “It was hanging on the drying rack.”
“I think the lady took it secretly. Actually… there are many things other than that that you have hidden away. While the owners were sleeping, he went around and collected them and hid them under the bed. “Of course, the pretty clothes you wore were wrapped well and put away together.”
What appeared in Corduro’s video was all sorts of miscellaneous items neatly organized under the sofa in the only bedroom-like connector room in the house.
“He’s a kleptomaniac… There were quite a few people like this at the orphanage.”
“Are you thinking of leaving here? If we did anything that might make Cynthia look bad…”
“Shh! Cynthia is coming!”
The four people looked at Corduroy’s screen with serious faces, but at Ezel’s signal, they smiled brightly and got up from behind the sofa. There were problems, but the most important thing right now was to eat the breakfast that kid had been making since dawn.
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Surprisingly, what the child had made was in the form of a dish.
A stew made by cutting various vegetables such as potatoes, carrots and onions into round pieces and boiling them with meat.
“Whoa! it’s good! I feel relieved! Isn’t that so, Vex!”
“That’s right! “The contents are all cooked well!”
“At the dome, if there is a sick person, we make stew like this until the contents become mushy!”
Thanks to their pre-arranged speech, the three of them didn’t even look up from their bowls, as if they were truly eating the most delicious food in the world. Cynthia was twisting her body and looking at them happily.
“Mom… said that if you boil it like this, you can eat all the nutrients in it without missing a single one…”
“Mmmmm! yes! “You learned it very well!”
“and! “I feel stronger already!”
First of all, the form was stew. It looked like the ingredients had been carefully prepared, poured in, and boiled without any seasoning. Upon closer inspection, there were many small, strangely cut pieces of vegetables. It appeared that the ingredients that had been cut into chunks due to poor cutting skills had been picked up and cleaned.
Bex and Ian Ezel are with their heads in their bowls, gulping down stew that smells like pork and grass. And Cynthia is smiling brightly as she looks at the three of them.
[It’s soft?]
‘That’s right. There are no foxes.’
Slurred speech. Movement like a weak creature with no power and confidence. It was completely different from the sharp look that Corduro showed in the video.
‘It’s the same with taking care of one’s own things and using the image of a young girl. I guess I’ve been to more houses than I thought. ‘I was very weak?’
[I guess he wasn’t as innocent as I thought. But… how do you look happy?]
‘Hehehe, is that so?’
It has to be that way. Dom’s adoptive parents who adopted Cynthia so far would have wanted the image of an innocent little girl who found happiness in her new home, but I am different.
Knock knock.
I felt like a small bird was pecking my left hand with its beak, so I looked down and before I knew it, the child had come next to me and was tapping the back of my hand with his fingers.
“Dad… don’t you eat?”
“I’ve had enough. And call him uncle, not dad. Professor Park. It’s my name. “You can call me whatever you want, but not dad.”
The professor chuckled as he saw Cynthia frowning slightly at her calm response, unlike the other three who reacted passionately even when they opened their mouths.
‘She is the daughter of Ruwil, who was in charge of assassination intelligence in the 14th Special Operations Division. Her father will be very proud.’
Even though it was the child of a co-worker who died because of me, I had no intention of raising him as a precious child. Once you are in the wasteland, you must follow the rules of the wasteland. To think that at such a young age, he is already thinking about hiding his true feelings and turning his back on adults. Hmm! Very desirable! It looks delicious to grow!
[….It might have been better to go to an orphanage, Cynthia.]
The professor drank the soup left in the bowl while looking at the three friends who were scooping up boiled cucumbers and Cynthia, who was slightly pouting, while looking at each other. Although it was fishy, I liked the feeling of the warm soup warming my insides.
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After breakfast. The four people gathered side by side on the sofa in the living room as if they had made an appointment.
“Ezel, aren’t you coming back?”
“The president gave me a vacation along with alcohol.”
“Hehehe, it’s killing me.”
“It means that the inspection department attaches great importance to friendship with BDSM. Look, there’s an uproar in the community right now.”
The professor’s morning routine that the four of us now share. It was to check if there was any new information in the community. Every time I checked in the morning, about 20 to 30 items were consistently uploaded, and if I collected even trivial information, I was able to see a fairly big picture.
Of course, this time it was a bit different than usual.
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[HOT! [No. 1 post] – Changes in area 47’s reference point safety zone due to large-scale combat between Dom and Raptor. What is the identity of the new force, BDSM? by Team Hermes (1058)
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* Type 3 variant All features and precautions revealed so far. Now that all of humanity has been infected, how much of us are humans and how much are mutants? (49)
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* Confirmation required! Raptor’s defeat and the resulting changes in the sphere of influence of the major forces in the wasteland (speculation) (52)
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* The time has come! Humanity to the next level! Professor Park, a human who has evolved to the next level! Uncover the truth! (287)
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* So who is Park What? Isn’t this all nonsense? (1285)
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“It’s a sight, isn’t it?”
“That’s crazy.”
No matter how many times he scrolled down, the professor got a headache seeing the community plastered all over with Dom Raptor BDSM Professor Park.
“Can you summarize it with corduroy?”
“For now, it’s being processed, but it’s updated continuously in real time, so I can’t say anything clearly.”
“How about a rough summary?”
“Hmm…. There are 685 pieces of information about this war, 7,320 speculative pieces of trash, 2 pieces of information about the personal information and revealed whereabouts of all BDSM members, and about 2,400 pieces of inaccurate trash.”
“Wow….”
“This is the first time there have been so many posts on the community in the past two years. At this rate, will it even surpass the number of posts made when the Area 53 dome collapsed?”
“Hey, look at this. A religious organization was formed in your name. This is Park Kyo-joo? “They say Professor Park, a half-mutant human who can communicate with all mutants, will lead an army of mutants to purify the world.”
“What is that metahuman? “Is this from Marvel?”
“Hepburn! “You have a fan club too!”
“Ugh, don’t push things like that. Come out.”
In the end, amidst so much nonsense and exaggeration, the four people gave up on finding information. What the professor saved from the flood of information that is still increasing
is that their faces are known all over the world.
The professor’s current condition is attracting public attention to the extent that a picture of the professor and his left arm is included in all of these posts.
And if we do not correct all the false information that is growing rapidly at this very moment, it is obvious that it will spread uncontrollably and create ridiculous rumors.
The third was more important than the others. Looking at the new postings, all kinds of rumors were being spread, such as that BDSM forces had already engulfed District 47, and that the number of new subscribers had exceeded 30,000, thousands of prefabricated shelters had been ordered, and that Dome’s factory was operating at full capacity.
“Hey, I need to log in right now. Do you need anything from me? “Do I have to go somewhere dangerous?”
“Just stop worrying and do your thing. If we leave it like this, by tomorrow we will be treated like the gods and apostles of the new world. I won’t go far, I’ll stop by the dome and then take a look around Area 47. Anyway, it’s stupid to not take advantage of this popularity. A lot of messages arrived on my account too. He said he enjoyed the video and asked if he could buy a gun that was used during the war. “I’ve been contacted by Life and Murder, so I’m thinking of finding out how to distribute it.”
After checking out the community, I started to have a rough idea of what I was going to do today. Bex, who still needs to settle down, rested at home and taught Cynthia about the wasteland (she was overjoyed).
Ian goes to the dome for a business-related meeting.
I went to the District 47 chat room to announce the BDSM official statement.
“When will you come out?”
“Around evening? “I’m going to clean up my mouth and play the game.”
Kikigeek- Kikigeek!
“Oh please, just a little!”
The professor spoke as he forced his left arm, which was having difficulty going into the connector, as he struggled. Since it was a one-size-fits-all, I was able to fit it all in, but it was so inconvenient that I felt like I would have to come up with some means, such as talking to the dome separately and getting it modified later.
“That game… is it possible to solve it? Hyde’s side?”
“Because it’s our only hope for now. “I’ll have to hang on.”
Now, only the arms have changed, so it may be a bit uncomfortable, but you can gloss over it by saying you have a useful tool. But what if Hyde continues to expand in the future?
Until recently, it was just a vague fear of my body being taken over by another consciousness in my head, but now I can’t help but feel the change. The fear of my body turning into a monster against my will. I tried to act calm, but I was anxious. I had to find a way as quickly as possible. How can I go back to my original body, or at the very least, separate myself from Hyde and no longer hand over control?
Gwaggeukgeuk-Tak!
The connector closed with the sound of the lid being scraped by the tip of a sharp fingernail. A neuro sensor connected to the nape of the neck transmitted information, and a familiar screen filled the field of view.
[Area 47 Chat Room: 3245]
“Damn it. “You made a quick success of your career.”
Recently, as the broadcast became popular, the chat room that had previously attracted up to 500 people suddenly had over 3,000 people. Local chat rooms cannot be entered if the signal is weak, so in fact, half of the people around Area 47 who have a connection are currently connected to this area.
Although the professor was as strong as a rabbit, I couldn’t help but feel nervous this time.
When I carefully clicked to enter the chat room, I was like
, “Oh my god…”
The chat window was being pushed upwards at an incredible speed, as if a missile was being launched.
– Papuan New Type: How many times do I have to tell you to understand! When I say equipment type, it’s equipment type! Removable! Symbiotic relationship! I don’t know anything like that! Otherwise, it would be impossible to use it freely like that!
– arms5275: Why are you so confident when you don’t even know the fucking letter B? Mutants are viruses! If I give you a fistful of lead bullets in your stomach, the mutant won’t be cured! It just occupies a dead body and moves! You can’t form a high-dimensional relationship like symbiosis!
– Tax call: Yes. The fact that Professor Park was able to reach a new stage of evolution called ‘transformation’ is truly a miracle, close to a calling from heaven. Everyone, bow your heads and worship. A new world will soon open up. Before the door of salvation closes, hurry to find Kyoju Park –
+ Call of Taxes has been expelled from the chat room.
– D.Asset3315: Excessive posting and instigation are subject to sanctions. This Area 47 chat room is under the jurisdiction of our Dome Broadcaster Support Department, and the exact policy will be announced in the future after discussion with Professor Park.
– Heungan Dumplings: Is this a dream or is it real….
– takealook: I knew that you would become really big… but I didn’t know that you would become so amazing all of a sudden. His name is Professor Park. So you’re saying ‘professor’ was your real name?
– Whitesmith: Guy? I think this crazy bastard will cut off all his fingers! The professor is your friend! uh! Give it an honorific title! professor! Savior!
– takealook: What the fuck! I’ve been joking around with Professor Park for years before you guys started sucking him dry and worn out, but you’re such a fool! Screw you!
– Holly: I saw the professor at the hospital! He was running around screaming, but he didn’t even know when I called him! Levitt said they met and talked!
– Whitesmith: Oooh! To see His presence!
– aiosye2222: Were your arms really that black and bulky?
– Saengjeuktong: Did the sparkle come out of your eyes as rumored?
– soeor732: Is it true that the Savior’s holy hand thinks even while he sleeps?
– Insaint: Hospital! Are you hurt a lot? Maybe he hasn’t shown himself yet….
– Holly: I don’t know!!! I just heard this from a friend I know who likes cosplay!
– Noru Drug: Sebonjwa. Is there anything you know? I will deposit money if necessary.
– Speed Wagon: Busy. Damn. dog. Chew. Don’t talk to me.
+ Player ‘professor’ has entered.
It stopped. The type that was flowing toward the top of the chat window like an overflowing river suddenly stopped as if the screen had stopped! and stopped.
‘Oh fuck! I’m so nervous I’m dying! Let’s just do it as usual. As usual….
– professor: Hello, this is Professor Park….
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silence. It’s unbelievable that the chat room that was on fire just a moment ago is a chat room with no chat
– Noroo Drug: Ah, professor, welcome back.
– professor: Umm… okay. It’s been a while.
– Noroo Drug: Pay the fine. Don’t you remember? 500 shillings for bringing in an outsider to a chat room and causing trouble.
As if to prove who I am, the usual conversation continues in front of countless people –
– asdklj223: Waaaaaa!!!!
– upoxui: Waaaaaa!!!!
– Contains nucleic acid alcohol: Welcome! It’s really him!
– Insaint: Savior! Messiah! Messiah! Savior!Savior! Messiah! Messiah! Savior!Savior! Messiah! Messiah! Savior!Savior! Messiah! Messiah! Savior!Savior! Messiah! Messiah! Messiah!
– Lively: Professor Park! Teach me the secret of the Type 3 variant!
– aiosye2222: My husband! My late husband became a type 2 mutant! They are locked in a shelter, but can they still be saved?
– Gorillo: Is it true that he single-handedly wiped out Raptor’s main tank unit?
– ubabababa: Please put it in BDSM! I am confident in my strength! This is District 44!
– Idiot: I heard that an attack is planned against the Raptor Nest! Is it true!
– omniman: Please tell me something!
– eir213: Professor Park!
– 78784343 : Professor! Just one word!
– Johnny t99: Professor Park!!!
The chat window literally exploded.
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