Chapter. 17. Travel Preparation (12)
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‘Knowledge is the window through which we view the world.’
This is a story I heard at school when I was in elementary or middle school. The more extensive knowledge you have, the more diverse you can look at the world.
In other words, for a person, knowledge becomes a ‘frame’ that encloses the world he or she sees.
“Oh my god. It looks like I received this as a Christmas present long before winter even came? This is Camellia-Claw, Let Human’s VIP representative. Feel free to call me Carmella or whatever you want.”
“…This is Professor Park. “You probably already know.”
A picture frame that becomes the standard by which people view the world. It does not refer to simple knowledge, but to an ‘idea’ created by combining all kinds of experiences, including the culture, culture, environment, and memories left behind throughout one’s life.
“Of course, there’s no way you don’t know the most famous person in the dome. Shall we go? “You seem to be in a hurry.”
The moment you understand the other person’s ‘frame’, deceiving that person becomes as easy as breathing.
‘drug. Human trafficking. An underground organization that mainly engages in smuggling. Already has experience of dealing behind the scenes with powerful figures in the Dome. ‘I am well aware of local variant symptoms like Camilla’s.’
People who work in such a world have a fundamental distrust of humanity. ‘People are just like that.’ ‘When you become desperate, your true nature comes out.’ People who have the same words in their mouths. Most of the people they have met throughout their lives are different on the outside and the inside, so even when they see a good person, they think, ‘Wow, that’s a good person.’ Rather than, ‘Wow, you hid your true feelings amazingly well.’ We end up thinking in the same direction.
By revealing ‘local variant symptoms’, I made them think I was in a desperate and cornered situation. From their knowledge, my appearance is the same as that of patients like Camilla, and their disease is currently an incurable disease that progresses quite quickly.
They came to think that I was in a pretty desperate situation, and that desperation made it quite plausible for the ‘celebrity Professor Park’ to throw off the mask of a good person and ask for this dirty deal.
From their perspective, a situation has been created in which they have no choice but to think, ‘Ah, this is the right situation.’
Of course, they are also people who have lived their lives with a lot of pain in the back of their heads, so they might be suspicious at least once or twice, but the circumstantial evidence that they were ‘rich and powerful people with an incurable disease’ was too strong for that.
Therefore, deceiving an underground organization full of such stereotypes is a piece of cake.
E-eh-! E-eh-!
“It’s over there!”
“Block the exit! “Turn them into rats in a cage with suppressive fire!”
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-
….and I failed to make it a piece of cake.
“weapon! “Did you bring a weapon?”
“First of all, I swept everything I could see, but the placenta was already made! “The other half is illegal weapons that look so strange that you don’t even know what they’re used for!”
Push-poo-uuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
“….gas! Hey, ask this!”
“You took care of it – ugh! “This thing is alive!”
“This is a fully made skin mask! It’s better than a regular gas mask because it also blocks radiation! “The lab was large, and we were also researching discontinued Happy Blind products!”
The pillars used as cover began to be chipped away by the rain of bullets. The good news is that because it is underground, enemies cannot use range weapons such as explosives.
“Damn it, if I die, I’ll apologize for the rest of my life in hell! sorry!”
“Don’t be sorry! I didn’t hold back, I was so shocked that I froze! “If Captain Wang had moved just one second later, I would have been the first to attack him!”
okay. I ruined it.
Obtain evidence.
Confirm hostage location.
Even though the infiltration proceeded incredibly smoothly, they foolishly let go of the game at the final ‘finding the head’ stage.
While I was rummaging around for all sorts of illegal firearms that looked like miscellaneous items behind the chipped concrete pillar, I remembered the situation from a few minutes ago when it was close to a perfect operation.
I followed the blind boy down and met the VIP receptionist who went by the obvious name of ‘Cat Claw’.
We negotiate the price, negotiate the fee for ‘laundry’, which involves paying in installments over several shillings, to ensure a clean payment.
Meanwhile, I did not lose my composure as I looked at the ‘products’ being locked up naked in an underground research facility, a hospital-like hospital run by a psychopathic doctor, and a bloody medical facility about 2 pyeong in size. Although he seemed a little nervous, the relieved expression typical of a person on a boat was working quite well.
‘Now, next is a facility you must see.’
Where the woman who guided us took us.
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
the the sound of something like a machine vibrating was heard.
‘This is a facility to solve the problem of [human mutation by-products], which are far insufficient compared to hunting methods, and to increase marketability.’ When
the woman opened the door, what was revealed was a facility that was not only grotesque, but bordering on bizarre.
There was a thick, transparent soundproof wall around which researchers wearing white coats were carefully recording.
“….! ..! ….!”
There were two people on the other side of the soundproof wall. One is a child bound in chains. On the other side was a middle-aged woman with several sandbags attached to her leg, which had a compound fracture as if someone had broken it several times.
Woo-woo-woo-
The identity of the sound was the vibration of a saw blade rotating at high speed inside the soundproof wall. As if the same thing had already been repeated several times, the bright red circle in motion was slowly descending over the child’s head, while the woman on the other side was crawling across the floor and reaching out with her hands.
‘It’s a mother and daughter inside. ‘We are the only two family members in the world who have survived together in this harsh world.’
‘Mom’s pocket contains the key to unlock my daughter’s handcuffs, and the sandbag tied to my waist only weighs 15kg, so if I crawl very hard, I can unlock my daughter’s handcuffs in time and get her out of there.’
‘Of course, before that happened, I adjusted the speed so that it broke in two. It’s a bit dramatic, right? I made it inspired by an old movie and everyone loved it.’
Machinery and mother and daughter. My mother, whose face had changed to look like that of a mutant, was screaming and crawling on the floor until her fingers broke.
‘….trauma.’
‘that’s right. In the case of that product, only part of the skin on the face has changed, so it has little commercial value. So, they create this kind of theater-like device and whisper that if they succeed here, they will be let out. He said he had already made enough money by broadcasting this cruel show. If he removes the handcuffs and rescues his daughter, he will release them on the condition that he keep his mouth shut. Most of the people in the experiment were fooled by the narcotic sedatives, so I trust them well.’
Uuuuuuung –
‘It’s inducing it in its own way. When my daughter is cut in two right before my eyes like that, the mother covered in blood goes crazy, wishing she had been a little faster. Sometimes I get caught up in thoughts about my broken legs, and sometimes I blame my weak arms. That promotes mutation and creates a better product. ‘The obsession with fast legs and strong arms produces mostly good products.’
‘You crazy bastards…’
‘Oh my god, are you really talking to us? Is anyone here to buy something?’
Again. Again.
The saw blade went down slowly, as if matching the speed at which the woman was crawling. With them in the background, the woman in charge of the guide wrapped herself around my neck like a snake and whispered in my ear.
‘You will see all this, buy the test subject from us, and then return to Yangji without incident. At that moment you agree to all of this? It’s not a facility that anyone can show off, but um, you’re a person who is known for being a good person. The more insurance you have, the better, right? A partner who will be in the same boat forever from now on?’
This is how Let Human worked.
For whatever reason, whether greed or desperation, they bring in those who buy their ‘real’ products and force them to dip their feet into the deepest darkness of the organization.
Even if you get tired of its true nature and try to walk away, it threatens you by holding on to all the records that have already made it to this point.
‘…Have you ever attracted people this way?’
‘There is no rejection reaction even if a mutant body part like that is transplanted into your chest? Human organs that are undergoing transformation have quite similar effects, right? Most people come to receive a rejection-free heart transplant or lung transplant. ‘Everyone just closes their eyes, ignores it, and goes out like that because their lives are at stake.’
‘When we came in, we were all human, but when we leave the rat den, we’re all rats on a leash?’
kidnap. Incarceration. As human trafficking, human experimentation, and torture are not enough, it is a facility that produces such bizarre trauma.
‘Of course, the same goes for the great hero Professor Park. congratulation? Squeak-‘
Squeak!
‘Why are you celebrating?’
‘Agag Agag- Gaaagh!’
My patience is running out. It was around this time that the thought of ‘let’s endure until the end and find out where the head’s information is’ completely evaporated.
By the time I came to my senses, I had hit the bitch’s head on the soundproof wall and exploded it, caught one of the researchers jumping out like a grasshopper, and stopped the saw blade.
E-e-e-e-e-e-eun- Red-
flashing warning lights and siren sounds.
‘Three punishment. I’m going out. If this happens, it won’t be worth it to crawl all the way here. Hey, I’m sorry.’
‘Oh, I can’t calm down, so this is… Captain Wang, by any chance, have you used up that guy in your hand? I think that’s the only thing the researcher caught.’
Budlam, who was still dazed, pointed to the researcher who had caught me and stopped the machine.
Struggling, struggling, struggling!
‘Please save me! I also have no choice but to do what they tell me because my nose is pierced-‘
‘This? ‘I wrote it all.’
‘Then let’s write some too.’
Sgak!
As soon as my words fell, Budlam swung the kukri he was wearing on his waist
and hit!
A neatly cut head fell onto the floor soaked with the woman’s blood.
‘Phew! I’m finally calming down a bit. If I hadn’t caught even one of them and sent him back alive, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything because my hands were shaking.’
‘The emergency bell rang, so the kids outside would have come rushing down? ‘They’ll all die too.’
‘If I want to relieve my stomach, I have to cut it. What do you know about what other people are doing? Anyway, these guys were really gutsy. ‘Don’t you know what I’m going to do if there’s a guy as bad as Captain Wang?’
‘What I showed them was, ‘If you don’t want to be left behind, you should buy it.’ I probably haven’t experienced it all, but when I get out of here, the rats’ gentle aftercare will be waiting for me.’
While I was cooling my still feverish head with trivial chatter, I began to hear shouting, running, and sounds like clanking metal from outside.
He jumped out and did a sword dance among the drug dealers dressed as gunsmiths, quickly grabbed a bunch of firearms and other items nearby and ran away, but was eventually surrounded and ended up in a situation where he was like, ‘Is there someone behind the pillar?’
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-tat-!
Piung-!
“evil! Nimmi! Is there no way! Why did you look the scariest person in the world when I went to see you with Brother Desmont? Just looking at his physical specifications, he is said to be a monster who can play catch with the tank generation! “You can’t do that!”
“I have to die to go back to that! can not!”
“Then, rather than saving your subordinate’s life for the future, please die first! “I will take responsibility for Corduroy and take care of it for the rest of my life!”
“I don’t like it, dude! If you do three, roll to the next pillar over there!”
“After I rolled and got about eight holes in my body, what happens next?”
“Hold on! “I contacted the outside through the communicator, so he’ll be down soon!”
“You’ll freeze to death any minute! This place is like a maze-”
“One, two-”
Kuuuuung-
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Patter. Patter.
Just before I ran out, prepared to get hit by a few shots, dust began to rain down from the ceiling along with an eerie sound that echoed throughout the underground building.
“…Wow, Captain Wang? This is the uh…”
“Oh no. It shouldn’t be like this, but it shouldn’t be the only thing in this underground place where rats have dug their holes here and there…”
Kwaaaaang-
patter-patter! Rattling! Rattle rattle!
Cheer up!
The explosion sounded once more, and the lights hanging from the ceiling of the cave began to fall, along with the vibration that resonated all the way to the feet. Even the enemies surrounding us hesitated and looked at the ceiling where dust and glass were falling.
Let’s go!
Someone penetrated that momentary gap and broke through, causing a fountain of blood through the siege.
“Vex? No, when”
“Uh uhuhuh-”
“How did you get here-”
“Get down!”
Wow!
The guy who rushed at me like lightning turned on the heavy, medium-sized shield generator in his arms and at the same time –
Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
“Hahahaha! Rat – Catch it! “Juniyi!”
A voice that should not be heard was heard through a loudspeaker through the cracked ceiling along with the heat wave.
Ian. Oh, Ian, you crazy bastard.
Come to think of it. There was no way that man would miss the opportunity to legally use explosives.
Still… Still, human!
“You look like you’re all going to be crushed to death, you idiot!!!!”
“I won’t do it, dude! I’m an expert who even took college courses to do this! It took enough time from the impact to the collapse of the structure! I am! Extremely! “I decided rationally and exploded!”
“Is that something a reasonable person would drag around?”
“then! The penetrating power of bladed bullets is best suited to quickly and safely pierce these structures!”
When I saw the head of a tank hanging on a crane and lowering its firing angle in the dim light from the ceiling, I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of disgust.
Chachachacha!
A hole clearly drilled from the surface to the underground. The BDSM members who rappelled down through the hole quickly attached themselves to the cages of people undergoing local transformation, cut the bars with a laser cutter, took them in their arms, and began to return upward.
“Hey Budlam. Good job.”
“Let’s see from above, Captain Wang~”
“C’mon. “I wish I could do that too.”
“Huh….”
The time from rush-in to securing an escape route through suppression and detonation and rescue was as accurate as a knife, taking less than two minutes.
“Yaaaa! 24 seconds left until impact!!! 23! 22-! Don’t make me regret popping it! 20-!”
“First of all, draw the ground rope and ascend to heaven!”
“Let’s go out first and think about it, Captain Wang!”
“….”
Before grabbing the rappel that came down from the hole in the ceiling, my gaze was focused on the inside of the underground cavity.
This is where the guy commanding the fireteam ran when he heard the second explosion. Since it was in a different direction from those who were crying out for a way out, it was probably a place where there was important data I was looking for or something that needed to be destroyed.
“15! 14! hey! 12!”
“Write it. Budlam? “Do you vaguely remember all the miscellaneous things we just collected?”
“Let’s fucking go out and talk! Go first!”
As I saw Budlam being dragged up by the rope without saying those words, I also stepped on the rope.
Kugugugugugung-
“….It’s a bit disappointing.”
“What are you regretting? Do you have a fetish for being crushed to death? huh?”
A body suddenly rises upward as if being pulled up by a winch, and an underground cavity collapses in a precarious manner.
Although I was disappointed to think that I had missed the biggest prey right in front of me, I decided to be satisfied with the information I had obtained right away.
“Let’s be gentle, please.”
“Hehehe. You said that over the phone, right? ‘ASAP! ‘I’m dying!’ Called. “Can it be faster than this?”
“mother.”
“It’s over, it’s over, so let’s finish it. I’ve done it so far, but now that you’re back, it’s up to you. “I don’t want to do it.”
“Nimi.”
I don’t want to do it either, but the way everyone looks at me seems like they’re expecting something.
After kicking the grinning Ian’s butt, he covered himself with deflagration and spoke to the crew members who were in ruins.
“Uh… I heard you’ve been working hard since dawn! “Is there a separate team to dispose of leftovers?”
“We’ve even surrounded the outskirts of Zeus Valley!”
“Okay then. The patients there are in the dome… no, we can protect them at our headquarters for a while, and the rest can go in and rest! Good job!”
“Hey~ Come in and take a rest! Take out! “Let’s go home~!”
“Pay me dearly! “Overtime pay is a bargain!”
“If Zeus Belli is charged with baking bread, you have to pay it all! We don’t know-! “We just did what we were told from above~”
When I told him roughly, the crew grinned and waved their hands before gathering their equipment and going about their business.
“Did you buy the tank?”
“Rent it. Come with a towing and rescue set. It’s a dangerous job, so the equipment needs to be good.”
“…You did a good job raising the kids.”
“right? “I guess I have some talent.”
Although he was obnoxious, I raised him so well that I couldn’t say no even with empty words.
“Oh this.”
“What?”
“The bill was calculated succinctly by Kes. “Compensation for damages caused by evacuating all the stores, merchants, and customers hit by the tram on the way, and the cost of repairs to the ground around it when the bottom of Zeus Valley was plowed.”
“Uh… I’m alone… doing this?”
“Oh wait a minute. “I forgot this.”
Crunchy Square –
“In addition, Professor Park received personal overtime allowance for all BDSM workers employed in the work. Includes metal-like Vex. “I’m more expensive than them. Since I was mobilized for the work you personally received, the calculation should be clear, right?”
Click, click, clatter!
Ian, who stuffed the bill into my arms, lit the fire with style and started walking away, following the crew who had already reached a large number of people.
Rustle.
I took out the paper he had stuffed in it and started holding it up to the dim dawn light.
“One, two, three, four, five…”
“Ten, eleven, twelve…”
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“…Should I borrow more from the president?”
No matter how many times I read it, the numbers did not change.
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