Chapter.7 Masquerade Ball (23)
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Chang Chang…
The professor forgot what to say as he heard the sound of the dented skin of the laser blade falling.
It wasn’t enough to block the laser blade that cut a bolt rifle made of old-world alloy in two without a single scratch, and shattered it with just his grip strength.
“What a monster!”
Of the two who were frozen for a moment in an unexpected situation, it was Cyborg who moved first. He let go of the completely shattered greatsword and immediately put his hand into his arms. That familiar outline.
‘gun! Shit! Okay, it’s not over yet!’
The professor hurriedly swung the distorted greatsword he was holding in his left hand while listening to Hyde’s voice singing something like a strange flower song in his head. The cyborg’s quick hands were seen pulling out a white gun barrel.
‘shit! You should come to your senses soon! My posture is unstable, so I can’t get any strength in my back -‘
Kaaaaang!
“….uh?”
[Wow!]
A great sword swung while holding onto a crumpled blade. I swung in a hesitating posture with the intention of hitting the guy’s gun, but
with a crack,
the guy’s mechanical arm, which hit the handle of the large sword I swung roughly, disappeared. Along with the half-destructed head of the guy in the extension.
It was dark so it was hard to see, but from the corner of the ceiling of the cubic cavity, Kang! There was a sound and something was seen jumping out.
It’s so powerful that it’s hard to believe it’s reality.
‘What on earth have you made my arm into?’
[Take it easy and take it easy. Think of it as having an awesome tool attached to it.]
‘So the problem is that the tool is attached to where my arm should be! ‘This is a complete mutation!’
Arms covered in black skin similar to that of dinosaurs or crustaceans. The fingers had become so thick that they could hardly be considered human hands, and the tips were curved like hooks, and the arms were also about 10 to 15 cm longer, making it difficult to gauge the distance the hand could reach.
This means that it looks like a type 3 variant that no one can remove or remove.
Click, click, click!
“Damn it! “If you’re going to make it already, what’s the point of making it easier to use?”
[Hey, sorry. You didn’t have time to imagine in such detail. [You have to take into account that the balance is a bit off.]
The professor broke the third magazine while trying to load the pistol with awkward movements.
After looking at his new, ridiculously strong left arm and the pistol, he immediately threw the pistol away. This is the ideal body he had imagined. It seems that GG really didn’t like his glass body.
“For now… let’s talk about it later.”
[Okay, okay. We have to solve the problem at hand first.]
Kagagagak!
Float!
The noise of battle was coming from the top of the stairs, as if a fierce battle was still taking place.
Quang!
‘I can barely hear the shield’s rebound sound. ‘The battery is almost empty, so the shield is turned off and activated!’
The problem is that the exosuit appears to be on the verge of death. I had a lot to say to Hyde, but now was not the time. The professor rallied to support them –
stumble!
‘Oh really! hey! Make this a little smaller! It’s not even balanced! ‘I can’t even put my finger on the trigger!’
[Ha hahaha… I’ll do it later! I’ll do it later!]
I put my big arm on my shoulder and awkwardly ran up the stairs.
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Quang!
“Ugh!”
Simon, the 3rd Platoon Commander of the Inspection Department, turned off his all-red vision aid and swung the hammer at the guy who hit his exosuit.
Huh!
A hammer that splits the air in vain. The opponent casually dodged the weapon, which was swung at incredible speeds thanks to the power of the exosuit and the rocket propulsion of the hammer itself. Reaction speed and athletic ability that are hard to believe is a human body.
‘Cyborg… I thought that research was abandoned! How can they do that to the executive branch!’
The term cyborg may be unfamiliar, but it was ultimately the result of research on alternative prosthetic hands. A product born from the wishes of people who lost limbs in an accident or the desire of rich people to escape from their old and weakened bodies. Although it is technically perfect, for some reason, when connected to the nervous system, everyone rejects the product and failed to commercialize it. In the end, the cyborgization technology was abandoned because it could not overcome the rejection, and the research results at that time became the basis for the development of the exosuit, so in a way, it can be seen as a prototype exosuit.
Tuhwaaagh!
“Holy shit!”
Simon swore as he reactivated the shield that had previously been set to manual operation. Attacks that cannot be blocked unless the shield is turned on, such as flamethrower or acid spray. And when you have no choice but to turn on the power to the shield, it continues –
Bagagagagak!
“Hahaha! “Do you think you’re so slow to catch a single ant?”
“You flea bastards!!”
An attack using a weapon with a large mass that consumes the most energy from the shield. In particular, every time that unusual blade-shaped chainsaw touched the shield, it was cut into pieces and the remaining power was steadily decreasing.
A combination created to thoroughly attack the exosuit’s weak point, the battery.
‘It’s not cyborg equipment obtained by robbing a buried research center or something. It is a cyborg custom-made to deal with exosuits. Those guys from the Executive Department have technology… No, according to the BDSM leader who was talking through Ezel’s communication, the Raptor Society and the Executive Department are in a cooperative relationship, so the Raptors must have acquired the cyborgization technology!’
Squeeze!
Float!
[Kaaaaaa!]
“Kyaaa! “It tastes amazing!”
“Damn it Jonathan!”
In the end, even Jonathan, who had been holding on by his side, fell at the hands of the men.
‘lost. It’s impossible to access the central power plant. An army of raptors will trample on the city of Dome.’
Quaaaang!
Simon swung his hammer at the ground and launched himself next to Jonathan’s fallen exosuit while they dodged the sharp shards of broken flagstone.
‘….He’s dead.’
The chest frame was dented all the way to Jonathan’s ribs. It must have been the work of a guy with those piston-like fists.
There was no time to be sentimental. Simon quickly pulled out Jonathan’s exosuit battery and replaced it with his own. Perhaps because Jonathan was armed with an energy shield, he had much more battery left than his own.
‘Defeat is already certain. We must at least go out to the communication range and inform them about Raptor’s cyborg technology!’
A moment ago, a gunshot was heard at the bottom of the stairs. Considering that the most threatening greatsword cyborg has disappeared, he must have gone down to deal with the member who resisted despite losing his exosuit. The soldier could have survived if he had escaped quietly, but he chose to risk his life and draw the attention of the enemy.
“Even if it means risking my life… if I don’t repay at least half of that expectation…!”
Weeeeeee!
Simon turned on all the auxiliary systems that had been turned off to save battery. A vision aid that glows entirely in red. A countdown indicating the remaining operating time, which is no different from his remaining lifespan. Four cyborgs slowly narrowing his surroundings.
And
‘Life reaction… is there one more?’
Behind the cyborg. The hand of a large monster suddenly protrudes from the black shadows.
“What the hell!”
The cyborg reacted at almost the same speed as the exosuit’s sensor, and swung the chainsaw at his back, but the black grip that seemed to have crawled out of a nightmare caught the spinning blade of the chainsaw, shattered it, and threw it away. .
“Aaaah-”
Boom!
dump.
The cyborg’s scream stopped like a lie along with the sound of its body hitting the wall.
Click, click, click
, and the sound of footsteps is heard in the darkness where the cyborg has disappeared.
“Oh right. They don’t die often. Oh, that’s why it’s too humane to just squeeze the whole thing out like you said, Hyde.”
A man covered in blood who seems to be talking to a strange left arm hanging from his body.
“Rice… It’s a variant!”
“No, you bastard!”
Kwajak!
The man, who picked up a handful of nearby broken flagstones and threw them away like a cannonball, looked at Simon, who was staring at him blankly, forgetting about the batteries that were falling off in real time, and said,
“This is Professor Park, the BDSM volunteer!
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The central power plant battle area where the situation changed suddenly due to the sudden appearance of reinforcements.
At the center of the situation, the professor who took out one person with a sneak attack and appeared in a relaxed manner, overwhelming the atmosphere –
‘Hmph! Shut it off!’
[Hold your breath! that! If you breathe before you grab the yellow barrel, you’ll die!]
I was so scared.
‘Even if it’s a flower shop, it’s a chemical spray! If you inhale even one drop by mistake, you will die!’
[You should have just shut up and jumped into the shield! You let out all your breath!]
‘You have to identify your friends before you let them in or not! And if those bastards hadn’t been bluffed and stopped, they would have been turned to mush by now by either acid or a flamethrower!’
When I took out the guy with the chainsaw using a sneak attack, I saw the guy next to him carrying a can full of opaque yellow liquid and I thought my heart was going to jump out of his mouth.
It wasn’t that difficult to imagine what the yellow liquid was. The chemical gas from the gas grenade I used on the way back was exactly the same color as that one.
The professor’s plan to grab one guy and engage slowly with his strong left arm guard did not include gas or flamethrowers.
Quad deuk!
The broken flagstone was thrown once more and Cyborg took advantage of the opportunity to avoid it and rushed forward.
The cyborg instantly regains its posture and turns the spray gun in the professor’s direction.
The professor pulled out a large piece of flagstone that he had seen before and covered it in front of him like a shield.
‘It was a good kind as long as you didn’t inhale it when it passed by earlier! What would happen if I just block a direct hit with this!’
[Wait a minute….. Wait a minute! stop! That’s not it! No!]
An image shared through Hyde’s consciousness just before the container on his back bubbles and the solution is sprayed. A hideous looking exosuit that was heavily corroded and melted on something lying around in a corner of the battle area.
!!!!!!!!!!
Good!
‘Wealth corrosion? Melting?!’
[Ugh! You idiot!]
I quickly put my foot on the brakes, but I had already run right in front of him.
The cyborg raises the corners of his mouth as he sees the professor running after covering himself with a flagstone, as if he can’t be stopped by something like that.
‘Shit! Let’s make the left arm a little bigger! ‘A size that covers your body!’
[I told you to make it smaller earlier!!!]
Oh my!
Acidic solution fired without time to dodge.
At that moment,
it was scary!
The exosuit with its shield raised to maximum power stepped in and blocked the sprayed acid solution with its shield.
Simon was also a veteran. Although their identity was unclear, they chose to cooperate immediately after seeing the professor attack the enemy.
“now!”
“Keuuuuuum!!!”
The professor, unable to open his mouth due to the vaporized solution and expressing his gratitude, swung his left hand with a large flagstone on the tip of his finger.
Whoops!
The cyborg flies away as if it had been hit by a truck and ends up in the corner of the cave.
“Kwaaaaaak! “Aaaah!”
A terrible scream rang out from where he fell, as if the container containing the solution had broken on impact. A solution that dissolves exosuits. You will never survive.
“Is this… a dream?”
As Simon watched the scene, he began to suspect that he was seeing a vision right before he died. A man who suddenly appears at a desperate moment and kills the enemy in an instant. I’ve heard a lot about mutants, but I’ve never heard of a person who became a mutant.
Strange behavior.
A more bizarre appearance.
After blowing away the cyborg, the strange reinforcements who came to his side with agile movements
were boom, boom, boom!
“Hmm! Hmm! Hmmmm!!!”
He was desperately pounding on his shield, covering his mouth with a face that looked like he was about to die, and pretending to open something.
“Uh hmm…”
First of all, it seemed clear that he was not a normal person.
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Kwasik!
“Kaaaaaaak!”
The four cyborgs were equal to Simon’s one exosuit. The only two enemies left were Simon and the man who jumped out of the shield while panting, and it wasn’t long before they were easily eliminated.
“Inspection Department! everyone!”
“Oh, okay!”
The professor ripped off the last remaining cyborg’s mechanical arm and shouted at the man from the inspection department next to him. Just then, the exosuit’s faint light could be seen turning off, as if the battery had run out.
“Cough! Cough!”
A cyborg who is caught in the professor’s grasp and vomits blood.
He smiled faintly as he watched Simon running towards the central generator.
“It’s no use….”
Ouch!
“Aaaahhh!”
“There is none. Just turn on the power and you’re done. I didn’t save you because I felt sorry for you. “I saved them because I needed witnesses to properly punish those who cooperated with the executive branch later.”
“Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
The professor could see the relaxation in the guy’s smile. It looks somewhat empty yet reassuring.
‘…What do I have here?’
At that time, Simon, who was running towards the tower, shouted.
“The door! The door won’t open! “The security door melted!”
“what?!”
“Hehehehe! In the end, you guys lost. “You’re defeated!”
‘…That acidic solution! I wonder if it was brought for this purpose from the beginning!’
I thought it was all over. Even if you defeat the enemy, if you can’t power up, you’re in trouble.
The professor who threw the cyborg away spoke to Simon, who was groaning in front of the security panel at the bottom of the tower.
“Get out of the way! “Try destroying it!”
“Oh no! The security door is designed to separate the control panel from the system if it receives a strong impact! “The only way to enter is through formal procedures!”
“They went in and turned the power off!”
“Although we are enemies now, the executive branch is definitely a member of the Dome! Of course you know the password!”
Quang!
“So… you had to melt it with an acidic solution or something and stick it on…”
It’s an outsider’s trick. Now all you have to do is turn up the power one step!
I thought about it for a while, but I couldn’t think of a way to touch the power source here. No matter what I tried, I couldn’t do it because I didn’t know the structure of the central generator.
“Damn it… If only the elevator elevator could move…”
The man from the inspection department said as if there was some hope just by looking at it at that time.
“Elevator? “Is there somewhere else where I can turn up the power?”
“Yes… there is one more thing…”
“Please, let’s talk about that quickly!”
“Uh… This tower is connected to the ground level of the dome. A little down from the part of this cavity ceiling that touches the ground, there is another power breaker for management…” “
Where is that over there?”
When I narrowed my eyes, I saw that there was something like an iron railing at the top of the power tower.
“The problem is that it is not a facility designed for emergencies like this, so you can’t go there without an elevator. The power for the elevator is currently cut off.” ..”
“Okay! I’m coming back!”
“….yes?”
Simon, who had been depressed at the thought that the operation that risked the lives of all his platoon members had failed, raised his head at the professor’s voice that suddenly brightened up. ”
Kwaak!
Kwaak!
“No…”
The man next to him just moments ago heard him. As soon as
he did, he ran towards the wall of the cavity
and started climbing up the wall, chopping the rock with his left arm.
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