Chapter. 11. Wizards of Wizards (2)
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When is the moment when a man realizes that he is truly screwed?
If it’s my name, what if I’m stranded in the middle of enemy territory?
When you open your eyes and a doctor in a white coat comes and informs you that ‘the teacher’s condition is not good at all’?
no.
The correct answer is ‘When something goes wrong with me and my friends next to me can’t smile.’
Think about it. If you only broke out, the guys who shouted ‘Kitchen ㅋㅋ ㅋㅋㅋ ㅋㅋㅋ’ everything will be alright. The moment you say something like ‘Cheer up,’ the guy who used to sing [It’s okay, I won’t die] 24 hours a day will say, ‘Huh? ‘Are you going to die?’ The thought comes to mind.
They say it will take some time until the game is adjusted to be playable in its current state, but that’s what people who have been to this strange waiting room have said.
First of all, the administrative researcher who stays next to me every day and takes care of my body.
“It is an honor to serve you like this, Professor Park! “My name is Chaisha, and I was selected as your doctor!”
“Oh yeah what.”
“First, I will explain the external physical condition that you are most concerned about… Are you mentally prepared?”
Of the heart…. what?
“Do you even need to prepare your mind?”
“….Pretty?”
Don’t say that with such a happy expression, girl.
The screen displayed by the woman in charge looked like I was going to lose my mind.
Clearly, the body in my memory was that of an ordinary man with a deformed arm who was complaining that his left hand wouldn’t close the connector lid, but this…
“Does the data department also handle mutant corpses?”
“It’s you.”
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“What?”
“That’s Professor Park’s body.”
…..Damn. You should listen to what the doctor says.
“…Could you please prepare at least one Cheongsimhwan?”
“Is this the play waiting room for the connector? So I told you. “You need to prepare your mind.”
My hands are shaking from shock.
“Is that thing alive?”
“It’s not ‘that’, it’s your body. You can see it clearly inside, right? “The heart is beating strongly.”
“Aren’t you saying that because it can be seen with the naked eye without any special equipment?…”
My form was not left anywhere in the ‘thing’ she said was my body.
Black arms and legs covered with all kinds of mechanical equipment.
The wide-open abdomen had traces of the ends of the ribs having melted, as if they had been exposed to strong heat, and internal organs that had somehow maintained their shape were strewn about in a haphazard manner.
“First of all, surprisingly, 99.9% of genetic traits are identical to those of humans. The same goes for internal organs and cellular tissues. Since it is a change in a non-dead state, the change was centered around parts that were not related to life activities, such as skin, bones, and fingernails, but the activity of the ‘box’ stopped and the change seemed to have stopped at a certain point.”
“So… only the outer part of it has completely changed, but the core is a human being, right?”
“Yes, of course!”
“Is there a bone shell over the intestines?”
“About 10 more ribs had grown and covered it. “People also have similar rare diseases.”
“I guess there’s another heart?”
“If you wake up and play soccer, you’ll do well.”
Pap-duk!
….Let’s be patient. That person is a doctor. At first glance, he doesn’t seem like a sane person, but if I beat him up here, he’d cut off one or two of my fingers and say, ‘Is that what you used to do? Do you know the strain better than me? ‘How many degrees?’ You can do it.
The only thing that helped me calm down was the graph of the progress of the variant virus that this woman showed along with the video of my body.
“This is something innovative, but the virus levels are decreasing. Although it is only a very small part, a physically significant decrease was confirmed. Although it is little by little, the body tissues are steadily recovering. The black part is regenerating twice as fast as that.”
“So does that mean I can return from that form to my original state?”
“Um… yes! Because the virus is steadily decreasing and recovery is in progress….”
“Oooh!”
“…At the current rate, in about 43 years and 8 months?”
Mr. Yai –
“Actually, Professor Park’s condition was a rare and unique case in the world even before he developed this condition, so we cannot guarantee anything. Even the mutant virus feels somewhat confused by the status of ‘living human + mutant’, which is completely different from the pattern imprinted in its genes. Maybe it’s thinking ‘I guess it’s not here’ and is escaping from the body to find another host. According to their standards, single-celled organisms are beings that are active if YES and move if NO… But Professor Park is in a state that straddles the line between YES and NO, right?”
After that, I heard a lot of things I couldn’t understand, but… anyhow, the desire to leave right away disappeared.
If I leave now, something… won’t be right. Not only because of its appearance, but also because it is fixed to something like an iron frame and stands in the center of a large room. Rather than feeling like I’m being revived, it feels like I’m riding Evan x Leon. If you melt Professor Park’s soul into a mushy liquid and inject it into me, the monster will close its eyes! As it floats, it ejects out of the city with a loud roar….
‘Just by looking at it, it looks like it is built for combat and has excellent performance, but when a crisis comes to the dome, President Young comes wearing something like sunglasses and looks like a [Get on Your Body, Professor]. He might start yelling.’
In any case, right now, I felt reluctant to recognize that as my body.
Just as I was struggling with those thoughts, the next guest who arrived was President Young.
“I guess you’re not a nobleman either.”
“A nobleman? Um… you mean the gentleman? It’s ungentlemanly… I’m sorry if I interrupted your thoughts. “There is no better time than now.”
“No, that’s not what I meant… Anyway, I’m glad you came. “Seeing how many people came to visit me one by one, it really felt like I was hospitalized.”
The news that President Young brought was about the current situation outside.
“One more match between Dom and Raptor? Aren’t they all dead? “I heard that Raptor was the target of a wide-area killing machine or something operated by those crazy people in the first place?”
“It’s called ‘Area 38 Dome.’ Because that side and we are completely separated. In fact, according to the report sent by you, who was active in Area 38 two months ago, there was some level of cooperation between Raptor and the Area 38 Inspection Department. But don’t you know what kind of raptors they are? They are people who do not form relationships based on the common sense that since I received this much, I should do this much. If they get 1, they join hands with people who only want to steal the remaining 1. “There is a degree of foolishness.”
The raptor’s movements were truly radical.
The mechanized soldiers dispatched to the 30th Division received a message from the inspection department there: ‘The dome is empty, so please help us take command of the dome as promised!’ After hearing the news, the story was passed on to Nest, Raptor’s headquarters. Finally, Raptor, feeling that the opportunity had come, immediately withdrew from Area 43 and the entire Nest began to advance towards the Area 38 dome.
“Raptor’s chronic weakness is that it lacks advanced equipment such as shields, making it difficult to respond to the environment. “The reason we attacked the Area 52 dome so persistently in the past was to make up for that by occupying and plundering the city.”
It is said that just before Area 52 fell to Raptor, the city’s central power plant went into overdrive, causing the entire city to self-destruct.
At that time, I had the experience of being a bitch chasing chickens… Raptor, seeing the opportunity of a genius once again, put everything aside and started running towards Area 38 with all his might.
“Did you just watch that? If the enemy you were confronting lost, of course you had to attack their side…”
“I knew that would happen, so I left a lot of people behind. By the time we received the information and took action, the Raptor’s delaying force had already secured a kill zone on the road that was close to carpet bombing. Since we always defend a large area with a small number of people, it is difficult to respond quickly to such sudden movements. Also, the Nest’s moving speed was faster than expected.”
According to the president’s expression, ‘It seems that the scale has been reduced due to the last battle, so it has become more agile.’
Even though there were no jammers from Area 38, all communication from Area 47 was lost, so there was no way to announce the attack… The
Raptor’s Nest, which rushed towards Area 38 with all its might, was a huge number of people making up the main base of the war. The machines quickly arrived at District 38, burning every mutant that got in their way, and as soon as the crazy Chief Executive began his speech, they hurriedly advanced into the city.
“Either it was incredible luck, or they planted a spy even within the administration. How they managed to survive in such a sure way is beyond me. However, as a result, when the first wave from the radio tower, which killed all the nearby scavenger wandering survivors, was heard, the Raptors were all able to avoid the effects by entering the confines of the city shield of the Area 38 Dome, and by the time the third wave sounded, they were killed in an instant. They were able to take the city and destroy and plunder everything in it.”
It was said that almost the entire city had been dismantled and torn apart, including the core parts of the central generator at the heart of the city, which could never be rebuilt. Of course, including the people who lived there.
“The good news is that we were able to take advantage of their slow pace and attack them from behind. The team’s top target was, of course, the ‘box’. “Having experienced its power, I thought it would be the end if it fell into the hands of a raptor.”
The president said that after a fierce battle, the exosuit team retreated as soon as they confirmed that they had pushed the supply group back to Augeo and captured the box.
The result was a box that was half shattered in my hand, received the high-output energy of the radio tower, was overloaded to the point of explosion, and was once again shattered by a raptor attack.
The ruined Area 38 dome.
And after disassembling the city-level shield of the Area 38 dome and the generator to operate it, New-Raptor Nest is a real mobile fortress that can now be moved to any extremely difficult terrain.
Of course, city-class shields are also equipped with a cloaking field function. Of course, the effectiveness will be much less than when the building was built and operated in the city, but the Nest is not as big as a dome. We also have our own technical staff. Even if improvement and research are not possible, operation and maintenance may be possible.
A city of murderous tanks that move silently and invisible. Is this an Arbiter tank filled with a population of 200?
“…There is no such thing as a grand reception party.”
“I think that’s a very appropriate expression.”
While the president was not looking, he sighed with an old face. Well, this guy is the one who has to deal with that. You must be more frustrated than me.
“Just like that… The Raptor took its aim, swallowed up all the nearby refugees and disappeared into the 30th Division’s area. “We are now in a situation where we have to be alert 24 hours a day to deal with those who are not even on the radar.”
This is the ‘second’ most serious problem mentioned by the President.
“second? So what’s the first one?”
“Of course, it’s the problem of variants that have proliferated ridiculously.”
“If it’s ridiculous… how much?”
“…Do you remember right after the war ended? A time when soldiers who died in war came back to life as mutants and walked around? It’s similar to back then. “I thought we were barely able to push out the mutants and expand humanity’s survival zone… but with one crazy move, we were hunted again and ended up living in hiding.”
“Wow.”
There were far more survivors hiding here and there than the officially confirmed number, and they became the same number of Type 2 mutants and began to flock in search of the living.
“Of course, thanks to your sacrifice… I guess I can even think like this. Looking at the records, the completed box said it had an effect on the inside of the shield, but this is not to that extent. As recorded, we did not mass produce as many types 3 and 2.5.”
Thanks to this, people are either stopping production and holed up in their shelters, forgetting their food reserves, or risking their lives to break through and move to the vicinity of large groups like domes.
“Out of gratitude for your hard work, I would like to advise you that it would be easier for you not to come out right now. Rest inside for a while. “Think of it as a vacation.”
After that, they asked for an absurd amount of compensation for the work I did and for industrial accident disposal services, but I gave permission without the slightest hesitation and left. Rather, it was as if he had relieved some of the burden on his heart by giving him money.
The next person to come was Ezel. The guy wearing a military uniform and a bandage on his face
…. Touuuuuuuuuuuu!!! You’re not fucking lost, are you? Isn’t this some kind of virtual PTSD treatment program? You’re my brother, right? Professor! Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh tongue!!!”
From the beginning, it was disgusting and clingy and started crying.
Sigh!
“Oh, did this bastard turn around! I went! Are you out of your mind? What kind of brother is freezing to death! “I’ve never had a younger sibling like you!”
“Sniff! Ha, but my brother definitely told me to call him brother at that time….”
“When will I!”
“….ah.”
Whoosh!
At that moment, Ezel fell to the ground, hit the ground, and began to wail loudly. He started banging his head on the floor, saying, “This is all my fault. I’m an incompetent, slow idiot, and that’s why he ended up in this situation.” He was banging his head on the floor until it made a noise that could be heard at a construction site. I don’t know why, but I decided to stop him. It wasn’t difficult. Just ‘Stop it you idiot!’ As soon as I said something, the child got up, knelt down, and sat in front of me in a sitting position. I was even more scared of being listened to like this. No, what on earth happened two months ago!
“…How did your face get like that?”
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu at! this? not a big deal. “Bitch made my face.”
What on earth happened…. Did the pouty and mischievous face of my friend in my memory melt away in an ugly way?
The bandage that came loose after hitting his head on the floor was falling down, and his face was disfigured from severe burns.
“It’s really no big deal. “The administration says there are many good medicines, you just need to be treated consistently with them.”
“Hey how is that not a big deal dude! A burn so severe that it melted the skin…”
“Shall we compare it to my brother’s current condition?”
“ah.”
right. I was hurt right before I fell. From his perspective, he couldn’t say that even if it was a separate thing. Because the person in front of me is close to the deceased.
Anyway, after talking to Ezel and coaxing him a bit, he said he had left the dome and officially joined BDSM.
“Who wants it? Nope?”
“why!”
“No, if I had stayed in the dome, I heard that Exosuit 1 + 1, which can be called in and used whenever necessary, has joined my family. Wouldn’t that be great? go back! “Go grab the president’s pants and hang him!”
“Ugh, this cold and bitter feeling… It’s my brother, after all! “I missed you so much!”
“What is this crazy…”
It turned out that he also experienced various events two months ago and his thoughts changed a lot.
“It’s just that the idea of justice has changed. Right? Of course, that kind of world will come someday. When I asked a child I met on the street how to evacuate when an enemy shell falls, he asked, ‘What is that?’ The day I ask myself, For a child who is alone, where are the parents? The day when you can ask that question honestly without thinking that of course both of you are dead. When that day comes, it might be a good idea to live by the old definition.”
“….”
“But not now, right? Kids these days learn the Mozambique drill rather than the multiplication tables and receive knives as gifts instead of toys. “As adults who created that era, we have a certain degree of obligation to shoulder cold, wet justice.”
“You… hehe. “Okay, that’s pretty much it.”
Change in beliefs. And the situation Dom is currently in. They said hundreds of refugees are flocking in every day. In matters of survival, people become selfish and vicious. There must have been differences of opinion even within the dome, and in a situation where the movement of the inspection department was restricted, the guy wanted to protect his own version of justice even by leaving the group….
“Huh? What is a refugee? It’s not? President Young is here, and if there are such impure elements, they should go straight to the Underdome Human Generator. I, Ian, and I got kicked out of the tram because we crashed into the Ministry of Inspector General’s official residence. I asked him what he would choose if he had to choose between dom and BDSM, but he couldn’t answer. “It was concluded then.”
Hey, I’m an idiot for asking.
For the rest of the time (Ezel said there was a set visiting time per person), we made small talk and was about to kick the clinging guy’s butt and send him away when I remembered the last thing I wanted to ask him and grabbed him.
“hey. “Why isn’t Vex coming?”
“Hi!”
At those words, Ezel looks as if he has been burned by fire.
‘….no way?’
“Uh um Vex… I mean Vex… Ahahaha that’s it…”
‘Ah. It can’t possibly be like that. ‘Is that possible?’
“Is Vex dead?”
“Ahh no! You’re not dead! “When he came back alive, he was so energetic, shooting guns and swinging swords!”
“Then why aren’t you coming? “I thought he would come first, given his personality.”
“Well… I’m a little busy! huh! It’s because I’m so busy making my eyebrows flutter! Oh my, my time is up! I’ll come again next time! hi!”
Tiring-!
[Player ‘Soy Sauce Gay Bar’ has logged out.]
Ezel always runs away in a hurry whenever someone clings to him.
I found out why he did that when I saw Vex who visited that evening.
“I’m sorry, Hepburn. The blood in the water is so dirty that it keeps clinging to me…”
The guy’s tone went back to the way it was when we first met.
Just as my acquaintances who came to see me couldn’t laugh, this time I couldn’t tell jokes.
Vex’s condition looked really serious.
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