Chapter.4 Eyelids (4)
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After coming to his senses, the professor decided to remain calm.
‘I think it’s because I’ve been through so many good things recently that my days have become dull.’
Yes wizard. Of course it’s disgusting. It’s one thing to look at me like a flower pot from which some kind of experimental material is gushing out, and the other to casually mention it to the person involved. Even psychopaths are said to be at this level of severity.
But what if they were good wizards and didn’t use me as experiment material… what would have happened?
In the end, my body will still get the same injuries as it does now. To prevent infection, you need a wound that allows the infectious agent to repair itself with all its might.
This means that regardless of the purpose, eventually amputated body ends are inevitably produced. And of course they are of no use to me.
‘You may not be able to do business with someone who wants something useless to you, but you show hostility and instill caution! ‘You were stupid, Professor, you were complacent!’
We need to think differently from now on. Just as you wouldn’t say anything about picking up hair that’s falling out, let’s just ask you to take something like your wrists and ankles. Anyway, I can’t feel anything because of the anesthetic and the shattered spine.
Instead, buy their favor.
‘By cooperating with the experiment and showing compliance, we break down their guard. Although it is not for me, the most talented people in a country called royal wizards are researching the relationship between infectious agents and the human body. I’m sure there will be useful knowledge in healing my body among them!’
The only reliable rule in this game.
There is no problem without an answer. Ultimately, the game is meant to be cleared.
The key to getting out of this miserable situation must be hidden somewhere.
So I’ll just follow your lead until I find it, Isaac.
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– Speed Wagon: Hey Professor. I looked up what you asked.
– professor: How did it go?
– Speed Wagon: None. There were no records of Isaac Mandalius among NPCs whose names were known in the 6th rank Reed Flow school.
– professor: Okay, thank you.
– Jokass: Are you still there?
– professor: ㅇㅇ There was an uproar after cutting off hands and feet.
– Jokass: Oh, I don’t watch that. Keep the screen off. Let’s talk when it’s all over.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Oh, I want to watch it, so please turn it on.
– takealook: Are you trying to ruin your head by choosing things like that?
– professor: It will pop up at the top of the chat room, so if you want to see it, you can agree to watch and enter. Please help me when I call you later.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Yeeeeeee~
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“No. “It’s not in the records…”
It’s a little, no, very surprising.
Of course, wizards are the number one thing to avoid, but meeting them as allies on the battlefield is different.
In particular, World 3 is a worldview in which many large-scale battles with Mutes occur, so players who have been there so far have to find all the wizards who have appeared on the battlefield at least once and collect data such as where they can meet them, what magic they use, and how they can become allies. I pulled it out.
When a full-scale war begins, all knights and wizards across the country will be mobilized. Regardless of whether you are a research wizard or a trainee, everything is fine. repulsion? The city in front of me fell yesterday and the city next door fell a few hours ago. What is the backlash? If you want to live, you have to come out and help out.
In any case, once a war begins, it will be exposed to the outside world in some way. And the exposed wizards were all searched out and exposed one by one by the players who were eager to recruit them.
But what if there is no data on high-ranking wizards belonging to the 6th rank Reed Flow School? It’s obvious.
‘Isaac Mandalius dies before the real war begins.’
A character that will die naturally without my intervention. This is information to be very careful about. Because Isaac is a 6th rank wizard.
‘A being who can kill a 6th rank wizard will inevitably come as the story unfolds. This is a problem. There’s no way that being would come to Isaac and just kill him.’
Ultimately, this means that Count Mandalius’ mansion will become a dangerous area in the near future.
The professor organized the things he had to do one by one in his head.
By being visible to the first wizards, you gain their favor as much as possible to catch them off guard. When I have some free time, I look for ways to repair my body.
Escape from here before the entity that kills the second 6th level wizard comes.
Thirdly, I am looking for a way to earn 1.1 million shillings.
‘Wow… it’s so tight.’
Ultimately, it is a goal that should not be forgotten. The remaining debt is 1.1 million shillings.
It wasn’t that I didn’t have enough time on the 25th in terms of game time, but given the situation, I wasn’t sure how much time I would have. As the number of viewers has decreased, it is difficult to expect sponsorship, so it means that you have to find a way to make a lot of money in the game, and that means you have to find a way to get out of here as quickly as possible.
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Day 4 of Count Mandalius’ Pension.
Clap, clank, rattle!
The sound of a lock being unlocked and a thick iron door opening announces the start of the day.
“Professor, morning… it’s time.”
“Oh, Nila. Good morning~”
Over the past three days, the professor did his best to become friends with the wizards. Actually, it wasn’t that difficult. Even if the professor is not detained, if he leaves here, he will soon become mute. Even if I let it go freely, it was like being tied up here.
The professor was very cooperative with the research and emphasized that part, which allowed me to gain freedom, although it was limited. Although still in a bath of anesthetic, there were no chains anymore.
“Oh my, you are full of energy today? Um… just in case, here are a few~”
Nila, the wizard who brought breakfast, waved two fingers in front of my eyes.
“Two. But why do you keep asking for the number?”
“Ah, that? I’m checking to see if the being I’m talking to is a human professor or a mute who has taken over the professor’s body. In particular, since some of the infectious agents that entered Mr. Professor’s body originated from the ‘white monster,’ there seems to be a significant possibility that his intelligence will remain high even after he becomes mute.”
After becoming mute. Among wizards, there is already talk of research projects after I am completely infected.
“It’s a white guy… oh maybe?”
[Your blood is a sacrament]
‘Did you release the infectious agent through the wound on your cheek at that time?’
He said he wanted my blood, so it was quite a possibility. That guy didn’t seem like the type of person to carry me around.
“Is there anything you can point out?”
“Oh, that is… He said he wanted my blood and cut my face.”
“Yeh?!
Nila was very surprised and took a roll of parchment from behind and started writing hastily.
“Why are you telling me such an important fact now!”
“Uh… Because I didn’t ask? It’s not that special. “The monster said it wanted some blood.”
“It’s important! According to Night Charlotte’s testimony, the queen of the bastards seems to have the ability to pass on those traits to her descendants by eating a strong human body!”
‘oh. A lot of research has been done? ‘You know a lot more than the average 124 years of knowledge, right?’
It seems that this change occurred because in this world, the city fell much faster, so people’s sense of crisis was accelerated.
“That’s what we’re most worried about. Even though I defeated him, I retrieved the white spear filled with Night Charlotte’s blood as he ran away. If what they say is true, there may be a lot of Mutes with powers similar to Lord Agaat coming in the future…”
‘Oh, that’s absolutely impossible.’
In the last battle, Turan suffered devastating damage, but in the end, that side was also defeated. In the process of clearing the battlefield, those who could be purified were purified and those who could not were cremated, so the queen would have literally starved.
‘What do you do if you only have genetic information? ‘I don’t have any resources.’
In other words, Mute currently only has a half-finished blueprint and does not have the materials to mass-produce soldiers according to the blueprint. Even if there were enough materials in the first place, it is not easy to create a high-level object with combat power like Charlotte.
‘In this world, we don’t have to worry about the mute army filling the horizon.’
This is why it is important how you play in the beginning. Just by winning one battle, you can change the overall flow.
‘But wait a minute. Edeorna took Charlotte’s blood, but she also took some of my blood, right? ‘I think they were treated quite well.’
“Hey, Nilla.”
“yes?”
“Then is there a possibility that the Queen can produce Mute based on my blood?”
“Yes? According to what you said, the white monster had its eyes on you, so wouldn’t it have told the queen the bloody information?”
“Oh my.”
Mutra took my characteristics… I hope they mass produce as many as possible. It’s gonna be fun. An army of mutes that crumble like cookies.
“Anyway, you have nothing to hide anymore, right? “Is there something else special?”
“I never hid anything in the first place…”
Nila looked at me with suspicious eyes for a moment and lifted my ankle as if she was sorry. Now that we’ve run out of useless talk, it’s time to get to work.
“Then let’s start today’s treatment… um…?”
“Please feel free to do so. “It doesn’t even hurt.”
When I nodded, she closed her eyes tightly and cut around my thigh with the blade of wind she had created.
Seogeng!
The one that was cut off is not thinking anything, but the one that was cut off is more scared. Actually, that’s normal.
“Uuuuu….”
“That’s enough. “You can open your eyes because they have already healed.”
She cautiously opened her eyes at my words and began to wrap my cut leg with the thick cloth she had brought. He looks very haggard in a short period of time. The reason I started talking about this and that as soon as I came in was probably because I wanted to delay this moment as much as possible.
“Am I really okay? No matter how much you try to save more people, you do such a terrible… thing to a living person…”
“Hahaha. it’s okay. “At first, I was very angry, but I think this is also a patriotic act that I can do before I die.”
‘Of course it’s not okay. It’s not a matter of pain, but a matter of physiological disgust.’
Isaac hasn’t been here much since the day I first came to my senses. Instead, they sent wizards who seemed to be helping him with his research. They seemed to have given up their liver and gallbladder for the past three days, and after talking with them, I was able to find out an interesting fact.
‘There are twelve wizards who actively agree with Isaac’s research. There are seven wizards who feel resistance but help the research because it is necessary or through coercion.’
In particular, Nila in front of me was the wizard who treated me the best. He’s scared of seeing blood, and looking at the Wind Cutter casting time he just showed, he doesn’t seem to be very good at magic.
He is a person with such a good side that I wonder if he is the wizard I know.
“First of all, since the infection control wound is finished… anesthetic…”
“Oh, speaking of that, let’s just skip it for today.”
“….yes?”
“I’m a human too, so it’s quite difficult to just stare at the ceiling and not be able to do anything. “I’ll just walk around the room a little bit.”
“But… it will be painful if we don’t administer additional anesthetic, right?”
“Well, there’s enough of the solution left in the bathtub, and it’s true that it hurts, but I really think I’m going to go crazy if it continues like this. If you stay still, the infectious agent will whisper constantly. “I have to do something.”
Nila, who was conflicted for a moment, sighed and loaded the well-paved bridge onto the cart.
“…Can’t I tell anyone? If I ever get caught, I will do my best to maintain and manage the subject’s consciousness…”
“Yes, yes. I understand you well. “Let’s leave that food on that desk and go do some work.”
“Whew. all right. “If you happen to be sick, don’t hold back and call me.”
She looked back with worried eyes until the end and walked out the door with the cart.
Squeak-clap! Slam!
The sound of a key being locked was heard, and the sound of people walking up the stairs became more and more distant, and silence soon came.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Hey, did you go?
– Noru Drug: I went and went.
Sigh!
As soon as the professor confirmed that no one was around, he immediately jumped out of the bathtub.
“Give me some time!”
– Speed Wagon: Run the timer for 5 minutes.
Once I became acquainted with the wizards, the first thing I did was to somehow regain my body’s freedom.
The method of suppressing infection in my body was divided into three stages. Broadly speaking, it involved the solution, the wound, and the spine that Isaac was always destroying.
As I said, the wound is meant to suppress the infectious agent by consuming its power, and I heard that the bathtub filled with Mute’s blood acts as a kind of sedative.
It is said that if the surroundings are full of infectious agents like yourself, the infectious agents in your body will recognize that the infection has already ended and their activities will become quiet.
Yesterday, as an experiment, I put my hand out of the solution and waited, but soon after, I started to feel a tingling sensation starting from the tip of my finger, and then I became very dizzy, so I immediately put it back into the solution.
Lastly, the spine…..
Surprisingly, it was said to have no special meaning. When I first arrived, this was a measure taken in advance out of concern that the infection would progress to full extent and cause chaos, but Isaac said that it would be easier to use it as a test subject if he just kept destroying it, so he decided to keep it as is. Crazy bastard.
So, after persuading the magicians who came to visit by persistently showing them tears, he omitted the needless act of crushing their spines to suppress their actions. All that was left was the wound and the solution containing the anesthetic, but the anesthetic had just been removed successfully.
There is no time. Soon after coming out of the solution, infectious agents throughout the body will begin to act.
First, the professor quickly approached the door, bit his wrist lightly to draw blood, and then applied a generous amount to the hinges of the iron door.
‘I’m sure it was said that if Mute’s blood touches metal, it rusts easily. I don’t know why oxidation occurs, but my body is already the same as Mute’s, so my fatigue should have a similar effect.’
These iron doors tend to place a lot of strain on the joints due to their own weight. Even if there is a weak part, it will weaken and break in an instant due to the weight.
In fact, I tried it last time, when the anesthetic was a little less effective, and my body felt creaky. At that time, I tried to spray it with the solution in my hand, but it spilled all over and made a mess, which aroused unnecessary suspicion.
“A few minutes left!”
– Speed Wagon: 3 minutes and 47 seconds
– Jokass: It feels like I’m watching some kind of escape room speed run.
After the corrosion work on the door was finished, the next thing to do was to find hacksaws scattered everywhere. I don’t know what I was doing before I woke up, but the amount of discarded hacksaws and surgical tools was considerable. Collect them all and apply plenty of Mute’s blood in the same way.
As I move to get the hacksaw, I scatter the parchment that was arranged on the desk.
“I will read it once, so number it yourself and read it to me. If there is important information, report it immediately.”
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Isn’t this a cheat? What kind of broadcaster is pampering viewers? Me number 2.
– Speed Wagon: No. 3.
– Holly: Number 4.
– Heungan Mandu: No. 6.
– Speed Wagon: Finish number 3. Research on the subject’s regenerative ability and metabolism. There wasn’t much information other than that hair grows quickly. 5 times I do it.
– takealook: I haven’t even started yet. 7 times a.
– Jokass: 8
What is on the parchment is the result of the royal brains studying my body while eating and sleeping all day. It will be full of information that will be useful to me.
Wiggle, wiggle!
“Ugh!”
come. I can feel it! At the same time as the pain that squeezes my entire body, that sickeningly sweet scent begins to surround my head and
[….Give me. To me…body….move….]
At the same time, a mental breakdown begins and thoughts are completely blocked.
Woe! sudden!
‘The door is slightly lowered. A pile of rusty hacksaws hidden in a corner. Wet parchment. Damn, I couldn’t organize the parchment. Even if I can’t read my part yet, I have to see it with my own eyes so that the people in the chat room can interpret it…’
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Don’t force yourself to lift your head and just rest. I took all the screenshots.
‘….a child with good sense even in useless areas.’
Tdu-duk! Wow!
“Keuuu!! Ugh!”
In pain as the infectious agent wrenched his entire body, the professor crawled and threw himself into the vat containing the solution.
with a plop!
The anesthetic contained in the solution slowly seeps through the skin, and the mute’s blood filling the surrounding area begins to calm down the infectious agent.
“Hmm, what a bitch… How many minutes is on the timer?”
– Speed Wagon: 4 minutes 43 seconds.
“Shit. “It has decreased again.”
The time between getting out of solution and having a seizure was reduced.
– Jokass: Hey professor. I found something interesting. [The infectious agent that spreads throughout the entire body of the mute can be seen as the colony itself playing the role of the brain. To it, the occupied brain is similar to a string held in the hand of a puppeteer, and actual thinking appears to be accomplished by a colony of infectious agents. What this means is that the infectious agent of a highly intelligent individual can move more complexly and achieve faster infection…] Professor, this sounds like you.
“also. It’s him. This guy is buzzing in my head all day long. “It seems like he is gaining control over the infectious agent that has spread through his body.”
It won’t be difficult. My body is full of parasites, and among them, one special one is leading the other parasites.
An entity capable of individual activity without orders from the Queen. Biologically, her cells, which are no different from the queen, would be sufficiently capable of controlling other infectious agents.
‘It’s probably because of him that the time I can spend outside of the solution has decreased.’
The period of its visits was getting shorter and shorter. Now, sometimes I feel that sweetness for no reason.
‘At this rate… a week at most. If it’s short, if you don’t solve it within 3 days, you won’t have time to do other activities.’
The professor closed his eyes, feeling his body throbbing due to the slightly insufficient anesthetic. I’m worried about mental contamination, so I can’t fall asleep deeply and feel like I’m just dozing off.
This was my morning routine for the past three days.
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Knock knock-
“Excuse me. professor? Are you awake inside-”
“Umm…. Roman? “Is that Roman?”
“Yes~ I’m in charge of today’s class~”
A man’s voice softly trailing off in his sleep. This is Roman, one of the experimental wizards.
It looks like it’s already lunch time.
‘You’re lucky today.’
Roman. Like Nilla, this guy is also one of the wizards who is friendly to me.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! “It looks like you slept well!”
“Except for the thick nerve cords, I’m a corpse.”
“Ha ha ha ha ha! It’s so strange. “Why do other wizards say that such a fun professor is so harsh?”
“well. “When I met Roman, I felt particularly relieved.”
“Oh, that’s amazing! “We would never have met outside!”
The professor raised his eyebrows at him, looking overly happy.
‘I’ve never met you. But if you do GG and don’t know about it, you’re a spy.’
After the conversation with Isaac, I gritted my teeth and opened my eyes, but when I saw this person in front of me, I wondered if I was seeing something. Why is such a precious person in this squalid place…?
– Heungan Mandu: It’s a romantic gacha man! Gacha Man! Gacha Man!
– takealook: Great god of randomness… save the professor…
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: The fucking character I was playing was ruined because of that bastard! hey! professor! Don’t even interact with that bastard! You can go to hell!
– Speed Wagon: Information – Even the top ranked player avoids Roman Gachaman.
“….Roman Gachia Manson.”
“hmm? Did I ever say my name?”
“Oh, I heard it from another wizard the other day.”
“aha.”
In the community, Roman Gachia Manson is a hero unit that is more famous than World 3’s final boss, the Mutation Queen, and is ranked #1 in official NPC combat power by Galadrion Sword. Also known as Roman Gacha Man.
‘It’s this guy. This guy is the only key to escape!’
The professor’s eyes lit up as he looked at the back of Roman, who boasted the most unique reputation in World 3.
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