Chapter. 23. Heir of Gedroitz, Field (12)
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“Ah, it’s the Wall of Walking Cane.”
Looking at the huge structure in the distance and its owner, the Type 3 mutant, I felt like I had become a great person.
Wow –
the road that had not been used for a long time was full of sand flying around.
Buaaaaang!
The armored truck running above it was running as fast as it could without paying attention to the harsh noise.
Beep-
[15km ahead. Observation of type 3 variant ‘Walking Cane’. Approximately 14.2 km remain until the known recognition distance.]
Beep-
[4 Type 2 variants observed on the 3.5 km overpass at 7 o’clock. I am sending the captured screen.]
Over a dozen transport drones were flying low above the truck, transmitting to me information on all the surrounding dangers. Of course, the only thing that could handle such authority was the communication module built into the TCAT-3000 transport drone with a special security code, and that special drone passed away in the hands of my friends and I.
There was only one most appropriate way to store the communication module securely enough to prevent anyone from stealing it and at the same time carry it so that it could be used in real time.
“Ugh. “My mom said that too much exposure to electromagnetic waves is bad for your health.”
Inserting T-Cat’s communication equipment into the large metal implant left on my chest. It was simpler than I thought, but I already had a large piece of military communication equipment in my chest. This is the communication device that I used last time to catch a rat in the black market. When I took that out and put it back in, there was more room.
Thanks to this, you can give commands to the transport drone in real time while driving the truck, and you can visually check the video taken by the transport drone by transmitting it to the truck’s display.
The scavengers have been massacred and the road has been left wide open, but instead, you can comfortably avoid the wasteland infested with all kinds of mutants by monitoring all directions through a drone.
As a result, I was able to arrive at area 40 in two days alone without firing a single bullet, which took five days with my friends and using all kinds of heavy weapons.
“Artists Union. “He’s a type 3 variant with an ego.”
Jiiiing –
When I rolled down the window, a strong wind of sand blew into the driver’s seat.
“…There’s nothing really different about me, right?”
Going for two days without firing a single bullet means that we just ate and drove without any incident. It was a ‘boring’ situation, which is rare in the wilderness, and it was a perfect situation for many thoughts to grow in the mind of a truck driver with no companion.
The pungent scent of sand, a scratchy feeling that reaches your lungs with just one inhalation, and the Geiger counter that, although faint, clearly begins to move.
It was a thought that came to mind on the first night when I went out into the wasteland alone, while I was busy preparing protective clothing in case of an alarm.
‘Do I need to protect myself like this?’
The variant survived well even in radioactive areas.
I was groaning because my back was stiff the whole time I was driving because of the hard uppers placed here and there on major parts of my body.
The protective clothing for outdoor activities provided by Ian, who was not very meticulous, did not fit the body of such an outsider well.
At that moment, I realized with my skin what I had only felt in my head. I really feel different. Even though I had been living in the deformed body of a ‘Warlord’ for longer than the time I lived as a ‘human Professor Park’, the reason I did not feel much of a difference when I came out was because my body outside was not much different from then.
sand. Radioactive fallout. Fine heavy metals. A strong wind mixed with toxic gases was blowing into the driver’s seat, but all I could feel was the familiar scent of the wasteland. Considering reports that the toxic atmosphere in area 30 has already descended to area 40 and all outposts of the dome have retreated, it is impossible to inhale it like this and remain fine.
I don’t know if it’s a mutant-like monster.
Will I one day get stuck in my head at some point like the walking cane you see over there? If so, at what point? In order for that to not happen, should we ask the person called the Collector how to become a suitable person?
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‘A. ‘You can’t bear it without going, right?’
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At that moment, another thought came to mind following the keyword monster.
Two days ago. The moment I got on the truck and left the gate of District 47.
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‘It’s all done? How can we get here…’
‘Mr. Bex really can’t lie.’
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This time, Dana with a really angry expression was waiting for me at the vehicle checkpoint.
She must have just rushed out of the hospital and was wearing a wide-legged hospital gown. The wind blew just in time to see the hospital gown and Dana’s long hair blowing around… How can I say it? It looked very combative.
Of course I thought the heart was coming out of the mouth. To be honest, I didn’t know what to say to Dana, so I snuck out.
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‘That’s it. ‘There are really important people I need to meet-‘
‘Are you anxious? ‘Being with us in that condition.’
‘…Ugh.’
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And I didn’t tell anyone. Dana was aware of the anxiety that even I wasn’t sure about.
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‘Still, we share the same bed. now.’
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I think I was looking down on Dana.
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‘Care drone TCAT-3000. Classificationally, it is included in the GG transport drone, and the orders you gave to the entire transport drone, Professor, were to record observations and transmit unusual information. Ticat was always waiting by your side.’
‘If Mr. Ian made a mistake, it was that he relayed the conversation he had with Mr. Woojin in the smoking room to Mr. Bex through the communicator. Ticat’s most powerful feature is its communication function, which is powerful enough to reach into space. Of course, the function of receiving surrounding radio waves was also powerful. According to your orders, Ticat recorded the collected external communications.’
‘….Dana.’
‘Thanks to you designating me as the secondary owner of Ticat, data mining wasn’t that difficult. At that time, I heard the conversation between the two people in the smoking room and confirmed that Ticat’s [owner] had already viewed the communication data.’
‘…I also checked the message left by the unidentified [Collector].’
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Dana was not just a pretty and sickly woman. I was so ignoring the decent survivor who had survived until now by using his body to dig up information about the wasteland and making deals with all kinds of terrible guys.
In situations where she had less information than me, she did an excellent job of assessing the situation and predicting my actions.
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‘A state in which transformation is accelerated when either emotional or physical stimulation exceeds a certain level. The situation has already progressed to the point where external changes are noticeable. Since it is a life that has been revived after dying once, the life expectancy given back is not long.’
‘The fact that the number of times the record of transformation and the record of the collector were played was particularly high, which means that there is a correlation between the information contained in the two records. ‘Disappearing alone in such a hurry with so many other important things to do means that there is something there that could be a clue to improving your condition, right?’
‘Uh… Dana? I’m starting to get scared. ‘You figured it out just by looking at Ticat’s records in that short period of time?’
‘Did you forget? When you were young, your intelligence officer was Speedwagon.’
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I thought Dana would be angry at me for leaving her behind again, but instead sent me off with a smile.
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‘Go quickly. ‘You can’t bear it without going, right?’
‘Because we’re facing war right now. If you turn into a monster during the war, you might kill everyone around you with your own hands, so you’re trying to deal with yourself, who is no different from a time bomb. Through that suspicious woman called the Collector.’
‘…In April World. I killed many of my people with my own hands. I didn’t have the confidence to endure it any longer. In reality, there is no way to turn back.’
‘The game still produces mental illness.’
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For the first time, I realized how good it felt to have someone understand a problem that I had kept to myself, even if it involved my life and the lives of others, before I even spoke about it.
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‘Go and come. I won’t tell you not to get hurt. I’ve been through it a few times, so I need to learn.’
‘….sorry.’
‘are you okay. I also don’t want to have a man who might explode at any moment as my child’s father. As always, please come back alive and in complete disrepair.’
‘Thank you for understanding… hm?’
‘why? what?’
‘Oh no, what did you just say…?’
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And for the first time, I realized that there could be news that was tens or thousands of times more pleasant than what was being understood.
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‘Professor, then why do you think I’ve been to the hospital every day for the past few weeks?’
‘No, it’s just a chronic illness, and as you know, I’m in an unusual physical condition right now…’ ‘
Really? Who was the one who rushed forward so passionately despite having [a body like that]? huh? To be honest, it was difficult for me to follow you with my physical strength. So I mistakenly thought that was why I was particularly tired in the beginning.’
‘Then that can’t be true….’
‘Both I and the child are still healthy. ‘I feel a bit too healthy, so I have to go to the hospital every day for checkups.’
‘Hehehe. Rabbit said he lost to me? Noru-unni was happy and said that since the kids were the same age, they could live together until the next generation.’
‘Uh uhuh…’
‘It’s the early stages of pregnancy and there are a lot of people here to help, so don’t worry and just go.’
‘Above, above….’
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After that, my mind went blank and I couldn’t even remember how I got out of the gate.
All I remember is that the person who was to become the new wife of our Park family ordered, ‘I have no intention of becoming a widow or having my [little saint] take care of a single mother, so I will go out and fix the problem.’ In addition, she gave me the child’s name. He told me to think about what to do.
Even now, two days later, it was unbelievable news. Just thinking about it feels like I’m facing a strong sun, and I feel like I can’t open my eyes and face it properly.
“…Hyde.”
There was no answer to the name that flowed out in a daze. It’s just that it’s become a habit to think like I’m talking to myself and sharing my opinion with someone.
“Your father has become a father.”
What would he have said if he had heard? First of all, I must have laughed a lot. In reality, it is said that Professor Park, who finally reached the rank of a proper man after 25 years of GG and 28 years of GG, and a total of 53 years, started a large-scale unplanned project due to a beginner’s control mistake.
My father, who was about to go to war, must have raised a death flag and then waved the flag like a medieval vanguard knight and giggled at me to run out.
At the same time, with a face as happy as mine. Maybe he would talk to me non-stop with a happier face than me.
『Recall the revolutionary posture of Cynthia (13 years old), who was sitting diagonally on a chair during a parent observation class I attended a few weeks ago. My new younger brother remembers how he made all of his classmates stay in an immobile position with just a flick of his finger, and how he calmed down his anxious teacher by walking past them and saying, “Thank you for coming to visit me while you were busy, father.” Don’t you think you need to keep your distance from your stepsister for a while’ – or talk about the same thing.
Have a heated discussion about 『When explaining my existence to a child, how will I explain how the existence of ‘Hyde’ is different from the ‘imaginary friend’ that children under the age of 7 usually have?』
Or, they must have been putting their heads together and thinking about “So what name will be able to calm down Dana, who is still angry (I’m willing to risk a few hearts)?”
“Hyde.”
There is no answer, but every time I say that name, it feels like a small light turns on in the space he created in my heart.
“What do you think.”
What should I do as I, little by little, become something I am not myself, a little faster?
Now, numerous events that were thought to be separate are converging into one point. What am I looking at?
Buaaaaang-!
For the second day, the truck was driving along the dusty road without any danger, facing its destination along with countless thoughts brought about by the boredom.
It wasn’t that difficult to find Heungan Mandu’s outpost in the numerous mountains west of District 40.
No matter how many mountain valleys there were, there was only one mountain valley that had been charred a few months ago by someone setting it on fire to drive out mutants.
I happily stepped on the accelerator, placing the face of a friend I had never seen before on my complicated head.
The answer to most of my concerns can be found at the destination he will take me to.
One thing at a time. I decided to think of it like that when I first started my journey in GG.
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