Chapter 324 – Pocket Girls
“It’s true. That meteorite is unbreakable by any means of destruction. To be exact…”
“Exactly…?”
“If you destroy it, it will regenerate. In its original form.”
“Uh… If meteorites regenerate endlessly, wouldn’t it be enough to break them hard to get pieces?”
“No. I don’t mean that.”
“…?”
“That object doesn’t ‘recover’.”
“What…”
Seong-il frowns at the doctor’s contradictory explanation. To him, the doctor continues to explain in an expressionless manner.
“The meteorite regenerates itself by ‘returning’ itself to its former state.”
“!!”
“No matter how many times I tried, it was the same. At best, I had to get a piece, but it disappeared without a trace as if it never existed.”
“…”
“So personally I think that meteorite tore through ‘time’ and ‘space’ and came to our world.”
“Hmm…”
“I don’t know more than that”
A doctor’s answer that gives you a lot to think about. Seong-il starts asking questions about Project Black with a complicated look on his face.
“…Then how did you make the black ball? I know it’s made from a meteorite?”
Just a few hours ago, Seong-il learned about the Black Ball through a conversation between Dr. Walter and his deputy supervisor. When he pointed out that part, he asked. The doctor stares at Seongil and answers.
“…Complete destruction is impossible, but it is possible to obtain a small amount of meteorite fragments.”
“…?”
“Well, to be precise, it’s closer to ‘copying’ a small amount…”
“What are you talking about…”
“It’s simple. After destroying the meteorite first, you can inject their power into the meteorite by constantly pushing many S-class talents into the meteorite.”
“…What if I do that?”
“If you do that, the life force of the talented person will be replaced instead of the meteorite’s original power, and it will be ‘returned’. The meteorite will be restored with the power of the talented person.”
“Hmm…”
“Then the piece of the meteorite that came off becomes an ‘object’. If you acquire it, you will get the piece.”
“That’s it…”
“However, in this case, as I said before, 100% of the abilities will die. Because of this, about 20 of our S-class abilities died.”
“…”
“Thanks to that, we managed to get only one piece despite using all the strength of the organization.”
“In the end. Did you complete the Black Ball Project with the meteorite fragment you got this time?”
“It’s not like that.”
“…?”
“We already had two pieces before then.”
“Hmm? What do you mean?”
“Gineman, so to speak.”
“Hmm…”
Seong-il is worried because there is not much time left to talk to the doctor. However, because he was curious, he accepts the loss and asks for an answer.
“Tell me.”
“Do you know that we have the same roots as Shelter in the past?”
“…Roughly?”
“Well, then that’s easy to say. It’s simple, when we were still an organization, we were looking for artifacts from the old world…”
Like that, Dr. Walter recites the history of Shelter and the Hyper Team for a long time.
‘Yeah… When the first meteorite was discovered, the opinions of Shelter and Hypershort waves diverged, so there was internal conflict over how to use it?’
‘Then the conflict eventually exploded and a civil war broke out. The defeated Hyper group collected the remaining forces, left the shelter, and stole the meteorite fragment.’
After hearing the doctor’s words, Seong-il realizes how they came to create the black ball.
“…In the meantime, we found this place while desperately searching for the second meteorite.”
“I understand.”
“Data created based on the sacrifice of two pieces. The ball created based on it is a black ball.”
“Keuk… In the end, mass production of black balls will be impossible unless we find a way to break the meteorite into pieces.”
“Of course. It’s not like we tried to temporarily turn superpowers into artificial S-class abilities.”
“Oh… Who is that S-class talent?”
“He… Kuk… Cool…!!”
‘…No way?!’
Dr. Walter suddenly starts coughing up blood. Seong-il realizes that the suicide system drove him to the brink of death.
‘Fuck… I need to figure out how to make a black ball…’
I can’t help but get a meteorite right now, but don’t you know what will happen in the future? Therefore, Seongil wanted to obtain at least the recipe.
‘Is it a recipe… Or an S-class ability…’
Seong-il pondered until his blood dried for a fleeting moment. He finally decides and asks the doctor one final question.
“You’ve become an S-class talent. Can you possibly get a recipe for a black ball?”
“Ku… Cool… That’s… In a special storage device located on the 3rd basement level… The password is… Cool…”
Even in death, thanks to the power of the enchantment spell, she vomits information obediently.
“Keuk…! Kkeok…!!”
When he finished all the questions, he coughed up blood even more frantically, and eventually fell to the floor and died.
“You bloody bastard…”
Seong-il trembles at the actions of Dr. Walter, who commits suicide without hesitation because he does not want to hand over information to Shelter.
‘But I heard all the important information.’
After finishing the work he had planned for a long time, Seong-il feels a little relieved.
‘By the way, the effect of enchantment magic is considerable? If I steal information from someone in the future, I’d better investigate them with magic.’
Thinking so, Seong-il takes the dead Dr. Walter’s body and exits the Inner Plane to finish the job.
After putting the corpse on the floor, Seong-il goes to the place the doctor told him to and looks for a recipe for a black ball.
“Oh… Is this…?”
A storage device sealed in a strange vacuum glass bottle. Seong-il quickly picks up the recipe and shouts ‘customs duty’.
『Simple Data Storage: 100 Duty Points』
‘Oh… Regardless of the contents, do you set the value only as a simple storage device…?’
Seeing that the points are cheap, Seong-il smirks and pays the tariff lightly, then puts the storage device in his inventory.
‘Well… Now then, let’s organize the hostages…’
Thinking so, Seong-il turns on the communication device Dr. Dane told him about and tries to make a video call to Dr. Lowe.
“…Um? Who are you?”
When a man with a bizarre mask on his face makes a video call out of the blue, Dr. Low frowns and asks Seong-il.
“Ah, I’m Shelter’s friend, and Hyperdan’s enemy.”
“…What kind of nonsense?”
When a strange man covers his face and utters strange noises, he puts on an absurd expression.
“I understand. I’m going to look like a madman.”
“I’m glad you know. Don’t call me next time.”
When a strange prank phone call arrives even though he did not carelessly spread his personal contact information, Dr. Lowe tries to hang up the phone, revealing something blatantly unpleasant.
“Hang on. Let’s see this guy before we hang up.”
“…?”
Thinking that I should change my personal phone number, I was about to hit the end call button. A familiar male figure appears on Dr. Lowe’s video screen.
“…Walter?”
“You’re right.”
“That… Is he dead!?”
“Yes.”
“…Could it be you?”
“No. I’ve never laid a finger on him.”
“…”
“It’s true. I was going to kidnap Lee and hand him over to the shelter, but he killed himself saying he couldn’t divulge important information from Hyperdan.”
“…Even then, he’s a guy that’s going to be different. So, why are you showing him to me?”
Dr. Lowe still glares at Seong-il with a questionable expression. Still, the matter is the matter, so he doesn’t want to hang up the phone like before.
“Ah… That’s why I contacted you.”
Contents and meteorites for Project Black. And even where the meteorite is hidden.
Seong-il starts explaining meticulously by adding the story he heard from Dr. Walter to what he already knew.
After all the explanations are over, Dr. Lowe with a hard expression looks at Seong-il and asks a question.
“…Really?”
“Why is it false? Anyway, the coordinates I just took are close to three shelters. If you send a few scouts, you’ll know it’s real, right?”
“…”
“Of course, as the person in charge of a shelter, you wouldn’t blindly trust what I said when you first saw it.”
“Hmm…”
“This morning.”
“…?”
“In a little while, I will send a present to the shelter where the doctor is. Please see it and decide. Enough then.”
“What…? Hey wait…”
Ignoring the urgent words of Dr. Low, Seong-il unilaterally hangs up the phone.
‘Whoa… I wonder if I should try the next strategy.’
Seong-il begins to carefully inspect the third basement floor with the cursed sword.
When it seems like no one is left, Seong-il begins to cover the prisoners’ eyes by self-immolation.
‘It’s hard for these guys to see my ability…’
After completing all preparations, Seong-il puts on the portal ring and starts opening the portal to A-01 Shelter’s gym, where he sparred with Veron, the gym leader.
“Kids! Guys, pass them all over there.”
“Okay!”
At Seongil’s command, the clones all overturned the hyper units and threw them out of the portal.
“Kehehe!!”
Hyper groups thrown into the portal like some kind of baggage. Seong-il doesn’t particularly care whether they die or not, so he sits by and watches the alter ego’s rough behavior.
“Ah! Researchers may find it useful, so throw it gently.”
“Huh!”
Maybe it’s because Seongil’s spirit is connected, but he’s an extremely fast-paced alter ego. As soon as Sungil’s command is given, two of the alter egos cross over to the other side of the portal, receive the thrown researchers, and begin to calmly put them on the floor.
In less than 5 minutes, more than 100 people are thrown out of the portal.
Sending them all away, Seong-il puts down the letter along with Dr. Walter’s body and closes the portal.
“Now… Shall I go back…?”
He wanted to play the 2nd and 1st floors as well, but since the aisle was blocked, Seong-il decided to be content with playing the game up to this point, and Seong-il tries to contact Dr. Low again.
“…?”
Dr. Low puts on a puzzled expression when he sees Seong-il calling him again out of the blue.
“I left a present at the Shelter Gym. Check it out.”
“…What?”
“I know when you see it. Enough then.”
“Hey… Hey!!”
Embarrassed, Dr. Low tried to say something while holding on to Seong-il, but Seong-il, who did not want to be suspicious of his identity after a long conversation, quickly cut off contact.
‘Because if I talk too long unnecessarily, you might notice who I am…’
Thinking so, he opens a portal to B-02 Shelter where he is currently staying and returns there.
“Whoa… I’m sure it won’t take this much.”
Seong-il succeeded in finishing everything thoroughly. After taking a shower, he lies in bed and thinks.
“Well, since Dr. Balter’s corpse was left in the Hyper Corps and many of the researchers, they won’t ignore the letter with the coordinates of the laboratory.”
Soothing his pounding heart, Seong-il naturally summons his partners and falls asleep while kneading them.
“Whoaam…”
Seong-il feels a lot of fatigue, perhaps because he overworked the day before.
“Even though I’m tired… I need to finalize the deal, so let’s go see Dr. June…”
Seong-il puts his partners on the ball and tries to contact Dr. Jun.
“Hello Doctor.”
“Oh, it’s a holy day.”
“Th… It’s been a few days, have you sorted out your thoughts…?”
“Ah… That’s it…”
‘Ah… I’m annoyed. Can I just cast enchantment magic?’
Seong-il is annoyed by his slightly hesitant voice. At that time, he was seriously considering whether to use magic.
“Let’s talk face to face for now.”
“Ah? Yes…”
“There was a big uproar this morning…”
“Uh… Is it crazy?”
“Yes. I can’t tell you the details, but it looks like something big happened with the Hyper Team.”
‘Looks like what I did went well.’
A situation that sounds like something related to what you did. Seong-il’s mouth is itchy, but he calmly waits for his words so as not to arouse unnecessary suspicion.
“Haa… Originally, I was going to take a little more time to think about it, but first of all, can we meet today?
‘Done!!’
I mean, he’s saying he’ll decide after seeing his face. In fact, seeing him in itself is a positive sign, so Seong-il thinks that Dr. Jun has passed halfway through.
“Everyone… Shall we go right now?”
“Haha… Yes. Come to the lab we met last time.”
“Okay! I’ll go now!!”
Thinking things went well, Seong-il moves to Dr. Jun’s secret laboratory.
