Chapter 121 – Genoplan (1)
The place where people want to live is Korea, which is full of apartments, but there are some exceptions.
Typically, there are almost no tall structures around US military bases in Korea for military reasons.
Since it was guarded by the US military, it was bound to be a hotspot for refugees during the infection war.
“Keeeeek-!”
They have transformed into a large army of infectious agents today.
The surrounding buildings, which were already low, became even more flat due to the heavy bombing and battle aftermath during the war.
Cheeeeek-.
One walker struggled and collapsed, clutching his melting upper body.
Behind him was the Dissolver, who committed fratricide. It is a variant that spews corrosive liquid.
Because of the droopy eyelids, the field of vision appears narrow, and one side of the ear is blocked because it has melted. The fingers were lumped together like mittens, and half of the brain was exposed.
There is often a resolver like this.
It is an entity that accumulates damage from the corrosive liquid it sprays and eventually suffers damage to its vision, hearing, and brain, resulting in impaired perception.
Most crabs end up with a slowdown in activity, but sometimes their ability to distinguish between friends and enemies is broken, and they attack those around them at random.
Cheolpudeok!
Another walker collapsed after being hit directly in the neck and back of the head by corrosive liquid. The moment the walker hit the floor, its neck melted and broke off.
The rolling head gets hit by the feet of other walkers and is moved around.
Now the walkers around were looking at the resolver. After that, even the Juggernaut is emitting vicious snorts.
By the time the third attack was loaded, we were already surrounded.
After killing one more walker as a final blow, he was torn to pieces by his compatriots surrounding him.
If Jinsu or Artemis had seen it, they would have watched it over and over again, saying it was an interesting sight.
One by one, walkers rose from the completely disintegrated remains of the resolver.
“Kaaaaang-!”
The Juggernaut roared in anger.
This is because my fingers were injured due to exposure to corrosive liquid in the process of pulling out the head of the resolver. Higher variant infectious agents have pain-sensing organs.
“Kaaaaa… Ang-?”
Juggernaut, who was howling at the sky, noticed something approaching across the sky.
They are Artemis’ newly developed drone bombers.
It had a triangular, straight, streamlined design with two rotors combined on both wings and a problowjobnt attached to the back.
It is a unique design that combines the characteristics of both a fighter jet and a helicopter.
Four small aerial bombs were attached underneath the eight drone bombers.
It is a napalm bomb made from a special mixture, and the shell of the bomb is a combination of tempered glass and plastic, not steel.
These are inventions that came out of Artemis’ process of squeezing explosives to the limit.
Tick.
The leading bomber made a small noise and lifted a load.
The slight sound of a latch being released. However, if there were any soldiers on the ground who heard it, he would get goosebumps all over his body.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
The bombers flying behind also made the same sound one after another.
Juggernaut even forgot the pain in his fingers and looked up blankly at the oval-shaped aviation bombs falling from the sky.
One of them happened to fall near me, so I tried to catch it.
Kwaaang!
It took less than 0.1 second for the heavy body that had been hit directly to be engulfed in flames.
The heat that invaded and burned the vocal cords burned the lungs, blocking out the screams. By the time Juggernaut became aware of pain, his skin and muscles had already vaporized, exposing his bones.
A storm of flames raged, burning everything around, and even the infected outside the flames were swept away by the heat and burned.
Following this, bombs of the same destructive power rain down.
The desolate land, which had only been filled with the sound of the wind until a moment ago, was filled with explosions, screaming, and the sizzle of burning and evaporating flesh.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Boom!
31 explosions sound at regular intervals, as if in rhythm, shaking the earth.
Against the backdrop of a rising column of fire, shattered torsos and limbs flew like firecrackers.
Before you can even see the fragments fall to the ground, a new flame erupts and obscures your vision.
Even Juggernaut and larger entities were powerless in front of the tidal wave of flames.
Whether they are worker ants or large soldier ants, they will simply be swept away in front of the water sprinkler.
As the reaper-like bombers disappeared beyond, the ground was filled with a sea of fire, like flowing lava.
The traffic lights at the edge of the bombing range bend and melt like taffy sticks.
The land where the punishment was inflicted was asphalt, concrete, wire mesh, and bone and flesh. All of this is flowing as one mass.
* * *
“Art is an explosion.”
That word came out of my mouth without me realizing it.
The ground where the carpet bombing passed looked as if a volcanic eruption had occurred.
Since modern doctrine was established, the bombings I have experienced in combat have always been precision strikes.
Carpet bombing, which involved pouring down a huge amount of bombs, was no different from an old-fashioned legacy that can only be found in textbooks.
I reflected on myself for once thinking that way.
“Is there any other act so beautiful?”
Even after some time has passed, it is full of acrid smoke.
This was the taste of napalm, but also the taste of cruel power.
The enormous army that the reconnaissance drone had identified was completely reduced to charcoal or completely evaporated with just one command from me.
Since joining Artemis, we have collected countless resources and technology by going on expeditions and sending expeditions.
I’ve had the feeling that my city is developing all the time, but I think this is the first time I’ve felt its power so symbolically.
Now I finally feel like I am fighting against the infectious agents.
“It smells amazing.”
It is truly a sweet smell. A scent that sweeps away enemies and confirms our strength.
[Is this irony?]
“No. Sincerely.”
[Ugh…]
Artemis groans as if she truly hates it.
Perhaps he was approaching my words from a purely sensory perspective.
“You must be mistaken. “What I meant was…”
My explanation was buried as the 12.7 mm machine guns on both sides of the helicopter opened fire.
Bullets rain down like hail on the few infected entities that were lucky enough to escape the carpet bombing.
“Keeeeek-!”
Some walkers had their lower bodies ripped off and crawled towards the helicopter with only their upper bodies.
However, the ground along the crawling path was as hot as a frying pan due to the aftermath of the napalm bombing.
The palm of my hand that touched the ground with a screeching sound burned, and my t-shirt, which was like clay, caught fire just from the heat.
As soon as he advanced about 10 meters, his whole body became so cold that he could no longer move and fell over.
The walkers running behind them exploded after being hit by large-diameter bullets, spraying blood and flesh everywhere.
The blood evaporates as soon as it touches the ground, and the flesh turns brown.
It was truly an end-of-the-century scene, but it felt exhilarating rather than cruel.
Genoplan, the destination of this expedition, is a company that deals with artificial muscles. Even at first glance, it is very closely related to military technology.
For one reason or another, it was built close to a U.S. Military base, and thanks to that, there were a huge number of infectious agents roaming around the area.
Bloodtech, located in the city center with many high-rise buildings, can conduct a drop operation while avoiding the attention of infected entities as long as the weather is good.
However, most of the buildings here are low.
Likewise, if you try to enter from above via helicopter, you will be surrounded by thousands of infected entities that attract attention.
It was necessary to completely wipe them out through large-scale bombing.
“It was a really coveted technology, but I’ve been sucking my fingers for so long, and now I’m finally getting into it.”
Before, without sufficient firepower, it was just a pie in the sky.
[Now, let’s go down.]
When I got down to the ground, I was able to see the devastation of the carpet bombing up close.
Carbonized walker corpses are scattered everywhere like black statues.
All limbs and fingers are twisted, probably due to muscle paralysis from the burning process.
“Key… Key… Eek-.”
A blackened walker looks up at me from the ground a few meters away.
Poop!
When I kicked the head with a military boot, the head was pulled out and rolled around with the sound of coal splitting. No blood flows from the cross-section of the neck.
Twelve heavily armed marauder robots disembarked from two Black Hawks in an orderly manner.
“Ha, only 12 out of 2 Blackhawks.”
It’s a transportation volume that makes me cry every time I see it.
No matter how lightweight they are, these robots have main frames made of metal.
Those guys are carrying combat rifles the size of light machine guns and are loaded with 12.7 mm bullets, so the weight is crazy.
Helicopters must be sufficiently armed for air support in case of emergency, and scout drones are also mounted for reconnaissance support.
Since there is a lot of being burned, fuel efficiency deteriorates, and you have to fill up with fuel.
In this way, no matter how much we squeezed, the limit was 6 units per unit.
It’s a shame that it’s a Black Hawk that has a lot of payloads. If it were a Surion, I guess I could have taken at least 4 of them?
[Jinsu.]
I put on the closed helmet handed to me by the robot and looked at my destination.
Ginoplan.
The exterior wall was somewhat scorched, as if the heat had reached this point.
A large poster drawn on the exterior wall of the Zinoplan building catches the eye.
Famous male and female models are showing off their muscles while half-naked. These are artificial muscles designed by Genoplan.
The shoulder camera on my shoulder looked around as if alert and stopped at the poster.
Geeing.
You can hear the sound of the lens repeatedly zooming in and out.
Artemis was closely observing the woman in the poster, from her collarbone to her chest, navel, hips, legs, and feet.
Recently, her desire for scientific exploration has exploded.
It was an opportunity for the shelter to grow, expand the scope of exploration, and gain access to various technologies and resources.
GMO seeds, camouflage, advanced medical materials, 3D printing, alternative fuels, alternative batteries, graphene gloves, waste metal reduction, ground autonomous weapons, and finally AI ethics.
I was especially surprised by the last part because it was something I had never thought of.
As the technology at her disposal increased and the intensity of her experiments increased, Artemis began to reconsider her own morality.
Then, she analyzed humanity’s moral philosophy and developed a discipline called AI ethics.
This was an action I never ordered.
“There is no need to fret. It will all be our technology. “I’ll shake it all off.”
Crash.
She said, loading the gun.
Genoplan’s artificial muscle technology. This is a technology that will make me and my robots even stronger. And…
[I’m not particularly anxious.]
Shoulder Cam quietly took his eyes off the poster. At the same time, a nearby robot secretly looks at the poster.
“…”
It is also a technique that will fill this cute young lady with flesh.
