Chapter 254 – What Is This?
Nanosuit ver 1.12 Emergency diagnosis.
Wearer: Seo Jin-su
Suit durability: 83%
Status: Suspended consciousness, dehydration, starvation
Current location: Unidentifiable
Current time: Unidentifiable
*Reference to records
1. Human consciousness cannot be maintained when passing through a dimensional gap during warp. By Solaver.
2. It was confirmed that the gun, backpack, and part of the suit surface were separated immediately after warping in Tanis. It is assumed that the substances were sent separately from the wearer.
*Conclusion drawn
Possibility of abnormal warp due to multiple infected attacks just before escape.
Code: Drifting. Delay. Time distortion.
*Priority action
1. Securing batteries to sustain the suit life support system.
2. Securing nutrients for the wearer’s survival.
3. Stop unnecessary energy activities such as hair growth and sperm production.
Resources: Sequential decomposition of fat, muscle, and less important suit accessories that make up the wearer’s body.
Waiting for wearer approval.
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Unable to obtain approval due to suspended consciousness.
Forced execution begins.
* * *
My body is heavy. My head is heavy too. The only thing that is refreshing is the air that enters your lungs.
It feels like I had a very, very long dream. But I don’t remember the contents of the dream.
It seems like I haven’t even woken up from my dream yet.
Wait, but where did I fall asleep?
A tatami room at my private ryokan? Because of that, my whole body aches even in my dreams…
Did you fall asleep while watching a movie in the upper theater?
Are you cool on the bench while taking a walk in the park?
Did you fall asleep while watching the sea from the pavilion outside the top of the shelter?
Artemis hated it when I lay down and slept outside the dorm like that.
I always put my hand on my waist and nagged that it was not good for my health. Either during the hologram days or after getting a body.
Haha, if they found out that I was sleeping with the old man and the robots in a small cave in the middle of Tanis’ murder storm, they would be very upset…
Huh?
Tanis?
Young man?
My robots?
“…!”
My eyes opened brightly.
The sky is not unfamiliar. A familiar sight with white clouds floating on a sky blue background and a sun looking down, asking ‘What are you looking at?’
There was no crazy sandstorm raging in the colorful sky of Tanis.
There is no land reminiscent of the Grand Canyon, and there are no alien infections or strange native creatures targeting us from all directions.
All I see are the familiar pine trees and grass, broken roads, and the sound of birds chirping. A friendly hometown is unfolding.
It’s back to Earth!
But it’s strange. Shouldn’t we have arrived at the spacecraft’s simple warp device instead of in the open air?
“Huh?”
As I was stroking my chin in a suspicious situation, I discovered something strange.
When I raised my hand in front of me, the bony fingers showed off their presence.
I tried to get up reflexively, but my legs gave out, and I fell to the ground. I had no energy in my whole body.
“What on earth is this?”
As I sit down and scan my body, I see a skinny and unsightly body. It was a visual that would have been perfect even if it had come straight out of a Nazi German concentration camp during World War II.
Moreover, the nanosuit that tightly wrapped my body turned into rags.
There were more exposed areas of bare skin than covered areas, and even those areas were very thin. Rather than being destroyed by an attack, it looks like it collapsed like a rotten leaf.
I reflexively looked behind me, but the backpack containing the vaccine was not there. The same goes for guns and knives.
The naked, skinny firewood man was alone.
Burrr.
I tried to tighten my fist, but I don’t think I could twist a single piece of chicken properly. The ship is making a constant growling noise.
What happened? There is no one to even ask.
Nearby, there is an empty road typical of a suburban area, and the rest is overgrown with weeds.
Except for a row of small hills a short distance away, not a single house is visible.
You can only tell that this is Korea thanks to the road signs written in Korean.
I lowered my posture and looked around. I don’t know anything about what’s going on, but I know for sure that I’m completely defenseless right now.
Even if you encounter just one walker, it will be reduced to a meal. There won’t be much to eat, though.
Growling.
But even if I were to hide, I think everyone would be discovered because of the thunder coming from this ship.
Where on earth are we?
I definitely accomplished the mission and made it to warp with the vaccine. But when I came to my senses, I realized that I had lost everything I had and was like a beggar.
Fortunately, the weather is cool, neither hot nor cold. Looking at the condition of the nearby trees, it seems to be spring. If it had fallen like this in the middle of winter, it wouldn’t have lasted even a few hours.
It can’t stay like this forever. First, I headed near the roadside.
In fact, in a world like this, not only infectious agents but also people would be subject to caution, but right now I have no choice.
I’m hungry, thirsty and tired. I feel lacking in everything except life.
Brain implants and nervous systems are also abnormal. Everything that made me a special warrior was stripped away.
Walking in the worst conditions while being alert to the surroundings, and walking on the dirt road away from the paved road just in case, was a mental drain.
How long did I walk slowly?
I still couldn’t see any buildings and I didn’t encounter a single person.
“Damn it.”
Slowly, I feel dizzy. Even just walking made her head spin, making her a real weakling.
While I was struggling to walk, the other parts of the suit that were barely covering my body began to fall apart one by one.
In the end, I tripped over a rock and fell. I didn’t have the strength to lift my face, so I just breathed. The smell of dirt and grass enters the lungs.
I lived because it was a dirt road! It’s terrible what it would have been like if it had been dropped on asphalt.
“Haha.”
Without having the strength to stand up, I lay down on my back and looked at the sky.
What am I doing now?
Thanks to the dedication of old Solaver, Alpha, Tango, Charlie, and Echo, we escaped Tanis.
He should have completed his heroic journey and returned with the greatest gift. I should have held Artemis, Rose, and Chrollo in my arms and realized that everything was over.
I deserved it.
But to be in a situation where you don’t know when you will die after collapsing in a village with no one around.
I want to get rid of everything. The moment that one thought filled my mind, I saw something coming from the corner of my eye.
It was a military truck.
* * *
As I lay down and waited, the truck stopped next to me.
A man who appeared to be in his 50s stuck his head out the window of his car.
“Hey.”
He told me.
“Hello, how are you?”
I couldn’t get up either, so I just raised my hands and waved them.
There were men in the passenger seat and in the truck bed, and they were all well-armed.
The first two are wearing military body armor, and the subordinates in the luggage compartment are also wearing sports equipment or combat armor made of iron plates.
The man in the passenger seat was holding an M16 rifle, and the men in the back seat were also holding air guns, hunting shotguns, and crossbows.
This is excellent among civilian search groups.
“I don’t have the energy to get up, so please excuse me while I lie down.”
“I know it when I see it.”
The middle-aged man in the driver’s seat grinned. Just by looking at it, he must be the boss of this group.
The moment I saw his expression and intonation, I knew that he was not coming for a rescue based on morality.
It was a soldier’s intuition.
It seems like the sight of a dead body rolling around on the side of the road piqued his interest, and he approached him in hopes of getting something to rob.
Well, I expected it to some extent. This is not a world where a dying person can naturally think, ‘I’m alive!’ When he meets another person.
“Wow, there are people in the world these days who walk around like this.”
Let’s go!
Before I could reply, thunderstruck the ship.
The sound was so loud that everyone in the luggage compartment seemed to have heard it. It is even a boat horn with a much longer rhythm than usual.
Haha!”
Everyone in the truck burst into laughter. One of them even pointed a finger at me.
“I made you laugh, so could you give me a ride on your way out?”
“I don’t like that. The more you ride, the more gas you use, right? “The price of oil has already risen again.”
A middle-aged man smiled, showing his yellow teeth.
“No, I can’t tell you how heavy this mangled body is when I ride it.”
I held up my bony arm. I didn’t have the strength to lift my hand, so only my palm hung down.
“Oh, I’m really going crazy!”
“Phew!”
What was so funny about this? The men burst out laughing.
“If that’s true, wouldn’t it be okay to have some water or food?”
I sat up with all the strength I had from breastfeeding and asked with an earnest expression.
I’m still talking about this as a joke, but my life was truly a disaster.
If I had anything of value, I might have been killed by them already.
Because they were completely broke inside and out, their interest did not turn into other dangerous emotions.
“If I just keep going like this, will I die?”
“In a world like this, what’s so big about people dying? When it’s time to go, you go.”
“Oh my, please show me some grace by saving a dying person.”
“Well, nothing in this world is free. “It looks like I don’t have anything.”
I resisted the urge to say that I could give you hundreds of millions of dollars if you would just take me to the shelter.
In the current situation, it would be fortunate if I didn’t get laughed at for saying that. Even if you just kick me for being a cheater, it would be a serious injury.
Actually, there were so many things I wanted to ask other than that. There were questions about the current date, where this place was, and what the situation was in Korea.
However, the interest on the face of the middle-aged man I was talking to was slowly fading, so I kept my mouth shut.
“Hey.”
The man in the passenger seat raised his head and asked me. He is a young guy who looks like a weasel.
“Yes!”
I put aside my initial somewhat arrogant attitude and answered politely.
“Are you good at anything?”
“I’m good at taking care of guns!”
“Nowadays, even girls who don’t have their period get it sorted, you idiot.”
The weasel laughed.
“Besides, there isn’t much use of guns around here. Because the zombies were all sorted out.”
Zombies probably refer to infectious agents.
Has the problem of large colonies or swarms been solved? But now is not the time to ask that.
If you don’t want to starve to death abandoned on the side of the road, you have to like these guys.
“I am qualified as an electrician!”
“Oh?”
The moment I saw the middle-aged man in the driver’s seat getting angry, I didn’t miss the opportunity.
“I’m also qualified as an electrical engineer!
In fact, there are many other certifications besides these, but even if you tell them to the public, they will not understand.
In this apocalyptic era, electricians are cheats.
“If you just give me something to tie with the nippers, I can repair anything. Whether it’s a radio or a communication device, just leave it to me. “I know how to fix cars and motorcycles to some extent.”
“Hey, is this an item, bro?”
The weasel said to the satisfied middle-aged man.
“He speaks English well too!”
Did I go too far out of urgency? The expressions of the middle-aged man and the weasel hardened.
“Isn’t this kid messing around?”
“This guy is so unlucky.”
While the middle-aged man thought I was lying to save my life, the weasel guy just didn’t like me for being so boastful.
“It’s so salty. If you mess up, feel free to punish me later. Either pull out your fingernails or cut off your dick!”
I made the motion of raising the blade of my hand and striking its head.
Artemis, do you know that your husband is struggling with this disease in order to survive?
“Well, okay. I’m already in a bad mood because I wasted so much, but I have to pick something up. Kids, give that guy a ride. “Isn’t it a pity to leave it like this?”
Even though Malponsae felt bad, he lived anyway.
“The youngest.”
“Yes! “Brother.”
The young man riding in the luggage compartment responded loudly to the weasel’s call. It’s a very young face.
He was a funny guy wearing some kind of armor and a colorful life jacket. He even holds a homemade spear while everyone else uses ranged weapons.
“Can you stand up?”
The youngest who jumped asked me.
A kid who is much younger than me is talking informally.
“Oh, of course.”
I struggled to get up and raised my thumb.
“Wow, the smell.”
The youngest one who was approaching pinched his nose and frowned at her. Dried juice was flowing through my body.
“You bastard, did you shave again?”
After hearing what the youngest said, I touched Ha-gwan and there was no beard at all. His body looks like it hasn’t been washed in years.
“Ride as fast as you can.”
“Yes!”
I headed to the truck bed. I didn’t realize it until now, but there was another truck behind.
When I tried to get on top, the youngest grabbed my shoulder.
“What are you doing?”
“Didn’t you tell me to get on?”
It felt like I was starting my military life again.
“That’s where you get on, dude.”
“Oh, there are definitely a lot of people.”
I tried to please everyone as much as possible and followed the youngest child’s lead and went to the back car.
“I have seen many explorers, but this is the first time I have seen such well-armed and well-disciplined people.”
Is this a side effect of pontificating and dominating the shelter for too long? The tongue does not roll properly.
“Huh?”
The moment I reached the luggage compartment of the car behind me, I froze.
The truck behind was structured like a chicken coop with a steel barbed prison system, and scantily clad women were trapped inside. Some women are completely naked.
Everyone was looking at the youngest guy in complete fear.
A bald man waiting in front looked at me and unlocked the bar door.
“Welcome.”
The bald man smiles grimly and motions for me to go in. In his hand is a blue machete.
“What are you doing? “I won’t ride it.”
The youngest guy pushed my back with the spear he was holding.
Sensing that something was wrong, I climbed up with difficulty. Even that was difficult because I had so little energy, but one of the women inside helped me.
Cheolkeng
The door closed, and the lock was locked.
“Do you think we are people who collect waste paper?”
The youngest one held the bars with both hands and grinned.
“You were kidnapped.”
With those words, the guy disappeared.
When I looked back at the women, they all nodded with dead eyes.
“Arabsho?”
So I suddenly became a slave at the turn of the century.
