Chapter 117 – 19. Conflict (4)
A small room located in Area E2.
A girl was lying on her desk and rolling over her body in a space no different from other areas, where only a sense of desolation prevailed.
“Has your body really become transparent…?”
Ray touched his body with her tiny hands.
After one full body tour of her slender forearms, firm breasts, and soft belly, her palms finally came to a conclusion: ‘I don’t know’.
I wondered if the transparency was being properly applied to the tactile sensation that was not much different from before entering the facility, but Seo Joo-ha made a single gesture (of course, Alice in the shadows actually used her ability), and four people It was best to believe it for now, as she had witnessed the movement of people with her own eyes.
“Heeing… I want to see the unnies…”
Less than a month had passed since she left the facility, but Ray suddenly felt a longing for her comrades.
Is it because Lee Ji-hoo, who has always been by his side, is no longer there? Her idiosyncratic aspirations for her relationships are once ignited, and Ray’s bored eyes slowly rejuvenate.
With no one around to control her now, it was an ideal situation for her deviance.
There won’t be any important data in Area E anyway, so why don’t we visit for a little while?
An irresistible urge in Ray’s head made her sneak up on her head.
If you walk along the passage directly from Area E to Area B, it will lead you directly to Areas A and C, so for Ray, who is currently in the center of Area E, it was quite easy to look around and come back.
“Jihoo said to keep her seat, but… Well, it’ll be okay for a while~ Oh, I’ll have to see her team leader while I’m on my way!”
She is a grateful person who worked hard so that she could attend the academy.
Although they couldn’t have a conversation, Ray hurriedly followed her familiar structure to the department where her team leader was, hoping to see the face of the team leader, who would spend most of his time in Area E if nothing else happened.
[Top Secret Management Division of the National Intelligence Service]
Reaching her doorstep, Ray’s heart began to pound strangely.
How has the team leader of hers whom I haven’t seen in a long time changed? Is she still a picky person who grumbles and accepts everything?
If it’s the team leader, wouldn’t it be okay if she talked for a while…? She’d be very helpful in stopping her sister if you could also tell her that Xian’s sister is plotting something bad.
‘First of all… I’ll just open the door slightly.’
People might get suspicious if the door suddenly burst open.
With that thought in mind, Ray, who loosely held the doorknob and pushed the door open, was startled by the terrifyingly quiet atmosphere felt inside.
“What…? Why is no one here…?”
She said that until she left the facility, the space where people’s conversations and laughter had never ceased was now filled with chilly silence instead of people’s voices.
A bunch of paperwork scattered on Hardiman’s desk, and a coffee cup that hadn’t cooled down yet and steamed, clearly proved that there were people here just a moment ago.
“Everybody, where did everyone go…? T, Team Leader! Ray is here!”
There is no way the answer will come back.
Even though he had already realized this in his heart for a long time, Ray went around the room and shouted people’s names in an effort to deny it.
“What, really… Ah, aha…! This is a hidden camera~ right? Hehe… Ray, I got it! Team leader, don’t hide now and come out! Huh? Come out, come out…! Ugh, me, please come out… Please… Please…”
Her self-talk, close to desperation, is scattered into the void without being heard by anyone.
The anxious mental state right before realizing the terrible truth, the terrible exhaustion and futility, caused Ray to cover his face with his two hands and collapse on the spot.
– Haa… I knew it would be like this. I’ll have to go back to the owner and report it.
And Ellis, who followed her master’s command and watched her hiding in the shadows, finally decided to return to the area where her master was waiting, bringing her fallen Ray.
‘If Master hadn’t attached me to this human…’
It was a dangerous situation that could have run amok before long if left in a state of panic.
She decided to save her magic power as much as possible to prepare for her unexpected battle, but in this case, it was her best option to return to her master’s side as quickly as possible rather than drain her magic power.
Picking her sigh, Elise hurriedly began building a gate for her shadow to move.
Two beings linked by a contract of subordination can instantly locate their location even if they are far apart, so they don’t have to go through a separate complicated process, just target the shadow of the owner and open the passage that connects it.
But just as she was about to step out of her shadow, Elise suddenly felt the flow of her sticky magic power all over her skin, filling her surroundings.
Feeling uneasy for some reason, Alice tried to detect other demons around her one after another, but each time she only sent back the result that she had no ability to detect her.
“I’ll send him first… I’ll have to look around the area.”
The plan to go back together with her was slightly changed, and the situation was urgent, so Ray was sent back first, and she decided to stay here alone for a while.
No matter how much Alice’s excellent senses say that there are no other demons on several occasions, there is a huge difference between her simply spreading her magical powers and confirming her wide radius, and observing her directly with her ‘eyes’. .
‘Well, there’s nothing wrong with being careful.’
As she thought about that, the moment she activated her ‘eye’ by infusing her magic power, Elise was quite shocked.
Even to her, who could be proud of having seen all sorts of horrible sights of her while living as a demon, such a bizarre and cruel scene gave her mental pain to the point of involuntarily gagging.
“It’s gone… It wasn’t…”
Procrastinate.
Those who had been human until just a moment ago were crawling towards Elise, slithering their bodies that had melted and clung to the floor.
Dark red pus that could be glimpsed through the mushy apricot-colored flesh occasionally burst with a pop, scattering sticky impurities all over the room.
It was a familiar monster that I had seen before, but it still had a terrible look that was hard to adapt to.
“Something…Something is very wrong…”
We must hurry and get away from here.
ASAP.
We weren’t one step ahead of them.
Seeing the site of a bizarre mutation that may have started a few days ago, Alice was able to instinctively realize the truth about her.
We had put our heads directly into the wide open mouth of the shark.
“Hurry… Hurry up and let me know… Ah?!”
Ellis, who was about to leave the room to inform her owner, stiffened when she saw the presence outside her door.
Wrong. She was never hopeless.
Everyone… Will die here.
“It’s been a while, Alice.”
An unpleasant squeak, as if scraping an iron plate with a saw.
A large, grotesquely twisted horn that emits a hideous glow when illuminated.
The great demon of collapse, Compuntur, has appeared here.
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“It’s bullshit again… Huh? What’s wrong with this?”
I was just about to go around the 4th district and go to the passage without much success, but the band of shadows that were wrapped around my wrists suddenly started to wriggle.
It is a shadow in the form of a bracelet that Juha placed on my arm before he left, begging me not to get hurt.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with me, but anyway, the fact that the shadow was wriggling right now meant that some kind of incident had occurred.
First of all, you should contact Elise and ask her to go to Juha for a while…
“Jihoo…!”
Then, an urgent voice came from behind.
“Is it Juha?”
Juha was approaching me as if he was half-crawling, clutching his trembling legs.
Judging by the heavy breathing, something must have happened.
“You can take it slow, take a deep breath and say it. What happened? Shall I call the others?”
“That’s the time… It’s not the time, Jihoo…”
“What…?”
Juha’s eyes roll here and there as if confused.
Their eyes are full of fear and anxiety, worried that something will appear right away.
In a completely different atmosphere from my usual Juha, I was speechless and could only listen to her story.
“Hey Jihoo, listen carefully. That woman you talked about… Her cyan has appeared.”
“She just showed up? No, how…?”
“He knew everything…That we were coming here, and that I was a half horse…!”
Shit.
It wasn’t the time to leisurely look around.
But Juha’s words did not end there.
“Twenty minutes, no, there are less than twenty minutes left… They said that if we don’t get out of here by 3:00 PM, we’ll kill them unconditionally. Even now, we have to choose quickly. Whether we’ll gather together and fight, or run away safely.”
The time now is… 2:45.
With less than 15 minutes left, I had to choose one of two options that would have a significant impact on my future.
Block Xian as much as possible so that he can’t steal the data, or get everyone together and run away and ask for reinforcements.
Getting help from the facility’s personnel is thought to be virtually impossible.
Most of the researchers couldn’t see where they had gone in the first place, and even if they called other awakened people after they ran away, it was highly likely that the situation had already ended by then.
“I… Will abide by your decision. Even if everyone else goes back, I can’t leave you alone.”
Joo-ha said to me with a much improved expression, as if his heart had calmed down a little.
To be honest, I just wanted to fight against it.
After all, the opponent will be only one cyan, and the rest of the demons will be insignificant guys.
Even if there are no Awakeners left in the facility, it would be possible to gain the upper hand, even for a moment, with the abilities of Ryu Xin and Ju Ha.
However, he also felt keenly that he could never win at that level.
In the end, what they want is probably data related to magic implantation research, and unless the entire facility is blown up, entering one of the many locked rooms, stealing the data, and leaving leisurely is close to impossible.
“…I’ve decided. Let’s run away. It seems impossible to fight now.”
“Okay, Jihoo. Then I’ll call the others this way… Uh, wait… Ellis was in charge of communications… I can’t reach him right now.”
“What…?”
The moment she heard those words, a strange feeling of ominousness came over her body.
While thinking that there wouldn’t have been a problem since he would not have met Xian in the first place, one assumption that made him unable to feel safe still remained in his mind, raising doubts.
“Originally, the contact line should have been continuously connected… But the link itself has been cut off.
“Then, call Ryushin here first. I’ll go find Ray and Elise, so when Ryushin comes, come over to my place.”
I can’t pinpoint exactly what the situation is.
However, one thing was clear: something was going terribly wrong.
