## Chapter 221 – Underwater Battle (4)
A large corporation.
A totality of capital, manpower, and technology that an ordinary individual wouldn’t dare to look up to.
For an individual to stand against them would be a reckless challenge, akin to an ant trying to defeat an elephant.
To support Vivian’s plan to dare to look up at them, I voluntarily set out to search.
Fortunately, there were no construction plans for the lair for the time being, so I had no qualms about sending out numerous idle Kernel Worms to scout and gather information.
As they roamed the underground of every back alley, the small vibrations flowing in through the ground gathered, becoming excellent fragments of information that returned to me.
Of course, the inevitable fate was that it was so chaotic that I was losing my mind.
【I’m going to confess to her when I get back today.】…
‘Wouldn’t it be better to just do it now…?’
【The apples are plentiful this year. I’ll give you another one.】…
‘Should I invest in an orchard…?’
【One bluefin tuna, two spotted steedfish, three Hamin fish】
‘It feels like the useless noise is gradually increasing…’
It was certainly good that so much information was coming in, but the problem was that there was no one to share it with…
Even when I was a company employee, I was recognized for my abilities.
Even though my multitasking skills weren’t bad, I only had one head, after all.
Just when I thought I had to give up, I heard a voice that made my tentacles stiffen.
– Rabbit beastkin, cooperate.
Will make it painless.
Trust the oppas.
“Hiiiik!! Please don’t open my head!!”
It was like I had seen my lifeline.
Why had I forgotten the omnipotent tools of the lair?
“P… Please help me…!!
They’re messing with my head again…!!
Ah… Th… There…?”
I discovered the tentacles were swaying with satisfaction, and Pina, who had run away, rushed over and grabbed the tentacles.
At that moment, Pina’s face, sensing the sinister laughter filling my head, turned almost earth-colored.
‘Hehehehe!! You can’t escape!!’
“Hiiiiiiiiik!!”
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“Hmm… Orchard… This goes here…”
After a moment of contemplation, Pina pointed somewhere with her finger, and a Parasite pointed at by her fingertip jumped into the air and then fell back into place.
‘That’s right, that’s it.’
After that, as Pina pointed one by one, the Parasites jumped in order, showing a reaction.
“Agricultural area, magic engineering area…
And near the royal capital…
Divided into several groups according to the area…
Okay, they’re standing properly, right? They’re standing…”
The countless pieces of information flowing into my head.
Pina read it with her ability and immediately conveyed it to the Parasites.
Then, the Parasites who received the information remembered it, and with their engineer-like calculation and storage abilities, they could bring back the memory at any time.
The only part that had to be done manually here was pushing the information into the correct area.
“Then, let’s divide it by part again…
The information coming in from the detailed areas, let’s have each of them remember it separately?
Then, shall we start…?”
Pina, who was initially confused in this part, was soon hitting the information into the accurate Parasites, playing a central role as an initial startup member of the ‘Lair Net’.
Of course, it was a temporary name, but the ‘Lair Net’ was literally a mechanism that worked similarly to a computer and the internet.
There were Parasites, storage devices and output devices that acted as numerous servers, and Pina, an input device.
When I told Pina to release the information I wanted, the Parasites checked if they had the information stored inside them.
And if they didn’t, they didn’t release it, but if they did, they quickly gave an answer.
– Orchard area, back alley. Information confirmed, successful.
Price increase of apples and fruits.
Lack of producer productivity due to pests.
And the possibility of collusion among merchants for additional profits.
Moreover, based on the given information, they even came up with their own conclusions, so it was quite computer-like.
– Perfect. Excellent execution of instructions.
– Information request about the vicinity of the brothel.
Sufficient storage space.
– Academy area.
Will ask about the information.
Will answer.
Watching them excitedly chattering among themselves, I felt something strange again.
Of course, the Parasites were already omnipotent, but I felt like a terrible boss asking them to do this on top of that…
Instead, I brushed it off, thinking that I would increase the supply of female bodies they could experiment on as a reward.
Fortunately, they seemed to be interested in this new form of work, actively storing and outputting information.
Anyway, that’s beside the point, I had a purpose for doing this.
‘Search term. 【Brothel, Mademoiselle, Laratina】’
Focusing on that, I watched the Parasites wriggling around.
The guys who were wriggling around, spinning in place, or jumping around, soon began to take out the information they had.
– Brothel Mademoiselle, the best brothel.
Laratina, beautiful madam.
– Laratina, no management skills.
Suspicion about the brothel’s operating status.
– Laratina’s pussy, damn delicious.
– Laratina, not even as good as a prostitute.
‘Wait… What…?’
I felt a slight sense of incongruity at the fact that there were more insults than compliments, and I began to collect the following information.
– Last week, Laratina had intercourse with 3 men at the same time.
The same schedule is planned for this week as well.
‘Is this right…? Something’s wrong…?
Should I be wary of the parts where information is entered without being filtered…?’
But one thing I could tell was that, at least based on the information I had collected, Laratina was living a promiscuous life.
Moreover, she wasn’t good at it herself, so she was receiving a lot of help from those around her.
One thing I could guess here was that she was probably snuggling up to men for that ‘help’.
In a sense, wasn’t it a typical way of getting by?
A woman who is weak and has no special abilities only has her body.
Although she has a considerable amount of money, even what she has in her hands will be taken away the moment she is seen as a joke in the back alley.
But the destructive power that a female body gives to a man is truly exceptional.
Even if Laratina herself has no ability, she is at least a wealthy woman who owns a high-end brothel and has a beautiful body.
Then, it would be possible for her to seduce a man to help her with that body and prevent him from betraying her.
‘Then I should slowly start tracking down the rumors in reverse…’
If I dig into this part, I’m sure a path to Laratina will open up.
For me, who was carefully grabbing the tail of the information, the Kernel Worms had to swim through the ground with their tails between their legs again today.
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“Wow…”
“This… This…
Where did you get this…?”
‘Just… Information gathering…?’
Aurora, who was just gaping, and Vivian’s eyes, who was throwing questions at me, were fixed on the parchments they were holding in their trembling hands.
After finishing the academy class and returning to the lair to prepare to go out to the back alley, I suddenly handed them this as if I had picked it up on the way.
The contents written in the parchments were information that was difficult to obtain even if you went to a competent information agency.
They were surprised at the level of information, as if they had to have the ability to sneak into a room where someone was alone and quietly eavesdrop on them talking to themselves.
But for me, it was simple…
‘Who would think someone would be listening underground?’
Birds hear daytime words and mice hear nighttime words, but they are not people in the first place.
Birds are happy if they peck at bugs, and mice are happy if they gnaw on rice grains, so it doesn’t matter to them what information they hear.
Similarly, although I am not human, I can think, so if I hear information, there are endless possibilities to use it.
In the end, Pina diligently transcribed the collected information and made it into a report of dozens of pages on parchment.
Vivian spent a long time scanning the contents of the parchment, thinking that there were endless possibilities to try something with just this in her hand.
“I… First of all… I’ll see what I can do with this… So I’ll go to work first…!!
Thank you, really… What to do… Smooch!!”
As if she couldn’t get rid of her flustered mind, she stuttered unlike Vivian and fearlessly gave a deep kiss to the tentacle, and then she changed the Nemea she was wearing and ran somewhere.
I’ll leave it up to her how she will use that information with the other beastkin females who are preparing to go out.
Now, I’m starting to turn my attention to other parts, following the flow of another piece of information I’ve obtained.
A name that is sometimes mentioned together in the part that mentions Laratina.
‘Polignac… The chairman of the academy…
What’s the relationship…’
In the old days, it was one of the first families to establish the academy according to Groden’s royal order, and it is a marquis family that has been steadily running the academy to this day.
I heard that the previous Marquis Polignac died of illness, and the unmarried young lady is temporarily acting as the head of the family.
In fact, I didn’t have anything else to be curious about other than that.
Because I had already seen the young lady in person.
On the very day that the Public Security Police Department raided the academy.
And the young lady, who made me recall the memory at that time like a déjà vu, happened to be in front of me again.
“What is this flower?”
As if she was out for a walk, wearing a casual dress instead of the usual academy uniform.
The worries and concerns filling the girl’s eyes as she tilted her head while looking at the large sunflower.
It was reminiscent of the eyes of the manager that I had forgotten for a while.
‘I am… A flower…
A pretty flower…’
