Chapter 236 – Pocket Girls
Then, a beautiful woman with impressive light blue hair begins to appear.
“Ohhhhh!! Here comes Lia, who is in charge of the bravery of the Hyper Team!!”
‘…Ah, that’s childish.’
It was a very childish line, but the guards coughed and knelt down in their seats at the terrible tear gas that was the exact opposite of the line.
“Khehe… Khehe…”
“…Huh? Why are you fine?”
“Huh…?”
Lia is taken aback by the security guard who collapses shortly after and Seong-il standing still, unlike the people inside. Her Seong-il scratches her head involuntarily and begins to follow her words.
“Huh…? Other than a slight sting, I can’t feel anything…?”
“…This is very poisonous tear gas?”
“Uh… Well…”
When her Sung-il was momentarily speechless and unable to say anything, she waved her hand with an expression that Lia was okay, then she continued her words as she pointed her gun at him.
“Enough. You! See that old man in white over there?”
“Eh? Eh…”
“Bring me before me!”
‘…How does this happen?’
Seong-il realized that the situation he was in was a normal event, so he calmly shut his mouth and started approaching the old man.
‘…One of the abilities that the shadow gives, poison immunity is so helpful.’
“Doctor, are you okay?”
“Khehe… Khehe… Out of breath…!!”
“Hey. Take this.”
When Dr. Lowe is in great pain, Lia throws a mask at Seong-il. Seong-il receives a mask from him and puts it on the doctor. Perhaps thanks to that, the doctor’s breathing soon began to change evenly.
“Ha… Ha… Go… Thank you.”
Dr. Lowe’s face turned white from the poison of the gas. As if feeling sorry for him, he tries to approach the guards lying down beside him.
“There!”
“…!!”
Leah stops him. She raises her gun and points it at Seong-il and Dr. Lowe, then begins to follow her words.
“Well, welcome, Dr. Lowe! You’re the one responsible for researching the legacy of an old civilization hidden here underground, right?”
“…!!”
At the mention of her legacy of an old civilization, Dr. Lowe looks at her with a look of surprise on her face and replies.
“That… How does the Hyper Team…!!”
“Ohhhhh!! You don’t need to know that… You’re supposed to take us to that place!”
“…Us? Are there other people here besides you? And that condition can’t be met even if my head is blown off!!”
“Ohhhhh!! Is that so?”
Dr. Lowe’s refusal makes Lea look unconcerned, and she begins to carry on her words, placing the detonator in her hand to his face.
“You see this here?”
“…?”
“If I press this, the bomb planted by my colleagues who infiltrated this place as wild psychics will explode.”
“!!”
“Then~ Not only will you and I die!! Innocent employees who are poisoned by the gas and can’t control their bodies, and wild psychics who were being trained will all die together, right?”
‘…A crazy bastard.’
Seong-il is shocked by Lia’s casual remarks about the suicide bombing with a smile. He realizes once again that this game is only packaged as a bad C-class game, and that the game’s world view is a brutal apocalypse world.
“Hmm…”
And the doctor, who knows that fact so well, shows a contemplation by spitting out a silence at her words.
‘…I just want to beat him up and stop the terrorism, but this situation is a really important and necessary event in the game, so what’s the point of interfering with it?’
While Seong-il was thinking about it. Seeing Dr. Lowe’s troubles, Lia realizes that he can be persuaded by his attitude, so she throws a book of carrots at him and tries to convince him.
“If the Doctor cooperates with us and allows us to take only the materials we want!! Not only will we not explode the bomb! We promise that no one will get hurt!”
“…How do you believe that?”
“It’s easy! We won’t interfere with the evacuation of the people inside! Instead, during that time, following the doctor’s guidance, we’ll enter the old world’s laboratory hidden deep underground and go get the data!!”
“Um…”
“There’s no time! Doctor! Choose…!! Die together! Or cooperate with us~~”
Dr. Lowe looks at her with a look of disgust at Leah’s comments that she will initiate her suicide attack so cheerfully. He sighs lightly and begins to answer her back.
“Huh… If you really keep your promise, there’s nothing you can’t do. If you can protect the innocent…”
“Ohhh!! Of course! We don’t want to run into the same ‘humans’, do we?”
“…Are they committing such atrocities against wild psychics?!”
“Ah~ Dr., Too… Are animals and humans the same?”
‘Crazy bastards…’
The question and answer of the two people is short but contains a lot of content. Seong-il feels goosebumps at their words of treating wild psychics as animals.
“Okay, I’ll cooperate. But…”
“But…?”
“…Are you sure you can keep your promise? I see too many loopholes in your plans.”
“Yes? What?”
“That’s right! I’ll yield a hundred times and move to the underground lab while the personnel inside the lab evacuate like you said! Let’s say we seal the entrance in the meantime.”
“Yes…”
“How are you guys going to escape with the data? What’s the law telling you to change your attitude when you go back and not talk about bombing and threaten?”
“Ohhhhh!! Don’t worry~ I’ve already planned a way to escape with the materials~”
“…”
“There’s a secret passage inside that you don’t know about? You can’t enter from the outside, but there’s a passage you can get out of… I’ll escape through it!”
“…There was such a place?”
“Yes! Could we have done this without calculating? It’s hard to say more than this~”
“Ha…”
When Lia said that she had no plans for further terrorism, the doctor let her sigh of relief and began to answer her in her weak voice.
“Okay. I’ll guide you inside. Instead, make sure to keep your promise not to kill.”
“Sure! Hey you?”
“Huh? Me?”
Seong-il puts on a puzzled expression when she suddenly calls him. The moment he gathers her skills in preparation for an unexpected threat, she begins to carry on her fortunate words.
“I’m sorry, but you have to come with us to help Dr. Lowe.”
“What?! That can’t be said!!”
When Seong-il, in addition to himself, seems to be a victim, Dr. Low vehemently denies it. He didn’t know who Seong-il was, but judging from his appearance and when he appeared, he instantly realized that he was a young explorer who had just come of age, so he vehemently denied it.
Clap!
“Really? So, should I kill this friend?”
“What are you doing!!
“You’ve heard our plan, right? I don’t want to kill people who don’t need it… But since it’s an important operation for us, it’s difficult if it fails due to information leakage.”
“…!!”
At her words, the doctor makes a puzzled expression. Seong-il supports him and begins to answer as if reassuring him.
“It doesn’t matter if I go with you, doctor. It’s to protect people. Besides, it’s inconvenient to leave the doctor who is not feeling well because of the gas, so let’s go together.”
“You…!!”
At Seong-il’s reckless words, Dr. Lowe opens his mouth to stop him with an angry expression. Cutting off his words, Seong-il continues to answer.
“If I don’t follow you anyway, I will die.”
“Hmm…”
Dr. Lowe, who utters a muffled voice and doesn’t say anything. Lia, who heard the conversation between the two, smiled and went behind them and pointed the gun at her and began to follow her words.
“Hey~ I think the conversation is over… Shall we go?”
“…I see.”
Having said that, the doctor stood up among the guards and children who were in pain, and after instructing them to do something with the gas, he began to move himself to the corner of the laboratory.
‘…Are you instructing us to escape?’
“Let’s go over there…”
The doctor barely walks leaning on Seong-il, probably because the gas was quite poisonous. Following his guidance, Seong-il moves from place to place hidden inside the laboratory.
“Ohh…!! Finally…!!”
A huge steel door closed tightly. When Lia reaches the iron gate, she takes out what appears to be a military radio from her arms with a thrilled expression on her face and begins to connect her words somewhere.
“I’ve found the target! I’ll leave the locator on for a while, so gather here.”
‘…Am I going to collect the party that was hidden inside?’
Indeed, not long after Seong-il thought so, a brown-haired man with a stupid impression and a woman with ordinary appearance, who were probably Hyper Dan’s colleagues, appear by their side.
“Here! Here!”
“Ohh!! As expected, it was successful!! It’s like a brave Rio!”
“Ohhhhh…!! Thank you!! Peron!”
‘…They do shit.’
It’s a hopelessly terrifying worldview, but the two members of the hyper team continue a pleasant conversation with a slightly less detached mental world like a light C-class yagame. Seong-il looks at them pathetically and connects his thoughts.
‘…I remember there wasn’t a single male in the party…? Am I mistaken?’
It’s been a long time since I’ve been playing, so the details are vague. As he frowns and reminisces about the event, Rio starts asking him the questions he wants.
“What about Junil?”
“Ah, that guy dropped out.”
“Eh? Suddenly?”
“Yeah, originally, while the three of us were moving and reconnaissance, we found an unusual guy in this shelter and decided to check its usefulness, so we left the operation.”
“…What kind of guy is he?”
“I don’t know. I heard that he was imprisoned… His name was Tae… What was it? Anyway, there was a signal coming out of his necklace, which proves that it is a descendant of a genetic modification experiment conducted by our organization in the past. They said it was a signal. They said they went to check it.”
“Ohhh…”
‘…It’s Taeseong.’
When I heard the story of Hyperdan, the name of Taeseong naturally came to my mind. Seong-il begins to think about Tae-seong’s secret history that he had forgotten for a while.
‘Come to think of it, didn’t that guy say that her mother had been kidnapped by a hyper-dan, and that she was a wild psychic?’
The story of Taeseong vaguely comes to mind. Seong-il realizes that her actions are causing a butterfly effect and twisting her story.
‘Well, since he stole Blue from the start, the doctor can’t help changing the story. And even if the story changes, it’s okay if I solve it with my own abilities.’
Unlike before, Seong-il is not too worried about changing the story because she is very confident in her abilities.
“…Doctor.”
“…?”
“Focus on the feeling in your back.”
Seong-il carefully whispers to Dr. He begins writing briefly about his abilities on the doctor’s back.
『I am a psychic whose intelligence has not deteriorated.』
“!!”
『Looking at the situation, I will subdue them. Please pretend to quietly follow their will.”
“…!!”
When he realizes that Seong-il is a psychic with the rare intellect preserved, the doctor feels a sense of relief welling up in the corner of his heart along with amazement.
“Hey? What are you whispering about?”
A man named Peron, who whispered for a very short time, but heard the words of the Holy Day like a ghost. Seong-il pretends to be casual and starts answering him.
“Ah, you look uncomfortable, so I’m going to correct my posture.”
“Hmm…”
“…Are you going to keep standing like this? The doctor is having a hard time.”
“Oh, yes, let’s go right away.”
‘…Is the intelligence of children who belong to B-class or lower games originally like this?’
Laughing at the absurdly simple attitude of the enemies, Seong-il starts moving his body to a secret place hidden in the research center with the Hyper Team.
“…At las!!”
After destroying the steel door to prevent outside reinforcements from coming in, Lia spits out words of admiration at the experiment site after walking inside. She begins to marvel at the experimental instruments such as the bizarre tubes installed inside and the liquid in the glass barrel.
Seong-il starts asking her questions to divert attention to her excitement.
“…What is that, do you like it so much?”
“Huh! You want me to tell a guy who isn’t even a member of our team about that?”
“I’m going to die soon anyway. Can’t you think of it as a gift and tell me before I go?”
“Huh…”
The characters of the Hyper group look at Seong-il’s bold words with an expression of bewilderment. Lia looks at her holy day for a while, then smiles and starts responding.
“What… Do you feel sorry for saying that? I’ll tell you. That’s a genetic enhancement facility.”
“…A genetic enhancement facility?”
“Yes! To be precise, it is a facility that forcibly turns humans into supernatural powers!!”
