Chapter 313 – The Truth Revealed
The appearance of Ahyeon asking for an explanation toward herself. To her, Seong-il shrugs her shoulders and answers.
“I don’t know either.”
“…Are you kidding me?”
Seong-il shrugs her shoulders and looks at Min Ye-jin without giving any answer to Lee Ah-hyun’s bewildered question.
“Haa… That’s the manager.”
“…Manager?”
“Yes. Managers. Those who wear human skin and control humans in a specific area.”
“Believe that…?”
Lee Ah-hyun’s bewildered appearance. Although he stood calmly by her side, Seong-il’s thoughts were also similar to Ah-hyeon’s, so he too was silent and looked at Min Ye-jin.
“I know, it may seem like nonsense. But it’s true.”
“…”
“I’ll ask you in reverse. How do you know the recent history?”
“…About 30 years ago, an alien civilization invaded the Earth through a dimension, and humanity was thoroughly pushed back even with all its might, but I know that it started resistance based on its psychic powers that were accidentally awakened.”
“And?”
“…And, I don’t know why, but I know that with the awakening of abilities, the aliens are building domes all over the world and locking themselves in terror.”
“Well… That’s usually the history that governments around the world tell their own people.”
“…”
“If you tell the truth, it’s a lie.”
“…Lie?”
“Okay.”
After those words, Min Ye-jin uses the machine on her wrist to check something on her and then begins tearing up her space.
“To be precise, humanity was utterly defeated in less than a year. Thoroughly.”
“!!”
“Isn’t it strange that they actually endured? That’s right. The power of their civilization was incomparable to that of human civilization.”
“…”
“Because it was a war between civilizations with a bigger gap than the difference between the Spanish invaders who attacked the Aztecs.”
“Uh…”
“If I had to define war at that time, it was closer to the level of a war between the United States, which was the superpower of mankind before the fall, and the Aztecs, which were at the level of Neolithic civilization.”
“Hmm…”
“But there was a war with such a civilization, and suddenly, luckily, the war reached a stalemate? Actually, that’s a funny joke.”
“…”
If you think about it a little bit, her words cannot be denied at all. As the holy days fell silent, she looked at them and spoke coldly.
“Right now, we humans are actually aliens’ livestock.”
“!!”
“And the government or association hunters you know are actually traitors to humanity who surrendered to the aliens.”
“…”
Her mind-boggling words. As Seong-il gazes at Min Ye-jin with a bemused look, she continues her words with a sad expression.
“You don’t understand? I understand. I did too.”
“This… Aside from not understanding it, then why did they bother turning humans into livestock?”
“It’s simple. They’re trying to remodel the human race into a group of psychics and then steal their bodies.”
“Yeah?! Uh… Why?”
“…I don’t know the exact reason. I’m not very mentally strong, but I couldn’t acquire all the information ‘they’ gave me while guiding me.”
“Them…?”
“Yes. I’ll find out when I go.”
Min Ye-jin’s unknown words. Instead of answering, she carefully opens the space completely and leads the two somewhere.
“Come in.”
“…Where is it?”
“It’s one of many ‘arks’ secretly built in dimensional rifts to preserve human civilization in decline.”
“Ark…?”
However, Min Ye-jin does not answer any more, and silently leads the two to somewhere in space.
‘What the hell…?’
He is just suspicious of Jo Woo-young’s identity, so he just goes behind him, but when he comes into contact with such a huge secret, Seong-il feels dizzy.
Weeing!!
“…?”
Your smartphone rings out of nowhere. Seong-il carefully checks his phone.
『If possible, put me in your inventory. And see you later on the Inner Plane.”
“!!”
An unexpected message from the Game Master. It was the first time he had sent such a direct message, so Seong-il checked the message with a surprised expression.
“…What’s the matter?”
“Ah… I just looked away because I was suspicious of Professor Cho Woo-young, but I didn’t think I’d come across a situation like this…”
“…”
Although it is an excuse made in haste to hide the conversation with the game master, it is a fairly plausible excuse, so Lee Ah-hyun nods without a doubt.
‘First, let’s hide the phone…’
There must be a request from the game master, Seong-il secretly opens the inventory and hides the phone in his arms. While hiding so carefully, they arrive at a strange space before they know it.
“…Where is it?”
“Let’s go in and see for ourselves.”
“…?”
Ignoring Seong-il’s puzzled expression, Min Ye-jin calmly opens the door.
“!!”
A familiar existence seen in front of such a holy day. I see the same existence as the alien I saw in Lee Ah-hyun’s dream in the past.
“Why… Why are there aliens here…?”
“Oh, don’t be too wary. He’s on our side.”
“Uh… On our side…?”
“Huh.”
After that, Min Ye-jin waved her hand at the alien floating in a strange glass barrel in the middle of the vacant lot.
“Illax! I’m here.”
『Wuuuuu!!』
The alien figure of her welcomes her by emitting her gentle waves. Seong-il puts on an absurd expression.
“What the hell am I looking at…”
“In the past, when our humanity was defeated and a few powerful people sold their own people to take care of themselves.”
“…?”
“While being taken to concentration camps like cattle, sorted for usefulness, and slaughtered, these are the aliens who reached out to us.”
“!!”
“They seem to have a great resentment towards the mainstream aliens who invade our world from across dimensions for some reason.”
“Hmm…”
“That’s why they appear to be meekly obeying, and when they are distracted by a certain ‘ritual’, they rebel and join hands with us.”
“Ah…”
“Do you have a lot of questions? Go ahead and ask.”
“Ah yes…”
With a bewildered expression at Min Ye-jin’s words, she approaches an alien called Illax.
“Uh… How are you?”
『Nice to meet you, human.』
“Yes…”
『Are you the hunter who handled the infection type dungeon this time?』
“Yes? Yes…”
“Your quality is excellent. Usually, when you enter there, there are frequent cases where your mind collapses.”
“…”
“Welcome to this place. You are safe here.”
“What the hell… What the hell is the situation…”
“I understand. It must be very confusing.”
The appearance of Lee Ah-hyun, who has come into great confusion over an incomprehensible fact. She is so shocked that she just sits there in a daze.
‘…First of all, I’ll have to answer my questions.’
Leaving Lee Ah-hyun behind, Seong-il quietly starts asking Ilax questions.
“Why the hell did aliens invade humanity? And why did they invade a species like ours when they built such a brilliant civilization?”
“It’s long, so to speak, little friend.”
After saying that, he tries to push Seong-il into his head by emitting a strange wave.
“Accept it. I will clear up your doubts. Of course, whether or not you can receive all of my information depends on your talent.”
“…”
Seong-il calmly accepts the signal sent by him because his sensitivity and intuition did not warn him.
“!!”
The sight of a darkening holy day. Soon after, a strange sight begins to unfold before his eyes.
『We have worked hard for the prosperity and glory of our species for a long time.』
The scenes unfolding at the end of those words. Interestingly, unlike the current aliens who only move in energy form without a body, in the past they were walking around their world with a body.
“Our civilization was brilliant. Outstanding intellectuals and great leaders. And even the ordinary members who supported society by remaining faithful to their lives in silence.”
『Sometimes there were huge wars and unexpected crises came, but as always, we gathered our wisdom and overcame the crises.』
After those words, countless scenes passed in front of Seongil’s eyes. Sometimes we saw beautiful city scenes, sometimes awe-inspiring natural scenes, sometimes terrible wars.
And the peaceful world seen at the end and the appearance of a brilliantly developed civilization.
『So we wisely overcame the crisis, left our hometown, and reached the stage of building a colony planet in space.』
‘It’s a scale that really makes me speechless…’
Seong-il admired the shocking figure with his mouth open. Images constantly pop up to him.
『Countless colonized planets made by terraforming planets where life is impossible.』
『Based on so many colonized planets and endlessly advancing technology, our species has walked through endless glorious days.』
『In this way, we, who fell into inertia due to peace and abundance, began to fall into the consciousness of the chosen people, and began to pursue eternal life for eternal pleasure.』
And the world is changing again.
The appearance of an alien civilization that covers the stars with huge mechanical devices and sucks up energy. They start making something based on that power.
『We built an ark powered by a huge star for eternal life. The spirit can be preserved forever.”
『And we created faithful artificial intelligence, gave them a lot of authority, and ordered them to protect us.』
“Then we entered the spiritual paradise of our own making and began to indulge in endless pleasures.”
At the same time, a new world unfolds before Seongil’s eyes. Interestingly, unlike before, the scene unfolds in the form of a human being, not an alien civilization.
『Ah, since you guys are different from our way of thinking, I will substitute your images and experience the scene at that time.』
The dizzying sights unfolding at the end of those words.
Inside the ark, you can see people who create their own world, go through countless experiences, and enjoy it.
At first, the aliens simply enjoyed life and enjoyed paradise. However, as many lives begin to repeat themselves, they try all kinds of actions, perhaps because their daily life has begun to get boring.
If you live a life and die, it is basic to reset your memory and live again.
People who create their own world, become gods of that world and play with their destiny.
Then, as if that wasn’t enough, the aliens become addicted to pleasure and start doing all sorts of crazy things.
In order to enjoy the stimulation, they create a civilization in the world they created, and forcibly reduce resources, causing creatures to wage war with each other to kill and kill each other.
A scene in which a small village is made so that they can neither die nor live and fall into endless pain.
Scenes of all sorts of perverted sexual acts and murders repeated.
Scenes beyond imagination gradually pass in front of Seongil’s eyes.
“Like that. Corruption has begun to eat away at our civilization little by little.”
『However, despite being tainted with corruption, our civilization has been able to maintain its glory without major problems for nearly 10,000 years.』
“Then a problem arose.”
A gruesome scene unfolds before Seongil’s eyes. The scene of an endlessly fierce war unfolds before his eyes.
『For some reason, some AIs who are our attendants rebelled against us.』
『Without knowing the exact reason, we urgently began to suppress their rebellion.』
『In the early days, it seemed that the rebellion of artificial intelligence could be easily quelled. Because there were many faithful AIs who still followed us.”
『But, that was our misunderstanding.』
『Somehow, they destroyed the huge star that is the power source of paradise.』
『Thanks to that, they and all of us suffered a blow close to destruction.』
『But the terrible thing is, they must have planned this in advance, so they quickly cleared the confusion and started attacking us again.』
And the terrible appearances unfolding in front of Seongil’s eyes. Countless aliens and their minions are endlessly slaughtered and begin to die.
『Unsurprisingly, we started walking down the path of destruction like that. It must have been natural, in a way, to find pleasure in the virtual world for so long.”
『In the midst of that, as death approached, we were terrified and collected some survivors and started endlessly running away from artificial intelligence.』
“It was an absurd thing. I don’t know if I could have solved it somehow if I had handled it with the remaining loyal minions.”
“However, we have been so weak from indulgence in pleasure that we have not dared to think of such a thing.”
And the appearance of the vast universe unfolding and the appearance of an alien civilization floating aimlessly aboard a giant airship.
『We fell into fear when we were pursued by artificial intelligence in a situation where so much knowledge was lost.』
『Some people fell into despair and fell into a corner again and started indulging in pleasure to escape from reality.』
『Some people tried to come to their senses and restore the great civilization.』
『At that time, the internal confusion became extreme. They appeared.”
In this way, a religious group that has fallen into fanaticism begins to appear in front of the holy day.
