Chapter 493 – Pocket Girls
‘…Fuck, didn’t he fall because of me?’
To Seong-il, who is worried, Dr. Jun smiles and continues his explanation.
“Ah, surprisingly, it wasn’t necessary much. After figuring out whether or not brain damage could really be cured, the deceased’s brain was cut and only fragments were used. .”
“Aha… That’s right. I’m glad.”
“Whoa… You really learned from Dr. Woo. You care so much about the ethical part. There are many scholars who fall because they don’t. Just like Hyperdan.”
“Haha…”
Leaving Seong-il smiling awkwardly behind, Dr. Jun continues his conversation by replaying the previous research situation.
“So, I repeatedly performed the psychic flowering procedure on the split brain manipulation, and at the same time, using a very small amount of potion, I observed and analyzed countless times with AI as the potion healed the brain tissue collapse.”
“…No way?”
“Yes. I learned how the potion protects brain cells.”
“Oh!? So, will we be able to normalize wild psychics in the future!?”
“Um…”
Dr. Jun slightly frowns at Seongil’s question.
“That’s a different matter… Do you remember the mechanism I explained about the flowering of psychic powers the other day?”
“Ah, roughly. I know that a wave with an unknown power fires a powerful force at human organs, especially the brain, and mutates it. If that goes well, humans can use superpowers, but…”
“Yes. If a problem occurs, the brain degenerates and the intelligence decreases, or in the worst case, the organs inside the body melt and die.”
“Yes…”
“…By the way. To be honest, I still haven’t analyzed the mechanism of healing. As I said before, that potion does not ‘heal’, but rather ‘restores’ objects to the past with unknown power, or negatively affects It was more like the power to ‘block’ the effect.”
“Hmm…”
“But!!! During repeated experiments with AI this time, it was confirmed that the potion ‘prevents’ brain cells from being destroyed during ‘flowering’.”
“…No way?”
“Yes!! I figured out how to ‘prevent’ my body from being damaged while my psychic powers bloom!!!”
“!!!!”
Shocking Dr. Jun’s answer. In fact, Seong-il looks at him with a mixed face of half-shock and half-joy as he thinks, since it means that artificial psychic flowering can be performed without side effects.
‘Fuck!! Then…!! Based on that technology, you can solve the problems of the world of Mythology!!’
Perhaps mistaking the joyous expression of such a holy day for the joy that comes from saving the world of Pocket Girls, Dr. Jun smiles and continues his conversation.
“That’s right! Now we can perform stable psychic artificial procedures. But, am I just so happy for that?”
“…To?”
Dr.’S incomprehensible question. Seong-il looks blankly at him, and the doctor answers Seong-il with a bright smile that he has never shown before.
“Seongil, would you like to take a look at this potion?”
“…?”
A cloudy milky potion. Seong-il looks at the potion the size of an adult thumb as if possessed.
“This is it. It’s a drug that protects the body’s organs from the waves that awaken psychic powers.”
“Ah, yes…”
Since he didn’t know what the relationship between that and the doctor’s happiness was, Seong-il just looked at the doctor and the potion with a blank expression.
‘What do you mean? Doesn’t that mean that if you eat that, you can survive the flowering procedure? Is there any other reason?’
“Whoops… I guess you don’t understand why I attach importance to this?”
“Ah…Yes…Actually well…”
“This is not a potion that simply allows you to survive the psychic blooming procedure.”
“Yes? Then…”
“It’s simple. Because we can use this drug to protect the fetus.”
“…A fetus?”
While talking about psychic surgery, when a fetus suddenly jumps out of Dr. Jun’s mouth, Seong-il doesn’t understand and looks at Dr. Jun in a daze. Then, a thought flashes through Seong-il’s head.
“Stop… No way?!”
“Whoa… That’s right. If a pregnant woman takes this potion regularly, it might be able to prevent the unborn baby from dying due to supernatural powers or from deteriorating intelligence.”
“Wow!!!!!!”
Of course, I traveled around the world. Seong-il, who did not show a surprise at all, perhaps because he encountered the shocking truth in reality.
However, Dr. Jun’s remark this time was shocking enough to surprise him.
“Yes. Thanks to the potion you gave us, maybe we can be saved. Thank you.”
“Congratulations!!! I mean it!!!”
“Whoops… It’s not confirmed yet. We’ll have to do a lot of experiments.”
“…An experiment?”
“Yes. We need to know whether this product does not harm the fetus and pregnant women. We need to check whether there are any side effects after giving birth… We need to find out if it is possible to take it for a long time… In addition, the most important thing is whether it really works. I need to find out.”
“Aha…”
“Well, there are many ways to go. Still, it is true that it is of great significance as we have caught the clue of the problem that threatened the survival of mankind.”
“Sure!! You can do it!!!”
Seong-il sincerely supports Dr. Jun, perhaps because he is facing the bleak situation of humankind in reality.
“Whoa… Thank you. Originally, I had to keep this a secret, but I wanted to let you know. Because you gave me this potion.”
“No. I just did what I had to do.”
“Hehe… Thank you even for the words.”
Seong-il, who had been working with Dr. Jun for a while, like that. Then he carefully asks Dr. June for one thing.
“…Could you please give me a bottle of the mass-produced potion? I’m not trying to leak it. I want to drink it if I ever feel that side effects from the flowering procedure will occur, but… “
“Hmm? You’re in a situation where the procedure is completely finished, so your organs won’t be damaged…? No, it’s not difficult to give you a bottle of potion if it can alleviate your psychological worries. Besides, after the experiment is over, we’ll mass-produce the shelter. I’m going to spray it on the citizens, so I won’t overdo the security.”
“Thank you thank you!!!”
Seong-il receives the potion from Dr. Jun, hands it over to Erica and Yuna, analyzes the ingredients, and thinks about mass-producing it.
‘If I can get the information of the psychic development device from Patricia, receive the potion, and mass-produce it, then I can solve the problems of the Mythology Academy world at once!!’
Seong-il was lost in thought for a while. Dr. June answers him.
“But not right now. We haven’t finished clinical trials on side effects yet.”
“Uh…It’s fine…”
“It’s okay! Your life depends on it!! I’ll give it to you when the experiment is over to some extent and you feel like it’s not too much for the human body. If you carelessly take a drug that hasn’t been researched yet, you could be in big trouble!”
“Ah yes…”
Still, Dr. Jun didn’t say that he wouldn’t give him the potion, so Seong-il silently nodded at his words.
Even after that, Seong-il talked with Dr. Jun about psychic powers for a long time, and then he said goodbye to Dr. Jun and started to return to the dorm.
***
“Wow!! It’s so fast!!!”
“I see? How did you make it…?”
The next morning. Seong-il, as promised with Hana the day before, was in a situation where he and her boarded the express train moving to section C.
‘What did you do to make the boat float in the air about 5m and glide over the sea? And how fast is this big ship going…’
Seong-il admired the outstanding technology of the Pocket Girls world. He wanders around the huge ship with a surprised look on his face.
“…But aside from how ships are built, why don’t they follow the coastline?”
“That’s because powerful and dangerous mutants roam the waters.”
“Ah…?”
Hearing the deep voice behind his back, he naturally turned his head and looked behind him. Then, a middle-aged man with a strong impression with a sturdy height appeared.
‘Look at the ball hanging from the waist… It looks like a pro hunter…?’
Seong-il immediately infers his identity by looking at his clothes and the atmosphere he gives off. To Seong-il, the man continues to explain with a calm expression.
“Deep in the water, there are huge and powerful monsters that use destructive psychic powers. This is the only way to avoid them and get to and from shelters quickly and safely.”
“Aha… Were there guys like that?”
“Yes. Unlike the land where countless war machines from around the world were roaming around, there are very few war machines on the sea.”
“A weapon of war…? Was there such a thing?”
Even though I’ve played the game, it’s the first time I’ve heard of it. When Seong-il tilts his head, not understanding, the man continues with a slightly puzzled expression.
“Hmm? Aren’t you a pilgrim? You must have learned it during your Shelter training class?”
“…I didn’t study hard.”
“Ugh!! Seongil, you’re so…!!”
Hana intervenes in the conversation between the two. She looks at her Seongil with a slightly pathetic expression, then continues her lines in place of the man.
“One of the reasons we live in a very small area on Earth called the Shelter Zone is because of the ancient weapons of war!”
“Oh, did you?”
“Yeah! Before the destruction, mankind sprayed artificial intelligence weapons to prevent supernatural powers from going insane and to maintain public order, but after being exposed to psionic energy, it went into a runaway, completely destroying the previous human civilization that was at least in existence. You finished it!”
‘It must have been like that.’
With one clear explanation, Seong-il finally understands the middle-aged man’s words. And a middle-aged man nodding his head while silently listening to it from the side.
“Does the lady next to you really know?”
“Lol…”
“As this lady said. The midpoint between Area B and Area C has more AI fighting machines than other areas, so it is extremely dangerous than other areas. Although the frequency of activity is decreasing… Still, dangerous things are dangerous.”
“I see… Can we go around such a dangerous area C for a pilgrimage…?”
The murmur of a reasonable holy day. Plus, he’s even more worried because he’s never played a game and fought a battle machine that’s gone mad.
‘No way… Did the contents of the game get distorted while I was active? I don’t want to fight crazy machines…’
“Haha! Don’t worry about that. The C-3 Shelter area, where you’ll be wandering, has been thoroughly cleared of combat machines. It’s dangerous to get out of there.”
“Aha…”
“Well… Instead, powerful wild psychics have escaped the danger of the machines. But unlike the highly dangerous battle machines, they are worth fighting for if you team up with your partner. No… Their Because their intelligence is low, they cannot fully use their power, so if you command well, you should be able to win even in a 1:2 situation.”
‘Ah, is that why the density and level of psychics in area C were particularly high during gameplay?’
I thought the enemy’s level increased simply by passing through the area, but Seong-il finds it interesting to know that there is a story behind it.
‘I thought it wasn’t just because of the level scaling system… It’s fun.’
“Anyway, to avoid the overland route between Areas B and C, where problems such as ‘crazy psychics’, ‘runaway war weapons’, ‘mutant monsters’, and ‘radiation and poison storms’ are piled up, the route was created now. .”
“Ahh… But why do you bother riding a floating boat? Why don’t you just get on a boat?”
“That’s because, as I said earlier, there are no prior problems in the sea here, instead animals are contaminated with psionic energy and roam around as powerful ‘mutant monsters.’ I’m running out to do it. That’s why I’m avoiding their senses by walking around in a floating boat like this.”
“Aha…”
Seong-il nods his head after hearing the explanation of the middle-aged man whose name he does not know.
‘…Come to think of it, you didn’t even introduce yourself?’
Thinking so, Seong-il tries to open his mouth to introduce himself with a greeting of thanks.
“Oh, my name is…”
Wooooo!!”
“…?”
While trying to introduce himself, the boat’s whistle sounded long. Seong-il flinched at the sound and looked ahead.
“Ah, you’ve arrived.”
And the voice of a middle-aged man from behind. Seong-il realizes from the muttering that the ship has traveled 100 km and arrived at area C in less than an hour since it departed from area B.
‘What kind of boat is this? It’s almost an airplane…’
Thinking so, Seong-il turns his back and turns his head to say hello to the man who kindly explained it to him.
“Uh…?”
However, the man disappeared before he knew it. At that time, Seong-il was a little embarrassed. Hana speaks while dragging his collar.
“What are you doing? Let’s go quickly.”
“Uh… Yes…”
Like that, Seong-il moves to Area C with Hana.
