Chapter 589 – Episode 62. Graduation Trip – New Nanjing Apocalypse.
New Nanjing City was the location of the research center of South China Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (SCSMC), a mega corporation in South China. For reference, Phoenix Technology Company, which was the target of this cyber zombie virus, was also an affiliated company of SCSMC.
SCSMC’s research lab was producing and testing various prototypes of new technology, and the thing currently chasing the students of St. Francis Girls’ Academy was probably a new weapon called Project G.
It is a giant robot that requires a pilot with a full-body cyber implant, and the giant robot is connected using the cyber neural network of the cyber implant and is also a technology that moves freely. If a robot the size of a building moves freely like a human, its power would be considerable, so it was a project that SCSMC was working hard to develop as its next step.
The cyber robot was just like a giant suit of armor, so there wasn’t a big problem, but the problem was with the pilot. If the pilot controlling the robot was infected with this cyber zombie virus, the robot would also become a cyber zombie robot.
If so, I understand. As it is a prototype, SCSMC’s robot is equipped with numerous weapons under research, so even if Airen Shimokawabe fights, it will inevitably cause harm to the students. However, telling them to run away first would have been unsettling for the safety of the students because there were regular cyber zombies… In the end, they probably made the choice to run away together.
I think I know the whole story, so now I have to tell Tyra Kanna where to join. Because she can’t stay scattered all the time.
“We’ll find it on our own, so let’s meet at the hotel we stayed at.”
-Okay… Crackling! Be careful…ㅇLaber… Chiik!
I understand, so I’m telling you to be careful too, right? I turned off the radio and looked at Muko Neika and Saionji Diana who were listening together.
“As I heard, the situation is like this. “If you want to join the kids, you have to go to the hotel where we unpacked.”
Actually, it was quite difficult. In a situation where all communication was cut off, it was not easy to go to a hotel I had been to before in Shinnam-gyeong City without a navigation system and without knowing the route.
In particular, because the zoo was located on the outskirts of the city, getting to a hotel located in the downtown area was bound to be more difficult.
By the way, the fact that the cyber zombie robot appeared here at the beginning of this incident meant that SCSMC’s secret laboratory was near the zoo.
There were many players in Megacorp’s youngest son who thought about taking advantage of this confusion to obtain SCSMC’s latest technology, but no one was able to obtain it because they only heard that SCSMC’s research center was located in Shinnangyeong City but did not know where it was.
I didn’t go near the zoo where there was nothing to gain, but the research center was near the zoo. There are a lot of students now, so it’s a bit noticeable, but I thought I could at least move around and check what appears to be a research lab.
“Wait for a sec…”
I entered a Class B bus that had a dent in the middle after being stepped on by a cyber zombie robot. I went in to see if there was a walkie-talkie, but there was a walkie-talkie there as expected. Unfortunately, the trunk was also included on the stepped side, so the cyber suit that was supposed to be on the bus could not be obtained.
“Let’s get started.”
I handed the radio to Muko Naika, the representative of Class B. And instead of Yuka Otagi, who had been having a hard time driving, she took the wheel and picked up the students and set off. As I ran out of the parking lot, I saw cars parked here and there. It seemed like the virus that was dormant while driving became active and escaped the car.
I was avoiding the cars on the road and looking around to see if there was anything unusual. The cyber zombies on the side of the road saw the car moving and were following it like crazy.
As Saionji Diana was shaking off the clinging cyber zombies by firing several shots, I saw a huge factory with smoke coming out of it. It looked like an ordinary factory, but the large hole looked as if something huge had come out of it. Oh, I think it’s there.
“Aren’t you all a little hungry?”
“I’m a little hungry. “Sir, are you hungry too?”
Yuka Otagi tactfully answered yes to my question. As a reward, I will give you plenty of blood (semen) later.
In response to Yuka Otagi’s answer, each student said, “I’m hungry too.”
“A factory in a remote area like that usually has a cafeteria because there are no restaurants nearby, right? “How about we stop by over there and see if there’s anything to eat?”
“That’s right. There aren’t any convenience stores nearby… Also, if you go into the downtown area rather than the outskirts of the city, you don’t know how many zombies there will be… It might be more reasonable to find something to eat at a factory cafeteria in a quiet place like this.”
This time Muko Naika spoke. I didn’t think of it that way, but when Muko Neika said that, it made a lot of sense. We all agreed with Muko Neika’s reasonable words, so we headed to the factory with the big hole in it.
I did not completely enter the factory, but parked the car on the road about 50 meters away from the factory entrance.
“First of all, I and the special class students will come scouting, so Muko will wait while protecting her classmates.”
“I understand. Teacher, be careful too!”
Even if this was SCSMC’s secret laboratory, I couldn’t steal the data while Class B students were watching, so I kept my distance from the factory under the pretext of conducting reconnaissance.
“Sir, what were you thinking when you came here?”
“Ryuta, I didn’t come here for the restaurant… ?”
In response to Yuka Otagi’s question, Alric asked back with an innocent expression. Saionji Diana was holding her gun and looking around.
“There is a possibility that this is SCSMC’s secret laboratory. “If it’s not a secret lab, then we just want to get a meal. If it’s a secret lab at SCSMC, we’re just trying to get some research data.”
“Is that so?”
“That’s it.”
Everyone nodded at what I said. Since we couldn’t keep Class B students waiting too long, we decided to split into two groups, Naejoo and Otagi Yukajo, and search in two groups. I gave one of the hacking UCTs (Universal Connection Terminal) that I always carry with me to Yuka Otagi.
I moved with Saionji Diana. I decided to team up with Saionji Diana because she has better compatibility with me, who is not good at ranged attacks.
“We’re going to go into the container building right in front of here, so Otagi and Alic, please take a look around that building over there.”
“I understand, sir. “If anything happens, I’ll scream loudly.”
Saionji Diana and I entered a rather large-looking container building near the parking lot, and it turned out to be a restaurant. It was dinner time, so it seemed like the infection broke out while preparing food, but the food looked pretty good, as expected from SCSMC’s secret laboratory. When Diana Saionji and I opened the door to the restaurant and entered, cyber zombies in chef uniforms wandering around rushed at us.
We came out of the building first. This was because fighting in the restaurant could have ruined all the food. We easily defeated the cyber zombies that followed us and went back into the restaurant.
There were no zombies or dead ordinary people left. As expected, since the cooks were employed in New Nanjing City, it seemed that no one was using VR devices.
“I don’t know if it’s fortunate, but it looks like the cooking itself has been completed.”
“Thank goodness for us, sir.”
“Okay. Since we checked out the restaurant, let’s go somewhere else.”
After leaving the restaurant, we headed to the building opposite where Otagi and Alikzo went. It was the building with smoke rising from a large hole.
“There is a lot of smoke, so just provide support from afar.”
“Yes. Teacher, please be careful too.”
The smoke was so strong that I left Saionji Diana behind and covered my face with a telekinesis shield to prevent inhaling the toxic smoke.
When I entered the building, I saw a cyber robot with a rough-looking design mounted on a huge steel stand, and as expected, it seemed like it was SCSMC’s secret laboratory.
One of the stands had collapsed and sparks were falling from the broken wire, burning the surrounding flammable materials. It seemed like the robot pilot here had become a zombie and escaped. In the process, the wire connected to the robot broke, scattering sparks around the area.
Perhaps because of the smoke, mechanical mechanics and researchers who had turned into cyberzombies were addicted to the smoke and collapsed. It seemed like everyone had died. I guess there was nothing I could do because I kept inhaling toxic smoke.
No matter how zombie-like they were, it seemed like they couldn’t survive in a place filled with smoke like here, as they only had a part of their brains that were transformed from humans who breathe through a respirator.
I deployed a telekinetic shield and surrounded the burning area. The idea was to put out the fire by blocking the air inflow. Fortunately, the fire went out not long after I surrounded it with a telekinesis shield to see if it was a substance that continued to burn even without air.
“Kieee!”
As soon as the smoke cleared, some of the cyber zombies, who had been unharmed because they had cyber implants with self-purifying devices in their lungs, rushed in. I swung the abyss-covered hand blade and hit the zombie’s neck. They will just burn with anger and continue to attack those around them, so making them comfortable will help. Out of the three, I took care of two of them, and Saionji Diana took down the other by shooting him right between the eyes.
After the fire was extinguished, and the smoke had completely disappeared, I went into the repair shop and inserted the UCT for hacking into the computer where the screen was filled with data. The hacking UCT, whose red light was slowly blinking, soon glowed green. It meant that the hacking was over and all the data had been collected.
“Let’s go to the next place.”
“Yes.”
Our first goal in this lab is to collect data that seems important, and our second goal is to find the security headquarters and delete the CCTV video stored there.
Since I was not yet at the point of antagonizing the huge South Chinese megacorp called SCSMC, we had to erase our traces. As is the case with most large corporations, CCTV footage and video files would normally be transmitted to the headquarters in real time, but fortunately, as all communication is currently cut off, they cannot be sent to the headquarters and are only stored here at the security headquarters. All you have to do is remove the device.
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An illustration of Saionji Diana to commemorate being paired with Saionji Diana hehe
