Chapter. 11. Wizard’s Wizard (23)
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executive. Research facilities.
Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-
“mini. “How’s it going over there?”
“Whew. Don’t even talk. As refugees flock to places where separate facilities are not provided, hygiene levels have fallen sharply. Because of that, there is a fuss about preparing countermeasures in case of dysentery or cholera outbreaks, and the aquifer is contaminated due to a radioactive zone that suddenly spreads rapidly, so we have to prepare for filtering drinking water, and even research on ‘those’ samples…. Two bodies. “It’s almost like it’s not enough.”
“It’s the same in every department. Coffee was cut off due to the wartime administration, so I stayed up almost every day. “If this continues, we may end up dying from overwork as a group, creating something like a ‘research-mad abomination.’”
“Phew! That makes sense. “Because everyone’s mind is full of thoughts like, ‘I want to go home.’”
“yes? If you keep digging like that, the community guys will no longer say, ‘White collar bastards, they’re so greedy. The mutants on the front line can’t stop eating people, so they’re picking and eating the parts that suit their tastes, but they’re stuck there, rolling around with their pens.’ “I can’t say the same thing.”
Munch!
Administrative researcher Teshin took a large bite of his calorie bar and sighed.
It feels like we have returned to the beginning of the destruction five years ago. People began to do whatever they could to survive, and in a situation where mutual distrust was rampant, they even had to deal with mutants coming in from outside. Looking at things like this, you might wonder, ‘Where has all the effort we’ve made over the past five years gone?’ It was inevitable that I would fall into the same nihilism.
‘no. ‘It’s not like nothing has changed.’
Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-
Teshin looked up at the huge fuselage that was holding them in the lab even at this moment during lunch time.
Samples are one of the most important tasks of the administration. A type 3 variant that is believed to be still alive and retaining human consciousness.
Thump thump thump thump thump thump thump thump
Two hearts so large that their powerful sound can be heard even from a distance. As I watched the movement of the electrocardiogram system fluctuating every time it fluttered, something similar to a strange emotion settled in my heart. It was a kind of awe that I felt as a person and as a man.
As part of his research and as a fan, he was constantly watching Professor Park’s play recordings, even in his sleep. He knew because he was studying him right next to him. Backup data called Data Soul often replaces consciousness, but if the main body had completely mutated and human consciousness had disappeared, it would have been impossible to connect with it.
The output of ‘Healthy Orpheus’, estimated through the recovered fragments of Orpheus, was strong enough to kill all living things in 4 or 5 areas at once.
The person currently sleeping in front of him has succeeded in protecting himself as a human to some extent even after receiving all of that energy before it is activated, up to the moment when all of its output comes into contact with the condensed core of Orpheus and destroys it.
‘What kind of person was he to be able to remain human in a situation where every cell in his body was being rebuilt at the genetic level? ‘Is that physically possible?’
Even as a very special case, he was a person who was partially mutated, so he would have been very vulnerable to Orpheus’ waves.
Tesin and the researchers who were looking at the data together looked at the scene captured on the survivor’s body camera and forgot what to say at the scene where the black monster was heading towards the altar.
Since then, the number of researchers who come here to rest when there is nothing special to do has increased.
Although we had never specifically planned to get together, that was the reason why we met Minea, our new friend, here.
“It’s similar to making a fuss, huh. It’s burning brightly. “That person.”
“There is that too. As a scholar, this is an unproven and mysterious area. Something that goes beyond theoretical and physical impossibility. “If someone were to prove the existence of the soul, the person in front of us would be the person who would be the number one piece of evidence.”
“…I’m being honest. Teshin, you joined that strange Professor Park fan club, right?”
“Hey, isn’t that strange! Wow, I joined by chance, and it turned out to be a chat room where normal people socialize more than I expected.”
Beep beep! Beep beep!
Minea looked suspiciously and said, “There is no god or devil. But there is Professor Park] Just as he is trying to explain the greatness of chat rooms.
Numerous dashboards indicating the status of the variant began to fluctuate, and nearby researchers began to flock in.
Quang!
“Teshin, Minea! How did this happen! “What on earth did you touch?”
“Oh, I didn’t do anything! “I was just eating while monitoring-”
“Stop making excuses! “What is the situation?”
Before I could answer, the director shouted with a serious expression on his face. With a serious expression on her face, Minea stammered and told me what she had confirmed so far.
“Well, my heart rate increased rapidly, and I noticed small movements in the extremities of my body…”
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
“Brain, brain activity has become more active!”
Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep!
The old researcher glared at Minea with a frown on his face, then broke into a cold sweat as he looked at the complicated instrument panel. My heart beats like an engine at full power. There is absolutely no way he would be active like that at this time.
“It’s not good… It’s not good…! “Has the cause been identified?”
Cracking. Tap, tap, tap!
“I found the car! “I found it, but…”
“I did it but what!”
“Uh…nothing worked on our part. An unidentifiable signal was transmitted from inside GG through the connector. “I think that stimulated my brain.”
“Damn it. What a crazy game! What the hell is going on! Is real-time monitoring of play impossible?”
“Since there is practically no player, only the data stored in the connector can be extracted when the player sleeps and when data is synchronized!”
“What a piece of shit!!!”
Kwadangtang!
In the end, the director said that a clear cause could not be identified at this point, so he pushed the cart containing the tools and headed somewhere.
Teshin could not understand the increasingly distorted expression of the head of the Department of Biotechnology.
“Chief? If brain activity becomes more active… isn’t that good news? This means that Professor Park may regain consciousness sooner than expected…”
bang! Whoosh!
“That must be a typical example of a vegetative state! Are you saying this because you don’t know the subject’s condition? The maintenance of that body is being overseen by a sub-personality called ‘Hyde’! When brain activity becomes more active, it means that the cerebrum is starting to move! Doesn’t that mean that ‘Hyde’, who was active between the cerebellum and medulla oblongata, has left his seat?”
Crrrrr!
The director violently removed the items piled up in a corner of the lab and then dragged out a dusty red box on a cart.
“Then no way….”
“okay! “The strange entity that forced the body to move has disappeared, which means all functions of the body have stopped!”
Beep beep beep! Bleep—–
At that moment, everyone froze as if they had made a promise at the sound penetrating the chaotic laboratory.
Parrrrrr-
My heart, which had been beating so hard that I could hear it with my ears, was drooping and convulsing.
Wow!
“Wake! Go get a pack of gelatin pads! you! Get the code! You can take out everything, maintenance or whatever, so hurry up! And there you! “Get that portable hydraulic wrench over there and do some open cardiocardiac (open cardiothoracic massage)!”
Boom!
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The director tore open the packaging of the item while administration engineers drove heavy equipment and massaged the heart, which was the size of a human torso.
“Defibrillator…?”
“It’s similar! “It’s a high-voltage stun gun that was originally being developed as an anti-personnel weapon for cyborgs!”
“You’re connected!”
Pazzu, that is!
This is a piece of trash I developed as a joke while drinking with the head of the engineering department back when I had some free time.
At a glance, it didn’t look like a dangerous arc discharge was occurring between the two electrodes with the handle, and it certainly didn’t look like an object meant for human use, but there was no time to think about that now.
“Hit 6000V right away! take!”
Weeeeeeeeeee-
Quick-!
Doo-thud.
“Bah, there’s no reaction!”
“I know!”
The director gritted his teeth as he watched his heart twitch slightly. The maximum voltage that can be applied to a person as a defibrillator has already been applied.
But the opponent is an unknown creature. The greatest mystery of our time is the Type 3 variant, which produces a hard substance of unknown material on its own.
The director decided to believe in the professor’s body, which maintained its shape even after absorbing the energy that leaked out when the core of the box broke.
“…you there. “Tear off the top of this and take off everything that has a limiter on it!”
“Increasing the voltage beyond this may result in irreversible direct electrical burns!”
“Stop talking about common sense in front of a heart as big as your body! I put a pad on it because I was afraid I might ride it too! “Shut up and turn up the output!”
“Car, car! 8000V!”
“Get back! “I’m getting electrocuted!”
Don’t fall in!
Boom!
“Shit! Raise more! No trace of scorch! Bring half the equipment and continue massaging the resting heart! We have to pump oxygen to the brain somehow! “Do everything you can, please!”
“Byeo, I’ll go to the ward and get any medicine you need!”
Teshin threw off his slippers and ran barefoot toward the ward. Suddenly, a hospital room with an open door caught his eye as he brought an armful of all kinds of injections and medicines.
Crunch Crunch Crunch-
A woman on a hospital bed concentrating on her own business with only a drone camera in the air with a red light on, as if to indicate that a broadcast was in progress.
The name tag at the entrance to the hospital room had the name ‘Dana Elisha Hyacinth’ on it. A person known to be Professor Park’s lover.
‘…If we fail to restore the professor’s bodily functions…’
Thinking that it might be the last time, Teshin knocked on the door of the hospital room.
After a while, there were two footsteps running towards the research building.
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Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock.
The sound of falling water drops that doesn’t go away no matter how much you move.
Ugh-uuk-
The familiar sound of an old sofa screaming in protest.
and.
[hey. It’s been a while?]
The voice of a man who thought he, a ‘fake’, would never be heard again.
Snap, snap, snap.
The dark red monster got up from the old sofa and approached him with a familiar voice.
[Brother, father, friend. Seeing it like this gives me a new feeling. Right? I am inside the monster created by your consciousness. You have taken your place in the monster I created based on mute cells.]
Crackling.
Hyde, who was scratching the knuckles of his left hand with his fingertips, frowned as he looked at the monster whose nose was filled with the smell of blood.
[But what on earth is that like? Where has Professor Park, the cool dog who was heading towards the box that day, gone and why is this idiot, Sniff, here? Honestly, that day, as I watched your consciousness being condensed into a single sentence in my worn-out mind, I thought, ‘Ah, I’ll never be able to catch up with this guy.’ I even thought about it.]
‘…That’s right. ‘It’s probably the difference between a being with a soul and a being made up of only data and memories.’
Crumbling-
Flash!
In a space filled with quiet darkness, pure white lightning cut through the darkness and struck down.
[Push! Hey, that was kind of funny just now. What, something else? What about data and memory? Even if Mute Cell is a program that stimulates minor emotions, considering that your state is almost at the watershed of the philosophy of existence. Doesn’t that sound so sick? Where is the original and Nabalgo?]
Cough, cluck-
Hyde’s sharp fingertip pierced the professor’s chest.
[If the person I am talking to right now is not Professor Park, then who is it? You have to have a body to be human, but if you don’t, are you fake? Am I a little sad? Some people have only been conscious since they were born. So, was I a non-existent entity from the beginning? So what am I here? Don’t you think what you are saying is contradictory? You’re so smart, dude! Think logically -]
‘…So you probably don’t know. ‘The despair I felt when I realized that what I thought belonged to me was actually not mine, and that I was a worthless being who could be cloned with a single click.’
[….I don’t understand. Professor Park was always on the lookout for mute cells growing on his head. It’s really a sight, it’s a sight.]
Gurgling!
Bunch-a-billion!
Looking at the thunderbolt coming down from the far side of consciousness, Hyde sighed.
[Ehyo. Well, that’s it. We don’t have time, so let’s stop chatting here.]
‘I do not have time?’
[Yeah dude. I don’t know what brought me here, but you’re a corpse without me now, right? That thunderbolt is proof that they are trying to keep your body alive somehow. [They’re] bringing in people who are unnecessarily busy.]
‘okay. Now that I think about it… you were keeping the body over there alive, right?’
Gurgling!
The electric shock from the defibrillator shook the body, and a pure white shock illuminated the two monsters with their teeth bared.
Clumping, clumping! Ttuduk!
Push-duk-duk! Ouch!
The dark red monster’s muscles swelled to their limits and screamed.
The body of the black monster, spewing out vaporized fresh blood like mist, bent forward as if it was about to leap.
[Let’s go quickly. I learned it from someone I know well. They say that beating a crazy person is the cure.]
‘If I kill you and keep you here… It probably means that the guy outside is going to die.’
[under! With just barely knowing how to handle my body….]
Gurgling!
Fighting spirit and madness in the red and yellow eyes. A smile with a different meaning, with bloody teeth and pure white fangs.
The moment when the lightning that reached the other side of consciousness illuminated the two monsters once again.
[Who is killing whom?!!!]
‘I! you! I will get rid of everything other than myself and regain my own existence!!!’
Throw in!
“Kaaaaaaaa!!!!!!”
“Grrrrrrrrgh!!!”
Quaaaaaaaaa!
Against the background of lightning striking a black space,
A monster born from a twisted ego and a monster created by overcoming the twisted ego clashed.
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fantasy,
