Chapter 89 (2/2)

The force members shiver at the declining temperature. Even with strengthened bodies and D class gear, they were having difficulty with the negative 60 degree temperature.

Then they entered the frozen sleeping room. The average person would have frozen to death within moments. That is how severe the difference in temperature was from the outside.

Cha Jun Sung turned around once and looked at the 1200 capsules filling the huge room with wonderment.

He had never even seen a shadow of a person while going through missions. He was always busy starting and ending with mutants. Could they be woken up?

Cha Jun Sung went to Hercules. There is a dizzying amount of machinery. He does not know what anything is because he does not have a foundation in it.

“Can we wake up the survivors?”

“Hacking the freezer system….. Hacking complete. Thawing frozen sleep is possible. Once thawed, they will each have their time difference to wake up!”

The firewall is lax. It was left vulnerable to hacking. Since there is no survivor who is awake, there is no way to block the hacking.

Hercules tried to hack the boat’s main system while hacking the freezer system, but it had been impossible because there was no power.

It still found out a lot of information. There are 7 more freezer rooms, for rooms number 1 through 8. This is room 1, and it is where the ark’s sailor and his family are frozen.

There are over 20,000 survivors. There are 3000 people in the larger rooms.

It really was a marine city. The hypothesis is that people ran away from the city infested with parasites and settled on this ark.

Then an infected host mixed in with the people and created this mess.

“Should we wake them?”

“Hm!”

Lim Si Hyun is thinking. Do they have to thaw them? It would be humane to wake them up. They might even be able to get some useful information if they are able to converse.

However, there is some reluctance. Say they wake them. Do they have to leave them here once the mission is over? Can they take these people to Earth?

On top of that, a special mission was not activated when they discovered the survivors. Is it because there are so many? That could be why, but it does not seem to be the reason.

The biggest problem is that the ark is the parasites’ nest. What if all of the survivors are infected? Then it becomes dangerous for the force.

“Don’t you think a special mission isn’t activated because they aren’t Lifers?”

“Let’s wake them up one by one.”

From the way things are going, they cannot pass them by without waking them. They can wake them up one by one and minimize the danger. They will need to kill any hosts.

“You heard, right? Search the list you secured and start with whoever you get a feeling for first.”

Hercules chose someone who would know the circumstances well. According to the search, 1 of the 7 people in room 1 was a lieutenant.

-[Frozen capsule number 1200 is being thawed. 5 minutes until thawed. He may be confused because he has been frozen for 4 years.]

A capsule positioned at the very top twisted in different directions and made its way down. Inside the thin ice, there is a middle-aged man lying down.

The ice melts little by little. Waking him suddenly is the same as making him freeze to death, so they need to revive his body temperature and bring him back little by little with his bodily functions.

“Jun Sung, the internal temperature is negative 60. Won’t he die as soon as he comes out?”

“I have no idea. I’m sure there’s a heating function in the capsule or something.”

Like Cha Jun Sung predicted, there is a heating function. The people also wear snowsuits when they enter the capsules. Once he is revived, he will be able to endure the cold to some extent.

-[Thawing complete.]

Hercules took the lieutenant in its arms and went outside. He cannot remain here and must be removed to a warm place. Since the door is closed, he can go there.

The force members went past the vault-like door and the door that was ripped off.

“Ugh…..”

The lieutenant is coming to. He is tense under the eyes of the force members. It is a world that appears to be the same as Earth, but he is a person of a different universe.

He opens his eyes. His focus is blurred. He had been frozen for 4 years. If it had been clear, that would have been suspicious to begin with. They waited with patience.

“Ack!”

The first sound that the lieutenant made once he woke up and saw Cha Jun Sung standing in front of him was to scream so loudly it felt like the ark would collapse.