Chapter 95 (1/2)

90 people leave the bunker. The Lieutenant went with the main, and a colonel lieutenant ranked soldier went with the search. They need to be directed through the ark.

“Be careful.”

“Are you comfortable?”

“Hah….. I can’t express it! It’s heaven! Play and eat, I’ll pass on the next.”

Park Jin Hyuk gives Cha Jun Sung a taunting look. How good is it to not be moving? All he has to do is stay in the bunker and hang out.

Park Jin Hyuk also knows why he is staying behind. If a level 4 appears, he needs to stop it. Anything below that is up to the party and soldiers.

“I’ll leave her to you.”

“Sure. Koharu, be careful.”

“Yeah!”

Kyoko smiles and waves her hand. They have a 4 year age difference and they get along well.

They seem to be developing a good relationship. Koharu must also like Park Jin Hyuk, because she does not care. The search party and restoration party are getting farther away.

Park Jin Hyuk watched from the bunker entrance and went inside. He does not work as a guard. Seven Stars and the government had been considerate to an extent.

Seureuk.

“…..?”

Park Jin Hyuk was about to close the bunker door when he turned his head. A faint sound passed by his ear. He could barely hear it with his enhanced hearing.

Bump.

9 parties disappear far away. He thought that he had heard it from a close distance, but he must have mistaken the footsteps of 90 people and their chatter.

Park Jin Hyuk smiled and went in. He had joked to Cha Jun Sung, but it would be a lie if he said that he did not feel burdened by having to protect the bunker.

It is in a high gap dozens of meters away from the bunker. An odd creature with a fat and wrinkled body and thick fur is looking down.

It is a brown infestor. It is difficult to identify due to its dark coat and the dark environment. Of course the reverse is easy.

It had almost been discovered by Park Jin Hyuk whose body sensations are abnormally enhanced.

4 of them are stuck to each other. The brown infestors had followed the force all the way here by their scent. But there is a problem.

There are too many enemies. They may not be able to make rational decisions like humans do, but they have instincts as mutants.

They know that these humans wearing strange shells have considerable power. The infection pocket had shared the knowledge it received from the brown infestor with them.

The 4 contemplated. If they become adults and emerge, they can fight somehow. But it is impossible to do with these weak bodies.

Average infestors cannot divide or create offspring at will. The only species capable of that is the infection pocket. This is similar for the brown infestors.

Brown ones can create the average and brown infestors, but they are born without the reproductive function which makes it so that they cannot breed.

If infinite breeding had been possible, would the level 4 infection pocket have created just the 4 of them? They can be expressed as the body and alter ego.

The brown infestors each used a small amount of nutrients and created offspring.

There are 20 of just the brown species. They found the path to penetrate the bunker, but they are too big to enter. They will need to send these instead.

The offspring scatter. They need to go into the bunker, find a host, and quickly open the door. After, the main bodies will take care of the rest.

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The bunker is calm among the unrest regarding the parasites. 316 of the 20,000 people who had been frozen in sleep had survived, for a survival rate of 1.5%.

Normally? There had been about 250,000 people on board the ark. Calculating with this as the basis, it is lowered from 1.5% to around 0.12%.

It is not annihilation, but it might as well be. Even though it happened 4 years ago, they remember the events as if they happened yesterday so they cannot help but be nervous.

“Hee hee! We’re all going to die!”