Chapter 143 (2/2)
Cha Jun Sung puts his battlesuit on full activation. 30m is the distance that the Oriax can go in 0.1 seconds.
‘Go. Please just go.’
If it attacks, Cha Jun Sung is first. He is prey that is alone and closest. There is no reason for it to go where 99 people are gathered together.
Something black forms in the Oriax’s body. The color and shape are different, but it looks like an eye. No, it is an eye. That eye looks at Cha Jun Sung. Everyone holds their breaths as they watch. They did not even open their mouths.
His hand goes to his Time Limit automatically. If it attacks, avoiding it is not enough. He will crush it as he veers away from it. No matter how strong it is, it is immature without a host and the force can take it.
The eye comes out. It is still looking at Cha Jun Sung. It should have looked at the force at least once, but it does not. What is it looking at? Is there something unusual about Cha Jun Sung to a mutant’s eye?
The Oriax changes. A clear shape is forming from the liquid. Glare Gun shouts. It changed into Cha Jun Sung’s image.
“That – that!”
“Get away, Overload!”
“Fuck…..”
Cha Jun Sung swears. When the Oriax chooses a host, it changes to mirror the form. They do not know why. It was just known as a habit in the virtual version.
“Kill it!”
Papat!
The rankers got Cha Jun Sung out and ran at the Oriax. The rest of the force form a large circle so that it cannot escape.
The Oriax’s body becomes thin like a thread and digs in among the rankers. It moved faster than the speed of sound and only took 0.1 seconds for it to reach Cha Jun Sung as he had expected.
He brandished his Time Limit and cut a bit of the Oriax, but a small piece touched his battlesuit. Then, that piece seeped through the battlesuit as liquid into Cha Jun Sung’s skin.
The Oriax covers Cha Jun Sung. It swallowed everything from the mind to the body like a blot of black ink of clean white paper.
[Lifer Cha Jun Sung! Stay alert!]
Odin called his name again and again, but it was of no use. Injecting the virus antibiotics and medicine built into the battlesuit did not slow the process down.
“We need to kill him!”
“Shut up!”
Bang!
Boom Buster aims his hand cannon at Cha Jun Sung, being encroached upon. Park Jin Hyuk hit his face with his gun. Who is he trying to kill? Koharu, Kyoko, and Violet were also appalled with the awful situation.
“Boom Buster’s right. We need to kill him now.”
“Um.”
The rankers approach Cha Jun Sung. If the Oriax chose him as its host, there will be a reason for it. If it somehow becomes a level 7 mutant, the force will be annihilated.
Ahhh!
The battlesuit cracks. It is evidence that it is unable to withstand the changes inside.
Papat!
The rankers flood to Cha Jun Sung at Strategist’s signal. A few force members go to Park Jin Hyuk, who is making a fuss, and block him so he cannot get involved.
When the vibrating weapons were about to penetrate his body, Cha Jun Sung used his own will to fling his body into the hole. The attacks slashed through the air.
“….. Complete… the mission. I’ll… set it up.”
Park Jin Hyuk’s group saw this and stare blankly. What happened is too tremendous to understand, and it happened over too short a period of time.
“We’re getting out of here.”
“Where do you think you’re going! We have to go in immediately to save Jun Sung!”
Strategist ignores Park Jin Hyuk. He does not know what Cha Jun Sung will do inside. He could be killed by the blood clan, or he could kill the clan.
Kyak!
High-pitched screaming, the roars of the blood clan. The clan discovered Cha Jun Sung.
“I’ll go in myself then!”
“Stop him!”
Chamma Sword blocked Park Jin Hyuk’s view. He had heard from Cha Jun Sung that Chamma Sword is a strong ranker, but did not pay mind and tried to attack him.
But right before he could attack, the force heard sudden roaring and froze.
Kooo!
This is the first time they are hearing a roar like this in all of the time that they have played Life Mission. The shriek of a level 7 with the potential to make someone pass out. That is how the devil inside Cha Jun Sung woke up.