Chapter 158 (1/2)
Cutting everything else out and getting to the point, Twister knows nothing about Public Underground. But that does not mean they got nothing out of it.
They found out the location of the new level 7 living on Czechoslovakia’s border. It is impossible to fish like before, so it caught with its hands.
Oriax took over the last and a month passed quickly like that. Then at a random moment, they got the information they wanted.
The sixth level 7 they caught knew about the Oriax’s mother. That means their habitats overlap. There is no better good news for Cha Jun Sung. They are close. They just have to go over one area.
[It’s the area my mother ruled until the Blood Suckers were born.’
Oriax’s words are tense. It is familiar scenery to Cha Jun Sung. He does not know how long it has been since he has been back. It is a new feeling.
“Where’s the hole?”
[In the center. This is the outside, so you have to go further in.]
Oriax shows him the way. Cha Jun Sung moved in the direction it instructed him to. It is a large city as it is where level 7s lived. He had been slow because he had gone on foot, but he was not impatient.
‘Lost time…..’
Just the time he met Medusa and Beholder and came back to his senses was half a year. Everything before that is blank. A few days or a few years could have passed.
But there is such a thing as a feeling, and he feels like he drifted in the mission for at least 1 year. How are his party members doing? Are they safe?
If the notebook is right, level B should have been opened and they should be contacting recruitment candidates, but everything has become tangled up. Was it a mistake to choose Public Underground as their level C advancement mission? He cannot decide whether becoming this strong was luck or misfortune.
[We’ve arrived.]
“I see.”
He can see a big hole. Cha Jun Sung stopped. He had taken the hit while looking down into this. It is alright now, but it had been terrible at the time.
‘The despair of being something that is not me and the depravity of having everything taken from me. It is not that easy to feel all types of bad feelings at the same time.’
[My instincts told me when I first saw you to eat you up. That I could become a complete adult. I guess I recognized your potential power.]
“Forget it. It’s in the past. I’m going down.”
Cha Jun Sung jumped down. It is hundreds of meters high, but he did not pay mind.
Boom!
The ground cracked under the impact and his footprint forms. He adjusted his senses and looked around. There is nothing. It is completely empty.
The bones of the Blood Suckers and Devils lay around randomly, discolored yellow. The thousands of cocoons that had been stuck to the walls are crumbled and only their dust flies around. They could have left because there has been enough time for them to be born.
[Look there. That track. That wasn’t there before. Seems Blood Lord was here. He must have come back to get his children.]
One wall of Public Underground has fallen down. Cha Jun Sung’s memory is foggy, but he was sane while going through Public Underground.
From the size of the track, there is nothing he can think of but Blood Lord. Blood Lord will know the way, so he would have been ten-fold faster than Cha Jun Sung.
“PDA, space compression bag.”
Cha Jun Sung started digging through Public Underground. He cannot detect them with his senses as they are not alive. He only has his eyes to search with.
“It’s here.”
Items he packed to come here are in the space compression bag. He could be active immediately if he wanted to if he just had the battlesuit.
“Card…..”
The biggest reason why he needed to find the space compression bag. The opening card he looted from the bidding war. It would not matter if he lost everything else, but he needs this.
It becomes more valuable over time, and time has stopped for him. By now, it will be unimaginable in value.
“Just as I thought, it’s off.”
He put the bag on his back and picked up the PDA. The power is off now and the second he turns it on, he will be connected to Odin. There is something he needs to do before then.
“What should we do?”
[Will you be able to handle it? They might try to kill you. No, us.]
“Kill? That’s impossible. No matter how strong Lifers have gotten, they’ll be wandering as level C or B in level 6 or 7. They can’t touch level 8.”
He has already transcended his limits. He has the ability to slaughter thousands of Lifers in battlesuits. He would turn Mechanic City over whole.
“Or well, run away to reality.”
This is all if it is discovered that the Oriax is hiding somewhere inside Cha Jun Sung. There is no problem if he does not get caught.
[Fine. Let’s go.]
“I’m turning it on?”
[Just in case, I’ll stop being active and sleep. Wake me up when you need me.]
It is a dangerous gamble to move a mutant to Mechanic City and reality. No one will have tried this before, will they? It is a waste to give up this power.
Zing!
Cha Jun Sung turns the PDA on. The light turns on and the system is rebooted. Nothing has changed and it works well. It is just that the helper is not active.
“Hey, Odin.”