Chapter 212 (2/2)

Beep.

A giant door with several obstacles blocking it.

A middle-aged man in a soft white coat is standing in front of the door. He is there to authorize entry.

A tent of light passes over the middle-aged man. Everything related to the man’s body such as height, weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and iris are checked.

[Security level Z. Releasing 7 nested security devices. Project command, Life Mission’s 2nd officer Borteth’s entry has been authorized.]

Borteth walks a silent hallway. All he can see are silver walls and ceiling. It is a straight line like a tunnel.

1 minute at a normal walking pace?

He did not walk for a long time. In that time, the distance would be about 100m.

Wiing!

A dead end. As soon as he arrived, a 2m rectangle formed, and a laser came out of each corner. Those lasers widened the range and wrap around Borteth. This is a type of gate, and the lasers act as a barrier protecting the passenger.

Electricity comes out near the dimension gate, and the space becomes distorted.

Borteth is expressionless. He waited for this phenomenon to end as though used to experiencing it.

When the distortion ended, he was standing in a conference room that looked to be about 300m. Everything he had gone through had been to get here.

“Borteth, you’re here.”

“Sorry I’m late.”

The room is filled with dozens of chairs, but only two people are seated. Borteth sat to the left of the head of the table to make them a total of three.

“Ha ha! You’ve made a mess. To think you used the Heavy Gravity.”

The person sitting across from Borteth, laughs at him.

Gabenu, the 3rd officer. Their numbers are different, but their authority is the same. Thus, Borteth ignored the laughter and mocking.

“It’s nothing you need to worry about.”

“Hah! Don’t talk nonsense. You’re saying that total interference isn’t something to worry about?”

Borteth ignored this again. Truthfully, Gabenu is right. The rule all of the executives decided on was non intervention. He had gone against that.

But people tend to not want to hear negative comments even if they did wrong.

“Borteth.”

“… Yes.”

The person sitting at the head of the table spoke. He spoke a little more politely than he had to Gabenu. This is someone he must do that to.

The general, the person in charge.

Life Mission’s general manager, Jigneon.

He’s the one who made the greatest contribution to Life Mission, from the structure to details. His authority is similar to that of the 2nd and 3rd officers, but he has a few privileges that they don’t have.

“Africa happened because Gabenu and I agreed with your suggestion. But this is different. Explain yourself.”

They interfered with the Lifers’ mission in Africa because they had all agreed to do so. This had allowed them to gather a lot of information.

However, he had decided on his own to use the Heavy Gravity, placed a block on returning from a fairly completed mission, and even interfered with items. It is right that he be reprimanded for using total interference in order to pressure a single Lifer without their permission.

“It was all for testing purposes.”

“I know there are results, since we found out what kind of mutants Cha Jun Sung can fight against as a Lifer, and that he came back as a mutant after disappearing in Public Underground.”

There is a lot that they gained.

They had not been able to find anything weird in the sample they collected from Cha Jun Sung before. It is understandable. He would be able to control his body freely if he had become a mutant, so what wouldn’t he be able to do?

Borteth had said repeatedly that they should collect another sample or threaten him, but Jigneon had been against it.

No matter what doubts they have, there is a thing called timing. Fruit should be picked when ripe. There is a decrease in value if it is picked too early.

Jigneon knows Borteth is the type to disregard the start and process as long as the results are certain.

Results?

They are important.

Even if the start and process were perfect, it is a failure if there are no results.

“Results are good, but you can’t understand why I’m like this?”

“Honestly, no.”

“Once you stray, it’s hard to stop. Why? Because you’ve gotten a taste. The first time is usually the hardest. That’s why the first button always needs to be done right.”

It is the wrong way. Borteth will act on his own again.

The fastest and surest way of getting results by going against the rules set by the executives, is right in front of him. There’s no way he will be able to withstand the seduction.

“E, D, C, B, A, S levels are smooth. Lifers going from level E to B are providing us with a lot of help in our experiment.”

Cha Jun Sung who reached the vertex of existing Lifers has even completed level A.

Jigneon only has one thing he wants to say to Borteth. It’s not to be blinded by ambition, messing up their work.