Chapter 245 (1/2)
‘What happened…’
Cha Jun Sung feels weird. He can’t really explain it, but it feels like he’s floating in the air. Is this what it feels like to do the drugs he sees on TV?
He remembers the situation.
That damned Tyrant had used an attack similar to self-destruction and the dark tent he had cast while wary of being exposed, had evaporated.
Of course Cha Jun Sung, who had been the dark tent’s subject, was swept into the aftermath.
His major organs had been blown away. It can’t even be described as a serious injury. This is the most danger he has ever been in.
He can’t get in contact with Odin either. His strong level 8 body is gone too. It doesn’t make sense for the PDA to withstand that explosion with its durability.
He must not have died though, since he has retained his self. It’s ambiguous as to whether he is alive or dead. He can’t move his arms and legs.
His arms and legs are just a short description. To go into more detail, he can’t feel his nerve cells.
He is taken aback because this is the first time this has happened.
His senses are numb. He can’t see or smell. He can’t hear or speak.
What is he supposed to do from now on?
Even so.
‘I still have my sense of touch.’
He can feel that he is sitting on the hard ground. It seems he is slumped somewhere.
‘I’m in trouble.’
He is nervous.
If Tyrant is alive and there are still Rage guild members, it isn’t good to continue this state. It is inevitable that they will come looking for him.
His wounds might heal if time passes.
Mutants are different from humans. There are differences with levels, but ultra high levels like Cha Jun Sung live unless the wound is definitely fatal.
Even if his insides get twisted and his arms, legs, and upper body get separated. If there is even a 0.1% possibility that he can live, he won’t die. That is a mutant.
Cha Jun Sung can think now. He can say that he’s alive.
‘I’m helpless.’
Severe hunger comes swarming in.
This doesn’t mean ‘I’m hungry.’ It is a small reason, but the big reason is that he is out of strength.
He needs to refuel his strength. He’ll do whatever if he can fill it. His whole body feels sluggish. He feels like he is going to fall asleep.
But he can’t go to sleep. His instincts are telling him that means instant death.
‘I’m standing on the edge.’
Life and death – he has a foot in both realms.
The choice is the former.
He’ll die at some point, and there will come a time when he accepts that death fully, but it isn’t this moment.
He feels a pain like a skewer is stabbing at his body. But the feeling that he might die is more serious than that pain.
‘Did – did I lose?’
Right now, Cha Jun Sung might as well be a living piece of meat.
He is unprotected right now, and he can’t attack or act in defense.
‘It’s unfair. I need to live. You guys dragged me into this battlefield.’
Cha Jun Sung’s feelings rumble like a wave.
It is a craving about life and a hatred for everything that made him this way.
[Give control over your body to me. I’m no longer dependent on you.]
‘Oriax?’
How long has it been since he’s spoken with the Oriax? It seems it has crawled out because his death has come, but the reality is that it has done a thorough calculation.
His body disintegrated.
Because of that, Cha Jun Sung’s mental state is in confusion as well. If the Oriax doesn’t take away control now, he doesn’t think that he’ll be able to do it again.
‘You asshole…’
When Oriax revealed its true feelings, its thoughts were shared with Cha Jun Sung.
He is angry.
They are all enemies. Subordination? When the Oriax forcibly invaded his body in the Public Underground?
Nonsense!
The Oriax is a gate crasher. It brought this upon itself.
He chose symbiosis because there was no other option, but there really had been no other choice.
It had been the Oriax’s instinctive struggle to stay alive, but everything has an ulterior motive if his death is at the foundation.
‘I’m going to kill everything that is trying to kill me!’
Cha Jun Sung flailed. All he thought of was survival.