Chapter 278 (1/2)

Borteth doesn’t look kindly at Cha Jun Sung. This wasn’t much different on Cha Jun Sung’s end either.

But the two of them ended it there. It is in the past. There’s no need to fight. In Borteth’s case, he was so busy he could barely take his hands off his work as they were in the last leg of Life Mission.

To Cha Jun Sung’s left, there are tens of thousands of dead mutants trapped inside translucent cylinders.

On the right are Lifers.

There are so many of them that he can’t see where they end.

“As you can see, this is where all of the types of mutants that were hunted in Life Mission are being preserved.”

Even the same species get divided into maximum and minimum. So there are about 5 or 6 males and females for each species. Lifers are preserved by body modifications and level. This is just for research.

What kinds of studies have they been doing?

“If you go in deeper, you’ll be able to see level 8 and 9 mutants and Lifers beyond level A. There aren’t many in the case of Lifers.”

Of course not. Mutant corpses remain inside the mission, but Lifers are taken back to reality if possible as their levels are higher.

The 100,000 Lifers who entered Lord of Bones cleaned up the mission for about half a month.

They hadn’t been able to get Chamma Sword’s body back.

Life Mission officials didn’t move until Lifers were done.

They start moving after Lifers return to reality.

That is why it had been harder to gather Lifer bodies than to get mutants.

“Two sets of genes were found in Evil Queen’s body. It was interesting. They are level 9 when separate, and higher when fused. That’s how we figured out who would be more dominant between mutants and Lifers.”

“Which is it?”

“Mutants.”

Jigneon didn’t hesitate in his response.

Borteth smiles.

He looks happy as though he has won.

“Do you know why there are two Miracles?”

“No.”

“Borteth injected an advanced type A virus into his body and became a level 9 mutant. Gabenu and I pursue different sectors.”

With mutant superiority, Borteth himself becomes superior. His test results came up ahead of Jigneon and Gabenu’s, so of course he is happy.

“I killed Evil Queen. Aren’t Lifers superior?”

This is overreach.

Ordinary Lifers wouldn’t have been able to get the results that Cha Jun Sung got even if they had used the Miracles. On top of that, their bodies would not have been able to withstand wearing double.

“It was only possible for you. But we can get level 10 genes by investigating Evil Queen fusing level 9 genes.”

If they combine them well, the result will be powerful biomarkers.

Cha Jun Sung is one person, but they can replicate Evil Queen’s genes.

Of course it won’t be easy. But there will be progress if they study it.

“We needed a powerful army. We created Lifers because we needed a powerful army, and that’s how the A virus was derived, creating mutants. But there wasn’t a place good enough to test it. If we want to do proper tests, we not only need the location, but we need specimens. This ship’s population is just about a million, so these weren’t conditions in which we could do it here.

Cha Jun Sung felt like Jigneon was going to tell him why they created Life Mission. Why did they make something like this?

“So the dimensions…?”

“Right then, we were getting success in tests opening dimensions. To put it into practice, we opened two dimensions and created an environment where we could hold the experiment.

“If you needed a powerful army, aren’t there already a lot? No matter how many Lifers and mutants there are, a few nuclear bombs would do the trick.”

It isn’t a matter that can be resolved with a few nuclear bombs, but they don’t need to have a leash around Lifers and mutants with their science. They have plenty of weapons to replace them.

“That’s what we would have done if destruction was our goal, but what we wanted was to find a place to breathe, a place to settle in.”

Cha Jun Sung cocks his head. He can’t understand what this means.

Jigneon knew this would be Cha Jun Sung’s reaction, and turned a hologram on.

Then the Gene Institute researchers including Borteth turned their attention to it. Cha Jun Sung felt yearning in their eyes.

The center of a vast universe.

The hologram is recording a clear and blue star.

It is beautiful.

Earth?

No.

It was subtly different from Earth.

“Where is that?”

“Blue Paradise. That’s the name we gave it. Its environment is the same as Earth’s and it’s 10 times as big. You can tell by looking at the nature, but there are various fauna and flora living there.”

The time is coming near. They look like different creatures from the animals on Earth. It looks like they installed a satellite near Blue Paradise.

“Is there no intelligence there?”

“Intelligence? If you’re talking about beings similar to humans, no. But those animals aren’t as simple as they look.”

Each is different, but the outstanding beings boast intelligence similar to that of humans. It is obvious that they are smart even if they cannot communicate.

“Hundreds of years later, Earth’s natural environment gets completely destroyed. We escaped that pollution and are looking for a new home.”

“Blue Paradise? Then can’t you just land there? If they’re just animals even if they’re smart, then can’t you just easily start?”

“Watch closely.”

[Send a special cyborg toBlue Paradise, red zone.]

Woong!

Cha Jun Sung doesn’t know the concept of the red zone, and just watched the hologram.

The gate opened and the special cyborg appeared in Blue Paradise. The heavily armed cyborg began to wander around the red zone. It didn’t take any special actions. It just wandered around.

“What! A unicorn?”

Cha Jun Sung took a breath.

In a lush forest, a unicorn that looks like something out of the Pegasus legend is caught in the cyborg’s radar.