Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 116



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Ep. 116

The cruiser’s situation room.

The pirate leader shut his mouth when he heard my voice.

She seemed quite surprised, as I could hear her swallowing very shallowly.

“… Aimov in 5th place.”

She said so in a small, trembling voice.

The first thing the leader, or rather the player, said was unexpectedly my identity.

She knows exactly who I am.

‘Well, that’s what caused the chaos.’

It’s not that I’m overly self-conscious or anything. There aren’t that many Aimorph players who engage in psychological warfare against their enemies by skinning corpses.

If you’re a long-time player, you’ve probably heard of me at least once.

“You’re so tall. Do you know who I am?”

“Humanity is ranked 2nd.”

“I know you well.”

After taking over the situation room, I was doing something else until the communication came.

It was a matter of accessing the pirate leader’s information stored on the computer.

The pirate leader, the woman talking to me through the communicator, is named Muriel.

It was the same name as the player who was ranked 20th in the space dog game.

‘I’ve never met him in person, though.’

I quit the game because of academic probation shortly after she became a ranker, so I never met Muriel in person and fought her.

Of course, I had collected information on other rankers without having to fight them. I know what race, what faction, and what clan she belongs to.

‘It probably wasn’t a cult originally.’

As far as I know, Muriel, the 20th ranked player, was a cyborg Spacedog. So, I didn’t think the pirate leader would be a ranker until I checked his name on the computer.

‘Of course, there are some space dogs from cults… .’

He was a man, not a woman. He was an American ranked 11th, and I remember him because I had fought him a few times before.

Anyway, looking at Muriel’s picture floating on the computer monitor, no matter how you look at it, it’s a female cult, and a cult with deer antlers, a symbol of cult royalty.

‘I don’t know why the Staghorn Cult is pirating, though.’

If she’s a ranker, she’ll know how much the Staghorn Cult can do in cult society.

The ship would not have been a cruiser like this, but would have been towing an imperial carrier.

‘We’ll have to find out about that step by step.’

Currently, I know very little about the players. I don’t know whether she and I are the only players in this world, or whether there are other players besides us.

That’s why you need to get enough information through conversation with her.

“You were ranked higher than me just in the game. Do you think you can beat me when you’re still an adult?”

She speaks confidently, as if she has decided that there is no need to be nervous any longer.

Even though the cruiser was taken away, he still has some confidence, as if he still has something to believe in.

I know she’s been hearing bad things about herself, like she’s the queen bee and all.

But even so, she is also a ranker in Space Survival.

Unless that person is impersonating a 20th place ranker, he must be hiding a secret.

‘Shall we talk some more?’

“Sun Yang Ham Kka Ji Ppae At Gin Ju Je E Gi Go Man Jang Ha Gun.”

“Huh. That little ship is just a small part of the power we have.”

“we?”

What does she mean by ‘we’?

It could be referring to the Humanity Cartel, but that wasn’t the nuance. Thanks to Aimov’s special extrasensory senses, I can also sense the emotions in the other person’s voice to some extent.

‘It feels like you’re referring to a colleague, not a subordinate.’

That means that the player, or a being similar to a player, shares her intentions.

Even as I was quickly thinking, she continued talking.

“It’s commendable that you came all the way to this planet as a young adult, but that’s it. If you had behaved well, I would have let it go.”

“Don’t get me wrong. You were the one who shot me down first. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to say?”

“You’re stupid. There’s no way I’d let an intruder whose identity I don’t even know be allowed to exist. And you’re just a weakling right now. A weakling has no right to protest to me.”

Her words sounded childish, but they cut to the heart of this world.

Because the world of Space Survival was a dystopian world governed by the logic of the law of the jungle and survival of the fittest.

‘Further conversation is pointless.’

Seeing her attitude of talking about weaknesses, I couldn’t bring up the topic of negotiation.

I guess I’ll have to meet her in person and hear it from her for more details. I have a lot of useful tools to help people tell the truth.

“It’s like I’m completely absorbed in this world.”

“Ha. If you stay in this world for too long, everyone will become like that. Don’t you know? What kind of world this is.”

I was about to end the conversation, but she gave me an important clue.

‘You’ve been here a long time?’

It hasn’t even been half a year since I came here.

Of course, it’s true that it felt long because I was doing something almost every day without resting. But that doesn’t mean I can say that it’s been a long time.

‘…Muriel and I came here at different times.’

At least she must have been in this world much longer than I.

‘This part is a bit interesting.’

All the more reason to catch Muriel.

“And by the way, you probably think I’m just talking nonsense without thinking about it, right?”

“What does this mean?”

“Do you think I’m that stupid? Do you think I didn’t prepare anything for the cruiser?”

She speaks as if it’s a joke. It sounds like she’s done something to the cruiser.

“Are you talking about a bomb?”

“uh?”

“You guys really like the Speicher bomb.”

Before I took over the situation room, the gnats that had been spread throughout the ship reported to me a danger: a bomb that could be detonated remotely was placed around the reactor.

It was installed very covertly and there was no record of it on the ship’s computer, so it seemed that Muriel had installed it with the ship in mind for it to be hijacked.

If I hadn’t had the experience of fighting space dogs on the research ship, I wouldn’t have thought of the bomb. The idea of ​​installing a bomb in the reactor, the heart of the ship, is truly unimaginable.

“… Ha. That’s true. Is this definitely the 5th rank?”

The bomb was already disabled because its wires were cut.

Muriel let out a gasp as she confirmed the fact.

But the emotion in that voice was different from what I expected.

It was not a feeling of surprise or awe, but of relief.

“You’re smart, but do you really think I prepared that?”

“Unidentified energy flow detected in planetary orbit! Dangerous! Everyone, evacuate!”

As soon as Muriel finished speaking, an alarm sounded in the situation room.

‘Orbit? No way?’

“It’s a bit of a waste to throw the ship away. But it’s still a good deal if you throw it as bait to catch a ranker, right? Right?”

I left the situation room without delay.

The flow of energy in orbit points to only one thing.

Direct orbital bombardment.

If it’s an orbital bombardment through the fleet, the cruiser’s ship AI can detect it. Since you said it’s an unidentified energy flow, it’s not a spaceship that’s doing the orbital bombardment right now.

‘A one-of-a-kind weapon!’

Among the unique weapons that only the Cult can obtain are satellite weapons that help strike specific areas from orbit.

The name is ‘Brain God’.

A satellite weapon that operates on the owner’s psychic powers and rains down massive bolts of lightning onto its target.

It may sound weak when you call it lightning, but its destructive power is greater than that of a nuclear bomb. If you shoot it into the ground once, everything in that area will be destroyed.

Although it has the disadvantage of being able to shoot once and having a cooldown of 14 days, it is a very popular piece of equipment in the game because it is definitely advantageous to use it in advance when fighting a strong enemy.

‘I can handle it if I’m an adult, but not now!’

Even if you are a semi-adult, if you are struck by lightning from the brain god, you will die instantly.

I quickly crawled underground through a hole I had dug under the cruiser.

‘This is not enough.’

The distance from the ground is well over a hundred meters, but I can’t rest easy yet. After I entered the ground, the nest filled the hole I dug, but this is not enough.

I dug the ground, hurriedly heading downwards.

When we were a good few hundred meters away from the surface, the link to the Tooth Fairies was severed.

Then a strong vibration was felt from above.

The lightning thrown by the god of thunder struck the ground.

–

“Whew, that’s spectacular.”

The lightning of the Thunder God was so powerful that it could be seen even from a great distance away from the cruiser. The night sky was clear of clouds due to the lightning that came from the planet’s orbit.

In the area where the lightning struck, a huge nuclear cloud rose upward as the cruiser’s nuclear reactor exploded.

Even a jungle filled with redwoods hundreds of meters tall could not withstand this unprecedented event.

A giant fire demon devoured the jungle and the creatures that lived within it.

Muriel clapped her hands in joy as she watched countless lives being snuffed out.

“As expected of the Brain God. His performance is certain.”

“… … .”

The Heavenly Mother gritted her teeth as she watched the brain god move for the second time.

This is not the first time that the Brain God has been activated on this planet, as Muriel used it to capture the Earth Father and Sky Mother.

The Father of the Earth was a Wolf Named with surprisingly high defense, but he wasn’t strong enough to withstand the Lightning of the Brain God.

Moreover, the Father of the Earth covered the body of the Mother of Heaven to protect her and took the lightning instead.

Thanks to this, he was left on the verge of death in one room, and was subsequently beheaded during a fight with Muriel.

“Hehe, even if he’s a 5th-ranked player, there’s no way he’d survive being struck by that lightning, right? Even the Father of the Earth? He’d be knocked out in one hit by this.”

“… … .”

“Well, safety first. I have to see the body with my own eyes.”

Muriel called some of her subordinates.

“Brothers, go here with our Heavenly Mother and check.”

“… Don’t make me laugh. Do you think I’ll listen to you?”

“Huh? Isn’t that obvious?”

Muriel, who had responded in this way, took off the javelin on her back. Then, with an expressionless expression, she stabbed one of the young Wolfs to death with the spear.

“You bitch!”

“You have a ‘family’, so are you going to abandon them?”

“I’ll kill you! I’ll tear you apart somehow!”

“Oh my, it’s scary. But before you kill me, these cute kids here will probably die first.”

“Ugh!”

“If you want to save your family, you’d better listen to me, 15th ranker.”

“Fuck….”

The Heavenly Mother had no choice but to lower her head once again in the face of Muriel’s threats.

–

‘I thought I was going to die.’

I was able to somehow avoid the range of the brain god, but that didn’t mean I was completely safe.

This is because the enormous fire caused by the combination of these two factors – the explosion of the nuclear reactor and the bomb – penetrated even into the tunnel I had dug.

Fortunately, it evolved into a semi-adult and its shell became stronger, allowing it to withstand the flow of destructive energy.

And thanks to the lightning of the god of thunder, the earth shook so much that the tunnel I had dug collapsed, and the heat that threatened to engulf my entire body could not continue to pursue me.

I waited underground until the aftermath of the explosion had passed, then came up to the surface.

What was once a place filled with redwoods and grasslands has become a barren wasteland.

Where the cruiser had been, there was nothing but sand, and the jungle in the distance was still burning fiercely in flames.

‘This is how it came out.’

Up until now, I have eaten countless lives, including humans.

But still, somewhere in my heart, there was that thought.

I thought it would be okay since they don’t live in the same world as me.

That’s why he may have approached her in an ambiguous manner, even though she was a real person.

Even though I knew that Muriel was the one who posed a great threat not only to me, but also to No. 26 and Adhai.

It definitely was like that.

Now that thought has completely disappeared.

‘If you kill someone who goes around stabbing other people in the head with lightning, it’s self-defense, right?’

I crawled out of the ground and quickly crawled towards the burning forest in the distance.

I couldn’t tell if the heat I felt on my body was the aftereffects of the nuclear explosion or if it was because I was angry.

It doesn’t matter anyway.

‘The cooldown time for the Brain God is 14 days.’

I don’t know if this is her trump card or if she has something more hidden.

But now it doesn’t matter.

‘I won’t kill you right away.’

Because there is information I need to get from her.

Instead, I need to teach her that sometimes there are things more frightening than death.

Using every strategy and means I have.

She’ll soon learn how scary a pissed-off Aimov can be.