Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 153



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Ep. 152

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“Entry completed.”

“Okay. The ship’s defenses are still down.”

“Conjei? See? I’ve never seen a ship using such bio-metal.”

Six cyborgs synchronized with Walker set foot inside the mysterious ship. We didn’t know it when we broke through the door, but once we got inside, we could tell that this ship was not ordinary.

Aside from the fact that both the exterior and interior of the ship were pitch black, it appeared to be no different from a regular cult frigate. However, when examined with the bio-signal detection module attached to the walker, the results were completely different.

The faint signs of life detected throughout the ship, the warmth reminiscent of the flesh of living things, the air uncharacteristically humid for a spaceship, etc. – it was far from the characteristics of a normal ship.

“It’s strange that a cult would develop such a metal.”

“Did you get it from an outspacer?”

“We have plenty of time, so let’s take a look at it step by step.”

The interior of the ship was different than expected, but the cyborgs were not worried.

The walker they rode was a heavily armored combat walker, the ‘Sentinel’ model. It was a walker powerful enough to fight against the Cult Warriors, as it had a reinforced shield built into it, similar to that found on ships.

Since these walkers are not weapons that can be used on a single cargo ship, they were all supported by the Star Union’s population management department. This is to ensure that there are no problems with cargo transport.

In addition, there are small drones and various weapons to support the battle. It may be difficult to achieve a complete victory against the cult warriors, but it is by no means inferior.

Anyway, the heavily armed cyborgs spread out their exploration drones, led by Mackay. Small, spherical micro-aircraft disappeared inside the ship’s passageway.

According to V’s analysis, this ship is carrying over 700 people. Considering that a similar class frigate has 200 cultists on board, this means that there are over three times as many people on board.

There will be a lot of people so you’ll be able to find it quickly.

Just then, the exploration drones began sending back images of the ship from all directions. They entered the ship, slowly completing a map of its interior.

“Hey, Mackay. Check this out.”

“What is this?”

“It looks like some kind of plant.”

At first, he couldn’t see it because it was all black. It wasn’t until his fellow cyborg pointed it out that McKay realized that the hallway was covered in vines, or something like trunks.

“V checked the Starlink database, but there was no matching information on the creature.”

“It’s not an outspacer, what is this?”

“I’ll just collect them first.”

The cyborg used the walker’s working arm to tear off the stem attached to the hallway. Black mucus oozes from the torn stem.

“… It’s a good thing it’s a sealed walker. If it had been a light walker, I would have thrown up.”

“Didn’t you remodel everything, even your internal organs?”

“I feel like I’m going to throw up because there’s so much oil.”

“Stop talking nonsense. Let’s go quickly once we’ve collected the ingredients.”

“Oh. Just register it in the database.”

So they moved while gathering information. The hallway became narrower and narrower, and the tip of the walker barely touched the ceiling.

Yet the cult was nowhere to be seen. So far, the only living things they had seen were vines everywhere and spores spewing out a foul-looking mucus.

That wasn’t the only strange thing.

“Next time to the right… Huh?”

“what’s the matter?”

“Shouldn’t there be a fork in the road here?”

“What are you talking about? This is a straight line.”

“The map looks a bit weird. Everyone, check it out.”

At Mackay’s end, each of them checked the maps created by their exploration drones. They were surprised when they saw the maps that were implemented virtually.

“The maps are different?”

What if the ship structure changed in real time? Not a single part of the map created by the six drones was the same.

“Is there something wrong with the drone? Is it being jammed?”

“Then it won’t malfunction like this.”

“Conjei, did you see? The situation is not normal.”

“Tsk… First, let’s go back to the ship… .”

The moment the cyborgs tried to retreat after hearing Conjei’s words, the ship shook violently.

“what?”

“Hey, Conjey. What’s going on?”

“The ship is moving, squeaking, caution, squeaking”

“Conje? Conje… Ugh!”

“Huh?!

The cyborgs quickly cut off the communication as a loud noise blared from the receiver of the linked walker. McKay rebooted the communication system and contacted Conjei, but only static was heard.

“Damn, the communications system seems to have gone haywire.”

Communication between the workers is fine, but contact with the cargo ship is not clear.

Lost contact with the cargo ship, the ship has a strange structure, and the corridors are filled with strange spores and stems, not to mention people.

Emotions that had been locked somewhere in the cyborgs’ minds began to creep out.

An emotion called fear.

“Everyone calm down. Let’s go back to the aircraft carrier.”

The cyborgs began to head back the way they had come, with Mackay leading the way to calm his comrades’ anxiety.

The heavy thump of the walker echoes throughout the hallway. As the footsteps shake the metal walls, the black stems stretching out along the hull twitch as if they were alive.

Although it was unlikely, Mackay looked at the ship and thought it looked like a living creature.

The intestines of a giant monster. The cyborgs in this place have already been eaten and are being digested.

‘What a ridiculous thought.’

Mackay tried hard to deny the thought that had occurred to him. At times like these, he had to keep his wits about him.

But the cruel reality trampled his efforts mercilessly.

“Oh, what the fuck is this!”

“… … .”

Instead of the straight passage they had entered, a fork in the road awaited them. One of the panicked cyborgs let out a scream mixed with profanity.

Even Mackay thought he had seen wrong and tried to disconnect from the synchronized walker. To his dismay, the fork in the road was still before them.

“Damn, what should I do?”

“The exploration drone again….”

“Damn, even if you do that, it won’t change anything!”

“Calm down! Why don’t you just tear down the wall?”

“Shall we break down the wall?”

“Thanks to the Sentinel’s oxygen supply, we can survive in space. We just have to get out and walk to the ship.”

It was a risky but not bad method. At least it was better than wandering around the ship, which was constantly changing.

The muzzle of the storm gun mounted on the walker was pointed at the wall of the hallway. Then, a terrifying firepower poured down on the alloy wall.

As the spores and branches clinging to the wall turned to charred ash, a large hole opened up. A new corridor awaited them inside the hole, but the cyborgs were unfazed.

‘Fuck, let’s see if you win or we win.’

After destroying the wall several times, they reached the outer wall of the ship they were expecting.

“Just get out of here!”

“Good!”

The depleted uranium bullets in the magazine are embedded in the wall, carrying the cyborgs’ hopes.

They were finally able to get out after firing until the Storm Gun overheated and was forced to stop firing.

But the scenery seen beyond the outer wall was different from the reality they had imagined.

“uh?”

The first thing they saw was the hull of a ship. A long, rectangular ship with a grayish glow, a familiar shape. It was the cargo ship they had come on.

The cargo ship is now split in two. A giant pincer is floating through space, chopping up the cargo ship.

A large number of containers loaded on the cargo ship spill out into space. Long, snake-like tentacles harvest the floating debris.

All the cyborgs who witnessed that sight had the same thought.

The cargo ship they came on is now.

I’m being eaten by this ship that has turned into a monster.

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‘As expected, it definitely has its pros and cons.’

The wreckage of a ship, half torn apart, floats before me.

The supply ship, which was several times larger than the frigate I had taken control of, was completely destroyed by a giant pincer that was dozens of meters long.

‘The destructive power is far greater than in normal state, but… .’

There is a major drawback.

When the pincers, jaws of a water harvester, tail, etc. are created on the outer wall of the ship, the movement speed decreases. Also, the implemented body parts move quite slowly.

If that ship had been a warship rather than a regular ship, or if it had reacted even a little faster to my approach, it would not have been possible to cut it to pieces as easily as I did now.

‘It helps that No. 26 is stronger in times like this.’

The psychic power of No. 26, which absorbed the power of the Sea Demon, has become incomparably stronger than before. In addition, this cult frigate that I have taken control of is a ship made of moonsilver alloy, which enhances the effects of psychic power.

Thanks to these two conditions, No. 26 was able to demonstrate new powers.

‘An EMP created with psychic power.’

No. 26 created an area that concentrated psychic power to a specific point, disabling electronic equipment. EMP technology existed in the game, but none of them were able to identify enemies.

In other words, the technology of No. 26, which only disabled the manpower supply line this time, can be said to be its own original technology.

‘It’ll only take a few minutes at most.’

It was enough time for me to approach the supply line.

They saw the huge mouth and claws growing from the frigate I had taken control of, and tried to somehow distance themselves from it, but it was already too late. The supply ship was caught by my claws as it was retreating, and its hull split open.

‘During a fleet battle, it would be good to fight like this.’

If the opponent is a minority, it seems like it would be easy to sort things out in this way.

Of course, when fighting a fleet of more than a few dozen ships, it is impossible to solve it with a supernatural whirlpool, so other methods must be sought.

‘Still, it’s nice that it’s convenient to eat.’

A massive jaw protruding from the front of the frigate swallowed all the cargo containers pouring out of the shattered ship. The ‘Jaws of the Harvester’, made of moonsilver alloy and biological tissue, crushed the containers and absorbed their contents.

In an instant, hundreds of genetic essences permeated my body, and several text boxes appeared indicating the effects of predation. Since they were put into cryocapsules under anesthesia, they probably didn’t feel any fear or pain of death.

‘That may not be the case for everyone, though.’

There are those who are trying to flee from me in a hurry, and those who are opposing me. It will be difficult for them to face death in peace.

Several fighters and several combat drones emerged from the exploding ship. The combat drones, equipped with lightweight storm guns, rained down fire on me.

Meanwhile, the aircraft are trying to escape. They must be trying to escape while the drone serves as bait.

‘I can’t let you run away.’

Dozens of erosion tentacles sprouted from my body in sync with the hull. Like the mythical snakes with hundreds of heads, many tentacles followed the tails of the aircraft.

The aircraft struggled to escape somehow, but there were too many tentacles surrounding them.

In the end, not a single aircraft was able to escape and was captured by me.

Long, thin erosive tentacles wrapped around the aircraft, shattering the alloy glass enclosing the cockpits, and ripping the cyborg’s body from the aircraft.

A female cyborg, as small as a star in the distance, howled. It was in outer space, so no sound could be heard, but I could guess what she was shouting.

It would be something like asking to be saved or saying that you did something wrong.

‘I’m sorry, but I can’t do that.’

You were the one who targeted me first. If I had been weak, you would have tried to kill me.

They chose the wrong option in the wrong place.

The cyborgs who boarded the ship in this way became the food for the eroding tentacles one by one.

‘hmm?’

At that moment, I felt eyes on me from somewhere.

I distracted myself from the wreckage of the supply ship to check out what was happening inside and outside the ship.

‘When did they come out again?’

Six walkers entered my body, tore through my sides, and watched the results I had created. I couldn’t see their expressions because the front of the heavily armored walkers was covered, but I’m sure they were quite surprised.

‘Should we clean them up too?’

I ordered the erosion tentacles near them to capture all the walkers.

“■■■! ■■ ■■!”

“■■ ■!”

The walkers who saw the flying erosion tentacles trembled and crawled back into my body. Only the walker behind me was unable to avoid my tentacles and was caught.

“■ ■■ ■■■! ■■!”

A Walker struggling, caught in a tentacle. I tried to cut off the erosion tentacle with the storm gun mounted on my arm, but it was a meaningless resistance. There are many more erosion tentacles than that one.

The resisting Walker was eventually destroyed, his entire body torn apart by the tentacles.

‘There are five left.’

We could have changed the ship’s structure and crushed them all, but we decided not to do that.

‘I guess it would be okay to use one or two people as human faces.’

I’ve gotten enough information from the cultists. It wouldn’t hurt to introduce them to some new friends.

‘It seems like Adhai is bored too.’

Aside from occasionally helping with course setting, Adhai spent his time playing with Number 26 or training with the Sky Mother for hunting.

Especially thanks to the teachings of the Heavenly Mother, the guy has become much more proficient in using the ‘hyper acceleration’ and ‘purple lightning’ he possesses.

‘Should I leave it to Adhai this time?’

I sent a wave of my will at the guy and focused on preying again.

Even as the supply line emptied, space remained silent and silent.