Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 275
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Episode 275 – Chaos (3)
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The Second Command Base underground bunker has been there since the time the Cult Empire built Kesha Arma.
At first it was just a regular shelter, but Montana took special care to prepare for any eventuality, transforming it into a luxury shelter with dozens of accommodations and amenities.
But the refugees being treated in that luxurious underground bunker looked extremely dissatisfied.
“What the heck is going on! Open the door quickly, I’ll be right back!”
“Your orders, Montana. You are not to leave until the fort is secure.”
“This is such an outrage against us! The Empire will never tolerate this!”
Those who were in the banquet hall and then hurriedly evacuated continued to vent their complaints to the mercenaries in charge of security and the androids serving them.
“How dare you confine us in a place like this, like a cage for animals.”
“Ahem, please bear with me. The commotion up there seems to be unusual, so please wait a little longer.”
“That vibration just now, doesn’t that mean it’s dangerous up here now?”
“This is a bunker built by the Empire, so it’s sturdy enough. You don’t have to worry.”
“What? What if something goes wrong? Are you going to take responsibility?”
“Huh? Uh, that’s….”
People talking nonsense while drinking expensive liquor and eating snacks stored in the bunker. The bodyguards were trying to suppress their anger at their employers’ tyranny.
Because the situation was special, even the mercenaries in charge of security were given small amounts of high-quality snacks. Thanks to that, they were able to endure, otherwise, the division would have been broken up long ago.
“hey.”
“yes?”
“Stop wasting your time on useless food and drinks and go outside and take a look.”
“That’s right. You guys, I hired you for times like this, so go check it out together.”
“…yep.”
“And get rid of those damn robots too.”
The guards were forced out of the room, fearing that they would shoot their employers if they stayed any longer. The androids also left, saying they would bring new snacks and drinks.
“You pathetic creatures! You don’t know who gave you credit for being in such a prestigious position!”
“That’s right. I thought Mr. Montana was fine, but I’m disappointed.”
“Tsk, I never would have trusted someone who relied on androids in the first place.”
“I guess there’s nothing I can do since he’s a pirate at heart.”
The VIPs, their faces flushed red from drinking high-quality liquor, began gossiping about their bodyguards and Montana.
All the humans who came here were merely agents who had come under orders from Mid Capital, Noble Capital, or Prime Capital, the upper-middle class of Megacorp.
Everyone in the room knew this, but no one was pointing it out. They were complaining about the treatment they were getting in their own capital, which they could never have afforded.
Meanwhile, while the Megacorp VIPs raised their voices, the cult patrons talked amongst themselves about the state of the Empire.
“It might take some time to get out, so let’s continue talking about what we were talking about earlier.”
“You mean the arms purchase business? Well, there was talk in this Congress that total production is declining, so what can we do about it?”
“The atmosphere is so chaotic these days, shouldn’t we at least be well prepared?”
“Our faction officially supports arms reductions.”
“Huh, this is when unity is important. What does the opinion of a faction matter…?”
At that moment, the room they were staying in shook. The light fixtures decorated with transparent jewels flickered and then went out. In an instant, the room was plunged into darkness. Everyone, human and cult, screamed.
“Gyaaaah!”
“Ugh!”
It was only after the red emergency lights came on that they were finally able to calm down.
“What the heck is this!”
“Android! Where did Android go!”
“Bodyguard!”
The humans who had been screaming and swearing until just now suddenly stood up and started yelling. The sight of them cursing the androids and the bodyguards was nowhere to be found.
“I understand that Kesha Arma’s bunker is very durable. Is that correct?”
“I heard it was created just before the empire declined….”
“… Whatever it was, the vibration just now was heard from quite close by.”
The cultists remained relatively calm, but the anxiety on their faces could not be hidden. Then one of the cultists stood up.
“You tin can bastards! When on earth are you coming…?”
“Everyone be quiet!”
The cult rose from its seats and shouted at the noisy Megacorp personnel.
“I heard something.”
“sound?”
“I can’t hear anything.”
The cultist raised his hand and signaled for everyone to be quiet, and put his ear close to the wall. In the quiet room, the only sound was the shallow breathing of people.
No, except for one thing.
“…!”
The cultists’ ears perked up at the sound coming from beyond the wall.
He wasn’t the only one who heard that sound. Others heard it clearly too.
That sound that can be heard beyond the wall, that is, outside.
It was the scream of many humans.
A loud vibration, a power outage, and screams shook the bunker. What do these three things mean? Everyone in the room turned pale.
“Crazy! You said it was safe because it was made in the Empire!”
“There might be enemies outside! We need to evacuate quickly….”
“Damn, don’t open the door! If you open the door and they come in? You’ll be responsible?”
“What? What the heck? Which capital are you from?”
“You’re from Mars, you punk!”
“Everyone stop! Now is not the time to fight.”
When the humans tried to grab him by the collar under the red light of the emergency lights, the cultists stopped him.
“If I hear screams from the other room, this one is also in danger.”
“Um, if you go out and follow the hallway, there’s an elevator….”
“Hey, wait a minute! Why don’t you just wait for the bodyguards and androids to arrive?”
“You idiot! Don’t you know that when you hear screams from the next room, you could die before you come to save us!”
“Everyone, calm down. If you wish to leave, please raise your hand.”
At the words of the cultist who first noticed the change, all the cultists in the room raised their hands. Among the humans, about half hesitated and raised their hands slightly.
“Are you crazy? If we go out, we’ll all die!”
“I think the cult is more trustworthy than waiting for androids or mercenaries here.”
“that’s right.”
So the escape party was decided. The cult and the humans approached the gate, leaving behind those who had decided to stay behind.
“I can’t hear anything.”
“Let me check.”
A bearded cultist stepped forward and used his psychic powers to scan the hallway outside the room for any movement.
“I don’t feel any movement.”
“Aren’t there any bodyguards?”
“… It looks like you moved to another place.”
They exchanged glances and pressed a button on the terminal next to the door. With a squelching sound, the thick iron door opened automatically.
The two cultists cautiously stepped outside. The hallway was in worse shape than the room. It was pitch black, as if there was a problem with the emergency lights.
“It’s dark.”
“I’ll take care of that.”
The skinny female cultist behind her stepped forward and lightly extended her hand forward. Then, a sphere of psychic power appeared, faintly illuminating the surrounding area.
“It’s a bunker, so there must be a flashlight somewhere, but there’s no time.”
“That’s right. Escape is more urgent.”
“Let’s just leave it like this for now.”
“Okay, good.”
Unlike the cultists, the humans who had nothing to do nodded with a bewildered expression. The cultists, each with special abilities, came out into the hallway first, and the humans followed them. The ones who remained quickly closed the door as soon as the last human left.
The group was led by two cultists: a female cultist who created light with her hands and a bearded cultist who sensed his surroundings with psychic powers.
“…It’s quiet.”
“Sniff sniff, something smells strange?”
“Shh. The elevator is not far away. Everyone, please be quiet.”
If you walk a little further, you will find an elevator that will take you up to the command building. Everyone here must know this, since they came down from the banquet hall to the bunker.
But that thought was a mistake.
“Hey, what’s going on here?”
“… … .”
They must have walked at least a kilometer, but there was no sign of an elevator. They were still in the hallway covered with plush carpet.
And that wasn’t the only problem.
The strange smell in the hallway is getting stronger, as if it’s following them.
“…I think it would be good to run.”
“I agree.”
“shit!”
The endless corridors don’t kill them directly. The real danger here is the ‘smell’ itself that follows them.
The moment the cultists and humans started running, an ominous smell wafted from behind. Along with it, the sound of heavy footsteps.
“Heeeeeeek?!”
“Gyaaaah!”
“Chew! Run!”
“What the heck!”
A huge beast that filled the hallway was following them. The humans who saw it ran forward, cursing and screaming. The cultists who were running away with them attacked with their psychic powers, but it was completely useless.
“The attack is not working!”
“Everyone, back off… AAAH!”
“Ahhhh!”
A short scream was followed by the sound of something being crushed and bursting. The cult and the human were too scared to turn around to check because of the eerie sound licking the back of their necks. They just focused on running towards the elevator.
Did the cultists’ prayers reach Providence? A small terminal glowed alone at the end of the hallway. It was a signal that there was an elevator.
But the monster is right behind them. Even if they somehow make it to the elevator, they’ll all be killed by the monster before the door opens.
“Poetry, we have to buy time!”
The fleeing humans exchanged glances.
The cult is skilled in psychic powers, but their physical abilities are inferior to those of humans. If they wear a suit of enhancement, it may be possible, but otherwise, even an adult male cultist can be subdued by a human female. So it goes without saying that a female cultist is even more so.
After a brief moment of deliberation, the humans made a very mega-cop-like decision: to sacrifice the slowly falling behind female cultists to the monster.
“Your sacrifice will not be forgotten!”
“What? What are you doing… Gyaaak!”
“Hey, help… Aaaah!”
The monster opened its long maw and swallowed the fallen female cultist. Another cultist who had fallen with it tried to crawl on the ground and escape, but it was no use.
As the luxurious carpet was soaked with blood, the humans and cultists arrived at the elevator. They quickly operated the terminal to open the elevator door and jumped inside.
“Close it quickly! Close it!”
The elevator doors closed as quickly as they opened. The moment the large iron door, several meters high, closed, there was a loud noise and the door creaked slightly.
I thought it might be broken, but fortunately, the elevator was working normally. The elevator quickly ascended to the command center. As the surviving humans tried to catch their breath, the cultists caught them in anger.
“How dare you!”
“Your actions will never be overlooked in the Empire!”
“Why are you guys like this? If it weren’t for us, everyone would have died down there!”
“Didn’t you agree with that? If you wanted to save Jeong, you should have stayed when we pushed you!”
While they were arguing, the elevator arrived at the floor where the command center banquet room was located.
The door opened and the familiar sight of a banquet hall greeted them.
The man was grabbed by the collar by the bearded cultist and was able to forcefully shake off his arm and run outside.
“That’s the problem with you guys! You’re all acting so arrogant when you’re the same as us…”
The moment he turned his head to shout at the cultists in the elevator.
All the passengers disappeared from his sight.
“doing….”
The thing that appeared, ripping the entire metal floor of the elevator apart and sending humans and cultists crashing down, was the thing he least wanted to encounter.
Large, asymmetrical horns on its head. White, emotionless, dimly glowing eyes. And a snout full of sharp teeth.
The monster’s mouth opened wide and a large tongue approached him.
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‘Hmm. This one’s not that great either.’
The humans in the underground bunker were not as tasty as I thought. Honestly, I thought they would be okay since they were VIPs of Megacorp, even if they weren’t at the level of Sihyeon Yujin, but they were not.
They were all normal people who had not undergone any genetic modification at all. The only advantage was that the meat was rich in fat.
‘The cults were okay overall, though.’
I threw my remaining leg up. Number 26, riding behind me, caught the leg I threw with his pink tentacle. He wriggled and quickly devoured it, leaving a short comment.
“Not really.”
[Zuzu (right?)]
As the time spent with me increased, he also learned to appreciate taste.
There are three options: delicious, not so delicious, and not delicious.
In fact, since it eats food by melting it with its body, it is unknown how it perceives taste, but it seems like it has its own standards.
‘Now that I think about it, this is a banquet hall.’
There were several long tables in a space decorated with all sorts of splendid jewel decorations, as if they were made by a rich man. There was food left on the tables that had not been cleared away because they had hurriedly evacuated due to my attack.
I handed the dishes on the table to number 26 on a plate.
“it’s good!”
[Zuzuzuzu (Thank goodness)]
The creature seemed to like it, stretching out its tentacles and wrapping all the remaining food in one go, stuffing it inside its body. Looking at it, I was reminded of a black monster from a Japanese animation I saw at a museum when I was young.
‘That was before I got burned. It’s a memory.’
I, too, put an apple in a jeweled basket into my mouth and left the banquet hall, just like the guy.
Above, they didn’t seem to know that I had trashed the underground bunker. I crawled up the stairs to the first floor without any resistance.
The lobby on the first floor was full of pirates. They were barricaded and on guard in case the shield wall was breached.
One of them turned his head, wiping the sweat from the back of his neck, and saw me. His eyes were wide as if they were going to tear apart. It was as if he was asking why a monster was coming out from behind him.
My erosion tentacles decided to provide the answer instead.
It took less than five minutes for there to be no pirates left alive in the lobby.
I took out a terminal from the pirate’s arms, who had only his upper body left. I gently pressed the button with my small arm near his chest, and the shielding wall near the entrance began to move slowly.
“What kind of kid is breaking down the wall! Stop it now…!”
I stomped on the blood-soaked communicator to stop it from chattering. As the shield near the entrance opened, I saw familiar faces.
“That’s so funny”
“Gigigeek”
“I want to kill you! I want to bite your neck and drink your blood!”
Mutants and madmen cheer for me.
I decided to give them the answer they wanted.
Feel free to trample on this command center.
As the order was given, a legion of madmen poured into the command center.