Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 384
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“what?”
“Is that the captain’s…?”
The opponent was a cyborg slave that Frank had brought. The naked sex slave ran and hugged her master.
“Why are you here?”
“Oh, my lord! There’s a monster over there!”
“what?”
All three froze at the word ‘monster’ coming out of the slave’s mouth.
Frank gave a signal to his men. Two of his men stepped forward, tense with tension.
The moment they turned right at the fork in the road at the end of the hallway, they had no choice but to stop walking.
‘Why did you stop…?’
Frank, who was following behind with a rifle, felt his heart stop beating as soon as he saw the sight.
The floor and walls, made of alloy plates, were soaked in red blood. Something with a metallic-colored exterior stood on top of it.
The being, which had what appeared to be dozens of arms, was swallowing something whole. Between the bloody arms, two legs were visible and then disappeared.
The monster that swallowed one pirate in an instant slowly turned its head at the light of the flashlight.
The being’s face was more fascinating than that of the sex slave Frank was holding. If it weren’t for the blood on its mouth, you wouldn’t have thought it had eaten a pirate.
The monster with eyes as blue as the sky stared blankly at the pirates and opened its mouth. Its jaws opened wide enough to swallow a person easily, and two hooked teeth reminiscent of fangs emerged from inside.
“Eek?!”
“Eww!”
The pirates screamed as the exotic-looking face transformed into a hideous monster. They tried to attack the monster with the laser rifles they were holding. However, the monster was moving much faster than them.
The monster, which had approached in an instant, used its long snake-like body to wrap itself around two of Frank’s subordinates at the same time. The numerous arms attached to its body were a bonus in tearing apart the subordinates’ bodies.
“Ouch!”
“S, save me… .”
The subordinates couldn’t scream even though their whole bodies were covered in blood. This was probably because the monster wrapped around their bodies and suffocated them.
Only then did Frank realize why he had not heard anything.
“Fuck, shit!”
He had a plasma rifle, but it didn’t seem like he could win. Frank chose not to save his men, but to escape.
“Eat this!”
“Gyaaaa… Keuk?!”
He pushed hard at the cyborg slave he was holding. The slave fell forward and was impaled on the sharp thorns on the monster’s tail.
“… … ?”
A monster tilting its head as it looked at the female slave who had been stabbed by its own tail. While the enemy was interested in the slave, Frank quickly ran to the other side.
“I can’t die! How did I survive! I will never die!”
Thanks to his mad dash, he quickly arrived at the hangar where the aircraft was located. The monster did not chase him, perhaps because it was busy eating the slaves he had abandoned.
He set the hangar door to open from the aircraft and quickly climbed into the small fighter.
“I won’t die. I won’t die.”
He survived the collapse of the Marcio cartel. He was so lucky that he couldn’t die in a place like this.
Believing so, Frank opened the door to the hangar.
As the door opened, the scenery outside came into view.
A single ship floats in the near-lightless space. It is a pirate ship under his command.
And then there was a ship I had never seen before. It was right next to the pirate ship.
“huh?”
Looking again, I noticed that they weren’t stuck together.
To be precise, a strange ship was swallowing a pirate ship.
It’s not a concept of a large destroyer or battleship loading a small patrol ship onto the ship.
The literally unknown ship was chewing up the entire pirate ship with its large teeth and jaws. The scattered metal fragments were dealt with by the silver clouds hovering around it.
Frank let go of the joystick after seeing that.
–
The owners of the ships that were attacked by metallic gremlins were people I didn’t expect.
[Zuzu zuzuzuzu zuzuzuzu zuzuzuzuzu (That guy is the second-in-command of the Shinomitsu Cartel?)]
“huh.”
Isabel answered my question with affirmative.
I’ve heard that there are a lot of pirates roaming around this area.
Since pirates might know about the Shino Alliance, I asked Isabelle to infiltrate another ship while I was swallowing it and read their information.
In fact, I didn’t have high expectations because there were no space dog marks on the surface of the ship, and it wasn’t as messy as a typical pirate ship. I thought it was just a small fleet of regular merchant ships.
‘But he was a pirate belonging to the Shino Union.’
I almost ate it all without knowing.
I looked down at the dockmaster, glad I had sent Isabel away first. He was staring blankly at the wall.
[Zuzuzu zuuzu zuuzu zuuzu (But why is the condition like that?)]
“I didn’t do anything to the boss. He was like that when I tried to catch him.”
Anyone who has ever encountered my true form has reacted in one of two ways: either trembling in fear, or gnashing their teeth in a desperate attempt to kill me. The pirate named Frank was neither of those two.
“I think I know why.”
“Geuuuuu”
The Sky Mother, who was feeding the ship’s alloy fragments to her tamed mountain crawler, joined the conversation.
“I was really scared because I could smell blood coming from your body….”
“The pirates were enslaving people on the ship. That bastard even threw a slave as bait to save himself.”
“… Instead of just scaring him, you could have tormented him more. Or just killed him.”
“Huh?”
They both had memories of being slaves or almost becoming slaves, so they were merciless when fighting Spacedog.
‘Well, even if you’re not in your right mind, it’ll be okay since you’ll be infected with parasites.’
The good thing about parasites is that they don’t care about the mental state of the target.
The parasites that came out of my body easily found a new body without much resistance.
‘Then let me ask you a few questions.’
“I heard that the Sino Union is a group of six cartels. Do you know where each of them operates?”
“I don’t know exactly, but I have a rough idea.”
When I asked in an imitation of a human voice, Frank bowed his head obediently.
Could it be because his name had the number 3 in it? Frank knew more than the Shinoroku Cartel boss he had met before.
“Then do you happen to know who the leader of the alliance is?”
“I don’t know. I just know where it is.”
“You don’t know who it is, but you know where it is?”
“The union holds regular meetings. The union leaders also attend those meetings.”
That’s also quite interesting information.
‘It wouldn’t be a bad idea to start from the Megacorp colony and then aim for it.’
The current leader of the Sino Alliance is most likely a player or someone related to him. The faction is probably the ruling faction. Of course, it could be an outsider like me, but that’s probably not the case.
‘If that were the case, we wouldn’t have formed the alliance in the first place.’
Spacedogs are hated by the intelligent species, even if not as much as Aimorph. In such a situation, forming a union would be a perfect way to get noticed by others.
The opponent is under the protection of the ruling faction, so they must be openly running a coalition.
‘That’s good. I have some accounting issues to settle with the ruling party.’
If Isabel has a bad relationship with the Returning Faction, the Ruling Faction has a grudge with the Heavenly Mother, PS-111. They will also have to fight the Megacorp and Star Union Rankers belonging to the Ruling Faction at some point. Before that, it will be very helpful to obtain information about the Ruling Faction through pirate players.
I had PS-111 record the information about the players of the Shino Alliance. Then I sent him back to the broken pirate ship. This was to avoid anyone finding out that I had contacted pirates, just like I did with the Shinoroku Cartel.
‘I stopped by for a quick bite to fill my stomach, but I unexpectedly gained a lot.’
Because the Metallic Gremlin Army has gained new type traits as well as information related to pirate players.
‘Strictly speaking, it’s a trait I acquired before.’
Thanks to the indiscriminate slaughter of Metallic Gremlins, I was able to regain the ‘Warp Creature’ trait I had previously acquired. It’s a trait that can be obtained with a low probability from ‘Warp Boys’, so I guess I was lucky.
I feel like my bad mood has completely lifted due to the side effect of the ‘hunger’ trait.
I still felt a sense of uneasiness as if someone was chasing me, but it wasn’t enough to really bother me.
‘Then let’s fill our stomachs a little more and then leave.’
Even if that were me, the mountain crawler would be hungry.
After I fed the Mountain Crawler some rocks floating in space, I prepared to travel faster than light again.
“■■■”
The Titan Boss and the group following No. 26 also entered superluminal travel following me.
‘Speed travel with an Amorphous Metallic Gremlin.’
I liked it every time I saw it in the game, thinking it was a rare genetic essence, but I never thought we’d fly together like this. You never know what’s going on in the world.
Warp creatures have a trait that reduces the time it takes to reach superluminal speeds by half.
I left the constellation much faster than before I came here.
–
The queen suddenly appeared in an empty space where there was nothing.
The Queen, who was changing the color of her outer skin to resemble black space, checked the residual energy left behind by the ‘predator’.
“The ‘predator’ meets the ‘beasts’ and takes sudden action.”
“It is difficult to track because of the traces of the ‘beasts’.”
“The Empress and the ‘Great Enemy’s’ plans are unhindered. The ‘second trap’ is still in effect.”
“Contacted the ‘first bait’. ‘First trap’ is also effective.”
“Report to the Empress.”
“Stop tracking and return.”
With those words, the Queen slowly melted into the darkness of space.
The first thing I did when I got back to Gallagon’s house was to move the mountain crawler.
It wasn’t that difficult to load a guy with a size comparable to 100m onto the Gigacracker.
Although the Giga Cracker is a super weapon, its fundamental purpose is to be a mining ship. There is a large gate used to load minerals. The Mountain Crawler was moved by transforming the eroded ship to fit the size of the gate and then docking it.
Management was left to Coldblood and Mini Screamer. In fact, there was no management at all. All they did was transfer minerals to Gigacracker and feed it whenever necessary.
After moving the Mountain Crawler, I asked the kids to bring me a few things they needed, since we were going straight to the Megacorp colony without stopping at Adhai’s nest.
And the first thing I brought up was PS-111.
“I brought the MPS-05.”
He put the mini screamer he was holding down in front of my main body.
[Zuuuuuuuu (It’s been a while)]
“Go! Go!”
A small screamer with eight metal legs and a woman’s face, MPS-05 raised one of her legs and greeted me.
This adorable mini-screamer is a model specialized in jamming and linking communications. It will come in handy when raiding Megacorp’s research facilities.
‘It was quite helpful when I infiltrated Berzan 02 before.’
MPS-05 crawled up my body connected to the ship, moving its legs diligently.
‘Come to think of it, I guess I’ll have to transplant the newly acquired trait later.’
The trait I gained from eating the Metallic Gremlin wasn’t just ‘Warp Creature’. I was also able to obtain ‘Radio Frequency Disturbance’, which was the material for the trait ‘Hijacking’, which was a great help in my survival for a long time.
The combination of the Radio Jamming and ‘Sleight of Hand’ traits creates a Hijacking trait that allows you to take control of machines for short periods of time. This would be a huge help if it was transplanted to a new Mini Screamer.
‘Or should I just give it to PS-111?’
You can transfer up to two traits to him using the ‘Double Helix Monolith’ obtained as a stage 2 reward for the Space Monster type. I already transferred one trait to him before, so now I have one left.
‘I gave you a covert maneuver.’
Among the creatures received from the slave trader in Berzan 02, there was also the ‘Snow Banshee’. It is a silent predator that leaves almost no traces even when walking on the snow. The result of this specialization of the Snow Banshee’s characteristics is ‘stealthy movement’.
I already possessed this trait, so I handed it over to PS-111 before preying on the Snow Banshee.