Became an Evolving Space Monster - Chapter 387
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“yes.”
“You called me, so you should pay for the drinks.”
The acting governor got up from his seat and left the store with light steps.
Outside, I saw cylindrical or rectangular skyscrapers covered in tempered glass. They were all built in a style that was popular before the birth of Megacorp. I heard that the exterior of the building where Noble Capital resides is similar to those.
However, most of these buildings are currently empty, as entertainment production has stopped. Except for a few buildings used by high-ranking officials, the rest are just empty spaces.
Thanks to this, the streets surrounded by buildings were surprisingly quiet. Of course, the acting governor, who knew the colonial system better than anyone else, was used to this strange atmosphere.
He walked down the street and stopped in front of a building. The airship he had come in was parked on the roof of this building.
As I passed through the building’s revolving door, a bright lobby appeared. The acting governor stood in front of the elevator inside the lobby and pressed the button. The number 30 on the location indicator quickly decreased.
‘When building the next set, should I suggest installing an airfield?’
It was quite annoying to have to go up and down the building every time I wanted to drink.
While he was looking at the location indicator with such random thoughts, he suddenly realized that something was strange.
‘Why are you coming down from the 30th floor?’
There are three people in this building: the pilot on the airship, the bodyguard, and him. Of these, he is the only one who has come down to the lobby. The bodyguard and the pilot are supposed to be guarding the airship, so they are naturally staying on the rooftop.
Before he knew it, the number was pointing to 15. He activated the watch-shaped terminal on his wrist. It was to contact his subordinate on the rooftop.
After a while the communicator became active.
“Has anyone come down to the lobby?”
“Yes? No. We’ve been here since a while ago.”
“what?”
The moment he heard those words, the acting governor felt a cold sweat run down his face.
The number displayed on the location indicator was now 5. I had a bad feeling.
The moment that elevator door opened, it seemed like something terrible he could never have imagined would happen.
‘…shit!’
He ran towards the emergency exit in the corner of the lobby. As soon as he opened the emergency exit door, he ran up the stairs in a hurry.
‘What the hell is going on!’
It’s not that the employees or Hulk mutants have escaped. They have obedience devices and signal chips implanted in their heads, making them incapable of spontaneous action.
‘Could it be Sechan?’
I thought he was a pawn he brought, but that didn’t make sense either. This is Megacorp’s colony LV-06. It would be suicidal for a mere pirate to attack the acting governor of the colony.
“What’s going on?”
As if answering his confused mind, the bodyguard’s voice flowed out from the terminal.
“Acting Governor?”
“…I am being chased by an unidentified entity.”
“yes?”
“Contact the crisis management team, gasp, gasp, and tell them to, hooray, lock down this building first.”
“All right.”
Despite the urgent words of the acting governor, the bodyguard responded without any hesitation.
The acting governor, who had ended the call, stopped near the 8th floor. He seemed to be feeling sick, perhaps because he had suddenly jumped while drunk.
‘I can’t run any longer. Ugh!’
He opened the emergency exit door and went out into the hallway. Then he chose one of the dozens of rooms and entered.
He quickly locked the door and collapsed against the wall. His heart felt like it was going to burst from fear and pain. He clutched his chest as if squeezing it and slowly took a breath.
‘I can’t chase you this far, you’ll chase after me…’
His panting eyes saw a large piece of tempered glass on the other side of the door, on the outer wall of the building. He could see the entire set through the glass, but the conditions were not conducive to enjoying it.
After that, about ten minutes had passed since he started to catch his breath in the room. No sound was heard from outside.
‘I told you to contact the crisis management team, why haven’t I heard anything?’
By now you should be able to see the airships busily flying outside your window.
As he felt something strange, a light came on on the terminal on his wrist. It was a communication from his bodyguard.
“The crisis management team has just completed the lockdown.”
“What? I can’t see anything?”
“We are moving secretly to ensure the safety of the Acting Governor.”
At the guard’s words, he approached the glass wall. Looking outside the glass, there was no sign of the crisis management team having arrived.
“I am currently on my way to protect the Acting Governor. When I arrive, I will knock on the door, so please open it.”
With those words, the communication was cut off.
Not many minutes later, there was a knock at the door.
He was looking out the window when he approached the door.
As he reached out to grab the doorknob, a thought crossed his mind.
‘Wait a minute. Did you tell the bodyguard your location?’
There are cameras all over the building, so it won’t be hard to find where he’s hiding.
The problem was that there was too little time to find it that way.
“I have arrived, so please open it.”
It’s not his bodyguards outside.
“Are you inside, Acting Governor?”
Knock knock
“Acting Governor? Acting Governor? Acting Governor?”
Knock knock knock
The acting governor stumbled backwards at the sound of the knocking that was repeated regularly, and accidentally fell down.
The moment he fell to the floor and made a noise, the knocking on the door suddenly stopped.
“It’s inside, after all.”
A voice heard softly.
‘It’ broke through the door and attacked him.
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‘It’s been a while since I moved alone.’
In this operation to capture the Governor-General, I decided to go it alone.
Megacorp’s colonies are heavily guarded due to the control of their employees. There are cameras installed everywhere, so there’s a high chance of getting caught if you move around with children.
‘But not me.’
Infiltrating enemy territory alone and hunting down my target is what I do best.
Besides, my current situation is much better than when I was sneaking in the game, because there is a ‘clever underdog’.
After unlocking ‘Nightmare Horizon’, I transformed into a clever underdog.
Numerous hairs covered the carapace and outer skin of its entire body, and its body shape changed to a form that walked on four legs like a centaur.
Along with the change in my body shape, my gigantic body size, which used to be taller than skyscrapers, has also decreased significantly. My body length, including my tail, currently does not exceed 5 meters.
I transformed into a form optimized for stealth and hiding, and hid near the place where Sechan had decided to meet. Thanks to the clever underdog’s special ability, ‘Unknown Creature’s Fur’, I was not caught on camera.
And while the acting governor went to meet Se-chan, I cleaned up the personnel on the airship. He happily drank his whiskey, completely unaware that his subordinate was disappearing into my stomach.
‘Well, even if you had known about my attack in advance, it wouldn’t have been different.’
I looked down at the acting governor I had just subdued. The man who had been hit by my lightly swung foreleg was trembling, having completely lost his will to fight.
‘Where then… .’
A cute baby wiggles inside an arm wrapped in fur over a hard shell. An eel-like parasite pokes its head out.
“Hee, heek?!”
The guy who saw the parasite screamed briefly and tried to run away. I held him tightly with my long, strong chest arm.
“W-Wait… Khuuk?!”
The moment the guy opened his mouth to say something, the parasite went inside. The opponent struggled to vomit out the foreign substance that had invaded from the outside, but it was a futile effort.
In just a few seconds he will be serving a new master.
‘Let’s see how much you know….’
At that moment, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck. At the same time, the body of the acting governor, who was being held by my hand, went limp.
‘what?’
The eerie feeling I just heard was the sensation that occurs when a parasite dies.
I quickly grabbed the Governor-General’s skull with my wing arms and applied force. When I broke the solid bone, I saw a fully cooked parasite.
Inside the flesh left behind by the parasites was a mechanical chip that looked similar to a submission device.
I examined the chip that came out of the Governor’s head.
The appearance was similar to the obedience devices implanted in employees. Judging by the extremely hot surface, it was clear that this small device was the culprit that killed the parasite and the acting governor.
‘Why does this guy have this thing on his head?’
This brain-melted corpse was, until a few seconds ago, an agent of the colony’s highest authority. It is absurd for a non-employee to walk around with a bomb in his head.
‘It wasn’t done voluntarily.’
Li Zhao, the prime capital of Megacorp and the governor of LV-06, planted a bomb in the head of his agent.
There are not many beings in this world who have the ability to take control of the brains of intelligent beings. Of those, there is only one being who enjoys using the strategy of infecting key figures to disrupt enemy lines.
‘You’re after me!’
The moment I realized that, the building shook violently. The trap set by the enemy began to activate.
I quickly released the ‘Smart Weakling’. My body grew rapidly and broke through the walls around me. I spread my wings and flew up in the middle of the collapsing building.
As I looked down from the air, I saw that several buildings were collapsing at the same time. The roads were also cracking, indicating that the ground itself was collapsing.
That’s not what I did.
The Star Union, which specializes in conventional weapons, has a superweapon-level bomb. Its power is so great that it can destroy an entire planet.
The official name is ‘PMB (Particle Manipulation Bomb)’. This bomb is often called by its nickname ‘Alpha Boy’ rather than its official name.
This bomb is the most powerful of all the installed bombs in the game.
I’ve experienced this many times in games when fighting Star Union, so I know what happens when the bomb is activated.
That city that is sinking into the ground is the result of PMB’s creation.
‘I made it work when the chip inside the Governor-General’s head is activated.’
Planting a bomb in the heads of the Megacorp upper class and hiding the superweapon of the enemy Star Union in the colony.
‘And you made the entire planet a trap just to catch me.’
These are all things that only players can do.
Li Zhao and the players knew I would come here and set a trap.
‘… If it’s PMB, you have to avoid it quickly.’
The surface hit by the energy released by the bomb is already in the process of being destroyed.
The skies above are still better, but they are not perfect. Colorful auroras are appearing everywhere due to the energy warping the planet’s atmosphere.
If I go any further, I’m finished, so I have to hurry and get out of the bomb’s area of influence.
As I flew above the rainbow sky filled with all sorts of colors, I saw a large pink jellyfish floating in the distance.
It was number 26, who had entered battle mode. He tried to protect the others by hugging them tightly with his fins.
Above that, Adhai was seen spinning around, wearing ‘Red Armor’. Thanks to his near-omnipotent defensive abilities, he seemed to be in relatively good shape.
However, it is not possible to completely protect the entire body, so if I delay any longer, it will be dangerous for the monster. I moved the monster’s tentacles and shot out invisible waves.
[■z zu■z (■s are you okay?)]
“■Huh■!”
[■z zu■z■ zu(■two i■eu■ wa)]
Could it be the energy generated by the bomb that interfered? Strangely, the waves were cut off. Adhai’s thought waves also felt strangely noisy, unlike usual.
Still, the smart guy understood my intentions immediately and flew over. When my left head opened its mouth, the guy went inside.
“Big adult” “Little adult” “Quick” “Help me”
Don’t worry, it’s going to happen. I approached No. 26 after picking up Adhai first.
The energy waves from the bomb were slowly peeling off the guy’s outer skin. It must have been quite painful, but he was holding on and protecting the others.