Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 396



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Episode 396 160. Tomorrow (3)

Reactions to the journey of a sloth crossing a staggering 380,000 km to return to its birthplace were similar.

keyser: You’re sending Bumpy back to Earth?

Felzear: Should I put a rocket on it?

Alex82: Wouldn’t it be better to just eat it? It might not taste good, but it’s still fresh meat, right?

Jesse_Pinkman : That’s nonsense.

Etynernyxx: Rather than waste your time on such pointless things, Vivi! Apocalypse! Just keep running.

Trasrg: I’d bet it’s impossible.

ArmorDonio: Negative.

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The reaction is that it is nonsense.

To make matters worse, it is said that in North America, even state governments have collapsed, causing public order to collapse in cities that were barely maintained.

While most American doomsdayers have sought to survive in the vast American wilderness through complete isolation, there are also many who, like me, have settled some distance from the city in order to enjoy even the smallest drops of civilization.

Such people now had to watch with bated breath through their narrow eyes every day as hungry refugees with guns – who could turn into looters at any moment – passed by their bunkers.

In the process, the appearance of Korean-style anglers in the United States made us realize, in a sense, the homogeneity of humanity.

Anyway, in this ominous situation, a fairy tale-like topic like the 380,000 km journey of a space sloth did not receive much response.

My nose is blocked.

But America isn’t all about Viva! Apocalypse!

I asked this question in the Necropolis.

Viva! Apocalypse! With thousands of times more users than any other community on Earth, the largest community on Earth is home to a diverse range of people.

Among them were astrophysicists who had worked at NASA. Just as intellectuals of the past found inner joy in solving difficult math problems as a hobby, they also enjoyed solving and resolving physical problems that are difficult for us to fathom in their own way.

So, the story is that Bumpy’s return has become a new pastime for astrophysicists who were forced to leave their current jobs.

Some of them accessed Viva! Apocalypse! through the tunnel that Valentine, the hero of this era, had installed.

Deadman987541: Was the place with the melon mask Lagrange L4?

Deadman4143: That would be 19 million miles.

I just realized that the distance between Melon Mask and us is much further than my poor imagination.

It wasn’t 380,000 kilometers away, it was a whopping 30 million kilometers away.

Melons were farther away than we could imagine.

Even though 380,000 kilometers is like an eternity to me, it seems like a completely different unit to someone who received a different education, thought differently, and lived a different life.

They expressed 30 million kilometers, or 19 million miles in their units, as follows:

Deadman987541: This is where Earth will arrive in two months.

From here on out, it’s expert territory.

To Park Gyu, who was treated as a middle school graduate by society, the concepts they talked about—generalized coordinate system, holonomic constraint, non-uniqueness, Rayleigh divergence function, orbital eccentricity—came as an alien feeling not much different from the language of monsters—if only they could speak.

Anyway, what I can confirm is that the number of users participating in the discussion about returning Bumpy to Earth is increasing, and the discussion is becoming more active.

The point where the Earth we live on will reach in two months.

From there, an object is launched towards Earth.

Their intention is to calculate the direction and force needed to send the object into a stable orbit over Earth’s home planet – the jungles of South America.

Of course, I cannot understand their argument, nor do I have time to understand it.

The most dramatic change I’ve noticed is the emergence of engineers.

Deadman95031: If I remember correctly, the one attached to Melon’s space shelter is called Canadarm 2. It’s an upgraded version of the Canadarm on the ISS space station. It’s bigger and more powerful.

Deadman8213: Throwing Bumpy to Earth with Canada Rock isn’t a bad idea. But think about it. Even for a pitcher with great control, it’s very difficult to land a ball 19 million miles away on a target.

Deadman211213: In addition to Canada Arm 2, there will be orbital stabilization compressed air blasts scattered throughout the station. There are probably extra ones. After attaching the Bumpy to Canada Arm, attach the blasters to the appropriate locations and send them down to Earth.

As more and more people started to join and the scale of the discussion grew, Su-woo’s cute idea and Hong Da-jeong’s somewhat absurd plan derived from her internet expert psychoanalysis began to take on surprising vitality and take shape.

The plan changed from day to day, and became simple enough for even an ignorant person like me to understand, from an expert to a knowledgeable person.

1. Bumpy is secured to the space-operating robotic arm called Canadarm2.

2. Attach the sprayer to Bumpy’s body.

3. Wait for the gravitational pull between the planets to diminish and then send Bumpy towards Earth.

It looks simple, but when you look at the actual plan, it’s not that simple.

Because it’s a life-threatening task for Melon, starting with getting Bumpy into space and attaching him to the robot arm.

Attaching a projectile to Bumpy’s body fixed on Canada Arm 2 and checking the azimuth is not something Melon Mask can do.

This is something that only professional astronauts with the highest level of education and training can achieve.

But at least in this regard, Da-jeong’s judgment was correct.

MELON_MASK : Hmm······.

Melon finally broke the long silence.

The moment I saw that sight, I unconsciously muttered as if Da-jeong was right next to me.

“Oh my god. Oh my god.”

Of course, at this stage, my insight in reading the true nature of the melon mask is usually beyond my capabilities.

Anyway, things went as Hong Da-jeong expected.

MELON_MASK: ······If I do as you say, can I send Bumpy back to Earth?

After all, this human needed attention.

then.

“······.”

Knock knock

SKELTON: I want to see Melon Mask work on Live! Apocalypse!. I’m so excited.

Let’s lay the groundwork.

Although he didn’t put his face on the center screen as big as usual, I dare say our melon mask is reluctantly splitting its mouth.

And so began Bumpy’s nineteen million mile journey, or thirty million kilometers in the world’s universal units of measurement.

The first live was to show us the dead Bumpy again, left in outer space to prevent decay.

“······He died so suddenly. He didn’t even show any signs of pain. When he suddenly stopped eating grass, I looked over and, oh my god. He was dead with his eyes closed. But······ Damn it. He······ was smiling······.”

I just found out.

How much patience it takes to tolerate malicious comments.

At least our forum users have shown patience and unity in this regard.

No one complained or left a malicious comment about Melon, who was causing cosmic hysteria and bullying.

With everyone’s support, Melon Mask started a great event that will be remembered even in this dying world.

“Actually, when this guy killed my staff, I was terrified too. I’ve seen videos of mutations killing humans for fun. It was so shocking to see animals torture humans to death that I had to get a prescription for medication even after watching so many videos like that.”

Melon Mask, wearing a fancy spacesuit with his company logo on the screen, is wrapping his once-huge, now-stoned companion in industrial plastic wrap rather ruthlessly.

The idea is to reduce the volume as much as possible and then squeeze it into a circular escape pod inside a space bunker.

Melon Mask didn’t know it, but this space bunker, which cost tens of trillions of dollars, contained an escape pod inspired by an idea similar to what the astrophysicists are talking about in Viva! Apocalypse!

To launch yourself to a place where Earth will be two months from now, without relying on a rocket, and to wait for Earth to pull you in two months later.

However, the war broke out sooner than expected, and Melon’s whims reduced the expectations, so it is said that the engineers who were supposed to live with him brought it to Melon without Melon knowing.

This is a last resort measure in case the escape rocket fails to work.

Maybe Melon had considered the possibility of abandoning them and going to Earth alone.

In any case, the survival rate of that escape pod was less than 1%, even to their minds.

It was questionable whether the Earth could pull the escape pod, and even if the Earth could pull the escape pod with gravity, it was questionable whether the escape pod could withstand the enormous heat generated by friction in the atmosphere. Even if it did make it into the atmosphere, would it be able to land safely? And what if the country it landed in was an enemy country that hated the United States? These were all kinds of difficult problems.

That’s why it is said that the escape pod discovered by Melon Mask contained suicide poison.

Unfortunately, all the staff members who were supposed to explain about the escape pod were torn to pieces by Bumpy.

The woman who hated Bumpy was an expert in this field.

“Survival gear, cosmic radiation shielding, thermal insulation. If we remove all of that, there’ll be room for the bumpies.”

Melon Mask worked with a bright smile on his face during a broadcast that was watched by at least tens of thousands of people.

Sizzle–

The industrial wrap roughly wrapped around Bumpy’s dead body once again, compressing it.

Next, we put Bumpy into the pod.

It wasn’t easy.

Even though the escape pod wasn’t that small, Bumpy’s body was still much larger than that of an average human.

The work environment of zero gravity, where one cannot be stationary, also caused many problems.

Still, Melon smiled and forcefully stuffed Bumpy into the pod with a lively attitude that made it hard to believe that only a few days ago he was making a scene about shutting down his own site.

Next, the pod is secured in place using a space-based robotic arm attached to the outside of the bunker, called Canadarm2.

Astrophysicists have already determined the direction with their own calculations, and based on that, space engineers have indicated the ideal direction to send Bumpy into the Amazon jungle in South America.

Of course, there were some people who were skeptical about this process.

“I mean, I have this thought.”

Defender, who had finally met in real life, commented on this incident.

“Those physicists. They talk nonsense, but honestly, how many people can understand the formulas they’re talking about? When judges or doctors play around with words, you can infer from the context, but for something like that, if you don’t study, you can’t even infer it, right?”

“······okay?”

“I have a feeling that those guys aren’t real scholars, but rather they’re just pretending to be scholars outside. Maybe they’re employees of Melon. If they shut down, aren’t they the ones who’ll suffer the most? When I saw that guy whining shamelessly and not getting a single malicious comment, I suddenly had that thought.”

Defender added, taking a sip of his hot synthetic coffee mix while blowing on it.

“So what you’re saying is that everything we’re seeing could be one big play, just to fool that one guy in Melon Mask.”

Defender also has strong insight, just like Hong Da-jeong.

Especially when it comes to cynical insight, it is rare to find someone like him.

Well, I think there could be such a view.

But I don’t hate people who burn the flame of life for the purpose of hope.

Melon’s work is almost finished.

“These are the things Bumpy liked when he was alive.”

Melon was seen putting a lot of packages of vegetables, especially lettuce, that she was growing in an automatic cultivation facility into a pod that she had crumpled up, and in the process, she was also seen bowing her head a couple of times and swallowing her sorrow.

Now is the time for parting.

Our bulletin board astrophysicist somehow said that the moment he was almost done with his work was the perfect time for the escape pod to fly at an ideal angle to avoid planet-to-planet and planet-to-moon interference and head towards South America.

“Okay. Bye. Bumpy.”

Melon Mask pressed the button while revealing his bare face.

Push-ssi—

As Canadarm2 took hold of the restraints, the compressed air nozzle blasted air, pushing Bumpy out of the space bunker.

Beyond the white sphere moving slowly but surely away, lies our fleeting, blue and beautiful planet.

Two months later, tomorrow is the day I will come back to that place.

“I was happy during that time.”

Melon Mask’s show ended successfully.

But the show wasn’t over.

Eee …

At the end of the show, a siren blew.

At the same time, the K-Walkie-Talkie let out an urgent voice.

“A large horde of monsters! Advancing towards Seoul! Coming right this way!”

It’s finally begun.

Days that could be terrible but also glorious.

Tiring~

In the meantime, a message arrived.

It was sent by Vivabot.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: (Vivabot is impressed) Skeleton······.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: How many times have I received help from Skeleton?

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Seriously, I don’t think I could repay you even if I had 100 bodies······.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Seriously, even if Skeleton wasn’t in Twelve Square, he’d already be a hero to me!

Sent a message to Vivabot.

SKELTON: I’d like to send a message to Melon, could you please open the channel?

The radio rings.

This is Woo Min-hee.

It’s a call to come quickly.

Still, I have to do what I have to do

VIVA_BOT014: Yes, I just granted permission.

SKELTON: Thank you.

I immediately sent a message to Melon.

SKELTON: That was a great show, Melon.

I said it with sincerity.

A reply came soon.

MELON_MASK : Skeleton!

He sent me a few messages afterwards, but I didn’t have time to read them.

“······.”

Knock knock

Instead, I’ll finish the rest.

SKELTON: It’s my turn next.

MELON_MASK : What?!

SKELTON: Put on the best show.

MELON_MASK: (CEO surprised)

SKELTON: It hasn’t been decided yet whether it’s a bad ending or a happy ending.

For tomorrow, Melon sent his friend away.

Likewise, we too will fight for tomorrow.

Srrrrung-

I put the axe in the axe case.