Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 151



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151. Abandoned Laboratory (3)

Bam! Bam!

The explosion didn’t end with just one.

Two, three times, the ice ants that had been approaching continuously burst and flew into the air.

At first, the ice ants ignored the explosion and ran towards Hyunseong and Lee Suho, but then they judged that it was more dangerous and started to move towards where the explosion occurred.

“What the hell happened?”

Lee Su-ho is both delighted and puzzled when he finally gets a chance to catch his breath.

I looked at where the explosion had started and saw a huge monster that looked like a gorilla brutally destroying ice ants.

“What is that?”

-It’s a snow giant.

“This is a total mess. Did they smell blood too?”

“No, I brought them here.”

Then a voice was heard from the side.

Hyunseong flinched and turned his head toward the direction where the sound came from.

There was a man there, wearing a tattered robe turned inside out.

‘Is the hiding pretty good?’

How could you not notice that you were approaching this distance?

At the sudden appearance of a third party, not only Hyeonseong but also Suho Lee raised their spears in alertness.

A guy who doesn’t approach you anymore as if he has no hostile intentions towards that action.

“Don’t be so cautious, I’m in the same situation as you.”

“Same situation?”

“… … ”

At Hyunseong’s question, the man seemed to hesitate for a moment, then pulled back his robe.

Then the face is revealed.

“…!”

Lee Su-ho swallowed his breath when he saw that face.

Because the man’s face was not human.

The pupils were slit vertically, giving a creepy feeling to anyone who looked at them, and scales were sprouting here and there on the exposed face.

It looks as if a human is in the process of turning into a reptile.

The man turned his robe over again, as if he didn’t want to show it off anymore.

“… Were you experimented on here?”

“that’s right.”

“I have a lot of questions to ask, but…”

Hyunseong looked around the still noisy surroundings.

Right now, the monsters are fighting each other, but once this fight is over, it will be their turn again.

I had to get out of here before that happened.

“Let’s get out of here for now.”

The ice ants also changed their targets, but they kept popping out from somewhere.

It would be virtually impossible to clean up these guys inside this lab, which was their nest.

So the three people, including Hyeonseong, took advantage of the confusion to escape from there.

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“Whew, I guess it’s safe now.”

The man sighed and sat down nearby.

Lee Su-ho lets out a sigh of relief and follows suit, sitting on the floor.

Hyunseong asked, gritting his teeth at his tired appearance.

“Are you tired already?”

“Ugh… To be honest, I was underestimating you a bit.”

I thought that even if it was difficult to confront the monsters head-on, I would be able to sufficiently investigate this place and escape if I moved stealthily, but from the blizzard fishermen to the army of ice ants.

There wasn’t a single thing that wasn’t easy.

‘If I had come alone…’

Before even getting to the ice ants, wouldn’t you have been caught by a blizzard fisherman?

The 6th floor seemed to have quite a few monsters that were different from the ones we had faced so far.

“Have you guys met the snow fisherman too?”

“We met first.”

“It’s a good thing we met here. If we met outside, it would be really hard to tell the difference.”

If you stay in the lab like that, you can tell the difference because it makes you feel uncomfortable, but it was difficult outside.

It was to the point where there was a saying that you shouldn’t even trust your own colleagues on a snowstorm on the 6th floor.

“Let me introduce myself. I am Han Seong-min. I was an Awakened who conquered the 6th floor.”

“… … ”

Lee Su-ho hesitated several times to say something, as if he couldn’t bring himself to open his mouth due to the bitterness in his voice.

At that sight, Hyunseong sighed softly and hit the back of Lee Suho’s head.

“Huh?! Why are you hitting me?!”

“It’s not like you can solve it. Stop feeling so pitiful.”

If it was a problem that could be solved with sympathy, I would have said so a hundred times, but if not, it was just unpleasant for the person involved.

I would feel more comfortable if I treated you normally.

Hyunseong muttered like that and looked at Hanseongmin.

“So, I have a few questions.”

“what?”

“Did the Association put you here?”

“that’s right.”

While we were conquering the 6th floor, we suddenly received a request for cooperation from the association.

He and his colleagues entered this research center without any suspicion because the association had called them, and they fell into the trap and became test subjects.

“I never would have thought that the Labyrinth Association, which is supposed to be for the Awakened, would be cracking pumpkin seeds like this.”

“… … ”

Lee Su-ho didn’t say anything.

I wanted to make sure that the group I belong to wasn’t the one doing this.

Since there were such direct victims, it could no longer be denied.

“But the way you say that makes me think you’re not from here.”

“Oh, if I had to be specific, I’m from the first floor.”

“Do they have a research lab on the first floor too?”

“No, when I woke up I had turned into a monster.”

“… … ?”

Han Seong-min tilts his head.

I couldn’t see his expression because he was covered by a robe, but his actions seemed to indicate something about what he was talking about.

“What are you talking about?”

Finally, the question just popped out of my mouth.

Hyunseong shrugged his shoulders and grumbled.

“It’s true. I became a monster without any experiments on me.”

“… … ”

Han Seong-min was dumbfounded, but at the same time, he felt convinced.

He was in an ambiguous state, neither human nor monster, having been synthesized with another monster through an experiment.

But wherever you look, Hyunseong is a perfect monster.

‘furthermore…’

How can you synthesize a human with a monster that is nothing but bones?

Wouldn’t it be easier to make a skeleton out of the bones of a dead person?

“… You must have had a hard time too.”

“If I were to tell you all about my hardships, even if I were to spend three years talking about them, it wouldn’t be enough.”

“It’s not like it’s a thousand and one nights…”

Han Min-seong chuckled.

I couldn’t even remember how long it had been since I’d laughed like this.

I ended up like this, wandering around the lab, unable to talk to anyone.

“Are you inside the lab because you don’t know how to get out of here?”

“No, that’s not it.”

There were a few times when I wandered around the lab and found the exit.

Every time, I thought about getting out of this hellish place several times.

but,

“I have no intention of leaving yet.”

“Not yet?”

“There is someone I need to find.”

His colleagues who came up to the 6th floor with him.

Since he is alive, there is a chance that his comrades are alive too.

That’s why I planned to stay here until I found out whether they were alive or dead.

Hyunseong was inwardly amazed at those words.

‘That’s amazing.’

-I know.

Normally, I wouldn’t even think of staying in a place that only holds terrible memories, but even after being treated like that, I’m still looking for my comrades.

It wasn’t an easy task.

Lee Su-ho, who was listening to the story, looked moved by those words.

“Let me help you.”

“You seem like you’ll only be a nuisance?”

“No, I will try.”

“If everything could be covered by effort, the world wouldn’t be so unfair.”

Of course, for someone like Lee Su-ho, it would be possible to cover it up to some extent with effort.

I checked it out every now and then while fighting the ice ants, and it was growing a little bit each time.

At first, I had a hard time dealing with two or three at the same time, but the next time I saw them, there were four or five, and the time after that, there were more.

‘This is the second time I’ve seen a guy grow like this while fighting.’

-Who’s first?

‘me.’

-… Narcissism is a disease to that extent. Go to the hospital.

‘No, it’s true.’

When Seol-ah was in the martial arts world, she didn’t know herself very well, but she was truly a growing monster.

Because the skill gap before and after the battle was so great that it made you wonder if they were really the same person.

-So what are you going to do?

‘what?’

-These two people. There is also the option to leave them here.

‘Isn’t that a bit harsh?’

-The world is originally a lonely place.

‘You can’t live alone. You have to cling to the user like a parasite.’

-Parasite?! Isn’t that too harsh?

After bickering like that for a while, Hyunseong soon decided to go with Han Seongmin and Lee Suho.

In fact, there was not only a desire to help him obediently.

‘I need to secure the materials.’

-data?

Since it was not abandoned but closed due to an accident, there would still be all kinds of research materials left there that had not been properly processed.

‘When those in power are at a disadvantage, the method they use is public opinion.’

-but.

If it seemed like trying to suppress them with force wouldn’t work, there was a possibility that Hyunseong or Lee Suho could become public enemies.

Although not all of them, there will be awakened people who will believe the facts just because the association said so.

The information you get here will be useful when such a situation arises.

“…thanks.”

When he said he would help Hyunseong as well as Lee Suho, Han Seongmin bowed his head.

Because I knew very well that it wasn’t easy to readily reach out to something that had nothing to do with me.

“Then, do you have anything mapped out?”

“I don’t have a detailed plan, but I have something roughly done.”

He muttered as he did so and took out an old piece of paper from his bosom.

It was done by hand, one by one, and the level of completion was quite good.

furthermore,

“Is it considerable?”

The scope of his exploration was quite broad.

How long have you been staying here?

Even if we estimate at least, it would be close to a year.

-With this, collecting the data should be no problem.

It was also written roughly where everything was.

I remembered it so I could go later.

“There’s a chance that my comrades are alive and moving around, but I plan to just look around as much as I can before I leave.”

It was the best he could do.

While looking at the map, Hyunseong suddenly noticed that one side was mostly empty.

“Haven’t you looked at this side yet? It’s very empty.”

Han Seong-min, who saw the place where Hyunseong’s hand bone was pointing, put his hand inside the hood and scratched his head.

“I haven’t been there yet. It’s a bit dangerous, so I was planning to go when I had the chance.”

“Is it dangerous?”

Han Seong-min paused for a moment to answer his own question, then opened his mouth.

“That’s where the original owner of this cave is.”

“So this is where the queen is.”

If so, it would be the most dangerous place in this laboratory.

As I got closer to the Queen’s chamber, the ice ants grew in numbers and stronger ones, making it impossible to do it alone.

So I was trying to bring in another monster and use it as a diversionary tactic…

“You were the ones fighting first.”

Although they were quite far from where the battle was taking place, it seemed like they were still fighting, judging from the faint sounds they could hear.

“The snow giants are quite strong, so they won’t fall easily.”

Lee Su-ho, who had been listening quietly, opened his mouth as if he realized something.

“Huh? Wait a minute, then…”

They say now is the best time to go to the Queen’s chambers.

Hyunseong clenched his teeth without hesitation.

“Let’s go right now.”