Surviving in the 121st Century - Chapter 1



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Episode 1

Eventually, war broke out.

The war referred to here was the World War. The great powers of the world, the superpowers of the world,

A war where people are crushed like fruit in a blender.

As a young man in his 20s in South Korea with no connections or anything, all I had was a healthy body, I naturally

I was drafted and sent to the front line. But I was lucky and it was my third year since I was drafted.

I was able to survive with my limbs intact, even though I could have died at any moment on the front lines.

There were a series of unknown battles, but somewhere a nuclear bomb exploded, killing tens of thousands of people in an instant.

Since it was a situation where he became a rogue, you could say that he had a lot of bad luck.

As the war began and I was sent to the front lines, I had to keep moving north.

As a low-ranking soldier, I just did what my commanding officer told me to do, but I still got a lot of attention.

I was quite confused when I crossed the river. Is this finally reclaiming Manchuria?

As I was running across the plains, a strange rumor started to spread on the front lines. There was a superhuman in the enemy army.

It was a ridiculous story about soldiers running wild. Those weird guys could run a hundred meters in three seconds.

There was a rumor that he jumped into the air and overturned Letona with his bare hands. He even had a bear

They say that even if you don’t turn your back on the dead body, you can’t stop them from approaching with something as simple as a pistol bullet.

But the truly embarrassing moment was when the rumor actually appeared before my eyes.

That crazy guy sneaked into the barracks in the middle of the night and tore my squad members to pieces with his bare hands.

He was going to finish me off. The berserker, drunk on power, glared at me with his eyes wide open.

I saw it.

Fortunately, I was saved thanks to other unit members who heard the noise and moved. Squad member

Thirty-eight rifle bullets were found in the body of the madman who killed the men. Even so, Kim

If Captain Sang-cheol hadn’t blown that guy’s head off with a sniper rifle, he would have been killed.

He must have escaped our unit’s barracks on foot.

Anyway, the superiors, who confirmed the reality of the superhuman soldier through that shocking incident, ran across the field.

He stopped the troops that were moving. And he concentrated all the troops in one place. Research of Superhuman Soldiers

It was an area confirmed to have cows. North, higher up north.

The super soldiers were strong, but there weren’t many of them. Anyway, if they became a hive, they would die.

Because it was the same, they could not stop our advance even though they caused great damage.

But while running like that, intelligence was delivered that the enemy was taking over the research center.

It was information that they would not just leave it alone. They were planning to erase the research lab itself.

It was a symbol that they would rather burn it than hand over the research on superhuman soldiers.

The superiors did not stop either. They stopped the unit and took some of the elite from the front line to the research center.

They decided to infiltrate and steal data. I was also chosen to do so.

I was a little confused among the special forces soldiers with impressive careers, but the squad members

I didn’t refuse because I thought I could get revenge. So I jumped under the plane.

It came down.

And after a lot of action, shooting, chaos, and chaos, I reached the lowest floor of the research lab.

Together with Captain Kim Sang-cheol, I came across the doctor who created the superhuman soldier.

The doctor said.

“Don’t you want to be a superhuman? I can make you one! I can make you one.

“I can make you Superman!”

I responded by pulling the trigger of my pistol. But the doctor didn’t die. That

At that moment, Captain Kim Sang-cheol pushed the gun and missed the target. The bullet hit the doctor’s arm.

It just grazed the bridge.

Kim Sang-cheol said.

“What are you doing! We have to save that doctor! That’s our mission!”

I said.

“Didn’t you see it when you came down here? What are those guys doing to make that one superhuman?

“What did you do?”

The lab was hell. Human experimentation was the norm, and there was no distinction between age and gender.

Here, humans are just laboratory rats, or rather, moldy plants growing on a petri dish.

It was a waste. They kill, breed, and pour all kinds of chemicals on them without any concern.

“···I saw it too. But our mission is to catch that doctor, not to judge him.

no.”

I smiled faintly at Kim Sang-cheol’s words. It was a mockery.

“If you catch that guy like that? Well, I think our military would do the same thing.

I think so.”

“Nonsense! What do you think of the national army and the allied forces!”

However, the face of Captain Kim Sang-cheol, who was resisting so strongly, was already saying what he was saying.

He couldn’t believe it. He knew it when he saw it. The enemy’s superhumans running wild on the front lines.

The power of the soldiers. Of course, the military or anywhere else would not give up such weapons.

That too.

“Ke, kehehe… Ah, you can’t kill me anyway…!”

At that moment, the doctor, who was staggering while holding his forearm that had been hit by a bullet, opened his mouth. Me and Kim

As Sangcheol’s gaze turned to him, the doctor continued speaking.

“This research center has a bomb installed to bury the facility underground. And

The detonator is connected to my heart. If my heart stops, this lab will collapse.

I’m telling you! You have to save me anyway-”

The doctor fell to the ground without even screaming, with a loud gunshot. His thighs

The water was turning red.

“What the heck is this…!”

Kim Sang-cheol pointed a gun at me. But I looked at him indifferently.

Said.

“Gunshot wound to the thigh. He could be minutes away from bleeding to death.”

“you···!”

“It’s time to run, Captain.”

Kim Sang-cheol looked at me and the doctor alternately with a dizzy expression, then sighed in despair.

He exhaled and shook his head.

“You’re like this.”

“I will live a long life, right?”

“The kid got lost…”

I ignored Kim Sang-cheol’s words and turned around to run. His army followed me.

There was a thud, and after a while, I saw his back running ahead. Shit.

Why does that guy walk so fast?

And then there was the doctor’s scream.

“Oh, no! Save me! I will make you a superman, an invincible warrior! No matter what

Without action! Come back! Come back! You little bastards, how much is my research worth?

I know you’re looking for someone···”

I couldn’t hear any gossip. I had to run until the soles of my feet sweated.

A brief moment of running towards the ground. Suddenly, the entire research facility goes, Weeeeeeeeeeng-hah.

The siren blared. Naturally, my face and Kim Sang-cheol’s face turned pale.

“···It’s already over?”

“Then you crazy bastard, how long can an old man endure after being shot? Even if you kill him, he will be studied.

“The cow should have escaped and been killed!”

Kim Sang-cheol scolded me for my trembling muttering. I ignored him and ran like crazy.

He also realized that it would be better to take a breath instead of opening his mouth, and he immediately

I followed.

But before we even got halfway up, there was a loud noise and vibration throughout the research facility.

Then, with a creaking sound, the area behind us began to collapse.

It was small. In that situation, all we could do was run forward like crazy.

There was no .

And then I fell down with the platform collapsing just two steps short.

It was the price I paid for neglecting my trot training.

But my body didn’t fall straight down. How did I sense something?

It was because Kim Sang-cheol turned around and grabbed my right hand, holding me against the edge of the railing.

This evil sentence showed his face. Above him, the lab was collapsing.

The scenery was also visible. The floor on this side stopped collapsing immediately, but roughly

As you can see, it wasn’t a situation where I would spend time here.

I looked at Kim Sang-cheol’s face and chuckled.

“What are you holding on to? Just do something and go quickly.”

“This crazy, kid…! That’s, what are you talking about…”

“When all my squad members died, I was half dead too. At the forefront of this fucking war.

If you can last three years on the line, you’ve lasted a long time. Isn’t that how everyone ends up?”

“This fucking dog, you punk…! We almost won that war…!”

I took my left hand and placed it on my right hand.

“Yes. So, Captain, you are going to have a blast in the post-war world. I’ll stop here.

“I’m going to rest.”

“You, you! You said you wanted to live a long time···!”

“Oh, I’m tired. Let’s go, Captain Kim.”

My left hand released Kim Sang-cheol’s hand. Naturally, my body fell down.

I saw Kim Sang-cheol’s face, with a dejected expression, getting smaller and smaller. I figured it out.

I thought I could survive. Or what? I’m a dead man now.

But I didn’t want to die in pain, so I quickly curled up. Of course, that was right after.

I thought it had some meaning, but it just fluttered and fell like a doll with a broken string.

I didn’t want to lose and die.

It was after a couple of breaths that I felt something strange, so I quickly raised my head.

I looked around and I was still falling. What the fuck?

I was falling through the rubble and all sorts of experimental equipment. I was going to die.

He turned his head hard and looked around. Only then did he get a rough idea of ​​the situation.

Could do it.

It seems that there was a large cave and underground lake in the basement of the research center.

The cow was destroyed and the ceiling of the underground cave collapsed, resulting in me and the lab

The facility was falling towards the lake below. Thanks to that, it fell quite a while.

But in the end, during that brief thought, my body fell apart. It was dark and

The dark surface of the lake, which looked like a piece of metal, came closer in an instant. I, too,

I changed my position without realizing it and fell down with my feet first. Was it because I was hoping, or

I couldn’t tell if it was a survival instinct that was ingrained in me.

My feet met the surface. After the pressure felt like my whole body was going to break, I lost consciousness.

* * *

The lab’s facilities poured down onto the underground lake. Among them was a mad doctor.

There were also drugs that were being made. They were drugs that strengthened the human body beyond the limits of the species.

A medicine made at the cost of hundreds and thousands of lives. The medicine dissolved in clear lake water is

The only living creature in the lake began to be absorbed by it.

But at that time, the laboratory equipment was also made for the cryopreservation of corpses and test subjects.

The Jin facility also fell and the lake water began to freeze.

After some time, a second explosion occurred in the upper laboratory. It was the laboratory

Was it a suicide bombing or an enemy bombing to erase traces of human experiments?

It was not clear whether the underground cavern had completely collapsed, or if the laboratory had been excavated.

It was clear that even the slightest possibility had been eliminated.

A 21st century soldier was buried so deep underground. Of course, he didn’t die.

It was. The strange drug should have destroyed his body in the rapid cooling state originally.

The body was preserved.

Then, countless organic and inorganic compounds from the underworld are absorbed into his body,

The body slowly changed. He ran 100 meters in 3 seconds and flipped over a military vehicle with his bare hands.

As a superhuman soldier who overturns. No, as something more than that.

After that, it was too long for a human, but it was just a moment by the standards of this underworld.

Time passed without a trace.

About ten thousand years.

* * *

The flow of water changes. It is the same with groundwater. A small flow that was only thin changes.

From that moment on, it became uncontrollably strong. A puddle that had been standing still deep underground for a long time

The teeth were swept away by the current. Someone who was sleeping in the puddle was also swept away.

The flow continued incessantly, sometimes going deeper and sometimes flowing closer to the ground. And

Finally, we met a large river. Someone who was sleeping also followed the flow of the river.

Was swept away.

His body, which had been frozen for a long time, melted in the river. His body energy that had stopped

The coffins began to move again. The intense pulsation was the same as the one that had been dormant for ten thousand years.

It was so robust and vibrant that it was hard to believe it was a living thing.

After a moment, his eyes flashed open underwater.

* * *

“Coolook, kekeke, ah, cheep···”

He came out of the river as if he was waiting. He felt like there was a block of ice in his head and his whole body was throbbing.

It was so heavy that I couldn’t stand up. My whole body was soaked and water was running down my body.

Well, I thought I had just gotten out of the water, so I just fell down. I was greeted by gravel and mud.

I didn’t feel like caring about that. I just lay there, gasping for breath.

He panted like that for a moment. He slowly got up. And then he saw the scene unfolding before his eyes.

After seeing the sight, I muttered in a daze.

“···Where the hell am I, shit.”

A dense primeval forest spread out before his eyes.

Author’s Note

A new story begins.