The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 4
Only Noblemtl
Apocalypse Underwater Episode 4
Episode 4
Flames and black smoke billowed from Building 101.
The fire started on the 12th floor and spread upward.
When I saw the loud noise and flames, I thought it might be a gas explosion.
We need to call 119 quickly.
I instinctively took out my phone and tried to make a call, but then stopped.
This was because the vast ocean stretching out beyond the burning building 101 was visible.
I realized this morning why my phone wasn’t working.
I wonder if a monster fish or something appeared there too.
Could it be that he cut the gas pipe with his sharp claws and caused the explosion?
Or maybe the people were desperately trying to save themselves from the monster fish attacks by cutting the gas pipes and lighting them on fire.
I couldn’t know what the truth was, but I had a feeling that the other people were in just as precarious and dangerous a situation as I was.
“iced coffee!”
At that moment, a person’s scream was heard.
I turned my head toward Building 105 where the sound came from.
I saw people jumping from the top floor.
I screamed in surprise.
“no!”
The man who was about to jump seemed to raise his head and look at me, as if he had heard my scream.
But he glanced back as if he was being chased by something, then bit his lips and jumped down into the water.
I leaned against the railing without realizing it and stretched out my arms, but I couldn’t reach it.
I leaned over the railing and looked down where the man had fallen.
Even though it’s only the 20th floor, wouldn’t it be possible to survive in the water?
But it was a vain hope.
As soon as he fell, something rose from the water with a splash.
They resembled sharks, but instead of having pointed faces, they were rounded like anglerfish, and their mouths took up more than half of their faces.
When I opened my huge mouth like a hippopotamus, two rows of sharp teeth were revealed.
They started to bite people who surfaced like piranhas.
The water turned bloody, and people disintegrated and disappeared in an instant.
The blood soon disappeared.
And then, as if nothing had happened, the water became calm.
I took a step back involuntarily at the horrifying sight.
Even if they didn’t know there were monsters in the water, why did people jump into it?
Was he trying to commit suicide?
I looked up and saw the top floor of Building 105.
Something was briefly visible passing through the window through which the man had jumped.
I couldn’t see the details, but it looked like a monster fish.
So that’s why you jumped.
But there were monsters down there too.
“Damn it!”
The swear words just came out on their own.
Just like the murals in the Ark Cathedral, the world was submerged in water and all kinds of monsters were appearing.
Really, was the Ark Church’s prayer a success?
The Ark Church prayed for a flood of judgment by offering human sacrifices. But did that really work?
But why isn’t our apartment complex, which isn’t even that tall, locked?
The surrounding skyscrapers and even Mt. Bukhan, which was visible in the distance, were no longer visible.
There’s just water everywhere.
Could it be because of the graffiti?
I remembered the talisman-shaped graffiti painted on the pillars of the underground parking lot.
I think there was one drawn near the elevator going up to each building.
Was there no graffiti in buildings 118 and 119 that disappeared?
I tried to recall my memories, but I couldn’t figure it out.
Now that I think about it, the letters and the shape of the pattern seem to somewhat resemble those of the Bangju Church amulets.
The amulets of the Ark Church were sold for quite high prices.
Min Do-yoon, the leader of the Ark Church, performed several miracles using talismans.
A few years ago, heavy rains in Gangman caused water to back up into the sewers.
At that time, when I used the Bangjugyo talisman at Hanpo Apartment, only the sky in Seocho-gu, Gangnam became clear.
When this incident became a meme mocking the Korea Meteorological Administration for falsely reporting heavy rain, the agency even held a press conference to refute the claims.
It was a coincidental phenomenon that occurred when some rain clouds that were dropping localized heavy rain quickly lost their water vapor.
Then, Bang Joo-kyo secretly posted a talisman on the Korea Meteorological Administration building in Dongjak-gu.
The church claimed that there was no rain and drought for several months within a 1km radius of the building until the weather bureau found the talisman and took it down.
Is it because of the graffiti that really looks like a talisman?
Suddenly, the words of my real estate grandfather came to mind.
“This place was called Su-gung-ji (水宮池) in the past. It means that it was the place where the Dragon Palace was located.”
The real estate bookshelf was filled with old books written in Chinese characters.
Even though it’s on the outskirts, this is Seoul, so how is there a dragon palace in the sea?
I was curious, but then another guest came in and the conversation stopped.
Is this by any chance the site of the old dragon palace?
If the real Ark Church’s prayer for rain was successful, wouldn’t it be more convincing to say that it was done to take revenge for my cruel death rather than this theory?
The Ark Church gnashed their teeth at me for leading their leader to prosecution.
Numerous threatening letters and terrorist-like packages were sent almost every day.
It was said that a wicked non-believer like me would not even deserve the holy death of drowning in water, and that I would be torn to pieces and eaten by my water brothers and sisters.
Given the persistent nature of the Ark guys, this hypothesis seemed the most likely, but the exact reason was unknown.
I stared blankly at the vast ocean.
Beneath the water that covers the world, there must be people who drowned while sleeping.
Since I survived, should I say I’m lucky?
But there were people who jumped into the water after the explosion or got eaten by monsters like piranhas.
I, too, was like a rat trapped in poison.
I’d rather drown than be eaten alive by a monster fish.
thud!
At that moment, a shocking sound was heard from the emergency exit on the rooftop.
“Ugh!”
The roar of the monster fish could be heard very clearly.
Am I going to be brutally torn to pieces to death like the Ark guys said?
But I had no intention of doing that.
Up until now, I’ve had more than ten near-death experiences while running around the field.
There was a time when I was in the intensive care unit with a tube in my mouth.
So it was a cliché, but as the saying goes, “If you come to your senses even after being bitten by a tiger, you’ll survive,” if you come to your senses, you’ll be halfway there.
I had been planning to defeat the monster fish ever since I had the rooftop in mind.
To execute the plan, you need the materials.
I saw it last time I was here, so it must be there.
I walked towards the pile of junk in the corner of the rooftop.
I saw clubs and iron pipes, but even a sturdy golf club couldn’t make a single dent in the guy.
Yeah, that’s it!
I picked up the fallen rope.
I don’t know the characteristics of the monster fish since it’s the first time I’ve seen it, but considering that it fell over after stepping on my vomit, I’m sure it’ll succeed.
No, it has to succeed.
Crunch.
About a third of the upper part of the emergency exit was ripped off, with a loud crash through the thick iron door.
A fish’s eye appeared through the gap.
Contrary to the saying that he has rotten eyes, the gaze of the guy glaring through the broken door was as creepy as that of a mindless murderer.
The monster fish guy sticks his head out.
“Krrrr!”
It opened its mouth and growled strangely, as if trying to threaten me.
The emergency exit didn’t look like it would last long.
I quickly placed a rope in front of the emergency exit at ankle height.
Kwajik!
The crack in the broken door widened further.
Any moment now the door will be completely broken down and the guy will enter the rooftop.
I took out the broken mop from among the junk.
I chose the one that looked the longest, but the wooden mop pole didn’t look very sturdy.
Should we do something else?
At that moment, the head of a monster fish that looked like a sea bass caught my eye.
The head looked quite hard, and it seemed impossible to break it with a metal pipe.
But then I saw a gap opening slightly between the head and the torso and then closing.
Isn’t that the passage through which they breathe using gills?
If you stick something sharp through that gap, wouldn’t it be possible to burst a vital organ like the heart?
If you do that, it will end in one go.
good!
I kicked the mop with my foot.
The mop head broke with a crack, and its tip became sharp like a spear.
It broke and became shorter.
I doubted whether I could reach the heart with a single spear, but there was no time to choose another weapon.
Boom! Boom!
Finally the emergency exit was broken.
The fish head roared, opening its large mouth to reveal its sharp teeth.
“Kaaaak!”
I felt like I would leave this world if I was bitten by those sharp teeth.
But I didn’t run away, I held on.
Instead, he shouted and provoked her.
“Okay! Go ahead and attack! You won’t make it this far anyway.”
At my provocation, the monster fish strode towards the rooftop, then fell down with a loud ‘thud’ sound.
It was caught on the line I had put up.
“Good!”
I moved right away to catch the monster fish.
At that moment, the fallen guy started struggling and swung his arms at me.
I quickly dodged because I had been bitten by the guy’s claws.
I tried to change direction and go back.
But the guy’s arms were longer than I thought.
I had to step back again.
My heart became anxious.
We need to attack quickly before the guy wakes up.
The plan was to stab the bastard in the leg to prevent him from getting up, then insert a mop stick into the gap between his head and torso to cut off his windpipe.
I tried to approach the guy’s legs a few times, but I was always repelled by his claws.
If you keep stalling like this, he’ll wake up.
But if you go too far back to avoid his arms, you’ll give him time to get up.
It was a very difficult and dangerous situation.
Well then, we’ll have to try a new method.
I put my right foot out as if I was going to run to the right.
The guy followed my movements and stretched out his hideous right arm.
At that moment, I quickly shifted my body’s center to the left and ran to the left.
The monster fish seemed confused, but instinctively reached out with its left hand to grab it.
I jumped forward, not to the left or right, as if I knew it.
I barely managed to get over the monster fish’s head and land safely on its back.
Apocalypse Underwater Episode 4
Episode 4
Flames and black smoke billowed from Building 101.
The fire started on the 12th floor and spread upward.
When I saw the loud noise and flames, I thought it might be a gas explosion.
We need to call 119 quickly.
I instinctively took out my phone and tried to make a call, but then stopped.
This was because the vast ocean stretching out beyond the burning building 101 was visible.
I realized this morning why my phone wasn’t working.
I wonder if a monster fish or something appeared there too.
Could it be that he cut the gas pipe with his sharp claws and caused the explosion?
Or maybe the people were desperately trying to save themselves from the monster fish attacks by cutting the gas pipes and lighting them on fire.
I couldn’t know what the truth was, but I had a feeling that the other people were in just as precarious and dangerous a situation as I was.
“iced coffee!”
At that moment, a person’s scream was heard.
I turned my head toward Building 105 where the sound came from.
I saw people jumping from the top floor.
I screamed in surprise.
“no!”
The man who was about to jump seemed to raise his head and look at me, as if he had heard my scream.
But he glanced back as if he was being chased by something, then bit his lips and jumped down into the water.
I leaned against the railing without realizing it and stretched out my arms, but I couldn’t reach it.
I leaned over the railing and looked down where the man had fallen.
Even though it’s only the 20th floor, wouldn’t it be possible to survive in the water?
But it was a vain hope.
As soon as he fell, something rose from the water with a splash.
They resembled sharks, but instead of having pointed faces, they were rounded like anglerfish, and their mouths took up more than half of their faces.
When I opened my huge mouth like a hippopotamus, two rows of sharp teeth were revealed.
They started to bite people who surfaced like piranhas.
The water turned bloody, and people disintegrated and disappeared in an instant.
The blood soon disappeared.
And then, as if nothing had happened, the water became calm.
I took a step back involuntarily at the horrifying sight.
Even if they didn’t know there were monsters in the water, why did people jump into it?
Was he trying to commit suicide?
I looked up and saw the top floor of Building 105.
Something was briefly visible passing through the window through which the man had jumped.
I couldn’t see the details, but it looked like a monster fish.
So that’s why you jumped.
But there were monsters down there too.
“Damn it!”
The swear words just came out on their own.
Just like the murals in the Ark Cathedral, the world was submerged in water and all kinds of monsters were appearing.
Really, was the Ark Church’s prayer a success?
The Ark Church prayed for a flood of judgment by offering human sacrifices. But did that really work?
But why isn’t our apartment complex, which isn’t even that tall, locked?
The surrounding skyscrapers and even Mt. Bukhan, which was visible in the distance, were no longer visible.
There’s just water everywhere.
Could it be because of the graffiti?
I remembered the talisman-shaped graffiti painted on the pillars of the underground parking lot.
I think there was one drawn near the elevator going up to each building.
Was there no graffiti in buildings 118 and 119 that disappeared?
I tried to recall my memories, but I couldn’t figure it out.
Now that I think about it, the letters and the shape of the pattern seem to somewhat resemble those of the Bangju Church amulets.
The amulets of the Ark Church were sold for quite high prices.
Min Do-yoon, the leader of the Ark Church, performed several miracles using talismans.
A few years ago, heavy rains in Gangman caused water to back up into the sewers.
At that time, when I used the Bangjugyo talisman at Hanpo Apartment, only the sky in Seocho-gu, Gangnam became clear.
When this incident became a meme mocking the Korea Meteorological Administration for falsely reporting heavy rain, the agency even held a press conference to refute the claims.
It was a coincidental phenomenon that occurred when some rain clouds that were dropping localized heavy rain quickly lost their water vapor.
Then, Bang Joo-kyo secretly posted a talisman on the Korea Meteorological Administration building in Dongjak-gu.
The church claimed that there was no rain and drought for several months within a 1km radius of the building until the weather bureau found the talisman and took it down.
Is it because of the graffiti that really looks like a talisman?
Suddenly, the words of my real estate grandfather came to mind.
“This place was called Su-gung-ji (水宮池) in the past. It means that it was the place where the Dragon Palace was located.”
The real estate bookshelf was filled with old books written in Chinese characters.
Even though it’s on the outskirts, this is Seoul, so how is there a dragon palace in the sea?
I was curious, but then another guest came in and the conversation stopped.
Is this by any chance the site of the old dragon palace?
If the real Ark Church’s prayer for rain was successful, wouldn’t it be more convincing to say that it was done to take revenge for my cruel death rather than this theory?
The Ark Church gnashed their teeth at me for leading their leader to prosecution.
Numerous threatening letters and terrorist-like packages were sent almost every day.
It was said that a wicked non-believer like me would not even deserve the holy death of drowning in water, and that I would be torn to pieces and eaten by my water brothers and sisters.
Given the persistent nature of the Ark guys, this hypothesis seemed the most likely, but the exact reason was unknown.
I stared blankly at the vast ocean.
Beneath the water that covers the world, there must be people who drowned while sleeping.
Since I survived, should I say I’m lucky?
But there were people who jumped into the water after the explosion or got eaten by monsters like piranhas.
I, too, was like a rat trapped in poison.
I’d rather drown than be eaten alive by a monster fish.
thud!
At that moment, a shocking sound was heard from the emergency exit on the rooftop.
“Ugh!”
The roar of the monster fish could be heard very clearly.
Am I going to be brutally torn to pieces to death like the Ark guys said?
But I had no intention of doing that.
Up until now, I’ve had more than ten near-death experiences while running around the field.
There was a time when I was in the intensive care unit with a tube in my mouth.
So it was a cliché, but as the saying goes, “If you come to your senses even after being bitten by a tiger, you’ll survive,” if you come to your senses, you’ll be halfway there.
I had been planning to defeat the monster fish ever since I had the rooftop in mind.
To execute the plan, you need the materials.
I saw it last time I was here, so it must be there.
I walked towards the pile of junk in the corner of the rooftop.
I saw clubs and iron pipes, but even a sturdy golf club couldn’t make a single dent in the guy.
Yeah, that’s it!
I picked up the fallen rope.
I don’t know the characteristics of the monster fish since it’s the first time I’ve seen it, but considering that it fell over after stepping on my vomit, I’m sure it’ll succeed.
No, it has to succeed.
Crunch.
About a third of the upper part of the emergency exit was ripped off, with a loud crash through the thick iron door.
A fish’s eye appeared through the gap.
Contrary to the saying that he has rotten eyes, the gaze of the guy glaring through the broken door was as creepy as that of a mindless murderer.
The monster fish guy sticks his head out.
“Krrrr!”
It opened its mouth and growled strangely, as if trying to threaten me.
The emergency exit didn’t look like it would last long.
I quickly placed a rope in front of the emergency exit at ankle height.
Kwajik!
The crack in the broken door widened further.
Any moment now the door will be completely broken down and the guy will enter the rooftop.
I took out the broken mop from among the junk.
I chose the one that looked the longest, but the wooden mop pole didn’t look very sturdy.
Should we do something else?
At that moment, the head of a monster fish that looked like a sea bass caught my eye.
The head looked quite hard, and it seemed impossible to break it with a metal pipe.
But then I saw a gap opening slightly between the head and the torso and then closing.
Isn’t that the passage through which they breathe using gills?
If you stick something sharp through that gap, wouldn’t it be possible to burst a vital organ like the heart?
If you do that, it will end in one go.
good!
I kicked the mop with my foot.
The mop head broke with a crack, and its tip became sharp like a spear.
It broke and became shorter.
I doubted whether I could reach the heart with a single spear, but there was no time to choose another weapon.
Boom! Boom!
Finally the emergency exit was broken.
The fish head roared, opening its large mouth to reveal its sharp teeth.
“Kaaaak!”
I felt like I would leave this world if I was bitten by those sharp teeth.
But I didn’t run away, I held on.
Instead, he shouted and provoked her.
“Okay! Go ahead and attack! You won’t make it this far anyway.”
At my provocation, the monster fish strode towards the rooftop, then fell down with a loud ‘thud’ sound.
It was caught on the line I had put up.
“Good!”
I moved right away to catch the monster fish.
At that moment, the fallen guy started struggling and swung his arms at me.
I quickly dodged because I had been bitten by the guy’s claws.
I tried to change direction and go back.
But the guy’s arms were longer than I thought.
I had to step back again.
My heart became anxious.
We need to attack quickly before the guy wakes up.
The plan was to stab the bastard in the leg to prevent him from getting up, then insert a mop stick into the gap between his head and torso to cut off his windpipe.
I tried to approach the guy’s legs a few times, but I was always repelled by his claws.
If you keep stalling like this, he’ll wake up.
But if you go too far back to avoid his arms, you’ll give him time to get up.
It was a very difficult and dangerous situation.
Well then, we’ll have to try a new method.
I put my right foot out as if I was going to run to the right.
The guy followed my movements and stretched out his hideous right arm.
At that moment, I quickly shifted my body’s center to the left and ran to the left.
The monster fish seemed confused, but instinctively reached out with its left hand to grab it.
I jumped forward, not to the left or right, as if I knew it.
I barely managed to get over the monster fish’s head and land safely on its back.