Life Mission Chapter 158:
Volume 6 / Chapter 158
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Cutting everything else out and getting to the point, Twister knows nothing about Public Underground . But that does not mean they got nothing out of it .
They found out the location of the new level 7 living on Czechoslovakia’s border . It is impossible to fish like before, so it caught with its hands .
Oriax took over the last and a month passed quickly like that . Then at a random moment, they got the information they wanted .
The sixth level 7 they caught knew about the Oriax’s mother . That means their habitats overlap . There is no better good news for Cha Jun Sung . They are close . They just have to go over one area .
[It’s the area my mother ruled until the Blood Suckers were born . ’
Oriax’s words are tense . It is familiar scenery to Cha Jun Sung . He does not know how long it has been since he has been back . It is a new feeling .
“Where’s the hole?”
[In the center . This is the outside, so you have to go further in . ]
Oriax shows him the way . Cha Jun Sung moved in the direction it instructed him to . It is a large city as it is where level 7s lived . He had been slow because he had gone on foot, but he was not impatient .
‘Lost time… . . ’
Just the time he met Medusa and Beholder and came back to his senses was half a year . Everything before that is blank . A few days or a few years could have passed .
But there is such a thing as a feeling, and he feels like he drifted in the mission for at least 1 year . How are his party members doing? Are they safe?
If the notebook is right, level B should have been opened and they should be contacting recruitment candidates, but everything has become tangled up . Was it a mistake to choose Public Underground as their level C advancement mission? He cannot decide whether becoming this strong was luck or misfortune .
[We’ve arrived . ]
“I see . ”
He can see a big hole . Cha Jun Sung stopped . He had taken the hit while looking down into this . It is alright now, but it had been terrible at the time .
‘The despair of being something that is not me and the depravity of having everything taken from me . It is not that easy to feel all types of bad feelings at the same time . ’
[My instincts told me when I first saw you to eat you up . That I could become a complete adult . I guess I recognized your potential power . ]
“Forget it . It’s in the past . I’m going down . ”
Cha Jun Sung jumped down . It is hundreds of meters high, but he did not pay mind .
Boom!
The ground cracked under the impact and his footprint forms . He adjusted his senses and looked around . There is nothing . It is completely empty .
The bones of the Blood Suckers and Devils lay around randomly, discolored yellow . The thousands of cocoons that had been stuck to the walls are crumbled and only their dust flies around . They could have left because there has been enough time for them to be born .
[Look there . That track . That wasn’t there before . Seems Blood Lord was here . He must have come back to get his children . ]
One wall of Public Underground has fallen down . Cha Jun Sung’s memory is foggy, but he was sane while going through Public Underground .
From the size of the track, there is nothing he can think of but Blood Lord . Blood Lord will know the way, so he would have been ten-fold faster than Cha Jun Sung .
“PDA, space compression bag . ”
Cha Jun Sung started digging through Public Underground . He cannot detect them with his senses as they are not alive . He only has his eyes to search with .
“It’s here . ”
Items he packed to come here are in the space compression bag . He could be active immediately if he wanted to if he just had the battlesuit .
“Card… . . ”
The biggest reason why he needed to find the space compression bag . The opening card he looted from the bidding war . It would not matter if he lost everything else, but he needs this .
It becomes more valuable over time, and time has stopped for him . By now, it will be unimaginable in value .
“Just as I thought, it’s off . ”
He put the bag on his back and picked up the PDA . The power is off now and the second he turns it on, he will be connected to Odin . There is something he needs to do before then .
“What should we do?”
[Will you be able to handle it? They might try to kill you . No, us . ]
“Kill? That’s impossible . No matter how strong Lifers have gotten, they’ll be wandering as level C or B in level 6 or 7 . They can’t touch level 8 . ”
He has already transcended his limits . He has the ability to slaughter thousands of Lifers in battlesuits . He would turn Mechanic City over whole .
“Or well, run away to reality . ”
This is all if it is discovered that the Oriax is hiding somewhere inside Cha Jun Sung . There is no problem if he does not get caught .
[Fine . Let’s go . ]
“I’m turning it on?”
[Just in case, I’ll stop being active and sleep . Wake me up when you need me . ]
It is a dangerous gamble to move a mutant to Mechanic City and reality . No one will have tried this before, will they? It is a waste to give up this power .
Zing!
Cha Jun Sung turns the PDA on . The light turns on and the system is rebooted . Nothing has changed and it works well . It is just that the helper is not active .
“Hey, Odin . ”
He waited . If he has become connected with the helpers in any way, something – whether it is a radio wave – would have gone through and they will realize that it has been reactivated .
If for some reason it does not activate, there is only one method left . He must search through this entire world to find an active Lifer .
Beep beep!
[System booting… . Booting complete . ]
After about 5 minutes, the PDA reacted . Cha Jun Sung smiles . These guys had only turned the power off and were latent .
[Please identify yourself . ]
“Don’t act so stiff, you sly **** . It’s me . ”
[… . . ?]
Odin did not understand for a moment and paused before speaking,
[Lifer Cha Jun Sung?]
“Yeah . ”
[Lifer Cha Jun Sung? Lifer Cha Jun Sung?]
“Stop calling me . You sound like an echo . It’s enough to call my name once . ”
[This doesn’t make sense . It’s impossible! Did the Oriax let you go?]
Odin is stammering . Cha Jun Sung’s survival is impossible . There is the slightest possibility that the Oriax would let him go, but how could he survive here without a battlesuit?
“Explain . ”
[In Public Underground… . . ]
This is the situation . When Cha Jun Sung ran away, the helpers were going to choose him as the subject of a mission . It would be level A since he is level 8 . They need to know his precise location in order to create a mission, but it had happened so suddenly that they had trouble identifying his location and they lost his trace .
‘So it really is artificial intelligence? They must not know about my changing since they lost track of me . ’
“How much time has passed?”
[1 year, 4 months, 23 days . ]
“Damn . ”
He had been expecting it, but almost 1 year and 5 months have passed . Since he went around in his right state of mind for about 6 months, he has gone around crazed for 10 months .
[Lifer Cha Jun Sung, you must tell us what happened while you were drifting as well . ]
“Why should I?”
He came out strong, but it was half-truth . All Odin has to do is recognize him as a Lifer and bring him back to reality . What is it that the helpers want to hear?
[You are someone who has become a mutant, even if it was only as a host . If you are somehow not a human, we cannot bring you back . ]
“I’m a mutant?”
It did touch his conscience a little, but he controlled his heartbeat and did not show it .
Basic medical functions are built into the PDA . He needs to be careful because they measure the heart, pulse, and concentration of virus A .
‘Shall I create a scenario?’
There is something he thought of in advance because he knew this would happen . Cha Jun Sung distorted part of the truth to tell them enough that would not cause trouble for himself .
[Can we examine you in the briefing room medical facilities to confirm this is true? We will see if an infection is present through in-depth examinations . ]
“Sure . ”
He pretended to go along with them since he needs to get out of here . He will decide if he will properly accept the tests once he returns . If he really does not want to, he can throw a tantrum or something .
***
“How many months has it been since I’ve stepped on shore?”
A battlesuit configured in the highest level, absorbs the flashing sunshine . Solar heat is energy as well . This is how it normally goes because it must be saved as much as possible .
While Cha Jun Sung, now mutant, was talking to Odin in order to return to reality, another Cha Jun Sung had crossed the Pacific Ocean and arrived in North America .
The reason for coming here? As he said to Black Demon, it is to kill Evil Queen, whom he had failed to kill even while losing all of his friends .
He knows the approximate location but he does not know if she is still there because time has gotten tangled . He is going to try looking for her because he is just back at square one if he fails .
“If this much time has passed, they’ll be sweating through level B now . ”
What mission when he has become a mutant? He has the ability to take on a level A mission, but there is no way for the future Cha Jun Sung to know that .
“At least… I need to kill the 4 sisters at the least . ”
The 4 level 8s that Evil Queen gave birth to with the seed of South America’s Skull . If he kills them, the current Cha Jun Sung’s mission becomes easier .
“Shall I go?”
Cha Jun Sung put the Affiliate Ultimate Hades Blade on his shoulder . He can see a desolate city afar, and it seemed like the city’s atmosphere was expressing his feelings .