Life Mission Chapter 161:
Volume 6 / Chapter 161
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
It could be that there have not yet been problems because there are few level B Lifers, but it could also be that the Lifers are keeping it under wraps .
The former is highly possible . People are more likely to make a fuss and there is no reason for them to keep quiet about it .
‘They won’t tell me even if I ask . ’
He asked Odin what the side effects of the 5th and 6th stages are to the mind and body . He did not say as per usual . He kept his silence even when Cha Jun Sung threatened him, asking if he won’t tell even after putting the virus in Lifers’ bodies .
If he wants to know for sure, he needs to meet the party members who are in contact with level B Lifers or go through body modification to feel the changes for himself .
Cha Jun Sung scrolled through the pages . What will millions of Lifers be thinking of Life Mission?
[Couldn’t it be Earth’s future? It feels like the time period is slightly ahead, so they’re bringing manpower of the past together to save a collapsing future!]
[You’re saying the virus is forming on Earth? You have a wild imagination . Do you think this is Resident Devil or something? You’ve watched too many movies . ]
[Don’t strike the imagination . Life Mission itself doesn’t make sense . ]
[I’m sure the scientists inside the mission have created the ability to move between dimensions in order to save their world, whether we die or not . ]
[If that place is the future, we’ve been infected and have become mutants as well . Then forget about missions, everything is over . ]
Lifers argue among themselves . A lot of points were brought up, but nothing made him feel like ‘This is it!’ . It only went in the clear direction .
Whenever the argument looked like it was starting to get serious, there were always one or two pests who ended the flow . When that happens, they stray from the main purpose to start fighting and reach the point of chaos . Cha Jun Sung moved to a different place each time .
[As a scientist myself, Life Mission’s super science can only be achieved in hundreds of years but definitely not in the next few decades . ]
[Most people are focused on the ability to move between dimensions . Returning to reality, the briefing room, Mechanic City, or even the store . ]
[The Earth now is an uncivilized civilization compared to that kind of science, but what could they be trying to get out of us that they’re doing this?]
[It could be that they are experimenting . Things like biomarkers . ]
Cha Jun Sung looks interested . This is the most novel of the ideas that have come out until now . The man’s thinking is original as a scientist .
“According to the documents from the Biological Institute sample extraction mission, the virus spread violently all of a sudden one day . All of a sudden? There is a start to everything . ”
Did Life Mission spread it? Into that world? Is it the same reason they used to inject the virus into Lifers’ bodies?
“They have ulterior motives . ”
Cha Jun Sung mumbles as he looks at his PDA . He does not hold private conversations with Odin as he used to . He leaves the power off unless he needs something . He found out that there is a superior to the helpers . It is uncomfortable even though he knows that Odin did no wrong .
He looked through various discussions but they are all of the imagination . They will all end as discussions of the imagination unless Life Mission reveals everything . Though Cha Jun Sung knows a lot, he is just a Lifer .
“Experiment . ”
The word keeps catching his attention . Mutant? Lifer experiments? He cannot tell what it is . It could be neither, one or the other, or both .
They cannot dig beyond a certain level because they cannot be sure .
“As long as this has happened, let’s go all the way to the end to level S . ”
He started out not knowing anything and came to find out this much . If he gets to level S, he will be in contact with more and come to find out more .
Beep!
Cha Jun Sung turned the PDA on . He checked on his party’s return in intervals . This is the fastest way to check .
“Huh?”
2 of the 4 party members’ connection status was turned on and 2 were still off . This means that they are currently returning .
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A full moon in the sky . A giant mutant resembling a wolf looks at the moon and howls . It is Pennil, the king of wolves .
It is a level 7 known for moving in groups and is strong in fighting individually and as part of a group . Pennil is surrounded by wolves . The battlesuit counts them . There are at least 10,000 level 5s . There are also 12 level 6s near Pennil .
Engines of the hundreds of battlesuits turn on . It is the sound that cars make right before they go out in rapid acceleration .
The number of Lifers is about 10% of the wolves at exactly 350 . 3 forces and 5 parties, level B missions where there is no limit to personnel . The World Federation and ally guilds have entered Roaring Wolf King .
The current situation is a confrontation between the 2 forces . Rankers and supporting Lifers, and Pennil and its supporting wolves, are facing each other .
“This is our 3rd level B mission, but they make me shiver every time . ”
“It feels like we’re handing over our lives . But what can we do when the points we’re rewarded each time is about 50 million?”
They stay inside a mission for at least 1 month each time they go in . If it takes longer, they drift inside a mission for 2 months . They earn a lot of points for hunting because a lot of mutants appear .
There is more to gain from completing 1 level B mission than several C missions . Of course the amount of danger follows the difficulty level .
But if more than 3 forces of level B Lifers come together like now, they complete the missions without much damage . Thankfully, the World Federation set those conditions . It is headed by rankers . 9 combinations of know-hows are coming through .
They remodeled basic battlesuits to create battlesuits of their own . Lifers with 5 or 6 combinations have the skill to take on lower level 6, while Lifers with 7 or 8 combinations have the skill for middle to higher level 6 . Only rankers who succeeded in 9 combinations take on top level 6s alone .
All there is left to do is to strengthen the combined battlesuits to the limit of their functions . They expect that this is possible if they open store A .
10 rankers in World Federation, 10 allied rankers . That means there are 20 rankers who have entered this level B mission Roaring Wolf King .
Park Jin Hyuk and a few strong new Lifers combine their strength with rankers to take on level 7, and the rest of the Lifers face off against level 5 and 6 . Everyone has their own roles . The time where ability becomes prioritized over anything else has come . Even level B Lifers only have 1 life .
Pennil shows its eerie teeth and scratches the ground with its nails . The nails are as sharp as swords, and etch the ground .
“It’s coming . ”
“Ready!”
Wiing!
Lifers set up an automatic cannon with considerable power . It comes in handy when fighting a mass of enemies as they are doing now .
They need to annihilate Pennil and the wolves in order to complete the mission . There is nowhere to hide . They need to face off and kill them all . The end of the other 2 missions they completed were like this as well .
“It’s going out . ”
The automatic cannon flames . They thought about using a bomb like white phosphorus from a distance, but they need to know the enemy’s location in order to do that . Level 7’s senses exceed imagination . They can smell and hear things that are dozens of kilometers away . They would be discovered and sanctioned before they could even approach .
They could just drop it in, but each weapon of mass destruction costs millions of points at the least . They cannot use them so haphazardly .
Kung!
Wolves as big as houses come running while getting hit by the automatic cannon . There are so many of them that it looks like a wave is coming in . Lifers retreat . If they go forward, they could get hit by the automatic cannon . They will only take on the ones that get past the cannon .
The smell of mutant blood entrenches the battlefield . Atop a large boulder, Park Jin Hyuk watches Lifers mixed among them without strength .
“Jin Hyuk . ”
“Huh?”
Park Jin Hyuk responded drily to Kyoko . He was normally okay, but became locked in deep thought whenever he entered a mission . It is because of Cha Jun Sung, who died in this place . Kyoko nods to the front . The wolves are swarming in .
“Alright . ”
Park Jin Hyuk holds up his gun . His cloudy eyes look poisonous . He remembers Cha Jun Sung being dragged into a pit every time he sees them . It is a nightmare . A horrible nightmare that he will never be able to shake away from .