Life Mission Chapter 162:
Volume 6 / Chapter 162
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
“Why do I do missions?”
Park Jin Hyuk asks himself after returning from Roaring Wolf King . It is hard to explain clearly . He just does it . It used to be fun when he did it with Cha Jun Sung . Then, he did not ask why he completed missions . There was no need to because he did it for fun .
Park Jin Hyuk sighs and pressed the calendar function . The next level B mission is in 1 month . A full raid will be put together to advance .
Ever since he and the party members entered level B, they refrained from missions . Violet was the only one who went in with her family . He purchased a full level B set over 1 year and 5 months, and had points leftover . He did not use much on expendables, so it is okay . With time, there is no need to risk everything on a mission like before .
Beep beep!
“They’ll be in Mechanic City . Are they connecting to me in reality?”
A light flashed, indicating contact from a friend . Koharu, Kyoko, Violet, and their newly recruited member are all in Mechanic City . They cannot show up because they are in different dimensions . Park Jin Hyuk’s friend list only has his 5 party members . He gets in touch with other people through their helpers .
Park Jin Hyuk was checking who had contacted him in reality, when his body started trembling . It is Cha Jun Sung, who has not contacted him in 1 year and 5 months .
“This can’t be . ”
He believed that Cha Jun Sung was alive at first, but gave up as time went by . But he is in reality? This is something that he cannot understand .
“Ah… . . ”
Park Jin Hyuk had all kinds of thoughts and realized that he had accepted Cha Jun Sung’s death as the truth . His feelings had been dulled .
“In – invitation to talk . ”
He needs to press the button, but his hand does not move . His body has completely hardened although he has the incredible physical ability of 6th stage of body modifications .
[Come to the place we first met when Mechanic City opened . ]
One line of text comes up on the PDA . The first place they met is near the mega tower in zone A area 3 . Is this really Cha Jun Sung?
“I’m going . ”
Park Jin Hyuk went to Mechanic City and called the party as soon as he entered . They had already seen this mysterious ordeal through their PDAs . Everyone including the new party member gathered to the mega tower . Everyone looked flushed . It is a mix of complicated feelings, expectation and worry .
“Is it Jun Sung?”
“I don’t know either . If this is a joke, I don’t care who it is, I’m killing them on the spot . ”
These are not empty words . He really will kill whoever it is . Mechanic City is a lawless zone and it has been long since he has become used to killing .
[Everyone gathered . ]
Text comes up again . Park Jin Hyuk’s group, excluding the new member, could not take their eyes off of their PDAs . Their hearts are beating so fast they might explode .
[Look behind you . ]
The party turns quickly . Mechanic City is now like a capital, with 10 million people active in it . It is crowded with people .
“Jun – Jun Sung?”
Someone comes to them out of the crowd . He is wearing a battlesuit, but his face shows because he deactivated the helmet .
“It’s been a while . 1 year 5 months… Is it about half a year for me?”
It is about half a year if he excludes the foggy time he spent in a craze . But it will be 1 year 5 months to the party .
Tears fall from Park Jin Hyuk’s face . He cannot speak .
“Jun Sung!”
Park Jin Hyuk runs with his arms wide open . Cha Jun Sung opened up his arms as well . He wanted to cry in his arms .
But Cha Jun Sung avoided Park Jin Hyuk and opened his arms to a different side . Park Jin Hyuk looks next to him in puzzlement . ”
“Jun Sung!”
Kyoko is crying in Cha Jun Sung’s arms instead .
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Cha Jun Sung told the party about what he went through in the mission . Not everything . But he did not mix in lies like he did with Odin and the others . He only told them as much as the helpers would not get suspicious .
“My body advanced rapidly . I can catch level 5 and 6 with my bare hands . ”
He does not need to be awakened or change . As long as he is careful with level 7, he can kill level 5 and 6 with simple fighting . What stage of body modifications would his current state fall under?
8, 9? He could have surpassed 10 itself .
Park Jin Hyuk catches an attitude while listening to Cha Jun Sung . He is upset that he was rejected to hug Kyoko .
“Jun Sung, you’re still in level C, right?”
“Yeah . You don’t need to help me . I can handle level C by myself . ”
Kyoko is stuck to Cha Jun Sung’s side . To her, Cha Jun Sung is the pillar of the group and a big brother .
“But Invisible, you stayed in our party?”
“I like it . ”
Invisible . He is Greek and his name is Basil Torrence . Black Leopard and Puppet went their separate ways after the level C advancement mission, but Invisible stayed behind .
Basil does not go around in groups because he has a quiet personality . But keeping the increasing difficulty in mind, he cannot continue with solo missions . So he decided to entrust himself to Cha Jun Sung’s party, where the members protect one another .
‘Basil isn’t a candidate for recruitment, but I guess everything has been twisted since Public Underground . ’
Whatever the cause, they have gained great strength as a result . He just moved past it because the notebook’s contents are not aimed at him .
They are people who are to become others’ colleagues . It does bother his conscience to take away fated party members, so everything will flow along like water . Cha Jun Sung cannot think of the notebook as something left for him by the future Cha Jun Sung, so it looked like someone else’s luck .
“Now tell me about you guys . Did anything happen while I was gone?”
“Happen? There’s so much that happened that I don’t know where to start . ”
Kyoko starts rattling on . After failing Public Underground, Strategist chose another mission and a full force of 100 people entered, with 63 dying . Only 25 of 33 advanced, but all of the party members succeeded .
“There’s a thing called contribution points now . Advancing has become harder because of that . ”
“Contribution?”
Cha Jun Sung knows but pretended not to . The story continued . A tremendous amount of Lifers died in level C advance missions and it is still the same .
“We completed level B missions 3 times with the World Federation, and the damage wasn’t bad . But advancing is impossible until we have a full raid . ”
“We fought a couple times with Bloody Kingdom while you were gone, too . Likeminds go together, so they have 11 rankers . Isn’t that impressive? World Federation and Bloody Kingdom are the only 2 powers that can attempt level B on their own . ”
11 people? Then that is the exact number of rankers who had evil tendencies of the 36 rankers . They are all in Bloody Kingdom . She told him other things as well, but not a lot caught his interest . They are news, but they are not very special to people who do not care .
“Were there any problems you experienced while going through 5th and 6th stages of body modifications?”
“There are . ”
“There are?”
“Yes . It’s information that level B Lifers share amongst themselves . Life spans increase until the 4th stage, but it can contrarily decrease from the 5th and 6th stages . ”
There is more madness and the thirst for blood becomes more severe . Side effects intensify, making it easy to get distracted while focusing . One Lifer was killed by his colleagues while going crazy, and there are few people who know that it was covered up that he was killed by mutants .
“Why though?”
“I found out something when I was absorbed by the Oriax, but what the helpers have been putting in our bodies for modification is… virus A . ”
“What!”
The party members are appalled and frisk their bodies . The virus was injected into them? They were suspecting it, but it is different from hearing it for themselves .
“You know what those guys said to me? They asked for blood and tissue . ”
There are no secrets between them . The helpers would prefer he does not tell them this, but this is ridiculing Lifers . They have a right to know .
Cha Jun Sung’s group kept talking for half a day . It has been a while but rather than conversations of private matters such as how they have been, they are talking more about Life Mission . They cannot help but do so because the helpers and higher ups are being secretive . If they could, they wanted to open up their heads to see what is going on inside .
“Will level B missions be possible between us with your physical ability?”
Park Jin Hyuk’s eyes sparkle . He trusts Cha Jun Sung absolutely . He has not seen the abilities for himself, but it is true if Cha Jun Sung says so .
“Easily . ”
If Life Mission is not on watch, he could probably even take on level A . If he awakens, he becomes a top level 8 mutant .
Cha Jun Sung set a schedule . He will complete a level C advancement within a few days and then enter level B . He does not need to worry about gear because he has plenty of points .
If it is Overbooster, the only one among Lifers with 10 combinations, he can take on 1 or 2 level 7s in human form .
“But Jin Hyuk, why do you keep glaring at Kyoko and me?”
“Those 2 are together . ”
“Aha . ”
Koharu tattled right away, and Park Jin Hyuk and Kyoko blushed . There were signs of this before, and they go well together .
“I’ll call you in a few days . Rest until then . ”
“Can’t we do it together?”
“It’s okay . ”
He rejected Koharu’s request . She seems to be upset, but it is level C advancement . He can complete it quickly even without help from the party .