LM Chapter 278

Volume 9 / Chapter 278

TL: LightNovelCafe

Editor: Isleidir

 

Borteth doesn’t look kindly at Cha Jun Sung . This wasn’t much different on Cha Jun Sung’s end either .

But the two of them ended it there . It is in the past . There’s no need to fight . In Borteth’s case, he was so busy he could barely take his hands off his work as they were in the last leg of Life Mission .

To Cha Jun Sung’s left, there are tens of thousands of dead mutants trapped inside translucent cylinders .

On the right are Lifers .

There are so many of them that he can’t see where they end .

“As you can see, this is where all of the types of mutants that were hunted in Life Mission are being preserved . ”

Even the same species get divided into maximum and minimum . So there are about 5 or 6 males and females for each species . Lifers are preserved by body modifications and level . This is just for research .

What kinds of studies have they been doing?

“If you go in deeper, you’ll be able to see level 8 and 9 mutants and Lifers beyond level A . There aren’t many in the case of Lifers . ”

Of course not . Mutant corpses remain inside the mission, but Lifers are taken back to reality if possible as their levels are higher .

The 100,000 Lifers who entered Lord of Bones cleaned up the mission for about half a month .

They hadn’t been able to get Chamma Sword’s body back .

Life Mission officials didn’t move until Lifers were done .

They start moving after Lifers return to reality .

That is why it had been harder to gather Lifer bodies than to get mutants .

“Two sets of genes were found in Evil Queen’s body . It was interesting . They are level 9 when separate, and higher when fused . That’s how we figured out who would be more dominant between mutants and Lifers . ”

“Which is it?”

“Mutants . ”

Jigneon didn’t hesitate in his response .

Borteth smiles .

He looks happy as though he has won .

“Do you know why there are two Miracles?”

“No . ”

“Borteth injected an advanced type A virus into his body and became a level 9 mutant . Gabenu and I pursue different sectors . ”

With mutant superiority, Borteth himself becomes superior . His test results came up ahead of Jigneon and Gabenu’s, so of course he is happy .

“I killed Evil Queen . Aren’t Lifers superior?”

This is overreach .

Ordinary Lifers wouldn’t have been able to get the results that Cha Jun Sung got even if they had used the Miracles . On top of that, their bodies would not have been able to withstand wearing double .

“It was only possible for you . But we can get level 10 genes by investigating Evil Queen fusing level 9 genes . ”

If they combine them well, the result will be powerful biomarkers .

Cha Jun Sung is one person, but they can replicate Evil Queen’s genes .

Of course it won’t be easy . But there will be progress if they study it .

“We needed a powerful army . We created Lifers because we needed a powerful army, and that’s how the A virus was derived, creating mutants . But there wasn’t a place good enough to test it . If we want to do proper tests, we not only need the location, but we need specimens . This ship’s population is just about a million, so these weren’t conditions in which we could do it here .

Cha Jun Sung felt like Jigneon was going to tell him why they created Life Mission . Why did they make something like this?

“So the dimensions…?”

“Right then, we were getting success in tests opening dimensions . To put it into practice, we opened two dimensions and created an environment where we could hold the experiment .

“If you needed a powerful army, aren’t there already a lot? No matter how many Lifers and mutants there are, a few nuclear bombs would do the trick . ”

It isn’t a matter that can be resolved with a few nuclear bombs, but they don’t need to have a leash around Lifers and mutants with their science . They have plenty of weapons to replace them .

“That’s what we would have done if destruction was our goal, but what we wanted was to find a place to breathe, a place to settle in . ”

Cha Jun Sung **** his head . He can’t understand what this means .

Jigneon knew this would be Cha Jun Sung’s reaction, and turned a hologram on .

Then the Gene Institute researchers including Borteth turned their attention to it . Cha Jun Sung felt yearning in their eyes .

The center of a vast universe .

The hologram is recording a clear and blue star .

It is beautiful .

Earth?

No .

It was subtly different from Earth .

“Where is that?”

“Blue Paradise . That’s the name we gave it . Its environment is the same as Earth’s and it’s 10 times as big . You can tell by looking at the nature, but there are various fauna and flora living there . ”

The time is coming near . They look like different creatures from the animals on Earth . It looks like they installed a satellite near Blue Paradise .

“Is there no intelligence there?”

“Intelligence? If you’re talking about beings similar to humans, no . But those animals aren’t as simple as they look . ”

Each is different, but the outstanding beings boast intelligence similar to that of humans . It is obvious that they are smart even if they cannot communicate .

“Hundreds of years later, Earth’s natural environment gets completely destroyed . We escaped that pollution and are looking for a new home . ”

“Blue Paradise? Then can’t you just land there? If they’re just animals even if they’re smart, then can’t you just easily start?”

“Watch closely . ”

[Send a special cyborg to  Blue Paradise, red zone . ]

Woong!

Cha Jun Sung doesn’t know the concept of the red zone, and just watched the hologram .

The gate opened and the special cyborg appeared in Blue Paradise . The heavily armed cyborg began to wander around the red zone . It didn’t take any special actions . It just wandered around .

“What! A unicorn?”

Cha Jun Sung took a breath .

In a lush forest, a unicorn that looks like something out of the Pegasus legend is caught in the cyborg’s radar .

The white maned unicorn is more than three times the size of a normal horse . There’s a horn bigger than a human arm on its head . Intimidating power . It looked more like a **** than an animal .

The cyborg and unicorn are at least 500 meters away from each other, but the unicorn sees the cyborg and looks in its direction .

“What kind of eye…”

Red flames burned in its eyes .

It’s big but its general form is beautiful, but that thought changed as soon as he saw its eyes .

Thunderbolts fly out of the horn on the unicorn’s head . It closed that 500 meter distance within moments, and the thunderbolts swallowed the cyborg whole .

Bang!

One hit .

The cyborg evaporated with just one hit .

The thunderbolts coming from the unicorn were reminiscent of natural lightning .

“Do you still think it’s an animal?”

“…”

“Blue Paradise is full of animals like that unicorn . They’re spread out everywhere . Red, orange, yellow, blue, green, indigo, violet . There are various species living in each of the 7 zones named after the colors of the rainbow . There are differences in strength but in mutant terms, they are levels 7 and 8 on average and even some level 9s . That unicorn is about level 8 . ”

Honestly, Cha Jun Sung thought that one of the big reasons was that the cyborg didn’t take the first hit . He thought that it might have been able to kill the unicorn if it had attacked first .

It is a delusion .

A level 8 would have avoided or blocked it somehow . To think that animals like that are everywhere . What kind of planet is this?

“We might be able to kill the animals if we use weapons of mass destruction, but it’ll also become that much more desolate . There are so many of them that it would become an all-out war, too . ”

They had discovered a planet similar to Earth after a very long search . They cannot ruin it . They need to preserve it in its natural form if they can .

“We tried landing a few times, but what do you think happened?”

“What happened?”

“Though they are superior beings, they are animals and have a clear standard of territory . They did not tolerate invasion . This ship was also destroyed . We ran away and got out of there . ”

“The reason you created Life Mission?”

“We don’t want to fight with these animals . We just want to live among them . All we have is a population of 1 million . Blue Paradise is 10 times the size of Earth, so it won’t reach Earth’s population of billions even after hundreds of years . ”

It can be small .

They could settle down and live there if they were guaranteed territory, but the animals found them wherever they landed and attacked .

It seems they don’t have a concept of coexistence . They just banish outsiders .

“So what could we do? I feel sorry to them, but we need to get land by force if we need to . If we continue like this, we’ll never be able to get off this ship . ”

An army is needed for war . An army that can fight the animals .

That’s why they created Life Mission . Lifers and mutants with power like the animals, who don’t have to depend on weapons .

“We’re going to create a mutant army with Life Mission’s information and genes . There is risk of infection or evolution, so we’ll have to adjust the numbers . ”

They aren’t going to inject a lot at once, but add it little by little . Even this might take several or even dozens of years, but they it’s okay . It had been more difficult getting here . They just have to get over this last obstacle .

“What do you think? We’ve been saying it’s a secret, but it isn’t much, right?”

Ultimately, Jigneon’s group had planned Life MIssion because they lacked the strength to go up against Blue Paradise’s animals without destroying the planet .

It is impressive in some ways, but it really isn’t much like Jigneon said .

Cha Jun Sung found comfort in the fact that his questions had been answered .

“But your wish . Will you really be satisfied with that?”

“Life Mission will be repeated in the same way even if I go back to the past, and there’s no guarantee that situation will be better . I’m satisfied with that . ”

Jigneon nodded and said that he would take measures immediately .

Cha Jun Sung thought hard about something and asked with a dubious expression,

“Could you… put my body back to normal?”

“Your body? Does that mean you want to become human?”

“That’s not exactly it, but I want to know if it’s possible . ”

“It’s impossible . ”

The response came from someone unexpected .

Borteth .

“Impossible?”

“Yeah . Your genetic composition has been completely changed . A solution might come out if we do years of research, but if we have to say whether it is possible or impossible right now, it is impossible . ”

Jigneon took a step back to Borteth in the mutant aspects .

What he says goes . Cha Jun Sung cannot become human .

Cha Jun Sung did not have lingering desire . It is bothersome to cling to something that is impossible .

“I’ll go back . ”

“You can stay here until Life Mission is over . ”

“I have a lot to do . I need to see my friends, and I have to see my other self . It would be a waste of precious time to stay here . ”

Park Jin Hyuk’s group thinks that Cha Jun Sung is dead .

Violet saw him being ripped apart . He needs to explain it to them .

“Do you mean Black Lord?”

“I might never be able to see him again, but I’d like to at least see his face one more time . ”

“Alright . ”

Jigneon said that he would open the gate for him . There are no longer restrictions on his entry . He can go in and out as he pleases .

‘The end?’

Life Mission, which he had thought would go on forever, was ending .

What will he do now?

Will he be able to live a normal life with the body of a mutant?