153

Ep. 153

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"Damn it! Big D got hit! Conzeido!"

"It's not time to worry about that! "Keep running!"

Five heavy walkers ran inside the ship making noise.

The hole behind them had long since disappeared. Instead of feeling reassured by that fact, they felt like they were going crazy.

The fear that everyone might die here was overwhelming.

"right? left? "Where should I go?!"

"Where has everyone gone? "Where are you going?"

"Don't scatter! "Everyone go together!"

Numerous crossroads that had not existed before appeared one after another. One walker that followed late was left behind.

'It can't go on like this!'

The walker 'Sentinel' they boarded is suitable for combat, but not good for surviving in an isolated situation. This is because power consumption is very high, making it difficult to operate for a long period of time.

The cargo ship was destroyed, and the aircraft they came on must have been in a similar situation. I don't know how much longer I have to stay in this monstrous ship.

"Everyone stop!"

McKay called the remaining three walkers to stop.

"Check your energy level! "If the walkers stop, we're dead."

The cyborgs who heard that hurriedly checked Walker's remaining energy, as if they had missed it.

"There's no problem with the remaining energy, but… damn it!"

"What's the use of all this! "I'm going to die here anyway!" "There's nowhere to run!"

As their colleagues said, the situation they were in was not good at all. In fact, they are like being in the belly of a huge beast.

Still, there was one thing McKay believed in.

'The Mechanical Council will send a rescue team. You just have to hold on until then.'

A month ago, the Mechanical Committee, Star Union's highest organization, issued a notice to all departments and private spacecraft.

If you encounter an unknown creature or substance, be sure to register it in the Starlink database. In addition, an order was issued mandating the installation of a special signal chip produced by the Mechanical Committee on all ships.

There are so many different creatures in the universe that it is nearly impossible to report them all. Plus it's a signal chip. It meant openly monitoring one's own activities, but there were few civilian spacecraft that would welcome this.

If it had been any other force, it would have been impossible, but Star Union made it possible. Because the Machinery Council can issue mandatory orders to all androids and drones produced by Star Union.

For this reason, the cargo ship that McKay and the cyborgs came on is also equipped with a signal chip. The ship has been destroyed. This news will be delivered to Star Union in an hour or two.

"If you survive just one day, a rescue team sent by the Population Management Department will arrive. "I'll wait until then."

"what? "How do they know where we are?"

"You don't need to worry about that. "Our news will be delivered to Star Union in a few hours."

The information obtained by collecting the ship's appearance, location, and internal branches has already been transferred to the Starlink database.

Therefore, there is only one thing for those who survive here to do.

"We have to wait until the rescue fleet arrives."

"hour?"

"This monster is probably capable of faster-than-light travel. "If we move to another star system, the rescue fleet's search time will also be longer."

The cyborgs nodded.

Even though this JP-99 star system is on the outskirts, it is under the control of a cult. If such a giant monster had been running around without faster-than-light navigation, it would have been caught a long time ago.

"We have to prevent him from escaping."

"what? Nonsense!"

"It's impossible! As you saw earlier, attacking this ship is useless. "I hope you recover quickly."

"I know that. It's a waste of ammunition if you shoot blindly. So, you have to set a goal."

"target?"

Before answering, McKay shared with everyone a file that combined the maps sent by the exploration drones.

"Look at this."

"?"

"Even though everything else has changed, there are some parts that are the same."

"What does that mean?"

"I don't know if this ship is a monster or something, but if it were a living thing, it would need major organs, right?"

"…Does that mean this same part is where the guy's heart or something is?"

"okay. "If we go here and destroy the organ, we can disrupt its faster-than-light travel."

The cyborgs fell silent after hearing McKay's opinion.

There are many loopholes in his argument. If they go after what he says and it is a trap, they are literally dead. The problem is that they don't have a sharp answer either.

Everyone was worried because their lives were at stake. But the cold reality did not wait for them.

"The hallway is moving!"

"Fuck! Everyone run!"

While the four walkers were running, the hallway was greatly distorted. The narrow space was distorted and turned into a huge room.

"Is this what I'm seeing real?"

"Fuck, I'm going to turn around."

The Sentinel, a medium-sized walker, is about 8m tall. A wide space with a height of three to four times that of the walker suddenly appeared before my eyes.

Even McKay found it difficult to maintain composure in the face of this unbelievable reality.

"Everyone, come to your senses!"

McKay consoled his colleagues and activated the weapon system. An unfamiliar sound reached his ears as he vowed to shoot anyone he saw.

'What did you just do?'

It was a sound rarely heard in space.

'The sound of the wind?'

A strange sound is coming from somewhere above their heads where nothing can be seen.

The moment McKay pointed his gun at the ceiling to shoot whatever it was, the 'thing' that made a sound attacked them.

"evil!" A

short

scream followed by a loud roar. When McKay turned the camera to check, a walker was down.

A Walker Sentinel is less durable than the outer wall of a ship, but instead has a built-in ship shield.

A large hole about 2 meters in size was created in the cockpit, which was protected by a shield and thick armor. The traces of destruction, elaborately cut as if cut by a plasma cutter, glowed a light purple color.

The pilot was not visible inside the walker that was penetrated front and back. Instead, only the blood dripping from the broken mechanical parts told us what happened to the pilot.

"What did you just do?!"

Now there are only three Walkers left, including McKay.

Then I heard the wind again. McKay quickly shouted, realizing that this was a precursor to an attack.

"He came…!"

"uh?"

Boom

But before he could finish his words, another walker fell. Just like before, the pilot disappeared, leaving behind only light purple blood and flesh in the 2m-sized hole.

"shit!"

It's only been a few minutes since we entered this space, and we've already lost two walkers. The only people left are now McKay and one colleague.

"Watch out for the wind!"

"Amy… what kind of wind is blowing in space…"

McKay quickly looked at the traces of destruction, leaving his trembling and wary colleague behind. Then he found a trace of blood on the floor.

Walker's camera, synchronized with McKay's, followed the blood trail. The sparsely connected drops of blood stopped in front of the wall.

There, their fellow cyborgs were lying strewn with their limbs cut off.

"Huh?!"

"…."

A missing colleague has been found, but there is a problem.

'Who's the other one?'

The cameras on the two walkers moved up.

And there was 'it' near the corner of the wall and ceiling.

A green devil sticking a tentacle into a cyborg's face and sucking his body fluids.

"Queuuuuuuuu…"

｢ ｣｢■■｣

Tentacles embedded in all the holes on the face, such as the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, swell like straws. Each time this happened, the captured cyborg let out a bizarre groan and trembled.

McKay thought as he saw that.

I said I should run away.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

At that moment, his colleague fired at the monster. The monster disappeared in the blink of an eye like a mirage.

McKay ran while his panic-stricken colleague caught his attention.

His only goal is the door in front of him.

The thought that he could only wake up from this nightmare by opening that door and going out dominated his mind.

"Wha?!"

THUD

Behind him, a short groan and the sound of a walker falling are heard. The hand of McKay's walker touches the shield door.

There was no sound of the devil's wings flapping. He opened the screened door and went out.

Boom

"Whew…"

Only after closing the door was he able to let out the breath he had been holding. There was no sound beyond the door.

Just when I was trying to feel reassured.

A voice came from behind him.

"The food came in on its own?"

A voice with a flat tone that did not fit this terrible space at all.

The moment McKay heard that sound, he realized.

I thought I had escaped that nightmarish space, but that wasn't the case.

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'It saves you trouble.'

The walker who had run away here to avoid the Aadhai attack faced me and was scared.

I am fused to a nuclear reactor and use numerous eroding tentacles like hands.

He is a cyborg who trembles just by looking at the cute Aadhai. I will look much scarier.

Walker, who was confused when he saw me, tried to shoot me with a storm gun, but failed. This is because numerous eroding tentacles entangled the walker's arms and legs.

'Anyway, he has improved a lot.'

Is it because Heavenly Mother taught us well? Adhaj skillfully used his 'super acceleration' ability even in a relatively narrow space.

Although super acceleration is Green Gallagon's unique ability, it is only for movement or evasion. There is no case of such aggressive use in a closed space like this one.

'If it had been like before, I would have been seriously injured.'

Adhai used the tactic of covering his entire body with purple lightning and melting the enemy with psychic power upon impact.

To put it simply, you can think of it as attacking enemies with the supernatural flames of a purple spray gun wrapped around your body.

'Now that I think about it, that's a method a lot of cult players use.'

Put a shield on your weapon with psychic power and hit the enemy, or like Adhai did, cover your body with supernatural flames and charge, etc.

Thanks to his newly learned method, Aadhai was able to minimize the damage he suffered during the collision. Since he is a mutant, it would be good to see it as a technique suitable for a guy whose physical abilities are lacking compared to other Gallagons.

Of course, that method is not perfect either. Green Gallagon's psychic power is not that strong. Even if you surround yourself with psychic power when the output itself is insufficient, it is impossible to completely protect yourself.

You can be more aggressive than before, but you still have to be careful before you become White Gallagon.

'When we go to the dragon's nest, let's find a way to evolve Aadhai.'

I've filled up my energy appropriately. I'll just clean up this cyborg and leave right away.

While fused with the reactor, I used the erosion tentacles to disintegrate the walker. When the walker was dismantled as if opening a chestnut, a cyborg with cables attached to it fell out.

My eroding tentacles wrapped around the male cyborg, who was shaking pitifully.

'Let's try an experiment with this ruler.'

If you make the essence harvester's chin on a ship and eat it, it cannot be used as an ingredient for the essence harvester trait. We tested it on hundreds of people a while ago, but only the predation effect occurred and no genetic information was stored.

'Is it because it is integrated with the ship?'

When integrated with the ship, only some of the body-related characteristics can be used. Among them, the number of characters feature may not be possible because it cannot be used.

So, the number of people who are still attached to the drumsticks, which preyed on hundreds of people, are still cult-based.

'The mimicry organ works, though.'

I don't know how it is possible to disguise this huge ship. I actually tried to try it, but some condition was needed and it wasn't applied properly.

'That's enough.'

My tentacle opened its mouth to swallow the cyborg whole. Cyborg saw that and laughed as if he had lost his mind.

"Kkkkkkkk! "I will die here, but you will die soon too."

I always heard things like please save me or that I was wrong, but this time, the last words were quite different.

Of course, I have no intention of saving him because of that.

I was about to ignore it and eat it, but the words that came out of its mouth stopped me.

"The lower fleet of Star Union will arrive soon! "You can't escape!"

"Star Union's fleet?"

It is true that they are an important manpower supply line, but from Star Union's perspective, they are like a necessary evil. It is an element that is essential to maintaining a community, but is difficult to admit. Why would you come to save such a being?

Moreover, this is the cult's sphere of influence. It is unlikely that Star Union will risk major diplomatic friction and come looking for me.

'for a moment.'

An ominous thought occurred to me, and I searched through the wreckage of the walker. Among them was a computer mounted on a walker. I used the small tentacles to turn on the half-dismantled computer.

There were records of communications sent to Starlink, Star Union's central database.

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