Ch.191191. Incident Activation

**We repeat, unidentified biological response detected. Unidentified biological response detected. An unidentified biological response has been detected in corridor 84!**

Along with the announcement—presumably an intruder alert—repeatedly echoing through the corridor, the sound of many footsteps rushing toward the location also reverberates.

‘…Tch, have I been discovered?’

Since it was clear to anyone that his presence had been revealed, the drug dealer thought this while pulling out his weapon from his coat pocket, though he didn’t deactivate his environment-adaptive camouflage.

The ability to launch surprise attacks on enemies at any time and the lack of exposure to enemy attacks.

For these two advantages, he held his breath and remained silent as the footsteps grew louder until—

‘Are those them?’

The owners of the footsteps began to enter the drug dealer’s field of vision.

The first emotion the drug dealer felt upon seeing them was surprise that they looked like ordinary facility security guards.

They were covered from head to toe in navy blue powered suits with blue accents, and the bodies inside those powered suits looked similar to the researchers he had seen earlier.

Reverse-jointed legs, bird-like feet, long tails and thin waists, considerably long arms, and reptilian-like yet elongated heads.

Their armaments, worn over typical humanoid monster bodies in angular armored powered suits, were surprisingly focused on restraint rather than killing.

Sword-like riot batons that discharged high-voltage electricity, shock wave-generating batons shaped like tonfa, shotguns capable of firing restraining shock pellets or electronic pellets, and large tactical shields made of plasteel-adamantium alloy.

With just increased output, these monster security guards—45 of them in total—possessed armaments that could be deployed in military operations with almost no issues.

‘An ordinary corporation… no, wait.’

Seeing their orthodox appearance made the drug dealer question whether this research facility was an ordinary place, but only briefly.

Not only did they resemble monsters, but through his experience surviving in the criminal world, he instinctively sensed that their true nature was monstrous.

But perhaps he had been too absorbed in his observation?

—Huh?

—!!!

—!!??

While the drug dealer was observing them, they were talking among themselves when the visors of their helmet-like headgear began emitting purple light instead of green, and then they started approaching him, communicating with each other through strange sound waves as if they had discovered him.

‘Should I have expected this?’

He hadn’t predicted that they would discover him using the same method they had used to detect his presence…

‘Wait, why didn’t I notice something so simple?’

It was a thought that flashed through his mind momentarily, but upon further reflection, he realized he was experiencing something different from his usual self.

His mind didn’t seem to be working properly, unable to come up with even the simplest ideas, and somehow his psychic abilities also seemed diminished due to lack of processing power.

Especially for his species, the Felisid, who possessed mental psychic abilities as a racial characteristic—normally he should have been able to read simple emotions of monsters, but now even that wasn’t functioning?

‘A jammer? Is it a brain jammer?’

Recognizing that this situation was similar to being within the influence of a brain function inhibitor—commonly known as a brain jammer—he attempted to use enhanced psychic abilities with whatever output he could muster.

And immediately after that.

Click.

The drug dealer aimed his pistol, which simply compressed psychic energy into bullets, and began his attack before they could form a defensive formation.

“—Hup!”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Aim, pull, shoot, repeat.

Despite being a single-shot weapon with limited rapid-fire capability, he overcame this with pure skill and terrifying firepower, instantly piercing the shields of three security monsters and blowing their heads off, then immediately retrieved a fallen shield with telekinesis.

Kwang! Kwang! Kwang! Kwang! Bang!

And right after, the drug dealer blocked the incoming shock waves with his shield enhanced by a protective barrier and began returning fire, each shot a lethal strike.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Since the brain jammer affected all living beings in its range, if he, an upper-mid tier being, was reduced to mid-tier level, those mid-tier monsters were no exception.

Each time psychic energy flew from the muzzle, it caused injuries severe enough to be called fatal wounds on the monsters’ bodies, and each shot was too fast for them to dodge in their slowed state.

Thus, the drug dealer succeeded in killing all the security monsters, whose numbers had somehow increased to over 60, but… even he had his limits.

Woooong—kugugugugugugugu!!!!

After a strange mechanical sound suddenly rang out for several seconds, an intense gravitational force was applied to the corridor where he stood.

“Kk, kuuuuuuuuugh…”

Even the drug dealer, who had used all his jammer-weakened psychic abilities for his protective barrier, was barely holding on with a body that felt like it would be crushed, so the state of everything else was deteriorating as well.

The monster security guards sprawled on the floor were being crushed by the high gravity, their suits crumpling and their flesh and bones separating and pulverizing, leaving flattened corpses stuck to the floor all around.

And although he was holding on, the drug dealer’s condition wasn’t exactly intact either.

Starting with the thin bones, all the bones in his body were being crushed, muscle fibers were snapping with audible pops, causing excruciating pain with even the slightest movement, and his head felt foggy, perhaps due to the excessive use of psychic abilities.

His body was in such terrible condition that even after the gravity amplification was deactivated, he couldn’t move and could only lie collapsed.

And at that moment, the drug dealer heard the sound of footsteps clicking toward him.

Judging this to be the movement of an enemy, he somehow managed to raise his nearly broken body.

In his eyes appeared the figure of a humanoid life form.

That life form was a suit-wearing entity resembling a human female—one of the dominant species of the universe.

About 3 meters tall, this creature wore a female version of the suit that had originated from humanity and spread throughout the galaxy as the symbol of formal attire, with distinctive green hair flowing from its head.

However, while it only appeared human in form, to him, who had recovered his psychic abilities thanks to the deactivation of the brain jammer, this being’s true nature was—

“Ah, aaaaaaaaaaa^::-aaa:(?(!^#♡@a~-/,♤♤☆==₩’÷ㅏ♤☆\☆₩[☆×}——!!!!!!”

The moment he directly perceived its inner nature with his psychic abilities, through a forcibly connected pipe into the drug dealer’s mind, information, self, emotions, psychology, and various other mental elements rushed in like a flood.

“Push, pull, slither, writhe, twist, twist, break, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, disappear, hate it, don’t want it, hate it, aaaaaaaa———!!!!”

Information beyond what his brain could handle bored into his mind, engraving itself and crushing his existing self.

His mouth spewed language he himself couldn’t understand, and his brain, exposed to excessive information, suffered physical damage until—

‘—What?’

“(Brain)(Damage)(Death).”

Before the Hive Mind or Teio could intervene to capture him alive, the drug dealer, somehow connected to the Hive Mind, ended his life as his brain melted like soup.

※ ※ ※

That was unexpectedly uneventful.

Shortly after. Having extracted and restored his soul for analysis, I was able to determine the identity of this alien who had infiltrated this place—the alien species monsterization research lab located in the depths of the ‘Mausoleum of Moby Dick.’

A Felisid, one of the species I created by mixing human genes with monster DNA and spreading them throughout the galaxy.

And through this, I was also able to understand how this one had managed to enter the research facility.

This one had entered the lab through a random teleportation trap I had set up inside the ‘Mausoleum of Moby Dick,’ but in normal circumstances, this wouldn’t have happened.

The secret laboratory hidden within the ‘Mausoleum of Moby Dick’ was secured with various methods including spatial isolation and teleport locks to prevent entry even through traps, but the Felisid happened to be a species that wasn’t controlled despite originating from me.

Because their fundamental origin was tied to me, they were somehow included in the exception range of the teleport lock—an absurd accident, but one that could have been disastrous.

If information about this or other secret laboratories were to leak out…

It could have been a catastrophe, and just as I—we—were thinking this,

A psychic signal was suddenly transmitted from Seah… and the moment I—we—felt it, my—our—complexion instantly turned pale.

A major incident, incomparable to this one and completely unexpected, had just occurred.