episode_0641
by fnovelpia
Thud thud
Grayish-white fluid was sprayed from the cut section of the intestine.
‘Just because it’s black on the outside doesn’t mean it’s black on the inside.’
Bam!
As I was admiring it, the decapitated bug queen, no, now just an elite individual, passed me by and dug her claws into the ground.
Krrr…
A growling beast-like cry was heard from the neck of an elite entity that may have been hanging somewhere.
Even though the lower body was lying far away and only the upper body remained, it was quite a gruesome sight.
Originally, creatures with exoskeletons like insects were less susceptible to minor injuries, but if their shells were to break due to a strong impact, their lives would be in danger. This could be due to infection or bleeding.
The bug also seemed to have the same characteristics.
I thought that if he was someone who had successfully transformed into an elite individual on the spot, he would be able to somehow close up a wound that was cut in two around his waist, but it seemed like I had overestimated him.
Unlike when I had intentionally removed the Queen’s body through a metamorphosis process, the section I had cut off continued to ooze a grayish-white fluid.
The fierce growling was also losing momentum in real time.
I looked at the sight with the sword I had erased on my shoulder resting my chin on it.
Originally, this elite entity was much taller than me, but now that it was cut in half, it was a natural angle to look down on it.
‘Well, if you were trying to induce mutations in the direction of increasing regenerative powers, you would have to have been seriously injured. Regeneration is also an activity that consumes energy. It’s a trait that doesn’t go well with these bug guys who have been stuck in the research facility.’
In the first place, it may be more profitable to produce new ones than to reproduce normal individuals.
Since bugs don’t have a set lifespan for each individual, they won’t live forever. It would be beneficial to replace damaged and worn-out individuals with fresh new ones.
The life force of a bug is not a concept of a planarian that can double in size when cut, but rather a concept of a disgusting malice that will attack humans until the end unless its brain is destroyed.
In any case, it seemed as though even the elite individuals would soon die if left alone.
But I had no intention of letting this guy who surprised me in such a bizarre way go.
I had already put in the sword and had no intention of using it myself again, but there was someone who just happened to come to mind.
“Jiyuya.”
“Huh? Why?”
The party was shocked and screamed as they saw me blow the flame out of my hand. But they were soon relieved when they saw me cut the guy in two with my shining sword.
The person I called Moon Ji-yu was once again working on confirming and killing bug entities.
Anyway, all the living bugs were struggling to kill humans until the end, or were crawling on the ground trying to escape and make a new nest.
Thanks to that, the scene where the shadow that rose from the ground according to her hand gesture pierced the bug’s corpse was quite refreshing, but also had a grotesque aspect. I guess you could call it corpse rape, but it’s just an alien monster anyway, so…
“Hey, stop playing with bug corpses. Come here.”
“What a joke! What if the guy I thought was dead swings his leg!”
“… I think it’ll be okay since I’ve already drilled holes in their heads. If they come back to life here, it won’t be a sci-fi movie, it’ll be a zombie movie.”
“You don’t know that!”
Moon Ji-yu then went on to say things like, “Insects have something called a ganglion, so you have to cut their entire body to feel safe,” and that a male mantis doesn’t stop doing it even if the female eats its head.
His eyes were alive, but his speech seemed somewhat rambling.
Although the bugs resembled insects, that did not mean they were truly alien insects.
In addition to the absence of anything like a ganglion, the number of legs was also quite free, deviating from the insect rule of three pairs.
‘Hmm… I guess I’m quite mentally exhausted from the battle.’
Although we briefly forgot about it as we watched him skillfully kill bugs, this was the first time our group actively participated in combat.
Even though the target was not real, but a monster that appeared in a travel destination, and it was not a person, but a bug that resembled an insect. In any case, the experience of fighting something and killing it was tiring for an ordinary person in many ways.
Even if it was okay for Janie since she was a trained person, not only Moon Ji-yu, but also Sera who was constantly watching the bugs in order to use the barrier, Olivia who was directly fighting them up close, and Jeong Su-jin who might have been watching the bugs that had doubled in number due to the future vision, were definitely quite tired.
Right now, I’m busy fixing bugs, caught up in the atmosphere of my subordinates screaming over there.
‘I guess I’ll have to let you rest and have fun once this is over.’
While thinking that to myself, I spoke to Moon Ji-yu, who came up to me.
“Use your powers on this guy.”
“To this guy…?”
“Uh. Instead of pulling the shadow from the ground, it feels like it’s pulled from this guy’s body.”
Krrr…
The elite entity was not as completely hidden as before, as it was partially covered in grayish-white fluid.
“It’s definitely possible since it’s all pitch black… ”
The moment Moon Ji-yu raised her hand toward the guy while muttering like that.
“!”
The shadows that jutted out in clumps covered the entire body of the elite entity.
It was as if the guy’s body itself was a hole pouring out shadows, casting out a huge amount of shadows.
In an instant, the elite entity was lost in the shadows, its form becoming indistinguishable.
If shadows could make sounds, you would hear them bubbling.
The shadow grew so explosively that I had to grab Moon Ji-yu’s shoulder and take a big step back.
It’s a shadow created by Moon Ji-yu, so it doesn’t seem like it would harm her even if it touched her, but I just wanted to be sure.
“… … .”
She gaped at the shadow she had pulled from the body of the elite entity.
A shadow that is as black as an abyss, reflecting no light at all, like the bodies of elite individuals.
It was a very strange sight, considering that the shadows Moon Ji-yu had been dealing with up until now were ordinary shadows that allowed a little bit of light to pass through.
“Jiyuya.”
“Huh? ”
I asked her, who looked bewildered, while stroking her chin.
“Can you control that shadow?”
“Uh, uh… It feels like it’s a little hard to control the strength, but it seems like it can be controlled like the other shadows.”
“Really?”
Indeed, her words did not seem to be a lie, as the dark shadow swayed back and forth according to the slight movements of her hands.
‘It seems useful?’
I couldn’t hold back the laughter that was about to burst out.
“Jiyu, you need to get your gear adjusted.”
“Huh?”
“It would be fun to make something with that bug shell.”
“What…?!”
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.
.
The elite individual was eventually torn to pieces in Moon Ji-yu’s shadow. She was angry at the offer to make equipment out of the guy’s shell, so she pulled out all of its joints.
The rest of the small guys also failed to escape and were all caught and killed.
After the bugs were wiped out of the research facility, it was a tedious process of repeating the recovery process.
“No, why on earth would you make equipment out of bug shells… ”
“But still, the shadow made there definitely looks something like this?”
“But that’s… This is a matter of feeling.”
It was a conversation between Moon Ji-yu and Sera, who were grumbling.
They were moving the items I had taken from my inventory to the storage room of the research facility.
There wasn’t much for people to do directly in restoring the facility, but the bug guys weren’t just beating up the robots to death, so they couldn’t just sit back and watch.
It couldn’t be that the previous tenant wasn’t a real nuisance.
Especially the organic compound synthesis area where the bug queen made her nest.
The restoration of this area was necessary for the synthesis of Telos, one of the original purposes of occupying the research facility.
It would be safe to say that the entire facility was contaminated because the guy had been destroying the equipment needed to synthesize Telos.
Oddly enough, the damage to the core facilities was not severe, but it still took a considerable amount of time to recover.
So we decided to focus on getting this research facility back up and running first.
The first to go into recovery were food production facilities.
Because the issue of food was the most important issue everywhere.
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