chapter 37
{ Cain 2 }
Aiden was happy to see Yuhan Wol like that.
Of course, I had to recruit Yuhan Wol, but I had no intention of hiring anyone.
being done.
More than just abilities, it’s very important whether you become a human or not.
Like himself, Cain’s friend considers that even more important.
It was like looking at the fact that he hadn’t really passed on his great skills to anyone so far.
‘No, the truth is, there must be too many experiences of passing on and being betrayed… .’
If only you had talent.
And if you have the will to work hard.
He was the one who generously taught and gave his skills.
However, the human heart is different when it enters and when it leaves.
Of the many who sought and received his teachings, not a single one maintained the original attitude to the end.
After everyone had learned, he changed his behavior, reversed what he had said, and left, attacking him.
He only gave his own, and he gave and gave and gave.
Feed a dog for three days they will remember you for three years. Feed a human for three years they will forget you in three days.
If you feed your dog for 3 days, they will remember you for 3 years. If you feed humans for 3 years, they will forget you in 3 days.
‘Lonely guy… .’
Aiden clicked his tongue.
This is why I don’t have friends
If I had to call Cain a friend, it was Aiden.
‘Clean… ‘
Aiden blew the thought away with one last bite of his tongue.
If someone could listen to his feelings, they would probably have heard Aiden’s laugh at this moment.
There are many who are doing well here and there after learning the technique from Cain, but they will never know.
they are… The fact that he hadn’t learned even a tenth of Cain’s true strength.
Yang Gwang thought as he looked behind Aiden as he walked without a word.
‘In charge of making weapons… ‘
He greeted me at the first meeting as a new colleague, so maybe it was natural to see him briefly.
However, unlike the bubbly-looking IT manager, he looked quite blunt, and it seemed like it would take a lot of time to get to know him.
Yang Gwang-gwang, thinking that he would like to hear more information about him, took his luck by talking about his feelings.
“Do you look similar in age?”
It was for Aiden.
“Do I look that old? ha ha ha!”
Aiden, who laughed for a moment, started explaining in line with Yang Gwang’s intentions.
“okay. That friend is the same age as me. One of my few friends. He is also the only person I personally brought in from outside for the Ubermensch project.”
“okay? Why was he the only one who did that in particular?”
“Well… There were two reasons. You’ve seen them too, but aren’t those vessels used in the project? You were in.”
Aiden glanced back.
Yuhan-wol nodded his head at the mention of himself.
“In the beginning, the progress of the project was not going well. Especially the Vessel side. It may seem simple on the surface, but it is a very tricky piece of equipment. All the functions necessary for the experiment have to be loaded, and each operation command has to be reflected in almost real time. There should be no problem even when several functions are operated simultaneously or sequentially. In addition, the stability must be extremely high, just in case. I don’t know the details, but anyway, it is the vessel that can be said to be a synthesis of cutting-edge technology. That friend made it.”
From what I heard, he was also deeply involved in the project.
“No one else could make such a device as fast and reliable as that. If you look it up, there may be a few places among the world-famous companies that can do that, but from the perspective of BH, who is working on a top-secret project, collaborating with such a big company was actually very difficult. Because the opponent may notice to some extent that BH is doing something, and there is a high possibility that there will be gossip. Anyway, there weren’t many people like that, so BH had no choice but to actively support my proposal.”
Aiden smiled at the two of them nodding their heads as if they understood.
“So, without that friend, you wouldn’t be where you are today. ha ha ha! Oh, isn’t that the motorcycle you rode on when you escaped? It’s all my friend’s work.”
Yang Gwang-gwang’s eyes lit up at those words.
Still, it was a car that I was curious about for a long time who made such great equipment.
“By the way, didn’t you say that there were two reasons earlier?”
“Well, the second reason… If there was a problem, it was because there was no one to help.”
Yang Yang-gwang, who was walking behind him, suddenly looked at his back.
Once again, I felt this person’s meticulousness.
‘Ready, no… Should I call it insight?’
From then on, Aiden had already moved with the possibility of a threat to his own life.
At that moment, Yuhan Wol opened his mouth.
“Cain, he… Were you outside BH?”
Aiden stopped walking and turned around.
“okay. Actually, that was the real point. The real reason I drew him. It was also the minimum absolute condition he put on when he received an offer to make a vessel. BH had to accept it. Because he said right from the start that he wouldn’t be interested if he had to live inside.”
“Was he the one who established this base?”
“right. He was the one who set up this facility and helped me escape.”
Then suddenly, Aiden’s words ran through my head.
[Actually, the friend in here is really important. to us.]
I felt it when escaping from the experimental facility, but his technical skills were truly remarkable.
I didn’t go inside the weapons crafting facility, but…
Judging by its size, perhaps in the future, he will be able to receive tremendous weapons and equipment through him.
You cannot wage war without weapons.
If Aiden wants to fight BH, it will be impossible without his help.
‘It’s impossible without him, then he didn’t just worry about himself… … .’
“Escape as well… Did you include him from the beginning of the project with future plans in mind?”
At those words, Aiden just grinned without saying anything in return.
“But you didn’t seem to welcome us very much, did you?”
Aiden said at Yang Kwang’s honest feelings.
“I hope you understand. It’s not like they have a bad impression or something like that. It’s just that this friend doesn’t like the people who participated in the project because of his personal tendencies.”
“why?”
“Do you know how your project participants are selected?”
It was a sensitive word.
It was even more so because there was Yuhan Wol next to him.
“I do not know? What?”
“Well, I don’t know exactly what that friend is either… Still, isn’t there something about it? From the perspective of BH, what criteria will you use to secure project participants, i.e., test subjects?”
Looking at Yang Yang-gwang and Yuhan-wol, who did not speak easily, he spoke again in a light tone.
“It could go wrong during the experiment, and as you know now, those who participated in the experiment cannot go back even after the experiment is over. so… In any case, there must be people who do not make noise or who can easily get rid of it if it does. They either have no family, or they are socially maladjusted.”
“Your brother has a family, right?”
In Aiden’s gaze, Yuhan Wol nodded his head as if he was right.
“Another criterion was that the players had to be highly immersed in the game. This is because there is a high possibility that the adaptability to the experiment is excellent. Have you played any games?”
“… did a lot a lot.”
“okay. I think those two were the most important selection criteria. Of course, when securing a test subject, I would have put a lot of safety devices around so that the name of BH would never be related.”
If you are wrong… It was Yuhan Wol that made him wonder if his family could have found him.
Unknown company, unidentified contracting party.
There was no contact, and there was no way to know where he went, what he went to do, or why he went.
‘It’s likely to be shrouded in disappearance.’
Aiden turned the conversation back to the original point, as if he had guessed Yuhan Wol’s feelings to some extent.
“Anyway, I think of that friend… Most of the people involved in the project are social misfits or game addicts. He thinks they lack the will in many ways. In fact, it is difficult to live in a world where it is difficult to live in a miserable condition if your natural environment does not support it… Because he thinks he can overcome all of that if he puts his mind to it.”
‘I will.’
A person’s disposition, that is, their thoughts and values, is completed by accumulating and accumulating the experiences he has experienced while walking.
“he… No family?”
Looking at Aiden who smiled bitterly and nodded, Yuhan-wol finished his words.
“You seem to think that you worked harder than anyone else in a rather difficult environment.”
“okay. That friend has been fiercely living every moment of his life.”
Aiden, who had stopped talking for a moment as if lost in thought, opened his mouth again with a faint smile on his face.
“Well, it’s a bit vague if game addiction can be seen as a matter of will.”
“why?”
Aiden explains Yang Gwang’s counter-question.
“Basically, from the perspective of a game company. I don’t really care if people become a nuisance or a misfit because of the game. No, you should try to make a game like that even more. Once you touch it, you have to make it impossible to get out of it. That’s the essence of the game. So, in a way If it’s not addictive, it doesn’t qualify as a game.”
When he heard that, Yang Gwang nodded as if he was right.
“So, it is really difficult for an ordinary human to break off that great addiction by will after tasting the game. Of course I want to continue. That’s why I said that it is vague to simply view that game addiction is a matter of will. That friend’s point is this. You think you shouldn’t have started the game in the first place. All games are made to be highly addictive. Well, what a boring guy. haha.”
Aiden looked at the two of them quietly listening to their words.
he asked Yuhan Wol.
“Yeah, how about it?”
Asking about his feelings.
“You seem like a good person.”
“okay. is it?”
Aiden grinned and turned around and said.
“Even though he looks so blunt, in reality, he is a kind and good-hearted guy. Good luck.”
Yang Gwang’s voice echoed through the hallway next to Yuhan Wol, who nodded.
“yes.”
Yuhan-wol, who walked for a while following Aiden, who naturally moved again.
He opened his mouth as if he had suddenly remembered.
“By the way”
“yes?”
“I told you to call me Cain, but that doesn’t seem like my real name… ”
“It’s not my original name. But now it’s a name he uses naturally like his real name. But why?”
“It feels like there is a story behind it… ”
“Hmm. I don’t know if you know, but in Hebrew, Kayin means blacksmith. It seems to have melted his identity into his name.”
“Five… It’s simple and fresh.”
Aiden smiled softly at the words Yang Yang Kwang responded to without much thought.
But it wasn’t a very happy smile.
“What do you have? Why do you look like that?”
Aiden, who had been pondering for a moment at Yang Gwang’s question, said.
“There was a man named Tubalcain. Tubal means one who makes things out of bronze, and Cain means, as I said, a blacksmith. So Tubalcain means a blacksmith who makes tools out of bronze. It can be said that he is truly the most forefather of blacksmiths.”
“Is that so?”
“I don’t know if you know the Bible, but… According to the Bible, Tubalcain was the sixth-generation descendant of Cain, the eldest son of the ‘first man’ Adam.”
It was a random story, but Yuhan-wol and Yang-gwang were no strangers to the Bible, so I had no choice but to listen to it, wondering if it was just that.
“That gave rise to a metal weapon, and with that weapon the first thing that could be called a war was waged.”
“ah… ”
“Something of his creation is being used to kill people in large numbers and effectively. How did he feel when he realized that?”
“… … .”
“Besides, Cain… As I said, the eldest son of Adam.”
“yes.”
“He is the first murderer of mankind. I killed my brother Abel. So, in the Bible, it is said that God severely rebuked him and punished him. And they say he put a mark on Cain so that no one could meet Cain and kill him.”
“Why did you punish him and then protect him again?”
“Well, I don’t know for sure. There is a saying that the ultimate punishment is to label Cain as the first murderer and make him suffer for the rest of his life. Or did it mean that even such a sinner could receive God’s love and care? Also, there are interpretations that someone else killed Cain, which is also a crime of another murder, so the mark was placed to stop him.”
“Is it all right?”
As Aiden nodded in response to Yang Gwang’s reaction, Yuhan Wol suddenly asked.
“then… Why are you using that name?”
“Well. Is it because the things he has created over the years have been used to kill people? Or was it because he thought that this Ubermensch project, in which he played a big role, would kill a lot of people in the future?”
In a heavier atmosphere.
The three walked in silence.
Soon Aiden’s low voice leaked out of his mouth again.
That voice so low that I don’t know if I’m talking to others or speaking to myself.
“Or the weapons he will give us will kill the superhumans… That would mean killing the next human, the next human in the end. A war with the superhumans of BH that will soon take place. So he… Should I call it Cain of the next human?”