Hunter of the Perished World

[29] Prototype (2)

Gene put the herbs in his mouth as soon as he could, watching the MCP levels rising so fearfully steeply. Although there was little effect, Gin was sufficient because she was not in the first place absolutely affected by the poison.

The MCP concentration was too high for the exterior wall. An ordinary slater could die of dyspnea. Scavengers wouldn’t have been able to find anything from the exterior wall to the exterior.

All structures on the ground of Wargrave Fortress are fake. In case Fortress collapses for some reason, Wargrave makes unused structures on the ground and provides real weapons and rations.

Then the enemies can’t find the real one because they are not at the core, but because they are interested in opening the fake structure that is prepared.

The real Fortress facilities are built in a bunker deep underground. Wargrave troops live underground and are fed using bunker elevators even as they enter the interior walls.

Almost all fortresses are built with the same blueprint. Only then can Wargrave Soldiers know all the structures and use them, as they did yesterday, even if they were sent to another fortress. The base is the same, although some variations are added depending on the level of the fortress.

So, knowing a single design these days is like knowing every Portress in the world.

Gene is the midpoint of the inner wall and outer wall, exactly the midpoint in the orientation that places Armory 4 and Barracks 3 on the east and west sides.

There is a secret passphrase that needs to be operated in a certain pattern, and once you enter the passphrase, the door will open. However, Gene headed there frowned.

“…… What is it?”

But the secret door was already destroyed. The hideously torn secret door bursts downward, whether it was struck by a powerful shock.

‘Based on the rust level, it seems to have been destroyed quite recently.’

Not just months, but very recent. The metal ladder going down the bunker is relatively intact, and Gene slips down, grabbing the ladder.

‘The floodgates are all broken down. This is something someone smashed to get inside.’

Gene was able to see the steel doors pierced down as he descended several feet. I couldn’t even destroy one of these reinforcement doors if I smashed all of Gin’s heat warheads. This reinforcement door was made so that no one could enter even if someone found it in the first place, so it was strange that it was broken like this.

If you can break through more than five layers of reinforcement doors in total, it means that the firepower is a huge group or individual.

Gene went over the ladder under the iron gate as if he were doing acrobatics, continuing to move from ladder to ladder, eventually reaching the bottom.

“Is there any power left?”

Gene was first surprised to see the lights on in the alley entering the bunker and that the power was being maintained.

If it was closed, of course, the power would have to be cut, but it made no sense that the power was still running. Gene steps into the bunker, slowly advancing, killing the footsteps. There was a pile of dust at the entrance of the inner door, whether there had been no entry or exit for a while.

“Footprints.”

Gene found two kinds of footprints that cleared the dirt from the pile. It was all recent, and it was fairly clear.

‘One was barefoot and one was wearing army boots.’

Barefoot is the exit, and the boots are the entry. Gene guesses whose military footprint it belongs to.

‘Carl, is it your work that broke down the door?’

The destructive power of five reinforcement doors, Gene bursts into laughter. However, the footprint of entry is a military footprint, but the footprint of exit is barefoot.

Gene quickly stepped inside because he knew what this meant. A sealed door that blocked the outside and the inside was also broken by something. The bunker plays a different role, and Gene scours the armory quickly. The wide bunker was completely different from the outside. Gin looked around and frowned.

‘…… Wasn’t it closed?’

A bunker full of freshly slaughtered corpses was lying around.

‘It was a monster.’

Nothing died in the same normal form. Rather, the corpses that were shredded and torn apart were truly miserable.

The bunker is covered in corpses and blood, and there is no movement of the ants.

‘The Portress in Busan seemed to be closed, but the interior was still running….’

Gene was aware of the bunker’s structure, so he was the first to enter the control room to be able to see the entire portress. In the control room, the current status of the bunker was confirmed by CCTV on numerous monitors.

There was nothing bioreactive in the bunker except gin. The CCTV was showing only the fact that all the survivors of the bunker were dead.

And even bigger, a red warning message appeared throughout the screen.

[Emergency]

[Confinement Room Empty]

[Central laboratory destroyed]

[Test subject, ‘Prototype’ has disappeared.]

‘Prototype? This massacre must be the work of an experiment… What kind of test subjects are they?’

Pretending it’s serious is the first time I’ve been in this fortress. CCTV remained intact in the area where the killing took place, but the lab was destroyed as well. I could only guess what happened in the lab.

Gene sprints toward the lab. In the corridors between the facilities, people were crushed to death.

“Huh….”

When Gene arrived at the lab, he had no choice but to express his admiration.

The researchers were devastated to the extent that they were completely devastated. Whatever the struggle was, the materials of the massive research group were shattered and the sparks burning on the broken wire were illuminating the lab.

And Gene found Lieutenant Carl jammed up against the experimental wall. Her abdomen was pierced by a giant pipe, and the pipe was pierced through her body into the wall. The left arm was torn from the elbow and the right leg from the knee to something. Of course, the skin all over the body was so ugly that the bones were exposed, and the lower jaw was also torn off and the tongue was pulled out, so it was a horrible appearance that it was hard to see mentally.

“This is terrible.”

However, Gene stepped up to Lieutenant Carl and kicked his tongue. Lieutenant Carl has had no response.

The blade’s exposed bone joints were glittering with silver, and the flesh was debris. If you ruin it like this, you’re nothing but a monster. Gene glances at the knife and grabs the pipe through his abdomen.

Yuck! I’m fine!

Gene twists and crumples the pipes with both hands and separates them at the same time.

“Phew…”

Gene did such a monstrous thing and took a single breath, but he didn’t look tired at all. Gene grabs Lt. Carl’s body and pulls him out of the pipe, as if it were nothing new.

Queek, queek! Queek!

Carl’s body comes out of the pipe with a shriek he doesn’t want to hear.

Bang!

The blade falls to the ground and makes a sound that is hard to get out of the human body.

“The dragon must have failed to lighten it….”

Gene grabs hold of Carl’s body and heads somewhere. Gene was not surprised by Carl’s unresponsive figure, and knew what to do.

“It’s so damn heavy….”

Gene can’t handle the weight of the sword, but he has to walk slowly. The place where Gene went was not the lab, but the restoration room with the armory. Luckily, something escaped and was not interested in destroying the bunker itself.

Gene threw the body of the knife into the emergency repair capsule like garbage and closed the capsule.

As has been done many times, Gene has masterfully manipulated the module.

[This restoration room supports restoration to Megaframe.]

[The object is Gigaframe.]

[Use Mega Frame Parts for urgent repair.]

[The overall output and durability will be reduced.]

[Recommend heading to HQ for full recovery.]

[Repair is expected to take a total of 5 hours.]

Ticktock, ticktock!

Soon, the capsule was transferred to the main restoration system and Lieutenant Carl was surrounded by numerous mechanical components, hanging long and long in the air.

Gene watches as the shattered bone joints are exchanged and the fallen flesh sticks together. Gene knew at the beginning.

Lieutenant Carl is a cyborg that fuses humans and machines, not humans. Wargrave officers in charge of enforcement duties were originally comprised of such personnel.

Boneframe, that was the name of the procedure that Wargrave cyborg fighters receive. According to the step-by-step classification, the gigaframe procedure that the knife received was a fairly advanced technique even for frame procedures.

The sight of mechanical parts being repaired and biotissues reconstructed by unidentified drugs was not quite remarkable.

Five hours later, when Lieutenant Carl escaped from the capsule, all flesh was restored to its original state.

“Yes, how did you get here….”

As soon as he got out of the capsule, Carl looked at Gin as if he couldn’t believe it. Gene’s answer was completely wrong.

“I don’t know if it’s the right size. Let’s get dressed.”

“!”

Lt. Carl slows down to cover his body, knowing that all of his clothes were removed during the process of repairs, but it is of no use.

“Oh, my…. Oops….”

“I’m not curious about your man at all, so just put it on.”

Lt. Carl received medical and military uniforms with a hesitant look on his face when Gene really didn’t show interest. Just as Gene couldn’t understand many things, Lieutenant Carl couldn’t figure out how he got here.

Lt. Carl is dressed in Juju Island clothes. The lieutenant was dressed to see how many times the exchanged parts were squeaking.

And apart from the questions he felt about Jean, Lieutenant Carl’s expression was devastating. It was the face of a person who seemed to have done something big.

“I’m all dressed.”

“Hmm, I think it’s the right size…”

“Do you want to hear a compliment that your eyes are slender?”

Gene shakes his head as the knife blushes. Seeing that attitude, Carl bows his head and says in a trembling voice.

“I don’t know how you know about boneframe…. Thank you for that.”

It didn’t make sense that one hunter knew the secrets of Wargrave, including knowledge of the war machine and how to repair it, but Lt. Carl said something to be ‘human’ first.

But Gene asked straightforward.

“What happened here? I don’t think it was closed down like you said.”

“That’s …. It’s classified. I can’t tell you. It’s not something I would leave to a hunter…”

Carl bit his lip and said so. Of course, Juli was able to tell one hunter about this.

“Now I’m not asking as a hunter.”

But Jean was also not asking Carl as a hunter.

“I am a demon-hunter.”

“…… What, what?”

Knowing what a demon-hunter is, Carl stares at the camp in disbelief. Hunters and demon-hunters are different.

A hunter takes on quests, but a demon-hunter hunts demons even if no one asks him to.

Hunting demons is their sole purpose. Demon hunters don’t negotiate and talk to anyone in gathering information and tracking down demons. If anyone says he doesn’t want to talk, twist his jaw and make him open his mouth.

Demon Hunters’ hunting is a blind hunt that does not want to be repaid.

“Just because you don’t want to say it doesn’t mean you can’t say it. You’d know this much if you had a gigaframe procedure.”

Lt. Carl remembers the warning he heard before he went out into the wilderness, seeing Jin’s expression of willingness to use force at least now.

‘Not likely, but you may encounter a clan of demon-hunters.’

‘Most of them are impostors, but avoid them if you encounter a real demon-hunter.’

‘They can hunt anything alive, including our lives.’

‘Just in case. Maybe they’ll help you with your mission.’

I only heard the word, but there was a monster in front of me who I thought would never see you again. Carl didn’t think gin was a fake. I have entered Wargrave Fortress and know Gigaframe. Possibility of fraud is close to zero.

Carl must be judged. Remove, or evade, the hunter in front of you. Or tell the truth.

It was not difficult to judge.

Carl needs the help of the Demon Hunter more than anyone else. The encounter with the camp was an accident, but in some ways, it may be more fortunate for Carl than anything else.

“I’ll tell you….”

“Good.”

Gene sits in a chair, and Carl slowly recalls his memory in the face of the loser. Actually, it was unspeakable, and it was beyond Lieutenant Carl’s discretion.

But what was happening now was that I had to do such a privilege.

“I am an investigator with the Special Task Force, direct from Wargrave Central Command.”

“Weren’t you an executioner? Besides, if Central Command is here, it’s a long way to go.”

“There are two of me. The other is an executive officer for the Wargrave Central Asian Army Command.”

“…… two affiliations? Then it can’t be…”

Jin frowns as if he was trying to think of something. I think I know what you’re talking about, but I can’t think of anything. It was a world so long ago that it was gone.

“Yes.”

Lieutenant Carl nods slowly.

“I am an Undercover, planted by Wargrave Command in Central Asia.”

“Huh…. Wargrave has advanced a lot of birds I don’t know about.”

Jinn laughs nonsense, and Lieutenant Carl smiles bitterly. Of course it shouldn’t be, but Carl now decides to tell Gin everything and ask for help.

“In conclusion, they were conducting experiments here to artificially create demons.”

“… this madness.”

What happened here was more than I could have imagined. But Carl’s story isn’t over yet.

“I’ll explain from the beginning.”

Now this isn’t just about Wargrave.

“Now…. Wargrave is divided.”

“Hmm…. By then, of course it’s a problem to greet.”

“To be precise… Signs of schizophrenia are growing.”

Gene stares at the knife, as if to keep talking.

“Now Wargrave is divided into two factions. Command and Central Asian forces. They’re working together on the surface, but the air conditioning system has already collapsed. Soon, the two armies will actually divide into different groups. Regionally, it’s a conflict between Asia and Europe.”

“That’s… It’s a mess.”

It’s like a rebellion inside the Wargrave.