Chapter 205 – 205.

I left Liza in the care of Seongho and went straight to where the arms dealer was.

Just like last time, tremendous heat greeted me.

“Here, the hunt was successful.”

“Oh!! Amazing! “He was a great hunter!”

When I showed him the Balrog’s soul stone, the Draconian blacksmith was visibly happy and said that he should quickly make a contract.

I invited him to Dimensional Market, collected the quest completion money, and then left the store. It wasn’t a situation to have a deeper conversation right now.

“This is the solution.”

[It was finished in a breeze.]

“Yes.”

I’m so glad I was able to conquer it quickly in one day. I also visited the blood world. I’ve had a great time since the first day of this full-blown disaster.

‘The simple labyrinth is now closed.’

Today I have to check out the abandoned fish farm, which is an infinite labyrinth that I haven’t yet entered.

[Labyrinth Type: Infinite Labyrinth]

[Difficulty: Advanced]

[Labyrinth Name: Abandoned Fish Farm]

[Entry conditions: Survival level 15 or higher]

[Imposition target: (none)]

[Goal achievement reward: (none)]

[Capacity: 0/10]

It’s an infinite labyrinth that I got after luckily getting caught by a gate coagulator last time.

The difficulty level is very advanced. It seems like some difficult enemies will appear.

‘I think it can be put to good use since it’s a fish farm.’

I’ll go in and check it out, and if I think it’s worth using, I’ll use the labyrinth manipulation skill and integrate it into the base labyrinth.

“Open.”

I opened the gate and entered the unidentified infinite labyrinth.

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“Wow.”

As soon as I entered the labyrinth, a foul smell hit my nose.

It was an extremely foul odor, as if various chemicals had been mixed together and the smell of animals and excrement had been added to it.

Should I say that it is the rotten smell of a research laboratory, which is a little different from the smell of the gutter.

“That sucks.”

After infusing magical power into a gas mask to remove contaminants, I put it on immediately. I don’t want to wear a gas mask often because it blocks my vision and is frustrating, but somehow I have to wear it in every labyrinth I go into.

“It literally feels like a research lab.”

[Right. There is too much energy to be sensed. Some are beasts. A few are bugs. Other things…]

“Why. “What is it?”

[He is human.]

“Fuck. Are you human again?”

What on earth is the human species? Wherever you go, there are humans. Jingly people.

“Let’s go in first.”

I entered the fish farm while still maintaining my vampire appearance.

The lab seemed to have been abandoned for a very long time. The walls were full of unidentified plants, and what appeared to be animal bones were found here and there.

Moreover, there were many cracks in the walls and floor, the ceiling had collapsed making it impossible to enter, and the floor had collapsed in many hallways leading to the lower floor.

Above all, there are many living things.

“Whew. Fuck.”

I just caught and killed a bug whose identity I couldn’t easily guess.

It was about the size of a 7-year-old child and had a long tail with a poisonous sting at the end. Because my durability stat was so high, I couldn’t pierce it, but the stabbing was so strong that it hurt to the point of bruising.

“These are the guys that come out.”

[It deserves to be called superior. A typical awakened person will die within 10 minutes.]

“Yes.”

First, if you do not have a detection skill, it is difficult to notice that the creatures inside the laboratory are approaching. Moreover, since they often launch irregular attacks, unless you have a lot of experience, the risk of being attacked in a vital area and dying is quite high.

“Let’s move on for now.”

[Finally, the next floor.]

There was nothing special about the first floor. There were several nests of test subjects and about three corpses that appeared to be researchers.

All I got was the key card that the researcher’s corpse had.

“It’s worse down there.”

The condition of the second floor was much more serious than the first floor. First, egg nests were piled up in all directions, and bugs that looked much more vicious than those we encountered on the first floor were crawling around.

Above all…

“Am I being parasitic?”

[To be exact, it seems like they are being raised.]

I saw a few animals, but they were being controlled by insects with their brains exposed.

According to Agaf, it seems like they are being raised by bugs inside the lab. Just like humans raise livestock, those bugs are raising test animals inside the lab and consuming them as food.

“The moment you are born, your head is picked off and placed in your brain…”

[They make you work until you die of old age.]

“They let animals ingest things that cannot be consumed due to toxicity, and then they neutralize them and use the animals as food… Right?”

[Accurate. And look over there.]

“That was the ‘human’ you were talking about.”

About three naked humans were looking at me with stupid eyes that showed no emotion at all.

They too had their heads cut open, their brains exposed, and were being controlled by insects. The bug had its tail stuck in the brain, covering its head as if it were a head cap.

It feels like the facehugger from Alien. Or maybe it was like the parasitic alien that Gordon Freeman beat to death.

In any case, it was such a sadistic and repulsive sight to watch that I decided to burn the entire horde of bugs to death.

It would be perfect to purify this laboratory by shooting the power of the demon, blue flame.

“Now, wait a minute.”

At that time, the person who was observing me from afar spoke to me. To be exact, a bloated parasitic bug spoke to me using a human’s mouth.

I thought for a moment about how to respond, then nodded as if to tell them to keep talking.

Then they asked me questions.

“Are you a being from outside?”

“Uh.”

“Well, then… Can we go outside?”

“Uh.”

“Blood demon. I want to negotiate with you. I will teach you the secret arts of our people… Please lead us outside. This narrow and stuffy space is a terrible environment that inevitably leads to inbreeding and fratricide. Therefore, they had no choice but to become parasites on the humans here. Help me. Our great race, the Alcids, want to go out. I will make whatever you want to come true. Please.”

“Silung.”

“Huh?”

“I don’t like it, you damn bug.”

“Now, wait!!!!”

I poured out flames of fire at them.

“Kkkk!!!!!”

“Kill me!!!! Kill that intruder!!!!”

It’s burning brightly. Rides well. Dirty bug bastards.

The reason I’m burning those guys is no different.

“It looks dirty.”

That’s all.

I decided to kill him because of his dirty appearance that did not suit my aesthetics.

I could just get rid of everything and make the lab my own. Yes, isn’t this what external predators are?

“It’s hot!!!! It’s hot!!!!!”

“Ha!!! Haaaaa!!!!!”

The good thing about Changyeom Naturalization is that I can control this flame at will. What this means is that we can prevent it from spreading and spreading as it pleases.

In other words, even if you spread the rash as much as you want, it will only spread to young insects.

“Uh. Why. Why…”

“That’s right, it’s a bug. “I feel bad when I see bugs.”

“Well… For that reason… We just… Wanted to coexist…”

“I don’t want to coexist with you? Why do you keep forcing me? They say they don’t like me.”

“Off. Curse. I will curse. You must-“

Kwasik.

I didn’t let him talk anymore, I trampled him and crushed him.

“Fuck the curse.”

Even if you don’t add the curse, it’s already full and overflowing.

“After. Then clear the second floor.”

[I can’t feel anything on the 3rd floor.]

“Okay? Ho.”

The lab only had up to the third floor, so I went around the second floor to find and dispose of all the surviving bugs. I think I spent more than 4 hours cleaning up the bugs. Even these bastards cannot be exchanged for reward boxes. Except for those who were parasites on humans, they were all trash.

“Whew.”

I sat down on an abandoned chair to catch my breath for a moment. Now the sun has risen in the sky outside…

“Ah. The sun doesn’t rise anymore.”

[I feel sad once again.]

“That’s right… Because tomorrow’s sun won’t welcome you.”

Something made me feel a little depressed. The fact that the sun was rising was a kind of comfort in itself. The sun doesn’t rise anymore. Tomorrow’s sun has become a thing of the past.

“Ugh. Summoning a dark spirit.”

I summoned the dark spirits. Unless they have inherited memories, like the blood demons or the dark contracting spirits, they are good at simple tasks even though they cannot understand very complex commands.

“Clean the first and second floors. “Tear down the plants from the wall and put the bodies in one place.”

About a dozen dark spirits began cleaning the laboratory.

“Then we…”

I went down to the 3rd floor. The reason this infinite labyrinth is called a fish farm must be on the third floor.

Squeak.

I forced open the heavy iron door and entered the third floor, which had been closed tightly.

“Wow.”

It was like a fish farm. There were huge tanks lined up in a row, and they were filled with water.

[They grow it here.]

“What on earth did I grow?”

I don’t know what I grew up with. However, it was easy to guess that quite a variety of organisms were raised in this facility.

“I’m a bit rotten.”

[There is a keypad for operation.]

“Oh.”

Because the facility was so outdated, it was hard to know if it would work, but as we got closer, we could see that it was not broken yet.

“Hold the key card and…”

When I took the key card obtained from the researcher’s corpse, I was able to operate the fish farm. Why didn’t those bugs use this place earlier? The reason was unknown.

Maybe those bugs are also the ones that were farmed here. Therefore, this place itself may have been a kind of trauma for them. It’s all just my opinion.

“Discharge the polluted water.”

When the discharge button was pressed, the black, murky, rotten water in the fish farm tank was discharged somewhere and disappeared. Also, new water could be supplied.

“They say it’s a nutrient solution.”

[It is not ordinary water. I don’t know what will happen if I ingest it.]

“I see. The scent is also a bit unique. “If you eat it, you won’t die, right?”

[Because it is a supplement for the rapid growth of living things, the body will probably grow abnormally large or mutate.]

“Oh wow.”

It looks like the water needs to be purified once to drink it.

“First, I changed the water. What should I grow?”

It seems like you can raise any aquatic organism. Looking at the button, I can see that I can also inject a breeding stimulant. It seems that if you bring a male and female pair, they can breed randomly among themselves.

[Now that I think about it, wasn’t there a deep pond in Horse Cave No. 4?]

“Oh, that’s right!”

When creating the labyrinth, a deep contaminated pond was added. And the plan was to put in purifying ornamental fish to make the water clean, and then fish with a golden fishing rod that would always catch something.

“Then the fish caught there.”

[If you leave it here, it will multiply infinitely.]

“Indeed.”

Since parasite removal solution can also be added, you can eat fully farmed fish with all parasites removed.

What happens if you go to the beach and catch a fishtail?

‘No. There is no way you can catch the Dageumbari.’

Instead of catching flounder, which is difficult to even see, should we try catching flounder or wild eel? I also want to eat salmon. Oh, can I have snow crab? It looks like crustaceans are also being farmed…

Winter nights have begun, so I need to catch high-quality fish and farm them before it’s too late. Yeah, that would be nice.

No matter how much animal meat you can get in the labyrinth, as people live, they still want to eat raw fish.

“I wanted to bring a sushi master.”

[Sushi? What is that again?]

“Omakase.”

[Omakase? No, what is that again?]

“Ah. “I’m hungry.”

[…

I wanted to eat fish.