Chapter 1072 – The Truth About Lee Hyeong

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Cleon is surprised by Nemeia, who is suddenly able to speak the common language.

However, when Descartes told her that if she raised her voice loudly, Darwin might hear her, she quickly covered her mouth.

As a bonus, I tried to cover Uni’s mouth reflexively when she almost screamed, but fell to the ground, so my attempt to cover her mouth was in vain.

While rubbing his sore back, Cleon lowers his voice and asks Laplace a question while looking at Nemeia, who is embarrassed by what has happened to her – no, the headmaster too.

“I suddenly became able to speak human language… Is it, after all, the fault of the medicine that went into my body?”

“Yes. Perhaps the effect of the medicine has reached the brain.”

“Then…”

“What I can say doesn’t change anything. But that’s right… If I say that the chances of survival are ‘slightly’ higher than before, can you take a step forward with peace of mind right now?”

Cleon frowned at Laplace’s expression as if he wanted him to say that, but then turned around.

“… Let’s go. To that room you mentioned.”

When Cleon said this and urged his guidance, Descartes spoke while looking at Nemeia with his arms crossed.

[A talking beast. I’ve seen it a few times at the circus, but most of it was a trick using a magic tool that ‘produces a voice’.]

When she said it was a circus, Nemeia lowered the front of her body and made a ‘grunting’ sound as if she felt bad.

In the end, Descartes silenced her in response to her attitude and moved quietly while riding on Laplace’s back.

However, just now, Cleon realized one more important thing from Nemeia’s reaction.

‘There is no way I would have heard the word circus while living in the mountains. Originally, it is true knowledge that does not exist in Nemeia.’

Animals may also have ‘language’, but language can only express ‘what they are aware of’ through words.

So, the fact that she, a lion living among these mountains, understands most of Descartes’ sentences means that her knowledge goes beyond what she can acquire.

What kind of medicine was injected into her?

And, what exactly is happening inside her body?

For some reason, Cleon had an uneasy feeling, so he couldn’t shake his wrinkled expression and walked forward while thinking deeply about something.

In a hallway with several doors, it was quiet, with only the sound of footsteps and flapping wings.

Soon after, the party enters a hallway that leads to a dead end.

“…”

Cleon moved his hand to her own sword, watching behind her.

[There is no need to worry. It’s not a trap.]

Descartes would speak as if he were stopping Cleon.

“Yes. We’re almost there. Over there, the door at the end of the hallway. Beyond is the place we were headed to. Is it ‘Eden’ for you, Cokyoto?”

“Let’s go!”

When Laplace again tried to make a lengthy speech to the group, quoting difficult words, Yuni, who was now used to it, took the lead and ran down the hallway.

The light steps probably contained the hope that Nemeia could finally be saved.

And, as if worried about Yuni, Nemeia will also jump and move on her legs.

As expected, compared to yesterday, my body seems to have changed considerably to normal-

[I guess it was too difficult a story for them.]

Ignoring Descartes’ voice comforting Laplace, Cleon also followed Yuni and Nemeia toward the end of the hallway, toward the door on the wall.

“Is this a door? I don’t see a handle anywhere…”

Then Yuni tried to open the door herself, but he looked back at Cleon with an expression that he didn’t know how to open.

“Ah. It’s a door. And a door like this…”

As Cleon said that, he looked back at Laplace, who was leisurely flying from behind, perhaps on purpose.

Cleon had visited this type of research facility, a place where ancient technology was applied, many times, so he was familiar with the method of opening a door like this.

Usually, you use a key that doesn’t look like a key or enter a set password.

Or, you might need to use a different method to open it.

Of course, using the master key called destruction would have been an option, but for now, we are ‘infiltrated’.

However, on this door, there is no place to press a button or place a key or anything.

If you can see it, it looks like a small ‘glass’ covered device attached to the side of the door.

“This might be what you need to open the door.”

“Is that so? You can just destroy it?”

If Cleon guesses, Uni will clench his fist.

“Well, it’s better not to do something like that. In a facility like this, if something breaks, an alarm goes off immediately.”

“It’s just as he said. And it’s a security device you can’t open.”

And Laplace finally approaches and approaches the glass area.

[Hmm, now that I think about it, I think this door requires ‘iris recognition’. Are you okay?]

“Iris recognition?”

“It’s a security system where the eye is the key. I don’t have time to explain that, so… Demon Swordsman, hold out your hand.”

Bad feeling…

However, since he couldn’t waste time trying to come here now, Cleon did as he said and held out a large hand in front of the bat.

And the next moment.

“Geueugh! Geegh! Geeueuuu!”

The giant bat that Laplace was using as his body suddenly twisted its body and retched several times.

At that bizarre appearance, no matter how kind Cleon was, goosebumps appeared on his back and he naturally wanted to pull his hand away.

With his superhuman endurance, he barely managed to keep his hand in place.

If you think that the bat’s neck becomes ‘convex’ and something is flowing out from inside.

“Boouuuuu…!!”

Something round and white came out of the guy’s mouth and fell into Cleon’s gloved hand.

When the sticky liquid swirled around and a serious odor came out, Cleon looked for a moment to see what the white object was-

“Hehe…!”

Uni screamed.

Cleon could sympathize with the reason.

It was an ‘eyeball’.

In other words, a person’s eyes are taken out of the head.

Cleon unconsciously checked the pupils of those eyes, and could feel that they were somehow tinged with madness even though they were separated from the body.

“Hmm… You don’t have to worry about your gloves melting in stomach acid.”

“I wasn’t that worried. If this eyeball hadn’t melted in the first place, the inside would be different from that of a normal animal…”

Cleon responded irritably to Laplace, who said something meaningless.

[Are these your eyes?]

“Ah. I got it back after he cut me to death. Before it all rotted away.”

That’s how he answers Descartes’ question.

… For some reason, his tone seemed a little proud.

“Anyway, take it with your eyes in front of the glass. Then, the door will open.”

Then, he gives instructions to Cleon as if telling him how to open a door.

When Cleon put his eyeball in front of the glass as Laplace said, a beeping mechanical sound came out after a while.

[Recognition completed. Welcome. Dr. Laplace.]

The mechanical door slid to the side and opened with the guidance voice saying.

However, there was something that bothered Cleon to the same extent as the door being opened.

“… Dr.?”

As far as Cleon knows, doctor is a title for one of the few top intellectuals currently existing on the continent that can only be obtained after graduating from the academy and completing a specific process.

However, not only did Laplace not graduate from the Academy, he would not have even taken the course…

“…”

[Chuckling…]

If both Laplace and Descartes keep quiet about Cleon’s words.

“Ah.”

Cleon let out a small exclamation as if he understood, then nodded and went inside with Uni.

“As expected, he is an outrageously rude person…”

Laplace tried to criticize Cleon behind his back, but his voice was so loud that Cleon could not hear.

When you open the door in such a terrible way and go inside, the room is dark and there is only a little light.

Filling the room were several thick circular pillars made of the same material as the door of this room.

“It’s dark…”

Cleon said that and walked around the room looking for a light.

There are a number of magic lights mounted above the head, so there must be at least a device that can control them.

At that time.

Once again, a ‘grunting’ sound was heard from Nemeia.

“What’s wrong, Nemeia?”

When Uni asks her-

“It’s not a good smell…”

Without letting down her guard, Nemeia narrows her eyes and stares intently at one of the ‘thick pillars’ that fill her room.

[Hold.]

At that time, Descartes raised his voice and pressed something.

Cleon was wary of his sudden actions and looked towards him.

At the same time, the door closed and the magic lights above the head started blinking and then lighting up.

Thanks to this, bright light filled the room and I could see ahead a little better.

“Ha…”

[I just wanted to find a power source. And… If you want to use the facilities here, you’ll need it.]

“Facility…?”

Cleon wiggles his eyebrows as if he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about.

But at the same time.

Shake it off!

Yuni sat down in her seat while making a sound.

“Uni?!”

Was I suddenly attacked by something?

Cleon quickly turned his body, walked closer to Yuni, and turned her head.

Then-

What I thought was a ‘pillar’ in that place until now is actually not a pillar-

Inside, it was a ‘cylindrical tank’ filled with a liquid that gave off a strange light.

“This is…!”

Cleon also had no choice but to stop his movements and look at the tank.

This is because inside the tank – there were ‘living things’ that looked as if they had been eaten by animals.

Reproduction? No, would it be better to say maintain the status quo?

The closest one, which was a fluorescent green, had the upper body of a deer as large as a human being cut off, leaving the spine exposed.

Inside, it could be seen that the organs were still ‘pulsing’.

The other guys are almost the same.

Birds, mammals, amphibians, fish─

Regardless of their classification, they took animals that could be found in the sky, on land, and in the sea, and stored them as if they were ‘stuffed’.

There were dozens of such things lined up in the room.

“Hey… What is this…!”

Cleon would look back at Laplace, unable to bear the sight that was even more shocking than the ‘eyeball’ before–a sight that could be said to be a desecration of life itself.

“This is part of the result of the joint work between Ms. Darwin and me. The content is ‘Confirmation of the results that occur when a refined evolutionary leap is used on non-human animals.'”

And Laplace just calmly talks about the facts.

“The elixir of evolution is originally a drug created for ‘humans.’ The target of evolution is ultimately ‘humans.’ By evolving humans, they are transformed into superior beings. Therefore, what kind of results will it bring about for ‘animals’? It was unknown.”

Then it flew over to the tank in front of her and stroked its surface with its wings.

“If humans are made into ‘superhumans,’ what will happen to the animals? To borrow an expression, ‘super beasts.’ Well, to put it simply, they will become ‘demon beasts.’ An amplification of intelligence, physical ability, and the ability to manipulate magic power. To be precise,, Because it matches the characteristics of the demonic beast.”

The wings stroking the surface were as soft as the hand of a parent stroking a beloved child.

The object was so twisted – the problem was that the being with those wings was even more twisted.

“Darwin was almost perfect when it came to human medicine, but when it came to other animals, ‘Laplace’ was more expert. So, it was my job to change the elixir, which was originally ‘for humans’, to ‘for animals’. The tanks there are all the ‘results’ of that research, so it’s the medicine that was injected into that lion-shaped beast.”

After saying that, Laplace looked down at Nemeia, who was now showing hostility towards him.

“But the leap in evolution for beasts was a ‘failure.’ Ordinary beasts could not withstand evolution and their bodies collapsed. In order to extract data from those that did, they were stored in a tank like this.”〈 Br〉

Uni looks at Nemeia as if shocked by Laplace’s words.

In other words, the reason she came here was to keep her in her tank?

“─But, you said you knew what would happen if you succeeded…!”

However, Cleon was not embarrassed like Yuni, and spoke to Laplace in an argumentative manner.

“Yes. Among them, it is the only case that succeeded without collapsing. You know that. It is literally the ‘result of an experiment’ that was completed by grinding down countless lives.”

“… I know that too?”

Laplace nodded his head and moved his wings.

And, it was referring to ‘Yuni’ who was slumped in her seat.

“Eh…?”

Uni was embarrassed that she was pointed at, but Cleon came to his senses and at the same time looked back at her.

That expression was tinged with embarrassment.

“Unicorn. Why did you suddenly change into human form? Why can you use the common language of humans? Why can you! Even in human form, you can continue to use power that surpasses that of ordinary demon beasts. The answer is only one. One…!”

Laplace gradually raises his voice and tries to reveal the truth.

Cleon must also be muttering with a nervous expression.

“No way…”

If you think about it, Uni was also communicating with Cleon from the beginning.

And that too in the ‘common language’.

She speaks so well in these mountains that it wouldn’t make sense if she wasn’t taught by humans.

The fact that we can communicate naturally because we have human form.

A question she had forgotten because she had been beaten to the ground several times and had such a powerful first meeting.

‘Why is it that she, a magical beast in the mountains, can communicate with Cleon without problems?’

The answer to that was decided from the beginning.

“You! You are the first…! Because you are the one who has achieved ‘evolution’ by adapting to the elixir of evolution for beasts…!”

Laplace’s sentence echoes in the room.

The target, Yuni, heard him—

“Uni!”

She seemed to be shocked and collapsed on the spot.