Chapter 195 – [Raccoon Man Beginning]

After leaving the staff lounge, I started walking around the facility. I run into people from time to time, but when I pass by nodding my head while coughing loudly as if I have a cold, they also greet me and move on.

The chance of getting caught unexpectedly is reduced. Apparently, as the size of this facility is large, there are a lot of people working there, so even strangers don’t seem suspicious unless they walk around openly.

Instead, force users are prohibited. Basically, force users have excellent intelligence because of Gaia’s force. Of course, wisdom and intelligence are different laws, but remembering the faces of employees working in a research institute is not wisdom, but intelligence.

Even if you don’t remember all of them, you’ll still have a sense that you’re familiar with them or vaguely remember them. It’s a moment to be fucked if you go out carelessly and see your face.

“Uhm, I do the infiltration action with the taste of being scared because I don’t know when it will be discovered…”

[Although the minimap is being updated according to the range you are moving. Since the mask is off, I can’t show it right away]

“Well, it’s okay because you can wear a mask if you have to.”

Right now, I’m taking off the earphone part from the raccoon mask and putting it on the back of one side. It is possible to send/receive to Xion, but I can’t see the screen or video support.

However, even in this state, there is not much of a problem. First of all, it is urgent to go to the security room like this.

“This is the third basement floor… It’s not as deep as I thought.”

I sneaked around and searched each facility. Then I found that it was written on the wall that it was the 3rd basement floor.

Hagisa, since he entered the incinerator and didn’t move floors, it must have been about that. At most, there must have been an error of about 1 or 2 floors.

Looking at the shallow floor, it seems that there are important facilities below here. Seeing that there is also a staff lounge, it seems that convenience facilities such as staff quarters and lounges are the main ones on this top.

“To go further down from here… I think I’ll have to take the elevator or go down the stairs.”

[Are you going to take the elevator?]

“Who knows how to ride in the middle? Even with CCTV, the stairs would be much better.”

Even a force user who is in charge of security in the middle of an elevator cannot gamble once he gets on. In particular, there were a considerable number of Force users in this facility, and among them there were dozens of signs that could be called semi-master users.

Even if it’s not at the master user level, if there are 5 people, it seems that ordinary master users like Jacob and Will can handle it. Of course, there are changes because it is simply a comparison of the amount of force.

Anyway, I had this many Force users, but the fact that they were quiet meant that these guys had become like this relatively recently. Whether it’s Dragon’s Kitchen or Atlas, there are technologies that can mass-produce such Force users, but we can’t stand still.

I found the stairs and went down. If you’re not busy, maybe you don’t use the stairs. Researchers mostly use the elevator, so my choice was right. I went down the lonely stairs without encountering anyone and went down directly to the 10th basement floor.

The facility here is approximately 15 floors… If it is on the 10th floor, there is a high possibility that there will be some important facilities. So, if you don’t like it after looking around once, you can go down further.

When I opened the fire door on the stairs and went in, I was greeted by a white corridor. It feels like a hospital… I’ve never felt this before.

As I wandered through the corridors, I noticed where I was before long.

“Experimental force user confinement room…!”

In the Korean branch, this is where Ye-jin was confined. Looking at it now, there are dozens of rooms, and people are confined in most of them.

The walls made of special tempered glass made it transparent so that people inside could not think about their privacy, and it seems that they made it easy to observe the experiment progress through it. There is also a table next to the door indicating the administration time.

Strangely, the more you go inside, the more the subjects move away from the human form. Just like the Korean experimental force users I’ve seen before. Among them, there was something as bizarre as the landmass I had seen on the mountain where I had brought my dog.

It is a sight that ordinary people cannot bear to open their eyes. The appearance of monsters that can only come out of a B-grade horror movie stimulates disgust.

[Uh, uh uh…]

What was once human groans. I don’t know if he has intelligence or not, but at that level, even an animal would be better off euthanasia.

All the guys in this lab know this but keep their mouth shut. Abandon human ethics and ignore dignity.

Humans may be animals, but they are not beasts. He is an intelligent being who knows how to repent even when he commits a crime and can have compassion and sympathy for those weaker and lesser than himself.

[……..Are you okay?]

“Let’s find the security room quickly.”

Above is the researcher’s lounge and quarters. Below is the Human Body Lab. Apparently, the security room is somewhere in the middle.

I went up the stairs again. Shion didn’t talk to me as if he noticed my feelings.

I went up to the 7th floor and finally found what appeared to be a security room.

A separate pass was required to enter this place. I only have a necklace form for appearance purposes, but no actual pass. Security facilities like that are connected to the center, so hacking is impossible.

But opportunities do come. They sneak around pretending to have something to do. I did not miss listening to the stories of people passing by for a while.

“How is the research situation for test subject 857 this time?”

“It’s not bad. I was worried because the purity of the serum made by refining the red species core went up, but the reaction was better than I thought.

“Surprisingly, the higher the purity of the enemy core, the more positive the effect in making the serum? Well, the serum they used is also an octagon core…”

“I want to use the Nonagon core, but it must be difficult because we don’t have it.”

“Well, it might be possible if there is a chance.”

After overhearing the conversation of the researchers, there was a sign of going to the CCTV room, so I came back and followed the employee.

He put the pass on the door lock and opened the door, and I didn’t miss that moment and put my hand in the door just before it closed and grabbed the door.

When I see someone coming in behind me, my eyes are drawn to me for a moment.

But it’s already too late.

“Hi?”

I quietly closed the door. The electronic door lock automatically locks the door.

The security room was full of various equipment including CCTV. It seems that the facility to illuminate the entire laboratory and also to repel intruders can be operated here.

If you don’t intend to destroy everything, taking over from here is the correct answer, but… I don’t want to worry about that right now.

“You guys should be my opponents to take out my anger.”

Have you ever heard of Steve Segal?

It’s just like being a chef.

*        *    *

There were roughly 10 or so employees in the security room, and there were Force users, but all of them died of a broken neck without time to counterattack.

Be glad you got through it without pain. To throw it into the abyss, I’m not the owner of it, so I can’t put it in all the time.

If there is a dedicated trash can for the friend sitting next to you, it doesn’t matter if you use it from time to time because you’re close, but it’s like you shouldn’t use it like your own.

[Did you really need to kill them all right now? If you find out later…]

“I already saw the ball field at the time the security room was occupied.”

As long as I have control of the security room, which is supposed to sound an alarm and inform the existence of an intruder, it takes time for it to spread even if I play a joke.

Besides, even if you don’t have all the information here, it’s obvious that there will be a considerable level of information. What I’m going to do next is to quickly find the central computer lab and plug in the hacking tool and it’s done.

First of all, I plugged the hacking tool into the conspicuous USB port and took control of the facilities in the security room. Zion quickly reads and analyzes information and only informs me of the results.

[Hmm, first of all, I’ll send you a map of this facility. There are many other things, but isn’t that what you need right now?]

“That’s right. Just tell me about the central computer room. It’s enough to start from there.”

[Most of the research data should be there…But since it’s a secret security room, there’s information about other facilities and records of conversations within the facility. Much of it has been deleted.]

“Deleted?”

[There is also information about imported experimental facilities and test subjects, but only the most important information has been deleted. Even if you try to restore it, it is not saved in the first place. It seems that the hardware has been physically destroyed]

“Hmm……”

Apparently, Prometheus knew in advance that I would come, so it seems that he cut off the tail end. Is it to prevent the existence of the main laboratory with the spirit computer from being discovered?

I can’t track it anymore like this…But you can’t cover the sky with your palms. The only thing he could cover with his palms was his narrow vision.

No matter how much data you delete, traces of it will remain somewhere. Because it is a research institute, it is impossible to delete all data, so if you analyze the remaining data, you can find the source.

“Then I’ll start with the central computer room. I don’t need to hide it anymore, so I’ll probably be able to go back today.”

[Tonight is a crazy sex party with everything you missed yesterday?]

“It’s only two, but it’s not even a party”

[I’m looking forward to it……]

Beyond the words Shion speaks, a faint bell rings.

The ringing was the hotel doorbell. It sounds like someone has come to the room where she is staying.

“Did you order room service?”

[……I didn’t do anything specific]

“Okay?”

An irritating foreboding intensified. It is said that it is not good to be self-sufficient. Roughly, it means that good people do not come easily, and those who do find are bad people.

It’s not even room service, so they come to visit us without any connections? I remember the gongan yesterday when they first talked to us.

[I’ll see you in a moment]

“Okay”

I slowly waited for Zion’s response. Right now, Atlas George is urgent, but Zion’s work is more important.

Will someone cut off my arm or Zion’s finger? If asked, he smiles confidently and is willing to cut off both arms. To me, to that extent, Zion takes precedence in everything.

Soon after, Shion spoke again.

[Came from public security]

“…Why are they? It doesn’t seem like good intentions.”

[They say there was a murder this morning. The suspect is presumed to be a force user, and because of that, all nearby force users want to become a suspect and interrogate me a little]

“Gurane”

[I think so too]

If it is a force user crime, it is natural that all nearby force users are on the line of suspicion, but in just one day, a foreign force user, Shion, is found? It’s impossible unless you’re deliberately determined.

It is clearly related to the behavior of the public security I met yesterday. I don’t know where and how far it’s connected, but it smells pretty stinky.

[So, I ask you to appear at the Ministry of Public Security for an investigation. He said he was packing some luggage and he called me after he came in for a while. What should I do?]

“How long will it take?”

[It is said that it will be sent within today, even if it is long. Since he is a Force user, he does it for formality, and he doesn’t seem to have any intention of making any major changes as he is a foreigner.]

“It would be great if that were the case.”

I don’t want to let it go like fuck it.

However, the opponents are notorious Chinese public security officers who have more power than ordinary police. The same Chinese people think that life is over if they are public security officers, and do not want to be involved with them hastily.

If you think about it, there is a saying that if you ask to go to the public security when you are in trouble in China, there is a saying that the truth will fall away.

Shion also doesn’t seem to have many connections in China, so he can’t even solve something with power. Other connections are overflowing, but it is not enough to say that it is a network that can be effectively used in China.

[Then, I will go for now. Can I contact you if something happens? And don’t worry, even the worst will never happen to me]

“In case you don’t know, I’ll give you a station manager. Even if a nuclear bomb falls, not a single hair will be hurt.”

[I sometimes sunbathe next to the sun. Is a nuclear bomb a big deal?]

Forebodings creep up on you, but you can deal with it no matter what.

But the most important thing is something else. It’s not that Zion gets hurt, it’s what happens to him that matters.

As much as possible, don’t touch my personality.

If I’m serious, it won’t end with one or two people dying.