Chapter 418 – [What Do You Do in the Rapture? Are You Busy? Can You Help Me?]

After the press conference, Baekri and Shion were able to meet and talk for the first time in a while.

Even judging by the date, it’s been a few months at the longest, but somehow it feels like I haven’t seen it in a long time. Because there was so much going on.

“You’ve worked hard so far. I’d like to ask you to leave it to me from here on out, but Baekri still has work to do.”

“……Me?”

“Are you thinking of dropping out now?”

“No, is there anything I can do?”

“Why not?”

Shion saw Baekri’s loss of confidence in her eyes. She is so responsible for what she has done.

In fact, a normal person would have slit his throat right away or shut himself up somewhere and become an idiot in the corner of a room, but just coming out and confessing the truth like this was great enough.

“There are billions of people on Earth, roughly 6.7 billion to be precise, but getting just 100 million out of them is like scooping up a handful of water from a sink with both hands. Problems that arise from that will definitely arise.”

“Then I will…”

“It’s a bit different. I’d say it’s an image problem. There’s something like that.”

In fact, it was originally a role that Hibiki was to entrust, but it is not easy to do it alone. And, more than Hibiki, there was someone who deserved people’s resentment and hatred right in front of her eyes.

“The majority of people, in fact, except for a few countries who have been acquitted, do not have the right to criticize you, but anyway, they will definitely blame you. Please endure the insult and humiliation and control and encourage the people until the evacuation is completed.”

“……Can I?”

It is not a matter of one’s ability, but it means that one can do such a thing.

“Wouldn’t that just make it more confusing?”

“There is no symbol of hope on this earth right now”

There is a master user, but in the midst of the earth’s ruin, it’s just that the master user endures a little longer, and in the end, it’s obvious that he will die. Of course, it’s a story when Shion didn’t use his hand.

Baek-ri, who was the only candidate, has a major flaw. It is said that it was not intentional, but it was a great flaw and sin that plunged mankind into destruction.

Even if they struggle to pay the price for their sins, the facts do not change.

“There is no hope, so you need something to blame. Wouldn’t it be better to become a trash can for people’s emotions than to throw it away and make a mess?”

“…….I know”

Baek Li understood roughly what Shion was trying to say. Since he can’t be a hero, he says he should make the next best choice.

Even if that lane becomes a resentful option rather than a hero.

“But will it be all right? If Gar-Rekal attacks…”

“He’s not an idiot. Don’t you know why I deliberately spit out the small number of 100 million on the official line?”

100 million is a large number, but it is a very small number compared to the current human population. As Zion just said, it is only one tenth. The reason for revealing the information that would cause such confusion was to inform Gar-Rekal.

In the sense of ‘I can only save a little anyway, so just tolerate it’.

“What’s important to him is the negative thoughts that this planet and people give off as they die. Of course, the amount of despair that 100 million people will produce will be large, but if there’s not a big difference, they’ll want to take care of the quality as well.”

“That bastard…”

Bailey understood. Gar-Rekal even explained it himself and made Baekri despair, so I could roughly predict his logic and behavior.

He will stand by the sidelines of Zion. Not because it is difficult to deal with Zion, but to give a deeper despair.

In order to raise the quality of the despair of billions of people who are in despair because they cannot overcome the hurdle of 100 million survivors.

“I can’t touch him, but on the contrary, he won’t touch me either.”

“For now… Okay. By the way, where will the immigration desk be set up?”

“I’m going to do it in Korea. Originally, it’s Hanteo here, so if we do it elsewhere, there’s a possibility that the Great Demon Kings will tackle it.”

“……..Ah”

Baekri suddenly thought of what Alyssa Nier in America had said. The prophecy that told him to prepare and leave for Korea meant just this.

The future hit as she predicted her. The earth is dying and all societies so far will collapse.

“Before that, let me tell you one thing. The reason I accepted Baekri’s family was not because I saw you or Ruri.

“Uh… So what?”

“It doesn’t work for me to accept a personal request later because I’m a friend or acquaintance, so please be aware of it. If you are a person in power on the earth, a conglomerate, and do not meet the standard, you will not pass this examination.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that. Your friend in this situation will run away anyway.”

As he was about to finish the story, Shion stared into the air, startled.

Although invisible to the normal human eye, Shion is capable of real-time communication and hacking regardless of the Raff energy field. What surprised her was not the situation here, but the situation in another country far away.

“I have some bad news.”

“…What is it?”

“It’s an African problem where the current government and state collapse. This is…… More and more complicated as we go. I’ll send you the data separately, so please consult with the Korean government. I can’t touch it anyway, can I?”

“I see”

Africa was destroyed within a month of the outbreak. Originally, it felt more accelerated because it was a place with poor security, but anyway, the present Africa has long since been annihilated except for a small number of survivor communities.

It is already a den of hostile species. Of course, those that mutated from humans to hostile species were weak and could be slaughtered even by a moderate force user, but for ordinary people, a rifle was useless.

“They are also life, but we can’t go there and save them.”

“That’s right, as I said before, my sister-in-law must have a position.”

If you have to do it, it’s Baekri’s job. Because it’s not the same as what caused this situation to happen.

First of all, Baekri decided to move after receiving and viewing the data. I didn’t want to set up an immigration checkpoint right away, so I had some time.

“Anyway, I’ll do it here, so please do your best for that part.”

“Don’t worry”

Shion sent the data separately to Baekri’s cell phone. Of course, it was also sent to the Korean government. What happened in Africa had nothing to do with them in distant countries, but this time it was a little different, so we needed a way to deal with it.

Soon after, Baekri took out her phone and checked the information Xion gave her, and her complexion hardened.

“……What is this?”

It contained the wriggling of a bizarre-looking creature, or a loathsome hostile species that could not even be called a creature.

A giant slug…No, a starfish? Or, it is a monster that seems to have pulled out a gross and repulsive appearance from something like a mollusk and mixed it up. It was the first time in my life to see such an appearance even though it was an enemy species.

“What the hell is going on in Africa?”

The story that would answer Baekri’s question was contained in the data.

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If you were to pick out the biggest difference between a human who mutated into an enemy species and just an enemy species, there was also a core.

Enemy species are creatures originally intended to harvest negative thoughts from Tiv civilization and transmit them to the other side of the dimension. And that core was the main center that played the role of collecting, storing, and transmitting thoughts.

Earthlings know the core as a simple power source… But it is the most important function other than power.

However, human-mutated red species do not have a core. There was no need for a core because it mutated through the Raff energy force field spread through the giant temple, and since the thoughts generated on Earth were absorbed by the giant temple anyway.

Because there is no power, even though there is Raff energy, it is weak, and the reason why they are weak comes from that.

However, in this case, there were cases where it was more comfortable this way.

For example… If you put a little pattern in the raff energy field, you can give them instructions without any special instructions. Is it possible to change it a bit more?

“Keeek!!!”

“Queek! Queek!”

Hundreds of hostile groups that occupied a city and killed all humans screamed and screamed. The only thing left in the ruined city is the collapsed buildings.

Stand tall!

The enemy species, which had been running rampantly, soon looked at one place. Like seeing something or listening to something.

Soon, hundreds of hostile species begin to move again and gather in one place. To a place with a fairly wide space, and clinging to each other, hugging, biting and clinging.

Blood began to seep out of their bodies. Hundreds of hostile species that fell sticky and left the city in ruins soon became a lump.

Even if you look at the size alone, it reached several meters, and before you knew it, the chunk of meat was causing a regular beat.

Quietly and slowly, but it didn’t take too long to transform. At most, a day, and after that amount of time has passed, the essence also hardens and looks like a cocoon.

Blasphemy!

The chunk of meat, which had stopped beating, began to split. The hardened shell was removed and the monster inside began to fable.

“Kkeuk”

The red species that mutated from humans still had at least some similarities with humans, such as walking on two legs and having a heart and brain.

But now it has taken on a completely human form. A massive body, something like five giant tentacles that seemed boneless. It looked like a starfish, but it was a little different.

Smack! Iron!!!

Move your body while spouting the juice. Four of the five giant tentacles walked on the ground and walked on four legs, and the other tentacle split in half and opened its mouth.

“Sticking off!”

It was a grotesque cry that could reflexively block the ears. Eventually, he started to move as his instinct told him to, but not knowing that his instinct was an order given by someone.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!!!!

Compared to its huge body and bizarre appearance, its movements were very fast and agile. With its free movement like a boneless mollusk, its huge body, ignoring gravity, moves quickly over collapsed buildings and obstacles.

And not long after, what he found was a small community of survivors in Africa.

“W-what is that again!!!!”

“Shoot!!! Ignore and shoot!!!”

Doo doo doo doo!!!!

Even so, the security is not good and the society has collapsed, so it is natural to have a gun. They spotted him and shot at random, but the opponent was too large to stop with their rifles.

Kwaaaaang!!!

When there was no hit with the firearm, I brought an anti-tank rocket I don’t know if it was captured somewhere and fired it, but it didn’t hit the guy.

Since it does not have a core, its simple output is not at the level of a medium-sized enemy, but nevertheless, heavy weapons do not work well when it is originally medium-sized, and its elastic body like a mollusk alleviates the impact. Even so, there is no answer with firearms, but it is a form of variation devised to make up for the insufficient output.

People resisted as much as possible, but catastrophe was only a matter of time. Soon it attacked a group of survivors… And started eating them.

Originally, the enemy species was more about killing humans than eating them, but it devours people by stirring its only tentacle with a mouth like an anteater coveting an anthill.

“Oh ahhhhh !!!

“Save me! Help me!

“Uhhhhh…”

Awesome! Wood deok! Agjak, off!! Puffy!

You can hear it smashing and popping. Screams rang out from time to time, but not for long.

Then he growled and let out a satisfied sound. And as he wriggled little by little, his body began to crack again.

Unlike the previous one, which seemed to have been born from an egg, this time it looked like it was shedding its skin. The bodily fluid that flows on the outer part of the skin hardens into a shell, which is squeezed and broken to escape.

After recovering after a while, a bigger one than before appeared. He was growing so fast even though it had only been two days since he had mutated from a human.

“Kuuuuu!!!!”

But it didn’t end there. While roaming the African continent, the large hostile species, which moved again, encountered a similar object that was similar to itself but slightly different, either corrosive in bodily fluids or having one less tentacle difference.

There was no hostile look. After just exploring each other and confirming that they were the same people, they began to cling to each other without hesitation.

It was repulsive, as if watching slugs mating, but it seemed that mating would be better. Because mating is for reproduction after all.

Gulluck Gulluck Gulluck!!!

As the bodily fluids mix, they share each other’s strengths and soon become one.

Wooooo!!!

The appearance of the two large enemy species that were completely fused has reached the level of being super-large. The legs, which were close to quadrupedal walking, are now able to walk like insects on six legs, and the bodily fluid dripping from the body corrodes and melts the ground as it falls to the floor.

Their evolution isn’t over yet. It will kill humans and become huge in order to grow a larger size with more traits.

To inform the current Earth of despair.