Chapter 60 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

It’s already been almost a week since Yejin came to my house. She told me that in three days she would go to school, so she was still able to play with her heart.

“Wujjujju, dangdangah. Ask me!”

“King!”

“Is that a fox, a dog, a cat? I don’t know the species identity.”

“A dog’s species is a dog”

“What is a dog?”

Ye-jin, who plays with the dog in the front yard, seems to have completely forgotten what happened in the laboratory.

If you think about it, your mental strength is extraordinary. Ordinary people, no matter how many Force users, are locked up and kept sane in a hopeless situation where only experiments are conducted. Mental may be strong.

“Ah, actually, I was holding on because I thought someone would save me. I often used drugs or something that made me drowsy, so it wasn’t once or twice that I thought about giving up. But I persevered somehow.”

“You’re very lucky. If I hadn’t come, how would you have escaped from there…”

Wait a minute, isn’t Ye-jin an Awakener of Foresight?

Does that mean that even though I didn’t know the details of my coming, I knew it instinctively?

I haven’t polished it yet, but it’s an ability that allows me to instinctively see the future a few weeks later… I’ve seen many types of people who were foresight or prophets, but it’s a talent that’s one of the best among them.

“If I polish it, at least I won’t die anywhere.”

“Oh, really?”

“Even if you know what will happen in 10 seconds, what will change is a person’s life or death. If you avoid dangerous things, most lives can be saved.”

Even if it puts other people’s lives second.

I didn’t say that on purpose. It’s still too early for a child to hear such words.

“But even though I can teach you how to fight, I don’t know how to develop precognition-type abilities. What I can do is, at most, relying on my senses, my mind’s eye foreseeing the future for a few seconds.”

I’m not very smart, so even if I can foresee the future, I rely on my senses and only see for a few seconds at most. If I try to look a few weeks later, my brain will overheat and I will die.

Even if only the soul remains, the soul is overloaded. Peeking into the future is complicated and requires a lot of information processing ability and causality.

“This is not my field, it is my wife’s field.”

“I can’t predict the future either.”

“You can do it”

“That’s just speculation limited to a field in which the item has been confirmed. For example, taking lottery winning numbers.”

“In the end, you’re saying that you can do it because you’re smart enough. Since that’s half, you only need to eat half.”

Two things are needed to predict the future.

One is the ability to process information that makes it possible.

The other is the causal rate that allows it.

Death is the same if you don’t have either of them.

“I understand that if you don’t have the ability to process information, your head will explode. What is the rate of causality?”

“Have you seen the movie Final Destination?”

“…Uh, isn’t that the story of avoiding death by looking into the future and then dying in the order of death?”

“That’s right”

If you carelessly peek into the future and change it, you will pay the price.

For example, let’s say that 100 people are certain to die, but let’s say you saved them by avoiding them.

If there is no way to defy fate, somehow those 100 will die. In addition, if the person who foresaw the future cannot take responsibility for saving 100 lives, that person will die too.

“The causal rate of a person with foresight is, so to speak, indebted. Let’s say I have 1 million won, and every time I look at the future, I lose 100,000 won? If I look at it 10 times, the money will disappear, right?”

“Uh…Isn’t it?”

“I don’t have money, but if I look at the future, the 100,000 won that I have to pay becomes a debt. Depending on my job, I can pay up to a few million won, but what if I go over to hundreds of millions or billions?”

Destiny is a bad moneylender.

If you can’t pay your debts, a memorandum of physical abandonment (death) will come right away.

“From what I can see, you have a considerable rate of causality. Don’t worry, if you don’t look at the big things, nothing big will happen.”

“It’s not like I can see what I want in the first place.”

“That’s right… First of all, I need to learn how to use my abilities. I need to adjust it to be relieved.”

If it is causality, the problem is the ability to process information.

But this is surprisingly simple. It’s a bit unsettling, but it’s because it’s just a matter of activating a person’s brain.

“Isn’t brain activation simple without side effects?”

“Mr.?! Isn’t the part about touching the brain itself dangerous?!”

“No, that’s right, the brain is still an unknown area in modern society, so it’s natural to feel rejected. If it develops moderately, it’s easy to activate the brain without side effects.”

Even a few hundred years ago, there were many diseases that would have been judged to be incurable. However, in modern society, most of the diseases are cured, and cancer, which was synonymous with incurable diseases until a few years ago, is gradually being conquered.

Even after decades, brain-related diseases can now be treated without side effects. Considering Shion’s technological prowess, it’s easy to touch his brain.

“Most of the facilities are located elsewhere, but there is one facility for mental treatment in the basement.

“What do you do?”

“Hmm…It’s a bit strange when the old man says it, but when the old lady says it’s credible.”

“Do I have the impression that people don’t trust me that much?”

“Look in the mirror first. Who can easily trust you other than me?”

“I’m secretly sprinkling sesame salt”

Speaking of underground, it’s the underground secret laboratory that Shion talked about the other day…Or rather, the laboratory. The one in the yard storage.

Ye-jin agreed, so we decided to go to the secret laboratory to take a look around.

The small shed in the yard was small enough to be a little cramped for the three of us at most. I don’t think many people will be able to come in.

Let’s turn the hands of the old clock in Shion’s warehouse once. With a rattling sound, the floor began to descend.

“Wow! Whoa! It’s like a real secret base!”

“It’s a secret base. It’s a man’s romance.”

“You are a woman”

The floor going down is about a single thin plate. However, seeing as it did not shake and went down at a fairly high speed, it must have been applied with anti-gravity technology.

Soon after, we went down about 100 meters underground, and a door greeted us. When Shion put his palm on the side of the door, the door opened with a ji-ing sound.

“I have registered my fingerprints and yours. So, if Miss Yejin wants to come here, just tell me or her husband.”

“Ah yes!”

The inside of the door was not as big as I thought. At most, it was only about the size of the first floor of our house.

However, the near-futuristic structure and equipment, and a reinforced exoskeleton in the shape of a humanoid in one corner stand out.

“Huh? That…”

“It’s not an Iron Man suit”

“The shape is a little different, but isn’t it similar?”

“I made it just in case, but it’s useless. To be honest, my husband is stronger than that.”

My superhuman strength, abilities, and sensing abilities cannot be imitated by machines.

For me, it’s only excessive convenience at best. It doesn’t matter if you peel the apple, but it doesn’t matter if you wash it clean and eat the peel. It’s a bit convenient if you have it, but it’s simpler to not have it.

“I was going to scrap it for now, but I’m going to leave it alone for a while.”

“Can you wear it and move around?”

“Because it is a specialized type for mobility, it kills mobility. It takes only 3 hours to go around the earth.”

“Uh… Speaking of speed per hour, the circumference of the earth is roughly 40,000 kilometers, so if you calculate it, it’s 40,000 km/h.

“Then the speed of sound is then 1224 km/h, so it is roughly Mach 10.”

I’m not going to laugh at Mach 10 as an alien technology.

In this era, with a humanoid appearance, a person can ride, but a technology that can move stably with constant output at a speed of Mach 10 without refueling? Besides, it doesn’t need a propellant.

To put it simply, no propellant is needed: no oil or fuel is needed. It is the sound that moves purely by energy.

There seems to be an anti-gravity control device in the first place, but from there it is not something to be made in the current era.

“Who would have thought that there would be such a high-tech laboratory in the front yard of the house?”

“Iron Man and Batman were real!”

“Honestly, it’s not bad to make a lot of unemployed people”

“I’m just making a suit that can fight Superman!”

“No, you devil!”

“Don’t worry, Martha!”

Iron Man is OK, but not the Bat-suit! Aaaaa!

“It’s because I came too late! Aaaaa! I didn’t let the fucking PC go into the work, but the batshoe is too late before the PC! Aaaaa!!!”

“Shion is reacting violently! This is the first time in 200 years!”

Zion’s goal is to become a virtue even if it’s number 1. However, there are times when he suffers a fatal blow from his virtue, and it is when he betrays expectations.

To be honest, the belly button was too much. How dare you take a brand you know and eat like that!

Take it! Green Ring Beam!

“I like hero movies too, so I watch them a lot… But DC movies aren’t bad, right?”

“What is it? Has an angel come down?”

Isn’t that bad? How maniac your tastes are.

Shion and I barely came to our senses while rejecting each other. For transcendentalists, the psychological impact is much more damaging than launching a planet-destroying attack.

Anyway, we approached the back chairs in the corner of the lab. At the top, there was a helmet-like facility that seemed to be put on the head, and it seemed to be a facility to sit and receive something.

“My specialty isn’t biotechnology, but this is a good enough facility. It’s the latest mental care from Delta Castle. In the meantime, I’ll also touch on what happened at the research center so it won’t become traumatic.”

“I’m a little uneasy…”

“You can be anxious about what I made, but this is fine. Delta Castle is a harsh place where if you kill someone by mistake, you will be punished worse than death.”

“I hate it there”

There are a few forces that do not have a base inside the dimension and roam the rift of the dimension. One of them, Delta Castle, is a place worth mentioning for its technological prowess.

It’s a place so strict that if you commit murder there, you’d rather commit suicide. However, if you do not commit sins, there is no better place to live than there.

……But personally, I don’t like it there. I can’t trust the gang of castrated guys.

Even if you don’t trust the people there, you can trust the technology. The technology created by the rare elites is comparable to that developed by Shion. In particular, Shion is a young gem in the field of biotechnology, so when it comes to the human body, this side is rather reliable.

“Lie down for a while and everything will be over.”

“How long does it take?”

“It depends, but usually takes about 15 minutes”

“I can boil five ramen noodles.”

“You don’t mean to boil five at once, do you?”

Yejin sat down on a chair. She automatically lowered her helmet-like fixture from above her, putting it on her head and covering her eyes.

Shion pressed a few buttons next to her and started the engine in earnest.

“Then let’s begin”

The light flashes with a woo-hoo sound. From my point of view, it is stable, so I hope it will benefit Ye-jin, not harm.

It’ll take about 20 minutes or so…

“But aren’t you putting too much work into such a small laboratory?”

“There aren’t many. There are only specially made armor, treatment equipment, and the dimension seismic detectors that I needed for the last job.

After listening to Shion’s words, I classified the inside of the laboratory again, and it was only that one area occupied a lot and the area around it was a bit scattered, but in reality there weren’t many.

“When are you going to wear a suit like that? To be honest, I don’t need one.”

“It’s Yubimuhwan”

“Yubi has no worries? To be honest, it’s true that it’s useless. Other than me, who said that he would use something like that?”

There aren’t a lot of people who go around looking for people wearing something like that. How many heroes are there who can really say I’m a raccoon man in front of people?

Being a hero is only possible with the spirit of self-sacrifice. How many people in this tough modern society have the spirit of sacrifice to risk their own lives for the sake of others they have never seen before?

His self-sacrifice is as sublime as it is, but it is rare, so there is such a thing. Although it is a disqualification if it is not as basic as a hero’s ideology.

“Anyway, give it to someone later. Even if you have it anyway, isn’t it better to give it to someone who will use it in moderation?”

“It is.”

Who would give it to me… I can think of one person, but it’s not the time yet.

After a short conversation, Yejin’s procedure was over. She woke up as the device on her head was lifted and she complained of feeling a little dizzy.

“Are you okay? How many fingers are these on my hand?”

“One. And even though I’m dizzy… I think it’s good because I feel a little clearer inside my head.”

Yejin was much better. Her outward appearance may not have changed, but her eyes have become clearer.

“Mental care interferes with the subject’s brain and gives the negative memory a slight effect that seems to have passed. Time will solve everything, so wouldn’t it be enough to give the effect that time has passed?”

“Uh…What do you mean?”

“Even if what Ye-jin went through was a story from a few weeks ago, it feels like it was a story from a few years ago. If you do something like memory removal hastily, the sense of distance is no joke, so it’s a way to bury it in distant memories.”

The human brain is surprisingly complex, so if you touch it wrong, it goes crazy. Neither I nor Shion can carelessly touch their brains and receive help from machines.

“If you really take the time to solve it, there is a possibility of trauma, but since you did it in a short time, you didn’t even give it time to become traumatized, so there are no side effects. If you don’t think about it for a long time, you’ll just forget it.”

“For now… I think it’s pretty good. I’m more sane and not confused than I thought. Well done.”

After sitting there for about 5 minutes, Yejin stood up with a brighter face than before, as if the dizziness had disappeared.

Her head got better, but I don’t know why her body was moving, but she seemed to be lighter as Yejin relaxed her body. Does Mental Care have a function to remodel the body?

“Uh?”

As Ye-jin warmed up, her eyes were fixed on a table in the corner of the lab. Something roughly the size of an adult male’s upper body, with complex circuits and facilities connected. That… Was probably a dimensional sensor, right?

The concept of the dimension I am talking about is the 4th dimension that adds time to the 3rd dimension in which we live. And it is a dimension of a comprehensive concept that contains the concept of the universe above it.

In short, the universe we live in is placed under the concept of dimension, and it is not one or two, but countless things.

A dimension detector is an instrument that detects the distortion of such dimensions. Earth has developed detectors for hostile species, but they are usually used to detect disasters such as earthquakes.

A dimensional earthquake feels like an earthquake. Although the size is quite different.

“Why is that?”

“No, something feels strange…”

Yejin stretched out her hand and touched the dimensional sensor.

And she began to tremble as if she had been electrocuted by something.

“Kyaaaaa!!!”

“Wait a minute, was that an electrical item?!”

“I didn’t even turn on the power, what kind of electricity is it? And it’s absolutely not a reaction that comes from being electrocuted!!!”

I hurriedly removed Yejin’s hand from the dimensional sensor. Then he laid her down and injected her Gaia Force inside her body to calm her seizure-prone body.

But the problem wasn’t the body. It was the head

“My head is overloaded out of nowhere. This…Isn’t that a burden when looking into the future?”

Ye-jin, who suddenly touches the dimensional sensor and foretells the future, shows a bizarre reaction while trembling intermittently with her empty pupils. She placed her hand on her forehead and felt a visibly abnormal temperature.

“How can you not?”

“He’s not a transcendentalist, so I have to massage his brain myself, but you know that’s not my specialty! What about you?”

“He said that bioengineering is not his specialty! You can analyze and mimic electrical signals, but Yejin-yang isn’t a computer, so it’s impossible to manipulate them delicately!”

“I can’t! It’s a combination!”

“Ah, the coalescence here!”

Of course, it is not a combination in an adult sense, but a combination of each other’s abilities.

I put Zion on my shoulder, and Zion puts his hand on my head and gives orders to my head.

The delicacy of my ability combined with Shion’s electric signal, and the ability to manipulate at least one human brain was completed.

“You were overloading me so much…… My brain would ripen if I left it alone for 5 minutes.”

“I’m glad I’m a Force user. If it wasn’t for that, I’d have died a long time ago.”

“It’s like this because it’s a force user, but isn’t it sick and medicine?”

I delicately handle the electrical signals sent by Shion and manipulate her brain. The current prognosis was stopped in the middle and forcibly stabilized.

Neither I nor Shion are lacking in at least one ability enough to tinker with their brains… Even with just the two of us, we can’t guarantee that there won’t be any side effects.

The brain is the most important organ along with the heart. The two of us, who are not majors, barely worked together to solve it even if an expert touched it, but it is fortunate that our lives were saved.

“Uh, ah…”

“Ye-jin, are you out of your mind?”

After stopping her foreknowledge and giving her time to recover, after a while she came to her senses with a groan.

She shivered as she woke up, clutching her head to see if she had a headache. As if someone had seen something frightening, he grabbed my collar tightly.

“Ah, mister… Uh, I saw something very scary. I saw a lot of people die, and a city collapsed…!”

“Just calm down and speak slowly”

Shion brought water from somewhere, and Yejin drank little by little to quench her thirst, and she started talking about what she had seen.

“The moment I touched that thing earlier, something tingled like electricity. And… A lot of people died and the city collapsed because of the enemy species that came out of the dimensional earthquake.”

“A city?”

20 years since the Great Depression. The level of force users has also increased, and the number of master users has increased. The damage that was the case in those days did not come out with moderate enemy species.

Even if one or two people die, the devastating damage to the extent that the city collapses has already ended when I was in elementary school.

If that happened again, it would mean that a stronger antagonist would emerge.

“Where is it? Do you remember anything? Could it be our country?”

“There…”

Ye-jin frowned at her and searched for her memories before she spoke.

“I saw the broken Statue of Liberty”