Chapter 95 – [Raccoon Man Beginning]

For an instant, Baekri felt a force of gravity many times greater than that, and then, on the contrary, he felt weightlessness.

After only a few seconds of staying in the air, the sense of freedom that he had against gravity fell to the ground for a while.

Tens of meters in the sky was higher than expected. Even if you can’t do it, the height of several floors of the apartment and the weight of several tons will fall. The shock was unimaginable.

It is said that it will be fine because it is the original species of frog, but it is not 100 li. Normally, I would be fine, but I’m not in good shape because I was crushed by him earlier. Even if he has strengthened his durability through reinforcement, there is no guarantee that he will be able to survive if he is crushed by him from this height.

“Let’s see who falls where!”

Just a few seconds before he falls to the ground. Baek Li grabbed the pipe and released the force to spin in the air. Its position was now reversed, and it fell to the ground on its back.

The one whose vision was reversed in an instant struggled in confusion. Baek Li crouched down to avoid being caught in it. And he prepared for the shock that was to come.

“Ugh!!”

Wooooo!!!

His body crashed to the ground, and an earthquake rang through the ground.

Thanks to Wonjong’s fall on his back, Baekri, who was on the boat, was safe.

However, even after mitigating his shock, a shock that could not be ignored wrapped around him. The pipe was also pulled out by the impact and bounced out as well.

“Queeeeek!!!”

“How should……!”

Time has passed. A few minutes at most. The original treatment team has not yet arrived. If they take more time here, they will come, but there is no guarantee that they will be safe until then.

“Fuck your brain!”

“……?”

“No matter how much you regenerate, if you’re not a transcendental person, it’s only a matter of an instant to rummage through your brain!”

I heard Ruri’s advice from behind. Baek-ri frowned and glared at him directly.

Turning his body over again, correcting his posture, he glared at Baekri while groaning. And as before, I could see the muscles in his legs swell.

“…..It was good.”

Baek-ri gathered all of his remaining force. He was only a handful, but enough for another stack of reinforcements.

It’s your last chance. Not a bit of Gaia Force remained. If I miss this time, my chances of defeating him drop to zero.

“Kweek!!”

Wow!

Wonjong, who hit the ground so hard that the asphalt road shattered, was shot straight at Baekri. I heard him open his mouth wide to swallow it in one bite.

Baekri supported one side of the metal pipe he was holding on the ground and raised it diagonally toward him.

If you just lift it, there is a high chance that it will bounce off its elastic body. However, with this support, he will not be easily bounced back.

And the choice was right.

Whoops!!

“Cut it up!!!”

The sound of something scratching, the feeling of being stabbed, and the heavy impact that came upon me followed one after another.

But Baek-ri’s plan worked. The iron pipe, supported and anchored to the ground, penetrated the roof of his mouth.

His resilient body turned into a weapon on the side because of his charge. Weight and speed became a force, and an iron pipe became a spear.

“Queeeeek!”

“It’s still shallow…!”

But it was still not enough to reach his brain. He could have gone a little further, but he lacked a little bit of strength.

“Look at my brother’s movie reenactment! I’m going to play the last one!!!”

Just then, Ruri jumped on Baekri’s shoulders as support. Then he climbed onto the head of the original servant and shot it down as it was.

Thud!

“Once!”

Coo!!

“Twice!!”

Wow!!!

“Third time!!!”

I rolled my foot down with all my strength from above the guy’s head, and the metal pipe that had pierced the roof of my mouth dug in. And I was able to reach his brain.

The brain is the center for storing memories. No matter how much you regenerate, if you are not a transcendental person, even if you regenerate when your brain is damaged, it will not return to its original state.

Because there is no memory in the already broken brain.

Do memories of the past really exist in a brain rebuilt from scratch? And even if there is, is it the same as your past self?
Even with basic metabolism, a creature whose brain was regenerated could never be the same as before.

It was the same as before, but something was different. He was holding his breath, but he didn’t move.

It was as if the brain were looking at a living vegetative person. With trembling hands, Baek Li watched the situation, then grabbed the metal pipe again.

“Hey, did you win?”

Baekli asked in doubt. Just in case, I twisted the iron pipe like Ruri did before and crushed my brain once more.

“I really won this time”

“Whew…..”

Baek-ri sighed, left the room with trembling legs, and sat down on the spot.

The original species was alive but did not move. It was obvious who won.

“What comes after work is the cliché of incompetent public authorities”

“I mean”

Ruri and Baekri complained when they saw the original species disposal team belatedly arriving by helicopter.

*        *    *

Bizarrely, seeing the figure of the original species of frog, which was still hidden but did not move, the original species treatment band aimed a firearm and became alert.

But the guy didn’t move. Even if you attack enough to actually kill it, it won’t move.

Since the brain to process everything including instincts was crushed and then regenerated, it was no different from empty with nothing in it. Just like a newborn baby.

No, at least I know that a newborn baby cries when hungry and moves its limbs, but he didn’t do anything except breathe.

“This is Kang Jin, the team leader of the original type processing team in Seoul. Did the students do this?”

“Ah yes”

“Are you both force users?”

“Yes…..”

Baek-ri was exhausted, so she answered the questions he asked roughly. In spite of that attitude, team leader Kang Jin did not criticize whether he understood or not.

“Chief! This guy doesn’t respond! It’s strange to be alive, isn’t it?”

“Did he die because he got a pipe stuck in his brain? For something like that, he’s still breathing…”

“It has regenerative properties. That’s why it’s alive even though its intestines are crushed and its brain crushed.”

“Is that true?”

Bailey nodded in response.

There were various reactions to him. In the midst of emotions such as cheers, doubts, and surprises, Baek-ri paid no attention to anything.

Regenerative properties are rare. People with recovery traits are often found, but those with regenerative traits are as rare as those with foreknowledge traits.

Regarding regeneration and recovery, what is the difference between the two? There is a difference in the limitations of living things.

Recovery refers to the rapid healing of wounds that can be healed with time, but regeneration refers to recovery regardless of the loss of the body or damage to vital organs.

“My older brother has suffered a lot. What is this about coming out to play?”

“I mean”

“But, Mr. Team Leader. You caught this guy, but is there anything dripping with soybean paste?”

“Well… It’s not a hostile species, and it’s not often that the original species gets caught by civilians. Besides, if that guy has real regenerative properties, it wouldn’t be a joke at the price of a corpse.”

Gaia Force is a still unknown ability. I understand that it is a force coming from the earth, but why did it show up 20 years ago? I didn’t know in detail what kind of effect it had.

So, materials for research were rising in price as time passed.

Everything necessary, such as the corpses of the enemy species, experiments with force users (of course, legal ones), analysis of the corpses of the original species and securing data, became money.

The corpse of a living ancestor. No, it’s alive, so it can’t be called a corpse, but if it’s an original species with regenerative properties that can be studied, it’s worth calling it.

“It’s better to talk about it separately. I don’t think the situation is good for the two of you to talk like that.”

Luri didn’t know, but Baekli was tired. Not even a handful of Gaia Force remained in his body, so a sense of exhaustion wrapped around his body.

At least it would be better to talk separately later than to talk about it now.

“But it’s strange. This area is under our jurisdiction, so if there was a progenitor like this, there’s no way I wouldn’t have known about it…”

“Maybe it appeared recently?”

“It’s too big for that. The original species is much bigger than the original animal, but it takes that much time. It may be different from mammals because it’s an amphibian, but at least it seems to have something different…”

Team leader Kang Jin made a slightly questionable expression. It was very implausible that the proto-species that eats humans appeared suddenly. There must be something that has had an impact.

“Oh, come to think of it, that guy, the otters vomited earlier. Heck, the otters live!”

“Are you an otter?”

“I’ve read an article that the otter that returned to the Han River was on the side of the Cheonho Bridge. Considering that, I think this guy’s territory is also around that area or a little further upstream.”

At Ruri’s opinion, team leader Gangjin nodded as if it made sense.

Otters are rare as they are natural monuments, and among them, places where otters could live were even rarer among the Han River where the original species of frogs lived.

“Cheonho Bridge…. I’ll have to ask for help from Guri City to find the area. Thank you for your opinion.”

“No, what?”

Ruri gave her opinion on what she had just seen. As if I had done all I had to do with that, I slipped back and took a picture of Wonjong’s corpse with my cell phone.

Baekri smiled dejectedly at Ruri’s appearance.

“Wait a minute, I’m on Facebook, so I’m posting this”

“Are you wasting your life here too?”

“Isn’t it better to leave evidence? Besides, since social media spreads so fast, no matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to ask. Then, no matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to?”

I don’t know if it appeared and caught it somewhere in the valley of Dume, but if you wipe your mouth about what civilians caught, the government’s image and position will be embarrassing.

Force users cannot belong to the military, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have the freedom to choose their nationality.

Even if there are North Korean Force users who defected and became naturalized in other countries, if you do such a thing, you will see precious human resources called Force users going abroad.

“Let’s take a break then. Please take care of the later work instead.”

“Students must be having a hard time too. They will probably talk about it for a while in the media.”

“I’ve already experienced something more spectacular than this.”

“It’s life and life for students to suffer”

“…Ruri, I think you would have done well if you had gone to liberal arts instead of science?”

“What are you talking about? Even if I have talent, I’m a natural science.”

The two decided to step back and rest for a while. As I sit there breathing slowly, my muscles scream and fatigue sets in later.

Even a Force user can recover quickly, but it does not mean that there is no immediate pain.

“It’s not fun to play, so let’s take a break, eat, and go back. It’s okay, right?”

“Okidoki. I don’t even want to play anyway. Well, the stress is relieved.”

The opportunity for force users to freely move is a matter of course that usually follows when dealing with hostile or original species, but civilian force users who do not belong to either are rare.

“By the way, Ruri. How did you know that earlier?”

“What?”

“I told you that if you weren’t that transcendental person, you could win if you crushed your brain.”

Baekri understood the meaning of the concept of a transcendent.

Worst told him the story of being reincarnated and talked about it occasionally for small talk. Baekri doesn’t know the details, but he knows what the concept of a transcendent is.

But if Ruri knew that, it was a different matter. Ruri doesn’t even know that the worst is a reincarnated person and that Shion is an alien.

Where did you hear the word transcendent?

“…..? Did I say that?”

“I did”

“I don’t remember it because I don’t remember it.”

“Are you pretending you don’t know, or really don’t know?”

“I don’t really remember”

“……?”

Baekli looked straight into Ruri’s eyes. As much as she’s her little sister she’s been living with for a long time, when she lies, she shows through.

But Ruri really didn’t know. It took too long for the word transcendentalist to come out of Ruri’s mouth to dismiss it as a coincidence.

Baek-ri frowned and asked Ruri.

“Who are you”

“What, do you want to eat only fried dumplings for 15 years?”

“If possible, serve it with chicken instead of fried dumplings”

“If it’s chicken for my brother to eat, it’s better for me to eat it”

From what she said, it was Ruri as always. There was nothing particularly strange about her.

However, the feeling of incongruity that once formed in Baekri’s heart did not disappear.

He thought Ruri was normal.

He was a bit pretty, but as an older brother who grew up with him since childhood, he never looked at me as a member of the opposite sex, and although we often fought, our relationship was good enough that he came to play like this.

It was the same as thinking of him as family, but he couldn’t help but be suspicious.

“…….”

Baekli was silent as he looked at Ruri quietly.