Chapter 98 – [Raccoon Man Beginning]

Gaia is a primeval goddess in Greek mythology. She is the goddess of the earth born of chaos, and her name is hidden among the 12 Olympus gods.

And I know guys who use the name of a god from Greek mythology as their corporate name.

Atlas, who was conducting human experiments in a secret laboratory, and the Gaia Church, a religious group. Can these two be considered coincidences without any connection?

I mean in vain There are not many places where these religious groups gather for pure purpose. In the first place, as a group, you have no choice but to pursue profit, and as a religious person, you must pursue integrity, but can the two coexist?

There are few religious groups that I have seen that are as clean and conscientious as that. And even a few of them were all created by God directly intervening little by little to create an environment that had no choice but to be like that.

Can religious organizations be clean in this world without God? I guess not.

After all, it is a human being who runs an organization, and as long as he is a human being, he cannot be free from the five desires and seven emotions. I bet my dick on not being a proper religion. Ah, Shion is trying to tell me not to bet on his own.

[This is a personal matter. But… Please, please.]

“You’re also a force user, right? Is it difficult to investigate a religious group?”

[If the opponent was an ordinary religious group]

“……Hmm”

It seems that there are some Force users belonging there as well. Although that man is a force user, he doesn’t seem to be skilled in combat, so stealth activities are probably impossible.

If it was just a personal matter, I would have refused or reported it to the police, but I changed my mind after hearing the name of their organization. It’s worth looking into.

[As I am a Force user, it is impossible to infiltrate through the front door. I’ll put a boundary on that side too. However, my skills are low to go into hiding, and they are not charged with using public power. There is no legal way to find my wife]

“So you found me?”

[……That’s right]

I fully understand the feelings of a man who cannot find his wife’s whereabouts, even if it is an ex-wife. I’m also a board to check if Zion is well, but I’m afraid of other couples.

And team leader Jo said that it was a religious group that suddenly appeared recently.

A place large enough to be called a group appears out of nowhere? Rather than that, it is much more likely to say that it has been quiet and only now appeared. Suspicions welled up.

“Since when did they show up?”

[Well… From what I’ve figured out, I’m looking at around a month]

“The timing is similar.”

By then, I’ll be done with the Atlas secret lab. If that’s the headquarters and there are no other branches, it’s not particularly strange that those who were affiliated with it showed up.

Since ancient times, groups without upper legs have no choice but to glow. Why do snakes wriggle even when their heads are blown off? Something similar.

It is natural for the person who killed the snake to deal with it so as not to cause visual problems or trouble to others. And there’s something to see.

“Originally, they would tell you to take care of personal problems, but I’ll help you this time. But don’t guarantee that you’ll do this again next time.”

[Me, thank you so much!]

“Please hand over the information that the uncle found out to me. It’s not like you’ve been researching for a day or two, so the data is quite heavy, right? I need this one too, so give it to me quickly.”

[Of course I have to give it to you! Please wait a moment!]

The phone hangs up and a few files arrive on my cell phone.

After looking around a few things, I decided to get a blade. It would be nice to have a weekend if possible… Even if I took a break yesterday and move quickly, it should be next week. Team leader Jo also seems in a hurry, so it would be better to just go out on a weekday.

If it is short, it will take one day, if it is long, it will take two days.

“Baekri, please ask me to go to the store for a while.”

“Hyung, I’d rather take one more of our part-timers. You often fall out of it, so you can just tell me to look at the kitchen, look at the part-time job, and serve.”

Perhaps because business is a hobby, our store always takes a back seat when something important happens. So I often fall into it like this… Then I think it would be helpful for business to have one more part-time job.

“It would be nice if you could leave the store to me.”

“That’s tempting.”

“…….Yes?”

I’ll think about it for now.

*        *    *

I read the material that Team Manager Jo sent me.

The official name of the organization is ‘Jecheon Daeji Jesus Church Korean Temple’. On the surface, it is an organization registered with the government as well. It claims to be a Christian organization, and the church feels like a small town rather than a church.

In fact, if you go strictly, you might have to go in with Christianity, Protestantism, Catholicism, etc., But did I, who hates God so much in the first place, come to cover the sect as a religion? It’s good if you just share Buddhism, Christianity, and Catholicism.

Except for the metropolitan area, there is no such strange stereotype as Dume Mountain, but the location where the church is located is located in a place with many mountains around to the extent that transportation is inconvenient.

I think this is why the church is like a small town. Instead of coming to pray every day, believers stay for a while to pray and live in a dormitory provided by the church.

Just looking at this gives me a pseudo-feeling.

Of course, not all religions are cults just because they live in groups, but this is too blatant.

Returning home, I explained to Shion about the request from Team Leader Joe. And also to gather information.

“Gaia Gyora… I don’t know if a nuclear weapon will fall in the middle of Seoul at this rate.”

“Don’t talk ominous things. If it’s really the end of the century like that, I’ll beat them all up and take the kids to Mars and do terraforming for a living.”

There is a habit I picked up relatively recently. It is a trip to the apocalypse world at the end of the century.

Even though civilization is destroyed and material things are lacking, if you go around such a world, you will not be bored. It can’t be that much fun to travel while looking at the remnants of a broken civilization, how it fell and how much it prospered.

But I want to travel in such a world, I don’t want the place I lived in to perish like that.

If the earth perishes, I will take only the people I know, move to Mars, terraform, and live there as a second civilization or die. Anyway, you can buy planet terraforming equipment from a place run by someone you know, so you can bring it in cheaply.

“Weather Report came out with new terraforming equipment, but they say they’re selling it this time. I’ll buy it just in case.”

“I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but why is the name of that company called Weather Report?”

“It’s because the person who created the company is Jojoler”

“The place I’m going to is also a church… What should I do if the priest is there? Do I need to get rid of it before turning the world around?”

“It’s not Catholicism, it’s Christianity, so there must be a pastor, not a priest.”

“I don’t know what the hell is the difference between Catholicism and Christianity. Is it the difference between believing in Jesus and believing in Jesus’ mother?”

“To be precise, the reason for the division is the difference in doctrine. Even the same Bible differs depending on the interpretation, so the denominations are divided.”

Contrary to what is thought to be the representative of material civilization, Zion is surprisingly quick about religion.

Religion is also one of the civilizations created by humans. But for personal reasons, I don’t like civilizations where religion flourishes.

“Jecheon Daeji Church of Jesus Korean Temple… First of all, it is a religious organization that does moderate social activities. There are no incidents that stand out too much… But since it is so clean, it seems that there are no records in the first place. “

“If such an organization hadn’t gone viral, there would be two.”

Either it’s really clean, or it’s covered up so it’s not like that in the first place. It’s the latter in my opinion.

It is an organization that judged that even if a normal person went missing, it could not be found, and that a person who was a Force user could not hastily infiltrate it. Ordinary would be rather strange.

“By the way, if you say Gaia, do you believe in Gaia?”

“You’ll have to see that. Team leader Joe researched the data well, and if you look there, you’ll see it, but it’s relatively recent that they came up with the name Gaia.”

Until now, I had never even heard the name of the Church of Earth Jesus, let alone the Church of Gaia. However, now that the name comes out, it must have been related to the secret laboratory of Atlas that I destroyed.

It takes a long time to go down to Jecheon by means of transportation. As I said before, the location of the church is in the mountains, so going out and going in is a problem.

If so, it’s quicker to just go on foot. In the first place, if a human who can ride a mountain is a superman, it is natural that he is faster than a car.

“Gaia… I haven’t checked if Gaia exists on Earth.”

“Even if you’re there, aren’t you sleeping all over the place?”

Any planet with an intelligent body has its own deity to manage that planet. This one is different from the gods I know, so I don’t hate it that much.

Among them, the deity of the earth is called Gaia for convenience. Well, if you have a different name, I’ll call you by that name.

However, usually such gods only watch over human civilization and do not interfere. But suddenly, the obvious fact passed by.

Twenty years ago, since the Great Depression, Earth has had a special ability called Gaia Force for the first time in its life.

“Gaia and Gaia Force. And I’m sure there are enough to create and spread new abilities.”

“But if you see that you’re not active, aren’t you sleeping?”

“As you said, there is a high possibility that humans will be given Gaia Force 20 years ago to take care of themselves and fall asleep again.”

If so…Ah, damn there’s no way to check.

If there is Gaia, then of course there is also the Gaia Record, the big data of the Earth. If you look through it once, you’ll feel refreshed, but even if I have access rights, I can’t look through it.

It’s only natural that it explodes when the amount of information of one star enters your head.

At least, if it’s the information of an intelligent body on the ground, it’s okay, but there is all the information within the range that can be judged to be Earth, and I can search for information in it.

It would be possible if it was Shion, but on the contrary, Shion does not have access rights. Even if it was a transcendence species called Hanon, this is a separate issue. I don’t know if it’s Utopia, his cousin brother.

“If they believe in Gaia, the story will become more complicated. We need to know how they know about Gaia, who is usually unknown.”

“I’ll equip the raccoon man mask with additional hacking equipment. Oh…And if that’s the case, wouldn’t there be fanatics?”

“It’s a fanatic, George is enough.”

“There may be people who have been drugged or brainwashed, if not arbitrary fanatics. Then…”

“You mean you’re worried about people like that? Okay, I’ll take care of it separately.”

Zion treats guilty people equally severely, but on the contrary, has a broad heart for innocent people. If possible, it is a request to distinguish innocent people and punish them, so let’s listen.

Let’s see… Something that was perfect for brainwashing must have been lodged somewhere in the soul. It was something that the youngest of my co-workers gave me as a gift a long time ago. Although it did not reach its own strength, it exerted absolute power at a level that could be used by mortals, and it was useful from time to time.

When I used my ability to focus on the soul, a black, finger-sized, octahedral black crystal protruded from the palm of my hand.

How to use this is simple. Just stab the target and everything will be resolved. The range of use is limited, but it is still a good thing.

“I’ll leave tomorrow morning. Take care of me as long as I go roughly.”

“All right”

If you move quickly, one day should be enough to solve it. I entrusted the Raccoon Man mask to Shion to upgrade it and put on clothes that are easy to move.

As for the wallet… I don’t know, so let’s take it. Cell phone too.

It’s a light preparation for going a little far, but it won’t last long anyway, so simple is better.

It has two purposes.

1. Find Joe’s ex-wife and bring him there if possible.

2. Find connections between gnomes and Atlas and gather information about them.

Other than that, it’s a small problem, but it doesn’t matter if it’s not a big deal. Last time we went in openly and destroyed the data, so we didn’t get much, so let’s infiltrate first focusing on obtaining information.

“I finished upgrading my mask. And here’s the cardboard box”

“No, why a cardboard box out of nowhere?! I’m not going for a steel cog!”

“I’m kidding. Take care and have a good trip.”

First of all, I will use public transportation to get to the nearby area, and then I will move there on foot. Looking at the geography of the church site, there is a high cliff on one side, so it is a structure that can only be entered through the main gate. So, on the contrary, I plan to get caught off guard and climb the cliff to infiltrate the church.

I remember this a long time ago In the past, I wasn’t as strong as I am now, so I often sneaked in to assassinate him, so I felt that way.

If you want to go to Jecheon…… Hmm, the express bus is better. Coincidentally, the first train is at 6:30, so you can get on if you work hard.

It would be enough if Shion erased the ticket sales record, which would become a problem later. Same with CCTV.

“One adult to go to Jecheon.”

“Yes, it is 16,000 won.”

It’s an express bus, so it’s expensive.

I grumbled and paid with cash. It will take about 2 hours to get there, so it’s good to buy something to eat along the way. Ah, this makes me feel like a person traveling alone. It’s an unexpected trip, but that’s it.

First of all, I bought elvan eggs and cider.

……What, why, what, the repertoire is like a guy from the 80s? That’s my time! Huh? That’s when you go on a trip! Huh? The combination of cider and elvan eggs was amazing!

Well, it’s half a joke. I’ve lived in Korea during the height of the 5th Republic, so I said something like that.

President then? Oh, I don’t know. He just died suddenly from a chronic illness (Dancheong).

When the time came, I got on the bus. Since I was alone, it was a bit difficult to sit in a regular seat with two seats connected, so I got a ticket for a window seat at the far end of the place with four seats in the back.

Gradually people got on and people sat down in the seat next to me. It was a family of three, apparently a middle-aged couple and their daughter, but one of them caught my attention.

It wasn’t a couple. It was the girl’s side.

It was early in the morning for a girl who probably hadn’t even entered elementary school yet, so she blinked her eyes and held back her sleepiness. She looked fine on the outside, but what mattered was what was inside.

The physical condition of the girl caught in my gut was not very good. Her beating was unstable, mainly as if her heart was weak.

It makes me sad when I see things like that at such a young age, but it wasn’t something I would consider a problem with. I just thought you were a little sick.

Something that forcibly continued the beating of such a heart was pulsating in the girl’s heart.

I could feel the feeble rap energy that might only be present in an enemy species wriggling in the child’s heart.