Life Mission Chapter 90:
Life Mission
Volume 3 Chapter 90
He is a proud captain of the American Navy . At the end of the day, he had not lost that pride . That was until he boarded the ark .
“What- what year is it right now?”
“… . . Does anyone know?”
Cha Jun Sung looked at the force members . How could they know? They could know the year during the mission, but no one paid attention because it did not matter to them .
“You slept for 4 years . We don’t know the time here . ”
How should he explain it? Should he say that he became a Lifer because of a game called Life Mission, and came to this universe to save it from mutants?
Cha Jun Sung felt that it was crazy even while he was thinking it . He would just try to pass it off .
“4 years… . . Since I was frozen in 2031, it’s the year 2035 . So 4 years passed . ”
It is a self-mocking voice . The lieutenant spaced out for a bit and spoke,
“What country are you from?”
“We’re from Korea . ”
“Korea?”
The lieutenant is taken aback . How could it be! Korea is one of the first 6 nations that perished without even an ant left behind . The country had been dried out completely .
“How did a Korean get here? You would have perished by the awakened Black Evil . ”
“Black Evil!”
Black Evil Aduroque .
It is a level 9 mutant taking one of the 6 spots as disasters along with the Evil Queen . In the virtual version, it dominated Asia . Its origin was Korea!
Even Cha Jun Sung who fought with the Evil Queen is ignorant regarding the 5 disasters . Strictly speaking, he had not seen the end of Life Mission either .
If the virtual version had been commercialized for a few more years, he might have been able to kill all of the disasters . The 36 rankers could have formed a union to kill them too .
“Is it important where we’re from at this point? When the world is in ruins?”
“He he!”
He laughs at himself to Cha Jun Sung’s straightforward words . He is right . What is it important where they are from? The world has been in pandemonium for a long time .
He had boarded the ark to get away from that hell, but this place had also turned out to be **** .
“You said that 4 years has gone by? What on earth happened?”
He asked outright . He has no choice if he wants to know the situation with the ark and infected city . The lieutenant froze .
He holds his head and trembles in fear . The events of 4 years back come back like a nightmare . It had left a trauma for a soldier who had experienced all types of hardships .
“Those- those guys!”
They were indeed mutants, but they were more disgusting and cruel . The parasites occupied New Zealand and the islands, and designated them as their own areas .
This ark is one of the hundreds of vessels created by America with the help of its allies . South America had fallen to the Evil Queen .
The few survivors ran away from there as though being chased . They turned the boat’s direction toward Oceania where there are a lot of islands, since they cannot live on sea forever .
That was the mistake . Just as they had lost to the Evil Queen, one of the islands was losing a war against the parasites .
They quickly got everyone on board and left, but it became irreversible .
“Is the ark safe?”
“We need your help, lieutenant . We discovered the parasites, but they are too few in numbers . It’s as if they aren’t here .
“That should be right . ”
“It should be? Then does that mean you know why there are so few?”
“I don’t know, but there are 7 sleeping rooms in addition to this one . ”
They had hacked into the system, but he pretended not to know . Hercules did it, but it would just be a bother to explain its artificial intelligence . It is better to hide the fact .
“Huh? Were there 9? Ugh! The parasites! Where did I get to?”
His consciousness came and went, speaking gibberish and then acting like he could not remember anything . His brain is not able to function, whether it is because of the freezing or fear .
He sees the force members armed with bizarre gear, and does not react . He is half out of his mind . It is unsure whether he has gone crazy or has become stupid .
“The para- parasites are inside the bodies of the frozen survivors . ”
The lieutenant’s words are shocking . Survivors reaching over 20,000 are hosts? Then even the 1200 people in room 1?
“Is it everyone?”
“That’s not it . About… . . 0 . 1% will be uninfected . Keuk keuk!”
The lieutenant is genuinely happy . Is he also a host? Should they kill him?
“I have not been infected . ”
“Phew!”
It was like the lieutenant read his mind, and revealed that he is not a host . The force members let out a sigh of relief, but this is not enough .
Cha Jun Sung left Lim Si Hyun to speak with the lieutenant, but went among the force members . The lieutenant said that he is not a host, but those are just words .
“Scan him without his noticing . If he’s infected, set him on fire . ”
Zing!
Hercules is linked to the PDA, and its eyes scan the lieutenant . His muscles, bones, and organs come up clearly on the hologram .
A few force members saw what they were doing and thought that it was an obvious step . A host is a ticking time bomb . They need to know for sure .
Hercules did not speak, and sent the information as text . The lieutenant’s information comes up on the PDA, including his estimated age, height, weight, and health condition .
-[Not infected . ]
To get to the point, he really is not an infected host . There was just one problem in the information . His body is fine, but his mental state is off .
-[He shows erratic behavior and symptoms of insanity as though he is looking at a ghost . After analyzing his behavior, there is a 99 . 9% that he is suffering from PTSD . Potential instability . ]
Post traumatic stress disorder . When Cha Jun Sung had first gone into the reality version, he also thought he had gone insane with this dream-like reality .
The number of Lifers with PTSD is increasing all over the world . Even if they are mutants, they are living beings . Destruction leads to a lack of emotion .
When they also witness their colleagues being ripped apart, people of weak mentalities cannot help but collapse .
The lieutenant experienced America’s destruction, the infected city, and the ark’s **** consecutively . He has been eaten up by the terror that was imprinted on his mind then .
‘But he hasn’t been infected . ’
He does not have weapons, and is significantly inferior to the Lifers in physical ability . It does not seem like it will be a big deal to have 1 crazy person make a fuss .
-[According to the scan, he really hasn’t been infected but it has been confirmed that he is suffering from PTSD . Looks like we should ask him as much as we can . ]
Cha Jun Sung relayed the lieutenant’s condition over the general radio . They did not ignore it completely, but the force members thought that it was not a big deal .
“The captain and 7 lieutenants including me took charge of each of the rooms 1 through 8, and froze the people . We were the last . ”
“How many people were originally on board the ark? What happened?”
“200,000? Or was it 250,000? Over half died in the infected city and more died on the ark… . . Anyone we couldn’t freeze died too! Hee hee!”
Tonga . It is the name of the island they can see about 20km away outside . It is slightly larger than Korea with an area of 747 square km . This is the infected city that the lieutenant is referring to .
“An- another ark anchored at a nearby island, but we lost contact . They’re all dead! Are we going to die too? No! Korea dispatched its troops!”
His words twist, but he does give them the information that they want . This is really useful . The more they knew about the ark and infected city, the better .
“Are hosts mixed in sleeping room? Can you tell them apart?”
“There are a lot of them mixed in . He he! Under circumstances, it was difficult to distinguish the host, so I can’t distinguish between them . ”
The lieutenant chirped like a bird . He says that when the parasites were introduced to the ark, tens of thousands of people got on the lifeboats to get away .
The remaining people chose to be frozen indefinitely . This was because they had come to find out that parasites do not like the cold .
Freezing an infected host also slowed down the infection rate . They could not tell who was infected and who was not, so they could not kill everyone either .
This was all possible because the soldiers protected the sleeping rooms with their lives so that their families could go through the process . If not, they would have been annihilated .
The sleeping room was created to extend the lives of anyone who came down with a disease or serious wound . They would hang on to their lives until the practices necessary for treatment were discovered .
There were not enough spots because they had not created it while expecting the parasites .