Life Mission Chapter 95:
Life Mission
Volume 3 Chapter 95
90 people leave the bunker . The Lieutenant went with the main, and a colonel lieutenant ranked soldier went with the search . They need to be directed through the ark .
“Be careful . ”
“Are you comfortable?”
“Hah… . . I can’t express it! It’s heaven! Play and eat, I’ll pass on the next . ”
Park Jin Hyuk gives Cha Jun Sung a taunting look . How good is it to not be moving? All he has to do is stay in the bunker and hang out .
Park Jin Hyuk also knows why he is staying behind . If a level 4 appears, he needs to stop it . Anything below that is up to the party and soldiers .
“I’ll leave her to you . ”
“Sure . Koharu, be careful . ”
“Yeah!”
Kyoko smiles and waves her hand . They have a 4 year age difference and they get along well .
They seem to be developing a good relationship . Koharu must also like Park Jin Hyuk, because she does not care . The search party and restoration party are getting farther away .
Park Jin Hyuk watched from the bunker entrance and went inside . He does not work as a guard . Seven Stars and the government had been considerate to an extent .
Seureuk .
“… . . ?”
Park Jin Hyuk was about to close the bunker door when he turned his head . A faint sound passed by his ear . He could barely hear it with his enhanced hearing .
Bump .
9 parties disappear far away . He thought that he had heard it from a close distance, but he must have mistaken the footsteps of 90 people and their chatter .
Park Jin Hyuk smiled and went in . He had joked to Cha Jun Sung, but it would be a lie if he said that he did not feel burdened by having to protect the bunker .
It is in a high gap dozens of meters away from the bunker . An odd creature with a fat and wrinkled body and thick fur is looking down .
It is a brown infestor . It is difficult to identify due to its dark coat and the dark environment . Of course the reverse is easy .
It had almost been discovered by Park Jin Hyuk whose body sensations are abnormally enhanced .
4 of them are stuck to each other . The brown infestors had followed the force all the way here by their scent . But there is a problem .
There are too many enemies . They may not be able to make rational decisions like humans do, but they have instincts as mutants .
They know that these humans wearing strange shells have considerable power . The infection pocket had shared the knowledge it received from the brown infestor with them .
The 4 contemplated . If they become adults and emerge, they can fight somehow . But it is impossible to do with these weak bodies .
Average infestors cannot divide or create offspring at will . The only species capable of that is the infection pocket . This is similar for the brown infestors .
Brown ones can create the average and brown infestors, but they are born without the reproductive function which makes it so that they cannot breed .
If infinite breeding had been possible, would the level 4 infection pocket have created just the 4 of them? They can be expressed as the body and alter ego .
The brown infestors each used a small amount of nutrients and created offspring .
There are 20 of just the brown species . They found the path to penetrate the bunker, but they are too big to enter . They will need to send these instead .
The offspring scatter . They need to go into the bunker, find a host, and quickly open the door . After, the main bodies will take care of the rest .
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The bunker is calm among the unrest regarding the parasites . 316 of the 20,000 people who had been frozen in sleep had survived, for a survival rate of 1 . 5% .
Normally? There had been about 250,000 people on board the ark . Calculating with this as the basis, it is lowered from 1 . 5% to around 0 . 12% .
It is not annihilation, but it might as well be . Even though it happened 4 years ago, they remember the events as if they happened yesterday so they cannot help but be nervous .
“Hee hee! We’re all going to die!”
“I want to die!”
Park Jin Hyuk pitied the survivors . Is that really living? There is no difference from being dead . Their families became hosts and ripped people apart to eat them?
It is pure **** . Pure **** . There are not even 100 people who are completely sane . It is to the point where they cannot lead normal lives in society .
The force was designated to an area where it is easy to manage the survivors’ dormitories .
Seeing them all together, it is more like looking at a mental hospital . Without exaggeration, there is even someone who is smearing feces on the wall .
“Grandma, would you like to take a walk?”
“Yeah yeah!”
A young man takes the old woman’s hand and goes . He looks to be her grandson .
The grandmother’s condition is not good . It is confusing whether she has Alzheimer’s or if she has gone crazy . The young man takes glances at Park Jin Hyuk and keeps their distance . He seems to be scared .
He must be since Park Jin Hyuk caught the parasites without fear . Park Jin Hyuk did not really pay attention either . In situations like this, other people are just borders .
The party that the government left behind split into pairs to watch the bunker entrances . The soldiers either supported them or guarded other spots .
Half of the dorm is at attention . There is nothing that takes priority over life .
“I need to rest too . ”
He dropped out of working the guard . He cannot sleep because he would feel bad to the force . He needs to sharpen his blades to take on whatever it is that could come at any time .
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The offspring use all of their strength . They are smaller than millets, but it is not easy for them to enter . A wall made of concrete and steel is blocking the front .
After struggling through the passageway that the main bodies discovered however, they succeeded in entering . It was a tank that changed rainwater into drinking water .
They had targeted the tiny openings in the filter .
The offspring were cooped up in a corner and moved together . They are in such a hidden place that no one would be able to see them unless they were explicitly looking for them .
“Grandma, just wait a little . We’ll be able to go back to how it was before . ”
The offspring stop moving . A living being suitable for infection is approaching . There are 2 of them . They are moving camouflage without the need to die .
The offspring jumped onto the clothes of the man and old woman, digging through their skins . Though they are small, there is bound to be pain since they are ripping through the skin .
The man pulled up the clothes from his side because of the pain . A red patch had formed as though he had popped a pimple . The grandmother was still blank as though she had not felt anything .
“No… . . no!”
The man’s face turned blue . It couldn’t be? It cannot be . It could not be the aura of the infection he saw 4 years ago . This is a dream . A nightmare .
The surprised man’s thoughts are paralyzed . The offspring went up to his brain, took in the nutrients, grew sharply in size, and took over the brain .
It happened within moments . His grandmother showed similar symptoms . It is the transition into an infection host .
The change happened in a quiet place, silently . The offspring paced the progress as slowly as they could so that the bodies could not show rejection .
10 minutes passed . The hosts open their eyes . The man is all set up to become a mutant at any time, but it is not working on the grandmother .
The cells that configure the body have aged and are on the verge of rotting . They had infected her because they were in a rush, but she is unqualified .
They would need to use her as a place to hide until they find a healthy host to move into .
18 offspring hide themselves amicably inside the host .
Inside the man, 1 of the offspring fuses with another . The offspring’s limit is level 2, but they can become level 3 if they fuse .
They are becoming adults . It is something that they cannot do without a host, so they need to find infection targets to **** the nutrients out of them .
The hosts walk . They know where the infection targets are . They need to get the main bodies inside the bunker . To do that, they need strength .