139 Tue – Tip of the Iceberg (7)
“…”
This was a dimly lit data room, a kind of server room where important data of the ship were gathered, and someone was trying to directly access the data room system.
The person who manipulated the system and distorted his face to the fullest is Researcher Pires.
Compared to his grimacing face as if he was really disgusted, his hands were moving with no hesitation.
‘Is being here all there is?’
“Hey…”
After a moment of silence, a voice echoed in my mind again. Frowning, he scratched his head, startled by the tickling sensation inside his skull.
“Well, at least all the information on this Retique is here.”
‘I can’t help it. Just look at that for now.’
Pyreth, who had muttered to herself in a trembling voice, answered the voice. Fortunately, the voice ended there.
He has already given up resisting the voice. Because if he resisted the monster that controls his body one by one, the only thing he could get was pain beyond imagination.
‘What the hell is it?!’
The only freedom he was given was to think inwardly.
The being who now possesses his own body is clearly an unpredictable monster, but it was not enough to even read his thoughts. The problem was that the whole body attacked itself the moment she tried to even reveal that thought.
“This is the blueprint for the Retik warp device we made.”
‘I remembered everything.’
“Huh…”
‘For more information.’
“Well, I can’t see that with my authority.”
Pires, who was showing the ship’s blueprint, shook her head. Although he was a promising talent with a good line, he was only a junior researcher, so his authority was not very high.
‘Then, who can see?’
“that…”
His eyes fluttered at the sound of his muffled voice.
Because it was already predictable. This alien monster that has eaten itself now will try to eat even that person the moment it speaks.
“Wow, if it’s Richard, the research director.”
‘Go to him.’
Of course, he had no veto. As soon as the new order was issued, he closed his eyes tightly.
“Director. Can I come to see you in a hurry?”
After spending the night to avoid suspicion, Pires sent a message to Warden Richard from the morning.
In fact, Pires didn’t really like Richard, his boss. Richard, who went through an elite course similar to his own and made a career out of it, is not that much of an age difference, and he was a talented person who was superior to him just by looking at cancer.
“Well then, I’ll see you later.”
It just didn’t come to mind right now. He only hopes that even Richard, who was jealous, will somehow find out about his strange situation and save him.
“I just had something to tell you.”
But when I went to visit Richard. Pires was desperate when she saw that the situation was no different than usual.
Now, Warden Richard will be devoured once again by the monster that ate his body.
“that…”
“Ah, recently, I’ve been collecting some data. Come to think of it, aren’t these the locals you’ve come into contact with?”
Pires slowly approached him and flinched at the holographic screen he was looking at.
What appeared on the screen was a pair of men and women. A duo that has recently increased its share price significantly while fighting enemies of the demon realm.
But when Pires saw them, he couldn’t help but be terrified.
‘Don’t tease me.’
Immediately, Eve forced his body to move away from the startled look.
“They will certainly help us find supremacy within the Alliance.”
‘no. Absolutely. Please calm down. please.’
Pires desperately shouted that the men and women he was seeing were non-human monsters, but Richard had no ability to read people’s inner thoughts.
“Then why did you come here? Did I tell you I had something to see?”
“Yeah, yes. But what happened…”
“It’s already a sensitive time for pioneering a new colony, but what if you’re acting suspiciously like that. Searching all over the place.”
‘this.’
At that moment when Richard quietly spoke up, Eve sensed something and moved Pires’ body.
A bullet from a taser shot from right next to him hit the spot where Pires was standing.
“Keep it down!”
At Richard’s command, wearing blue nanosuits, two military police officers who had achieved a stealth force field rushed towards Pires.
The reinforced suit maximizes human power beyond its limits. You will never be able to fight with your body.
“what…”
But he was startled by what was happening right before his eyes.
Pires, who was twisting his body, spewed black blood from his mouth, and something black that tore his side meat pierced the military policeman’s stomach and slammed it into the wall.
The other side was the same. Those protruding from their backs pierced through the face, stomach, and chest of the military police and killed them.
It was like a spider’s leg.
“Hey, what the hell is this?”
“Please save me, sir…”
Pyreth, who immediately transformed her arm into a tentacle, muttered blankly, then wrapped the tentacle around Richard’s neck and dragged him forward.
“Khhh… that, stop…”
Through the tentacles, some of the cells of the Legion that had dominated Pires’ body began to migrate to the suffering Richard’s body.
After that, all that was left was Richard, who groaned and struggled with his body on the floor. His body had already grown a lot of black blood vessels that had started from his neck.
‘hi. Director of the Institute, Richard.’
At the same time, an unfamiliar voice began to forcibly interrupt Richard’s consciousness.
In the meantime, Pires restored her body to its original state and locked the office door tightly to prevent anyone from entering.
*
“It’s also inefficient.”
“Is that enough?”
“At one time, I thought about infecting and manipulating all Earthlings, but I abandoned all those plans. Hive consciousness and infection don’t really go well together.”
Eve, who was waving her leg so it crashed against mine, let out a terrifying sound.
I was able to see a part of the corps, namely, Pires through the screen. Even the head of the lab, Richard, who was newly infected this time. Even though Richard was an important figure that even the Guardian Union cares about, in the end, he was beaten by us.
“Then, is the warp technology fully attainable?”
“I’ll have to look a little further. Actually, it’s possible to duplicate their ships with only the technology I’ve acquired so far. But that’s not the kind of evolution I’m pursuing.”
“…to make it?”
I glanced around for no reason and looked at Eve’s work, which was scribbled on a piece of paper on the desk.
I thought it was not a super creature, so even though I was given a pencil, if I move my hand, something like a photo is drawn as if it were printed.
What Eve drew like that was the new military class the corps would create, no facility.
It was a kind of aggression fortress and the first non-living weapon the Legion made, and its shape resembled an island floating in the sky.
“This is going to be made by taking up a whole continent. A fortress designed so that literally all actions, such as production, analysis, and disassembly, are possible.”
“…”
Hearing what he said, it sounded like an elementary school student muttering something to make with clay. The only difference is that it’s sincere. In fact, the other people in the cafe just looked at us and nodded, but they didn’t seem to really care what we said.
“Then, where to attack using the invasion fortress.”
“At first, most of the garrison forces were dispatched, and we were trying to target the planet that was annihilated by us, Lehman. But if our goal is preventive warfare, we should aim for a more solid and important place than such a rural outskirts.”
With a grin, Eve began to draw a new picture on the rest of the paper.
According to information, it is one of the main planets of the rebel coalition, Lemün.
It is one of the strongholds of highly developed space forces, but there is a high probability that they will not be able to properly cope with the surprise they encounter for the first time in their lives.
“Of course, this invasion is just to buy time. It really starts when we have all of the Redrium, as well as the place we recovered this time.”
Eve smiled and put down the pencil.
I drank coffee without a word while watching it. There was a high probability that Eve probably did not know.
Now Eve is growing. In the first place, it is an existence that cannot be explained without the words of growth and evolution.
Not only did they grow in size as a corps that was devouring two planets, but their ego continued to grow as well.
“I’ll clean it up here, so please throw it away.”
“great.”
Eve took the cup I handed her and headed across the cafe to the trash can.
Although the people in line were ignoring all of them, the personality controversy did not arise among the antis for nothing… Anyway, Eve was no longer disgusted by the attention of humans, nor did she intend to kill him.
The reason is that he has decided that he will use humans thoroughly now. From my point of view, it was just… elementary school level.
[Do you see results? It seems that he has adapted as intended, but Eve’s actions now are just acting with a clear purpose]
The shimmering letters in front of me seemed to represent my still helpless feelings.