150 Tue – Invaders (10)
“Calm down. This is a very important moment. This is not the time to do that.”
“Well… it might feel that way to you now. I understand.”
“I understand. It’s a day like this.”
Right now, I’m in a state where I’m risking the lives of not only myself, but the lives of countless people, maybe even the future of this world. There was no way he could afford to lift one arm, so he grabbed his shoulder and dropped his body.
And the image of Eve nodding her head saying she understood it was very impressive, but that was not a good thing for me.
“It doesn’t require any grand preparation. It’s because you assimilate the consciousness you’re currently protected with with the Hive consciousness of the Legion. It’s just evolving and reborn.”
“What should I do?”
“It’s kind of like doing it in an empty room.”
Eve opened the gate to Redium at once. The barren corps nest in the middle of the hotel room was heterogeneous.
Another Eve was waiting there. Eve is wearing a monster’s carapace, not a human’s.
“Come here.”
“Go over there.”
Two Eves opened their mouths at the same time. It was a creepy sight, but I did not express it. had to get used to it. Maybe I didn’t even know I had to do that.
I crossed the gate without hesitation.
“I want to check one thing.”
“Of course. What?”
I spoke to Eve, who smiled broadly first.
Eve’s attitude did not change. You know it’s physically impossible for me to hold on. And it was an attitude that could come out because I didn’t know what was going on with my body.
“If my current consciousness becomes one with the Hive consciousness, will you soon become me too?”
“Of course. We are two and one. We can’t separate. But imagining that time now would be meaningless. Human consciousness can’t stand it.”
Eve affirmed my question, but did not think deeply.
Eve led me to none other than a pool of slime in the corner of the Legion’s nest. I knew what this was from Reina’s work.
“Go in, be reborn. It’s sure to feel good.”
Eve’s whisper rang out. Did Liam, who was being persuaded, feel this way? There was a slight sense of fear.
But now this choice is my choice. And it was a must-have choice.
Having erased all my thoughts, I moved my body again.
[can do. Move as you like]
As if the outcome had already been decided, those letters made my heart stronger.
*
To become completely one with the military consciousness. To be honest, it was hard to even imagine what it would be like.
Eve’s sub-minds are all maintaining their own selves as their purpose is their purpose. The connection to the Hive consciousness was a fact, but it was only a simple connection, and it did not have the dominion over it.
In other words, now I have to risk my everything to do an act without data even for Eve.
“Are you hesitating? Are you afraid?”
“I’d be lying if I didn’t.”
Soaking my body up to my stomach in the pool, I laughed at Eve’s words as I looked down. When I made the decision, I buried it with excitement and determination that I had found a new path, but I was also afraid.
Whether I succeed or fail, I am now completely free from humanity.
Compared to when I first became one with Eve because I knew nothing and was so confident, I knew the cost all too well now.
“If you can’t soak yourself, I can help.”
“What should I do… keep.”
Before I answered Eve’s words. My body lost my balance and fell, and I fell straight into the puddle.
I struggled, but I couldn’t feel my legs. Able to know. Now that my body is decomposing alive.
From one cell of the body, to the soul and my consciousness, it was being disassembled and absorbed into that huge corps.
I had to keep my ego. Otherwise, I will have the same hive-mind as Eve at the most, and even if I succeed, I will not be able to express my will.
‘no…’
But as my body, especially my brain, slowly melted away, my consciousness gradually clouded and my hardened mind quickly crumbled.
‘I feel it. Every single one of your body, and that heart flows. Don’t try to hold on I am reborn, but the memories of my human days are unnecessary.’
Eve’s voice flowed into the connected Hive consciousness again.
‘No need to worry. I know you better than anyone. For others, I’ll play well. You can live in me forever.’
Eve, who was more dependent on just herself than on my ego, urged me to let go of the ties of reason.
And I was instantly blown away by that statement. If I let this string go like this, I thought it would be very comfortable. To become one with her, to be part of an expanding corps.
‘…What is this?’
However, the moment when Eve, who was watching leisurely, suddenly raised her vigilance. I was able to sense something variable in that empty space where I couldn’t feel anything.
‘what?’
In the darkness where I couldn’t feel or see anything, I was relieved to realize that I was myself, Shin-Woo Kang himself.
Besides, there really wasn’t anything in this space.
A faint glimmer in the distance. That light, like the only shining morning star in the empty space, was shining alone.
I immediately remembered Isabelle’s words. The power she gave me was just setting up a small milestone.
If anything like that becomes a reference point, the situation changes rapidly. I used this sense of seeing to calm the other senses, and I started walking forward blindly.
It didn’t matter if we got closer or if we could get there. Just walking and walking and walking and walking.
But I was sure. Being able to walk like this in this space where I can’t do anything on my own without any stimulation would make anyone go crazy if left unattended, because it means that my consciousness can’t go crazy.
And thanks to that, I was able to endure all kinds of thoughts.
“I rather. I think the world is better now.”
“What do you mean?”
Ji Chang-hyeon of the Guardian Association, who has become a giant that is difficult to meet now, said this when he returned from the demon realm together.
Obviously, this was not something a person who was seriously injured enough to have one arm amputated by the high-ranking demons of the skull bird head was not meant to be spoken.
“Think about it, Mr. Shin. Everyone fights as one. The dog-like ideology, ideology, and religion that bit each other how useless things were in this world. Only after facing a real crisis, we was able to achieve true unity.”
“…Oh, you didn’t think too much.”
“Of course, I don’t think I’m necessarily right. I’m just thinking about things.”
He smiled faintly and nodded his head. Now that I think about it, he wasn’t a normal person either… Anyway, I thought what he said to me meant something.
Now is the time to put everything down and fight. only thought of that
Then the light started getting closer. When I, having forgotten even the concept of time, kept walking like that and finally reached that point of light.
“I’ll talk to you next to you. It was hard because I was bored.”
[A power that is transcendent compared to a single human. Have you decided what to do with this?]
In this world that is now filled with pure white light instead of darkness, some letters that only I can see are floating.
“I thought about what Eve needed the most. What on earth would it have. The end of that evolution would not be the destruction of everyone.”
[Then what is it? Please answer well, carefully, slowly. Because it is a very important moment]
“An adversary. Eve needs an adversary. An adversary who can fight her forever, who can make her feel limited.”
[…Hello, is that your answer? Do you think it will be possible? After all, aren’t you going to fight Eve?]
“Fighting. Call it self-feedback. I have no intention of fighting Eve at all. I do not intend to fight.”
laughter came out. It’s crazy, but it doesn’t matter that I’m crazy right now.
[For now… say congratulations. You have succeeded in surviving without losing yourself in the waves of a colony consciousness like a wide ocean. However, in the end, it was only to endure, and to completely become one with the Hive consciousness failed. This is because it is a contradiction to simultaneously dominate both the consciousness that is fundamentally human and the consciousness of the colony of the corps. As a result, you became the Legion’s incomplete Hivemind]
“I was prepared for that.”
[Eve’s anger is beyond imagination. can you feel it Eve is now accepting that you betrayed her]
“I’m confident that I can calm you down. And what to do if you get angry. After all, we are the same beings who share our destiny.”
Laughing bitterly, I lifted the barriers around me thoroughly.
At the same time, a great pressure pressed down on my consciousness. It seemed that embarrassment was greater than anger.
‘Why, why did you do that! How the hell did you get into the Hive consciousness!!’
“It’s not an impurity, it’s me, Eve. And you. This is for all of us, so it’s good to hear it. I’m not denying you. I’m not fighting you.”
The pressure was gone. It’s imperfect, but now I can handle only a small part of the Hive consciousness. And as long as they are bound by the same hive consciousness, Eve will never harm me.