＜ Episode 112 ＞
ding.
The door opened with a mechanical sound, and an inorganic space without any decorations appeared.
Nothing is visible except for a solid-looking door on the other side of the bland space that looks like a passageway.
Wiing.
Cameras hidden in every corner turned the lens around to confirm the identity, and the red light turned the lens to green.
If an unauthorized person entered this place and did not pass the lens check, this space would instantly be filled with deadly gas, killing the intruder instantly.
– Confirm. Rupert Hindel.
Pushik.
White gas spewed out from all over the room along with the machine sound, but Hindel opened his arms without panic.
It would have been poisonous gas to those who did not pass, but the gas that comes out now is for sterilization and prevention of contamination.
Huung.
As the ventilation system started, all the gas in the room was evacuated, and only then did the door, which had been firmly locked at the end of the passage, move by itself and unlock it.
“Sigh.”
Hindel took a deep breath and walked slowly, and through the open door, the facility entered.
An underground cavity where you have to go down more than 200 meters from the Hindel Bionic headquarters building.
The first Hindel, who first discovered this space, bought the surrounding land and set up a headquarters, and that’s how the history of Hindel Bionic began.
Security is the most important thing in the bloody corporate world of Luna.
There were not too many ways to hit important facilities located 200 meters underground, and various circumstances intertwined, and Hindel Bionic survived the rough start of the company.
It’s no coincidence that organ makers have created rap deep underground.
Now that the business has grown, they say they have warehouses and branches all over Luna, but the most important and valuable things were all here.
Rupert, who passed by ignoring the employees who bowed their heads every time he took a step, went to the innermost part of the joint. A place with strict boundaries.
“Are you here?”
“Well.”
At first glance, a first-class soldier was looking around with bloody eyes, and after confirming Rupert’s appearance, he opened the tightly sealed door.
“As you may know.”
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Mu-in met Rupert’s gaze with a firm expression.
“Please pay special attention to contamination.”
“Okay.”
Looking at Rupert who answered with a firm expression, he stepped aside as if he felt relieved.
thud!
As soon as Rupert stepped inside the door, the entrance was closed.
Kiriric.
As the locking mechanism operated, the door was sealed tightly again.
“Well.”
After frowning for a while, Rupert, wearing a protective suit neatly hanging on one side of the wall and checking each part, crossed the passage and opened the door.
It was Rupert who reached the pinnacle and defended most pollutants with an aura, but there was nothing wrong with being careful.
I saw a huge cave with a faint fog hanging over it, and the faint fluorescent light was diffusely reflecting the entire cave, so just looking at it made me go crazy.
At first glance, the gas rising from here and there in the cave didn’t look so good for the human body, and researchers in protective suits like Rupert were diligently wandering around in such a dangerous environment.
and the innermost wall of the cave.
There was a large cocoon-like mother body in a place full of indescribable organic matter.
“greatness!”
Just looking at it stimulated the psyche and gave it a visceral sense of rejection, but Rupert let out a light groan to shake off his emotions.
The purification device and mental protection magic installed in the protective suit were protecting his rationality as much as possible, and the same was true of the researchers.
The researchers who diligently wandered around with hard faces or smirking did not look normal.
And then.
“Are you here?”
“Dane.”
In this absurd environment, a man with his bare face exposed, not even wearing a mask, let alone a protective clothing, walked with a smile on his face, and Rupert, who confirmed Dane’s face, hardened his expression.
“You were watching your mother.”
Dane in a white coat looked at the mother body occupying one side of the cave with a vague look.
Dung, Dung, Dung.
Although it looks like a large cocoon, it is stirring at regular intervals, which is the biggest proof that this is a living being.
“You are beautiful. Isn’t it?”
The Dane muttering with an ecstatic expression was grotesque, but Rupert desperately held back the disgust.
“as I said last time.”
The eyes of the bare-faced Dane and Rupert, who was protected by a protective suit, met.
“It only looks like a big cocoon to me.”
Depending on what you hear, it may sound insulting, but Dane just shrugs.
“I can’t help it. The difference in taste is because there are individual differences.”
Dane grinned and muttered meaningfully.
“Or the difference in species.”
“It is a pointless debate.”
Rupert, who has a close disposition of a warrior, sternly cut off his words, and Dane shook his head and sighed lightly.
“What is the success rate?”
The smile on Dane’s face was erased.
“Low. My mother is trying desperately, but ‘children’ like me are not being born.”
Dane’s words shifted Rupert’s gaze.
A large matrix that occupies one wall of the cave.
Innumerable stems extending from the parent body reached here and there, and small cocoons were connected to the places where the lines touched.
It was opaque, making it difficult to discern the contents, but it was not much of a hindrance to Rupert, an apex unmanned man, and his gaze could see right through the cocoon’s contents.
“···Right. Most of them will fail.”
The contents of the cocoon in Rupert’s eyes were horrific.
Before entering that cocoon, they were normal humans or living things, but now that they entered the cocoon and mutated, they were so changed that it was difficult to see them as the same creature.
‘…that’s not it either.’
It would be better if it was a creature.
It completely deviated from the left-right symmetrical standards of living organisms, and it had changed so disgustingly that I felt an instinctive repulsion, and I couldn’t feel any life reaction.
“It will be recovered.”
“…it can’t be helped. Even a mother’s power has limits.”
and that moment.
Kulleong.
One of the stems connected to the cocoon shuddered greatly, but then swelled up greatly.
Quadduk.
A terrible sound echoed through the cave, and a sight as horrifying as the sound unfolded.
Oops, Oops.
The cocoon began to shrink as it curled up, but was soon completely absorbed into the stem, and at that moment, the surface of the parent body became bizarrely shiny.
“…disgusting.”
“Do you see that? It’s a reasonable decision.”
It absorbs organisms that have attempted to mutate but failed as nutrients.
If Dane’s literal meaning is rational, he’s reasonable, but if you look at it with human sensibility, he’s disgusting.
Rupert wasn’t the only one. Among the researchers who were protecting themselves with protective clothing, only a few made interesting expressions, but most of them turned their heads away with their faces distorted.
Beep Big.
The numbers on the panel that grasps the condition through several electrodes connected to the body fluctuated, and the researchers exchanged opinions among themselves.
“Samples are out of stock. My mother doesn’t have all the necessary elements yet.”
“···I know.”
The amount of waste from Hindel Bionic is beyond imagination.
In addition, as long as pharmaceuticals and bionics are the main focus, dangerous wastes are pouring out every day, and the cost of disposing of these wastes has come as a pretty big burden.
The first Hindel did not overlook this part and spent a lot of money and time to create a pollutant purifying agent, which is Hindel Bionic’s first product.
High-hazard waste is one of Luna’s troubles.
The appearance of a drug that can purify such waste to some extent, if not completely, is the driving force that allowed Hindel Bionic to grow at once.
No matter how close they are to the city council, the reason why the newly emerging company was able to rise to the mainstream without much difficulty was largely attributable to the specificity of these products.
The problem is after that.
It was Hindel Bionic that stood on the rock while selling pollutants, but there was a huge contradiction.
There was no way to dispose of the waste generated while manufacturing the cleaning agent.
The first Hindel and Hindel, who took over the company after him, solved it by hiring a wizard and installing a large-scale purification magic circle in the traditional way, but Rupert, who failed while expanding the business, couldn’t afford that.
It was because the cost of maintaining the purification magic circle was not easy.
The company began to tighten its belt, and all sorts of pollutants accumulated in the stopped operation of the purification magic circle, and to make matters worse, pollutants flowed in along one side of the cave, wondering where and how it went wrong.
Rupert, who grasped the situation, hurriedly activated the magic circle and took measures to close part of the facility, but it was impossible to completely use his hands in a cave that was more than 200 meters underground, and one day the entire facility would be filled with pollutants. it was clear
The time when Rupert, frustrated by repeated bad news and bad luck, passed his time with alcohol.
A miracle happened.
I don’t know what principle it was, but the mother body was born in the middle of pollutants and purification magic circles, and it was caught by Hindel Bionic’s gaze, which was watching with a worried mind.
Although Rupert has a strong tendency towards unmanned, Hindel Bionic was originally a company created by researchers.
Researchers mad enough to throw everything away for the sake of research gathered all at once, and the first mutant was born when they were exploring life forms born from pollutants, and Dane was one of the researchers.
“…When you think about it, you can call it a miracle. My mother at that time was weak and had nothing. They gave birth to me desperately, risking their lives with only one love.”
A look of ecstasy flashed across Dane’s face, and he trembled.
Just thinking about that moment spontaneously brought joy, and his mother’s boundless love filled his mind.
hard.
Perhaps because of the excitement, Dane’s body, which was hidden in a white coat, squirmed here and there, and the researchers who saw it were startled and opened the distance all at once.
Kigi Geek.
The bright smile on his face wriggled, and the moment he tried to get out of the human womb.
“Dane.”
A low voice from Rupert’s mouth crossed the protective clothing and reached Dane, and Dane’s body stopped at the voice full of will.
“···sorry. When I think of my mother, I don’t know.”
“…Be careful. You are the bridge between our mother and us.”
At Rupert’s voice, Dane, who assumed human form again, smiled brightly.
“of course. I am always grateful to the boss. Me and my mother too.”
Rupert, who glanced at Dane’s gaze, who couldn’t believe it was human, looked at the mother body.
Due to the birth of Dane, it was possible to communicate with the mother to some extent, and experiments and improvements continued.
Even though he is a mutant, the newly born Dane was weak, and the researchers of Hindel Bionic were able to fill the shackles on his mother.
Improvements continued in the direction Rupert wanted, and the process was established to some extent.
All that remains is to increase the success rate.
What was needed for that was Lina, and because success was right in front of her eyes, she was able to ignore the Council’s intervention.
And then.
“You are here.”
Along with Dane’s voice full of joy, a small object that carefully penetrated the cave’s wall and appeared penetrated the mother’s body.
Doo Doo Doo!
The regular sound of the mother’s body changed greatly, and Rupert could feel the emotions contained within it.
Joy.
A great cheer echoed from the mother body.
＜ Episode 112 ＞ End