Black Badger - Chapter 447
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447. Microorganisms
When we first set foot on Earth, we were struck by our human frailty.
They didn’t look that different from us, but humans were so different from us. They were weak and died too easily. What a teenager could lift, a grown man would have a hard time lifting. When they got wounds, they didn’t heal easily. They fell from ladders that weren’t that high, fell down on the street, and died for some unknown reason.
Humans were weak.
It’s still like that.
Sometimes I forget that fact because I’m surrounded by humans with enhanced bodies.
But I realized it again. Raw humans were so weak. They couldn’t even transfer emotions, and they didn’t know how to minister.
‘What can you do?’
There’s a reason Kyle and Ray perceive them as worthless.
‘You look weaker than a child left out on the water’
Fresh water pooled on a white floor.
“Does the water taste sweet?”
Money spoke.
I didn’t answer.
It’s sweet.
I can tolerate not being given food, but not being able to drink water is really hard to tolerate.
If you don’t give me even that, I’ll probably try to rebel right away, so you’ll have to replenish my water.
All of this is nonsense though.
Anyway, I guess I should go now. It was about that time. Some time had passed, and the enemies were less alert than before. The ash-gray cloak was curled up behind the vent again.
In the large room, there is only me and money.
A human being who cannot bear to cut his own neck out of fear.
After licking up every last drop of water, I laid my head on the floor and let out a long sigh.
“money.”
Don’s expression was calm, but I could sense his body reflexively tense up.
I muttered, looking somewhere into the void.
“Do you love your son?”
Money’s right foot went up.
But he didn’t strike me down. He just trembled as if he wanted to strike me down at any moment.
It’s a shame that whatever he does doesn’t mean anything to me.
Since Don was an ordinary person, he had to be prepared to break his own fingers if he wanted to hit me in the face.
It’s good to have skills that compensate for the lack of strength.
The man put his feet down on the road and hooked his fingers on the gun at his waist.
“Don’t talk nonsense when you don’t know anything.”
“I’m trying to tell you that there is someone who loves me just as much as you love your son.”
Although they are not biological sons, he also has a godson.
“Don’t you plan on doing something that you wouldn’t be ashamed of in front of your son?”
“doesn’t exist.”
Money answered firmly.
“If my son is alive and can see me, I will be ashamed and say things like that.”
The man spoke in a hoarse voice.
“You must have forgotten this urgency.”
good.
I gave you one last chance and you rejected me.
I closed my eyes and sighed.
Then I called the ash-gray cloak. I didn’t do the ministry. To my shame, I didn’t do it very well. I really don’t want Kairos to find out, but I had a much harder time ministering to the spirit monsters than to the Leviathan.
Just eat me. It wasn’t hard to tempt me.
A cloud of fog seeped out of the vents.
Those watching the situation with cameras will have no idea whether the ashen cloak came naturally or was conjured by Don.
But I don’t think you’ll think I called you out.
You’ve shown me how helpless I am against psychic attacks so far, so I’m sure you can’t imagine that I summoned a creature to block the camera.
And so the ashen fog peacefully covered the camera lens.
I grabbed the money by the ankle.
“-town!”
The suppression lasted a moment.
He grabbed the human who was about to crash to the ground after grabbing his ankle. He covered his mouth with the other hand that was not supporting his body.
Okay, the tables are turned.
Money tried to rebel.
But it was no use.
Fragile beings.
Those who were left without weapons were extremely vulnerable, and made their compatriots let their guard down.
“money.”
Whispered softly.
“You did the best you could.”
They locked me in a room that didn’t seem to have any life in it, so I couldn’t breathe.
I knew that physical abuse alone was not enough to kill it slowly, so I brought in the Ashen Cloak. I withheld food, and tried various ways to humiliate it, such as spilling water on the floor.
It means that you tried your best to kill me, a mere human being without a superpowered body.
Even well done. I decided to give him credit. He was definitely a master in this field.
But all that struggling is meaningless in the face of the overwhelming difference in skill.
“You probably didn’t realize it because you only saw it on video.”
Even his own kind could not easily raise their swords against the children of the World Tree.
The owners of the enhanced bodies fell in droves. The corpses piled up to form mountains.
What about you?
An ordinary human who is neither of the same race nor possessor of an enhanced body?
Taang!
The veteran agent twisted his arm and fired his gun.
A sharp pain shot through my body.
I laughed softly.
“That’s amazing.”
He was one of the most poisonous people I’ve ever met.
He had the right to rush at me and catch me himself.
Bang! Ta-da!
“There’s no need to blame yourself for coming in alone.”
I looked down at the human being drenched in my pouring blood.
“It doesn’t matter how many of you there are, you’re useless to me.”
As you probably already know.
Don, here’s why I never felt insulted no matter what you tried.
To me, you are more like a weak, insignificant creature.
And now I want to use you as a nutrient.
Normally, I would refuse to inhale it, but at times like this, I would use it to my advantage, so people would call me a traitor. It was so disgusting to see someone reject the grace of the World Tree and only use it when it was convenient for them.
But please understand.
Because my faithfulness to the golden leaves remains the same.
“I’ll leave the clothes for you.”
He whispered, looking down into the eyes where fear was disappearing and resignation was filling them.
“There won’t be any leftovers.”
“Ugh, ugh!”
“Your son.”
He said this while looking at the human struggling to speak.
“You’ll be left alone, but I gave you several chances.”
Absorbed.
I felt a surge of rejection, but I did it anyway. Don couldn’t even scream. I closed my eyes and sucked him in, feeling the wounds on my body heal and my energy rise.
Then when I opened my eyes, I had no money.
His clothes and belongings were left on the floor.
I sighed and vomited my stomach acid onto the floor.
After the seizure subsided, he picked up Don’s cell phone, his ID card, and his gun and got up from his seat.
“hmm.”
I stand for a moment in the ashen fog that fills the room.
Only after fully realizing that my body had recovered did I slowly begin to mutter to myself.
I ignored the hallucinations that the ash-gray cloak was beginning to create.
“Shall we go?”
I thought people would come running when I heard gunshots.
Do you know that guns are used as part of torture?
Well, you wouldn’t think that a guy who hadn’t eaten for two days and had been interrogated in various ways would be able to subdue someone so silently.
It seemed like there were quite a few people who thought they were mentally damaged by the two-day incident.
I will soon feel something strange and come running… .
“I want to eat something delicious.”
He muttered, raised his gun, and aimed it at the chain.
“I’m hungry.”
Bang! Bang!
Inhalation always left a bad aftertaste.
***
Navigating the CIS building wasn’t that difficult.
It was more convenient because the money card had authority everywhere. I used the intelligence agency chief’s gun to break the chain and leisurely left. I hid myself somewhere and dragged a security guard out, knocked him out, and then changed into my uniform and put on my hat.
I wish I had a lens.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have one, so I pulled my hat down low enough to cover my eyes.
Then he headed to Don’s office.
I found out the location of the office by asking confidently.
“The chief engineer left the badge behind, didn’t he?”
Since the patch was actually his and the cleaner didn’t know about Don Child’s ambitious project, he was kind enough to point me to the location.
He looked at me a bit strangely, but he didn’t stop me because I smiled brightly and walked away confidently.
My experience working in a similar intelligence agency a long time ago was helpful.
Intelligence agencies are all similar.
There were no CCTVs inside the building, so it was easy to move around.
There were hardly any CCTV cameras inside the premises as the employees’ identities were confidential.
I naturally went into Don Child’s room.
“What brings you here?”
I smiled broadly and closed the door to the secretary’s office.
It took about two minutes to silently knock out those present.
“It was worth the effort.”
It took about ten minutes to break into Don Child’s office.
The computer was of course password protected, but I just removed the entire hard drive from the main unit.
I felt around the wall to find a hidden space and took the hard drives stored there.
About that time the alarm sounded.
[Code Alpha! Code Alpha!]
They use alpha here.
[Suspect Escapes!]
You don’t have to yell like that.
I plan on going back there soon.
[Code Alpha! Arm all staff immediately!]
“It takes more than blood to fake a death.”
After packing up my hard drive, I opened the office window.
The premises were noisy with urgent footsteps and blaring alarms.
I looked down at the place and the moment there was no one there, I jumped down four floors.
Then, he walked towards the interrogation room, keeping his footsteps quiet.
As I walked, I thought briefly about the family photo of Don that was left in the office.
money.
A corrupt agent who tried to save his terminally ill son.
Surely, he must have hated and despised himself for being helpless in the face of the world’s cruelty. Hatred would soon turn to anger, and anger would be used to justify his actions.
That’s too bad.
You must have cried and begged at Colton’s feet to save your son.
After doing everything they could, they came to get me.
He was smart enough to realize that even if a few humans were attached to watch me, the situation could change in an instant.
That’s why I came to pour water alone. Knowing that it doesn’t make a difference whether I’m alone or with five or fifty people.
Hoping that I would just break.
Crushed by the weight of the past, I lost my will to live and just withered away… .
“But I can’t die for you.”
Kyle would really go crazy then.
It might chase me even after I die.
“May he rest in peace.”
I whispered emotionlessly as I headed to the interrogation room, slowly starting to forget his name.
***
Anthony Conway noticed that Hildebert was in the interrogation room at some point.
He raised his gun and aimed it at the creature. Those around him followed suit.
All of the subordinates had no unnecessary movements.
They would easily pass the physical test of the Black Badger recruitment test.
Then, great resilience and eternal youth will follow.
But his wife will never become the Black Badger.
So the choice to become a Black Badger was meaningless.
It’s of no use to him… .
“I’ll give you a chance to choose.”
It was clear that they were all dying just a few minutes ago.
Standing in the middle of the interrogation room now – I don’t know how I got in – Hildebert looked very healthy and beautiful.
White hair that was sticky and sticky, spread out in layers here and there.
The interrogation room floor still bears traces of brutal torture.
Now, things like that seem like nothing more than staged scenes for a movie.
How can this be?
Anthony Conway thought.
I know the concept of inhalation.
I knew it, but when I actually saw it with my own eyes, the situation was so unreal that I couldn’t believe it.
And where is the money?
The alarm was supposed to sound immediately when he died, but Don Child’s vital signs continued unabated and suddenly disappeared at one point.
So at first they thought there was a problem with the chip implanted in the body.
But now that I look back, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
No, their boss is… .
… … .
No, I don’t think so.
You never said you could absorb a living human, did you?
“If you kneel down and kiss my feet, I will spare your life.”
Hildebert’s voice resonated through the interrogation room.
A pale space where only those who wish for eternal life stand.
“I think it’s a rather merciful act. What do you think?”
Taang!
The answer was replaced by a gunshot.
A bullet that missed its target and made a hole in the wall. Anthony Conway watched the humanoid creature slowly turn its head back towards him without lowering its gun.
A clear golden gaze pierces him.
Conway clenched his hands to keep himself from shaking.
The effect wasn’t great, but… .
“good.”
Hildebert said softly.
“You do it with my right hand.”
“what?”
Conway asked back reflexively.
“What are you talking about?”
“You are my left leg.”
The white-haired man turned his head and pointed at his bald subordinate without responding to his words.
The subordinate took a step back with a terrified look on his face, but Hildebert didn’t even blink.
He said it almost as if he was having fun.
“The rest can just be burned without a trace.”
It took Anthony Conway about three minutes to figure out what he meant.
By the time I understood, it was already on its way to becoming Hildebert’s severed right hand.
You didn’t tell me that my hand could grow back.
That was his last thought.
The fact that the other person was crazy enough to cut off my limbs to fake my death… .
***
At 10 o’clock that evening.
Scar Owen broke his mug as he watched the breaking news streaming in.
[A fight inside the CIS headquarters. Many people, including Black Badger Hildebert Taleb and Intelligence Agency Director Don Child, who were taken in as suspects, were killed. Parts of Hildebert Taleb’s body and Don Child’s ID were left at the scene… ]
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