Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 426



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Excavation (8)

At the word ‘grave’ that Henry uttered, Alan’s gaze was mostly focused beyond the space door.

First, a dark space appeared. It was a room that looked like a terraced field, and on each step were placed several gold-plated hibernation capsules.

The capsule had stopped working, and all the lights were out. If it contained a corpse, it could be called a coffin, and if so, it could also be called a grave.

Oros was hovering around the space gate.

“Shall we go in?”

“Mr. Allen said it was a one-way street. What are you talking about? Do you know where that is?”

“I couldn’t hear you for a moment because I was concentrating on editing.”

“I understand completely. I also forget to drink beer when I’m exploring. Oh, it’s about time.”

Henry put his hand inside his beard and took out a can of beer and took a sip. Alan and Oros’ eyes naturally met.

“Don’t look at me like that, just think of beer as fuel.”

It was the same logic as Shiva. Shiva was difficult to take because she was at depth 5, but Henry had a detox magicware implanted in his liver, so there was no problem.

“You’ve been using it for a long time.”

“I guess it’s time to do a checkup.”

“Leave it to me.”

“Oh, then that’s good for me.”

Alan was the only superhuman with a depth of 6 who delved purely into magic engineering. It was a rare opportunity to get someone like that to fix something, even if you spent a lot of money.

“I won’t collapse right away, so please finish investigating the space door and then I’ll ask you.”

“All right.”

“Now, it’s time to discuss the fate of the relics. What would you like to do?”

“Whether you understand it or not, you have to do the research first.”

“I was worried when you brought up the bomb delivery story, but luckily it’s not like anyone’s going to come anyway, so let’s explore leisurely.”

Henry and Oros moved away from the space gate control device.

Alan continued to turn the dial while wearing his golden crown. Except for the place he called the tomb, every change of scenery was just noise. When he tried to send a spider, it bounced off the door as soon as it touched it.

‘The spatial connection is unstable.’

The shelter where Coatl slept was a facility built at least 9999 years ago. This place must have been built around the same time, so being able to travel to the other side of the planet was a miracle in itself.

When I took off my crown and manipulated the dial, only the outdoor scenery of various parts of the planet was visible through the door. When I put on my crown, all I could see was the tomb.

‘The crown will act as a kind of passport. You said you were from the Tesca family, right?’

If that was the case, then the facility that looked like a tomb was most likely the shelter of the Tesca family. Judging by the hibernation capsule, it was almost certain.

‘Is this the tomb Mr. Goldberg mentioned?’

He was also given permission to dig as he pleased if he found it, so he could do whatever he wanted. Of course, it didn’t matter to Alan whether he gave his permission or not. Even if he had been told not to, he would have gone in without hesitation.

But I held back because it was a one-way street. I just had to finish investigating here first and then go in.

Alan had no intention of quietly handing over the space gate that opened on the other side of the planet to Soldos. Even though they had made a magical contract, they could not completely bind Depth 6.

What could Soldos not do that Allen had conceived? The ability to deliver hot gifts through space doors was both a tremendous power and a threat.

‘Let’s blow this place up and enter the tomb.’

I could see Henry slowly moving away from me out of the corner of my eye. His beard was twitching slightly.

‘I’m sure I’ll get a chance to get it someday.’

Henry moved further away.

Alan reached out to the box leaning around him.

Beep?

“Don’t pretend you don’t know···.”

Beep.

“Come here.”

Alan put his arm into the drawer of the box. He rummaged around for a while, but he couldn’t find what he was looking for. The object he was looking for was a diamond crystal that powered the space door.

“Where did the correction go?”

Beep?

“I saw you packing earlier, but you don’t know?”

Alan’s vision went beyond the pupils. He observed the range itself, and there were no blind spots. He could also see the little boy lying face down behind him.

“Come here.”

Kyurur···.

He tried to imitate the sound of a sleeping person snoring, but it was too awkward. Alan walked over to the boy and held his chin with both hands. One side of his cheek was bulging.

“Spit it out.”

Kyurur···.

I continued to pretend not to know, opened my mouth, and put my hand in. I pushed my tongue aside, which was interfering, and took out the crystal I was biting. The little boy got up right away and bumped his torso against my leg.

Kkk!!!

“You have to try harder to hide it.”

It was a huge improvement, even if it was just for a moment, because Alan had been fooled even though he wasn’t paying attention. I left the two of them scheming and sat down near the control unit.

The crystal was blue overall, with golden dots flowing like the Milky Way. It was an object that could handle the magical power required to move to the other side of the planet.

The crystal itself boasted an overwhelming storage capacity, and the magic applied to the space gate was beyond comprehension.

‘I have to finish scanning before it breaks.’

Even now, the spiders are moving around in various directions, thoroughly searching the magic circle and magic circuits, and sending information to Allen.

After scanning it in 3D, I planned to later recreate it in the basement of the warehouse. If it works, that’s great, and if it fails, there will be knowledge gained.

Alan glanced at Henry and Oros. If they continued on like this, they would tell Cucumber exactly what they had learned from the ruins, as per the contract.

‘It looks like a lot of fun. Exploring the tombs will be fun too.’

He extended his senses outside the space teleportation room. Alan used [Space Manipulation] to gently stimulate the distortion phenomenon. He deliberately hit the gentle guy to excite him, and gently lured the ferocious guy towards him.

“hmm···.”

Oros crouched down and examined the magic circle on the floor, then raised his head and looked around. The danger detection ability of Depth 6 was truly amazing.

“But why are you like that?”

“I have a feeling it’s going to be a bit unsettling. What do you think of Henry’s beard?”

“I don’t know yet. It’s more because of Alan.”

Oros looked this way, and Alan just shrugged.

“I think the flow outside has become strange. What do you think, Alan?”

“The distortions that fill the entire ruins must have been caused by a runaway. And once something happens, it’s likely to happen again.”

“Shall we tidy up and go out?”

“If it’s really dangerous, let’s escape there.”

Alan pointed to the space door connected to the tomb. Henry and Oros also agreed immediately, not wanting to go out right away.

But shortly after I lowered my head, I heard an ominous sound.

Squeak!

It started with the metal doors that Alan and Oros had opened left and right. The doors twisted and began to elongate like cheese. The wide ceiling began to compress into a single point. The cylindrical teleportation room changed into a cone.

“henry!”

As soon as Oros put Henry on his side, the rock fell down with a thud. It was originally the size of a small dust particle, but at some point, it swelled up to a large size.

As Oros ran to the door, he witnessed a bizarre scene. All types of matter were elongated like spaghetti and sucked into a single point.

Oros turned his head. Rather than rushing into a place where his muscles were warning him of danger, the space door that Alan had mentioned was a much better option.

Alan waited for Oros in front of the space gate. He would disappear for a moment after entering, but it would be okay if he insisted that it was because of the nature of the ruins.

“Mr. Alan, come in quickly.”

“You go in first.”

Oros jumped in, and Alan went inside, releasing the distortion he had been blocking with [Space Manipulation]. As soon as he set foot, he felt the connection between this side and the other side being severed.

A few new automatons flew up, emitting light. Henry looked dazed under the pouring light.

“The once peaceful facility suddenly collapsed···.”

Henry opened his eyes wide and looked at Alan and Oros.

“The two of you joined together and the exploration went faster, but all sorts of accidents happened. This can’t be a coincidence, right?”

“Because the pace has gotten faster, incidents that should have been happening in small chunks are now coming together as one big thing.”

“That makes sense.”

Henry got up from the floor, believing the culprit’s words. There was that place, and here was here. With so much to investigate, how could he rest?

Oros approached quietly.

“Mr. Alan.”

“yes.”

“I like it when I meet Alan, because I often feel the thrill of my muscles tingling.”

It was a remark befitting a risk-taker. Veteran labyrinth explorers saw danger as an opportunity or a leisure sport, as each screw came loose.

Oros approached Henry in case of an unexpected situation. Alan, who was left alone, split his mind into two. One part was to examine the magic circle that stimulated [Space Manipulation] just by looking at it, and the other part was to explore the tomb.

I stuck to the capsule right next to me and looked inside. It was empty inside, just like the shelter where Coatl had been.

‘Did they recycle the corpses here too?’

I wasn’t interested in the empty capsule. I looked around, thinking that if I found the control device like in the last shelter, I would see the labyrinthine script. Then I stepped on something that was rustling.

‘It’s flesh covered in a den of disgusting things.’

A disease that had a fatal will to the ancients. Its traces remain here.

“Look here.”

“Can you see Mr. Alan?”

Oros and Henry, who were walking together, also found similar traces at the same time. There, too, there was a wide area of ​​twisted flesh spread out like a carpet.

When I wore the crown and manipulated the space gate, there were several scenes filled with noise. Perhaps they were shelters that had collapsed due to the abomination.

‘It must have been a suicide. This place was swallowed up.’

Alan took the lead, and Oros took Henry under his wing again. Following the dried flesh, he saw a firmly shut door.

“Before we open, there’s something we need to do first. Please take Professor Henry down for a moment.”

As soon as Oros put Henry down, the leopard’s shadow swallowed him up. It was the same action he took when dealing with the snake.

“Henry will be angry.”

“It’s much better than getting hurt.”

Alan put on his golden crown and put his hand on the door. There was no response, so he pushed with force. The metal door creaked and buckled. Beyond the door was a wide expanse of gray flesh that spurted powder with every step.

But something more important appeared. A fluffy cocoon was stuck to the control panel in the middle of the room.

“Are you dead?”

“No, I’m alive.”

Although it was so faint that Oros couldn’t feel it, there was a subtle flow visible in Alan’s eyes.

Alan’s eyes peered through the cocoon and into the interior. Inside lay an El Dorado man with golden skin, more than 90 percent of his body consumed by the abomination.

Alan took out a large test tube and filled it with the entire thing. It was in a state where it was practically dead, so it could not resist [Space Manipulation].

I removed the flesh attached to the control device and raised my hand, but there was no response.

“It’s broken.”

“It shows signs of being broken by force.”

Oros pointed to the thick wound on his finger. It was an attack that precisely targeted the circuits or magic circle inside the device.

“The abomination is a biological weapon created for destruction. Unfortunately, there is no other way.”

“Shall we wake up Kochi?”

“That’s a good idea.”

Bringing a strange creature back to base or waking it up from its slumber in a suspicious location is usually a sign of doom, but not for Alan and Oros.

If it shows even the slightest suspicious movement, we are ready to eliminate it, and we gradually inject nutrients into the inside of the cocoon.

The shadow of a leopard waiting in the corner rippled wildly, but I ignored it.

The Eldorado people or abominations inside the gochi quickly absorbed the nutrients as soon as they were injected. The dormant magical power slowly began to flow, and life force sprouted little by little.

Alan looked at the test and the screen outside. The previously flat vital signs graph jumped up and down. And then something opened its eyes.

“Hoooooooooo···.”

The air was also sucked in. Judging from the normal vital signs, the composition of the atmosphere seemed similar to that of El Dorado.

The gochi lost its strength and collapsed. Then, small eyeballs popped out of the empty sockets of the El Dorado man. The optic nerves and muscles hanging down stretched out.

“It’s not a pretty sight.”

“It has a unique appearance.”

“Mr. Alan, your tastes are unusual.”

“It’s not a matter of taste, it’s an appreciation.”

The eyeball looked closely at Alan and Oros. Then it looked inside the test tube it was lying in.

“What are you trying to do….”

Before Oros could finish speaking, the abomination exploded. The inside of the test tube turned a deep red.

“I thought the hole where the nutrient solution was injected was connected to the outside.”

“Are you saying that he did this to infect us now?”

“That’s right. As expected, I can’t communicate with a hateful being.”

Alan wrote [Flame] on the outside of the test tube. Blue flames opened wide and purified the flesh and dregs.

“If the abomination were to change to fit modern humans, it would be a big disaster.”

“Mr. Alan, you’d better refrain from making such dangerous remarks. Words have power.”

“A cure can be made.”

“yes?”

The child already had antibodies, and with just a little research, there was a good chance they could be transformed into a cure.

The abomination that had just exploded was over 90 percent transformed, so it was too late to turn it back, and its soul had not been captured.

“So let’s take a look at what happened here.”

The broken circuits and magic circles were restored with [Molecular Assembly]. Alan put on his crown and placed his hand on the control device.