Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 136
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Episode 136
69. Message from Space (5)
He nodded.
“A hunter?”
Vivabot 014 laughed.
“Old School? Or Awaken? Oh, Awaken isn’t going to be of much help here, is it?’
Are you a Korean American? Or is one of your parents Korean?
At least, it is undeniable that this woman knows a lot about Korean culture.
When everyone else was shouting “why”, you got banned like a knife just because you said “whack”.
“Old School”
There is not much time.
I need to recover my account quickly and get my message to Melon.
“What’s the grade?”
“S.”
“S?”
Vivabot glared at me and snorted.
“Did you just say S?”
“S.”
“Excuse me, I have a database of old-school Hunters, excluding China. If you lie, I will ban you for a month. Is that okay?” “Callsign, Professor.”
There is nothing to deceive, so there is nothing to be shaken about.
Even Vivabot, who had been arrogant about my confident attitude, must have sensed something unusual as he looked at the monitor with a displeased expression and started typing on the keyboard.
It looks like she’s about to discover something.
She looked back and forth between me and the monitor screen with her eyes wide open.
She looked at me and asked in a trembling voice.
“Oh, by any chance, what’s your real name?”
“Park Gyu.”
“Do you have a badge? It’s the badge that is only awarded to S-ranks.”
“Oh, that.”
I got up from my seat and rummaged through the cabinets.
As I rummaged through the miscellaneous belongings wrapped in a black bag inside my duffel bag, I soon found a shiny gold badge.
The so-called golden fleece
This is a pure gold badge that is said to have been inspired by the skin of Chrysomalus, the golden ram found by Jason, a hero in Greek mythology.
It is a symbol of the S-class Hunters, of which there were only 12 in the world, and was once an ideal mark that all Hunters aspired to possess.
I’m not the type of person who likes to reveal things like this, so I rarely touch it except when I’m participating in official events, and since the Old School Hunters themselves have fallen, revealing it all would be nothing more than a kind of self-deprecating act, so I kept it sealed deep inside.
I never thought I’d bring it up again, at a time like this.
I thought it was a good thing I didn’t throw it away and showed the badge in front of Vivabot.
“……ah.”
Vivabot’s face turned blue.
“Back, can you show me the back?”
I turned the badge around and held the back up to the camera.
The back has the model number and encrypted QR code engraved.
She may not have the ability to verify the authenticity of a QR code just by looking at it, but at least the format number will be stored in her database.
She checked the form number and asked in an excited voice.
“A real professor? Are you a real professor? The one who first discovered the mechanism of mutation?!”
“Yes.”
“No, why would someone as great as that professor do something like that…?”
“Do you do any drugs or anything?”
“……no.”
Her question was disconcerting, but fortunately she seemed to recognize that I was the professor himself.
“Oh my goodness, the professor is alive. I’ll put up a notice right now and connect you to the Melon president!”
The world is becoming more and more famous and there are things to see.
It is interesting to see Vivabot, who used to be so hostile, turn into the most active helper. But ironically, her kindness carries with it a fatal danger.
“Notice?”
He asked urgently.
“Yes! I’m going to put up a big notice saying, “Here’s some advice from Professor Skeleton (AKA Professor)!”
“Don’t do it.”
“?”
Are you crazy? This woman
Are you telling me to die?
Woo Min-hee is probably watching this live right now, and I’m going to lose face after lying to her dozens of times that I don’t use the internet.
“I’m really sorry, but could you please keep this anonymous?”
“Why, why? Excuse me, but what is the reason?”
“There are people targeting me.”
Vivabot nodded.
“Okay! I’ll keep you anonymous.”
“Oh, wait!”
“What’s going on?”
“Please leave the skeleton alone.”
“yes?”
“So, except for the professor, just the skeleton. Bold it.”
A cold expression appeared on Bibabut’s face, which had been quiet for a long time.
“Why does it have to be like that?”
“No, it’s okay to reveal the skeleton, but it’s a bit difficult to reveal that the skeleton is the same person as the professor…
“I’ll keep it anonymous.”
The video chat window closed with cold words.
At the same time, a notification window popped up.
Melon mask.
I don’t know about anything else, but it seems like he doesn’t have an eye for picking people.
Anyway, it’s a bit unfair, but I got what I wanted.
It’s a shame that I can’t reveal my name, but if you think about it, wasn’t it all an act to save the Melon Mask?
I tapped away at the keyboard, feeling the newfound authority with my whole body.
Anonymous: Melon.
My message was posted in a special chat window at the bottom center where only a select few could post.
MELON_MASK: Huh? Who are you? Anonymous?
Anonymous: I have one question.
MELON_MASK: You want to ask? What specifically?
Anonymous: Were you close with Bumpy?
MELON_MASK: Bumpy? Were you close with Bumpy?
Melon Mask took his hands off the keyboard.
“of course.”
He was shedding tears.
“I raised him. His parents were hunted by poachers, and he was left to die in an animal shelter. I heard his story and took him in and raised him myself.”
The moment I heard those words, I found a little hope.
Knock knock
Anonymous: Does that bumpy like you? How much does he follow you? Did he follow you even after he got bigger?
MELON_MASK : Yeah! Of course! Even when he got bigger, he still liked me!
This concludes the verification.
Now the ball is in Melon’s court.
Anonymous: How about using Bumpy?
MELON_MASK : What? Bumpy?
Anonymous: Release Bumpy and kill Donald.
MELOM_MASK: Isn’t that a ridiculous way to do it? I could die too, right? Was it really your idea, Anonymous, to die together?
Melon looked at the camera with a suspicious expression.
I quickly added a line to the chat before his suspicions turned negative.
Anonymous: You like Bumpy? You don’t trust Bumpy?
Melon Mask rolled his eyes.
Anonymous: As Defender said earlier, judging by the state of the zombies, it wasn’t Bumpy who killed the people. Bumpy killed one woman. The rest seem to be Donald’s crimes. I don’t know why that woman was killed by Bumpy, but
Before I could even finish my chat, Melon Mask hit the chat.
MELON_MASK: Anne hated Bumpy. She used to beat Bumpy when I wasn’t watching. She even tried to kill me. Naturally, Bumpy hated her too.
Anonymous: Then isn’t there a set method?
The way to do this is to use a bump.
You have to trust Bumpy and let him fight for Melon.
That’s the only way I’ve found for Melon to get out of this situation.
But my method is in direct conflict with the world’s perception.
As expected, a user who was presumed to be a hunter expressed his opinion.
Anonymous 68: I get what you mean, but mutations are overly intelligent beings who love humans and who consider the human race to be their biggest threat.
You can’t be friends with them, because they don’t hate humans instinctively, but rather “think” about it. Anonymous 68’s opinion is the so-called common theory that explains the nature of mutations.
I learned that in school, and I have seen scenes in real life that fit the general theory several times.
However, I have seen and actually experienced counterexamples to this.
Message from MELON_MASK: Hey, you’re a famous hunter? Our staff says,
Melon sent me a personal message.
I pressed the “Archive” button to permanently save this monumental message and then replied to him.
SKELTON: There are many enemies. But my opinion is true. I have experienced it myself. Mutations and humans are not necessarily incompatible beings.
Message from MELON_MASK: Really?
He looks like he doesn’t trust me.
It might be hard to believe.
He too must have seen, heard, and learned common sense and ideas about mutations.
To convince him, I went through the album and found a photo.
It is a memorable photo taken with me and Gold while he was alive.
When the gold guy’s body was almost fully recovered, I took a two-shot with him in front of the dog house I made for him.
Although Gold has passed away and I am now blurred like a ghost in the photo, the bond we shared when the photo was taken still lives vividly in my heart at this very moment.
I sent a message with a blurry photo of me and Gold as a keepsake.
Message from MELON MASK: This photo is…?
SKELTON: Me and my friend who went to the other world.
Indescribable emotions passed through Melon Mask’s face as it appeared on camera.
He looked into the camera and spoke to us.
MELON_MASK : If I release Bumpy
At that moment, the door to the work module opened.
A man in a spacesuit, holding a wrench in both hands, ran out through the open door, his movements full of emotion evident at first glance.
puck!
The ranch hit the zombie’s head.
“melon!!!!!!”
Donald McGalley.
Plus Ultra’s true nightmare shouted while glaring at the CCTV.
“I knew it! You piece of shit! You always lie. It’s good I let you live! I knew you’d mess with the rocket!”
Donald McGalley walked through the modules towards the habitation module.
The shutters were closed, but to him who had the master key, the shutters meant nothing.
Melon is now left with few options.
Do you follow the impossible opinions of countless users, or simply bet everything on your bond with Bumpy?
At least the latter would lead to a less painful and quicker death.
It seems that Melon Mask’s thoughts were not much different from mine.
He headed straight to the cultivation module and soon found himself in agony in front of the module’s shutter.
His finger was pointing at the shutter button, but he was struggling and unable to press it.
Many Vivarians watched the scene with bated breath.
This is the moment when the fate of our world’s creator is decided.
Soon the shutter opened and Donald McGaley appeared, holding a bloody ranch.
“melon.”
Donald chuckled.
“You killed a zombie. I thought you couldn’t kill a chick with your hands.”
Melon asked coldly, glaring at him.
“Why now?”
“what?”
“Why did you betray me now? Couldn’t you have betrayed me from the beginning?”
At this, Donald snickered and pointed.
“You fool! Did you ever expect the world to end so easily? Hmm? If the world were fine, I would have taken you back to Earth!”
After spitting out a cold taunt, Donald leapt toward Melon.
Melon’s trembling hand opened the shutter button as she watched Donald approaching at a steady pace.
The shutters opened to reveal an area of automated cultivation facilities, filled with greenery.
The melon went through the gap in the opening shutter.
“Are you crazy?”
Donald flailed his arms and legs in front of the shutter, barely holding onto the edge of it to steady himself and peering out across the growing area.
What appeared in his eyes at that moment was probably not shock but absurdity.
A giant sloth was staring blankly at a human named Melon right in front of him.
It extended its forelimbs with hideous claws.
I’m not trying to kill Melon.
I’m trying to pat Melon’s head.
“Bumpy!”
Melon looked at her animal with an indescribable expression.
Bumpy soon found Donald looking down at him.
Bumpy revealed it.
Donald hurriedly tried to close the shutter, but the space sloth, as if mocking such a human’s struggle, flew through the zero gravity space at a speed unbelievable for a sloth and rushed at Donald, swinging its hideous forepaw.
At least two things were certain.
Donald is dead, and the sloth in space is faster than we imagined.
*
MELON_MASK: I don’t know how to express my gratitude to everyone today.
The whole situation is over.
Control of Plus Ultra returned entirely to Melon Mask, and all enemies threatening Melon were also cleanly eradicated.
Today’s mission to save the creator of our world has been successfully completed.
MELON_MASK: I’m really sorry, but my heart is still pounding because I was so nervous. I’m going to rest for a few days, and I have to clean up the blood and the bodies.
The creator of our world stared at us through a camera.
A homemade keyboard sound was heard in the still screen.
MELON_MASK: Today I owe you my life. Dongtan Mom, Jekyll, Defender, Grrrrr, Ohio, M9, and Skell Ani, a user who requested to remain anonymous, etc.
I mentioned a few representative examples, but the biggest driving force that allowed me to live today was everyone’s support.
MELON_MASK: I owe you my life, and I will repay it in some way. I will have to think about what I can do here, but I hope that at least the message from space will give you hope.
Melon Mask stopped typing and chuckled.
He filled out the chat window again with a look of remembrance on his face.
MELON_MASK: If you think about it, aren’t your messages also messages from space?
Maybe so.
MELON_MASK : We live on a planet, look up!!
Melon looked up at her head, smiling brightly.
He turned the camera to focus on one window.
Through the window facing space, a fleeting blue planet was slowly rotating with indescribable beauty.
Although some parts of it were tinged with gray, the Earth still had the colors we know.
“Then see you in a week, my friends!”
The camera captured a space sloth nestled in a corner.
Our space sloth, Bumpy, hung out in the plantation area as if nothing had happened, munching on a leaf and staring blankly at the camera.
Viva! It was only an hour later that Melon and Bumpy’s two-shot was posted on Apocalypse’s notice board.
It’s a funny picture, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who felt “hope” after seeing it.
End
ⓒ Road Warrior #dp8g
(**Okjam*) -Recommendation 125-
There are only 12 S-class hunters in the world… He, beatboxes…
(One Two**) -Recommendation 110-
The big picture was that I took the sloth, who doesn’t seem to have many desires other than eating and sleeping.
The chain of hope that leads to Catzuma-Gold-Bumpy is crazy.
(Donggle**) -Recommendation94-
Thanks to the time I spent with Gold, I was able to save Melon.
I want to see gold today
(Kim***) -Recommendation89-
I miss you today…my loyal dog Gold…
(Dream***) -Recommendation88-
The staff’s view of the professor uploading low-quality beatboxing and doing stupid things
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Our feelings when we saw the professor take off his clothes in the classroom and start tap dancing naked(…)
(Grape*) -Recommendation79-
Wow, this is a really monumental event in this world.
(acer***) -Recommendation67-
Why are you doing that…? Are you on drugs? If someone you just met reacts like this, how confused must Woo Min-hee have been?
(Tashia***) -Recommendation62-
Go!!! Skeleton!!! Get out of Professor’s body!!!
(Snowman**) -Recommendation 56-
After seeing this, don’t get your hopes up for something like meeting a feral mutant or becoming a cat mom raising 100 stray cats, a sea monkey fanatic, etc.
They even chew on bone fragments.
(Kim***Kimchi Man) -Recommendation 37-
Park Gyu’s actions up until now were not a joke.
(K**) -Recommendation 33-
It was a few episodes where I felt like I had become a Viva user.. I was nervous until the end
(**gaet) -Recommendation 29-
Space Sloth Bumpy, sudden crush
(Chicken****) -Recommendation 22-
How would Dongtan Mom feel after seeing the two-shot of Bumpy and Melon?
(Marshal**) -Recommendation 12-
I’m tired of the One Punch Neulbo build-up
(exd***) -Recommendation 6-
I want to marry a road warrior (author)
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