Chapter 44
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Translator: Silver Dragon
Chapter: 44
Chapter Title: Secrets of Planet Debenna (5)
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Right after learning the full story of the incident.
I uploaded all the information to the Gallery.
Only then did the Gallery users start to understand why this place had been abandoned for over a century.
Damn, those crazy Xeno bastards...
Crazy for money and messing with Ancients' stuff?
Screw you all, you deserved to die.
Why do idiots who mess with Ancients' stuff and get their entire species wiped out keep popping up periodically?
Didn't we go to war with the Ancients back in the day and get utterly crushed?
Oh.
The Utres' tech level is insane.
Tech that copies and stores spacetime?
Holy shit... speechless.
To advanced races like them, species like us must look like bugs, right?
I thought it was just a simulation, but it's a simulation made by copying spacetime lololol
This one's a real shocker. I knew there was a tech gap, but not this huge...
This is a total dilemma right now.
From the uploaded data, one NPC from the simulation popped out into reality and got trapped in Facility 3.
The barrier around Facility 3 wasn't activated to protect the facility from external attacks—it was to keep whatever's inside from escaping.
The maintenance logs show Facility 3 was deliberately sabotaged by Debenna Corp as a last-ditch effort to prevent that thing from getting out.
That's why the planet's main computer recognized it as an emergency and sealed off the entire planet.
For the newbie to leave now, the planetary lockdown needs to be lifted.
But to lift the lockdown, the root cause—that freak in Facility 3—has to be eliminated.
In other words, if you want to leave the planet, that thing gets to come out of Facility 3.
Conversely, to keep it locked in, the newbie can't leave the planet.
They block outgoing but let customers in? If you're sealing it, shouldn't you block all entry and exit?
True to those money-grubbing Debenna bastards, they programmed it to accept customers even during emergency lockdowns.
The programming shows that when a financial crisis trigger activates, it actually encourages customer attraction. These guys are total lunatics...
Damn, those money-crazed bastards.
Logs show someone lowered the barrier once and then raised it again.
Wait, who lowered the barrier?
Timing suggests Belid Imperial troops. They probably lowered it without knowing, lost all their forces, and barely resealed it.
While posts flooded the Gallery.
I fought off the swarming corpse hounds nonstop.
Each one wasn't that strong.
But their numbers were starting to become a real burden.
Fuck, corpse hounds are swarming like crazy.
So what do I do now?
Tell me in comments quick, no time fuck!
Time to choose now.
(1) Go toe-to-toe with the freak in Facility 3. (2) Avoid direct confrontation and find another way.
FYI, I'd look for another way. That monster in there chewed through five Belid legions.
So, what's it gonna be?
I replied immediately.
I hate complicated stuff. Going with whatever ends this fastest.
How do I smash that freak's head right now?
As if he'd anticipated my response.
Cleaning Specialist replied right away, like he'd been waiting.
Sigh, you simple brute, knew you'd say that.
Then access the main computer via the database terminal.
Just command it to deactivate the barrier.
I connected to the main computer immediately.
Found the barrier deactivation button there and pressed it.
Then.
— BOOM!
A massive impact echoed from outside.
Immediately after, the ground began shaking violently.
Along with the earth's fierce tremors.
The source of all evil slowly revealed its true form.
The moment I laid eyes on it.
I realized it right away.
Why the money-mad Debenna Corp had sealed the planet just to contain it.
Why the Belid Empire had sacrificed so many soldiers to reactivate the barrier.
I understood instantly upon seeing that mountain of corpses.
What should I even call that monster?
It was too horrific to even describe its form.
It was a monster pieced together from countless Xenos.
At its center was a red mechanical eye that looked like a core.
That core was connected to thick cables that seemed to supply power.
Around that core, an enormous number of corpses were attached like parts.
— $#%!?!%$
The countless Xenos embedded in its body writhed.
The heads of hundreds of millions, billions of Xenos moved alive all at once.
Hands, feet, and entrails had lost their original purpose, reduced to parts of this new machine.
'I misjudged this.'
Regret flooded me the instant I saw that monster.
Sure, I'm good at close combat, but only against opponents in my weight class.
A monster that vastly outclassed me in size was beyond comprehension.
How the hell do you even fight that thing?
(Rough sketch of a machine moving using billions of corpses as parts)
Size of several Tower Phallises combined.
How do you fight a monster like that?
I figured it'd just be hordes of monsters pouring out at worst.
This is way beyond my expectations—no clue how to even approach it.
Damn it, warn for gross pics!
Ugh... gonna puke...
What the hell is this...? Using corpses as parts?
Those aren't corpses—they look alive...
Holy shit, that's even worse.
The Gallery users were shell-shocked by its grotesque appearance.
Well, same for me.
Guys, that's not the point right now.
Tell me quick how to deal with that thing.
An ordinary infantryman beating a monster that size? No way.
You'd need a ship or an army, but right now neither's an option...
This time, even the Gallery users had no real answers.
Right then, as if it had regained its strength, it began to move.
— GRRRRRRRR
The corpse monster's body slowly turned.
The central eye scanned around.
That corpse's central pupil felt even more terrifying.
Right after, it started doing something bizarre.
— SHHHH!
It extended corpse arms toward a building.
The corpses writhed and moved toward the building.
Soon, the building was overrun by those corpses.
It was a form of infection.
Like bees swarming to build a new hive.
The corpse monster began expanding its territory by distributing its corpses.
Its intent was crystal clear.
To protect its weakness—the cables—it was instinctively erecting a defensive barrier.
I watched in horror.
It was a hopeless situation.
By far the worst monster I'd faced yet.
The one silver lining: its movements weren't free.
It seemed to draw power through those cables.
Which meant it couldn't move beyond the cable's reach.
That's when I got an idea.
If those cables were its weakness.
Before the corpse monster could expand further.
I could rush in fast and sever the cables, right?
No time to think.
I made my decision and moved immediately.
"Command Unit 2, report status."
"Abomination operating normally."
In the simulation, on the artificial planet Ekalshame.
The command units were busy at work.
"Barrier shutdown confirmed."
"Why was the barrier deactivated?"
"Appears to be a human who accessed the main computer and made a mistake."
"Inferior species. Stupid. Good for us."
"Now begin planetary takeover. Initiate Vortex Drive production."
Without time to savor their small victory.
They immediately began preparations to build the Vortex Drive.
Their goal: move the artificial planet Ekalshame into real space.
To achieve that, they dispatched the Abomination core outside the simulation.
The Abomination core was a highly specialized unit designed to escape the simulation.
Since complex entities couldn't escape simulations.
The Abomination was equipped with only the bare minimum functions.
The escaped Abomination infiltrated the amusement park.
And began reinforcing its body using the park's abundant resources.
"How many parts secured so far?"
"Approximately 28.7 billion."
"Confirmed. Sufficient for planetary modification."
Those were the Xenos' corpses.
It reinforced the core using Xeno corpses as parts.
"Begin modification now."
The Prime Unit's order came down.
Immediately after, the Abomination started infecting buildings.
Infected buildings would produce parts for the Vortex Drive construction.
As it infected buildings one by one.
— KABOOM!
A building exploded entirely amid the blast.
Silence fell over the core room.
The Prime Unit's eyes flashed.
Her gaze turned to the command units.
"Report what this situation is."
The flustered command units avoided her eyes, staring only at their interfaces.
"I-Investigating now."
"I-It! The human who accessed the planetary main computer earlier did this!"
"Human?"
She recalled the human who had hunted the time spider not long ago.
That human was still alive and interfering with her?
The Prime Unit spoke in a fury-laced voice.
"Capture. It. Now."