ushernet Chapter 404
Chapter 404
The sleeping consciousness gradually awakens.
The light of the red light installed on the ceiling of the storage compartment, the regular sound of the engine and the sound of breathing on both sides of my head. Among the subtle stimuli that existed before I fell asleep, small and heterogeneous ones were mixed together.
What woke me up was the sound of something heavy stepping on a metal floor.
‘Who is it?’
I opened my eyes to check for the intruder.
The first thing I saw was MCAE (Multipurpose Construction Auxiliary Equipment), which resembled the construction machinery that appears in classic science fiction strategy games. It seemed like they were moving minerals, as they were carrying large chunks of minerals on the thick mechanical arms.
In front of him stood two beings wearing spacesuits that covered their entire bodies. When they saw me open my eyes, they quickly bowed down.
‘They are coldbloods.’
It seems they came to transport food for the mountain crawlers. The Coldbloods who politely bowed to me left the storage compartment with MCAE.
‘I woke up.’
I close my eyes, but there is no sign of sleep. I feel refreshed, so I guess I should just get up now.
I lie down and activate the semi-transparent text box.
Due to this battle, many changes were made to the text box. This is because, in addition to handing over the ‘Revenant Organ’ to the Heavenly Mother, it also preyed on and fused various characteristics during the battle.
‘Well, there wasn’t anything that I thought was extremely useful...’
I also gained a few useful characteristics, such as ‘Hiveformer’.
‘It’s a disturbance needle. It’s been a while since this happened.’
‘Disturbance’ is a body-related fusion characteristic that can be created by feasting on cyborgs and metallic gremlins.
When this property is applied, saliva is created in the body that can be emitted by imitating the electronic signals emitted by the ship. One of the heating spikes on my back has been changed to one for the Disturbing Needle trait.
If you have a jamming needle, you can spy on the communications of ships nearby and intervene. To confuse the enemy camp by sending distorted communications. That is the reason for the existence of Hangjaengchim.
‘It wasn’t a very good trait to begin with.’
In the game, it was implemented to make enemy ships disobey player commands with a probability. It was difficult to use it in practice because success and failure depended on probability. There are many good features such as ‘hijacking’ and ‘radiation disruption’, but there was no need to use them.
The good news is that the penalty has disappeared as we move to reality. As long as you get close to the ship, you can eavesdrop on or disrupt communications going to and from that ship.
‘If I had gotten it earlier, I would have put it to good use.’
There is no particular need at this point.
This is because neutralizing enemy communications is fully possible with the abilities of ‘Messenger of Chaos’ or No. 26. Additionally, since the ‘hijacking’ characteristic has been secured during battle, there is less reason to use the disruption needle.
‘Instead, I have a friend who will use this more usefully than me.’
PS-111, dedicated to hacking among us. I’m thinking of handing over the interference needle to this guy.
Originally, I was thinking about hijacking or radio interference, but after thinking about it again, I think this would be better.
‘The ability to operate machines doesn’t have much of an advantage for him.’
PS-111 is still capable of breaching all security systems if it approaches an enemy line.
Rather, the ability to intervene in the enemy’s communication network and disrupt communication is more suitable. You can use the ‘stealth maneuver’ I gave you before to secretly infiltrate the ship and then operate it by preventing it from contacting the outside world.
‘Let’s hand over the disturbing needle to him.’
“Are you awake?”
The identity of the visitor was PS-111, the Mother of Heaven, who returned in the form of a griffon beast, carrying a hologram regenerator on her back.
“We have completed estimating the target’s action radius based on the information provided by ‘Middle Baby’.”
[Zuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzuzu (Huh? Already? Didn’t I say it would take a few days?)]
Heavenly Mother tilted her head at my question.
“Today is the third day since this guy started analyzing.”
[Zuzu (3rd day?)]
For a moment I thought it was a joke, but the look in her eyes told me it wasn’t. I fell asleep for not just one day, but three days. I guess the mental fatigue from the large-scale battle was greater than I thought.
‘For some reason, I felt refreshed when I woke up.’
It’s worth it since I slept for 3 days.
[Zuzuzu zuzuzu (wake me up midway)]
「It’s okay. “I deliberately didn’t wake you up because you looked tired.”
“I’ll show you the completed simulation of the action radius.”
PS-111 placed the hologram player brought from the situation room on the floor and connected it to the wire taken from the body. Then, a map with a blurry image was output from the player.
“There are a total of 42 places where the ‘Arcane Orca’, an unspecified dangerous creature, is believed to have appeared. Among these, there are five star systems where Arcane Orca is expected to reappear within 60 days: ZP-02, OT-20, Zer-11 conflict zone, U-08, and Dar-Kissos binary star system.”
‘ZP-02?’
Among the places PS-111 mentioned, ZP-02 is a place I know.
‘This is where Star Union’s huge factories are located.’
Approximately 10% of Star Union’s warships come from ultra-large space factories located in the ZP-02 star system. If Arcane Orca had appeared there, it would have been subdued long ago.
“I think we should leave this place out as expected. Even if an Arcane Orca appears there, it will be difficult for us to catch it.”
“Is that so?”
[Zuzzu zuzuzu zuzuzu zuzuzu zuzuzu (Then should we search the remaining 4 places?)]
Surprisingly, there were not many candidates to investigate. Of course, there is no guarantee that traces of Arcane Orca will be found here.
Then PS-111 spoke.
“I recommend two of these: Jer-11 Conflict Area and U-08.”
[Zu Zzu (Why?)]
“Hamilton the Strong said that the number of pirates dealing in rare creatures visiting Jer-11 has increased over the past three months.”
“Who is Sechan Hamilton?”
“He is a pirate infected by ‘Aimorph’ in Asuka 44. “Before going to LV-06, I received information about the pirates’ movements from him.”
「Aha.」
PS-111 looked at me with eyes made of red camera lenses. I felt like he wanted a compliment for some reason, so I stroked his hair with my fingers.
“thank you.”
[Zuzuzuz zuzuzuz zuzuz zuzuzuz (I understand Jer-11. Then why did you recommend U-08?)]
「That was decided by me. “There is a planet inhabited by Wolf natives in U-08.”
The Heavenly Mother pointed to a spot on the hologram as if she was familiar with U-08. There was a small planet there that had a similar image to the cult’s sacred planet I had visited before.
“I got information about Arcane Orca from the natives here in the game, so I’m going to check it out.”
[Zuzuzu (I see)]
I looked down at the result of Mutant Screamer and Gryphon Wolf’s combined efforts. While I was asleep, the plan progressed quite a bit.
‘I’ve decided what to do first.’
[Zuzuzu zuzuzzu zzuzuzu (then let’s start from these two places)]
The Jer-11 conflict zone, a lawless area where pirates roam freely, and U-08, home to the Wolf natives. Those places depicted as holograms are where we must go.
‘ah.’
[Zuzzu zuzuzu (just a moment before that)]
I brought my snout closer to PS-111, who was disconnecting the wires connected to the hologram generator. The auxiliary organ under the chin gently wrapped around the nape of the guy’s neck.
[Zuzuzu Zuzu (I have something to give you)]
“Is it a gift?”
Perhaps because I had had a transplant before, I noticed it right away. PS-111 stroked my accessory organ around my neck with its claws.
“New gifts are always welcome.”
After a while, the genetic essence in my body transferred to the new owner’s body.
A word from the author (author’s review) 「Species: Unidentified hostile space creature
Status: Adult (transcendence level 2)
Goal: Survive (successfully evolve 4 times).
Possessed characteristics (13 body series / 7 psychic series / 5 infection series / 10 special defense series / 9 nest series / 7 internal organ series / 4 environmental adaptation series / 3 multidimensional organisms / 8 space monster series) Dog)
1 Body-related (type in effect): claws, reinforced hind legs, beast carapace, heated spine armor, teeth grip strength, enhanced eyesight, warm skin
– Flesh-related fusion characteristics: regenerative power, mimicry organ, bone beast, reinforced monster wings , Insomnia Host, Harvester’s Maw, Hijacking
2 Superpower-related (types being applied): Humanity, Dragon’s Heart (only), Clairvoyance, Ultra Control
– Superpower-related fusion characteristics: Predator sense, monster’s tentacles, Dark Veil
3 Infection-related (Applying type): Contaminated Blood
– Infection-related fusion characteristics: Parasitic Colony, Gremlin Moss, Acidic Fungal Gland, Corrupt Fungal Organ
4 Special Defense-related: Pain Reduction, Resistance, Disease Resistance, Complete Immunity, Mental Defense, Stealthy Maneuver, Gamma Ray Resistance, illusion of hell
– special defense fusion characteristics: protective color, refractive shell
5 Nest-related (type in effect): expansion enhancement, smog tower, master of the environment, swamp creation, unclean mixture, poison enhancement, hiveformer
– nest-related fusion characteristics : Symbiotic spores, ghost nest
6 Related to internal organs (type being applied): Strengthened endoskeleton, strengthened toxic secretion glands, superior homeostasis, hunger, bioelectric discharge tube
– Fusion characteristics related to internal organs: Berserker synapse, ultra jelly
7 Related to environmental adaptation (Types being applied): Inorganic digestion, Medusa organ (only), Tyrantroid, Warp creature
8 Multidimensional organism: Bio-plasma synthesis, colony consciousness terminal
– Multidimensional organism-related fusion characteristics: Deep space plague
9 Space monster (only): Complete organism , Nightmare Horizon, Organic Evolution, Great Infector, Herald of Pandemonium, Complex Spectral Body, Variable Bioweapon, Black Devourer Cannon Mark of a Formidable Enemy
: Marauder’s Amorphous Polyhedron (Dice of the Void), Colors of the Abyss, Appearance Dominator, Starlight Coordinates, Hydra division
possession type (6)
– Physical enhancement type, superpower enhancement type, infection enhancement type, nest enhancement type, internal organ enhancement type, environmental adaptation enhancement type
Specialization possible type (2)
– Special defense enhancement type (9/16 ), Multidimensional Creature Enhanced Type (3/4)
Space Monster (Only) Type Stage: Stage 2 (Number of characteristics required to achieve stage 3 8/12) (Reward: Essence rearrangement, Double Helix Monolith)
*Incomplete characteristics (7) Dog)
Gills, Giant Creature, Natural Healing, Saw Blade Tentacle, Mimicry, Catfish’s House, Demon Machine
**Token of Incomplete Strong Enemy (0)
– Obtained by: None
Available System: Unique attribute synthesis, attribute enhancement 」Next episode look”