Chapter 629
< Mushin Returns to Level 2 Episode 629 >
There are only three survivors of humanity.
If you leave out Uld, the rest are no different from being trapped.
Is she the only one actually active?
‘hmm. I wonder if those words are true…’
At the time, Seong Ji-han could not easily believe her words.
“…What kind of nonsense is that?”
Id, who was sitting on the ground, looked into the eyes of light and shouted as if it was absurd.
“There are only three survivors of humanity! “Where have all the remaining people gone?”
[Do you want to know?]
Shinan was shining brightly as he looked at Id.
“of course…!”
[Then, please come to where I am. I will tell you everything I know.]
With that, I will end it.
I started to go back out the door I came in through.
“Um, that… isn’t he finally asking me to save him? primitive man! “That woman must have cheated!”
“primitive man? “Is that what you said to me?”
Seong Ji-han frowned at those words, and Id slightly averted his gaze.
“No… didn’t you call yourself a lab rat? Still, I couldn’t bear to call him a lab rat, so I called him a caveman…!”
“Caveman, lab rat self-diss is possible. “It’s not like other people do that.”
“under. There’s a lot to argue about… Then what should I call it?”
Well, this guy wants to make a clear statement.
“Just call it my last name.”
“castle…? i get it. That’s what I call it. castle. Anyway, listen to me carefully from now on.”
Id gritted his teeth as he looked in the direction Shinan had gone.
“That horse with the eyes. Don’t take it for granted. Humanity is a species that has already reached the stage of immortality. Is there any way that we could be wiped out with only three people left? “That… is just an attempt to arouse curiosity and get you to rescue yourself first!”
Seong Ji-han nodded his head slightly at those words.
Well, the owner of Shinan too.
There is no way he would help himself out of pure good intentions.
Everyone must have their own purpose, and they must have chosen Seong Ji-han as the means to that end.
but.
“He’s better than you.”
“What…?”
“You were the one who tried to brainwash me as soon as I got here in the first place.”
“that. That’s…”
“There are three or more survivors there anyway. The more people who know about Ark, the better, so I’ll follow along. “Do you want to eat here?”
Then, Seong Ji-han points his finger to the server connection device.
Gulp…
Id swallowed his saliva loudly and looked in that direction with regretful eyes.
Swish!
I had a hard time ignoring this.
“No… I also need to hear more about what those crazy-eyed people are saying. “Let’s come back and eat dinner later.”
“Then it is concluded. let’s go.”
So the two of them left the door of the southern section.
[Please come this way.]
Shinan began to move in the direction he was leading.
Occasionally, a clock of light would pop out and block it.
Grumbling…!
Seong Ji-han easily removed it and cleared the way.
How long did it take to walk like that?
[If you go in this direction, you will reach the western area.]
Inside the blue and red, the red manager spoke to Seong Ji-han.
He gained a lot of information when he entered Hephaestus’ body in the southern sector.
I looked at the direction Shinan was leading and figured out what was at the end.
‘Didn’t you say that in the western sector… there is Yggdrasil?’
[okay. It is an area that supplies infinite vitality. Among the areas in the north, south, east, and west, this would have been the first to be built.]
‘Yggdrasil was the first…’
Shin-ophthalmology guides the way, telling you to save yourself.
Is it simply a coincidence that the western sector where Yggdrasil is located is located at the end of that direction?
Seong Ji-han continued on his way, feeling strange.
And then we come to a crossroads that splits into two directions.
[Please come this way.]
Shinan guided him to the left.
‘From the right direction, a thick energy of life flows.’
Is that the western sector, where Yggdrasil is located?
Seong Ji-han looked in that direction for a moment and then moved along with Shinan.
Then there.
Four women were lying on the ground, immersed in light.
“This is the dormitory for female quarantined people…”
Id was looking at the inside of the space with his eyes rolling as if he had never been to a women’s room for the first time.
[Come to me.]
Shinan returned to the person lying on the leftmost of the four.
OK.
Sussss….
The eyes of light entered her eyes.
The mouth of the woman lying down moved.
“Let me formally introduce myself. The name I was given was Noah. A quarantiner with the power of observation.”
And then she
“He is also the official supervisor of the Arc… appointed by the government.”
He even talked about his hidden identity right away.
* * *
Noah on Ark.
“…was Noah’s ark here?”
“It’s just a name created by a superior who was obsessed with ancient literature, the ‘Old Testament.’ “It has nothing to do with mythology.”
Noah lay down like that and just moved his mouth.
Id said in disbelief.
“You’re the supervisor… how could you be quarantined…?”
“Because there can only be people in quarantine. “In order to supervise this place, the quarantined person had to become the supervisor.”
“…is it. But you are trapped in a prison of time. “How can I open my mouth?”
He then pointed to the clock that covered Noah’s body like a tattoo.
Her clothes are covered in flashing clock patterns, just like the people next to her.
Unlike her colleague next to Lana, who had lost her vitality, she was moving her mouth unnaturally.
“The prison of time forces the opponent into submission by repeating the painful past… but the power of my gaze can avoid this.”
“Avoid…?”
“You can’t see what you don’t want to see.”
Even if Uld replays the past through the prison of time, does that mean he can just look at something else?
‘You can avoid it that way.’
When Seong Ji-han was thinking like that and staring blankly into the eyes of light.
“…what. good. viewer. What on earth did you say earlier? We got this far, but it was actually a lie! “You’re not saying that, are you?”
“I guess I hope it’s a lie. But it’s true. “There are three survivors of humanity.”
“…no. Does that make any sense? “How can there be only three of the prosperous human race left?”
“Do you remember about ‘transcendence’?”
Let Noah bring up the story of transcendence.
Id’s expression became serious.
“transcendence…? “Wasn’t that just nonsense?”
“What is that again? “Don’t tell yourselves what you know, but also tell the lab rats.”
Seong Ji-han points to himself and asks that question.
“Transcendence is the process of uniting light-bodied humanity into one consciousness.”
“With one consciousness…?”
“To put it simply, you can think of it as uniting all of humanity.”
The entire human race combined.
It’s easy to understand when you say it that way.
But.
“Why are you doing that? Aren’t humans with the characteristics of light doing well? Why are we combining them into one?”
“Of course. We are the first intelligent beings in the universe… immortal beings who have overcome the limitations of the physical body and gained a light body. Transcendence doesn’t need to be done…!”
At Id’s rebuttal, Noah’s eyes sparkled with light.
“There are many reasons, including centuries of great wars… but ultimately, it is due to resource depletion.”
“Resource depletion?”
“To transform humanity into a light body, special resources are needed. “A star that has the same wavelength as the human species… it’s the star we call the sun.”
“The sun is a resource?”
Looks like future technology has advanced.
Treating the sun as a resource.
It was about time that Seong Ji-han looked at Noah as if it was absurd.
“There are countless stars in the universe, but there were only a limited number of stars that could lead humanity to light-body transformation. To obtain it, mankind waged a great war, and after 95% of them were exterminated, mankind was able to unite into one government.”
“…The Great War is a thing of the distant past. “Because only 5% of the population survived, there was more sunlight for us to use.”
“However, mankind is already immortal. “Barring a great war, it is only a matter of time before the population recovers to its previous level.”
“That is…”
“We must repair the human race from its foundation through transcendence to prevent the predicted apocalypse.”
Id seemed speechless and could not answer.
Sigh.
The eyes of light looked toward the sacred site.
“Unlike Id, you probably won’t be easily understood.”
“huh…? what. yes?”
“As expected… I will explain in detail.”
At the same time, Noah began to explain why humanity only becomes light-bodied with solar-type stars.
“The human species arose on a planet influenced by the sun. “From the beginning, our ancestors were absolutely influenced by this star.”
“Uh… I understand that.”
“Is this why it started like this? When the human species continued to develop and achieved a new era called light bodyization. Solar energy is essential here. There are countless stars in this universe, but only those that resemble the sun responded. The proof of this is….”
One.
‘…I don’t know what you’re talking about.’
Seong Ji-han gave up understanding the connection between the sun and humans from the moment the proof was published.
I still don’t fully understand humans made of light in the first place, or even becoming a light body.
Talking about compatibility with the sun went too far.
“hmm. That’s it. Can we just say that we are transcending because of a lack of resources?”
“…yes. “You can look at it that way.”
When Seong Ji-han completed his understanding at that level.
“no. Anyway… I don’t understand this! I admit there is not enough sun. But that’s the distant future… We don’t know how technology will develop during that time, but are we already giving up and trying to transcend?! you. “If you think about it, aren’t you in league with the Uld?”
Id, who had been unable to refute for a moment earlier, relented.
Once he regained his momentum, he was screaming loudly.
“To say that I, a government official, and Uld, the leader of the rebellion, are on the same team… This is the most unpleasant thing I have ever heard in my life.”
“her. There is no way people would have approved of this. Both my father and my mother. “There is no way such a ridiculous transcendental ritual could have been carried out…”
“Do you think they did it with consent one by one?”
The corner of Noah’s mouth twitched unlike usual.
“what…?”
“As for transcendence, there was more public opinion against it than in favor of it. “Like you, there are still a lot of stars left for light body conversion, but the prevailing opinion was why we were doing such a thing.”
“But… you ignored all opposition and just let things proceed?”
“yes. For the government, for the future. We modified the light body system to allow all of humanity to ‘transcend’.”
Jeeeeee….
Light erupted from inside the body and a screen appeared.
There.
Flash! Flash!
People whose body parts are made of light blink in pure white and then disappear.
Only fragments of the body that had not been transformed into light were left lying on the ground.
“The only people who were not able to join the transcendence were those who were quarantined and possessed only one characteristic of light. “All remaining normal humanity gathered into one light, the ‘Overmind.’”
Are all normal people transcending and those in quarantine unable to join in?
When Seong Ji-han grasps the situation outside the arc like that.
“And the Transcendental Body, where all the light of humanity was gathered, took on an unfinished appearance.”
Jiiiing….
Shinan showed a new scene.
A cluster of lights the size of a fist floating in the air.
It was no different from the feeble light emitted by an incandescent light bulb, so the brightness itself was not impressive.
but.
‘…I understand because it has white light. The power of white light is highly concentrated there.’
Seongjihan has now taken a step into the clan of light.
I was able to see and understand the reality of that small lump of light with my own eyes.
If that appears as a number in the stat window.
Perhaps the symbol symbolizing infinity, ∞, comes to mind.
Was that the same for Id as well?
“That is… the Transcendental Body…”
Contrary to the reaction of disbelief so far.
When I saw that small cluster of light, I immediately realized that this was a transcendental object.
‘But even though it’s the same size, that cluster of lights that contains infinite power of light is unfinished?’
When Seong Ji-han looked at the Transcendental Body like that and was lost in thought.
Jeeeeee….
The screen that had enlarged this slowly began to zoom out to show the surroundings.
And there, Uld appeared, standing with his eyes closed.
“That woman…why is she in front of the Overmind?”
When Id saw that, he asked with a trembling voice.
“That’s right, the Overmind is at the center of the Ark.”
Noah answered in an obvious tone.