by Yoo Seong
Ferguson once again rushed forward. And when he turned around quickly…..
“Wow! That’s wonderful!”
“Cool person! Cool! Beep! Beep!”
Ferguson would hear Ark’s cheers! This gave Ferguson the energy to annihilate the enemy.
“It has been cleaned up. Shall we go?”
Ark’s team members followed slowly.
“Hey, the liquor sold on Maseti was unbelievably good. In addition, there is the rice wine for drinking games. It is a little expensive but it is the best for parties.
“Isn’t it? Isn’t it? If we drop in there again then we should fill the Silver Star’s warehouse with boxes of them.
“But the appetizers were a little lacking.”
“They are also unbelievably expensive. Space food is cheap so there is no need to worry about dying of starvation. We don’t need to go to a large hive or port.”
“Yes. Then we will find some dinner and drink.”
And they even gossiped together.
Tu tu tu tu! Tu tu tu tu! Pepeng! Kwa kwa kwa kwang!
Gunshots resounded through the passage.
-Your level has risen.
After a while, a wonderful message rose.
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Kwa kwang!
The thick iron door shattered and the pieces scattered all over the place. At the same time, dozens of guys poured out of the smoke. A man wearing a cloak with a blue skull and carrying a giant hammer and laser gun with scope walked forward.
“Damn……”
Hawk also looked around with one eye.
In fact, Hawk entered the base with a similar plan to Ark. If he was the commander of the base then he would install roadblocks in order to gather troops at the centre for a decisive battle. He anticipated that the one who arrived first would receive the most damage. But Hawk didn’t have a reason to create a slow pace.
‘Only a loser would use that method!’
Hawk and his subordinates weren’t weak so they smashed the frogs. If he applied his standards to the frogs then they would be disqualified to become his subordinates. There was no way they could stop him.
And Hawk was the leader of the investigation team so he didn’t want to be later then any of the other members.
‘If they gather a lot then I’ll just have to destroy them!’
Thus he marched on without a hitch!
Hawk was the first one to arrive at the centre of the base. However Hawk’s expectation was off the mark. The passages in front of the centre weren’t swarming with frogs. Only the firmly closed doors were in front of him.
‘What is going on? Did they place all the Kero into the passages? No way. Even if it is to stop the enemy, how can they leave the centre unprotected? It is impossible. Then…..’
“Holy shit! Harley, blow up the door!”
Hawk shouted with a displeased expression. And the professional engineers blew up the door to the central control room! Hawk cursed as he looked around the room.
“Dammit, it was like I expected.”
The control room contained 10 people. The huge frame of the Tunba Commander could be seen. However, they were all dead. This was the reason why the frogs weren’t gathered at the centre. The commander gave an order before dying. The computers in the command room were shattered.
“Did they commit suicide once cornered?”
“We need to check the information first. There is no doubt that this is the secret base of Organization X. The ones in charge are all dead but we might be able to find some information about the organization from the computers. Erin, Sion, confirm whether any data can still be extracted from the computer!”
“Understood!”
The engineers Erin and Sion ran to the computers. Meanwhile Hawk and Harley started to search the corpses. He needed to confirm if there was any clues left behind. But he found something different. He figured out that their deaths weren’t suicides. Based on the similar wounds, they were clearly murdered by one person.
‘Who the hell did this? The 10 people possess the same wounds so a 3rd person must’ve killed them. Where on earth did they go? Haven’t all the passages been blocked by the team units?’
“Captain-nim, there is something here.”
Harley who was searching the Tunba spoke to Hawk. The Tunba had died in his chair. Harley pointed to where the Tunba was sitting in the chair. There were letters made of blood above the upper body of the Tunba!
“What? These letters are? What on earth…..?”
“Captain-nim, it is serious!”
At that time, Erin who was searching the computer cried out.
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‘What?’
Ark looked around with a confused expression. Thanks to the monkey Ferguson wandering around on endorphins, Ark just needed to stay behind and sometimes shoot so it was a relaxing experience. And he was expecting to interrupt the other units in a fierce battle…..
“What? There is no one here?”
He couldn’t even see a shadow of the other team units. He thought they would come really quickly but he couldn’t find any traces of them. There also weren’t any frogs wandering around. And the pieces of the door were scattered around.
Rapid looked around with a frown before asking.
“Perhaps the other units have already gone somewhere else?”
“But there are no frog corpses. And look. Do you see any bullet marks in the vicinity? The only thing broken is the door. That means there wasn’t a battle here.”
“Then should we check with the other units?”
“No, let’s confirm inside first.”
The situation became even more mysterious as they entered the control room. The 10 bodies of the commander and workers were scattered around. Rapid went around checking the corpses with Ark.
“They have all suffered injuries from one person.”
“So somebody murdered them…..what on earth happened? The team units are gone? Or is there someone else? Have the other teams already confirmed the situation and gone back?”
Then the letters written above the Tunba’s body caught his eye. The letters written with blood!
-I shall by the wolf that swallows your god!
“What is this? What code is it?”
–Ark-nim, where are you now?
Then his Nymphe vibrated and Irina’s voice was heard. Irina normally refrained from individual communication so Ark didn’t know why she was doing this now.
“Irina-nim? Did something happen?”
–Did something happen? Stop talking! The members have already gathered in the central passage. But I didn’t see Ark-nim so I made contact.
“The members are gathered in the central passage? Why?”
-Why….surely you received the notification?
“Notification? What notification?”
–Oh my god! Really…..no, we’ll talk about it later. If you haven’t received the notification then return to your ship immediately. You’re running out of time. Hawk was the first one to arrive in the control room. When Hawk arrived he said that everyone in the control room had already been killed. There is nothing to obtain. And in a little while….
“Hyung-nim, it is serious!”
Hegel who was on the computed suddenly screamed.
“The base’s self-destruct mechanism has been activated! And according to the message, a detonation deice is also attached to the core of the planet. If we’re on this base when it explodes…..”
-…..The planet will explode!
Kwa kwang! Kwa kwang! Kwa kwang! Kwa kwang! Kwa kwang! Kwa kwang!
A roar was heard after Irina’s words. Ark’s face darkened as he turned his head. It wasn’t because the base was going to explode. A different situation had occurred.
The explosion had happened in the passage Ark crossed just now. There was a cascade of explosions as the walls and ceiling collapsed to completely seal off the control room.
O
ne name and face popped into his head.
‘…..Hawk!’
All his questions were answered in that moment.
Hawk was the first one to arrive in the control room. He didn’t know if Hawk killed the people here but he learnt that the base’s self-destruct mechanism has been activated like Hegel. He organized a rendezvous with the other members in the central passage. But he didn’t announce this fact to Ark and Ferguson. It wasn’t necessary to consider the reason. He decided to deal with Ark in the base. Therefore he installed a bomb in the passages.
Hawk, that damn bastard!
Perhaps he even started the self-destruct process on the computer in order to make a booby trap for Ark. However it was too late by the time he found out. The bombs already worked and Ark was trapped in the control room.
–Explosion? Ark-nim, are you still in a fight?
“I’ll contact you later!”
Ark broke the communication and ran over to Hegel at the computer.
-The self-destruct process has been started at the atomic reactor in the planet’s core.
