HACKED 36

It felt like time was flowing slowly. The hand rising reflexively to cover my mouth, the head bowing down, the shoulders hunching. Everything felt like slow motion in this single moment.

‘Ha… fuck.’

I thought it was strange from the start to charge the power system of this entire massive space using only my bioenergy, but was this thing synchronized with me? If the building gets wrecked, I get wrecked too?

‘You crazy scammers. If there was a god-awful toxic clause like this, you should have told me in advance…’

I wanted to protest this unfair contract right then and there with a heart that felt like it was vomiting blood, but I couldn’t. Strength would not enter my body. My upper body tilted of its own accord. At this rate, I was going to slam into the floor headfirst.

I reached out, flailing. Since San Gun happened to be in front of me, I collapsed unsightly against his chest. It was an act of God. It was no time to care about whether he was creepy or not.

Boom! Thud!

[Warning!]

[Warning!]

[An impact has been detected in the power system.]

[An impact has been detected in the power system.]

[The power system has been damaged.]

[The power system has been damaged.]

Power system activation progress… 94%

Power system activation progress… 91%

‘Wow. It hurts like hell.’

A pain spread from deep inside my stomach as if every single organ were being crushed.

“Cough… ugh, hack!”

I vomited out coughs that were closer to retching, over and over. One hand barely gripped San Gun’s shoulder, while the other covered my own mouth.

It felt like my brain cells were burning up. Humanly speaking, it was not a level I could possibly endure. I wondered if this is what it feels like to be hit by a shotgun at close range.

“What is this… N-no… Mister Myeong!”

Chirpy cried out like a scream. However, that cry failed to reach inside my head, instead bumping against my ears and scattering into meaningless noise.

Panting, I pulled away the hand covering my mouth. Chirpy, who had been babbling something urgently, gasped and shut his mouth. Even San Gun could not react immediately.

It was understandable. Across my entire palm…

“……”

Because bright red blood was smeared as if it had been sprayed.

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IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Mister Myeong

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Mister Myeong

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : No.. UserMyeong808

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : I am sorry

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : I was wrong

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Because I was foolish… I committed a mortal sin by not recognizing UserMyeong808’s skills

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : I thought UserMyeong808 was just a newbie

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : No.. no, I am just sorry for everything

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : I am sincerely reflecting

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : My Incarnations, whom I raised with affection and love for a long time, have been annihilated…..

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Could you please stop here?

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Take all the items and resources

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : So please

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Just spare my life

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Even if I look like this, I have a home and a family to support….

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : In a dimensional merge, the ‘Final Winner’ condition is met just by getting a declaration of defeat without necessarily killing the Compiler.. So if you could let me go after becoming the winner.. I would be truly grateful..

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : I sincerely beg you

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : UserMyeong808

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Hey

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : Are you watching?

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : UserMyeong808????

IsItPresbyopiaCrap : UserMyeong808????????

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I regained consciousness amidst the pain. While everything was hazy and confusing, there was exactly one thing I could tell. My current state was extremely uncomfortable.

My entire body was turned upside down. On top of that, it was even being shaken roughly back and forth. It felt like riding a roller coaster without a safety bar.

“Ugh.”

I felt like I would faint again as soon as I regained consciousness. I reached out gropingly and grabbed whatever I could catch. It was someone’s sleeve.

“Oh, you’re awake?”

San Gun’s voice was heard right next to me. I barely opened my eyes. Through blurry vision, I saw the floor shaking violently. The floor was moving away backward moment by moment.

I was finally starting to grasp the situation. I was being transported while slung over San Gun’s shoulder like a piece of luggage.

“Yes. I’m aw… No, ugh, what is this… Argh!”

“What do you mean ‘what is this’. We’re on the move.”

He replied nonchalantly while hoisting up my body, which he had been carrying with one arm.

‘Are you out of your mind? Have you lost it?’

No matter what, this was a situation involving moving a person, especially someone who had lost consciousness after coughing up blood. Wouldn’t you at least lay them down flat?

Even at this very moment, my internal organs felt like they were tearing apart; was it okay to be in a posture like this? No, before that. What about my human rights? My dignity as a person? My prestige, which was already nonexistent, is totally dying here?

“Wh-where…”

I managed to force the words out. Even while doing so, San Gun was walking fast, at a speed nearly close to running. My solar plexus was crushed against his solid shoulder, causing my voice to come out trembling pathetically.

“I’m going to find that Hwarang brat. At this rate, the Pantheon is going to break and the Master is going to break too, so we have to join up quickly and help out.”

“But why am I…”

“I can’t just leave you behind. What if you get attacked while you’re alone?”

“Do you… even know where he is.”

“Yeah, yeah. Okay. Now be quiet. A patient talks too much.”

Does he treat me like this even while knowing I’m a patient? Indignation welled up. I tapped on his back.

“If you know… I’m a patient. Then this…!”

“I said be quiet.”

San Gun replied insincerely and then raised the hand that wasn’t carrying me. Immediately after, an unbelievable thing happened.

Slap!

My entire butt stung. In terms of pain alone, it didn’t hurt that much, but I was shocked because it was something I hadn’t even expected. I let out a reflex scream.

“Ack!”

‘Did I just get hit on the butt? An adult male well past his prime, while being carried on another man’s shoulder, got hit on the butt? What the hell kind of situation is this?’

The pain and the discomfort were momentarily forgotten. An inexpressible sense of insult and shame filled the void.

I might have felt more pain but less humiliation if he had slapped my cheek, kicked me, or given me a disciplinary punishment and whipped me. Because I had experienced those things occasionally while going through the orphanage, school, the military, and the workplace. But a cute and crazy punishment like this was, I swear, a first in my life.

“Since you’re screaming so loudly, I guess you’re still fit to live. This hyung-nim is relieved, Myeong.”

“Hyung-nim my foot…”

“Talking back?”

“…Mister San Gun, you are really, really the worst.”

I ground my teeth internally and poured out all sorts of curses. But sadly, I couldn’t utter a word out loud.

‘I’m definitely going to become the boss. I’ll become the boss and do nothing but fight and beat all these guys up.’

Just wait and see. I will definitely get my revenge someday. Yeo Myeong will remember that. Yeo Myeong will remember this….

How long did I endure like that? The biological roller coaster with the worst ride quality, which had been sprinting through the corridors while switching directions abruptly, came to a dead stop.

He was as sudden at stopping as he was at running. My breath was cut off simultaneously with the emergency stop. Because I took the impact directly, my body slid down.

“Ugh…”

I stood on my two feet somehow. Or rather, I tried to stand. But strength would not enter my legs.

I couldn’t just fall down unsightly. I barely supported my body by bracing the wall with my entire forearm. My whole body throbbed with pain.

However, this time, neither a groan nor a scream came out. This was because something the size of a human flew at high speed right in front of me and slammed into the opposite wall.

Thud!

My thoughts stopped at the nonsensical sight. Neither a person hit by a car nor a person falling from a high place would fly that fast. A dull vibration spread through a radius of several meters.

The thing slammed into the wall fell down according to gravity. A long bloodstain followed down the wall like a waterfall.

In that horrific feast of red, I found a familiar figure. Black hair disheveled and matted in blood he had spilled himself, and a hand that had not let go of the bow even in that state.

“Ugh, h-ugh…”

A groan, as if suppressing and suppressing the pain, flowed from him.

‘…Why on earth.’

Why on earth is the guy who was talking with me normally just a few hours ago… the guy who left through the door with a indifferent attitude, saying a battle like this was nothing, Hwarang… why is he in that kind of state over there.

Naturally, you can get injured while fighting. Because he’s a game character, because he’s a combat unit. Moreover, since I am the very person who sent him out to fight, how could I not know?

Yes, I knew very well in my head that Hwarang could get hurt. But there was a difference… as vast as heaven and earth, between simply seeing the HP numbers of a character on a screen decrease, and seeing a person covered in blood in front of my eyes because they followed my instructions.

In the game, whether it was attacking, defending, or evading, everything was possible with a single touch. Even if I lost because my strategy was wrong, there was no guilt. I was just annoyed by the thought that I failed to clear the stage. But now.

Then where is the cause that made Hwarang like that?

There was no need to look elsewhere. Because the being that had crossed over from ‘Abandoned Michuhol-gu Neural Network Transplant Research Building Area C-113’ was large enough to fill the corridor, and it had a chillingly heterogeneous appearance.