Chapter 428
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Mongolian Steppe, China’s Awakened One Research Institute
The Mongolian Steppe had undergone many changes since the Great Cataclysm.
The Mongolians suffered massive casualties, with most migrating to China or Korea. After some time passed, China advanced into the Mongolian Steppe using human wave tactics, but the terrain was so poor that the area was practically isolated.
Then why was there an Awakened One Research Institute here now?
The reason was obvious.
First of all, Jang Hak-chae, who was envious of Korea, built a human experimentation research institute to create Enhanced Hunters that were stronger than Normal hunters, and this location was optimal for it.
If you went outside, monsters roamed not far away, and since the Awakened One Research Institute was essentially a biological experimentation facility, it had to avoid the eyes of The West.
Above all, they were practically sending the refugees wandering all over the Central Plains Continent to this institute. To avoid being picked on by the United States and others who still maintained their positions as great powers, security had to be airtight.
If by any chance something happened, they could just lure monsters to destroy the institute itself and erase the evidence.
The problem lay elsewhere.
Namely, the dissatisfaction of the researchers. Furthermore, the institute’s director, Kang Youwei, absolutely despised this absurd reality.
Slam!
He slammed his fist on the desk in anger.
“Jang Hak-chae, you son of a bitch worse than a dog!”
He was grinding his teeth at Jang Hak-chae.
Because it was an order, and because he would be executed immediately if he didn’t obey, he couldn’t say it out loud, but because of that damn bastard, he was committing every dirty trick imaginable.
Let’s be honest.
From a humane perspective, he didn’t care how many more humans died in that institute.
He was confident he could walk past without batting an eye even if a passerby was stabbed to death right in front of him on the street.
The problem was that he was the one shouldering all these crimes against humanity.
They gave him a shitty budget while making him do these dirty tricks.
“At the very least, Unit 731's main targets were foreigners!”
No, no, no. It wasn’t a war to begin with, so they couldn’t forcibly drag enemy soldiers or foreigners to the institute anyway.
Of course, who knows how many of their own citizens the Japanese Empire’s Maruta project used.
Still, could it possibly compare to the number of Chinese people dying in this institute?
He felt like dying from the screams he heard every single day.
Furthermore,
Kang Youwei knew that he himself would end up burying his bones here.
That was why they had stuck him in this Mongolian Steppe, wasn’t it?
“Isn’t that a bit dangerous?”
The young inspector frowned as he looked at Kang Youwei.
At the inspector’s words, Kang Youwei smiled bitterly.
What era did he think this was?
Did he think Jang Hak-chae was Mao Zedong or Stalin?
No.
He probably thought he would survive.
Not a chance. Now that they were here, they were all destined to die eventually.
“Since we’ve been assigned here anyway, both you and I are dead.”
“Excuse me?”
Hearing Kang Youwei’s words, the inspector’s eyes widened.
What did that mean? Dead?
“To be clear, if we get caught, we’ll all be killed to destroy the evidence.”
“But we’re producing research results, and before The West finds out - “
“Right. Perfect enhanced Awakened Ones will emerge before The West finds out. But what about after that? The fact that we conducted biological experiments won’t disappear. That means Jang Hak-chae will kill me and you who were dispatched here to monitor me, to destroy the evidence.”
That bastard was more than capable of doing so.
Because he wouldn’t want to be openly ostracized.
And at the same time, he would bolster his military power to pull some kind of scheme.
“S-Surely he wouldn’t go that far?”
“That’s the kind of person Jang Hak-chae is. Now that I look at it, that guy Jang Hak-chae really sent a naive one here.”
Anyway, that bastard wasn’t normal.
Seeing as he’s only churning out these clueless fools to be his Red Guards.
“Assuming you’re right, Your Excellency, why on earth is he going this far?”
“It’s because of those Bbangzi bastards.”
“By Bbangzi… you mean Korea?”
“That guy Jang Hak-chae was classmates with Ha Jeongseok, the current President for Life of Korea, at the Switzerland Hunter Academy.”
Kang Youwei recalled a time in the distant past when he attended an academy in the alps.
Even after the Great Cataclysm, the alps boasted an incredible natural landscape.
And the academy’s facilities? Even the richest citizen among the Chinese people today wouldn’t have a house that could compare to those academy facilities.
“Then, are the rumors about the President during his academy days true?”
“That’s right. Ha Jeongseok took the lead in bullying the President. I was there too, so I know it well. It was like watching a miniature version of the Qing Dynasty being kicked around by the great powers. The students from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan all bullied Jang Hak-chae too.”
So that was why China was in this state now.
The inspector gulped.
To think that Jang Hak-chae, the man who threw out all sorts of propaganda claiming that The West, like the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, couldn’t survive without China, was actually just an outcast.
“And now, they’ve each become the supreme leaders of their respective nations.”
“So he’s doing this because Korea is doing better than China right now.”
“Yeah. If it had been just for the sake of the nation, it would have all ended when the Four Emperors were caught. This is all happening because of that bastard’s greed.”
It was probably from then on.
A few years ago, Jang Hak-chae created tens or hundreds of millions of Hunters.
Of course, only a tenth of them were true Awakened Ones, but Jang Hak-chae intended to show off that they possessed tens of times more Awakened Ones than a small country like Korea possessed than Korea.
However, the disaster known as the Yellow Dragon Incident broke out.
Unable to see any way to resolve it with sheer numbers, Jang Hak-chae had no choice but to ask The West for help, framing it as an offer to let them try hunting a new monster to save his pride.
At that time, the one who defeated the Yellow Dragon was none other than Korea.
Korea had even won with its small number of Awakened Ones.
“Then what about us…”
“What can we do? We have to find a way to protect ourselves. Did you know? The bastards who led Unit 731 also survived on the condition of handing over their data.”
“That’s…”
The young inspector anticipated what Kang Youwei was saying.
He would probably hand it over to either Korea or the United States.
No, since he hated Jang Hak-chae, he might offer the research results to Ha Jeongseok of Korea, the very person Jang Hak-chae felt an inferiority complex towards.
“Be careful too. Ah, it would be best to send your family overseas even now.”
“Huh. How could this be? Then what about you, Your Excellency?”
“Suji is alone anyway, so she is fine. I even think it’d be better to die than to keep doing this shit. I say Suji is looking for a way to live, but that bastard Jang Hak-chae could kill me any day now. You’re young, so act wisely. Yeah. Naturalizing in Japan or Korea would be a good idea too.”
A serious piece of advice.
Your Excellency’s advice contained not a hint of a joke; it was the absolute truth.
The young inspector gulped.
Should he really evacuate his parents overseas somehow?
“U-Understood.”
“Then shall we continue this dog-shit work today?”
Feeling proud of the fact that he had given this young friend an excellent breakthrough, Kang Youwei went back to experimenting on the lab samples.
However,
the ones who had even greater dissatisfaction than Kang Youwei were the test subjects themselves.
Earlier, refugees from all over had gone to the gathering places, having only heard that the Presidential Palace would directly provide room and board, only to be dragged to the Mongolian Steppe.
Among those who ended up as test subjects, there was one girl.
A girl with red hair
Pingping.
Having lost her parents in her childhood, she had been dragged semi-forcibly here. She had barely survived after undergoing numerous experiments already.
“How long… How long do I have to be treated like this? I… I only came here because they said they would provide room and board!”
It was unfair. It was so unfair.
She had come having just heard that they would feed her well and take care of her room and board, but as a test subject, she was being injected with strange drugs every day.
She had managed to survive, but the other children her age had all died, their bodies rolling around as monster food or being thrown into the incinerator.
In reality, she was the only one left alive.
Even then, she had just been lucky every day. She was in a position where she could die at any moment.
Perhaps that was why she felt so wronged.
Why did she have to be treated like this? Wasn’t the President the leader of the people?
It’s unfair. It’s so unfair.
“Keuk-keuk-keuk-keuk. Do you feel wronged and resentful? Do you hate the world?”
It was then that she heard a strange voice.
As if bewitching a person, this unknown voice was whispering right into her ear.
An unknown voice that was neither a mechanical sound, nor a man’s, nor a woman’s echoed in her ear.
One thing was certain.
This unidentified voice was strangely alluring.
, like the voice of a demon, a voice that corrupted people.
“I feel wronged and resentful. I don’t want to die stuck in a place like this.”
“Then accept me. I shall give you the Power of Gluttony.”
A girl was destined to live and die as a test subject.
She thus became one of the Sins that threatened the world.
That day, the research institute in the Mongolian Steppe was destroyed by a Sin.
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I finally returned.
At last, with Ray, to our world.
The location was the ruins we returned to, and then we came to our base in Songdo.
To the heroines, it seemed like I had brought Ray back right away, so they didn’t say anything about why I was so late.
Should I consider that a good thing?
And Reina was having a mother-daughter reunion with Ray passionately.
“Mom! Is it really you, Mom?!”
“Yes. Daughter, I am your mother, Ray.”
“Moooom!”
Reina hugged Ray.
The breasts of the two Elves, the breasts of the Mother and Daughter, were rubbing together.
Right. That’s exactly it. The sight of their breasts, upgraded after being corrupted by me, rubbing against each other was incredibly obscene.
Gulp.
I wanted to lay those two face down and pound them right away. But it would be best to hold back for now.
“You really managed to bring her back somehow. She looks exactly like Reina?”
“But, Mom, you smell so much like Eunha.”
Of course she would smell like me.
I was no virgin, because I had done it with Ray a ton.
So much that it was truly unbearable. We scissored and scissored sooooo much.
To be honest, we probably did it dozens of times more than I did with Reina.
No, what do you mean dozens of times? In terms of time, we spent all 24 hours a day reading books while rubbing our pussies together, or reading books with my cock stuffed in her pussy, or with Ray reading while sucking on my cock.
I spent 100 years living a fucking arousing life.
“Ah, that’s. Um. Since we were together for a hundred years.”
“Is this sweat?”
“Didn’t I tell you to take it easy? What are we supposed to do if you keep at it right until we come back?”
“Eunha, you really are a brute.”
A brute. That’s too harsh.
Strictly speaking, this was something that naturally had to be done.
Why? Well, if you’re trapped for a hundred years, the only thing to do is sex, isn’t it?
I’m certain. Is it a hundred years in a place with no entertainment and only books, and with bodies that don’t even age?
Even if it was a man and a woman who were mortal enemies, they would have nothing else to do but sex, so they’d spend all day getting pounded by a cock and pounding a pussy. They’d probably spend a lot of time connected to each other, wouldn’t they?
Suji was certain they would even have sex while sleeping.
In such a situation, if they loved each other, wasn’t it obvious?
Scissoring until we became idioooots!
A male shoots enough semen to fill the womb to the point of impregnating hundreds of eggs at once.
Of course, in my case, since it was semen made of demonic energy, every time I ejaculated, it would even bring the Mutant Ray’s womb and ovaries to climax.
Anyway, that’s how we spent a hundred years.
“Ah, still, we had to do at least this much.”
“At least this much? What on earth did you do with my Mom… And what do you mean a hundred years?”
Reina glared at me sharply, perhaps still feeling jealous.
I wished she wouldn’t look at me like that.
Honestly, what else was there to do besides sex?