Deep Sea Fish Hunting Specialty Broadcast-Chapter 126 : And Then There Were None (4)

EP.126 And Then There Were None (4)

After the ’Green Tea’ video, Yu Parang showed Alice a variety of additional materials.

There were videos shot at various branches of the World Government and reports written by surviving agents.

Records of awakened individuals specialized in detection exploring the interior from the rooftop of the Beijing office, physical and mental examination records of surviving agents, and so on...

Even after selection and compression, the amount and variety of data were overwhelmingly vast.

There were even some materials that made one think, ’Did they really go this far?’

Like the record of digging a tunnel under a government-owned bunker and conducting a two-month undercover operation.

This could be considered evidence of how much effort Silo Corporation put into breaking through the World Government.

"Anyway, the common keywords that appear in most of the materials can be summarized like this."

Yu Parang opened a notepad on the computer and began organizing.

Chilling words were written all over the blank notepad.

1. Clones

Whether in the closed spaces of the World Government offices, bunkers in the mountains, or military secret facilities.

In spaces just slightly out of the public eye, clones of high-ranking World Government officials are swarming without exception.

1. Black-Red Flesh

These clones only have a human appearance on the outside, while inside, they are filled with black-red flesh, and they periodically spew out their own clones as if reproducing like single-celled organisms.

Sometimes, the clones devour each other. The exact conditions are unknown.

1. Simple Repetitive Actions

The clones mechanically repeat the actions that the original person would normally do. They carry out overseas schedules, make policy decisions, and hold meetings. The intricacy and naturalness of their actions are so meticulous that they arouse no suspicion even when revealed to the public.

Not all actions are repeated perfectly, so to the general public, they just appear to be normal people.

"Wait, this is..."

Alice trailed off, feeling a strange sense of déjà vu.

Entities repeating actions clumsily. She was sure she had seen something similar somewhere before.

Yu Parang nodded, as if sharing the same thought with Alice.

"Right. The statues in that underwater city you saw in your memory. They, too, were repeating everyday actions in a bizarre and disjointed manner, just like these clones. Even when they fell to the floor, they kept trying to walk. Well, whether these two are related is unknown."

Alice let out a gasp as she finally remembered.

"Oh my gosh. How do you remember that?"

1. Something Approaching from Afar

When a clone encounters an infiltration team agent, something starts running from afar immediately. Just glimpsing it causes severe mental damage.

What happens if encountered directly is unknown. No agent who encountered it has returned.

1. Eyeball Monster

It is speculated that the World Government President, Yu Sungjun, witnessed the ’eyeball monster’ through the camera attached to Han Siwoo, and this bizarre mutation of the World Government seems to have resulted from it.

"In summary, this is about it. These are the things that currently seem most likely to be true. But at the same time, if we assume all of these are correct, there are still things that can’t be explained."

Yu Parang then began writing new items in the notepad.

1. Anomalous Actions of the World Government

The World Government has already scattered artifacts in seas worldwide to deliberately lure people to the sea or attempted to eliminate Yu Parang, who interferes with this. These are actions that cannot be attributed to entities merely repeating actions.

- Yu Sungjun

The one who should have been most severely affected by the black mass is undoubtedly Yu Sungjun, yet there is no trace of the black-red mass on his corpse. Moreover, a recent psychic check revealed no abnormalities in Yu Sungjun.

- Relationship Between the Eyeball Monster and the Black-Red Flesh

Chronologically, circumstantially, and evidentially, this ’black-red mass incident’ started from the contact between the eyeball monster and the World Government, but the exact connection between the two is unknown.

"This is the summary of the current situation. We came here to find clues about the unexplained parts written above."

Alice made a subtle expression at Yu Parang’s summary.

"What evidence is there that the flesh monster and the eyeball monster are related? No matter how powerful it is, it seems unlikely that just seeing it through a camera could cause such physical phenomena."

"That’s exactly the problem."

Yu Parang agreed with this point.

There are countless entities capable of mental attacks through screens, but causing physical phenomena or mutating living beings just by being seen seems impossible.

Take the Kraken, for example.

Even seeing the mighty Kraken directly only causes mental damage at most.

If just seeing the Kraken caused physical harm, Oceanos would have been wiped out by now.

In such circumstances, it’s hard to believe that the eyeball monster could cause such bizarre phenomena just by being seen through a camera.

However, conversely, if it weren’t a monster of that magnitude, it wouldn’t be able to bring a government that rules the world to such ruin.

"Could it be a parasitic monster?"

Alice asked, and Yu Parang squinted slightly.

"Have you been watching too many movies?"

Parasitic monsters do exist. Stories of humanity going extinct or governments being overthrown by such creatures often appear as clichés in movies and novels.

Well, those things are unlikely to happen in reality, and there is solid evidence against it in this case.

"It’s not that."

Yu Parang shook her head and opened the file located at the bottom.

- Status Window (Scott Klein).img

Inside the image file with this name was a rather unexpected photo.

"This is a status window?"

"Yes."

An awakened individual’s status window is basically only visible to themselves, but with enough blood, information about the status window can be extracted.

Naturally, Silo Corporation has that technology.

Alice asked Yu Parang, as if she had a rough idea.

"So, did you kidnap a government official and forcibly extract the status window?"

However, Yu Parang’s answer was quite different from what Alice expected.

"No. This is the status window of that ’black-red flesh.’"

"What?"

"Some of the agents who were part of the infiltration team managed to return with the black-red flesh. They conducted all sorts of experiments on it and finally extracted a status window from it."

Alice asked in disbelief.

"Isn’t the status window something that only exists for humans?"

"There are two possibilities. Either the status window was given to this black-red mass for some reason, or..."

Yu Parang looked at the photo with serious eyes.

"That black-red mass is human."

The photo contained the status window of an awakened individual named ’Scott Klein.’

[ Status Window: Scott Klein ]

[ Personal Skill: Zero-Sum Circle (B) ]

[ Shares beneficial effects applied to oneself with friendly entities within a 10m radius. ]

[ Shares detrimental effects applied to friendly entities within a 10m radius with oneself. ]

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[ Skill List ]

[ Healing Wind (A), Cunning Hands (A), Resistance (C), Care (E) ]

[ Status Abnormality ]

[ Overlap – Permanent ]

As Alice scrutinized the status window, she was momentarily shocked and furrowed her brows.

She subtly checked if Yu Parang had noticed, but fortunately, it seemed she hadn’t.

’Overlap...!’

The moment she saw that word, a jolt of electricity ran through Alice’s mind.

Overlap. Another word for ’superimposition.’

This meant that the black-red flesh was the result of ’Scott Klein’ being superimposed with something else.

And superimposition usually means that similar things merge with each other.

If different things merge, it’s called fusion, not superimposition.

This meant that Scott Klein was in a state of being merged with himself.

Since there can’t be two Scott Kleins in the world, at least one of them must have come from another world.

It was all too obvious which world the other Scott came from.

’Another iteration.’

Scott Klein, Yu Sungjun, and the high-ranking officials of the World Government.

They are superimposed with their counterparts from another iteration.

’This leaves only one possibility.’

As far as Alice knew, there was only one entity in the world capable of causing such phenomena.

An entity that exists in this timeline while also interfering with other timelines.

An entity made of endlessly overlapping malice, madness, and corruption.

The entity that killed the Kraken.

The entity that contacted the World Government.

The Eyeball Monster.

In terms of direction, Yu Parang and Silo Corporation’s assumptions were correct.

However, Alice was also blocked by the same error as Yu Parang.

’No, but that can’t be possible...’

The ’Overlap’ status abnormality can only be explained by the Eyeball Monster.

But as mentioned earlier, even the Kraken couldn’t cause such phenomena.

After all, it is an entity that originated from the Kraken.

’This might be a far more serious issue than I thought.’

In this case, Alice also felt the need to view Yu Sungjun’s memories.

Having made up her mind, Alice looked at Yu Parang with determined eyes.

"Yes. I think it’s necessary to see the memories of this World Government President."

"Do you have any leads?"

"I do, but it’s a bit vague. I’ll explain after reviewing the memories."

"Got it. If you say so."

Yu Parang placed her hand on Yu Sungjun’s forehead.

"Let’s go in."

Alice also held Yu Parang’s hand.

"Okay."

With a splash, the consciousness of the two sank.