Chapter 100

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Chapter 100 Chapter:100 “Starks? No signal from this side.” [zzzz...help...zzzz」 “What? I can’t hear you! Say it again!” 「zzz..zzzz....this place....zzzz...is...zzzz...here」 “Damn it!” As the communication ended, Milo cursed loudly. “Hey! Is the communication not restored yet?” “I’ll check.” Until they passed the docking port, everything seemed fine. Thanks to the signal chip attached to the spacesuit, the signal was displayed well, and communication proceeded smoothly, except for some minor noise. However, after they entered the ship, one by one, they disappeared from the detector, and communication became silent. “The signal is fine, but there seems to be something interfering in the middle.” “How can we resolve it?” “Well, it seems we’ll have to go in and handle it ourselves.” Knowing the kind of situations people entering might face, should they send someone else. ‘Just abandon them?’ Milo, like any typical space smuggler, wasn’t one to cherish the lives of his subordinates. ‘But Starks and Justin are a bit valuable.’ The chief engineer had been working with Milo for a long time, and Justin was a somewhat valuable engineer within the space smuggling community. While he was contemplating whether to abandon them or not, a subordinate from the situation room called him. “Captain, there’s a signal appearing.” “Yeah? Who is it?” “It’s Justin.” When Justin mentioned the cult of the Wolf God, his movements appeared on the detection system, and the illuminated indicator on the detector was getting closer to the connected docking port. “Did he go to the engine room? Why is he coming back?” “I don’t know.” “Turn the docking port camera.” The camera screen appeared at the bottom of the situation room’s large display. After a while, Justin walked into the docking port. He had apparently discarded the transparent helmet somewhere, and he was not wearing it. Thanks to that, his pale face was clearly captured by the camera. “Huh? Why is he not wearing the helmet?” “Oh, damn! He’s carrying a bomb!” Justin was carrying the bomb that he had given to the chief engineer with the instruction to detonate it if there was nothing valuable on the ship. “If it explodes inside the docking port, the damage will be severe!” “I know, damn it! Hey, turn on the speaker!” Milo quickly picked up the microphone and called Justin. “Justin! What are you doing right now?” [Captain.] Justin, carrying the bomb absentmindedly, stopped in his tracks. “Where’s Starks, and why are you carrying that bomb?” [Captain, I...] When Milo looked at him, Justin didn’t seem to be in his right mind. It was suspicious that he had the bomb given to the chief engineer in the first place, and it was strange that he was walking around without a helmet inside the spaceship when they didn’t know what might be inside it. But if that guy detonates the bomb at the docking port, the Colossal Raider will undoubtedly suffer significant damage. [I’m scared.] “Hey, what’s so scary? Where is there anything a pirate like you should be afraid of?” While Milo was talking to Justin, he signaled to his subordinates. It was to block all the surrounding areas connected to the docking port on the Colossal Raider. “Enough. Put down the bomb and come in to talk. Okay?” [Captain, you don’t know anything. I’m trying to protect the Colossal Raider.] “Why is this guy acting like this?” “Darkness! Darkness is swallowing us! Aaah!” While other pirates were trying to calm their terrified comrade, I melted the floor and leaped downward. Various facilities related to animals, such as numerous containers, large cryogenic capsules, and rectangular prisons with alloy iron bars, came into view. [ZZZZ ZZZ(this way)] Using the auxiliary organ to detect the area, I sensed that there seemed to be stairs in that direction. We ran towards the direction of the stairs. The camera installed on the stairs shot quills to neutralize it. After hiding in a corner of the first-floor cargo hold, we could finally catch our breath. ‘Okay. Now that we’re here, what’s next...’ While contemplating what to do next, a deafening noise came from above. It was the sound of the plasma turrets mounted on the pirate ship firing. The target was probably the abandoned ship that I had dominated and discarded. The pirate reconnaissance team is all dead, and the ship is damaged, so the captain of this ship must have received quite a blow. ‘Now enjoy the captain’s seat to your heart’s content.’ That position will soon be mine. “They’ve really messed things up.” “How do we fix this?” Engineers from the Ruslak Cartel sighed while wearing space suits. “Since the captain is furious, we have to handle it somehow. Huri and I will take care of the outer wall, so Cooper, you handle the inside.” “Understood.” Cooper, holding a metal injector, headed inside alone to repair the damage that occurred inside the ship. The metal injector, shaped like a welding machine but the size of a human, is a tool commonly used for repairing giant artificial structures like ships. By connecting several alloy plates to the device and activating it, liquid alloy comes out from the tip of the injector to weld the damaged area. While repairing with the metal injector for a while, he noticed something strange. “This wasn’t caused by an explosion, was it?” The hole in front of the protective door had edges that seemed to be melted, as if acidic liquid had been poured. To check the lower part, he lifted his head. At that moment, a hand reached out from the hole and grabbed his helmet. “!” Without being able to scream, he was dragged into the hole. All that remained where Cooper was standing was the lonely metal injector. A few minutes later, Huri, who was repairing the outer wall, came in for a break. “What’s up? Where did Cooper go?” Seeing only the metal injector in front of a sizable hole, he shook his head. “Cooper! Where are you?” “He’s...downstairs.” “Why did he go down there?” There was no reply. Hui waited for Cooper to come up, but he was nowhere in sight. Helplessly, he jumped down into the hole. “Hey! What are you doing from the cargo hold?” “It’s...here.” The cargo hold had minimal light to avoid stimulating the smuggled animals. Hui knew that fact, but even considering it, the place was much darker than usual. “Did the lights go out?” Still not sensing anything strange, Hui followed the voice. ‘Did it come from the stairs?’ Hui knew that currently, there were no stored creatures or cargo on the first floor. Thinking of it as a joke, he descended the stairs. “Cooper?” Earlier, he thought the second floor was quite dark, but compared to that, the first floor was incomparable. “Cooper! It’s too dark; I can’t see anything!” As he shouted, a white light turned on in the distance. Hui, not realizing it was a helmet-mounted flashlight, followed the light with relief. “What on earth are you doing here...” Following the light, Hui met Cooper, whom he had been looking forward to seeing. However, Cooper looked very different from what he had expected. He wasn’t wearing a helmet. To be precise, Cooper didn’t have a head to wear a helmet. Then where is the light that illuminates them coming from? Hui’s gaze followed the light upward. About 5 meters high, four long fingers held Cooper’s helmet. “Why...are you here now?” With those words, the light on Cooper’s helmet went out. What remained afterward was nothing but the profound darkness that seemed to swallow even the terminal despair.

Chapter 100

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