chapter 203 – Terran in Neorust(4)


    “Fun android dissection time with ire!” As soon as Kang Shin-hyuk brought her theenemy, ire sat down and got to work.Kang Shin-hyuk stood beside her and fired upon the undeadfalling from thesky.


    “ire, the battle isn’t over yet.”


    “Then broadcast the news on theradio.”


    “Thank you so much for your help.” Kang Shin-hyuk leftthe evil android toire and began to deal with the zombies runningwild after the android’s defeat. Ofcourse, ire was also helping in the clean-up with the drone’sautonomous maneuvering function. A deep fog was spreading over the dark sky, and some ofthe zombies evolved intoghouls. The residents became tense upon seeing theghouls but soon let out sighs and began to mutter whenthey saw Kang Shin-hyuk clearing them all up alone.


    “How the hell does he prate the ghouls’ hard skinsoeasily?”


    “It’ll be a while for our garbage fusion guns to catch up…”


    “What happened to the undead before?”


    “They didn’t seem to have been killed.” A night of undead,corpse rain, and fog. If that were normal,then, of course, the appearance of ghouls now wouldn’t trigger a special rm. Evenwhen the undead core appeared, the residentsjust readied to abandon their homes and leave the city. Yet the bartender’s boyfriend (orat least that’s how they viewed him) intercepted it and destroyed it. Even whenthe three undead cores fused together,he had taken care of them.


    “The ghoul… aren’t they a little more than A-ssin terms of magic? But why couldn’t Itake care of it with one shot? How can they withstand an SSS-ssweapon?” That very sameboyfriend wasining about things that the others would befrightenedby.


    -They aren’t ordinary ghouls. Their skin containsfine metal particles.


    Well, that made sense, given the evil androidhad also been an undead.


    “Which means they can’t be judged simply by magicpower.”


    -A 150,000HP bonus for your astonishing judgment!


    While Kang Shin-hyuk tuned out the administrator and cleaned up theundead, ire was dissecting the android with a hum.


    “Shin-hyuk, do you think I can controlthis?”


    “Do you need surgical assistance?”


    “Just don’t let any of the contents spill out.”


    “Okay, that’s it.” The evil android flinched every time ire puta knight into it, despite it being deactivated. However, ire continuedto work. It wasn’t a pleasant scene to watch,so Shin-hyuk pretended to focus on subjugating the undead.


    “Wow, look at the rotten flesh oozing from the inside. It looked fine only ontheoutside.”


    “Double kill, triplekill…”


    “Wow, this was a mana supplement. Wait,then the key part…”


    “Quadruple kill, penta kill!” He didn’t even blink when cuttingan enemy in half but listening to a corpse’s anatomy wasa bit different. ire continued her work while deliberately checking to see his reaction.


    “This is it.”


    “You found it?”


    “The structure is simpler than I thought.I didn’t know how the tissue was structured, but the rest was taken into the undeadcore.”


    “Be careful. I don’t know whatsystem hacking will be like, but it doesn’tseem like we can easily touch it.”


    “Don’t’ worry.” Although ire was naturally proud of her abilities, she didn’t boast aboutthings she couldn’t do. And now, the administrator was backing her,so Kang Shin-hyuk believed in her and focused on the battle. Slowly,the mist scattered, and the sun dawned in the sky. The rain ofbodiesstopped.


    “Done!” At that moment, ire raised her hands and cheered. It was socute that he wanted to hug her and cheer together, but he endured it patiently.


    “What, did you really hack the Gaia system?”


    “No, it seems a little difficult. It’s hard toess from this side because of the quick disconnection. Instead,we got alot of information.”


    “What sort of information was it to make you cheer so much?” Perhaps itwas the question she had been waiting for, as irepointed to the evil android confidently.


    “It was the information on how to bring this backtolife.”


    “…” She dissected it, but now wanted to revive it? Rather, itfelt like she meant something else.


    “No way, how tomake an undead?”


    “Let’s subtract the undead element; I’d rather make a golem.”


    “A golem.”


    “Very modern, very modern, and at the same time, very fantasy.”


    “Yes, yes, you mean an android.”Whether it was due to ck of time or ability, shesaid she could make something that wouldn’t connect to the tainted Gaia system.


    “I’m thinking ofpletely reworking the inner structure. Can you help?”


    “If it’s okay after I’m done working.”


    “That’s enough! I love you!” The battle ended well, and the harvest was good, sothe two enjoyed a little skin-ship as they hugged for a while.The street residents were staringat them on the roof as they shared a passionate kiss. However,once she noticed, she leisurelywaved them off.


    “What? I’m not going to hide it.”


    “So it’s something to be proud of?Oh, you’re proud of me.”


    “Exactly. Haha.” ire hung onto him and hugged his neck, letting out a heartfeltugh.


    “Am I heavy?”


    “What? Are you on my back?”


    “Well, 90points!”


    “Did you fasten your seatbelt? Then, I’ll leave, ma’am.”


    “Okay, five more points. Start!” ire shouted happily as herlegs kicked in the air. He carried her down fromthe roof as she was, and whenthe hatch closed, the residents breathed a collective sigh.


    “Are all humans like that? They’resoloud.”


    “But they did a good job.”


    “Cheh, that man is good too.”


    “You can’t have children through same-sex mating, Regal.”


    “The battle is over, so get off the radio. If you findany dead, report it.”


    “There’s none in this section, thanks to those humans.”


    “Someone go check out the house that the zombies opened earlier.”


    “I’ll go then.” The radio was cut off briefly; then,reports came in from each area stating everything washandled.


    “What about pollution?”


    “The amount of undead was absurd, but thanks to that cocktail, it’s fine.”


    “Those outsiders were helpful, then.”


    “They did well.”


    “I was a bit suspicious… but now we have no choicebut to trust them.”


    “Not that doubting them will do us anygood.”


    “Go in and go to sleep, everyone.”


    “…” One by one, the radios turned off, and Skobaid down thefusion gun he was holding.


    “Damn, they’re real lovers.” No, that wasn’t the part that surprisedhim. He just felfortable around them. He knew they lived in a different dimension than him, their thoughtsand actions a world apart.


    “Can they change Neorust?” Skoba shookhis head and closed the window. So, thefoggy night ended. Not that it could end. The night of fogwould continue again and again untll free-willed humans were wiped out. But, at leastthis time, everyone could fall asleep safely.


    ***


    Kang Shin-hyuk and ire returned to their daily lives in this new world. Shin-hyuk focusedon making the shackles while ire sold cocktails to customers and, asionally, worked onremodeling the android. She had collected a lot of mechanical parts from taking out theundead, so shewas making good progress on the remodeling.


    “I don’t think it’ll bepleted before the shackles, though.”


    “How do you n on fixing itsinterior?”


    “In fact, there is a sale on the trading board…”


    “Ohhhhh…” In the blink of an eye, nearly two months had passed. The night ofthe fog arrived three more times, but no more undead cores fell fromthesky.


    Kang Shin-hyuk hapleted the shackles, and ire had finished the android.