Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 440 Project Name: Restarting Yaguna Kotor
"Dr. Park Sang-woo, you have no choice. After weighing the pros and cons, the best solution is to tell me the truth you know. In this way, not only will you not have to worry about whether your 'wife' is loyal to you, but you yourself will be able to leave here alive." Ke Lan said.
Park Sangyou was silent for more than a minute, then he looked at Ke Lan and said in a tired voice: "Okay...what do you want to know?"
"All of them." Ke Lan said.
"Where do you want to begin?"
"Let's start from the beginning of the matter."
"...Okay. Since you have that kind of authority, you must know that I am a returnee, right?"
"I'll repeat, just say your own words, don't ask me any questions, and don't test me with words." Ke Lan said expressionlessly.
"...Okay. Regarding this matter, regarding this project of 'Restarting Agunaktor', it all started from the time when I was exiled." Park Sangyou sighed and said.
Ke Lan and the Hound looked at each other, and both saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes. In their original guess, "Aguna Kotor" was most likely a primitive creature living underground in the Molten Mine Area, but judging from the name of this project, the truth was obviously quite different from the guess.
If "Yagunactor" is really a primitive species, then it would be better to use words like "resurrection" or "awakening", and "restart" should obviously not be used for living things.
"Go on."
"I was dropped by the transport ship into the wilderness hundreds of kilometers away from the Ark. It was basically impossible for me to walk back to the Ark from this distance, and my backpack only had enough food and water to support me for three days... I didn't even have to wait until the supplies ran out. The low temperature at night was enough to prevent me from seeing the sun the next day."
"I was lucky. I walked in the wilderness for four hours and finally found an exile settlement hidden in a natural cave before the sun went down. I exchanged a day's food and water for the right to spend the night in the settlement... But I didn't expect that the old man who took my things and promised to keep me safe would rob me with a group of people that night."
"That's strange... Aren't you a strengthened human? How could you be robbed by those people? Do they have a lot of guns?" The Hound couldn't help but interrupt.
"That settlement only has a few homemade hunting rifles, which are inaccurate beyond five meters... But they have a lot of mutants, radiation mutants, and I can't beat them."
"Let's get to the point." Ke Lan said, "Dr. Park Sangyou, you know we are in danger now, so please keep it short."
“Okay.” Park Sangyou nodded resignedly, “They robbed me and planned to sell me as a slave to other settlements the next day, but their caravan was attacked on the way.”
"Are the attackers a heretic sect?" asked Aya Breya.
"Yes. Half of the exiles in the convoy were killed, and among the remaining captives, the weak ones were killed on the spot, and the strong ones were sent to be made into containers for the 'Seed of Corrosion'... As people from the Security Bureau, you should know what the container of the Seed of Corrosion means."
"Go on."
"At that time, I was still wearing a white lab coat. A man in a black robe saw me and asked me if I was the one who had just been exiled. I said yes, and then he asked me the reason for my exile and my expertise. I answered truthfully. He said he could give me a chance to join the heretical sect and serve the great true God, or become a container for the seeds of erosion like the other captives."
"I had no choice but to agree to their request. In the following period of time, I used my abilities to help them find several remains of the Alpha civilization buried deep underground..."
"Will the heretical sects also explore the remains of the Alpha civilization in an organized manner?" Aya asked again.
"Yes." Park Sangyou nodded. "At first, I was only responsible for external exploration. Later, after I gradually gained their trust, they began to bring me into the ruins."
Park Sangyou paused, then looked at Ke Lan and said, "In the heretical sect, there is a person who can understand the language of Alpha civilization."
"I know him and have even dealt with him several times." Ke Lan looked at him and said calmly, "Very good, at least this proves that you are not fooling me."
"...That's right, since you are from that organization, you must know..." Park Sangyou said, "Inside the heretical sect, they all respectfully call him the 'prophet '. He is the most respected person in the heretical sect, even higher than the leader."
Ke Lan raised his eyebrows slightly. He originally thought that the guy who founded the heretical sect was the leader himself, but now it seems that there is someone else who is the leader.
Or is the "prophet" just one of his many substitutes, and the leader is the hidden real person? Or, are the identities of the two swapped?
Ke Lan didn't know.
"With the help of the 'Prophet', the difficulty of exploring the ruins for the heretics has been greatly reduced. Many ruins that can be rated as at least C-level or even B-level can be explored without any damage." Park Sangyou said, "After getting familiar with the 'Prophet', he would often tell me some clues he found in the ruins, hoping to use my ability to discover more new ruins related to them."
"One of the clues points to the Molten Mine Area, right?" Ke Lan asked.
"Yes. The prophet told me that the material Nino Alloy was not actually made by the Alpha Civilization." Park Sangyou replied, "He saw on a stone tablet that all the Nino Alloy on Alpha came from the Molten Mine Area, to be precise, from 'Aguna Kotor'."
Ke Lan used a gesture to stop Hound and Aya from asking questions, suppressed her surprise, and looked at Park Sangyou: "I know this, go on."
"Deep in the Molten Mine Area, buried is an ancient warship that is about one-sixth the size of the Ark. This warship was not built by the Alpha Civilization, but by a higher-level civilization, and the material used to build this warship is Nino Alloy. As for 'Aguna Kator ', that is... a code name given to this warship by 'that organization'."
"What the Alpha Civilization calls 'mining' is actually dismantling the parts of this battleship and melting them into ingots ... Isn't this similar to what the group of people in the garrison base are doing?"
"Yes... According to the information we know so far, the Alpha Civilization has not mastered the method of manufacturing Nino Alloy. The smelting facilities in the Molten Mine Area were also built to replicate Nino Alloy... just like us."
Park Sangyou's throat moved, and he continued, "At first, Ark didn't know about the existence of 'Agunaktor'. It wasn't until I brought this information back that they established this project... What they wanted was not Nino alloy, but this ancient warship from a more advanced civilization."
"My colleagues and I, our mission is to find and restart this battleship."
"It seems that you have found 'Yaguna Kator'?"
"……right."
“Is that why the earthquake happened?”
"right."
