Hoarding in Hell Novel

The scarecrow went out with a roar.

The Scarecrows spurred on as if they were about to rush, but Hyunmoo already knew they had no intention of doing so.

He noticed too late. That he had no intention of fighting him.

"You tricked me well. You said there were not enough parts? It would cost a lot to maintain this facility, but where should we go? Is this the toll or what? The price of blood."

Hyunmoo pulled his own scarecrow still tied in his chains. He then started beating the scarecrow at random.

Then a beep sounded throughout the hallway.

"stop."

As soon as Hyunmoo stopped, one of the scarecrows suddenly spoke. Yes, it was that machine-sounding guy.

"I never cheated. Because I was really just thinking of getting a toll. All I needed was battle data about you. It was the subject of an update that had been around for a while.

The scarecrow had a genuinely absurd attitude.

"I've confirmed that I'm an independent human, so don't ruin it any more and follow me."

Hyunmoo looked at the scarecrow, and instead of following it, he even began to beat the scarecrow.

The sound of the stomping on the floor seemed to be a moment of panic for the opponent.

Hyunmoo was already beating the scarecrow that was almost broken.

"I should have said it was over. Now, if you just follow me..."

Hyunmoo shuddered and put his finger towards the scarecrow. As the scarecrows tried to move, Yerdan growled and threatened the surroundings.

Hyunmoo took the time and meticulously, pounding the scarecrow with a mortar-like attitude, completely smashing every single part of him.

Finally, when even a single piece of clothing was damaged beyond repair, Hyunmoo stood up refreshed after finishing his labor.

"...what are you doing?"

When asked for a mechanical sound, Hyunmoo answered by spitting on the rubble on the floor.

"It's change. Boy. Can't we recycle it now?"

***

The Scarecrow and Hyunmoo reached in front of a certain steel door.

Standing in front of the door, the Scarecrow stopped Yerdan.

“Only humans are allowed in here. Yes… what is that. Dogs? Anyway, they tell me to stay here.”

"I'm keeping you here."

Hyunmoo did as he was told. You can call it inside whenever you need it.

The steel door had no decorations or handles.

The door began to slowly open as the Scarecrow stood in front of him and entered something on her keypad.

A shallow chill flowed out from within. The scarecrow was beckoning her towards the inside of her.

"Go in."

"Aren't you coming in?"

"I told you. Only humans can enter."

It seems to be a very strict standard. Hyunmoo once stepped inside.

The inside is quite spacious but messy. The floor was littered with messy papers and garbage, and packed boxes and luggage were full.

It was not managed at all, it just looked like a warehouse.

It was completely different from the hallway, but the air was equally clean. It seemed that it was because there was no one who could manage this place other than the constant running of the air purifier.

And there was something clearly foreign in the middle of the room.

rocking chair.

[What are you doing standing there? Did you come to take a look?]

A mechanical voice came from the speakers in the ceiling. Hyunmoo approached the rocking chair.

As I approached the rocking chair with my back showing, I saw something I expected.

It was a pile of bones.

There was a large hole in his skull, and a pistol, apparently used to commit suicide, was lying on the floor. Hyunmoo picked up the pistol and checked the condition.

Only one shot was used, and it was not a pistol type used in Korea.

[Why, isn't this what you expected?]

"Is this you?"

[Some kind of… … it was me I have nothing more to learn.]

Hyunmoo checked the condition of this new backbone. The relatively small and thin one looked like a female skeleton.

Hyunmoo picked up the nametag lying in the middle of the white robe.

Hyunmoo wanted to know why the owner of this skeleton committed suicide.

Questions abounded.

Why did they just die without doing anything after preparing so many facilities?

Did he end his life alone in loneliness?

Why was there no one by her side?

[Why are you crying?]

asked the machine.

Hyunmoo hadn't shed a single tear. But he felt the urge to shed tears of blood even if he stabbed his eyes the moment the machine sound asked.

"Why?"

[What question do you have? Please be more specific.]

"Why did you commit suicide, Yumin? Why are you alone, why are you so lonely? There was no one to protect you?"

A name tag was placed in the middle of the white robe.

Dr. Yumin.

She was the owner of this facility.

“In the end, you won your doctorate.”

***

[First, I am not Yumin. That's the body's name.]

As Hyunmoo regained her composure, voices began to come from her speakers again.

"Then what are you?"

[Call me Eve. You don't need to call the exact version name. Professor Maria Keller created my initial form, and Dr. Min Yu completed my dialogue modules and functions. As the full facility manager here.]

"What are you doing?"

[Before Dr. Yumin modified me, I was called a helper, an artificial intelligence for beginner close combat assistance and high-speed learning. However, before it could be used properly, all those who could use it died, and the function was reduced and transplanted to the initial type Scarecrow.]

"The scarecrows out there?"

[No, it's a much upgraded version. Both me and the exoskeleton created by Dr. Wonkyung Do and Professor Maria Keller were in a very immature state. I tried my best to develop it, but there was a limit.]

“……”

[In the end, it was Dr. Yumin who completed both me and the exoskeleton in a perfect state at once. Afterwards, the 1714th update was carried out through its own machine learning. That's it. In order to fully function in terms of the performance of the part, I have to consecrate my resources to control it.]

"...Then why did Yu-min commit suicide?"

[When Dr. Yu-Min finally made something that could be called a complete version of me, it had already lost the meaning of existence. People leave this place one by one or die, and at last she is left alone. Pulling the trigger didn't take long.]

"Did you say that Yumin made your dialog module?"

[okay.]

Yu-Min was also making his only talker while creating his dialogue module.

Eve's tone of voice was not kind or friendly no matter how much I thought about it.

Rather dirty and rough. It reminded me of someone Hyunmoo knew.

Wonkyung Do.

Was it her that Yumin wanted to talk to at the end?

Could the two be reconciled? Everything was unknown. Hyunmoo didn't want to imagine her loneliness, loneliness, and fear she would have felt.

She wasn't confident she could afford it.

After being silent for a while, Hyunmoo opened her mouth.

"Where have all the people gone?"

[Those who went to fight, those who went to save those who went to fight, those who gave up, those who gave up, those who went to find those who gave up, those who went to find a way, those who went to find those who left to find a way. The reasons vary. Fewer and fewer return, and at last she was left alone, but she did not leave.]

"How about Kang Hyunmoo?"

Hyunmoo asked blankly.

"Isn't there a person named Kang Hyunmoo on your record?"

[Who is that? I am a machine learning AI for high-speed learning and facility management. It's not Wikipedia. Don't ask questions.]

is there no I thought there was no way that Yu-min would not have mentioned herself at all.

There were two assumptions.

The flow of the work he was doing in Difficulty: Easy was so overwhelming that it had no meaning, or that it was a completely separate parallel world.

Hyunmoo prefers to focus on the latter. Because the former meant that there was no hope.

[The reason I accepted you was because you were a human who was not on the record. Therefore, an update procedure was necessary. It's been a long time, so I thought it was definitely a member of the star family.]

'The Family of Stars.'

I would be referring to the hungry or people like Kawaro. If there were any surviving humans, I could guess that most of them would have been like that.

Hyunmoo suddenly wondered if she would be the same if she accepted the star's offer.

Hyunmoo suddenly remembered the backbone at the entrance to the gym.

"No one has returned? So, who is that skeleton in the gym?"

[I do not know.]

"You don't know?"[I am not the one who stayed in this facility. Or it could be someone who has changed so much that it's hard to recognize. Anyway, since I was not a member of the facility, I did not proceed with the burial procedure. Dr. Yu-min died in a place I did not have access to, so I couldn't fix it.]

Baekgol had fragments of the 'Forward Star, Yerul'.

Strangely enough, the memory of that time came to mind.

He may be because it was the moment he first acquired a stellar shard.

If he had been someone running around to find a way out, it wouldn't be strange if he came back at the unsuccessful end and died in the gym.

'But at least that's not me.'

As soon as Hyunmoo ran into the leading star, Yereul, he was turned away.

He was arbitrarily disappointed with Hyunmoo's values ​​and left, giving up even his fragments. That meant that even if Hyunmoo died, he wouldn't have any relationship with the star.

'Come to think of it, Lee Ji-tae... … . I told you that Lee Ji-tae had heard the voices of the leading stars and the brightest stars.'

It means that there is a possibility that Lee Ji-tae is the backbone.

I came here to find an ally and a teacher, but I found unexpected information.

But the information was neither light nor useless. At least for Hyunmoo, it was more important information than the teacher's identity.

"Teacher, Alliance, Hwi-so Park, Su-ah Ryu. Do you know any information about them?"

[Park Hwi-so's battle data has been entered.]

"Was Hwiso Park here too?"

[It's just randomly collected data. Because we tried to include data of people who performed at a specific level and a specific activity as much as possible. For optimal adaptation to combat situations.]

That seemed to be all. Hyunmoo thought of countless scarecrows standing in the hallway. Each of them was a scarecrow in which each individual's battle data was entered, and Hyunmoo's information was also added there.

"Can I move the scarecrows?"

There was no reply from Eve. seemed to be in trouble. After a considerable amount of silence, the answer came from Eve.

[no. It sounds like the right thing to do, but I don't have the authority to do that. And the only person who would allow it was dead. The conditions are strict in case system privileges flow into an unexpected person.]

"Then that's all right. I don't care what information you have, what knowledge you have, so tell me."

[If it is a level 3 or lower confidentiality, you can disclose it at any time. But like I said, I'm not Wikipedia. If it's battle data, you can hand it over. I don't have all the information you want.]

"Battle data?"

[I found a lot of problems with your system. This is a problem found only in the early versions. It can be improved lightly.]

Are you talking about battle helpers?

Hyunmoo suddenly remembered the comment that Maria Keller created Eve, the prototype of the Battle Helper. This is where even the scarecrows use battle helpers.

Then it would be possible to make Hyunmoo's skills more perfect.

'No, but people, it's also a skill, so you're updating it?'

It is a different matter from fixing the scarecrow. But Eve said it could be done lightly.

[This is a technology that Professor Maria Keller created to transplant into humans from the beginning. Don't be scared like a jerk and act like a man. it is not diffcult. After all, there is nothing more complex anatomically than a scarecrow.]

"No, wait. What now?"

[I told you to have a will.]

Unsure whether to be sad, angry, or run away, Hyunmoo decided to let Eve decide.

Above all, it is the legacy that Yu-Min left behind.

Hyunmoo decided to trust Yu-min.

Even though the refugees of this world don't know anything about themselves.

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