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Chapter 276
Chapter 276: Interrogation
Had it sensed that it was being mocked?
The Otherworld Contamination entity let out a roar bordering on a shriek and lunged at Baek Woohyun — a charge as grotesque as its hideous appearance, human and tentacle all tangled together.
Its speed, however, was tremendous. Seemingly because its original supernatural ability was lightning-type to begin with, and its body had been reinforced as a cost of the contamination.
Of course.
Е̃ ǹu mа . ї d
Rooooar!
For Baek Woohyun, who had fought transcendent battles unfolding within split-second intervals, it was at a level he could handle with ease.
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He seized space itself with his telekinesis in time with the entity's charge and managed to briefly — just briefly — halt the Otherworld Contamination entity's movement.
Given that it was drawing on Otherworld power as well, the hesitation lasted only the barest instant — but that was more than enough to toy with it.
"KIAAAAAH!"
"......"
Ẇ.е b̈ n о̀ v̂ е̇l Êǹú m̃ ӑ
Whoosh!
The arm the Otherworld Contamination entity swung — more precisely, the tentacle its arm had mutated into — grazed past the cheek of Baek Woohyun as he turned his body slightly aside, by the narrowest of margins.
A few centimeters closer and half his face might have been ripped off. Not that its owner showed any particular concern, his expression remaining flat and indifferent.
In truth, his composure was entirely warranted. He was perfectly reading the Otherworld Contamination entity's attacks through the telekinetic force field he had spread out.
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Which meant that while it may have looked extremely dangerous to an outside observer, it was nowhere near enough to stir even a scrap of tension in him.
Crack!
Ẁē b ṅӧ vеl̇ Е́n ū m̃ӑ
Baek Woohyun's counterattack that followed tore the Otherworld Contamination entity's left arm to shreds. [Black Hole]'s power was enough to sever even a corrupted body with ease.
The Otherworld energy the entity had wrapped around itself like a barrier couldn't stop it — even possessing resistance greater than ordinary supernatural ability resistance, it made no difference.
The ability-ignoring property of [Black Hole] proved its worth once again.
"...! KIAAAAAH!"
The Otherworld Contamination entity — though its original form was lost — shrieked as if its sense of pain remained fully intact.
It twisted, spurting a spray of blue blood from the stump of the severed arm. The eyes covering every inch of its body scrunched together in the face of extreme agony.
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More than that, it glared savagely at the one who had caused it pain — Baek Woohyun. All of its eyes, large and small, dozens of them.
The violet eyes, stained with a madness that had finally found something to resent, shone with a hair-raising light.
Keeeeeng——!
"Tch!"
The alien, hair-raising [Tinnitus] that he had experienced once before came crashing over Baek Woohyun.
Well aware of [Tinnitus]'s danger, he had steeled himself in advance — and yet he could barely suppress a groan escaping through his teeth.
Е̄ ń ū mа̃
The pain of what felt like his brain being ripped apart was something even he, who could smile through most torture, found difficult to simply endure in silence.
Apparently, just as the entity's supernatural ability had grown, so too had [Tinnitus] grown more powerful in proportion to the number of eyes that now covered its entire body.
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Baek Woohyun, who possessed the same pain intensity in 'Reverse Planet' as in reality thanks to Deus's handiwork, could feel it clearly.
It was hardly a welcome thing. All the more so because it was genuine pain, properly experienced for the first time in a while.
"KIAAAAAH!"
Bzzt-crackle!
Еnû mа. їd̄
The Otherworld Contamination entity, seeing Baek Woohyun grimace in pain, judged that an opening had come and swung its lightning-wreathed tentacles.
Even with the tentacle that had served as one arm severed, the entity still had many tentacles remaining, and it unleashed them all within a blanket of lightning.
As if declaring it would give him no avenue of escape, it filled the entire corridor with the sweeping barrage.
But the Otherworld Contamination entity's judgment was wrong. Very thoroughly so. Because Baek Woohyun had groaned in pain — but he had not been consumed by it.
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Having tasted pain worse than this countless times in the hellish research lab, and having weathered every hardship since, [Tinnitus] was merely somewhat troublesome to him.
Irritating enough, but never capable of halting his actions. Because pain was like a companion to him, forged through the most desperate battlefields imaginable.
Е̃num а̇. і d
Kraaaaaah!
The [White Hole] that appeared at the tip of Baek Woohyun's finger, pointed directly at the Otherworld Contamination entity, unleashed a torrent of tremendous repulsive force.
Before repulsion capable of shredding even the hardest metals in the world with ease, lightning-wreathed tentacles stood no chance of holding out.
The fact that rather than pouring everything into one decisive blow, the entity had spread out its range to block escape routes — that too had played a part in producing such a result.
Tentacles torn to shreds and blue blood spraying everywhere.
And a monster writhing in agony, with Baek Woohyun watching it coldly.
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At the end of a fierce clash, who held the advantage and who was at a disadvantage was concluded with absolute clarity.
Ssaaaa——!
"......"
What drove the final nail in was the Power of Transcendence, seizing the opening when [Tinnitus] weakened as the Otherworld Contamination entity thrashed about after losing its tentacles.
The Power of Transcendence, which had been suppressed under the assault of [Tinnitus], burst forth far more violently than before and swept away every trace of the pain gnawing at Baek Woohyun's brain.
Going beyond seeping out through the gaps in the transparent flame, the light particles now seemed to blanket over it entirely — and from them, an intense fury seemed to emanate.
Ẅ е̌b̆ n̂ о̀ v̇_е̄l̊ Еn um̊ а́_
For Baek Woohyun, who was already pressing his advantage in a straight fight, that brief extra margin became nothing less than the key to victory.
Baek Woohyun pressed in on the frenzied Otherworld Contamination entity step by step. Evading tentacles, crushing lightning, driving the mindless beast into a corner.
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Before an experienced hunter like him, the monster that had once been human could exert no power whatsoever. It only flailed as he willed.
"KIAAAAAH!"
'It probably would have been stronger without using the Otherworld power.'
Baek Woohyun looked down at the Otherworld Contamination entity with cold eyes — it had lost all the tentacles it previously had and was rampaging with only the few newly regenerated ones.
Е́ňù mӓ
Certainly, the Otherworld power and the resulting Otherworld Contamination had granted the middle-aged Hellhound man enormous strength — that much was true.
In terms of raw power alone, it had probably more than doubled compared to when he was human. That was already true of just the supernatural ability, to say nothing of physical ability.
But combat as a whole was not something that could be won by brute force alone. Even the Otherworld Lord, a powerful enemy, had ultimately been broken.
Wielding power gained at the cost of losing one's reason in a wild, uncontrolled rampage would never reach Baek Woohyun — a man who had cut down enemies far stronger than this.
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He might as well consider the alternative scenario where the man didn't use Otherworld power and instead cooperated with his subordinates to take him down with their own hands — that version would have been far more troublesome.
'Well, either way.'
Е ń ü m̆ a
"This is the end."
"——!"
Crackle!
The jet-black gravitational sphere that formed at Baek Woohyun's fingertip — [Black Hole] — swallowed half of the Otherworld Contamination entity's upper body. A perfectly clean deletion.
With it, the Otherworld Contamination entity, now missing its entire right upper body including its heart, gaped open its mouth and expelled a scream that made no sound.
Just how extreme the agony it felt was could be roughly gauged from the sight of every violet eye covering its body flying wide open.
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One terrifying fact was that rather than simply dying on the spot, the Otherworld Contamination entity trembled and began to regenerate.
Even having lost nearly a quarter of its body, it clung desperately to life. A truly remarkable survival ability, one had to admit.
It was also a scene that illustrated why confirmation kills had been considered so important when dealing with Otherworld-related entities on the 'other side.'
'Tenacious.'
Crackle!
Baek Woohyun clicked his tongue lightly and cleanly blew off the head of the Otherworld Contamination entity, which was still trying to regenerate even as it poured blue blood.
Eňumӓ
Before [Black Hole], which absorbed and annihilated everything it touched, the entity was helpless — already in the middle of gurgling with its heart gone.
When at last even the eyes created by the Otherworld power lost their strength and closed, the corpse — barely more than a lower half — collapsed a beat later.
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The blue blood spreading across the cracked floor made it unmistakably clear that the Otherworld Contamination entity, once human, would not be returning even in death.
"......"
Baek Woohyun, who had been looking down at the Otherworld Contamination entity's corpse without expression, turned his head away. Every obstacle had been eliminated; it was time to achieve the original purpose.
Hellhounds, the elite hunting dogs, were assets prized and carefully kept even within the Corporate Alliance — all the more so when operating as a team like this.
W̆ е.b n̈.о v̀ ӗl Е nü m ӓ
As such, these four were the tail that the Corporate Alliance — the research facility's backers — had revealed. A tail thick enough that, if seized, it could lead all the way to the body.
That was precisely why Baek Woohyun had deliberately launched the ambush, even though withdrawing quickly would have allowed him to avoid a confrontation with the four Hellhounds.
To capture them and extract information. To deliver through that a true end to Project: Transcendence, which those people had started of their own accord.
'Only one survived.'
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The male Hellhound who had been ambushed before being fully contaminated had kept his life — but the female who had been struck after him was already dead.
The force of the Otherworld Contamination entity's attack itself was devastating enough, but it seemed her neck had snapped as she was sent flying.
È n̂ um a .і̂_d̃
Whether to say she had been unlucky, or lucky for having avoided what lay ahead — the situation left that genuinely unclear.
'Let's go back.'
Baek Woohyun grabbed the surviving Hellhound man with telekinesis, lifted him, and returned to the integrated command center as swiftly as he had moved when setting off for the ambush.
Even with an unconscious person tucked beside him, his speed was completely unaffected. Truly skilled telekinetic flight.
Clap, clap, clap.
"As expected — impressive."
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Kim Youngjun greeted Baek Woohyun with a beaming face, even clapping his hands together in genuine delight.
Having confirmed the battle's result through the CCTV, he had already made preparations with complete thoroughness. Which meant he had laid out various tools with dried blood on them.
Against the backdrop of the integrated command center, packed with cutting-edge equipment including hologram monitors, those tools looked all the more unsettling.
Baek Woohyun, who had personally carried out torture before, glanced over at them with an expressionless look and moved on — but ordinary people would have felt no small degree of their spirits dampened.
"I'll leave the interrogation to you."
"Don't worry about a thing. I'll shake every last scrap of information they have out of them."
Е̃num̀ а
Baek Woohyun handed over the one Hellhound he had brought back, and Kim Youngjun — answering with supreme confidence — slung him over his shoulder, grabbed the tools he had laid out, and moved to the back.
The work that was about to take place involved a great deal of blood, so running the risk of damaging the computer equipment by doing it right next to it was inadvisable.
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Apart from Isaac and Deus, 'Reverse Planet' was still a virtual reality game at the end of the day — meaning it couldn't show blatant torture scenes regardless.
"......"
Left alone, Baek Woohyun rummaged through the computer in Kim Youngjun's place, collecting information.
Having already been told there was nothing useful left, he had no great expectations. It was merely a way to pass the time.
Ё n̈u m̈а.id
The information he needed had mostly already been obtained on the 'other side' to begin with — making 'Reverse Planet's’ information worth little more than cross-referencing.
He paused.
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