Come to think of it, it was a strange thing.
That earlier catastrophe, when an Agency agent had forcibly boarded a contaminated child onto the escape pod.
Acute molting will proceed and ulcers will sprout across the entire body, resulting in loss of life signs.
Death, caused by contamination rapidly spreading.
If the escape pod itself were doing that in order to eliminate a danger inside, then it was far too much like… the behavior of the infectious source, wasn’t it?
Right.
It should be interpreted as something done by the biological disaster—the mermaid.
A punishment dealt to a host that dared to move away from the colony, to try to escape.
A retrieval of energy.
However, only the Supernatural Disaster Management Agency’s agents had known about that incident, while the Baekilmong employees alone knew the more detailed information about the escape pod….
Fragmented information.
And because of that, no one could have rationally predicted this situation.
“Ah.”
A child raised a hand.
“It’s the Mermaid Princess!”
Crash!
With a deafening roar, the mass that plunged down through the ceiling smashed the station apart.
Kyaaaahahahaha—!
The sound of ulcers colliding—eerily like the laughter of young children—filled the station.
Then countless strands of tentacle-like tumor masses spewed ghastly slime and planted themselves in the space like legs.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
As if a spiderweb were hanging down, masses of flesh secreting slime extended their tentacles like limbs to every wall of the shattered station and hung from them, revealing their form.
The most enormous tumor mass within that vast infected colony—the hideous thing that had been coiled before the “Dragon Palace.”
Kyaaaahahahaha—!
It covered the station and slammed down its flesh.
Boom!
“Fuck!”
Baek Saheon screamed, frozen in stupidity for a second, then shoved away the employee who had tried to push him and quickly retreated.
The sound rang out of the employee being seized by the flesh, his skull crushed, his blood and eye membrane sucked away.
Get back!
Clutching the bag with the conch shells tightly, he tried to sprint straight toward the escape pod.
But at that exact moment—
someone grabbed…