Volu 5, Chapter 19: The World and 【World】
“Are you sure we aren’t going to be discovered by anyone here?”
3 hours later, the five of us, Dale, Bai Yueguang, Aliyah, Tai Shixi and I, followed Tia into a building’s courtyard near the academy.
But, Tia did not open the door to the building at the courtyard, rather, she went around to the side of the building, and grabbed onto the ledge of the window. She first pushed it up, and then, pulled it down.
The stone wall was pushed back, and with a ‘huaa’ sound, it split into two and opened. A downward-heading passageway then revealed itself.
“Don’t worry, in this position, no matter from which angle, it can’t be seen. Let’s go.”
“Hey hey, just how did you guys complete a construct like this?” “This is just a small base, we only spent two days to finish this.” She then did a victory sign.
“No, no, what does this have to do with the ti spent… Hey! Two days!? Are you
guys monsters!? What I ant to ask was how did you guys create a basent like this without startling anyone!”
“Well, about that… Obviously we obtained permission to dig out a basent, but we simply added a few extra things, that’s all… Oh, right, we have to really thank you guys for rging with Doge Military School. The number of students entering the school increased, so requests to dig out basents like this could be considered to be pretty normal.”
“I see, looks like we should obtain permission to add a few more rooms to our base too… Oh well, that can be done later.”
“Alright, are you guys still going to co along?” “Of course.”
Tia laughed, and then entered the entrance.
When we followed after her into the passageway, only did I realize that the entire basent was made out of tal. Rather than it was constructed, it should be more correct to say that this entire tallic basent was inserted under the building.
“I really have to take my hat off for you guys, to actually be able to construct sothing like this. It must have costed a lot to start up this thing.”
“Well~ It wasn’t that much~ Fortunately, there’s black markets in this world, which allow us to save quite a lot of trouble when we have to sell our products.”
“Really…”
“When you’re free, you guys should try it out too. Selling items in those black markets is basically crazy. As long as you possess sothing that no one else has, you will be able to set your own price. It’s really very convenient~”
“I see…”
I turned my head to look at Dale, and he revealed his ‘I refuse to make any comnts’ expression.
Looks like this guy did indeed make a big sum of money off the black market, huh. “So you guys specialize in… making computers?”
“Un, the rest of the mbers are able to program, manufacture the components, and process the materials.”
“… Again, I have to take my hat off, to think you guys were able to gather together like this.”
“Well, in most cases, we sohow found each other in a black market, and then, we began to look for other companions by heading to the black markets in various cities.”
“I see…”
Looks like Dale’s actions back then could be understood… Or does all these people like shady places more?
“Fir, back then if you haven’t found , I might have been discovered by them instead.”
Dale suddenly spoke up.
“That’s right, if that were to happen, we would discover the existences of laptops with railguns installed in the future.”
“… That’s not a bad idea. It’s worth a try.” “Hey hey…”
“Then how many people do you guys have?” Bai Yueguang asked.
“About 50, I guess?” “50!!?”
The five of us exclaid at the sa ti.
“Hey hey! How can there be 50 people!?”
I imdiately opened my ssaging function.
The number of people on the ssaging list had never went over 10, and it never happened even after the many places I visited, why…
“Looks like you people have really underestimated us. We’re after all still an alliance that have connections across the entire continent… Oh right, you guys probably aren’t able to feel us, since in our various bases, we have an interference equipnt installed in every one of them, which prevents our built-in ssaging function from revealing us.”
Just when she said that, all the nas on my ssaging list, after a little static, disappeared in an instant.
Not just that, even the HP Bar, stats, and titles, all of them disappeared from my vision as well!
Just as she had said, in their territory, our systems were completely disabled! “They really disappeared, huh.”
Aliyah tried waving her hand in the air, but it did not seem to work. “Incredible!”
“Your technology… has it already surpassed the rules bounded by this world?”
“No, rather, I should say that it has surpassed the rules of our world. No matter how mystical this world is, we’re still viewing this world as if we’re looking at a ga in a computer screen. In other words, we appeared in this world because of so sort of technology from our world. So, as long as we surpass our own technology, we will then be gods!”
“You guys…”
Wait, interference?
Suddenly, I recalled the weird robot that attacked the academy in the past. Back then, the systems suffered interference as well, and it even led to a special quest being issued.
“Did you guys co to this academy in the past?” “Un? In the past? We shouldn’t have.”
“A few months ago, there was a weird robot that attacked our academy. And, it even shot out so disruption signal that interfered with our systems. Do you know about that?”
“… Well, I don’t really know about that. You just have to ask our boss about it later.”
“Who is your boss?”
“Huhu~ She’s the genius who created the first ever terminal.”
Opening the door in front of us, a space with a size of about half a basketball court appeared before us.
These people sure are daring. They actually dug out such a big space under our school.
“Welco everyone, I’m very happy to et even more people in the sa situation as us… No, I should be saying, how was your day, my cute little students~”
The corner of my lips twitched.
That’s right, it’s that twitching when you suddenly realized that you had been tricked the entire ti.
This level of trickery is probably about the sa as when you find out that your girlfriend is actually your long lost little sister. Of course, that applies to big sisters as well.
In any case, if this person wasn’t soone I’m familiar with, I would have really wanted to punch him in the face.
Ah, no, it should be ‘her’.
Speaking of which, back then, I really did not think of using【Phad’s Eye】to directly reveal her titles, and because of the interference now, they’re completely invisible.
This person is really terrifying. Why have I never thought of this possibility?
“I really never expected it would be you… Geez, and here I was wondering why I felt such familiarity from a lazy, shaless person who lives life without any needs. But I did not expect that it would actually be you, Ms. Mari!”
“Arara~ That’s your mistake, alright? To be fooled so simply by the system, is also a mistake of yours.”
That’s right, the person in front of was Mari Steppe, our horoom teacher.
And here I was wondering why she reminded of sothing, so her true nature is actually soone who loves to hole herself up in her laboratory!
Now I really have no idea if that’s her real na. She actually had such an identity hidden so deeply…
“Trusting a system that would even take away your mories, don’t you find that hilarious?”
“……”
Speaking of which, back then when I had the conversation with【World】, I did indeed not raise this question, but… I seed to have treated this as a matter of course.
“Regarding the issue of our lost mories, it seems the later one enters this world, the more mories one will lose~ It must not have been even a year since you guys arrived in this world, right? We have all been in this world for ten whole years, so the things we rember should be more than any of you.”
“There’s actually such a thing?”
Aliyah and I both ca into this world at the sa ti, so we were in the sa situation.
As for the rest…
“The two of us ca into this world about three years ago.”
Bai Yueguang said, and then Tai Shixi, who was beside him, nodded. “I should have ca into this world… about seven months ago.” Dale thought for a mont before answering.
“Then what do you know!? Just for what reason were we sent into this world!?” “About that, well… I don’t know~”
Ms. Mari helplessly shook her head.
“I don’t have mories on that matter either, but… what I do know is that all of us actually… belong to the sa organization. However, as for the na of that organization, none of us rember it, and we don’t rember what that organization does either.”
“Organization? Hey hey, why do I feel sothing’s completely wrong with this setting!? Are we all actually experintal subjects or sothing?”
“Who knows. This is the conclusion I ca up with after talking to the 56 people in this guild who ca into this world at different tis. According to the estimate, people who ca into this world less than five years ago would no longer rember about the organization.”
“Then who was the earliest person who ca into this world?”
“The earliest… was a person who ca into this world 30 years ago. But when we discovered him, he had already turned completely insane, and we don’t know why either.”
“30 years ago…”
Wait a minute, there’s soone who might know! That person’s level is actually a whopping 200!
“Demon King…” “Eh?”
“I know of soone who might be the earliest person who ca into this world, it’s this world’s Demon King.”
“Demon King… So the Demon King is actually one of us as well? Then we might as well conquer and unite the world!”
“Stop joking already…” I shook my head.
“Alright, we have drifted quite far from the main issue. We can talk about returning to the Abyss in the future. Currently, we only have a single question, in this academy war, which side are you supporting?”
“Well, I guess that’s right~ What’s important is the things currently happening right in front of us~”
Ms. Mari nodded, and then laughed. “The most interesting side of course~”
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