‘Who should I tell? What should I do!’

The first thing that came to mind was Kwon Jae-in, my family.

I didn’t know what was going on, but I thought they would be able to solve this. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

However, my hands that were trying to contact Kwon Jae-in stopped right away.

‘They knew that my sister was Jared’s relative, so they did that. They might have put Eternal Lake under surveillance.’

Even if that were true, Eternal Lake would succeed in uncovering the secret behind this incident, but I didn’t know what would happen to Lee Yeoreum’s safety.

When I thought about that, I couldn’t possibly tell Kwon Jae-in.

Furthermore, in the worst case scenario, someone could get injured in Eternal Lake or the team could be in trouble.

‘Aunt... ....’

The image of Kwon Jae-in, who would look kindly when I called her aunt and be happy when I held her hand, lingered in my mind, but in the end, I couldn’t send the message.

If I hadn’t known that Kwon Jae-in was my aunt, I would have hesitated a bit more.

I couldn’t help but think that my other family members besides Lee Yeo-reum might be in danger.

The next thing that came to mind was Eun Kwang-go’s friends and teachers, but I couldn’t suddenly put them in danger while they were enjoying the game.

“Is this a message from you, my sister?”

Kwon Rena was startled by Moon Sae-ron’s words.

She didn’t know whether to answer yes or no.

Moon Sae-ron didn’t miss Kwon Rena’s hesitation.

“When Gyu-yeon was at the lab, she didn’t send messages often. She jokingly said that someone might spy on her. I thought it was strange.”

Moon Sae-ron’s eyes sparkled beyond the lenses of her glasses.

Although she didn’t have any special abilities related to her eyes or have poor eyesight, Moon Sae-ron wore glasses.

Moon Sae-ron, who had a special ability specializing in listening and writing, wore glasses that had a vision-blocking function when she infused her special ability wave to concentrate, but now the power in her eyes was so strong that it felt as if the glasses had special powers or Moon Sae-ron had special powers.

It was natural to be concerned about why an ordinary employee like Lee Yeo-reum was in such a major military facility and why Namgung Gyu-yeon had risked his life to send a message.

Knowing Moon Sae-ron’s reporter’s intuition and reporting skills, Kwon Rena spoke with difficulty.

“My sister finished her work. She asked to see me for a moment.”

“Right now? The suspicious vice-captain’s game is over, but there’s still one more left?”

“Yeah, I think she’s in a hurry because something big happened at home recently. She stopped by the lab and finished her external work.”

She tried to make it sound plausible, but Kwon Rena knew very well that her words were close to a lie.

She was always excited when she talked about her sister, but now she must have seemed scared.

Moon Sae-ron must have noticed, but since it was a household matter, she had difficulty bringing it up.

Anyone with the information of Moon Sae-ron’s level had already figured out that Kwon Rena’s parents were involved in the Hwanmong auction.

“I’ll have to talk to Gyu-yeon when I meet my sister later. I think my sister called a car, so I’ll go.”

“Dear.......”

Even though Kwon Rena seemed to be lying, the story was consistent, and since it was a very sensitive topic, Moon Sae-ron couldn’t easily bring it up.

If it was someone she didn’t know at all, she would have asked questions as a reporter, but Moon Sae-ron couldn’t bring it up easily.

In the end, Moon Sae-ron threw a curveball instead of asking directly.

“How about asking if I can go with a friend? Didn’t you meet with your friends before? I’ll introduce you to another friend and take you too.”

“Don’t do that. I’ll go alone.”

“Do you know what the Ministry of National Defense Research Institute does? If you leave me now, you and I will tell everyone we know. Just ask them first. If it’s really nothing serious, can’t you ask if you can bring a friend?”

Kwon-rena trembled at the words that she would tell everyone.

And ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) Moon Sae-ron’s words also made sense.

If all of this was really just Kwon-rena’s misunderstanding, there wouldn’t be any problems.

When Kwon-rena sent a device message, it asked who her friends were and how many there were.

When she revealed that it was a friend who wasn’t from Class 0 and that she was one, she received the following response.

[Sister] Bring them. If they’re Lena’s friends, I want to see them too.

Moon Sae-ron, who was watching the conversation from the side, said.

“It seems stronger because you’re checking the number of people you’re going to call. Anyway, I’ll go with you since it’s okay!”

“Sae-ron.......”

Kwon-rena felt more confident after exchanging messages.

If it was someone like Jo Ui-shin or Kim Yu-ri who I met last time and found out about the situation, then it would be understandable, but if it was my real sister, there was no way she would readily agree to taking another friend who didn’t know about wiretapping.

If I only thought about the safety of this summer, I could pretend not to know and take Moon Sae-ron, but I couldn’t.

Kwon Rena finally spoke as if squeezing it out.

“The other person isn’t my sister, and it could really be dangerous...... and Sae-ron is not like me to take that kind of risk.......”

Kwon Rena said it with great difficulty.

It was a very cold voice, but Kwon Rena and Moon Sae-ron weren’t particularly close, they were just classmates who were close.

To Moon Sae-ron, Kwon Rena was just one of her many connections.

If they went together now, they would probably be taken to the Ministry of National Defense Research Institute, but it wasn’t worth taking that kind of risk.

It was burdensome from Kwon Rena’s perspective, and from Moon Sae-ron’s perspective, it was like showing excessive sense of justice.

But Moon Sae-ron confidently accepted.

“Well, since you’re being honest, I’ll do the same. In fact, if I go with you this time, I think I’ll be able to get a scoop!”

Moon Sae-ron regretted not going on the third-year school trip.

Not going with the seniors on the trip was the right decision as a junior, but it was a foolish choice as a reporter.

Moon Sae-ron’s journalistic spirit wouldn’t allow him to stay away just because he had an excuse when he had a gut feeling that something was going to happen.

Kwon Rena still wanted to leave Moon Sae-ron behind, but she realized that persuasion was impossible, and she knew that if she talked too long here and the other kids noticed, it would be really difficult.

“......If something happens, promise me that you’ll run away right away, leaving Nana and unnie behind.”

“I’ll even prepare to send a rescue request to the association with a reservation message! But I can’t guarantee that you’ll run away. It seems like Gyu-yeon is in danger too.”

After saying that, Kwon Rena had no choice but to go with Moon Sae-ron.

They both had someone precious in danger.

When they left Hwangmyeong Arena, there was already a car there to greet them.

Moon Sae-ron recognized that the car parked in the recorder's square was a corporate vehicle of Namgung Group, but he pretended not to know and got in with Kwon Rena.

A student from Class 0 who ran out late witnessed the scene and followed them.

Even after the car they were driving changed into a military vehicle from the Ministry of National Defense, he chased them with his bare body.

It was crazy, but like a Class 0 student, he did it all the way.

It was much easier to chase a car in the city center than to climb up the dormitory building in a spiral with bare hands.

* * *

The knight of the water shadow who took the device showed Lee Yeoreum only one message.

The moment she saw the message, Lee Yeoreum despaired.

[My little sister♡] Then I'll go with my friend. See you later.

Although Kwon-rena realized the discomfort and hoped she wouldn’t come, she chose to come, no matter what the water shadow knight said.

He even said he would come with her because he was with a friend.

The water shadow knight spoke cheerfully to the despairing Lee Yeoreum.

“If the results of the experiment are good, there’s no need to look after my younger sister.”

After hearing that, Lee Yeoreum was left with only one choice.

Running away was impossible from the start, and resisting would only buy her a little time.

All she could do was cooperate as much as possible in the experiment and change the author’s mind.

Lee Yeoreum decided to hold on to the slim hope that the experiment would go well and that Kwon-rena wouldn’t really need to be experimented on.

So she obediently changed into clothes made of otherworldly fabric and stood barefoot in front of the experiment table.

When Namgung Gyu-yeon made eye contact, he sometimes made an expression as if he wanted to say something, but he just calmly operated the device, perhaps conscious of the Water Shadow Knight.

Namgung Gyu-yeon poured the supernatural wave into the pipe and manipulated the device according to the reaction of the supernatural wave that flowed through it, and it looked delicate and complicated at first glance.

The Water Shadow Knight was impressed.

“Even if you look at it, you can’t imitate it. The Earth Tremor Knight can manipulate the ground, but he can’t do this. Even if he imitates it similarly, he can’t extract this much pure intelligence.”

What Namgung Gyu-yeon was handling now was an intelligence extractor that visualized and stored the overflowing intelligence of the Korean Peninsula.

This latest intelligence extractor was a device that utilized the technology that became the core of the intelligence terminal, and was the result of applying and developing some of the functions of the otherworldly simulator that Namgung had previously developed.

“Okay, stand still.”

Woohoo!

As the Water Shadow Knight spoke to Lee Yeoreum, a reinforced glass partition rose around the central test stand.

Lee Yeoreum instinctively stumbled to avoid the partition, but fortunately, she did not fall.

Her hands, which were gripping the corners of the central test stand, were shaking.

‘I really feel like a lab rat.’

Lee Yeoreum did not scream or beg for help because she was thinking of Kwon Rena.

If she rebelled and the experiment went wrong, she would only be giving Kwon Rena an excuse to be in the same situation.

She heard voices talking outside.

“......I’ve never used this on a person. How about using it on a clone of Jared Lee?”

“It’s difficult without the original. Cloning enemies as models has always failed. It’s not impossible if I use my new achievements, but it’s difficult to mass-produce.”

“Then that young Jared Lee is also an enemy?”

“Yeah, this is an enemy created by a supernatural power. The clan created by the Jin clan is also designated as a wanted enemy. It’s similar.”

The author wants to copy Lee Yeoreum and create an enemy.

Lee Yeoreum’s body shook even more.

The fact that the enemy was the same as Jared Lee in the coffin beyond the Lee barrier was creepy.

‘Then, Uncle Jared went through the same thing as me?’

Even while Lee Yeoreum was confused, the two continued their conversation.

“You’ve never done it to people, I guess. It’s recorded. And I’ve done it many times. It was hard because technology wasn’t as advanced as it is now and there wasn’t much intelligence there.”

Namgung Gyuyeon’s voice was also inaudible, as if he was speechless.

He was quite mature and had guts, but it seemed like he was nearing his limit.

Fortunately, the knight of the water shadow was more interested in the experiment that was about to begin than in examining Namgung Gyuyeon’s condition.

“Jared, who was absorbed in intelligence, slowly went crazy. You won’t go crazy all at once either.”

“Wait a minute.......”

Namgung Gyuyeon was so shocked that he unconsciously muttered words of dissuasion.

The reason why he was able to help this uncomfortable experiment with a little less guilt was because Jared Lee, who was the subject of the experiment, was currently living well as an excellent player.

Although there was a difference between a player and a normal person, Lee Yeoreum was once a player, and if the two were blood relatives, he calculated that he would be able to resist similarly.

Namgung Gyuyeon tried to ask a question desperately to buy time, but the knight of the water shadow was faster.

“Okay, this is the button to start releasing the extracted intelligence? It would be pitiful to leave the start of the first experiment on a human, so I’ll do this.”

Wooooow!

The ceiling above the glass partition that confined Lee Yeoreum moved as if it was closing the lid of a cage containing a lab rat.

Lee Yeoreum tightly closed her eyes as she looked at the ceiling coming down from above.

Before Namgung Gyuyeon could stop her, pure intelligence engulfed Lee Yeoreum.

That was when.

Kwaaaaaaa!

A louder explosion than the sound of the device being activated to release intelligence was heard.

The Water Shadow Knight manipulated the screen in front of him and immediately turned on the recording device where the sound was heard, displaying a hologram.

The hologram showed three people.

The Water Shadow Knight muttered as he examined the people wearing cloaks that made it impossible to recognize their bodies.

“......Crow Mask?”

The unidentified people who had infiltrated the Ministry of National Defense Research Institute were all wearing crow masks.