Radiation World
Rain is yawning in the driver seat of a hover car as the car self-drives toward a small town. He did not rest for a day after returning to the city from the fortress.
He was sent alone on a mission by the team commander. He again read the mission is to find the reason for multiple suicides. For suicide, Rain is not needed to investigate but in the past six months, 187 suicide victims from rich to poor and of diverse backgrounds with no common link.
Rain reads the investigation report of the guards in the town and finds nothing. " I have to investigate from the start. There is nothing in the report for me to follow on."
" Are small towns investigators so incompetent?" I planned tomorrow to advance to peak d-rank. Now all my plans are derailed.
And he was sent alone on an eight-hour journey. " Is the commander confident in my strength? That without danger I will be able to cross the radiation landscape filled with radiation beasts.
The hover car drives along the road, and Rain's thought strays toward his two clones. The one in the Alchemy world is still now staying in the cavern with Narisa like married couples. They decided to start their journey after Rain advanced to the Virtual Crown Realm.
The Clone is still in the middle Phantom Crown Realm but his body except the brain is fully merged with life seed. Entering the third realm of life seed and merging with his brain is the final and the fourth realm.
The third realm may not be the hardest but it is the most time-consuming. To complete the third realm one has to understand the transformation of material into energy and vice versa. Not all material but his body.
Two days ago, his time of reaching the virtual crown realm advanced as he felt the power of faith entering the crown in his soul space. Which made him understand the pill recipe he created has started production and distribution.
He did not give any permission to produce the pill. Then, his mother gave the permission or the guild themselves started production. This can be done if the pill is urgently needed and he is missing or dead before he authorizes anyone.
" Did they think my clone is dead? I am missing for two weeks which made them think I am dead."
The other clone in Star Immortal World is now absorbing the energy from the lotus leaf in a ship heading to the core area of White Stone Mountain Range.
With that thought, Rain closed his eyes and opened his panel-
Personal Panel:
- Name: Rain
- Realm: Late D-rank
- Physical: 14.81 (20)
- Genetic Energy: 14.97 (20)
- Genetic Energy Refinement: 56.10 (100)
Techniques:
- Poison Claw 1st Chapter (D) – Master (9/9) – 17.2%
- Life Vine Shield (D) – 76 (Proficient)
- Spring Rain Sword Art (Mid. D) – Master
- Palm Technique ( Mid. D) – Master
Mysteries:
- Poison Stone – 0.12%
- Sap of Devil Trap – 0.001%
- Dark Iron – 0.0006%
- Rain Stone (D) – 29.081%
In the past few days pickups the practice of life vine shield and poison claw. With that Rain took out a medicine and put it inside his mouth.
He closes his eyes as the medicine removes the genetic waste. The hover cover drives through the radiation snowfalls in the dull morning sun. The artificial intelligence inside the hover car does not require his attention.
According to the soul chip, it is noon when Rain stops his practice because he feels the car stopped. Before he can open his eyes to check the reason, the BIT informs him that a pack of inferior Lycans surrounds his vehicle.
Rain opens his eyes to see wolves standing with their hind legs through the windscreen. The hover car has a life scanner, which can scan life-level, 5 around it.
He ordered the hover car to scan them and the scan showed all the lycans's lives were below late D-rank except the Alpha at late D-rank life level. Rain did not have the time to waste with them and commanded the hover car to use the machine gun at the front and drive ahead.
A machine gun comes out of the hood and the Lycans in front of the car escape as the machine gun opens fire and the hover car drives ahead. Rain," Bit, How far is the Green Ore town?"
Bit-" 360 km. Around three hours, the hover car will arrive at the town."
Hearing this, Rain starts his practice. And exactly after three hours, the car stopped in front of a large iron gate. And a voice sounds inside his car asking who he is and why came to their town.
Rain did not answer and sent his official identity card.
After 5 seconds, Rain watched the gate slide down inside the ground and the car drove inside. Entering the town, the Bit connected with the town's internet. Rain orders the car to drive straight at the latest suicide victim.
And he learns that the latest suicide victim was one hour ago. This may be an unfortunate situation for the victim's family but for him, it is a fortunate situation- a fresh crime scene.
The hover car did not enter the underground floors and drove on the ground floor of the town. It is a small new town formed for mining green ores and it is famous for being used in making biological instruments.
The town has three underground floors and a surface floor. The first underfloor and the surface floor are used for residences, the second floor is where they refine the green ores before shipping, and the third floor is where sewer cleaning facilities and other such are required for the functioning of the town.
Rain notices the car slow down and come to a stop behind another police car. Rain walks out of the car and starts walking to the gate of the suicide victim's house which is surrounded by a crowd of people.
In any world, people are always curious about other misfortune but he senses a smell of fear coming from the crowd. He stops behind the crowd to hear their discussion and listening to their conversation he understands in six months around 200 people suicide without any reason.
Rain wanted to enter the victim's house quietly without revealing his identity but listening to the discussion of the crowd and the fears in their words. Rain shouts," Make way." he pushes the crowd aside to stand before the gate of the victim.
Where the robot guards the gate belonging to the town's guard. Rain's palm the 'Bit' emerges showing the holographic form of his identity card. The robot scans his identity card and steps out from in front of the gate for Rain to open the gate.
Rain touches the gate and the A.I. of the house connects with his Bit asking, 'Who I Am?'. Rain sent his identity card again. As the A.I. reviews his identity card, Rain hears the crowd discuss him.
Some are hopeful he can solve the case, others not and discussing, if they will leave the town. Rain sees the gate slide open and walks through the gate. Rain sees a female wearing a guard's uniform waiting for him at the front door.
Rain walks toward her and the female guard also walks toward him meeting in the middle.
The female guard forwards her hand for a handshake," You must be an investigator Rain, thank you for coming to help us."
Rain shakes her hand," This is my duty, Guard Gale." Bit told him who from the guards was in charge of the investigation. Guard Gale's full name is Gale Turner, her father is one of the town councilors.
She is five years older than Rain but her life level is at medium D-rank.
Rain starts walking toward the door while speaking," Is there any news from this suicide victim."
The door automatically opens, and Rain enters the house. Gale following behind him replies," No nothing same as the previous one."
" My senior thinks, it is done by evil items, he is the same as you open his spiritual gate. The previous third suicide victim's house was beside the senior, and the senior was at his house at that time."
Rain walks into the living room, finding a boy and a girl crying on the sofa. Rain turns to Gale, " What did your senior find?"
Gale," My senior found a weird aura around the victim's dead body?"
Rain hears some calling from the first floor. He raises his head to see another guard. " Investigator Rain, you have arrived." Seeing him, Rain minds his information emerges- Taek Li, peak D rank.
He is a genius like him and has a life level of peak D-rank. He used to work 3 years ago at Martin City but transferred himself, for a quiet life and to research a true body method for himself.
Rain walks up the stairs and raises his hand for a handshake," Nice to meet you, Senior Taek." As Senior Taek shakes his hand, Rain looks behind to see a woman sobbing beside a door.
She must be the victim's wife. According to the information of the victim, it's his sixth wife and the victim is 190 years old his life level is D-rank but his strength is at E-rank. Miracle of Genetic Engineering. He worked as a Senior Manager in charge of the mining operation.
Rain walks with Senior Taek and enters the victim's room and toward the bathroom. Rain sees the victim submerge inside the bathtub.
Rain examines the scene, finding nothing according to the information there is no foul play from the nanochip inside the victim's body. The Victim died of suffocation, by submerging himself in the water.
Rain turns to Senior Taek," Senior, I heard from Guard Gale that you sense a weird aura from a previous victim."
Taek replies," Yes, the victim lives beside my house. They know about me and call me after finding the body. I was fortunate I arrived 5 minutes after the victim died hanging by a rope. I sense a Weird aura from the body but after 5 minutes the aura vanishes."
Rain is confused as to why they ask for support from Martin City not before. So many suicides in a limited time frame, the first suspect must be a weird ghost or item. " Senior, after reading the case, I think you should call for support much earlier."
Rain hears Senior Taek with frustration in his voice, replies," I want to ask for support after 10 people suicides but it was blocked by the Guard Chief with no conclusive evidence that weird is involved. And He says to me, that he believes me as I open my spiritual gate can solve the case. I explained to him, I was not part of the Ghost Department but the Fierce Ghost Department."
Rain nods many people think the two departments are the same but are not. Same time their duties overlap but the Ghost department teaches how to investigate cases involving Weird and the Fierce Ghost department is in charge of fighting and storming out-of-control weird domains.
But, Rain asks," He is in charge of all Guards in the town. Does he not know the two departments' differences?"
Taek scoffs," He knows. I heard Councilor Jain block the request for help. He is the elder brother of the guard chief."
Rain," Why?" Is there any benefit for them from the suicides?
Taek," I do not know."
Taek continues," After I discovered the weird aura from that victim, I went to Gale's father for a favor. He owed me a favor after he asked me to take Gale as my student. It was one week ago and they send help now."
Rain," You must know, Dead Battlefield descended near the city."
Taek," I know, I was also tempted to go but the suicide case...."