Chapter 202

Chapter 202. A Bright and Healthy Tentacle Dungeon Exploration. (1)

Meanwhile, as Icarus was busy with galloping horses, wristbands, and suddenly realizing new facts.

At that very moment, while happily carrying out fleet restoration work.

Gryanarr, Oxianor, and Smeragi, who had received Icarus’s orders.

The three party members were wandering around the research base established on the asteroid, following the command.

“Squishy squishy, huh.”

“Yeah, tell me about it.”

It was no joke that unidentified monsters, tentacles, and flesh could be seen through craters or damaged areas.

The interior of the asteroid research base was a grotesquely twisted mass of flesh and blood vessels.

Covered in an unknown slime and wriggling things, it emitted a bizarre and disgusting atmosphere.

Even the abscesses, swollen and deflated repeatedly, nestled among the flesh.

Perhaps once the corpses of researchers.

Now, all organic matter had been decomposed by the surrounding entities, leaving only traces of clothing.

The once clean and simple design of the research base walls, both inside and out, had collapsed under the weight of protruding flesh.

Randomly grown teeth, bone fragments, and chunks of flesh had merged into one.

Wriggling blood vessels clung everywhere, making it hard to distinguish where the building ended and the living organism began.

Moreover, what was even more important…

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

“Kieeeeeek!”

Abscesses or tightly closed doors would suddenly open, revealing something that might have once been an experiment or a researcher, screaming and throwing a surprise party.

Or sharp bone or metal spikes would spring out from the walls like springs, attacking from all directions.

It felt like a full-blown 19th-century hardcore slasher sci-fi horror movie.

“Ugh, so annoying.”

“Kibbekiat!”

-Whirrr! Crunch!

“Hmm, it seems the tentacles haven’t received additional DNA or nutrients for a long time, their condition isn’t great.”

“Is that so?”

The three women exploring the place weren’t your average ‘ordinary engineers’ from some game.

They were superhumans capable of conquering a massive cruiser in minutes, or at most within 30 minutes.

Most of the alien zombie-like mobs that came running with split heads were crushed by Smeragi’s Nyan Nyan Punch.

Their bodies literally exploded, splattering tomato sauce everywhere.

As for various traps, like tentacles or spike bullets.

The three didn’t even need to move; Gryanarr’s pet tentacles or Oxianor’s bio-suit would intercept them.

Even if those didn’t work, what use were such traps against superhumans who could catch tentacles bare-handed?

Even when the entire floor collapsed, turning into a giant monster’s maw…

“Slippery and feels good.”

“Reminds me of my childhood in the evolution fluid pool.”

After foolishly swallowing all three at once, the monster was beaten from its stomach to its throat, turning into a pork cutlet.

All its teeth were uprooted.

“Oxianor, can you remove all the suction parts attached to this guy?”

“Why do you ask, Gryanarr?”

“Such a massive monster is always a valuable specimen. We should take it back to the base, dissect it, and make a new chimera.”

“Ah, a splendid idea.”

They cut off the monster’s roots, limbs, and even tentacles, pulling them up and leaving them aside.

Casually using their invincible cheats, they continued their leisurely exploration.

The only small problem was, apart from the slaughter.

Their original goal of ‘research lab exploration’ was progressing quite slowly.

Of course, the first reason was that the base was much larger than any ordinary ship, and there were only three of them.

The other reason was…

“Hmm, surely the elevator lobby we just entered…”

According to the map of the area, if you take the right path at this fork, you should reach the lounge near the research area.”

“Fork? Right now, it looks like three paths to me.”

“The middle one looks weird, like the entrance to the Nest of Life.”

“Nope, the layout has changed again.”

After years of infection, transformation, and fusion inside, most of the passages on the internal map that Gryanarr had obtained upon arrival were twisted.

Even if they managed to find the right place after navigating through such passages…

“Is this the research building?”

“No, this seems to be the cafeteria… or something.”

“It does look like a cafeteria, except the ‘food’ being served is the guests who wander in.”

The mutated areas weren’t just the passages; the locations of various rooms were also completely scrambled.

Their exploration, contrary to plan, kept stretching on indefinitely.

As a result, the three of them, slightly annoyed, started venting their stress by going on a rampage.

Instead of a sci-fi horror scenario where a few survivors struggle to survive against hordes of alien creatures inside an asteroid base, it turned into a tentacle slasher movie where they mercilessly slaughtered the poor alien zombies.

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After some time of this carnage…

“Hey, be quiet.”

“Keeek, keeeek!!!”

-“NO! STOP!”

“Hmm, the translator seems a bit off.”

“…Isn’t it working fine enough?”

“No, in this situation, it should say something like this.”

-“NO! (Yes!) STOP! (Thank you!)”

“…Hmm.”

Even when trying to look for research materials, most of the files and data were corroded by years of exposure to biological substances, and the computers were mostly rusted.

With nothing else to do but find their way, Gryanarr, bored, used a wireless translator he had made.

While Smeragi played around with translating alien language (?) using a captured alien zombie…

“Looks like more things blocking the passage are popping up.”

“Aren’t you tired of this, Smeragi? I’m too lazy, so why don’t you slice them up?”

“Huh? Got it!”

Finally, thinking they had found a proper, untransformed passage, they encountered the usual biological structures blocking their way.

But what would have been an indestructible object in a sci-fi horror setting was no match for Smeragi’s SSS-class slashing skills, which sliced through the structures like cutting through sausage.

“Let’s keep moving forward.”

“Yeah, Commander Icarus is probably waiting.”

“As Oxianor said, though I wouldn’t mind staying buried among these things for a while… ♡”

The three quickly passed through the demolished biological structures and moved on to the next area.

Of course, they still felt they were far from finding the ‘research lab’ Icarus had mentioned.

As they moved into the next area, devoid of even light, they had no expectations.

They just mechanically shook their heads, thinking they’d have to wander around some more.

But the moment they entered the next area…

“…Oh my!”

“Oooh, I think we found it!”

“Just as Smeragi said, bingo!”

The three superhumans, though covered in bits of flesh, had finally arrived at the place they had been searching for.

The next area they entered… no, the background reminiscent of the ‘Nest of Life’ that Gryanarr and Oxianor had modified together, along with the words ‘Research Facility Building’ blinking on the ceiling, translated by the translator.

Realizing they were finally right in front of what they had been searching for, they lightly high-fived each other.