Seoul Object Story

The construction site of the James Tower was located in the middle of Songpa-gu, which was in chaos due to the attack of zombies which had their brains eaten,

In his temporary office inside the tower, James was writing a report, deep in thought. His head was filled with the facts he had recently discovered while improving the mind corruption detector.

James had simply improved the mind corruption detector to make it more sensitive. However, the improved detector showed an unexpected result. It could now track and detect not only mind corruption but also almost all types of Objects.

This improvement was discovered based on the fact that electric shocks were effective against zombies that had been detected as mind corruption, however, the result just pushed James into even deeper trouble.

Does that mean most Objects are mind corrupted?

James stroked his chin, which had become prickly to his negligence in shaving it for several days, and thought so. Through the detector improvement and various experiments, he was able to divide mind corruption into two categories.

The first category was mind corruption which cause could be clearly identified. The improved detector could effectively track where the corruption originated from. This kind of corruption, which could mainly be found in humans exposed to Objects with mind altering or perception altering ability, was known in academia as ‘ordinary mind corruption.’

On the other hand, the second category was corruption detected in most Objects. It was a corruption which cause couldn’t be traced to its source even with the improved detector. It was as if the corruption was pouring down from space and had no direction.

An ordinary person would have dismissed it as a simple ‘detector error,’ but James thought that this seemingly meaningless second category of corruption contained important clues.

So, he dared to make a groundbreaking hypothesis.

Most Objects are suffering from mind corruption that makes them harmful to humans. They are also being controlled by someone or something.

However, proving this hypothesis wouldn’t be as easy as making it. It was because there were no Objects that were free of mind corruption.

No… There was.

Among the Objects that were currently available for study, only one, the ‘Golden Reaper’, was free of mind corruption.

The Golden Reaper that was also free of mind corruption was friendly to humans, which could be seen as evidence to support James’ hypothesis.

However, the sample size was too small to make it convincing. Besides, why were the Golden Reapers free from mind corruption?

James sighed deeply and wrote the last sentence of the report.

Uncovering the secrets held by the Golden Reaper may be the key to solve the cause of all the Object incidents.

James put down his pen and looked out the window. The ruins of Songpa-gu were visible in the distance, and gray clouds were covering them.

James decided that he had to go to the Sehee Research Institute to study the Reapers.

Although the Object Association of the United States of America had banned its entry due to the risk of serious mind corruption, he thought that now was the proper time for him to visit them.