Chapter 239: Broken Moon (1)
Deep inside the Object Management Room inside a research institute under the Object Association, there was an Object that gave off a strong smell of evolution fluid that resembled petroleum. Most of its body was black and rotting away, but its shell was still purple.
At that moment, a voice was heard outside the containment room where the hermit crab was.
“That thing is going to die soon, isn’t it?”
The hermit crab, whose body had seemed to be rotting away due to evolution fluid since it was first discovered, was now in a state where it could barely move.
“But why don’t we just dispose of those Objects?”
The man in the Object researcher’s uniform looked around at the Objects that filled the surroundings and said so. A lot of Objects around him were black and rotten, contaminated with evolution fluid.
They’re not particularly valuable and not hard to get rid of, yet they’re still being contained and preserved like this. It was quite unusual for the Object Association to do this.
“That means the upper echelons of the Association are interested in this ‘evolution fluid’.”
“But most of the research on evolution fluids failed, right? It seems like they concluded that it wasn’t very useful….”
“That’s why we’re not touching it anymore and just containing it. Just disposing of it is a waste, and it’s also a bit of a hassle to study it. A hassle.”
Since a considerable amount of time had passed since the Gwanak-gu evolution fluid incident, most of the contaminated Objects had been destroyed. And among the few remaining contaminated Objects, the hermit crab was rapidly deteriorating.
“It looks like the hermit crab will die soon. We should prepare for disposal.”
“Then, I’ll prepare it in advance.”
As the two researchers who had been chatting like that left the containment room area, darkness and silence began to fall in the containment room area.
At that moment, the purple hermit crab opened its eyes wide and began to look up at the sky.