Chapter 176: A More Difficult Distinction Than Expected
Master Smith Under Ministry of National Defense
176 – A More Difficult Distinction Than Expected
After escaping the supply warehouse, Myung-jun roughly threw the female officer into the empty cargo hold and, along with Kei, began driving the 2.5-ton truck across the parade ground. It was like a scene from a zombie movie, with numerous soldiers in uniform screaming and rushing towards the truck. Myung-jun swerved the truck wildly to avoid injuring the soldiers as much as possible.
“Damn it! This is something Byung-tae would be good at!”
“Can’t we just plow through them, even if it means some of them get hurt?”
“Hey, those guys were dragged into this against their will and forced into military service! It’s bad enough they have to serve at the prime of their lives, but they got infected by those creatures too! Don’t you feel sorry for them? If there’s a way to save them, we should try to save them!”
The reason Myung-jun opted for a kidnapping scenario rather than an aggressive elimination protocol was precisely because of this. One of the characteristics of the Inspectors that Myung-jun remembered was that they would annihilate all infected victims if they saw no chance of winning.
Therefore, this operation had to be staged as if they were fleeing after a failed attempt. Since the synapse entity’s connection with the infected female officer was completely severed, the synapse entity wouldn’t be able to determine whether the female officer had been captured through conventional means.
While there was a possibility that the synapse entity might realize an infected individual had been captured if no body was found, Myung-jun judged this to be unlikely. Despite their excellent memory utilization, Inspectors had significantly poorer reasoning abilities compared to humans. Unless the captured entity directly reported its capture, Myung-jun believed the synapse entity wouldn’t have the intelligence to deduce that an infected individual had been captured just because one was missing.