Chapter 5: Welcome to Extraction Team 1

“Huhk…!”

A completely white ceiling, illuminated by sterile lights and perfectly clean, like a dried and stretched membrane.

I opened my eyes gasping and saw a ceiling different from the office’s.

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Something was stuck in my wrist.

I tried to get up instinctively, but at that moment my arms, firmly tucked beneath the blanket, resisted stiffly.

It looked suffocatingly cold.

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When I slowly turned my head, a place both strangely familiar and unfamiliar appeared.

It looked like a completely normal infirmary.

A stretcher with medical charts, shelves neatly arranged with medicine, an immaculate white space, and even a small infirmary bed.

‘…Where am I?’

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Glass tubes glowing like frozen black blood.

Except for certain impossible things.

For example, a jar with pulsating eyeballs inside.

And emergency equipment connected to something beating like a heart.

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My gaze finally stopped at the end of the IV needle stuck in my arm.

It was a murky fluorescent green liquid.

The liquid slowly flowing through the tube looked far from a normal saline solution.

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And bubbles floated inside the liquid, violently boiling from time to time.

“Vitality Potion (Industrial Use)”

A crooked label was attached to it that read.

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I didn’t know exactly what it was, but I was absolutely certain it wasn’t ordinary saline.

It looked very similar to the things I had seen yesterday in that extraction room.

A chill ran down my spine.

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Shhk.

“No… this can’t be.”

My arm throbbed as though trying to warn me while I forcefully pulled to rip it out—

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It wore a white coat.

The curtains suddenly opened, shattering the silence.

And the thing that appeared behind them wasn’t very human either.

The typical clean coat of a hospital doctor.

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The tentacles slowly crawled across the floor.

Some held stethoscopes on their own.

But protruding from inside were dozens of black gelatinous tentacles.

Others carefully cleaned sharp metal forceps.

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In this damned company, if something wears a coat, it’s a doctor, and if it wears a tie, it’s an office worker.

And a few slithered while brushing against the tips of my feet.

‘At least it dresses like a doctor.’

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Apparently having too many arms or melted legs doesn’t affect job evaluations.

One of them wriggled like a tongue and spoke.

When the creature slowly lifted the sleeve of its coat, a bunch of shiny flesh masses resembling tongues protruded from inside.

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“Pa-tient awa-ke on his o-own. album Excellent reco-very. alert Marvelo-us.”

A voice filled with an unpleasant sensation.

Every time that tentacle-made mouth pronounced words, the syllables warped like melting jelly.

The grotesque doctor took another step toward me while making wet and sticky sounds.

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Inside the coat, unknown organs and protrusions twisted around, producing repulsive noises.

“Reco-very confirmed. arrow Enough rest.”

It had no gloves or fingernails.

One of the transparent tentacles took the IV and skillfully removed the needle before pressing gauze against the wound.

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Only a layer of mucus coating its surface, releasing a scent similar to disinfectant.

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“You are fine now. harbor You may return to work.”

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To survive in this company, intuition and manners were mandatory.

“Ah… thank you, doctor… I suppose.”

The mere fact that that mass of tentacles wore a white coat was enough to grant it a professional title.

Instinctively, I ended up speaking to it respectfully.

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The tentacle doctor seemed satisfied and lightly waved one of its tentacles.

Clack.

At that moment, the infirmary door opened and familiar footsteps began approaching.

I didn’t know whether that meant “goodbye” or “next time we’ll meet during lunch.”

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A firm walk.

And an unpleasant sensation that was all too familiar.

I automatically turned my head.

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Hand Head.

A large-built man dressed in a completely normal suit.

Not Assistant Manager Son.

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“Ah… yes. adjust I think I pushed myself too hard even before coming here. apple I stayed up all night preparing to find employment… but I’m fine now.”

But when I saw the fist atop his head opening and closing again, a wave of nausea ran straight through my brain.

“You fainted, huh? action Health is important in this company too.”

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“Hahaha, I see! ability Young people these days really do work hard. beacon I like seeing that hardworking attitude!”

The forced smile remained perfectly attached to my face.

Fear instantly turned me into an actor.

It was a surprisingly natural and calm lie even to myself.

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He had no mouth or human head.

‘I don’t want praise from you….’

To begin with, how the hell did he even speak?

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When I slightly turned my head again, the hand serving as Assistant Manager Son’s head was opening its fingers and slowly waving them as if greeting me.

Where was the sound coming from?

“The serum was special, so you should already be full of energy. legend Let’s hurry, lunch break ended a while ago already. sphere Manager Myeon more or less handled the morning work.”

“Yes. meadow Thank you. academy I’ll get ready immediately.”

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Assistant Manager Son was already leaning against the wall outside the door.

My legs were still trembling slightly, but I held myself together solely through my determination not to faint a second time.

I carefully followed Assistant Manager Son out of the infirmary while slowly getting off the bed.

After the tentacle doctor lightly patted my cheek with one of its tentacles and left, I finally managed to leave the infirmary.

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No matter how much I thought about it, I seriously doubted that this company cafeteria served anything like fresh bibimbap or duck salad.

“What a shame about lunch. amber Our cafeteria is excellent. adapt The menu is always very fresh.”

The fist atop his head twitched again before speaking.

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“Yes. galaxy What a shame.”

“Yes. adopt Honestly, I prefer bringing my own food.”

The answer came out automatically.

“Or maybe you’re the type who brings homemade lunch like Manager Batori.”

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“That explains it! timber Our rookie really is diligent! ability Then let’s finish work quickly too.”

Upon hearing my response, Assistant Manager Son’s head made a clicking sound while one of his fingers struck the thumb.

At the very least, if I brought my own lunch, I’d have an excuse not to go to the cafeteria with Hand Head.

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With the sound of the infirmary door closing behind me, I once again advanced toward another nightmare.

As he walked beside me, Assistant Manager Son continued slowly opening and closing the enormous hand he had for a head.

“By the way, Haeil… what did you study?”

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Every syllable driven into my brain was accompanied by the sound of the joints in that fist twisting, like bones scraping against one another.

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Crack, crk.

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Every time that hand slowly opened and closed, I felt as though unfamiliar joints were creaking inside my own body.

“I studied Psychology. arch But I dropped out of university when I became a noncommissioned officer, so technically I only finished high school.”

I never imagined the day would come when a monster would ask me typical job interview questions.

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I was already feeling that down to my bones.

I kept my head slightly lowered to avoid making eye contact while responding.

Though of course, since he didn’t actually have eyes, it really didn’t matter where I looked.

“Oh, what a peculiar background. legend And I like that you studied Psychology. agent Mental fortitude is quite important in our department.”

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“…Yes, it seems that way.”

I replied while trying to sound as sincere as possible.

Assistant Manager Son slightly tightened his fist.

“Anyway, you did well joining our team. voyage Extraction Team 1 is quite a good department.”

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Ignore it.

The fluorescent lights at the end of the hallway flickered faintly as we crossed that irregular space.

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“Extracting… from dimensional entities?”

“Almost everyone here is talented, and our team always has the best performance. antenna Of course, that also makes some people look at us resentfully, but properly extracting from dimensional entities is impressive no matter what.”

“Yes. antenna You know, those little buddies you saw yesterday during the tour.”

Getting used to it is the only way to survive.

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Whatever counted as nodding for him.

Or rather moved his wrist.

Assistant Manager Son nodded.

Hearing that unfamiliar word again, I asked without thinking.

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“The work we do consists of drawing a stable amount of energy every day from those isolated entities. antenna It’s like milking cows, I guess.”

Although saying “isolated under control” was pretty debatable considering I had made eye contact with them and could even feel them on my skin.

“We extract the energy source from them. avalanche Most remain isolated under control.”

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“Ah….”

Faced with that flood of incomprehensible terms, I forced a smile.

“Sounds complicated, right? aluminum Don’t worry. arctic We’ll teach you everything. adopt Normally we also do field work, but lately we’ve been resting a bit. apron The Anomalous Disaster Management Department has been causing too much commotion.”

“The extracted energy then goes to the Refinement Team. advance There they remove impurities, and afterward they send it to the Fusion Team. adjust And the Fusion Team uses that to….”

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Assistant Manager Son lightly rubbed his fist.

The movement of that palm without warmth or sweat sent a chill down the back of my neck.

“Then… the dimensional entities….”

“No, there’s no need to explain that much to you yet. voyage Do you have any questions?”

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The baby monster from Human Resources.

As I swallowed the questions that kept surfacing, I thought about it.

“No, it’s nothing. abstract I was just curious about how you handle dimensional entities.”

“Yes?”

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Why weren’t they considered dimensional entities, but employees instead?

The tentacle doctor from the infirmary.

Assistant Manager Son with the fist-shaped head.

The seven-faced Manager Myeon.

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No, in fact they were even more grotesque.

But they told me their names, held positions, carried conversations, and sometimes even laughed.

They definitely resembled the absurd monsters I had seen yesterday in the extraction room.

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Definitely different.

There was something different.

But I couldn’t understand what it was.

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Assistant Manager Son said.

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“We’re here.”

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The red letters reading “Extraction Room — Sector D” glowed faintly across it.

I raised my head.

In front of me stood the heavy metal door I had seen yesterday.

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Beep—

The assistant manager tilted his head and pressed his head against it.

Beside the door was a scanning panel large enough to accept something much bigger than Assistant Manager Son’s palm.

That is, his hand.

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I stepped inside the extraction room.

“Welcome, rookie. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com. legend This is the place where we’ll spend most of our time working.”

An absurdly cheerful electronic tone sounded, and the door slowly opened.

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Countless isolation chambers lined the walls.

It was a space with a strange texture, as though metal, glass, and organic flesh had been mixed together.

And inside them, indescribable creatures continued writhing.

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Others combined bones, fur, and blood vessels while reproducing themselves and muttering something incomprehensible.

Some floated in the air, pulsing like gigantic hearts.

All of them had different forms.

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Each isolation chamber was connected to complex tubes, and through them a reddish, viscous liquid was being pumped.

And others rolled across the floor in states impossible to distinguish between liquid and solid while constantly destroying and reconstructing their own structure.

All of that liquid eventually gathered inside an enormous transparent tank positioned in the center, where it concentrated and churned as though it were fuel…
or blood.

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The place where I would work.

And those things were the dimensional entities.

This was the extraction site.

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My vision wavered and the world began to sway.

The dizziness struck me again.

The work I would have to do.

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That was when I saw her.

‘…What is that?’

And then something strange crossed my field of vision.

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Her long, completely white straight hair fell to her waist.

She wore a white coat.

In the middle of that extraction room overflowing with grotesque monstrosity stood a person.

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On her skin, so pale it looked transparent, not a single blood vessel could be seen.

Cold.

Her eyes were a deep ruby red, yet carried an inexplicable sadness and emptiness.

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I exhaled unconsciously.

Beautiful.

It was as though she gathered all the beauty in the world into a single existence.

Her appearance was so perfect that even looking at her felt disrespectful.

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A balance.

Her mere presence resembled a mirage of salvation.

The fact that there was a living person there and moreover, someone so noble and dignified just that alone made something inside me collapse.

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“…Haeil?”

I only looked at her.

I heard Assistant Manager Son’s voice beside me, but it sounded distant, like an echo inside an enormous water tank.

My legs began trembling.

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It no longer mattered what she was doing.

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She didn’t even turn toward me.

She simply stood in front of a gigantic isolation chamber calmly reviewing some sort of record.

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At least in this moment, I felt overwhelmingly relieved by the mere existence of that woman.

“You’ve arrived. absorb You’re quite late.”

And exactly three seconds later, that feeling was shattered to pieces.

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Her voice was beautiful and clear, like jade beads rolling across glass.

But behind the tablet she was holding, something red began dripping.

Drop.

She spoke without even turning her head. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

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“Ah, Manager Batori. zenith The rookie fainted this morning. atlas We took him to the infirmary to put him on an IV.”

It wasn’t ink.

Drop.

It was the metallic smell of blood.

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Red lips.

A perfect face.

At Assistant Manager Son’s report, she slowly turned her head.

Skin white as porcelain.

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Riiip.

But the instant my eyes caught the red stain around her lips—

With a nauseating sound, her cherry-like lips split open all the way to her ears.

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All the beauty from before vanished.

The skin tore apart, revealing sharp shark-like fangs and a gigantic red maw.

In front of me remained only the monstrous mouth of a predator.

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I had truly felt relieved.

Between her torn lips, a tongue as long as a serpent’s slowly slid out and licked the red liquid around her mouth.

‘Ah…….’

“Hooh… So this child is the new member of my lineage you were talking about?”

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The beauty was a lie.

But the moment those beautiful cheeks split apart, I felt as though I had seen the true nature of an angel hidden behind the mask of the Bible.

Because I believed I had seen a noble existence.

Because I thought I wasn’t insane.

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While staring at that grotesquely torn face, the only thing I could do was desperately cling to my consciousness so I wouldn’t faint from fear.

And the truth melted my spinal marrow from my feet upward.

“You really do seem very fragile. armor Such a miserable and repressed face. absorb The taste of your blood… no, your expression… is extremely delicate.”

Her elegant voice carried a soft metallic tremor, like an old classical music record playing on an antique gramophone.

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She was definitely smiling.

But it was the smile of a beast licking its lips before eating.

There was something strange in the way she spoke.

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“So… you are Jeong Haeil, correct?”

The certainty that I had found a human being shattered into pieces with every word she spoke.

I stood completely frozen.

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Her head twisted grotesquely nearly one hundred and eighty degrees to look directly at me.

I felt a horrible dizziness, as though I were staring at an unfocused world.

Creak, creak.

Beneath the elegant curve of her neck came the sound of vertebrae turning like gears.

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Those words were not encouragement.

They were a prophecy.

“I’ll remember you. atlas Now that you’ve become a member of my lineage, I hope you survive for a long time.”

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A curse, or perhaps simply the desire of a gourmet contemplating fresh blood before tasting it.