Deadline Is Raining in the Status Window - Chapter 226

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Combining all the clues so far, they launched a climate control system called Mother Nature into orbit via satellite. But is its form a biocomputer?
“Ooh!”
Reina Letem, who had been darting about excitedly, must have discovered something else. I rushed toward the sound and found myself in a massive cavern. Everything was covered in rust, but judging by its shape alone, it resembled a rocket launch pad.
So they fired something into space from here.
“….”
But it’s unnatural for a rocket launch pad to exist in this place. First of all, it’s indoors. Is the ceiling retractable? But then again, the Professor and Gerth came here first and said they couldn’t find what looked like an entrance.
The assumption that the camouflage was perfect… even if ancient technology was advanced, it couldn’t fool the eyes of the Serpent King and Dragon King. Did the terrain shift and bury it completely? If so, I sense an intention to hide this place.
“Ugh…!”
But if they wanted to hide it, wouldn’t it be better to seal the entrance we came through or destroy everything in the first place?! What is this?! Why does it exist so secretively yet arrange itself to be found so easily when you search for it?! And there’s not a single dangerous thing here! The Sea Dragon Couple and their children hoarding items from this place or chewing on them mindlessly is proof of that.
“!”
Oh right, the Ursh Project.
I happened to remember the paper I’d stuffed in my pocket and showed it to my friends, asking them to let me know if they saw any characters matching or similar to what was written here. The demon-kind, possessing bodies that transcended human limitations, displayed their various skills and searched all over the place.
“H-hey, Evan, this floor, doesn’t have any!”
“There aren’t any such characters in the rusty spots either?”
“Should we go higher up?”
The Mana Lab was located at 4,000 meters above sea level, so we still had quite a ways to go before reaching our destination. We’d looked around this area thoroughly enough, so let’s head upward.
Having decided that, I gave my friends ice wings and climbed upward through the shaft where the rusted elevator had plummeted. We entered the highest floor the elevator could reach, but the atmosphere was similar.
The only difference was that the Mother Nature model had changed from Unit 1 to Unit 3.
“But why does this sculpture keep changing its shape? Is it a symbol for each floor?”
“They decorated it to commemorate models that had reached the end of their lifespan.”
“Wow, how do you know all that?”
“I’m from the old days.”
“Haha.”
As Reina Letem and I conversed, the Dragon Marquis laughed, saying my joke was funny. It wasn’t really a joke though. I really am from the old days. Humanity from about 10,000 years ago.
“H-hey, this, wall, looks, new.”
Right, now that I think about it. If the places we’d passed through had fallen into ruin from lack of maintenance, the wall blocking our path had a different material and the space beyond it seemed to be maintained. It was just like the Seed Storage Facility I’d seen before.
“The door won’t open. Should we break through it?”
“Let’s think about this rationally. Like last time, there might be a mechanism to solve a puzzle and open the door.”
Oh, our team’s voice of reason indeed. I actually thought of an ice drill first, but I set that aside and pressured Reina instead. As Eugene and I explored the wall while singing gorilla songs, a status notification window appeared before my eyes.

‘Ursh’s Blessing’ has been activated.

Huh? Why is Ursh’s Blessing suddenly activating? I, who had vaguely regarded this blessing as one that triggered plot developments, was taken aback.

Ursh Project personnel verified.

Ursh’s Blessing—was that really an authentication blessing for Ursh Project personnel?! Wait, why did you give me something like that?! Did you know I’d come here? Or were you trying to force me to come?
Whether it was fate or divinity, I sensed something like the machinations of an absolute being and felt deeply uneasy, while the others were delighted that the door had opened on its own.
These bastards were confident in their own strength and figured they’d survive anything, so their sense of crisis had completely shattered.
“This place is similar to the Seed Storage Facility.”
“Except there are no plants.”
“D-did they… build it in the same era?”
There’s no way to know. The concept of a Seed Storage Facility existed before I was born, and after repeated relocations and expansions, it became what it is now. So there’s no way to know when this mysterious research facility came into existence.
Whether it had been operating in power-saving mode to conserve energy, the moment we stepped inside, the surroundings brightened and the machines powered on.
In the space that had looked like nothing but square marble at the center, a hologram appeared.
“This time it’s really the Mother Goddess.”
“I see.”
Finally, I could learn the true identity of this Mother Goddess satellite. I touched the satellite hologram and spun it around, then found the project overview, enlarged it, and searched for the translation. Conveniently, there was a Korean translation here as well.
Thank you, Ancient Humans. But I’m not grateful to whoever intentionally showed me this.
“Read it quickly. What does it say?”
“The official designation of Mother Nature Unit 8 is URS.”
So URS is read as Ursh. I wasn’t surprised by this much, since I’d already suspected as much.
“URS controls the climate for the entire planet.”
So Ursh is Mother Nature Unit 8, and the Mother Nature satellite was launched into space for the purpose of controlling climate? If a climate control satellite was necessary, did the people of the future really need countermeasures for abnormal weather?
Since this part raised questions, I searched using keywords and found the information I wanted.
To control the climate, they launched a satellite equipped with a biocomputer whose brain and information processing methods were identical to humans. Initially, this could only solve localized problems, but by Unit 8, it had evolved to affect the entire planet. Humanity, which had been fighting over a resource called mana, then used control monopoly over Ursh to create another massive war.
One way or another, Ancient Humanity was destined to perish. In any case, this project team was originally a climate control satellite development team, but the team leader, who had become wealthy through the invention of the climate control system, apparently gathered people independently and created this research facility.

Access denied.

‘Ursh’s Blessing’ has been activated.

Authentication confirmed.

Fine, just leave me out and let those two have all the fun.
I tried to access the URS details to learn more, but was blocked by an access restriction. Then Ursh’s Blessing activated on its own and authenticated me.
Enormous, brilliant letters materialized in the air, overwhelming me—a mere speck of dust.

‘URS(Universal Restarting System)’

I feel like I’m accessing knowledge I shouldn’t know. But it’s floating right before my eyes, so I’ve absorbed it, and I have no choice but to share it with my friends.
“This project’s purpose is to transform Ursula into a god.”
Well, I didn’t see that coming. I hope there’s nothing more shocking than this.
“Hmm… So you’re saying the being we know as a god was intentionally created by ancient people?”
“That’s where you’re going with this? You’re pretty sharp.”
“If you have good raw material, you should think about how to use it.”
“Usually brute force solves everything, so there’s no need to think hard, right?”
“That’s exactly why Evan calls you a gorilla.”
“Hey! Why did you call me Gorilla-na! That nickname’s stuck!”
That’s because you were a gorilla. Why did you have to swing a moon-blade single-handedly in your first combat training? That kind of feat was impossible without a gorilla’s raw strength.
I hurled the insult at Reina Letem and continued reading.
This project began when a team leader who had grown wealthy and idle came up with a mad idea one day.
Watching various nations’ behind-the-scenes efforts to reduce humanity and distribute mana evenly, this lunatic team leader apparently thought: if reducing humanity allows people to wield greater power, what if we eliminated all of humanity and concentrated all the mana into a single person? Wouldn’t that person become a god?
“Wow…”
Of course, humans have finite lifespans, so they can never become omnipotent. That’s why they chose a machine as the target to concentrate mana into—something with permanent usability. It was confirmed that humans can use mana, and that biocomputers functioning like the human brain can also use mana.
The team that started this project based purely on theory would have all died before seeing results when Old Humanity perished. But we can confirm the plan was successful. After all, a god truly exists who manages the status windows of both humanity and the Demon Race.
“Those ancient people were incredible. They even created a god.”
“So… the god is a machine?”
“Th-that’s… well, maybe not exactly?”
Even after hearing this explanation, you two are remarkably calm. I suppose the scale and grandeur of it all is so vast that it doesn’t feel real to me either. But I’m not nearly as composed as you two.
“Did you confirm everything? Wasn’t the real business at the Mana Lab? Shouldn’t we head there?”
“Evan! I’m thirsty!”
“Oh, i-ice, one p-piece each, if you p-put it in your m-mouth, it sh-should feel g-good.”
That’s a good idea. We don’t have cups anyway. I used the ice dispenser on the water purifier to make ice chunks bite-sized, then popped them into my friends’ mouths one by one.
“I’ll go look for a passage then.”
“Hey, what’s that text appearing over there?”
Eugene left his seat, sucking on ice, while Reina Letem pointed at the hologram screen. An hourglass was spinning on the display—it looked like something was loading.
“It looks like something’s connecting? Loading? The remaining time shows thirty days.”
“Eh, then it’s got nothing to do with us. We won’t be here for a month anyway.”

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