Chapter 154
Ryosuke Sanada
Chapter 154 Ryosuke Sanada
"Daigo! Shinjo!" Horii's excited shout broke the silence of the two who were resting.
The well-digging team member, dressed in a bathrobe, was running across the gravel road, followed by a very attractive young woman in a long dress.
The woman, holding a thick stack of documents, nodded to the two people in the hot spring pool.
"Hori? Didn't you say you were going to spend the whole day studying the statue's data in your room?" Shinjo turned around, looking at Hori with some surprise. "And who is this?"
"Let me introduce you. This is my college classmate and longtime friend, Sayaka Ijuin," Horii said, scratching the back of his head with a somewhat naive and even shy smile. "She works at the Space Development Center now. Sayaka, and these two are my teammates from the GUTS team, Daigo and Shinjo, both of whom are my good friends."
"Hello." Sayaka bowed slightly in politeness.
Daigo and Shinjo quickly stood up from the water and greeted Sayaka, but Daigo's gaze was fixed on the man walking behind Sayaka.
He was a young man wearing a white lab coat, with his hair neatly combed.
He was tall and handsome, exuding an arrogance and conceit that belonged to the elite, but his face, which should have been normal, now had an unhealthy pallor.
His eyes were somewhat sunken, but Daigo could hear the abnormal heartbeat inside him.
It's Ryosuke Sanada.
The head of the Space Development Center's Talent Project Research Group, and Horii's strongest rival during his university years, whom he considered insurmountable, as well as a good friend.
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Daigo actually wanted to say to Sanada Ryosuke, "I see your lips are a little purple. Is there something wrong with your heart? If possible, you should get it checked out."
However, Daigo thought it might be inappropriate to say such impolite things on their first meeting, and the other person didn't seem very easy to talk to, so he didn't say anything.
"Ryosuke!" Horii turned around, waving excitedly at the man. "Come here, everyone's here! I told you, Kitagawa City's hot springs are the best in all of Japan; they'll definitely help your recovery!"
Ryosuke stopped in his tracks.
His gaze swept over Daigo and Shinjo in the hot spring pool, and finally landed on Kaul, who was lying on a bench drinking coconut juice, and on Koiwa, who was eating watermelon next to him.
The instant he saw Koiwa, a flicker of fear, jealousy, and fanaticism flashed in Ryosuke's deep-set eyes—though it was unclear how those feelings suddenly appeared...
"A monster...and TPC's special advisors and staff are openly raising a monster. Is this what we call a peace organization? So peaceful, so progressive."
The air suddenly became tense.
Kaul didn't take off his sunglasses; he simply placed the coconut juice in his hand gently on the stone table beside him. He turned his head and, through the black lenses, sized up Sanada Ryosuke.
In the world of Reonics, with its extremely keen perception of the size of life, the Sanada Ryosuke before him could no longer be called a complete human being.
His cells had begun to behave differently from those of a human; the cells inside were frantically devouring his life force like parasites.
That force, though powerful, was unstable, like a bomb that could explode at any moment due to overload.
"Mr. Sanada Ryosuke," Kaul said, having virtually no liking for guys like Masaki Keigo.
"If I were you, I would never choose to go for a walk at this time before the parasites in my body are about to completely get out of control. Every heartbeat you have now is burning away the little life you have left."
Ryosuke's body stiffened; he hadn't expected anyone to be able to so easily discern his physical condition.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Staff Officer Kaul." Ryosuke forced a cold laugh, his tone filled with undisguised arrogance and obsession.
"Ryosuke! How can you talk to the staff officer like that!" Horii said anxiously, tugging at Ryosuke's sleeve.
Ryosuke ignored the well digging.
He clutched his chest in pain, cold sweat beading on his forehead. He turned around and, without even saying goodbye to Sayaka, staggered toward the guest rooms deep inside the resort.
"He...he's been like this lately." Sayaka watched Ryosuke's departing figure, her eyes filled with worry and self-blame.
"Ryosuke... failed to be selected as a researcher two years ago for some reason. Since then, he has become very obsessive, pushing himself crazy every day, and even conducting some dangerous experiments on cosmic meteorite cells in private." Sayaka's voice lowered.
She clearly noticed.
Daigo stepped out of the hot spring pool.
He grabbed a towel from the side and draped it over his shoulders, looking in the direction Ryosuke had disappeared. He whispered to Kaul, "Officer, the power he possesses... is completely different from the monsters we encountered before. It's something that's devouring him."
Kaul pushed his sunglasses down, revealing his eyes.
"It's Ebloon cells."
"A parasitic cell that lives in cosmic meteorites and can amplify the physical strength and destructive power of its transplanted subjects to an unlimited extent. However, this evolution is abnormal. It needs a constant supply of high-voltage electricity to maintain its life. If there is not enough electricity to replenish it, the Eblon cell will drain the host's life force."
Kaul stood up and patted Xiaoyan on the head: "He thought he had achieved an evolution beyond ordinary people through technology, but in reality, he just turned himself into a pathetic monster that could die at any time due to running out of power."
"What?!" Horii, who had been listening to Daigo and Kaul's conversation, looked up abruptly. Those were his friends! "Advisor! You mean, Ryosuke... he transplanted alien cells into himself?!"
"Go check the power transmission records for the resort and the surrounding area, Dig the Well." Kaul turned around and put Little Rock back into the combat device.
"If I'm not mistaken, the frequent power outages and anomalies that have been occurring in Kitagawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture these past few days are probably related to your good friend."
late at night.
The tidal power station in Kitagawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture, appears extremely quiet under the darkness and the crashing waves.
"Click...click..."
The metal security door to the power plant's main control room was forcibly torn open by a hand covered in electric arcs.