Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 2

EP.2 Falling to the bottom of the bottomless pit,

I felt pain all over my body. I frowned and got up.

There was no pain anywhere. My arms and legs felt stiff as if they had been beaten with a club, and my parched mouth tasted like sand. I rubbed my sore eyes a couple of times and looked around, but it was still dark everywhere. It doesn’t seem to be a problem with my eyes.

A faint light shone dimly in the distance, but it was far from enough to illuminate the world.

Moaning and scratching my head, I felt something strange for a moment.

weird. Who took off the straitjacket? I must have been tied up and thrown into the abyss.

They were tied up by one limb, blindfolded over their eyes, and even gagged over their mouths. Deprived of physical freedom, he was thrown to the bottom of the abyss without any safety device.

Even in the middle of the fall, I struggled for a long time to survive, but the military special straitjacket was the kind that an ordinary person like me couldn’t help. Well, it’s strange that I’m untying the straitjacket that the military put so much effort into making. I continued to resist helplessly in a straitjacket, and eventually collapsed from exhaustion.

Satisfied that the Earthmother would finish me off once and for all, at least without pain.

But are you still alive after falling to the bottom? How many hours did you fall without any safety devices?

no before that.

This is definitely the bottomless pit cursed by the Earth Mother. It’s a bottomless abyss. Why is there a bottom?

It’s a contradiction. The bottom of the abyss. Such a thing would not exist just by looking at the connection of words.

After thinking for a while about what this was, I realized something and muttered. This is it. There is no other way to explain this.

“Ah, I died and came to hell.”

[no. This place is not hell.]

“Kwaaaa!”

The voice came from right behind me. I was startled and fell to the floor. He picked up his trembling body and shouted at ‘something’ in front of him.

“Who are you!”

Two eyes twinkled in the dark. A presence with a vague presence like a ghost was glaring at me from there.

Humans obviously aren’t. If I were human, I would have read your mind. What then? Ghost? beast? Or the Apostle of Hell?

Those eyes moved slowly as I waited in fear for an answer. My eyes, accustomed to the darkness, outlined it.

Recognizing its identity, I called it with a trembling voice.

“Golem?”

It was neither a ghost nor a beast. At least, the apostle of hell would be the closest explanation.

Because the identity of that thing in front of me was a military magic golem created in a hellish country called the Military State.

What would it look like if we imitated humans using only cylinders and blocks? The golem was watching me with its crystal ball eyes shining. A mechanical voice flowed from the speaker at the corner of the golem’s mouth.

[The main building is Captain Abbey, a military communications officer. You have been handed over to the training center as of today, and you must perform the given mission under the control of the head office.] A

remote control type that moves in sync with the magic golem user. It is a military equipment that is often used because it is easy to control.

When I saw the golem, I nodded and lamented.

“Did the golem fall into hell too? Tsk tsk. How many people must have been killed… Resent yourself for being born as a military golem.”

[This is not Hell. If you don’t believe it, I recommend you to look around.]

I followed the golem’s words and looked around.

The ground is concrete, which can be easily seen in military countries. I don’t know what’s inside, but the concrete that covers it firmly supports the world. Of course, no grass or trees are visible. Only man-made, achromatic structures stand instead of vegetation.

Involuntarily, I looked up. I couldn’t see anything shiny, let alone the sky. Neither night nor anything, pure darkness. A jet-blackness stretched out beyond, sucking in the light that only the void could show.

And as I slowly lowered my gaze, a fairly familiar building came into view.

The searchlight moves left and right, illuminating the darkness in the abyss. A round shadow of light sweeps through the concrete ground. Then, the moment it touched my feet, all the searchlights that existed crawled up the ground and headed towards me all at once, like an agitated beast.

The dazzling artificial light focuses on me as if it were about to burn my body. I blocked the light with my hand and saw a huge structure I hadn’t seen before.

A square, five-story building built for utilitarian purposes only. A searchlight to find fugitives is hanging on the thick concrete outer wall built by sparsely adding steel plates. A large light hangs high and illuminates the area around the prison, but it is too insignificant to replace the sun. This place, which is only a few tens of meters away, cannot be seen without a searchlight.

An isolated island on land built to completely separate the outside from the inside.

A prison that I have only ever seen at a distance is right in front of my eyes. The prison, like the symbol of a military state, stood watching me with dozens of searchlights and seemed to declare that this is where you would stay from now on.

Receiving all the light calmly, the golem spoke to me.

[Can you judge the situation now?]

I nodded slowly.

It seems that the Great Prison Tantalus is a space that is sure to become a legend in the military.

“It’s like a crazy country. To build a prison in the miraculous land at the bottom of the abyss?”

If it’s like a military country, should I say it’s like a military country? A twisted tech tree built from a prison at the bottom of the abyss would not be possible unless it was a country as crazy as a militarized state.

The golem pointed out my self-talk.

[I would like to draw attention to your unwholesome remarks.]

“It is absurd. Do you want innocent people locked up in a place like this to show their loyalty?”

[I’m running out of time, so I’ll brief you on your mission first. We recommend that you listen… if you don’t want to die.]

The golem warned grimly. I tried to be sarcastic, but I shut my mouth when I felt that sad tone.

When I stopped talking, a dry voice came from the golem’s microphone.

[This is Tantalos, the military’s 5th-level important facility.]

Mental Education Corps was another name for the military’s prison. There is a research result that says that prisons and prisoners do not help social stability because they do not have a good sense of language. That’s why I used to call the prisoners of the mental training center a prison trainee.

At best, it’s a military pun, at worst, it’s language control.

Although the military will not admit either of them.

[Tantalos was a facility prepared for high-risk trainees. They had very dangerous abilities and violent personalities, and were scheduled to receive socialization education in Tantalus, which was completely isolated from the world due to their lack of social skills.] “What if it was

planned?”

[However, due to an unfortunate incident that occurred a week ago, most of the trainees escaped from Tantalus.]

“What?”

escape? Did you escape the bottomless pit?

Putting on a rebellious attitude, I focused all my nerves on the golem’s words. I couldn’t read the golem’s thoughts, so I was on my nerves to somehow extract information from his tone or tone.

It doesn’t matter at all that the numerous felons harbored by Tantalus escaped and spread throughout society. Is it my business to know whether such a country falls into chaos or perishes?

The important thing is the fact that they ‘jailbroken’ itself. That information suggested the possibility of getting out of the bottom of the abyss.

“How did you escape?”

To my question, the golem stared at me and replied.

[Information not permitted to you.]

“Sheesh.”

also can’t There’s no way the military communicator could be so lax.

It would be nice if I could read your thoughts, but it’s a pity. I can only read people’s thoughts, but I can’t read the voice that is transmitted as a signal and reproduced with a microphone.

I can’t help but get information in a slightly mundane and uninteresting way.

When I motioned for him to say more, the golem continued his explanation.

[Most of the trainees rioted, destroyed the facility, and killed the management personnel. After taking Tantalus by force, they escaped en masse by some means. The military authorities are after them and plan to arrest and punish them all soon. However, in the meantime, the three exemplary trainees did not participate in that violent and barbaric act and stayed here voluntarily.]

In the military, the word exemplary is a modifier attached to a stupid hukou. So it means that only cowards are left in this prison now.

It’s ironic that the world’s most famous prison has become a haven for cowards.

[However, because of those who escaped, the facility was razed in half and all management personnel were killed. It is impossible to leave cooperative trainees in an unmanaged education center. Additional personnel were needed to manage Tantalus, and you were assigned here.]

“Ah. therefore.”

I understand now. For some reason, no matter how much I was framed, there was no reason to imprison an ordinary petty criminal like me in Tantalus.

For some reason, there were suddenly gendarmes roaming around the city. From the moment I was caught by the military police to the trial that ended in less than three days. It was clear how I got here.

So, in a word, manpower was running out, and petty criminals like me were caught on a large scale, and then thrown into the abyss as slaves, right?

To use prisoners to help them. It is a method favored by the military.

jay jay? no turn around It doesn’t matter if I die, so I’m blocking the place where I’ve been tinkering with criminals.

Anyway, one thing to know here. Imprisoned, but here I am free. No matter what I do, there is no one to stop me.

If there were no instructors and I was the only laborer. How would you stop me from being lazy here or making bombs?

Realizing this, I raised my head and stepped out confidently.

“What if I don’t work? Are you going to come down and beat me?”

[That won’t happen. You will have to do anything to survive.]

After saying that, the golem turned and looked towards the prison. A few searchlights shimmered the darkness, and a black figure shimmered in the depths of the closed door.

The golem murmured.

[…they’re coming.]

“They?”

Ignoring my question, the golem spoke even faster.

[Those who are left in Tantalus… We don’t have much time. Now I’ll tell you what you need to do.]

What is straight listening? At most, cleaning and washing would be all.

I tucked it effortlessly behind my head. Let’s see. Only three prisoners left? With that number, you can only listen to it for a few feet. If you’re a little easygoing prisoner, you can seduce him with nice words.

Even if he is a vicious criminal imprisoned in Tantalus, if he is frightened by the orders of the military and even kicks the opportunity to escape, he must have a rather passive and weak personality.

Even though I’m a petty criminal, I’m the body I used to carry with my head stiff in the back alleys. In addition, thanks to the ability of mind-reading, even fairly violent people would lose their temper in front of me.

I have no strength, no Gao. If you have a chance, don’t accept this place at all.

It was when I was holding my heart like that.

[Survive.]