Chapter 54

Chapter 54

Step by step

The first thing Seo I-hyeon did to investigate Etherix's moonlight pond was community exploration.

Also dug the trash can and dug the mage community. And also dug all other ability user communities. Except miscellaneous.

Still no mind to authenticate in the miscellaneous community. There requires too much personal information.

Information regarding the moonlight pond one could obtain more than expected.

From content regarding what the moonlight pond is, up to information regarding places that appeared before and what happened then.

Not only information regarding our country, but also a few things that happened somewhere abroad were up.

The incident Lee Yeong-su said, the incident that occurred after catching the moonlight pond with a barrier one could find while digging the community. Not one or two but several. Seems a fairly famous incident.

And unexpectedly there was also a person who posted writings regarding the connection between Etherix and the moonlight pond.

A writing that if this community Etherix could manage would have erased somehow.

But intervening in the community was a thing even the Management Bureau not Etherix couldn't do.

"Seeing like this great."

No matter made on the dark web if at least Management Bureau degree finding out the behind one could sufficiently do, right?

Even sells connectors.

Yet seeing not carelessly touching the community, either even the Management Bureau hidden well to the degree hard to dig the behind, or a big shot to the degree hard to carelessly touch one of the two.

Anyway diligently dug the community and thoroughly gathered information regarding the moonlight pond.

The conclusion drawn like that is that just leaving the moonlight pond is the best.

The moonlight pond has large reaction. The more touching the more the returning damage large anomalous phenomenon.

The worst form is exactly confining with a barrier.

Because many lives change into ether and disappear.

If attacking the moonlight pond or experimenting or playing some tricks necessarily pours ether corresponding to that.

The moonlight pond's ether has the property of sticking so doesn't even disappear until giving all the set damage.

So leaving receives the least damage.

Such a moonlight pond already holding with a barrier for several years, if that bursts what kind of thing will occur one can't imagine.

"Don't know if one can touch this."

But maybe touching now better. If more time passes maybe a disaster beyond imagination might cover the whole world.

Seo I-hyeon first did self-rationalization like that.

And decided to go and look a bit, if a situation where damage increases by touching oneself, just leave. Or somehow in the direction damage decreases.

If doing one can do.

If only enduring pain. Only the problem of how large that pain's size.

"Au, dislike."

The body naturally trembled. As expected painful things dislike.

Anyway dug and dug the community, but couldn't find information regarding the location of the moonlight pond Etherix possesses.

Then now one has to move with the body directly and find.

Seo I-hyeon prepared to go out.

Washed, dressed clothes, also took the magic books.

And went to the small room used as warehouse and also took some things.

First took bullets generously. Don't know if occasion to use gun, but still better than none.

No matter that gun is gun.

And also took the barrier generator and ether cartridges generously.

"One has to change the barrier to a better one."

When went to the cartel last time, received a new catalog. There also a barrier generator list, expensive ones using four, five ether cartridges at once.

Naturally the effect much superior.

However, a bit expensive. Because tens of thousands of coins enter.

"This no matter how earning money not enough. After this matter ends one has to do some tests."

What testing, making something using own blood.

Seo I-hyeon's blood was a very excellent magic material.

Naturally very many things one can make using blood. However, still doesn't know whether others can use that.

Until now, that is when in that world the things made all Seo I-hyeon or, only the witch who is Seo I-hyeon's contractor used.

Naturally at that time no side effects at all.

But Seo I-hyeon's mana is very special. Believing that acts on others without any side effects is too naive a thought.

One has to test with really many conditions.

"Alright, then shall go out?"

Seo I-hyeon finished preparations and went outside.

Whether did the community too long, already becoming dark.

Rather well. Night rather convenient.

"Alright, where one has to go."

The Etherix Seo I-hyeon went and thoroughly shook off during that time was not the headquarters building.

But somehow there seemed nothing particular if going.

While shaking off during that time thoroughly examined with the shadow eye, but nothing particularly useful.

'No. During that time only confirmed outwardly.'

Things like cabinets or drawers didn't confirm. Just in case there might be a safe, didn't even look for such.

'Step by step, step by step.'

Seo I-hyeon first headed to the Etherix building went during that time.

And went to the always going coffee shop and sat taking a seat.

From now the time of full patience and persistence.

* * *

"Wow, there is."

In fact prepared not able to salvage even one and dug the Etherix building thoroughly all night.

Mainly dug centered on cabinets or drawers, boxes, and in the meantime also found two safes.

In one safe there were documents, in the other safe full of reagents seeming for research.

"Ah, that one has to go directly."

Seo I-hyeon muttering like that tapped the table with his finger.

If the shadow warehouse's range as wide as the shadow eye now one could just pull out, but unfortunately the shadow warehouse's range is considerably narrow.

Before when Black and Kwon Hyeon-sang fought in the Etherix underground lab, Seo I-hyeon once pulled only the hand to the ceiling and put Black into the warehouse, that degree distance was close to the limit.

So to confirm needed things what can one do. One has to go directly and confirm.

Still now much better than when going to the old lab and taking materials and batteries.

No people nearby, and no need to particularly touch the safe.

Just quietly go and confirm and quietly come out again is enough.

No thought of touching things like reagents. Anyway even if taking probably couldn't sell properly. No, possibility of not things worth selling large.

Seo I-hyeon got up from the seat and left the coffee shop.

If before one would have to go to the rooftop and come down the stairs or enter the parking lot and sneak in, but now no need to do so.

Because there is shadow movement.

"Ha, when making thought really going crazy, but once made and seeing really convenient and useful."

Seo I-hyeon chuckling entered the narrow road sandwiching the Etherix building.

Still many people coming and going so to go to a place without gazes a bit secluded place good.

The moment the gaze exactly disappeared, Seo I-hyeon moved to the place the shadow eye is.

Right below the CCTV of the room where the safe is, the camera's blind spot.

No need to particularly stand in front of the safe so at that place put the documents inside the safe into the shadow and took out from the side.

Once taking good, so while flipping the documents one by one filmed all with the phone camera.

Even documents seeming nothing special in Seo I-hyeon's view might be treasure-like documents to others so once decided to take.

After filming all documents put back to the original place.

Such things no need to particularly take.

'By the way really an ordinary safe with no preparation at all.'

In fact to say ordinary the door also thick, very heavy, and a expensive safe with the latest locking device, but no preparation regarding mystery at all.

Seo I-hyeon only took the documents and went outside.

Outside that touched nothing. From now one must not stir Etherix for no reason.

Very quietly and secretly investigating and grasping the moonlight pond's location, then one has to finish in one go.

Seo I-hyeon right away returned home.

One can't see Etherix's security documents at a nearby coffee shop, right. Well, no way problems arise, but still just in case.

Seo I-hyeon who returned home took off the outer clothes and took out the magic books. The two magic books jumped around the living room.

Briefly watching that then shook his head and made one cup of coffee and went to the living room sofa and sat.

And began reading the documents saved on the phone one by one.

Most things one doesn't know what even seeing. Complex numbers written, and didn't particularly want to know.

Such ones classified separately.

Later if giving to Lee Yeong-su wouldn't process on his own? Also extract information that can be helpful.

A person called legendary in the Management Bureau information department so something different.

Like that reading and classifying documents one by one discovered one document that entered the eyes sharply.

A document so nothing special to the degree puzzling why such a thing among the security documents.

That is a document regarding logistics movement.

There were three such documents.

Content of moving from where to where, then moving somewhere, then moving somewhere again.

Like that the movement path and time, and the quantity of goods recorded. What the goods are not even on the documents. Just the quantity recorded as numbers.

But all three documents different.

The quantity same, but the movement path and time different. The cities passing in the middle all different.

Intuition stuck hard in Seo I-hyeon's mind.

"This."

What important goods to the degree making three movement paths while paying attention to security this much.

Ether circuits.

Seo I-hyeon got up abruptly then sat again.

Time too late. Today sleep and decided to move early tomorrow morning.

* * *

Seo I-hyeon decided to invest time picking one of the movement paths on the three documents.

Maybe there might be other paths, but in the end believed would pass one of these.

If dozens, hundreds of paths one doesn't know, but usually wouldn't rotate a few.

If luck good one could find right away.

"Ha, if the exact factory or warehouse location came out would be good, but only city and road names."

Because that alone enough would have made the documents so. The person confirming the documents would already basically know the exact warehouse or factory location.

Or might be to not inform even the person confirming the documents the exact location.

What Seo I-hyeon chose was the road.

Picked one road and confirmed all vehicles passing with the shadow eye.

Based on the number of ether circuits transported at once one could roughly guess the vehicle's size.

Judged at least about a 1-ton truck one has to be able to load that degree quantity.

But just in case confirmed all vehicles passing.

Naturally confirmation with the shadow eye. Mobilizing all ten shadow eyes quickly scanned the trunks, back seats, cargo compartments of passing vehicles.

At first a bit stuttered, but doing became gradually familiar.

Later continued the work enjoyably as if playing a game.

When about five hours passed like that.

"Huh? This?"

Seo I-hyeon confirmed the ether circuit held in the hand, that is the thing prepared in advance through Lee Yeong-su. In his eyes the ether circuit on the palm and the thing in the cargo compartment of the truck that just passed overlapped.

Matched without even an inch of error.

Seo I-hyeon right away moved into the cargo compartment with shadow movement.

Finally caught the tail.

"Luck good."

Really luck good. Because found in just five hours.

* * *

Seo I-hyeon with a slightly tired expression watched the building standing far away.

There exactly the place Etherix makes ether circuits, that is the factory where the moonlight pond is.

After discovering the truck transporting ether circuits and secretly riding there, it took a full four days until finding this factory.

The truck stopped at buildings or warehouses in secluded cities and unloaded cargo and loaded other cargo from here and there and carried.

So at first thought not a vehicle owned by Etherix but Etherix contracted with the truck and only uses occasionally.

But holding patience and persistently waiting and watching, not that but disguising as such.

Anyway like that after enduring a full two days found the place loading ether circuits on this truck, and again after waiting one day there could see the truck bringing ether circuits.

Like that reverse tracking and tracking in the end found this factory.

The time taken up to here total four days.

"One has to do up to this?"

Seo I-hyeon couldn't understand. Keeping security good, but the thought that too excessive arose.

But soon nodded.

While having such thoughts got the tail caught by Cheonra, right. Maybe Etherix wanted to pay attention more than this.

Probably if not Seo I-hyeon finding up to here would have been really difficult.

'Still if Cheonra pays attention one can find, right?'

No, maybe Cheonra already knows this is Etherix's factory.

Anyway Seo I-hyeon found here, and now only remaining the work of eliminating the moonlight pond as desired.

The place the factory is near a small mountain in Gyeonggi-do, a very secluded place.

Seo I-hyeon waited between large trees.

Still day bright so early to move.

Originally tried to confirm inside the factory, but couldn't.

Because the shadow eye couldn't enter inside the factory.

At first thought because of the barrier. But, not.

The shadow eye passed the barrier spread around the factory without any resistance. Just couldn't enter inside the factory.

Then the reason only one. Meaning something inside there interferes.

"Would be good if quickly darkened."

Wanted to enter inside there quickly. So wanted to see what blocked the shadow eye, and also how the moonlight pond looks.

When waiting only for darkening like that, the factory began to become a bit disordered.

In fact doesn't know at all what happens inside the factory, how many there are.

What visible in Seo I-hyeon's eyes is the outside of the factory.

One truck and two vans arrived near the factory then people poured down.

They took out lots of ether circuits from the truck. In Seo I-hyeon's view ether circuits still in mere chip state without ether stuck.

People moved that inside the factory.

"Hurry! Soon the sun sets!"

The one commanding people continuously urged. On everyone's expressions urgency was mixed.

Like that finishing all work everyone rode cars and hurriedly disappeared.

Seo I-hyeon watched that scenery with peculiar eyes.

"This... seems no one inside there?"

Maybe this matter, seems one can finish easier than expected.

Like that Seo I-hyeon's expectation gradually rose, and soon the sun set.

The time of darkness.

© Kim Kang-hyeon #12i09