The Beginning of the Seonggok Disaster

Upon hearing this, the audience did not care what kind of organization the Truth Cult was.

After all, these are all game settings for them.

However, the sharp, spiraling black tower left a deep impression on them.

At that moment, a gasp of surprise suddenly came from some corner of the quiet audience.

"Oh my Divine Seal, it's a Marker! So this is what a Marker is!"

Another voice followed.

"Hey buddy, what's wrong?"

The person who exclaimed in surprise continued to speak.

"Oh my God, have you played the super popular VR Game ' Control Failure Breach' from a while back? There's a part where you travel to a parallel world to explore. But that world has been destroyed, and the reason for the Divine Seal is that this Marker has affected humanity."

"Now that this thing has appeared in the game, it means that the world setting of Dead Space takes place in this parallel universe. However, this world hasn't been destroyed yet. So I guess we might witness its destruction."

Upon hearing this, another voice immediately exclaimed "WTF!"

"You mean, the world of this game will eventually be destroyed?"

Yes

"Omg"

These words, which seemed to contain spoilers, only fueled the curiosity of the surrounding audience.

They wanted to know exactly how the Divine Seal was going to destroy the world and how it was going to affect humanity.

Some of those who had played Control Failure and visited parallel worlds remained silent, seemingly lost in thought.

A world destined for destruction?

And the game's story takes place before the world is destroyed?

Interesting.

The performance continued, and on the large screen as wide as the wall, the blonde woman covered her head in discomfort and continued her narration.

At first, I didn't know what this thing was called. I thought it was just a strange man-made object abandoned on a distant dead star.

[But later, the captain ordered this artifact to be stored on the Seonggok, as if he knew something about it.]

[Shortly afterward... the planetary mining base contacted us.]

The blonde woman on the big screen had just finished speaking when the operator in the corner of the stage hurriedly spoke up.

"Captain! I've received a signal from a member of the excavation team! I'll transfer this to the big screen now."

As soon as the operator finished speaking, the large screen on the wall that displayed the blonde woman suddenly changed its view, showing a middle-aged man in industrial clothing.

At this moment, his face on the screen was filled with panic and fear, as if he had encountered some extremely dangerous situation, which was quite astonishing.

"Seonggok! Seonggok! Can you hear me?! Can you all hear me?!"

"There's something here! There's something here!! They want to wipe us out!! We can't escape! We can't escape!"

"Help us!! My excavation team members have all turned into them! I'm the only one hiding from them! They... Oh God... They're coming! I can hear them!"

On the big screen, the middle-aged man looked panicked and terrified.

His eyes were wide open, and copious amounts of saliva were drooling from his open mouth.

It seemed as if it had seen something terrifying, and it kept calling for help.

"They're here! They're here! Help us! Help us! Help us!!!"

The next second, a cold glint flashed.

The middle-aged man's head was instantly sliced in two horizontally from the bridge of his nose.

Instantly, blood gushed out like a fountain, splattering everywhere.

The wide throat and tongue were also slightly upturned, as if in spasm.

Immediately afterwards, my body was suddenly pounced on by some unknown object, and the communication was immediately interrupted, with the screen displaying static.

Tranquility

The audience was stunned.

They never imagined that the performance, which was originally going smoothly, would suddenly turn into such a bloody scene.

A perfectly healthy person suddenly dies, and in such a horrific, terrifying, and extreme way.

A moment later, after a brief moment of astonishment, a woman's scream rang out in the hall.

At the same time, a large number of shocked voices followed.

WTF!

Oh my God!

"Holy shit!"

"Nonono"

The audience members who witnessed this horrifying scene turned pale, and some even experienced numbness in their hands.

Even worse, some people covered their eyes and dared not look anymore.

Seeing this, Meng Shu remained calm.

He knew that the most exciting part was yet to come.

This is just an appetizer.

Meng Shu looked at the stage, where the screen, as wide as a wall, continued displaying the story's dialogue.

[... After that, the entire mining site lost contact. No matter how we called, we received no response.]

I wanted to take some men down to rescue them, but the captain forbade me. He clearly knew something.

However, the danger below eventually reached the Seonggok.

As soon as he finished speaking, two spotlights shone down on the stage again, illuminating the captain and the blonde woman Vinson.

At the same time, the operator seemed to have discovered something and reported it loudly again.

"Captain! Radar has detected three spacecraft approaching. They should have taken off from the mining base on the planet below. What should we do?"

On the large screen, in the vast universe, three small spaceships are rapidly heading towards the Seonggok.

Upon seeing this, the captain on the stage issued a cold order almost without hesitation.

"Whoever is inside, close all hangar doors on all levels and prevent them from boarding the ship!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The operator immediately began the operation, but the blonde President An on stage spoke up again.

"They're survivors! Maybe they know what happened down there!"

However, the captain ignored him and still forcibly ordered the operators to shut down the hangar.

"Do as I say!"

Faced with such a domineering superior, the audience could only watch on the big screen as the blonde woman, Vinson, displayed an extremely unpleasant expression.

But soon, the scene shifted to the vast universe.

The three small spaceships were rapidly approaching.

Meanwhile, the operator was shutting down the hangar while issuing stern warnings.

"Attention spacecraft 1, 3, and 7, this is the Seonggok. The captain orders you to return to your planetary base immediately and not to approach the ship. Do you understand?"

"You cannot land on the Seonggok. Return immediately. Repeat, return immediately."

"If you continue to approach, we will consider it a threat and provide fire support."

As they were speaking, heavy weapon launchers suddenly appeared on the large screen outside the Seonggok, seemingly ready to shoot it down at any moment.

[Seonggok! Seonggok! Can you hear me?! My name is Balo, and my wife is seriously injured. She needs treatment! She'll die if we don't hurry!]

On the large screen, a magnetic sound, similar to that of a radio wave, came through.

It appears to have been launched from one of the three spaceships.

At the same time, communications were also transmitted from another spaceship.

[Seonggok! This is Knight! We have four survivors here! Please put away your weapons, we have important information to report!]

But upon hearing this, the captain's expression changed, and he immediately and without hesitation issued the death sentence order.

"Attention all ships! Fire immediately! Prevent them from boarding!"

[What!?]

"Receive!"

On the large screen, as wide as the wall, the outer firing ports of the Seonggok instantly opened fire at full power.

Suddenly, in the Pitch Black universe, artillery fire raged and bombings continued.

One of the spaceships exploded and shattered in an instant, engulfed in flames.

The close-up explosion footage turned the faces of the entire audience a deep red.

They never expected that a stage play would have such special effects scenes resembling a cosmic war!

That's truly astonishing!

In no time, under intense firepower, all three spaceships were engulfed in explosions.

The image on the big screen switched back to the stage.

Above, the blonde woman frowned, her expression complex.

They seemed to have vaguely sensed something.

The captain breathed a sigh of relief.

However, things are far from that simple.

The image on the big screen changed again, and amidst the raging flames, two spaceships suddenly emerged and rushed rapidly toward the Seonggok.

Before the audience could react, the operator in the corner of the stage suddenly shouted.

"My God! Captain! It's Spaceships 1 and 7! They actually dodged the attack!"

"Captain! Urgent report! Those two spacecraft broke into hangars 17 and 21 before we could seal the hatches! They have now boarded the Seonggok!"

"What did you say!?"

On the stage, the captain's face was grim. He immediately turned to the blonde woman and gave her an order.

"Chief of Staff Vinson, I need you to take men to the hangar immediately and seal it off! Don't let them leave! Remember that."

On the big screen, the captain's expression was more grim than ever before, and he gritted his teeth as he squeezed out his last words.

"They must be killed! Leave no one alive!"

The four people on Knight's ship were the main characters of the spin-off story. Thanks to their protagonist aura, they boarded the ship smoothly despite the barrage of fire.