chapter 103
Choi Min-hyeok chased after Gordon, the president of the United States, and came to the lounge.
There were capsule coffee machines and beverage vending machines.
woo woo woo-
President Gordon brewed coffee capsules himself.
Minhyuk Choi quietly watched his actions while remaining invisible.
The purpose of infiltrating the Pentagon is to stop the American attack on Orichalcon Field.
In order to draw it, it was necessary to know exactly what motivated the U.S. aircraft carrier to investigate the Bermuda waters.
Apparently, even a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was mobilized for a special reason.
The reason must have been documented and stored somewhere.
So, first of all, I had to get my hands on that classified document.
trudging-
The president, holding a coffee cup, walked over to an empty chair and sat cross-legged.
He smiled and told the guards.
“[Relax and everyone have a cup of coffee! What could happen in the heart of the American defense?]”
The bodyguards nodded, but did not break their ranks.
Minhyuk Choi quietly approached the president.
And whispered in the president’s ear in a small voice.
“Take me to the place where the confidential documents related to this incident are located.”
Under control, President Gordon set his coffee cup down on the table and jumped out of his chair.
“[uh?! This, why this…]”
His body moved wildly, and he opened his eyes wide in surprise.
The moment the president was about to shout something to the bodyguards, Choi Min-hyeok opened his mouth to him first.
“shut up!”
“[town!]”
President Gordon, stunned, started walking down the aisle.
The bodyguards followed the president without knowing why.
At the end of the hallway, there was an elevator dedicated to VVIPs.
Squeak-
When someone approached, the elevator doors opened automatically.
As the president entered the elevator, the bodyguards followed him.
Fluffy-
Choi Minhyuk lifted himself into the air and entered the elevator.
T-T-T-T-
President Gordon entered a four-digit password using the number pad that was separately attached under the floor button.
Squeak-
ugh-
Then the elevator door closed and it began to descend.
The number of floors displayed on the elevator was up to the second basement floor, but it went much lower than that.
[How far are you going?]
Choi Min-hyeok asked Kim Seo-yeon through telepathy.
She was watching the whole situation through Choi Min-hyeok’s eyes at Factory 1.
[Going down to the secret facility under the Pentagon.]
Kim Seo-yeon had hacked confidential information related to the Pentagon to help Choi Min-hyuk infiltrate.
Rumors are circulating that there is a secret facility in the basement of the Pentagon that is not open to the public, but after checking, it was true.
Squeak-
The elevator stopped and the door opened.
Then, Minhyuk Choi saw a long underground tunnel.
Rails were laid along the tunnel, and a large train was placed on it.
[What is that?]
[This is a magnetic levitation train that goes to and from the White House and the Pentagon!]
The White House, where the president lives, and the Pentagon, where the Pentagon is located, are both located in Washington, DC, and are only three kilometers apart in a straight line.
That close distance was connected by a magnetic levitation train.
When the president and his bodyguards boarded the train, Choi Min-hyeok followed suit.
‘It’s bigger than I thought.’
There are over 50 seats on the train.
When everyone was seated, the train started moving.
Shu Woo-wook-
It accelerated and reached its maximum speed.
The current speed was displayed on a screen on the ceiling of the train, which read 350 miles per hour.
Converted to kilometers, the speed was over 560 km/h.
Whoops-
The train slowed down and stopped.
‘Are you there already?’
After running at 500 km/h on a section of only 3 km, they arrived at the basement of the White House in less than a minute.
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Choi Min-hyeok led President Gordon and finally arrived at the White House’s classified archives.
The archives here were divided into several areas, and the deeper you go, the higher level classified documents are kept.
The bodyguards accompanied the president to the secret storage room.
However, from deeper inside, the President could enter and exit alone under the guidance of the storage staff.
President Gordon told the archives staff.
“[Into the innermost part…]”
“[Yes, Your Excellency!]”
After passing through the long corridor and entering the innermost part of the storage room, there was an iron door.
<TOP SECRET>
It was a place to keep secret documents.
Documents handwritten by national intelligence agents were kept here.
Since the information was not digitized, it could never be stolen by computer hacking.
Only the president of the United States was allowed to enter the archives and view the documents.
whiz-
As the president stood in front of the iron gate, the iris and fingerprint recognition terminal was opened.
When biometrics were completed, the iron door opened automatically.
When the president went inside, an employee waited in the hallway outside the iron gate.
Choi Min-hyeok quickly followed the president into the archives.
Then Seoyeon Kim sent a telepathic message to Minhyuk Choi.
[Heat sensor and weight sensor are working inside the top-secret archive!]
Inside the storage room, a strict security system was operating.
Heat sensors were installed all over the walls, and weight sensors were operating on the floor.
Therefore, <invisibility> alone could not avoid the surveillance network.
Choi Min-hyeok wrapped himself in a magic barrier to block heat from the body in order not to get caught in the heat sensor.
Then, in order not to get caught in the weight sensor, I telekinetically lifted my body into the air.
If you couldn’t use magic, sneaking in here would really have been ‘Mission Impossible’.
‘Magic is the best!’
The top-secret archives were quite large.
In a large space painted white, there was a long row of filing cabinets.
Each line had an alphabet written on it.
Choi Minhyuk once again used <Control> on the President.
“Hand over the paperwork that explains why you investigated Bermuda waters to me.”
Then President Gordon opened the filing cabinet in the row marked ‘B’.
Then he pulled out a file with a red cover.
He handed it over to Minhyuk Choi.
Choi Minhyuk put his finger on the document file.
hiss-
Paper files disappeared and then quickly reappeared.
I made a copy of it by putting it in my inventory.
If you take out the original, things may get unexpectedly twisted later.
Anyway, I got the document I wanted.
Choi Min-hyeok looked at the other file cabinet.
All of the documents here are top secret documents.
All the documents conspiracy theorists wanted to check were all gathered here.
Documents telling the truth about aliens and UFOs may also be kept here.
‘Should I shake everything off?’
Entire document caches can be inventoried to make copies of all documents at once.
However, Kim Seo-yeon stopped Choi Min-hyuk.
[The weight sensor on the storage floor is working! If you put the entire filing cabinet in your inventory, an alarm goes off!]
A few documents are very light, so it doesn’t matter, but the moment you put the entire heavy document box into your inventory, it will be detected by the sensor.
An alarm is then activated and the iron gate is closed.
‘I can come again later.’
If you want to, you can always manipulate the president and come back here, so let’s not try too hard to steal everything in one shot.
[Check what is written on the document.]
[Yes, boss! Please wait!]
Kim Seo-yeon took a copy of the document and went into the <Room of Freedom>.
And in less than 3 seconds outside time, I grasped all the contents of the document.
Then, he came out of the spare room and sent a telepathic message to Choi Min-hyeok.
[An American explorer discovered ancient writing in West Africa many years ago!]
[Ancient letters? Perhaps the text we found in India?]
[Yes, that’s right! It’s the same character. The written content is the same.]
Ancient writing marking the location of Orichalcon Grassland had already been discovered in West Africa several years ago.
The US Central Intelligence Agency accidentally discovered the existence of the text and deciphered it using a state-of-the-art supercomputer.
[Several years of reading with supercomputers, but only able to decipher numbers written in base 64.]
Even Kim Seo-yeon took a long time to completely decipher the ancient script.
It took more than 200 days because it was detoxified for more than two days in the room of leisure.
Therefore, it was natural that a human-made supercomputer could not fully interpret it even after years of use.
[The CIA hired mathematicians and archaeologists to study what base 64 numbers mean. And a while ago, I found out that the number refers to the coordinates on the surface of the earth.]
That’s why the US government started exploring Bermuda.
Then, it was attacked by lions, lost several submarines, and eventually even mobilized an aircraft carrier.
However, there was a part I didn’t understand.
[But why did President Gordon do that?]
During the meeting, the word Atlantis was even mentioned by the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
However, the president was constantly crying out that ‘everything was made up by China’.
I learned the coordinates by interpreting ancient letters found in Africa, and I wondered why he made such a claim even though he lost his submarine to a lion-shaped deep-sea monster.
[Well, President Gordon is a devout Christian.]
[ah···.]
President Gordon belonged to the conservative faction called the ‘right wing’ among Protestant churches.
That’s why I hated stories about aliens and ancient civilizations.
It was his belief that the only intelligent beings in the universe were human beings created by God.
He even denied the theory of evolution.
It was believed that the first man, Adam, was created in 4,000 BC.
‘Are there still people like this?’
[At the time of the presidential election, he said he believed in evolution! You lied to the public.]
He lied for his political life, President Gordon was a conservative Protestant to the core.
After he was elected president of the United States, he continued to encounter strange phenomena that denied his beliefs, and he was under considerable stress.
In the end, he was protecting his mentality by creating his own logic that ‘everything is because of China’.
Anyway, now that we know why the US investigated the waters of Bermuda, all we have to do is make Orichalcon Grassland unassailable.
The person who ignorantly tried to spread nuclear weapons was none other than the president, so only this person had to be controlled.
“Let’s go.”
Choi Min-hyeok came out of the archives with the president in front.
And went to the president’s office.
There was a security space to prevent eavesdropping and filming.
It was a place used for private conversations with the heads of other countries.
Choi Min-hyeok entered the security space alone with President Gordon.
self-
And turn off the invisibility.
President Gordon, who saw the doll appearing in front of him, could not close his gaping mouth.
“[All, who the hell are you?]”
“why? Were you expecting something different?”
President Gordon had been guessing from a while ago that the being controlling him was either an angel sent by God or a devil from hell.
However, the existence that appeared before my eyes was completely different from what I had imagined.
He was wearing medieval armor that glowed in rainbow colors.
“[Stop, no way…]”
The iridescent light emanating from the armor was familiar to President Gordon’s eyes.
It was the same color light as the monsters that attacked the submarine.
Minhyuk Choi opened his mouth to him.
“I am from Atlantis!”