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Society Protocol Season 3 15

The Snake's All-Out War

By the time Min-hyuk was flying through the sky in his plane, Mi-hee had arrived near the prayer retreat.

Fortunately, not a single person was in sight.

Contrary to her worries that people might swarm in and attack, it was preserved in its original state.

However, she had to be careful. Mi-hee slowly hid behind a wall and looked for signs of life.

After confirming that no one was there, she slowly walked into the prayer retreat.

Pastor Hwang's destroyed prayer room came into view.

She felt a sudden surge of emotion, but she had to quickly grab some food and leave the place.

It was because she did not know what danger might strike.

She entered the dining room kitchen. Perhaps because it was powered by solar energy, the refrigerator was still running.

Unlike the city, this place had no risk of being hit by an EMP attack.

She went into the storage room in the basement of the dining room. There was rice there.

Mi-hee took out a large pot and scooped the rice into it. Then she took out some vegetables.

She put the potatoes in her backpack. She thought she would need a plastic bottle filled with water as well. She packed a knife, salt, and sugar.

Now all she had to do was step outside.

“Once Mom’s leg heals, we can come back here.”

Mi-hee tried pulling the cart used to transport ingredients in the cafeteria.

She could pull it to the entrance of the prayer retreat, but it seemed impossible to carry the load down the mountain.

Mi-hee was debating whether to leave the cart behind or take it with her.

Just then, the sound of an airplane was heard from the sky.

Mi-hee threw the cart aside, slung her backpack over her shoulder, and ran into the woods to hide.

She reasoned that since it was an airplane, it would just pass by if she simply hid her body.

However, the plane slowed down and pulled its wheels out from the inside.

And then, it slowly descended straight down to the ground.

Mi-hee’s heart began to pound. She took the knife out of her backpack and clutched it in her hand.

The snake, known as the most important one, no longer smiled or whistled. It was because of the suffering of the humans he cherished most, and the loss of the son who was to become his successor.

However, he still had many children left.

And if necessary, he could simply choose the best human woman and father a child.

However, it would be difficult for anyone as excellent as his son to emerge in the future.

He had to wait again for a successor to appear, whenever that might be.

The Serpent faced two major problems first.

He had to wipe out the enemies who had inflicted such tremendous damage on humanity.

And the other was that he had to immediately launch the project he had been preparing.

Because God himself was at work,

he had already predicted that a threat several times more powerful than what had happened so far would be approaching.

The Serpent contacted his remaining members and subordinates.

“Start injecting fuel.”

Now, 100 would be prepared simultaneously. The Serpent began his final gamble.

He had two choices: abandon everything and leave, or defend.

The Serpent decided to execute both.

It was to leave while defending.

It was the biggest and most important project.

However, separate from that, he had to finish the cleanup that had just begun.

He made a call using the satellite phone inside the tent.

“Wipe out all the enemies right now.”

“Ah, except for the women and children.”

The women would become his wives, and the children his subordinates.

Of course, only the most outstanding among them would be able to attain such honor.

The organization, having received orders from the most important person, relayed the instructions to the highest-ranking officials in each country.

They verified that all electronic threats from the enemies had disappeared.

However, they could not get a definitive answer. It meant they had to take risks.

In Africa and Asia, operations began to hunt down and eliminate hidden enemies. The European branch in France and the headquarters in Nevada, USA, which had taken up arms and were willing to wage war, remained.

The Serpent decided to personally eliminate them.

The Serpent sent the surviving Hunting Dogs No. 1 and No. 5 to Europe and Nevada, respectively.

The cruise missiles on Hunting Dog No. 1 were equipped with the warheads used by No. 5.

No. 5 always carried the single most powerful and largest missile he used.

It did not take very long to completely wipe everything out.

Powerful flashes and storms raged across the skies of France and Nevada, and massive mushroom clouds rose into the air.

“It is all finished.”

The Serpent gave no special answer.

There was no longer anything to laugh about, nor did he whistle.

It was because a truly dangerous moment still remained.

In the ruined world, some of the captured members of the Million Salvation Sect were being publicly executed by the people. They had to walk carrying the cross until they died, and they had to be pierced with spears until their death.

Korea was no exception.

Those who had come to their senses went around searching for scattered pseudo-believers, armed with anything that could serve as a weapon.

They told the believers to curse God.

Anyone who could not curse, whether a believer or not, was killed.

This was because their families and the wealth they had accumulated throughout their lives had already been reduced to ashes.

And there was no guarantee that such a disaster would not strike again.

These were the people who had survived that hellish scene where people gathered, went mad, and killed one another.

They were killing people while shining flashlights.

Killing such bastards was, in fact, an act of justice.

They would kill anyone they saw. They would kill anyone whose face was unfamiliar.

They would also kill those who did not curse God.

It was a massive rocket being refueled under the Serpent's command.

It was distributed evenly across the entire globe.

Not only in Houston and Florida in the United States, but also in Australia and Japan.

There was China and Ukraine.

In Korea, too, the rocket was being prepared on an island in the South Sea.

The reason 100 rockets were being prepared simultaneously from all directions was,

because it was impossible to know which direction or how the operation would proceed.

What had been experienced so far was not even a quarter of what lay ahead.

It was no longer a situation where one could smile and whistle.

“Refueling will be completed in three hours.”

“Where shall we put Moses?”

The Serpent felt revulsion upon hearing that name. Even though it was a name he himself had given.

Moses was the figure who saved Israel. When Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, issued an order to kill Hebrew children,

to save his own child, he placed him in a reed basket and set him adrift on the river.

An Egyptian princess rescued him and adopted him as her own child.

His name, Moses, meant "drawn out of the water."

Moses became an Egyptian prince and received the best education.

If Moses had not grown up in the Egyptian environment and with the education he received,

he would not have been able to save the people of Israel or write the verses of the Bible.

Therefore, he was conceiving a project named "Moses," reflecting the meaning of being drawn out of the water.

However, the very name itself began to feel repulsive to the snake.

"Let's change the name of the project. Since this is America, let's do it American-style."

"How?" “How about we call them the Sons of El?”

In the American comic book Superman, there is a scene where the scientist Jor-El, having predicted the explosion of the planet Krypton, puts his son Kal-El in a capsule and sends him away.

It was a snake that thought this was quite similar to that.

“No, calling them sons is too gender-biased, so let’s call them the descendants of El.”

“Understood. I will proceed that way. But where should we put them?”

“Have them prepared at the launch site in Northern Europe. The seeds are already ready there. We just need to transfer the genes.”

Spitsbergen Island in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard was located approximately 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole.

Anticipating all these events, the SS had stored all the world's seeds there.

A similar facility was also prepared in Bonghwa County, Korea.

The organization had constructed about 1,400 seed repositories globally, organized by country.

Everything was done in preparation for this day.

Of course, simply launching these seeds from Earth did not mean they would grow in space.

These seeds would travel through space.

And they were to return to Earth 84 years later, the time it takes for Uranus to complete one orbit around the Sun.

If there were living humans at that time, these seeds would spread again.

But what would happen to life on Earth if there were no humans?

Therefore, another project was prepared.

It involved implanting human embryos and sending them into space. And when they returned to Earth after 84 years,

they would grow within the artificial wombs that had been launched along with them upon landing on the ground. Then, the robots contained within the other rockets would take action to nurture the humans that had grown and been born.

And the other rockets were carrying all the human food, oxygen, water, and the like.

Creating the minimum environment where humans, plants, animals, and insects could return to Earth and live again in this way was the project known as the Descendants of El, who was called Moses.

However, not all 100 rockets were to be used for that project.

Exactly half—only 50—were to be used for the business of such Earth regeneration projects.

The other half were reserved for the worst-case scenario.

When the day finally came for the realization of this entire project, which he had been preparing for over a decade, the Most Important One confirmed to all the SS members that his judgment was correct once again.

“You are indeed the Most Important One.”

“It is an honor for me to be with you.”

Now, the final and greatest threat still remained.

Min-hyuk flew around the prayer retreat. No traces of a special person could be found.

However, he thought it was necessary to land and look for evidence.

He slowly brought the plane to a vertical landing.

A gust of wind was blowing from the bottom of the plane, preventing it from falling too quickly.

Just in case, Min-hyuk checked the gun strapped to his waist.

He was also checking the locations of the prayer retreat where he had met Mihee.

Then, a voice was heard from the forest across the way.

“Min-hyuk!”

Upon confirming that the person who had gotten off the plane was Min-hyuk, Mi-hee shouted and ran towards him without thinking ahead or backward, fearing what might happen.

Reacting to the woman's voice, Min-hyuk turned around and ran toward Mihee.

The two embraced each other.

Mi-hee's knife touched Min-hyuk's chest. Min-hyuk's gun at his waist touched Mihee.

Only now did they realize the situation they were in.

However, both of them were still alive.

Mi-hee tried to go back and retrieve her backpack. But Min-hyuk stopped her. There would be no more camping in the mountains.

“Mom is over there alone. She’s alone because she hurt her leg. Let’s take her.”

Min-hyuk nodded.

“But I don’t think the plane will be able to land.”

“Let’s look for her while we fly together.”

Mi-hee sat in the seat next to Min-hyuk.

When she pressed the vertical takeoff button on the manual, the plane began to take off automatically.

Min-hyuk began moving the controls in the direction Mi-hee indicated.