151. Space-Type Weird domain

Rain with Taek stands, looking at the three tunnels. The three new and final tunnels for mining 'Kostbares'. 

These tunnels were opened for mining five months ago after Kostbares ores from other vines started dwindling. Now the three tunnels look like any other mine tunnels with reinforced ceilings and pillars to stop the tunnel from cave-ins.

But when Rain saw the video of the first victim entering the three tunnels there were no reinforced ceilings or pillars. 

Rain glances at Taek and says," Together or alone."

Taek understands what Rain is saying and replies," Together, We do not know what we are going to face?"

Before Rain and Taek can step toward a mine, one man and woman walk out of the last tunnel from where they are.

The woman seeing them frowns and says," Who are you? No unauthorized persons are allowed inside the mine."

The man recognizes Taek and he is put together two and two," Is there any wrong with new tunnels? Are they the reason for Linus and other suicides?"

The Woman's face turns into shock and shouts," What?"

And continues," Mike, What are you talking about?"

Taek ignored the shocked woman but asked the man," Who are you and what do you do?"

The Man bows to them and answers," I am Mike Connor and we are repaired of the mining robots." 

And continues," Sir, will we be ok?"

Taek looks at Rain. Rain understands what Taek's look means and shakes his head to answer no.

Taek answers," Both of you do a checkup in the Main Guard Office." 

Mike nods and says," Then we will leave. We have shut down the mining robots."

The Woman already understood, What was going on, so she nodded and she and Mike passed them and left.

Rain sees them leave, and speaks," Senior Taek If the new tunnels are the source of the suicides. We can find the reason for the suicides by comparing them with people who enter the new tunnels."

Taek glances at Rain and steps to enter the new tunnel while speaking," If the new tunnels are the source of the suicides."

Rain follows behind him. While walking behind Taek, put his hand on the wall of the tunnels to sense anything behind the suicides. They remain silent through the entire inspection of the tunnels and walk out of the tunnel.

Rain with disappointment says," There is nothing wrong with this tunnel."

Taek," Yeah, There must be reason for the suicides. And these tunnels are only the common link. So, do not be disappointed."

Rain nods and follows Taek inside the second tunnel. And find nothing, with frustration, they enter the third tunnel, in here Rain checks everything even the robots and mined ores.

But no luck, which turned even worse when they came out of the third tunnel. They find people waiting for them and among them, Rain finds the Chief Manager of the mining operation.

The Chief Manager stands behind a stoic Man with silver hair and eyes. Taek does not even pay attention to the Chief Manager but seeing the Man, he salutes the man.

Rain follows and salutes the man because he guessed the man's identity.

Taek respectfully," What brings you here, Councilor Carson?"

Councilor Carson did not answer but the Senior Manager spoke with a sneer," Inspector Taek and Rain, You closed the entire mine. Did you find anything?"

Taek hesitates to answer.

Seeing this Rain understands they are taking control, so he answers," Chief Manager, Do not twist my words. I only ordered to close this section of the mine."

Rain continues before anyone can speak," And Did you ask our permission before you all enter this section."

Which led everyone to stare at him, Rain notice surprised by Councilor Carson's stare. Chief Manager," Does even a councilor need your permission?"

Rain nods with a smirk, "Yeah, the councilor clearance is the same as me, Rank 3. And it trumps a councilor who went to investigate a case."

Chief Manager with an angry expression his aura leaking," You..." But is interrupted by Councilor Carson who puts a hand on the chief manager's chest to calm him down. And the Chief Manager's third rank recede. 

Councilor Carson speaks with his face showing no emotion," Investigator Rain, even if your clearance is C-rank and your strength is at D-rank genetic warrior....."

He did not continue what he was trying to convey, Rain says," What do you want to convey Councilor."

Councilor Carson with a straight face says," Nothing, But did you find anything? Or without any evidence you close the mine, the only economic lifeline of the town."

Again Rain speaks before Taek can speak," After the Inspection is finished, if we feel you all need to know then we tell you."

Taek is surprised and stares at Rain.

Councilor Carson says," Really, But I heard, your order was to empty the three tunnels, and your investigation of the three tunnels is already finished."

" So, if there is anything wrong with the three tunnels you have to tell me, the town has put me in charge of the mining operations."

" I have to decide if the mine remains closed or not."

Rain can feel Taek staring digging a hole at him, without moving his eyes from the councilor," Then, I will inform you after we check the bathroom." With his head, he signals to the bathroom behind them.

With that Rain bypassed them and entered the man's bathroom followed by Taek. Taek after entering pulls Rain to face him," I know you are not afraid of them and will leave in a week but I have to stay here."

" I want peace to break through the True Body realm. You have annoyed the councilor and his elder brother is head of this town guard department."

" He can annoy me, and delay my practice."

Rain gets free from Taek's grasp and speaks with a smile," So, we should solve the case." 

When Rain starts to check the bathroom, Taek behind him speaks," What a case without any clues? I am not equipped for investigation work."

Around five minutes passed, and Taek spoke again," Rain, Why were you not afraid of the senior manager and the councilor, they are at C-rank."

Rain answers," Because, I know they are cowards. Decades pass they are in the same realm, the country is throwing resources into the 'Dead Battlefield Domain'. 

"But they remain in the town when Dead Battlefield Domain is a 12-hour journey from this town." 

Taek says," Yeah If I was not creating the True Body Realm practice method. I would have gone to the Dead Battlefield Domain."

He continues," But, now what to do? We did not find anything in here."

Rain looking at Taek," Yeah, the female bathroom is left. Then we can decide."

With that Rain walks out without paying them outside, Rain enters the female's bathroom.

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When Rain and Taek enter the male bathroom, the councilor's face remains without any emotion, a frown shows for a moment.

Chief Manager assures," Finn, Do not worry they will not find anything. Every day, I check and nothing is shown."

Finn replies," We have to find who is behind the boy and send him back?"

Chief Manager speaks," Tell, your brother to find the details."

Finn took out the Bit from his pocket typed something and spoke after returning the Bit to his pocket," Done, now wait for my brother to send the details."

The Chief Manager speaks with frustration," How can he have a C-Rank clearance? Tell your brother also find out about this."

Finn wondered speaking," Yeah, Did you ask him?"

The Chief Manager answers," Yeah, I asked him and he gave the answer,' Talent'." 

They stop talking, as Rain and Teak step out of the male bathroom. Taek nods at them but Rain without any attention to them walks into the female bathroom. 

The Chief Manager says," Sees, they will not find anything."

As he finished, a loud boom sounded from the female bathroom, which made them look at each other to see what had happened. They already guessed what had happened, but...

They run inside the female bathroom, Finn asks," What happened?" and looks at the large hole between the female and male bathroom.

Taek did not answer Finn's question but spoke to the Chief Manager with an angry expression," Chief Manager, This is how you manage the mine with a weird domain inside the mine."

He was submissive to them before their authority and strength higher than him. And he is creating a True Body Practice method. 

After he advanced to True Body Realm, He could inflict double the injustices he suffered on them. But now he gets a heaven-send opportunity against the one, he hates the most.

The Chief Manager, Marcus Phillip is 140 years, a low C-rank genetic warrior. 40 years passed he advanced to C-rank and was still a low C-rank genetic warrior. 

Anyone can advance to C-rank with resources but then the difficulty starts to advance to middle C-rank. You have to understand a rule to a sufficient degree. But the Chief Manager, 40 years passed is still a low C-rank genetic warrior.

 Rain is right they are cowards, if he had shown that he was not afraid of them and would not take their nonsense they would have not had the courage to insult him.

The Chief Manager was taken aback by Taek's outburst, he wanted to shout back and then remember the situation, he stammered," I do not anything about this."

He then turns the two men silently following them and shouts to one of them," Perry, Why has a weird domain formed inside the mine? This is how you inspect the mine."

He spoke to Rain and Taek with a facial expression and tone that he did not know anything about," Running a Mine is very difficult. So, I divided the work for the foreign direction of the mine, I am in charge."

He points at Perry," He is the Deputy Chief Manager, He is in charge of the internal direction of the mine."

Taek opened his mouth to speak but Rain stopped him and said," Senior Taek, now is not the time to find who is responsible."

"We have to secure the domain, from the look, it is a space realm type domain." He then intentionally glances at the Chief Manager and Councilor Finn.

He continues," Space realm-type weird domains are the most valuable and dangerous."

" We have to wait for reinforcement to check the domain."

" And I already uploaded the information about the weird domain to Spark and my team's commander. By night today, reinforcement will arrive and by tomorrow, we have to enter the Weird domain. 

He hears heavy footsteps and another man enters the female bathroom. Rain with a glance knows who is he. He has seen the photo of him and his facial features are similar to Councilor Finn.

After entering the room, a heavy aura descended on the room staring at the black round mirror height of 7 meters sucking all lights around it. He says," Looks like my and Grace's trip to the dead battlefield has to be postponed." 

Rain hearing the name Grace, immediately his mind went to a picture of a brunette with violet eyes, the Chief Councillor of this town. Her and Guard's chief realm are the same late C-rank. 

Councilor Finn speaks," Angus, You and Grace can go. I can handle the situation."

Angus scoffs," I have seen, how you have handled the situation."

He then turns to Taek and Rain," Commander Nelson contacted me, he will arrive at night with a team. You two can leave and get ready for incursion inside the domain tomorrow."

Rain and Taek salute him and walk out of the bathroom. While walking outside the mine, Taek broke the silence," I do not Chief knows about the domain."

Rain shrugs," He is around a century older than both of us. If he is acting, we would not know." 

Taek answered," Yeah, but I like it if the chief was not aware of the situation."

Rain speaks again after they take a step out of the mine," Is there any practice room in this town."

Taek answered," You can use the ones in Guard headquarters."

Hearing this Rain quickened his pace, he wanted to break through Peak D-rank today before the incursion in the weird domain.