Haroon

Wheeing.

The south-western residential area of F-4 was littered with cloudy dustwinds as usual, making it hard to see.

"This day just got worse."

Jungmin left the road with a long coat and an old hood that only show his eyes.

It was already past my time at work, so I lost my popularity in the dust winds, but the general goods store owner recognized Yonker and yelled at him.

"Jung Ming! You're an adult from today! Are you on your way to certification?"

"Yes!"

"Haha! I wish I could live in a core area like F1 or F2……."

"Oh, no way. You can't give that kind of privilege to a low-educated man in my line of work. Moreover, I'm sure you won't get a job because you don't have any skills."

Jung said that, but he wished that something big had happened to him since he woke up this morning.

It was because of the occasional miracle of getting out of the Borderer as an adult. No one knows why it's happening.

'Phew, I really wish the residential area had changed…….'

The building he lived in was near the collapse and had a big crack in the wall, so no matter how much he cleaned it up, it turned to dust after a day. Moreover, the area was heavily attacked by Outer or Hark because it was the furthest outermost barrier to defend against the contaminated environment.

The Outer refers to Humans living outside the barrier. Dissidents, felons, and people who have been living outside since the original barrier was created.

They were the same people, but there were also many bad people who were pilfering and robbing in droves.

But they have crossed beyond the barrier of those who have no problems.

'I don't want you to see those horrible creatures...' '

Hark emerged after World War III, which was the beginning of humanity. It is a newly emerging mutant animal caused by genetic mutations in fallout and radiation throughout the world.

Hark's large, sharp fangs, with a strong and tough hide that cannot be pierced properly by energy beam gunnery beam guns, such as guns and cannons, are trembling and tingling with thought.

The civilian who had worked in the crematorium for a while saw the bodies for all sorts of reasons. He was a civilian who scarcely feared many brutal corpses, but he was the only one who was afraid.

They've never been bored of attacking Humans, and they're quick and clever enough to get inside the barrier, dodging all sorts of defenses and weapons.

That was because even with the energy barrier stretched across the city to prevent radioactive contaminants, the less dense outskirts are defensive.

Hark was not the only threat to human life. Although weaker, Orgra's variants were also powerful in power and ferocity, and their numbers were much greater than Hark's. These guys have more than ten babies at once, just like pigs.

It has only been a hundred years since such an existence appeared in this world, but they are already forming and advancing a powerful social group that will later emerge as more threatening than Hark.

In addition, predators with enormous power, ferocity and cunning intelligence can also cause genetic mutations to be seen beyond the barrier.

Some say these beings were already born in experiments at the Institute of Companies that studied replication through genetic manipulation at the end of the 21st Century, when ethics and morality were completely extinct. No one even knew that.

Even though the terrible war has already been over two hundred years ago and radioactivity has weakened, humans are still living in an energy barrier because it is too dangerous to expose their bodies carelessly.

Through a super-intelligent computer known as the ancient computer, these barriers were built hundreds around the world in the first year of manpower.

Without this barrier, mankind would have perished and the world would have been ruled by mutant animals such as Hark and Org.

The Union, built within the barrier, is a social system that conflicts with previous countries and is formed on a city-level basis.

Starting with the S region, the most central part of the barrier, moving outward in concentric circles and divided into A, B, C, D, E, F zones.

Societies within the barrier, referred to as the Union, naturally consisted of identity agents as the energy that forms the barrier becomes weaker towards the outskirts.

Union units with a minimum of millions of people were extremely stagnant societies. The threat of mutant life has been heightened and those who can be born and leave the barrier are limited to soldiers, senior bureaucrats and those associated with the company.

Area S is home to the most powerful and wealthy people who rule Union. They are called Class S, and within Union they exert immeasurable power and power.

Areas A and B are home to the elite Union officials and prominent entrepreneurs classified as' talented ', including a group of scientists and advanced engineers.

Zones C and D are areas where intermediate bureaucrats, including general scientists, technicians, and soldiers, live.

Zones E and F are large enough to cover more than half of the barrier. However, 70-80% of Union's population is densely populated and, of course, the living environment is poor.

In particular, District F is home to the lowest class of Union society. Serious criminals are those who are banished from the barrier but who commit misdemeanors, those who are displaced from society by their incompetence, and those who are displaced from poverty are living a miserable and hopeless life every day.

Among them, those living in the furthest district of F-4 wished to go to either F-3 or F-2.

I want to migrate all the time because I know that the safer I get inside the barrier and the more pleasant my living environment will be, but their ability will not allow me to escape Zone F.

Unlike in the early days of creation, the threat of mutant life reduced interaction with other unions, and over two hundred years later, identity rises have become a stagnant society with little or no identity. So they just wanted to get to a safer core, even in the same area.

It is a natural change in identity society because there are not many jobs, such as getting a good job and receiving good residence and salary from Union, or making a lot of money to move to a residential area.

Citizens knew they were born as artificial fertilizers. He not only resigned, but also abandoned the country because of the power he lost in his last foster home.

He only provided him with shelter and public work to stay until he reached maturity, such as cremation, a union farmhouse or street cleaning.

In the case of civilians, they do not have caring parents or special abilities. Perhaps they will live the lowest level of their lives worrying about living for a lifetime and disappear very quietly without anyone remembering.

'But...!'

Jung Ming clenched his fist firmly. As if a wish must be fulfilled.

After several iterations of hiding in the corner, Jung Ming could arrive at the office due to the occasional whirlwind.

As old and shabby skyscrapers filled with beehives clashed together, the only low-rise building in this area of F called the 'Bee House' appeared in the dust in a self-expression.

There were so many skyscrapers that the skyscrapers looked more expensive and comfortable. Of course it is.

'If only I could work in that office.'

Jungmin sighed for a moment, looking at the 12-story office.

The inside of the office was so clean and pleasant, unlike the building he lived in. I couldn't help but notice that I was sorry to put my dirty shoes on a dust-free floor.

Fortunately, the most sought-after residents were the ones closest to the entrance. Until a few times when he visited here, he visited the Department of Welfare. He is underage and has no job or sponsor, living on some benefits and public work.

However, the welfare department was at the innermost part of the first floor, and in order to get there, there was a strange look in the eyes of the officials looking at themselves. Today I was lucky that no one was there because of the time.

Jungmin pulled the long coat collar inwardly, which reminds him of the mop, and hid his ugly body.

"Welcome! How can I help you?"

She was a woman with a gentle horse. In this precinct, her beauty was something that was not easily seen in this precinct F. Maybe it was molded. As I dealt with her, my insignificant self became more atrophied.

However, her eyes glanced at him for a few moments, then returned to the screen. It was a common and unusual appearance in the neighborhood where people lived.

Her indifference was rather reassuring.

"I'm becoming an adult today……."

"Ah! If that's the case, ask me in the third floor desk."

A few moments passed before the woman's dry eyes. People who have an adult ceremony during the month are hard to find in this area. It is usually because region A or B has an adult ceremony during the month.

A long time ago, at the end of the Third War, humans were driven to extinction with the sequelae.

A small but new change has emerged in the solar system that has been in constant order for billions of years. There were two moons on Earth.

Strangely, since one giant meteor was sucked into the Earth's manpower and became two moons, the birth of life has focused on the beginning of the month or around that time, and it is still the same now.

"Hm! Is this a lens, too? '

It is now forbidden, but there was a year in which the pregnancy rate was once low and a large number of artificial fertilisations were performed on a global basis. Unknown to her, it was this year that those lenses, which were once performed and banned, became adults.

I heard from training that these lenses are still coming to the office for adult certification, but I've never seen them in this area she's in. Many of them were rumored to be capable.

'Is he the Dropout? '

Even if they were not, some people came to this area with disabilities or dropouts during growth. Most of them were born and lived in a region close to the core, desired by the inhabitants of the region.

But as soon as I saw her ugly clothes and dirt on her face, her face turned blank. She's not free enough to care about the stragglers.

The man I met on the third floor was a man with a silver winged medal on his right chest. A medal, a proof of his service as a barrier guard, he proudly looks at the civilian in a very intimidating posture.

When there was not much respect for him from the attitude of the civilian, he searched for the profile of the civilian with a grumpy expression. His eyes, looking at the screen, stayed in one place for a while, but soon became indifferent again.

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Name: Jung Ming

Born Human, born July 15, 104

History: New Human Project Subject to long-term observation Primary incapacity, Secondary incapacity, tertiary incapacity; Retired in junior high school at age 17; Dependent Home at age 4 months

Current Address: F-SW4 District 124-27-024

Controls: Managed for minor welfare

Expertise: removed from watchful eye with adulthood

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"You're supposed to be an adult today. Wait a moment."

The voice of the mid-level manager, who looked fifty, felt as numb as the girl's eyes on the first floor earlier. District F is where the stragglers gather, as Borders do not become citizens. A citizen's resume doesn't seem to appeal to him because there's nothing so special about it.

The civilian smiles bitterly, looking at the back of the man as he heads to the security area to get something. I once remembered being provoked by the rumors that I had dealt with Hark as a Defender. I had experienced a similar person in my previous middle school. They were pure and ordinary people who underpinned this Union.

'I wish I had a parent like that....'

After living alone, I finally understood how scary the world is. Without abilities, they could not be treated as anything, and they had no idea how insignificant they were until they ran away from life on their own.

I just regretted leaving school and leaving home because of the ruling that I was not a competent person and the refusal of dependent families who were indifferent to parenting. If he had accepted himself then, maybe he wouldn't have been worried about the job. But he was born in District B, and he grew up there.

Regretting the past for a moment, the citizen lifted his head at the sound of his feet. He could see that the manager's gaze on escaping Joan District had changed very slightly.

He caught the slightest change in things, whether it was snow sledding or observation. But it was too little to be recognized as a power.

"Hmm. I see you have an adult gift to celebrate. An unknown box……. But there's no provider listed. Did you find your biological parents? That can't be right."

He tilts his head as he speaks. It was known that everyone who could already know about the big mischief that caused Union to rumble.

If you are a candidate for the New Human Project, you are a human being born with artificial insemination. Along with the creation of the barrier, the lifespan has been dramatically prolonged not only by the threat of pollution environments and mutant organisms, but also by the development of electromechanical civilizations.

This naturally led to birth avoidance, and as it continued, the Global Committee was struggling to select artificial insemination to increase the population.

But the project was abolished in just a year. At the time, misconduct between some of the members of the Global Committee and some of the major companies involved in the project was exposed.

In the end, they were a kind of orphan who was outside the care of their parents and were born emotionally without the consent of their parents, so there were other matters that were more important as well as moral rebukes.

The Global Committee had already destroyed data on the owners of sperm and eggs at the beginning of the project. In other words, they performed artificial insemination without even confirming their intentions.

So, people who were born as artificial crystals, as well as their biological parents, became unconscious.

Moreover, the fact that it takes too much money to support and nurture hundreds of thousands at a time was a big problem raised by the progressive group of people who dominated each barrier.

Progressive groups problematically dug up several corrupt projects with enormous funding to attack existing conservation groups, and the attempt succeeded.

It was proven over time that those who pushed out existing members and gained power stopped the project as a result were right.

Once the project started, 300,000 people were born, so the funding and personnel were continuously put in, but the results were disappointing.

I chose a dependent family to raise them and paid a substantial amount of child support, but the result was the worst. Many anthropologists were judged incapable because they were not properly loved and raised as expected.

Jung-min couldn't understand the English language, so his eyes just gazed.

My biological parents? Sometimes people find out that they've been supplying sperm and eggs to the New Human Project without even knowing it, but that's extremely rare. Most of them didn't even know they were parents.

"I hope not."

The box, however, was filled with only powders thought to be food. Looking at the civilian skeleton-like body, he thought that he had given food for someone to eat well.

The manager loses at least his curiosity as he looks at himself dazed.

"Your future residence has been assigned to your current address. Union has determined that he has not committed any special crimes and is adapting well, but that he is powerless and that he is unable to provide further support because of the power that has escaped from the dependent's home. Fortunately, the Global Committee has 5 million won to celebrate adult lenses like you, so make good use of it and work hard."

Jung Ming nodded silently. Still, I feel a little better about where this big money came from, and I was thankful for what the manager said, chubby.

"And the box I received as a gift weighs a lot, so I'll deliver it myself this afternoon. If you stop by the accounting office on your way now, I'll deposit it in your personal account. Oh, accounting is in the middle of the second floor."

"Thank you!"

"I need to stop by the health office and insert a bio-aged resident chip into my body. Come with me."

"Yes!"

Jung Minji desperately wished for new changes to his statue, but he was forced to do something when he received a large box and a large amount of money for 5 million won.

Who the hell gave it to you? '

But I couldn't afford to think about it. The dormant manager was already heading to the secure area.

Jung Ming hurriedly chased after him, but his mood was clouded.