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Chapter 199: In Arabian, Sahara meant desert. So saying the Sahara Desert could sound like saying the same word twice. However, naming the desert in North Africa Sahara was close to being correct. After all, no Arabian referred to Gobi Desert as Gobi Sahara.

“What are you trying to show me?”

“Our roots.”

“Roots?”

“There’s no clear name for it. We just call it whatever we want.”

Issac led them to a desert tribe’s traditional house made of wooden pillars and surrounded by an oasis. The lifestyles of the north and south of the Sahara were completely different. The north was a little more leisurely. But that didn’t mean they were financially better off. In contrast to African blacks that went after each other, the desert tribes treated their guests well. But they weren’t friendly to just anyone.

The head of the desert tribe lowered his body and paid his respects as soon as he saw Issac. If he had left him alone, he would have bowed all the way down to the ground. Issac minded Ahn Soo Ho and excused him. The one person remaining in the quiet indoors looked at them. Issac touched the uneven walls when the floor split and a staircase appeared.

“Wow! Surprise?”

An underground passageway in a traditional house? He sensed secrets and conspiracies. What he saw at the bottom of the stairs didn’t suit a desert. It was strange that such a concrete jungle existed in the middle of a desert. Ahn Soo Ho clicked his tongue inside his head.

‘I guess I’m not the only one that built a dungeon.’

Everyone needed their own secret space.

Just like how Ahn Soo Ho had his men, Issac had his men as well. Considering how much longer Issac had lived, his numbers surpassed that of Ahn Soo Ho. Issac, Michel, and J-Law were the ones that led human civilization. They strut through the world as God’s lion at one point and hell’s devil the next.

‘The reason why such strong men turned secretive was…’

After the modern period, human civilization developed exponentially and most of the competitive enemies were all gone. The lift went very deep underground. It was so deep that it took the lift 5 minutes while it only took a minute to get up the Empire State Building.

Issac got off first and opened his arms like a musical actor.

“Welcome to the underworld!”

It was huge. That was Ahn Soo Ho’s first impression of it. 200 meters? 300 meters? The ceiling was very high, and if Indiana Jones saw the legendary architecture, he would have fainted. The styles of places all over the world happened to be gathered right here.

“Are you surprised?”

“I am.”

Issac knitted his brows at Ahn Soo Ho’s unenthusiastic answer.

“All of the essences of human civilization is gathered here.”

“Let me repeat, Issac.”

Ahn Soo Ho spoke with a serious look on his face.

“I hate studying history.”

He didn’t care about his own country’s history, let alone the world’s.

‘Damn Korean history!’

He didn’t know about how they taught it these days, but when he was in national history class, he fell asleep. In America, they visited all sorts of historical monuments, but in Korea, it was straight memorization. Unless they changed their education system, it was going to be difficult producing creative individuals.

The place that they headed toward was a special stage that looked like an outdoor theatre. There was already an audience sitting there, and Ahn Soo Ho recognized it at first glance. Unlike the supernatural beings that came about from stones, it was a mutant that was forcefully created by an alpha organism. He probably mistook himself as an outstanding chosen one, but both his abilities and lifespan was downgraded. The strange sensation he felt from them was similar to that of the Sao Paolo rescue operation, the New York and London terrorist attacks, Youngjin Group, and Candula.

‘Ultra.’

Issac caught onto Ahn Soo Ho’s thoughts and carefully whispered.

“It was developed a long time ago. It was initially known as spring water of youth or something like that. It has the ability to temporarily make someone strong, but the side effects are so strong that only those with supernatural abilities can withstand it.”

“What about Aragon of Gaius?”

“It was like an experiment. They wanted to check how much a physically fit human being could handle the drugs. The results showed that only half could succeed.”

The super soldier project that started during the Cold War was actually a human experiment by alpha organisms.

“How many have been fostered?”

“Hm, a million?”

“That’s it?”

That was a small number considering how long they had lived.