Even If the World Is Over It's Fun to Live - Vol. 4 Ch. 21.2 - The Truth of the World

[MangaDex]

 

[Carn109]

The wormhole machine reminds me of Half life 1

 

[DavelovsPIZZA]

nooooooooooooo! not another cliff hanger!

 

[Okuu]

We need the Doom Slayer

 

[AgentKuga]

huh. I wonder if she'll ever see them again

 

[cromat]

sort of convenient the aliens didnt manage to get in until exactly now after the new character finishes their exposition

 

[zanonyn]

Thanks for the chapter, this is such a delightful little series. I hope he makes it successfully and humanity does live on, and that they're able to somehow close the portal in the end too.

The wormhole machine reminds me of Half life 1

Doom was first for videogames and it was indeed Hell, but the idea of humanity ignorantly pursuing some sort of exotic energy or resources or the like and creating some sort of gate to a place they shouldn't or attracting the attention of things they shouldn't dates back a very long time in both fantasy and scifi. Maybe almost as long as we've had myths, almost as soon as people speculated about forbidden underworlds and such, people also thought about tales of those who'd break taboos and take risks for gain and sometimes draw doom upon themselves as a result.

As far as harder scifi/science ideas go, it's one of the speculated possible answers to the Fermi Paradox in the form of the "Dark Forest Hypothesis" which is basically that there are indeed alien civilizations out there, but all the intelligent ones stay hidden and quiet and paranoid because any that attract attention get blasted. I suppose in the broad sense it also would apply to some speculated science experiments and energy sources, where perhaps experimenting with trying to harness them results in devastation. The Fermi Paradox should certainly give humanity pause more than it seems to.

 

[zanonyn]

sort of convenient the aliens didnt manage to get in until exactly now after the new character finishes their exposition

Eh, yeah the exact timing is a common enough narrative trope to maybe irk a bit, but I think it's forgiveable here because the triangles were already there, had already enountered the characters, were already interested in getting in, and likely saw the characters get through the door they'd previously only given some effort to which in turn would be very natural to result in them suddenly trying very hard since clearly there were now opponents and something of interest inside. Sure it could have taken another 10 minutes or hour but then again they could have chatted for longer or taken a rest afterwards and result would have been the same, and author clearly is trying to keep things moving along promptly not one of those series where it takes 80 chapters to go anywhere. I'd actually have kind of liked it if there wasn't any drama, they really could relax and explore a bit, and Ney head off to the moon, but I'll forgive the author adding a bit of tension here given how good it all is overall

 

[Haezer]

I thought Ney could just stomp all of those triangle heads if he wanted to

 

[zymosan99]

The wormhole machine reminds me of Half life 1

more like DooM

 

[zanonyn]

I thought Ney could just stomp all of those triangle heads if he wanted to

If he got exposed to the red fog though it's all over immediately, and those already corrupted humans are as big as full size humans. Ideally he'd have a better security system but this was all apparently super sudden and coming from a fairly advanced utopian civilization so there was no time. He doesn't appear to have any convenient advanced tech stuff like access to a functional automated assembly plant, so there isn't necessarily the capability to construct anything to really fight them with, given even a slight puncture to his protection suit and that's it.

 

[Rukja]

it looks more and more like there wont be a happy ending..
i wish they could just close the fog gates..

 

[Fireboy]

Gotta nuke it all from orbit and start fresh.

 

[EasternFox]

Gotta nuke it all from orbit and start fresh.

Thus making it uninhabitable for thousands of years. I get the sentiment though. I think a biological/chemical weapon that targets the red fog would be superior. Already been shown that the chemistry of creatures modified by it can be so different that different food reacts violently to their saliva, so there's a chance a chemical weapon or a biologically engineered bacteria could poison foods etc.
But that would also likely eliminate other more friendly beings, so, doubt they'd even remotely do this.

 

[damakuno]

Gotta nuke it all from orbit and start fresh.

that's what V2 was for