Chapter 181 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 181

Yu Ji-won, leading the National Road Management Corps (NRMC), briefs her 108-member task force on a new anomaly dubbed 'Theseus’s Ship.' The infection spreads through the sight of boats or the word 'boat,' with 504 cases in Korea, predominantly in Busan. Yu Ji-won enforces strict countermeasures: banning boat-related vocabulary, distributing blindfolds to prevent visual contact with infected images, and deploying teams of three with one blindfolded member to minimize casualties. The team captures all infected individuals in Busan with only two casualties, though the infection is so pervasive that criminals even tattooed boats on their scalps to avoid visual triggers. The crisis extends to SG Net, where the anomaly infects digital personas, turning usernames into vectors that post bait images and ASCII art even after the users are captured. Seo Gyu, the SG Net administrator, is incapacitated by the entity. Yu Ji-won suggests killing him to shut down the network, but the narrator forbids it. As the site’s title distorts into gibberish, the narrator seeks a conceptual weakness. Hearing Dang Seo-rin sing the 'Cursed Song' to soothe workers, the narrator realizes the anomaly’s name starts with 'T.' Connecting this to another famous 'T' ship—the Titanic, which sank—the narrator devises a plan. He has Dang Seo-rin record a rendition of 'My Heart Will Go On.' The narrator plays the song for Seo Gyu, causing him to scream in terror as the Titanic sinks in his mind, proving the connection. The song is then broadcast across SG Net, causing all internet-based anomalies to 'sink' and vanish. Afterward, the narrator thanks Noh Do-hwa, who offers a rare, quiet acknowledgment of his leadership before he departs. In a final epilogue, Yu Ji-won questions Sim Ah-ryeon about how she remained uninfected despite browsing SG Net. Ah-ryeon admits she saw the images and felt the confusion but dismissed it as irrelevant due to her low self-worth, implying her detachment from the concept of self protected her from the anomaly’s logic.

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