Chapter 72 — I'm an Infinite Regressor, But I've Got Stories to Tell

Chapter 72

In the 562nd run, mc reflects on his 46th run's naivety regarding global travel, contrasting it with his current access to the "Foundation Broadcast," a mysterious radio signal from Martin Russell in Hawaii. The broadcast is unique to the Zenith K731 radio and remains silent if anyone other than mc listens, leading to skepticism from Sim Ah-ryeon and Jeong Ye-ji, who suspect mc is playing a prank. Mc notes the broadcast's content shifts with each cycle, revealing details about world-ending anomalies like "The Great Dragon" or "Moonlight," which serve as inspiration for mc's own classification system. Mc explains to Oh Dok-seo the rationale behind the "Library Society," a fictional organization used to standardize anomaly threat levels for clarity. He details Levels 1 through 5: Village-class (local threat), Polis-class (city destruction, e.g., Ten Legs), Continent-class (species extinction, e.g., Udumbara tree), Ocean-class (planetary devastation, e.g., Asura), and Outer God-class (the ultimate enemies). Oh Dok-seo is horrified by the scale, particularly regarding the skipped 558th run, but mc reassures her with a fabricated training curriculum to hide the truth of her past failures. As Oh Dok-seo leaves, the Zenith radio crackles with Martin Russell's latest despair, reporting a zombie virus in California and nuclear missile misdirections. The narrative then jumps to the 924th run. Seo Gyu alerts mc to a surge in traffic on the Library Society board on SG Net. Sim Ah-ryeon has seemingly expanded the board into an "Encyclopedia of Anomalies," complete with accurate illustrations that are impossible to delete due to an entity called "Illustrator." The posts are being generated rapidly in multiple languages, with anonymous contributors like "Burning Artist V" and "Cheon Hae-gak M" enforcing strict, bizarre rules, such as punishing Viscount Seo Hwa-ga (Jeong Ye-ji) for viewing illustrations. Jeong Ye-ji attempts to track the source but fails, as her Clairvoyance cannot identify the users, suggesting the posts are being generated by anomalies or an unknown entity accessing SG Net. mc is left unsettled by the realization that his fictional setting has autonomously evolved into a dangerous reality, highlighting the persistent unknowns even after hundreds of cycles.

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