Episode 584
584. Summary of the side story (2)
Taeyeon Lee knows. The labyrinth is originally one. The reason you can’t meet Alone mode players is because of Godin’s intervention.
You can give up on conquering the labyrinth now, but among the Alone mode players, there were quite a few who were willing to risk their lives to go down.
If they could meet each other, it could give them great strength.
Taeyeon Lee wanted to help them.
“Is that true? “Well, there’s really nothing else you can ask me.”
The wizard stroked his chin as if he knew that.
“To get to the point, we can handle it right away. But… I’m a little worried.”
“What are you worried about?”
“It’s a question of which side you really look at.”
“really?”
Taeyeon Lee tilted her head. The wizard continued muttering.
“If you don’t care about them, you can just deal with them, but that would be too harsh.”
“What are you talking about?”
“It’s okay if you don’t understand. Because it is a concern as a manager. “It’s not something you should worry about.”
“no. “That’s not true.”
Taeyeon Lee refuted the wizard’s words.
“Originally we should go down together, but we can’t because of the twist, right? “Shouldn’t you handle it as a manager?”
“That’s… right.”
The wizard laughed.
“As a manager, I have to solve the problem of the labyrinth right away. Just wait for now. Because I’m thinking about a solution. And anyway, you can just relax and think, right?”
“Well, that’s true.”
They won.
Since you can freely roam around the labyrinth and the earth, all you have to do is enter the labyrinth again after the wizard takes care of it.
“Whatever it is, we can’t handle it right now.”
“You are victorious.”
The wizard spoke calmly.
“Time is on your side. Take your time and enjoy this world.”
“Enjoy it. “That’s a really awkward thing to say.”
“For that matter, it looks like you’re enjoying it quite a bit.”
The wizard said, looking around. Taeyeon Lee made a shocked expression.
“Well… that’s right.”
“Then, as an administrator, I also received suggestions from adventurers.”
The wizard waved his hand in the air. The space opened and a hole began to form.
“store?”
“I have things to organize on my own. “I can’t be held captive forever.”
The wizard grinned and entered the space.
“Then let’s meet again later.”
The wizard has disappeared.
Taeyeon Lee grumbled and sank into the chair.
“Be busy too.”
She stared blankly at the ceiling for a moment and muttered as if she had a new feeling.
“I didn’t know you could have a conversation like this with a magician.”
Naturally, her relationship with the wizard in her past life could not be said to be good. The wizard thought she was a parasite in the labyrinth, and she complained that she was as strict as she was.
“It’s changed a lot.”
But there were some things that didn’t change. Taeyeon Lee looked around.
This was the home given to her. An entire intact building in a devastated world was given to her.
And she began decorating her house to her taste.
There were many decorations inside the house.
A very colorful picture. A sculpture that shows traces of time.
Each one was a work of art of inestimable value.
Even in her previous life, she collected art. However, it was only a tool to hide his true nature as a coward.
However, in the process of collecting art pieces, I really developed a hobby.
This place now was very similar to the place where I had last greeted Taishan in my previous life.
At that time, I was filled with anxiety and worry that I could die tomorrow. But now I felt very comfortable, like at home.
A moment when she enjoyed quiet peace.
Jump up!
The door opened roughly. The perfectly balanced ornaments shook violently. Taeyeon Lee frowned.
“Amelia.”
“what. “Have you finished talking with the wizard?”
“It’s over. …But what is that?”
Taeyeon Lee looked at Amelia with an uncomfortable expression.
There was a hideous-looking creature wrapped around Amelia’s shoulder. It was also quite large, enough to wrap around her entire shoulder.
The slime flowed down and stained her upper body. Amelia said calmly.
“this? Deep sea creatures. “It looked beautiful from the bottom, but it changed like this when I came up.”
“It’s gross. throw away.”
“why? “Isn’t it cute?”
“that is?”
Taeyeon Lee looked at the distorted creature with a tired face. It swelled up ugly due to the difference in air pressure, and it had an appearance that could not be called cute, even to put it bluntly.
‘Was Taesan like this when he looked at me in my past life?’
Taeyeon Lee sighed deeply and opened her mouth.
“So how was it? “The deep sea.”
“It felt good.”
Amelia grinned.
“Swimming deep into the ocean on my own was more satisfying than I thought.”
All of Earth’s players became superhumans. Moreover, it is safe to say that an Alone Mode player who stepped into the same depths as Amelia actually became a monster.
She was traveling freely throughout the Earth. Among them, there were deep depths that even human technology could not understand.
“I never thought the day would come when I would be able to trace the bottom of the Mariana Trench with my own hands. “I’m thrilled.”
Amelia had a truly satisfied face. She is a place that no one can explore. I was particularly interested in the deep sea. Back when the Earth was fine, I often watched deep-sea documentaries.
Now that I could go down to that place myself, I was happy enough.
“When I went down, it was full of creatures I’d never heard of before. ah. I really wanted to bring them one by one. “I wonder what kind of fish were among them…”
She uttered an impassioned speech. Taeyeon Lee listened to the story with a quiet smile and nodded.
‘I didn’t know I would have this kind of relationship with her.’
Amelia was the strongest player even before Taeyeon Lee went down the labyrinth. She was extremely arrogant, refused to talk to others, and only used the community as a place to vent her ego.
By the time Taeyeon Lee had begun to descend the labyrinth to some extent and the story could be told, Amelia had already disappeared.
He was probably taken as a toy by the God of Fall.
I thought we would never meet again, but now we were talking together as friends.
‘I really don’t know what a person’s life will be like.’
Lee Taeyeon opened her mouth, recalling the old adage of adults.
“What floor are you on now?”
“88th floor.”
Amelia, who was excitedly preaching about the greatness of the deep sea, answered.
“It was a bit hard to go down. “I have a lot of time, so I’m going to attack at my leisure.”
“That’s okay.”
They won. There was a lot of time. Lee Taeyeon looked at her for a moment and quickly took out a weapon.
“Then how about once in a while?”
“It’s good.”
Amelia laughed happily and threw away the deep sea creature.
* * *
Earth’s players traveled back and forth between Earth and the Labyrinth to increase their strength and restore Earth. People went out full of hope.
But it wasn’t without problems.
“Uhm….”
“Hmm.”
Several people, including Kim Hwi-yeon, stroked their chins. There was a troubled look on his face.
“How do I do this?”
In front of them was a broken nuclear power plant.
Even on the destroyed Earth, it managed to maintain its form to some extent, but its function itself was damaged and could not be used.
“I have to survive this somehow…”
Kim Hwi-yeon muttered. The infrastructure itself had been created somehow by a group of engineers. Now the most important energy had to be supplied.
The problem was that the scope of their supply was only one country. An energy source had to be found somehow.
And the best thing was the nuclear power plant.
Of course, they became superhumans. Several hard modes were immediately available, so it was possible to generate a certain amount of power by simply pressing the pedal.
However, in the end, the energy that could be developed by manpower alone was limited and limited. You can’t just pedal all day, right? If nuclear power was available, it was good to use it. So they came to a nuclear power plant that was in relatively good condition.
“Is there any progress?”
“no.”
The blonde man shook his head with a tired look.
“We have all the engineers working together to try to fix it, but there are so many things that are out of reach.”
“Is that also the case?”
Nuclear power plants were nothing short of the culmination of modern technology. Numerous technicians worked on only a small part of the work to create the whole.
As such, it required considerable technological prowess, and restoration was nearly impossible for the surviving humans.
“Mmm.”
People were worried. In order for them to lead a more comfortable life, they absolutely needed an energy source.
Someone cautiously asked Kim Hwi-yeon.
“Perhaps Taesan…”
“No.”
Kim Hwi-yeon shook his head.
“He said he won’t help you from now on. “You have to do it yourself.”
‘If you continue to depend on me, you will eventually become crippled.’
Kim Hwi-yeon could not help but nod at the heavy but powerful words.
“Is that also the case?”
“We have to move forward in our own strength. There is no point in borrowing Taesan’s power anymore.”
“Yes.”
Everyone nodded vigorously.
I could no longer rely on Taesan. They had to become self-reliant.
But then, in the end, it was the starting point.
While I was thinking about it, I muttered as if someone remembered me.
“Anyway, are we okay? “It’s above the broken power plant.”
Although it is not visible, radiation that easily exceeds the lethality rate will continue to pour out.
A few people appeared momentarily horrified, but Kim Hwi-yeon lightly dismissed it.
“does not matter. Taesan himself told us that such a thing had nothing to do with it.”
To be honest, they were not human.
Easy and normal hard modes originally belong to the usurper. Although Taesan stole it, the owner changed, but the fundamentals did not change.
Their very existence was contaminated.
Radioactivity could not contaminate their essence. People breathed a sigh of relief.
“That’s a good thing.”
“But the problem still remains.”
How to repair a nuclear power plant.
How do we develop technology again?
It was a moment when people were worried.
“Come to think of it.”
Kim Hwi-yeon muttered.
“Taesan said that when I asked about the power plant.”
“Are you talking about Taesan?”
People’s attitudes have changed. With a serious expression and a reverent attitude, they focused on Kim Hwi-yeon’s words as if they were receiving revelation from God.
“I don’t think you really need to worry about that. “I think it would be better to worry about other things instead.”
“If it’s something else…”
The moment they were about to ask what they meant.
The sky opened.
