Episode 2. What floor is this?
Episode 2. What floor is this?
Crack.
I slept on the floor and my body is so sore. The good news is that there is no night here. So, if you sleep in a place with moderate sunlight, you can sleep at a comfortable temperature.
Oops! Oops!
Sejun briefly washed his face in the pond.
And
pop, pop, pop.
I washed the sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes that I will eat today.
“Is there something strange about washing your face with water?”
Wow.
Sejun put aside his discomfort and took a bite of the sweet potato.
Munching.
The more you chew, the more sweetness comes out.
‘happy.’
Have you ever had the luxury of chewing until all the sweet water comes out without having to go to work?
Wow.
Munching.
I sat down with my bag on the dry dirt under the sun and chewed sweet potatoes endlessly. Silence with no sound other than the sound of chewing. My heart beat slowly and my mind became calm.
He was clearly in trouble and would run out of food in a few days. A situation where you might starve to death.
‘That’s strange.’
Sejun tilted his head. He himself was amazed at his own mind. Still, it was better than being anxious.
“Every time Assistant Manager Go said, ‘I’d like to see Sejun for a moment,’ my heart sank. Ah, it’s peaceful.”
Sejun leisurely ate sweet potatoes, enjoying a sense of peace that he could not easily feel before.
“Let’s try the next menu.”
After eating all the sweet potatoes, Sejun put the cherry tomatoes in his mouth and chewed them.
Talk.
The skin of the cherry tomato burst, unable to withstand the upward and downward pressure of Sejun’s molars. As the juice of the cherry tomatoes burst out, a sour taste filled my mouth.
“Delicious…”
It was so delicious that I doubted whether it was the cherry tomatoes I usually eat. Maybe your taste cells have become extremely sensitive due to hunger.
Mew mul mul.
Sejun concentrated on the taste of the cherry tomatoes and chewed them hard. However, the taste of cherry tomatoes did not get better when chewed for a long time, so the five cherry tomatoes quickly disappeared into Sejun’s mouth.
Sejun finished his meal and started his daily routine.
Look at the hole in the ceiling.
“······”
Sejun stared blankly at the hole in the ceiling.
“Ah… I’m bored.”
Of course, once in a while I shouted, ‘There’s someone here!’ But that’s something you do while looking at the ceiling. I felt like I was going crazy after staring at the ceiling for hours.
“Is there anything you want to do?”
Sejun started looking around and looking for something to do.
‘Let’s give some water to the crops first.’
Sejun filled the water bottle and watered the green onions, cherry tomatoes, and sweet potatoes.
Slurp.
“Grow up quickly. Grow huge. “Dad, I’m hungry.”
We went back and forth to the pond three times and soaked the land where the crops were planted.
Then it
growled.
The ship reported that it was running low on fuel. Just because I moved it a little bit, I got hungry right away. Sejun poured the remaining water from the water bottle he gave to the crop into his mouth.
Jump, jump, jump.
I felt a little full in my stomach. Sejun went back to his seat and looked at the hole in the ceiling.
A few hours like that.
“……”
While Sejun was looking at the ceiling with blank eyes,
beep beep beep beep beep.
The alarm went off.
[May 12, 10 PM]
The sun never sets here. So, I set a time to sleep.
“It’s time to sleep.”
Sejun woke up and got ready for bed. There is nothing special about preparation.
Crack.
Prepare for bed by leveling the dirt floor where you will lie down and putting the bag on your head to block the sun.
I slept better than I expected.
***
By Sejun’s standards, it’s midnight.
Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh
…
_
Sejun woke up to the vibrations shaking the ground.
“Umm…what is it?”
Then
coo!
I felt a strong vibration again. It was close.
“…!”
Sejun hurriedly took off the bag on his face and stood up.
And the strange sight I witnessed.
“This…is this?!”
The light coming down from the ceiling of the cave had turned blue.
And
Kiiik!
Kaaaaaaa!
Strange roars were heard, each threatening the other.
Then
Kuaang!
A huge black dragon appeared from the sky and roared. The sight of flying alone in the sky, cutting through the blue light, was amazingly beautiful.
The black dragon roared and slowly disappeared. And perhaps because the dragon was frightened by its roar, the ground became quiet.
But Sejun’s mind was louder than ever.
“A monster… this can’t be happening…”
Sejun thought something was wrong. Sejun thought to himself that this was somewhere on the first floor of the tower. I wanted to believe that the light that illuminated the cave all day was also from the chandelier on the first floor of the tower. However, there are no monsters on the first floor of the tower.
In other words, the place where Sejun was was not the first floor of the tower.
Additionally, there is a blue moon, when the sun turns blue.
The sun shines all day long on all floors. However, there are times when the sun periodically turns blue on each floor. Hunters called this phenomenon a blue moon.
During blue moons, monsters become more aggressive and stronger, so hunters do not go to floors where blue moons occur.
‘Blue moons are a phenomenon that only appears in towers above the 10th floor…’
meaning that Sejun’s location is above the 10th floor. Still, there was a chance of rescue.
But
‘there’s something wrong with it.’
That’s a dragon.
The Phoenix Guild, the most powerful on Earth since the tower was built 10 years ago, recently achieved the feat of clearing the 37th floor.
From the 31st to the 37th floor, information was not disclosed because the guilds were keeping each other in check, but below the 30th floor, quite a few clear videos were posted on YouTube for money or publicity.
According to known information, skeletons appear on the 2nd to 10th floors, goblins appear on the 11th to 20th floors, and orcs appear on the 20th to 30th floors. And although no video was released from the 31st floor, it was said that spider monsters would appear.
This was something many hunters commonly said in interviews, so I could believe it.
There was no dragon in their words. I’ve never even heard of a dragon-like lizard monster coming out of the tower.
‘What floor is this?!’
Sejun held his head and screamed. He could have been shipwrecked on a floor that even top hunters could not reach.
‘Why is this happening to me?’
Sejun looked at the hole in the ceiling where blue light was falling with a confused mind.
But the purpose was different from before. Before, I was hoping that someone would pass by, but now I was hoping that no one would pass by. After seeing the dragon, Sejun realized that there was a monster here.
Beep beep beep beep beep beep.
[May 13, 6 a.m.]
The alarm rang.
Sejun stood guard all night and greeted the fourth day of the shipwreck with open eyes. Fortunately, the blue moon changed back to its usual yellow color around 4 a.m.
5 hours later.
“……”
Sejun’s head, who was standing guard, gradually dropped downward. And then I fell asleep. Since I had been looking at the ceiling ever since I woke up yesterday, I was understandably tired.
“Ugh…water…” As
soon as Sejun woke up, he felt a burning thirst. I fumbled and picked up the bottle of water I had left next to me.
And
gulp.gulp.
I took a shot of water.
“Kyaa! I think I’ll buy something now.”
Grumble.
As my thirst was satisfied, my hunger rose.
Pout, pout.
While I was at the pond, I briefly washed my face and washed five sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes.
Munching.
Sejun chewed a sweet potato and looked at the hole in the ceiling.
‘I don’t know where this is, but if it’s above the 41st floor, the probability of someone coming is almost 0%.’
In that case, I had to survive alone.
Sejun looked at the field where crops were planted.
‘Shall I give you some water?’
When I thought about having to survive on my own, crops seemed even more special.
Slurp.
“You guys need to give strength.”
“Sweet potato, grow huge.”
“Bangto, bear fruit in clusters.”
“Green onions…um…you…just grow up and grow well.”
I gave them water and said good things to the crops. On the news, it was said that plants can also play music, so there was nothing that could not be said to give them this kind of blessing.
After giving the water, Sejun sat down and looked at the hole in the ceiling again.
But boredom soon set in.
“Should I eat that?”
The leaves of the green onion that Sejun had torn off on the first day while planting the green onion roots were visible.
“Ugh… it’s spicy.”
When he put green onions in his mouth and chewed them, Sejun’s mouth was immediately filled with the scent of green onions and a spicy, spicy taste. Because it was dried in the sun for about two days, the moisture evaporated and the flavor became more concentrated.
Mumbling.
Sejun continued chewing without swallowing.
‘Green onions also have sweetness.’
As Sejun continued to chew, the spiciness passed and the sweetness hidden in the green onions came up little by little.
‘good!’
Mumbling.
Sejun endured the lazy hours of the afternoon by eating green onions.
And
beep beep beep beep beep beep.
[May 13, 10 PM]
It was the fourth night of the shipwreck.
“Will today be okay?”
Sejun couldn’t fall asleep easily.
The reason monsters ran rampant at dawn was because of the blue moon. But that doesn’t mean monsters become friendly when it’s not a blue moon.
Sejun decided to sleep in a place where he couldn’t see the light. It may be cold, but it couldn’t be more important than life.
Since I didn’t have to sleep under the sun, I folded my bag and used it as a pillow.
And
big.
As soon as Sejun laid his head on the bag, he snored and fell asleep.
While Sejun was sleeping.
Grumbling.
The green onions that had taken root in the ground began to grow in earnest.
***
Beep beep beep beep beep beep.
The alarm went off.
[May 14, 6 a.m.]
Survival on the fifth day of shipwreck has begun.
Sejun’s eyes opened brightly.
“Ahh! Why are you so light?”
Sejin stretched out coolly and said. I always felt heavy when I woke up, but today I felt so light. I thought it would be cold because I slept in a place without the sun, but it wasn’t even cold.
“Is it because the fatigue accumulated while working at the company has gone away?”
Sejun thought it was strange and went to the pond.
Oops! Oops!
I washed my face and picked up sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes to eat today.
“Umm…”
When I picked up the sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes to eat today, half of the food in the plastic container was gone. There wasn’t much food left.
‘Should I only eat half from today?’
Sejun thought about it and washed the sweet potatoes and cherry tomatoes.
Pout, pout.
And
poo-gak.
Cut the sweet potato in half and place the half sweet potato and three cherry tomatoes back in a plastic container. Even now, I’m not eating anything, but I feel like I need to eat less, so I feel drained.
“ha.”
Sejun sighed and moved to his place on a flat rock with good sunlight and sat down.
But it felt strange. I was under the shadow.
“Huh? What is it?”
The sun, which should always shine, was already obscured by green onions that had grown as tall as Sejun.
When I watered and looked at it yesterday, there wasn’t much difference from when I planted it… but there was no change even before I went to bed. The green onions grew tremendously during the early morning hours.
“When did you grow up like this?”
Sejun approached and took a closer look, and saw that the white part of the green onion root was as thick as the width of his wrist. Sejun grabbed a leaf of a newly grown green onion and tore it open.
“uh?!”
The leaves of the green onions were weak enough to sway in the wind, but they were incredibly tough.
“Hwaap!”
Grumbling.
Sejun used force to tear off the leaf.
“What? Why is this happening all of a sudden?”
It was said that the appearance of plants changes differently depending on the climate or habitat, and it seemed like that.
“How does it taste?”
I thought it would be nice if the taste changed as much as the shape changed.
Sejun put the leaves of a green onion in his mouth and chewed them.
