Episode 534
Meanwhile, Kwon Yeon-hee’s team.
“…What are you doing?”
In response to Dr. Seo In-young’s question, Kwon Yeon-hee fell flat on the floor and spoke.
“I make smoked fish.”
“Oh… ah… I see….”
At that subtle reaction, Kwon Yeon-hee stood up and asked.
“Am I so embarrassed?!”
“No, what do I have to be embarrassed about…”
“Then what is with that shocked expression now!”
“Oh no, just…”
Dr. Seo In-young plays. I saw a bonfire and a fish drying rack.
“It’s so… serious…”
He seemed to have seen a similar situation somewhere on TV in the past. ‘challenge! Programs such as ‘Survival Survival’ or ‘The Master’s Way to Survive in the Jungle’.
‘I never thought I’d see this in real life.’
Kwon Yeon-hee’s skills were so good that Seo In-young was impressed.
Make a drying net with well-trimmed, straight and thin tree branches, find firewood with a lot of moisture to produce moderate smoke, catch fish from a pond or lake, clean them well, spread them on the drying net, and blow air with your mouth to make a bonfire. Until you maintain it.
“….”
Seo In-young had no choice but to ask one question.
“…Are you bored?”
“….”
“Oh, I see….”
Kwon Yeon-hee shouted once again at his bored answer.
“But but I can’t help it…! There really is nothing here! “I don’t want to stay in my room and gain weight, but that doesn’t mean I have the courage to explore other places!”
The garden where Kwon Yeon-hee and Seo In-young were sitting did not pose any special threats.
First of all, there is a pond right nearby where you can get drinking water, fruit trees here and there, and even flowers that bloom as if they were made by the tourists’ thoughts about what they ate here.
In addition, the trees are lush and the flowers are in full bloom, so there are many places to hide, so the food and shelter issues for humans have been completely resolved.
“Best of all, there are almost no monsters here…! No, there are a lot, but they are really insignificant! “It’s too insignificant for a new potato like me to handle!”
This is also a pretty impressive element.
In the first place, there were only a few monsters in the underworld that Kwon Yeon-hee, who was very weak and had poor stamina, could deal with.
However, perhaps because the owners were mostly children or female guests who came to feel the emotions of girls, the monsters created from their thoughts were usually not threatening.
Of course, they would be very threatening if touched, but if not touched, they would never attack the survivor first. There were some monsters, but they were weak enough to be resolved in Kwon Yeon-hee’s line.
“I’m not saying anything when I see this kind of peace that is really hard to find in the other world…! Still, this is a secret world, right? It’s a world where you never know when a threat will strike, right? It’s true that I’m nervous, right? “If you’re not nervous and let your guard down and get hit, you don’t just end up with a lump on the back of your head, you end up with your head blown off, right?”
“Calm down.”
“But even if there is no threat, there is not much! I don’t want to let down my guard, but here! These flowers! The awesome weather is catching me off guard! I need to be active! I’m the type of person that needs to move my body to use my head! I’m the type of person who does a good job only when I’m so anxious that I can’t put it off any longer because I keep putting off submitting documents to my manager! “How could you do this to me!”
Seo In-young smiled awkwardly at Kwon Yeon-hee’s words and thought.
‘He is a very sincere person.’
So, to summarize that long statement, it meant, ‘If your body becomes dull, you will not be able to respond immediately when a threat arises, so I will move my body in advance to ensure alertness before I really let my guard down in this garden.’
“I think it’s a good idea. “I’m naturally very scared, so I don’t think I’ll let my guard down like this, but… it’s definitely dangerous to let my body become insensitive in a world overflowing with monsters.”
“Right?!”
“But I’m a little worried that other monsters won’t come when they see the smoke.”
“I confirmed that in advance.”
Kwon Yeon-hee looked around and said.
“I kept feeling this while looking at the monsters here, but they strangely didn’t look at the sky very well. “It was also the case that he tried not to move from his position… Even if there was a little smoke, I didn’t think any monster would come from far away to see it.”
“Ah…”
Seo In-young was impressed by Kwon Yeon-hee’s composure and observation skills.
All he did was get scared or kill monsters when he saw them, but in the meantime, Kwon Yeon-hee figured out the characteristics of the monsters in the garden. I thought I knew how she had survived until now.
Kwon Yeon-hee was crouching down and raising the bonfire to make it smoke better.
“And if you dry it like this, the food won’t spoil quickly.”
“It kills two birds with one stone.”
“More than anything, I wanted to eat something bad.”
“…?”
error?
“…is smoked dried fish a bad food?”
“That’s not true… I’m making it to eat thinking it’s salty jerky.”
“Ah, beef jerky.”
“Very salty beef jerky.”
“So…”
Seo In-young asked.
“Are you bored too?”
“….”
“Ah….”
“…but you can’t stop by a convenience store….”
“Well, convenience stores ask me to give out strange things in exchange, so I’m a bit reluctant.”
“They ask for three fingers for one cookie there. The prices are crazy. “Even if I sold three fingers to an organ dealer, he would pay more than a bag of cookies.”
“That’s true too.”
Seo In-young, who actually knows how much an organ dealer buys a finger for, nodded.
It was so bizarre that I didn’t even think about asking for body parts instead of money at a convenience store, but the prices were definitely too high in that sense.
“….”
Honestly, it was a bit of a weird and cute idea.
‘…what a price in the world.’
In this crazy, strange world, there were only a few people who could think of such everyday words.
I kept feeling it, but Kwon Yeon-hee said she was timid and ordinary, but it didn’t seem that way at all.
‘You are already brave enough, Kwon Yeon-hee…’
Seo In-young looked at Kwon Yeon-hee with faint eyes.
If someone like that should become a member of the National Assembly, my job would disappear. It was a truly apocalyptic world to see such talented people rotting away as employees of large corporations.
“That’s why there are no customers at the convenience store. Of course, I’m not criticizing convenience store part-time workers. Because they probably aren’t the ones setting the price. There will be a store manager and a president above…”
“Haha, yes. Yes.”
“But in the first place, prices cannot be determined by just a few people, so the financial power of large corporations and the influence of the government would be necessary. I wonder if such a thing exists in the secret world….” “Hahaha….” And in the end, Kwon Yeon-hee
really
said I made dried smoked fish.
“Oh, it seems to be going well?”
“…Why is it salty?”
“When we pumped water from the lake and lost all the moisture, salt came out. I wonder why there is salt in the lake, but I salted it for a little while anyway…”
“Aha.”
“It doesn’t have the defects I wanted, but this is pretty good. “It’s fresh.”
Seo In-young nodded.
‘I should become friends with him and send him to the National Assembly.’
An employee of a large company who talked about prices and created something from nothing in a world full of monsters who could die at any time was fully qualified.
Seo In-young enjoyed the dried fish prepared by Kwon Yeon-hee very deliciously.
“I’m sorry I don’t think I can be of any help.”
“Just staying alive and breathing will help, so just shut up and don’t go anywhere.”
“okay…?”
“Right now, you are my favorite person. If you run away, you will cry. all right?”
“Ah… yes.”
For a conversation in the other world, it was quite peaceful.
* * *
Seo Jang-hwa’s reaction to meeting Song In-myeong for the first time in a very long time was surprisingly calm.
“Don’t show off, motherfucker.”
If I were to summarize it in one line, that would be it.
Park Da-young wondered if she could finish her work for Song In-myeong by just kicking the spine, sides, shoulders, hands, feet, thighs, and solar plexus, strangling his neck with both hands, rocking him back and forth for three minutes, pulling out two handfuls of hair, and throwing kicks three times. I made my position clear.
“The longer you look at poop, the worse it gets. “You know what I mean?”
“Oh, I understand.”
“Try to become a wise adult.”
Well, it was definitely unnecessary to get angry at the poop.
This did not mean that Seo Jang-hwa forgave Song In-myeong just because he had beaten him a few times, but rather that he would end his anger with a few beatings and cut off the human being Song In-myeong.
Of course, the reaction was so casual that it seemed a bit excessive, but no one pointed out that point.
“So shouldn’t we work slowly? “There’s a reason you came here in the first place.”
Seo Jang-hwa said while looking at Park Da-hoon trapped in a glass box.
“They say if you leave him like that, he’ll be in big trouble.”
“That’s right….”
“Do you see that the youngest beauty on our team is sad? “Can’t everyone come to their senses?”
“Hey sister.”
“I only trust our Dayoung unnie.”
Song In-myeong laughed at the sight of the two women getting along well.
“I’m tired of the union.”
“What the fuck? “Do you want to be screwed?”
“Yeah, I’ll shut up.”
As a wise killer, Song In-myeong chose to keep his mouth shut.
The combination of Seo Jang-hwa, who was at max level in physical combat, and Da-young Park, who was at max level in verbal combat, was terrible, but Song In-myeong knew my friend’s personality. The more things happen, the more kindly Seo Jang-hwa will treat Song In-myeong.
Anyway, what Seo Jang-hwa said was correct. Although there was still more time left than expected, the fact that Park Da-hoon had to be rescued as quickly as possible remained the same. It would be pretty scary if I were to go crazy while trapped in there.
“In that sense, we have something to say.”
Jeong In-ho, who astutely noticed that Song In-myeong was included among the ‘we’ Jae-heon Lee was talking about, answered.
“no.”
“I think it is very unfair and rude to take away the right to speak without even hearing what is being said. Junior, do you still have a grudge against me?”
“This junior is already upset even if he doesn’t listen to what the manager has to say. Please refrain.”
“So what I was trying to say…”
“Look.”
“There has been some progress on our part after looking around the souvenir shop.”
Lee Jae-heon paid Song In-myeong a compliment by stroking his head without paying attention.
“Our friend did such a good job that we were able to get a stamped map exchanged at the gift shop.”
Jeong In-ho kicked Song In-myeong’s solar plexus. Song In-myeong fell backwards, clutching his solar plexus, and as a result, Lee Jae-heon’s hand, which had been stroking Song In-myeong’s head, floated in the air.
“….”
All of this happened in 5 seconds.
Lee Jae-heon looked at Jeong In-ho as if asking what he was doing.
“…?”
“Our team has a rule that says you can’t pet Song In-myeong.”
“Is that so?”
Song In-myeong pleaded for the truth, saying, “Mr. That’s all a conspiracy,” but in fact, in some ways, it makes no sense to pat Song In-myeong, who is a serial killer, so Jeong In-ho’s phrase became the truth and was passed.
Anyway, Jaeheon Lee continued.
“So I can save student Park Da-hoon.”
“If you are trying to argue one of the sacrificial efficiency rationales, please be quiet.”
“My junior has no right to take away my right to speak. “If you ask me, you can time travel and become older than me.”
“This son of a bitch is real.”
“Anyway, I confirmed that by using this doll, I and Dahoon Park can change their positions. “Isn’t that a pretty reasonable alternative?”
“Please explain properly what is reasonable and how.”
Lee Jae-heon looked at Jeong In-ho as if asking something obvious. He seemed to regard Jeong In-ho quite pathetically.
“Wouldn’t it be more efficient for me to die than for Da-hoon Park to die?”
Jeong In-ho clicked his tongue with an annoyed face.
“I reject it.”
“Why? My junior has no authority to stop me. Come back stronger.”
“Are you trying to fight me now?”
“Junior, this is the worst. If you can’t win, then don’t say anything.”
Seo Jang-hwa smiled warmly at the familiar situation.
“That’s Lee Jae-heon.”
How can people be so consistent?
Even the pine trees were less green than those.
(Continued in the next part)
