Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 20

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 20

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Inside the vast factory.

On the seemingly endless conveyor belt, incomplete animatronics were fixed to frames and moving in lines.

And as they passed through each section, people would attach themselves to work intensively on completing the unfinished animatronics.

At the end of the production line

Special forces member Gong Ju Won, who had been deployed to investigate the anomalous incidents in Yongsan but got caught up in strange phenomena, turned his gaze while conducting defect inspections.

[‘Defect Inspector Worker’ Manual]

– All workers must follow the manual.

– Contamination levels increase with rising defect rates.

– When the Chief Manager is watching, unauthorized actions are prohibited.

– Failure to follow the manual will result in being classified as defective and marked for elimination.

The task assigned to him was to inspect and identify defects.

Compared to the ‘Assembly Process Workers’ who had to assemble numerous parts, it was an incredibly easy job.

As the work became familiar, he had the capacity to look around, but no matter how he looked, escape seemed unlikely.

‘If only that middle manager wasn’t there, I could have looked for a way out…’

Ju Won glared at the pink jelly with sharp eyes.

Among the giant animatronics, the pink jelly looked incredibly small and cute as it held a whip in its hand, urging the human workers.

Crack!

“Hey, stop slacking and move faster!”

“…Yes.”

While the special forces members were paying attention to the pink jelly.

Do Dam rolled its eyes left and right while holding the whip.

‘Why am I a middle manager?’

But it was important not to show any signs of anxiety. I couldn’t let them notice something was strange.

When another animatronic whipped the workers, Do Dam hesitantly followed suit.

Smack!

[‘Middle Manager’ Manual]

– All workers must follow the manual

– Middle managers must oversee workers’ work performance attitudes.

– When the Chief Manager is watching, you must face the Chief Manager and welcome them.

– Failure to follow the manual will result in being classified as defective and marked for elimination.

In this strange factory, the floor workers were usually human.

The middle managers were all animatronics.

Since it’s an animatronics factory, it makes sense that the middle managers are animatronics…

‘Why am I a middle manager?’

When I thought about it carefully, there seemed to be only one reason why I became a middle manager.

‘Because I’m not human.’

As I passed in front of a worker, crosshairs appeared in my vision and locked onto the worker.

Crack!

It probably felt like being hit with a fly swatter, but the worker flinched in surprise and quickly moved their hands.

Hmm, they work harder when I give them a little nudge like this.

If you think I’m gradually enjoying the whipping, you’re mistaken.

I’m only doing it because I have to!

I walked around the production line and glanced to see if Older Brother was doing well.

Fortunately, yellow eyes were looking at me from the ventilation duct.

Older Brother wasn’t assigned any tasks, but I hid him in the factory’s ventilation ducts when no one was looking, worried he might be discovered and eliminated.

I had also put him on the spaceship, so as long as Xion doesn’t suddenly appear, nothing should happen.

Right, as long as Xion doesn’t show up…

That’s when it happened.

Thud.

The sound of something very large approaching the front of the factory could be heard.

“…?”

I had a bad feeling. I turned my head with creaking sounds like an unoiled robot.

And when I faced it, I had to try not to scream.

‘Wh-what is that…!’

Two eyeballs that filled the factory’s large window were rolling around, examining the inside of the factory.

It was a humanoid animatronic with a bear head.

Large enough to be about 1.5 times the size of the factory.

‘It’s the boss…’

It was cute and small in the original game! Why did it get so big!

The overwhelming sight made everything spin before my eyes. Goosebumps ran from my head to my toes.

I had been wondering where the Chief Manager was since I couldn’t see them, but with that size, it made sense they couldn’t enter the factory.

“Hello! Hello!”

“Hello!”

“Nice to see you!”

The animatronics greeted the Chief Manager while waving both hands.

I also looked at the Chief Manager and waved both hands along with them.

“H-hello! Hello!”

‘So scary!’

My head felt dizzy as if threads were tangling inside. But according to the middle manager’s manual, I could be eliminated the moment I looked away.

That’s when it happened.

“Huh, it’s Xion…”

At one worker’s murmur, the Chief Manager’s large eyeballs quickly turned.

Then the worker sat down in fear.

The atmosphere became chaotic in an instant.

– Floor workers who don’t focus on their duties will be marked for elimination.

As the Chief Manager’s eyes turned red, a target mark was engraved on the worker.

Someone shouted.

“Everyone focus on the manual!”

“…!”

Only then did those who came to their senses hurriedly begin defect inspection.

But the head of the man who had sat down began to swell like a balloon.

“Uh, uhhh!”

His face was becoming a balloon itself. Everyone swallowed their shocked groans.

A yellow balloon took the place where his head had been.

The balloon that kept swelling finally burst with a pop!

Balloon pieces fluttered down.

Thud-

The headless body collapsed powerlessly.

Gulp.

I wasn’t the only one who silently swallowed. All the workers except the animatronics swallowed their groans. Everyone was equally tense and shocked, but no one tried to leave the scene.

Indeed, it was the survival instinct of humans who had survived in the contaminated zone.

Clank clank.

At that moment, when the Chief Manager operated the joystick hanging around its neck, a crane appeared in mid-air.

The crane that descended from above grabbed the headless body and dropped it into what looked like a furnace.

‘He was eliminated…’

This factory was like the Chief Manager’s claw machine box.

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Was I too overconfident? I thought too lightly of the contaminated zone.

‘I should have just asked Chae Heon to come with me…’

When I went to Yongsan Station to rescue Older Brother, there was a conflict and I found it bothersome, so I just left him behind, and now it’s come to this.

Actually, even if Chae Heon had come, I’m not sure he could have dealt with something that huge.

I shook my head back and forth.

Since it’s come to this, it’s time for a solo escape!

Swallowing my tears while mulling over the saying that even if dragged away by a tiger, you can survive if you keep your wits about you, I calmly recalled the game strategy.

‘Frey’, the teddy bear-shaped boss of the ‘Animatronics Factory’.

Created to bring joy to people, but ultimately abandoned, Frey yearned for people’s love and turned the factory into a theme park. To lure people into the factory…

Thanks to having this backstory, the method to clear Frey wasn’t difficult either.

Though it somehow became reality, this game’s essence is originally a healing game.

When music plays, you dance, and when you meet each other, if you greet them, the animatronics become incredibly docile.

You just need to play with those animatronics and give the boss Frey a big hug to complete the strategy.

I pondered deeply while going over the strategy.

‘…Should I try hugging it?’

That thing?

I feel like I’d become a flat jelly if I tried to hug it.

But I don’t want to live forever as a whip-cracking middle manager like this!

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