Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 26
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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!
Episode 26
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Coins were jingling and filling up in my pocket.
This is the joy of doing business.
If I do this well, I could become filthy rich, right?
“Woohooho!”
Just as I was rubbing my hands together with a capitalist smile, the gate swung open.
“Chae Heon! It’s mealtime, where did you go-“
I was speaking without even lifting my face, but was startled by the sound of something being dragged in and quickly turned my head.
Chae Heon wasn’t alone.
To be precise, there was a person slumped over his shoulder.
And the person being carried on Chae Heon’s shoulder and groaning was none other than Gong Ju Won.
“What happened?! Are you hurt?!”
Bounce bounce bounce bounce!
“Yeah.”
Chae Heon gave a short reply and passed by me to lay Gong Ju Won down on the daecheongmaru.
Gong Ju Won groaned and clutched his arm.
What on earth happened in that short time?
As I approached Gong Ju Won, I was shocked and turned into pure white jelly.
‘His arm…!’
Gong Ju Won’s left arm was severed below the elbow.
“Captain Gong Ju Won, do you have an emergency potion?”
When Chae Heon asked, he pulled out a potion from his inner pocket with a pained expression.
“Here… I have it…”
Chae Heon took it and immediately poured it over Gong Ju Won’s left arm.
Sizzzzzzle-!
Along with the sound of his arm burning, the severed area began to heal rapidly.
Gong Ju Won groaned and moaned, but eventually couldn’t bear the pain and lost consciousness.
His well-tanned face had turned pale white from shock.
“Wh-what happened?”
Chae Heon shook his head at my question.
“He seemed to be being chased, so I rescued him first, but I don’t know the specific situation.”
“He was being chased?!”
I looked at Gong Ju Won with a surprised expression. There were also traces of gunshot wounds on his chest, but fortunately he seemed to be safe because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
“Who was chasing him? Mutants?”
“Looking at the bullet marks, he might have encountered ‘Scavengers’.”
Scavengers…
Hunters.
It couldn’t be a more intuitive naming.
I wiped the cold sweat from Gong Ju Won’s forehead.
I never imagined I’d meet someone who was perfectly fine just a while ago in this condition again. As I was at a loss with worry and anxiety, Older Brother, who was perched on my head, patted my shoulder comfortingly.
“Chae Heon, what kind of people are Scavengers?”
“Crazy bastards.”
I waited for the explanation that would follow, but Chae Heon didn’t continue speaking, as if he found it too disgusting to even mention.
That’s when it happened.
“It wasn’t Scavengers… It was Yellow Hazmat Suits…”
A cracked voice spoke.
Gong Ju Won, who had opened his eyes at some point, inhaled and exhaled. He clenched his fist and furrowed his brow.
“Captain Gong, are you okay?!”
“How’s your condition?”
Chae Heon and I asked simultaneously.
Gong Ju Won wobbled with one arm and raised his upper body.
“Except for having trouble balancing… I’m fine.”
He leaned his back against a pillar and gritted his teeth. He seemed to be suppressing the surging anger and sadness.
“…”
“…”
Chae Heon and I quietly waited for him to collect himself.
After a moment, Gong Ju Won glanced at his severed arm and opened his mouth.
“It wasn’t Scavengers, it was Yellow Hazmat Suits. All the team members…”
He cut off his words, then gritted his teeth again and continued.
“…All the team members were contaminated by the Yellow Hazmat Suits.”
The last time he saw his team members, they had become mutants.
“Contaminated? How?”
“There seems to be an item that condenses contamination. They tried to spray it on me too.”
Captain Gong Ju Won, recalling that moment, hit his forehead with his fist repeatedly.
He seemed very frustrated that he hadn’t noticed the Yellow Hazmat Suits’ approach.
“…”
“…”
A silence followed that we couldn’t dare interrupt.
I carefully asked Chae Heon.
“Chae Heon, what are Yellow Hazmat Suits?”
Chae Heon replied indifferently to my question.
“Crazy bastards.”
Again?!
It was Gong Ju Won who provided the additional explanation.
“They’re a group, but we don’t know which organization they belong to. They always wear yellow hazmat suits, so we call them ‘Yellow Hazmat Suits’.”
“Why did those people attack?”
“It’s probably because of the vending machine. Those guys- I don’t know exactly what their purpose is, but they try to manage and control anomalous phenomena and mutants. Like some group from urban legends.”
What?
“Those crazy bastards are trying to manage my vending machine?!”
Gong Ju Won looked surprised at my words.
“Were you the owner of the vending machine?”
I readily nodded.
“That’s my ability. I can stock and sell items in vending machines.”
“Then mass production and supply is also…!”
“That’s impossible.”
Smack!
It was Chae Heon who answered curtly, and it was Older Brother who smacked Gong Ju Won’s mouth with a tentacle as if telling him not to even say such things.
I don’t understand why their reactions are so negative. Of course, I can’t do mass supply in the first place.
“Right, I can’t.”
Not yet…?
“I see…”
Gong Ju Won nodded as if disappointed.
“Then we could install the vending machine somewhere else…”
“That’s still not feasible. There’s no suitable location.”
“Ah…”
Even with his arm in that condition, seeing him diligently think about how to use the vending machine showed that Gong Ju Won was an extremely loyal soldier.
…Or maybe he was deliberately trying to focus only on the mission.
As if to prove this, he made an effort not to look at his left arm.
“Then what if…”
It was when Gong Ju Won was trying to find another way somehow.
Chae Heon stopped the endless barrage of questions that seemed ready to continue.
“More importantly, Captain Gong Ju Won. Where did you lose your arm? Yongsan?”
“Pardon?”
My mouth fell wide open. I had never heard such an insensitive question in my life.
Gong Ju Won looked down dejectedly and nodded slightly as if confirming it was indeed Yongsan.
Seeing that made my heart ache terribly. Even though Chae Heon was blunt, he hadn’t been this cruel before.
“Looking at the wound, it seems like it was cut cleanly?”
“…Yes, that’s correct. It was cut off while I was holding my gun.”
No, he must already be distressed enough, so why make him say such things?
I glared at Chae Heon to give him a hint, but Chae Heon spoke as if it was no big deal.
“Then we need to find it and reattach it, your arm.”
“Pardon?”
“What?!”
Both Gong Ju Won and I jumped in surprise.
Gong Ju Won asked as if entranced.
“…Is that, is that possible?”
“It should be possible once we find it.”
At that, Gong Ju Won immediately tried to get up.
“I’ll go back right now and search for it!”
His eyes were filled with hope and urgency.
“There’s no need. It won’t be there anyway if you go back.”
“…Pardon? Then could it be…!”
“What you’re thinking is probably right. Things lost in Yongsan usually gather in one place.”
Unlike the nonchalant Chae Heon, Gong Ju Won had a serious expression.
“Why? Where is that place?”
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[Yongsan Station]
The old station nameplate was covered with a few strands of unidentifiable vines.
The three of us stood in the plaza where Yongsan Station was visible.
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