Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 3

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 3

It seemed like some kind of marking indicating there was something at Yongsan Station, but I couldn’t tell what it was just from looking at it.

So I started looking around in other directions.

‘Oh, this is…’

Next to Yongsan Station, where contaminated buildings stood densely packed, a cute flag was planted firmly. As if telling me to go this way.

I turned my head toward that place. Since I couldn’t see any buildings, it must lead to a different area.

When a dungeon break occurs, contaminated areas connect to each other. Like weaving multiple regions together haphazardly, they become linked to one another.

Because of this, you could instantly travel from a contaminated zone in Busan to one in Gangwon Province.

‘Let’s get out of here first.’

I tied the box and my wrist together with the ribbon.

If something dangerous appeared, I planned to immediately hide in the spaceship.

Squish squish squish…

Scritch-

Behind the sound of cautious footsteps, I could hear the box scraping against the ground.

This was the Contaminated Area Depths where a dungeon break had occurred.

It wouldn’t be strange if one or two more monsters appeared here.

So I was being extremely careful, but…

‘This is strange.’

I could clearly sense that something was around, but they weren’t approaching me.

They just circled around as if they were afraid of something.

‘Could it be me?’

Because they saw me purifying?

Hmm. Feeling cocky, I straightened my hunched shoulders and started walking confidently.

Squish squish squish squish!

How much further had I walked like that?

Shiver!

My eyes widened as I looked around at the eerie chill.

“…!”

I got goosebumps once again.

Something was crawling out along the stairs of the Yongsan Station building and approaching me.

It looked like a snake made of shadows.

Tentacles as black as an abyss and as thick as tree trunks were splitting into strands, searching everywhere as if looking for something.

Eek!

My vision spun. Just facing this being filled me with heart-crushing fear.

It was as overwhelming as encountering an incomprehensible existence.

At that moment.

Yellow eyes began opening one by one above the black tentacles, and countless eyes rolled their pupils back and forth on the tentacles.

Now I understood.

The red arrow marked on the map earlier wasn’t a restaurant logo but…

‘It was a boss monster marker…!’

If it was such a creepy and terrifying being, there was one thing that came to mind.

Could this be a ‘Xion’?

Xion.

Monsters that no one could oppose, beings that ruled over contaminated areas.

The monsters hadn’t approached not because they were afraid of me, but because they were afraid of that thing.

I slowly increased my distance from the ‘Xion’.

It just moved as if searching for something, not directly causing harm.

‘But it’s still scary!’

I held my breath so it wouldn’t notice me.

Then.

One of the moving tentacles reached right in front of my feet.

At this rate, I would definitely get caught.

It felt like my vision was spinning round and round.

Even while thinking of a solution, the tip of the tentacle was approaching moment by moment.

I clenched my fists tightly. Then, just as I was about to take a step back.

Swoosh-

It suddenly began retreating. It seemed to be returning to Yongsan Station, unable to find what it was looking for.

The tentacles that had been black as shadows seeped back into the darkness of Yongsan Station.

‘I, I survived…’

I was breathing heavily, my jaw trembling.

My heart was beating rapidly.

But I forced myself to swallow my fear and began moving little by little.

If I stayed here any longer, other monsters might approach.

That’s when it happened.

A crackling sound came from Yongsan Station, and soon music began flowing out through speakers.

Shudder. I got goosebumps and my vision shook.

【So the government’s position is…】

【The Hunter Federation says about this…】

The radio channels began spinning crazily with static sounds.

Static, static, static…

Voices and music mixed and changed without pause.

Then suddenly the sound stopped abruptly.

What was it trying to do?

The question was quickly answered.

The thing at Yongsan Station manipulated the radio this way and that to repeat one word.

Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam. Dodam.

Squish squish squish squish squish squish squish squish squish!

I ran away without looking back.

And for good reason.

‘Dodam’ was my name.

* * *

How does it know my name?

Scary.

Squish squish squish…

No, let’s not think about how it knew, whatever the case.

Just thinking about it feels like it’s draining my mental strength.

Shake shake.

I shook my head.

After running like crazy, the surroundings had changed from Yongsan’s Skyscraper Forest to an Ordinary Forest.

‘Wow…’

I opened my mouth at the sight before my eyes.

I knew that contaminated areas were connected to each other, but experiencing it directly like this was definitely different in terms of impact.

Then I discovered a Rural House and my eyes widened.

‘This is…’

Isn’t this the house that appears in the game?!

I’m sure when I pressed the ‘Home’ button in the game, I would return to a house like this.

I used to farm here and do exercises with the hoe set up in front.

So that’s why the map led me here!

For the first time since becoming an alien, my heart swelled with emotion.

Now I could settle down here…!

But my hopes were immediately shattered to pieces.

There were signs of people?

The gate twitched as if it would open at any moment.

“…!”

Bbyobbyobbyobbyobbyong!

I hurriedly hid behind the Tree.

The person who came out from inside after a moment was a man.

Even through his worn clothes, I could tell he had broad shoulders and a large build. Even his atmosphere was intimidating.

His face was hard to make out.

The man, wearing a pulled-down hood and even a gas mask, shouldered a shovel and looked around, then strode off somewhere with heavy steps.

I waited until the man was far away, then wandered around in front of the house again.

A house with a blue roof in an L-shape.

In front was a small patch of Farmfield.

Carrots were planted in rows in the Farmfield.

Grumble-

As hunger struck, I rubbed my belly.

I never imagined people would be living in the contaminated zone.

But just because I saw a person didn’t mean I could be purely happy about it…

‘My Farmfield, my house…’

I glared at the house with blazing eyes.

Someone had moved to the countryside in my house.

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