Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 32
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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!
Episode 32
[You can unlock vending machine expansion options (0/1)]
-Additional vending machine installation +1
-New product registration +1
-Gain additional 5% coins when selling items (Rare)
“…?!”
I opened my eyes wide and checked the options.
But wait a minute.
(0/1)?!
I can only choose one of these?
I jumped up and fell into deep thought.
I had just been thinking it would be nice to install one more vending machine, but…
The additional 5% coins marked as ‘Rare’ was tempting me.
When I thought about how significant 5% would be when I sell more expensive items later, my hand naturally moved toward it.
‘No, I still need to increase the number of vending machines right now.’
I tearfully selected the additional vending machine installation.
[You have selected ‘Additional vending machine installation +1’.]
[Please designate the location to install the ‘Cosmic Universal Vending Machine’.]
I stared intently at the map spread out before me.
The only places where purification was complete were near Yongsan Station and our house, so I could only install it in these two locations.
But neither was a good choice.
There would be Yellow Hazmat Suits near Yongsan Station, and there were no earthlings to use the vending machine at our house.
So where should I install it to get maximum efficiency?
I rolled my eyes.
If I had to think of a place in Yongsan where many people would pass by?
It would have to be a ‘safe’ place.
I struggled to get out of the spaceship and ran to Lieutenant Gong.
“Lieutenant Gong! Lieutenant Gong! I want to come to the hospital too!”
“What? All of a sudden?”
I said with great pride.
“It would be good for you if I came along, right? Because I’ll install a vending machine there!”
Sure enough, Lieutenant Gong Ju Won’s eyes widened.
“Is that really true?!”
“Of course. Ahem.”
I glanced at Chae Heon, who looked displeased, and turned my head away sharply.
No matter what anyone says, I’m going to become rich.
I’ll become rich and go outside wearing human skin!
* * *
The next day.
I stood there with a displeased face, pouting my lips.
Next to me, Chae Heon glanced at me with both hands in his pockets.
Like me with the spaceship strapped to my waist, Chae Heon had also finished preparing with simple weapons hanging from his waist.
“Lieutenant Gong, why aren’t we going alone?”
“The more people, the better.”
“You said it was a safe place.”
As I grumbled, Older Brother, who was sitting in the spaceship, crawled up to my shoulder and patted my back. Even Older Brother, who disliked Chae Heon, seemed to want him to come along this time.
“Han Seong Hospital is still deep inside the most contaminated area.”
Lieutenant Gong Ju Won said this while taking the lead with her military gear.
Beep beep beep.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh…
The spaceship strapped to my waist flew behind me.
It was thanks to the hot spring-shaped sticker I got from the Lost and Found Center.
I wanted to ride it completely, but my piloting was still clumsy, so I had no choice but to drag it along.
Lieutenant Gong Ju Won looked at me and laughed, saying I was like a snail carrying its house around, and Chae Heon sneered, asking if I wasn’t just a homeless person.
I got annoyed and hit Chae Heon repeatedly. But Chae Heon just made halfhearted sounds of pain.
Instead, he seemed to think I was soft, so my title activated and only made me feel better. That made me even more annoyed.
“If there’s no Xion, are there any rules we need to follow at the hospital?”
“No.”
It was Chae Heon who answered my question.
I nodded.
Well, that’s fortunate.
“But why are we waiting here?”
We were now standing in front of the bus stop at Yongsan Station.
Lieutenant Gong Ju Won also looked puzzled.
“Colonel Cha?”
“We have to take the bus. We can’t walk all the way there.”
“What?!”
What do you mean a bus in the Contaminated Area?
But then, just as Chae Heon said, I could see a bus coming through the fog.
Chae Heon said ominously.
“By the way, that’s a ‘Xion’.”
What did you say?
* * *
The bus looked nothing special.
It was an ordinary bus, not much different from what I usually saw.
But only when the bus came close did I realize.
The bus wasn’t moving by itself.
Like picking up a toy, a giant hand was gripping the bus from above.
When the tree-like fingers moved slightly, the bus changed direction.
Clunk.
Wobble.
‘That’s the hand I saw at the traffic light…!’
It was the very hand that hit the high school girls and passed by as soon as the light turned red!
Then, the bus stopped in front of us.
‘It’ spoke.
“Beep-”
And the door opened.
No, rather than opened… that hand opened the door for us.
Gulp.
I hugged Older Brother tightly and examined the inside of the bus.
From the outside, the inside didn’t look much different either.
The seats were worn out, and the handrails were shiny.
There were just plenty of traces left by people who had ridden it.
“Get on.”
Chae Heon took the lead and got on, followed by Lieutenant Gong Ju Won.
I hesitantly climbed the steps last.
I had never ridden a bus before, but I knew you had to pay a fare.
But the two ahead of me went inside without paying anything.
That made sense because the driver’s seat was completely empty. It meant there was no one to collect the fare either.
‘Is it really okay to just get on?’
I made the spaceship small enough to fit in my palm, placed a cherry tomato on the empty driver’s seat, then quickly ran over to Chae Heon.
Beep beep beep beep!
Chae Heon sat on the inside of a two-person seat, and Captain Gong Ju Won stood beside him holding the handrail.
I sat in the seat next to Chae Heon and looked around.
The sparsely scattered passengers were all mannequins.
Plastic faces that looked like they belonged in store windows. Their clothes were all different and their hairstyles varied, but their poses were identical.
I asked cautiously.
“Is it really okay to get on?”
This isn’t some ride to the afterlife or anything, right?
Chae Heon crossed his arms and closed his eyes as he answered.
“Just don’t fall asleep and make sure to press the bell properly.”
‘When you ride the bus, drowsiness overwhelms you, and if you can’t resist falling asleep and miss your destination, you’ll never be able to get off and will ride the infinite bus forever,’ Chae Heon explained.
‘You tell me not to sleep! Then why are you closing your eyes!’
Then, ‘that thing’ spoke again.
“Vroom-”
Soon the bus slowly began to depart.
‘My first bus ride…’
Like an idiot, I found myself getting a little excited. For someone like me who had no experience with ordinary daily life, this was my very first time riding a bus.
I said with unnecessary excitement.
“This is my first time riding a bus.”
“I figured.”
Chae Heon said indifferently, and Captain Gong Ju Won nodded readily.
Neither of them would understand what my words really meant.
They wouldn’t know that I had lived cooped up in a hospital just waiting to die.
Only Older Brother understood my feelings and gave me jellyfish applause.
If Older Brother had been human, he might have marked it on the calendar as a first anniversary. That’s the kind of person Older Brother was.
Smiling softly, I climbed onto Chae Heon’s lap and pressed my face against the window.
The bus was so fast that the scenery outside whizzed by before I could see anything properly.
I opened the window slightly, but when both my ears started flapping and getting sucked out, I quickly closed it.
Huff, huff. I almost died.
Snuggling close to Chae Heon, who was laughing at me, I asked.
“How long does it take to get to the hospital?”
“10 minutes.”
“Only 10 minutes? It would have taken at least two hours on foot, so that’s fortunate.”
Captain Gong Ju Won said with relief.
It really was fortunate. I had neither the stamina nor the courage to walk through the Contaminated Area for two hours.
Then, my body was lifted up by Chae Heon and floated in the air.
Dangling there, I could see a red bell in front of me.
“What?”
“Press it.”
“Huh?”
“You said this was your first time riding a bus.”
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