Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 34
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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!
Episode 34
Some had bandaged arms dangling broken, others crawled forward dragging twisted spines.
It was an endless procession that seemed to have poured out from the entire hospital.
Scraping against walls and ceiling, pushing each other aside, the zombies rushed madly toward their prey.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Ain, who had caused all this commotion, stood helplessly clutching a knife with trembling hands.
Her shoulders flinched at every loud sound, making it clear she had no ability to handle this situation.
Meanwhile, Do Dam, who had been pretending to be a doll on Heon’s shoulder, finally poked her head up and froze as the zombie horde approached.
“Z-zombies…”
A trembling voice escaped from her.
“Oh, zombies. Captain Gong, take care of her for me.”
Heon answered carelessly and tossed Do Dam over.
Ju Won caught Do Dam in his arms and asked.
“Are you going to deal with them?”
“I have to.”
Heon climbed onto the railing.
Right below, zombies were flailing their arms wildly, struggling to climb up to the 2nd floor.
He confirmed that Ju Won was holding Dam and moving to the back, then raised his hand.
Then snap!
He flicked his fingers.
The moment his fingers collided.
[Activating skill ‘Contagion Explosion’.]
Pop.
Pop! Pop-pop-pop-pop!
The zombie running at the front, caught in Chae Heon’s gaze, was the first to collapse.
Its body swelled up momentarily, then lost its form with a heavy bursting sound.
Flesh scattered everywhere, and shattered bone fragments became shrapnel that struck the zombies following behind.
Following that impact, the explosion spread like a wave.
When everything finally ended, only unrecognizable debris remained in that spot.
The procession of death that had been rushing toward them just moments ago had vanished like a trace.
Clang!
Ain dropped the knife she had been holding to the floor.
“M-monster…”
“Ain! Come here!”
Red Hazmat Mask ran to Ain and embraced her.
The boys stared at Heon fearfully, as if looking at Xion.
Heon shrugged his shoulders as if he was quite used to being treated like a monster.
Then, Gong Ju Won approached from the side.
“Are you alright?”
“It’s nothing much.”
Do Dam squirmed as she climbed back onto Heon’s shoulder, chattering away.
“Chae Heon, nice. Well done. Look how scared they are of you.”
Saying ‘they’re all terrified of you,’ Do Dam giggled like a little devil.
Heon burst into laughter looking at the little troublemaker.
Meanwhile.
“The j-jelly is talking…?”
“The doll is talking…!”
They seemed shocked once by Heon’s power, and once again by Do Dam’s appearance.
Heon turned his gaze to Red Hazmat Mask while the jelly clung to him around his neck.
“Now properly explain what happened. Before I get scarier.”
Growl! Do Dam clacked her teeth threateningly.
Red Hazmat Mask stammered with his mouth agape in confusion.
* * *
I hung around Chae Heon’s neck like a sloth and listened intently to their story.
They were all runaway teenagers or children raised in orphanages, and became Scavengers after being promised not only food and shelter but a life no worse than anyone else’s for those with nowhere to go.
But the Scavengers routinely used children as meat shields, and eventually they had no choice but to flee from the Scavenger den to survive.
“…Most of all, they tried to sell Ain. Since she awakened as S-rank, they said they could sell her for a high price…”
Ain was Red Hazmat Mask’s younger sister, a rookie who had awakened not long ago.
“Since we had nowhere to run, we kept going deeper into Yongsan… That’s how we found this place…”
“You moved the zombies to chase away all the hunters?”
When Captain Gong Ju Won asked in surprise, the boys nodded.
“Since it came to this, we tried to settle down and live here. The Scavenger bastards don’t usually come this deep anyway.”
“Avoiding the Scavengers while also collecting hospital entrance fees?”
“We have to eat to survive…”
Red Hazmat Mask hung his head low.
Hmm. Using kids as meat shields, what complete lunatics.
After briefly reflecting on the Scavengers, I felt a piercing gaze and turned my head.
The one staring intently at me was the necromancer named Ain.
Ain seemed to be both timid and fearless. She kept wanting to hold me.
When I first clacked my teeth, she was startled, but now she giggles.
I decided I had no choice but to let her hold me once.
When I dropped down from Chae Heon’s neck and stretched out my arms, Ain was visibly delighted.
“Can I really hold you?”
“It might bite.”
Chae Heon answered for me.
I had no intention of biting, but Ain said she was still fine with it and happily took me in her arms.
Chae Heon watched me being held by Ain for a moment, then stroked his now-empty neck once.
“What is this? A mutant?”
“An alien.”
I answered honestly, but Ain didn’t seem to believe it at all. Instead, she giggled as if she’d heard an amusing joke.
Mutant or alien, what’s the difference, why are you laughing, you native Earth species!
While I was grumbling internally, Ain pulled out a keychain doll from her pocket and held it out to me.
‘…This is.’
Surprised by the familiar shape, I sat up straight.
“Where did you get this?”
“Huh? Oh, from the rooftop…”
The rooftop? Just as I froze in place.
“So you guys are thinking of going back outside?”
At Captain Gong Ju Won’s question, Red Hazmat Mask asked back with a dumbfounded expression.
“What? We can go back?”
“I want to go!”
“Me too!”
“Me too!”
Voices burst out from the boys.
Captain Gong Ju Won raised both hands, telling them he understood so calm down.
“If I fire a signal flare, our unit will come looking, so just follow the soldier uncles.”
“We’re saved…”
The children, who seemed to have suffered a lot during this time, each began to sniffle with relief, saying they were alive.
“But from now on, you can’t follow just any adult.”
Gong Ju Won spoke with deliberate sternness, then said he would go up to the rooftop to fire a signal flare.
At this, Ain’s eyes widened in surprise.
“To the rooftop?”
“Why?”
When Captain Gong asked, Ain hesitated before answering.
“Sometimes that thing comes there.”
“What comes?”
“Xion…”
Xion?
That was the moment.
Suddenly, a rumbling vibration occurred. It was a vibration that made the entire building seem to tremble.
I felt a vibration coming from my chest area as well.
The Queisa badge attached to my chest was ringing.
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