Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 63

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 63

I tilted my head and approached Chae Heon while holding the Black Octopus.

“What’s wrong?”

“What do you mean?”

Chae Heon quickly turned his head away as if nothing had happened.

“I’ll put the TV here.”

“Mm-hmm.”

Chae Heon placed the box and TV next to my spaceship.

As I was thanking him, Older Brother smiled silently with a meaningful expression. Since he seemed to be thinking something unpleasant, I decided not to ask.

Meanwhile, I turned on the TV and flipped through channels. It was to spy on the Scavengers’ den.

Although the Scavengers move in a cell-like structure, they also have someone who acts as their leader, and there are two places that serve as focal points.

According to what Chae Heon and I confirmed earlier in the warehouse, one of them was Channel 21.

‘By the way, how far into the Contaminated Area can this satellite see?’

No matter how advanced Earth’s satellites are, they can’t observe inside the Contaminated Area.

That’s why Shane couldn’t use satellites and had to send drones instead.

Everyone was amazed by the unfathomable alien technology.

“You’re saying it can really see every corner of the Contaminated Area?”

“My goodness…”

Shane seemed too busy checking the TV to worship me as usual.

While everyone was distracted examining the TV here and there, Chae Heon and I focused on the screen and started flipping channels.

And the moment we turned to Channel 21.

I was startled and froze.

On the screen, numerous people were sprawled across the top of a building. They all appeared to be Scavengers wearing gas masks.

“What the…?”

Are they dead?

I met Chae Heon’s gaze. His expression also showed incomprehension and confusion.

It hadn’t even been 30 minutes since we saw the Scavengers alive and moving in the warehouse.

But so many died in that short time?

Then, the sound of someone walking steadily onto the building rooftop could be heard.

‘Who?’

Tense, I became jelly-like and scooted closer to Chae Heon.

Chae Heon raised his arm and made space beside him.

Hugging Older Brother tightly, I trembled in Chae Heon’s embrace.

The figure that appeared on screen was a tall man.

The man who went to the edge of the railing among the pile of corpses quietly looked up at the sky.

I carefully observed the coat he was wearing. The straight-cut coat that fell to his ankles looked somehow familiar.

Why does this look so familiar?

Anxiety rose up. My heart pounded.

【Catch him right now!】

【He’s on the rooftop!】

The Scavengers came stomping up to the rooftop.

Then suddenly, a black umbrella appeared in the man’s hand.

He opened the umbrella in a place where nothing was falling.

Inside the black umbrella, something was densely written in red letters.

‘That umbrella is…’

Then, streams of blood began falling like rain from within the screen.

I could only stare at the screen, pale with shock.

The Scavengers hit by the streams of blood fell one by one.

【Urgh!】

【Uuuaaaargh!】

Once again, corpses piled up on the rooftop.

“…!”

Suddenly, the man turned to look in the direction of the screen.

I flinched in surprise and my shoulders jumped.

The man’s head was in the shape of a goat. Below four round horns, two on each side of his head stacked on top of each other, bright red eyes gleamed.

The tall man with the goat head stood holding his umbrella while looking at the screen.

“…!”

It felt like I was being pierced by that sharp gaze.

Then Kwon Bora spoke someone’s name like a groan.

“Woo Jae-hee…?”

Only then did I remember whose umbrella and coat those were.

Those belonged to Jae Hee from Queisa.

* * *

Woo Jae-hee raised his hand to stop the other’s steps.

His senses, which had become sharper since becoming Xion, whispered to him. Something was watching.

Hiss- Hiss-

Yellow Hazmat Suit shook their head while staying inside the rooftop building without coming outside.

It meant the legacy wasn’t here.

Jae Hee closed his umbrella and put his hand in his pocket. The red rain had already stopped.

He looked down at the bottom of the building from the edge of the railing.

Below the building, corpses lay everywhere along with pools of blood.

It was all a scene he had created.

“…”

He blinked slowly in silence. His vision was hazy as if he were dreaming.

He looked down at his own hands. The clean hands with nothing on them seemed to him like they were covered in blood.

Just when the impulse to let everything go and jump down was about to overwhelm him.

“Jae Hee.”

“Jae Hee, Older Brother.”

At times like this, as always, he heard the siblings’ voices as hallucinations.

His mind, full of noise, became clear only in the moment those voices could be heard.

Only those voices that passed by unconsciously allowed him to remain himself.

Jae Hee craved those voices as if his throat was dry. He wanted to hear them just once more.

But whose voices were they exactly?

As he closed his eyes and fell deep into thought.

Yellow Hazmat Suit commanded.

“Come back.”

Jae Hee walked back into the rooftop building with an expression as if nothing had happened.

* * *

The man with the goat head disappeared from the rooftop.

Just then, the screen went black.

This TV consumed considerable energy, so it couldn’t be watched for very long.

I picked up the Energy Injector.

Beep!

And I changed the channel.

Next channel, next channel, next channel… until I could see Jae Hee again.

But the TV didn’t stay connected as long as my heart wanted. It turned off in a much shorter time than before.

“No…”

Beep!

Beep!

Beep! Beep! Beep!

I kept firing the Energy Injector repeatedly until the TV turned on again. After shooting it several times, I could feel my power being drained as if through a straw.

As I used the Energy Injector until my whole body turned white, those around me started trying to stop me.

“Stop, Dam. Stop it.”

Kwon Bora blocked my way, and Older Brother stretched out his tentacles to try to snatch the Energy Injector away.

In the end, it was Chae Heon who took the Energy Injector from me.

“Calm down.”

Chae Heon held my chin with his large hand. Meeting my eyes intently, he gently wiped away the tears that kept bubbling up.

I relaxed, resting my chin in Chae Heon’s hand.

“Sob, Jae Hee oppa…”

“Yeah.”

“It’s him, right? …Sniff! It’s not, hic! someone else, right?”

“It must be him.”

When Chae Heon said what I wanted to hear, tears poured out so hard that my vision blurred.

“Waaaah!”

Older Brother didn’t know what to do and kept stroking my back endlessly with his tentacles to comfort me.

I hugged Older Brother tightly.

Older Brother must be even sadder. Older Brother and Jae Hee oppa have been best friends for 20 years since they were 7.

I cried my heart out for Older Brother’s sake too.

“Sob! Hic!”

Chae Heon lent me his embrace.

To think Jae Hee oppa was alive too.

In that condition…

But as long as he was alive, any condition was fine.

And when I had calmed down a little.

“Let’s go rescue him, sniff!”

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