Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 75

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 75

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Gong Ju Won looked back.

He thought he heard something like crying, but maybe not?

Just then, one of the team members whispered a question.

“Captain. Do you really think you can catch Xion?”

“….”

Ju Won sighed as he looked at the new team members following behind him.

Every single one of them was terrified.

Gong Ju Won lowered his eyes.

Xion.

Having faced that enormous power several times, he knew.

With our current strength, it would be difficult to survive encountering Xion.

He should have said they couldn’t catch it, but he couldn’t crush his team members’ morale either.

After all, they were going on reconnaissance to catch Xion.

“Don’t think about useless things during a mission.”

As he tried to brush off the question, another team member complained.

“The battalion commander is being too harsh. How long has it been since the captain returned, and he’s already putting you on a mission….”

Even Ju Won’s face had to harden at these words.

He too had thought he would be able to see his younger sibling once he returned.

Though he didn’t show it outwardly, his teeth ground together.

While he was missing, command of the base had changed hands.

The newly appointed major looked at him with displeasure upon his return.

“…So.”

Major Kang Gi Seok leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms as he looked up at Captain Gong Ju Won.

“The contamination was completely purified without my knowledge?”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

“You expect me to believe that?”

Kang Gi Seok snorted.

“You’re hiding something, aren’t you? What is it you’re concealing.”

“No sir. There’s nothing.”

Kang Gi Seok stood up and poked Gong Ju Won’s shoulder repeatedly.

“I need to be able to trust your word, right? How you survived alone in Yongsan after getting all your team members killed, how you managed to avoid Xion and survive. And blaming it all on some Yellow Hazmat Suit without any evidence.”

“Regarding the Yellow Hazmat Suit, I am the witness. I saw it clearly with my own eyes.”

“That’s exactly my point. The witness, Captain Gong Ju Won, isn’t trustworthy.”

Gong Ju Won lowered his head.

“Captain Gong Ju Won.”

“Yes sir.”

“Soldiers speak through mission performance, you know that?”

“Yes. I understand.”

“Good. That’s how it should be.”

Kang Gi Seok chuckled lowly and said.

“I have an operation I’m planning.”

Kang Gi Seok spread both arms dramatically as he continued.

“We’re going to kill Xion.”

“Excuse me?”

Gong Ju Won asked back in a dumbfounded voice. He couldn’t understand what nonsense was being spoken.

“There’s a place where a pond appeared overnight, and there’s a Xion there. According to reports, it does bewitch people but isn’t as dangerous as the others. There aren’t many casualties.”

Gong Ju Won’s eyebrows twitched. Not many casualties, but that didn’t mean none.

However, Kang Gi Seok spoke as if he didn’t care about such things.

“Our unit will be the first in history to subdue a Xion.”

“Major, based on my field experience….”

Kang Gi Seok raised his index finger with a “shh.”

“The contamination in Yongsan is weakening. You wouldn’t know, but since the vending machine appeared, civilians have been rushing into contaminated areas like crazy to catch Xion. Fearlessly.”

Being able to defend against contamination with vending machine items was a huge advantage. It was also an opportunity to accumulate Achievement.

Kang Gi Seok didn’t want to yield that first record to civilians—or to anyone else.

“I’ll assign some kids to you, so go scout it out. See exactly what kind of thing it is with your own two eyes. Got it?”

Lost in thought, Gong Ju Won silently swallowed a sigh and began walking.

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The Millennium Carp ‘Yeonjam’ had eaten only the pure dew that fell at dawn for exactly ten thousand and one years. He had abandoned all greed and accumulated merit.

He believed he would soon be able to ascend to heaven….

He looked down at his black arm that had been consumed by contamination.

His massive true form had been instantly consumed by the murky energy, and an unknown compulsion had enveloped him.

It was a compulsion to sink everything that moved in the pond.

However, he was originally a sacred being.

He couldn’t let mere contamination devour his mind.

So Yeonjam barely managed to separate part of himself from his main body.

But he couldn’t completely block the contamination. Nor the tears that fell because of it.

As he pondered the reason for his sadness, his stomach rumbled again. His belly was churning uncontrollably.

Was this unbearable appetite due to the contamination?

He had been enduring well until now, but today it was particularly difficult.

Following a scent so delicious it was hard to resist, he found a frog and caught it without realizing.

But when it came time to eat it, he still had lingering attachment to ascension and could only shed endless tears….

“Want to eat more?”

Tears rolled down Yeonjam’s smooth cheek.

His eyes were fixed on the boiled egg, and egg yolk was smeared around his mouth.

“If you give it to me, I’ll eat it.”

Then the reddish thing that looked as round as a boiled egg offered him another egg just like it.

The egg was uncontaminated. In this polluted world, an offering cleaner than morning dew.

He didn’t know how such a thing could exist, but instead of pondering the reason, he wanted to fill his stomach.

“If you put me down, I’ll give you more.”

The fin that had been holding Dam then set her down beside Yeonjam.

Yeonjam took off his frog raincoat and quietly watched Dam as she settled down beside him with little shuffling sounds.

Perhaps thinking something of that gaze, Dam offered him another egg.

“Here, eat more.”

Yeonjam reached out his hand to receive the egg.

When their hands brushed, Yeonjam’s shoulders trembled as if struck by electricity.

“How is your energy so pure?”

Yeonjam curiously kneaded Dam’s hand. It was the first time in his life he’d encountered such a pure being.

“I guess it’s because I can purify.”

Dam spoke as if it was nothing special while grasping his hands firmly with both of hers. At the same time, the contamination surrounding Yeonjam began to disappear without a trace.

Yeonjam closed his eyes for a moment and savored this refreshing energy.

He breathed in and out deeply, as if breathing for the first time.

When the energy finally receded like a tide and he slowly opened his eyes, the contamination that had stained his arms had completely vanished.

Tears fell drop by drop once again.

So it could disappear this easily.

“Why do you keep crying?”

Dam wiped away his tears with the back of her hand.

Yeonjam leaned against her soft hand as if nuzzling it. He didn’t want to pull away at all.

Even when Yeonjam unconsciously gripped her hand tightly, Do Dam just giggled cheerfully.

“….”

Yeonjam suddenly felt a different kind of desire rising instead of appetite.

I want to have this pale red thing.

I want to keep her beneath my pond and treat her as preciously as gold or jade.

Even if that means I cannot reach the heavens….

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