Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 81

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 81

I snapped the cookie cleanly in half.

Crack.

A thin slip of paper slid out from inside.

[Oh!]

I set the paper aside and first tasted the cookie.

Crunch.

Suddenly.

Ding.

[‘Cosmic Fortune Cookie’ effect activated.]

Strength +10

“Strength 10?”

10 is way more than I expected!

Feeling energy coursing through me, I clenched and unclenched my fist.

My strength had definitely increased.

I could feel power filling my arms.

So this is how it works.

[Master! Master! Master!]

[How do you feel? Has your strength increased?]

“Yeah. I’ll show you when we go outside.”

I feel like I could chop firewood with an axe now! (Before, I couldn’t even dream of chopping wood because I’d wobble just holding an axe.)

[Yes!]

[But Master!]

[What does the paper say?]

[May I look at it with you?]

Oh, right.

I readily nodded and unfolded the paper. It read:

[The one who waits and the one who seeks shall meet in the western spring that scatters all.]

This… is this the rare effect ‘Future Prediction’?

I blinked a couple times then immediately grabbed Shane.

“Let’s go.”

[Huh?]

Instead of answering the confused Shane, I immediately went through the portal outside.

Pop pop pop pop!

Chae Heon, who was placing a bunch of plastic sheets he’d gathered in the courtyard, tilted his head curiously.

“Where did you come from?”

“West! They’re in the west!”

“You came from the west?”

“No!”

I thrust Shane, who I was clutching in my hand, right in front of Chae Heon’s eyes.

Then Shane held up his tablet and explained instead of excited me.

[Greetings, earthling homeowner!]

[I came today to inform my master of outside information.]

[According to our investigation, Yellow Hazmat Suit was spotted in West City.]

* * *

Hiss-

Hiss-

The man in the yellow hazmat suit was leaning against the railing on the rooftop of a collapsed building.

Beyond the darkly sunken city, yellow hazmat suits could be seen moving busily.

In fact, this was closer to putting on a show. As if announcing to everyone that Yellow Hazmat Suit was here.

When the man pressed a button on the side of his face, the distant view zoomed in and countless people watching the yellow hazmat suits came into view.

From soldiers to large guilds, agents… and even Revaion Biotech’s lackeys.

Among them, who could be the one with the legacy interfering with us?

The yellow hazmat suits were deliberately exposed for that reason. To deal with the ‘variable’ that kept interfering.

Based on their actions so far, that guy was targeting ‘special’ Xions.

Do Gyeol, Kwon Bora, Woo Jae-hee…

‘Queisa.’

If his calculations were correct, that troublesome variable would set foot in the west on their own.

Hiss-

“Who are you.”

Who could be targeting Queisa.

Hiss-

“Will you come when the storm passes.”

The man looked up at the sky that was still only clear.

* * *

Everyone gathered in the main room to discuss Yellow Hazmat Suit.

“West City?”

Chae Heon’s brow furrowed immediately.

Shane’s hamster drone held up the tablet high and added an explanation.

[Yes, according to our information network, that place is managed like a massive closed zone.]

[It’s a place completely cut off from the outside where abnormal phenomena have become fixed.]

I showed them the paper I’d drawn from the Cosmic Fortune Cookie earlier.

“Plus, the prophecy from the fortune cookie bothers me.”

“The one who waits and the one who seeks…”

I nodded at Kwon Bora’s murmur.

“The one who seeks would be Yellow Hazmat Suit…”

“Could the one who waits be Yoo Seong Woo and Shi Hyeon?”

Tears welled up in Kwon Bora’s eyes, and Jae Hee’s eyes grew heavy.

Even Chae Heon and noisy Shane fell silent.

I took Older Brother, who had been sitting on my head, into my arms. Patting the bald head of Older Brother who hugged me back, I spoke up in the silence.

“But there’s one thing that bothers me.”

Everyone’s attention focused on me.

“According to the information Shane gave us, the west is a massive closed zone controlled by Yellow Hazmat Suit. It’s strange that Yellow Hazmat Suit would suddenly reveal themselves conspicuously in such a place.”

Chae Heon quietly nodded in agreement.

“And this is right after we ambushed Yellow Hazmat Suit and brought back Jae Hee.”

Kwon Bora’s eyes wavered.

Jae Hee, who had been listening quietly, asked matter-of-factly.

“So you’re saying Yellow Hazmat Suit is deliberately luring us?”

“I think so…”

As I spoke hesitantly, Chae Heon chimed in.

“They definitely wouldn’t have just appeared. The timing is too coincidental.”

“Th-then would it be better not to go west? Since it might be a trap?”

Kwon Bora asked, her shoulders drooping.

“No, we have to go.”

I answered firmly.

Chae Heon also said we should go and added.

“If Yellow Hazmat Suit is looking for us, it’s only a matter of time before they discover this place.”

When Chae Heon voiced what I was thinking, I nodded my head vigorously up and down.

“Besides, if Yoo Seong Woo and Shi Hyeon are really in the west, going there would actually be advantageous for us. We absolutely have to rescue them.”

“That makes sense.”

This time it was Jae Hee who agreed with me.

“Seong-woo and Si-hyeon are likely under their control. But if this plan fails and Yellow Hazmat Suit abandons the exposed western area and moves somewhere else? We’d lose any chance of finding clues about those two.”

I shook my head vigorously again.

When I shook it so hard it seemed like my head might fall off, Gyeol held my chin steady with his tentacle as if to say that was enough.

Then, Kwon Bora, who had been quietly listening, clenched both fists with determination.

“…I’m fine with it. I’ll go anywhere.”

It looked like sparks were flying from her eyes.

“Then it’s decided. To the west right away!”

As I clenched my fist and shouted, Chae Heon pressed down on my head and cut me off.

“Where do you think you’re going right now? They said a storm is coming soon.”

Right, they said a contamination storm was coming…

“But is a storm really coming?”

I looked out the window.

The sky was clear and the wind was gentle, showing no signs whatsoever of an approaching contamination storm.

“About now. It’s time for it to come.”

Kwon Bora and Jae Hee also nodded in agreement.

Both seemed to have experienced the strange phenomenon called ‘contamination storms’ while living in the Contaminated Area.

I pouted and lowered my tail.

So going right away would be too much.

“Fine… We’ll go after the storm passes.”

With that, today’s meeting ended, but there was still work to be done.

Chae Heon leisurely stood up and said.

“Well, since we’re roughly done talking, from now on…”

From now on? I blinked.

Chae Heon looked around at us.

“It’s house maintenance time.”

* * *

While Jae Hee climbed onto the roof to inspect the tiles, Kwon Bora moved the Space Spirits and Mimic Jelly from the Farm inside.

Prey, who had been guarding the Farmfield, came up to the wooden floor, and Ain went right into my spaceship.

This was to prepare for the contamination typhoon.

While everyone was busy moving around with their assigned tasks, I was…

Kneeling with Older Brother on my head, pouting.

Chae Heon was sitting across from me, with my spaceship placed between us.

Chae Heon nagged like a fussy mother.

“What is all this stuff? I told you to throw away anything useless.”

My lips jutted out even more.

“It’s not useless.”

“What’s this egg? Were you keeping it inside to hatch it?”

If he was going to ask that, I had something to say too.

“It’s the first egg Captain Gong laid, so as a memento…”

But Chae Heon didn’t back down.

“It’s spoiled. Throw it away.”

“It’s not spoiled! And I might use it later!”

I trembled my jelly body in frustration and shouted, but Chae Heon laughed as if it was ridiculous and ruthlessly rummaged through the spaceship.

He soon pulled out an unidentifiable tree branch and a can with holes from a corner of the spaceship.

“What’s this then? Don’t tell me these are also things you’ll use ‘later’?”

“That… that’s something Shane brought for interior decorating!”

Older Brother bounced up and down on my head, and Shane flew around buzzing while nodding vigorously.

[Those are interior accessories with the aesthetic of ancient civilization!]

Chae Heon didn’t even look at what Shane was writing on the tablet.

“Throw it away.”

[Bad landlord!]

[Uncivilized barbarian!]

“Mean!”

Bounce bounce!

Shane, Gyeol, and I protested, but it didn’t work on Chae Heon at all.

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