Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 86

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 86

A cold gleam flickered in his blue eyes.

“Where did you hear that name?”

His surprise was understandable.

Planet Dynamics’ founder was known to be someone else entirely.

I shrugged my shoulders.

“Let’s just say it was information I could obtain.”

Actually, I had seen a photo of Father taken with Henry Walden at a gathering. Father used to praise him, calling him an incredible genius.

But there was no need to bring up that story right now.

Henry Walden’s eyes narrowed.

He slowly looked me over.

Then suddenly he bent down.

“….”

His face drew closer.

Gulp. I reflexively swallowed and steeled myself not to step back.

His wrinkled hand approached my face. And then.

Poke.

“Really soft.”

He poked my cheek with his finger.

“…?!”

“Good elasticity too.”

When he started fiddling with my ear, I grabbed it and stepped back.

Hmph hmph!

Even receiving my fierce glare, he just laughed heartily.

He casually waved his hand as he spoke.

“Pretty girl. No need to be so wary. I’m sincere about wanting to help you all. I wonder if you can figure this out too~?”

I don’t know!

But I spoke leisurely.

“If that’s your true intention, you’ll show me through your actions.”

“Oh, that’s also true. You really are a smart pretty one. I realized it when I chased those guys away earlier. Something this smart couldn’t possibly be a dog… That’s why I decided to disable the cognitive filter. Seeing that you can deduce this much, I’m not dead yet, right?”

Laughing heartily again, he took out barley tea from the mini fridge.

I caught something strange in his words.

The founder of Planet Dynamics is staying in a hole-in-the-wall store in the Contaminated Area, and he’s even under cognitive distortion?

I thought of the corporate disputes that often occur.

“Old man, were you betrayed or something?”

Is that why you’re trying to help us?

“Ha ha ha! So that’s the conclusion you reached. Yes yes, it’s something like that. Ah, your friends seem quite worried, so bring them over and let’s talk together.”

“…?”

Following his gaze, I turned around to see Wuparupa and Black Octopus staring intently through the slightly open door crack.

How long have they been watching?!

I brought the two over and sat them down.

In the meantime, Henry prepared cups and poured me cool barley tea.

Henry took a sip of barley tea.

“Now then, where should I start explaining?”

“What exactly is this city? Is it really an anomaly? And why did you say it wasn’t reality?”

“This place is inside a giant incubator (a device for artificially cultivating microorganisms, cells, etc.). That’s why it’s not reality.”

“…?”

Seeing my confused expression, Henry laughed heartily.

He put down his cup and tapped the table.

“This city. It looks normal on the surface, right?”

“Yeah. That’s what’s strange. Usually people in anomalies have holes in their faces, don’t they?”

“Right. They’re like NPCs, but here there are ‘real’ people.”

“That means….”

As I trailed off, Henry continued.

“Yes. This is a place where they experiment on real people.”

My eyes wavered.

All those countless people I saw on the streets before coming to the shop, the customers who stopped by to buy food – they were all test subjects?

Hundreds, thousands of people?

Cold sweat ran down my spine.

“That can’t be possible… How could they manage so many people inside the Contaminated Area? Food, contamination, other variables…”

“Well, that’s true. Actually, less than half are living people. Most are those who died from experiments and became mutants.”

“Dead?”

“Yes, even after death they wander around this city living their lives. That’s why the scale seems even larger.”

Henry took another sip of barley tea.

Ice clinked against the glass with a clear, crisp sound.

Beyond that peaceful sound, the faint noises from the street outside the curtain pierced my ears.

Car horns honking in the distance, neighbors chatting quietly, someone’s laughter.

Goosebumps spread all over my body.

I slowly turned my head to look toward the curtain.

And I got up from my seat and carefully pulled back the curtain.

There were still people on the street.

A person standing in front of the bus stop, someone coming out of the convenience store, a person passing through the alley.

“….”

I squinted my eyes.

A bus came to the bus stop, but the man continued standing there.

And after a while.

The next bus arrived.

Still, the man didn’t move.

He was still waiting for the bus in the same posture, with the same expression.

I reflexively let go of the curtain.

Swoosh.

The curtain covered the window again.

My heart pounded hard.

“Now you understand, right?”

Henry asked.

I nodded.

“The anomalies get worse when night falls.”

“Planet Dynamics… why are they doing such things?”

Henry grimaced with a devastated expression as he spoke.

“They’re extracting data.”

“Data?”

“How to use new technology, how to utilize it… well, think of it as clinical trials for such things.”

“What about the cognitive distortion?”

“It was created to maintain the ‘normalcy’ of this city. To prevent them from realizing they’re dead, that they’ve become mutants.”

My eyes wavered.

My chest churned.

How could they do such horrible things…

Just then, a sharp voice came from behind.

“Old man, have you lost your mind? What are you talking about while holding onto a puppy?”

I opened my eyes wide.

“Shi Hyeon!”

“Did you two know each other?”

When I approached Shi Hyeon, she looked puzzled but still petted me.

“Am I really going senile? There’s no way I’d know a puppy like this.”

Shi Hyeon said with a slight smile while grumbling.

I sat close beside Shi Hyeon.

“Going senile, you cheeky little thing.”

“You know ‘senile’ and ‘cheeky’ too. Why are you so good at Korean?”

The elderly man put that strange hat on the grumbling Shi Hyeon.

“Why this stupid hat…!”

Older Sister, who had been frowning, spotted me and froze in place.

To think I’d see Shi Hyeon in my alien form after so long…

I awkwardly offered a greeting.

“Ah, hello…”

“What is this cute thing?”

Shi Hyeon asked, turning toward the elderly man.

“I’m called Dam… I’m an alien, right now…”

“Dam?”

Shi Hyeon’s head whipped around toward me.

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