Jelly Alien Will Save You! - Chapter 91

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The Jelly Alien Will Save You!

Episode 91

Our eyes met amidst the swirling flower petals.

We were so close that our noses could almost touch.

Just as Chae Heon’s eyes began to widen—

“It’s me.”

I said, gripping the hand that had grabbed my collar.

Then Chae Heon quickly pulled his hand and face away, his pupils beginning to shake wildly.

“….”

“….”

A moment of silence settled between us.

His dazed face looked down, then back up at me again.

“…Do Dam?”

“I told you to call me older sister.”

“…How?”

Chae Heon blinked repeatedly like a malfunctioning robot.

His gaze busily moved between my pink hair and face, like someone trying to understand the reality before their eyes.

Instead of a complicated explanation, I gestured toward the mutants’ screams coming from outside.

“I’ll explain that gradually. Right now there’s a much more urgent problem.”

“Urgent problem?”

“Yeah.”

I naturally stretched out both arms.

“I can’t walk. Carry me.”

“….”

Then Chae Heon hesitated with his head bowed low, but eventually embraced me and lifted me up.

The black flames surrounding Chae Heon weren’t hot.

I wrapped my arms around Chae Heon’s neck like when I was a jelly. Then I gradually sent out purification.

Perhaps because of my improved purification power, the black flames gradually died down.

Chae Heon jumped up onto the roof while carrying me.

“Did you come after seeing my note?”

At this, Chae Heon rummaged through his clothes and held out a neatly folded note.

“You sent something like this?”

[Jelly is in the west.]

“Oh, right! You arrived safely!”

Hey hey, mailbox! I was counting on you!

I was pleased, but Chae Heon sighed.

“By the way, where are Kwon Bora and Older Brother Jae Hee?”

“We agreed to meet at the central area.”

“Good, then let’s go to the tower first. Seeing that Older Sister Shi Hyeon hasn’t returned, something must have happened.”

“Yeah.”

Chae Heon answered meekly, unlike himself, and began heading toward the tower.

I thought he’d ask various things like when and how he met Older Sister Shi Hyeon, why we were going to the tower. His reaction was unexpectedly unfamiliar.

Was he that shocked that I became human?

I giggled.

I had intended to surprise him, but I didn’t expect him to be this shocked.

Unlike when I was a soft handful of jelly, even though I now had an adult body, Chae Heon carried me in his arms stably without wavering.

Except his arms and shoulders holding me were tensed up and stiff as stone.

By the way—

‘Chae Heon, your ears are bright red.’

I absentmindedly fiddled with his earlobe.

Then Chae Heon shouted like an angry cat.

“What, what are you doing!”

“You seemed cold, so I was warming you up?”

“Don’t touch me carelessly!”

“No way, I’ll do as I please. You just hurry to the tower.”

“….”

Chae Heon clenched his mouth as if annoyed, and now even his earlobes were bright red.

“Why are you getting even redder?”

Instead of responding further, he silently increased his speed.

* * *

“You should have seen me knock down that hazmat suit earlier.”

“….”

“I went ‘pew’ with the Energy Injector, and it went flying with a ‘thwack.'”

“….”

“It was really cool!”

“We’re here.”

“Huh?”

After cutting through the wind and making several large leaps over collapsed building ruins, the massive central tower was right in front of us.

Along with that, I groaned at the sight that came into view.

“…That’s.”

“Shh.”

Chae Heon hid behind the collapsed outer wall of a building. I also held my breath in his arms.

In the plaza in front of the tower, mutants who had begun rampaging and the white hazmat suit unit trying to suppress them were tangled together in a terrible melee.

If we tried to break through there, we’d obviously end up advertising our location to everyone.

“Hold on tight.”

Chae Heon whispered low in my ear.

That tickles! It felt like tiny hairs were standing up in my ear.

I touched my ear once, then held onto Chae Heon tightly with both hands and nodded.

When he lightly flicked his finger toward the ground, the earth beneath the debris warped like a soft swamp.

Swoosh—

The terrain under our feet opened its mouth geometrically and swallowed us.

It was perfect stealth infiltration that only Chae Heon could accomplish.

I felt the ground moving for just a moment.

“We’ve arrived.”

Chae Heon said.

We had quietly entered the basement of the tower without anyone knowing.

The interior looked like a damp and cool underground waterway.

Drip, drip drop.

Water droplets fell from the pipes above.

In the darkness where not a single point of light entered, a cold and musty fishy smell wafted over.

It was a maze surrounded by old bricks that all looked the same, complex like an ant hill with no visible end.

Chae Heon furrowed his brow as if perplexed.

He must be thinking it would be difficult to navigate through such a maze to reach the depths.

But I grinned and pointed in a direction.

“That way.”

I have the survival handbook’s map that marks everything for me. Long live the alien GPS.

“What?”

“Hurry up.”

When I swung my legs impatiently, Chae Heon sighed and obediently started moving.

“Right. From there, take the pipe down. Now left!”

I glanced at the holographic map while continuously giving directions.

Chae Heon trusted only my instructions and quickly broke through the maze in the pitch-black darkness where he couldn’t see an inch ahead.

How long had we been moving like that?

The stuffy air suddenly turned cool, and the sound of massive machinery moving began to echo faintly through the maze walls.

That’s when it happened.

Thud!

Chae Heon’s footsteps came to an abrupt halt at the sudden loud noise.

‘Did something fall from above?’

Chae Heon’s pace quickened even more.

At the end of the maze we finally reached, there was a rusted iron gate.

We held our breath and looked through the gaps in the gate to the other side.

In that brightly lit place, a massive cylindrical machine stretched straight up to the top of the tower.

Could this possibly be the core of the cognitive distortion system…?

Then my eyes widened as I spotted something.

“…!”

I could see Older Sister Shi Hyeon collapsed beneath the machine, covered in blood.

Chae Heon lightly bent the iron bars and immediately approached Older Sister Shi Hyeon.

After stepping down to the floor, I pressed my ear to Older Sister’s chest.

Fortunately, she’s still breathing…

I looked at Chae Heon and nodded.

Was the sound of something falling earlier Older Sister? Who had she been fighting?

That’s when it happened.

The sound of running footsteps came from the upper railing. It was the sound of military boots.

Chae Heon looked up and then said to me.

“Stay here for a moment. I’ll handle this and come back.”

“Okay.”

“Will you… be able to stay safe?”

He asked with a worried expression.

I chuckled and pulled out my energy injector.

“Who are you worried about? I told you earlier, didn’t I? I might be faster than you when it comes to subduing someone.”

As I swung the energy injector around, he let out a small laugh.

“Got it. I’ll be right back.”

“Okay, okay. Hurry back.”

Chae Heon nodded and instantly climbed up the machine to the upper floor.

Meanwhile, I dragged Older Sister and slowly moved toward where we had come from.

Then Older Sister’s arm fell down, and I caught sight of torn wounds.

“…!”

The moment I was shocked by the wounds.

Beep-

Beep-

The Queisa badge inside the spaceship in my pocket suddenly rang.

It meant there was another guild member nearby.

“…?”

That can’t be right…

Just as I was puzzled.

“…Dam?”

A low, resonant voice like a cave.

I immediately turned my head.

My lips unconsciously twitched.

“Older Brother Seong Woo?”

It was Yoo Seong Woo, Queisa’s vice guild leader.

* * *

At my call, the silhouette in the darkness hesitated for a moment, then urgently approached.

“Is it really Dam? How did you get here…?”

Older Brother Seong Woo’s face clearly showed his surprise.

It was the same gentle and reliable face from before.

I put down the energy injector I was holding and smiled with relief.

“I’m glad I found you too, Older Brother Seong Woo…”

“Dam, why is your hair color… No, how did you end up here? Don’t you know how dangerous this place is?”

“Something happened. More importantly, Older Sister Shi Hyeon is badly hurt. Can you take a look at her?”

“My goodness, what on earth happened here?”

Older Brother Seong Woo’s face turned pale as he quickly closed the distance. Then he knelt down and examined Older Sister Shi Hyeon.

Watching this, I felt a chill in one corner of my heart.

“She lost a lot of blood, but it’s not life-threatening, so she’ll be fine if we treat her quickly. Don’t worry.”

“Okay.”

“Dam, are you here alone?”

“Am I?”

“…Dam?”

“Yes.”

I looked down at Older Brother Seong Woo with a sad expression.

Older Brother Seong Woo’s confused gaze turned toward me.

His confusion was natural.

I was pointing the muzzle of my energy injector at the back of Older Brother Seong Woo’s neck.

“Older Brother Seong Woo, why did you do it?”

“Dam, what is this? What are you talking about right now…?”

“The wounds on Older Sister Shi Hyeon’s body—that’s your skill, isn’t it, Older Brother Seong Woo?”

For a moment, a cold silence fell.

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