Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 119

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 119

 

In the house(6)

 

〔Tai-ryung〕

 

The eastern region appears on the screen.

 

It’s Lee Jun-ho’s group. Through cooperation, they successfully capture the great tiger and hand the hide to the Taoist Mage.

 

─Taoist Mage: You seem worthy of this martial arts uniform.

 

The Taoist Mage, seemingly impressed by Lee Jun-ho’s skills, bestows upon him the sect’s martial arts uniform. Lee Jun-ho receives it with a dazed expression.

 

Looking at Lee Jun-ho’s recent photos, he’s always wearing that martial arts uniform – so that’s where it came from.

 

─Lee Jun-ho: …Thank you.

 

His face shows he’s absolutely delighted.

 

He’s completely spaced out.

 

─Seo Ji-woo: What about me and Jo Woon?

 

Seo Ji-woo asks as if genuinely curious. The Taoist Mage looks slightly flustered.

 

─Lee Jun-ho: I’ll give you guys a bigger share when we hunt the dragon.

 

─Seo Ji-woo: …Fine, whatever.

 

─Jo Woon: I’m okay with it.

 

─Seo Ji-woo: Hey. What do you mean okay? You should get something too. Ah, Lee Jun-ho really takes everything.

 

─Lee Jun-ho: …When we hunt the dragon-

 

─Seo Ji-woo: Then. Please give us the next mission.

 

Just as Seo Ji-woo was urging the Taoist Mage for a quest, a hawk suddenly flies in through the window with a note tied to its leg.

 

─Lee Jun-ho: Men in suits are coming from the west… What is this? Jo Woon. This is in Chinese, did I read it right?

 

─Jo Woon: Let me see… Yes, that’s correct.

 

Men in suits are coming. The audience all knows what this means.

 

But Lee Jun-ho scratched the back of his neck as if he didn’t understand.

 

─Seo Ji-woo: Taoist Mage, give us the dragon! The dragon!

 

─Taoist Mage: Not yet-

 

─Seo Ji-woo: Give us the dragon! The dragon! Hey Jo Woon, you say it too!

 

─Jo Woon: …Please give us the dragon.

 

─Taoist Mage: Just, just let me rest a little. Didn’t you just catch the great tiger?

 

After that, about 3 more minutes of eastern region content follows. The chemistry between the three is quite good, and Seo Ji-woo is lively and fun like her nickname “Human Vitamin,” but they inevitably get less screen time.

 

It’s not the eastern region’s fault.

 

The west is just overwhelmingly dominant.

 

〔RAINOS〕

 

As soon as we return to the west, the atmosphere quickly becomes heavy.

 

So this is why they split east and west.

 

The west is so much like a thriller that it might have been a bit tiring if this atmosphere had continued from beginning to end.

 

Indeed, from the very beginning, many explorers are captured by the Seer.

 

─Lee Sin-hye: Crazy, let go of this! Won’t you let go?! Let go, you bastards!

 

Some were caught using WP as bait, while others were arrested when they went to the exchange to buy return tickets.

 

─Im Hae-jun: Let go! I said let go!

 

Im Hae-jun being forcibly kidnapped by the Seer.

 

Suddenly the camera points to the sky. Seol Ha-woon’s drone floating around tracks the car carrying Im Hae-jun.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Got it. I’ve located the research facility.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Should we head out right away?

 

Inside the collapsed hotel. Seol Ha-woon and Kang Hyeon sit facing each other.

 

But the middle part seems a bit cut off. Maybe the camera was slow to position itself because the hotel was blown up too suddenly.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: No. We need to investigate the interior with this first.

 

Seol Ha-woon takes out a business card and sends it flying through the gaps in the debris. The camera desperately follows it.

 

The business card flies through the air and lands in a puddle near the research facility.

 

Splash.

 

A patrolling guard steps on the business card. The card sticks to his sole and infiltrates the research facility, wriggling as it advances through the interior.

 

A business card sequence with quite a cheerful soundtrack. It’s entertaining to watch.

 

The business card crawls through the research facility interior and discovers some documents!

 

[ Unconscious Labyrinth ]Unconscious Labyrinth. Enter by connecting consciousness to the capsule. Projects the happiness that the entering human most desires through the unconscious…★★★ Complete opening is expected to take more than 4 days.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: It’s definitely a consciousness labyrinth. Even an unconscious one. Fortunately, there’s still some time left before complete opening.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Should we deploy immediately?

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Let’s sleep a bit first.

 

Seol Ha-woon collapsed onto the mattress.

 

─Kang Hyeon: ….

 

Kang Hyeon stared at him intently, then lay down as well.

 

Afterwards.

 

─Seer: …He will come soon.

 

Seer’s office. The Seer anticipates that Seol Ha-woon is tracking them. He got the right answer again.

 

─Subordinate: He hasn’t been found anywhere inside or outside the hotel. But… do you still think so?

 

The subordinate suspects Seol Ha-woon, not the Seer. He underestimates Seol Ha-woon’s abilities.

 

However.

 

─Seer: Of course.

 

The Seer is different. He rather has confidence in Seol Ha-woon. Without looking down on him at all, he waits for his arrival.

 

─Seer: Without fail.

 

Next, the full view of the hotel is shown.

 

An aerial shot from above. The Seer’s forces are guarding every direction like an iron wall.

 

Lee Si-ah now understood what the subordinate meant earlier.

 

Even knowing the location of the research facility, how would Seol Ha-woon break through that place?

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Get up. Let’s go now.

 

From the bottom of the hotel that had become a pile of rubble, Seol Ha-woon, who had awakened at some point, stands up leaning on his walking stick.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Yes.

 

Kang Hyeon also stood up following him, but seemed curious about Seol Ha-woon’s plan.

 

Snap.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Get ready.

 

Seol Ha-woon said that while snapping his fingers first.

 

Boom!

 

An explosion erupted from within the hotel debris.

 

Black smoke billows up from outside the hotel. It’s like smog. A Great Smog that completely covers the entire city.

 

Lee Si-ah was once again amazed.

 

So that’s how it’s done. Whatever he does, the scale is massive.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Clear the path.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Yes.

 

Seol Ha-woon puts on a gas mask, and Kang Hyeon cuts through the debris to make a path.

 

Easily breaking through the encirclement and coming outside, they advance through the fumes and hijack an SUV.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Hyung. Are you good at driving?

 

Kang Hyeon looks at Seol Ha-woon getting into the driver’s seat with anxious eyes.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Of course.

 

─Kang Hyeon: ….

 

Seol Ha-woon steps on the accelerator.

 

Vrooom!

 

At the faster-than-expected speed, Kang Hyeon quietly puts on his safety belt.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Hey.

 

─Kang Hyeon: You’re supposed to wear a safety belt anyway. It’s not that I don’t trust your driving-

 

─Seol Ha-woon: I know. Put mine on too.

 

Kang Hyeon feeling embarrassed, and Seol Ha-woon not caring at all.

 

The theater laughed.

 

Vrooooom!

 

They advanced together down the road. The fumes spread all the way to the bridge outside the city, and the SUV escaped the Seer’s encirclement while hiding within it.

 

〔MC and BURGER〕

 

After leaving the city, they seemed to have some leisure time as they even stopped by a drive-through.

 

─Kang Hyeon: The hamburger is delicious.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Eat plenty. We’ll have to fight soon.

 

Like a buddy movie, with upbeat music playing as they drive down the highway, they arrive at an empty open ground.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: We’ve arrived.

 

Kang Hyeon craned his neck forward.

 

Nothing was visible on camera.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: You won’t be able to see it. It’s quite far.

 

It seems to be in a position only Seol Ha-woon can see. His eyesight must be tremendous.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Then, how do we infiltrate? Stealth?

 

─Seol Ha-woon: We can’t infiltrate.

 

─Kang Hyeon: I’ll leave it to you, hyung.

 

Seol Ha-woon seems to ponder for a moment, then suddenly grips the steering wheel even tighter.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: We’re just going in.

 

─Kang Hyeon: …Going in?

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Yeah.

 

Just going in.

 

That probably means….

 

Whoosh!

 

Inside the SUV, barriers appear around the driver’s seat and passenger seat. Thin membranes like crystal, blue barriers.

 

Buzz—

 

At the same time, blue currents sparked around the car body. The SUV transformed like some kind of siege weapon.

 

Wow.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Here we go.

 

Seol Ha-woon slammed down on the accelerator. Good thing the accelerator is on the right.

 

Screeeeeeech──-!

 

Tremendous speed. Steel cuts through the air. A gust of wind swirls along with the galloping.

 

Scenery flashing by in an instant. Gravitational acceleration is transmitted even beyond the theater. The screen is so huge, it feels like I’m riding in there.

 

My knees are going weak!

 

Kwaaaaaaak──-

 

A bursting sound that shakes the theater. The car pierced through the research facility building.

 

It broke through in one point.

 

Kwaddddd….

 

Shattered titanium flows down, and the SUV’s engine shuts off as if broken.

 

But the interior is safe.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: …Are you okay?

 

─Kang Hyeon: Yes. You made the barrier well.

 

Suddenly, Kang Hyeon smiled like a child.

 

He seemed to be enjoying himself. This smile was particularly special. It was different from his usual laughter. It was joy filled with sincerity.

 

As expected of Jemallot. A chemistry bomb that brings out people’s true nature….

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Let’s get out.

 

Seol Ha-woon got out of the car.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Hyung. Should I carry you on my back?

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Do you think I wouldn’t have prepared for that?

 

He smiles confidently and takes something out of his pocket. It’s something like a laser projector.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Come out!

 

With the face of revealing his secret weapon, he shouts like summoning a Pokémon and presses the button.

 

Whiiiing─-

 

A hologram imbued with magic power formed the shape of some beast.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: ….

 

For a moment Seol Ha-woon was speechless, and loud laughter erupted in the theater.

 

Pahahahaha!!

 

All kinds of laughter from men and women, young and old, echoed like an echo.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: …What the hell.

 

“Puhuhuhup.”

 

The contrast between Seol Ha-woon’s expression that seemed so bewildered it even mixed with despair, and the ‘guy’ that appeared spiritedly as if showing off itself was so funny.

 

─Kang Hyeon: …It’s cute, hyung. What’s its name?

 

Kang Hyeon with his eyes and cheeks half-puffed, obviously holding back laughter, is also too funny.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: No… isn’t this a dachshund.

 

It’s a pony. Its height is incredibly small. Compared to the tall and lanky Seol Ha-woon, it’s a guy that suits the words cute and adorable.

 

Hihihing!

 

It’s galloping like a horse in its own way, but it’s even funnier. Laughter continues endlessly in the theater too.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Ah shit… let’s go for now.

 

Seol Ha-woon is truly a diverse person. He even knows how to do this kind of comedy.

 

Surely, he bought it on purpose for broadcasting.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Giddy up!

 

Still, everyone kept laughing at the sight of him treating it like a horse. Some people were even shedding tears.

 

“Ah, noona, I’m laughing too much. This guy is driving me crazy.”

 

“I know right. Ah, my stomach hurts….”

 

“Just bear with it a little. I’ll kiss it better when it’s over….”

 

Ah shit. The couple next to me ruined my mood.

 

Hihihing!

 

Anyway, the pony ran while galloping. Surprisingly, its speed was fast.

 

Kang Hyeon cut down all the troops that appeared at every turn, and the two went down underground together.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: …Huh?

 

But somehow it feels ominous.

 

The door is wide open.

 

─Kang Hyeon: It’s open?

 

Seol Ha-woon also tilts his head while putting away the explosives he was gripping in his hand.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Let’s go in for now.

 

The two enter inside alone. They don’t let down their guard.

 

Heheheng.

 

Suddenly the pony got irritated.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: What. Why again.

 

Hihihihing!

 

The pony twists its body this way and that.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Ah why?

 

As soon as Seol Ha-woon had no choice but to get off, the pony returned into the projector.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: ….

 

.

 

Seol Ha-woon’s dazed expression is shown in close-up, and the theater is once again an ocean of laughter.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Hyung. Here….

 

Seol Ha-woon, having regained his composure, looks around the interior. In the vast space, there are dozens of capsules. Capsules connected to the labyrinth within the labyrinth.

 

Too many explorers have already fallen into unconsciousness.

 

Lee Si-ah immediately became serious again.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: Hah. They said there were three days left.

 

Could it be that even the research facility’s documents were manipulated by the Seer?

 

Lee Si-ah inwardly admired the Seer’s meticulousness.

 

─You’ve arrived.

 

A voice that pierced through the ears like a blade.

 

One wall crackled as a panel lit up. Beyond it was the Seer.

 

─Seer: As you can see, you are already too late.

 

The Seer somewhere, sitting in a chair, alternately gazes at the Seer and Seol Ha-woon.

 

─Seer: Don’t worry. Everyone is experiencing the happiness they desire. For them, it would be an earthly paradise.

 

Crack!

 

Intense sparks flew from the rift in the unconscious labyrinth.

 

─Seer: This consciousness labyrinth projects happiness onto them. It lets them experience the happiness they want infinitely. If possible, I would want to go there myself.

 

Again, the camera closes up on the Seer.

 

─Seer: I recommend negotiation to you all.

 

The Seer’s gaze looking beyond the theater.

 

Is “you all” referring to Seol Ha-woon, Kang Hyeon, or us sitting as the audience?

 

─Seol Ha-woon: What if we refuse to comply?

 

─Seer: You are not the subject of negotiation. I will negotiate with those who sent you here.

 

The negotiation the Seer wants. Lee Si-ah finds herself unconsciously engaging in philosophical contemplation.

 

They say good movies make the audience fall into deep thought.

 

─Kang Hyeon: Ha-woon hyung. What should we do?

 

─Seol Ha-woon: …There are two ways to enter the consciousness labyrinth. Either go in with only your unconscious, or enter with your bare body.

 

Seol Ha-woon looks at the capsules. There’s no capsule for him to enter. Therefore, his eyes reach the labyrinth itself.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: I’ll go and try to wake them up. You guard this place in the meantime.

 

─Seer: It’s impossible. The human species is designed to be unable to overcome the unconscious.

 

The Seer tries to dissuade him. In the Seer’s extremely dry, cold voice, there’s a trace of desperation.

 

He too is somewhat afraid of Seol Ha-woon.

 

If there exists a ‘variable’ that could possibly clear this labyrinth, it would be Seol Ha-woon.

 

A special forces soldier who endured all the terrible mental discipline training, traversed the battlefield called the hell of the living, and even overcame total paralysis.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: …First.

 

Seol Ha-woon looked at the Seer and let out a light sigh.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: I can’t say I don’t feel sorry for you. I would have done the same if I were you.

 

He expressed both respect and regret to him.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: In the world I lived in, there’s a famous saying. It’s something I’ve heard to the point of being sick of it.

 

The theater was extremely immersed in this moment.

 

─Seol Ha-woon: We don’t negotiate with terrorists.

 

Seol Ha-woon clearly defines the Seer, a labyrinth person, as an enemy and never compromises.

 

With such firm convictions and resolve held close to his heart, he walks into the labyrinth.

 

─Kang Hyeon: …You heard him.

 

Kang Hyeon, left alone, quietly turns around, draws his sword, and…

 

─Kang Hyeon: I feel the same as stated above.

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