Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 192

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 192

Still life(8)

Lee Si-ah doesn’t feel lonely even during the commercial break.

That’s the advantage of Group Viewing.

Fans supporting the same explorer all gather together, chatting warmly and having conversations with like-minded people.

“Is it fun?”

Just then, someone tapped Lee Si-ah’s shoulder. When Si-ah turned around, she was startled.

“Huh?”

It was ‘Thisdudeagain’.

@thisdudeagain.

The malicious fansite master who got destroyed by Seol Ha-woon at a fan signing event before.

“Hi there.”

She sat down next to her. Si-ah blinked and asked.

“You’re still alive?”

“Did you think I’d be dead?”

She handed over a business card with a much more relaxed face than before.

“I’m living a pretty good life now.”

Jin Yeon-hee Central Daily│Reporter

It’s a reporter’s business card.

This person became a reporter.

“Whoa.”

“When I showed them the photos I took, they immediately gave me the job. Oh, but Si-ah, is that thing actually true?”

Even her tone of voice had changed. Before, she was incredibly sharp and like a pufferfish full of complaints about everything.

“What fact?”

“That Seol Ha-woon is a Gold Card owner.”

Si-ah’s lips twitched. Her shoulders naturally moved up and down.

“…Yes.”

“Wow, I’m jealous. I heard a 2 of 3 is coming up for auction this time. They’re expecting it to sell for about 2-3 billion won. Congratulations. You’ve achieved financial freedom.”

My card is much better than the 2 of 3. It’s probably rarer than even the Prism.

“I have no intention of selling it.”

“You’re a true fan.”

Just then, the live broadcast resumed. Si-ah glanced at her sideways.

“…Are you a fan now too?”

“Yes.”

“I thought you’d hate Seol Ha-woon.”

“There’s no reason to hate him. Well then, see you later.”

Jin Yeon-hee chuckled and went off somewhere. She was with other fans.

“What a world we live in…”

To think he could convert even such a malicious person. Seol Ha-woon’s influence is truly impressive.

Cosmos A Section Core Laboratory

Si-ah fixed her gaze back on the live broadcast.

─Kate: Are you ready?

─Lee Jun-ho: Confirmed.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Yes!

─Jo Woon: Yes. Let’s go.

It’s Kate’s party. They prepare to deal physical damage to the ‘substance’.

Kate’s Spear Throw, Lee Jun-ho’s Sword Strike, and Jo Woon’s Spear Blade all gather together and surge forward, but.

Paaaaa──-!

The ‘substance’ emits a Magic Wave and deflects everything.

At the same time, zombies swarm in.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

─Lee Jun-ho: What the hell. It’s not even budging?

─Yoon Hwa-rim: J-James! What do we do?!

─James: Run for now!

They quickly turn around and run. Avoiding the crazily swarming zombies, they enter the Maintenance Room.

─James: This way!

James operates the internal console to lower the Gate.

Thud!

They seem to have saved their lives for now, but.

Grooooooooooo…

Crying sounds from outside. The zombies are banging loudly.

They’re completely trapped.

Even watching gives you goosebumps.

─James: …Damn.

James wipes his flowing sweat and slumps down on the ground.

─Kate: James. Tell us exactly. What is that substance, and what happened here?

Kate asks him. James looks up at her, then continues speaking in a sad tone.

─James: That substance is… the root of all evil.

James’s monologue quietly continues.

The substance that was in the form of meteorite fragments. At first, they just thought of it as an energy source. However, at some point, strange waves began emanating from the substance, and it devoured human bodies. James, who noticed this fact, expressed his ‘substance exclusion opinion’ to the Mothership’s upper management, but was ignored.

─James: I ran away, leaving my parents behind… But I promised I would come back.

James looks around at the explorers with determined eyes.

─James: I must incinerate that substance. Even if it costs me my life.

Just then, the screen switches.

Three days ago

─Eldia: That level of story should be enough.

It’s Eldia. Damn pretty, but incredibly cheap and scary. Even Oscar-winning actors reference her villain acting on social media.

─Eldia: There must be many people there who lost their parents.

Just when I was thinking something smells fishy.

As the camera turned…

─James: Hmm.

It showed James.

“Gasp.”

“Crazy.”

“Oh my head.”

A great commotion arose in the theater hall as well.

─James: Is acting skill the key? Will the interstellar police be easily fooled?

─Eldia: Easy. Don’t worry. You just need to become that person for a little while.

─James: Really?

James looks at Eldia and smiles. His modest and innocent-seeming impression has disappeared, and instead he looks incredibly fishy.

─James: Okay. I’m looking forward to it. What we can get inside.

─Raid: It’s all for humanity.

The blonde man Raid, who got blown up by Seol Ha-woon, also approaches and laughs.

─Eldia: Are you ready?

─James: Yeah. Just in case.

James takes out a small virus reagent bottle from his inner pocket and places it between his teeth.

─James: I prepared this too. It’s a virus bomb. Unless my head gets blown off in an instant, I should be able to self-destruct.

─Eldia: …

Eldia looks at James with determined eyes.

They seem to have quite a deep bond among themselves.

─James: Why are you looking at me like that, Miss Eldia. This is for you and humanity. It’s okay to sacrifice someone like me.

─Eldia: …Right. Thank you, James.

─James: Don’t thank me. Just make sure to survive.

Eldia extends her hand. James and Raid also place their hands on top. Three psychopaths unite in solidarity.

“Crazy bastards.”

They’re really crazy bastards. That James guy is also a crazy psycho.

Anyway, Kate’s party is in danger. If things go wrong, he’ll immediately detonate the virus bomb.

Lee Si-ah looked at KakaoTalk.

-Fuck Kate no

-Ah Jun-ho;;

-Damn, no luck at all ㅋㅋ Seo Jiwoo got lucky meeting Seol Haun and will live a long life.

-Are they getting eliminated?

-!!

-?? What’s that Chinese character above lol just hit the translate button lol

-No really, all the Labyrinth People are so Labyrinth People-like

-Can’t trust Truck either yet

-What can’t you trust, are you crazy

Micro Spaceship A0391-BIOLA

Meanwhile, Julione’s spaceship takes flight. Along the hangar, to the deepest core of Cosmos.

─Julione: This is it. A place where low-ranking crew members like me could never come.

─Seol Ha-woon: Everyone get ready.

Saying get ready, Seol Ha-woon lies down on the spaceship floor.

─Seo Ji-woo: …What are you doing?

─Seol Ha-woon: You guys lie down too. We need to sleep for 2 hours.

The fans in the theater laugh.

He’s truly an unpredictable person.

-Is this military-style humor

-Well, fatigue recovery is essential

-Ah fuck what about Kate

-Fucking hell really James looked so stupidly suspicious from the beginning

-You’re right, please save our Junho ㅠㅠㅜㅜ

The chat window is still in chaos, but Seol Ha-woon leisurely attempts a nap.

─Seol Ha-woon: Robot. Please guard us.

─Robot: Confirmed.

2 hours later

After taking 2 hours of rest, they get off the spaceship in perfect condition.

─Seol Ha-woon: We’ll do our job.

─Julione: Right. Want to take the robot too?

Thud. The robot takes a step forward. Its posture overflows with confidence.

─Robot: I will protect Agent Seol Ha-woon.

However, Seol Ha-woon looks at the robot and shakes his head.

─Seol Ha-woon : No. Now you’re Truck, Julione’s secretary. Protect Julione.

─Julione : What?

─Seol Ha-woon : You’ll need a companion for the journey back. And it was you, Julione, who saved the robot.

Seol Ha-woon looks warmly at the robot and Julione.

-Wow.

-I really can’t predict what this guy will do next

-There’s a reason why he’s so popular these days

-It’s a shame that Kang Hyeon and Lee Jun-ho don’t have this kind of unpredictability.

He seems cold, but he’s warm. Perhaps because he appears so ice-like, even the smallest gestures stand out more.

─Julione : …Then. I won’t refuse.

─Seol Ha-woon : Yes. Let’s go down.

Everyone gets off the spaceship and stands in front of the gate.

Clatter clatter clatter clatter.

Truck, who had approached at some point, opens the door with Eldia’s supervisor card.

─Truck : I’ll assist you as far as I can reach.

-That truck is really cute

-Hahaha the main body is cute too

-The truck is the main body lol humans are trucks lol

Tap. Tap. The moment Seol Ha-woon arrives at the depths of the mothership, walking with his walking stick.

Desktop discovered.

─Kang Hyeon : ….

─Seol Ha-woon : ….

─Seo Ji-woo : ….

─Im Hae-jun : ….

All four fall silent simultaneously. They roll their eyes at each other, reading the atmosphere.

─Im Hae-jun : Master. Isn’t terminal level-up quite important? That terminal is level 3.

─Seo Ji-woo : Ah… I’m tired.

Once again, the terminal argument.

Laughter filled the hall.

─Seol Ha-woon : Let’s do it later for now. We don’t know what skills we’ll need yet.

─Truck : Hey! Follow me. I found the control room.

Truck guides them and turns on the CCTV screen in the supervisor’s office.

─Kang Hyeon : Huh?

─Seo Ji-woo : Oh!

Kate’s party is visible on that monitor.

It seems the two parties are finally about to meet.

-James will definitely figure it out ㅠㅠ please

-There’s some virus bomb or something. It seems best if they just don’t get involved

-What do you mean don’t get involved, you bastard, they should help each other survive, you’re being so heartless…

The viewers are quite angry. Lee Si-ah finds these people who are honest with their emotions amusing.

* * *

Maintenance Room

Kate’s party is trapped with James, who is like a time bomb.

Kim Jeong-wook and others are seriously watching the explorers who don’t yet know James’s true intentions.

“These guys are incredibly serious.”

Perhaps because it’s the USA, Kate’s home base, everyone isn’t even breathing.

Then.

─Ah. Hey. Can you hear me?

A voice echoes from the speaker in the maintenance room.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Huh?! This!

─James : Wh, who is it?

─Yoon Hwa-rim : It’s our colleagues!

Everyone quickly jumps up.

─We can’t hear you, so write down anything you need to say.

Lee Jun-ho quickly finds a board and writes.

[This person next to us is Supervisor James. He’s helping us. He was a great help in getting us up here.]

[But that substance won’t be destroyed. Its strength is incredible. Kate tried throwing spears while avoiding zombies, but it blocked them by emitting a magic field. That thing is insane…]

Cosmos Ship Supervisor Room

─Seol Ha-woon : Truck.

Seol Ha-woon looks at Jun-ho on the screen and asks Truck.

─Seol Ha-woon : Where is the nearest black hole?

─Truck : It’s dozens of light-years away, but the mothership has a wormhole generator. We should be able to put it into the black hole’s orbit.

“Oh, a black hole?”

“Then what happens to Kate?”

“Don’t tell me that soldier is planning to throw everyone except his own people into the black hole?”

Such conversation reaches Kim Jeong-wook’s ears. Kim Jeong-wook is also slightly worried.

If considering efficiency alone, throwing this entire mothership into a black hole would be the right choice.

-Wow Seol Ha-woon, don’t tell me everything with a black hole?

-That does seem like the most efficient method

-Hahahahaha then that’s legendary;

-No way

Seol Ha-woon refutes the “no way.”

─Seol Ha-woon: That’ll work. We’ll throw this mothership into a black hole.

“SHIT.”

Everyone bursts into hollow laughter. Many people worry about whether Kate will also fall into the black hole.

─Kang Hyeon: …Then what about the survivors? Truck was also a survivor.

Suddenly, Kang Hyeon asks about the survivors. Seol Ha-woon stares intently at Kang Hyeon.

The Labyrinth People survivors probably aren’t even on Seol Ha-woon’s radar.

A clash of opinions perhaps.

-Look at Jemal-ol’s fierce expression;;

-Honestly, not caring about survivors is the right approach.

-Wow, that facial expression is fucking scary lol

-Seol Ha-woon seems like that typical person. Sacrificing the few for the many.

-Kang Hyeon isn’t backing down either…

-Right

-Those two are just Mitamnan

Despite Seol Ha-woon’s gaze, Kang Hyeon doesn’t shrink back and continues speaking.

─Kang Hyeon: There must still be people alive on this ship. Including us explorers.

─Truck: There’s a way.

Truck moved his head with clicking sounds, looking back and forth between Kang Hyeon and me.

─Truck: We open all the gates and send a signal to the survivors from here. To go to Esmos.

─Seo Ji-woo: What about the zombies?

─Truck: You just heard. When they threatened that substance, it gathered all the zombies.

Then, Seol Ha-woon summarizes the operation.

─Seol Ha-woon: …If we open all the gates and threaten the substance, all the zombies in this hull will come here.

-ㅋㅋㅋ Seolhaun keeps explaining everything

-Seol Ha-woon thinks of the viewers.

He turns to look at Kang Hyeon.

─Seol Ha-woon: Kang Hyeon.

His gaze is very sharp.

─Seol Ha-woon: You. You want to save everyone, don’t you?

Kang Hyeon and Seol Ha-woon. The two explorers are positioned at opposite ends of the camera angle. As if they were each other’s antipodes.

─Kang Hyeon: Yes. I’m serious. I don’t want to regret not doing my best. No matter how much this place is…

Even if it’s a labyrinth.

Everyone becomes solemn for a moment.

Seol Ha-woon looks directly at Kang Hyeon, then nods his head.

─Seol Ha-woon: Alright. Then I’ll take the desktop.

─Kang Hyeon: Yes. Of course you should.

Kang Hyeon smiles brightly.

─Seol Ha-woon: …Don’t smile.

Seol Ha-woon tells him not to smile while wearing a faint smile himself.

Cosmos Fleet Ship

A voice delivering an announcement echoes throughout the structure of Mothership Cosmos.

──This is an announcement from the mothership.

Drrrrrk… As the tiles in the hull corridor lift up, three survivors poke their faces out.

──This is an announcement for all those who may be surviving.

In the ship’s piping section. A child and father listen to that broadcast.

──Preparations for rescue will begin shortly.

In the Back Mountain tunnel, teenagers in school uniforms look at each other and gauge the situation.

──We will soon open all gates of the fleet, so don’t panic. After all the zombies have left.

Inside the ship, the faces of all living survivors are briefly shown.

──After all the zombies have left. Please gather at the Esmos ship. The location of the Esmos ship is…

Then, the camera focuses on James. James’s face fills the entire screen.

“FXXX!”

“GET THAT FXXX FACE OUT OF HERE…”

All kinds of curses erupted convulsively in LA Plaza.

Kim Jeong-wook looked at KakaoTalk.

-Ah fuck

-Please, that fucking bastard.

-That bastard really has a stupid-looking face.

The slaves are all going berserk in the same way. Lee Jun-ho and Jo Woon’s fandoms are mixed in with Yoon Hwa-rim’s, creating complete chaos.

“This is ridiculous.”

─Seol Ha-woon : Opening the gates.

「Opening all gates of ships connected to the mothership」

Meanwhile, Seol Ha-woon’s operation is proceeding smoothly.

─Seol Ha-woon : This side is ready. Should I strike that substance now?

─Truck : Yeah. Doesn’t seem like you need to threaten it strongly. That substance is constantly emitting waves even now. If you just touch it lightly, it’ll emit stronger waves. It’ll draw in all the zombies.

Seol Ha-woon nods.

─Seol Ha-woon : Truck. I’ll leave the wormhole creation to you.

─Truck : Alright.

─Seol Ha-woon : Let’s go.

As Seol Ha-woon and Seo Ji-woo exit the supervisor’s office, Kang Hyeon, who was waiting outside, naturally follows them.

The three of them get on the elevator and open the elevator’s cover.

According to the blueprint, it’s the part connected to the ventilation duct. The three people crawl through the ventilation duct together.

─Seol Ha-woon : Ji-woo. Turn on the gravity field.

─Seo Ji-woo : Confirmed.

At the end of the ventilation duct, Seol Ha-woon floats up with a whoosh.

He crosses the ceiling by ‘installing’ tape like swinging on monkey bars.

When he reaches the wall of the maintenance room where Kate is trapped, he wraps batteries and duct tape tightly together and attempts breaching.

-Is this duct tape PPL lol

-But Seol Ha-woon’s upper body strength is insane;; They said he lost almost everything from injuries

-That’s what’s left after losing everything lol

──Thud.

With a rumble, part of the wall is cleanly pierced through. Seol Ha-woon sits on the edge of that gap and looks down below.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Horse~!!!

Yoon Hwa-rim waves her hands frantically, and Lee Jun-ho and Jo Woon also let out sighs of relief.

James next to them similarly strokes his chest in relief.

-What about Ha-woon?

-You’re screwed.

-You can’t fool Horse lol

─Seol Ha-woon : …Wait a moment.

Seol Ha-woon jumps down inside.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : As expected, Horse!

He first hands the rope to Yoon Hwa-rim who came running.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : I just need to climb up using this?

Seol Ha-woon’s gaze is fixed on just one person.

It’s locked onto James.

From the viewers’ perspective, it’s an extremely reliable and highly exciting situation.

-Seol Ha-woon marked James lol

-That bastard got marked lol

-Fuck he’s marked lol

-Damn Horse, he’s marking him like a drug detection dog

-lol look at him keep staring lol

–He’s glaring so obviously lol

-But what if he sets off the virus or whatever;;;

KakaoTalk is also in chaos.

Kim Jeong-wook feels tense at this moment. His palms start sweating.

It’s dangerous. James has a time bomb equipped.

Suddenly, Seol Ha-woon approaches James with a smile.

─Seol Ha-woon : Are you the supervisor?

─James : Yes. I’m James. I was the supervisor of the Ecorn ship. I ran away during the riot, but I was worried about the survivors….

─Lee Jun-ho : He’s been with us from start to finish. Thanks to him, we seem to have arrived here first.

─Seol Ha-woon : By any chance. Do you know Eldia?

Seol Ha-woon asks about Eldia. As if some part was detected on his radar.

-When he’s on your side, he’s so reliable

-We don’t know yet

-What don’t you know, Horse’s eyes have already gone crazy

-Ha-woon’s eyes are scary;;

-lol

─James : Eldia… No. I don’t know her.

─Seol Ha-woon : I see. That’s fortunate. Are you feeling alright?

At that moment, Seol Ha-woon draws his pistol. It’s a split-second movement.

─James : Yes. I’m fin-

James’s face as he answers,

Bang!

The camera drops down with the sound of his head exploding.

They don’t show James’s face. Only his torso is shown, with blood flowing down below it.

Splat.

Seol Ha-woon’s sole firmly stepping on the road surface stained with blood.

The camera angle slowly rises, capturing Seol Ha-woon’s face.

─Seol Ha-woon: It wouldn’t be okay if it was okay.

Seol Ha-woon’s face, white as snow like his eyes, splattered with red blood like stains.

From such a vivid scene…

“DAMN!!”

“SHIT. OH FXXX!”

“Man, I love that guy….”

All sorts of loud profanity, applause, and shouts fill the Plaza. The people’s voices are much louder than artillery fire.

Kim Jeong-wook covered his ears.

“…Take it easy, you bastard, seriously.”

He let out a hollow laugh.

So he really is UDT Black. He’s truly mastered the art of dealing with villains. He calculates and executes with an instinct he himself couldn’t explain – knowing which bastard to kill in what way to minimize future troubles.

“Ah. My blood is boiling after such a long time too.”

In this place filled with all sorts of English curses and exclamations, Kim Jeong-wook took a deep breath.

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