Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 214

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 214

The Child of Beginning (3)

Sequence. Information detected by my mana pours into me. The amount of information is so vast it’s difficult to process even with my brain’s calculations.

It’s still a skill that’s burdensome to handle, but the effect is certain.

Gurgle.

Strange creatures were hiding in the grass field not far away.

Short and small in stature, but green-skinned monsters that form tribes and attack humans.

Goblins.

I formed bullets. I poured them down on the positions where they were ambushing.

Swoooosh─!

Their limbs were torn apart.

[Experience 30 acquired]

[Experience 16 acquired]

[Experience 24 acquired]

“…Experience?”

It seemed to be this labyrinth’s system.

Tap. Tap.

I walked forward, tapping my staff.

The walls on both sides were towering high, and the path was twisted randomly.

Tap. Tap.

As I walked, the maze’s boundaries gradually widened, becoming a space too vast to be called a maze.

Dark red earth. It could be described as a forest, or even a jungle.

I stopped. I sensed a presence.

Not an ambush. From over there, someone discovered me and was approaching with a smile.

“Ah, nice to meet you. Are you an adventurer?”

A man equipped with sword and shield, asking if I’m an adventurer.

“Yes.”

I answered while assessing him.

Sequence captures even the most minute physical reactions.

“Are you an adventurer?”

I can see the hostility hidden in this man’s eyes.

“Yes. Would you like to travel together? This must be fate.”

Sometimes there are people who choose the wrong opponent. Of course, these aren’t people but Labyrinth People.

But there’s no reason to kill him right away. Learning about the worldview is the top priority.

“Would that be alright?”

I gestured toward my legs.

“Of course. Are you perhaps a Mage?”

“Yes. If I weren’t a Mage, I couldn’t have come this far with these legs.”

“True… By any chance, how much experience have you accumulated?”

The man asked about experience. He’s probably testing me, but I answered honestly.

“This maze is my first time. The 70 experience I just gained is all I have.”

It’s the same with any RPG.

To extract information, pretending to be a newbie is the best approach.

* * *

Miami, Florida, America.

Even at this dawn hour, many staff members remained at Kennedy Space Center. Most were working overtime, but everyone was watching some program on tablets or smartphones.

Labyrinth Exploration NaN.

The labyrinth conquest and competition program that all of America is paying attention to these days.

That’s why there are incredibly many Americans awake during this time slot every Friday. Strange questions like “Why is Mitamnan on at dawn?” sometimes come up too.

“…Fascinating.”

In the midst of this, Kennedy Space Center was particularly excited.

It was because of the ‘filming cooperation request’ sent from last week’s Mitamnan.

“So our space center is going to appear on Mitamnan?”

At senior researcher Dave’s question, his junior shrugged.

“They didn’t tell us the details, but they said our space center will be recreated and appear in the next labyrinth.”

“Oh~ Really? I’m curious.”

“Let’s watch this first.”

The junior pointed at the tablet while tearing open some bread.

─Kate : Now let’s think hard about how we can get out of here.【/</p】

Mitamnan. The explorers trapped in the science room are pondering ways to escape. Eastern-style school ghost stories are quite fascinating for Westerners to see.

“But how does Kate speak Korean so well?”

“What couldn’t she do? She’s from Hailford.”

“…True.”

Hailford’s reputation is actually greater in America than in Korea. No matter which state you go to, there’s nowhere the name ‘Hailford’ doesn’t come up.

─Seol Truck : I think we already have a method. Hey. You tell them directly.

Suddenly Seol Ha-woon passes the microphone to someone.

─Yoon Truck : …Huh? Me?

It’s Yoon Hwa-rim.

The name subtitle also changed from Seol Truck to Yoon Truck.

─Seol Truck : Yeah. You.

─Yoon Truck : How? Do I just talk?

─Seol Truck : Yeah. Go ahead, they can hear you.

─Yoon Truck : Umm… Hi everyone~ I’m Hwa-rim. I went around the village investigating Teacher Lee Se-eun, you know? That Teacher Lee Se-eun really loved children.

Then the three people’s gazes turn toward So-yeon on the desk.

“Ah… oh no.”

The senior researcher seemed to intuitively grasp the solution and put his hand to his head. His junior’s expression also crumpled bitterly.

─Yoon Truck : And that child named Kim So-yeon… she’s from an orphanage. Since she had no family… she relied heavily on Teacher Lee Se-eun. Teacher Se-eun often invited her home to play with her…

─Seol Truck : What did the ghost cry when it wailed?

Just then, the ghost’s voice can be heard faintly.

Children…

─Seol Truck : She was looking for her. So-yeon.

Then sighs echoed from here and there. They were from the space center staff.

─Seol Truck : There’s only one child, but we have to send her. To the adult the child loved most.

─Lee Jun-ho : …Yeah.

Soon Lee Jun-ho holds the child in his arms, and they all head outside together.

As they walk down the corridor and descend the stairs.

Who’s there──!

No running in the corridors!

They’re discovered by the ghost. However, they don’t retreat and face her.

Thud. Thud. Thud. A vengeful spirit with limbs dangling like Slender Man.

Who are you!

─Lee Jun-ho : …Teacher. Here.

Lee Jun-ho carefully sets So-yeon down and steps back.

It’s you──!

Even so, the ghost glares at the living and rushes forward, but at some moment.

…

She stops.

Looking at the small child placed at her feet, she tilts her face.

So-yeon…?

“…Haah.”

Dave let out a sigh. The Center also fell into quiet stillness. Everyone held their breath.

─Seol Truck : Let’s go.

Three people and one truck slowly moved away from the Vengeful Spirit.

So you were here…

The Vengeful Spirit pays no attention to them. It simply holds So-yeon in its arms, very carefully embracing her.

Our So-yeon…

Sniffling sounds. The sound of blowing noses for no reason. Some at the Center buried their heads on their desks entirely. None of them seemed to have any intention of working.

“…I think this episode will be number 1”

At the junior’s words, the senior researcher also smiled bitterly.

─Seo Jong-myeong : Everyone, come this way.

A security guard appears and calls them over.

“That security guard was real.”

“Right. I even wrote thinking the security guard was fake.”

The group follows the security guard, running and escaping the school through a dog hole.

─Seo Jong-myeong : Everyone, are you alright?

─Seol Truck : Yes. We’re safe.

─Seo Jong-myeong : That’s a relief.

The moment Seo Jong-myeong took off his hat in relief.

“Haha.”

“Wow. That was it.”

Light laughter arose inside the Center.

The back of the security guard’s head was dented. It was proof that he was a spirit.

The senior researcher chuckled and picked up his smartphone.

“Looking at SNS, everyone seems to be awake.”

The whole world is Mitamnan. Every Friday, SNS, Silt, communities and such from all kinds of countries are practically plastered with Mitamnan.

“Right. I want to try voting too.”

─Lee Jun-ho : …Did I stab too deep.

A night with a full moon rising. Lee Jun-ho touches his wound and pouts his lips.

─Seol Truck : You got excited like yourself.

He chuckles at the words of Truck who had approached at some point.

─Lee Jun-ho : Right.

Whirr. Truck takes out a robot arm and suddenly presses it against Lee Jun-ho’s chest.

Sizzle!

─Lee Jun-ho : Ah, that’s hot! What is it?!

─Seol Truck : A tattoo that you’re real. I stamped the other kids too.

Lee Jun-ho glances at the ® mark and laughs as if absurd.

─Lee Jun-ho : No. If you’re going to do it, at least make it cool. Like some pig grade marking… Does it work?

─Seol Truck : If you get eaten, this mark will disappear.

─Lee Jun-ho : Ah. Then well…

The more you watch Mitamnan like this, the more you think.

“Ah, don’t they do worldwide voting? They could let us do it once as an event.”

I want to vote too.

“Senior, they say you can go to Korea with a visa for that. I heard it’s on the tourist course?”

Actually, there was voting tourism these days. Since you can vote if you get a visa, there was even an article saying Korean tourism increased by over 300% compared to before Mitamnan.

─Lee Jun-ho : …You know. I had a younger sibling.

Emotional background music suddenly flows.

Lee Jun-ho looks up at the sky and reveals his inner feelings.

─Lee Jun-ho : 9 years younger than me…

He tries to smile as if it’s nothing, but the pain and sadness can’t be hidden.

─Lee Jun-ho : But they died. Were murdered. That small child.

“…Wow. Is that a true story?”

“Jun-ho’s story is famous.”

The senior researcher crossed his arms with a bitter expression.

“Not long after that incident, an armed robber broke into their home. That’s when he stabbed that bastard to death, which is why they call him Kill Jun-ho.”

─Lee Jun-ho : He was stabbed much deeper than this, that kid. 17 times, or was it 16…

Looking at the wound on his arm, he seems to remember his sibling and grits his teeth.

─Lee Jun-ho : On that bridge, I heard that kid’s voice. After a long time. Da-on. Such a pretty child.

“Isn’t he doing that to get votes?”

“Hey hey. Don’t cross the line. He’s my 3rd pick.”

The two researchers watched Seol Truck.

Seol Truck only says one thing to Lee Jun-ho.

─Seol Truck : That’s unfortunate.

Too short and brief, but such a Seol Ha-woon-like comfort.

─Lee Jun-ho : Thanks.

Lee Jun-ho also seems satisfied and chuckles.

─Lee Jun-ho : But… Hyung, you knew from the beginning, right? Even knowing that, you suspected us. Until the end, because there might be a culprit among us.

─Seol Truck : …

Seol Truck is silent. Did he hit the mark?

─Lee Jun-ho : Hehe.

Just as Lee Jun-ho was being proud of his deduction.

─Seol Truck : Did you come alone? Then meals 1 nyang, lodging 1 nyang.

─Lee Jun-ho : …What?

─Seol Truck : Really? Only 1 nyang? Then you can only get lodging. But you know what. I think you have about 3 nyang…

─Lee Jun-ho : Ugh…

Lee Jun-ho’s face contorted in all sorts of ways, and the Space Center filled with laughter.

* * *

Rummmmmble─!

Thunder and lightning descending from the live broadcast. Rain and wind whirl in surround sound from the high-end speakers.

Lee Si-ah hugged the blanket wrapped around her body tightly.

“Ugh, scary…”

She had tucked a Seol Ha-woon gold card right in her embrace.

─Kate : Is this everyone who’s coming with me?

Outside the used bookstore, Kate quickly scans the people who will become her party members. Kim Dong-ha, Lee Jong-soo, Lee Sin-hye. For now, it’s a 4-person party. A party to collect coins and evidence.

─Kim Dong-ha : I think so. The rest were resting.

─Lee Jong-soo : Let’s go!

─Lee Sin-hye : Let’s go. Even if it’s scary, we have to move.

Jingle. Just then the used bookstore door opens, and Seol Ha-woon holds out a lunch bundle.

─Seol Ha-woon : Take this.

─Lee Jong-soo : Ooh. Mal-ol hyung-nim, what’s this?!

─Seol Ha-woon : Lunch bundle. Contains 4. The first lunch is free, but you have to buy from the next one.

-Oh, it’s a bait product lol

-Hahahahaha Seolhaun for real

-Mal-ol is serious about business.

-You’re right haha seems like there’s something you want to buy ㅋㅋ

─Kate : Thank you.

Kate accepts it without declining. Sniff sniff. She mutters while smelling the lunch.

─Kate : Must be beef…

It’s a pleased expression. A smile sprouts at the corners of her mouth.

-No but Kate is surprisingly cute

-Hahaha Kate was also secretly doing mukbang videos

-Slaves, they’re okay except for that worst fandom

-Stop talking shit lol

-You want to fight again?

Kate’s fandom loves fighting. They pick fights and don’t avoid fights that come their way either.

Anyway, after Kate’s party left the used bookstore.

─Lee Jun-ho : We’ll also go out for a bit.

─Kang Hyeon : Hyung. Don’t we get lunch boxes?

─Seol Ha-woon : Here.

Lee Jun-ho and Kang Hyeon also receive lunch boxes and leave.

After that, various spaces are shown.

Gym

─Jo Woon : Oh! It’s a coin.

Jo Woon presses his body to the gym floor and looks under the exercise equipment. His desperate posture trying to pull out the coin is quite funny.

-lololol Jo Woon lol

-The continent’s spirit has surrendered to a coin

-Jo Woon is a regular at the used bookstore

-This guy really loves eating

Jo Woon is a pro food broadcaster. He’s actually a famous gourmet and big eater.

─Jo Woon : I can eat a meal…

He smiles contentedly looking at the coin glinting in his palm.

He’s totally a regular customer of Seol Ha-woon.

─Kim Woo-hyeon : There are posters and stuff here too, hyung.

While Kim Woo-hyeon was looking at a muscular poster.

─Kim Woo-hyeon : I should work out too…?

The head of the man in the poster snaps with a crack.

Protein!

─Kim Woo-hyeon : Ugh, ughhh!

As soon as Kim Woo-hyeon steps back, blood flows down from the man’s muscles and eyes.

Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein! Protein!

Crack. A hand pops out from the poster and grabs Kim Woo-hyeon’s neck.

─Kim Woo-hyeon : Ugh, ughhh! Jo Woon hyung! Jo Woon hyuuung!

Jo Woon rushes over and stabs his spear into the poster.

“Ah, that startled me…”

Lee Si-ah clutches her chest, and the screen changes.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Where is this… Oh?!

An ordinary restaurant-like building. When Yoon Hwa-rim looks inside carefully, there’s a sign that says Investigation Headquarters.

Investigation Headquarters

─Yoon Hwa-rim : There must be something here?!

It’s obvious at a glance. Yoon Hwa-rim hurries inside.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Case files!

Investigation materials are laid out in huge amounts.

It means it’s a goldmine.

-Yoon Hwa-rim hit the jackpot again

-Hwa-rim is really cool these days.. If it were me, I would have collapsed early on

-Unfair scapegoat

-She’s just diligent

-She really has no fear.

─Yoon Hwa-rim : How many meal tickets would this be…

When Yoon Hwa-rim was chuckling.

Ring ring ring!

A phone rings. When she turns around startled, somehow a headless person is sitting there.

Ring ring ring!

─Yoon Hwa-rim : …gulp.

Yoon Hwa-rim deliberately ignores it, gathers the investigation materials, and runs off quickly.

Her destination is naturally the used bookstore.

Whoooooosh──!

Outside where rain is pouring down like crazy.

This time Lee Jun-ho and Kang Hyeon are walking down the road.

─Lee Jun-ho : Ugh shit, why is the weather like this really.

─Kang Hyeon : Jun-ho. Let’s go back. The weather is too severe.

─Lee Jun-ho : Uh, ughhhhh!

A gust of wind strips off Lee Jun-ho’s clothes.

─Lee Jun-ho : Ughhhhhhh──

His upper garment flies away, and one shoe also gets pulled off.

─Lee Jun-ho : Ughhhhh─ Ah my shoooooes──

-lolololololol

-Ah lololol

-So funny lololololol

-Why do only his clothes get stripped lololololol

─Lee Jun-ho : Ughhhhhhh─

─Kang Hyeon : …Jun-ho. Aren’t you overdoing it?

Kang Hyeon adjusts his collar while glancing at Lee Jun-ho.

Used Bookstore

─Yoon Hwa-rim : Mal-ol-haem! I found out something new!

Yoon Hwa-rim, who arrived at the used bookstore, delivers the materials obtained from the investigation unit and CCTV-related content,

Bang! Bang!

Seol Ha-woon stamps and gives her two meal tickets.

─Seol Ha-woon : You’ll eat for free until the Labyrinth ends.

Jingle. The used bookstore door opens and Lee Jun-ho and Kang Hyeon return.

─Lee Jun-ho : Can’t go outside. Can’t go out.

─Kang Hyeon : Hyung. Jun-ho got undressed again.

-lololol ah Lee Jun-ho damn

-lolol

-Wow but his body is fucking good;

-I’m an active bodybuilder, and Lee Jun-ho’s proportions and muscle shape are really natural gifts.

-His muscle shape is so prettily formed.. what doesn’t he have. While I’m being nice, quit working out.

“Jun-ho’s going to be in trouble.”

His body is so good it makes you wonder if he’s deliberately showing off, so clips will probably circulate quite a bit.

─Seol Ha-woon : Hey. I’ll specially let you three rest on the 2nd floor.

Seol Ha-woon opens the second floor attic for those who worked hard.

Then he puts a large pot on the counter.

─Seol Ha-woon : There’s nurungji, so tell the kids to eat if they want when they wake up. You guys take what you want to eat too.

─Kang Hyeon : Where are you going, hyung?

Seol Ha-woon stands up from his seat, holding his walking stick.

─Seol Ha-woon : To check the CCTV.

Whoooooosh───!

Rain and wind fill the screen, then Seol Ha-woon’s sequence continues with the soundtrack.

It’s a Seol Ha-woon scene without any dialogue, like some detective story.

He goes to the investigation headquarters to check various records, then walks to locations where there are CCTVs. After securing formula preservation data, he examines it.

-It’s really like a painting.

-Just making a movie.

-You really look like a detective lol

-His looks do everything..

-The production crew seems to know how to handle Seol Ha-woon. This kind of narrative suits him.

-If this was Lee Taek from last season, people would’ve called him trash ㅋㅋ They would’ve been like “that trash player is acting up again” ㅋㅋ

-Stop summoning Taek-haem; I thought you were a Je Mal-ol fan

Whiiiii──-

Seol Ha-woon walks forward somewhere, leaning on his walking stick. His coat flutters stylishly in the wind.

-Long..

-It’s like a photoshoot lol

-Really looks like a mage

-The reason he rose from 96th to 1st place

Wolryeong Hospital

Entry Prohibited

Absolutely do not enter.

The place he arrived at is an abandoned hospital.

Seol Ha-woon enters inside without hesitation.

The interior is desolate. The atmosphere of the already ruined hospital is chaotic.

Then.

Whiiiik!

The moment the door of the abandoned hospital that Seol Ha-woon entered tries to close by some supernatural force.

Creeeeak…!

The gap stops without being able to close completely.

Seol Ha-woon slowly looks back at that place.

Crrrrrack….

The edge of the door shakes. The ghost of the abandoned hospital and Seol Ha-woon’s magic power are having a power struggle.

-What’s with this kid again lol

-He’s fighting with a ghost

-Hahahahahaha why is it only Seolhaun who gets this kind of treatment.

-Je Mal-ol doesn’t want to lose even to a mere inanimate object

─Seol Ha-woon : ….

Seol Ha-woon stares with his eyes and releases magic power. Layer by layer, he builds up his strength.

And then.

Crrrrrrrack──-!

The entire door gets torn off. The shattered fragments shoot out in all directions throughout the hospital lobby.

─Seol Ha-woon : Ha.

Seol Ha-woon’s face contorted as if angry.

-You’re absolutely right, they’ve lost their minds lol

-Mal-ol is pissed

-Hahahaha why are you getting mad at a ghost lol

-Brother, please be scared for once

Seol Ha-woon unleashes telekinesis recklessly.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He picks up chairs from the lobby and strikes the inside of the hospital.

Crash! Craaaaaash!

He smashes computer monitors and glass windows get completely destroyed.

The broken arms and legs of wooden chairs fly up randomly, crushing all sorts of things.

Whoooosh! He even kindly sets fire to the counter. Next to the burning flames, he draws talismans with magic power.

-Excuse me?

-Yes?

-Huh?

-What?

Then he picks up his walking stick and swings it around. Like a bad-tempered old man, clang, clang, clang, clang. He smashes everything to pieces.

Bang! Thud! Thud-crash! Crack! Crash!

-I think I saw this on Line 1

-That walking stick looks really sturdy

While carrying out all sorts of terrorism like that, a wheelchair rolls down from the other end of the corridor.

Immediately, Seol Ha-woon’s bombardment activates.

───-!

A pillar of fire shoots up from under the wheelchair. The wheelchair immediately melts into liquid.

Lee Si-ah let out a hollow laugh for a moment, dazed.

-??

-Ah, I guess the ghost died;;

-Hahahaha

-I feel sorry for the ghost

-No way lololololol

-At least try to have a conversation

-lol they’re just beating the crap out of them lololol

-Hahahaha

-He’s the king of destruction

-hahahaha

-This is Seol Ha-woon lol

-Hahahaha Seolhyun-style conversation

-For real, what the fuck, does he think he’s some kind of god or what ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Anyone who messes with Mal-ol gets screwed..

-You should pick your opponent before acting up

-That guy just seems like a crazy bastard lol

-Is that guy a Mage?

-He’s really a lunatic, how can such a lunatic exist in this world

A shower of praise poured down. It wasn’t just SilTalk.

Seol Ha-woon’s king of destruction scene just started being uploaded on SNS worldwide.

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