Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 215

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 215

The Child of Beginning (4)

│The reason why Seol Ha-woon gets so much screen time lately│

│Can’t they just separate all his individual scenes on YouTube like CCTV footage..│

│Parts where you can really feel Mal-ol-haem’s growing popularity.jpg│

Seol Ha-woon billboard 1.jpg

Seol Ha-woon billboard 2.jpg.

When you walk down the street, you see Seolha incredibly often ㅋㅋ especially in ads and signboards.

—It’s hilarious that Seolha comes out in the shampoo ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

—The top 5 in Mitamnan are already blue chips in the advertising world. Mal-ol-jwa’s spell released by Magic Hat was also successful, so his modeling fee is probably higher than most S-ranks?

│SNS Global Popularity Poll Rankings│

A famous SNS account opened a poll and apparently almost 10 million people participated lol The rankings are like this, but just take it as humor for now.

１. Kate

２. Kang Hyeon

３. Seol Ha-woon

４. Lee Jun-ho

５. Seo Ji-woo

“…The vote difference isn’t that big.”

Globally, it’s neck and neck. In some polls Kang Hyeon is 1st, in some polls Seol Ha-woon is 1st, in some polls Kate or Lee Jun-ho is 1st.

Jingle jingle- Jingle jingle-

Meanwhile, the live broadcast resumes.

Jingle jingle- Jingle jingle-

Somewhere, a shaman sits quietly, shaking bells and chanting.

─Shaman: The time will come soon…

It’s that shaman who had a staring contest with Seol Ha-woon.

-But is she an ally?

-Doesn’t seem like it

-She’s an ally. That shaman seems connected to the real world?

Whoooosh… Rumble!

The abandoned hospital where rain is pouring down.

After subduing the ghosts, Seol Ha-woon picks up an ENG camera lying on the ground.

-Gasp, that’s the one that swallowed Ji-woo

-Isn’t Seol Ha-woon going to get caught too?

-Trust Je Mal-ol

-Save Ji-woo

As soon as Seol Ha-woon opens the viewfinder, some video starts playing.

Filming Crew A: Ah shit. Meat got stuck in my teeth.

Filming Crew B: Should I give you dental floss?

Filming Crew A: No wait. *suck* *suck suck suck*… Got it. How’s the camera?

Though they’re complete strangers, a flashback kindly brings up news fragments about the abandoned hospital disappearances.

5 filming crew members missing at abandoned hospital… Only mysterious morgue footage remains on camera found inside hospital. “Police strongly emphasize absolute prohibition of entering abandoned hospital.” 11 missing persons occurred at this location this year alone.

─Filming Crew B: It’s good. Should we go right away?

─Filming Crew A: Yeah. Let’s go.

Filming Crew B: Yes.

Filming Crew A: …This is the abandoned hospital in Wolryeong Village where recent disappearance cases have been occurring consecutively. In the past 3 months, 4 residents have disappeared without a trace just in this area.

Inside the viewfinder, filming by people who seem to be from a broadcasting station continues.

Filming Crew A: The interior is completely in ruins, but traces of someone having been here recently are found everywhere. Especially on the stairs leading to the basement… Aaaaah! What is that!

“Ugh!”

The video shakes violently as a sudden strange figure appears.

─Seol Ha-woon: Why is that thing there?

The target Seol Ha-woon calls “that thing” is.

Seo Ji-woo: Excuse me! Excuse me! Do you happen to have any food?!

Seo Ji-woo.

-Ah Ji-woo must be trapped inside the camera

-Seo Jiwoo=That thing lololololol

-No but everything Seol Ha-woon says lately is funny

-Why is she wearing that toy beard?

-Where did the other kids go?

Filming Crew A: Wh, who are you?

Seo Ji-woo: Ah. I’m… an explorer.

Filming Crew B: An explorer? But why that beard…

Seo Ji-woo: Ah. I picked it up here. I was wearing it because my face was cold.

Seol Ha-woon stares intently at the viewfinder and mutters.

─Seol Ha-woon: …Trapped in the camera.

Seo Ji-woo got caught by a ghost and ended up trapped in the camera.

Filming Crew A: You were wearing a beard because you were cold?

Seo Ji-woo: Yes. It’s surprisingly warm.

Seol Ha-woon examines the camera body up and down carefully. His gaze is sharp. The eyes of a mage analyzing a supernatural object!

─Seol Ha-woon: …Button.

Soon, as if realizing something, he takes out paper and draws a talisman.

An exorcism talisman. After placing it on the corridor floor where they’re filming, he presses the REC button.

Then the talisman disappears from reality.

Filming Crew A: Huh? What’s that?

A reaction comes from inside the camera.

Filming Crew B: This. Wasn’t this not here before?

The people in the video zoom in on the talisman.

The exorcism talisman Seol Ha-woon just sent is placed in the exact same position.

-Wow

-Amazing

-But what does he do with that?

-Je Mal-ol really seems like a real magician

-lol if you’ve never seen a real wizard then shush

Lee Tae-young: Well… I’m reporter Lee Tae-young.

Seo Ji-woo: I’m Seo Ji-woo.

Lee Tae-young: Yes. Ms. Seo Ji-woo. But why aren’t you going outside…

Seo Ji-woo: Probably, you all won’t be able to get out either now.

Seo Ji-woo in the camera mutters something strange.

Seo Ji-woo: No matter how much I walk and walk, only this hospital appears. I even thought it might be a barrier.

-Ji-woo doesn’t seem to know she’s trapped in her own camera

-Seo Jiwoo is such an idiot lol

-What’s stupid about it. Seems like everyone else got eliminated and only she survived.

-There’s some kind of force. A force that hates on Seo Ji-woo.

-Bullshit lol

Lee Tae-young: Ah… Yes. I see.

Filming Crew B: Haha… Yes. We have work to do.

Lee Tae-young: Let’s finish filming.

The reporter stands in front of the elevator, and the camera director films him.

Lee Tae-young: This is the abandoned hospital’s elevator.

B1: Morgue

1F: Lobby, Reception, Outpatient Clinic

2F : Internal Medicine, Cafeteria, General Inpatient Wards

3F : Intensive Care Unit, Special Treatment Rooms

4F : Operating Room

5F : Psychiatric Ward

6F : Laboratories, Research Rooms

Lee Tae-young : This elevator that would have operated actively in the past-

Seo Ji-woo : That doesn’t work now either.

Lee Tae-young : …Excuse me, Ms. Seo Ji-woo? We’re filming, so please bear with us.

Rattle rattle rattle rattle.

Then the sound of wheels approaching. It’s Seol Ha-woon’s truck. The cargo bed has containers filled with lunch boxes loaded on it.

Seol Ha-woon picks them up and goes up to the 2nd floor, and the moment he opens the dining hall door.

Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

“What the!”

Lee Si-ah got goosebumps from the sudden laughter.

Of course, not Seol Ha-woon. He just walks over casually and sits in a chair.

-Ah I thought only I heard it

-Shit that startled me

-But Seol Ha-woon doesn’t even get surprised

-Did only we hear it?

In the abandoned hospital with spider webs in every corner, going beyond eerie to downright ominous, Seol Ha-woon eats his lunch box. Completely nonchalantly.

It’s a mukbang.

“…He really eats it deliciously.”

He’s not a Hang-ol-chi advertising model for nothing. He doesn’t eat a large amount, but his way of eating is amazing.

-Looks fucking delicious shit

-Please release a Seolha lunch box lol

-His mentality is just not from this world

-If he’s that fearless, isn’t he just a ghost himself?

-Really if he was next to me I’d feel so reassured

-For real #1 person I’d want to go to a haunted house with

“There were many of those.”

Seol Ha-woon ranked first in various surveys.

If you had to take only one thing to a deserted island? Seol Ha-woon.

If you had to take only one thing to an apocalyptic world? Seol Ha-woon.

Things like that.

Not just on the internet, but various celebrities also say that on broadcasts.

If you just stick next to Seol Ha-woon, you probably won’t starve to death or get murdered.

Hihehehehehehehehehehehehe

Dokkaebi Fire flickers beside Seol Ha-woon.

“Ah stop it.”

Lee Si-ah picked at her ears.

Seol Ha-woon moves the remaining lunch boxes to a corner of the dining hall, then sticks a note on the lunch box lid.

A mysterious talisman that Seok-yul bought. It keeps food from spoiling for a very long time

YouTuber group ‘Funeral’

─Seol Ha-woon : As naturally as possible.

-Ah got it. If it’s not natural, Seo Ji-woo inside will be in danger too

-Yeah, only Seo Jiwoo is human and the rest are all ghosts, but if that gets found out, Jiwoo might get eliminated.

Click. For Seo Ji-woo who says she’s hungry, he presses the  REC button to transmit the lunch box.

Hihehehehe

The third laughter.

─Seol Ha-woon : Shut up.

Thud─!

When Seol Ha-woon strikes the road surface, the Dokkaebi Fire that kept making laughing sounds gets startled and runs away.

-What the hell is that lol

-That’s cute lol

-Hahahaha

-Anyway ghosts can’t beat Je Mal-ol

Lee Tae-young : One of the strange rumors that flowed out of this abandoned hospital was that the elevator operates even though all power has been cut off.

Inside the camera, filming is still in full swing.

Lee Tae-young : But no matter how much you press the elevator button…

Ding!

The elevator suddenly operates.

Lee Tae-young : Aaaah, aaaaaaah!

Filming Crew B : What! Why, why is this working!

The filming crew retreats in panic.

Seo Ji-woo tilts her head.

Seo Ji-woo : Huh? It works?

Lee Tae-young : …You said it didn’t work earlier!

Seo Ji-woo : That’s right… It didn’t work. But suddenly when you came, it works.

Seo Ji-woo gets on the elevator and gestures to the filming crew.

Seo Ji-woo : Aren’t you getting on?

Lee Tae-young : …How can we get on without knowing what it is. There are stairs too. Wait, is the power still not cut off?

Seo Ji-woo : The stairs won’t work.

Lee Tae-young : Why not?

Seo Ji-woo : You’ll know if you go see… Follow me.

Seo Ji-woo exits the elevator and points toward the central staircase.

Seo Ji-woo : Look. There are many talismans on these stairs, right? If you go up carelessly, it feels like ghosts might possess you.

-Wow that’s scary

-The atmosphere is so mysterious;;

-Suspicious for real why is Ji-woo afraid of talismans.

Some sharp observations also appear in the live chat.

“That’s right.”

Seo Ji-woo : Then I’ll go first?

Seo Ji-woo gets back on the elevator.

Lee Tae-young : Yes. Go ahead.

Seo Ji-woo : …Hey. Don’t be like that. Isn’t this scoop material? The elevator operating got filmed.

Lee Tae-young : …It got filmed?

Lee Tae-young asks the camera director, and the camera director nods.

Soon they all get on the elevator together, and the screen switches.

Whoooooosh──-

─Lee Jong-soo : It’s raining heavily.

It’s Kate’s party. They’ve taken shelter in an abandoned thatched cottage. With sacred ropes twisted and hung all around, they huddle together watching the falling rain.

─Lee Jong-soo : Wow but really this labyrinth… If it wasn’t for Mal-ol-haem we couldn’t have done anything.

Lee Jong-soo is a follower of Je Mal-ol.

He became that way right from the Defense Labyrinth.

-He should bow to Mal-ol

-For real he got a lot of screen time during the Defense Labyrinth.

-Mal-ol doesn’t seem to have much desire for screen time.

Lee Si-ah wrote a post on the community while watching the live chat.

│Seol Ha-woon Special│

No desire for screen time. No selfishness.

He just does whatever he wants, but somehow the content naturally fills out.

This Wolryeong Village arc seems to be where that aspect was maximized.

Others seem to relate too, as dozens of comments immediately appeared, making it a popular post.

“Hehe.”

This kind of thing makes me feel good all day.

─Lee Sin-hye: I find Je Mal-ol amazing. He has so many injuries and limps… I heard his injuries were incredibly severe.

Is Seol Ha-woon somewhat different even among explorers?

-It wasn’t just incredibly severe injuries

-It’s more like it’s a miracle he’s alive

-That’s fake news but there are still people who believe it

-Even the doctors who made YouTube videos said it seemed a bit exaggerated.

“What are they saying.”

Since it leaked anyway, I wish Seol Ha-woon would make a YouTube video with his attending physician.

…Honestly, even among Seol Ha-woon fans, quite a few can’t believe it.

That’s how tremendous his injury records are.

─Lee Sin-hye: Also, Hyeon and Jun-ho have been famous since they were young, but Je Mal-ol appeared suddenly… What do you think, Kate?

The camera suddenly moves to Kate. She, who was looking at the raindrops, glances down diagonally.

It’s like some commercial.

─Kate: About what?

─Lee Sin-hye: Je Mal-ol. What do you think? Honestly, he’s your competitor.

─Kate: …Well.

Kate quietly contemplates and murmurs softly.

─Kate: I don’t want to be swayed by him. Rather, I want to beat him.

-Wow, so cool

-Honestly Kate has never beaten Je Mal-ol lololol

-Right.. it’s competition after all..

-How do you beat someone who uses ghosts

-But it’s not that she couldn’t win, it felt like he let her win lol That’s how I felt

-That’s because you’re a slave that you felt that way lol

─Lee Sin-hye: As expected… But when you appeared on Mitamnan, didn’t you feel any pressure?

─Kate: Pressure?

─Lee Sin-hye: Yes. There’s still the weight of the Hailford name.

Pitter-patter. Sincere talk continues in the falling rain.

This format is pretty good too.

I wish explorers would gather for a talk show later.

“Isn’t there a Talk Labyrinth?”

─Kate: …Well.

Kate makes an expression resembling a smile.

─Kate: Getting up early every morning for work while still preparing breakfast for the children.

Thinking of the countless other people who must be watching this Mitamnan, she continues speaking.

─Kate: Working until your body breaks to give children a better environment than your own. Facing each and every day like that.

Lee Sin-hye and Lee Jong-soo quietly look at Kate.

─Kate: Those things are pressure. What would I have to feel pressured about?

Kate is really fascinating too.

Sometimes she seems endlessly cold, but when she smiles, she becomes bright and kind.

That’s why those words don’t seem like acting at all.

-Wow..

-So fake lol

-She’s right though

-But Kate, you guys might actually die later

-Explorer mortality rate statistics are insane..

-This will become a meme in America again lol

-Yeah, it’s the only one over 30% among all occupations

-But these days they manage it well. That 30% includes adventurers.

-If Lee Taek said something like that, you would’ve called it fake lololol

“Stop summoning Taek hyung.”

Posts about Lee Taek are flooding the community again.

│Honestly if Lee Taek said something like that…│

│Considering Kate’s family background, it’s definitely fake. Lee Taek also got criticized for being a defense industry silver spoon, so if Lee Taek said that…│

Leave Taek hyung alone. He’s also human, you know.

─Kate: Should we do some deduction now?

─Lee Sin-hye: …Yes. Sounds good.

The group looks down at the floor again. Various documents are scattered about.

These are the evidence they gathered together.

─Lee Sin-hye: But about the Human-Skin Masked Ghost… actually, isn’t it still wandering around right now?

─Kate: Yes. It could be among us.

Grumble. Suddenly a stomach growls.

Kate says nothing, and Lee Jong-soo glances at Kate while continuing to speak.

─Lee Jong-soo: But hunger is really a problem. When you’re scared, you get hungrier, and when you’re hungry, your mental strength depletes faster.

-It was Kate

-Lololololol

-Sounds like Lee Jong-soo

-It’s Lee Jong-soo

-Lee Jong-soo’s stomach lol

-Look how the slaves immediately point arrows lololol

Rattle rattle rattle. Suddenly the sound of a truck is heard.

─Lee Sin-hye: …What’s that?

─Lee Jong-soo: Huh?!

Lee Jong-soo pokes his head out and shouts.

─Lee Sin-hye: What?

─Lee Jong-soo: Over there!

Looking where he points.

Rattle rattle rattle rattle.

It’s Seol Truck!

Some kind of sign is attached to the truck’s cargo bed.

[Automatic Patrol Truck]

[Lunch Boxes Always On Sale]

[May Not Be Able to Take Inquiries]

-No way, Je Mal-ol again lololol

-What’s he trying to sell lol Why is Mal-ol so serious about business

-Why is that truck so cute lolololol

─Lee Jong-soo: Wow! Amazing!

─Kate: …Everyone’s going to buy some, right?

Kate already took out a coin from her pocket.

─Lee Sin-hye: Of course. I’m starving to death. Whistle! Whistle!

When Lee Sin-hye whistles, the truck seems to notice them and comes rattling over.

When they place a coin on it, a lunch box clatters out.

They purchase four lunch boxes like that.

─Lee Sin-hye: That’s good. Now go… no wait. Should we buy one more?

─Kate: Yes. Just in case.

I buy four more lunch boxes and send the truck back.

─Lee Jong-soo: Phew. Jemal-ol ham really saves us multiple times. Just listen to what Jemal-ol says…

Lee Jong-soo praises Jemallot while opening his lunch box. It’s warmly heated pork bulgogi.

Suddenly, Lee Jong-soo’s eyes become misty.

─Lee Jong-soo: Wow…

─Lee Sin-hye: This is crazy… Ah, I’m curious. What is Jemal-ol doing right now?

Lee Si-ah is curious too. Is Seol Ha-woon watching the live broadcast right now?

Or maybe doing volunteer work or something?

There was an article saying he donated billions to an orphanage this time…

* * *

“With experience points, you can do anything.”

Maze Labyrinth.

I tilted my head at my companion’s rather inadequate explanation of the world system.

“Anything?”

“Yes. When you kill monsters, you first acquire experience points. You can also loot byproducts from them, but well, you don’t need to know that far.”

That far.

Probably ‘that’ is the important content.

This human is not honest. He’s been hiding important information from the start.

“First, this is the 1st Area. It’s an area where beginners like Ha-woon often come and go.”

I nodded.

“Then do you stay in the 1st Area, Eteu?”

This man’s name is Eteu.

“Yes. We mainly do farming in the 1st Area.”

‘We’.

Eteu doesn’t guard against me at all. Well, I’m a newbie with a limp.

“This 1st Area Maze is difficult for first-time visitors, but it’s easy for veterans like me. Just follow me.”

Probably his companions are lying in ambush nearby.

Of course, I have no intention of falling for it.

“Well then, Eteu.”

“Yes.”

“Listen carefully.”

I placed my hand on his back.

Click. The magic formula I had prepared in advance attached itself.

“Now there’s a magic bomb stuck to your back.”

I recite it in a very casual tone. Like ordering coffee at a cafe, like greeting a neighbor going for a walk.

There’s no need to lower my tone to intimidate this person.

“…What?”

Eteu stopped.

“Let me demonstrate the power first.”

I threw the same formula bomb high into the sky and snapped my fingers.

BOOM──-!

An explosion erupted.

It’s enough power to easily blow up a person.

“…”

Eteu stared blankly at the scene.

“You have two choices.”

I said while keeping my hand on his shoulder.

“Either die alone like this.”

At some point, Eteu had stiffened completely.

He can’t even breathe properly, but he doesn’t need to be scared.

“Or become my guide.”

This is merely a request to become an ‘honest’ guide.

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