Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 218

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 218

The Child of Beginning (7)

Wolryeong Police Station

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Ooh~ Im Hae-jun did something good~

Yoon Hwa-rim praises Im Hae-jun while hanging a shimenawa rope from the police station ceiling.

─Kang Hyeon: I believed in Hae-jun.

─Im Hae-jun: …Well~ It’s nothing special.

Im Hae-jun acts like it’s nothing, but the corners of his mouth are trembling.

He looks extremely happy.

-ㅋㅋㅋ Lim Haejun is really the youngest

-No, it seems like they’re teasing him

-Isn’t that kid actually young enough to be eating school lunch since they’re born early in the year? lol

-No no, the fast one is Kim Woohyun and Im Haejun was born in April then

-Face value wise he’s really a high schooler..

As Lee Si-ah, she somehow feels affection for all these guys.

─Im Hae-jun: I found one more thing.

Im Hae-jun discovers another clue!

It’s the abandoned hospital director file that Seol Ha-woon requested.

Name: Yoon Seok-ju

Occupation: Hospital Director

Special Notes: Extremely obsessed with appearance. Seems to have had dozens of plastic surgeries himself. Also, according to rumors, he was the guardian of some child…

While Kang Hyeon and Yoon Hwa-rim read the documents, Im Hae-jun finds another clue.

─Im Hae-jun: There’s CCTV footage here too.

-Study king Lim Cheonjae ㄷㄷ

-Wow he’s almost like a detection dog

-You’d probably be good at escape rooms lol

This time it’s digital data, not a formula.

When Im Hae-jun turns on the CCTV footage, Seo Ji-woo going to the abandoned hospital is captured.

─Im Hae-jun: Huh? Isn’t this Ji-woo noona?

Yoon Hwa-rim and Kang Hyeon also approach and look closely.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Let me see.

─Kang Hyeon: It looks right?

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Hmm… Let’s deliver all of this to Mal-ol-haem.

Having collected the information, they radio Seol Ha-woon.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Testing. This is Yoon Hwa-rim, over.

─Seol Ha-woon: Speak.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: …Among the missing persons was the abandoned hospital director. He was a suspect but went missing as well. But it seems Ji-woo’s group came here too.

─Seol Ha-woon: Seo Ji-woo too?

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Yes. The entrance CCTV was working so I checked it, and Ji-woo and several others came.

─Seol Ha-woon: How many were there.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Uh… wait a moment… Six people.

6 people.

─Seol Ha-woon: Good. Well done.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: And we also obtained the missing film crew’s tape.

Yoon Hwa-rim plays the film crew tape that was placed in the evidence storage.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Only the morgue is filmed. Like it was fixed on a tripod.

─Seol Ha-woon: Confirmed.

─Im Hae-jun: Hyung, I have something too. I found the CCTV!

Click.

Already hung up.

Im Hae-jun’s expression sours. He must have wanted praise.

─Im Hae-jun: …Ah what the. No, Hwa-rim noona.

He glares sharply at the innocent Yoon Hwa-rim.

─Im Hae-jun: I did everything but why does noona do all the reporting! Anyone would think noona did it all.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Ah sorry sorry~

Yoon Hwa-rim ruffles Im Hae-jun’s hair and backs away.

-Hahahaha

-lol Yoon Hwa-rim doesn’t even care lololol

-Look at Lim Haejun glaring ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Hahaha

Lee Si-ah also chuckled. That Im Hae-jun glaring gif will definitely become a meme later.

Abandoned Hospital

Returning to the abandoned hospital, Seol Ha-woon looks into the camera.

─???: Beautiful face… face… please show me your face…

The doctor is still breaking down the door with a drill.

─???: Please show me your faces, everyone…

─Seol Ha-woon: …Face?

As Seol Ha-woon mutters.

Hehehehehehe-

─Seol Ha-woon: Do you know something?

Then the dokkaebi fire drifts somewhere, and Seol Ha-woon follows.

-He’s talking with a ghost

-That one doesn’t seem like an ordinary ghost

-Exactly what I said, you became a lackey lol

-At least Mal-ol is more favorable to that dokkaebi fire than other guys. That means we can trust it.

Hehehehehehe-

Seol Ha-woon goes up to the 3rd floor.

─Seol Ha-woon: …Ow my knees.

-lol old man

-Their looks are seriously so sophisticated though lol

-If Lee Taek had acted like that last season, wow I don’t even want to imagine it ㅋㅋ

In the corner of the hospital room the dokkaebi fire guided him to, there are animal masks.

─Seol Ha-woon: Aha.

As if understanding, Seol Ha-woon picks up a pen with telekinesis. Scratch. Scratch. He writes perfectly without moving a single finger.

Seok-yul said the hospital director is obsessed with faces. Maybe it’ll be okay if we wear these masks?

His handwriting is incredibly good.

-Good technique;; Did he write that with magic power?

-His magic power control is precise

-Even writes really well lol

-But Mal-ol’s looks and style match so perfectly..

Seol Ha-woon writes a note on the mask and attaches it, then looks into the screen.

Whiiiiiiing──!

Seo Ji-woo and the film crew are trapped somewhere on the 4th floor. Seol Ha-woon also moves to the same location and transmits the masks.

Clatter clatter clatter!

The masks fall down one after another inside the camera.

─Lee Tae-young: Ahhh! Aaaaah!

─Jin Yu-seon: …What is this.

Film director Jin Yu-seon zooms in on the mask.

Seok-yul said the hospital director is obsessed with faces. Maybe it’ll be okay if we wear these masks?

─Jin Yu-seon: Huh?! Everyone look at this!

Whiiiiiiing–!

─Lee Tae-young : Q-quick, put it on!

Everyone hurriedly puts the masks over their faces.

─??? : …Are you here?

─??? : Show me your face… your face…

Crash! The door is smashed to pieces. The doctor pokes his head in.

Everyone holds their breath with their faces covered by masks.

─??? : …Nothing but damn ugly things.

The doctor’s arrogant expression contorts as he glances around at them.

─??? : I need a beautiful… face… I want to see one…

The doctor moves away, dragging his surgical slippers.

“Phew.”

Everyone in the main room, including Si-ah, sighs and calms down.

─Seo Ji-woo : …Let’s go to the morgue now.

─Lee Tae-young : No. Let’s go to the 6th floor and find out for sure.

Looking at Lee Tae-young in the camera, Seol Ha-woon’s expression hardens for a moment.

─Lee Tae-young : What do you all think? We can identify the killer here. Scoop, scoop, fucking huge scoop.

─Jin Yu-seon : …I like it.

After that, the scenes are cross-edited.

─Lee Tae-young : Look at this. The hospital director is presumed to have confined that test subject in here.

The filming team goes up to the 6th floor research lab to collect clues.

─Lee Tae-young : It’s a picture diary. It appears to be written by a child… The date is from over 40 years ago. Could it be that they’ve been raised here since childhood? It’s absolutely horrific.

A child in red clothes, a doctor in white clothes.

It’s a somehow eerie picture diary.

─Lee Tae-young : What on earth happened here? The serial disappearances in Wolryeong Village… could this really be his doing?

While Lee Tae-young is busy investigating.

─Seol Ha-woon : …The record button and the morgue.

Seol Ha-woon quietly deduces and goes down to the morgue.

B1 Morgue

A mortuary lined with cold freezers.

In the middle of it all, a camera tripod sits alone. Seol Ha-woon places the ENG camera on top of it.

It fits perfectly.

Hehehehehe

The Dokkaebi Fire’s laughter tone is somehow low. Is it warning him?

Hehehehehe

─Seol Ha-woon : I know. I know too.

Seol Ha-woon seems to have figured out the secret in this camera, and a faint sadness crosses his expression.

─Seol Ha-woon : What kind of bastard this is.

-I roughly know what it is too

-Seol Ha-woon is making a movie..

-This guy’s expression is really deep.

Since Seol Ha-woon’s face is so three-dimensional, even subtle expressions show clearly.

It means he has a mask optimized for cameras.

─Lee Tae-young : Ugh, uaaaah!

The filming team in the research lab is now being chased by a moving human anatomy chart.

─Seo Ji-woo : Everyone follow me! Before the lights go out again!

Seo Ji-woo hurriedly gets on the elevator and presses B1, but the button doesn’t light up.

─Lee Tae-young : Hurry!

This time reporter Lee Tae-young hurriedly presses B1.

The elevator operates.

-Ah. It’s certain.

-I get it.

-Is my guess right?

-What the fuck, everyone’s like “my guess is right” “no it’s not” bullshit

-These guys are acting like know-it-alls lol

People claiming they understand appear one after another in the live chat, and Si-ah also had an intuition.

“Seo Ji-woo is fake!”

─Seo Ji-woo : I think I found the exit.

B1 Morgue

Seo Ji-woo guides everyone to the morgue.

─Seo Ji-woo : Here, here. Director Jin Yu-seon? Please put the camera on top of this.

─Lee Tae-young : Ah wait a minute. Let me do some reporting here too.

─Seo Ji-woo : …In this situation?

─Lee Tae-young : Because it’s this situation, I need to do it more. Anyway, we can definitely get out, right?

─Seo Ji-woo : Of course.

─Lee Tae-young : Okay. Ahem. Ready? Cue.

Rattle rattle rattle.

Meanwhile, Seol Ha-woon’s truck comes down to B1. Seol Ha-woon weaves the sacred rope from the truck’s cargo bay to create a trap.

This trivial sequence was quite sophisticated. It was even enjoyable to watch.

Because.

-Wow he’s not using his hands at all

-Really amazing;;

-He’s not even bending his waist lol Is it because his legs hurt.

-He’s really like a mage

Seol Ha-woon solves everything entirely with magic power.

The sacred rope moves by itself and goes into some mine box, and the mine box also rises by itself and gets installed in a corner of the ceiling.

Meanwhile, Seol Ha-woon’s back remains straight. He doesn’t move a single finger. Only magic particles rustle softly beside him.

“Pure mage…”

Really, he doesn’t use his body at all.

Well, his injuries were that serious.

─Lee Tae-young : Everyone. We are in the basement of Wolryeong Village Abandoned Hospital, in the morgue.

While Seol Ha-woon watches, reporter Lee Tae-young places his hand on a freezer.

─Lee Tae-young : Although this is clearly an abandoned hospital that lost power long ago, the elevator works and the freezers are also very cold. What could be inside? What could be in there that’s still frozen solid?

Creak. The moment Lee Tae-young opens the freezer.

─Lee Tae-young : Gaaah! …Wow. Shit. There’s still a corpse in here… Yu-seon. Film this.

There’s a person stored inside the freezer.

─Jin Yu-seon : Okay.

When zoomed in, it’s a woman with blue hair.

Seo Ji-woo.

-Holy shit

-Wow

-Really?

-Crazy

-?

-???

-Wow;;

-What is this?

“Ugh, that gives me chills.”

Si-ah rubbed her forearms.

-The theory posted on the community was right;

-Kids who guess stuff like this are amazing

-Right now Seo Ji-woo is fake, and Seo Ji-woo’s party got trapped inside those filming crew’s bodies.

-Fuck, the back of my neck is getting cold

─Lee Tae-young: …Are you perhaps twins?

At Lee Tae-young’s question, Seo Ji-woo gropes the wall and flips the switch.

Click.

The entire live broadcast screen is dyed in darkness, and only sounds creep in eerily.

What!

Wh, why the lights, wh, what are you,

Thud!

Uh, wh, what sound!

Thud!

Aaaahhh!

Thud!

Gu, guurgh.

Thud!

Thud!

The screen turns back on.

Everyone except Seo Ji-woo is lying on the concrete floor bleeding.

─Seo Ji-woo: …There. You’re watching, aren’t you?

Seo Ji-woo, no, the Vengeful Spirit wearing Seo Ji-woo’s mask.

That thing stares at the camera lens and speaks.

─???: Let me out.

To Seol Ha-woon beyond this.

─???: Or else, I’ll kill all the guys here.

Ha-woon stares intently at her in the screen.

Soon, black lines of magic power bloom on the morgue wall.

If I let you out

Sizzzzle─!

Letters are carved with a burning sound.

This is Seol Ha-woon’s answer to the Vengeful Spirit.

Do you think you can beat me?

Seol Ha-woon’s back as he scrawls such a confident sentence fills the screen, and tense background music echoes.

The decisive battle between the Vengeful Spirit and Seol Ha-woon.

Lee Si-ah clenched her fists tightly.

-Fucking look at that swagger

-His back looks so cool,,

-Je Mal-ol’s frame is so enviable lol he’s a shrimp but why is he so broad

-Hahahaha crazy

-It’s Je Mal-ol

-That guy is scarier than actual ghosts

-To ghosts, Seol Ha-woon is the Final Boss..

-Hahahaha

-Mal-ol bro;;

-Stop showing off you damn Mal-ol, I can’t stand watching

-Inferiority complex showing above lol

While the real-time chat burns up, the live broadcast cuts off.

Probably this commercial break is.

Hang-ol-chi. Why is chicken always right? I’m always curious about that.

As expected, it’s Hang-ol-chi.

Still, I’m quite satisfied since Seol Ha-woon is the model.

* * *

Maze Labyrinth. On the mountain slope that became a wasteland from bombing, I farmed the human bodies. Between the fragmented corpses, some small spherical spirit-like things were rising up.

[Bundle of Old Dog Tags]

[Magic Power-Infused Artificial Eye]

[Unidentified Drug Syringe]

[Experience Points]

“They’re items.”

“…Yes. There will probably be equipment that these guys… no, these bastards were using too. Especially parts are usually dropped upon death…”

I absorbed the orbs into my inventory.

“Um, you shouldn’t use those items too carelessly. Just like you shouldn’t eat random mushrooms, especially parts need adaptation time.”

Eteu is now very polite.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

I asked while walking.

“Now please explain about the non-labyrinth areas.”

“Ah, yes. This labyrinth has villages and even cities. There are naturally armed organizations and groups too.”

Ziiiiing!

Suddenly a headache surged. It was pain as if fragments of magic power were stabbing the back of my head.

“…Wait a moment.”

Constant operation of Sequence causes extreme magic power and stamina consumption, even with Implant assistance. Especially when deploying wide-range surveillance like now.

With my current level, local range is the limit.

But I can’t stop exploring, so I need an alternative method.

…A certain skill suddenly came to mind.

【Feather Scout】

■ Grade: Rare

■ Description: Weaves the spirit ‘Feather Scout’ with magic power.

■ Feather Scout: Flies through designated areas according to master’s commands and transmits information to the user. Skilled at discovering ambushing enemies or traps through special magic power vision.

■ Feather Emission: Emits some magic power feathers, transmitting sensory information of the range where feathers are embedded to the user.

It’s a rare-grade summoning skill highly rated by 「MoMo」 rankers.

I recalled the form and movements of the Feather Scout I saw on the mobile screen. I awakened the deep layers of my brain with Sequence, pulling out data buried in memory.

I incorporate and manifest the skill containing such memories and information into my concept.

Tsssss!

A burning sound came from the back of my head. It was the resonance of Sequence operating fiercely.

Swoooosh…!

Soon magic power surged up. It condensed in the air like spreading electric current and took form.

──Chirrrr!

Feather Scout, summoning successful.

Of course, it looks quite different from the Feather Scout I remember.

An appearance somewhat like a mechanical drone, combining a magic power core with a metal frame. It’s probably the result of mixed Mental Visualization.

“Go up.”

Chirrrr!

The Feather Scout spread its metal wings and glided.

“Wow…”

Eteu admires from beside me.

I borrowed the vision of the Feather Scout searching the area.

“There are no enemies in this vicinity.”

“Th, that’s fortunate. Probably… if we just cross that hill, a village will appear. Well, District 1 villages are usually so small and shabby it’s embarrassing to call them villages…”

“Yes. I can see a sign.”

Some sign appeared in the Feather Scout’s eyes.

Winter’s Favorite

Winter’s Favorite

A small tavern and inn sitting alone on a desolate plain.

“Be careful. The owner there is a robot.”

“A robot?”

“Yes. It shoots troublemakers dead on the spot.”

“…That’s fine.”

I answered briefly.

“I’m used to robots.”

Suddenly, I thought of a certain guy who was probably doing business in my subspace.

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