Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 248
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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 248
Dangerously(14)
─Kate: I’m curious though. How did you all survive this nuclear war?
Kate on screen asks Jeremy.
─Jeremy: …It was pure luck for me. Some were brought back to life.
─Kate: Brought back to life?
─Jeremy: Androids. Clones. That sort of thing. I gathered up those clueless bastards. We were living quite the fun life, you know.
─Kate: Killing people must have been fun.
Kate’s cynical line reveals a certain ‘intention.’ These are clearly manufactured words, very much conscious of the camera.
“…Shut up.”
It’s hard to watch as the real Kate.
─Jeremy: Ah~ Right. It was an amazing business. Once we set up base here, 2-3 parties would come steadily every month. All packed up saying they’re going to the moon. You know how happy we were then? The kids worshipped me like a god… until you ruined everything.
Just then Seol Ha-woon returns. Three cards are clutched in his hand.
─Seol Ha-woon: These are the Space Center cards.
─Jeremy: …Found them already, huh. This fucking bastard. Damn son of a bitch.
Irochi pays no attention to Jeremy and hands over the cards.
─Jeremy: It’s over now. Still, it was fun. It was entertaining at least…
Jeremy prepares for death. However, Seol Ha-woon ignores him and walks away. Kate stares blankly at Seol Ha-woon’s retreating figure before asking.
─Kate: You’re not going to kill him?
…Why does she look so stupid.
Kate placed her hand on her forehead with a thud.
Still, the early twenties is a period of rapid growth. Someone, especially mages, claims that one month during this period is similar to one year ten years later.
In other words, that means me from two years ago.
─Seol Ha-woon: Let’s go. Follow me.
Kate glances at Jeremy then follows Seol Ha-woon again.
─Jeremy: Hey, hey! This is different from our promise!
When Jeremy has his fit, Kate turns on KakaoTalk again.
-Why spare him?
-Maybe Bok Mal-ol is secretly kind?
-No, killing that bastard would be the kind thing
─Jeremy: Hey! Look here! Look! You said you’d let me go peacefully!
─Kate: …You’re quite merciful, aren’t you?
To that stupid sarcasm, Seol Ha-woon answers briefly.
─Seol Ha-woon: No. It’s not mercy.
─Jeremy: You fucking, fucking bastard──! Where are you going! Where, where are you going, you dog, you piece of shit, I’ll tear out and devour your entrails, shiiiiiit──!
-Why is he being so scary
-Acting crazy even when spared
-Is that guy insane?
-Really acts like a Labyrinth Person
Thud─!
A loud sound. Jeremy starts slamming the back of his head against a pillar.
─Seol Ha-woon: Let’s run.
Seol Ha-woon runs calmly. Kate follows him, albeit bewildered.
Looking at it again now, he really doesn’t waver even a little.
Thud──!
Jeremy destroying himself, and the live chat filled with nothing but question marks.
─Seol Ha-woon: To the railing.
At the end of the corridor, Seol Ha-woon and Kate simultaneously leap up to the 4th floor railing.
Thud──!
The camera shows Jeremy’s appearance. His skull caved in, eyes bulging out as he glares at the two with a gory visage.
He grins wickedly and strikes his skull against the pillar.
Crack─!
The moment his head shatters.
Whoooosh───-!
His body explodes. Blue flames surge up chasing the two.
Kate lands safely despite shaking, and Seol Ha-woon balances himself with wire.
-Wow shit
-That bastard really was insane
-Average for Labyrinth People
-Bok Mal-ol’s real veteran moment is so cool..
─Kate: How did you know?
─Seol Ha-woon: The pulse near his heart was strange. Of course, it could have been ordinary heart disease, but…
Seol Ha-woon lifts his head to look up at the building.
─Seol Ha-woon: Kate.
At that moment,
Whoooooosh──-!
A second explosion occurs, bringing down the entire building. Tremendous sound assaults the ears.
Whoosh…
As the dust slowly settles, Seol Ha-woon speaks quietly.
─Seol Ha-woon: Human malice…
Though it’s advice directed at himself, the editing is strange. His pupils are stained an eerily deep black.
─Seol Ha-woon: Never underestimate it.
─Kate: ….
His voice also carries a bizarre modulation. It stretches out eerily and the pitch jumps.
-Wow that’s fucking scary
-Human malice=Bok Mal-ol’s dark turn?
-Ah fuck, makes it impossible to do other things
-He’d be not bad even staying as a villain
-No but Je Mal-ol’s character itself is just so fucking charming lol
It’s editing for bait. The production team is definitely manipulating public opinion this way. Probably for the catharsis in the latter half.
As Kate, it’s not entirely pleasant.
Earth’s Last Day D-4
The scene suddenly shifts to a dirt mound near a lake with a clear view of the Space Center.
Seol Ha-woon suddenly opens his eyes wide as if he discovered gold bars.
─Seol Ha-woon: Oh. It’s a cave.
A cave hidden by lush grass, already made by someone.
-lololol
-Why does he like that so much lol
-Bok Mal-ol..
When Seol Ha-woon reveals the entrance, lamps and emergency rations are placed inside the round excavated interior.
─Seol Ha-woon: It’s suitable for taking rest.
─Kate: Here?
─Seol Ha-woon: It’ll be much safer than inside the Space Center.
─Kate: …I suppose so.
Kate also enters.
-Kate’s surprisingly not picky about these things
-She’s this week’s protagonist after all lol
-Kate’s really easygoing
There are many compliments about herself in the chat. Though a bit excessive, she’s quite satisfied that she doesn’t seem like just some typical upper-class person.
Crackle!
Seol Ha-woon lights a lamp and lies down in the cave. Kate in the screen gazes at him intently.
-Kill him. Kill!
-You have to kill him Kate!!!@@@
-But really, isn’t now the only chance?
-Kate herself is still in the suspicion stage..
-Ah, we need to know for sure
-What kill, damn it. What do you think Bok Mal-ol will do
-Yeah right, believe it lol. The editing always went the opposite way.
-Kill!!!
-Damn it, why do you idiots keep saying to kill
Now quite a lot of people are concluding that Irochi is the villain. They’ve been fooled by the production team multiple times and got fooled again.
Information asymmetry is this unfair and scary.
Kate just turned off the live chat.
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Busan
Busan starts with Ji-woo.
Ji-woo gathers information at a mart and obtains a broken bicycle from an abandoned bicycle shop.
─Seo Ji-woo : Good. Then….
After roughly repairing the broken tire with lines, she gets on the seat and rides.
“Wow. Ji-woo’s lines are versatile~”
Yoon Hwa-rim admired while stroking her cart.
Right now, she’s comfortably watching Mitamnan from the dormitory.
This kind of rest is essential for mages who need mental management.
Leicester, England
Next, suddenly England.
─Lee Jun-ho : Ah damn it.
Lee Jun-ho walks out of the bunker covered in all kinds of blood and flesh.
─Lee Jun-ho : Is it just me going through this?
-?? Why does he look like that again
-Look at that first appearance impact lol
-Hahaha no, what is it this time?
-Jun-ho finally appears
-Junho, I missed youㅜㅠㅠㅠ
─Lee Jun-ho : I’m tired, so tired…
Tick-tock. Time rewinds with the sound of a second hand.
Earth’s Last Day D-7
Jun-ho opens his eyes in the same bunker. The space is too wide to just call it a bunker, somehow resembling an underground fortress.
─Lee Jun-ho : Where is this place again….
He walks while cautiously looking around, then hurriedly hides behind a wall.
─Lee Jun-ho : What, what is that.
The camera shows that place. Slime-like humans are walking around.
─Lee Jun-ho : Ah what the hell, again….
Tap tap.
Someone taps Jun-ho’s shoulder.
─Lee Jun-ho : !
Jun-ho trembles in surprise and grabs his sword first.
─??? : Who are you, sir.
It’s a grotesque human with three fingers, one eyeball, and three mouths.
─??? : Your name. Please tell me.
─Lee Jun-ho : Ah, I’m Lee Jun-ho. Do you happen to have my name there?
─??? : Unidentified entity. Eliminating. You look like a maggot.
─Lee Jun-ho : What? Hey you bastard.
The moment the bizarre human draws a gun from his waist.
─Lee Jun-ho : Damn it!
He cuts first with his sword.
Slash!
─??? : Urgh. Urgh. Help. Help! Kugh. I’m dying. Kek.
─Lee Jun-ho : …What the hell is this bastard doing.
That commotion draws the clones’ attention, and all kinds of failures swarm toward Jun-ho.
─Failure 900 : It’s an intruder.
─Failure 830 : Number 300. Handsome 300 is dead. Catch the intruder.
─Lee Jun-ho : Damn!
Jun-ho cuts them down and cuts them down, then hurriedly hides in a ventilation duct.
─Lee Jun-ho : What the hell are those things really….
Phew. He sighs in the ventilation duct and runs his hand through his hair.
After that, Jun-ho’s survival diary is covered in quite a lot of content.
Since there are too many enemies, he moves quietly for now. Finding and eating food, stealing glances at desktops to gather information, and killing clones he encounters by chance.
─Failure 979 : This can’t be. What bastard killed 930.
─Failure 192 : We must catch him. Catch him and burn him alive.
─Failure 391 : 192. How do you talk about catching when you don’t even have arms?
─Failure 192 : 391. You son of a bitch. You look like an asshole.
─Failure 391 : This crazy armless bastard.
─Failure 979 : Quiet. We must hold a funeral.
Jun-ho watches that scene while hiding and mutters blankly.
─Lee Jun-ho : They’re really fucking crazy….
“Ahaha, so funny. That place was a black comedy.”
Working desperately like that, he found escape hints and reached the exit, but.
─Failure 001 : Hahaha. You rat-like bastard.
In the end, he was caught by the clone leader just before escaping.
─Failure 001 : Failures cannot escape this place.
─Lee Jun-ho : …Think carefully. Look in a mirror too. Anyone can see you guys are the failures.
─Failure 001 : Ridiculous. Look at your appearance. Disgusting. Gross. I feel like the liquid food I ate yesterday will come back up.
─Lee Jun-ho : Are you fucking insane… Ugh. Fuck it, all of you come at me. It’s annoying so come all at once.
Swoosh!
Jun-ho drew a line on the road surface. As if he’d cut down anyone who crosses it.
─Failure 001 : Ridiculous failure. Let me show you the dignity of a finished product.
The final 1 vs 100 against the failures.
─Lee Jun-ho : Fine. Come on-!
It was about 15 minutes of Jun-ho’s solo content.
Earth’s Last Day D-4
─Lee Jun-ho : I’m so fucking dumbfounded really….
Now returning to the present, Jun-ho brushes off a clone’s arm from his shoulder and continues on his way.
“Ah, interesting. Jun-ho is best when he’s suffering.”
Yoon Hwa-rim also giggled.
-Hahaha this one’s actually pretty funny too
-Wait why are they only butchering this one lololololol
-There’s a reason he’s called Seol Gang-ho
-Human butcher really fits perfectly. He looks genuinely happy when cutting flesh.
-Hahaha this clip is probably gonna hit 200 million views too
-Jun-ho looks most handsome when covered in blood
Seoul
Im Hae-jun stealthily climbs up from the subway and discovers Ryu Yeon-hwa.
A delighted smile spreads across Im Hae-jun’s face.
─Im Hae-jun: Yeon-hwa hyung. Over here. Here.
Then Ryu Yeon-hwa turns around. His right eye is very abnormal.
─Im Hae-jun: …Yeon-hwa hyung. Did you take the wrong magnesium?
─Ryu Yeon-hwa: …Uhhhhh.
Ryu Yeon-hwa’s face melts away.
─Im Hae-jun: Ahhhhh!
“Ah, Hae-jun’s really something.”
Yoon Hwa-rim chuckled.
Im Hae-jun, who fled back to the subway, clutches his chest and thinks.
─Im Hae-jun: Wait. This is the subway, and all the rails are here… I don’t need to go to the surface, right?
He then pulls out a subway route map.
─Im Hae-jun: To connect to Incheon Airport…
Busan
Back to Busan. Kang Hyeon looks at his GPS while moving somewhere.
Beep-beep-beep-
At the location where the GPS responds, there’s a Kang Hyeon much shorter than Kang Hyeon himself.
About 153cm tall, perhaps.
-It’s Mini Kang Hyeon lolololol
-lolololololol
-So fucking cute lololol
-lol wtf lololol Is that merchandise?
“Calling a person merchandise.”
Even if it’s a clone, that’s harsh.
Anyway, Kang Hyeon stands in front of him and looks at the merchandise.
─Kang Hyeon: …You.
Mini Kang Hyeon looks at Kang Hyeon in shock, and Kang Hyeon mutters eerily with an expressionless face.
─Kang Hyeon: Farewell.
The moment Kang Hyeon charges, Mini Kang Hyeon tries to draw his sword to defend.
It’s already too late.
Mini with his small hands is infinitely slow even at drawing his sword.
Swooosh─!
Mini’s head flew through the air.
-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ At least listen to what Minimi has to say.
-Mini was cute though
-The body’s different but the face is exactly the same as his.. Is Kang Hyeon okay.
-Ah this labyrinth is a bit too much, same with Bok Mal-ol..
-Kang Hyeon’s a gentleman. Je Mal-ol can’t beat Bok Mal-ol lololol
Kang Hyeon, who killed Mini Kang Hyeon with 93% reproduction rate, moves toward his third target.
Whoooosh──!
Scene transition.
A boat cuts through the water. It’s Seol Ha-woon. He reaches the ‘lighthouse’ that Kenneth told him was an intermediate destination.
There will be a lighthouse at the stopover. When night falls, the ghouls come back to life, so you’ll need to stay there for at least one night.
He moors the boat and goes inside. Inside the spacious lighthouse, there are beds and desks.
Seol Ha-woon sat in front of a laptop.
Authentication condition: ‘Real Human’
When he places his hand on the pad, the lock is released.
On the desktop, there are folders and documents.
Noah’s Ark Implementation Progress: Follow-up Analysis Report
Whoooosh-
Waves crash against the lighthouse, and Seol Ha-woon quietly reads the document.
─Seol Ha-woon: The Noah’s Ark Project had a critical flaw…
“The atmosphere is insane.”
That’s the one from the preview.
“Wow… What’s going to happen to both Bok Mal-ol and the real Mal-ol.”
Yoon Hwa-rim had become a viewer before she knew it.
* * *
Labyrinth Exploration NaN Monitoring Room.
“How’s the overseas reaction?”
At Kim A-rang’s question, the Junior Writer in the video call gave a thumbs up.
─It’s crazy right now! It’s not even 9 AM US time but there are so many people! Everyone came to watch Mitamnan exclusively!
The broadcasting station sent a local correspondent.
Labyrinth Outside, newly decided for production following the success of Labyrinth Inside.
It’s programming to show off ‘Look how well we’re doing~’.
─Everyone’s talking about Seol Ha-woon like crazy. What’s going to happen to Bok Mal-ol. Is Bok Mal-ol really the villain?
“I don’t know that either.”
Only PD Yoon Sa-hyuk knows.
“PD Kim. Worried~?”
PD Im Hyeong-uk wiggled his eyebrows slyly. Kim A-rang shook her head.
Im Hyeong-uk grinned.
“Still, whatever Bok Mal-ol does, he’s a clone~ It won’t be damaging~”
“Just do your monitoring.”
“I am doing it. Kang Hyeon’s working part-time at a convenience store right now.”
“…Really?”
Kim A-rang looked at Im Hyeong-uk’s monitor.
Beep- Beep-
Kang Hyeon in a convenience store uniform was standing at the checkout counter.
* * *
Beep- Beep-
GX25 in the 5th Zone. Kang Hyeon, who got a job at the convenience store, is scanning product barcodes with the reader. He no longer makes the foolish mistake of holding the reader upside down.
“That’s 5,000 won.”
“Isn’t this one plus one?”
The customer pointed at the cup noodles.
“…Pardon?”
Kang Hyeon blinked and tilted his head. The frowning customer gestured at the checkout screen.
“It says one plus one right there.”
“Ah, just a moment.”
He scanned with the reader again.
Beep-
Kang Hyeon smiled kindly and answered.
“It’s not one plus one.”
“…But it is.”
“Yes. You could have that misconception. But if you look here…”
[This is a 1+1 promotion item.]
“…It is one plus one. You can bring one more.”
“There isn’t another one.”
“Ah. Just a moment.”
Kang Hyeon brought the same cup noodles from the storage room and scanned the barcode.
“…Yes. That’s fine. Should I bag it for you?”
“Oh, so should I carry this with my hands then?”
“That’s fine too. You can do whatever you prefer.”
Kang Hyeon nodded with a smile.
“….”
The customer glared at him for quite a long time.
“…Give me a bag.”
“Yes. The bag costs an additional 100 won. Is that okay?”
Clink. The customer threw down a 100-won coin. Kang Hyeon handed over the bag. The customer left the convenience store while glaring daggers at Kang Hyeon.
“Phew….”
He wiped the cold sweat flowing down his forehead.
“This is difficult.”
A weakness from growing up with homeschooling since childhood. He was quite weak at social interactions.
Still, the convenience store paid quite well per day.
Jun-ho was going around the apartment complex ‘acquiring’ money, while he was honestly earning money through part-time work.
Day shift was 15,000 won per hour, night shift was 1.5 times that, so if he worked 20 hours a day, he could probably earn enough for train fare within about 3-4 days.
Kang Hyeon looked at the watch hanging on the wall.
“It’s live broadcast time.”
They’re probably in the middle of it right now.
I want to watch this live broadcast too.
Kang Hyeon fidgeted with the ticket hidden in his chest while pondering for a moment.
Fzzzt!
Suddenly all the lights in the convenience store went out. Pitch darkness enveloped the interior.
Kang Hyeon quickly drew his sword. The broadsword that shot up flickered with red light, illuminating the darkness.
Hihihihihihihihihihihihihi
A child’s laughter was heard right in front of him.
The shadow was right before his eyes.
“….”
A bizarrely-shaped child staring at him intently with eyes that had no whites.
Fzzt!
The moment the lights came back on, it disappeared.
“Whew.”
He sheathed his sword.
Clink.
Just then, another customer entered. Kang Hyeon straightened his back. He tensely followed the customer’s every movement in detail.
Honestly, customers were scarier than murderers.
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