Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 250

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 250

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The internet is exploding. All kinds of posts related to Seol Ha-woon are being uploaded, making proper identification impossible.

Many people don’t properly understand this situation itself, and Lee Si-ah also has a slight headache.

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“Ah!”

The server finally crashed.

Lee Si-ah chewed her nails nervously while pondering.

What does clone Seol Ha-woon want to do? What is he trying to say?

Also, what kind of ending is he trying to reach…

Meanwhile, the live broadcast resumed.

Swoooosh──

A boat cutting through the water appears first. It’s the real Ha-woon.

-Is this guy the fake?

-Bring the real one

-Jjinhwan finally appears ㄷㄷ

-Loser Ha-woon who can’t even use his legs properly

-Wow shit but this has no script?

-I just end up watching in a daze

-This isn’t staged for real?

Lee Si-ah turned off KakaoTalk for a moment. Now was a time that required full concentration.

─Seol Ha-woon: …Is this the place?

The place the boat’s GPS is pointing to is right nearby. The entire area seems to be flooded, but Seol Ha-woon’s eyes catch sight of some kind of peak.

Traces of a high-rise building. The boat moves forward calmly.

Space Z Headquarters

Knock knock-

When Seol Ha-woon knocks, a voice can be heard.

Who is it?

Seol Ha-woon answers with a half-believing expression.

─Seol Ha-woon: …It’s Seol Ha-woon. I’ve come to board the rocket.

Hissssss.

The gate opens first without an answer. The interior is also filled with water, but Seol Ha-woon enters riding Rose. He conjures a magic orb to illuminate the darkness with blue light.

Confirming entry of outsider.

A natural voice echoes through the air.

Welcome. My name is MASK. I am the main artificial intelligence overseeing all systems of this facility, and the supervisor who will test you.

Whirrrr!

Scanner-like devices activate and surround Seol Ha-woon.

Verification is needed to determine if you are qualified for Space Z navigation. Will you participate in the test?

Seol Ha-woon nods while looking ahead into the darkness.

────!

Brilliant light covers the interior, and suddenly the scenery changes. Blazing hot sunlight that looks scorching rushes in.

This is a space manifested by collecting your unconscious through brainwave detectors. This place contains your fears, terror, and sadness.

─Seol Ha-woon: …Afghanistan.

Splash. The boat touches land, stepping on the waves.

This is the first test. Always answer only the truth.

Always answer only the truth… Seol Ha-woon murmurs quietly and gets off the boat.

─Seol Ha-woon: Please preserve this boat well. Her name is Rose.

The boat gradually moves away, and Seol Ha-woon advances while leaning on his walking stick.

He doesn’t look back.

“Phew!”

Lee Si-ah ran her fingers through her hair.

I’m getting nervous for no reason. Most of the viewers’ reactions are similar.

Since this is an episode that will have too much influence on Seol Ha-woon’s image and future voting rankings.

Screeeeech──!

Suddenly a tremendous tearing sound pounds the speakers.

From the distant sky, bombing rains down on Seol Ha-woon.

What did you want in this place?

All of this seemed to be the artificial intelligence’s test.

Lee Si-ah watched Seol Ha-woon.

─Seol Ha-woon: I wanted to find meaning within meaninglessness.

An answer filled with his inner thoughts.

Seol Ha-woon’s true feelings flow like a stream of water.

─Seol Ha-woon: I came here without knowing the reason. We all did. There was even a guy who had just turned twenty. So… I tried to find meaning even more.

His twenties. These are the feelings of someone who spent most of his prime years on the battlefield.

Boooooom!

The incoming missiles strike around Seol Ha-woon, not him directly.

It meant he had spoken the truth.

What kind of person do you think you are?

─Seol Ha-woon: Well.

Seol Ha-woon thinks for a moment then answers in a low voice.

─Seol Ha-woon: Probably a broken person.

Then he looks at his left leg. Himself, completely shattered and forced to rely on a walking stick.

However, he quickly raises his gaze.

─Seol Ha-woon: But I don’t want to collapse. I always want to stand.

He doesn’t collapse. He doesn’t get consumed by his inadequacies, his flaws, his sadness.

Instead, he advances across the hot earth. He plants his feet in the desert.

What sustains such a you?

Seol Ha-woon answers.

─Seol Ha-woon: …My principles.

Suddenly, another Seol Ha-woon from the same time overlaps in Lee Si-ah’s mind.

─Seol Ha-woon: The promise I made with myself sustains me.

Then a new path opens. The middle of the desert splits like the Red Sea, leading deeper below.

What is most precious to you?

Now the artificial intelligence asks about what’s precious.

─Seol Ha-woon: I had precious memories. There were precious people too. Too many things have left my side.

Seol Ha-woon says while walking the path.

─Seol Ha-woon: I embraced those things. That’s why.

The camera shows Seol Ha-woon’s back.

Though different from that Seol Ha-woon in military uniform, it’s definitely a broad back.

─Seol Ha-woon: I, who remember them, am most precious.

Whoooosh──

A sandstorm whirls.

The artificial intelligence’s questions suddenly cut off, and Seol Ha-woon disappears into the depths of the desert.

Lee Si-ah carefully turned on KakaoTalk.

-That’s Seol Ha-woon;;

-Right words, right words

-This one seems real

-Fucking genuine

-Really unique character

-You might be able to meet handsome guys like Kang Hyeon or Jun-ho a few times in life, but this one really feels like there’s only one of him in this world.

-Human cinema

-Aren’t there two including Bok Mal-ol?

-But he said he’s the most precious; isn’t Bok Mal-ol getting anxious again?

-The reason he’s most precious is so typical of Seol Ha-woon lol

-Everyone thinks they’re the most precious anyway

-Seol Ha-woon has always said it. That even flaws, even failures, even mistakes are all part of himself..

The screen transitions before long.

Leicester, England

─Lee Jun-ho: …Looks like I’m going to fight again.

The explorers’ scenes flow by. Each is a cross-edited sequence lasting just a few minutes.

Lee Jun-ho arrives at the Space Center in Leicester, England and faces swarming ghouls. Some have mutated to be almost tank-sized.

─Lee Jun-ho: I don’t know either~

Jun-ho’s scene has little internal conflict unlike Seol Ha-woon’s. That makes it more like Jun-ho.

─Lee Jun-ho: Whew!

As he takes a combat stance, the screen transitions.

Incheon Airport

─Im Hae-jun: Phew.

It’s Im Hae-jun who has arrived at Incheon Airport Station. He gets off the rail and carefully goes up to the airport terminal, where he meets Kim Dong-ha and Lee Jong-soo.

─Im Hae-jun: Wow! Dong-ha hyung! Jong-su hyung!

─Kim Dong-ha: …Oh?! Hae-jun!

─Lee Jong-soo: Hae-jun! Hae-jun~!

The clear expressions of the three men looking at each other are shown in slow motion. They run slowly toward each other and embrace together.

-lolololol

-Why do these guys fit their characters so perfectly

-Shouldn’t they be doing comedy shows instead of sitcoms?

-Im Hae-jun seems like he could at least debut though

-lololol ah those guys being so cheerful is so funny

Kwaaaaak──!

Making their touching reunion meaningless, a loud bombardment sound puts them on edge.

─Im Hae-jun: What’s that!

─Kim Dong-ha: Seems like those bastards?

─Im Hae-jun: Those bastards?

─Lee Jong-soo: Yeah. Raiders. Hae-jun, you get ready too.

Thump! Thump!

Scavengers pound on Incheon Airport from outside. The three men each draw their weapons and hide behind cover.

Naro Space Center

Next, the winding mountain road leading to Naro Space Center.

─Seo Ji-woo: Huh?

Seo Ji-woo, who was riding her bicycle, spots someone and quickly raises her hand.

─Seo Ji-woo: Hwa-rim!

It’s Yoon Hwa-rim. At that shout, Yoon Hwa-rim also turns to look at Seo Ji-woo.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Ji-woo!

The two embrace tightly together. It’s like a reunion of separated families.

-These guys meet like this too lol

-Didn’t Seo Ji-woo already connect them with her Line?

-Really seems like she connected them with Line

-Seo Ji-woo always meets the people she wants to meet no matter what. Her talent called Line seems to work that way too.

-Then does that mean she didn’t want to meet Kang Hyeon? He was right next to her.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Ji-woo. But this is bad! Look over there!

Yoon Hwa-rim pointed toward Naro Space Center. The path was completely blocked.

The flooding was one thing, but the raiders camped nearby were enormous in number.

─Seo Ji-woo: Hmm… Ah!

Seo Ji-woo stared at them intently then snapped her fingers.

─Seo Ji-woo: I have a good idea. Let’s connect your cart with mine.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Connect?

─Seo Ji-woo: Yeah~ I’ll use my Line to make your cart like an airplane so we can fly over.

Seo Ji-woo confidently proposes the plan, and Yoon Hwa-rim nods.

─Yoon Hwa-rim: Alright! Let’s try it!

“…Bright.”

Seo Ji-woo and Yoon Hwa-rim’s scene has a different filter. Both have such clear impressions, but it gives off a youthful high-teen drama feeling.

The two start working together. They gather supplies, research standardized magic, and refine magic stone crystals with magic liquid. It’s an upgrade sequence for two elite mages’ carts.

Pssssssss!

Suddenly, dust scatters. The screen’s filter turns ashen. Dark string instrument sounds flow.

─Kang Hyeon: ….

It’s Kang Hyeon. He stands on high ground like a beast, looking down at his cloned self.

The target is the 8th Kang Hyeon.

Kang Hyeon leaps high and tries to cut his neck with a single jump, but.

Claaaaaaang─!

The 8th Kang Hyeon deflected his sword.

─Kang Hyeon: ….

Kang Hyeon glared at him with killing intent as he defended against the impact and stepped back greatly.

─8th Kang Hyeon: You.

The 8th Kang Hyeon speaks first.

─8th Kang Hyeon: You never thought that you might be the fake, did you?

─Kang Hyeon: You?

─8th Kang Hyeon: I realized it naturally.

The clone drew his sword. Kang Hyeon’s broadsword and the 8th Kang Hyeon’s broadsword are different. The texture, the luster reflecting light, even the angle of the blade.

─8th Kang Hyeon: Because my memories and I are different.

“….”

My memories and I are different. What thoughts would someone who realized they’re fake have?

Somehow it incompletely overlaps with Bok Mal-ol’s narrative.

─Kang Hyeon: The premise is wrong.

Kang Hyeon also points out that ‘incompleteness.’

─Kang Hyeon: You’re not me.

He is not Kang Hyeon. Because the reproduction rate is different.

Bok Mal-ol is over 99.999%.

That Kang Hyeon is at most 97%.

Slash─!

Kang Hyeon charges again. The clone raises his sword. To defend. To survive.

But before even a few exchanges can continue, his heart is pierced by Kang Hyeon’s sword.

─Kang Hyeon: …One last one.

Thud. Thud.

Kang Hyeon steps over his own corpse and moves forward.

“Wow…”

He has the second most screen time after Seol Ha-woon, but it’s incredibly dark. Completely different from the usual Kang Hyeon.

The screen also turns black for a moment.

Then…

────Bang.

A gunshot echoes.

Again, it’s the cloned Seol Ha-woon.

The screen in slow motion. He moves at an unbelievable speed. Leaping dozens of meters per second, he kills dozens of Dales.

The real Ha-woon is a series of movements that cannot be shown.

─Seol Ha-woon: ….

Seol Ha-woon, having massacred the Dales, walks among their corpses. His breathing is ragged, but he doesn’t seem to have any serious injuries.

─Dale: Don’t you… regret it?

One of the dying Dales asks Seol Ha-woon.

Seol Ha-woon aims his gun barrel at him and answers.

─Seol Ha-woon: I’ve decided not to.

Bang!

Watching him, Lee Si-ah muttered to herself.

“…He decided not to regret it.”

If he had decided, then that’s how it would be.

Seol Ha-woon was that kind of person.

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