Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 277
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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 277
Youtiful(3)
“Ta-da!”
Sokcho Barbecue Camping Site. Im Hae-jun held something out to Kang Hyeon and Lee Jun-ho. It was a coated piece of paper.
“What is it?”
“What’s that?”
The two blinked their eyes.
“What do you mean what? Read it. Don’t you know this?”
Lee Jun-ho retorted.
“We’re asking what it is because we don’t know.”
“What, don’t you guys update? This is ‘AstroAl’.”
“AstroAl?”
“Wow, you really don’t know. What AstroAl is, well…”
Im Hae-jun went on and on about AstroAl. A subspace that’s hot among adventurers and explorers these days. Robots sell something called ‘random boxes’, and the items that come out of them are supposedly game-level good or something.
“The items from random boxes are divided into SSR, SR, stuff like that, you know? But if you pull just one SSR, your life is completely turned around.”
“If you don’t pull it, your money just flies away.”
At Jun-ho’s words, Hae-jun let out a hollow laugh.
“Ugh. We’re not communicating. Really, old folks.”
“You’re only one year younger than me.”
“Anyway. Never mind if you don’t know, everything’s packed up.”
The barbecue grill, tent, and everything else had already been collected.
“Let’s get going! I’ll turn the camera back on too!”
Im Hae-jun turned on the camera. All three people were caught in the tripod angle.
“Hello, I’m Hae-jun subschribers.”
“Subscribers.”
Kang Hyeon corrected his pronunciation.
“…Cut. I bit my tongue a little. Ahem. Hmm. Now. Hello, Im Hae-jun subscribers!”
“It’s I’m Hae-jun though.”
This time Lee Jun-ho interrupted.
“…Cut. Ah, maybe it’s because I ate too much.”
A-i-u-e-o. A-i-u-e-o. He loosened his facial muscles and resumed filming.
“Hello! I’m Hae-jun subscribers! We’re going to meet the most famous mage these days! The battlefield mage! Mr. Seol Ha-woon!”
Clap clap clap clap. He applauded and turned the camera toward the two.
“How do you feel?”
“…?”
Kang Hyeon tilted his head silently, and Lee Jun-ho answered.
“What do you mean how. We were together in the labyrinth all last week.”
“…Seriously.”
Im Hae-jun lowered the camera.
“React bigger, bigger, hyung. It might be familiar to us, but not to the subscribers. He’s our top guest.”
“…Tsk. Fine, fine.”
Lee Jun-ho adjusted his expression for broadcasting. Kang Hyeon glanced at Jun-ho like that.
He’s always having power struggles with Kate, but surprisingly gives in well to Hae-jun.
Maybe it’s because he looks and acts like a kid.
“Alright, everyone get in.”
They all got in the car together. Kang Hyeon sat in the driver’s seat, Im Hae-jun in the passenger seat, and Lee Jun-ho sprawled out in the back seat.
“Let’s go. I’ll set the GPS for you~”
[Starting navigation.]
“Let’s go~”
Kang Hyeon stepped on the accelerator. Vroooom. The camping car quickly left the campground and entered the mountain road.
“…It’s getting pretty eerie.”
“All workshops are originally built in places like this.”
The road gradually narrows. Streetlight illumination becomes sparse and then disappears completely, and the asphalt road suddenly turns into an unpaved dirt road.
“Wow. There are a lot of workshops. Can everyone see them?”
The magic power emanating from the workshops flickers like dokkaebi fire in the dark fog.
Im Hae-jun captured that scenery on camera.
“Fog often forms near the Taebaek Mountain Range in Gangwon Province. It’s because natural magic power accumulates here. It’s spooky… Oh, right. Ordinary people can’t enter this place!”
“He talks so much. So much.”
While Lee Jun-ho sighed, a barrier and signpost appeared.
[Danger Zone]
“Please stop for a moment.”
Staff members approached and stood beside their camping car.
“This area is off-limits to civilians… Huh?”
“Hello~”
Im Hae-jun smiled and greeted them. The staff members’ eyes widened.
“No way?!”
Now everyone’s face is their ID card.
The three got out of the car, took commemorative photos with the staff, then drove again.
After going 30 more minutes, they arrived at the meeting place. It was an abandoned building faintly visible near a mountain ridge.
“…Is this the right place?”
Im Hae-jun suddenly became scared.
The night had already grown too deep. Tree branches swaying eerily. There were many things touching his skin through the archer’s ki sensing.
“Hyung. This won’t work. Turn the wheel.”
“Huh? Why? We’re right there.”
“Let’s think about it again tomorrow. Something’s definitely weird about this place.”
Just as he said that.
“Aaaahhh!”
Some ghost appeared in front of the headlight beam! With disheveled hair and carrying a staff!
“Aaaahhhhh!”
“It’s okay. That’s just Ha-woon hyung.”
Kang Hyeon calmed Im Hae-jun down. Hae-jun panted and looked over there.
Seol Ha-woon was tapping the front bumper with his staff.
It seemed like he meant for them to get out.
“You’re going to build a workshop here?”
Lee Jun-ho let out a hollow laugh.
“Will it work? Feels like we might get eaten if we’re not careful.”
He reached his hands here and there as if trying to grab the thick fog.
“It’s fine if managed well. Rather, it’s heaven-sent conditions for a workshop.”
“…Well, that might be true for you, but…”
This place has very thick spiritual energy, that is, magic power. Even the feeling of the air is different. Sticky, heavy, and cool. It’s a space where spirits could pop out anytime, anywhere without it being strange.
There’s a reason this land hasn’t sold for decades.
“I think there might be ghosts here.”
Kang Hyeon had picked up a torch at some point. I nodded.
“Oh. There really are some. I can see a few ghosts.”
“Aaahhh!”
Im Hae-jun suddenly let out a scream. Kang Hyeon and Lee Jun-ho’s bodies flinched.
“Why! Did you see a ghost?!”
Lee Jun-ho placed his hand on his long sword. Im Hae-jun hid behind me.
“…No.”
“Ah shit. Then why are you screaming.”
“It’s scary when you say there are ghosts.”
“….”
Im Hae-jun opened new horizons of fear.
“Let’s go inside first.”
I pointed at the abandoned building.
“…Master. I’ll rest outside. I’m getting dizzy.”
“Do whatever you want. If you want to be alone outside.”
Being alone will probably be scarier.
“….”
Im Hae-jun quietly stood next to me.
I opened the building’s door wide.
As we were about to go in together.
“Wait! Come to think of it, we could just destroy them from outside!”
Im Hae-jun stopped us.
“If we do memorial services like that, we’ll be in big trouble. We might all get cursed.”
“Memorial service…”
Im Hae-jun gulped and picked up his camera again. The tripod was taller than him.
“…Everyone. We’ve been tricked by Seol Ha-woon and ended up coming here.”
“Shut up.”
Lee Jun-ho and Kang Hyeon laughed quietly.
Thud. Thud.
The footsteps echo particularly loudly. The building’s ceiling height isn’t that high. It’s only 3 floors at most.
“It’s not that threatening.”
“Yeah. It was used as a psychiatric ward.”
We stopped in the wide lobby.
Thud thud thud thud!
“Aaahhhhh!”
Im Hae-jun crouched at the sudden footsteps.
“Kyaaahhh!”
“How do we perform the memorial service?”
Kang Hyeon asked.
“There are two methods. Annihilation and purification.”
“Let’s annihilate them! These bad guys!”
Im Hae-jun clenched his fist.
“Most of the spirits here are probably those who were sacrificed during the Japanese occupation.”
“….”
Im Hae-jun’s camera slowly goes down.
“Ahem.”
He cleared his throat and completely changed his tone to a serious one.
“…We must comfort them. We must embrace them. Understanding all their pain and sorrow-“
“I’ll set up base camp here first.”
I set up a tent in the lobby and lit blue fires around it.
It’s a skill called 【Dokkaebi’s Concentration】 that I took from MoMo. It spreads a mental power increase buff around the area.
“Now look for some clues.”
“Clues?”
“Yeah. Think of it as an escape room.”
“Do you like escape rooms, hyung?”
Suddenly Kang Hyeon showed interest. His eyes sparkled when talking about escape rooms.
“No. You seem to like them though.”
“Yes. But in escape rooms you have to be trapped.”
“It’s the same thing. We can’t leave here now.”
“What do you mean by that!”
Im Hae-jun, startled, suddenly ran toward the exit.
Bang bang bang bang.
No matter how much he shook it, it wouldn’t open. It didn’t budge at all.
“Aaahhhhh!!!”
Im Hae-jun looked back at me with eyes mixed with resentment and moisture.
I said.
“I deliberately created content for you.”
“What content!”
“Im Hae-jun. If you upload this video, won’t you get over 1 million subscribers? The views will hit about 5 million.”
Im Hae-jun’s lips twitched.
“…5 million?”
“If you do well, it might even reach 10 million. Labyrinth exploration vlogs are popular these days.”
“10 million…”
Im Hae-jun suddenly changed his expression with determination.
I think he has more ambition for success and material desire than anyone else in Mitamnan.
He just doesn’t look like it because he’s small.
“Even on vacation, it feels like we’re exploring labyrinths…”
Lee Jun-ho came up to the director’s office on the 3rd floor. Clues are usually held by the higher-ups.
“Let’s see.”
He opened a drawer. Inside was a piece of paper that was almost completely torn.
[Analysis on Post-Death Magic Power Preservation]
Magic power flows through the human body… The waves of magic power are amplified at the moment of death and serve as evidence of the soul… Whether souls can be sealed…
“Post-death magic power preservation? Is this a clue?”
“A clue?!”
From somewhere, Im Hae-jun came running with his camera.
“Ah shit, you scared me.”
“…These are experiment records. It seems terrible experiments were conducted here.”
Im Hae-jun read the clues aloud.
“Being able to seal souls… These bad guys seem to have experimented not only on bodies but also on souls magically. What do you think, Jun-ho?”
Im Hae-jun suddenly turned the camera. Lee Jun-ho laughed in disbelief.
“I don’t know, damn it.”
“Ah, no!”
Im Hae-jun quickly lowered the camera.
“Don’t curse.”
“I found one.”
Then, it was Kang Hyeon.
“Where!”
Im Hae-jun rushed over frantically. He pushed Kang Hyeon’s shoulder aside and shoved the camera forward first.
“Ugh.”
“What kind is it.”
“…Hospital blueprints and something like a radio. If I press this.”
–.-
A strange sound flows out.
“Aaah!”
A reflexive scream came out, but Im Hae-jun held it in for now.
For ten million views.
“A, a strange sound is coming out! From here! I don’t know what it is, but. This too is from those who were unjustly sacrificed…”
..-.. -.-. -.-.-.. -.–
“Aaah! Ah, so scary, damn.”
-……..–. —….
Im Hae-jun stepped back from the continuing radio transmission.
“S, Seol Ha-woon!”
Im Hae-jun urgently called for Seol Ha-woon.
Tap. Tap.
Seol Ha-woon approached while tapping his walking stick.
“Seol Ha-woon! Seol Ha-woon!”
“Why are you calling me ‘mister’ like that. Did we meet at a construction site?”
“That’s not the problem right now! Please listen to this!”
…. ..- .-. –. -. .. …. – -.– .-. . …- . … — .–. … .. -.. -.– .-.. -.-. .. –.- ..- –.-
“…”
Seol Ha-woon nodded. Im Hae-jun zoomed in on him with the camera.
“It’s Morse code.”
“Ah, hyung. I thought so too, but. The words don’t match up.”
Kang Hyeon said. Im Hae-jun zoomed in on Kang Hyeon too like cross-editing.
“I know. The words are backwards.”
Back to Seol Ha-woon.
“Backwards?”
Back to Kang Hyeon.
“Yeah.”
Seol Ha-woon took out his fountain pen. While listening to the Morse code, he scribbled alphabets in the air.
NUR GNIHTYREVE ESOPSID YLKCIUQ
“If we flip it backwards.”
QUICKLY DISPOSE EVERYTHING RUN.
“Dispose of everything and run.”
“…As expected, it’s Jemallot.”
Im Hae-jun interjected. He zoomed in and out on Seol Ha-woon’s face while playing background music.
“Jemallot moment. Seol Ha-woon Style Conversation.”
“I’ll smash that camera.”
Seol Ha-woon raised his walking stick.
“Aaah.”
Im Hae-jun raised both arms up.
“Anyway. War criminal nations on the verge of collapse tried their best to cover up their atrocities. This order was also to destroy evidence and flee.”
“What kind of evidence could it have been!”
Im Hae-jun asked seriously.
“Human experiments were conducted here, so what do you think?”
The three people nodded as if they understood.
Seol Ha-woon said.
“Right. They probably buried human bodies somewhere around here.”
“Haah…”
Im Hae-jun let out a big sigh.
“…This is a tragic space. Something that should never happen again…”
Walking smoothly in a theatrical tone, he throws open the door to the bathroom right next to the Director’s Office.
“Stop.”
He froze at Seol Ha-woon’s words.
“Why, why?”
“There’s a ghost right in front of you.”
“…Don’t lie to me. I don’t see anything.”
Seol Ha-woon can see it. Thanks to his heightened perception.
“You should be able to see it too. If you concentrate magic power in your eyes.”
A ghost with grotesquely sunken eye sockets and a face like a pale blue corpse. It stands quietly in front of Im Hae-jun, then.
Huuuuuu…
The cold air in its breath touched Im Hae-jun’s nose tip.
“────-!”
A siren wailed.
Even so, Im Hae-jun didn’t let go of the camera. It was an amazing dedication to view counts.
We looked at the hospital blueprints while searching for places where ‘evidence’ might be buried.
“Everyone. Come look at this.”
Then, we discovered a specific location on the 1st floor. It was a part that differed from the hospital blueprints.
“Originally there should be a door over here.”
There’s no door where the [Maintenance Room] should be. The wall’s color and texture are different too.
“In other words. This place-“
“Boss. Could I possibly deliver that line?”
Im Hae-jun clasped his hands together with sparkling eyes.
“…Fine. Go ahead.”
I gladly stepped aside. He’s been holding up well, which is admirable.
“…Everyone wait!”
Im Hae-jun touched the wall with a serious expression, setting up an editing point.
“Everyone look! Originally there should be a door over here-“
“One step further back.”
Im Hae-jun quietly stepped backwards.
“…Originally there should be a door here. According to these blueprints.”
Swoosh. Im Hae-jun unfolded the blueprint.
This time Lee Jun-ho pointed it out.
“You’re holding it upside down.”
“….”
He quickly flipped it the other way.
“This side is definitely strange. I’ll try breaking through the wall. Jun-ho hyung? Please.”
“…Like he’s the one doing it.”
“Shh.”
“Move aside.”
Lee Jun-ho walked forward with heavy steps and swung his sword diagonally.
Screeeeeech──!
The wall cracked, but beyond it appeared an eerie door. Shamanic magic was drawn with wire, bells, and sacred rope.
“It’s a seal.”
Im Hae-jun quickly followed suit.
“Look, everyone. It’s a seal.”
I let out a hollow laugh.
“Are you a parrot?”
“There might be a parrot somewhere. It’s a hint to break the seal.”
“No….”
I decided to let Im Hae-jun do as he pleased and asked Kang Hyeon.
“But is it really okay for him to make YouTube videos?”
“Yes. The production crew gave him permission.”
After looking around for a while, Im Hae-jun turned toward us.
“Hyung. Is the parrot really a hint?”
“Would it be?”
“Ah, what the hell.”
“Move aside.”
I pushed Im Hae-jun away and stood in front of the sealed door.
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