The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47
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Crunch, crunch.
The footsteps of two people echoed through the Cave.
My Younger Sister glanced back over her shoulder.
“What… what do we do…”
“…”
Both of us felt uneasy about leaving behind the person who had saved us, but my Older Sister, who had been trembling continuously, still bore a pallid complexion.
It was only natural that we didn’t want to turn back after barely escaping.
“Older Sister. Let’s hurry and call the people.”
“But…”
There was no way anyone would volunteer to help when there were dangerous monsters about.
“…”
Silence descended between us.
The Cave ran deep.
It wasn’t a dead-end passage but rather a corridor connecting somewhere else.
The path, carved in an almost perfectly straight line, was remarkably smooth—so meticulously maintained that it felt deliberately artificial, as if someone within the Gate had deliberately groomed it as a passageway.
Luminescent magic stones were embedded at regular intervals along the cavern walls.
“Older Sister, look at this…”
Along the smooth tunnel walls, grotesque symbols written in blood-red liquid were densely inscribed.
Ominous characters that made one feel nauseous merely by looking at them.
“Something feels wrong.”
“Shh, shh.”
My Older Sister’s legs trembled uncontrollably.
The arrangement was far too uniform and densely packed to be naturally formed.
It was a suspicious space.
Fortunately for the Sisters, before long, familiar voices echoed from deeper within.
“Huh? The people from the First Floor?”
The Residents recognized the Sisters first and rushed toward them.
“You’re alive!”
“How did you escape?!”
“Thank goodness! We were so worried you wouldn’t make it out!”
The Sisters exhaled sighs of relief.
“Well…”
We couldn’t bring ourselves to mention that someone had helped us escape.
Among the Residents living in the Villa, those who lived alone were generally young, and there were also several families with children.
The central area of the Cave had a high ceiling and broad expanse.
Moreover, there were so many luminescent magic stones throughout the interior that one could see reasonably well without turning on a light.
In the spacious and pleasant interior of the Gate—as large and comfortable as a small athletic field or gymnasium—three separate passages branched out, including the path from which we had fled.
“B-but where exactly is this place?”
Older Sister changed the subject.
A large circular pattern was drawn in the center of the floor.
However, since the light from the magic stones didn’t reach that area, it was barely noticeable to people’s eyes.
“If you go to the end of this passage, it connects to another Cave, and there are monsters there too. The atmosphere over there just felt too dangerous, so we didn’t go at all.”
“The Hunters will be rushing here soon. I reported it immediately the moment I sensed the Gate’s emergence.”
While some people’s faces showed concern about the catastrophic Gate situation, those who had evacuated early looked generally quite healthy.
It was thanks to finding a good shelter.
“We were lucky. They say the most dangerous situation is when there’s nowhere to hide inside a Gate, but there happened to be a Cave right in front of where the Villa was transported—perfect for taking shelter.”
“I wonder if the people not here managed to escape safely.”
“Right? The Gate opened when everyone was home eating dinner and resting, so most people must have gotten caught in it.”
“Wasn’t there someone who moved to the 5th Floor today?”
“Oh, that large woman? Right, where could she be? I think I saw her entering her home in the evening.”
The Sisters, realizing this was the person who had saved them, both flinched simultaneously.
The Residents, too absorbed in their conversation to notice, worried about the person who had moved to the 5th Floor today.
“She couldn’t have… not made it out, could she?”
“Surely not.”
“Moving in today and getting caught in a Gate—what terrible luck.”
“We shouldn’t worry about others right now.”
A Man with Family sitting in the corner let out a heavy sigh.
Whether they owned their homes, had jeonse contracts, or paid monthly rent, everyone had lost their homes in an instant to this unforeseen disaster, and all felt equally helpless.
“At least we’re alive. Besides, the government provides some support for Gate disasters anyway. Homes and possessions don’t matter—we just need the Hunters to arrive quickly.”
The situation so far was reasonably hopeful, but they couldn’t leave the Gate until the Hunters arrived.
In their minds, the 5th Floor Resident who had moved in today and unfortunately gotten caught in the Gate disaster was already dead.
“Um, um…”
“About that person…”
Just as the Sisters, exchanging nervous glances, were gathering the courage to speak up for the 5th Floor Resident who had helped them.
“Hey, Mom!”
A Child who had been watching the glowing magic stone lanterns near where the families had settled near the middle Cave tugged at their mother.
“There’s a sound coming from over there!”
The child’s finger pointed to the very passage that no one had entered because it felt too ominous.
“…What?”
The adults jumped to their feet.
Sssssss—
An unidentifiable noise echoed through the Cave—something presumed to be alive, and a considerable number of them at that.
People began to pale and panic.
“We need to leave quickly!”
“Let’s go back the way we came!”
“We can’t! There’s a monster the size of a house eating people over there right now!”
Everyone froze.
The First Floor Woman, nearly losing her composure in the face of this sudden crisis, covered her mouth in shock at what she had just said.
“What the—”
“This way, hurry!”
“Kyaaaah?!”
Dark shapes erupted from the eerie Cave in an instant, and the foremost creature spewed something from its maw.
The Woman fleeing toward the right entrance was struck by a white mass and collapsed.
The viscous liquid sprayed by the Spider-type Monsters—each the size of a human torso—stuck the Woman and itself to the Gate’s Cave wall with a sickening adhesion.
The Residents who witnessed this faltered in their escape, retreating instead.
“The other way!”
The opposite passage was no different.
“Gaaaah!”
The Man with Family who had tried to flee into the left Cave where the Villa stood let out a shriek at the abruptly approaching Monster and retreated back toward the center.
Black spiders poured endlessly from the largest Cave in the center.
Then an enormous mass emerged from within, pushing its head forward before slowly revealing its colossal form as countless legs pressed against the walls for support.
“!!!”
Kuoooooo—
As darkness engulfed the Cave, all escape routes were completely cut off, and the faces of the trapped Villa Residents were consumed by uncontrollable terror.
The space darkened as the light from the magical stones embedded throughout the Cave was obscured.
The colossal Monster, presumed to be the mother of the creatures, raised its massive body and looked down upon the frozen Residents.
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I crouched near the Cave entrance leading to the vast central space, watching the situation unfold, and flinched.
Monsters poured out, and then an enormous boss-class creature burst forth.
‘Insane. What is that thing.’
Once the gigantic Spider Monster entered the space, I realized this cavern was originally its nest.
Having just finished fighting moments ago, my hand reflexively moved toward my Item window.
But unlike a one-on-one duel with those centipede offspring, the sheer number of creatures blanketing this vast space seemed beyond what I could handle alone.
If I charged forward, I could at least clear a path for the Residents to escape.
‘That’s exactly the same as before!’
Not regretting my decision doesn’t mean I should recklessly throw myself into danger without thinking.
Deep within this Cave, no one knows when the Hunters will discover this place.
Some Gates have random entry paths, after all.
Even if I intervened and exhausted all my Coins helping them, I’d either die alone or the late-arriving Hunters would just have one more corpse to clean up.
With Coins not being infinite, the voice in my head echoed: stop being stupid and run.
“Kyaaaah!”
The Residents scattered in all directions, fleeing from the charging Monsters.
But they couldn’t get far.
Splat! Splat!
The Monsters sprayed something like saliva, pinning the Residents to the Cave walls.
From what I could tell, they weren’t trying to eat them directly—they were sticking them to various spots in the Cave to serve as food for the massive Monster behind them.
My decision crystallized immediately.
‘Time to bolt.’
If the other entrance is blocked and the Residents come rushing this way, only I with my bad leg will be in danger.
Sure enough, someone came running this way and tripped.
“Kyaaah!”
I turned my head at the noise coming from almost directly below, and our eyes met.
It was a familiar face.
The Woman’s expression, which had turned deathly pale with terror just like when she was trapped behind the security bars, suddenly flooded with joy.
“Y-you’re alive…”
The Woman quickly grabbed my pant leg—more precisely, my sweatpants—in a tight grip.
‘Is she insane?!’
I desperately clutched at my pants as they threatened to be ripped clean off by her pulling force, and tried to shake her off.
“Let go—”
“Save me! Please save me!”
The Woman facing death refused to let go of me, using every ounce of strength she possessed to clamp both arms around my legs.
The Woman screamed.
“You’re a Hunter, aren’t you?! You tore off the security bars with your bare hands! If you killed that monster, then deal with this thing quickly!”
The terrified Residents looked at me like I was their savior.
Cold sweat ran down my back.
As my leg was grabbed along with the tiresome Hunter treatment, the sense of déjà vu doubled.
“Aaaaah—!”
The Baby Monsters rushed in, biting and dragging the Woman’s leg.
In that moment, my body swayed.
“!”
As I tried to shake off the hands gripping my ankle and escape in the direction of the exit, the leg I stepped on was unfortunately the injured one.
I was swept up by an enormous force and lost my balance in an instant.
Thud!
As the Woman was dragged away by the monsters, my body was dragged along with her.
Screams of struggle echoed out.
“Aaaaah! Please save me!”
I wanted to scream for her to let go so I could escape, but the Woman had her eyes rolled back, clinging to my leg with all her might.
Remarkable.
That I could be dragged despite weighing over 100 kilograms.
I was dragged toward the Central Cave, staring blankly up at the Spider-type Monster that looked even more grotesque than a centipede.
It was watching me being dragged toward it by the Baby Monsters.
“…Damn it.”
I could feel it just from its gaze.
The kind of interested look one has watching Chicken come with a 1+1 promotion.
That damned oversized spider bastard clearly intended to eat me first, with my thick, plump chicken-leg-like body.

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