Side Story (5)
On the third day since Seong Jihan started the game in the semi-basement room.
The scenery inside the room had changed drastically from a few days ago.
Well, that was understandable.
"This... there's more trash here."
As Seong Jihan, who was looking at the computer monitor, pointed to a cigarette butt that had fallen between the furniture.
Ssssss...
The cigarette butt floated into the air on its own and disappeared, enveloped in a blue light.
Seong Jihan was eradicating all the trash he saw, leaving nothing behind.
-Wow... The room has become completely clean.-He’s making all the cigarette butts and everything disappear. LOL
-Seeing it like this, even the semi-basement looks livable.
-At this level, it's the top 5% in our country...
Human viewers were giving favorable reviews upon seeing the tidy semi-basement room.
However.
-How can anyone live in such a place...
-It’s stifling just watching this.
-Can't we go outside? Feels like a chicken coop.
Alien viewers couldn't adapt to the semi-basement room that felt like a chicken coop.
They were nagging to go outside.
Perhaps because many of their races were used to grand scales.
To them, seeing Seong Jihan just looking at a computer monitor in the semi-basement room felt like watching a chicken trapped in a coop.
But.
"They told me to survive for 7 days. For now, I have to protect her."
Seong Jihan pointed to Yoon Seah, who was lying on the bed, dismissing their suggestion.
Then.
-Then can't you live somewhere bigger?
-You need to see the outside; how can you live in a place like this...
-Ah, this is too frustrating... I'll tell you a method to duplicate money in this era.
One of the alien viewers started giving tips on how to earn GP in this era.
-Buy the egg of a White Lizardman and Dragon's Blood from the BattleMarket, then soak the egg in the blood. After 3 days, it turns into an 'Egg Soaked in Dragon Blood'. You can resell it for over 3 times the original price.
-Huh, was the production method that simple? It was a scam that was prevalent back in the day...
-??? What, the Dragon Blood Egg was a scam? I bought 10,000 of them! They said you'd get a Dragon pet!
-Didn't you know? LOL
-I wondered who would buy that, but there are customers after all...
Hearing the method to make the 'Egg Soaked in Dragon Blood', the alien viewers were actively discussing it.
"Threefold profit, huh."
Listening to that, Seong Jihan, just in case, opened the BattleMarket.
"The market isn't implemented."
-Ah, I guess the market isn't implemented either.
-Right, this is just a game world...
-Too bad, I still have more than 10 ways to duplicate money.
-Hyung-nim... Please share some recent methods, not old ones.
-Hehe, I have to scam you guys; can't tell you in advance.
-Wow, Seong Jihan, please kick that guy out ㅡㅡ;
-Even if you kick me out, this is my slave's BattleTube account anyway hehe.
While the alien viewers were chatting with the scammer about money duplication methods...
Click. Click...
Seong Jihan took his eyes off the chat window and moved the mouse to look at articles.
He was viewing news to understand the current situation in Korea.
-Wow, the Human Space League is in last place? LOL
-What's wrong with this world? It's so gloomy;
-Why is the Sword King still in Japan...? Seriously?
-I guess it's because Seong Jihan isn't there…
The viewers, along with him, were learning about the current world.
-They're compiling the IF World's wiki right now.
-What's the IF World?
-An IF World without Seong Jihan.
-Are they organizing everything Seong Jihan is reading?
-That, and human players can act for about 5 minutes, right? Each of them is accessing the internet to gather information.
-From what I've seen, Korea is really a place to emigrate from LOL
-As a result of my search, our country is already doomed...
Human players, who learned the computer password and phone unlock pattern through Seong Jihan,
Were gathering information during the 5-minute limit whenever they entered this map in the Tower of the Martial Gods.
‘Well, I do exist in this world, but…’
Before regression, at this point, he was just a gambling addict.
It was no different from not existing.
Seong Jihan smirked bitterly and kept moving the mouse.
After roughly understanding the situation of Korea and the world, what he focused on were the Space League match videos.
-Are these Space League matches... But why do the opposing races appear like shadows?
-Right, it says it's a match against the World Tree Elves.
-Did the elves pull some trick again?
-No, not just the elves; even the matches against the Orc in the Space League show up like shadows.
-Isn't this because alien races aren't implemented?
-Seeing that the BattleMarket doesn't work and aliens aren't visible, seems only humans are implemented.
‘Indeed, it hasn't been created up to the aliens.’
In the screen, the alien races were represented as shadows.
Seong Jihan realized that this world was implemented in a limited fashion.
From the news articles, it seemed that the scope was up to humans.
‘Of course, I'd have to see actual humans to be sure.’
He'd go out if it weren't for the mission to survive for 7 days.
As Seong Jihan glanced at Yoon Seah, who was lying motionless.
Ding-dong. Ding-dong.
[Delivery!]
From the front door, the sound of the doorbell rang.
-???
-What? Why is there suddenly a delivery? Did Seong Jihan order something?
-No, no, no, I've been watching for 3 days without sleeping; he didn't order anything.
-Isn't it something he ordered a long time ago arriving now?
"......"
Swoosh.
Seong Jihan silently stood up from his chair, carefully eyeing the front door.
At the same time.
Click...
The lock on the front door started to open.
-??? What? Why is it opening?
-Do delivery people in Korea open doors too?
-No... They're holding guns?
Two men entered through the opened door.
They had unremarkable appearances, not standing out much, but each held a pistol.
With silencers attached, no less.
[He noticed after all?]
[Stop the unnecessary chatter; kill him.]
[Fine. You take care of the woman.]
They spoke briefly in Chinese.
Ping!
A muffled gunshot sounded through the silencer.
So the bullet flew towards Seong Jihan.
Ssssss...
A blue aura flickered in the air for a moment.
[... Huh?]
The bullet stopped in mid-air.
[Wh-what is this...]
[Is he a player?!]
-Why are they speaking Chinese?
-They are just NPCs in the game world. They have nothing to do with China.
-Well, that may be, but...
-Is there any info on the IF wiki?
-China is doing well; China and Japan are competing for the top spots in Northeast Asia LOL
-Well, that's because of the size difference.
Crack...!
As Seong Jihan stretched out his hand, the pistols began to crumple.
[Wh-what...]
[Th-this is...]
Seeing their guns suddenly destroyed, the men widened their eyes in shock.
Crash! Crash!
[Ah, argh...!]
With the sound of bones breaking, the two men collapsed onto the floor.
The broken leg bones pierced through their pants and protruded.
No matter if all his stats were only 1, as long as they entered his domain, ordinary humans couldn't resist.
"Well then..."
Step. Step.
Seong Jihan walked toward the fallen men.
"Who sent you?"
Even while writhing on the floor with broken bones, the two men kept their mouths tightly shut.
Looking at them, Seong Jihan twisted his lips.
"Ah. 'It's a delivery.' Is that the only Korean you know?"
[...]
"Then I'll let you know."
Snap.
As Seong Jihan snapped his fingers in the air.
The bodies of the two men lying on the floor started to tremble.
Then, parts of their bodies protruded and retracted repeatedly.
The two men widened their eyes.
Experiencing pain they had never felt before in their lives.
They couldn't stand it and tried to scream.
"Ah. It'll be noisy, so I'll shut your mouths."
[Uh...!]
[Mm... Mm...!]
Swoosh.
As Seong Jihan sealed their mouths, they rolled on the floor without being able to scream.
Bang!
Even the front door closed by itself, and terror filled their eyes.
At this rate, they'd be trapped here, continuously subjected to this horrifying torture.
[Mm. Mm...!]
One of the men, unable to bear the pain, pounded the floor with his hand and desperately pointed at his own mouth.
"Hmm? I don't think your willpower is so weak."
Seong Jihan didn't accept their confession immediately.
"No matter what, you can endure for at least ten minutes. I'll keep you alive during that time."
Ssssss...
As a blue aura flickered momentarily, the bleeding from their legs stopped.
However, the broken bones were still protruding.
Even though they indicated they would confess, he didn't stop the torture.
One of the men couldn't endure the pain and passed out.
"Seems treatment is necessary."
Ssssss...
The unconscious one opened his eyes as the blue aura touched their bodies again.
Feeling their condition had improved, they wondered what on earth was happening.
[Uh...!]
But the torture started again.
Repeating healing and torture in this way.
-Wow, he's healing them and torturing them again?
-At this rate, they'd probably even spill their bank account passwords...
-But seriously, who is behind this?
-Everyone, this is just a game world. It has nothing to do with China in reality, no matter what they say.
-Why are you defending it in advance. LOL
-The fact that they're speaking Chinese is a big deal. LOL
People were roughly narrowing down who might be behind this in the chat window.
Meanwhile.
'Indeed, here, emotions are more intense...'
Looking at the two being tortured after collapsing, Seong Jihan reflected on his state.
The ones who had assassinated Yoon Seah in the previous life, disguising it as suicide.
By torturing their members like this, he felt he was enacting revenge for the past.
Various emotions were welling up.
'Actually, prolonging it for ten minutes was unnecessary.'
The current torture was more painful than the limb-tearing technique used before.
If Seong Jihan hadn't been healing them simultaneously, they would have died from shock.
If he'd let the man who was pounding the floor open his mouth earlier, they would have confessed the truth about who was behind it.
But Seong Jihan deliberately dragged it out for ten more minutes.
Because the emotions surging in his heart made him feel more alive than ever recently.
'At this rate, I might get addicted to this world.'
Even just staying here gave him a stimulus that felt more real than reality.
His senses felt sharper by torturing the organisation's henchmen that pushed Yoon Seah.
And after ten minutes had passed.
Crackle...
As Seong Jihan withdrew his power.
The man lying on the floor quickly opened his mouth.
[Th-the one who hired us is... Jin Yuhua of the Divergent Guild!]
"Speak in Korean."
"Yes. That... Jin Yuhua of the Divergent Guild ordered us to assassinate Yoon Seah."
"She said not to try to make it look like an accident, but to make sure it's done..."
The two assassins stammered as they confessed in Korean.
And when the name 'Jin Yuhua' came out, the chat window exploded.
-Who is Jin Yuhua? Is she on the IF wiki?
-No, she's not. Seems she's not very famous right now.
-I think I've heard that name before. Didn't the Chinese protest some time ago, demanding the truth about Jin Yuhua's death. LOL
-Oh, that protest with the gangsters? Demanding to reveal Seong Jihan's martial arts secrets. LOL
-Come to think of it, the Divergent Guild is connected to the Triads.
-Still, those gangsters don't recognize people... Anyway, these have nothing to do with China.
In this world, Jin Yuhua had come to Korea herself to assassinate Yoon Seah but ended up dying of a heart attack.
Chinese intelligence organizations tried to link her death to Seong Jihan, and protests occurred in front of the Sword Palace for a while.
But since Seong Jihan had a solid alibi, people thought it was just unreasonable behavior, and the protests fizzled out.
'It's no different than if I did it. Ariel finished it.'
Recalling when he eliminated Jin Yuhua in the current world, Seong Jihan extracted information from them.
"Why are you trying to kill Seah?"
"W-we don't know the details. We're just following orders from above..."
"Then, is the Divergent Guild involved in this?"
"No. This is Jin Yuhua's personal matter... The guild doesn't care about this."
"So I just need to kill Jin Yuhua?"
Gulp.
As the man swallowed at Seong Jihan's question.
Brrrr...
A phone started vibrating in the pocket of one of the assassins.
"Hand it over."
Swoosh.
As Seong Jihan extended his hand, the phone flew into his palm.
He showed the number displayed on the screen to the assassins.
"Miss Jin Yuhua is contacting us..."
He revealed whose number it was, cautiously watching Seong Jihan.
"Jin Yuhua is in Korea?"
"Yes... After the previous failure, she's personally overseeing things this time..."
She came to Korea and died last time too.
She was quite an active type.
"That's good. Then answer the phone and call her here."
Then, he would deal with her the same way this time.
Seong Jihan's eyes deepened.
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