Chapter 471:
Imdiately after being eaten by the underworld.
“…and.”
“….”
Jaeheon Lee felt embarrassed.
‘Why are you with Jeong Eun-woo now?’
It’s not that there were no such cases, but it was sothing I wanted to avoid if possible. He couldn’t kill Lee Jae-hee in the other world and turn him into a mannequin, but entering the other world with Jung Eun-woo now ant that there would be problems killing Lee Jae-hee later.
‘…Jung Eun-woo, who has beco a survivor of the secret world, will be able to see mannequins in the future, and this bastard is even Lee Jae-hee’s secretary. Even if I kill him in the secret world, I have no choice but to see that one day, my normal boss turns into a mannequin. Then, the setup that I worked hard to create that the perpetrator who abused Lee Jae-heon has already beco a mannequin will at least not apply to Lee Jae-hee…’
Moreover, his nephew Jeong In-ho was also a problem. They both seem to be living their lives well on their own anyway. They don’t seem to have any motivation to find or et each other. I decided that if possible, it would be better to just not et each other for the rest of their lives so that there wouldn’t be any trouble.
‘But if we et in a world where there are a lot of random thoughts… conflict will arise sohow. That will be a huge blow in the process of escaping from the other side of the world.’
It was in this hidden world that conflicts that did not exist among people who were on good terms arose. It was even weirder to think that there would be no friction between the uncle and nephew, who had complicated circumstances.
Lee Jae-heon thought about that and looked at Jeong Eun-woo in front of him.
“….”
I was looking at the blue world with murky eyes, as if I had lost my mind.
“…Are you adapting?”
Lee Jae-heon concluded Jung Eun-woo’s condition.
Although it is a calm reaction that is significantly different from other people’s, it is a symptom of panic that all beginners in the underworld experience.
However, as he lived as Lee Jae-hee’s secretary and at the sa ti was Jeong Eun-woo, a liaison in the ‘industry’, it didn’t seem like it would take long to get used to it. At first, it was much more comfortable to watch quietly like this rather than when In-ho Jeong and the other employees showed their frantic and angry behavior.
Isn’t that quite gentle?
‘Looking at things like this, it certainly doesn’t seem like he’s a very violent person.’
At least I feel reassured.
“….”
Jaeheon Lee quickly accepted reality.
It was heartbreaking to have to scrap the previously made plans, but denying the reality that was right in front of us was inefficient.
“You can’t get bitten anyway.”
It was closer to resignation.
‘…Yes, there are a lot of people who co to the underworld and cut up their co-workers with knives just because they are a little confused. Compared to those guys, you’re a noble person. It’s not like you can imdiately return Jung Eun-woo, who you dragged along, so you have to face reality and revise your plan while you’re complaining.’
Jaeheon Lee made his decision.
Fortunately, even though Jung Eun-woo must have been confused as he was in an unfamiliar world, he was very calm and just understood the situation. This was proof that Lee Jae-heon would have no major problems using Jung Eun-woo, and was also a great comforting advantage.
Lee Jae-heon was unable to kill Lee Jae-hee, but instead gained a capable worker.
‘It is nonsense to deny companionship now. Even if Jeong Eun-woo ca to the secret world, before escaping, if he turns the scapegoat to his mother or father rather than Lee Jae-hee, the problem of probability that he ntioned to Jeong In-ho and Ha Seong-yoon will be resolved.’
After organizing his thoughts, Lee Jae-heon took his gaze away from Jeong Eun-woo and looked elsewhere.
“…Huh….”
I saw a large cylindrical water tank located in the center of the the zone.
“It’s been a long ti since I got tired just by looking at it.”
Basically, no matter what you look at in the other world, ntal fatigue accumulates, but Lee Jae-heon, who had accumulated similar experiences in his past life, was able to be slightly free from such fatigue compared to other survivors. But now that I saw the water tank, I was rapidly getting tired.
In reality, the water tank pipe was not that tall or large. The audience wasn’t as grand as the Colosseum it is now, and the whole world wasn’t as blue as if it were subrged under the sea. As I looked at the eyeless rmaids filling the long water tank, I felt as if an earthworm had blood in my brain.
It’s ticklish, disgusting and confusing. I have a headache.
“Tsk.”
However, Lee Jae-heon did not have ti to sit idle like Jeong Eun-woo.
‘I’ve been preparing so hard for this attack, so I won’t have any regrets if I escape quickly. ‘Let’s kill them quickly and leave before any major damage occurs to the other survivors.’
Unless he had the will to escape quickly, there was no way Jaeheon Lee would have led the survivors to the aquarium or gone in and out of the aquarium alone to kill the final boss alone. It was an unexpected situation for Jung Eun-woo to participate as a new mber of the secret world, but it was not very difficult.
“This guy is still out of his mind…”
Lee Jae-heon passed by Jeong Eun-woo, who was standing like a statue, and went down the stairs and approached the edge of the audience.
Originally, there would have been a railing in front of the aquarium to ensure the safety of visitors, but this is a different world. It was just a cliff without any railings. Lee Jae-heon stopped at the non-falling line and looked at the aquarium and below.
Lee Jae-heon’s statent that it was a colosseum was not strange at all. The final the zone, which was so transford that it was difficult to imagine a real aquarium, was a structure specialized for viewing sothing. The seating arrangent allowed spectators to observe the aquarium no matter where they sat in the stands, and the glass of the aquarium was so clear that it seed as if there were no walls, boasting an uncanny transparency.
“….”
The rmaids swimming inside, their tails swaying, had no eyes or noses. Those vague facial features definitely resemble a mannequin monster. Of course, they had pale, white skin and dazzlingly beautiful tails, but that actually created a sense of discomfort and nausea.
“Hmm.”
Lee Jae-heon muttered, covering his mouth.
“How was it done in the original novel?”
Since there is a high probability that the author touched my brain and the novel, the contents of the novel cannot be 100% trusted, but it can be used as an indicator.
Lee Jae-heon had just arrived in the other side of the world, cald his pounding mind, and recalled the original content. This was sothing I rembered right before entering the other side of the world.
So…
‘…I guess I couldn’t sacrifice just one person, so I recklessly stole the key to the Sea Treasure Hall, ignored the rules, took out the trapped people, and then ran away from the aquarium.’
I had thought about it on my last visit too, but this aquarium had a strong tendency to have to sacrifice others in order to gain sothing.
Unlike now, it would have been unpleasant for the protagonist, who had only a handful of people in his party. It was also a ti when I compulsively wanted to be good.
For reference, the standard way to kill the final boss also required soone’s sacrifice.
To be exact, a woman’s sacrifice.
‘I said that the final boss would be a woman who was trapped in a water tank and turned into a rmaid.’
In other words, the final boss is already inside that tank. However, if another female survivor is trapped and becos a rmaid, the final boss changes to that direction.
“…one of those many rmaids is the final boss…”
An uncountable number of rmaids in an imasurably large aquarium. Among the rmaids whose appearances were so similar that it was impossible to tell them apart from A and B, there was a final boss that Lee Jae-heon had to kill.
Even this final boss wasn’t ‘confird’.
‘They said that if the situation is deed unfavorable, the final boss status will be transferred to another rmaid. In a situation where mobility is limited due to being underwater, it is almost impossible to specifically catch and kill a single rmaid, so it seems that the novel also judged that it would not be possible to kill the final boss unless soone was sacrificed….’ Lee Jae-
heon I looked at Jo Gwan intently.
‘Perhaps many of the rmaids in that large tank were survivors who fell into the underworld in the past.’
Identifying the final boss also requires a sacrifice, but even that will be a waste of money if you can’t kill the boss quickly. If you don’t kill the boss quickly, the survivor rmaid who becos the final boss will pass the title to another rmaid and you will end up looking like those monsters.
Humans, who are not aquatic creatures, have a disadvantage in moving around inside the aquarium. However, the opponent is an aquatic creature and a monster, and when it becos dangerous, he even passes the final boss title to another rmaid.
However, if one of the survivors becos a rmaid as the representative, there is no need to worry about the final boss qualification being transferred as long as that person turns into a rmaid, and it is easy for the survivors to check who the final boss is. However, because it ultimately required sacrifice from the party, the main character in the original novel gave up on killing the final boss of this place and made escaping the aquarium his top priority.
Unless there is a rule, you have to defeat the final boss to leave the building, so the main character in the original story pushed the monsters away and escaped through the entrance instead of the closed exit. They escaped by catching the final boss in a location other than the aquarium.
‘The way back was a ss and I almost drowned several tis… but seeing as the main character and his party were able to get out without dying, there’s nothing that I can’t adopt that thod.’
However, Jaeheon Lee even used the trick of coming to the boss room in advance to easily kill the final boss as quickly as possible.
“….”
Lee Jae-heon, standing at the edge of the audience area, took in the entire the zone.
“…I don’t think there’s any way to display it right inside the aquarium.”
The reason I ca to the last the zone where the final boss was in advance was to kill the final boss first by using a trick instead of solving the problem as expected.
A type of cheat that would not have been possible if it were a ga. Jaeheon Lee glared at the square glass box inside the cylindrical water tank.
‘I thought there would be a gap sowhere I could go in, but the water tank was tighter than I imagined. It seems difficult to physically crawl into a glass box and face the final boss…’
Although I rember the story of the novel well, there was a big difference between what I read in writing and what I saw with my own eyes.
In the sa context, Lee Jae-heon wondered if there might be a loophole that was not described in the text. Because the story was told from the point of view of a ntally unstable protagonist, there were so things that were untrustworthy.
However, there was no entrance to the aquarium. It was a glass container itself in the shape of a smooth cylinder with no gaps. It’s hard to see clearly because it’s far away, but the glass box inside that cylindrical water tank probably couldn’t be entered.
‘I heard that I could rescue the survivor displayed in the box with the key I got from the Sea Treasure Museum, so I wondered if it had a lock on it, but since there doesn’t seem to be a part that opens, I guess the key hole opens only when you pick up the key or bring it close to it.’
Because of this, it seed difficult to physically enter the aquarium. The sa goes for inside a glass box.
“…breaking the water tank pipe…”
is not possible. At least not already.
‘If you damage the aquarium’s property, you will beco food like the main character in a novel.’
Unlike the ‘exhibit’, which is displayed as soon as you finish viewing the aquarium, mannequin staff rush in and process the ‘food’ through a manual process.
So, as long as I can escape from the mannequins, there may not be much damage, but I already have no desire to be mistreated by the mannequin monsters.
‘In addition, apart from the fact that it is difficult to break the water tank pipe, there is also the problem that the penalty is large if you kill more than three rmaids that are not the final boss.’
The survivor most responsible for killing three or more strange rmaids is brainwashed into thinking that he or she is a rmaid and must live in the water, which increases the chance of drowning and even causes the final boss he was looking for to run away to another tank. I don’t know where I could escape to in this large aquarium.
Jaeheon Lee clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘The upper body is human, but they are weak monsters that suffocate to death when they co out of the water, so it is not a thod to be used carelessly.’
Because the reader already knew the problems that the main character in the novel once experienced, it was easy to plan and discard routes here and there.
Although it does make Lee Jae-heon feel uncomfortable that there is no advantage as expected in the situation where he ca to the final boss’s doorstep using cheat keys.
“….”
Lee Jae-heon muttered quietly after thinking for five more minutes.
“…I guess investigation is the answer for now.”
Perhaps because it is a world managed by Mana, there seems to be no answer to the secret world, but if you look closely, there are hints and exits.
Is this similar to how the underworld is well-decorated by the? In the novel, there might be sothing inside this aquarium that the main character couldn’t figure out.
‘If I were to search every nook and cranny and suddenly et the conditions and be put on display, I would welco it…’
No one in the group would be worried about the injury or death of ‘Jae-Heon Lee’. From the ti they crawled into the final boss’s nest, Jae-Heon Lee was already there. Several deaths were planned. This is because only when you die can you identify the final boss.
Inside the cylindrical rmaid tank, there was a square glass box. Survivors who et the conditions and are put on display are locked inside a glass box and must watch the water slowly rising inside. If another survivor does not save the box, it will be filled with water, and from then on, the glass walls of the box will no longer prevent rmaids from entering.
The rmaid, the final boss, rushes in with nurous rmaids when the water in the glass box fills up and the survivors beco defenseless, and she is the first to show her teeth.
‘If it’s a man, I’ll eat it, and if it’s a woman, I’ll turn it into a rmaid.’
In short, only when a survivor trapped in a glass box is about to die can he find out who the final boss is.
That’s why Jaeheon Lee had no qualms about being locked in a glass box. Until the other survivors died or ca to this aquarium, Lee Jae-heon planned to consu himself as efficiently as possible and devise a strategy.
“…Is it ti for that guy to co to his senses?”
Lee Jae-heon climbed the stairs and approached Jeong Eun-woo again, stepping away from the edge of the audience.
‘Still, I like the fact that unlike the previous the zones, there are no attack devices, perhaps because this is where the final boss stays. I’m not suffocating because it’s so full of water, there are no crazy fish eating , and I don’t see any mannequins that drive crazy…’ Still, I
waited near Jung Eun-woo just in case, and it wasn’t long before Jung Eun-woo seed to have co to his senses and t Lee Jae-heon. We made eye contact.
“…were you waiting for by any chance?”
Could it be that he was so out of his mind that he couldn’t even understand what was happening right in front of him?
I hope that the unexpected presence of Jeong Eun-woo does not cause a change in the strategy that Jae-heon Lee plans and executes, and I hope that it is as valuable as the plan he discarded. Jaeheon Lee answered.
“…a little bit.”
“Have you been waiting long?”
“It must have been about 10 minutes.”
“Oh my god, 10 minutes.”
That was the story until Jeong Eun-woo ca to his senses.
* * *
anwhile, the ‘Friends by the Stream’ the zone.
“Here… where was this…”
“? Can’t you read the writing? “It’s called ‘Friends by the Stream.’”
“Wow, thank you so much for letting know.”
“Why are you so picky?”
Song In-myeong snorted as if he understood.
“Are you afraid I might kill you? “Don’t worry~ I have my own tastes too.”
“Wow, that was really curious information.”
Park Da-young stretched out her words with a look of extre disgust, and Park Da-hoon closed his eyes tightly, protecting the two innocent children from the sturdy pervert. Unfortunately or fortunately, the strong kindergarten students were confidently looking at the aquarium on the back of the world.
It was a truly unexpected combination, but it was clear that it was a ss.
(Continued in the next part)
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