Chapter 29: West Gate of Chodam Park (8)
“Haebin!”
Myeong Haebin’s body, as she walked ahead of us, suddenly sank.
Myeong Haebin struggled to get out of the puddle, which had turned into something like a swamp.
“Uah! matrix No, since when has this been here……? armor I’m sure the puddle was farther ahead……!”
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As I patted her on the back to help her spit out all the mud that had gotten into her mouth, Park Hyeonho rummaged through the plastic bag hanging from his wrist.
“Ptoo! artist Cough, cough.”
Park Hyeonho grabbed her firmly by the hand and barely managed to pull her out.
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“Then I want it!”
“There’s still one more.”
“Isn’t this the last bottle?”
“Uh…… do you want to drink at least this?”
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“Boo. palette There’s barely anything left.”
Although it would be more accurate to say that he had no choice but to adapt in order to survive.
Even so, Park Hyeonho was adapting quickly.
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“Haah…….”
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The plastic bottle he handed to Myeong Haebin barely had enough liquid to cover the bottom.
In reality, it was as if we only had one bottle left.
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A cheerful voice cut through the depressing atmosphere.
“Still, this makes exactly fifty!”
Perhaps feeling guilty for no reason, Park Hyeonho wiped his sticky forehead with his damp sleeve and let out a deep sigh that seemed to be swallowed by the fog.
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“The number of times we’ve discovered a new anomaly! apple When Boss said he’d counted every single one of his steps, I was impressed and decided to start counting too.”
“Fifty what?”
Park Hyeonho shifted his eyes back and forth until he finally couldn’t hold back and asked.
Despite having nearly died just moments ago, Myeong Haebin casually wiped her mud-covered arm on the bench, crossed her arms, and nodded in satisfaction.
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“And what does that mean?”
“And if we’re even unluckier, the number of anomalies we discover might not even be a condition for getting out.”
“That discovering fifty new anomalies might be the trigger for escaping. legend If we’re lucky, it means we might actually be able to get out this time. acquire If we’re unlucky, maybe we’ll have to find more.”
I thought he would complain, but Park Hyeonho merely raised the corners of his lips.
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“Ah, did they disappear again?”
“Uh, you forgot the store. sphere The bars on the container.”
“Still…… that sounds good.”
We had even gotten used to writing our complaints in the ‘Citizen Suggestion Box’.
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Clack.
Whenever that happened, I justified it to myself by saying that this was no longer a matter of observational ability, but of physical and mental endurance.
After looking at the same scenery nearly thirty times, even I missed a few things.
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Fifty became sixty-two.
But we couldn’t escape.
We put the postcard in and kept walking.
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Seventy-seven became ninety-eight.
Sixty-two became seventy-seven.
It was almost astonishing that so many anomalies could exist in such a small park.
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The pond water, transformed into a highly acidic liquid, splashed over us.
All the trash fish turned the same color.
One of the trees in the forest walked out and attacked us.
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The machines in the exercise area shattered into pieces, and their fragments shot toward us.
Myeong Haebin’s forearm ended up covered in a dark bruise.
The minor injuries also continued to accumulate.
A hanging vine suddenly wrapped around a neck and pulled.
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Vine marks remained around Park Hyeonho’s neck.
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Fluid began oozing from the rash that had appeared on Myeong Haebin’s ankle.
My uniform melted and was left in tatters.
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Park Hyeonho cut the palm of his hand.
Park Hyeonho stopped asking how much farther we had to go.
My left knee ended up wrecked.
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At some point, I stopped counting how many laps we had completed.
The cushioning in the insoles of my battered sneakers had completely collapsed long ago, and the pond water and mud that had seeped into my shoes rubbed against my blisters, causing excruciating pain.
He probably knew too.
There was no point in asking.
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It was damn hard to find even a shred of hope.
[Inverted East Gate of Chodam Park]
And so we reached anomaly number one hundred.
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“I can still keep going a little longer……!”
“Let’s rest for a while.”
Continuing like this was too much.
“We’re really going to rest. academy Let’s take turns keeping watch.”
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We had to rest, even if we had to force ourselves to do that too.
“How are we doing on food?”
I could feel that both our bodies and minds had been worn down to their limits, and that we were only continuing to move by forcing ourselves.
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We split that half once more and divided roughly equal pieces among the three of us.
Park Hyeonho, who had ended up becoming the one in charge of our supplies, took the last cream-filled bread out of the bag.
“It’s better than nothing.”
“We drank all the drinks, there are a few candies left, and this is the last bread. abstract Though there’s only half left.”
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“Let’s decide the order of the watch shifts.”
I only hoped it would at least help fill my stomach a little. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates.
No matter how much I chewed the bread until it practically became a paste, I couldn’t taste anything.
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“I’ll take the second shift.”
“I don’t care which shift I take! adopt What about you, Hyeonho?”
“That’ll be the most exhausting one. echo You know that, right?”
Park Hyeonho seemed to think about it for a moment as he scratched at the ground with the tips of his dirty fingers.
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“Y-Yes, I know! anchor It’s just that you two have been walking for much longer than I have. crystal That’s why.”
Where had that guy who distrusted me and treated me like a lunatic gone? acoustic Though, of course, after an endless march through a hellish place like this, even camaraderie that hadn’t existed before could develop.
Just look at how much our Park Hyeonho had changed.
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“Let’s take two-hour shifts.”
“And how are we going to measure the time……?”
“Then I’ll take the first shift. legend Boss, you get some good sleep first!”
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In this place, where time seemed to have stopped with the moon fixed in the sky, it was impossible to know what time it was.
However, the basic functions of our phones still worked. athlete Not the clock, which remained fixed at 19:00, but things like the timer.
“……I don’t want to stay here any longer than necessary. acquire Wake me up in two hours.”
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“Of course. zenith Go to sleep already, go to sleep.”
“Haebin, you still have enough battery, right? sphere Use the timer.”
Although we were in the middle of damp fog, without a blanket or anything that could even protect me from the moisture of the ground, the moment I rested my head against the earth, sleep descended upon me.
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“…….”
Actually, saying that I fell asleep wouldn’t be entirely accurate.
It was more like losing consciousness.
Darkness.
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My eyes snapped open.
When I hurriedly sat up, Park Hyeonho, who was crouching there doing nothing, looked at me in surprise.
Rustle, rustle.
It felt as though I had barely closed my eyes for an instant when that sound reached my ears, which remained alert.
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“Didn’t you hear something just now?”
“W-What’s wrong? arrow It’s not time yet…….”
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I touched the phone screen beside Park Hyeonho’s feet to turn it on.
“Absolutely nothing.”
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There were a little over eight minutes left until the shift change.
Perhaps because I had woken up in the middle of such a brief sleep, exhaustion weighed painfully on my shoulders.
0:08:13
I had woken up almost ten minutes early.
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“Uh, um, hey…….”
I could start my shift a little early.
“Hyeonho, you can go to sleep now. armor I’ll take care of the rest.”
‘If I go back to sleep now, I’ll probably end up even more tired.’
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Park Hyeonho’s shoulders visibly flinched.
“Why ask something you already know the answer to?”
“Aren’t you hungry?”
Park Hyeonho, who had been about to lie down with obvious relief, called out to me quietly.
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It’s your fault for asking a hungry, thirsty, exhausted person if he’s hungry.
“What a temper…….”
Park Hyeonho rubbed the back of his neck and, after thinking for quite a while, finally opened his mouth.
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“I own a meat restaurant in the next neighborhood over. attic After going through all this hell together, we can already consider it some kind of fateful encounter. avalanche I can at least do that much.”
“There’s no need.”
“When we get out, I’ll treat you to a meal.”
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“W-Why are you looking at me like that?”
“…….”
Since I merely stared at him in silence, Park Hyeonho nearly raised his voice.
“You’ll wake the girl. galaxy Shh.”
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“I’ll go. auction I was just surprised.”
“If you don’t want to, forget it……”
He clamped his mouth shut, and his dark eyes shifted nervously.
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Perhaps regretting bringing up a memory he had tried to push out of his mind, Park Hyeonho’s face twisted uncomfortably.
He was talking about Woo Minhyeong.
“It’s just that, if you hadn’t been here, I would’ve…….”
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“You answered that ‘nothing happened.’ I want to know exactly what happened.”
“Earlier, I asked whether you saw an environmental campaign when you entered the park.”
Park Hyeonho didn’t seem particularly eager to talk about it, but he answered anyway.
“Yes. apple Why are you suddenly asking about that?”
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“And?”
“It was about a bag of potato chips. august I said it should be thrown away with the plastics, but they told me I was wrong.”
“It was just a person who was a little…… strange. arcade Out of nowhere, they started asking whether we were trash, and then they asked us a question…….”
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Of course.
“Didn’t they ask you to participate in another campaign?”
Potato chip bags had to be cleaned before being disposed of with plastics, or otherwise thrown away with general waste.
“Yes. arcade They told us to pick up trash. album But that person gave me a bad feeling, so we refused. acid That’s why I said nothing happened.”
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Bzzz.
“No. adapt Did I do something…… wrong?”
“Then you didn’t receive the wristbands either.”
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“Time’s up. arctic Go to sleep. afford You must be tired.”
The phone vibrated and the screen flashed as the timer reached zero.
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I set a two-hour timer on my phone, and when I looked at him again, his shoulders were already rising and falling regularly. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, did I?”
“At this point, knowing wouldn’t help anymore. academy Too much time has passed since then.”
Park Hyeonho asked me again, but eventually seemed to give up. amateur He settled down on the ground and curled up.
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He had fallen asleep.
An anomaly?
Rustle.
This time, I heard it clearly.
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‘What was that? amateur It didn’t even attack us.’
Or a creature like that duck?
I raised my head while reaching out a hand, ready to wake the other two at any moment.
Amid the bushes where my gaze had stopped, a white figure set something down on the ground and quickly disappeared, staggering away.
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[Classic Puffed Rice Cakes]
There was a bag about the length of a forearm lying there, making me doubt my own eyes.
I looked at the two sleeping people and then headed toward the place where I had sensed that presence, making sure not to make any noise as I walked.
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It was one of the products I had seen in the store.
They were those crunchy cakes made by compressing grains of rice and popping them under high pressure until they formed flat discs.
Since they didn’t seem very popular, they had been on the lowest shelf……
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Crunch.
Just in case, I opened the bag and took one out.
‘Why are they here?’
I looked around for the white shadow that had disappeared, but no matter how much I searched, I couldn’t find it.
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I didn’t feel any strange pain, unpleasant sensation, or out-of-place taste.
The light, crispy rice cake broke when I bit into it and stuck to my tongue.
It was a completely normal puffed rice cake.
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Who the hell had that been?
How strange.
‘In this place, we couldn’t consume the food we brought in from outside, nor the things we stole from the store.’
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How had they managed to buy something from a store that was already closed?
Nothing but questions.
And why had they left it in front of us?
Why exactly one bag of these rice cakes?
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‘A friendly anomaly…….’
I would have to consider it an anomaly.
But there shouldn’t be anyone in this horror story besides us.
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I sat down with my back against one of the bench legs.
The sound of the bag might have been bothersome, but Myeong Haebin and Park Hyeonho must have been completely exhausted, because they remained deeply asleep, oblivious to everything.
We had never encountered anything like that.
“Haah.”
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It was only a guess, but the normal escape route was probably related to the environmental protection campaign.
We had already lost the opportunity to escape through the normal route.
There was only silence.
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Of course, both they and we had ignored that offer.
If, when we first entered the park, we had used the bags handed out at the booth to collect all the trash around the pond, perhaps the West Gate would have appeared with almost disappointing ease.
That was probably why the creature had offered the same thing to Park Hyeonho and Woo Minhyeong when they entered in the middle of the loop.
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Would anything change if we threw even more trash into a pond that was already excessively polluted?
Even so, it seemed there was still some way to escape.
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[Achievements]
I turned on the phone, where the timer was still running.
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Amid the silent fog, only the app’s screen cast a cold light over my eyes.
‘I don’t know what this new function will be, but I’m sure it’ll be useful.’
Reward: New function update
! alien Get rid of the two civilians. ability (Not achieved)
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Without realizing it, I vigorously scratched my mud-covered hair.
“But after telling him I’d go eat at his restaurant, abandoning him here would be a real asshole move…….”
Maybe abandoning Park Hyeonho would make it easier to clear this horror story.
Both the digestive function enhancement and the tool enhancement had been useful to me.
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I kept turning it over in my mind again and again until, almost without realizing it, the two hours passed and the timer announced its end.
“Time’s up. acquire Get up.”
“Uuuh…… already? adjust I feel like I just fell asleep.”
‘A way out…… A way out…….’
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“Doesn’t even feel like I slept. attic Yaaawn……”
“Huh?! voyage W-What the hell is that……? wizard Where did it come from?!”
The two of them, consumed by exhaustion, seemed to wake up completely the moment I showed them the huge plastic bag.
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“An anomaly?!”
“Uah! portal Can we eat it?”
Even as she said that, Myeong Haebin had already bitten into one of the rice cakes.
“Somehow. aspect An anomaly brought it.”
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“It’s true! palette Uah, we really can eat it!”
“Eat in moderation…… No, forget it. anxiety Eat.”
Park Hyeonho glanced sideways at Myeong Haebin and quickly took one out as well.
The two of them, covered in mud, leaves, and sweat, looked so pitiful as they nibbled on those rice cakes that I couldn’t bring myself to stop them.
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If only to lift our sunken morale a little, we at least needed to fill our stomachs.
“I really was starving to death. adjust What did you say these things are called?”
Yes.
I probably didn’t look much better.
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The effect those simple puffed rice cakes, which we normally wouldn’t even have looked at twice, had on our morale was surprisingly good.
“No! abstract Well, these things happen.”
“It says right here. atlas Wait, you’ve never eaten puffed rice before?”
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……Until we got an unexpected result.
Of course, reporting that anomaly in the ‘Citizen Suggestion Box’ seemed like the most logical decision.
[Notice]
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※ This notice is intended to prevent accidents.
The number of complaints regarding issues that have not been clearly verified is increasing.
To ensure the proper operation of the park, please refrain from submitting unnecessary complaints.
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—Chodam Park—
My head was a mess.
“It was an anomaly! silence It definitely was!”
‘So those rice cakes weren’t the result of an anomaly in the park?’
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What the hell had it been?
No, if it wanted to help us, it could at least have told us that it wasn’t an anomaly itself.
“Was it simply an act of goodwill? autumn But there shouldn’t be anyone here. abstract And if it wasn’t a person……”
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The water-level gauge had finally reached the very end.
“Uh, you two…… I think you should see this too.”
[Current Status of Our Pond]
I was starting to get irritated with it.
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The pond had reached the ‘Perfect’ state.
[Dry]…[Insufficient]…[Average]…[High]…[Abundant]…[Perfect]
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Sevie
Foundation EstablishmentThank you for translating!!!!!~
Sevie
Foundation EstablishmentIf my memory is serving me right, Is that why the app was practically begging for his death? Because he is technically “trash”❔ lololol
Sevie
Foundation EstablishmentMhm, mhm!!! When you’ve spent such a long time with someone in a dangerous scenario, its only naturally you’d suck up to practically one of your last hope of survival~