Chapters 355 – 349 Modern
= I think this will be enough for lunch and dinner today. =
Isilite, who was walking around the food, butcher, and fruit and vegetable sections, looks around her with a satisfied face.
= This is an amazing place. Vegetables and fruits, the eggs are so big and the inside is full, and the display stand is so cold.
“It’s all electric power. Next time, if there is a chance, I will guide you through the market.”
=Is there a market here too?=
“There is a famous and large place nearby. You will like it.”
As she talks about Garak Market, Isilite reveals her anticipation and she smiles.
= I’m looking forward to what kind of place it will be. By the way…… Where did Anne and Yuri unnie go?=
“I went to buy some drinks and stuff.”
=Oh, did I spend too much time?=
“It’s better for her to do what she wants to do rather than following her around shopping. That’s why I sent it, so don’t worry about it.”
=Yes.=
Hwanin moved with Isilite in search of Anne and Yu Lepa and looked around her mart.
To be precise, it was for Isilite.
She shows interest in clothes to look good on her phantom, and the freshness of ingredients to feed her phantom and her companions.
She didn’t have much interest in anything else, but the inside of her retail store, which was filled with all kinds of things she had never seen before, caught her attention.
=Master, look at the doll clothes and doll house here. Don’t you think it would suit Hwanyeon?
“These things are made of cheap synthetic fibers, so I don’t think they would suit Hwanyeon.”
= Oh, that’s true. The texture is very rough.=
So she ran into Anne while doing some light shopping, such as going around with her and picking out her sweets and drinks. Issilite sighed as she watched Anne shopping, enjoying herself like a child.
=Oh, you drunkard.=
After putting 10 of each type of detergent and body wash, it contained alcohol regardless of the East or West.
Anne’s eyes twinkled and she waved her hand at her phantom and Isilite.
=Doryeong, Seul-ah. It’s really great here. Look at the type of alcohol, the bottle is so pretty!=
Looking at the alcohol in the cart, it is a lineup regardless of nationality.
Starting with white wine and red wine, Chinese liquors such as Guiju, Gaoliangju, Jukyeopcheong, and Zhangjiajieju, Nanlingmiju, Sohongju, Fujianju, Jinyangju, Korean liquors such as Gwahaju, Dongdongju, Makgeolli, Ihwaju, Plum wine, Bokbunjaju, Songjaju, Japanese liquor …….
When Issilite saw that, she was a little stunned.
=Are you planning to become a liquor dealer?=
=If I was going to sell alcohol, I would have bought all the alcohol here.=
The way he answers with a bright smile is innocent.
After choosing her drink to satisfy Anne’s satisfaction, she set out to find Yu Lepa, who was looking through all kinds of cosmetics at a cosmetics store, receiving recommendations from store staff.
In addition, what can be seen in the cart are women’s underwear.
Seeing that her size didn’t fit them, it seemed like it was bought for reference.
Yurpa waved to the store clerk with an expression that it was over and whispered next to Hwanin.
= Honey, look at this. How can there be so many types of cosmetics and different uses?=
“If you go to a luxury department store, there will be more luxurious things than here.”
=This is luxurious, but it is more luxurious than this… ?=
“Yes. If the opportunity arises, it would be okay to visit a liquor store together with Anne.”
=Really?! Doryeong, I love you!=
=Be the best!=
After such a short but satisfactory shopping trip, Hwanin dropped off her luggage at home with her girlfriends and then went out again for her personal business while Isilite prepared her lunch.
=Master, the meal will be ready in an hour…… You haven’t even had breakfast.
“Come back in it.”
The first thing he did was to find a nearby mobile phone dealership, purchase the latest model for himself, and then open three more mobile phones under his own name.
The number I used before was able to be restored quickly by replacing the SIM only because I did not throw away the remodeled smartphone that was smashed in the forest labyrinth and kept it.
Jing- Jing- Jing-
Jing-……
Text messages and notification messages that pop up non-stop as soon as they are connected.
While opening three more, Hwanin, who glanced at the text messages constantly arriving, confirmed that there was nothing important enough to pay attention to, and headed to his next destination, a major electronics store.
There, I purchased several laptops and high-speed data storage devices with the most expensive capacity and performance, and then went to an electronics store to secure six portable large-capacity solar generators I had seen in advance last night.
I wanted to buy more than 10 units, thinking about spares, but even looking at the entire electronics store, there were only 6 units of the corresponding model, and I felt that there was not much time to spare, so there was no way.
However, when purchasing a small generator that is fueled by oil, securing oil and consumables are also a chore.
“Ugh, boss, it was hard to collect all of these. If it wasn’t for me, I wouldn’t have gotten two, let alone six.”
“Thank you for your effort.”
“No…… Still, the older brothers who said they wouldn’t give it to me drank, and I spent a little effort here and there. Yes?”
Hwanin’s eyes glowed coldly at the words and actions of the store owner, who was willing to pay 1.3 times the price to contact him by phone and rush to find it.
This is why you basically don’t like people.
There are too many people who want to eat your back if you show a little gap.
“…….”
Facing Hwanin’s cold eyes, the store owner felt his heart grow cold and chills run down his spine.
The saliva goes to the temple. Hey, this isn’t dangerous…… ? His tone is stiff like a gangster, and his accent is low…….
Dangerous. I don’t know what it is, but if you touch this guy, you’ll bleed.
The owner of the shop overflowed with the primal fear that any human should have and scratched the back of his head while laughing servilely.
“Well, since you worked hard, use it well…… Oh, if you need more, just tell me. I will collect more and more. That, and this is a collection of things whose parts are easily obsolete? I will only take 300,000 won. Hey, as you can see from the price here, it’s the same as the original price!”
“Give me that too.”
After paying 10 million won for 6 portable generators worth 1.3 million won each plus a 30% express fee, Hwanin pretended to move the 6 generators to the car and put them in his pocket.
After putting in only light belongings, putting in a generator that weighs more than tens of kilograms, the weight of itself is heavy.
Afterwards, Hwanin made a phone call to the police station near the place where he tripped to check if there were any lost items.
“A travel trunk in silver with a gray trim finish and two 5-digit PINs.”
[Uh. Yes, there are things that young students have brought that have been neglected on the road, saying that they do not seem to have been put out to throw away.]
“I’m glad. May I visit you now?”
[Yes. I will prepare it.]
The first finder must have been a good student, but the suitcase was left at the police station not far from there.
Hwan-in, who found the police station where the travel trunk was stored, checked the trunk after confirming the owner by telling him the password of the trunk.
There are no scratches and the exterior is clean. There was no sign of trying to open it.
“Officer. Do you know the students who gave this to you?”
“Yes. These are students from a nearby school.”
“I’d like to give some reward to the nice students who gave me the bag…….”
“Ah, if that’s the case, leave it to me. They are students who often visit the snack bar across the street.”
“Thank you.”
Hwanin, who left 100,000 won in an envelope as a reward for the good students, bought a box of soda and several more national chocolate pies from a nearby mart, gave them to the police, and left the police station.
With this, I’m almost done with the outside work.
All that’s left is to see if things happen the way you expect them to.
“…….”
Hwanin, who was driving home, felt a strange feeling.
Something cool, yet sad, and a feeling of regret.
This feeling won’t go away unless you find and deal with the culprit who kidnapped you as Nionebreath.
Hwanin went home, stroking his chest with a pattern.
Hwanin, who returned home just an hour later, ate lunch prepared by Isilite, opened his laptop in the living room, and started downloading all sorts of electronic books and materials from the Internet.
Agriculture, forestry, fishery, mining, manufacturing, electricity, gas steam and raw material recovery, construction, etc., As well as medical, professional science and technology and public administration, education, art, sports and leisure, etc. Technical books are not classified. Download all without
Of course, since there are many original books in English, French, and Japanese, it also includes language learning books and dictionaries from other countries.
Here, books related to bushcraft, a personal hobby, are a bonus.
Hwanin, who had made hundreds of download lists, organized his thoughts while looking at the items being downloaded one after another.
According to the information he obtained during his travels in Nionebreth, the Tribal Alliance countries were extremely wary of the spread of this world’s technology.
There must be many reasons, and I can roughly guess them, but there is no reason for me to care about them.
There is no reason to secure this.
In the end, he himself is a victim of dimension shifting and forced summoning, and a minority of weaklings. She will do anything to protect herself and her girlfriends.
And the means that the minority can use to defend themselves against the majority are fixed.
Blackmail with Mutually Assured Destruction hostage.
I know from Sehee Lim, whom I met at Bijalux, that the management of Marianol is not perfect.
I had been building steam engines for months and there was no interference.
‘The more things that can be used as negotiation cards, the better. I’ll have to classify the skills Radsea needs and Hethrond and Beltical need.’
Spreading the technology won’t be difficult.
He is overflowing with confidence to persuade Hellumen’s Siha = Saiji, who is extremely friendly to him, and Farhist’s Henry = Justio, who is paying attention to having a good relationship with him.
Hwanin, who had been tapping the table with his fingers as he watched the download percentage go up quickly, stopped thinking and looked back at his girlfriends.
The girlfriends who can’t take their eyes off the sci-fi movie related to the universe that is playing on the 100-inch TV.
The backs of their heads with white, silver, and amber hair stand side by side, staring at the TV.
In the scene where a movie star wears a spacesuit and shouts stay while knocking on the bookshelf in the multidimensional space behind the bookshelf, Hwanyeon, sitting on top of Anne’s head, murmurs blankly.
“No, that makes sense…… ?」
“It’s a fiction created by human imagination, so even if it doesn’t make sense, there’s nothing wrong with it. I wouldn’t be able to understand more… Do you understand the contents?”
= That’s a fiction…… ? I thought I edited the video recorded with the video crystal ball…….=
=I never even dreamed of something like a novel!=
“…….”
Hwanyeon said with a serious face like a mystery novelist while he couldn’t open his mouth because he was so cute with his eyes wide open in surprise.
“The expressions of the people on the screen are so rich and varied that you can guess what the conversation is going on just by looking at the screen, right?”
At the same time, he explained the scene, but surprisingly, 90% of the contents matched.
However, besides Hwanyeon, only Yurpa understands that much, and Anne and Isilite only roughly understand the situation, while the rest focus on enjoying the visual beauty.
Hwanin watched the movie rush towards the climax and waited for a while while watching the first movie together. And as the ending credits started rolling, Hwanin stood in front of them and took off her top.
“Look here for a moment.”
= Oh, what! It’s broad daylight with the sun still watching, so you’re trying to attack us?=
“…… It’s not like that. Look here.”
Hwanin smiled at Anne’s jokey story and pointed to the pattern on her chest, and her women’s face hardened at the thought that the man they loved had a mark they had never seen before.
=Darling, did it happen after breaking the heart core?=
“Yes. I found it in the shower last night. And now, after a day, the golden color has become a little darker.”
=…….=
Yurpa’s expression became serious at the pattern on her chest, but Isilite and Anne didn’t seem to understand the situation yet, so Hwanin added an explanation.
“Rumors are widely known that those who break through and conquer the labyrinth gain power, wealth, and honor. I’ve been thinking about where the rumors are coming from. And I came to a conclusion.”
=The core of the labyrinth is…… Is it some kind of wishing stone?=
“Okay. Back in Nionebreth, my number one goal was to return to Earth. Then they broke the core and returned to Earth together.”
I did, but a pattern appeared on my chest, and as time passed, the light began to brighten. Only one thing can be inferred here.
“The core is a kind of wish stone that grants wishes.”
=If it is for that reason, it is understandable that the experience stories or memoirs of the labyrinth breakthrough are not circulating. Ordinary adventurers would not want to increase their rivals, and in the case of a nation, the risk would be high.=
Anne, who finally understood, supplemented her explanation for Isilite, who still did not fully understand.
=Think about it. If it becomes known that it grants wishes, people who do not have the ability will recklessly challenge it. Then the number of people dying in the labyrinth will increase. Then what will happen to the labyrinth?=
=…… It will grow fast.=
= Right. The labyrinth that has grown like that will accumulate strong heterogeneous species inside and flow back, and the surroundings will be in danger. In the past, it would become a wasteland where no one could live. It’s practically on the verge of extinction.=
In the quiet living room, only the ending song of the movie plays.
When Hwanin turned off the TV with the remote control, Hwanyeon, who had been listening to the story all along, asked.
「By the way, is there a guarantee that you will return to Nionebreath when the light is full?」
“None. That’s just the most probable hypothesis at the moment.”
「Hmm.」
“It’s just my hypothesis, but I think the energy required is different for each type of wish. Of course, depending on the grade of the labyrinth, the energy that is filled will be different.”
“So that pattern is a kind of energy tank for making wishes come true.”
Yu Lepa, who had come closer and looked closely at the pattern, carefully reached out his hand and touched the edge of the pattern.
=What do you think is the reason the light of this pattern becomes stronger?=
“I think of it as a cooldown. After showing in advance how the wish will come true, if you break through the labyrinth several times and fill up your energy, your wish will come true.”
=…….=
=…….=
It’s all hypothetical, but the women of Hwanin couldn’t deny that the words sounded very valid.
