Chapter 80 – 14. Uncharted (8)
We left the forest and hurried to the base camp.
All the others in the party had already returned, leaving only traces of grass trodden on.
Once the most urgent fire was put out, it was time to return to the camp and discuss what to do next.
Donghun Oh’s whereabouts and information on the current situation on other islands were all not easy tasks.
She sent a message to Sianna, but since she hasn’t responded since a while ago, it seems difficult to have much hope for the faculty.
If the vision provided by the Observing Eye suddenly disappears, something must be done…
Do you think the students accidentally broke their eyes?
If that were the case, things would really get worse.
Please, I sincerely hoped that a reply would come within today.
“Ah, Mr. Jihoo…! Is everyone, by any chance, uninjured? Are they safe?”
As we approached the entrance of the camp while thinking about it, Jeong Ye-won came out to meet us as if he had been waiting for us.
Even at a glance, it was a worried face.
“I’m perfectly fine. Really.”
“Huh, huh… Really, I was worried…!”
Jeong Ye-won, who was crying, suddenly grabbed her hand tightly and refused to let go of her own arms.
Boy, you are really very soft.
In fact, I wonder if she’s reacting a little sensitively, but the fact that she cares about me this much touched me very much.
Jeong Ye-won’s hands were as soft and warm as her heart.
After the reunion of such a short breakup, she wiped the young tears from her eyes and continued her words, pretending to be bright.
“Mr. Jihoo, I have some good news… No, you look like you’re going to get angry… Actually, I’m also angry. After making you suffer like that, you’re on your own…!”
“Uh… What’s the news?”
“I found Mr. Oh Dong-Hoon…”
I searched the forest and couldn’t find it, but it seems to be alive…
It felt like a heavy burden had been lifted from my chest once more.
Okay. In common sense, if you don’t get close and get hit with the corrosive solution, you’ll have little to worry about dying.
But where the hell was he hiding? Pirahyun didn’t see him even while he was combing through the forest.
“I really want to slap you on the cheek, but… Seeing Jihoo’s face, I’ll bear it. He abandoned Harin Won and ran away alone, and he came all the way here before we arrived.”
“Uh… I’m glad you’re still alive…”
“I heard he was even snoring while sleeping in the tent. Really… I hate myself for worrying even for a moment.”
Shit… It’s a bit too much to be asleep.
I felt ashamed of even worrying for nothing, such as ‘wouldn’t it have been eaten by a monster without leaving a trace’?
Hearing Jeong Ye-won’s explanation, he immediately imagines how Oh Dong-hun would have behaved.
While chasing after Harin Won, he saw Won Harin fall after being hit by a blinding liquid blown by a monster, and ran out of the forest in a huff before he even regained consciousness.
I finally reached the base camp, but I was so nervous that I fell asleep as soon as it was safe…
What was the development of this feeling?
If you think about it, honestly, I don’t think it would have helped much if Oh Dong-hoon had stayed by his side instead of running away.
You should consider yourself fortunate to have just escaped and survived.
“How are you feeling? Is your temperature back?”
“I’m lying down in the tent right now… Jihoo must be very tired, so go in and rest a little.”
It seems that the symptoms did not get worse or worse.
As she said, I decided to go in and rest for a while to replenish my stamina.
Ryu Xin doesn’t look very tired, but I can see that her legs are still shaking from the previous day.
Thinking that she had to run away quickly, she overworked her muscles for a moment and her body throbbed all over her body.
“Whoa… Let’s sort it out for now.”
I buried my head in the soft pillow inside the tent and lay down.
The faint scent of Won Harin still tickled her nose.
The current time is 4:00 PM.
There were about two hours left until the sun went down, but it was plenty of time to draw meaningful conclusions from the vast fantasy.
All other problems have been resolved, so now finding ‘a sure way to contact other islands’ was the most important thing.
I opened my phone and touched various icons such as the hypnosis application, the person management function, and achievements, but no message came.
The writer probably doesn’t want the heroine to die either, but seeing as there’s no help, I guess I’m thinking it’s a problem I can solve on my own.
“Everything will be solved if I contact Professor Shiana… It’s really frustrating.”
I gave up on contacting her halfway and was thinking about other ways while wrapping my hair, when a familiar ringtone suddenly came from the cell phone I had put next to me.
It was the contact I had been waiting for. The problem was that I couldn’t tell who was calling.
– When I was a young boy
[Restrict Caller ID]
[Accept/Reject]
What. Are you saying you get such a suspicious phone call?
You should get this or you shouldn’t…
If it were Shiana, she would have sent a call as soon as she saw my text message, so there was little chance that Ha Yul or Ju Ha would bother contacting me by limiting the display.
Wouldn’t it be something that would curse me or have a bad influence on me the moment I received that phone call?
What if Cormpuntur really came to visit…?
-Your memory will carry on~
While I was thinking about it, the ringtone was heading toward the end before I knew it.
I instinctively realized that this opportunity would never come again.
When the song was over, someone whispered in my head that there was no more help.
You have to go down to see it.
There was no more time to delay.
I grabbed the phone with trembling hands, held it to my ear, and pressed the call accept button.
– Ah. I can hear? Got it now You were confident when you touched the heroines, but it must have been difficult to get in touch with them?
The voice was severely modulated throughout and mixed with mechanical sounds in places, making it impossible to tell even the gender or age.
The strange, nerve-wracking way of speaking made me feel uncomfortable.
– Judging from the situation, it seems that there is no way to contact other places, so it is blocked, right?
“That’s right, tell me the main point.”
I started to get a rough idea of who the voice was.
Someone who knows our situation better than anyone who hasn’t mentioned a word.
The one who forcibly dropped me into this world.
– His voice is cold… Don’t be too angry. I was wondering if I should make some adjustments because the balance is so twisted right now. Right now it seems to be too against you, so maybe some corrections will be made. I tried not to answer because I got angry when I didn’t answer the phone, but I’m glad I got it on time.
“No, you have to tell me specifically what kind of adjustment it is.
– Is that my heart? What is certain is that there will be little to no damage to you. Then I’ll hang up. Oh, and everyone was very worried about where Jihoo went, hehe.
“Wait a minute, you know me…”
Pop.
Before I could say anything about ending the call on the other side, the call was suddenly cut off.
It was a short call, less than a minute, but there was so much information to remember.
Presenting the direct words of balance and coordination.
Clearly, the writer knew from the original work that the present situation, when the development was considerably distorted, was a very unfavorable situation for me.
The fact that I said that I would make some corrections as compensation… I said that I had nothing to lose, but there are still a couple of things I’m worried about.
And the last words I said like a joke stuck in my mind.
Everyone is worried about where I went? Are you talking about things in real life?
I still can’t get a good feel for it, but it seemed like it would be a big clue to something.
The author may not have brought me here simply by looking at my comments.
It occurred to me that he was the one who had been watching me all along, long before that.
“But now is not the time to think about it.”
If the ‘changes’ contained what I wanted, now was the time to send another call rather than dwell on my thoughts.
I hadn’t been able to reach it until now, but I had an intuition that I would definitely notice it this time.
I started tapping the keyboard again.
I’ve knocked on it until now, so this time it will open.
* * *
“The eyes of Article 131 observation are gone! Please replenish it immediately!”
“Even Article 76.”
“The same goes for Article 98.”
‘This hasn’t happened in over 10 years… Why is it suddenly like this?’
Cyana Plata sighed with a hard expression.
The screen that had been blurryly following Lee Ji-hoo until earlier suddenly went black, so I had to go through the complicated procedure of receiving extra observation eyes and synchronizing them again.
After entering the forest where she had to do additional tasks and monsters, her eyes for observation were broken, so Shiana’s heart became even more urgent.
Synchronization had already been in progress for nearly an hour, but the gauge displaying the synchronization status was slowly filling up without even realizing that her heart was burning.
‘If something happens while I’m not looking… Should I prepare a standby manpower just in case?’
As she looked around her to find the paging microphone, which she had put away because she didn’t need it, an object caught her eyes that she hadn’t seen before.
“Why is my cell phone here…?”
I’m sure everyone’s cell phones were collected for fair evaluation, but did anyone break the rules and secretly bring in electronic devices?
She tilted her head.
As she grabbed her cell phone to give it to her administration professor, a bad idea popped into Ciana’s head.
‘D-If I get caught, I will be punished too… No matter how much I worry about Jihoo, Jihoo might be disappointed if I contact him in this unfair way…!’
But just once… Wouldn’t it be okay if it was just a little while…?
Sianna couldn’t resist the unusual temptation and eventually turned on her cell phone.
However, the main screen of the phone was familiar.
Obviously, such a screen composition would be impossible because the models are completely different, but I don’t know why, but the screen was very similar to that of Siana’s phone.
As if possessed, she opened the message app by pressing and holding the icon with red numbers highlighted as 10+.
Thinking she was doing something bad, she glanced around for no reason, but she was so busy that no one had her eyes on her.
“Uh…? This must be Jihoo’s number…”
Sianna cleared her trembling heart and began to read her text log.
And soon after, her heart went cold at his text full of fear and urgency.
[Please look at the text. Students are in danger. A monster that has never been observed has appeared.]
Sanya’s warning was correct.
Something was about to happen on those 50 islands right now.
The reason that close to 100 monsters on each island disappeared in the blink of an eye was to create a monster and kill the students.
I need to tell Sanya about this terrible fact right away.
Cianna started running toward her principal’s office, her phone clutched in one hand.
