Chapter 0 – Prologue
Deep sea.
In addition to its literal meaning, this word, which means deep in the sea, is also used figuratively.
In web novels, the lowest-ranking works that are not exposed on the platform are expressed as deep-sea works, and those who salvage those that seem to have potential among them are called the Deep Sea Exploration Department.
Deep Sea Exploration Department. The one who informs people of the hidden tricks that do not attract attention and are buried in the deep sea.
Tell me what to do I am the deep sea exploration team.
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Someone asked me
-Why are you doing deep sea exploration? Are you okay inside? Aren’t you bleeding?
I will answer there.
Because there is romance.
Yes. There is romance in deep-sea exploration. Hako articles piled up like that mountain. The pleasure of picking up the masterpieces buried in it and not seeing the light of day with my hands.
The sense of accomplishment that comes from aspiring writers with low self-esteem continuing to write every day for their support.
The taste makes it impossible to stop exploring the deep sea.
“Let’s see, today…”
The writing that I had been holding onto for a while and patted on it popped up and went up to the sunny side.
Do-kyun moved his finger and looked at the screen printed on his smartphone.
[The bug-catcher girl.]
It was a Hako novel that did not exceed 100 cumulative views for more than 10 episodes.
A world where bugs brainwash and breed humans. An article about the main character, the only human in the world who has not been brainwashed, exterminates bugs and saves people.
Do-gyun was looking at the main page of the novel. Suddenly, I fell into a bittersweet feeling.
A novel that he discovered with his own hands and has now risen to the ranks of popular novels.
After discovering this article for the first time, my whole body trembled with the conviction that this article would pop up, and I pressed the ‘Seonjak’ and ‘Alarm Settings’.
Recommendations and comments that have been pressed without falling out of every plum. Occasionally, when the writing was stretched or the angle of death was seen in the writer’s postscript, he always put support and showed extreme nadenade. In addition, a long review full of 5700 characters, and an outsourced illustration with a wallet. I did everything I could to spread this article.
As a result, it has now risen to the Top 10 in Tube, and no one has been able to call this novel a novel.
However, Do-gyun’s feeling of looking at him couldn’t be said to be good even as a joke.
Do-gyun looked around the main page of his novel.
10,000-odd predecessors that have already been pressed here and there.
The cumulative number of views quickly surpassed one million.
And…
1. If you read an interesting novel, a cat who beats you up. 10000 coins
2. Tprtmgkrhtlvek. 4000 coins
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20. Minky Net. 300 coins
Do-gyun felt a sense of fainting as he saw the sponsor list overflowing with donations in a mess.
“Oooh…”
The nausea was intense.
This novel… Is now ‘non-virgin’.
Do-kyun’s finger moved over the favorite icon.
Kwok-.
[Are you sure you want to delete favorites?]
[Yes/no]
The finger that was reading the confirmation alarm went over the ‘Yes’ button reflected on the screen.
Memories of the past passed through Do-gyun’s mind like a kaleidoscope. The moment when the preferred work display, which kept the number ‘0’ because no one pressed it, changed to ‘1’ by himself, the author shyly replied to the first recommendation and first comment. A writer who expressed gratitude by writing a notice of 5700 characters for the first sponsorship. Out of all the exploration activities I’ve done so far, the last time I felt worthwhile by far.
Do-gyun’s hand stopped for a moment as he recalled those times.
“Be happy…”
Kwok-.
[Favorite works have been deleted.]
I, Chae Do-kyun, a deep-sea diver, and a novel community 1st gonic ‘Deep-sea Bee.’
I don’t look at the writing that went up to the yangji anymore.
Do-gyun, who had left the novel they had been together for a month or so, turned off his smartphone screen, let out a sigh of remorse, and then closed his eyes and calmed down his emotions.
“No, this is not the time.”
Now that I’ve sent the novel I’ve been working on, it’s time to start the next dive.
“Let’s see…”
Do-gyun’s hand, which opened the screen again and looked around the free serialization section of the web novel site, stopped on one page and stopped the busy screen.
[Conquering this world with Yasu]
A title full of smell that can be felt just by looking at it. 0 first works, 0 likes, 0 comments.
As he was looking at the main page of the novel, Do-gyun’s lips went up.
“I decided on you.”
Again, it’s time to start lifting.
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Click. Click. Click.
A small, dark room with no light, as if the connection with the outside world was severed. A space where only the blue light emitted from the monitor dimly illuminates the scenery in the room.
In one corner of the space, the regular noise of a mouse filled the quiet space.
“No, no. Doesn’t exist. Doesn’t exist. Doesn’t exist.”
In-young, who had been squatting in front of the screen, uttered a voice that had cracked from rest.
“Did I miss you…?”
The first day I thought it could be. Because not everyone reads a novel every day. The next day, I thought I couldn’t read the novel because I was busy. The next, the next, the next day, the anxiety that had been in the corner of his heart because of that person who was still invisible began to grow and eat away at his whole body.
“No… No, no, no!!!!”
Bang-!
A sudden, dull noise filled the room.
“Where… Where did you go…”
Creepy-, cricket-.
Even though he thought, ‘I shouldn’t have done this…’, The habit of biting his nails popped up again whenever he felt anxious.
It was all because of him.
“I was given a lot of compliments…”
I was about to quit. Even if I did this, nothing would change, so I thought it was meaningless, so I tried to quit.
However, every time that person kindly comforted me and made me not give up.
Hard-. Knock-.
“My, I, I’m working so hard…”
That too. Yesterday too. Today. As he waited for the person, he forced his head to write. He wondered if he would ever come back while writing. Did he leave a kind word like always? With that kind of thought in mind, I went in and out of the comment section dozens or hundreds of times.
Enemy-. Enemy-.
“Ah…”
A fragrant bloody scent. A tingling sensation at the fingertips.
“Come again…”
Drops of blood were gushing out from the tips of his fingers.
She reached out and picked up the bandage she had thrown on the corner of her desk.
“This… This is all because he is bad…”
After finishing the treatment by roughly wrapping a bandage on the injured finger, I turned my gaze back to the screen.
Click, click, click.
“Where… Where is…”
Obviously, it will be somewhere. There’s no way it will disappear so suddenly.
Have to find it somehow
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One day. Two days. Another four days Without eating or drinking and not writing, I began to search through the posts posted on the platform one by one.
In the meantime.
[Deep Sea Bee: Wow!!! It’s really fun today too ㅠㅠ… I’m really looking forward to how the story will be told in the future!!!]
“Found…?”
I found a trace of him in the garbage that didn’t even look like writing.
The warm words he always said towards himself.
Hard-.
“It’s mine…”
Those kind words are mine.
Hard. Hard-.
“In my place…!”
What that person needs to see is what I wrote.
“My… Mine! Mine!!! It’s mine!!!!”
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The resentment that had been building up for the past few days burst out and I couldn’t control my body.
Piik-.
“Uh, uh…?”
The screen is off. I pressed the button to turn it on again, but I didn’t think it would work as if something was broken.
A lot of bloodshot eyes were reflected on the black screen.
“Ah…”
A world dyed black, oneself trapped in it.
“Poetry… I hate…”
Hate. I hate this.
Like before, like then, so that I can wait for tomorrow every day.
“I have to find… I have to go find, I have to go find…”
Find that person you have to stay by my side
