Chapter 675:
Side Story (4)
Ziiing...
On the screen Yoon Seah brought up,
There,
=Uh... What's this? This map, it can't be, right? Everyone. It can't be, right?
A one-eyed giant was watching the semi-basement room being implemented while making a fuss.
And when the map was fully unfolded,
=Didn't the Blue Administrator definitely remove this? Why is it appearing again?
The giant's form disappeared, and the game started with Seong Jihan's body in the semi-basement room.
=Oh, but is this a human body? And it's similar to the Blue Administrator's, right?
=But... How did he become an administrator with such a pathetic body? I really don't understand?
A human body.
After trying Seong Jihan's body with all stats at 5, the one-eyed giant was shocked by its weakness and started rambling,
['Seong Jihan's' body synchronization rate is falling.]
[Returning to original body.]
With this message, he started returning to his original giant form.
Then,
Crash...!
The giant pierced through the semi-basement room and shattered the building above.
=Hmm... Why are these buildings so weak?
He scratched his head, looking at the destroyed traces.
At that moment,
[The shell of Eternity has been broken.]
['Yoon Seah' dies.]
A message about Yoon Seah's death appeared before his eyes.
It wasn't clear whether it was due to the debris of the destroyed building or because the one-eyed giant's body touched the shell when it manifested.
But in the end, the person who was supposed to be protected had died.
=No. Damn... How am I supposed to clear this!
As the one-eyed giant was agonizing, holding his head,
[You cannot challenge the Tower of Marital Gods for 3 days.]
=3, 3 days...?
The game ended with a 3-day ban appearing before his eyes.
Beep.
Yoon Seah turned off the screen she had brought up and looked at Seong Jihan with a serious face.
"It's complete chaos now. The 3-day ban is a problem, but now it seems to be completely random. Not just high-floor climbers, but even those climbing from lower floors are encountering it."
Now it was random targets, and a 3-day ban if you failed the mission.
Wasn't this even more troublesome than before?
'Did manifesting Blue actually strengthen this map....'
The map itself was completely shattered when raising Blue from 1 to 2, but
There was an unsatisfactory feeling.
Starting from the words [Follow your true heart],
To the Void that appeared when Yoon Seah disappeared.
There were several things that bothered him.
"Sophia. I can't go out today. I need to solve this problem first."
"Yes. It's a shame, but it can't be helped. Let's date next time~"
Seong Jihan nodded, got up from the sofa, and entered the Tower of Marital Gods.
Watching Seong Jihan disappear, Yoon Seah scratched her cheek and looked at Sophia.
"Ah. Sophia... Sorry. Was today a date? If I had known, I would have told him later."
"No. I didn't think Jihan would go out with me today anyway."
Sophia told Yoon Seah it was okay and looked at the alert appearing on the system window.
There, a message saying Seong Jihan had turned on BattleTube was appearing.
"Rather than that, shall we watch Jihan's BattleTube together?"
"Uncle's? Sure. Let's watch it on the big TV."
Beep.
"But Seah. Seeing that, I'm curious about something..."
"What is it?"
"Could I possibly be in that world too?"
"Well...?"
At Sophia's question, Yoon Seah blinked her eyes, then pointed at the computer in the screen.
"If he can use the phone or computer, maybe he could search and find out?"
And as soon as Yoon Seah finished speaking,
Beep...!
Seong Jihan in the screen was turning on the computer.
* * *
As Seong Jihan entered the Tower of Marital Gods and entered the 'Save Yoon Seah' mission again,
-What version of Windows is that? Seems like quite an old computer
-I got this mission and tried to turn on the computer, but failed because I didn't know the password.
-Huh? When I saw the Cyclops earlier, it failed immediately due to low synchronization rate... Is there time for this?
-Human players can play for about 5 minutes.
-I tried to turn on the smartphone too, but couldn't unlock the pattern lock. lol
In the BattleTube chat window, experiences of human players who had already entered the mission before were being shared.
-Wow, you could play for 5 minutes? I got this mission earlier and tried to take off my clothes, but was kicked out immediately. lol
-Why are you trying to take off your clothes, you crazy bastard;
-Well, you know... I was curious haha.
-Yeah, you can't even take off your top here. Seong Jihan could do it, but other players can't seem to.
-They've blocked even that...
While such useless conversations were happening in the chat window,
'Was the password seongjihan1234?'
Tap. Tap tap tap.
Seong Jihan was trying the password on the computer login screen.
And when he logged in,
-Oh?
-The computer turns on.
-Seems he knows the password;
-Wow, how does he know the password of this world inside the game?
-What doesn't Seong Jihan know haha.
-Can you tell us what the password is...?
People watching this showed surprised reactions.
"It's seongjihan1234. It's an old password I used to use, and it works."
After revealing the computer password, Seong Jihan,
Swish.
Picked up an old smartphone lying on one side of the desk and,
"This pattern seems to be..."
He unlocked the pattern lock by drawing an 'ᄅ' shape.
-Oh, the phone and computer seals are broken ᄃᄃ
-Does this mean we can surf the web for five minutes if we get caught here?
-Theoretically possible. Lol. Though I'm not sure if any information will come up.
The 'Save Yoon Seah' mission boasts quite sophisticated realism.
Especially the implementation related to Seong Jihan's situation in his previous life was so detailed that it felt like reality.
But would the information accessible through the computer or phone be implemented as well?
"Let's take a look."
Swish.
Seong Jihan sat in the chair and entered a portal site's main page.
Immediately, news articles appeared.
There,
[Dungeon portals spreading in the metropolitan area, is there really no solution?]
[South Korea confirmed as the lowest in the Northeast Asian League, next season looks even bleaker]
[National representative 'Jang Minsoo' immigrates to Russia. The exodus of players from Korea begins]
Headlines that would seem gloomy to Koreans were appearing one after another.
'The internet works, and even news is implemented...'
Was this the period when things went downhill after the Sword King went to Japan?
As Seong Jihan was reading the articles and recalling memories from his previous life,
-What is this? Why is Korea at the bottom?
-Why is Jang Minsoo running off to Russia??? I thought well of him, but I'm disappointed.
-Let's not get too immersed in the news of this game world ᅳᅳ; Player Jang Minsoo isn't that kind of person.
-Weren't dungeon portals a problem solved long ago... Why are they making a fuss about this?
People watching the news articles along with Seong Jihan were bewildered by headlines 180 degrees different from the current situation.
A world where the difference between Seong Jihan's achievements existing or not was stark.
As human viewers' chats were rising in response to this,
'Let's see how Seah was reported in the news.'
Seong Jihan typed Yoon Seah into the search bar.
He remembered that in the past, there were brief articles saying "Sword King's daughter. Extreme choice...",
But now that she was alive, albeit in that state, wouldn't the articles be different?
[Sword King's daughter 'Yoon Seah' makes extreme choice... No danger to life]
The article had changed differently from before.
'Even such changes are reflected in real-time...'
This world.
How meticulously was it implemented?
Seong Jihan's eyes sank.
'I definitely need to investigate more.'