Chapter 337

Episode 337

“Ugh...”

This may be random, but I felt dirty every time I had a lucid dream.

“It’s hard to make a living.”

I often click my tongue when I see people saying they want to have a lucid dream. Isn’t it possible to say that because you don’t know how crazy tired you feel when you wake up after not being able to sleep deeply and waking up from a dream? Jaeheon Lee personally did not like the act of dreaming.

The place where he is sitting is none other than a garden with no one around.

“Fuck.”

Now he was lucid dreaming again.

“When will this end?”

It was fine when I was in reality, but after returning to the other world, I kept having these lucid dreams. Unfortunately, it seems that the quick-witted Azalea had already caught it, but that didn’t mean she could tell anyone about it.

‘What kind of help can you get from informing people?’

Unless there was a situation where he absolutely had to tell, he wouldn’t have opened his mouth first.

In the first place, the dream was entirely Lee Jae-heon’s responsibility. If I tried to tell this to the young chicks who were already in tatters, it was obvious that they would only blame themselves and say, ‘I can’t believe I can’t solve the manager’s problem.’ Even so, Bisilji couldn’t give the survivors one more thing to worry about.

‘...Oh, I think Ha Seong-yoon was sleeping nearby. So, since the chances of getting caught are high anyway, should we pretend to be weaker? In a way, these lucid dreams may make the survivors’ actions more efficient...’

Moreover, these lucid dreams did not just cause discomfort.

“Where should I move?”

In his lucid dream, the environment of the other world was created as is.

It was so vivid that, except for the fact that there were no other monsters in sight except the final boss, it could almost be said to be a side world before going to sleep. I don’t know how I dream like this, but there was no more efficient way for me to understand my surroundings on my own.

If he had to look around when he was awake, there would be people who would try to stop him like Woo Woo-young before. This was the perfect condition for Lee Jae-heon, who did not want to carry around the burden of being a chick.

‘If it were normal, he would have just died...’

After entering the secret world for the second time, when he dreamed about the author who created this world, Jaeheon Lee’s body was wandering somewhere in the mountains behind him, even though he was clearly asleep. The sleepwalking-like behavior that was clearly revealed made the chicks anxious, and Lee Jae-heon, who was burdened by it, repeatedly died from oxygen deficiency while he was dreaming.

But now there was no time to fool around like that. In any case, this dream was also one of the means that Jaeheon Lee could utilize, so he had to finish the plan quickly before more time passed and the survivors became entrenched in this situation.

“...There’s no way the keyring monster is the final boss, right?”

Lee Jae-heon left the garden, muttering absurd hopes.

‘I’m worried that my body will move randomly like last time, but I checked that yesterday, so it’ll be fine. I was worried that my body would move randomly

like it did when I dreamed about my wife, but I had already confirmed that my body did not move last night. I thought maybe the last time I had a dream about my wife was an exceptional situation.

Lee Jae-heon, who promised himself that he would not scratch his neck while he was sleeping like he did in the park, took strides forward. The place he was heading to was none other than the mountain behind him.

“It has been implemented up to this point.”

I also felt this in the park, but this lucid dream was exactly the same as the other world, except there were no monsters or people. If it weren’t for the strange sense of unreality and haziness, Lee Jae-heon would have even forgotten that he had fallen asleep.

Lee Jae-heon gently touched the wounds that the plaster monsters had inflicted on the trees in the mountain behind.

“...As expected, there are no other monsters in sight.”

He wanted to check how the keyring monster worked, but perhaps because the keyring monster was not the final boss, it did not materialize in his lucid dream. It was a pity for Lee Jae-heon, who knew that this was not just a dream, but something that made it connected to the outside of the dream.

‘In the past, I felt comfortable because the green algae monster seemed to be talked about both in dreams and outside of dreams.’

It may have been Jaeheon Lee’s own illusion, but the green algae monster in the park seemed to remember what had happened in Jaeheon Lee’s lucid dream. Likewise, if the Keyring Monster had been implemented in his lucid dream, he would have been able to know how he uses his speech ability and under what conditions he is stimulated.

“If this happens, the only way to confirm it is in reality.”

I don’t know the exact abilities of the key ring monster, so I couldn’t just attack it without knowing the exact abilities of the fire monster. Although the table of contents was roughly drawn up, this operation required delicate control from Lee Jae-heon himself. Jaeheon Lee wanted to know more about the monster that would play the villain.

“...Then this is it for now.”

“...Where was my seat....”

I spent too much time in a lucid dream trying to find out if there was someone who could be a variable.

Now it was time to wake up.

* * *

“Mr. Lee Jae-heon.”

“....”

“...Go ahead.”

When Lee Jae-heon saw Ha Seong-yoon’s face looking down at him, he couldn’t hold it in for a moment and burst out laughing.

Fuck, I finally got caught.

“You’re angry.”

“I guess so.”

“I’m big... what did you say I did?”

“The way you smile makes me think you know.”

“Ha....”

Lee Jae-heon sighed with laughter and touched Ha Seong-yoon’s hand that was covering his neck.

“Oh my, did it hurt?”

“I don’t know what’s wrong with you, teacher.”

Ha Seong-yoon wiped the nervous smile from his face and removed his hand from Lee Jae-heon’s neck. Lee Jae-heon, who slowly raised his upper body, could see that Ha Seong-yoon’s hand had turned red. However, since Jae-heon Lee also had a conscience and did not react at all, he decided to make an apologetic expression.

Lee Jae-heon muttered with a mixture of regret and embarrassment.

“I didn’t know it would happen again...”

It was a complete lie.

‘How could you not know that this was the method of suicide you chose because you knew it would happen like this?’

Ha Seong-yoon, who did not know Lee Jae-heon’s true intentions, sighed deeply and said.

“I’m asking again, what do you think is causing this? “Even my crazy friend doesn’t do this.”

“I guess it means I have more experience in the behind-the-scenes world than him.”

“I’m going crazy and jumping around because I can’t analyze the hidden world scientifically or mathematically like modern medicine.”

Ha Seong-yoon slowly drew a smile on his lips.

“I think about this every time, but... this is no place for a doctor.”

“....”

“Isn’t that so? “Because there is nothing I know and nothing I can do.”

“Ha Seong-yoon.”

“You must have had trouble sleeping, so get some rest.”

With those words, Ha Seong-yoon rolled over on his side and went to sleep. The breathing was regular, but the intermittent movement of the eyeballs above the eyelids made it seem like the doctor had fallen asleep quickly.

Lee Jae-heon, who saw him coming out towards the bonfire rather than the makeshift building, opened his mouth.

“...Okay, I need to rest.”

I need to get back to reality quickly.

(Continued in the next part)