Omniscient Reader's Perspective

Episode 7–Landlord (1)

Episode 1 - Landlord ([-])

We followed Li Zhihui into Chungmuro.Yoo Sang-ah saw the broken screen door of the platform and said.

"...it was an atmosphere of chaos."

As they climbed up from the tracks on Line 3, they saw some people sitting down.

[You have entered Chungmuro]

[The third scenario is currently in progress]

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Starting from Chungmuro ​​Road, the scale of the plot continues to expand, and the passage of ghosts and monsters continues to expand.From now on, that naive Bihun is going to have a hard time.

Some middle-aged people saw us and waved.

"Oh, little samurai, you brought a new friend?"

"Yes."

a samurai.I guess people could call her that without knowing the sponsors behind her.Sooner or later they will be punished.Li Zhizhi frowned at the middle-aged man.

"Are you drunk again?"

"Haha! When the world is like this, what else to do but drink?"

Middle-aged people look relaxed, unlike those who are going through a disaster.This is only natural since they wear the uniform of soldiers.This place is definitely different from Gumo Station.

Now is the real start.

"But did your friends come out of the tunnel? How nice...do they have a lot of coins?"

Then one of the middle-aged men turned to Yoo Sang-ah.

"Miss over there, what's your name? Would you like to rent a cheap room?"

"...Room?"

"Haha, don't you understand the system here? This place—"

Li Zhizhi interrupted the middle-aged man.

"Ayusis, don't try to fool the newcomer."

"Anyway, they sure know. That's what everybody does to survive..."

"If you don't want to get hurt, get out."

The middle-aged man turned pale after hearing Li Zhizhi's words.

"These...little kids have learned to eat bad things."

"Hey, Conce, stop it."

These middle-aged people turned around and disappeared on the No. 4 transfer line. Li Zhizhi put away her sword.

"I brought you here, so you have to be careful from now on, I'm not a nanny."

The way this kid talks is so nonchalant.

I look around, and this is the stage for the third scene, where the rules of the game are completely different.

"Damn! If you get closer to me, I'll kill you..."

A man stood in the middle of the platform of Metro Line 3, brandishing a knife and threatening people.

At the foot is a tile of 1 square meter (3.306 square meters), which emits a green light and reaches into the air.Yoo Sang Ah asked, "...Why would he do that?"

"I do not know."

I can guess, but there's no need to frighten her now.There are many people sitting with knives on Metro Line 3.Unlike the middle-aged men before, their faces were full of despair.I glanced at them and asked Li Zhihui.

"Is Liu Zhonghyuk here?"

Li Zhihui (Li Zhizhi, transliteration), who was about to leave, turned his head and looked at "Liu Zhonghe" (Liu Zhonghe, transliteration).Her eyes were full of vigilance.

"Who are you?"

Yoo Jong Hyuk has ruined this kid.

I can understand.Even if he searched all over South Korea, it was very difficult to find a God of Sea Wars-level constellation.If I were in Yoo Jong-hyuk's position, I would find her soon after I came to Chungmuro.

"I am the partner of Yoo Jong Hyuk who came back alive."

"...companion? How is this possible?"

Li Zhizhi stared at me suspiciously, and I shrugged shamelessly.

"If you tell him, that person will understand. Where is Yoo Jong Hyuk now?"

"Master is not here now."

"Really? This is so hard. I have something to say."

Li Zhizhi's expression was distorted, because she stared at me as if she had been betrayed.

Ah, I know how she feels about Yoo Jong Hyuk.Moreover, she is already a master... It is very difficult to get her.

Li Zhizhi shouted to a boy squatting in the corner.

"Hey, over there!"

"Huh? Yes, yes!"

"Be optimistic about the people here, I'll go find Master."

The boy looked at us with puzzled eyes.

"who are they?"

"I don't know, Master's friend?"

After hearing Li Zhizhi's words, the eyes of the people on the platform widened.They looked at us in wonder and awe.

"Liu Zhonghyuk's friend?"

The boy ran up to us and shouted, it was a boy, he looked about the same age as Li Zhizhi.

"Are you guys really Yoo Jong Hyuk's friends?"

When I saw the boy's clear eyes, I couldn't lie, at least, if I was an ordinary person.

"He's a good friend."

Lately, I don't seem to be a "normal" person anymore, at least not here.

***

I heard about Yoo Jong Hyuk from that boy while taking care of Jung Hee Won who was unconscious.Like Lee Ji-hyeok, this boy is one of Yoo Jong-hyuk's followers.

"...So, we followed Master Liu Zhonghyuk. Are you listening to me?"

"Yes."

Of course I wasn't listening properly and the story of the heroism of the psychopath Yoo Jong-hyuk is not interesting.

The short summary goes something like this.

"Three days ago, Liu Zhonghyuk appeared and rescued some of you, including Li Zhizhi, from the monster. Isn't it like this?"

The boy frowned at such a simple generalization of his story.

"Well, the story is not that simple..."

He must be fascinated by Yoo Jong Hyuk.

An overwhelming force rescued them.It would be strange if they didn't follow him.

But the boy doesn't know.The boy survived not because Yoo Jong Hyuk was a good guy, but because the boy was lucky to be with Lee Ji Ji.

"Now can I ask you something I'm curious about?"

When I was lost in thought, Lee Hyun Sung asked me politely.

"Yes, just ask."

"How is the food supply here?"

"It's a bit embarrassing to say... Some people, including me, rely on wisdom. Wisdom hunts, Yoo Jong-hyuk cooks..."

I don't know when he made a list, but Lee Hyun-sung took out his notes and started writing.He really is a fighter.

"And how about your drinking water?"

"In exchange, we give food or coins to the 'Landlords' League' upstairs."

"...Landlord Alliance?"

I sat up straight.Now the story starts to get interesting.The boy opened his mouth hesitantly.

"They are landlords in the Chungmuro ​​area. They live upstairs, and we call them the Landlords Union."

The Landlord Alliance in Chungmuro, the name appeared in the "Inactivation Act".

"What kind of people are they?"

"So, what should I say..."

Actually, I don't have to ask.Maybe, according to my expectation, one of the 'Ten Devils' is now in Chungmuro.

"They're just landlords."

In a sense, this answer is correct.They are landlords.Landlords who receive a flat tax.At this time, the quiet Li Jiyong opened his mouth.

"I'm sorry, brother."

"What's up?"

"I want to go to the toilet."

"Is it urgent?"

"Yes."

The timing was a bit unexpected.What's even more puzzling is that Li Jiyong doesn't usually say such things.Then I noticed Lee Ji-yong was standing next to a blushing Yoo Sang-ah.

"Excuse me, can I go with you?"

At this moment, the image of Yoo Sang-ah and Jung Hee-won getting secret necessities at Yaksu Station came to mind.I thought I knew what was going on.The kid named Li Jiyong, he quickly noticed.

The boy walked over the head of the conversation and said.

"You need to go up to the second basement to go to the toilet, but it's not easy to get in."

"Did something happen?"

"Yes, I think it's best to just go and see...I'm going, would you like to come with me?"

"Let's go."

I said so.Of course, not going to the bathroom.I had to go upstairs to check something.

Recently, Yoo Jong Hyuk's actions are different from the "third comeback" I know.If so, I need to figure out the gap.

My friends and I went up to the third floor, holding Zheng Xiyuan who was still in a coma.

"Oh, I hear there are new faces. Are you here to see the room?"

A middle-aged man standing next to the escalator on Line 4 whistled, and the boy shook his head and replied.

"Ah, sorry, we're going upstairs..."

"Oh, too bad, be careful."

The middle-aged man waved his hand without hesitation.Liu Shangya watched the middle-aged man leave and asked.

"By the way, what the hell is that 'room'? I don't think it's any of the rooms I know."

"this is very simple."

The boy points to a square brick.

These tiles also appear on the platforms on Line 3.The green tile size is 1 square foot.Looking at the details, I saw something written in the air above the tiles.

[Green Belt 0/1]

"The scene name is 'Green Zone' and the tiles are called rooms."

Near the tiles, two people are fighting.They fought over the tiles.This time it was Li Xiancheng who asked.

"What's that? Why are those people fighting for it?"

The boy looked a little reluctant, as if talking to us would threaten his existence.

"As soon as you reach the second basement, you will know."

As we climbed to higher floors, there was more fighting for rooms.The room numbers are different.Small rooms labeled 0/1, large rooms labeled 0/7.The latter number may be the capacity of the room.

I looked around carefully and asked, "Are the third basement to the first basement the area of ​​the landlord association?"

"...Yes, there are some small troops, but most of them are people from the Landlords Association."

All of Chungmuro's infrastructure is located at the second and first basement levels, yet a single union occupies it all.

"Yoo Jong-hyuk didn't take any action? Did he not save you?"

"that......"

Hearing my question, the boy's face darkened visibly.The boy looked sullen for a moment, then could barely speak.

"He told us to be on our own..."

I know.Of course Yoo Jong Hyuk would say such things.Maybe Yoo Jong Hyuk never told them to follow him.They were attracted by the overwhelming power displayed by Yoo Jong Hyuk and had dreams full of hope.Pitiful.

Not long after, we reached the second basement floor, and the boy's face was very tense.

"From now on, we have to be careful."

There are much more rooms on the 2nd floor than downstairs.The fighting group was out of sight.Instead, people guard the green area with scary eyes.

[Green Belt 7/7]

We passed the crowd and headed for the bathroom.

"Uh...why stop here?"

When we got to the last passage leading to the bathroom, our footsteps stopped.Dozens of people gathered in the passage like a bottleneck.

"Let's move forward."

I pushed people away as I spoke.

"Gongpidu! Please accept it! I won't do this again!"

"Please, please! Please let me stay another day. I'm going to be in debt to get those coins!"

The leader at the front of the line is facing the fiery crowd.

"Now, back off, back off."

On the other side, it seems that people from the Landlords Association are also gathered together, I can feel it instinctively.

One of the ten evils is here.I tried to find this member of the "Ten Devils" through the descriptions in the novel, but it was not easy because they all seemed to fit.

Have their impressions become similar after becoming landlords?

I was shaking my head when someone grabbed my leg.It's Li Jiyong.I felt danger and was about to grab his shoulder when someone pushed Li Jiyong.

"what."

Li Jiyong lost his balance and fell down.

[The character "Lee Ji-yong" invaded private property!]

Suddenly, the atmosphere became cold, and some members of the "Landlord Association" in the front row looked at Li Jiyong.

"What is this child?"

At about the same time, the crowd backed away screaming.

"crazy!"

"Come back! Come on!"

As if they had never been there, the crowd came back like a tidal wave.The people disappeared, and the red line shone where they had stood.One person alternately watches between Boundary and Lee Ji-yong.

"Hmph, you seem to be lost, do you know where this is?"

"How do I go to the bathroom?"

"Toilet? Haha, once. By the way, that kid... where are your parents?"

"Um?"

"Didn't you learn that you shouldn't invade other people's land?"

other people's land.Oh, it must be true.

The man looked at Li Jiyong's head with an unknown look.

"You don't know. From now on, I will teach you."

[Character 'Gongpidu' has activated 'Armed Zone 3!']

With a whirring sound, small turrets rise from the ground like Gatling guns.

[Character 'Gongpidu' demands 500 coins for encroaching on his private land. ][If you don't follow the advice, all nearby turrets will fire immediately]

said the man.

"give me money."

The loaded turrets are all aimed at the same target.Confused Li Jiyong stood up and walked to me.The man saw me and smiled.

"Ah, you are his guardian, so shouldn't the guardian pay five hundred coins?"

I smiled at the man's brazenly outstretched hand.

That's funny, Yoo Jong Hyuk, you let these bastards go?

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