Chapter 72
72fury
The tenth ghost story -
Herobrine from Minecraft (5)
After walking for a while again, it became dark in the forest in the evening..
“It's already dark. I can't even see ahead.”
Only in this way can we see beyond the transparent wall, the boundary line, which is the purpose of our exploration..
““In the movies, you make fire by rubbing trees together.” For a moment, I vigorously rubbed my stick against the piece of wood Suna was holding, but there was no significant interaction..
Suna is watching quietly and then suddenly opens her mouth..
“Jun, there’s a cave over there.……
“Wow.”
When I looked in the direction where Suna was teaching, there was a hill in the distance between the trees up to shoulder height..
And there is a small cave that you can only enter by bending your knees..
It feels like a small hobbit hole seen in the movie 'Lord of the Rings'..
“Is this a cave where animals live? Let's go in.”
There may be useful items.
“It's a rabbit!”
As we approached, a dot-shaped rabbit seemed to be surprised and jumped out of the cave and ran away..
“Wow, cute……
Sun-ah bends down to touch it, but the startled rabbit jumps between her legs and runs away..
A rabbit hopping across a transparent wall.
“What, it looks like mobs can pass by..”
Come to think of it, there were trees growing along the border..
Is the wall at the end of the world blocked only by us players?.
I immediately bent down and started looking into the hole the rabbit had escaped from..
“What do you see, Jun??”
“It's so narrow I can't see it well. I have to duck down and go in. Can you take a look at the net??”
Ugh ”
“huh.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a large spider sneaked up on him, and he flinched and took a step back when he was hit by a rock thrown by Seon-ah..
“ zero difference.”
The inside of the cave was narrow and there was nothing special, but it felt like the walls were made of stone..
I tried it just in case, and suddenly a coal item popped out..
[Coal was obtained.]
‘It's dropped here?’
As it is the most basic fire-starting material in the game, has it been a reasonable compromise with reality? The other elements are so realistic that they seem extreme, but I think they compromised on coal in a way that can be obtained by roughly digging up rocks..
“good. fire!”
Grumbling-
Combine coal with a wooden stick and roughly rub it together to create a blazing fire..
The thing that was creeping back from afar saw the fire and ran away..
“Now, here. Let's take one by one.”
“huh！”
Make a torch, equip one for Seona and one for me, and then go back to the forest.
started walking along.
“It seems like it's been a while.”
“Grandma must be worried……
It's literally the middle of the night with a full moon.
Being out so late was quite unfamiliar to me as a student..
Still, since I set out with a purpose, I plan to go as far as I can..
Jump and jump. Jump and run.
“Ah, the sun is rising.” Fortunately, a little while later, the atmosphere in the forest turned blue again, and it seemed like dawn had come..
As expected, time seems to pass much faster than reality..
[Admin（Oh Deok-hoon）: The person who discovered something?]
“Not there yet.”
All I see is still endless trees and a dirt road leading to it..
‘How far does it go?.’
In a forest filled with the cold air of dawn
I thought I should climb this tree and see how far the forest continues..
“Seon-ya, let’s install some stairs that you can climb up and take a look to see roughly how far you have to walk..”
“Jun, here. Let's build stairs around this tree……
We will soon be digging out dirt and building stairs..
“ zeroth order.”
Climbed the completed stairs one by one and built the next staircase in the air, using a stair stacking method that can only be played in games, and climbed to the end of the tree..
Then he cut off the lush leaves and branches and stuck his head out between them..
“Hmm~ Huh.”
Only then can I breathe in the fresh air outside the forest..
Since I only live in the city, it was nice to smell the forest for the first time in a long time, but it also started to give me a headache after so long..
“Let's see. “How much is left?” A forest of trees shining golden in the morning glow.
Fortunately, soon the forest ends and a plain full of grass appears..
“Wow, nice view.”
“I want to see it too……
Seon- ah, who had come up the stairs behind me, looked up, so I set up a board next to her and stuck my head out between the leaves..
The horizon of golden forests and endless grasslands in the distance.
For the children of Seoul, where 70% of the country is mountainous and especially those who live in a forest of buildings, the skyline was something they had never seen before..
“wow.”
“It's really good. right?”
“huh ”
We were looking at the scenery so blankly..
I opened my mouth while looking at the horizon..
“Why did you do that to Hayun earlier??”
Suna flinched for a moment and then looked a little tired..
“Because it’s burdensome……
I nodded quietly..
Hayun, a noble girl from a rich family, and Seonah Yoon, a poor girl from a dirt village..
I didn't know what words to comfort her.
So we just looked at the horizon and got some fresh air together, and muttered quietly..
“Let’s cheer up a little more, Seon-ya..”
Suna puffed out her cheeks at those words and nodded with an expression of strength..
“huh… … If you speed up a little more, this jungle
I think I can escape the forest..
Soon we came down from the stairs and headed out on the road again, entering a place where the trees that had been densely spaced out were now sparsely spaced out..
As if the forest of trees blocking the sky is about to end, brilliant light pours in from the end of the road in the distance..
“Run, Seonaya! It's over soon!”
“Heh, heh!”
We cry for no reason and then run to see.
The background of trees passes by on both sides..
“gasp, gasp.”
“Heh, heh.”
“Hmm-!”
crackling-
Finally, an open plain visible.
I see endless pastures.
“Wow!”
Seon-a follows behind and wipes the beads of sweat from her forehead..
“Let's see, where was the boundary line?.”
We came out to the open meadow.
In order not to lose sight of my purpose, I walked a few steps south again..
A transparent wall soon appeared, and I sat down on the grass at the border..
“Hehe, let's take a break here. it's tough.”
“huh.”
Seon-ah must have had a hard time marching through the forest, so she plopped down next to me..
“hungry.”
“I know.”
While passing through the forest, I found some mushrooms that could be acquired and brought them with me. I took them out just in case..
“I don't think I can eat this?”
Seonah looking blankly at the mushrooms.
I left some mushrooms I had on the ground and tried grilling them with a torch..
“Ugh, fuck.”
fire in the grass.
Just as the fire was about to spread, he quickly put it out with his feet, stopped it, and started grilling mushrooms again..
The delicious smell that comes soon.
“looks delicious……
My mouth was watering too, so much so that I had to swallow it, but I handed one to Suna first..
“Eat it, Seonya..”
“huh”
·
Yum yum, yum yum.
[5 minutes left to prepay.]
Wow.
While looking at Sun-ah eating mushrooms, I felt a moment of tilt..
[5 minutes left to prepay.]
A woman's guidance voice is heard once again..
Only then did I come to my senses..
Hunger is a shame in the game.
The one eating mushrooms is Suna’s character in the game..
Suddenly, I feel like I'm coming to my senses.
I took off my headset.
Then the game screen on the monitor appears before my eyes..
Seon-ah, a four-headed, short-haired female character, is pretending to eat mushrooms..
The noisy noise of the PC room slowly reaches my ears..
“Ah, are you an idiot?~”
[Entaro Adun. My Life for Ire.]
“The person who ordered Shin Ramyun?”
“Here we are!”
[harp. harp. harp. call. call. die.]
A part-time worker carrying cup ramen. Uncles doing voice chat.
Those guys who carelessly play StarCraft.
I looked to the side.
Sun-a is staring blankly at her character in the game eating mushrooms..
“Seonya?”
“Seon-ya, Seon-ya.”
When I tapped his shoulder, his eyes returned to focus and he turned his head to look at me..
“Juna...?”
“huh. are you okay?”
Seon-a was dazed, but soon seemed to come to her senses and popped her head..
“huh… I guess I was focusing too much... why?”
“It said my prepaid time was up. I want to recharge and come back..”
“Yes, come back……
I stood up and took a look at the other members..
Each person is absorbed in traveling along the end of the world..
I also shook out my hair and put the chair in..
“While I'm on my way, I'll fill up your space as well. can you wait a moment?”
“Yeah, yeah……
What happened?.
If you're hungry, you should eat in real life, but you thought eating in the game would solve the problem..
I think deeply as I head to the counter..
‘…It's this type of ghost story. It must be a pain in the ass.’
It was the right choice to call Jinhee late..
The image of Sun-ah casually wiping away the sweat that dripped down..
It was a gesture that a four-headed character with dot graphics could never do..
I recognized Sun-ah's appearance in reality as wiping away sweat..
When I said that my grandmother would be worried because it was late, the time in the game was the standard..
The illusion that you are breathing fresh air when you stick your head out after only walking in the forest..
When I got hungry, I was confused and thought I could just eat the food in the game..
The delicious smell I smelled back then.
The warmth of the torch I felt.
“Phew.”
I took a deep breath, recharging my pre-paid time..
At some point, we were thinking of games and reality as overlapping..
‘So let's see... if we do it this way, maybe it'll be possible.……
A good idea occurred to me and I went back to my seat to gather the members..
“Guys, guys.”
Guys who are so engrossed in the game that they don’t respond even when you call them..
Only Suna, who was waiting for me, turned towards me..
“Deokhoon, wake up. hurry.”
“Cooum?”
Deokhoon was absent-mindedly manipulating the character while wearing a headset..
When I hit his side, he ends up in a turtle neck posture and only then straightens his back..
“Gyeongwon, Gyeongwon.”
Gyeongwon was fishing in the sea on a raft for a while..
He gets irritated when I shake him..
“I also compare and find myself catching fish here! Because the units are wrong, you can make more money than getting a job after graduation.!”
“Stop talking bullshit and get up.”
Does that mean there is a gaming job?.
“Hayoon? In Hayoon.”
Hayun was wandering around the snowy mountains in a daze and dozing off..
“cold·…”
“Hayoon, come to your senses..”
“···huh?”
When I shook her delicate shoulders, she raised her head and stayed still for a moment..
“Let’s go wash our face and come back. Everyone stand up.”
We got up quickly and headed to the bathroom..
After a while.
Some members come out after washing their faces, while others shake their heads as if they are still in a daze..
“What happened? Was I too immersed?……
Kyungwon muttered, stretching his arms..
“I'm afraid my arms will hurt from rowing the raft so much..”
It's an illusion.
I was just holding down the button on the keyboard..
“Ugh, cool.!”
Perhaps because he was wandering in the desert, Deok-hoon came back after buying bottled water and gulping it down..
Finally, the five of us stood in a circle in front of the bathroom..
“Manager, you have something to point out.?”
Of course, I have a point, but I shouldn't tell you now..
It may disturb the immersion of members who have not yet noticed..
“I have a few things to try first, will you follow me??”
“What is it？”
“I'm thinking of building a house.”
“house?”
Members tilting their heads.
I nodded slowly and said.
“How to get beyond the end of the world. I found it.”
ghost story club
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