“One, be kind. Two, let’s live. Okay, one.”
“Be kind!”
“Two.”
“Let’s live!”
“Your voices are quiet.”1
“BE KIND!”
Is this hell?
This was the first thought the driver had after he regained consciousness. Like a cotton ball that soaked up water, his body felt heavy and his head was spinning. And in the distance, they continued to scream.
“LET’S LIVE!”
“Louder!”
… There’s no doubt this is hell. He heard the grim reaper’s voice and he followed after the sounds of the dead.
“BE KIND!”
The driver closed his eyes and bitter tears fell down his face. As if he came to hell. If he knew he would have died like this, he would have offered more.
‘Aigoo2, mother!’
The driver started to cry aloud. He was so loud, he didn’t even notice someone staring down at him.
“Excuse me.”
The driver’s heart stopped for 3 seconds and started again. He gripped his chest and shouted.
“I almost died because I was so surprised!”
“…”
“…?”
He felt strange after he said that. The driver stared blankly and raised his hand to his chest. It’s racing. His heart is racing.
It’s not just that. The horses are here, the carriage is here. His body shivered in the cold winter air.
“I’m alive?”
As if thinking ‘no way’, he turned and saw a man with a black eye on one eye. Even though he had a look on his face… there was no mistake. It was a person that was alive.
I’m alive!
“Alive! I’m alive!”
The driver hugged the man violently and was pushed away with a shudder.
“Congratulations.”
“Huk. Huk huk3. Thank you so much. But who…”
“Ah, that. I saw him for a second a minute ago.”
A minute ago? Who? He knew all the faces at the brothel and the Jin’s family idiot was the first customer.
Where did he see these thankful travelers. The driver stared at the man and in a instant gulped his breath.
“You’re that bandit!”
“Yes. That…”
“Next to the big bandit! The five idiots!”
“… You’re right.”
“And among them, the one who was the shortest!”
“…”
“The ugliest!”
“…”
“The one with the small package!”
“No!”
At the bandits shout, the driver came to his senses. What was he saying just now? Soon regret and despair came rushing in.
‘Now I’m really dead.’
No, actually he wished he was already dead. Then at least he wouldn’t be in pain.
But.
“Huu. Stop saying nonsense and hurry and follow.”
He walked in front of the bandits. The driver who ended up following them, felt dejavu.
‘This feels like I’m being guided somewhere.’
Compared to before he fainted, he was calmer and had a more courteous attitude. The driver mustered up his courage and asked.
“Where are we going right now?”
“We’re going to the Head.”
The driver’s face turned white. He remembered what he said to Jang Sam before. I’ll dig out your eyeballs, grind your limbs with a mortar…
‘I need to run away, even if its now.’
But in the next instant, his legs shook and he felt cold sweat fall like rain. He couldn’t even move one step.
The blood dripping down the swords that surrounded him. And next to the road, among the grass, he could see legs from a dead body sticking out.
‘These crazy bastards.’
Even though he thought ‘as if’, to think they killed the youngest Jin master in broad daylight. The driver felt his death coming.
Until he saw the figure walking towards him from out of the grass.
“Oh, you’re awake?”
Behind the figure, the bandits had their arms around each other and were gasping for breath. They each had a black eye.
“What are you doing. Don’t you see your colleagues suffering? Go join them.”4
“Yes. Head.”
“This fucker. I told you not to call me that.”
The driver watched the situation in front of him with a blank face and thought.
I’m keeping my life.
—
“So that’s how it became like this.”5
The driver listened with eyes that sparkled like a flashlight.
Whew, it’s shining. It’s hard to look because it’s so dazzling.
“That is, by chance.”
By chance?
“Are you sure you’re not Jin Mukyung master?”
“… I’m telling you to stop.”
I said I was Jin Taekyung for the umpteenth time.
It’s a NPC made to make a person crazy. I wasn’t sure if I should be impressed by the A.I. or if I should consider it a failure.
If I knew how to drive the carriage, I would have already thrown him away.
“Are you done with your preparations?”
The driver answered while finishing up a knot.
“Yes. I am all done.”
What kind of knot was it? It was a knot to tie the five bandits. It was such a tight knot, that the groans from the bandits were neverending.
“Head. Are you sure you can’t loosen up the knots a little?”
“Yes. I can’t. It’s not changing. Just stay here.”
“Please give these younger brothers a chance to serve you as a Head…”
“If you call me Head one more time, I’ll take you to see King Yeomra6.
Leaving behind silence, we got into the carriage.
I already gathered their belongings into my inventory, and felt great after receiving the reward from levelling up.
“We shall depart.”
The driver whipped the horses, and the carriage started moving.
For a trail in the mountains, it was a good road. Through the open window, a cool breeze and fresh mountain air blew in.
‘No matter how much I look, it’s amazing.’
I shook my head.
Science. Technology. Whatever you called it, it was an field of expertise that I didn’t understand.
Furthermore, even thinking like this in this kind of situation was a luxury.
‘Goddamn. What kind of time scale is this game on?’
In virtual reality games, there was something called a time scale. If the scale between reality and virtual reality was 1:3, then even if three hours passed in the game, only one hour would pass in reality.
That was also one of the reasons why I spent three days at the brothel.
If it’s this much time, then someone should save me–that kind of hope.
‘What the heck is Sung Jinho doing.’
I sighed deeply. At the same time, I slowly felt anxious.
This, what if the time scale was bigger than I thought?
‘No way.’
There’s no way. Sung Jinho said that the time scale in the capsule was proportional to the performance and price.
And even though the performance was greater than I expected.
‘No, if it’s this much than it’s fantastic.’
I’ve been playing games for years that I wasn’t so blind that I didn’t even know this much. Even though [Murim] had high specifications, the antique game capsule wasn’t operating without strain.
Even that much was alarming. So.
‘From now on, I hope there aren’t anymore alarming incidents.’
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