Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work (Novel) - Chapter 70
Chapter 70
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Translated by Jinmu
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……After that, the situation quickly settled down.
No, actually, it had no choice but to settle down.
Because the lizard had doubts about my previous actions.
-Mr. Roe Deer, were the questions last night intended to have a long conversation with a ghost because you mistook me for one?
At that moment, my spine truly went cold.
-…How could that be? It’s just that I was flustered after seeing the back-of-the-hand clapping, so I was keeping both possibilities in mind.
And I raised a conceptual thumb toward my respected superior.
Meaning I got through it with flattery.
-Because I couldn’t miss the opportunity to have a deep conversation with you for the first time, even if I mistakenly thought you were a ghost, Leader.
-I see.
-Thank you for kindly counseling me for a long time.
-Yes.
Whew.
For reference, the Group C members who had slept peacefully all day woke up before Leader Lee Ja-heon and I left.
And they laughed heartily.
“Ah~ Of all things, you two were the ones who got caught. Geez.”
“Wow. We must have been quite scary.”
“Indeed, it was chilly~”
Lies!
Seeing them laugh heartily while recalling what the ghosts mimicking them had done, I once again realized the size of the liver of the people called the elites of this company.
Ah, before that.
‘Since the opportunity arose, I might be able to find out the referrer of Salmon Market.’
“Uh, could I perhaps hear the names of you two?”
“Ah, of course!”
Supervisor Dolphin raised her hand high.
“I am Supervisor Lee Seong-hae, and that side is Assistant Manager Kang Do-jun.”
“…….”
Huh?
Wait a minute.
The Assistant Manager who introduced Salmon Market to me was…… ah!
“Is the Group C Leader’s name by any chance Lee Kang-heon?”
“Huh? No.”
“…….”
‘I got tricked.’
No wonder he gave his personal information so easily, it seemed it was all a lie.
‘Did they target the fact that Groups A, B, and C are elite teams, so general teams cannot immediately find out their names or contact details through the company contact network?’
Well, it didn’t really matter. It just made me think it was a good idea to bypass and create an ID once.
It was at the moment when I was about to wrap up the conversation by saying something like ‘I misunderstood.’
“Excuse me, Supervisor Roe Deer.”
While Assistant Manager Leopard was conversing with Manager Lee Ja-heon.
Supervisor Dolphin suddenly turned her head slightly and spoke to me.
“Did you perhaps… receive a KakaoTalk message saying they would make you money?”
“……!!”
“From someone with a profile picture of a Hawaiian beach.”
“Is it a famous person?”
“Word of mouth among people who know?”
Supervisor Dolphin glanced at her colleague, and upon confirming that attention wasn’t focused here, she quickly continued.
“You see, I was also the top rookie of my intake.”
Ah.
“I also got contacted. That, the fish bears eat a lot… ah, shit, Salmon Market. Salmon Market.”
This side was also phished….
“I heard that several people rumored to be promising received it!”
According to the following explanation, the identity differed each time, but exactly one thing was the same.
[K.LEE: Oh hello employee hahaha]
The profile picture and the name ‘K.LEE.’
Supervisor Dolphin whispered.
“May I tell you my theory?”
“Of course.”
“In my opinion, no matter how much I think about it, it seems to have been sent by that site’s administrator. To promote their secondhand site and find someone to sell items originating from the real Dark!”
Oh.
“Do you think a company employee created that site?”
“At least it seems to be an insider! They knew too much about the Field Exploration Team.”
Indeed.
I rubbed my chin.
‘If there really is an employee doing such a thing……’
They are probably a named character?
I narrowed down several people among the employees listed in the wiki who were likely to do such a thing in my head.
“Thank you. Thanks to you, some of my doubts have cleared up.”
“No problem.”
Supervisor Dolphin smiled and shrugged her shoulders.
“By the way, are there really that many employees using Salmon Market in the company?”
“Quite a few, right? The company doesn’t care much as long as we don’t sell dreamscape collectors and masks. Like letting soldiers loot to boost morale during a war? Yuck.”
Supervisor Dolphin grumbled.
“Anyway, it’s a truly annoying company.”
Without realizing it, I nodded my head.
“Indeed, there is a tendency to disregard casualties.”
“Ah, well, that… it is true that humans dying is eco-friendly, so I don’t really care.”
“…….”
“The important thing is that they seem to kill too randomly. If it were me, I would have absolutely cut them off in order of personality. Whew.”
I…… am afraid of Group C.
“Anyway, just saying.”
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
Supervisor Dolphin answered vigorously while tying her long hair into one.
“Supervisor Roe Deer, you were so polite even when I was a ghost. I think good people should live long.”
Supervisor Dolphin, raising her thumb, grinned.
Mmh. Thank you.
In any case, we parted with Group C quite warmly like that.
“Next time, let’s meet in a Dark that gives a lot of points! We’ll show you our coolness then!”
“Ideally, it’d be better if only one person comes so we can pocket the points! Hahaha!”
Mmh.
‘I do not want to experience seeing the coolness of the elite team in the Dark…!’
Even though it seemed we could work more smoothly and with less friction than with Group A.
Of course, Group C also seemed to have a bit of an elitist mentality, but that was tolerable if thought of as characteristic of elite teams.
…Except for the fact that the shocking ghost version of Group C I saw today was endlessly replaying in my head, of course.
‘Ugh.’
Let’s go home.
Let’s go and enjoy the luxury of sleeping in broad daylight….
Feeling a minor gratitude for today being my day off, I bowed my head to Manager Lee Ja-heon.
“Leader, thank you for today. To say it once more, thank you for kindly answering despite me asking this and that in a rush within the Dark.”
“Yes.”
“If you ever have something you want to ask me, please feel free to speak at any time, Leader!”
“Yes. I will ask now.”
“…….”
Already?
Manager Lee Ja-heon asked impassively.
“Mr. Kim Sol-eum. Have you used the ‘Fox Counseling Room’?”
“…!”
That was one of the three places to which access was newly granted upon becoming a supervisor.
1. Security Team Rental Warehouse
2. Annex (Free equipment manufacturing twice a year)
3. Fox Counseling Room
It was also the only place I hadn’t used yet….
“No.”
Naturally, because there had been neither the opportunity nor the timing.
“Do you plan to use it?”
“…….”
Mmh.
“…Leader, you recommended it because the Fox Counseling Room is a place that helps recover from mental damage caused by contamination, correct?”
“Yes. I recommend setting a schedule to use it quickly.”
It was a valid point.
Except for the fact that there was one problem.
‘There are side effects there.’
Actually, in the ‘Fox Counseling Room,’ there was a very fatal side effect not written in the employee manual.
Of course, since the probability was very low, it wasn’t to the extent that normal employees had to worry….
But I didn’t want to risk that side effect even at a low probability.
……Right now, I was sick of probabilities.
‘I think I can still hold out.’
Unless I consciously recalled it, I didn’t hear strange inner whispers or feel like reading the educational manual.
The late nights until falling asleep were a bit difficult, but that was also a bit better because I had someone to talk to.
Brown, that is.
-My! It is an honor, friend.
Graphic.
Even I didn’t expect a monster from a ghost story to feel like such a lifeline….
‘Is human indeed a creature of adaptation.’
Anyway, since today was my day off and I could sleep during the day, it seemed there would be no problem if I filled in the lack of sleep in this way.
Of course, outwardly I nodded politely.
“Yes. I will set a schedule as soon as I have time.”
Of course, that time might not come for a while, maybe even months.
In any case, it wasn’t a lie.
“…Yes.”
The Lizard Manager stared at me for a moment, but accepted it and left.
Like that, I returned home safely…….
“Sigh.”
Click.
I opened the door and entered my room.
Perhaps because it was time for everyone to work, the company housing building itself was quiet. Baek Sa-heon wasn’t there either.
‘Shall I sleep.’
I washed up and lay on the bed, and tried to do a final check on various information and sites I knew……
“…!”
but my sleepiness vanished completely.
‘It opened!’
The Alien Shop had finished its renewal and was displaying a new homepage.
The brilliant colors of the clicked screen pierced my eyes.
<Space Shopping Mall>
>>I Look at Items
★Grand Reopening Commemorative Discount Event!★
Amazing Price!
Wow, really… amazing.
The design.
‘How could it get even worse.’
In the midst of that, dots burst like firecrackers. As colors and effects increased, it became more terrible.
If these aliens were outsourcing this, I wanted to desperately stop them.
-Mr. Roe Deer, take pity on this host and keep me far away from that terrible flyer.
I willingly placed Brown on the towel on the desk.
I would handle this design terror alone.
‘Anyway, they are holding a grand reopening commemorative discount event.’
That was a good opportunity. Perhaps the variety of products had increased.
I pressed the enter button with a slightly excited heart.
Item List
Happy Maker – ₩27,999,999 ★
Nostalgia Candy – ₩12,999,999 ★
Wrapping Paper 12B357-Na – ₩9,999,999
Necronomicon – ₩49,999,999
We Help! – ₩66,666,666
Really 20% discount if buying over 100 million!
Become Space Shopping Mall VIP!
“…….”
Wait a minute.
“It appeared!”
-Mr. Roe Deer?
I almost sat up from the bed in excitement, but barely calmed down.
“Armor finally appeared!”
-Ah, did you discover the item you were looking for? It is a matter of congratulations!
It truly was.
Wrapping Paper 12B357-Na – ₩9,999,999
‘I must buy this absolutely.’
Even the price was the cheapest. What kind of insane profit was this.
Only after putting it in the cart did I realize it was ten million won and had a moment of regret, but I had absolutely no intention of canceling the purchase.
And while calming my excitement and scrolling down to browse other items.
“…….”
-Friend? Did a problem arise?
“No.”
Rather, it was the opposite.
I checked the list again in slight fluster, but it was reality.
‘No… they are all items I know.’
It was the first time for such a case.
Even when there was no separate entry in the <Records of the Dark Exploration>, there was at least a minimal mention so I could make a rational deduction.
Although some items looked so ominous they were close to ghost stories themselves, perhaps because they were still just print, their utility and usage methods came to my mind first.
‘This is awesome.’
And only then did a peculiar mark catch my eye.
Happy Maker – ₩27,999,999 ★
What on earth is this star?
When I brought my finger near it, an explanation popped up.
★ Similar to item bought before!
‘Ah.’
These aliens… I wondered why they did a renewal.
They had actually introduced an algorithm. To display products related to what I purchased last time at the top with a star!
‘But shouldn’t they have done this the exact opposite way?’
If it were clothes maybe, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy a similar item… well, it works for consumable items that have run out of stock, though.
For example, something like this!
Nostalgia Candy – ₩12,999,999 ★
‘It is the Nostalgia series.’
It was an item made in the same place as the yarn-shaped restraint wrapped around my wrist when I was in the Security Team isolation room with the educational manual.
A series with the concept of returning one’s identity to a ‘good moment of the past.’
If it were a candy-type, it would probably produce a similar effect through consumption.
It seemed to have appeared because I purchased edible-type products several times. It also had similarities to the Mount Baekseol Apple.
‘An absolute purchase.’
Even without this, the mini-apples were almost gone, whether juice or whole fruit.
I immediately put that item in the cart and slowly looked at the rest of the list….
‘Painkillers, recovery medicine, armor, blackmailing, crisis escape…’
And I realized.
‘All of these are good.’
They were all usable items. Since I knew their usage, I could discern.
And also.
Really 20% discount if buying over 100 million!
“…….”
A discount.
‘It isn’t an occasion one can commonly run into.’
And combining my salary, extra income earned so far, performance bonuses, and excluding living expenses, the ammunition I could use was……
‘Up to 140 million, no… maybe even 150 million?’
“…….”
-Friend, are you enjoying shopping after overcoming that severe visual torture?
“No.”
-Mmh?
“It just finished.”
I looked at the shopping cart.
Happy Maker – ₩27,999,999
Nostalgia Candy – ₩12,999,999
Wrapping Paper 12B357-Na – ₩9,999,999
Necronomicon – ₩49,999,999
We Help! – ₩66,666,666
= ₩167,666,662
※Discounted!※ : 134,133,329
Let’s go, purchase all products!