Chapter 115

Inside the ventilation shaft, the faint light coming through the iron grates here and there was all there was.

Their vision was limited, and before their eyes lay only darkness.

From beyond that darkness, something appeared.

Clang, clang, clang, clang.

It was the sound of light footsteps.

No, was it threatening?

Tae-woo flinched, but he did not freeze or scream.

Seo-jun waited quietly.

The thing that drew near slightly revealed its form.

“It seems to be the hero we saw in 2D, everyone.”

“Ah, I got scared for nothing.”

The figure slightly emerging from the darkness was enough to deduce its identity.

[What is that.]

[The protagonist?]

The protagonist turned around the moment their eyes met.

And then he ran off again.

Thinking that it had indeed been a light footstep after all, Seo-jun followed the protagonist.

[Wait! Stop right there!]

[Why is he so fast!]

Unlike the urgent voices of the characters, Seo-jun strolled leisurely.

And because Tae-woo did not know what might pop out from the darkness a single step ahead, he could not go out ahead of Seo-jun.

He naturally pretended not to be scared, pretending that he just preferred walking, but Seo-jun could sense it all.

-Cognitive dissonance lmaooo

-The characters are shouting “Stop right there!” but the streamer is just strolling around with his hands behind his back lmaooo

-The game company is telling you to run. Run a bit please

[I don’t know what it is, but we must catch it right now!]

As they walked leisurely like that, the passage suddenly brightened, and they could see the protagonist’s back in the distance.

[Catch him!]

Then, the protagonist suddenly vanished downward.

As they drew closer, they saw a hole where the grate was missing.

That was the reason it had suddenly brightened.

“They designed it so we can’t cross over to the other side.”

It meant they had to drop down no matter what. In that case, there was no choice.

Thud.

After landing on the floor, Seo-jun looked around. They had finally entered the indoors.

However, even the interior they had finally entered was a bit strange.

“I can’t see the floor.”

Seo-jun agreed with the words of Tae-woo, who followed behind him.

The interior was quite large and the ceiling was very high. The space below was also deep, to the point where the bottom could not be seen.

How did they know the depth below?

It was because the place they stood was no different from a single bridge floating in midair.

A bridge made of wire mesh, the kind that might be temporarily installed in a cave or construction site.

Since the floor was woven in a grid pattern and full of holes, how could they not see through it?

“Seo-jun, if I fall from here, will I die and respawn next to you again?”

“Why don’t you try it.”

Therefore, the space they could move in was limited.

In the dark interior where most of the space was empty, looking up, they could find several conveyor belts attached to the wall at a height they could not reach.

[There! The door is closing!]

Turning their gaze, they saw the door to the next room at the end of the path they were standing on, and the protagonist was entering it.

Seo-jun felt as if he had caught a glimpse of the protagonist grinning ever so slightly.

The door closed, and the light above the door changed from green to red.

At the same time, the path from right in front of the door up to a certain distance went down.

The bridge was disconnected.

-Locked omg

-The path went down too omg

-Where is this?

-It’s scary because it feels like something is going to pop up from below…

What should they do to open that door?

Right then.

Click.

A certain sound rang out, and at the same time, a slight weight was felt at his waist.

[What is this?]

[It suddenly appeared in your hand!]

A new object was delivered into Seo-jun’s hand and onto Tae-woo’s waist.

“Hmm, nails and a gun…?”

Seo-jun examined the gun that had appeared on his right and the small storage bag on his left.

As for Tae-woo, a gun with a thin tube and something like an oxygen tank connected to it had appeared on his back.

-They both got guns?

-Now, kill each other!

-Tae-woo clearly has an air gun and the streamer has a nail gun. If the two fight, the streamer will win!

I see.

“It seems like we’re supposed to do something with this.”

Seo-jun approached the edge of the broken path and checked the electronic access control device next to the door where a card would likely need to be scanned.

A control panel?

For some reason, it felt like he had to shoot it right away.

He took out a nail and loaded it directly into the nail gun.

And after aiming ahead, he pulled the trigger.

Fwip!

Thwack!

As the nail embedded itself in the control panel, it exploded with a crackling sound, raising the path that had gone down earlier and opening the door.

“Aha, so that’s how it works.”

He understood.

Meanwhile, Tae-woo grumbled from behind.

“What the, then I’m useless. This is why I said I wouldn’t do support, you know?”

As he operated the air gun and swung it in the air.

Seo-jun looked at Tae-woo warmly with eyes that seemed to say, ‘I really envy how you can blurt out thoughts without thinking, all while trembling in fear.’

“Use your brain. Do you really think you’d be useless?”

They moved on to the next room.

As expected.

“It appears right away.”

The path collapsed in an instant right in front of his nose.

“I think the door is on the left. Let’s find a way again.”

Right now, they could not accurately grasp the shape of this room.

Whether it was shaped like a ‘ㄱ’ or a lowercase ‘n,’ they could not see it because the protruding wall on the left was blocking their view.

Where was the door this time?

It was probably shaped like a ‘ㄷ,’ but they could not verify it due to the angle.

“Go over there.”

Seo-jun pointed forward.

Ahead to the front-left, a small area of the floor had not collapsed and remained.

“No.”

“Scared?”

“Yeah, scared.”

It didn’t work anymore. That was a shame.

-Lmaooo

-How nice is it to be honest? You don’t even get used by your friend lol

-So how do you get across?

Clearly, a double jump would not be enough.

That was the reason Tae-woo refused.

“Ah!”

Tae-woo clapped his hands.

“Did you think of something?”

“No, but the output of this thing is incredibly strong.”

Tae-woo sprayed the air gun with a hiss.

An airflow was generated in front of the air gun, and Tae-woo was pushed back slightly.

“What do you think? For your information, it’s also possible to absorb with this, but anyway, what I want to show you is.”

From a short distance, Tae-woo took a running start and jumped.

It was a distance that could not be cleared even with a double jump.

Chiiiiiik!

However, when Tae-woo aimed the air gun downward and sprayed it there, his body rose once more.

-Triple jump! Omg

-Right, even a double jump is possible, so there’s no reason that wouldn’t work lol

-Oh

So he had indeed not been playing games in vain all this time.

Of course, Tae-woo, who showed quite impressive reasoning skills, fell below due to his unimpressive landing skills (?).

-Lol

-So funny lol

-He almost looked cool, but Tae-woo is Tae-woo! Lol

Having caught on after one more try, Tae-woo landed properly.

“Whew. It’s a bit difficult.”

“Can you see anything?”

“Yeah. The shape is roughly an ‘n,’ but… hmm, how should I explain this? The door isn’t at the end of the ‘n,’ but right on your left relative to you.”

Aha.

So there was a door right on the left from where they entered, but a wall protruding in the middle blocked it.

The problem was that wall, which made it impossible to shoot a nail.

“Can’t you do something about it with a triple jump?”

“Yeah.”

“Then, hmm. Hey. Try shooting the wind straight ahead of you.”

“Okay.”

An airflow formed in front of Tae-woo.

The wind spewing from the tip of the tube Tae-woo held created a whirlwind.

-Aha

-Are they trying to bend the trajectory?

-Probably possible. They must have designed it that way in the first place

Fwip!

As Seo-jun shot a nail diagonally toward where Tae-woo was, the nail flew straight ahead, only to hit the blowing wind and bend its trajectory.

Thwack.

The sound of the nail embedding itself echoed in the space.

“Oh? A little off.”

Since there would also be aim correction, he would hit it soon enough if he adjusted slightly.

“Hey, I’ll keep firing nails from the same spot, so you move. I can’t pinpoint where the control panel is, after all.”

“Okay.”

Fwip!

Thwack!

Fwip!

Thwack!

Fwip!

Thwack!

As a result of adjusting the trajectory multiple times like that,

perhaps because the nail had finally embedded in the control panel rather than the wall, a path rose with a rumbling sound, connecting the spot where Seo-jun stood, the center where Tae-woo stood, and the other exit on the opposite side.

“So this is how we do it.”

“Let’s go to the next room.”

As they entered the next door, the bridge went down in the same manner.

And then.

“Oh, it’s a fork in the road this time?”

A fork in the road appeared on both sides.

The doors at the ends of the fork were not locked, and after checking the interior of the rooms one by one, Seo-jun and Tae-woo reached a conclusion.

“The left side is yours, and the right side is mine.”

The puzzle in the left room had to be solved by Seo-jun with the nail gun, while the right room had to be solved by Tae-woo.

“Where is the door?”

“Everything else is the same except that it’s on the right. The control panel and all.”

Tae-woo told him after sacrificing himself with a triple jump.

The difference this time was that the door was located on the right, and there was no path remaining in the middle.

The protruding wall in the middle blocking the door was the same, and so was the control panel.

“Let’s solve the puzzle quickly and meet back.”

Tae-woo said so as he entered the right room.

Tae-woo entered the room with the wall that protruded and blocked the view.

Hmm.

However, left alone, Seo-jun suddenly felt a sense of curiosity.

“Everyone, do we really have to do this as a duo?”

-?

-It’s a co-op game, if you don’t do it as a duo, what are you going to do?

-I told you, this game’s highest specification is a friend…

-The streamer is about to spout nonsense again lol

-It’s about time for it to activate. The Heavenly Demon’s bullshit!

-The guy who wrote ‘bullshit’ is definitely from the Orthodox Faction. I know it.

“No, if you think about it, we just need the nail to hit it. It’s not like I don’t know the location of the control panel.”

He had already figured out the structure in the previous room.

Seo-jun said as he slipped a nail between his fingers.

“Argh!”

A scream was heard from the room next door.

There must have been something startling.

It was none of Seo-jun’s business right now.

“Let’s give it a try.”

-What on earth are you trying to do?

-What are you trying to do in a co-op adventure game lol

-Heavenly Demon, you have returned!

Seo-jun swung his arm and threw the nail that was wedged between his fingers.

The nail embedded itself in the wall, looking no different from when he used the nail gun.

He wedged it again and threw it.

He checked the speed.

He got a feel for it.

And then.

He loaded the nail gun, wedged a nail in his right hand, and clenched his fist.

The door on the right, and the wall blocking it.

-???

-What the hell are you trying to do!

-It’s hard for normal people to understand

-If you do it while jumping, a steel grate comes out and blocks it.

That was correct.

If Seo-jun jumped and fired a nail when the control panel became visible, an iron plate would rise right next to the control panel to block it.

It was understandable that the game developers set it up that way.

‘It’s not like there are only one or two games that block cheese strategies like this, so how could we not understand at least this much?’ Tae-woo had said, and Seo-jun had agreed.

However,

would the iron plate still rise to block it even if he threw a nail without jumping?

Seo-jun took a deep breath and swung his arm.

The nail leaving his fingertips flew to the right with slightly less force.

At the same time, Seo-jun rapidly moved his left hand to fire the pre-loaded nail gun.

Fwip!

The speed of the nail flying from the nail gun was far faster than the speed of his throw.

Whoosh!

Therefore, the nail shot from the nail gun caught up to the nail Seo-jun had thrown earlier in an instant and struck its back end.

Although the nail flying ahead lost its momentum from the impact and spun around,

its trajectory was nevertheless bent to the right.

-??

-What are you doing?

-Why do I see the future?

Thwack!

The sound of the nail destroying the control panel echoed through the space.

Even Seo-jun looked down at his own hand in self-admiration.

“Wow… this actually works.”

A path rose from below.

Apparently,

he had discovered a new hidden weapon technique.

-Lol this is so ridiculous I can only laugh lmaooo

-No way, doing this even in a co-op game? lmaooo

-Look at him playing the game however he wants again lol

-Insane skills, seriously

-As expected of the Assassin Order’s GOAT!

-Fck, that bastard is cheating again fck

-One Orthodox Faction guy spotted above lol

-This guy is having PTSD lolol

-Lmaooo