Chapter 177 – 177. Lukewarm

“Come on, Seongho. Open your eyes straight. “It’s coming.”

“Uh huh.”

“Yes. Like that. You’re good. No. Hey!!!!!”

“Ah, ugh!!!”

“This idiot!!!!!”

I dragged Seongho around all night, hunting down the remaining zombies in the city.

Perhaps because it was dark and chilly, Seongho’s movements were a bit slow, and dangerous scenes were created whenever he failed to properly look at his surroundings.

“Again.”

“Uh. I understand.”

Usually, when family members teach something to each other, their voices tend to get louder. It’s all because of a worried mind.

I can’t help it.

If it were someone else, it would be enough to just teach them to do whatever they want, but since this kid is my family, I get even more anxious because I’m worried that he might get left behind in my absence.

“Yumma. Take your stride a little longer. Yes. Okay. Give strength to your arms. “If you hit me on the head half-heartedly, I won’t go back.”

“Ha. Ha. Brother. “Can’t I get some rest?”

“What did you do now? Take a break. Move more. I haven’t even caught 100 yet. Not yet. There is no problem in strengthening the stats and moving more. Uh oh. I look away again. Hey damn!!!”

“Oh, shit!”

I really don’t know how much I yelled at you for 4 hours. This idiot has no fighting sense. This guy is my younger brother. I’m embarrassed. How is it that you are weaker than Saeyeon? There are no sunfish babies.

“After. “What level are you now?”

“Survival level? “About 3.”

“Ha. Still, it went up okay. When the sun rises, take your father and uncles with you and raise your survival level to at least 5.”

“Uh. Okay.”

“Then let’s get some rest.”

In just a day and a half, I raised my survival level to level 3 and mastered all the basics of combat. If they gave me a bus ride like this, I guess I should start hunting on my own now, right?

“Aren’t you resting?”

“I have to work. I’m so fucking busy. “Fuck, I’m really busy.”

“And. I don’t even sleep and just work. What. “Isn’t that your guy?”

“Aren’t you human? That’s a bit much, isn’t it? It must be right, right?”

“No, I wasn’t teasing you!! OMG!!! A little!! Stop hitting me!! “My forehead is cut!!!!”

After feeding my younger brother some nuclear honey chestnuts, I returned to the base labyrinth.

“Now is the time…”

It’s soon 4 am. Slowly, a new simple labyrinth will be created in front of the gate coagulator.

‘Shall we conquer the simple labyrinth? Otherwise, let’s take over the base first.’

The time has come to completely conquer the base labyrinth. In particular, Labyrinth No. 1 has not yet been touched, and Labyrinth No. 3 and No. 4 have not even been finished.

‘I haven’t even been to the last floor of the 5th Warlord’s workshop. There is a lot of backlog.’

In addition, you must conquer the Nether Tunnel and the Nine Heavenly Swamps that you received as a request. I also have to go into the infinite labyrinth of the fish farm I got yesterday.

‘In addition, there are ascending labyrinths and fixed labyrinths.’

It was too dangerous to let someone else do it, so in the end I had to do all the walking.

‘Let’s try it.’

As for conquering the base labyrinth, Yeongsik and my party members have grown quite a bit, so let’s just leave it to them. Seeing as I was able to conquer the simple labyrinth of higher difficulty this time, I’m sure I’ll do well.

“Okay then.”

I changed my clothes and got ready.

When 4 o’clock comes, I have to check the gate coagulator and make a schedule for today.

“Oh right. “I didn’t check that.”

[Huh?]

“Labyrinth Reward.”

I have not yet confirmed the rewards I received after joining Leona and taking care of her younger brother.

Leona can open the blue reward box later, and the important thing is the fixed labyrinth.

I checked the fixed labyrinth, ‘Devil King’s Underground Warehouse’, obtained by conquering the collapsed storage room.

[Labyrinth Type: Fixed Labyrinth]

[Difficulty: Not measurable]

[Labyrinth Name: Demon King’s Basement]

[Access conditions: (none)]

[Imposed goal: Destruction of pagan symbols – Destruction of crystal balls containing souls]

[Goal achievement reward: Resurrection Stone Fragment, Golden Reward Box, Paimon’s Crown]

[Capacity: 0/4]

“Huh.”

We need to find the crystal ball somewhere in the warehouse and destroy it. It seemed like it would take quite some time to conquer this as well.

I’ll have to put it on hold for now. Because there are so many other things to do besides this.

******

It’s 4 o’clock in the morning.

An alarm rang in the room where the companions were sleeping.

The group’s wake-up time is slowly changing to 4 o’clock. Now that everyone knows that a labyrinth is created around 4 o’clock, sleep patterns are changing accordingly.

“Let’s go.”

I walked towards the gate coagulator first.

“What?”

Unfortunately, not many labyrinths were created today.

There were only two simple labyrinths. Yesterday, a lot of it was created.

[Labyrinth Type: Simple Labyrinth]

[Difficulty: Intermediate to High]

[Labyrinth Name: Straight Corridor]

[Entry conditions: Survival level 8]

[Imposed goal: Go to the end of the hallway within 2 minutes.]

[Goal achievement reward: Green reward box (2), Gale boots (1)]

[Capacity: Individual Entry]

[Labyrinth Type: Simple Labyrinth]

[Difficulty: Intermediate]

[Labyrinth Name: Stopped Cruise Ship]

[Entry conditions: Survival level 3]

[Imposed goal: Survive for 7 hours.]

[Goal achievement reward: Blue reward box (3)]

[Capacity: 2/50]

“Hmm.”

Neither of them were very tasty labyrinths. The only thing you can break through quickly is a straight hallway. You have to escape within 2 minutes, so if you succeed on the first try, you can conquer the labyrinth in 2 minutes.

‘The challenge now is.’

[Challenge: ‘Labyrinth Strategy Expert!’]

[Achievement conditions: Complete 10 or more simple labyrinths (5/10)]

[Achievement reward: Survival grade increased by 3, entry into weapon shop once, 5 old gold coins, fixed labyrinth ‘Devil Farm’ opened]

It was better to achieve this quickly and get the reward.

‘It would be better to attack the straight hallway first and then do something else.’

Come to think of it, I remembered it when I requested it, and I think there was a guild among the buildings I picked up with the red reward box last time. What was it?

As I was recalling memories, Agaf opened his mouth.

[Wasn’t it a survivor’s union?]

“Oh right. “That.”

Now I remembered it again.

[Survivor’s Association: A community facility for survivors. You can receive various requests. If you complete a quest, you can receive various rewards, and if you donate coins, locked stores and various facilities will be opened.]

Yes, it was a building where you could hire employees and use various facilities by inserting gold coins. You could also receive a request here. I haven’t activated it yet, but I’ll do it later.

“Now that I think about it, there was also a gateway for moving through space.”

[You needed 100 advanced magic stones, right?]

“Was it like that? “I can’t use it yet.”

[And the basement connection has not yet been confirmed.]

“Oh right. Hmm.”

I don’t know why there is so much to check.

First, I entered the ‘straight corridor’ of the simple labyrinth. Everything else was put off until later.

******

“Oh.”

I entered a straight hallway. It was literally a simple yet simple labyrinth made up of straight lines.

“It’s a trap field.”

It seems like you have to solve all these traps within 2 minutes and go to the end of the hallway you see there. The door at the end of the hallway is wide open, so you have to get in before it closes.

[This seems like a too easy labyrinth for you.]

“Yes.”

Other survivors had a composition that required multiple challenges, but I was a little different.

“All stats open.”

Agaf has opened all the locked enhancement skills.

Kuung.

At that moment, my heart began to beat strongly, and my body began to heat up more and more. At the same time, time felt slightly slower.

This feeling of exaltation is new every time I feel it.

“Whew. “I’m going.”

I took a deep breath, raised the Demon’s long sword in a stabbing posture, and ran. The moment I crossed the line drawn on the floor, the door began to gradually close.

Kwaang–!!!!

The floor of the hallway my feet were touching crumbles and my body moves forward.

The traps set up in the hallway were activated and tried to catch me.

‘Where!’

Spears flew from the wall, dozens of arrows were fired, and flames and large axes came towards me.

Kwajangchang!!!!!

Everything was destroyed. My body is already harder than steel. There’s no way an arrow could get stuck in a body that can block bullets.

“Let’s go!!!”

Good night. You just have to keep going like this. We’re already halfway down the hallway. You can do it.

Successfully conquered the labyrinth in 30 seconds-?

[Yaaaaa!!!! The floor is falling!! Jump!!! Jump!!!!!!!]

“Ugh!!! Shiiibaaaaal!!!!!!!”

Kwaaaaang!!!!!

Failed.

I fell down.

“Ugh. This is crazy.”

I was caught in a trap.

The good news is that the iron skewers stuck on the floor did not pierce me and instead distorted or bent me.

There are some serious bruises on my body, but this is fine.

[What a shame.]

“I know. “I was able to succeed in just one attempt.”

[Can you go up?]

“Uh… Should I go up?”

I pulled out the iron skewer installed at the bottom of the trap and climbed back up.

Two minutes had already passed, and I had to start again from the beginning.

“Do I have to return to the starting point on my own feet?”

[It seems so.]

“Will these destroyed ships ever be restored?”

[Look over there.]

“Uh. Ah. It works.”

The arrows scattered on the floor returned to the trap.

It seems like the traps are restored every time you retry.

[Roughly speaking, if you take survival level 10 as the standard, it seems like you will succeed within the 10th time if you don’t die.]

He nodded his head at Agaf’s words and went back to the starting point.

“Okay, let’s go again.”

I took a stance. I clearly identified the section where I needed to jump.

I just understood this.

“Okay then!”

I ran again.

By giving strength to my whole body.

We moved forward.

“Big!!!”

Success. Succeeded on the second try.

“This is it.”

I solved one labyrinth in about 5 minutes.

Of course raw food is the best.