Chapter 2: Wild day 1

People often say it.Life is an adventure.

I fully agree with that statement.

No, I *used* to agree.

That is, until I was dropped into the middle of the wilderness while playing a game.

“This isn’t an adventure, it’s kidnapping… Cough!”

What poured out of my mouth with a cough was cold blood.

My eyes lingered on the blood with a complex expression for only a moment.

I roughly wiped my mouth with my sleeve and looked around.

“All I can see are dense trees… Huh?”

My eyes, which had been checking my location, suddenly widened.

I had found something in the shade of a tree behind me.

“A school uniform? Are you a person?”

I shouted with joy and ran towards the tree where the uniform sleeve was visible.

But what I saw up close was not a person.

“Ugh! It’s a corpse!”

A skeleton wearing a tattered school uniform was leaning against the tree.

At the feet of the skeleton, there was a will dug into the ground.

[You sons of bitches in the gallery, give me some water.]

“Gallery?”

It was the moment I unconsciously muttered the unexpected word.

A translucent window appeared in the air.

Like a game interface, it floated before my eyes, and at the very top of the window, ‘Unique Gallery’ was written.

And below it, posts were appearing in real-time.

[Yoobung-i is screwed in real-time]

[Guys, isn’t this Thousand-Year Snow Ginseng?]

[Tomorrow, I will be accompanying a lady with a destined connection. Please review my schedule.]

[Isn’t this a World Tree seed?]

[Yoosoon completed her workout!]

“What is this…?”

I reached out with trembling hands to touch the floating window.

But there was nothing to touch.

“Then how am I supposed to operate it?”

Making my question pointless, the method of operation was surprisingly simple.

If I just thought about wanting to see a post, it would open.

Having realized how to operate it, I began to open posts with many recommendations.

[Isn’t this a World Tree seed?]

[As if LOL If it’s an elf crying because they lost the World Tree, then upvote LOL]

[LOL upvote LOL]

[Where are you, OP?]

[Admin, buy this guy’s address.]

[Yoosoon completed her workout!]

[–(An image of a female dwarf holding a hammer, emphasizing her butt)]

[–Aaaaargh! My eyes!]

[–This is it for today!]

[–Sister, your biceps are so pretty!]

[–You dwarf bastards! Put a gross tag on it!]

[Tomorrow, I will be accompanying a lady with a destined connection. Please review my schedule.]

[–First, I will display my might by emitting sword energy at an inn with an ill-mannered attendant.]

[–Then, I will overpower the disciples at a sword academy under the pretext of guidance.]

[–Is there a possibility of us sharing a night of passion tonight, lady?]

[–Murim-style pickup artist LOL]

[–Emitting sword energy LOL So funny LOL]

[–Martial arts students: Oh, this guy again.]

[–LOL]

[–LOL]

‘World Tree. Elf. Dwarf. Murim. Sword energy….’

I listed the notable keywords to organize my thoughts.

The conclusion I reached was that it was a world where fantasy and Murim were intertwined.

‘Is this a racial stew?’

It was the moment I sighed and opened the writing window to ask my current location.

A new notification window appeared in the air.

[Would you like to register as a member?]

[–Benefits of membership]

[1. User-to-user trading becomes possible once every 24 hours.]

[2. Photos and videos can be attached to posts.]

[3. You can conduct polls.]

[4. The Gallery broadcast feature is unlocked.]

After reading the benefits, I proceeded with membership registration without hesitation.

Since I wanted to ask my current location, attaching a photo was an essential element.

“My nickname is… Cough!”

Cold blood poured out again with a cough.

It was a signal from my body reminding me once more that I was dying from Nine Yin Severance.

At that moment, a nickname naturally came to mind.

[Welcome, Terminal Patient.]

‘It’s quite a fitting nickname for someone who’s dying in real-time.’

I laughed self-deprecatingly for a moment.

Then, I immediately wrote and posted a message.

As politely and respectfully as possible so as not to offend the various races.

[Hello, Unique Gallery users. Do any of you know where this is?]

[I woke up and found myself here.]

[Does anyone know where this place is?]

[(Photo of a forest landscape)]

I posted the message and waited for a long time.

Soon, I sensed something strange.

Not a single comment had been posted until the message was buried.

Even the views were only 3.

‘Why the hell?’

I scanned other posts with trembling pupils.

Only then did I realize.

‘This is a cesspool.’

Having learned my lesson, I wrote another post.

[Yoosoon caught masturbating thinking she was alone ㅠㅠ]

[Woke up and I’m here.]

[Where is here?]

[(Photo of a forest landscape)]

The effect was immediate.

[–LOL I got drift-baited again LOL]

[–My hands were trembling as I clicked, thinking it was a gross pic LOL]

[–Then don’t click on it.]

[–How can you resist a title like that LOL]

[–LOL I know right LOL]

It was successful.

People had started reading my post.

‘Why am I proud of something like this?’

But there was a problem.

‘No, tell me where this is, you trash!’

No one answered my question.

They were all just giggling and laughing among themselves.

No one gave me the information I actually wanted.

‘Truly useless.’

Just when I was about to give up.

[–Knowledge Seeker) How can we tell if you just upload a tree? Try uploading a video of the entire surroundings.]

Finally, a normal person had appeared.

I immediately followed his request, took a video of the surrounding landscape, and created a new post.

[Knowledge Seeker-nim. Here is the requested video.]

But there were no replies until the post was buried.

It was a pattern I had already experienced.

I quietly wrote a new post.

[Yoosoon’s panties revealed today!]

[Knowledge Seeker-nim. Here is the requested video.]

A reply came within 3 seconds.

[–Knowledge Seeker) OK, I’ll check it out.]

‘…’

I kept refreshing the post with a sour expression.

It was absurd that I had to trust such a person, but I had no other means.

Meanwhile, comments began to appear.

[–Ah, damn, watching the video, you’re coughing so much. Do you have lung disease?]

[–Terminal Patient) It’s Nine Yin Severance.]

[–Nine Yin Severance? What is that? I’ve never heard of it, but this taste is familiar?]

[–It should be familiar. A certain regular user cries about it every day. Who was it?]

[–Snow Lady) Seriously?]

[–She’s here just in time.]

[–Snow Lady) Is it really Nine Yin Severance?]

[–Snow Lady) Are you serious?!]

A new regular user appeared, but I had no time to pay attention.

The Knowledge Seeker, who had checked the video, had returned.

[–Knowledge Seeker) I watched the video well.]

[–Terminal Patient) So where is this, sir?]

[–Knowledge Seeker) Dunno?]

‘…’

As expected, he couldn’t be a trustworthy person.

However, I wasn’t particularly disappointed.

Because I hadn’t expected him to tell me the location with just one forest video.

I was just grasping at straws.

“Let’s move for now. I need to find something that can… cough! … pinpoint the location.”

Just as I concluded that and was about to close the Gallery.

New comments began to pour in like bamboo shoots after rain.

[–? There’s something the Knowledge Seeker doesn’t know?]

[–The Encyclopedia couldn’t answer?]

[–Then there’s only one answer. The abandoned continent from the past.]

[–Ah. Right. Then it makes sense he wouldn’t know. It’s a continent that was abandoned long ago.]

[–OP, then be careful. Dinosaurs live there.]

‘Dinosaurs live there?’

“They’re really determined to prank a newbie… Huh?”

My mouth hung half-open, and I froze.

Something cold and sticky plopped onto my head.

My hand instinctively went to the crown of my head.

What I felt at my fingertips was wet, slimy mucus.

“Who spit phlegm from the sky…?”

My annoyed muttering didn’t last long.

Through the gaps in the tree branches, I saw it.

The head of a gigantic monster with scales.

And amber eyes set in that massive skull.

That terrifying vertically slit gaze was fixed directly on me.

[Groooaaaarrrr!]

It was a dinosaur.

A dinosaur was really drooling at me.

At that moment, I instinctively attached a photo to the Gallery and left a comment.

[–Terminal Patient) (Photo of a dinosaur drooling)]

[–Terminal Patient) …What do I do now?]

The reaction was immediate.

[–LOL So you really were a terminal patient]

[–Breakfast is commenting LOL]

[–Wow, you got a good shot though;; What kind of photography magic did you use?]

[–Snow Lady) Is it really Nine Yin Severance?!]

[–Knowledge Seeker) It’s big. Let’s escape through the trees. And turn on the broadcast. Collective intelligence, go go!]

Checking the comments, I began to escape by weaving through the trees, as the Knowledge Seeker had advised.

At the same time, I turned on the Gallery broadcast.

Turning it on wasn’t difficult.

The moment I simply thought, ‘I want to broadcast’.

[Broadcast has started.]

A broadcast screen appeared before me along with the notification window.

Then, the chat window instantly flooded.

[–Wow! He really turned on the broadcast!]

[–Breakfast’s real-time escape broadcast LOL]

[Knowledge Seeker) There’s a big rock straight ahead! Turn left!]

[–Can’t he just hide behind that tree?]

[–Idiot, it’s so big, do you think hiding behind a tree would make it invisible?]

Watching the real-time advice pouring in, I sharply turned my body to the left.

[Knowledge Seeker) Well done. Keep escaping in a zigzag through the trees.]

Following the Knowledge Seeker’s advice, I escaped by weaving through the trees.

It was then.

[–Wow. The pressure is insane, seriously.]

At one comment, I involuntarily looked back.

And I regretted it.

[Grrrroooaaarrrr!]

I had seen the gigantic dinosaur pushing trees aside with its body as it chased after me.

“Aaaaargh!”

I screamed and put even more strength into my legs.

It was the beginning of my otherworld wilderness life.