The Jelly Alien Will Save You! Chapter 36

“Why don’t you return to the outside? Don’t humans have homes, assets, and families outside the contaminated zone?”

 

Since we seemed to have gotten a bit closer, wouldn’t it be okay to ask at least this much? 

 

I was thinking that to myself when it happened.

 

Captain Gong Juwon spotted us from the roof and hurriedly shouted.

 

“Where are you going! You’re not leaving me behind, are you? Excuse me? Lieutenant Colonel? Jelly-nim?!”

 

When I waved my hand in greeting, Captain Gong Juwon lightly leaped down from the four-story roof.

 

As expected, Hunters aren’t human.

 

“I can’t leave.”

 

“…?”

 

I raised my head at the voice coming from above. Cha Haeeon had a frighteningly quiet face.

 

“….”

 

What does it mean that he cannot leave?

 

Does he have circumstances he cannot speak of?

 

I don’t know for sure, but I know it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to leave.

 

I patted and tapped the back of Cha Haeeon’s hand, which was holding my ear. 

 

“Let’s go outside together later.”

 

Looking up at the sky where the moon hung bright and full, I continued. 

 

“We’re all going outside together.” 

 

“Sounds good!”

 

Captain Gong Juwon, who had joined us belatedly, raised his fist to the sky and swung it around.

 

“Yeehaw—”

 

“Yay—”

 

Whether we were pumping ourselves up and gathering our fighting spirit or not, Cha Haeeon turned his head away with dead fish eyes. 

 

“Shouldn’t Captain Gong just make sure those kids keep their mouths shut?”

 

“Don’t worry. They didn’t seem to know much anyway. Ah, come to think of it, that red gas mask kid gave me this. He said he stole what the Scavenger b*stards cherished most. That kid is really something else. Hahaha!”

 

What is it? What could it be? Curious about the item Captain Gong Juwon brought out, I squirmed around.

 

At that, Cha Haeeon lifted me up higher.

 

“Mhm?”

 

Looking at the item in Captain Gong Juwon’s hand, I couldn’t help but be startled.

 

“This is?”

 

* * *

 

Shane, who was running, brushed back his blonde hair and tapped his earpiece. If his earpiece wasn’t broken, what he heard must be correct.

 

“Green onions?”

 

-Yes, the purification item this time is green onions.

 

His secretary added in her characteristic emotionless tone.

 

-It is said to have a description attached that reads, ‘It’s delicious if you grill it.’ 

 

Making something amazing like that out of nowhere, and saying it’s delicious if you grill it? 

 

“Ahahahahaha!”

 

He laughed so hard that tears pricked his eyes, and only after a long while did he speak in a voice full of laughter.

 

“I don’t know who it is, but it seems they’re someone with wit. I like them already.”

 

He began to walk leisurely.

 

When people around recognized him as the CEO of ‘Revion Biotech’ and took pictures, he responded by waving his hand lightly.

 

At the greeting from the young CEO who built a leading corporation, people cheered in delight.

 

Shane greeted them a little more, then started moving before a larger crowd could gather.

 

“Did you get the green onion sample too?”

 

-Yes, we will go straight into testing.

 

“Great. What about the report that went to the VIPs over there? Was it secured?” 

 

-Yes. I just transmitted it. To put it briefly, as a result of observations from the authorities’ satellite, the contamination level of Yongsan has significantly decreased.

 

“Hmm, it’s the same conclusion as ours.” 

 

Shane hummed cheerfully as if enjoying himself. 

 

Someone might say the vending machine is just an anomaly of the contaminated zone, but his thoughts were different.

 

There must be something orchestrating this.

 

Shane wanted to confirm it.

 

“Are the drones not ready yet?”

 

‘Revion Biotech’ was developing drones that could freely roam the contaminated zone and collect data. This was one of the fields Shane was most interested in.

 

-They are currently preparing for a test run.

 

“That’s good. I was actually wanting to go in right away.”

 

Shane smiled and started running again.

 

-We still need to get the permit even after the test run.

 

“We can just get that later.”

 

-Pardon?

 

“Thanks for the report, Susan.”

 

Shane smiled and hung up the call.

 

Changes are happening in the contaminated zone.

 

And only in Korea, at that……!

 

The whole world was paying attention to this.

 

They had to follow this swiftly. The side that falls behind will become the loser. 

 

He had good intuition. The thrilling tremble wouldn’t stop. Whatever it was, he had to get his hands on it.

 

Faster than anyone else.

 

* * *

 

Green onions are delicious.

 

I wiped my drool while watering the green onions.

 

I never had the chance to eat a dish made solely of green onions at the hospital, but according to a story Cha Haeeon told me, there’s a pure green onion dish in Spain called ‘Calçotada’.

 

It’s a food where you grill the green onions whole and peel off the outer skin to eat, which means green onions are just that delicious of an ingredient. 

 

Mhm, mhm. Seeing the green onions selling like hotcakes, it seems my customers think so too.

 

+35cc

+35cc

+35cc

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[Cosmic Coin Balance: 3,100cc]

 

Placing one more vending machine definitely earns coins 3 times faster.

 

According to Cha Haeeon, the vending machine at the hospital is probably being managed by the military.

 

If so, the coins coming in now mean that soldiers are busting their humps gathering Cosmic Coins and supplying them to me.

 

It wasn’t a bad thing, but was it okay to let the government monopolize it like this? 

 

A sense of duty as the one and only purification ability user, or something like that, seemed to be boiling up inside me….

 

Having finished watering the garden, I stood side by side with my brother and started exercising.

 

Pyok! Pyok! Pyok! Pyok! 

 

Our plump, bouncy bodies spun around and around. 

 

I moved until I would normally sweat, but far from sweating….

 

Shiver—.

 

My body trembled from the chill.

 

The temperature is gradually dropping.

 

I hugged my brother, popped into the box, and pulled the blanket over my head.

 

‘Winter is coming.’

 

Even if they are of alien origin, will the crops be able to survive Korea’s winter?

 

Hunting will probably be difficult in the winter too….

 

As the weather got colder, I had a mountain of worries.

 

Winter, huh….

 

“I want to eat roasted sweet potatoes while warming my body on a toasty electric blanket.”

 

At that, Captain Gong Juwon, who had just come out of the wash and was drying his hair, laughed as if surprised.

 

“Jelly-nim, sometimes when I look at you, you seem like a real human.”

 

“I told you I was once a human species of Earth?”

 

“Yes, yes.”

 

It wouldn’t be strange to think I was a human who became a contaminated mutant, but neither Cha Haeeon nor Gong Ju-won seemed to suspect me in that direction at all.

 

Why? Is it because I look too cute? Hmph!

 

“Are you really not going to wash?”

 

Right on cue, Cha Haeeon came out of the kitchen. It seemed he was about to start nagging again.

 

“I said I’m cold! Only cold water comes out here anyway!”

 

Screaming at the top of my lungs, I squirmed inside the blanket and hid.

 

“A jelly doesn’t need to wash for about a day. Because it’s a jelly.” 

 

Why do we have to wash every single day? How can they wash so easily with cold water when it’s this cold? Is it because they’re soldiers?

 

While I was curled up inside the box, a white hand suddenly reached in and plucked me up.

 

“A jelly gets dirty too if it doesn’t wash.” 

 

I pouted my lips.

 

Cha Haeeon took me and went into the kitchen.

 

Why? I thought he’d take me to the bathroom and dump water on my head?

 

Instead, I suddenly fell into the large pot situated over the furnace.

 

Splash.

 

At the same time, the warmly heated water relaxed my tense body.

 

‘Oh! A hot spring…!’

 

“Wow—” 

 

As I splashed around and enjoyed the warm water, Cha Haeeon let out a huff through his nose, then soon brought my brother too and placed him in my arms.

 

I was deeply moved and my eyes sparkled. I felt both my body and mind becoming toasty warm.

 

“Thank you, Cha Haeeon. It’s really warm and nice.”