The Jelly Alien Will Save You! Chapter 38

‘If I insist on not washing every day and it becomes a huge worry, won’t I get free money?’ I could think that, but….

 

[※ Rewards will not be additionally paid for repeating the same type of worry.]

 

…This message was attached, as if completely blocking any bad thoughts. 

 

Tch!

 

I flipped through the survival handbook.

 

Cha Haeeon’s worry was resolved.

 

Then what could Captain Gong Juwon’s worry be?

 

It might be a good idea to solve Captain Gong Juwon’s worry while I’m at it and rake in some coins.

 

‘Most of all, because the rewards are generous. I’ll suck these Earthlings dry to the bone.’ 

 

I rubbed my two hands together like a fly.

 

Captain Gong Juwon’s Worry

– Laid an egg.

 

Do Kyeol’s Worry

– \£]%|New Area ,^]*+Exploration \＄^]¥

 

My head tilted in confusion.

 

My brother has one too…. Then again, my brother is the most important person in my worldview.

 

No, wait, this isn’t it.

 

I raised my trembling gaze a little higher. Then, this time without avoiding the important sentence, I examined it again. 

 

Captain Gong Juwon’s Worry

– Laid an egg.

 

An egg… an egg…?

 

Who did? 

 

Because it was so bewildering, my mouth moved on its own. 

 

“Captain Gong, you lay eggs?”

 

At that, Captain Gong Juwon jumped up, turning pale with shock.

 

“Excuse me?! How did you know?!”

 

I jumped up too.

 

“No, the alien who should be surprised right now is me?!” 

 

Captain Gong Juwon soon spoke awkwardly.

 

“It seems my left hand laid an egg.”

 

“It really laid an egg?!”

 

I shouted in surprise.

 

My brother, perhaps surprised as well, opened his eyes wide, and Cha Haeeon also seemed unavoidably surprised this time.

 

Because the axe Cha Haeeon was using to chop firewood dropped with a thud.

 

* * *

 

“Since Jelly-nim shot the purification beam last night, my hand felt strange, sir. It felt like the skin was twitching, and then at dawn, it laid an egg.”

 

“Stop saying it laid an egg…”

 

“Yeah, yeah, don’t.”

 

Cha Haeeon grabbed his head, and I agreed.

 

“Yes, understood. I will report again. I generated an egg last night.”

 

It was just as bizarre either way.

 

Lately, every night, I had been shooting purification power into Captain Gong Juwon’s left hand with all my might. To purify the contaminated arm.

 

Did that cause a problem? But can purification power cause a problem?

 

This situation, which even made the alien fall over in surprise, was surprisingly calmly heard and judged by Cha Haeeon.

 

“So you’re saying the problem is this potato guy attached to Captain Gong’s left arm?”

 

“It’s not a potato, it’s a cosmic spirit.”

 

“And that potato is throwing up purification power?”

 

“Rather than throwing up purification power, it laid an eg—no, it generated an egg. I woke up from my sleep and opened my hand, and I was holding this egg.” 

 

Captain Gong Juwon took an egg out of his pocket and showed it.

 

The size was about that of a chicken egg.

 

The color was white, but a rainbow hue flowed over the smooth surface.

 

This… is a total miniature version of a Planetmon egg, isn’t it? 

 

Just then, Captain Gong Juwon placed the egg on the floor.

 

Then, he started continuously taking out eggs.

 

“…It laid this many?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Captain Gong Juwon answered shyly.

 

* * *

 

Sizzle, sizzle.

 

Eggs were cooking right before my eyes. A savory smell filled the old kitchen.

 

It was the smell of fried eggs I hadn’t smelled in a long time.

 

Cha Haeeon skillfully flipped the fried egg.

 

I crouched next to the furnace and sniffed loudly.

 

“I, I told you I was going to raise them……”

 

“You said they don’t grow.”

 

“Some of them might grow, you know.”

 

I said I would raise them for research purposes because they looked similar to the S-rank Planetmon egg I used for my brother, but Cha Haeeon committed an atrocious act while I was sleeping.

 

“Then you can just make him lay more, can’t you?”

 

“Then you’re just going to eat them again.”

 

“Yeah. Food is scarce, so we have to eat whatever we can now.”

 

“Do you…… do you have no blood or tears?” 

 

Just then, a piece of boiled egg popped right into my mouth. It was Captain Gong Juwon’s doing.

 

Captain Gong Juwon popped what was left after giving me a piece into his own mouth.

 

“Jelly-nim, please try some too. It’s delicious.”

 

You savage, eating something you laid yourself.

 

Munch, munch.

 

“You guys are truly cold-blooded.”

 

The boiled egg I was eating for the first time in a long while was so infuriatingly delicious. 

 

[You solved the worry of an indigenous Earthling and gained affinity.]

 

[Reward]

– Cosmic Coin +5,000

 

The Cosmic Coin reward was delicious too….

 

After eating a bunch of egg dishes, Cha Haeeon and Captain Gong Juwon went out hunting to get food.

 

I went inside the spaceship with the single egg I received under the guise of consolation money. 

 

My brother stroked me as if to comfort me. With egg all over his mouth.

 

When I wiped what was on his mouth, my brother washed his face like a cat with his tentacles.

 

Since two worries were resolved, now what was left was…… 

 

Do Kyeol’s Worry

– \£]%|New Area ,^]*+Exploration \＄^]¥

 

I stared intently at my brother before asking.

 

“Oppa, do you want to go out to another region?” 

 

At the unexpected question, my brother flinched and stiffened.

 

“Do you want to go home, by any chance?” 

 

My brother shook his head.

 

“Then why do you want to go somewhere else?”

 

The pitch-black jelly octopus blinked its eyes. He looked curious as to how I knew his thoughts. 

 

I pressed my brother.

 

“Huh? Why is that? Where do you want to go?”

 

At that, my brother squirmed around, then brought the plush keychain we had kept safely inside the spaceship. It was the plush keychain of Bora-unni that I got from A-in at the hospital.

 

What does this mean?

 

I pondered for a bit, then asked carefully.

 

“Do you miss Bora Unnie?” 

 

My brother tilted his head.

 

His expression meant that yes, he missed Bora Unnie, but it didn’t simply mean he just missed her. (To repeat, I can read an octopus’s expressions.) 

 

Wait, don’t tell me…….

 

I jumped up.

 

“Don’t tell me you know where Bora Unnie is?!” 

 

The jelly octopus’s eyes sparkled, and he nodded vigorously.

 

‘Oh my god!’

 

I came down to the yard, picked up a twig, and roughly drew a map.

 

“Where? Try marking it here.”

 

I placed my brother on the map, but he only shook his head.

 

“Huh? Why?”

 

At that, my brother suddenly started squirming and moving somewhere.

 

‘The storage room?’

 

I watched blankly for a moment, then followed him into the storage room.

 

Inside the dark and damp storage room.

 

The smell of dust and rusty iron mixed together, tickling my nose every time I took a breath.

 

In the middle of it, my brother was busy moving around alone.

 

“Oppa, what are you doing?” 

 

The small jelly octopus was stuck in front of a large box, straining and grunting to pull off the cloth covering the box. 

 

“…?”

 

I ran over immediately and helped my brother pull the cloth.

 

Then, the cloth fell forward.

 

Swoosh—

 

My vision went black. I flailed my arms and pulled down the cloth wrapped around my body.

 

Before long, within my cleared vision, a cardboard box and a TV set on top of it came into view. 

 

On the front of the cardboard box was a rectangular sticker, and on top of the sticker, words I had never seen before in my life were written.

 

It looked like a combination of special characters, but strangely, I could read it.

 

[Dormant State….]

 

Dormant state?

 

Just then, the squiggly words moved in real time.

 

[Life Reaction Detected….]

 

“…?”

 

At the same time, light burst out from the TV that had been turned off. 

 

The projected light swept from the top of my head to the tips of my toes as if scanning me. 

 

[Life signal found.] 

[Disabling dormant state.]