Bjorn Yandel the Barbarian

Episode 519: One on One (2)

There is a saying that time is medicine.

It means that no matter how difficult it is, it will get better with time.

So in that sense.

One, two, three…

After counting to three, open your eyes again.

After a while, I came to my senses, but unfortunately the sight was still the same.

Single size bed.

A computer on a desk.

From the wide open door to the living room and kitchen space.

This is Lee Han-soo’s room without a doubt.

From the moment I took the pill that day, the place I came to when the community opened every midnight on the 15th of every month.

‘I’m dreaming… Probably not.’

I suddenly heard such a guess, but I shook my head right away.

I don’t know why, but it happened.

Therefore, what we need to do from now on is not to deny it, but to identify the cause and seek a solution.

“Why did you come here?”

Just like taking notes on a piece of paper and organizing your thoughts, you mumble out loud and continue your thoughts.

First of all, the time between the labyrinth and the city was different.

No matter how many days you spend in the labyrinth, only 36 hours pass in the city.

So, even after exploring the labyrinth for over two months, until now, there has been no call to the community.

but…

“It came in the end.”

Putting aside the question of whether it was realistically possible and continuing to think about it, the answer came quickly.

No matter how unrealistic it may be.

Does it make sense that the community was open during labyrinth exploration? Unsuccessful results always have unspeakable causes.

“Outside… Time is running out.”

If that was the case, it would explain to some extent why he entered this community in the Labyrinth.

“Nimiral.”

Once my mind was organized, the vague anxiety disappeared. And instead of this, very specific and realistic problems surfaced.

So should I be stuck here forever?

If the labyrinth had been closed normally from the outside, it would have been known that I was dead.

How do I go about fixing this?

“Whoa…”

I’ll turn, really.

It’s not a question that can be answered just by thinking about it, so I first went to the computer and moved the mouse.

[Long live Korea’s independence] – 2 people are online.

For now, Baekho and Hyunbyeol are in the state.

It was late to organize my thoughts, but I checked the free bulletin board first before entering.

There were a lot of posts about me without having to search and find them.

Click.

When you click on the post with the most comments, the original text will open and numerous comments will appear below it.

[Is the giant friend really dead?]

You’re pretending to be dead because you’re arguing something with the royal family this time, aren’t you?

[BurtusMaximus: Seems real this time. There is a witness who saw that he opened the portal on the first floor and entered the hidden area.]

[└Author: Really? How could that be?]

[BurtusMaximus: When Yandel opened the portal, all the kids next to him followed suit, but they said they fell out because the portal closed in the middle.]

[└Author: Thanks for the info. But can I tell you that here?]

[BurtusMaximus: It’s information that everyone already knows anyway.]

[└Nyacreeps: Only one of the losers came back alive, but he really seems to be the best of luck. The fact that he didn’t follow me, and the fact that he came back alive on the 1st floor where Bezac is located.]

okay… I expected it, but it really happened like this.

Since the community is the only window to know the situation outside, I continued to read the posts.

Reactions from players varied widely.

[Must read] Three proofs that Bjorn Yandel is alive.]

[Futuralis: No content?]

[└NExtlevEL: Isn’t that a bit lacking? That means no.]

[└Futuralis: What do you mean no?]

[└NExtlevEL: Your brain.]

There were people who consumed this situation simply by dripping or joking, and there were people who spread rumors while providing specific evidence.

also…

[Friends, I share how to open a portal.]

Everyone knows that there is a new tombstone in the dark area of ​​the Crystal Cave, right? This time, Bjorn Yandel opened it and went inside and suffered a disaster.

Now, the problem here is what are the conditions for opening the portal…

In conclusion, the condition is likely to be on the 3rd floor. There are quite a few explorers who saw Bjorn Yandel on the 3rd floor during this episode.

Yes, that has already been exposed.

[these99: If this is true, it sounds like it. I went up to the 3rd floor and then came back down to the 1st floor to open the portal.]

[ionboii: Tsk tsk, look at the level of aggro. They say they are sharing, but they are only raising strange hypotheses.]

[└EdwardBless77: It doesn’t sound like information to the level of rumors. There are quite a few people who witnessed him on the second floor.]

[└AI_DIDIGO: Information 1, Bjorn Yandel actually went down to the 1st floor on the 7th day and immediately opened the crystal cave portal.]

I said it was the 3rd floor, but in fact, it would be safe to say that the route we traveled in this exploration spread as it is…

[└EdwardBless77: DIDIGO, is there any information 2 today?]

[└AI_DIDIGO: Information 2, the moment a total of 60 people entered the opened portal, the portal closed. The maximum number of people entering the hidden area is estimated to be 60.]

The guys who weren’t even next to me know our circumstances inside and out.

‘Then I think I know enough to find out…’

At this point, I was contemplating whether to go to a chat room with Baekho and Hyunbyeol after I finished my nunting.

There was one post that caught my eye as I turned one more page like a habit.

[An explorer who entered the hidden area following Bjorn Yandel.]

… Who is it?

***

[I am one of the 60 you are talking about.]

[I can’t reveal my real name, but everything I’m going to say is true, so I earnestly ask you to listen and not think of it as a joke.]

[Currently, we are on the first basement level, in a place called the Archives.]

[This layer is a very unusual layer…]

Who is the author of this article?

The first candidate that came to mind was Versil.

However, if you think about it for a moment, he couldn’t have left this article. The only player I knew for sure was Bersil.

‘There’s nothing strange about having one more person out of 60.’

Moreover, the more I read the text, the fewer the suspects were. It is because the details that the author put in to gain trust are somewhat personal.

[After we separated from Bjorn Yandel, we explored on our own…]

First of all, it’s not the silver lion clan, or the small and medium team members who are acting with them. Therefore, the only remaining suspects are those they met while passing by on Library Island.

[Of course, we don’t know where Bjorn Yandel is now. This is because the monsters suddenly rained down from the sky, and the exploration was stopped and isolated.]

Thanks to you, I learned a new piece of information.

The ‘rainy season’ is an event common to all areas of the hierarchy, not just that island.

Well, I don’t know how they survived that event.

Aren’t monsters in the library?

[Currently, we are stuck on an island. The monsters that filled the island are also monsters, but it is impossible to escape because even the ship is damaged. So, the only thing I could trust was to hold on until the labyrinth was closed…]

[Seeing that I woke up here today, it seemed like that would be difficult too. That is why I am writing about the valuable exploration results openly.]

[Ask for anyone who wants to enter this place, or anyone who has plans to explore in the future. If you come here, please come to our island and rescue us. In addition to the information we found out, we will definitely reward you with something else.]

[The island we are currently on is sailing in the direction of 19 degrees from the starting point, the rocky island…]

Soon, the author revealed the voyage route from the rock island to the island where they are located.

I don’t have any knowledge about sailing, but it didn’t seem like a library island, considering the route was complicated and took a very long time.

[Also, whether he escapes first and meets you in the city, or he is still trapped here, if you run into Baron Yandel, be sure to tell him instead.]

[We are waiting here…]

With those words, the long post is over.

As I was thinking about who exactly the author was, I remembered how the leader of the Hetz Clan had expressed a strange feeling of uneasiness to me.

[also… The baron isn’t looking for a way out either.]

This is why human intuition is so scary.

I really hope you find yourself in a situation like this.

I felt strange for some reason, but first I read the comments on the post one by one.

[Darulus: What, is this real?]

[rafał: Scroll all the way down from 60. Please prepare again.]

[MarkG: Aren’t there idiots who believe this?]

[Paweł: I wish I had done something else with this sincerity…]

It was generally treated as a simple aggro, but not everyone was like that.

[TheRobson75: But the details are unusual to say I made it up… Could it be that time actually flows there even when the labyrinth is closed?]

There were a lot of people who thought it was Gingamin, and there were quite a few people who decided to believe this article at all.

[Bling0_0: For some reason, I think the contents of this article are true. I couldn’t imagine how that person would die in the first place. I’d rather this one make a lot more sense…]

[└AI_DIDIGO: Information 1, I don’t see any pattern that a liar can see in this article.]

[└EdwardBless77: So what’s the conclusion?]

[└AI_DIDIGO: Conclusion, the probability that the content of this article is true is 72.8811%.]

[└Pnec: Fuck no. well followed Barbarian bastard.]

[└Bling0_0: Ha, this bastard crawled out again.]

[└Pnec: Who are you again? Isn’t it me?]

[└Bling0_0: Did you know? Now that I look at it, it’s not enough that the bottom is 3 cm, and the brain memory is 3 kilobytes.]

[└Pnec: Oh, I remembered. That bastard bastard lol.]

[└Bling0_0: I’ll forget about it in 3 seconds anyway, what do I do when I remember?]

What are these guys fighting for here?

‘There are so many kids who have nothing to do.’

Afterwards, I checked all the comments, but for some reason the author of the post did not communicate through comments.

Did you think it would look like a lie for no reason?

I don’t know, but it’s already been almost 30 minutes since the community opened, so I turned off the bulletin board and headed to the chat room.

[Long live Korea’s independence] – 2 people are online.

Fortunately, both of them were still in the chat room.

Click, click.

Thinking that I made them wait too long, I quickly enter the chat room and see Hyunbyeol and Lee Baekho facing each other, a few steps away from each other.

The two of them were talking as if they were fighting with serious expressions…

“Oh, brother! You are here!”

“… uh?”

Feeling familiar, the two turned their heads toward me at the same time.

“… Oh brother?”

“Sorry I’m late. But what were you two talking about so hard?”

“That, that…”

Hyeonbyeol was greatly taken aback by my question.

And Lee Baek-ho, who saw that, joined in with a sly voice.

“They keep asking me if my brother is Bjorn Yandel, what is it?”

“what?”

“I took it off saying I didn’t know, but then I started to use it so much that I just said no, but it keeps doing that. If you don’t believe me, why did you ask?”

“Hyeonbyeol-ah, is it true?”

“… Do you believe him?”

yes, that’s true

If you look at me saying that you can just say no.

Somehow, a chill went down my spine.

‘The reason he came out like that is that he already knew something about my identity…’

It’s a bit sudden, but a crisis can turn into an opportunity if used wisely.

“By the way, why did you think I was Bjorn Yandel?”

Now that it is known that Bjorn Yandel is dead outside, Hyunbyeol’s position is high that there is a high probability of answering honestly, thinking that he misunderstood.

“… Do you really believe him?”

“Because I won’t be angry. Just say something.”

When I said in a tone that it would be meaningless to blurt out the Amman topic, Hyunbyeol reluctantly opened her mouth in the end.

In a small voice like an ant crawling.

“assurance… It wasn’t anything.”

“however?”

“… I know exactly when you came here.”

“continue.”

“Among the explorers who came at that time, no one who stood out was as big as Bjorn Yandel. If I had to compare him, he was about the age of blood. … That person is a woman.”

Ah, so deep down you thought I was Bjorn Yandel.

“… Oppa usually talked a lot about games to me. While saying that Shield Baba is the best.”

“Remember that… ?”

“of course. That’s what my brother said.”

Hyeonbyeol confidently replied, as if asking what was wrong.

When I couldn’t answer, Lee Baek-ho, who was next to me, blew a whistle.

“Hey… Hyunbyeol noona is amazing. Bro, think again. If it were me, I would never miss an older sister like this—.”

“shut up. Please, please.”

It is a sympathetic part.

Did Baekho Lee have a disease that would kill him if he stayed still? As he glared at him, Lee Baek-ho shrugged his shoulders and closed his mouth.

“….”

“….”

The atmosphere became awkward when Lee Baek-ho spoke out.

Hyeonbyeol averted her gaze and spoke again.

“Anyway, that was it… I thought her brother was Bjorn Yandel… Lord, since he’s dead…”

“….”

“and… No matter how long I wait, it doesn’t appear here… So I got a little excited and asked. He knows about his brother’s true identity…”

ah…

“So why are you so late today? You were really worried!”

Soon, Hyunbyul raised her voice as if to change the atmosphere, and an apology came out without my knowledge.

“sorry.”

“I didn’t mean to apologize, I asked why.”

“I was going to come in right away, but strange articles came up on the bulletin board. I did it because I was watching it.”

“Eh? Weird article? Brother, what is that?”

Lee Baek-ho also showed interest in my words, and I just told everything honestly. After all, it’s information that you can understand just by looking at the message board.

“A labyrinth, a city, and time flow at the same time?”

“Oh, is that so?”

“wait for a sec! Then you’re saying that Bjorn Yandel can still be alive, right?”

“Yeah, right?”

When I replied calmly, Hyeonbyul glared at me with twin wicks in her eyes.

He didn’t say anything, but he seemed to hear his voice.

‘What are you talking about like a stranger! Then the possibility that you are Bjorn Yandel still exists!’

Should I feel something like this?

Lee Baek-ho let out an exclamation at seeing Hyeon-byeol face him without avoiding his eyes and smile shamelessly.

“Kyaa, you have to be a secretive man like this to be able to hold on to your girlfriend like hyung, right? I respect you so much, brother!”

What do you say, a guy with more secrets than me?

I was a little dumbfounded, but I couldn’t say anything at the words that continued naturally.

“Still, it’s a bit unfortunate.”

“….”

“I wish I was as smart as you.”

thing… make the atmosphere heavy.