Chapter 110

Garbage compactor.

A vehicle that collects garbage and compresses it tightly to form a single mass.

This car that could greatly reduce the volume of trash looked just like an ordinary truck in reality, but the appearance that showed up in the game was a bit different from reality.

No, very different.

Maybe a garbage compression robot? Toy?

“Are we supposed to sweep it up with that thing?”

Seo-jun pointed his finger at the front part of the compression robot.

“Right. I guess it collects them and puts them in its body before pressing down.”

The compactor-like toy had a rectangular body and head.

And unusually, the front part had long, menacing plates like scrapers connected to two arms.

“Fortunately, those arms aren’t separated, so it can’t move to either side.”

As Tae-woo said, that robot’s arms were all one piece.

If it were a person, it would be like clasping hands together and putting glue on them.

The problem was that it had scraper-like equipment instead of hands, but anyway, that machine’s arms could only move back and forth.

“Seo-jun. But looks like we got caught right away?”

Right now, the dazzling headlights erupting from that compression robot were shining on them.

Maybe because they were on a hill right in front of the entrance.

[Is that thing looking at us right now?]

[Oh, hello?]

Tae-woo’s character waved his hand.

And at that moment, the toy’s eyes changed.

From (^ ^) to (＼ ／).

“It’s angry.”

“It’s angry.”

Seo-jun and Tae-woo said simultaneously.

-Tae-woo, mom told you not to cause trouble!

-What’s this kid going to become when he grows up

-Lmao Tae-mom mode on

-Let’s hear some nagging.

Seo-jun also scolded him.

“You made it angry by waving your hand.”

“That wasn’t me, that was my character.”

“Same thing.”

“What is this, guilt by association?”

-Guilt by association lol

-Your character’s mistakes are also your mistakes

-Who told you not to manage your character properly?

Regardless of what they were saying, the compression robot at the bottom, having suffered visual terror from seeing Tae-woo’s ugly face, immediately began charging straight at them.

It looked like it couldn’t climb up the garbage mountain. It had wheels instead of legs.

So the compression robot raised its large arms and slammed them down on the garbage mountain with a bang.

Then it opened the lid of its body, swept up those pieces of trash, put them into its own body, and closed the lid.

After compressing the garbage in an instant with rattling sounds, the robot spat it out behind itself and struck the garbage mountain again.

Bang!

The vibration reached even them on top of the mountain.

[Huh? You waved your hand so it’s your fault?]

[What nonsense! Hurry up and figure out how to stop that thing! Otherwise this is going to collapse.]

-Those guys are saying the exact same thing LMAO

-It got through

[Hmm. If we get buried like that, we’ll inevitably be buried and become that toy’s poop.]

[If you know that, hurry up and think of a method. You’re the one who planned this game!]

Bang!

The giant scraper struck down once more.

The mountain was gradually being carved away.

[Good. Then let’s jump for now.]

[Where to?]

[To that peak over there.]

[Isn’t that a bit far?]

[This is inside a game, so double jumping should work too.]

[That’s crazy. There’s no way that’s possible……]

Tae-woo’s character looked down at the grappling hook rope that was somehow neatly stored at his waist.

[Seems possible?]

[Yeah, let’s try it.]

Shake.

The garbage mountain gradually became precarious as cube-shaped pieces of trash piled up behind the compression robot.

Now they really had to jump.

Control returned to Seo-jun and Tae-woo’s bodies.

Looking at the next peak, a green guide indicator appeared.

“Looks like we need to jump first.”

“Yeah.”

Seo-jun turned his body toward the next peak according to the guide indicator and put strength into his feet.

‘But how exactly do you do a double jump?’

Tae-woo has played a lot of other games, so he’d know, right?

Fortunately, maybe because it was a tutorial, the garbage mountain was precarious but didn’t seem like it would collapse immediately.

“Hey. What exactly is a double jump?”

Is it similar to qinggong?

“Hmm.”

“It exists in other games too, right?”

“It does, but it’s a bit different in each game. Usually when you try to kick off in midair, you feel like a foothold automatically appears near your foot, and you jump when that happens……”

“Really?”

He’ll have to try it.

“I’ll jump first.”

Seo-jun kicked off with his feet and leaped into the air.

From the moment he jumped, he could feel his jumping power had clearly become stronger.

Long airtime.

Thanks to this, Seo-jun was able to focus on the sensation in his feet while floating leisurely in the air.

Foothold?

‘It feels like something is catching on my foot.’

But the angle was slightly off.

If he kicked off like this, it seemed like he’d shoot out like a rocket and crash head-first into the garbage mountain.

In that brief time, Seo-jun figured out how to make fine adjustments to the foothold, got the timing right, and performed the double jump.

In the end, it was about feeling.

If you moved your legs in midair without applying enough force to kick off your body, you could make fine adjustments.

Swoosh.

Clean landing.

Seo-jun landed successfully, kicking his feet into the garbage.

“Whew. This is pretty difficult?”

It was definitely harder than qinggong.

-Just natural talent lol

-How do you not falter even once

-You did qinggong like this too.

-Isn’t that just easy?

-You’ll know if you look over there

“Well done! Then I’m jumping too!”

Tae-woo shouted and jumped.

But seeing his footing slip from the very start, Seo-jun frowned.

“Huh?”

Because he could already see the result without watching further.

But unexpectedly, Tae-woo managed to pull off a proper double jump and landed at the bottom of the peak where Seo-jun was.

About halfway up the height.

“Look at that? Making a comeback even after a bad jump.”

Tae-woo started bragging.

“Well done.”

-Experience can’t be ignored

-Nice!

-Right. Tae-woo is also upper tier in his own way

Of course, even though the concept or feeling of double jumping was similar across games, the numerical values of the ability settings were different in each game.

Tae-woo, who had properly executed a double jump with body specs he wasn’t used to in a game he’d just entered, also had considerable potential.

Seo-jun gave him a thumbs up.

“Well done. You’re pretty skilled?”

“Right? I may not be at your level, but I’m top 0.01% myself.”

-Top 0.01% probably not? Wasn’t it like 0.2%?

-That guy’s flexing about being Master again lol

-But what’s that behind you?

-Ah lmao

Seo-jun had given him a thumbs up and praised him.

Tae-woo was excited by his friend’s reaction, which wasn’t his usual response.

“Everyone saw that, right? The Heavenly Demon acknowledged it.”

And.

Tae-woo discovered that Seo-jun was wearing a meaningful smile.

He suddenly felt uneasy.

Seo-jun’s hand, which had been giving a thumbs up, was now spread wide open as if saying goodbye to him.

And.

Bang!

A huge barrier suddenly fell from the sky in front of Tae-woo, who had been looking up at Seo-jun, blocking his view.

Barrier?

Why is this?

Oh right.

“Hey! Jin Seo-jun, you bastard! Why didn’t you tell me?”

The compression robot’s scraper.

Tae-woo, who had landed around the middle, was swept up and sucked into the pile of garbage just like that.

“Hmm. Everyone, what happens when you do that?”

Seo-jun watched this with keen interest.

He was serious.

-Psycho LMAOOO

-Deliberately distracting his friend the moment he landed, this guy is the real deal LOL

-Not a moment’s hesitation lmao. How fast does his brain work!

Calling him a psycho.

“No, I had to see what happens when you die at least once.”

Seo-jun felt wronged.

Tae-woo’s figure was no longer visible.

Then Tae-woo reappeared next to Seo-jun.

“Wow…… You’re really doing this?”

“Oh. So you respawn like this. Tae-woo, isn’t there an HP gauge or number of lives displayed?”

“……There isn’t, you bastard.”

Tae-woo gave up.

“I’ll just have to be careful myself, sigh.”

Regardless of what they were saying, the toy at the bottom started going crazy again.

(＼ ／)

Bang! Bang!

The ground Seo-jun was standing on shook precariously.

This time it felt like it would collapse soon, so Seo-jun looked around.

When he didn’t know about jumping power, he thought it was far, but looking at it now, the numerous peaks scattered around were positioned at distances that could definitely be reached with double jumping.

Seo-jun said.

“Let’s go somewhere else before it collapses. But is there no guide now?”

“Probably one will appear if we keep avoiding.”

Seo-jun jumped lightly to the side again.

Even without putting in much effort, he could make long-distance jumps in a straight line.

He kicked off with his legs again in the middle.

Swoooosh.

Seo-jun, who demonstrated a perfect landing, tapped the ground a few times with his toes to loosen his calves.

Tae-woo went to the opposite peak, and the compression robot followed Tae-woo.

“See. It got angry because you greeted it.”

Seo-jun smiled while stretching his upper body.

Now the narration would probably come out.

As expected.

[Why is that thing so angry! Isn’t there a way to stop it?]

[Hmm. Don’t you think we could hook grappling hooks into those grooves on its shoulders?]

[Hook them and what, make it crash into a wall? Tear up the deck? Do we have that kind of strength? The size difference is pretty significant too.]

The game gave them a clue through narration.

“It seems like they want us to do something with this rope.”

Seo-jun took out the rope from his waist.

And looking at the shoulders of the robot that was near Tae-woo, he could find holes where he could hook the grappling hook.

For now, the distance didn’t seem right.

“Seo-jun. Want to try once?”

As soon as Tae-woo spoke, he fired a grappling hook toward the robot’s left shoulder.

However, the rope, which was too short in distance, returned to Tae-woo’s hands, and the robot struck down the pile of garbage with the momentum to drag Tae-woo out.

Bang!

“I’ll try getting closer.”

Tae-woo measured the distance while sliding down like skiing while maintaining his balance.

“Got it!”

Tae-woo fired the rope.

Seo-jun approached a bit closer to watch.

But.

“Hey, be careful……”

-Ah lmao

-Getting caught again?

-Dodge it

The long plate covered Tae-woo’s head.

If our range could reach them, theirs could reach us too, huh.

Bang!

Swoooosh.

Tae-woo got swept away and died again.

It really couldn’t help but be an anticlimactic death.

Seo-jun waited for Tae-woo to revive and said.

“This seems to have quite a bit of difficulty.”

No matter how careless he was, Tae-woo wasn’t skilled enough to die this easily.

However, the enemy showed incredibly fast and clean reactions.

Isn’t this supposed to be a simple cooperative game?

It was about the level of the notoriously difficult souls-like games that even Seo-jun knew about.

-LOL

-The streamer still doesn’t know

-You’re going to suffer now lmao

What?

His chat window was saying incomprehensible things.

Maybe because a new mission was just posted?

[Clear this boss battle on current difficulty in one try — Mission reward: 600,000 won]

“Thank you for the mission. But why are you laughing like that?”

And difficulty?

It was Tae-woo, who had just revived, who answered Seo-jun’s question filled with doubt.

“Hey, did you see the mission?”

Since Tae-woo was currently collaborating with Seo-jun, the mission would have appeared for both of them simultaneously.

“Yeah.”

“Ha. A mission just had to come up now. First, I have something to tell you. I have one life left.”

“Huh?”

“And right now this game’s difficulty is Nightmare. The highest difficulty.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re so good at games, I thought it would be fun, so I set it to Nightmare.”

That makes sense.

“When did you change it?”

“Earlier when we were selecting characters. If you go into settings, the game automatically pauses, so I thought you’d notice. I did it while it was completely stopped.”

How thorough.

That aside.

“Why didn’t you mention the lives thing earlier?”

“Because you killing me was basically the same thing.”

This was karma.

Seo-jun accepted it and organized the situation.

So the current game difficulty was the hardest.

Since it was a cooperative game, Tae-woo was absolutely necessary.

But Tae-woo had one life left, so now they were betting money in this situation?

[+Prize money 9,000 won added]

[+Prize money 2,000 won added]

[+Prize money 5,000 won added]

[+Prize money 10,000 won added]

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What the hell.

This is totally sweet, isn’t it?

-Since Tae-woo is here too, this really is a safe investment!!

-This one really won’t be edible, streamer lmao

-Everyone hurry up and invest!