Episode 114: Downtown (5)
A jeep was rattling its way through the jungle.
In the backseat of the car, a man and a woman dressed as explorers were checking the guns in their hands.
These are the avatars we will be controlling in this mini-game.
Soon the jeep stopped in the middle of the jungle.
The two exchanged glances, nodded, and began to make their way through the jungle.
A bright, sparkling phrase appears on the screen.
[Mission Start!]
As we went a little further, two zebras were seen eating, their heads buried in the grass.
Then, sensing a presence, it suddenly raises its head, and its teeth are sharp like sawtooth.
Moreover, it stood up on two feet like a human and ran like crazy.
– Hehehehe!
– Bang! Bang! Ta-tang!
We opened fire immediately.
Bipedal zebras fell to the ground after being hit with bullets.
– Hehehe!
Going a little further, zebras appear again.
“Aim for the head.”
As the calligrapher immediately focused his fire on the head area, the speed at which the zebras fell increased.
In addition to zebras, as we advanced through the jungle, wild animals would occasionally pop out and pose a threat.
Their body proportions are disproportionate and they all have sharp teeth, making them look like carnivorous animals.
Going a little further, zebras appear again.
– Hehehe!
“Aim for the head.”
In fact, they are very aggressive, as if they see the explorers as prey.
– Tata tata tang!
The gazelles charged forward with their horns in front, but we evaded them by controlling our avatars.
Concentrate your fire immediately and take them down.
– Squeak squeak!
Occasionally, monkeys will throw fruit from the trees that are standing erect.
I don’t know what’s inside, but when it falls to the ground, it crushes and something like an acidic solution dissolves the floor.
It’s obvious what will happen if you get hit directly, so you have to dodge carefully.
– Tata tata tang!
We shoot them all down, knocking them out of the trees, and continue on, encountering more wild animals.
‘Stage 1 is okay.’
In fact, it was a tasting stage, so the difficulty level was easy, and since the calligrapher had accumulated experience as a musketeer, he was making progress by shooting and dodging well at each time.
– Tata tata tang!
And then we kill a group of zebras that appear again,
Suddenly, red warning lights began flashing all over the screen.
[Warning!]
[Warning!]
This time, a bipedal elephant with a muscular body appeared, filling the screen.
In one hand he held a long horn as a weapon.
It was a stage 1 boss fight.
– Phew!
The elephant spun like a windmill and swung its long trunk.
As we simultaneously crouch to dodge, he then swings the horn he’s holding in his hand.
Likewise, he dodged by jumping to the sides and then fired his pistol.
– Tata tata tang!
– Phew!
A bipedal elephant writhing in agony.
Soon he becomes so angry that he alternately swings his long nose and the horn he holds in his hand.
It is not difficult to avoid because the pattern is consistent and the pre-action is large.
Gaps also appear quite often.
“Shoot now.”
– Tata tata tang!
“… … .”
The calligrapher was faithfully following the advice to aim for the head.
The bullets hit the elephant’s forehead without missing a beat.
The boss’s health gauge decreases quickly,
– Phew… … .
Finally, the elephant, exhausted, lay down on the ground.
[Stage Clear!]
A brief cutscene.
A man and a woman looked closely at the fallen elephant with serious expressions on their faces and took samples.
The man says.
– I need to look into it further.
And then they started to move deeper into the jungle.
Stage 2 starts right away.
‘It starts now.’
In fact, Stage 1 is nothing more than a device to bury the challengers.
After making you think, “Huh? This is worth a try?”, they start increasing the difficulty level in earnest from stage 2 and start collecting tokens.
This cannot but be a truly wicked design.
As expected.
As I was killing a few bipedal gazelles, an ostrich head suddenly popped up from a bush a short distance away.
The guy stared at me intently,
– Dadadadadad!
It was galloping at a terrifying speed.
“Move aside.”
As I said that, I got out of the bastard’s way, but the calligrapher was a step late in reacting.
– Ouch!
The ostrich bit the calligrapher’s avatar and ran away into the distance.
The calligrapher’s screen turns gray and a small phrase appears.
[Continue?]
[10, 9, 8… … .]
When the countdown reaches 0, it is considered as giving up.
Since the race was a failure, of course there are no prizes.
As the calligrapher inserted the token, the avatar suddenly appeared again.
I said, firing my gun lightly.
“Okay, I’ll tell you at each dangerous section, so listen carefully and try to avoid it.”
“all right.”
Mini games are like a liberal arts subject to veterans.
Naturally, I had memorized everything from A to Z. This is also the case with
Since I know where everything pops out, if you just follow exactly as I say, calligraphers will never die.
‘Just follow along.’
However, reacting as soon as you hear it is not as easy as you think.
This is especially true if you are concentrating on a game and suddenly a coach comes in from the side.
“Jump back.”
– Gyaaak!
The calligrapher’s avatar was too late to jump back and was hit by the rhinoceros.
[Continue?]
Insert the token again and continue.
“A crocodile comes out of the water.”
– Choaak!
The next moment, a crocodile suddenly jumped out of the puddle we were passing and dragged the calligrapher’s avatar into the puddle.
[Continue?]
“Two ostriches.”
– Tadadadadada!
Two ostriches ran away carrying the calligrapher’s avatar in their mouths.
[Continue?]
“… … .”
A calligrapher with his gun hanging down and staring blankly at the screen.
The atmosphere it gives off is somehow similar to when I harassed him with Windforce in a 2v2 duel.
Is he mad? Should I just leave him like this?
“… … .”
But the calligrapher took one look at me, turned his head, glanced at the tiger doll in the prize corner, and put the token back into the arcade machine.
I don’t know if she’s tolerating it because of me, or because of the tiger doll, or both.
Anyway, let’s move on.
[Continue?]
[Continue?]
[Continue?]
After that, the calligrapher met with various deaths at the hands of various bipedal wild animals.
And each time, 300 points were deducted from my balance.
‘Still, I’m slowly getting used to it.’
After experiencing it once or twice, it’s hard not to experience it again, and the speed at which you respond to my instructions is also getting faster and faster.
“The ostrich is coming again.”
“huh.”
– Tadadadadada!
A calligrapher who fires his gun after getting out of the charging range of a carnivorous ostrich.
The ostrich tried to run away, but was hit in the head with a bullet and fell to the ground.
“See that puddle? Beware of crocodiles.”
– Choaak!
A crocodile jumped out of the pool, opened its mouth wide and lunged at me.
However, the calligrapher and I had already fled to a safe place.
Bullets pour into his gaping mouth.
– Tata tata tang!
When you kill the crocodile, a warning message appears.
[Warning!]
[Warning!]
This time, a four-armed giant gorilla landed with a thud.
In the hand, there is an object to be thrown or another animal.
Stage 2 boss battle.
“Throw the ostrich.”
As soon as I finished speaking, the gorilla picked up a nearby ostrich and threw it at me.
An ostrich curled up like a ball suddenly pounced on him, but the calligrapher was not one to be hit.
– Tata tata tang!
“Tree fruit. Step away.”
As we stepped back, the next moment the tree fruit the gorilla had thrown hit the ground and exploded.
The large size of the tree’s fruits allows a wide range of acidic solutions to dissolve them.
“Now focus. The bees are coming out of the hive.”
A gorilla tore a large beehive from a nearby tree and threw it away.
I shot a beehive out of thin air and destroyed it, but dozens of fist-sized hornets flew in from inside.
We intercepted the swarm of wasps one by one.
– Tata tata tata tang!
– Tata tata tata tang!
But the calligrapher missed a few,
– Ouch!
The avatar died after being stung by wasps.
On the other hand, I successfully intercepted it.
[Continue?]
“… … ?”
The calligrapher stared at me as he put the token in.
His gray eyes seem to ask, ‘Why are you a better shooter than me?’
‘I told you I’m the mini game demon king.’
However, this was something that could not be said, and just then the avatar came back to life, and the calligrapher turned her gaze back to the screen.
– Tata tata tang!
A four-armed gorilla that throws whatever it can get its hands on.
Every time that happened, I would give the calligrapher a word in advance and move my avatar around to avoid it.
“nut.”
“Two ostriches.”
“That rock is broken. You have to avoid the debris too.”
“A beehive is coming. Get ready.”
– Tata tata tata tang!
The wasps that emerged from the second hive were cleanly intercepted, leaving not a single one, including the calligrapher.
And whenever the gorilla shows an opening, focus your attacks,
[Stage Clear!]
The guy fell to the floor and cleared the second stage.
The explorers’ complexions grew even darker as they investigated the gorilla.
– This is not normal.
The two of them walk deeper into the forest.
The density of trees in an area gradually increases, making it look more like a forest than a jungle.
The forms of the animals that appeared also became more and more bizarre. Those with multiple limbs were cute, and there were countless ones that were a combination of two or three different animals.
– Tata tata tang!
Be that as it may, we moved forward, turning everything that stood in our way into a beehive.
A black panther with a snake instead of a tail fell to the ground after being shot by the calligrapher.
I glanced at the calligrapher.
‘You learn quickly.’
Even though it was only stage 2, I did it a lot.
As you enter stage 3, the number of times you die decreases dramatically.
I did teach you the dangerous points in advance, but like in Stage 2, most of them can’t be avoided even if you teach them.
Since I’ve gotten used to this minigame, I avoid everything I’m told to do.
– Khuuuhung!
The two-headed lion that appeared as the stage 3 boss was easily defeated by following my instructions.
[Stage Clear!]
The long-awaited final stage.
As the explorers made their way through the forest, they suddenly stopped dead in their tracks.
– That’s… … !
In the middle of a deep forest, a building stood eerily.
Just then, a corner of the building opened wide and people dressed in research uniforms came out dragging a large cage.
And then he released everything that was trapped inside.
Most of the two or three animals that were mixed together disappeared into the forest, but one of them, a leopard with dizzying patterns, discovered this side and came running at incredible speed.
– Kyaaaaak!
– Tata tata tang!
I thought about this while shooting the calligrapher and the gun.
‘Anyway, that guy is the problem.’
