💻💻The Foreign System💻💻
📲CHAPTER_3 📲
"No... No... No!!" Ji-Ho stammered between his teeth.
Blood... Blood.... Body parts... Lots of blood... Flowing blood... The pile of body parts.
The images flashed inside his head and he couldn't get them off his mind.
Everything that happened about an hour ago was still playing in his mind and he could feel himself executing every bit of the action even though he didn't want to.
His brain had given instructions to his body and it didn't feel like he was the one.
He would never do such a thing.
Ji-Ho could vividly remember killing the man back in the hallway.
He had punched him in the chest and watched his heart get plugged out of position.
Everything was strange and he couldn't begin to imagine how mad he had gone in his head.
The feminine voice in his head had stopped since the last 'Oh human, you are just perfect for me?' which he didn't understand yet and his brain had stopped giving orders but he still felt strange, he felt different.
'Did I hit my head on the ground?' Ji-Ho wondered if he had imagined things but when he looked at himself, he was still soaked in blood and it was real.
He looked down to see the scattered body parts and still flowing blood.
"What's going on?" He mumbled and stretched his body but he felt no pain.
How could this be when he fell from a height so great?
Almost immediately a bright yellow screen appeared before his eyes almost blinding him and he quickly covered his sight but it didn't restrict the rays.
Surprisingly his eyes adjusted to the strong ray of light and he lifted his head to the yellow screen.
"What the heck!" Jiho was shocked just by reading the set of information on the screen.
[ESCAPE OR DIE]
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[Mission: Escape Kim And Kang Technologies Using The Underground Tunnel System]
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[Time Limit: 2 Hours]
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[Reward: 50 Experience Points + Unlock Basic System Stat]
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[Punishment For Failure: Death]
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Jiho was still trying to understand what this set of information meant when a new set of information appeared on the yellow screen before his eyes.
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Time : [1 seconds]
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Distance From Tunnel Entrance : [100m]
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His eyeballs almost dropped in shock and he rubbed his eyes, hoping to wipe away this illusion of a sight but his fingers merely passed through the screen like it didn't exist.
"What?" He was dumbfounded and this was when he realized the time was counting.
[Time : 15 seconds]
[Time : 16 seconds]
[Time : 17 seconds]
What's going on? This thing was asking him to escape using a tunnel which he had no idea about.
Anyway, he needed to get the hell out before another group came in here.
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[Time : 25 Seconds / 2 Hours ]
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Ji-Ho's eyes squinted when he saw the changes and realized the time was counting up to the 2 hours but then what kept pulling his attention was the punishment for failure.
Death??? Everything going on right now was crazy and he could only hope it was a bad dream he would eventually wake up from.
"Where the hell is this tunnel?" He wondered and took a few steps to check the powerhouse where he had crashed earlier only to realize something had changed in the information.
The time was changing of course but this was the first time the distance changed.
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Distance From Tunnel Entrance: [105.5m]
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Ji-Ho was referred to as a loser because he was poor and had nothing to do with his intelligence.
He would have been the best student in the school if the system in place didn't manipulate and give reference to the children of the higher-ups instead.
It was a school for the rich and powerful and he was nothing close to it.
The increase in the distance could only mean he had moved 5.5m from his previous position.
Doesn't that mean he moved away from the tunnel?
Something struck his mind and he decided to try it out.
Ji-Ho took further steps into the room.
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Distance From Tunnel Entrance: [106.4m]
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Time : [1 minute 30 seconds/2 hours ]
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"Okay..?" He stepped outside the room to his previous position.
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[Distance From Tunnel Entrance : 99.5m]
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"Hmm, seems I stepped ahead a little"
He mumbled and decided to keep walking forward, down the hallway.
[Distance From Tunnel Entrance: 30.5m]
[25.5m]
[20.75m]
As he kept moving, the distance reduced and he could only believe he was moving in the right direction, towards the tunnel if his guts were right.
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[Distance From Tunnel Entrance: 15.5m]
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[Time : Three minutes/ 2 hours ]
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After walking for a moment, this was the new information so he kept walking until he got to an enclosed door and the distance read
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Distance From Tunnel Entrance: [5.45m]
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"Let's hope for something good" Ji-Ho mumbled hopefully and pushed open the door only to behold the circular metal that looked like the entrance to a sewer.
The moment Ji-Ho stood in front of it, a notification noise sounded in his head.
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Distance From Tunnel Entrance: [0m]
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[ACCOMPLISHED]
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Mission: [Escape Kim And Kang Technologies Using The Underground Tunnel System]
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Distance From Tunnel Exit: [10,000m]
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Time : [ 5 minutes 39 seconds/2 hours ]
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'Am I supposed to go in or something?' He asked himself even though the message before his eyes seemed clear.
The instruction was to escape and as much as he was confused, he could only follow this and wake up from this bad dream.
But then the distance to the tunnel exit was extreme and now that he thinks about the calculation, it corresponded to the overall time limit.
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Time : [5 minutes 59 seconds / 2 hours]
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The time seems to be moving really fast now and Ji-Ho wasn't prepared to know what will happen when the time elapses.
"Let's see this" Ji-Ho grabbed the metallic cover and pulled it open with his strength.
He wasn't sure but it felt pretty easy.
He looked down into the darkness and tried to see the floor but tripped and crashed.
Ji-Ho groaned but was grateful the tunnel floor wasn't far from the surface.
His falling from a height had caused this confusion in his life.
[Too Slow]
Suddenly new information appeared on the screen and then,
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Time : [ 1 hour 46 seconds / 2 hours]
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Ji-Ho's eyeballs almost dropped in shock.
Was this a joke?
Quickly, he doubled his pace and began running through the darkness of the underground but shocking enough, he could see clearly in the dark.
The path was as bright as the day and he noticed the distance closing in.
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Distance From Tunnel Exit: [8,000m]
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"No, this came only be a dream" Ji-Ho was surprised at how fast his legs were moving, his body was so light and he could almost feel himself lifting into the air.
He felt completely different and the most amazing part was that he wasn't getting fatigued.
Ji-Ho was engrossed in his thinking and took long before he realized he had completed half of the task.
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Distance From Tunnel Exit: [5,000m]
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Yet, he wasn't panting, his legs weren't even getting tired.
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Time : [ 1 hour 28 minutes / 2 hours]
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He appeared to even be covering more distance with little time
He continued moving and after a long time came to a halt in front of a black wall.
Ji-Ho was beginning to get tired and was beginning to pant.
Seems he wasn't immortal after all.
[Fatigue: +10]
The information flashed on the screen and vanished almost immediately to reveal,
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Distance From Tunnel Exit: [10m]
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Time : [ 1 hour 40 minutes / 2 hours]
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Ji-Ho looked around to see the distance left and there was no other way leading out of the tunnel.
"A dead end?" He mumbled in fear and began to wander around, wondering if there was a tunnel branch he had missed but 10m was little...
Did he have to go through the wall or something?
"Fvck!" He cursed in frustration but his eyes soon lit up on realizing something.
He had to go down the entrance of the tunnel, doesn't then mean--
Casually, he raised his head and saw a similar metal covering just above his head.
"Fvck yeah!"
He was excited and threw his fist into the air but gloominess soon took over when he realized the height from the group surface to the top was 10m.
How in the name of heaven was he going to get up there?
It felt like something had read his mind and responded almost instantly.
"Proceed to climb, you weak human!"
What? The feminine voice.
Ji-Ho's heart began to pound heavily.
He thought it was all made up in his head but now he heard her voice again.
He was left in a daze until he realized the time was still clicking
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Time : [ 1 hour 49 minutes / 2 hours]
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" Climb?" Ji-Ho mumbled still wondering where the voice was generated from when a new information appeared on the screen.
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[Tunnel Exit Successfully Reached]
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[Adjustment: Climb Out Of Underground Tunnel In 5 minutes]
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[Punishment For Failure: An Excruciating Death]
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The Previous Time Reset Before His Eyes.
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[Time Limit: 300 Seconds]
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Then the countdown began almost immediately.
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[Time Limit: 295 Seconds]
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"Fvck!" He cursed as the figures changed before his eyes.
Now that he thinks about it, this had a similar pattern to most of the video games he had played.
You are assigned a mission with a time limit to accomplish it and then rewarded at the end for success or punishment for failure.
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[Time Limit: 250 Seconds]
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Not wanting to test out if he was truly going to die, Ji-Ho made up his mind to get the hell out of the place.
He raced for the wall and attempted as he jumped to grab the flat surface, and that move led to a big bewilderment.
His fingers appeared to have stuck firmly to the surface like glue and his leg rested perfectly.
Curiosity pushed him to forcefully try and pull his hand from the surface.
A second later, he groaned after crashing on the ground even though he felt little to no pain and stared into his fingers for a while.
"Am I Spider-Man or something?" He wondered.
His fingers felt like glue on that surface and to confirm it, he placed his hand again on the wall but nothing happened.
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[Time Limit: 150 Seconds]
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Seeing the time, Jiho became more agitated and tried to glue his fingers to the wall but the attempt kept failing and soon beads of sweet began to form on his forehead.
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[Time Limit: 62 Seconds]
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"No! No!" He cried between his teeth and was confused as to why it had worked the first time.
"Come on!" Ji-Ho tried again and again, trying to employ any method he could think about but his fingers were no longer acting as glue.
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[Time Limit: 20 Seconds]
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Right now his mind was in a mess and he was starting to get crazy.
After moving backward, Ji-Ho jets forward, and placing his foot on the wall, he pulls himself upward to grab the surface and then attempts to climb further.
This wasn't humanly possible and stupid at the same time but he was over his head by just seeing the counting down of the time.
What if he died for real?
Then the impossible happened, something that should never have happened.
Something he never expected.
In an instant, Ji-Ho's body became light and he realized the force he had used was stronger than expected.
His body fired upward like a bullet and his head slapped away the metallic cover of the tunnel but that wasn't enough as his body went a few distance into the air.
"What the..." The moment he panicked, his upward movement seized and he fell down freely.
He realized he was falling back into the hole and instinctively pushed himself to crash on the tarred surface.
His heart was pounding just to realize what had happened.
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[Time Limit: 3 Seconds]
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The information blinked at this point and vanished.
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[MISSION COMPLETED]
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The bright line appeared on the yellow screen and Ji-Ho dropped his head backwards with a strong sigh of relief.
Then something followed,
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[Reward: Basic System Stat Unlocked + 50 Experience Points ]
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[Initializing System Stat.... ]
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Then came the appearance of the length of information,
________BASIC STATS _________
[Avatar: Min Ji-Ho]
[Race: Human]
[HP: 25/25]
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[Flying: 0 / 100] lv.1
[Strength: 0 / 100] lv.1
[Defense: 0 / 100] lv.1
[Stamina: 0 / 100] lv.1
[Speed: 0 / 100] lv.1
Other Stats Are Currently Unavailable...
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[ Available XP: 50]
Then appeared a mini dialog box on the information,
[Available XP Will Be Shared Equally Across Stats Points]
[You Can Use Your New Experience Points(XP) To Your Taste After This Default Adjustment ]
The dialog box vanished and Ji-Ho could now see the adjustment done to the Stats.
________BASIC STATS _________
[Avatar: Min Ji-Ho]
[Race: Human]
[HP: 25/25]
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[Flying: 10 / 100] lv.1
[Strength: 10 / 100] lv.1
[Defense: 10 / 100] lv.1
[Stamina: 10 / 100] lv.1
[Speed: 10 / 100] lv.1
Other Stats Are Currently Unavailable...
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[ Available XP : 0]
Ji-Ho's jaw dropped the entire time, still unable to contain the shock until he noticed the outside environment where he was.
The entire place was gloomy as the clouds had gathered up and prevented light from passing through.
Slowly, he rose from the ground, ignoring the yellow screen in front of him, and looked around for a few seconds.
"Oh, fvcking hell"
He recognized the place perfectly well.
It was his neighborhood.
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