By Zephyria 
my Yeong
I’m going to take a break from the game today too.
Let’s play together next time.
Get some rest.
I was about to log in.
Miu, are you really not playing today?? ㅠㅠ
How about we go to the event map together?
Miu??
Are you asleep…
But it seemed that message was the last. Despite calling out repeatedly with no response from Miu, Mo Yeon-hu stared blankly at the screen, blinking slowly.
[myYoung♥]
What is there to like?
When you don’t even know what kind of person I am.
The message he had received from Miu earlier kept swirling in his head.
‘I do know, really…’
He should have countered immediately, telling Miu that he knew exactly what kind of person they were, and therefore, that statement was wrong. Yet, he didn’t know why he had hesitated to send a reply. Glaring at his fingers, which felt unusually sluggish today, Mo Yeon-hu let out a deep sigh.
‘I don’t know. I should just go to sleep.’
What was there to think about so complicatedly? They were the same person anyway. Deciding that such worries would only give him a headache, Mo Yeon-hu buried his head in the bed as if escaping.
A few hours later, he would come to regret overlooking his intuition, feeling that he should have dug deeper into why he felt such a sense of dissonance.
But by then, it was already…
(Whisper) Opening: I’m telling you this because you’re seriously, like, f***ing pitiful, but (Whisper) Opening: Actually, Miu isn’t a girl lol everyone knows except you …too late to turn back.
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‘Why is the time like this?’
Waking up, Mo Yeon-hu checked his phone and was horrified. It was already past 5 AM.
‘Did I sleep for a full 14 hours?’
Since the last time he checked the clock was around 3 PM, he had essentially knocked out two days’ worth of sleep in one go. With his mouth agape, Yeon-hu slowly got out of bed.
‘Haa… I’m hungry.’
Perhaps someone had visited while he slept, as side dishes and soup were neatly laid out on the dining table, but he felt too lazy to eat. Grabbing some quick snacks, he started to sit in front of the computer out of habit, then paused.
‘Why is this on?’
‘Zombie Village’ was still open on the screen.
‘Ah, Kwon Mi-eon came to visit while I was playing. And then I just fell asleep.’
Mo Yeon-hu was about to turn off the game to watch a movie, but he suddenly wondered if anyone from the Alliance was logged in.
Weekday, 5:13 AM. Naturally, there was no one in the Alliance Territory except for Mo Yeon-hu. The chat window was silent as well.
‘It seems Miu hasn’t logged back in since they left.’
Mo Yeon-hu glanced at his phone, which had no notifications. Forcing his gaze away from the screen, he chewed on the cereal he had brought.
‘I have nothing to do, maybe I should wander around nearby and farm some zombies for the first time in a while?’
Forgetting his plan to watch a movie, Mo Yeon-hu settled into his seat.
‘It’s been a while since I did quests, so the rewards must be piling up.’
He had been neglecting zombie quests lately. Since Alliance quests were also stacking up, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to hunt quietly while no one else was around. Mo Yeon-hu headed toward the outer wall of C7.
—Clang, thud!
A massive gate with ’47’ written on it. They say humans are creatures of adaptation; this gate, which had seemed overwhelmingly large at first, had now become familiar enough for him to pass through freely.
‘I’ll hunt while circling through C7, C8, and D8, then head back into the D sector.’
The Alliance Territory was so vast that it was impossible to make a full lap. Just as Mo Yeon-hu stepped out into the C7 area, loaded his necromancer gun, and was about to enter the forest…
—Rustle!
He heard the sound of bushes shaking violently. Because the sound was so clear, he wondered if it was a special zombie and hid himself while preparing to hunt, his eyes widening.
What appeared was a female character with an incredibly flashy appearance, customized so that flower petals scattered whenever she moved, making her extremely conspicuous.
‘Opening?’
Wow! Someone at this hour! Mo Yeon-hu felt a surge of gladness at meeting an Alliance Member in the dead of this silent dawn. She probably hadn’t appeared on the login list because she was outside the Alliance Territory.
Opening, hello!! What are you doing here
However, just as he was about to greet her warmly, Mo Yeon-hu stopped in his tracks upon seeing Opening’s strangely odd movements.
‘Why is she doing that?’
Opening didn’t immediately enter through the C outer wall entrance where Mo Yeon-hu had emerged; instead, she kept spinning in circles in the same spot or walking back and forth with a constant stride.
‘What is she doing?’
Mo Yeon-hu’s eyes narrowed.
Opening, MouseTrap. Names that had been mentioned alongside his own when he was suspected of being a spy.
‘Should I try following her?’
Seeing Opening finally approach the C outer wall entrance, Mo Yeon-hu quietly followed and opened his status window.
0momo0 Current Status: Online
One cannot hide their login status within the Alliance Territory. No matter if you set your status to offline, it always shows as online inside.
0momo0 Current Status: AFK
However, the ‘AFK’ setting was possible.
‘I’ve been AFK for a while anyway, so she won’t think it’s strange.’
(Notification) Stealth item effect has expired.
As soon as he entered the Alliance Territory, the stealth wore off. Mo Yeon-hu immediately hid behind a piece of terrain and observed Opening. Opening stopped for a moment, then began moving again.
‘What?’
Following behind, Mo Yeon-hu tilted his head. As soon as Opening entered through the C outer wall gate, she stopped in front of the warehouse building. After staying there for a while, she headed toward the D outer wall. Then, she performed the exact same action.
‘Why is she going back and forth like that?’
Walking the same way, exiting and entering the outer wall the same way. The movement route was strange, and her behavior was even stranger.
‘But she’s not looking for the core?’
Since she didn’t seem to be searching for the core, he was unsure if she was a spy.
Opening simply repeated the act of lingering outside the outer wall, coming inside, and standing in front of a specific building.
‘Like some kind of ritual, she keeps doing the same thing…’
At the C outer wall, then D, and now even E. She went outside every time and walked up to the building. Without using a Mount, with the same stride.
‘…Stride?’
Mo Yeon-hu paused, and the Siege Warfare suddenly flashed through his mind.
—How did they get in there? Give me a briefing on the factory.
—Wow—only the outer wall in that area collapsed perfectly! What is this! It’s almost the shortest distance, and they’re faster than me!
—I’m on my way!
—They were that fast…? Ah, this is weird, just keep fighting for now.
When they were raided, EYE TO EYE had penetrated toward the core with abnormal speed.
[(Alliance) Miu: D8 is the shortest route to the core]
Miu had said back then that the spot where EYE TO EYE’s attack came in was the shortest distance from D8 to the core.
‘…Warehouse, Power Plant.’
The places where Opening stopped were all in front of the Alliance’s core buildings.
—Anyway, because of the rocket’s range, it won’t reach from here to there. But they’re calculating the distance surprisingly well over there, aren’t they?
“…Is she measuring the distance?”
Rockets can only have their range gauged once they are installed. But what if Opening was moving her character manually to measure the distance in order to obtain the perfect coordinates for firepower when attacking from the outside?
Then, after collapsing the outer wall, she could attack the Alliance Territory’s core buildings in one go with rockets.
Mo Yeon-hu quickly turned on his phone.
my Yeong
Text Message-SMS
(Now)
Miu-nim
Opening is acting strange right now
This person keeps doing something here I’ll send a screenshot, so please check it Please
After sending the messages quickly, Mo Yeon-hu looked up, intending to continue monitoring Opening.
But soon, he froze in place, unable to move a single finger.
(Whisper) Opening: What’s this?
Opening’s face, clad in a flashy costume, was pressed close, filling the entire screen.
(Whisper) Opening: Momo-nim, why are you here? lol As if she were staring right through the monitor at Yeon-hu.