The Hunter’s Gonna Lay Low

How would you normally react if you heard that someone who died eight years ago was actually alive. People were still divided on whether J was alive or dead.

Title: [Anonymous] If J is alive
in the rifts of the West Sea
Shouldn’t we send a rescue team?
Even if he’s alive, he can’t move even if he’s alive.
Maybe his leg was cut off or something…

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-Are there really no other survivors?
└I compared the ranking with the name on the oo’s memorial, but only the J name was newly created. I guess J is the only one who survived.

-Didn’t you know what it was like in the rift and sent a rescue team? Don’t you know how many hunters died in there?
└But do you leave people in the rifts?
└Haa…You went in to save these guys. It’s the abyss of humanityᄏᄏ
└Don’t you remember when the West Sea Rift expanded a lot? If you open it, you can ruin the country
└Is it the same as now? It’s not the time when people risked their lives with just one power differenceᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ
└Does it make sense to put all that power in to get J??

-Yes~ you can’t open a rift that was closed in the first place

Of course, people didn’t believe it at first. The majority of hunters also said that it was only a temporary error and that it should be fixed soon. However, Channel 1, which had confirmed J’s existence firsthand, waited with bated breath for an official announcement from the Awakening Management Bureau.

-Oh, my

-Why are you lying like this

-Even if there’s an error, how can there be an error like thisᄏᄏ

-Sometimes the system breaks down too

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-Why don’t you fix this error?

-No way?

It didn’t take long for a question mark to be added after what people say is ‘no way’. After a few days, the ranking did not change, and people were panicked.

Soon after all the media spread groundless rumors, and it became a fait accompli, the Awakening Management Bureau rushed to settle the confusion. Since the press conference was at 3 p.m., Ui-jae was able to watch the press conference quietly alone with a break-time sign.

When the time came, the woman who appeared on the screen was dressed neatly in a neat short cut, a suit, and a cane. Except for the fact that her face was not good, it was similar to that of Ui-jae’s memory. It was Ham Seok-jung, director of the Awakening Management Bureau, who refrained from external activities for health reasons.

With a short greeting, she said firmly.

“This ranking is not a system error.”

She took a breath for a moment and went on talking.

“It’s not even a duplicate hunter name. It’s not like someone else took J’s name. It’s hard to believe, but an internal investigation shows that J is still alive.”

The murmur and flash grew louder. The reporters all raised their hands.

“How can you be so sure?”

“Are there any other survivors except for J?”

“Eight years ago, the Awakening Management Bureau would have confirmed the deaths of hunters who entered the West Sea rift, but why did the story suddenly change?”

“If J is alive, where is he now?”

Despite the baptism of pouring questions, Ham Seok-jung raised her palm for a while without a change in her expression and answered in a calm voice.

“We will set up an investigation team to get a clearer picture of the situation. I’d appreciate it if you could wait a little bit.”

Ham Seok-jung and the hunters of the Awakening Management Bureau bent over.

Ui-jae saw Ham Seok-jung’s face and realized that eight years had passed. In J’s memory, she was young and passionate, neither with a cane nor limp. When did she hurt her leg.

And she’s…

‘How can you be so sure?’

Today’s press conference by the Awakening Management Bureau was a reversal of what they had announced in the past. As everyone’s attention was focused, the fact that J entered channel 1 could not have made such an announcement.

Ham Seok-jung is such a person. A prudent and calculating person who moves only when there is irrefutable evidence and a clear justification. Ui-jae turned off the TV while looking at Ham Seok-jung, who still bowed her head.

After the press conference of the Awakening Management Bureau, the story of J continued wherever he went in Korea. The special broadcast of the last 110-minute discussion was nothing to compare with.

The daily breaking news and news were all about the West Sea rift and J, but they were also sharply divided into two parts on whether to rescue him.

‘They’re all fighting over nothing.’

Even when someone asked what he thought of J’s resurrection and rescue, Ui-jae responded with a common meta-it seems to be passive now, such as “Haha, I don’t know.”

But all his desperate attempts to escape from this subject ended in failure, because…

“The whole world is shocked by J’s amazing ability, Japan is angry, and the American people are dying to see him!”

J has even occupied a video clip of a surge in popularity on YouTube.

The topic of conversation between regular hunter of haejang-guk house hanged every time, but the hot potatoes of the past few days were of course ‘J’.

Hunters ignored tables and ate haejang-guk and discussed everything from J’s survival to the state of the rift. As all the participants in the discussion are incumbent hunters, various opinions came out.

“Isn’t it a system error? That seems most likely.”

“The bureau said it at a press conference. J is alive.”

“So how can they be sure of that. Have you ever talked to the system in personally?”

“I don’t know. But I guess it’s certain when I see Ham Seok-jung’s press conference in person.”

“There’s some shady stuff going on there, too.”

“What about you… You’re saying that while sitting right in front of Jung-bin’s sign.”

“Crazy, when did this sign come up?”

The most common and least reliable was the theory of system error.

The ranking update is once a year, but it is common for dead hunters to be removed from the list immediately upon death.

If you lost contact inside the Rift, you could check someone’s name on the list to see if they were alive or dead, so the accuracy was guaranteed. So people would suspect the system, and then quickly dismiss it.

At that time, a new hunter, who was cutting peppers with splendid skill, offered an opinion.

“Or maybe he died and recently revived?”

“Is there an item that resurrects a dead person?”

“The world is like this, so there could be at least one.”

“Maybe some healer brought him back to life…….”

“Even Nam Woo-jin can’t bring back the dead.”

“Or J had the only resurrection item in the world, and the waiting time for the resurrection was eight years.”

“This is a bit plausible.”

“What’s so plausible?”

The theory of resurrection after death, in which the crane is removed every time the doctor hears it.

Logically, it was all nonsense to dismiss, but J’s return was confusing itself. Of course, several hypotheses appeared not only in the haejang-guk house, but also on the anonymous bulletin board of Hunter net…

-I’d rather believe that the necromancer saved himᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ
└Famous necromancer anyone? Find them quickly.
└Necromancers are forbidden to resurrect humans, so no way ᅲᅲ

The Necromancer’s J illegal resurrection story,

-In fact, he returned after eight years of fighting in another dimension. Returned Warrior J
└I think you’ve seen too many novels…
└Don’t you know that the court = the essay has been written since Rift Day?

There were many empty stories such as the theory of returnees, but of course, no one guessed right. The premise was wrong in the first place. Because J has never died.

And those who were discussing ‘how’ realized that unless J opened his mouth himself, there was no answer and moved on to another step.

J is alive. Then where?

The last place where J was seen was a rift in the West Sea. Obviously he couldn’t get out of there, and people thought J closed the rift and died in it. But what they have believed for eight years may not be true.

Dawn when everyone is asleep.

Ui-jae suddenly opened his eyes. In the silence where he could not even hear his breath, he held his breath motionless. The side room where Ui-jae lay down was silent without any sound, but he could tell instinctively.

‘There is an intruder outside this room.’

There is no way that a guest came at this late hour. No matter how much you want to eat haejang-guk, you won’t open the locked door and enter the store.

The only thing that can be used as a weapon is in the kitchen, and all he has is a strong body. Ui-jae, who raised his upper body as slowly and quietly as possible, held his hand a couple of times and unfolded it. Fortunately, he was good at fighting with his bare hands.

‘I don’t know what kind of bastard….’

A part of him wanted to rip off the limbs, but he couldn’t be bothered with the mess. A moderate break would be enough to extract information and report it.

With that, he opened the door to the next room and stepped barefoot onto the floor. He stepped through a wall of boxes and into a familiar hall. In the middle of a dimly lit shop with the dull glow of a streetlamp shining through the glass,

The gas mask was sitting.