I Got a Gallery in the Wild - Chapter 157

Lackey’s manhunt had begun, but it ended before long.

It wasn’t that he had carried out a planned escape; it was more like he had gotten so overly excited that he ran around all over the place.

Since the world he had always seen in a blur suddenly turned crisp and clear, it was understandable he’d be startled.

After living his whole life with congenital low vision, he was finally seeing the world with his own two eyes.

Even to me, that went beyond a new world—it was close to a ’miracle.’

"You’re doing greeeat. How long has it been since I gave you those glasses, and you’ve broken them already?"

"...."

Crucially, the ridiculous reason Lackey got caught was that his glasses had broken.

Even if mana usage was impossible, a gorilla was still a gorilla. His physical strength was far greater than a human’s.

And glasses were fragile items that could break easily with just a little too much force.

On top of that, he had been excited, so their destruction was a perfectly natural outcome.

’Fortunately, only the frame broke.’

I looked back and forth between the glasses snapped clean in half (ttuk-) and the now-dejected Lackey.

Seeing a guy who was usually busy scowling menacingly wear an expression like that felt somewhat strange.

That just showed how happy he must have been to regain his eyesight. Even if it hadn’t lasted very long.

"First, I’ll try to fix it properly, so just wait a second."

"...."

At that, Lackey looked at me.

An expression filled with desperate hope, asking if I could really fix them.

I gave a smirk at his face and immediately logged into the Gallery.

[Wild Grylls: Teacher. You know those glasses you gave me earlier?]

[Praise the Sun: What about them? Is the prescription off?]

[Wild Grylls: No, it’s just that Lackey broke them. Looks like he got too excited.]

[Praise the Sun: How did they break? Do I need to craft a brand-new pair?]

[Wild Grylls: Not that bad, they just snapped right in the middle.]

[Praise the Sun: That’ll be quick then. Hand them over for a second.]

Not long after returning the glasses, Praise the Sun handed back the repaired pair.

He added a bonus joke that he’d charge a repair fee next time.

If Lackey broke them again, I’d definitely have to pay a fair price to request a repair.

"Here. Take ’em. Break them again next time, and know that I’m putting a lock on you."

"Xiexie."

That roughly meant thank you. Lackey put on the glasses right away.

Was it because the glasses had such a high prescription strength? His impression looked much gentler than before.

When taking off the glasses, he was a foul-tempered gorilla, but now it was the complete opposite.

His eye size shrank too, highlighting the foolishness typical of an ape.

’It’s surprisingly weird how well they fit.’

A gorilla practically has almost no bridge on its nose.

So I had worried the glasses might slide down, but it was an unnecessary fear.

His head was bizarrely large, so it was similar to wearing goggles.

They barely wobbled, to the point that intense activity wouldn’t pose a problem.

’Earlier, it broke because he kept putting it on and taking it off repeatedly.’

Now that Lackey’s eyesight problem was solved, I gave the questionnaire a final check.

Because there was a question I wanted to ask after Rice Craone.

Perhaps it might turn out to be a very sensitive question for him as well.

"Lackey. Want to take a look at this?"

"Uu."

Was it because his vision had been corrected by getting the glasses, plus having them repaired?

Lackey read the questionnaire without scowling like before.

"...."

I take that back. His face crumpled as soon as he read the question.

A face steeped in deep displeasure. In fact, since this was a sensitive question, it was an expected reaction.

’I’d be offended too if I were him.’

The content of the question was about the Chief Gorilla, presumed to be his brother.

Whether they had learned martial arts together from a person named Wi Ho-chang, and why Lackey had left the pack.

Even though the Chief Gorilla’s nature was on the gentler side among beasts, I wanted to hear the detailed story.

"...#%@!%"

Lackey pondered for a while before opening his mouth.

Since I had even given him glasses, he seemed willing to tell me at least this much.

I recorded all of his words with the Recording Orb and sent them to Heavenly Demon.

In my heart, I wanted to post it on the Gallery, but I decided against it since it felt like it would cause unnecessary noise.

[Heavenly Demon: Quite an interesting story. It seems that when a man named Wi Ho-chang arrived one day, the leader was also replaced.]

[Wild Grylls: Are you saying he killed the leader and took over?]

[Heavenly Demon: Something like that. What is even more surprising is the speculation that the Blood Demon reached the Realm of Life and Death and underwent Ascension to Immortality.]

[Wild Grylls: Realm of Life and Death? Ascension to Immortality? What are those?]

It felt like I’d heard of them somewhere, but I had no clue at all.

Considering even Heavenly Demon showed a surprised reaction, wouldn’t it be an astronomically high realm?

[Heavenly Demon: The Realm of Life and Death is the realm after the Profound Realm, which is the realm this noble one resides in. One can gain the qualification for Ascension to Immortality and perform everything through Thought Transmission alone.]

[Wild Grylls: What’s Ascension to Immortality?]

[Heavenly Demon: Shedding one’s mortal body in reality to become an immortal. Yet it is strange. The Blood Demon’s martial arts are far from the Taoist path, and he himself should have had many lingering regrets in the mortal world. Did he somehow turn into a Taoist master while living in the forest?]Read this novel at novelping dot com for the best experience.

Heavenly Demon repeatedly asked whether the Blood Demon had really undergone Ascension to Immortality.

I didn’t know what it meant either, but I asked Lackey as she requested.

But Lackey didn’t seem to know the term "Ascension to Immortality," only repeating that he had simply floated up into the sky.

And he added the description "from time to time."

He said that whenever the Blood Demon floated up into the sky, the panicked pack would grab onto his trouser legs.

[Heavenly Demon: Hm. Just listening to this, I cannot be certain if that truly refers to Ascension to Immortality. However, the possibility that the Blood Demon underwent Ascension to Immortality is quite high.]

[Wild Grylls: Probably, right? Since the Chief Gorilla was wearing clothes.]

Ascension to Immortality or whatever, the Blood Demon, Wi Ho-chang, was not in this forest.

Though I didn’t know the detailed backstories, he seemed to have lived quite an eventful life before departing.

"#$%%!!"

When we got to the story of what happened after the Blood Demon ascended, Lackey began to flare up with furious anger.

When I asked for translation, it roughly meant that as soon as the Blood Demon vanished, he was kicked out of the pack.

The backlash from the pack was so intense that his brother Wiheuk—that is, the Chief Gorilla—had no choice but to make that decision.

That was why he couldn’t help but harbor ill feelings toward the gorilla pack.

’Though it couldn’t be helped for survival’s sake...’

Lackey was an albino gorilla. An individual that stood out wherever he went.

If he wasn’t careful, other individuals could be put in danger, so banishment was only natural.

Judging by the severity of the pushback, he should have been banished long ago, but it turned out the Blood Demon had been protecting him.

The reason he killed the original leader in the first place was that the leader tried to banish Lackey despite the Blood Demon’s warning.

’Was he someone with trauma regarding that kind of thing?’

Both the story of him slaughtering a specific ethnic group out of vengeance and his protection of Lackey pointed to it.

Perhaps he himself had belonged to a minority group—an outcast side at that—so he might have been sensitive about it.

Well, this was ultimately just my hypothesis, so it wasn’t certain.

To find out in detail, there was no choice but to visit the Chief Gorilla, namely Wiheuk.

Since he might have written a book in the meantime, or left other traces.

[Heavenly Demon: It would be wise to post this story on the Gallery.]

[Wild Grylls: Huh? Wouldn’t weird people go wild over it again?]

In the middle of our conversation, Heavenly Demon made a strange proposal.

Ascension to Immortality meant becoming an immortal. Put simply, ’ascending to heaven.’

The reason the Blood Cult was currently scattered and throwing tantrums only on the Gallery was because of the Blood Demon’s disappearance.

But it turned out the Blood Demon had undergone Ascension to Immortality? Securing legitimacy where there was none—it wouldn’t be strange if they treated the Blood Demon as a martyr.

’Even on Earth, all sorts of terrorists pull bullshit, so here it’s even worse.’

Did Heavenly Demon bring this up without knowing that? I doubted it.

She must have brought it up because she had a move of her own planned.

[Heavenly Demon: You need not worry about that. This is a chance to crush all those bugs at once.]

[Wild Grylls: Bugs?]

[Heavenly Demon: As you have seen, those Blood Cult bastards commit atrocities even on the Gallery.]

There were countless toxic users on the Gallery.

But among them, the absolute worst swamp was the Blood Cult.

Not content with worshiping the murderous Blood Demon, they also committed copycat crimes whenever they were bored.

The reason related posts weren’t searchable was that Orange Badge and Heavenly Demon thoroughly deleted them and issued bans.

But unless they were Fixed Nicks, filtering out anonymous posts was practically meaningless.

Unlike Fixed Nicks, even if you banned dynamic IP users (Floaters), they would come back before long.

According to someone’s hypothesis, it was because the mana they absorbed was different.

Just as the water drank every day isn’t completely identical, mana was the same.

So banning Floaters had no real effect.

Then why were Fixed Nicks different? One might ask, isn’t the mana consumed by Fixed Nicks the same?

This was slightly different because if Floaters were raw mana, Fixed Nicks dealt with the Dantian.

Of course, even though all of this had high credibility, it was ultimately just a ’hypothesis,’ so it was better not to place too much weight on it.

’Uh... anyway, something comes to mind.’

I’d seen it a lot on the internet. Users where you wondered, "Are they actually mentally ill?"

Sometimes it was just a roleplay concept, but there were also "the real ones" who wielded spine-chilling speech patterns and logic.

Here’s a question. One might say: is it really that strange to simping over a figure from several decades ago?

’When there are motherfuckers simping over Hitler, the Blood Demon is nothing.’

The development of the internet sped up information exchange, but it also spread corrupt ideologies.

Furthermore, as fast as the exchange was, distortions were executed just as craftily.

Looking at the true nature of those people, most of them turned out to be pathetic nobodies.

Perhaps Heavenly Demon was targeting this very aspect. Like exterminating hidden cockroaches.

’Luring out the cockroaches is fine, but...’

Who is doing the extermination? That in itself was a problem.

Seeing as Heavenly Demon brought it up herself, she must have a plan of her own.

Frankly speaking, I just post it and walk away. The so-called pleasure without responsibility.

I had only grown cautious after experiencing the Immortal King incident; I had always been in the eye of the storm.

[Wild Grylls: I don’t mind posting this, but can we handle the aftermath? I feel like it’ll cause huge problems in reality too.]

[Heavenly Demon: This noble one shall handle everything, so you need not worry.]

Could the Gallery alone not soothe her loneliness and boredom?

Hearing Heavenly Demon’s words, I pondered for a while before coming to a decision.

[Wild Grylls: I’ll get permission from Orange Badge-nim first. I don’t want to get on her bad side.]

[Heavenly Demon: Do so.]

Getting banned for no reason would be a headache.

I immediately informed Orange Badge of this fact.Follow the newest chapters on novelping dot com.

[Don’t Abandon the Hero: That much is fine! It’s not an incitement post!]

[Wild Grylls: Isn’t provoking tension and conflict between nations forbidden?]

[Don’t Abandon the Hero: I think people who take a gorilla’s words at face value are fools!]

[Wild Grylls: Um...]

Come to think of it, that’s true too.

Anyway, now that I had permission, I uploaded the recorded video as it was.

Title) They say the guy called Blood Demon underwent Ascension to Immortality?

Wild Grylls

(Video of Lackey bringing up that the Blood Demon underwent Ascension to Immortality)

(Video of Lackey getting angry while bringing up his past)

Listening to him, the guy named Blood Demon already underwent Ascension to Immortality? He keeps mentioning floating up to the sky.

Does this mean Wi Ho-chang is considered alive? Or what happens now?

ㄴSword Matstar) Ascension to Immortality? Just how strong of a person was he?

ㄴWild Grylls) According to Heavenly Demon-nim, he entered the Realm of Life and Death? What do they call it in the West?

ㄴSword Matstar) There’s no specific term for it. Most ascend to heaven, so they can’t affect the mortal world anyway.

ㄴHey. Then does that mean the official successors of the Blood Demon are those two gorillas?

ㄴLMAOOOO successors are gorillas kekeke

ㄴThose Blood Cult bastards sucked the Blood Demon’s dick so hard, but in the end, they were worse than gorillas kekekeke

ㄴWasn’t the Chief Gorilla fucking strong? He even used the Internal Heavy Palm Technique.

ㄴThose guys are just strong;;

ㄴYep. Blood Cult bastards are trembling in rage, right? Doesn’t change the fact that they’re worse than gorillas, right?

ㄴYour precious Ho-chang that you sucked off is gone now kekeke

The die was cast. I quietly exited the Gallery.

From now on, the comment section and forum posts would get quite chaotic.

Dinner time was approaching anyway, so I wrapped up my work.

"Lackey. Head up with me. The other kids are coming up too."

"Kkyuu!"

"...."

I headed up to the river with my animal friends for dinner.

Normally I would have retrieved the fish traps alone, but now I had Lackey.

Once I showed Lackey the retrieval method, he followed along very easily.

’This is why you need workers.’

Having an extra pair of hands was unbelievably convenient.

Of course, delicate tasks like cleaning and cooking would have to be handled entirely by me.

"Ke-eng!"

"What medicinal herb did you bring today?"

And while we were at it, the dad raccoon brought herbs too. This time, he brought a whole bundle.

It was a medicinal herb with striking pure white flowers; I’d have to ask about its effects later.

As I finished the meal and wrapped up cleaning, I logged into the Gallery.

Expecting that by now the Blood Cult mob would be flying into a raging fury.

’Just as expected.’

As expected, the Blood Cult and other users were engaged in a fierce hill-battling flame war.

Well, since the Blood Cult was such a utter trash heap anyway, it didn’t mean much.

But their skill at provoking people was incredible, showcasing immense firepower.

[Yep. Even so, you’re below gorillas kekeke]

Of course, every single one of them was trembling in rage over that single sentence.

Since it was an attack strictly based on cold hard facts, no one could refute it.

’Can Heavenly Demon really pulls this off well?’

Thinking so, I clicked onto the Recommended Posts.

And seeing a title that caught my eye, I opened it as if spellbound.

Title) Going to kill those gorilla motherfuckers.

Advent of Blood Demon All Blood Bows

(Photo of a hand dyed blood red)

(Photo of the symbol representing the Blood Cult)

(Photo of a secret manual passed down in the Blood Cult)

This seat shall never recognize those foolish beasts as successors.

I will personally hunt them down and take their heads.

Lastly, anyone who dared mock the Blood Demon will not walk away unscathed either.

A post where you couldn’t tell if it was an edgy roleplay concept or the truth.

If it were a Floater I wouldn’t know, but since he went so far as to create a Fixed Nick account, credibility rose slightly.

’Well, there are more crazy bastards than one could imagine, so...’

It didn’t bother me. Let them come if they want to.

Just as I was about to write a comment on it.

ㄴHeavenly Demon) I thought you were just all talk, but you’re quite good at coloring pictures too.

ㄴAdvent of Blood Demon All Blood Bows) I know not who speaks to whom. If you fear not this seat, show your face in person.

ㄴHeavenly Demon) Wait. I shall send it via message.

Heavenly Demon’s comment was sitting right there.

’Isn’t this a real Real-Life PK challenge?’

Feels like something hilariously entertaining is about to blow up.