Chapter 96. We’re Here to Share Some Good Words (3)
“For some reason, that plan failed too.”
Victoria clutched her head and screamed in frustration after yet another failure.
“Why did it fail? It was a perfectly calculated strategy aimed at filial piety, the weak point of Koreans in a Confucian country!”
Fortunately, after begging profusely, they had once again been let off with a warning.
But if they drew attention one more time, they might end up behind bars before they could even finish spreading the live vaccine.
Yukgap, who had been dragged to the police station because of Victoria, could only stare at her in disbelief.
Apparently, she still had no idea why her plans kept failing.
“The problem is that you thought it would work in the first place.”
Yukgap sighed.
“Anyway, flashy methods are out now. Let’s try something else.”
“But there really isn’t another way.”
Victoria looked genuinely despairing.
“What could possibly get Koreans interested enough to gather around?”
Even now, people were dying.
Every plan she had prepared had failed.
But if she attracted too much attention, Abraxas might discover what they were doing.
“We need to avoid Abraxas’s suspicion while making people gather naturally.”
“And we can’t leave any obvious traces either.”
Victoria forced herself to remain calm and organized everything they knew.
She could not sink into despair again.
She had to find some kind of solution.
She squeezed her eyes shut and thought.
Again.
And again.
Then an idea suddenly flashed through her mind.
“Ah! Of course!”
She had clearly thought of something.
The moment Yukgap saw that expression, instinctive fear crept over him.
From experience, whenever Victoria looked like that, trouble followed.
“What are you thinking now?”
“Hehehe.”
Victoria smiled mysteriously, as always.
“I just thought of an extremely effective way to gather Koreans.”
“Five bungeoppang for 1,000 won!”
Victoria shouted at the top of her lungs in front of a street stall.
“Come and get them! Dirt cheap! A price you’ll never see anywhere else!”
“The owner has lost her mind!”
“You can’t buy bungeoppang this cheap these days!”
Yukgap, standing beside her, looked doubtful.
“Is this really going to work?”
“Bungeoppang inflation has gotten serious because prices keep rising.”
Victoria answered confidently.
“If we sell them ridiculously cheap in a situation like this, people will definitely come.”
Victoria’s newest idea was none other than a bungeoppang street stall.
For that purpose, they had dragged a roughly assembled orange cart out beside a major road.
It even came with a handwritten sign.
“More importantly, this should avoid Abraxas’s suspicion.”
Victoria grinned.
“They’ll never imagine the live vaccine is spreading from a bungeoppang stall!”
Seeing how confident she was made Yukgap strangely uneasy.
But there was a more immediate problem.
“How do you even make bungeoppang?”
“I’ve never made them before.”
He was good with knives, but he had never baked anything in his life.
Not even basic pastries, let alone bungeoppang.
Victoria smiled confidently.
“Don’t worry about that.”
She nodded toward Robert.
Robert’s eyes lit up.
[Robert initiating emergency transformation.]
Mechanical sounds followed.
Then a bungeoppang machine emerged from Robert’s chest.
Freshly cooked bungeoppang came out with it.
Victoria pointed proudly.
“I anticipated this and modified Robert into a bungeoppang machine!”
“You might be the only alchemist in the world who uses a golem to bake bungeoppang.”
Yukgap could not understand when she had even prepared something like this.
Victoria grinned at his disbelief.
“Don’t be impressed yet.”
“I prepared more than this.”
“Two servings of tteokbokki are ready!”
“Your mini gimbap is still being rolled, so please wait just a moment!”
Nova hurriedly handed food to a waiting customer.
Beside her, Sister Olga was frantically cooking tteokbokki.
“Sister Nova! We’re out of fish cake!”
“If we don’t buy more soon, the customers look ready to riot!”
“Got it! I’ll go right now!”
Nova nodded and pulled off her apron.
It had already been several hours since she volunteered after Victoria claimed she had found a brilliant way to spread the live vaccine.
Now Nova had somehow become an employee at a snack-food stall.
“What exactly did Victoria get us into?”
Exhausted by the endless line of customers, Nova glanced at the sign Victoria had put up earlier.
[THE OWNER HAS LOST HER MIND! ALL MENU ITEMS: 2,000 WON.]
The moment people saw that sign, they had swarmed in like clouds.
And while serving them, it had been easy to expose them to the live vaccine without anyone noticing.
At this rate, the vaccine would definitely spread quickly.
The only problem was that running the stall was exhausting.
“Is the fish cake still not here?”
Sister Olga called out again.
Nova answered tiredly,
“I’m going! Just wait a minute!”
“I used every bit of my technology to make a whole bunch of street-food stalls.”
Victoria’s eyes sparkled as she explained her plan.
“And I told the sisters to set them up at key locations and sell everything absurdly cheap.”
“By now, they’re probably packed with customers who heard the rumors.”
Yukgap nodded.
“That creates the perfect environment for the live vaccine to spread.”
More importantly, even Abraxas would never imagine the vaccine was being transmitted through ordinary street-food stalls.
In a way, it was both the most effective and the most discreet strategy they had tried so far.
“Street food tastes best when you eat it packed together in a slightly questionable environment!”
Victoria declared proudly.
“It’s the perfect chance for the live vaccine to spread everywhere!”
Then she pointed at Yukgap.
“So for the sake of protecting everyone, hurry up and sell bungeoppang!”
