The Road To Glory [EN]: Chapter 2191

[Extra Story] 21. A Two-Eyed Person in a One-Eyed World

Click.

A camera lens peeks into the darkness.

You can almost make out a nose and mouth.

What’s visible is short hair and a windbreaker-like top.

“Hello, everyone.”

The woman whispers intimately into the camera.

[Lol, why are you talking so creepily?]

[It’s Seo-yeon unnie! You’re so pretty!!!]

[It’s shaking, where is this?]

“Shhh.”

As if reading the lively YouTube chat, Moon Seo-yeon puts a finger to her lips. The chat immediately quiets down.

“The boss is sleeping right now.”

The camera turns slightly.

Even in the dark, you can roughly tell that they’re inside a car.

Silhouettes pass by outside the window.

But it’s too dark, and only the ‘figure’ that Moon Seo-yeon calls the boss can be seen faintly, not clearly.

“We’re going to a very nice place right now.”

[Lol, are you kidnapping him?]

[I saw you going to the mountains last week]

[A noona [older sister/female friend] who’s good at burying bodies…]

“The boss doesn’t know where we’re going yet, but-”

Moon Seo-yeon smiles softly as she looks at the sleeping figure.

In the darkness, only her lips are magnified and look a little eerie, but she doesn’t realize how it looks on camera.

“Since he’s the boss, I think he’ll adapt well.”

[Why are you talking so scary lol]

[Halo gets scammed and becomes a salt farm slave ;;;;]

Just then, the car bumps as if it hit a speed bump.

The unique, heavy sound of the van rings out, and viewers jokingly wonder if there might really be a corpse in the back.

“To give you a hint, that place is-”

In line with Moon Seo-yeon’s words, cards appear on the screen.

They’re location cards reminiscent of the game Spyfall.

“The sky is pretty-”

First, indoor cards such as pubs, restaurants, and even the Blue House [South Korea’s presidential residence] are removed.

“It’s a bit far from the city-”

The noisy festival and amusement park cards are also removed.

“Ah, you can also see animals and plants-”

Moon Seo-yeon seems to be thinking for a moment before continuing.

“A place where we can have experiences we haven’t had before?”

Many cards are removed, and the remaining cards are blurred.

A question mark floats above them.

Everyone probably has a good guess, but they start joking as if they don’t know.

[Are we going to a haunted house experience?]

[Salt pancake slave life]

[Since there are animals and plants, it seems like a shrimp fishing boat]

[Wow, what a great place haha I don’t want to go]

[Halo, wake up!! It’s not time to sleep, no!]

At that moment, light floods in as Moon Seo-yeon pulls up the car’s curtains.

“That’s all, this was VJ Moon Seo-yeon! See you later, everyone!”

[Episode 4. Welcome to my earth]

Up until now, the subtitles of Welmaworld have used keywords that were ambiguous yet appropriate for the content.

Doesn’t Welmaworld itself aim to showcase Nohaeil’s regular album title track and his daily life?

Episode 1, My home, highlighted Halo’s label, his house, and the people living in it.

Episode 2, My project, contained Halo’s work and the reason for filming this content, even the purpose of overcoming Halo’s slump.

Episode 3, My class, contained the meaning of ‘class (hierarchy)’ and a class that is different from others.

So, what does Episode 4, My earth, mean?

The office worker was curious about the meaning.

Sympathizing with Halo, who seemed embarrassed as soon as he saw the mountain, the office worker thought about the meaning of Earth.

Earth is often used when referring to the planet Earth and soil.

It can mean nature. Since they’re going up the mountain, it seems like they used the word earth.

The office worker suddenly recalled that earth is used not only to mean land but also as a synonym for world.

But that seems like too simple of an interpretation.

It seemed like too much to interpret it as ‘Halo’s world’ because nature would be the same for everyone. It didn’t seem like it would be any different just because he was a genius.

It’s not like geniuses hike with their hands tied behind their backs.

After hearing from Professor Ma, a professor at Korea National University of Arts, that today’s goal was to collect sounds before hiking, he became even more interested.

[Sound collection?]

[Amazing]

[Halo’s sound collection? I can’t wait]

The chat was saying it was amazing, but the office worker wasn’t particularly interested because he knew what sound collection was. Sound collection is a very annoying and tedious task. If you listen to the same sound several times, everyone will get tired of it.

What would be different about Halo?

It’s not like ‘he’ would make the sound of water more special. It was just a matter of doing it better.

Of course, the office worker was still a little curious about the sound Halo collected.

Musicians must have good ears, so he thought they might be able to record sounds better.

The tedious process of hiking wasn’t boring because Halo and Moon Seo-yeon kept up a steady stream of conversation. Thanks to VJ Moon Seo-yeon’s enthusiastic filming, and just looking at Halo, who always had the modifier of genius attached to his name, felt special.

Besides, Halo climbed better than expected, even though he didn’t like hiking. He must be taking good care of his body. Not a single breath sounded strained, and everyone commented on how good his voice was, saying it tickled their ears.

Then, at some point, the wind blew.

It was such a cool breeze that even the viewers felt the refreshing energy of the forest.

“Boss?”

At that time, Halo, who had been chatting amiably with Moon Seo-yeon, stopped and looked out at the world.

[He must be tired]

[He should have left the guitar behind]

There were words of sympathy in the chat, but the office worker followed Halo’s gaze. The camera was only showing Halo, so it didn’t show where he was looking.

‘I knew it.’

“Professor, how about we take a break?”

“Let’s take a look around for a while.”

The camera turned to the assistant and professor’s conversation.

The office worker was somehow disappointed.

He felt like something was about to happen.

When the camera turned back to Halo, he saw the usual Halo.

When others were busy setting up equipment, he was just standing still.

People laughed, saying he looked like a new intern, but the office worker was curious about what Halo was thinking.

Fortunately, there was one more person who felt the same way.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you going to prepare to record?”

Amidst the busy assistants, the professor approached him. He didn’t know him well, but he knew he was a famous professor at Korea National University of Arts.

“Did you hear why we came here?”

“I heard we came to record sounds.”

“More precisely, we came to catch sounds.”

“The sounds we miss with our eyes open.”

From then on, he started saying difficult things, and most people didn’t understand.

Fortunately, a kind assistant explained.

“The purpose of this project is to create ‘auditory teaching materials’ for those friends. It’ll be a little easier if you think of it as sounds that ‘they’ can’t access rather than sounds that ‘we’ can’t access.”

[Wow, you’re doing good work]

[I want to hear it too]

[Can’t we hear the sounds Halo made?]

Assistant Ahn, who was about to ask for an autograph, was dragged away by the professor, so he felt sorry for him. From then on, a quiet world unfolded again.

Office workers and viewers alike were all looking forward to it.

What Halo is doing.

But he didn’t move for a while.

Closing his eyes, feeling the wind with his hands open.

He was being compared to the people working hard next to him, but no one said anything.

A long time must have passed.

When viewers were starting to get bored, Halo’s fingers twitched.

At some point, Halo was caught on camera looking at the sky and smiling.

A playful smile that makes fans go crazy, which is hard to see normally.

And soon, it made them crazy in another sense.

The scenes that were shown in the trailer unfolded.

Halo holding the camera started running around like crazy.

The chat window, which was laughing at first, soon became a mess.

[으아아ㅐ이ㅏ런이ㅏㄹ (garbled screaming)]

[VJ! Where did the VJ go?]

[Seo-yeon unnie, please save me]

[ㅅㅂ (swear word) motion sickness]

[Is sound collection originally like this?]

[Doesn’t Halo have ADHD? What sound collection is this]

[Isn’t he doing this on purpose? Revenge for hiking…?]

[s···tay!]

And what made it even more chaotic was what followed.

It was good that the screen calmed down after putting the camera on the stone floor.

Because Halo started to move towards the edge of the cliff.

[No, no, it’s dangerous, where are you going!!!!]

[I’m sorry, Halo, just let us listen ㅠㅠ Please]

[It’s okay to make us dizzy, just don’t go there and listen to us!]

It was really terrifying to go to the edge of the cliff and spread out his hand holding the recorder as if he wasn’t scared. Even the dirt from the part where Halo walked fell down the cliff.

Even the office worker, who wasn’t a fan, felt a chill down his spine, so he wondered how scared the fans must have been.

[The reason why men die quickly lol]

[ㅅㅂ (swear word) is this something to laugh about? Isn’t there anyone who can stop him?]

[Isn’t there even a safety belt there?????]

Fortunately, Halo didn’t fall, and rather said ‘It’s okay’ while listening to the sounds, turning the viewers inside out. Then he calmly walks away holding the camera. No one was angry because they just wanted him to fall off the cliff, but even the office worker’s appetite was ruined.

Regardless of what the viewers thought, Halo seemed to be enjoying the sound collection in his own way. He discovered fish in the pond and showed them to the camera, and at some point, he sat down anywhere and strummed his guitar and hummed.

The sunlight falls on Halo’s head.

The white guitar and Halo blend in as if they had always been in the forest.

The wind blew as if welcoming him.

Viewers were now holding their breath and turning up the volume on their phones to hear Halo’s voice.

Something feels good.

What kind of music is this?

Just as everyone was focused on Halo’s mouth.

“Boss!”

Moon Seo-yeon’s voice was heard.

Followed by people’s voices.

It seemed like it was time to leave.

Halo slowly packed his guitar.

With him turning to the camera as the last-.

“Is there anything left to record?”

“No.”

“Can I listen to it once?”

“Of course.”

“Then I’ll listen to it in the car later!”

The two people’s cute conversation was heard.

‘Ah, is it time to end now?’

I thought it was cute content.

But it was a bit weak as the ending of episode 4.

It felt like he did something, but there were no results.

At that time, the screen brightened again, and a scene that had been edited out earlier was uploaded.

Halo was standing in the middle of the forest.

Halo, who seemed to be looking somewhere, raised one corner of his mouth while holding a recorder and said.

“It’s coming.”

People hold their breath at that one word.

It’s still quiet. However, since the sound was turned up all the way, a very faint sound of wind was heard.

‘Did he collect sounds?’

As expected, the sound was very clear, as if he were a musician.

The office worker waited for the following sound and checked the remaining play time.

15 seconds.

At the moment he thought it was enough time to show the sound collection

Water droplets fell. It was a clean and clear sound like a xylophone.

Then the wind spreads.

Following the wind, the water droplets tilted, and the plants raised their heads.

The waves of water. The wind caressed the stream and the sunlight fell on it.

At that moment, the sounds rose as one.

‘We invite you to [The sound of world]’

-Exhibition Location: Cheonsang (###, Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul)

-Exhibition Period: 34.03.15~34. 03.31

-Exhibition Time: 11:00~18:30

-Admission Fee: Free

:

‘The Earth’ -Nohaeil (HALO), Special Exhibition

-The sound we miss with our eyes open.

“!”

[?]

[???]

[What is this]

[Uh???]

[WTF]

[Wo···.]

? fills the chat window.

Only reactions asking what it is came up.

[Someone clip the 15 seconds]

[No, this is crazy]

[What on earth did Nohaeil collect]

[This is not what I thought sound collection was]

[Are auditory teaching materials originally like that?]

[So, you’re saying we can hear everything if we go to that exhibition??]

[Who wanna go with me?]

[Why Only in Korea?]

[Is this a slump…?]

It was a calm and slightly scary but healing 40 minutes.

But the last 15 seconds were so intense that they overwhelmed all the previous content.

To the extent that the name ‘The Sound of World Exhibition’ ranked first in search terms on various sites.

And-.

“Director. Did you see it?”

Before opening the exhibition, the director found people lining up.

After the opening, there was a limit to the number of visitors to the exhibition, so people lined up when issuing tickets, but this was the first time they had lined up like this two hours before the opening, and even the number that the staff told him exceeded the number of visitors to the existing exhibition.

It’s not a movie or a drama, it’s just one sound collection work.

He had held exhibitions by famous celebrities, but they hadn’t flocked to it with such enthusiasm.

Until a few days ago, he received quite a few inquiries about what kind of work he was doing, but there were many reactions that lost interest when he said that it was not a sound source but just a collection of natural sounds.

“Why is everyone so excited? Did you finish the preparations well?”

“Yes, everything has been checked.”

“The fact that there are more people than usual cannot be an excuse, you know that, right?”

“Yes!”

The staff moves busily.

Looking at them, the director nodded resolutely.

He didn’t know it would go so well from the first day, but he thought word of mouth would spread.

The director recalled.

The day he asked Professor Ma if it was possible to extend the exhibition.

He was originally going to refuse because he was thinking of renovating the gallery, but he changed his mind after listening to the file that Professor Ma told him to listen to once.

‘The sound we miss with our eyes open’

Just as people see the same thing differently,

This music proves that you can hear the same thing differently.

The earth.

This must be the world of a two-eyed person living in a one-eyed world.