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A reality where it has become commonplace for different races to come from other worlds and settle down or interact, and for monsters to come and fight over a place to live.

In the process, humanity realized that if they were weak, they would be eaten. There were races that came from a world where common sense did not apply, and there were monsters that were not affected by the firearms that humanity had believed in.

There were no monsters that could withstand nuclear weapons, but detonating them would mean sacrificing the territory of the Earth’s indigenous people, humans, and would only result in loss.

The only fortunate thing is that the alien races that came from beyond the gate also joined in protecting their new home.

And humanity also developed abilities to resist invasion by foreign powers.

Some have argued that the will of the Earth has adapted by modifying the genes of humans, and created a vaccine.

Some have said that it was a divine being who gave mankind trials.

Some have argued that humans are special beings and that they are in a confrontation with the rest of the world.

They are all just claims, and even in the academic world, it is unclear what is true. Then, news came that a hamster had done crafts.

It may be instinctive for hamsters to build houses, but if they were to create something for the purpose of art, is that evidence of evolution, or did hamsters develop such talents after being influenced by something, just like humans?

It’s hard to believe that this is just a video that a YouTuber manipulated to get attention, but the entire process of making a hamster was shown from beginning to end. On top of that, the level of completion was very low.

However, it was clearly a craft created by the hamster with a purpose, so it was not just a product of coincidence. The color of the miniature matched the color of the YouTuber’s hair and skin.

There was a clear shape, with two eyes on the hair, and long limbs extending out compared to a hamster. Anyone who looked at it could clearly see that it was made of Namine.

It was natural for the academic world to take interest. First, they searched for videos, discussed them with acquaintances, and made inferences about how this could have happened.

Then, someone started an auction as a joke.

– Buy it for me: 4 dollars.

N Hamshik Almond Thief Kim Tae-sun: Haha, I’d rather buy it for ten thousand won than sell it to him for four dollars.

N Void Predator Short for fear: Then I get 20,000 won lol

Everyone started it off as a joke. But Professor Kim Geon-young found a breakthrough there.

Discussing with lab assistants or professors from other departments won’t give you the answer. But what if you see the hamster yourself and do some research?

Then, it would be possible to find evidence of evolution in real time, or to find a key to intentionally inducing evolution.

Professor Kim Geon-yeong immediately participated in the auction, which clearly started as a prank.

n Come to the Department of Interethnic Cultures Assistant Professor… : 100,000 won

n wqv22o5 : ?? Professor, what are you doing here?

n Curiosity Solver: Do you know him?

n wqv22o5: He’s a person who uploads videos on YouTube about studying the culture of a race from another dimension. He’s also a real university professor.

n I can’t sleep at night : If I follow the YouTube algorithm and watch that professor’s video, I can’t sleep until 3 in the morning ㅡㅡ

I was also happy that people recognized me right away. It was proof that my YouTube video became famous because I wanted my research to not just end as research, but to help people of different cultures understand each other.

It would be good if we all eat well and live well. Humans and other species. And other animals and plants, big and small.

Of course, it wasn’t just Professor Kim Geon-young who had such thoughts. Other fellow professors and professors from other universities also coveted it.

The auction prices started to rise in an instant. Professor Kim Geon-young sighed at that, but he understood because it was something that could happen.

If you study it well, you can even win a Nobel Prize. Even if it is a manipulated video, it is only a waste of time, and you can recover enough money through a lawsuit.

Rather, it was fortunate that the rumor had not spread quickly yet. If I had to compete with foreign professors, the price would have skyrocketed.

It was fortunate that there were still a few professors who were young enough to be active on YouTube. First of all, we met at seminars and kept in touch while filming YouTube videos.

– Professor Kim Geon-yeong: Let’s all do research together. It seems like we are holding an auction for the same purpose.

– Professor Kim Geon-yeong: If we compete among ourselves, won’t we just end up buying expensive products?

– Professor Lee Seong-min: I wasn’t the only one who thought that way.

– Professor Park Eun-ji: Haha, right? I want to meet the channel owner and talk, and do hamster research together.

Since everyone thinks the same way, we are united well. Since we are all researching for the public interest, it is enough for us to just be co-authors of the research.

Besides, no matter how much budget you have, it’s better to save what you can. No one wants to spend hundreds of thousands of won on a miniature that was made by a three or four year old child, to put it nicely.

There are modern art pieces that are traded for billions of dollars, just by putting a dot on a piece of paper. But no one really believes that they are worth that much. They just launder money.

Well, in the future, it may become valuable as the first craft made by a hamster. But that is a story that may happen after the luxurious tycoons get involved.

So when the scholars agreed to study hamsters and give the auction budget to Professor Kim Geon-young, who had a high profile.

Something strange happened there.

– So much money that it’s worth it: 1 million won

The amount that had been gradually increasing from around 100,000 won to 1,000,000 won suddenly increased to a seven-digit number.

There, the scholars’ group CocoaTalk message room was filled with lament.

– Professor Lee Seong-min: What is that? Why would you spend a million won on a clay sculpture like that?

– Professor Kim Geon-yeong: He is a famous person… He is a person who has a firm grip on the distribution of our country’s dairy industry.

– Professor Kim Geon-yeong: Didn’t the price of milk drop strangely during the Great Upheaval? That was all done by that person.

– Professor Kim Geon-yeong: Eliminate all unnecessary distribution channels, lower distribution costs, and instead employ teleportation experts to introduce premium services for immediate delivery. This is a person who knows how to make money.

– Professor Lee Seong-min: No, even so… It’s not like businessmen are interfering with scholars’ work.

– Professor Park Eun-ji: If you know someone, can you please tell me? ㅠㅠ Please give me some concessions for the sake of my research…

– Professor Kim Geon-yeong: Let me say something first.

I knew him because he was famous on the internet, but I didn’t actually know him.

However, I did not think that those who take social issues into consideration and seek financial gain would ignore the public interest.

That is why Professor Kim Geon-yeong sent a private message, believing without a doubt that the other side would make concessions.

[Come to the Department of Interethnic Culture Studies, Assistant Professor…: Teacher, I am participating in the auction to conduct research on whether hamsters have evolved to resist gates like humans.]

[Department of Interethnic Culture Studies, Assistant Professor…: Wouldn’t you be willing to make concessions for the public good? Of course, I’m not asking you to make concessions for nothing. I will give you a small reward.]

[Come to the Department of Interethnic Culture Studies, Assistant Professor…: For the sake of the teacher’s reputation, I’ll ask for 1.1 million won first.]

It was a shame that the opportunity to study with a hamster that could have been obtained with a budget of about 100,000 won was so cheap. But it was still okay to receive a case fee of about 1 million won.

A capable young man who has risen to become a conglomerate in troubled times would certainly be able to invest millions of won without hesitation in his hobby.

In order to keep his word, Professor Kim Gun-young called for 1.1 million won, and now even the people bidding for fun have disappeared.

But the response I got back was not very cooperative.

[There’s so much money that it’s suspicious: Research? Then it won’t work.]

– So much money that it’s worth it: 2 million won

The auction price went up by millions of won, as if it was trying to kill everyone’s spirit. Professor Kim Geon-young was overcome with emotion at the thought.

– Professor Lee Seong-min: Is that businessman trying to get into research now? He must have smelled money!

– Professor Lee Seong-min: Professor Kim Geon-yeong, please take our budget and bid!

– Professor Park Eun-ji: I can’t lose to that furry ㅠㅠ Let’s combine our budgets since we’re going to be co-authors anyway.

However, even though they were from different universities, the scholars were of one mind and one heart. Professor Kim Geon-young continued the auction, encouraged by the chats of fellow professors who vented their frustrations.

If you add a hundred thousand won on this side, the other side will ask for hundreds more. If you add a little more on top of that, the other side will ask for hundreds more as if they want to ask for as much as they want.

Ten million won, which was reached in an instant. Professor Kim Geon-young was dizzy at the amount. It was no longer an amount that could be lightly studied.

But at the same time, it was true that he couldn’t give up on the possibility that the new tycoon saw in the hamster’s craft.

Since college professors get loans easily anyway, Professor Kim Geon-young continued to compete with a sense of coldness, prepared to spend his own money to pursue his passion for learning that had not cooled even in middle age.

Unfortunately, contrary to scholars’ speculation, Baek Mi-so, who uses an ID that seems suspiciously rich, was neither passionate about learning nor had a whiff of money.

“Research? If you tell them that you’re going to bring them to the lab, they’ll definitely cooperate.”

Just save the children’s lives. That was all I could think about.

Some of you who watch Namin’s channel might have guessed that a whistleblower from an illegal biological experimentation lab is in critical condition.

Although it never appeared in the media again after that, anyone with the ability to gather information broadly could have guessed that the identities of Saekmusae and Jihyun, who suddenly appeared on Namin’s channel, were from that research institute.

No one knows what kind of experiment it was, but considering Hamshik’s unusually high intelligence and eating habits, no matter how you look at it, they are not ordinary animals.

Well, it’s not like it’s been a day or two since Saekmusae has been saying strange things, but if Hamsik, who has been with Namin since the beginning, is from the research lab, then Namin is also from there.

Considering that they failed to catch the escaped animals during the process of suppressing the illegal research lab, it’s likely that Ji-Hyeon and Saek-Mu-Sae, who escaped from there, are taking care of the children who ran away from the same place.

There were also some people who posted similar guesses on Namin’s YouTube channel. Those comments would disappear right away.

There Baek Mi-so’s guess became certain. She just didn’t tell anyone because she didn’t want the children to get hurt.

Other subscribers who reached that truth never brought up that story again. Who knows, maybe they wrote a comment and it was deleted right away.

So, it is true that I do not want to sacrifice those children again for the purpose of research.

Of course, taking Hamshik’s body after death and performing an autopsy would be unavoidable if only Namin would consent.

Baek Mi-so knew how cruel scholars obsessed with learning could be.

It is possible to kidnap a hamster by swapping it with another hamster, and to conduct various experiments or dissect the hamster while it is still alive.

Of course, if you do something like that, Namin or any other child will notice right away.

In order to get Hamshik back, you have to file a report and go through other complicated procedures, and Hamshik will already be labeled as having made a great sacrifice.

So Baek Mi-so didn’t stop smiling. Ten million won was a large sum of money to him, but he was willing to pay it for the lives of four cute children.

It wasn’t just a pure heart. It was because I thought that if I paid this much money, Namin would feel burdened and make a few Min-Earchers.

Then, starting with the hamster, he asks me to make a color bird, and after that, he asks me to make small and cute animals one by one.

Now, a big-breasted girl with a white smile… … .

While Baek Mi-so was daydreaming for a moment, Na-min, as Baek Mi-so had expected, felt a great burden and intervened in the auction.

It’s a good thing, I know you feel pressured, so I’ll give you more pressure to get what you want.

Eventually, the scholars gave up halfway through because their budget dried up, and Baek Mi-so, who became the winner, looked at the squirrel girl Min-ee-cheo with a relieved smile.

“What kind of request should I try next? I heard there’s a cute mob in the game my little brother plays. Should I ask what it is?”

But Namin wasn’t so easy either. She said she was sorry for spending so much money, and asked Hamshik to just buy her a meal.

It’s a whopping 15 million won. Even though Baek Mi-so became a tycoon during a time of chaos, he still knows the value of that money.

And Na-min also doesn’t know the value of money. She trembles at the request fee of one million won, and even when she goes to buy batteries, she talks to Ji-hyun about having to keep a household account book.

So it was amazing. So Baek Mi-so somehow took care of Na-min and at the same time made her feel less burdened.

Hamshik pays for the food. Of course, Hamshik doesn’t eat dog food, but eats at a human level, so you can think of it as paying for human food costs.

But that’s only 3 years. If he really receives a lot of Namin’s love and lives stress-free, he might become a long-lived hamster who can live up to 5 years, but that’s it.

No, Hamshik is an adult hamster after all. He won’t live much longer than that.

Even if we hold out for a long time, it will probably be less than the amount that Baek Mi-so bid on at auction. And if we pay for some of the food, I also expect that sometimes, when Na-min takes too much, she will feel bad and make Min-ee-cheo one for herself.

I won’t do any business that will result in a loss. Baek Mi-so smiled proudly as she thought about that. Without knowing how much longer Ham Shik-i would live.