176 – EP.33 Easter Egg-2
While the two divine beasts, destroying tanks, are sweeping away all the mutants.
I approached the iron bag Alice had taken out.
I immediately opened the locking latch to check the contents, and familiar weapons were neatly placed there.
The sword Yata made for me and the automatic pistol supplied by the government.
Although it is a game, it seems that familiar weapons are provided as a consideration for the player.
‘If you were going to be considerate, it would have been nice if the combat function hadn’t been added to the pre-play, but….’
However, the battle became an unavoidable fate, so I immediately picked up my weapons, grateful for the supply of weapons.
Then, I stepped out of the classroom, stepping on the door the two divine beasts had broken down.
“Hi Goya….”
It was clean near the classroom where we were, but not so at the end of the hallway leading to the stairs.
A lot of purple liquid and torn tentacles are scattered on the floor. It was proof that the two of them were madly slaughtering mutants.
If the opponent was a human, not a mutant, the hallway would be full of blood and body fragments.
‘It must have been censored without fail… ….”
As the familiar censorship notification window popped up.
Still, since the mutant is a tentacle monster, not a human, I was able to see it as it is.
Anyway, I found out that the two divine beasts were going crazy here and there. I couldn’t stand still and watch.
To complete Alice’s favorability quest, I must also defeat 5 mutants.
Because the number of goals for quests goes up only when I deal with them manually. I also move as fast as I can, if not as much as the two of them.
The destination is the game club room on the first floor.
The fox and the rabbit are probably going to clean up the mutants on the second floor first, so let’s head to the first floor.
There might still be mutants on the first floor.
‘We need to finish the quest quickly before they arrive.”
Take the stairs at the end of the hallway and go all the way down to the first floor.
As expected, the stairway was lined with ghastly mutant corpses.
The blood of the mutants gathered in one place and created a purple carpet on the stairs.
It’s just that, unlike the red carpet, I wasn’t in a good mood because of the blood splattering and splattering.
‘It’s better than a murder scene, but it’s invariably bad for the stomach.’
And I had to create a scene like this.
How nice it would be if it was a cleaning game with a mop and a bucket instead of a weapon…….
It’s a pity that nothing has changed since I’ve lamented.
“Um… ?”
As soon as I got rid of unnecessary thoughts, I arrived at the first floor.
I came across a strange sight there.
The hallway on the first floor, which was expected to have mutations, was silent. Not even a single speck of dust was visible in the corridor, as if it had just been cleaned, which was very embarrassing.
If the two divine beasts have already touched the first floor, there should be a mutant corpse here.
However, there was no other trace, let alone a trace of the mutation.
Should I say it’s a different feeling like a cool oasis on top of a hot desert?
The scenery of the corridor in front of me was just like that.
‘Where might be a mutant ambush, so we should enter slowly?’
Strangeness soon turns into suspiciousness.
How to arouse suspicion because there was nothing. Take one step at a time down the hallway and be wary of your surroundings.
With even the sound of footsteps silenced, they headed for their original destination, the club room.
‘Because it’s so quiet. It makes me scared again.’
Even if it was afternoon, the time zone was getting closer to evening.
The school, whose surroundings were dyed yellow by the setting sun, was a scene that appeared regularly in horror movies and games.
If mutations pop out of nowhere now, the surprise is guaranteed to be a success.
‘Raider, shouldn’t you have handed it over… ….”
A total of 2 universal mutant radars are provided for Alice and me to use.
However, in order to be fair in the match between the fox and the rabbit, I had handed over my radar to Miho.
I couldn’t help it, but now that I’m in this situation, I regret that I lent it for no reason.
If we had radar, we wouldn’t have to go so nervously.
‘What the hell is this… ….’
As I proceeded cautiously, holding a sword tightly in one hand, I noticed a sign that said “Game club room” Before I knew it.
Obviously, the last time I looked at the radar, I confirmed that there were a large number of mutants near the gaming club.
But what about now? There were no mutations or anything.
After opening my eyes, it was like entering the enemy’s stronghold bloodlessly.
I was so dumbfounded that I kept scratching the back of my head.
“Beogeunga… ?”
That was the only possibility I could think of.
You can’t imagine bugs in a normal board game, but this is a virtual world. It wouldn’t be strange if there were a bug or two.
Because it is an almost unconditional element that even developers will be embarrassed if there is no bug in the first place.
No matter how perfect a crow Yata is, it must be difficult to catch all the bugs…
‘Even so, it’s Eva that the bug pops up at this moment… ….”
Originally, it is satisfactory if you reach your destination without a single battle.
However, if you ask me if I am satisfied, I will say no.
A phenomenon where there is a time-limited quest, but the quest monster does not appear. Of course, I couldn’t be happier.
‘In the end, I’ll have no choice but to go in.’
If there were no quest mobs near the base, it was necessary to enter the base.
I made a compromise with Alice to clean up the club room and finish it, but what can I do?
In this situation where the bug occurred, the only option left for me was to ‘go in’.
Even so, if you blindly enter the club room, you may be surrounded by mutants.
So I first grabbed the sword in reverse and slashed it down toward the door.
Kwajik-!
A sword with the same hardness as reality creates a gap at the entrance where you can look inside.
After putting the muzzle of the pistol through the gap, I put my eyes on it to secure both alertness and sight at the same time.
The inside of a dark club room.
Still, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t see anything at all as the faint sunlight came through the curtains.
‘It’s quiet inside too… ….’
In and out of the club room, I couldn’t feel any signs of popularity, as if all the students had left school.
Kiki-!
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Listening to the creepy sound of the door opening, I stepped inside the club room.
Maintaining a vigilant posture, he entered slowly and operated the first light switch near the door.
However, the lights, which had not changed in any way, frowned.
Unless the lights didn’t come on, all that was left was to close the curtains.
The moment I tried to point my legs toward the curtain again, I noticed something shining at the end of my gaze.
A key placed on the desk in the club room.
It was too bright to ignore and pass by in the dark.
I shifted my priority from the curtain to the key and approached, the light of the golden key dimmed slightly.
I thought it might be a trap because of the key’s appearance, which seemed to tell me that it was an important item.
But if this was the key to the lab, I had to pick it up.
‘Is there anything special about picking up a key?’
Even if you fall into a trap, the possibility of being rescued is always open because there is Miho’s radar.
Even if it’s a mutant boss, it won’t be scary compared to Miho.
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Let’s boldly pick up the key……
Aeeng aeeng-!!
A loud notification rang in my ears. At the same time, a bright red notification window appeared in front of my eyes.
[Quest failed!]
“The plague… ?”
Before entering the club room, it was written on the quest window that there were about 15 minutes left.
From that point on, less than five minutes must have passed until he got the key.
In other words, the quest failed even though there were still more than 10 minutes left.
And I couldn’t understand this at all.
[Since the quest failed, move on to the next schedule.]
[Next time is dismissal time. However, the dismissal event is omitted as a penalty for failure.]
“Wait a minute! At least you don’t have to tell me the reason for the failure!”
[Forcibly transferred to your room.]
“Such a f*cking game… !!”
Before the cry full of dissatisfaction bursts out of my throat, the space I was in is distorted.
It was a dizzying sight, as if someone grabbed my hair and shook it wildly.
Just as my stomach was about to reflux to gastric juice, the distortion in space slowly began to fade.
In front of my eyes, which are getting more and more focused…… There was a view of my room that I had seen every day.
***
Wherever you look, it looks like you copied and pasted your room completely.
It was different from reality that the only door to go outside was gone.
In other words, I can’t even leave the room and I have to spend the night here.
This was even a game world in real-time format.
Even though it was forcibly sent home, the sunset that was not much different from when I saw it at school was evidence.
‘It’s 6 o’clock now. If I said I had to go to school at 6:00 the next day, would I have to spend 12 hours here?’
It would be okay if I had to spend time at the dismissal event, but it was already too late.
The quest failed and the dismissal event was omitted.
If I had known this would happen, I would have had to break the quest at all costs.
It was a pity that I couldn’t do that, and I pondered why the quest had failed.
First of all, it won’t be a timeout. My eyes were fine at the time, and I had plenty of time left.
Then the most likely factor is the golden key in my hand.
Considering that it was gold from its appearance, it must have been a trap to fool the target blinded by greed.
Otherwise, the current situation cannot be explained.
‘Did I get caught properly by Yata?’
I had the possibility of a trap in mind, but I never imagined that it would be a trap that would make the quest fail.
As expected, it’s a nasty crow that goes beyond my expectations.
“Ehh….”
When I was about to throw the golden key to the corner of the room out of desperation.
The key that had lost its light began to glow again, and a keyhole appeared on the wall.
“What, what?”
Just like when I found the key, the keyhole was shining asking me to insert the key here.
Wasn’t the golden key just a trap?
I was taken aback by another unexpected incident, but I had an intuition that this time it wouldn’t be a trap.
Put the key you were holding into the hole and carefully turn it.
Chunky-!
With the sound of unlocking, the wall splits on both sides, revealing a new space behind it.
A space where pitch-black darkness spreads.
However, I don’t know why, but I didn’t feel the slightest bit of fear, so it didn’t take long to step out.
‘It looks very cold from the outside, but it’s actually warm inside…… ‘
As I walked out into the darkness with such warmth and a calm mind, I could clearly see a child sitting in a chair.
A blond-haired child with an androgynous side to the point where you can’t tell if he’s a boy or a girl.
His eyes were closed and his head was pointing down.
The child’s limbs are wrapped in unidentified threads, all of which lead to the black sky.
‘…… Should I save him?’
“No, you don’t have to.”
“Huh?”
While I was thinking over and over again, a child who had closed her eyes suddenly spoke to me.
Even reading my thoughts.
“Welcome, Shinsoo’s companion. I was eagerly waiting for you to come.”
The child on the chair raises his head and opens his eyes with a flash.
Then he captured my image in the disparate, spring-shaped eyes.
I thought I was not an ordinary person in such a space, but the child in front of me seemed like a creature from a completely different dimension.
“There is nothing to be so wary of. I am not your enemy.”
“Because I’m not the kind of person who would believe such words straight away.”
“Then, in order to gain your trust, would you like to introduce yourself lightly?”
“…… As you please.”
“I am the one who has mastered all the truths of the world and the great man of creation, Eref. Nice to meet you.”
The identity of the child in front of me was that of a substitute.
“Sorry, I seem to have raised my guard even more to introduce myself.”
“…… Why is the high priest here?”
“Well, this is a virtual world created by me and the Crow of Wisdom. Would it be okay if I explained it this way?”
“The world you and Yata created… ?”
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Looking back, I think I heard that Yata made it with an acquaintance before the game started.
Then, is the acquaintance Yata was talking about the substitute?
“No need to be surprised. As I said before, I am the representative of creation. Of course, you can easily create a fictional world like this.”
“I think that’s amazing, but… ….”
“So far, I have met a lot of other representatives besides me, so what are you doing?”
Criminals do not understand geniuses.
He was saying it as if he was nothing, but it was a shocking story for me.
“So what made you come here?”
“To tell you something important to you.”
“What is important to me?”
“Yes, right… ! As soon as…. As soon as… ?”
Soo Dae-soo begins to show strange words and actions like a buffered video.
Something seems to be going wrong, so I get a bit anxious.
“…… What? What was I trying to tell you?”
“… ….”
Starting with the daughter-in-law, the s*xless bird, and so on. I have come across the colorful characteristics of large numbers.
And now that I am faced with a substitute with a new feature of dementia, I wonder if this is not a substitute, but a great hallucination.