Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 450



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Two months have passed since the election began.

The election has not yet been held.

This is because various problems such as election methods, candidate verification, technical issues, and electoral district demarcation have been continuously occurring, causing delays.

As the theory that the real purpose of the election, which has been floating around in some quarters, is not the election itself but rather a waste of time, becomes more and more convincing, I am waiting for a man’s answer.

SKELTON: I have something to tell you. If you see this message, please contact me.

I sent a message to Kang Hanmin.

He said his only hobby is the internet, so he might be seeing my message.

Contact through other means is unlikely to reach you.

Because Kang Han-min is surrounded by believers whom he cannot even control.

The point is that my request may not reach him.

The hopeful thing is that Kang Min-ah hasn’t logged in since I sent the message.

Maybe he’ll see my message if he logs on to Viva! Apocalypse!

I believe you will see it.

But before Kang Han-min could answer, shocking news hit the entire bulletin board.

MELON_MASK: After much deliberation, we’ve decided to open Viva! Apocalypse! account registration to everyone.

“?”

I spilled the glass of water without realizing it.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who jumped out of my seat after seeing Melon Mask’s bombshell announcement.

You’re unlocking everyone’s account.

Is this what the noble class thinks when they hear about the abolition of the caste system?

Let me be honest with you.

Users who had Viva! Apocalypse! accounts, meaning they had nicknames and could use the messaging feature, were treated as “gentlemen” even in the midst of the chaos that plagued the bulletin boards with the Palenet and Necropolis swindlers.

Of course, there were some people who bought genealogy books with money, and some who stole satellite equipment and shamelessly used nicknames, but our bulletin board pureblood nobles dealt with them by not treating them as bulletin board friends.

But our special Viva! Apocalypse! account will be released to everyone.

If you are a pure-blooded gentleman on our bulletin board, this is a sign that will make you jump up from your seat.

Cheon Yeong-jae, who was loitering around in the office, speaks with a bright smile while fiddling with his phone.

“Wow. What is this? Viva! Apocalypse! You’re accepting anyone to sign up for an account? You can sell nicknames now?!”

Seeing a commoner without any foundation like this makes me feel like I know what the nobles felt when the caste system was abolished in the late Joseon Dynasty.

Melon Mask’s atrocities weren’t limited to that.

MELON_MASK: I also solved the problem of creating nicknames using only English alphabets. Vivarians from all over the world! Now you can create your nickname in your own language! French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mayan, whatever!

They say you can now sell nicknames in Korean too.

“?”

This is a problem.

You can see that just by looking into the Foxcode created by Foxgame.

Anonymous 424: Your nickname has been translated into Korean. Well, it’s the flow of the times, so to speak. But isn’t it a bit Viva-like?

Rkkara: No, shit. If you’re going to do it like this, what’s the point of being labeled a doomsday culprit before the world ends?

Anonymous781: It’s not an easy decision to pour in 100,000 won a month when you don’t know if the world will end or not. How many people are saving up and even considering YouTube Premium right now?

dongtanmom: Yum yum… They’re even giving away accounts… Yum yum… It’s like watching an online game right before it’s ruined… lol Yum yum…

Anonymous458: It’s been five years since the war started. Well, it can’t be helped?

roka3218: It was fun to find comments with nicknames among the dead, but that will disappear too.

kimcic: It’s a Korean nickname. It’s really baseless~

Denis_Oldman : I don’t know~

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Public opinion is not good.

The North American side is probably even worse.

But Melon’s meaning seems clear.

MELON_MASK : Cheers to everyone’s Viva! Apocalypse!

Melon Mask posted a photo.

It was a photo of him taking a bite of a spherical chunk of wine floating in zero gravity, like a cosmic CEO.

Our long experience tells us that it’s almost a sure thing that this person will post such a photo.

How did this happen?

Let’s ask Vivabot.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Oh, that’s it? It’s just that there was a deal.

According to my internet advisor, Vivabot, this tragedy happened because there was some kind of agreement between the US government and Mellon.

Originally, Viva! Apocalypse! was a network service for a select few.

Those friends who were pointed at and called destructionists were actually those customers.

The U.S. government probably wasn’t particularly interested in a network used by only a select few.

According to Vivabot, the only thing the US government was interested in was the massive and sophisticated satellite communications network Melon had built, and they showed little interest in the bulletin boards used by only a handful of people.

But a new form of networking called Necropolis emerged, and when it combined with Viva! Apocalypse!, humanity regained a global, reliable Internet connection that rivaled the Internet’s glory days.

The portal to this vast Internet communications network is Viva! Apocalypse!

Even the US government, which had little interest in Viva! Apocalypse!, couldn’t help but whet its appetite again.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: To summarize, the current goal of the measure is to absorb all anonymous users who are currently roaming around as dead by having their accounts destroyed.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: Rather than having users roam around with floating dead accounts, it’s better to have them dig up a fixed account on our board and have them be active with that account, so we can learn more about their direction and information.

It is true that Melon Mask’s company has been working closely with the U.S. government for a long time, but there were some things Melon could not give up.

It was Viva! Apocalypse!

According to Vivabot, Melon Mask never disclosed the authority regarding his last work, the bulletin board, to the government.

But this time, Melon Mask opened its bulletin board to the US government.

According to Vivabot, Melon Mask’s company still has the upper hand when it comes to personal information such as message viewing and location tracking, but as is often the case in this world, the beginning is the hardest.

By this time next year, the U.S. government may have unprecedented power.

However, we cannot simply criticize the melon mask.

Five years have passed since the war began.

Even if he had only run it for a year after the war, it would have been long enough, but he ran it for five years without any problems.

For those of us who know a lot about Melon Mask, we can only nod in agreement at what the US government gave Melon Mask in exchange for opening up its bulletin board.

Message from VIVA_BOT014: The US government has decided to launch a rocket. Yes, they are bringing Melon with them. There is an emergency rocket inside the space bunker, but after reviewing it with the forum users, we have concluded that it is unusable.

Early August this year. Melon Mask is said to be returning to Earth.

There is about half a year left.

I don’t know if it will work out or not, but I wish the best of luck to the eccentric genius of our time who realized a space bunker in a cosmic network.

Anyway, they say the bulletin board accounts will be released to everyone this coming weekend.

In a sense, an era is coming to an end.

Maybe that’s why.

Users with nicknames gathered in one place as promised.

Creek bulletin board.

Now, original members with nicknames regardless of race, nationality, or language have gathered voluntarily on a Native Indian bulletin board where the speaker has disappeared.

Without any advertising or solicitation, users from North America, Europe, East Asia including Korea, Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and even the tip of Antarctica gathered on an empty bulletin board.

It is significant in many ways that the topics of these old-time doomsday zealots’ competitive postings are reminiscent of the early days of the bulletin board.

It is “survival.”

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Survival has always been our theme.

The name we have been called by the world, “destructionist,” is actually a derogatory term if you look at its origins.

We called ourselves destructionists because we were already immune to contempt and ridicule, and the derogatory term itself surprisingly sounded good, but before we were labeled destructionists, we called ourselves survivalists.

Therefore, survival and our bulletin board are inseparable.

We joined the bulletin board and prepared a bunker, all in an effort to survive.

But our strategy has already achieved its purpose in a sense.

Five years have passed since the war began.

According to calculations by North American users, the number of users on our bulletin board has decreased from about 837,000 to about 292,000.

It has been reduced by almost 1/3.

This also varies from country to country. In densely populated countries like ours, the survival rate is relatively low, and in countries like Japan, which are particularly hostile to doomsdayers, the survival rate has dropped to 1/10.

But this decline does not necessarily have a negative meaning.

Here, let’s borrow the words of a North American user who calculated the number of users.

coax’87: There’s no need to be discouraged. The Earth population has gone from 8.1 billion to less than 800 million, while our Vivarian numbers have dropped by about 35%.

coax’87: They say the survival rate is less than 10%.

coax’87: If we consider that even 800 million is a hopeful number, our choice is obvious.

coax’87: We were not wrong.

I agree with you.

The bulletin board was, in a sense, our lifeline.

If there were no bulletin board, I would say I would be alive, but I am not confident that I would be alive in the same healthy and unbroken state as I am now.

So what happens after this?

Most of them tell an optimistic story.

Anonymous113: Since I’ve survived so far, I think I’ll be able to survive in the future too, right?

Em’drong: In the past five years, the number of humans that have appeared in our territory is quite a few. There were four, but all but one passed by without a trace.

minesota1133: I’ve gotten used to this life now. Being both a producer and a consumer has become the norm. I think I can keep doing this as long as the surrounding conditions don’t change drastically.

status_quo : I live near the city, and it’s well managed. Goods are distributed smoothly, and limited market transactions are also active.

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Meanwhile, one user posted a message, and his message instantly garnered the attention of Oldbees around the world.

Crunchroll: Even after destruction, cities are not built.

It looks like King was connected too.

We haven’t had any specific contact since the Nemesis battle, but no news is good news, and this tough guy will likely survive for a while longer.

Anyway, King proudly uploaded photos of various aspects of Sejong, which he built himself.

There are definitely parts that get better every time I look at it.

The city that had absorbed people who could not go to Seoul or did not want to go to Seoul now had a strong “city” feel in the literal sense of the word.

His city left quite a strong impression on users around the world.

phoenix_KP: I’ve seen communities built many times, but this is the first time I’ve seen a city built.

CrookedOne: It looks like the city got hit by a few nukes, but even in a place like that, civilization is still growing.

happycanister: Judging from the sign, it looks like Korea.

RLox: How many people live there? This isn’t a community, it’s a country.

Moda0runi: It feels at least more populated than Canada as a whole.

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All praise.

King no longer writes, but I can tell he still feels a great deal of pride.

Certainly, in some ways we have proven ourselves over the past five years.

3 years.

This is the average stockpile of items our bulletin board users have.

It’s a story about learning how to win the battle against time.

But that alone does not mean that our lives are permanent.

lion482 : (photo)

A user uploaded a photo.

The photographs he took shattered our pride more brutally than a million words could.

“······.”

It’s an erosion zone.

The entire area around the old house, which was perched on a ridge that was probably a farm, had turned gray-white.

lion482: It’s only been 3 months since then.

lion482: It was okay at first, but since last month, people around me have been disappearing one by one.

lion482: My mother disappeared first, and then my father. My younger brother left home a week ago to look for my mother, but there has been no news.

lion482 : What should I do?

Not many people can answer this question.

But we remember.

Our Viva! Apocalypse! The scene where users gathered their strength to save a man.

One of my friends, who was a bit annoying but could still be called an orthodox user, stepped forward first.

mmmmmmmmm: (Captain M9) What are you all doing? You’re not putting your heads together!

Can we use collective intelligence to save one of our five-year best friends?

I couldn’t help but watch with interest.

Since there was nothing else to do and it was already the fifth year, and the bulletin board was about to undergo a major transformation, repeating what had been done in the past had a somewhat worldly meaning that it could also predict the future.

lion482 : Will you all help me?

Viva! Apocalypse! 6 days left until account liberalization declared by Melon Mask.

The search for Ryan 482 has begun.