I Am the Only Non-Returner - I Am the Only Non-Returner chapter 63

63 – Is this a resting stage?

“Oh, you changed it to the same grade. Obtaining the remaining shelter durability as points is a useful characteristic. If you don’t acquire it, you can use it right away. “If you make an offering, you get paid 0.6% Every day.”

For example, if you have 20,000 shelter durability left, you can just receive 20,000 points, or you can make an offering to God and receive 0.6% Of 120 points every day. Like a pension.

“Due to the nature of the stage progression, it is advantageous to receive payment immediately…”

If you make an offering, you will only be able to collect the money after 167 days, so if you don’t clear it, you will just be wasting your points.

“If the system remains as it is now after clearing, does it mean that there will be a way to receive points every day, even in small amounts?”

If durability increases, choosing the second option might be a good choice…

“It’s so rich… I’ll have to try it during the next battle. I’ll have to get the timing right.”

I use it right before the stage is cleared, so I have to make a choice right away.

“Okay! Anyway, let’s just remember that we have one more tool to help us survive!”

Mantra, the great devil, and even the god Artemis.

“There really won’t be anything new coming out now.”

Ha

“Still, I’m gaining more confidence now that I’m gaining little by little. I hope Eun-chae can finish safely.”

Knock knock-

“Hmm? Who is it?”

When I opened the door, my uncle looked at me with a worried expression for a moment, then entered the room and struggled to speak.

“Yes, Yeji came to mind.”

“Yes? Which one is it?”

‘Will there be a prediction at this timing?’

Uncle’s characteristic is the ability to predict crimes that occur within the shelter. I heard that the ability extends beyond just the crime as described to foresee all bad things within the larger shelter.

“I saw the chef and his wife’s baby disappear.”

“··· The baby disappears? How? Who? Why?”

Questions poured out like a rapid fire at my uncle’s unexpected remarks. My uncle briefly brushed his palm across his thigh a few times quickly and then opened his mouth again.

“To be exact, a gray hand, a huge hand, fell towards the baby, and the baby disappeared from Jang Jin-sol’s arms…”

“······ A giant gray hand… Can’t you specify when that was?”

But as I was asking my uncle a question, I felt goosebumps rising all over my body. The farthest my uncle’s ability has ever been able to see into the future is about 30 minutes during the parasitic bug. That means…

Before I could even organize my thoughts, my uncle’s pupils dilated so wide that they seemed to fill his eyes, the nasolabial folds around his mouth trembled, and he collapsed on the bed in an instant.

“Uncle?!”

– Boom boom!

At that moment, an urgent knock was heard on the door.

“Oh my god…!”

First, I checked my uncle’s pulse, and fortunately, after confirming that there was no health problem, I went out immediately.

Ha-eun’s mother and Ha-eun were at the door, and Jinsol suddenly felt labor pains and said that three people from the obstetrics and gynecology department were preparing to receive the baby.

“First, gather everyone in the shelter hall!”

Suddenly, people who were practicing their traits outside the shelter gathered together with nervous looks on their faces, as if they were wondering what kind of mess this was.

After going into Jinsol’s room for a while, Ha-eun’s mother came out and explained the situation inside.

“I can already see the baby’s head! For now, the baby looks normal.”

“How long has it been since it started? Is it really this fast?”

“They say that people who give birth quickly give birth in less than 10 minutes, but it doesn’t start without any signs like this…”

‘I didn’t think it would be normal in the first place.’

Eunchae had come next to me and was clutching my hand.

‘Please be safe…’

It happened so suddenly that everyone was pacing around without knowing what to do.

And again 15 minutes later.

– Shelter durability has increased by 1000.

– Each time a life is created, durability increases by an additional 1000.＞

Shelter Durability 29000/29000 (+1000)

Residence population 16/24 (+1)

– Oooh…!

– Was he born?!

The other shelter people cheered with sparkling eyes.

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‘It increases durability?… It actually makes me more anxious?’

When Go Ok-ja came out and said with a bright smile, “You’re a princess,” Everyone relaxed and began to sit down one by one on the sofa. But I couldn’t relax at all, and as I looked up at the sky with anxious eyes.

“··· A giant gray hand… Is coming.”

At my words, everyone in the shelter looked up and saw a giant hand slowly falling, casting a dark shadow over all of us.

It cannot be avoided.

I felt that way instinctively. Even though it is falling very slowly, we cannot avoid it. The gray hand suddenly covered the shelter and came through the ceiling of the shelter. At that moment, the chef and his wife ran out of the room holding the newborn baby.

Jang Jin-sol ran towards me, showing such agility that it was hard to believe that she was someone who had just given birth to a baby.

Before we could even check the face of the baby wrapped in a white bathrobe and held in Jang Jin-sol’s arms, a gray hand attacked us as if it was going to crush us.

After a moment when I thought it was the end, I opened my eyes and saw that everyone in the shelter had stopped moving.

Except me.

“······”

I knew my movements were not restricted, but I was frozen as if I had been turned to stone and quickly skipped past the others.

‘Everyone really stopped, it’s different from the Seokhwa of other shelter people who passed stage 21.’

It was a complete standstill, as if not even a single moment of time was allowed to pass. And a message appears in bolder letters than usual.

The [Shelter Owner’s First Choice] Event occurs.

– The birth of life has been detected in your own shelter. The birth of new creatures is defined as one of the biggest factors that reduces the interest of the game.

You either have to exclude ‘it’ from the game completely or fight it with a penalty.

Choose one of the three options below.

(This message can only be seen by the shelter director and cannot be shared with team members.)

1. Born babies are raised in shelters.

– Every time a stage is cleared, the abilities of all demon beasts continuously increase.

– The damage suffered by the shelter increases significantly.

– Maximum resident population -1

2. The baby is adopted by the management.

– After ‘growth promotion’, the baby enters the academy and is raised as a host.

– Obtain 1,000,000P.

– The baby’s mother is cursed to have nightmares related to the baby for the rest of her life.

3. The baby is kept in the shelter subspace.

– Subspace installation cost -1,000,000P (Can store a total of 10 people, no additional installation)

– The baby is locked in a space where you cannot see or touch it until the final clearing.

– If clearing fails, all people in the shelter will suffer complete extinction. (Return/reincarnation not possible)

＜00:10:00＞

“···············”

Ah…

It was just dark. I didn’t intentionally pretend to stop, my body just froze.

This is a message that only the shelter owner can see… What crime has the shelter owner committed that they keep harassing me? Wasn’t it hard enough for us just to run a shelter?

“10 Minutes…”

What conclusion should I come to in 10 minutes?

What is certain is that it will be good for your health to choose one of the three within the time limit. Since we’re short on time, let’s look at the options first.

“It would be right to choose option 1 for the couple. No, right? It would be meaningless if the monsters got stronger and the shelter was in danger. Of course, you could be happy during this stage, but I don’t think this is right.

It is an unacceptable condition that the damage received by the shelter increases significantly, not just a little. “Wouldn’t it be great if we could at least significantly increase the points earned as the monsters become stronger?”

I don’t think this is the option I was given to choose from. As expected, number 1 is dismissed.

‘Number 2 is… What is this? Is it okay for me to tell you the secret of this game so openly?’

There are people called management, and the supply and demand of hosts was solved by accepting newborns born in the game. Then what about our crazy host?

‘It’s hard to understand why his personality turned out that way because he had such a sad past, but he’s only growing antipathy towards option 2.’

＜00:08:46＞

“I can’t decide if being raised as a host is good or bad, so I’ll leave it aside. Unlike number 1, receiving a million points is positive. But does Jinsol suffer from nightmares every day? This can’t be done.”

Of course, it was something that should not have happened even considering Eunchae.

Then I suddenly thought about what I would have done if someone had experienced this situation in the first round.

“There may be someone who actively seeks out pregnant women and uses them… It may not be easy, but if you gather 10 people, you get 10 million points, so it’s a very possible scenario.”

It was painful to think that there might be people out there who didn’t care whether the child’s mother had nightmares or not, and she was only looking to collect points.

‘I hope there won’t be such a devil bastard.’

“The third one… Who the hell came up with this? All three are trash, so I’m telling you which one to choose. Ha…”

I couldn’t understand why giving birth to a baby was such a big sin that they put such an unnecessary penalty on it. Aside from the increase in durability after the baby was born, isn’t this a business that is losing a lot of money?

Is this why Lingling does not accept pregnant women?

‘It’s one of the factors that reduces the interest of the game the most…’

Do you mean you don’t want to watch a game while watching a baby cry? Even if I put it in the room?

‘Oh, you can see them all even if you’re in the room.’

“As for the sub-space installation cost… Yes, I can accept that much. It’s also uncomfortable for a child to be trapped in a sub-space, but it’s not like he’s going to die anyway, right? No? Anyway, let’s say this is the same… ·”

‘Complete extinction… No return or reincarnation… What does this mean… So even if you fail a stage and die, return or reincarnation is possible?

Like everyone has regressed? But if you choose number 3, even that won’t work…’

But even if you don’t choose number 3, I don’t think you can necessarily go back or be reincarnated.

‘When I first started the game, the host said that. It’s a benefit given by the organizer when someone surpasses stage 50…’

So, isn’t this really different from completely disappearing if you don’t like the host or other beings of the same level?

And another uneasy feeling comes to mind.

‘The shelter collapsed and the people melted, turned into gray droplets and flew away. So where did they go? Are we really just waiting in a warm, happy place for return or reincarnation?’

I didn’t think that would be the case. The humanoid monsters I met while beating the stage, and the human with only half his face left muttering incomprehensible words. And even a powerful monster believed to be the hero Rosherdin.

‘Wouldn’t it be better to be completely destroyed rather than end up like that?’

Of course, this is purely my guess…

＜00:05:31＞