This Is Not a Game - This Is Not a Game chapter 144

virus

[Activate the Deus Ex Machina program.]

[Ariadne’s thread tracking completed.]

[Spirit moves.]

Following a familiar message, a familiar scenery unfolds before your eyes.

Yoosung took off his goggles and sat down in a chair to think, instead of checking the time difference between the other world and the Earth or calculating the compensation as usual.

The subject of concern was the facts he learned while carrying out the quest this time.

One is about the world view of special quests.

‘There are only two cases, so I can’t be sure yet, but there is a high probability that the special quest is a world where users have caused problems.’

The first special quest [Warped World] is modern weapons and nuclear bombs.

The special quest [Encroaching City] cleared this time is a virus.

Both quests are worlds where the world was destroyed or a serious situation similar to that occurred.

If this guess is correct, it is possible to obtain some information about the world in advance through the user before starting the quest.

It was a fact that could be of great help, but Yoo-seong’s attention was focused elsewhere.

‘First user. Authenticity aside, how do you know that the first user exists and that he sent the virus?’

‘Twenty years ago, there was an arrest of the culprit responsible for distributing the omega virus. At the time, the culprit said things like ‘It’s true that I spread the virus, but I didn’t create it’ and ‘Someone from another world made it.’ At the time, I thought it was just a madman’s nonsense, but after meeting Sophia-sama, I understood the meaning of that word.’

‘Has the culprit said anything more about the user?’

‘It’s a fact I found out by accident while gathering information about the omega virus, so I don’t know more than that… … .’

The information Choi Hyeon-seong knew was not much, but that was enough.

“The user who ruined both worlds is probably the same criminal.”

There was no proof, but intuition was telling me it was the same person.

In order to clear the quest, it was unthinkable that there would be two users who could randomly use items from another world that could get out of control and have a serious impact on the world.

I didn’t pay much attention to the fact that I had cleared the quest to the point of ruining the world by any means.

It was because Yooseong himself had such a history.

[Cheonma Shinyo. last minute].

He used more than tens of thousands of people as bait to clear the quest, and while knowing Haecheongyeong’s purpose to unify the Murim and create a magical world, he helped him finish the ritual of the sun and the moon and rise to the top.

What Yooseong was interested in was the user’s reading mind.

‘The mindset that it doesn’t matter what other things are for one’s own purpose. I have to remember.’

The kind of person who should never be turned into an enemy, and if it is turned into an enemy, it must be dealt with at all costs.

Because he had that mindset, he knew better than anyone how dangerous such a person could be.

‘The problem is that I can’t even guess who the user is, but I’m going to find out later… … .’

After organizing his thoughts, Yuseong opened his inventory and took out the reward for this quest and started to check it.

“The disposable strengthening nanomachines are a strengthening potion, and the recovery nanomachine ampoule is a recovery potion. Rather than using things like monomolecular cutters and supervibration blades as they are, I think it would be better to leave them to Sophia to improve them.”

Most of them were just name-worthy, nothing special about them, but only two items were different.

＜Combat Nano Machine Ampoule＞

– Grade: B

-Type: Consumables

-A nanomachine developed for combat. When used, you can get ability increase and various additional effects.

-Increases Strength, Stamina, and Agility by 200.

– HP recovery speed increased by 30%.

-Increase wound healing speed by 50%.

– Physical damage reduced by 20%.

＜Experimental nano clothes＞

-Rating: D+

-Type: Clothing

-A suit made of nanomachines. Despite its many advantages, it was an unfortunate invention that was buried due to its extreme cost-effectiveness.

– Automatic recovery of durability.

– Heat dissipation, cold protection, waterproof function.

– Appearance change.

– Physical damage reduced by 10%.

The nanomachine ampoule for combat was immediately injected into the body.

There was no reason to delay the use of an item that increased stats without any conditions and gave various additional options.

This alone was a huge reward, but what Yuseong really cared about was the experimental nano-suit.

‘At first glance, it may look like a cosmetic item with convenience features, but it’s much more useful than just strong items.’

Yooseong changed his nano clothes into a shirt so that no one would steal them.

Yooseong, who was looking down at his clothes with a faint smile, put on the goggles that he had taken off.

[There are currently 2,721,000 negative karma points.]

[If negative karma points are maintained, penalties such as withholding of karma points, granting of compulsory quests, and confiscation of skills and items will be imposed.]

[Please request negative points as soon as possible.]

As soon as I saw the warning message, I selected the ‘Yes’ button.

It was only during the quest that I could pay it off later, so I took out the item and used it, but now the penalty was beyond my imagination.

It seemed that he had more karma points to pay back than the karma points he had used, and interest was added, but he couldn’t afford to worry about such trivial things as he could lose skills or items.

After confirming that the ominous red message had disappeared, Yooseong sighed in relief and entered the Karma Shop.

In fact, this time I was planning to buy only the ability increase ticket and save the remaining karma points.

It was because the skills Choi Kang-sik possessed were enough to have or not to have, and the items were not particularly special among those he had been able to come into contact with.

The only thing worth buying was the puppet skill, but like forbidden knowledge, even if you didn’t purchase it from the Karma Shop, it remained in your memory as a matter of course, so there was no need to purchase it.

Instead, an incident during the quest changed his mind.

[You have purchased a mutated sound dimension virus (C+).]

[You have purchased Choi Hyeon-seong’s negative dimension virus research journal (C+).]

“Was the original name not Omega Virus, but Sound Dimension Virus?”

Yooseong rotated the ampoule around and observed the contents.

To those who know the situation, a nuclear bomb would look like a madman who brought an incomparable dangerous material to Earth, but Yoosung had a different idea.

A mysterious virus that boosts the physical abilities of the infected.

If you can get rid of the symptoms of zombification and leave only positive effects, it will be of great help to the earth that is just trying to nurture talented people.

‘The problem is that I don’t have the ability to improve the virus… … .’

After moving from Dragonia to Earth, Yooseong took out his smartphone and called Sophia.

A few signals went through and a familiar voice was heard.

-hello?

“yes? Didn’t you save my number?”

– I pretended not to know in case of an emergency. Since we came to Earth, we have to be careful. By the way, this quest ended pretty quickly, right?

“I was lucky.”

It took about two weeks to save Choi Hyeon-seong.

And Choi Hyeon-seong spent about 3 weeks analyzing the condition recovery potion and developing a vaccine that could be made with the ingredients of that world.

It was more than a month in total, but Meteor was sure that his time on Earth hadn’t passed.

Sophia became a user when she was in high school.

Considering his age, Choi Hyeon-seong said that he had been a user for less than 10 years, but it was 20 years ago that he received Sophia’s help.

This meant that the time scales of the two worlds were different.

“I’ll have to meet you to discuss the details, but I’ll ask you a few questions first. Could you possibly improve the virus?”

– Why are you asking that? Perhaps… … .

Yuseong explained everything before Sophia had a strange misunderstanding.

-Civilization Classification W-16. Hyunseong Choi. I remember. Was it about 5 years ago? I don’t know who it was, but it was a bit of a headache to go and solve a very large accident. But you brought the virus with you?

“yes. Some of the people infected with the virus have become stronger, so I brought it because I thought I could use it somehow. Can’t we?”

– Haaa.

It was a quiet voice that could be heard over the phone.

– First of all, I will tell you the conclusion. My biological knowledge is only scratching the surface. It is impossible for me to remove a specific trait of a virus and leave only the desired function.

“Is it completely impossible?”

-Yes. Especially that virus. I can’t explain exactly, but it’s not an ordinary virus. It evolves endlessly every moment as if it were alive. zombie? sport? enforce? The last time I saw it, it was just a virus with a high lethality rate.

Sophia’s words were by no means exaggerated.

A virus that cannot be completely eradicated even with physical attacks using nanomachines.

Sophia, who said that it seemed as if the virus had a will, paused for a moment before continuing.

-I know it was brought in with good intentions, but please dispose of that virus as soon as possible. In the end, it seems that nanomachines couldn’t stop it, but if the virus leaked out, humanity would perish not from a war against monsters, but from a pandemic.

“Isn’t that too exaggerated? The virus is dangerous, but I don’t think it’s to the point of being so vigilant in the face of a vaccine.”

-Yes? a vaccine?

Yoosung’s eyes narrowed at Sophia’s reaction, as if she had heard something unexpected.

He didn’t bring the virus without thinking, believing only Sofia was himself.

Choi Hyun-seong was provided with a condition recovery potion to make a vaccine based on it, and after confirming that it was effective, he even brought a research journal containing the contents.

‘Even though I can’t guarantee 100% because of the small number of clinical trials and cases, you said it was a vaccine that could catch the current virus as well as future variants with a 99.9% probability?’

Hyunseong Choi can do it, but Sophia can’t?

There may be a difference in the level of biology between the two or the length of time they studied the virus, but in Yoosung’s opinion, there was a more decisive factor than that.

“Sophia. Have you ever used a status recovery potion when researching a virus?”

– I didn’t know anything about alchemy or pharmacy, so I didn’t use it. Why?

“Something urgent happened, so I’ll call you back later.”

-Wait! Aris keeps insisting on changing her phone… … .

Yooseong ended the call and immediately returned to Dragonia using the power of the sentence.

It doesn’t matter if you check it on Earth, but if you think about safety, it was best to move to Dragonia, where there is no fear of spreading the virus.

Yooseong, who took out the virus ampoule from subspace, immediately activated the Mystic Eye of Truth.

Not a speck of light is visible.

Although it was ordinary water itself, the meteor raised the performance of the demonic eye of truth by adjusting its spiritual power, just like when it found traces of divinity in Lucifer’s halo and horn.

‘Same as the name of the negative dimension virus, and the fact that it can’t be cured with science and technology, but can be easily cured with a condition recovery potion, so this is not an ordinary virus.’

So long to observe.

A small moan erupted from Yoosung’s mouth.

I could clearly see the dark light shimmering in the liquid contained in the ampoule with the evil eye of truth.

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