This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 102



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 102

68. 17 years old (2)

We stared up at the plane hovering overhead for a moment, lost in thought.

A sleek-looking ship hanging from something like a giant balloon.

And the unicorn carved on the bow.

If you’re a safe zone player, you can’t help but know.

This is definitely a flying machine from the Unicorn Zone.

The first one to speak was Banggu Seok-ye.

“Is that… that kid’s doing it?”

The girl in the corner of the room had an expression that seemed very wary of the flying machine.

I didn’t bother to explain to Banggu Seok Yeo-bo or anyone else that the players in the Unicorn Zone were ‘real’ dopamine addicts like me.

Because I hope other people will be wary enough of him.

Dopamine addicts are people who engage in group activities to get a dopamine boost, so even if you’ve been quiet for the past 6 years, you never know what kind of outbursts they might do.

‘Just looking at the fact that they’ve sent a drone into my area like this, it’s not normal.’

However, the plane was eerily quiet after it stopped overhead.

As if telling me to hurry up and get on board.

“Is that guy riding there too?”

As Banggu Seok Yeo-bo kept asking questions, I answered.

“It must have been sent from the Unicorn Zone. I don’t know if that guy is riding there either.”

If he had come in person, the attendant would not have been that quiet.

When I turned around at the sound of a click, I saw Taejeong loading his gun.

As Taejung’s gun was aimed at my head, I turned my gaze back to the plane.

I just stared at the unresponsive aircraft.

“The timing is so perfect… … .”

In my area, a plane from another area came without a sound, so it would be right to react like Taejeong.

It felt more like coincidence than threat, since it had only been a few minutes ago that I had been thinking about robbing that damned idiot of a plane.

Then something started climbing up my back.

“Luna, it’s dangerous.”

Despite my protests, Luna insisted on stepping on my head and climbing up to look up at the plane.

[Wow! What is that! It’s so cool!]

hmm.

Even though they’ve shown us so many great things over the past six years, why do you find flying machines so novel?

Indeed, although the individual level of soldiers in our area has improved, our scientific capabilities are still far behind.

I gave the hoverboard I got from the drug addict to the director of the research center and told him to use it as a reference to make various things… But the thing used in the hoverboard is some kind of room temperature and pressure superconductor.

‘I think there was a lot of noise about that in the other world at one time.’

Anyway, it was a material that could not be implemented with the technology of our area, and if I touched it carelessly, even the hoverboard might not be able to function properly, so I returned it without any gain.

That flying machine only looks like a ship on the outside, but it’s actually an ultra-precision mechanical system with an automatic flight AI…

You just put that on top of my area.

The plane was still as silent as if no one was on board, even as time passed.

“Captain!”

Players who had gone out to search were seen hurriedly returning to their camp after discovering the plane.

I waved to them to tell them it was okay and looked back at Banggu Seok-yeo and Tae-jung.

[Meow!]

He said this after catching Luna, who was on top of his head, with both hands as she slid down.

“Okay, you’re coming up with me.”

“Want to come up and see?”

“I personally parked it above your head, so you should come up and look. And Luna, you… … .”

I was going to tell her to wait downstairs, but Luna quickly hid inside the ring.

Luna must have realized at some point that I couldn’t live without my ring, so whenever I told her to stay away from me, she would hide inside the ring.

‘How do I treat separation anxiety in my pet?… ‘

I never missed wearing it because of the double effect of Luna Moon’s Friend title, but now it’s become a habit, so I can just leave it as a ring.

Luna’s separation anxiety is partly my fault for not giving her a sense of stability in the beginning…

“… Luna, go with us. Taejung, you watch from here, and if we don’t return within 30 minutes, shoot that thing down.”

“Are you telling me to shoot it down while it’s still inside?”

“okay.”

I took the hoverboard out of my inventory and smiled at Taejung.

“You won’t die from that.”

“Brother… As expected, you are amazing!”

“You crazy bastards, I’m dead. If you’re going to shoot me down, get off me and shoot… Hey!”

I grabbed the back of the neck of Banggu Seok-yeo, who was poking her head between me and Tae-jung, and got on the hoverboard.

“You have 30 minutes from now. Explain it properly to the players.”

“yep!”

The drone was parked right above the barracks, so we didn’t have to go very high on the hoverboard.

‘There’s no one on deck.’

If it were a normal ship, the crew would be out on the deck, but this ship only has the appearance of a ship and is a ‘flying boat’ after all.

The navigation system of this aircraft will be below deck.

I threw Banggu Seok Yeo-bo into the boat, and Banggu Seok Yeo-bo, who had become accustomed to this kind of treatment, jumped onto the deck with a clean movement.

I got down next to Banggu Seok-yeo and held out my hand to stop her from taking out her gun.

“No matter how urgent it is, don’t shoot.”

“why?”

“I don’t want my plane to get scratched.”

“Are you sure it’s yours already?”

This is a flying machine that was sent just in time when we needed a means of transportation.

Even if the Topamin addict didn’t send it to me, I’m going to hijack this plane.

If you come into my territory, it’s all mine.

And there’s one more reason not to shoot.

“And bullets won’t work on those Unicorn Zone guys.”

“That’s true too.”

The Unicorn Zone guys have magnetic shields around them, so regular bullets can’t hit them at all.

The strategy is to release the magnetic shield by giving it a strong electric shock… … .

‘I wonder if it wasn’t just a coincidence that I gained the power of a snow giant.’

When I passed out after absorbing the Snow Giant’s power, the one who found me and asked Banggu Seok-yeo for help was none other than the Topamin addict.

And the snow giant’s supernatural powers are to control the weather, causing blizzards and splitting the sky to strike with lightning.

It is a superior ability that can even disarm the entire magnetic shield in the Unicorn Zone if controlled well.

It’s no coincidence that he was rescued by a drug addict right after gaining that ability.

It didn’t seem like the guy who had already played the game more than twice would not know about the existence of the ability.

‘Why did you let me have that ability?’

If you think about it simply, you may be training your own opponent to make the game more enjoyable.

It’s a little bit awkward, you know.

Of course, whatever he’s thinking, the fact remains that he can just strike this flying machine with lightning and take out its magnetic shield.

The magnetic shield itself can only deflect bullets, but cannot block direct physical attacks such as swords or bats, so if you want to win in close combat, you just have to kill it before it dies.

It’s a good thing I was getting tired of fighting monsters for years.

As I took out my three-sectioned baton, Banggu Seok-yeo also put the gun back on his waist and took out a knife instead.

Banggu Seok Yeo-bo asked me, her face tense, as she adjusted her grip on the knife.

“But… what if it’s a trap?”

“It’s probably a trap.”

“Did you come up here knowing it was a trap?!”

“If there’s a trap, wouldn’t it be stranger if you didn’t step on it?”

“This is ridiculous.”

When Banggu Seok-yeo shook her head, I frowned and said.

“If you’re scared, come down.”

“Who’s scared?”

Banggu Seok Yeo-bo said, lowering the goggles she was wearing on her forehead.

“I also got addicted to dopamine after following you around. I’m going to go in and see.”

This is really something that should be said to have grown a lot.

“Go down first.”

At the back of the deck a staircase was visible leading down to the interior where the navigation systems were located.

Before going down, I shined a light towards the stairs and saw a door at the bottom of the stairs.

When Banggu Seok-yeo saw that, she started going down the stairs without any caution, so I was going to stop her, but I stopped.

In the past, I would have criticized him for rushing ahead without thinking, but now he has become a player who does his part.

‘I guess he went down knowing that the door had a biometric identification system.’

But Banggu Seok Yeobo easily shattered my expectations.

[Check access rights.]

[Identity not confirmed]

[Activating defense system.]

“what?!”

As soon as I approached the door, the defense system activated and the hidden guns were revealed, and I saw Banggu Seok-yeo fall down the stairs in surprise.

‘That burn.’

Even if I let him get shot a few times, he wouldn’t die, but I didn’t want to waste my strength from the entrance, so I quickly jumped forward, blocked the muzzle of the gun, and shouted softly.

“Check access permissions again!”

[Reconfirming access rights… … .]

[Scan completed]

[Player Dopamine Addict, entry is permitted.]

The Unicorn’s flying machine is biometric.

That is, it is a system that scans the passenger’s information and grants permission to fly the aircraft according to level.

This means that unless you are a registered crew member of this aircraft, you cannot open that one little door.

There is no other reason why he boldly declared that he would hijack this ship even though he knew that.

Because I am a dopamine addict.

If this is that guy’s ship, who is addicted to Topamin, then I, who has the same name as him, would be registered on this ship.

After confirming that the door was safely open, I looked at the girl in the corner of the room who was still sitting on the stairs.

“It’s only been six years since you were last inducted, and you’ve forgotten what this flying machine is?”

Then, the woman in the corner shouted as if she felt wronged.

“I told you when we first met! You and your followers were the only ones who conquered the Unicorn Zone!”

ah.

I think I said something like that.

Even in the strategy article posted on the community, I didn’t include small details like the fact that the flying machine operates using biometrics.

“If you don’t know, just follow me.”

“That won’t do.”

“You said no?”

“You never know what kind of devices the Unicorn Zone players might have set up! Since you don’t know everything, it’s right for me, the ‘healer,’ to go ahead.”

“There’s no party that goes with a healer in the lead… Well… You’re not just a ‘healer’, so it’s okay.”

As Banggu Seok-yeo had hoped, she led the guy through the door and a long hallway appeared.

The hallway was quiet and there was no sign of life.

“Luna.”

As I called softly, Luna spoke from within the ring.

[I don’t feel any other meteorites.]

The meteorite in the Unicorn Zone is on the island itself, so of course you won’t feel it here.

I checked to see if there was anyone else involved besides the unicorn guy, but it seems like the other master players aren’t involved either.

For reference, I decided to call players who opened the system with meteors master players, and players like Banggu Seok Yeo Bo Na and Tae Jeong as sub players.

“If the game and the aircraft structure are the same, the cockpit is in front.”

“I’ll go and see.”

Bang Gu-seok, who crossed the hallway carefully, looked back at me before reaching the cockpit door.

It was now possible to predict that the same biometric identification system would be installed in front of the cockpit door.

I also find all of this admirable.

“Open the door.”

Opening the door shouldn’t be difficult though.

After warning the lady in the corner of the room because I didn’t know what was lurking inside.

I walked up to the door.

[Check access rights.]

[Scan completed]

[Player Dopamine Addict, welcome.]

The cockpit door opened with an absurd ease, and the inside of the cockpit was embarrassingly empty, as I braced myself for something unknown to pop out.

All that greeted us were mechanical devices that made us feel as if we had entered a space battleship.

“wow!”

The one who was yelling seemed to be in the corner of the room.

“Crazy! This is better implemented than the game!”

Isn’t this natural since this is reality?

While Banggu Seok-yeo looked around the cockpit in wonder, I looked at the large screen in front.

The following phrase appeared on the pitch-black screen:

[Automatic navigation…]

‘Did you send an empty stomach?’

I wonder if they sent the plane knowing I would be going to another area by this time.

There didn’t seem to be any particular threat, so I relaxed my posture, but Banggu Seok-yeo asked me with an excited face.

“Can I sit over there?”

What he was pointing to was the captain’s seat of this aircraft.

It made me want to sit down and watch.

“Okay.”

As soon as I gave permission, Banggu Seok-yeo quickly went to the captain’s seat and sat down.

“X is killing me.”

I guess nothing happens when you sit on the chair, so it looks like they didn’t install any special devices.

The lady in the corner of the room was sitting in the captain’s seat, fiddling around with things, as if she had no idea that I was using her as a guinea pig.

The screen that said auto-pilot suddenly shut off with a pop! and a new screen appeared.

-Hello, dopamine addict.

On the screen, the addict was smiling at us.