This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 113



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 113
71. Hunger (2)

‘I can’t sleep because I’m hungry.’

I spent my time lying there with my eyes closed, and only came out when I heard the sound of a plane approaching.

As we came outside, we saw the plane that had been on its way to deliver the Candy District residents to the Cola District landing, crushing the burnt trees.

Tae-jeong and the dentist seemed to have finished talking, as they stared blankly up at the landing plane with their arms full of snacks.

The first to get off the plane was Han Yeo-bom with a proud expression.

“Brother, you’re here.”

Then Luna jumped out of the plane.

[Brother, you’re here!]

Luna, who had been running towards me, flew into my arms and hung on my collar.

As I stroked Luna and looked at Han Yeo-bom, Han Yeo-bom opened her mouth first and spoke.

“As reported in the chat, all the Candy District residents were taken to the Cola District without exception. I was worried that your father might not accept you, so I watched from afar, but after talking to him for a while, it seemed like he ended up taking you in.”

Thank goodness they accepted all the residents of Candy District.

‘Father, please forgive this unfilial son.’

But it’s not that unfilial, as long as there’s enough food, the number of productive people is very important in the apocalypse era.

Since most of the people in the Cola district are military-related, there were many areas where it was lacking in other areas.

It might not be a bad idea to expand the talent pool by poaching from other areas in this way.

“Your father must have known you were coming too, because he brought you out in large numbers.”

“You brought a lot of them out?”

“All the guys whose faces I recognize are out there, craning their necks and waiting for you to get off.”

“Hmm. You didn’t come here to scold me for joking about being kidnapped?”

“No, he looked like he really believed he was kidnapped. He had an incredibly serious expression on his face when he heard the story from Argon.”

Can I trust a word this guy says?

The commander isn’t stupid, and I doubt he’d believe me if I told him I’d been kidnapped.

Although the concept of being kidnapped was continued in the note given to Argon, it was only to provide an excuse when returning to the Cola area.

Who would dare to spit on me, the sole heir of the district, who claims that I have been kidnapped?

Of course, even though he was the only successor in the district, it was difficult to accept that he would just throw away his rank as captain and run away, so they laid the groundwork of kidnapping him.

“But why are you like that?”

I don’t know how she noticed that my condition was different than usual, but Han Yeo-bom looked at me carefully and asked.

“Where does it hurt?”

“How does my condition look?”

“If it were normal, I would have been asking why you were so late, but you’re being so quiet.”

aha.

“It seems like the dark circles under my eyes have gotten darker.”

“I’m hungry.”

“Where are you hurt?”

Han Yeo-bom also seemed to have accepted that I wanted to eat to heal my injuries.

“Are you hungry?”

The voice came from the direction of the airplane.

After finishing landing and getting off, Mickey Parker came towards me with a rather serious expression on his face.

“Do you feel hungry after using your power?”

Come to think of it, this guy is also a talented player.

“Do you feel hungry after using your powers?”

“Well, I’ve never used my powers to the point where I felt hungry.”

None?

“But why did you ask me if I was hungry after using my power?”

“I’ve often seen that happen after using a power.”

I often see him getting hungry after using his powers… … .

“Are you talking about the dopamine addicts in the unicorn zone?”

“…okay.”

When I asked him that, Mickey Parker looked belatedly like he was sorry, but after hesitating for a moment, he answered obediently.

‘That guy has a talent too.’

If I gave my power counter, magnetism, to Mickey Parker, then what kind of power does the Dopamin addict himself have?

“What is his special ability?”

“Would you like to tell me?”

Did you tell me not to teach you about your special ability?

By the way, this guy, even though he was a test subject in the Unicorn Zone, is more loyal to the Topamin addicts than you might think.

“Anyway, this hunger is a penalty that comes with using your supernatural powers too much, right?”

Mickey Parker nodded in agreement to my question.

“Why didn’t you tell me in advance?”

“I thought you had no restrictions because you used your powers so casually, unlike me and Boss.”

‘Me’ or ‘Boss’ and ‘Dali’?

Until now, I thought that abilities could be used like arms and legs, as Luna said, but I guess not.

“You guys have restrictions?”

“Of course. It’s strange that a small boss uses such enormous power so recklessly.”

So that’s why you were so surprised when you first met me and saw me handling my superpowers.

“But now that I see the penalty… I guess it may just be that the vessel that could contain the ability was a little bigger.”

“Do you know how to get rid of this hunger?”

“hmm…….”

Mickey Parker seemed to think about something for a moment, then said warningly.

“It would be best if you just didn’t use your powers for the time being. Otherwise, you’re going to be in trouble.”

Don’t use your powers for the time being.

Well, it doesn’t really matter since there’s no way some crazy player is going to set the area on fire in the next area anyway.

I wonder what that rough appearance is.

“That’s why I told you not to push yourself too hard.”

Han Yeo-bom suddenly interrupted and said.

“Leave the next section to us and take a break. How far have you explained it to the newbies?”

The answer to Han Yeo-bom’s question came back from Tae-jeong.

“I explained everything up to logging out. I also explained that I had to go to a different area.”

The dentist nodded vigorously, as if he now knew enough.

“Since all players need to open the system to log out, you’re going around to different areas and opening the players’ systems, right?”

“It won’t be resolved peacefully. We’ll eliminate players who don’t cooperate. Like the Igu-gu trolls.”

“It wasn’t you, senior, but me who killed and eliminated the trolls in this area!”

The dentist clenched his fists and said,

“Such selfish bad players should disappear from this world!”

…Huh? Why are the other three guys looking at me?

“Then, senior, next time we’ll go to the chicken area?”

“Did you know the chicken area is close?”

“Not long after I first came to this world, Captain Argon told me about the other areas. He told me not to go near the Knife Area… … .”

The dentist asked with a worried expression, perhaps because he had just heard from Taejung that players in ‘all areas’ had to open the system.

“Are we going to the knife area too?”

“Yeah. But it won’t be as dangerous as you think. I know someone there.”

“Oh, you know someone who’s in that murderer’s den… … ?”

The dentist, whose expression had become strange, nodded as if he had figured it out on his own.

“You’re going to rescue your friend.”

The kids in my area always thought I meant well, but I guess I had ulterior motives. It’s refreshing to see newbies interpret things so positively.

“I will also do my best to help you. What should I do in the chicken area?”

“There’s nothing for us to do in the chicken area.”

“You have nothing to do?”

“There are certain people who go to that area.”

As I said that, I looked at Taejeong.

“You know what I’m saying? You’re the chicken district’s home base.”

“Yes. This body was created for that purpose. Leave it to me.”

Tae-jeong, who answered so trustworthily, unexpectedly invited Mickey Parker to accompany him.

“You want me to go with you?”

“Yes. Since you’re in good health, you won’t be treated badly, right?”

“Hmm. I don’t mind, but I guess you feel a bit uneasy about leaving me by your side?”

“Think whatever you want.”

I don’t know why Taejung is taking Mickey Parker with him, but like Taejung said, Mickey Parker would be helpful in that area.

I guess we should let Taejung, who loves chicken, do whatever he wants.

I’m still hungry, but I think I’ve gotten used to it a little.

‘I guess I should finish what I have to do.’

I looked at the newbie who had achieved greatness with a bright smile.

“While you two are out and about, should we newbies study the safety zone a bit?”

* * *
Chicken area.

Players in this area believe that they can overcome the cold with tenacity.

At that moment, I was trembling with fear.

I’m not crying, that’s aerobic exercise, said the aerobic exerciser in a trembling voice.

“The Christmas forest… really burned down completely?”

His rambling question was met with a rambling answer.

“That’s right! As usual, I went to check on the Candy District newbies, and I saw it with my own eyes. After the burning Christmas forest and the flames died down, a flying machine swept away all the Candy District residents!”

Chicken Zone players knew that the nearby Candy Zone had been possessed by a safe zone newbie, who had shared everything with Aerobics.

However, a player named Sapposable prohibited communication between zones, and the Chicken Zone players were faithfully complying with his demands.

I didn’t believe Sapposable’s claim that if we collected all the meteorites we would be able to return to reality.

However, as Sapposable said, he would be stuck in the sea alone and wouldn’t be able to come up to land until the second apocalypse, so he thought it was right not to get involved in other areas in order to have a fair game.

Muscles are what reside in a sound mind and a sound body.

It’s not like I gave up on helping the dentist because he was so hurt that he ignored my friend request.

But, there was a guy who snatched the gold and jade away while the newbie was watching from afar.

‘And while committing the horrific act of burning down an entire district… … .’

There was one guy who had a guess.

As far as the players know, there is only one person who would do something like that.

“Dopamine addict… … .”

The name poured out like a sigh from the mouths of the Chicken Zone players.

“Was that guy on that plane… really a dopamine addict?”

“I saw a player with black hair and black eyes enter the burning forest.”

“Black hair and black eyes?”

“Isn’t the main karma of a dopamine addict gray hair and dark circles under the eyes?”

“You said you were in the cola zone, so you might be a dopamine addict trying to target a bastard.”

“But, I heard that the plane had a unicorn head.”

“You mean that was a unicorn airship? I don’t think the Cola Zone players would come in on a unicorn airship… … .”

“No. Last time, that unicorn dopamine addict said he had already met another player? Wasn’t that the cola zone dopamine addict?”

It was a possible statement.

The dopamine addict from the cola zone hasn’t shown up in the public chatroom for a long time, and the dopamine addict from the unicorn zone doesn’t seem to have any intention of granting Sappy’s demands.

When I tried to think deeply, I felt like I was getting a headache.

‘I feel like going to the iron ore fields… … .’

“It doesn’t matter who it is now.”

Among them, one player whose brain was still relatively soft said:

“The next one has a very high probability of coming to our area.”

“Are you saying he’ll come to our area too?”

“The plane is still in the candy area.”

Then, all the players gathered there looked like they had a headache.

“Should I fight? Then I’ll lose muscle mass… … .”

“Even so, we can’t just leave alone those who act so recklessly.”

“Aren’t those unicorns the ones who are proud of their soft and gentle brains anyway! We are players who have thoroughly trained our brains into muscles, so let’s not take them lightly!”

You might want to tackle it by saying that even the brain can’t be a muscle.

The most revered value in the chicken district is ‘muscle’.

More precious than gold or food is a trained body.

Especially among the players in this area, muscles were an implicit factor that determined each other’s ranking.

In reality, you could achieve a nice body with a proper diet and some effort, but that wasn’t the case here.

Player-style meals.

That made the whole ‘diet’ thing impossible.

No, even if you could eat properly, it doesn’t seem like your diet would be possible in the apocalypse era.

Because of this, it took several times as much effort to build up decent muscles on the body.

It took a lot of effort to maintain it.

So, in the chicken district where the law of the strong is followed, muscles are proof of tenacity and rank.

so.

The sight of the body of the person who came to them, claiming to be a subordinate of a dopamine addict, without any unnecessary features, was enough to make them all turn their eyes.