This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 114



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 114
71. Hunger (3)

Meeting the Chicken Zone players was left to Taejung, Mickey Parker, and Luna, who was sent along in case they needed to use their powers.

The dentist, Han Yeo-bom, and I were having a blast under the pretext of providing newbie education.

“What are you going to do first when you log out?”

When Han Yeo-bom asked that question, the dentist answered without hesitation, as if he had already thought about it.

“I don’t know how much time has passed, but I want to visit my patients first. I should also apologize for suddenly disappearing. I should also apologize to the staff at our hospital… … .”

“I want to mix you with a dopamine addict and then split it in half.”

“But I feel relieved that the hospital building itself is mine, so I don’t think the hospital itself will disappear.”

“I take back what I just said. I don’t want to give half my fortune to a dopamine addict.”

Because this guy told me to just listen.

Do you think it would work to mix it first and then divide it in half?

“I mean, I’m going to eat first.”

When Han Yeo-bom spoke as if it were some grand plan, I looked at him with puzzled eyes.

“Aren’t you going to meet your older sister first?”

“I have to eat well because I don’t know what I’ll hear when I meet my older sister. First, I’ll grill 10 strips of LA ribs, and then I’ll eat freshly cooked rice and cubed radish kimchi. I’ll also make a soybean paste stew with tofu and enoki mushrooms. Oh, I want to eat rolled eggs too.”

It sounds quite delicious, perhaps because I came in while I was hungry.

“I don’t feel like I’m eating here, so I’ll probably want to eat first when I get back. If everyone in the world was like a player, I’d probably lose my job.”

Don’t worry. If a world comes where you can cure yourself by eating, not only you but all the other doctors will be ruined.

“But imagining your first meal back home. Don’t you think that just imagining it makes you feel energized? I’ll think about it too. Um, I… … .”

The dentist thought for a moment and then said.

“It might be simple for a first meal, but I want to eat milk and French toast. Toast that has been soaked in milk for a while and then fried with egg. It would also be good with carrot pickles.”

“Do you make pickles with carrots too?”

“Yes, I’m embarrassed to say this, but I hate carrots… so this is the only carrot dish I eat.”

The dentist who had said that looked at me with a look of surprise for a moment.

“Come to think of it, Senior… you said you were hungry, right? I wonder if I made you hungrier by saying this in front of you… .”

“No, it doesn’t really matter.”

I thought I would get hungrier if I heard stories about eating, but even though it sounded delicious, I didn’t feel hungrier after hearing stories like that.

But the dentist still looked at me as if he didn’t know what to do, probably thinking that I was saying this out of consideration so that he wouldn’t feel sorry, so I opened my mouth to show him that I really was fine.

“I don’t plan on eating anything fancy for my first meal either. Just ramen, kimchi, and a bottle of cola that I bought but didn’t drink.”

“Ugh, are all your menus a lump of dopamine?”

“Please eat while thinking about your health, senior.”

“Don’t do that. When you get back, come to my house. I’ll make sure you have a proper meal.”

“Why do I trust you and eat the food you prepare for me?”

“Don’t trust me, trust my aunt’s cooking skills.”

This kid… Was he a rich kid?

So that’s why it’s a flower garden on your head… no.

Even the dentist in the building is so great, but no matter where you look, this is clearly a problem with Han Yeo-bom’s character.

“Oh, I just remembered something I have to do after those two pass away.”

“What is it?”

“Please stop by my hospital. When you get back, it will have been a long time since you had your teeth scaled.”

Yeah, yeah.

This kid also had a bit of a strange side.

But still, I will go to you to get scaling done.

“Um, but… … .”

Han Yeo-bom raised her arms, rested her head on her clasped hands, and thought deeply about something for a moment before speaking.

“I don’t know what time zone I’ll be going back to after I log out.”

“Huh? I simply thought that about 6 years had passed in reality, but I guess not?”

“Think about it when we meet.”

Han Yeo-bom relaxed her posture and put her face close to the dentist.

“Even though we went to the convenience store at different times, we all started at the age of 10 at the same time. So it seems like time doesn’t flow the same way. It seems like some people logged out here and went back further than our Bingi time.”

“Is there such a person?”

The dentist stepped back a little, adjusting his glasses.

“If that’s the case… I hope it doesn’t take too much time.”

“That would be nice, but what if a hundred years have passed and no one we know will be left?”

“Don’t say such scary things!”

“Or maybe we’ll be thrown back a hundred years to a time when no one knew the importance of scaling?”

“That, that kind of thing!”

While Han Yeo-bom was making plans for the future while leaving the dentist to tease him, the dentist suddenly asked as if he had remembered something.

“Oh, but then… what if too much time has passed or something when I come back?”

“When you come back again?”

I stopped planning and looked up at the dentist.

“Do you plan on coming back to this world?”

“Huh? Oh, doesn’t logging out also mean logging in? I’ve never played a game, but I understand the concept of logging out and logging in.”

I can’t even laugh when you say you understand the concept of logging in and out with such a serious face.

“So, are you two planning to return completely to reality?”

“No, we will return to this world too… … .”

Why wouldn’t it be okay for socially misfits like Nana or Han Yeo-bom, but why for a rookie like you?

I couldn’t bring myself to say those words, but Han Yeo-bom suddenly interrupted and said.

“This world is a better place for social misfits like me and dopamine addicts, but why should you, who has a decent job as a dentist?”

“Huh? You two are socially maladjusted, haha.”

The dentist would laugh off the idea that we were social misfits.

“Well, I also cherish the connection I have here. I heard that the second apocalypse will come when we turn twenty. If I’m not here, who will protect the people in my area?”

I never once thought that I would have to come back to save the people of this world from the end of time.

You only want to protect the people of the district without even knowing what the second apocalypse is.

He was a truly kind person, but on the other hand, I was worried.

After the second apocalypse occurs, no matter how hard the players work together, a huge number of NPCs will die.

Because that’s when the real apocalypse begins.

There will be people who die from attacks by flying monsters, but if the area collapses due to monster attacks, there will also be people who wander the snowy fields and freeze to death or starve to death because there is nothing to eat.

Can this little thing handle it all?

I hope my newbies can enjoy the safe zone for a long time.

If you plan on living in this world anyway, it would be good for you to keep some mental distance from NPCs.

That’s why I took a quick breather.

“But… after opening the system, you must have realized that this world was a game.”

“Yes, it was.”

“But didn’t you feel any sense of discomfort from the people of this world? Maybe it was more comfortable to think of them as NPCs.”

“Ah, there was a time when I thought of myself as an NPC and tried to prioritize my own safety… … .”

“I did it?”

“That’s why I think it’s weirder that other players treat them like NPCs… because their oral structures are all different. No dentist would think they’re NPCs after seeing that.”

No, even if you were to travel to another world, you would be the only dentist who would be able to examine the oral structures of the residents.

‘What should I do to prevent a newbie from becoming exhausted after experiencing the second apocalypse…?’

At that time, I was thinking like that.

[Warning, warning.]

Suddenly the aircraft’s warning lights came on.

As soon as the warning light turned red, Han Yeo-bom and I stood up from our seats.

“what?”

The voice of the security system with no height continued.

[Warning, unregistered players are approaching at high speed.]

Unregistered player?

‘Are you a chicken zone player?’

The only area around here where players could be is the Chicken Area, and we had just sent someone to that area.

Of course, I thought they would send players to the airplane in the chicken area too.

Someone’s image began to appear on the screen at the front of the cockpit, and the person captured on the screen was completely beyond my expectations.

“hmm?”

“…Isn’t that our military uniform?”

As Han Yeo-bom said, the man on the screen was wearing a pure white cola military uniform.

The crossed cola bottle symbol is clearly embroidered on the chest.

But the man in the cola uniform was flying quickly over the snowfield.

By riding a hoverboard.

“What is that guy?”

Han Yeo-bom, who approached the screen to get a closer look at the guy, frowned and said.

“Wasn’t that guy in the unicorn area white-haired?”

The face of a drug addict is white hair and dark eyes without a light.

The stranger approaching on the hoverboard had dead black eyes, like a Topamin addict, but his hair was black like mine.

However, unlike me, who had quite a bit of hair, he had his hair cut shorter, more military-like than mine, and his tightly shut lips gave him a strong impression.

“Another Unicorn Zone player? But why are you wearing our zone uniform?”

I know one guy from one of the other districts who might have a Cola District uniform… but it didn’t make sense that he was flying here on a hoverboard at this point.

‘And that guy… is definitely from somewhere… … .’

“uh?”

The dentist got up from his seat awkwardly and walked towards the screen. He pushed up his glasses and looked at the man on the screen carefully, then let out a surprised voice.

“Convenience store employee?”

“what?”

If it were a ‘convenience store employee’ that would come out of a dentist’s mouth.

The convenience store that made us crazy.

There was only a black-haired man there.

“What do you mean? That guy is a convenience store employee?”

“He seems a little younger, but… I think it’s him?”

“What, he got possessed too?”

Han Yeo-bom seemed to be hesitating as if she couldn’t remember the convenience store employee’s face.

Even though I couldn’t remember it perfectly, I thought I had seen that face somewhere, so the dentist’s words didn’t sound so unreliable.

The problem is that it’s flying towards us right now.

Since you can’t even see the characters through the screen, you have no choice but to go out and see them yourself.

“I’ll go out and check.”

“Senior? You’re not feeling well right now, and you’re going alone?”

“Hoverboards are for one person. And you have to make sure you’re a player before you get close to the aircraft.”

“Hey, you can’t even use your powers right now… … .”

I put my goggles down and let out a short sigh.

“are you okay.”

Because we conquered all areas without that in the first place.

* * *
As I stepped out of the plane and flew up onto my hoverboard, I saw the snowfield that I had torn apart with my amplified powers.

I could see the cracked mark behind the guy caught on the screen, so he must have been following that mark.

I don’t know yet whether they come here with a purpose or to find the cause of the traces.

I flew along the gap in the split snowfield to meet the guy.

Not long after, I saw something like a dot flying in the distance.

Since I had to have the face in my field of vision to be able to use the character view, I also increased my speed and approached, and the distance between us was shortened in an instant.

But then the guy suddenly stopped right there.

‘Did you stop when you saw me flying in from the opposite direction?’

I quickly increased my speed and approached the guy, and as soon as I could see the face I had seen through the screen, I used character review.

‘View the character.’

And the moment the guy’s character appeared before my eyes.

I too had no choice but to stand still like that guy.

[Name: T-Balom

Title: The Ruins Slayer

Affiliation Area: Knife

Relationship: Friends]

Why are you here, you idiot?