This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 118



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 118
71. Hunger (7)

of course.

Common sense tells me that if I’m doing hard content and a rare piece of equipment drops, but I already have it, I should give it to my teammate who hasn’t gotten it yet.

Even though she was a young girl, I never thought that she would brazenly demand the Snow Deer’s jewel when she hadn’t even lifted a finger to conquer the Snow Deer. Even I, who would be second to none in terms of shamelessness, couldn’t imagine it.

“Are you going to give it to me?”

When I heard those words from Han Yeo-bom, I was speechless.

‘What kind of shameless kid is this?’

I wonder if Tibalom felt this way every time he asked me if I would give him the meteorite knife?

Looking at the look in the dentist’s eyes as he looked at Han Yeo-bom from the side, it seemed like he was on the verge of changing his evaluation of her to ‘a person like an impacted wisdom tooth.’

Han Yeo-bom was embarrassed when the dentist and I looked at her with cold eyes and started making excuses.

“Ah, no, why are you looking at me like I’m such a bad guy?! You can only have one superpower per player, right? Then you, dopamine addict, can’t use it since you already have one. But I can’t give it to a newbie who doesn’t even know what a superpower is. So of course you have to give it to me, right?!”

Hmm.

It’s a statement that seems to completely forget about Taejung, who left for the chicken area, but it does have some truth to it.

You probably don’t think I’d give this gem to some random stranger who’s passed out and flying over on a hoverboard.

But no matter where you look, this jewel is an approach-only ability.

This means that even if Han Yeo-bom, a healer, has this ability, she cannot use it properly.

However, if he gave his ability to Tibalom, it was certain that Han Yeo-bom’s personality would be in chaos.

He’s shameless and stupid, but I need Han Yeo-bom’s healing powers, and I’m in debt because of my older sister.

Here, coaxing and appeasing them well will help with future strategies.

Fortunately, Han Yeo-bom is very simple and is not difficult to convince.

I lowered my voice.

“Han Yeo-bom.”

“Why, why do you call me that?”

Although she had asked for it, Han Yeo-bom must have felt guilty for not doing anything while we were attacking the snow deer. She made a stinging expression and took her hand off me, slowly stepping back.

I looked at Han Yeo-bom quietly and asked.

“Why do you need this ability?”

“what?”

Han Yeo-bom seemed to have realized right away that I had no intention of giving her a power, so she got angry and answered.

“Hey! Is that what you’re saying? Why can’t I have the power you have? You always ignore me like that-”

“That’s not it.”

I shook my head heavily a couple of times before continuing.

“You are already a better player than me, even with your special abilities.”

“……uh?”

“yes?”

Not only did Han Yeo-bom’s eyes widen at hearing the unexpected words from me, but even the dentist, who was looking at Han Yeo-bom and me helplessly, let out a dumbfounded sound.

I continued speaking nonchalantly.

“The power… It is a powerful power. But look. Right now, I am on the verge of being consumed by that power. It may have been a power I should not have obtained in the first place.”

He said that and smiled bitterly.

“If you’re a veteran in the safe zone… you should be able to conquer it without any special abilities. Just like you.”

“Uh, me?”

“Even without any special abilities, you can do things that other players can’t. You’re probably the only healer in this world. You’ve already surpassed me. Just with your talent.”

“Well, I don’t think there’s anyone who can heal other players like I can… … .”

“Han Yeo-bom.”

I called his name softly and placed a hand gently on his shoulder.

“You are already a perfect hexagonal player. To someone like you, abilities are just shackles. They are only suitable for someone like that, who is used as a consumable on the battlefield.”

I naturally declared that I would give the Snow Deer’s ability to Tibalom, but Han Yeo-bom only muttered seriously with a confused face at my whispered words.

“Is that so? Maybe that’s what it seems like? Maybe a great healer like me doesn’t need it?”

I never said he was a great healer, but he’s pretty good.

“Then I will take your consent and give the jewel to Tibalom.”

“huh!”

After getting the answer I wanted and feeling satisfied, the dentist looked at me with a slightly unfamiliar look.

I have a feeling that our newbies will soon get to know my bare face.

I thought Han Yeo-bom might change her mind, so I quickly laid Tibalom, who had flown over to me on his hoverboard, flat on the snow.

“I have to feed you before you wake up.”

“Hmm? Don’t you usually wait until they wake up before giving it to them?”

Han Yeo-bom’s question of why she didn’t wait until she woke up was quickly resolved.

As soon as I pushed the jewel into Tibalom’s mouth, who was lying as if dead, Tibalom opened his eyes wide.

“Kwaaak!”

Because I screamed once and then fainted again.

I passed out for about a week after eating a gem, so I wonder how long it will take for this guy to wake up.

Well, I think it took me longer to wake up because I was in a state where I was beaten by the snow giant.

Tibalom seemed likely to come to his senses sooner than that.

Han Yeo-bom was heard muttering in a trembling voice.

“I think it was a good thing I didn’t eat it.”

You must be stupid.

‘Is this roughly the end of the situation…?’

Thinking like that, he straightened his knees, which had been on the snowfield while he was feeding Tibalom the jewel, and stood up, wiping the snow off his uniform.

thud.

The suddenly heavy air weighed down my whole body.

Tibalom’s body flashed golden, and soon something like a magic circle descended around him.

‘this…….’

A familiar pattern.

The cave where I gained the snow giant’s ability the day before.

It was the same pattern that had remained there.

“Huh!”

As soon as the pattern touched my body, an unknown force pulled me down, and I barely managed to get up, only to be thrown back onto the snowy field.

As I fell, I heard Han Yeo-bom and the dentist shouting in surprise.

“What, what?!”

“senior!”

“Don’t come any closer!”

I instinctively decided that those kids should not come into contact with this unpleasant symbol.

Another reason is that I also remember being extremely wary of touching this pattern.

Nana Tibalom, who had already reached her, could not do anything, but he made the other two retreat from the pattern.

Although Han Yeo-bom and the dentist cannot be seen because of the force pressing down on her whole body, Han Yeo-bom would have immediately realized that listening to what I was saying now would be beneficial to her health.

Sararak… … .

Meanwhile, the golden light that had risen so high as if it were reaching the sky began to sink to the ground and envelop my body.

Unlike when he amplified his abilities by borrowing Luna’s power, it felt as soft as a velvet ribbon.

It didn’t seem like he was trying to hurt me.

No, rather, a powerful force surged into me, just like when Luna amplified my power.

It felt as if he was desperate to ‘complete’ me.

As the golden ribbon wrapped around my head, I smelled a familiar scent for some reason.

A scent that I have smelled in my original world, not in this world.

As I smelled that scent, I started to feel sleepy.

The stomach.

My heart.

No, it felt like all the blood was drained from my body and I was left empty.

‘hungry…….’

I was so sleepy that I couldn’t control my body.

If I lose consciousness like this, I’ll be worried.

I couldn’t stand it any longer.

When the golden beam of light blocked my vision, I was plunged into pitch-black darkness and silence.

* * *
“What happened?”

Han Yeo-bom held the dentist who was trying to jump forward tightly with both arms, and looked at the dopamine addict who was wrapped in a golden aura like a silkworm cocoon with bewildered eyes.

“Is it okay to just leave that?”

Although I had faithfully followed the dopamine addict’s order not to come near, I was looking at the dopamine addict who had become one with the gold and had not moved an inch since a little while ago, and at that moment, I thought that maybe I should have rushed to save him even though it seemed dangerous.

The dopamine addict stood up from his seat.

Han Yeo-bom and the dentist simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.

“Senior! I was surprised!”

The dopamine addict turned around at the dentist’s shout.

On the dopamine addict’s forehead, something diamond-shaped appeared, shining smoothly and golden.

“What is it… a jewel?”

Before Han Yeo-bom could even finish thinking about what she had said.

Hundreds in the sky.

No, maybe thousands, tens of thousands of lightning bolts struck the ground.

“Whoaaah!!”

“What, what is it?!”

Han Yeo-bom instinctively pulled the dentist’s body down and wrapped it around her to protect him from the lightning.

As Han Yeo-bom pulled the dentist away, golden lightning struck the spot where the dentist was standing several times.

The two people who narrowly avoided the lightning strike were gasping for breath, but the dopamine addict who had been striking with lightning in a wide area was out of sight.

Where the dopamine addict had stood, only a faded pattern and a fallen Tibalom remained.

As I looked around hurriedly, I saw a dopamine addict wearing a pure white military uniform riding on a snow deer that had been struck by lightning and was blackened in places, lying helplessly in the snow.

The dentist hid behind Han Yeo-bom in an unknown fear and asked.

“Hey, what are you doing right now?”

“Snow deer… It looks like it’s eating… … .”

“Oh, you said you were hungry, but are you starting to feel hungry again?”

“I don’t feel so good right now… … .”

The dopamine addict who had been eating meat on top of the snow deer for a long time was seen lifting his face, which was covered in the deer’s blood, and letting out a long sigh.

After a while, when the dopamine addict’s gaze turned to the two people, Han Yeo-bom realized what she was feeling right now.

“X happened.”

The dentist must have thought of that too, because his hand that was holding Han Yeo-bom’s collar seemed to tighten, and then he shouted as if he had just remembered something.

“Pah, Parker!”

“Parker?”

“That guy, you said you knew something about the superpower penalty! Send me a chat and tell me what to do!!”

“No, I’m a dedicated player, so I’m only a dopamine addict… Ah!”

Han Yeo-bom quickly searched through the message window, Dopamine Addict.

I opened a note from a dopamine addict impersonator from the Unicorn Zone.

The unicorn flight deck was registered as a user just because the two people had the same in-game nickname.

This is because the thought suddenly occurred to Han Yeo-bom that she might be able to send a chat message to a player with the name ‘Dopamine Addict’.

‘If that magnet man knows what to do with that hunger, then that guy in the unicorn area must know what to do with it too.’

Meanwhile, the dopamine addict who had come down from the snow deer’s body was walking towards him with a smile on his face covered in blood, so the dentist urged Han Yeo-bom to hurry.

“Hey, Yeo-bom!! Ask quickly!!”

“Did you always have such a loud voice?!”

While responding like that, Han Yeo-bom quickly sent a message to the ‘dopamine addict’.

[Corner Girl: Help me, I’m a dopamine addict going crazy from hunger]

After sending the message, I briefly wondered what I should do if I couldn’t chat with other dopamine addicts.

Should I say that it was fate that was on my side?

The answer came straight back from the ‘dopamine addict’.

[Dopamine addict: ^^;]

[Dopamine Addict: Knock It Down]

“… … .”

While Han Yeo-bom was looking at her dumbfounded, the dentist noticed that a reply had arrived and asked urgently.

“What did you say? Did you get a reply?”

“They told me to knock him down?”

“How can one strike down a thousand lightning bolts in the clear sky?”

As if he could hear the dentist’s rebuttal, the ‘dopamine addict’ sent another message.

[Dopamine Addict: Or feed me some of your blood^^]

“Blood? Feed me blood?”

“You want to feed it blood? I just ate a snow deer and it didn’t get any better!”

“No, I think it’s our blood that needs to be fed… … .”

“yes?!”

It was impossible to knock down a man who could strike thousands of lightning bolts out of the clear sky, but it also seemed impossible to safely put their own blood into the mouth of a man who could strike thousands of lightning bolts out of the clear sky. So, Han Yeo-bom and the dentist just stared at the approaching dopamine addict with their mouths open for a moment.

And then someone roughly grabbed Han Yeo-bom’s shoulder.

“What, what is it!”

I looked back in surprise and saw T-Balom standing next to me with a very tired look on his face, as if he had come to his senses.

“so…….”

T-Balom asked, running his hands through his sweaty hair.

“Can you hit me?”