This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 57



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 057

57. Flame

“Are you really able to stop the second apocalypse? By yourself?”

The goblin asked back in disbelief.

I answered with a languid smile on my lips.

“Are you doubting me again?”

“Ah, no, that’s not it! I didn’t know that was possible… Was it possible to prevent the second apocalypse with the special privilege of conquering all areas?”

Of course, my previous area conqueror’s privilege is the inheritance of the title, and I don’t know how to prevent the second apocalypse.

However, it is also true that there is no way to prove that what I am saying is false, since there is no way for me to immediately receive the ‘meteorite item’, an object containing the revelation of God, in my hand.

Anyway, as of now, no one but me knows what the special privileges of the previous region conqueror I received are.

Even if you are a player who has opened the system, the only thing you can check through my status window is the title ‘Friend of Luna Moon’.

If that’s the case, then even if the special privilege I received as a conqueror of all regions was ‘the privilege of being able to prevent the second apocalypse by collecting 9 meteorite items’, only I would know whether that was true or false.

The ‘God’ of the Love Zone, who took advantage of the ignorance of other players and tricked the system into believing it was a ‘revelation from God’, probably didn’t think that he would be subjected to the same trick.

Even if he has no way of verifying my privilege, he won’t be able to rule out the possibility that what I’m saying might be true.

Anyway, we all have to survive the second apocalypse, so my words that we can prevent the second apocalypse will sound sweet to the average player.

This may be unfortunate for players who have meteorite items.

I relaxed my overbearing posture a little and spoke softly.

“Believe it or not, it’s your choice, but I’m not saying I won’t cooperate. I have a mission, and I’m just moving forward to fulfill it.”

“Ahh… mission… … !”

The guy seemed deeply impressed by the word ‘mission’.

The guy who had been looking hopeful at the thought that he could easily solve the second apocalypse soon asked me with a worried expression.

“But… what is this object that contains the revelation of God?”

“If you’re a player, you’ll know. I need a meteorite item.”

“You mean the meteorite item? Then it must be the earring that Manshin-nim has. You said you can communicate with God with it… … .”

Omok-nun became quiet, looking lost in thought about how he should tell this story to Man-shin.

I, who had been quietly staring at that sunken eye, asked casually.

“But why did you pretend to be hurt?”

“yes?”

The guy looked up with a puzzled expression, as if my question was somewhat out of the blue.

“He was pretending to be hurt before he was caught.”

“Ah… that’s… … .”

“It’s okay, just be honest.”

“I tried to catch the NPC and find out about Dopamine Addict. I failed… … .”

“Are you trying to fight two people with that body?”

“Oh, well, I was trying to kill one and cripple the other.”

If I hadn’t had early education, I would have been in trouble.

“But these NPCs are incredibly perceptive?! It’s as if they had anticipated this situation… … .”

The sunken eyed man who had been mumbling until then looked at me with an expression that seemed to indicate that he had realized something.

“Now that I think about it… did you know I was coming?!”

I answered without changing my expression.

“okay.”

“Somehow, for a Cola District NPC, they seem to be smart… …!”

“That’s fortunate. If you had hurt them, I couldn’t have just sent you away.”

As I said that, the guy seemed to remember that he was now in another player’s territory, and tension spread across his pale face.

“I… I think I should go back now to tell this story to the Manshin… … .”

“Why? You must have had a hard time coming this far. Why don’t you stay longer?”

“No. We must convey this tremendous truth quickly so that we can prevent the Second Apocalypse without delay.”

I guess it occurred to you that I might not send it back nicely.

You could interrogate them and get information about the Love Zone in return, but… … .

Anyway, keeping this guy around only increases the risk of my identity as a player being revealed.

I’ll have to pretend to be kind and send him back quickly, because it’ll be embarrassing if I talk about divine revelations in front of the NPCs in my area.

I opened my inventory and took out the old combat rations I had as extras.

When I pulled out the combat rations from the air, Omok-Nun let out a small exclamation of admiration.

Judging from the fact that he was impressed but not terribly surprised, it seems like the new guy has already shown himself using his inventory to prove his specialness.

I threw the combat rations in front of the squinty-eyed man.

It’s not the new combat rations like star candy, but the old combat rations that taste like military boots, but it doesn’t matter since we can’t taste it anyway.

“Take it. It’ll be enough to recover on the way back.”

“Thank you… … !”

I left the hunched over boy for a moment as he hurriedly packed his combat rations, then asked him in a quiet voice.

“Instead, there’s one thing I’d like to ask… … .”

* * *

“Can you really send it like that?”

Meursault asked me, looking at the back of the sunken-eyed man who was turning away with his head down.

“I’m concerned that you were too calm when you were caught, even though you were simply lost… … .”

“What are you doing? You’re just a kid.”

“… I’m most scared of children these days.”

Why are you saying that while looking at me?

“Anyway, I told you a good story. I even untied the rope and talked to you, but you didn’t harm me. Isn’t that enough? We came here to catch monsters, not suspicious kids.”

“That’s true, but… … .”

Meursault seemed a bit uneasy about my generous treatment, but Lucas and Bones, who had brought the child, seemed greatly relieved.

“I’m glad he was just a kid.”

“Why is that stupid kid making a fuss in a place like this?”

These guys would faint if they knew they almost died at the hands of that stupid kid.

“There doesn’t seem to be anything special here besides that kid from earlier, so let’s go back.”

“Since there’s no signal, it looks like the other teams haven’t found their target yet.”

Each team agreed to fire a white signal flare when they discovered a large monster that was the target of subjugation.

But even after finishing the conversation with the Love Zone player, not a single spark was visible in the sky.

In this case, either the last winter was too warm and the population decreased, or the monsters learned to come out to hunt when the weather gets warm and went into deep hiding.

At least the winters since I became a thief haven’t been so easy, so there’s a higher chance that monsters are hiding.

If that’s the case, it will eventually come out to find food, so we just have to kill time and wait.

Even so… … .

“It’s strange that I don’t see a single one.”

“Is that so?”

“Not only the large ones, but I’ve never encountered even the small and medium-sized ones before.”

All we found when we went out to search was a player pretending to be a child.

This was clearly not a normal situation.

But the new officers, including Meursault, had blank expressions on their faces.

“… Okay. What should I say to those who came out for the first time in the punitive expedition?”

“It’s my first time coming out too… … .”

“what?”

“We will clean up the surroundings!”

Lucas covered Bones’ mouth as he grumbled and quickly went to clean up the temporary barracks.

Meursault, who had been watching the scene for a while, turned his gaze back to me and asked.

“Is that such a strange situation? I rarely go to expeditions myself, but I’ve received many reports. Usually, when you go to expeditions, small and medium-sized monsters get scared and run away, so you can’t see them. Team members who searched in other directions also reported finding footprints of monsters running away in a hurry, as if they were scared.”

“Yeah, I heard that too. But there are only ten of us.”

Normally, small and medium-sized monsters are invisible.

It’s even more strange that the sensitive monsters don’t run away when hundreds of armed humans come out to hunt.

But now we are only about 10 people.

It’s too cute a size to scare small to medium sized monsters in terms of numbers.

“But it bothers me that so many monsters ran away in a panic as if they were scared.”

“Hmm… Don’t monsters have sensitive senses?”

“Yes. Why is that?”

“I noticed it from afar. Oh, something bad came out of the area… … .”

I was speechless for a moment and just stared at Meursault.

“Are you joking about that now?”

“… Hey, over there! You shouldn’t move it like that.”

Meursault acted quite awkwardly and avoided my questions. I watched him babble nonsense about helping the soldiers for a while, and my expression hardened a little.

Because, despite the coldness of Meursault’s joke, I felt an inexplicable chill.

‘It’s so quiet… … .’

This area isn’t originally one where many monsters roam.

So, this may be a groundless worry.

Anyway, my goal was to check the barrier around here, so now that I’ve personally witnessed the Love Zone players cross over, I’ve achieved that goal.

Even with the naked eye, the blue walls that you see in the game are nowhere to be seen.

The Unicorn Zone player guy also came over, and I was worried that he might be the only one who could cross the zone, so I guess I should say that it’s fortunate.

‘But if it becomes like this… … .’

The home protector who has not been in contact until now is likely to have been subjected to some kind of treatment by the ‘god’ of the Love Zone.

Of course, it’s possible that he’s just busy with his strategy and hasn’t contacted me, or that he’s just being quiet because he thinks I’m suspicious.

My gut feeling was that something had happened to HomeProtector.

If he was the guy who sent players to my area, he would have definitely gone to the nearest tobacco area himself.

Well, I have no intention of going to get the Home Protector, but I am interested in the meteorite item he had.

‘We’ll have to see how that shaman reacts to the zone conquest perk.’

The most likely reaction would be to not believe me.

Love Zone players are expected to show more generous plays than expected.

at that time.

“uh?”

One of the guys who was moving the luggage looked up at the distant sky and made a dumbfounded sound.

The team members with sensitive senses, including me, immediately turned our heads and looked at the sky there.

Soon they filled our field of vision.

White fireworks decorating the sky.

“beautiful…….”

Some of the new officers, who had no combat experience whatsoever, were overwhelmed by the sight before their eyes and looked amazed, but Meursault and I had cold, frozen expressions on our faces.

“That’s definitely… … .”

A white bullet that fires when a large monster is discovered.

The direction from which the bullet came was toward the center where Team 1 with the commander had gone out to search.