This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 61



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 061

58. Promise (4)

“It turned into blue particles… and disappeared?”

Only then did I understand why Banggu Seok-yeo was so shocked and terrified.

The player’s special characteristic is that when he brings food to his mouth, it turns into blue particles and disappears.

At least that’s the case so far.

Unlike players, other NPCs ate normally, chewing their food with their teeth and swallowing it.

But it would have been natural to be confused if you had seen the same phenomenon occurring in a monster that wasn’t even a player, but was eating a person.

“Why do you think that happened?”

Banggu Seok Yeo-bo asked me with an anxious look.

“Are they players too?”

“Would you understand if you asked me that?”

“You’re smarter than me!!”

This guy is the type that is good at being objective when he’s cornered.

But I don’t have any particular idea about it.

When I first arrived, I didn’t even see monsters eating people.

It’s enough to make my head hurt just thinking about why the monsters ran away from me, but their ‘eating style’ is also the same as ours?

“First… I guess I’ll have to see it with my own eyes to be able to say anything.”

When I gave a lukewarm answer, Banggu Seok-yeo jumped up from her seat.

“I told you I saw it clearly!”

“It’s not that I doubt what you say, it’s that I feel like I have to see it for myself to feel it.”

Banggu Seok-yeo asked if those monsters were also players.

Just because something that touched the corner of your mouth turned into blue particles and disappeared, you can’t say that it was a player.

The horned rabbit I saw when I went hunting before munched on the cookies I had placed as bait, so maybe it’s an ability that only the individual I saw a little while ago has.

“Anyway, these alien monsters already have the ability to heal wounds with moonlight. It wouldn’t be that surprising if they could heal wounds by eating something… .”

As soon as I stopped talking there, the girl in the corner looked at me as if she knew why I stopped talking.

“Did you feel something strange as you were talking?”

“… … .”

I looked down at my body for a moment.

‘Right after I got into it, I thought it was just a game world so I didn’t think much about it… … .’

As if reading my mind, Banggu Seok-yeo-bo asked me.

“This body we possessed. Where did it come from? Have you ever thought about it?”

Now that I think about it, the word ‘ice’ was also strange.

If we were possessed, there must have been at least one person who knew the owner of our body before.

Even Anton doubted my past because he couldn’t find a single person who knew me.

That means that these ‘bodies’ that we are using now popped out from somewhere on the day we were possessed by this world.

“So that’s why you asked if those monsters were players?”

I looked at the corner of the room and asked.

“What do you really want to say?”

Banggu Seok-yeo answered my question with an unusually serious expression.

“We… seem to be monsters.”

I looked at the corner of the room for a while.

I let out a long sigh.

“phew…….”

“Hey! You sigh when someone is talking seriously? Then, doesn’t your body feel strange right now? It was strange, wasn’t it? This body, its physical abilities are strangely high!”

Certainly, I too, when I fought a large monster a little while ago, thought that it was an output that my 10-year-old body could not produce.

I thought that physical abilities and healing abilities would be player privileges…

There may be some other secret.

but.

“It’s not like we’re monsters. For one thing, we don’t have any jewels.”

“ah…….”

When I heard the story of the jewel in the corner of the room, I felt like I had regained some of my composure.

What distinguishes monsters from humans is their appearance and whether they have healing abilities, but the most important thing is whether they have ‘gems’.

Monsters born from meteorites each have a jewel that serves as their core, and even if there is a rabbit with horns running around, if there is no jewel embedded in its body, it is just a mutant rabbit.

It’s a bit far-fetched to think of them as human-shaped monsters, when they don’t even have jewels attached to their bodies.

The lady in the corner of the room, who seemed to be thinking deeply about something I said, whispered softly.

“But those guys are strangely intelligent. Could it be that some of the players are possessed by large monsters?”

I guess they think those monsters are somehow related to the players.

But I took this opinion seriously.

“What you’re saying isn’t all that nonsense. There are also people who possess adults’ bodies, like the Unicorn Zone Player. There must be other exceptions.”

“yes?!”

“That’s why I have to see it with my own eyes. If they’re players, they’ll make you regret it in my front yard. If not… … .”

I quickly finished my story as I saw the commander and Meursault coming out of the barracks one after another over Banggu Seok-yeo’s shoulder.

“Let’s think about that when we get there. Whether we’re humans or monsters, the fact that we have to conquer this world doesn’t change.”

Banggu Seok-yeo didn’t seem to understand my statement that ‘it doesn’t matter whether you’re a human or a monster’, but she nodded steadily.

I looked at the corner lady quietly and then asked.

“But… don’t you think it’s strange that I chased away the monster?”

If the monsters’ eating habits were strange, wouldn’t it be normal to question why they ran away when I showed up? I asked, and Banggu Seok Yeobo answered with a genuine expression that it wasn’t strange at all.

“What is that? Even I would run away if I saw you.”

hmm.

What does Meursault or this guy think of me?

* * *

After we finished organizing, we went out to search again.

Originally, the team was reorganized with the intention of only searching until the wounded soldiers returned and then returning.

After hearing Banggu Seok Yeobo’s story, I felt that I had to catch at least one of the four runaways and check on them.

Do they really turn into blue particles that can heal wounds when you put food in their mouths? Why do they come together in groups and run away when they see me?

This feeling of uneasiness won’t go away unless I figure out something clear.

I glanced at the combat rations on my waist.

‘I don’t know if combat rations would be considered food for monsters, though.’

If that happens, I have no choice but to risk injury and give up at least one of my arms.

The problem is how to lead this team, including the commander, to not only search but also track down those four monsters.

As if things weren’t bad enough, the snow that had started falling a little while ago was getting heavier and heavier, so it didn’t look like the search would last long.

The signal flare we shoot when we spot a monster is white.

As the snowfall gets heavier, it will become indistinguishable from snow.

“Mr. Haydam.”

Lieutenant Platon, the former team leader of Team 9 who had been reorganized and had come to Team 1 like me, approached me with shining eyes.

It was obvious why he was talking to me now.

That’s because the other guys who were on Team 1 were busy talking about my performance a little while ago, one by one.

Even I was at a loss as to how I could chase away four large monsters with just a glance, and was tired of just beating around the bush.

“Are you curious about how you were chased?”

As I looked at him with tired eyes, he waved both his hands as if to claim his innocence.

“Oh, no, Mr. Haydam.”

“No?”

“Actually… I don’t know why they’re making such a fuss.”

This is a new perspective.

As I watched with interest, Plato continued.

“It’s not even a big deal for you to chase away three or four large monsters. Even the monsters know that they are no match for you and run away, but it’s a shame that the soldiers in the same area still don’t know.”

Hmm. I think you’re the one who’s the most noisy.

“Anyway, what I was going to ask was something else.”

“What is it?”

“Identification of the location of the jewel. Did Mr. Haydam inform the military?”

Although I had trained new officers in the jewel location identification method before the expedition, I did not specifically inform the military or the new officers that I had created the identification method.

This is the same reason why it is known that the commander of this punitive expedition is Meursault and not me.

As this was the first identification method to be implemented this year, I wondered if the soldiers would really believe and follow the method that I, a 10-year-old, came up with.

The new officers are people who saw me firsthand at the military academy, but the regular soldiers are different.

Most of the soldiers probably don’t know my face very well.

Even in the battle situation just now, you didn’t follow my instructions right away, but only moved after checking Meursault’s reaction.

Therefore, the jewel location identification method was passed on to the soldiers through the headquarters after the commander and Meursault had sufficiently verified it.

But Plato seemed convinced that this method of discrimination was also something he had created.

“Why do you think I told you?”

“We were also trained in this discrimination method, but few soldiers actually applied it properly when confronted with multiple large monsters. But Lord Haydam, upon arriving at the front line, killed two monsters with just two shots.”

Well, the first one was the one that Meursault helped with, but it seems like people have already forgotten about it.

“Assuming I told you… why are you curious about that?”

“I told you earlier that there were very few soldiers who applied that discrimination method properly… but I saw soldiers hunting monsters with movements almost at the same level as Heydam.”

As he said this, Plato looked back.

Plato’s gaze fell on the corner of the room, which seemed to be following us at a slight distance behind us.

Since the team size was so small, I told him to keep his distance and follow me because I knew he would make a slip of the tongue if the two of us were stuck together.

Plato looked away from the corner lady and back at me, then added.

“The large monster that was dealt with before Heydam arrived was also caught by my friend.”

“Really? I didn’t know that.”

You took care of a large monster and then came to me and said that the monster was strange.

Was it that shocking that monsters were ‘eating’ the same food as us?

It seems that the commander brought Banggu Seok-yeo to Team 1 not simply because she ran to help me at that time.

“I think you know Haydam… Is that right?”

Since it was already known to almost everyone that I was close to Banggu Seok Yeo-bo, I did not specifically deny it but rather affirmed it.

“Oh. We know each other.”

“then…….”

Plato hesitated for a moment before answering.

He asked me in a small voice.

“Is that the child that my father kidnapped?”

I stopped walking and looked at Plato.

‘How does this guy know this?’

No way, this kid.

Are you now investigating your own father for me?