This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 96



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 096

65. Dopamine Addict 1st Play Highlight Video

The video started before I had a chance to figure out what the heck ‘1st Play Highlight Video’ was.

The first thing that appeared in the video was a convenience store.

Looking at the angle, it seemed to be a video captured on a convenience store CCTV, and of course, the convenience store that the CCTV was showing was the place where we were possessed.

It was the place I mistook for a safety zone collaboration convenience store.

‘This is no way… … .’

It seems my prediction was not wrong.

A moment later, a familiar man in tracksuit appeared entering the convenience store.

It’s definitely me.

I was a dopamine addict.

“What is this… … .”

I couldn’t take my eyes off the video.

The dopamine addict who entered the convenience store looked around the shelves, took pictures, and played with his phone for a long time.

I know what I’m doing because I’ve done it too.

I’m posting about convenience stores in the Safe Zone community.

‘Looking at it this way, you seem like a community addict.’

After a while, the dopamine addict was seen looking away from his phone and walking around the stalls, choosing items.

The dopamine addict absentmindedly walked past the fridge with the bottled cola and picked up one of the unicorn dolls inside.

Since I’ve never been in that convenience store and been near a unicorn doll, I could immediately tell what the phrase “1st playthrough highlight video” meant.

‘The dopamine addict in this video is not me.’

If my guess is correct, this is… a pre-possession video of me, the Topamin addict, picking out a unicorn doll at that convenience store.

A dopamine addict holding a unicorn doll was walking towards the clerk with a heavy heart, but the clerk’s face was different from what I had known.

The clerk who hit my head with the barcode scanner was definitely a man, but the employee standing in the CCTV footage was a woman with short black hair.

And the dopamine addict’s head wasn’t even hit with the barcode machine until the calculation was finished, and the dopamine addict, after the calculation was finished, instead of being hit by the barcode machine and losing consciousness, walked to the door staggering.

‘No, why am I the only one who got hit by the barcode machine… … .’

The dopamine addict standing in front of the door grabbed the handle, paused for a moment, and then looked back.

The next moment it disappeared from the screen.

‘Have other people been possessed like that?’

I don’t know why I’m the only one being ripped off by the convenience store employee.

Then the screen changed, and a white-haired child appeared, sound asleep.

This guy’s face was also one I knew all too well.

‘My main character… … .’

There is no room for doubt anymore.

This is another addict.

Here’s a video of him playing.

Looking at the video, it says it was the first playthrough, so I guess that kid is not a salty person like me, but has really regressed.

After a while, the addict in the video woke up.

The screen was filled with the joyous expressions of those who realized they had been possessed by a game.

‘It feels a bit like mirror therapy.’

From this point on, as the title of the highlight video suggests, only scenes featuring the addicts in action were shown one after another.

The Topamin addict who had been a child turned into an adult in an instant, and the adult Topamin addict easily conquered other areas as if he was rolling candy in his mouth.

The strange thing is that while I was conquering the entire area, I didn’t see any other players I knew.

Were the players who were possessed the first time different from the ones now?

Or maybe it was a different karma at that time?

As I was watching the video with that thought in mind, the screen flickered for a moment and then the face of the drug addict filled the screen.

Then letters and sentences began to appear on the screen.

[Congratulations! You survived in this world. Player, dopamine addict, in return for entertaining me, I will grant you one wish.]

The Topamin addict, who had been staring blankly at the letters floating in the air, tilted his head slightly.

-wish?

As the Topamin addict asked in a dry and cracked voice, the letters in the air changed.

[Yes! Wish! Anything you wish for!]

-Anything… … .

[Do you want me to raise the dead? Or send you back to reality? Or do you want me to erase all of this? Now, tell me what you want!]

-I am…….

The addict opened his mouth with an emotionless face and spoke.

-I want more stimulation.

[………yes?]

-I won too easily. I should have enjoyed it more slowly.

[What is that… … .]

-I will play this game one more time.

[You want to play this game again?]

-This time, let’s have other players participate as well as me. It’ll be more fun that way.

The letters appearing in the air blinked as if they were confused, and then a new sentence appeared after a while.

[Are you really going to make a wish for that? A chance to save someone, a chance to turn everything around, a chance to erase the beginning of all misfortune! Are you going to use it for that?]

-okay.

The addict continued with a calm expression.

-I just want to keep playing this game until I’m satisfied.

The letters in the air trembled slightly as if they were laughing.

[I guess I’ll have to give you a new title: ‘dopamine addict.’]

-The title is fine now. It’s useless.

[Don’t worry. I’ll make it useful for you from ‘next’ time. So… My precious player (PC) who is cursed with boredom. I hope the next game will satisfy you.]

And then the screen turned off with a bang.

“…What did I just see?”

This is a bit… dizzy.

I calmly played the video again.

And I just looked back at the last part.

-I want… …a greater stimulation.

-I won too easily. I should have enjoyed it more slowly.

-I will play this game one more time.

-This time, let’s have other players participate as well as me. It’ll be more fun that way.

-I just want to keep playing this game until I’m satisfied.

No matter how many times I checked, nothing changed.

I laid my head down on the bed.

‘It was me.’

This is what draws other players into the game.

I am neither mother nor father, but none other than myself.

It really was me!

‘I don’t think this video is fake.’

All the things the dopamine addict said in the video were things he would say himself.

Things I might think about.

Wishes I might make.

“No.”

I quickly raised my head from where I was lying in bed and sat up.

The one who made that wish was just a Topamin addict.

That is, a first-time dopamine addict.

It’s not me.

I chose cola, and I am a completely separate entity from the topamin addict.

‘So, did that bastard come to me last time after making this wish and talking like that?’

Now I can’t trust anything the dopamin addict ever said to me.

The guy who made that wish told me that it was my father who possessed us?

No, yeah.

There must be someone else who has been imbued with the first ‘dopamine addict’ mentality.

Now I can’t believe that he really is my father.

-If it was my mother, why would she have set the point of possession to 10 years in the future? If she wanted to return to another world, why did she need to possess so many people? And why did she even drag me in, who she abandoned?

Yeah… Now that I think about it, I didn’t lie about my mother.

Since it was probably himself, not his mother, who needed to convince so many people, he must have been confident that it wasn’t his mother.

however…….

There is one strange thing.

‘The wish of the Topamin addict is to possess other players as well. My existence cannot be explained by that wish.’

There was no confidence in the wishes of the first dopamine addict.

Still, the addict came all the way to the cola area to check if I was growing well.

The fact that he came to me means that he knew of my existence.

So, what can we assume?

‘Not just the first time, but the second time. There may even be more times.’

The dopamine addict who survived by crushing other players in the second round made a new wish.

This time, I want to face ‘myself’.

I can tell because I am that guy and he is me.

If I hadn’t had fun the second time around, I would have definitely wished for that.

And if my assumption is correct, it explains a lot, such as why I and that guy exist at the same time, and why he is ranked higher than me, who inherited the title as a perk for conquering all areas.

And I know that the kid who’s a game developer didn’t send me this video with good intentions.

‘I sent it as the first video on purpose.’

If you just wanted to warn me about the Topamin addiction, you could have sent me all the episodes so far.

However, the game developer only sent me the first one.

They even intentionally placed the scene where he makes a wish to possess other players in the most dramatic place.

The original timing of this video’s arrival was right after the additional opening.

When I thought I had unlocked the secret of the apocalypse, did the Ping want to show me that it was actually a disaster I had brought upon myself?

‘I felt it before too… … .’

It was clear that the ‘someone’ watching us was a malicious viewer.

It was clear that he was watching my reaction by intentionally showing me various things that would provoke me, including this highlight video that didn’t work.

This video with the ridiculous title ‘Dopamine Addict 1st Play Highlight Video’ is proof of that.

He is such an avid viewer that he records and edits out only the most provocative scenes.

‘Game developers’ are watching me and us as content.

‘There have been times when I lacked content, but this is the first time I’ve become someone else’s content.’

Perhaps he wanted to see me shake when he found out that the culprit behind this group’s possession was me, not the convenience store.

But there is something the developers overlooked.

Even if it was me who brought other players into this world.

What do you mean?

I’m not the kind of person who would be shocked or feel guilty about something like that.

Showing me something like this won’t get you the reaction you want.

At best, if you’re going to grant the wish of the last surviving player, you’ll be a little worried about what wish to make.

At that time, messages arrived one after another.

[Dentist Candy Zone Strategy Highlights (NEW!)]

[Home Protector Tobacco Zone Strategy Highlights (NEW!)]

[Highlights of the Sappy Beer Zone Strategy (NEW!)]

[I’m not crying, that’s aerobic exercise. Chicken area attack highlight (NEW!)]

[Highlights of the Cocaine Zone Strategy (NEW!)]

[T-Balom Knife Zone Strategy Highlights (NEW!)]

[New Love Zone Strategy Highlights (NEW!)]

That’s like.

It seemed like he was asking how you could look at this and still not feel anything.

‘Newbie!’

I played the dentist candy area highlight walkthrough without hesitation.