This Universe Needs Old People - Chapter 97



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Apocalypse Needs Old People Episode 097

66. Player highlight video (1)

[Dentist Candy Zone Strategy Highlights (NEW!)]

I was just wondering if my precious newbie was doing well in the strategy.

As I played the video, just like my first playthrough video a little while ago, the CCTV screen from the convenience store collaboration was broadcast.

It seems like the moment of choosing a symbol at a convenience store is also a highlight.

After waiting for a while, a man wearing a white doctor’s gown came inside.

A man who looked to be in his mid-30s and had the impression of a writer from the Enlightenment Period adjusted his round, thin-framed glasses and spoke to the employee at the counter.

-Excuse me, are you the boss here?

‘oh.’

It seemed as if the dentist had not stopped by the convenience store to pick out something, and he walked toward the employee without even looking at the counter.

-I’m not the boss, but… what’s the matter?

This time, the convenience store employee who appeared on the screen was a face I knew.

The guy who hit my head with a barcode machine.

I think I was in my late 20s.

He had an overly muscular physique for a convenience store employee, and a tattoo that looked like an octopus’s suction cup could be seen beneath the sleeve of his shirt.

You hit the barcode scanner with that muscular forearm and I can take it without passing out?

-Ah, that, that.

Perhaps it was because he saw the tattoo on the employee’s arm, or perhaps he felt that his physique was unusual as he approached him.

The dentist said, pushing up his glasses again, seeming a little nervous.

-This may sound strange, but I came here to ask if there’s a back door to this convenience store.

-back door?

-It’s not that there’s anything else, but the owner of the flower shop across the street said that there are a lot of customers coming in but no one coming out, and he was a bit worried and said it was strange.

-Hmm.

As the convenience store employee tilted his head with an interested look, the dentist was startled and waved both his hands.

-Oh, of course I don’t doubt it. Elderly people at that age tend to worry a lot, right? I thought you’d feel relieved if I told you that he went out the back door.

-If it’s a back door, of course there should be one… … .

-Oh, I guess so? I should tell you that there was a back door, haha.

A convenience store employee stopped the dentist who was about to leave with a friendly smile.

-for a moment.

-yes?

-doctor?

-Oh, yes. I’m a dentist… … .

-hmm.

The convenience store clerk looked the dentist up and down with his dead black eyes, then smiled faintly and said.

-Since you’re here, why don’t you choose one? Since we’re neighbors, I’ll give it to you as a service.

-Oh, it’s okay… … .

-Take your pick. Come on.

-Uh, um.

The dentist looked a little embarrassed by the convenience store employee’s somewhat forceful attitude, but then calmly walked toward the counter with a face like he thought that since they were neighbors from now on, it would be a waste to refuse the favor and cause trouble.

‘I wondered how a normal person who didn’t even know the safety zone came to that convenience store and bought candy… … .’

Given that they deliberately induced people to choose items, was it some kind of rule to possess everyone who entered the convenience store?

Considering that I confirmed that he was a doctor before… I think he had some other intentions.

-Oh, but that convenience store is really unique. There are only nine items.

-That’s right, because it’s a convenience store where the future depends.

-Is it hanging over the future?

After much thought, the dentist picked up a piece of candy, and the convenience store clerk looked surprised.

-You’re a dentist, but you want candy?

-If you think dentists hate candy, you’re sorely mistaken.

-So you’re saying you like it?

-Do you know how much money dentists have made since the popularity of tang-hulu? There must be patients for there to be doctors.

I also found it odd that the dentist chose candy.

He’s a more capitalistic newbie than I thought.

However, the convenience store employee who heard the dentist’s words seemed lost in thought and remained silent.

Then the dentist glanced at me and said, embarrassed.

-That was half a joke. I chose it because I thought candy would be appropriate since they said they would give it to me as a service… … .

-Oh, I see.

Only then did the convenience store employee seem to come out of his thoughts and look at the dentist.

-If you felt offended because you thought I had neglected medical ethics, I apologize…

-No. It’s just that the worst, worst human being comes to mind for a moment.

-yes?

-By the way… you’re lucky.

-Me?

-Some idiot chose a knife even though you warned him.

Just as I was about to think that the convenience store employee’s tone of speech had suddenly become dry, the convenience store employee continued speaking bluntly.

-You may go now.

-Oh, yes, I’ll gladly eat the candy. Um… but this candy doesn’t seem to have an ingredient list… … .

The dentist, who was about to leave the convenience store, turned to the convenience store employee and said something, but the employee only gave a mechanical smile.

-good luck.

With those words, the dentist’s body disappears inside the convenience store.

The video then moved to the next highlight scene.

Candy Zone.

A place where you can see greenery even though 9.9% of the world was covered in snow due to the Ice Age.

This is an area where so-called Christmas trees grow naturally, having grown to unusually large sizes due to the impact of meteorites.

The Candy Zone exists within a giant Christmas forest, as the temperature rises near the clusters of trees, and monsters that are strong against the cold do not go near them.

A type of hunter who lives in log cabins made of Christmas trees and hunts monsters wandering around the Christmas forest with bows and arrows.

Should I call it Hunter Village?

In the middle of this area is a huge candy-shaped meteorite, which is the meteorite item for this area.

Since a forest of Christmas trees spreads around this meteorite, it is widely accepted among players that the trees grew large due to the impact of this meteorite.

In the video, a ten-year-old child is sleeping under a Christmas tree.

The image of a dentist whose original face was just getting younger was reflected.

After a while, the Candy District residents who had come out to hunt discovered the dentist and began to carefully carry him to the center of the village.

Soon after, the dentist woke up, looking very confused and bewildered, so the Candy District residents calmed him down.

-Ah, a dream… Is it a dream? It must be a dream… … .

The dentist spent the day assuming it was a dream, perhaps out of touch with reality.

I watched with great interest as the dentist, who had been fooling the Candy District residents into thinking it was beef stew and trying to enjoy it, threw the stew away and started crying in fear when he was forced to eat a ‘player-style meal’ that even I found disconcerting.

‘A player who gets scared while eating stew is really new.’

The Candy District residents were worried about such a dentist and took him to the captain NPC.

-Ba, I can’t eat. When I eat food, it disappears into blue particles at the corner of my mouth. I don’t even remember why I became like this, a child. I don’t even know where I am… …!

While watching with freshness as the dentist confessed to the captain NPC what had happened to him, the captain NPC felt that there was something different about the dentist and led him to the meteorite in the village around the evening of the second day of possession.

When told to place his hand on the meteorite, the dentist did so with a dumbfounded look on his face.

A meteorite shone so brightly that it was blinding, engulfing the entire Christmas forest before fading away.

I watched indifferently as the townspeople were excited by the strange phenomenon and started talking about the dentist as a child of prophecy and our savior.

‘That meteorite would glow whenever the player touched it.’

In fact, a normal player would have jumped into the Miracle Child strategy here.

– I, I am not a child of prophecy. I am an ordinary human being like you! What can I save with the ability to make rocks shine? Huh? That is not just any rock, it is a meteorite? No, no, even if that is a real meteorite, what good is making it shine!

In a scene where a normal player would have naturally acted as the child of prophecy and the savior of the district, the dentist was desperately trying to persuade the residents of the district.

-I’m not a savior or anything, I’m a dentist. What? What’s a dentist? Oh, by any chance, you guys… Are there no dentists? Can other people eat without chewing food like me? No, that’s not the case? No… When was the last time you had your teeth scaled? Do you know what brushing is? What about flossing?

I was watching with interest as he explained the importance of brushing teeth to the residents of the Candy District, and then we moved on to the next highlight scene.

The next scene seemed to be from quite some time after the ice age, and it didn’t seem to include the scenes where we chatted, so it seemed like they only included scenes that they considered to be highlights.

‘They really made and distributed dental floss… … .’

The dentist, who discovered that the area was used for archery, made dental floss using bowstring.

I don’t know why I’m still serious about oral treatment even after finding out it’s a game addiction.

Watching the highlight video that followed, I could tell that the dentist was a very kind person.

After chatting, the dentist learned that players could heal their bodies by consuming food, so he was willing to take on all the dangerous work in the area.

Perhaps because he was not a safe zone player, the dentist never treated the villagers as NPCs.

The local residents, after much persuasion from the dentist, accepted that he was neither a miracle child nor a savior, but they still seemed to care for and respect the dentist.

I never thought of a strategy like this because it’s an area that worships players even when they’re still.

‘If you attack like that, you won’t take the annihilation route at the end.’

The most popular strategy in the Candy District is the ‘Miracle Child’ strategy, but the downside to this strategy is that it increases the residents’ reliance on players.

The player thinks he is a special child and does not prepare for the second apocalypse at all, so he ends up getting dumped in another area.

However, the Candy Zone NPCs in this highlight video were trying their best to make the dentist sacrifice as little as possible.

Well, even so, the population growth rate is still so slow that an efficiency junkie like me would never try this strategy.

It was quite encouraging to see that even a newbie with no understanding of the safe zone was able to use such a stable strategy.

The highlight video ended with the dentist earning the title of ‘Saint of the Christmas Forest’.

I made up my mind.

‘I’ll take this newbie.’

Content that I don’t want to lose to veteran players from other regions.

And seeing what they’re doing makes me even more excited, as I think they’ll cooperate without complaint in opening up the logout.

However, I have been ignoring the dentist’s friend request, and it seems like the other veterans have already gotten involved with this guy.

Well, even if there are other veterans I’ve already become close with, I can just bring them to my area.

‘There are other guys’ highlight videos too… … .’

Actually, I wasn’t that curious.

Those old-timers are most likely following my strategy.

Even Shin Jo was in the middle of my pseudo-strategy.

So I briefly played the T-Balom highlight video to see what kind of troubles T-Balom had in the beginning that made him want to kill me so badly.

I encountered an unexpected character in a video of T-Balom’s convenience store.

-… You look familiar. Aren’t you a member of the national team?

-Ahaha, how long has it been since you retired? You came here because of the safe zone, right? My in-game nickname is TaejeongtaeseBeyonce. What about you?

… This guy introduces himself as Taejeong Taese Beyonce.

A former national soccer player who retired due to doping.

It’s Kim Tae-jung.