Chapter 78
78 fury
The tenth ghost story -
Herobrine from Minecraft (11)
“Listen. The reality is that even parents and siblings who have lived together for decades are separated because of money, but we don't know what will go wrong if money issues come between us who have our reputations in the world ahead of us. Of course, I don't think there's anyone like that, but what should I do if someone takes the money??”
“Tsk.”
“For example, teacher Jang Hwa-eun, possessed by a ghost story, suddenly steals all the money and runs away..”
It's quite possible.
I can't help but picture Teacher Jang Hwa-eun stealing money with stockings all over her face and giggling like a mean villain..
“Of course, even minors can't win the lottery if they use expedient methods. All you have to do is tell your parents that your ancestors gave you the number in a dream and ask them to buy it. But what if you suddenly ask me to move because I have money? You have to be active even during vacation, but what if you ask your family to go on a trip abroad? I made a mistake and my relatives asked me for money.
When you come?”
“There is no need to be greedy. After all, defeating a ghost story isn't something that can be done with a lot of money. The celebrities who got infected during Porincess didn't do it because they didn't have money. If you don't find the right solution, even if you have a mountain of money, it's useless. We are stuck at school for more than half a day, so we don't have time for luxury..”
“Still, it's disappointing……
Members looking at each other.
“It looks like you've been thinking a lot too. Phew.”
Deokhoon sighs and shakes his head as if there is nothing he can do..
But Gyeongwon asks me if I think there is a way..
“But, Manager, there is nothing bad about having money. If you think carefully, you will find a way……
“There is also a ghost story about winning the lottery..”
A guy with a confused expression.
“There is a ghost story that the moment you win the lottery, welfare organizations call and make a fuss asking you to donate, and gangsters riot in front of your door.
Hey.”
“…Ah, that.”
He nods as if he remembered Gyeongwon..
“It's a famous story. But it's just a rumor-”
“not for us.”
I held out my hand as if asking for understanding..
“Such nonsense, superstitions, ghost stories, rumors. “It could really happen to any of us.” In short, winning the lottery itself can be a trap that gets you involved in dirty work..
In the end, even Gyeongwon nodded with a regretful expression as if he understood..
Even though billions of dollars are being talked about, the only one who doesn't really react is Hayun..
“If a case arises that can only be solved by pouring money in, then it's okay to go and win. But for now, let's just focus on the goal in front of us. If the devil is resurrected, the life of a president or a millionaire is over..”
“Okay, manager. Then can I ask you a favor?.”
“What is it?”
Gyeongwon raises his glasses and sparkles sharply..
“10You can't do anything in today's world with a million dollars. 2 billion won per person.”
Members with surprised faces once again.
“Well, that far……
“Hey, I'm overdoing it a bit.……
Deokhoon and Seonah stutter.
But I nodded coolly..
“Dill. No, fuck it, let’s just double it and cool it down to 4 billion won per person..”
“40billion won?”
Members with their mouths wide open.
“Then put it all together… 28 billion won for 7 people? It's okay, Jun.……?”
“It might be possible. We can spend all of Korea’s blind money on lottery tickets, Bitcoin, and stocks. Of course, your abilities may disappear after you see the ending, so prepare in advance starting from the winter break of your third year..”
“Okay!”
Kyungwon spits and holds on to his glasses as if to say, ‘This is it.’.
“If that's the case, you can work as hard as you want! I'm sorry for looking so dull a little while ago, everyone. I apologize.
can you forgive me-”
“cucumber, you.”
Deok-hoon stopped talking and placed a heavy hand on Gyeong-won’s shoulder..
“already done.”
Gyeongwon trembled at those words and lowered his head..
“I am… For what… … ! To my friends who trusted me... I am……
““Turn your back, you idiot.” Deokhoon speaks his lines heavily..
“The only time a man can cry is when everything is over.”
“Blood, fool, who cries?……
Even as he said that, Gyeongwon wiped his eyes and turned around..
“Cheer up, Kakarot. you are number 1!”
“Everyone believed in me... what am i….”
“Forgive me, Sasuke. this is the last time….“
Gyeong- won, who has become overly emotional, and Deok-hoon, who takes advantage of the opportunity to randomly shout out famous animation lines that he always wanted to say..
Soon, Suna walks towards me with a disdainful expression on her face..
Even Seona can make an expression like that..
“When does Jinhee come?……?”
“I don't know. “I just hope it comes quickly.” The name I miss so much today, Jinhee Lee, the person in charge.
After a while.
We gathered again in the living room on the first floor.
We talked about money and briefly exchanged opinions about what to do from now on, and then there was a lull for a while..
A little dark outside seen through the window.
All I can hear is the quiet sound of a wood fire burning..
“I've been thinking about it.”
Gyeongwon quietly exposed himself to the flames and then opened his mouth..
“Among the fakes who ran away earlier, Jinhee was not there.?”
I thought about it carefully and then answered..
“huh. There wasn't.”
“ also.”
The guy who soon starts explaining to see if his thoughts have been organized..
“It seems that in this Far World, beyond the end of the world, something is constantly replicating itself..”
“hmm.”
Is that so too?.
The same house we built.
fake sunah.
Replicated Ghost Story Club.
“The reason Jinhee wasn't in the group before was probably because she didn't enter the game..”
“Copy paste? We are people‘?”
“Because they are treated as NPCs in the game. Well, looking at the cloned us, it doesn't seem like we are thinking properly.……
“But why would someone do that?……
Then Deokhoon answered for me by turning over firewood with a poker..
“It doesn't feel like someone is doing it on purpose..”
“then?”
I turn over the firewood a few times and then take a deep breath..
“Ah, I think it will take longer to explain. I can't help it.”
“are you okay. What's left is time.”
“Show ganaina. Then I will share my opinion for a moment..”
Deokhoon sits down looking at us after putting down the poker..
“Is it called Roguelike?
person who knows words.”
“···Roguelike?”
I've thought about it carefully, but it's the first time I've heard this word..
I looked back and saw that Seon-ah and Hayun didn’t even notice..
“Sorry, first time hearing this..”
Then Kyungwon explained to me if it was a word he knew..
“It's a word for the type of game, manager. Like the words action, adventure, and racing, the genre called ‘roguelike’ exists in games..”
“hmm. Kyungwon, I thought you didn’t play games..”
“I don't do it. I saw it on Namu Wiki.”
I see..
“So what genre is it? I can't feel anything just hearing the name..”
“Hmm. To put it in one easy-to-understand sentence, ‘games where you explore randomly generated dungeons’ are called the roguelike genre..”
Next, the common concepts of Roguelike explained by Deokhoon were as follows..
The hero begins his adventure from the first floor of the land where the Demon King sleeps..
And, one level at a time, we head towards the basement..
Monsters, traps, and countless threats attack the hero every time he goes downstairs..
Extreme difficulty level where you have to eat when you are hungry, and when you die you have to start over from the first floor..
Even if you start over, the dungeon's structure and elements will be completely different in layout..
Moreover, the soul of a previously dead hero character appears and harasses the hero in this episode..
Going down to kill the demon lord at the lowest level while going through various dangers is a characteristic shared by the roguelike genre..
“···This much. A manager who has only played online games explained it in an easy-to-understand way..”
“huh. I understand. But what does that have to do with the current situation??”
“Those are some common elements between this game called Minecraft and the roguelike genre... That's where I remembered it. They seem like completely different types, but they have some shared characteristics..”
Deok- hoon, probably bored with just explaining things, picks up the boo-stick again and starts meaninglessly rummaging around the firewood..
“common elements?”
“Ah, guess what??”
“well.”
I thought about it carefully, but I have no idea..
That roguelike game.
After listening to the explanation, it seems like an RPG where you explore an underground dungeon, and what can we say about the Minecraft we play? Architectural simulation game? Because it's the same thing.
Isn’t it completely different??
“I'm not sure. I don't think there are any common elements since they are completely different genres.……
Well, I guess playing with a keyboard or mouse is a common factor..
“Manager, let me tell you a few things that come to mind instead of Deokhoon.….”
Gyeongwon thoughtfully plays with his glasses and explains..
“Similarities between roguelike and Minecraft. Is it the freedom to interact with various things, the deliberate focus on classic graphics, the need to manage resources, and the element of survival that requires eating food?.”
“I know it well.”
“However, I have no idea which of these many elements I am talking about..”
“Ah, shit. Didn't I miss one? After explaining everything.”
Deokhoon smiles unpleasantly while picking firewood.
“The core of the roguelike genre, randomly generated dungeons.”
“aha.”
Gyeongwon seemed to understand those words and smiled accordingly..
I still didn't understand, so I ended up throwing my shoe at Deokhoon's back..
puck.
““Kusso.” “Please explain in an easy way so that even Suna, who has never played a game while living here, can understand..”
“good night. listen carefully.”
Deokhoon clears his throat.
“The core of the roguelike genre, randomly generated dungeons. It's a system that programmers call 'procedural level generation', in which the dungeon's structure is completely randomly recreated every time you start the game..”
“uh. I understand up to this point.”
“In other words, the creators only coded the basic principles of how the game works, and the map structure, items, and NPCs are created randomly by the computer..”
Nothing difficult yet.
This roughly means that there is not a set map like a typical RPG game, but when you start the game, the program automatically generates a map randomly..
“Now, back to this Mike Raft thing we're talking about. When you first set out to find the end of the world, you used the teleportation cheat. Do you remember why??”
“So……
Why did you use teleportation?.
After thinking about the memory carefully, I immediately answered..
“It took a lot of time to walk to the end of the map. About 80 hours?”
“Ah, yes. That means this world map is incredibly large..”
“···yes.”
“So, did the creators of that big map create it all by hand??”
I thought about it for a while, and even though it was only a short amount of knowledge, I felt that it didn't seem likely..
“I don't think so.”
“The reason is?”
“Hmm... I think it's too inefficient..”
“Correct answer.”
Deokhoon puts down the poker and slowly looks towards us..
“This game, MyCraft, also uses a system called ‘procedural level generation’. When you first turned on the game, the manager fell into a hole. So I created a new world map..”
“···huh. I remember.”
“The world map back then and the map now are different. okay?”
The guy who changes to a cross-legged position.
“Just as a roguelike creates a new dungeon every time you play, this game also randomly creates a world map every time you start playing. Why? It is inefficient to have people create such a large map one by one, and since the purpose of the game is construction and exploration, users also want a new and different experience every time..”
“···I see.”
Now that I think about it, I remember that when I created a new map and played it, the game started with me falling into the water..
If the creator had put a lot of effort into creating a map, the game wouldn't have started in such an odd location..
‘I guess it was because the computer created it randomly..’
“Do you understand, Lee Jun? At first, the three ghost stories that Gyeong-gyeong explained were all connected..”
A guy who talks about his conclusion while tapping his thigh..
“The end of the world, Far World, is ultimately the outside of the game. An area that has not been created directly by programmers. But the map still exists there and the game runs. What goes back to?”
Kyungwon nods and continues to answer..
“With the computer's 'random number generation'.”
“random number generation?”
“Procedural level generation, described earlier, has the same meaning as the random element..”
Deokhoon nodded as if it was the correct answer..
serious eyes.
I also looked at Deokhoon with a serious expression..
nod.
Deokhoon nods his head again.
There is silence between us..
It's already dark outside.
All I can hear is the sound of the wood fire burning..
nod.
Deokhoon nods his head again..
a satisfied expression.
“·..end?”
“It's all done?”
“Ah, Atarimae. “It’s all done.” The guy nods his head again with a satisfied smile, but then looks shocked for a moment..
“You guys, no way… Didn't you understand??”
“uh. I have no idea what you're talking about.”
“ Phew······
Deokhoon shakes his head..
“So, procedural-”
“It's okay, you worked hard. Thank you, Deokhun. Now, let Kyungwon explain..”
I stopped talking and patted his thick shoulder to thank him for his hard work..
““It’s a wise choice, Manager.” Soon, Gyeongwon appears to be satisfied with his share of the club, grinning and flashing his glasses..
“So, the question is, what is outside the creative crops created by humans?.”
Perhaps because of the expectation that an optician with expert explanations will understand from now on, the members lean in and listen more intently than before..
ghost story club
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