Chapter 79
79 fury
The tenth ghost story -
Herobrine from Minecraft (12)
“Let’s say there is a character drawn on drawing paper. So what is outside that character??”
“···There will be only white paper.”
“that's right. This time, someone built a sand castle on the sand beach. So what is outside the sand castle??”
“sand bay.”
“We worked hard to build this house earlier. So what's left outside the house now??”
After thinking carefully, Seon-ah mustered up the courage to answer..
“Construction materials and… With pulleys… Leftover items and trash……
“That's it.”
Gyeongwon grinned and raised his glasses..
“Outside of the creation, the elements that form the basis of the creation remain. The outside world of this game, Far World, is the same. Outside of the area created by the programmer, only the essence that constitutes the game is constantly repeated..”
“···I see.”
“In this game, when the map is first created, the computer randomly mixes the elements. Sky, land, water, items, NPCs - within the world map, which is an area designated by the creator, these mixed elements are properly controlled and function as a game, but outside of it,?”
guy shrugging his shoulders.
“It's just as you see. Outside the realm coded by humans, in the far world, such elements lose their limits and the only world where they repeat at random like crazy is infinite.
It's unfolding. Houses, land, and NPCs are generated as random copies.……
We finally nodded as we watched Gyeongwon explain intently..
“I guarantee you that if you explore further from here, you will only see the same scenery. The houses, trees, hills, and us were randomly copied by the computer's meaningless random number generation. “...Whew..”
I sighed..
“So this means that there is no reason for this house, it was just created randomly..”
“yes.”
“What about the previous roguelike? Then why did you say that??”
“I would like to explain the randomness element of this game..”
“okay….”
I sighed..
“They were all just randomly generated. I was hoping there was some great secret hidden there.……
We have stepped into a realm that does not exist, beyond the end of the created world..
I was expecting some big conspiracy and secret to be hidden, but it was just pointless copy and paste..
I shook my head with a slightly helpless expression..
I don't know what level of ghost story this is, but if the world was created by computer random number generation, there's no way it could be defeated..
“Do you understand, manager? Deokhoon’s explanation that there are three ghost stories connected together means the same thing. I think 'Herobrine' is probably a gamer who is sucked into games like us. In that state, it is possible to go to the end of the world, ‘Far World’.” “···What is the third ghost story, Hell? If you go to the bottom of the map and change the version, hell will appear.-”
“It's the same thing as 'Far World'. In the end, you are going beyond the area set in the game..”
Gyeongwon shrugs his shoulders.
“I think it was given the name hell because the elements that are endlessly copied like this are so terrible..”
“Phew. I see.”
I sighed again, looking a little disappointed..
“So, among the three ghost stories, there is none that we can ultimately eradicate? The opponent must be the game world itself... It's not something tangible, it's just space. “How do I get rid of this?” “What if I delete the game?……?”
Seon-ah said with a curious expression, but Deok-hoon shook his head..
“Actually, I deleted and reinstalled it a few times while installing it, but it doesn't seem to have changed anything, unless I delete all the illegal version game files on the planet... I don't think it's acceptable to delete just one computer file..”
“I guess so……
“Don't be too upset though. They say you can get points just by surviving..”
“Well, that's true, but.”
I answered in a weak voice..
“The points you get by simply encountering and surviving are quite small. one… About one fifth? Write it down very much.”
“Cheer up, manager..”
Compared to my downcast tone, Gyeongwon consoled me with a somewhat happy face..
“Still, I think this adventure was a good one, as it served as a solid motivation for us to work hard for three years..”
“40100 million? ···Okay, whatever. I think that went well. There's no way we can lose focus now.”
Although the motivation is personal factors such as money or leveling up, what about anything else?.
Even though I have a mission to save the world, I don't want a miserable heaven..
“But when will Jinhee come?……?”
I cleared my throat in response to Suna’s blank question..
“Wow, that’s… Actually, I didn't specifically say when it would come..”
“I see……
A slightly dejected voice.
I guess Seon-ah was waiting for Jin-hee for quite some time..
“Well, then shall we go back first??”
I slowly stood up.
“You should go home soon too. In real life, it must be evening too..”
“hmm.”
Gyeongwon tilted his head at those words..
“Just my guess, manager. You probably have some free time. The time cycle in the game is different from the time in reality..”
“…okay?”
Deokhoon sat down and nodded in agreement..
“72I know it's fast. So……
A guy who calculates by folding and unfolding his thick fingers..
“A day here is 20 minutes in reality..”
“···20minute? That’s how cool it is.]?”
“high. About half a day has passed in the game, so in real life it's probably been about 10 minutes now..”
10minute.
At those words we looked at each other..
“There's too much time left to go back..”
“What should I do??”
After thinking about it carefully, I decided that I should still go back..
“It's a bit early, but I think it's right to go back. If we look further, there are no hidden secrets, it's just terrain that the computer 'copied' without meaning to..”
“…And when you end the game, you must do so in a safe place..”
“that's right.”
I nodded to Deokhoon’s point..
“So I have to go back, to the original world map.”
“But it's so dark……
Sunah looked out the window and muttered worriedly..
“…Wow. It's true.”
Next, we look at the window..
It was completely dark outside now..
It was a bit dark earlier, but I think it was because I wasted too much time explaining it..
“I'm going?”
“hmm… for a moment.”
I was planning to go, but suddenly I got worried..
Is it okay to leave when I can’t even see an inch ahead?.
The sun needs to be up to determine direction, but there is nothing to use as a compass..
“If you have that much time left, I don't think it would be a bad idea to just spend the night at this house..”
“Yes, Jun, if you are walking in the dark and fakes start to mix in like before,……
“···It must be hard to tell..”
It made sense..
I nodded and made a decision..
“good. Let's set off when the sun rises. Since it is a plain during the day, you can see who is coming from afar, which reduces the risk of being attacked, and you can use the sun as a compass to determine your direction..”
“Then.”
«huh...
Members nodding their heads in agreement.
Crack. crackling.
A cozy living room where only the light from the fireplace gently sways and the sound of burning firewood is heard..
We spent the night slowly, each of us leaning against the wall, sitting with our knees crouched in silence..
It feels like about an hour has passed.
We were each leaning against the wall, basking in the fire, with our eyes half closed..
I woke up from my sleep due to a sudden noise..
Seon-ah, who had her face buried in her knees, blinked and raised her head..
quietly people.
and
thud. thud.
Us 5 looking up at the ceiling The noise is heard once again.
thud.
“···manager.”
“I heard.”
I nodded towards Gyeongwon, who quietly called me..
What’s upstairs is Suna’s body..
It was clearly confirmed that he was dead earlier, so why am I hearing a sound?.
Squeak-
Jeez. Jeez. Jeopuk.
2The sound of the wooden door on the first floor opening..
And then someone comes down the stairs outside..
“···Stand up, everyone.”
“It comes this way.”
Jeez. Jeopuk.
Members stand up with a nervous look.
Everyone is armed with wooden blocks, rebar, and poker..
Jerk, jerk. Stop.
someone stopped at the door.
“···It's a door that doesn't have a lock or anything. The moment you try to open it, kick it right away..”
“Yeah, yeah……
With me leading the way, he quietly went to the door and waited..
Squeak.
And the moment someone beyond the door pulls the doorknob.
I kicked the door as hard as I could..
Uji string-!
The wooden door was torn off its hinges, opened violently, and hit something with a loud noise..
bang!
“Sooooo.”
Someone falls against the door that was pushed open.
“Hmm!”
Strongly-
I jumped right at the guy rolling around in the dark and stomped on his stomach to subdue him..
“Well, well... … When I checked who it was, it was Suna with an arrow stuck in her forehead..
“This, this……
“how are you alive?”
“Poetry, it looks like a corpse… It's moving.”
Dried blood stains, empty eyes, veins visible on the face..
It's not normal.
We crowded around the fake Suna, who was squirming with her stomach stepped on in front of the front door..
Just as I was trying to figure out what the hell this was.
“Eh, eight……!”
The real Seon-ah raised her leg upwards with all her might and hit him on the head with both hands..
Powok-
As if hammering a protruding nail, the arrow that Hayun had driven into the corpse stuck deeper and stopped moving..
“Let's kill this first.……
Sunah took a breath and wiped her sweat..
“···Well done, Seonya.”
I concealed my fear and praised Sun-ah..
“No matter how much it is a game, it is alive and moving in this state.?”
“what.”
Deok-hoon, who was carefully examining Seon-ah's corpse, trembled..
“So, Soka! no way!”
“why?”
Soon, Deokhoon’s face turned pale and a ray of cold sweat broke out..
“We have to run away right now! These guys are coming in countless numbers.!”
“what? why suddenly‘?”
“Well, one of the representative mobs in Minecraft is a ‘zombie’, and this corpse is that one! A zombie that turns into a monster at night!”
“As night falls, I become a monster!”
Deokhoon hurriedly pacing back and forth to the side..
“In this game, monsters spawn at night, remember!? That's why I told you to carry a torch before.!”
“Yeah, I remember!”
When Suna and I were wandering south, at night, he put up a notice warning us to be careful of monsters, and I remember lighting a fire with coal in a rabbit hole we found just in time..
“The monsters that are created at night are not the ones that existed to begin with. It's just that the computer randomly spreads it everywhere.!”
“···That, so?”
“Listen carefully, manager..”
Deokhoon has a very serious expression..
“This is Paworld, a space where random computer elements, untouched by developers, lose their limits and run wild! Unlike the mobs that were generated appropriately within the world map, monsters that are exact copies of us are probably being replicated countless times now.!”
“crazy!”
I quickly motioned to the members to follow my instructions..
“You all left nothing inside, right? Let's leave right now!”
* * *
A dark plain where you can't even see an inch in front of you.
There isn't even a moon to check direction..
Even the raindrops began to fall..
“Whoo, whoo.”
“gasp, gasp.”
We move at a fast pace, breathing urgently..
I was not a member who was good at exercising, and I couldn't run because the distance was 30 minutes..
Five of us hurriedly moving at a mild alert level..
“Whoo, whoo.”
“Well, you're on the right track, right??”
“shit….”
To make matters worse, we are fully inside the game and cannot even see the minimap..
All around is a dark horizon with a dark plain, so there is no landmark to guide you..
“I have no choice but to believe that I am going in a straight line... Whoo, whoo.”
We move forward in silence, stepping on the grass in the dark..
［Manager! Manager… Don't leave me... manager……』
I can hear Gyeongwon crying from afar..
“Ignore it. Let's just focus on moving forward, whoo, whoo.’
The raindrops that started falling one drop or two suddenly turn into a drizzle and wet our clothes..
“gasp, gasp.”
A wide plain that is still dark.
We move forward silently and quickly.
[Jun! Where are you, Jun?……!]
[부장 이 개새끼! If I find you, I will kill you.….]
A shout coming from far away.
Not just one or two places.
You can also hear the same voice saying different lines overlapping each other..
“Whoo, whoo.”
While I was walking away without saying a word.
Jump up-
Amidst the rain-soaked lawn that had turned into mud, a small object jumped up and blocked the way..
“for a moment!”
The officers stopped at my signal.
“…Sorry, rabbit..”
“Phew, me again……
I was surprised to see something jumping out of the dark, but when I looked again, it was just a small rabbit..
‘Was this the guy who ran away after seeing Seon-ah and me in the forest??’
A rabbit blocks my path, shakes its plump body a few times, and then looks up at me..
It had two faces.
Two faces attached to one body.
You quietly looked at me with your eyes, then immediately jumped up and ran away..
[Jun... Junaa.......]
[cucumber-! Where have you gone? Let's watch anime together…….]
“···Let's move again.”
“huh.”
I walked forward again in the dark rain, engulfed in some ominous energy.
went forward.
Shoot! Shoot ahhh.
Before you know it, the rain is pouring down so much that it's hard to see what's ahead..
To make matters worse, the floor had turned into mud, making it difficult to walk..
“Heo-eok, heo-eok. Is it not yet??”
“I don't know!”
We can't even hear each other's voices because of the sound of the rain..
I moved forward, wiping away the water running down my face..
For a moment, a ray of light appears in the darkness far away.
“Look, there's a light!”
“at las！”
lights visible in the distance.
Perhaps it is the light from the fireplace that is still burning in the living room of the brick house built at the end of the world..
“quickly, quickly!”
“Whoo, whoo.”
Shoot aaaaa-
Fit, fit, fit, fit, fit, fit, fit.
pouring storm.
The lawn turns into mud and sinks up to your ankles..
The mud clumped up to the inside of my socks, making each step difficult..
I barely made my way through the muddy floor and finally arrived near the light..
“Oh, as expected! It's home!”
“Hehehe, hehehe… I arrived!”
The weather has suddenly changed so much that it is difficult to tell what is ahead due to wind and rain..
We braved the heavy rain and made our way towards the house standing tall on the plain..
“quickly, quickly!”
“Huh, wow.”
We hurried along, enduring the pouring rain and mud..
Stop-
Tuk.
When I suddenly stop, the members coming in a row collide with me..
“What, what? Manager? Let's go in quickly!”
“Whoa, whoa... “Jun?” There, the front door was left open with its hinges torn off..
And there was Seon-ah lying down with an arrow stuck in her forehead..
“What is this?……
“what······
The members who followed behind looked at it and muttered blankly..
I walked to the front door without a word..
“deputy, manager!”
The members hurriedly chase after me..
Soon we entered the room.
I noticed something and bit my lip..
“this… what……
The members checked it out late and held their breath..
Large letters written in blood on the living room wall.
I'm in hell
ghost story club
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