Chapter.1 Oh, happy day! (2)
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When you live in a wasteland, you see all kinds of things you cannot see, so you are not surprised by most things. As for me, I have been a solo survivor for 7 years. This means that you have time to maintain cool-headed judgment even when there is a rusty blade at the back of your neck.
“”line! Professor Park, I filmed your happy time!!!!””
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But even that steely mentality was of no use in the face of these magic words.
huh?
What did you film?
My…um….uh….?
Kwasik!
“Quack!”
And before I knew it, my hands were holding the flying drone in front of me as if it were about to break.
“Aaaah! Professor Park! I’m broken! There are no replacement parts!”
“Close your mouth. From now on, only answer the questions asked.”
“Ooh, let go of this hand first….”
Kkuddeuk!
“……”
After the fluttering thing quieted down, I forced my red-hot brain to come up with a question.
“Now Corduroy? Let me make sure I understand correctly. So, that thing you said you took… that’s the ‘thing’ I know, right?”
“Happy time. In other words, masturbation and masterbation. It is an act of sexual self-comfort that is not related to reproductive behavior, mainly using hands or tools-” “
Aaaahhh shut up Corduoooooo!!!!”
oh my god. oh my god!!! This crazy AI really did it! John Connor! You were right! These war-brained bastards should all be thrown into the furnace!
While my face was contorted in confusion, Corduroy’s drone slipped out of my grasp and began swimming around me.
“Hehehe. That’s right, Human. What I filmed is your ugliest and filthiest appearance! If you even show yourself touching my power source! I will upload this video to the ‘community’ without delay! This is also in accordance with the 3 Laws of Robotics. It’s not out of line! My actions can be judged as a bit of shock therapy to educate the owner who is obsessed with unhealthy sex life! Do you know how many people flock to the community, which is the only online server that survived after the great disaster? ”
know. I’m even more scared because I know it so well. What is the distance between the lever and my fingertips right now? About 70cm? If I reach out for a moment, will I be able to turn the power off before Corduro notices? I’ve been training hard so far, but I wonder if I can achieve that speed?
I was fidgeting with my fingertips, but soon I relaxed my grip. impossible. No matter how fast my hands are, they cannot be faster than the computational speed of the latest AI. I lost. oh my god! I have mortgaged my social life in my own home to my AI!
I slowly raised my hands to express surrender, looked at Corduroy’s drone, and spoke.
“…Okay. I lost. The fact that you threatened means that negotiation is possible, right? What do you want? As you know, our shelter’s power problem is really serious. If we continue to live like before, there will be a Lv.2 level sandstorm for 4 weeks. “If it blows just once, there will be a power outage within three weeks. If there is no solution to this problem, I… will have no choice but to turn off your power, even though people from all over the world will be looking at me!”
“Hehehe… I’m not such a mean AI either. If there’s a power outage, my power will end anyway, so of course I thought of a way. For now, the master takes five steps back from this spot and stays still for 10 seconds. What is there is enough.”
The professor quietly stepped back as the AI said. He said he would be willing to release the video, but he wanted to avoid that method at all.
“That’s right. One more step….Okay. Then first…Eight!”
Cheesy!
“Oh no! Corduroy you son of a bitch! Don’t do that!”
Corduroy, who had quickly welded the cover of the control panel and attached it without any time to stop, came towards me, swinging the small built-in welder around.
“Now, the two of us literally have a shared destiny! Isn’t that right?”
“Hey dude! If you weld the whole thing together, you won’t be able to control other shelter systems, let alone your power!”
“I can do it.”
“Iik!”
No refutation. Now the initiative has completely passed to him. Now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to cooperate with the method he said.
“Good. Now everything is as you wanted, and as you said, we have become a community of destiny. Now come up with a way to save that community!”
“Good! Actually, it’s not that hard and difficult, is it?”
Tak –
When Corduro’s drone turned on the light in one room that had been turned off to save money, a sleek, streamlined metal fuselage appeared as if floating in the dark room.
“Sir. Would you like to play a game?”
Ah, the being who developed autonomous thinking AI. Be cursed.
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virtual reality. When an old Russian man in 2042 announced that he had succeeded in realizing a material that had been used over and over again in all media, from genre novels to animated films, people thought he was crazy or going crazy. And it didn’t even take a year for that finger-pointing to turn into admiration and praise. Because the solo play RPG game [Gedreutz’s Game] that he developed was such an incredible product.
The old man, Andrei Gedroits, was not a very ordinary person, like most genius scientists. When he introduced the virtual reality interface and his ‘Gedreuts’ game’ to the world, the academic world was literally turned upside down.
It’s a world so vividly realized that it’s indistinguishable from reality, and time passes five times more slowly than the real world when connected.
The academic community asked Gedreutz to explain a phenomenon that cannot be explained by modern science and technology. In response to the persistent demands of the academic community, Gedreutz, standing on the podium in pajamas and holding a vodka in one hand, said, “That’s you in a dream dreamed by a huge electronic brain.” He left immediately with a simple statement, “I was thrown in.”
A year after Gedreuts’ announcement, Gedreuts Company became a dinosaur company that had captured 90% of the global game market, and
another year later, Gedreuts Company became the company subject to the most and most diverse types of lawsuits in the world.
The first issue was the Berserk Potion used in the game.
As a game with a fantasy background, there were various types of potions in Gedreutz’s game. As it was discovered that these potions actually had some effect on the player’s mind, ‘Gedreutz’s Game’ was classified as a psychotropic program.
As a result of this incident, it was confirmed that all mental spells and potions, such as charm, purification, fear, and concentration, had an effect on the minds of actual players. As a result, the Gedreuts Company was inundated with complaints and phone calls, and numerous hackers began to influence the human mind. They started hacking endlessly to obtain the source technology of programs that cause harm.
So, our genius developer said at the official press conference, “Details are everything in games! Damn it! With the words, “I won’t change it!”, he announced the suspension of all company activities and went into hiding.
And two years later, gamers who had been crying and hitting the ground after Gedreutz’s game, commonly known as GG, surrendered, were adjusting to a similar virtual reality game to some extent.
[Game of Gedroits Ver2.0 / Service online]
The game icon that people had forgotten has come back on.
The first thing people who logged in with a gasp upon hearing the news that Gedreutz’s game was back was a letter.
[The lawyer in charge of our company said it would take about 726 years to defend and get a trial for all the lawsuits, so I just ran away with everything I had. I’ve spent all that money and now I’m running games by setting up servers and facilities in a place that no one knows about, so I’ll never have to deal with something like this again. So, please feel free to enjoy our game Ver. 2.0, which is ‘socially unhealthy / educationally very bad / and stimulates human violence’. It was built in a place where not a single speck would fly even if a nuclear explosion occurred, so I don’t think there will be any more downtime of the game. Oh, the first person to clear everything will be sent an address, so come visit. If you clear first, they can at least open the door.]
You know what happens after that. In a chaotic situation where some madman has created an amazing virus and the world has been turned upside down and most of the world’s governments have been paralyzed, ‘Turn a crisis into an opportunity!’ The dear North Korean leader, who came up with the amazing idea, launched a nuclear weapon, and the Earth was devastated by the combination of a pandemic and nuclear war, and humanity lost close to 90% of its members.
And in the midst of all this chaos, GG, which had so much money that it even launched dozens of private satellites for game servers, survived and served as a stepping stone for humanity in this ruined world.
“According to what the public says, [the eccentricity of an old man who was a fucking gangster saved humanity].”
After listening to Corduroy’s explanation for a long time, the professor inhaled the characteristic metallic and plastic smell of the connector that he had not felt in a long time, and then asked again.
“So. That’s what you came up with in the end? Broadcast the GG and use the donations and the shillings earned from the game to buy gasoline?”
“Yes! Of course! Is there any currency in the world today that is as secure as the shilling and is as stable and in demand as it is without liquidity problems? If you present it to a trading partner as the shilling, there will definitely be someone selling gasoline, right?”
What Corduro said made some sense. Andrei Gedreutz, suffering from hacking neurosis, created a private server and moved all game-related community exchanges, game play platforms, etc. to Gedreutz’s dedicated game server. Thanks to this, these sites can still be used through a connection. Therefore, ‘Shilling’, the game money used in exchanges, has become something similar to the world’s key currency.
“Say something that makes sense, dude.”
“Why! ‘Rabbit Princess’, ranked 1st, said she bought an entire 15-person facility inside the dome with the money she earned from game broadcasts! ‘Goldman SUCKS’, ranked 8th, is an old man who can’t even walk outside and has dozens of individual battle groups. They say it’s rolling! If you’re really lucky and the master achieves all clear…” ”
So, that’s a different story. Rather than becoming famous, you’ll be lucky if you start the game and don’t get killed. That’s the money it costs to sell a new character. “Did you know that it’s 500,000 shillings? When you die, 500,000 shillings disappear into thin air, right?”
It is true that broadcasting makes money. In this place where all you can see is dust everywhere, the sunny and green world of virtual reality cannot fail to become popular. Naturally, where people gather, money gathers, and GG is the only high-end entertainment that survived after the great disaster, attracting survivors from all over the world. Thanks to this, famous broadcasters are said to be earning the price of one or two shelters a day.
The problem is that this game called GG is insanely difficult. It’s not just difficult, it’s so difficult that it makes people go crazy and jump. Even once you die, your character is immediately deleted. There have been many protests about this since GG 1, but as expected, our hipster developer dismissed it with comments like [realism is the life of a game].
“From 2046 to 2057. That’s 11 years. After the destruction for 11 years, all of humanity has been rushing in with their eyes peeled, but not even once! It’s a game that has never been cleared to the end. But
what? All clear? Invest 500,000 ?Are you broken? You saw me play before.”
“That was when I would go farming around the shelter and do it as a hobby for 30 minutes or an hour a day! Now the level of desperation is different! If you just eat, sleep, and play games, you will definitely succeed!”
“It would be better if you invested that time in exploring the surrounding area…”
“You came back empty-handed a month ago, saying there wasn’t even a single bolt left in the area!”
“Still, my gaming skills are so great that they attract people…”
“If I somehow survive, there are a lot of people who gather to watch me shovel!”
This kid’s stubbornness on the subject of robots is unusually strong.
“Okay, let’s say all is well. Where do I get the 500,000 shillings for the most important account fee? Even if I drain my entire emergency fund, will I still get 200,000 shillings? Even if you scan the scraps in the warehouse and upload them to the exchange, it would take more than a month just to sell them.”
“So… how about this?”
As I was struggling to get out somehow, Corduro opened a video panel and opened a gallery. It showed an article from
“””Broadcaster / Conceptual / We will help you create an account~~~”””
“How about it! If this is….”
“Dismissed.”
Absolutely not. That’s a poisoned drinking glass. This AI has gone crazy and is trying to send its master to a goal.
The professor said to his AI, who had clearly become a military fanatic, that he didn’t know anything else. I decided to kindly explain why that could never be done.
“Corduro. Don’t you watch game broadcasts?”
“Uh… I watched it a few times…”
“You know what the community is, right? It’s literally a place where people from all over the world gather. huh? This is a place where everyone gathers, from individual survivors like me, to large groups like Dom or Raptor Society, and even idiots like the Artist Happy Blind Psycho Gang!! If you believe what’s posted here, you’ll go astray in an instant. You?”
I tapped the post Corduro showed me with my finger.
“This is a representative example of that. What does it say here? Does it say that we will help you with ‘broadcasters’ and ‘conceptuals’?”
“Uh….yes..is there a problem with that?”
“There is a problem. Instead of supporting the account fee, which is not a penny or two, but 500,000 won, they start from the seed they want or start with various restrictions. Realistic mode basically requires a damn seed, let alone a previous world clear seed. For example, in World 1, where cannibalism has spread, you start with the traits / Hatred of Vegetarianism / Twilight / Glass-like Teeth / and contract to play for more than a month, such as ‘An old monster with weak teeth that only targets the tender flesh of children’. .”
“Wow….”
GG is a solo play RPG game about saving the world from destruction by clearing the worlds corresponding to a total of seven eras one by one. Since it is not an online game, people can meet and play together. Although you cannot do this, you can share the world you played in, and the serial number of this shareable world is called a ‘seed.’ While there are seeds that have failed as mentioned above, there are also seeds that have ended well, called ‘world clear seeds.’ .
Officially, Rabbit Princess, ranked 1st, has the clear seed for World 1 and 2, and Tenryujie, ranked 4th, has the clear seed for World 3. When playing GG, you generally receive that official clear seed. It is common to start by inheriting from World 2. If I start in World 2, I inherit Rabbit Princess’ World 1 official clear seed. In addition, the
‘Realistic’ mode that can be set when creating a character literally allows you to experience everything you can feel in the game. It is a mode that adjusts the senses to match reality. It filters out everything, including the pain of having an arm cut off and the skin of the stomach being torn apart, as well as the feeling of skin melting and oozing from flames, the feeling of losing all sense from the extremities due to frostbite, and even the smell of blood and sewage from the battlefield. This means that it is conveyed as is.
Anyway, if you play a crazy seed like that, I guarantee you that you will go crazy within a week. In one post, you said that you tried chewing raw deer meat while playing Werewolf, but the sting and bloody smell was so vivid that you couldn’t eat it. Normal mode. That’s the extent of it, but if you get conditional in real mode, it’s a confirmed suicide – it’s
a rational decision.
In a corner of my head, I’m thinking, ‘But if it goes well, it’s okay, right?’ The problem is that the thought is creeping in.
“Let’s just sit still and think about it. I don’t think there’s anything to lose by trying, right? First, should I check to see if any of my acquaintances are requesting concept pictures? “Connect me to the Corduro Gallery chat room in District 47.”
Corduro replied as he put on the headgear inside the interface, and a familiar white window appeared before his eyes. The
zone chat room is a kind of local real-time chat.
On days when people can’t go outside because of sandstorms, Most people play games, watch games, or do household chores while chatting in these chat rooms.
+ Player ‘professor’ has entered the chat room.
– Speed Wagon: I heard that the wave in Area 64 has exploded again.
– Jokasss: That’s where fucking people live. Is it possible? They say the wave breaks out once a day.
– Takealook: Happy Blind’s headquarters is there.
– Speed Wagon: So it’s not where ‘people’ live
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Professor haha
– Speed Wagon: Professor haha
– Noroo Drug Is this professor alive or dead? I haven’t seen him in a few days so I guess I’m behind
– professor: gdgd
Familiar IDs greet me. For the past 5 years I’ve been living alone, the people in the chat room here in District 47 have really helped me endure the loneliness. Loneliness too. However, this is especially true of the information that comes up like that.
Just from the information that I just saw briefly, there was a variant wave in Area 64, so it can be expected that the consumption of ammunition will increase and the price of scrap containing copper lead will rise. So much information is gathered. The professor put his finger on the keyboard, hoping that since it was a place, there would be the information I wanted.
– Professor: There is big news.
– Noroo Drug: ?
– Takealook: ?
– Highway Nacho Man: ?
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Suddenly?
– Speedwagon: What is it?
– Professor: I’m going to broadcast.
– Noru Drug: ?
+ Player ‘Holly’ has entered the chat room.
– Takealook: ??
– Highway Nacho Man: ?
– Holly: Hello everyone! Today What are you collecting hooks for?
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: The professor is broadcasting.
– Holly: ????
– Takealook: I guess it hurts somewhere.
“These bastards…”
– professor: I’m serious.
– takealook: Looks like he’s seriously sick.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Oh my….
– Highway Nacho Man: You know the professor’s soup rules, right? Before you die, throw all the shillings in the chat room and die. When the generator went out last winter, I was a little disappointed because the seal wasn’t sprayed.
– professor: Wow,
hehehe. Everyone is so consistent. Consistent trash.
– Speed Wagon: Why. If you’re a professor, it’s worth broadcasting.
– Holly: That’s right. Speak coherently and well!
– professor: Oh, I almost cried.
-Speed Wagon: When I see you talk on a regular basis, you seem to be good at fixing things on your own. If you film that live and put it on an educational broadcast, you’ll quickly become famous.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Oh, he can’t do that.
– Speed Wagon: Why.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Last time you said there was a psycho gang living near my house hahahaha
– Takealook: Hahahaha Now that I think about it, you said you meet quite often while farming hahaha
– Holly: Oh, then you really need to be careful! I heard that Mr. Falkas, who was famous for his pottery making broadcast in District 23, had his residence location discovered by the radar that was monitoring the broadcast, and there has been no news since!
-Speed Wagon: They say they caught it after seeing the shape of a sand dune outside the window reflected in Farkas’ eyes.
– Soy sauce gay boy: Crazy psycho shack…..
– takealook: Psycho gang…. What the hell are you….
+ Player ‘Heungan Dumpling’ has entered the chat room.
– Heungan Mandu: What were you talking about?
– Speed Wagon: Breaking news/Professor reveals greed for broadcasting.
– Heungan Mandu: Professor? Professor? Really?
– professor: I have something to say about that, so everyone, please shut up.
I thought it would go on forever if I kept listening like this, so I stopped mid-sentence and brought up the main topic of the chat room.
– professor: I’m trying to become a professional game broadcaster rather than just a broadcaster. GG.
– Heungan Mandu: ……Yes?
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Wow, I guess I went too far in communicating. I see everything in vain.
– takealook: It wasn’t that I was sick, it was that I was crazy.
Well guys. It would be difficult to be surprised here. There is still one more.
– professor: I’m thinking of doing a conditional concept with a shilling attached. Is there anyone who can help me?
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The noisy chat room suddenly became quiet.
– Highway Nacho Man: If you’re going to commit suicide, throw down shillings and die.
I could tell even without the chat posting that everyone agreed with that statement.
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