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#Episode 9. The Advance Party (1)
A voting results window floated into the air.
[The player selected as the king of the Hong team is ‘Kang Si-on’.]
As soon as the king was chosen, a red seal rose above the heads of those present.
All those who belonged to the 7th floor were selected as ‘citizens’ of the Hong Team Kingdom that I led.
K, looking at the results, smiled.
“I knew that Mr. Zion would be chosen. Who else would be chosen here besides Mr. Zion?”
K was talking about me, but I wasn’t really interested in her.
What I was interested in was the king of the blue team and the king of the black team.
In other words, it was the target I had to kill.
From the moment I was chosen as king, I made up my mind.
I looked at the remaining two notification windows.
[The player chosen as the king of the Blue Team is ‘???’.]
[The player chosen as the king of the black team is ‘???’.]
The person elected as king was kept ‘???’ private.
“The kings that belong to the team are on the surface just ordinary ‘citizens’. So it’s not easy for the opposing team to know whether the opponent is a ‘king’ or a ‘citizen’.”
K’s voice continued to be heard.
As a result, the quickest way to kill a king was through a large-scale battle or assassination.
This game won’t be an easy one, as it won’t be easy to find the opposing team’s king.
Internal unity.
Strong internal unity was soon linked to the group’s fighting power.
That had to be the goal first.
‘The number of blue teams was overwhelmingly large.’
That meant there were more survivors on the Blue Team.
In comparison, this side has at most a few dozen people.
If you just calculate it based on what you saw, it appears that the difference was more than double.
If a battle starts, this side will take greater damage.
No, it was something that might not have been possible to win from the start.
“The round will start exactly 60 minutes from now. The current time is… … 23:00, so it will start at 00:00. Oh, right! From 23:00 to 00:00, neither the red team nor the blue team can attack each other. During this time, you can either… … rest, or prepare to attack.”
Everyone was determined.
After experiencing the tutorial and K’s play.
There is probably no one who still denies the reality that we are facing now.
K looked at people’s expressions and smiled with satisfaction.
And then he drew attention again with applause.
“Okay! Then shall we begin?”
With those words, K opened another dimensional gate into the air.
The baby angels lined up first and went in there, and K stayed until the very end to say a few words to us.
“Have fun, you guys. No one can beat someone who is having fun, right? Good luck.”
Yeah-.
With those words, K disappeared into thin air.
And then silence fell upon the store again.
At the same time, a status window appeared before my eyes, indicating the start of Round 1.
[Temporary Status Window][Building A112305: Red Team]
[King: Kang Shi-on]
[resources
Number of civilians: 32 (3 injured, 3 slightly injured, 0 seriously injured)
Number of subordinates: 0, -grade
Occupied area: 7th floor
Ranking in my area: 2nd
Food: 0
Drinking water: 0
Power: Military (0), Weapon {13, F-Class (12), A-Class (1)}
]
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After K disappeared, silence fell on this place.
Some people sighed in relief, while others silently stared into the empty space where K had disappeared.
Zion was examining the status window.
Jaehee took a cigarette out of his pocket and put it in his mouth.
‘Fortunately, the future hasn’t changed.’
Chick, chick-.
I lit a cigarette and looked back at him.
He seemed to be thinking about something, looking back at the status window.
As expected, Kang Si-on was selected as the king of the first round.
In the meantime, there was no role she could play.
Now that he has been crowned king, he is learning how to survive in this world.
If we were to tell everyone everything, the future would change exponentially.
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All she has to do is add a little explanation so that he can understand.
And it was a test for him to see if he could really win this league.
Jin Jae-hee approached Kang Si-on little by little.
Zion was examining a nearby bundle of wheat that had fallen nearby.
He looked at it and thought.
‘Internal unity.’
As I held the slingshot, the information window for the weapon naturally appeared before my eyes.
[Temporary][Milky Way Seal (F-Class), Attack Power (5), Durability (10)]
The wheat stick was also treated as a weapon.
The grade was F, and the durability was absurdly low at 10.
Just swinging it once against a wall with all your might would cut its durability in half.
I opened my inventory again and examined the revolver.
An information window that had not been visible until a moment ago appeared.
It was an information window surrounded by a purple border.
[Temporary][Smith & Wesson 38 Caliber (Grade A), Attack Power (70), Durability (100), Bullets (10)]
It has attack power and durability that are on a whole other level than the previous wheat straw sticks.
I realized once again what a great advantage this weapon K had given me was.
Zion needed to objectively examine the power that the Hong team now possessed.
Because I have no idea what the Blue Team is doing right now or what they are armed with.
As Zion was examining the weapon window, Jin Jae-hee approached him quietly and spoke.
“Weapons can be upgraded by using citizens with special occupations. You can also increase durability or attack power.”
Zion hesitated for a moment at those words and then asked again.
“How do you get citizens with those special jobs?”
“Special citizens, or players, are like gold in the sand. They are hard to obtain and hard to find. That’s why special citizens tend to be traded at quite high prices once you get to the middle part of the game.”
Special abilities? People are being traded at high prices?
Zion looked around, questioning.
And above their heads rose the seal signifying the Red Team.
The seals looked like medals, but most had simple red patterns.
It seemed to be a seal visible only to the king.
Because no one on the Hong team here was looking over each other’s heads.
“You won’t be able to get information about special citizens at first. Most of them will be open after the first half.”
“What does Temporary mean next to this status window?”
Jin Jae-hee answered my question while exhaling cigarette smoke.
“Literally. All the status screens and abilities that appear during the tutorial are temporary. Don’t worry about it. After all, the tutorial is a process for selecting players, so there’s no need to think about it for too long. For now, just focus on the game at hand. One more thing.”
After saying that, Jin Jae-hee pointed to the opposite place with his finger, where the cigarette was still in it.
I followed her fingers.
There were two people there who appeared to be brother and sister.
Their voices were heard.
“Can I eat this?”
“… … A monster? Are you crazy?”
“Ah. But I’m so hungry, what should I do?”
“Swallow.”
“Swallowing.”
Two people who appeared to be siblings were talking over the fallen goblin corpse.
Jin Jae-hee said while looking at the two siblings.
“I saw those two on my way here. They’ll be a great help to you.”
“Are these the people who came up from downstairs?”
“okay.”
I looked around.
It seemed like most people were waiting for my next words.
Anyway, in order for us to survive, we had to kill the kings of the blue and black teams, and I had a duty to lead them.
“What about food?”
Zion asked Jaehee.
“Food represents the number of days a force can last. If the number is 1, it means that the entire force can last for one day.”
“It means that now is 0.”
“I can’t last even a day like this.”
Knock knock.
Jin Jae-hee said, wiping the cigarette ash with his fingers.
Zion looked around and thought.
In that case, we need to get drinking water right away.
Humans can survive for several days without food, but cannot survive more than three days without water.
Zion spoke straight to the three people nearby.
“Please bring me some water from the bathroom. A bucket or whatever is fine, as much as you can hold.”
“Ah… … yes!”
“yes……!”
People responded immediately to his words and headed to the bathroom.
Zion thought there would be a backlash, but the people followed his words more obediently than he had expected.
Perhaps they are aware of the situation they are in.
And food.
Honestly, if this was a big box store, there wouldn’t be any problems with food.
Because large marts are stores that have one or two floors entirely filled with groceries.
But this is a shopping mall outlet.
This is a shopping mall that mainly sells fashion accessories and movie theaters, rather than a shopping mall that mainly sells groceries.
The floors where food is likely to be available are the 9th and 10th floors, which are Food Street and restaurants.
Or at least on the 11th floor, in the movie theater.
Zion turned his head and looked at the goblin lying dead.
I asked Jaehee about that.
“Can you eat goblins?”
“Yeah, it’s just so fu*king tasteless.”
“Nutrition.”
“Worst of all, I can probably hold out for a few days, but as a king, I have to make sure my citizens get enough food.”
“That’s fine, Kyungsoo.”
“Oh, yes! Mr. Zion.”
When Zion called, Kwon Kyung-soo, who had been taking care of the exhausted survivors, came running in a hurry.
Zion told Kwon Kyung-soo to collect useful meat from goblins.
“A monster… …?”
“Yes, please discard the entrails if possible and only prepare the meat. You may throw the remaining body to the 6th floor.”
“Ah… … Yes! I’ll try.”
Kwon Kyung-soo looked around and picked up a pair of scissors that were in the store.
After picking up a few more, he headed towards the goblins with the people around him.
Next was the weapon.
Zion asked, examining his status window.
“Are all future rounds going to be like this?”
“Yeah. Depending on the location.”
“location……?”
Zion looked back at Jaehee.
Jaehee explained calmly.
“Yeah. It starts with buildings, then cities, small regions, multi-regions, and then the whole country. Right now, it’s just small-scale battles… … but as the rounds progress, the scale will grow incredibly large.”
In the end, what he meant was that we need to invest not only in immediate victory but also in places that are absolutely necessary in the long term.
Beating the blue team would be the first priority.
Four or five people came out of the bathroom, groaning.
I brought a bucket full of water to suck up the mop water.
“Oh, I brought water, Mr. Zion.”
“This one’s long too. Gasp… … Gasp… … .”
[Food: 0 -> 3]
The update was very fast.
Bringing a bucket inside the barricade that is now considered a residential area increases the amount of resources.
At the same time, goblin grooming was in full swing on the other side.
He cut the scissors in half and began to use the sharp end to cut the bones and internal organs from the corpse.
They were all crying and some were even vomiting, but they didn’t stop working.
‘Phew… … ‘
Zion took a deep breath.
Now all that remained was to figure out what kind of people the Blue Team was.
Zion looked up at the ceiling and thought.
The ceiling, filled with nothing but darkness, felt farther away.
A search party had to be formed to monitor their movements.
There are three kings in the shopping mall.
Zion vowed not to hesitate if it was a structure in which they had to die in order to survive.
It doesn’t matter where they are, what they do, or how good or bad they are.
He will kill them.
I will do my best to kill you.
“Huh… … Huh… … ?”
“Hey, wait a minute. People?!”
at that time.
A rumbling sound was heard, and Zion looked in the direction of the sound.
It was an escalator.
And a group of muscular men were coming down the escalator.
In one hand they held a basket full of delicious food.
“… … .”
Zion slowly left the barricade.
Chuck, chuck, chuck.
They came down in a line and placed baskets in front of us.
The appearance of food instantly stirred up the whole area.
And then a low, deep voice was heard.
“Ah-. Everyone.”
Another man walks out between the men.
He wore horn-rimmed glasses and his hair was slicked back.
He had a prominent square jaw and was a man neatly dressed in a suit.
The man walked alone between the red teams and then smiled and said.
“Nice to meet you. Phoenix Shopping Mall, branch manager. My name is Kim Dong-gil.”
Before the Hong team could move, the bastards approached first.
It was the advance party of the blue team that was gathered on the 11th floor.
(Continued in the next episode)