How To Be Misunderstood as a Villain in a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 2. Ericcton Protocol (1)

Erysictone Protocol.

First person hardcore survival game. That was what the game publishers advocated for.

The player enters the ‘danger zone’, picks up good items, and returns to the safe zone to avoid attacks and disturbances from zombies and other human predators.

Multiplayer is also possible, but it’s okay to enjoy it as a single player.

There is no big difference anyway. After periodically recording the patterns of the players, it was blown into the NPCs. Sometimes NPCs show more cunning play than people.

However, it seems that there is no one else in the ‘here and now’ I entered.

If it was in multiplayer mode, ‘Tutorial Town’ would not appear. So, I’m in a singleplayer full of NPCs who play more human than human.

In the original game, players can match their equipment. If you are equipped with good armor and offensive weapons, there is a good chance that you will survive entering even more dangerous places. If he picks up a not-so-good weapon, he has to come up with a plan to pick up as many items as possible.

What if I die?

You lose all the equipment you took with you and all the equipment you acquired up to that point. The character either becomes a zombie as it is, or remains so miserable that he cannot even become a zombie.

The player then has to start by creating a new character. If you’re lucky enough to find an old character’s hiding place, you can rewrite what you’ve collected so far.

“… Is this funny Isn’t it a structure that only puts a lot of stress on you? I don’t know what the hell is fun about.”

That was the question I asked when I was first introduced to this game by a classmate of my college stock club.

“At first, I thought so too, but when I tried it, it wasn’t. Should I say investment or speculation? It was such fun.”

“Speculation?”

“Why, that’s the fun of gambling and speculation. To risk losing stakes, to be adventurous and finally to win the thrilling stakes.”

“So this is a game of luck?”

“It’s about the difference between roulette and poker. Roulette is completely dependent on luck, but in poker, the player can decide a lot.

How much risk will you take, how much loss will you consider, and how much will you win in the end. It’s not unpleasant, it’s an unreasonable thing to handle.

This game is more like poker. Didn’t you say that when you enter the map, you go in with the equipment? That’s the stakes. Having good equipment is like raising the stakes. The rewards are bigger too.

But there are actually better things than gambling.”

“What is it?”

“It’s all virtual. You’re not betting real money. It’s such a game, so how is it?”

Yes. It was a game like that.

I was supposed to stay that way.

* * * * *

Find a safe place to rest and pedal your bicycle.

Where is this place and where am I? Recalling the map in my head, I try to match the scenery in front of me one by one.

Anyway, it was close to night, so I couldn’t connect well with the image in my memory.

In this case, ‘Landmark’ is helpful. The ones that are big and unique and easy to remember.

For example, that transmission tower that grew tall on top of a tree. If you look at that, you can see that this is a ‘transmission tower forest’.

It’s an oval shape with elongated sides, and it’s quite wide enough that you have to walk for a day and a half to get out of it from one end to the other.

Densely grown trees in hills, streams and wide open areas. Originally, these places all look similar, so it is easy for beginners to get lost, but not here.

As I said before, there are 50m power transmission towers lined up that you cannot see even if you look at the 17m tall trees.

If you’re not sure, you can get out of the forest just by following the tower’s wires.

It’s a pretty friendly setup for a game that claims to be hardcore survival, but it’s still the area where you die the most in the entire game.

That’s right, this is the ‘real’ basic skill. So it’s a place where you learn about management and survival.

If you get used to the controls and interface in Mini Bell Village, here in the Transmission Tower Forest is where you learn the overall operation and survival methods of the game.

So I have no choice but to die a lot.

No matter how hard you try to catch the direction while looking at the transmission towers and wires, anyone will be surprised by the zombie that suddenly pops out from behind the tree.

Beginners tend to shoot guns reflexively. Then the sound of gunfire spreads in all directions, and the location is naturally discovered.

More zombies will come. Even if they manage to escape, the fate of being shot and killed awaits them.

Why aren’t there guys like that? The guys who claim to be the ‘guardian’ themselves and talk about the need to show newbies their spiciness.

Newbie brushcutters who are frustrated by the wall of skill that cannot be overcome to become masters, but want to feel a sense of superiority while taking a match in the grass.

Like a senior advisor who behaves like a delinquent and pours out what happened to his successor regardless of whether he is good or bad because ‘the military is like that’.

The characteristic of those guys is that they use good guns or armor. Either the firepower is good enough to crush lightly armed opponents, or the iron armor that doesn’t get scratched even if you recklessly shoot it and insults it.

It was a small pleasure to pretend to be a newbie, beat them up, post them on the forum with the title ‘Insect Cut.’ And stuffed them.

There’s no such thing as a forum here. It’s a pity.

I finally arrived at the place I was looking for. Container house.

It was used as a temporary lodging and field office during the construction of the steel tower… That’s how it was on the old map.

However, few people have actually been there. It is far from the main traffic line and there are no valuable items.

Therefore, it also has an unexpected advantage: it is a perfect place to take a breather, such as treating injuries or cooking simple dishes.

It’s not a place to stay for a long time because it’s difficult to defend other than being remote, but it’s a good place to take a short break.

I made a couple of long runs around the house, made sure it was safe, then came in, locked the door, and locked it with my bike.

The inside was a little dirty, but the cot was fine except for a little dust. I brushed off moderately and lay down. I cough a couple of times and look up at the ceiling.

I thought it was worth making it funny.

What? Can you do it in this situation?

I giggled to myself and dust got into my mouth and I choked.

But when I think about it, I think it has always been like that.

Nothing has ever worked out as expected. I don’t know if I set my goals too high or if it was because I couldn’t see my ability objectively.

But as always, the worst has been staggeringly avoided. On the contrary, when I thought, “I don’t know,” And rushed at it without much thought, I used to get pretty good results.

The kind of person who doesn’t have bad luck, but is particularly strong when it comes to bad luck.

I myself think so.

It was fortunate that I came across this game, Eric Tone Protocol. Because I had fun for a long time.

Of course, I didn’t want to come into this world. This is bad luck.

But without this game,

I wouldn’t have been able to smoothly pass the time when I was a college freshman when I was about to be scammed, and I wouldn’t have been able to find my talent.

* * * * *

It was disappointing for me to get a high school senior’s college entrance exam score. So, it was not difficult for me to choose a second course. The problem was school fees. Even though my circumstances had improved, it wasn’t to the extent that I was attending a comprehensive class.

“I study the smallest things on my own, well. You only need to listen to online lectures.”

I heard the sound of a crazy person in my present life, so instead I looked for friends on the Internet. Fortunately, there were more people in the same situation as me, who were kicked out of their present lives and found comfort on the Internet.

In those ambiguous days when I was neither a student nor a very adult, I lived really hard.

I continued to listen to lectures and solve problems. Even while working part-time in the reading room, even when I was blocked by an internet bulletin board manager while running wallpaper, even after I created multiple accounts and stopped several bulletin board keepers, I did not let go of my learning.

If I had money, there were many times when I was disappointed. It was like that when I couldn’t sleep because I used a free VPN. If I had a little money to waste, I could have used a paid VPN.

The reason I went to college with a bit of regret might be because the fatigue accumulated while I was not sleeping unknowingly ate away my ability to concentrate.

But it wasn’t a bad thing. If I had the money to buy a paid VPN at will, I wouldn’t have really let go of the internet, and if I had, I wouldn’t have studied any further.

Anyway, feeling the sadness of not having money, I decided, ‘Even if a person isn’t rich, he or she should have money that can be spent when needed.’

Thanks to the clear sense of purpose, I joined the 30-year-old stock club. Exchanges with seniors were also active, so I was about to burst my wallet with business cards given by seniors who were at securities companies, insurance companies, and day traders.

Homecoming Day, the day when the seniors visited the school all at once, is still vivid.

Seniors in suits sat down like interviewers, our advisor was looking at us happily, and a senior who was the former president of the club was giving a lecture. He said he was a futures options trader.

“What do you need the most to invest, juniors?”

“Accounts and seed money.”

“That’s right! I can create an account right now. But I can’t give you seed money. This is the money of my customers, no juniors, and I’m just taking care of the money for a while.

However, seed money is created, not collected. Let’s make something out of the money we have now. Now, fill out the account opening application form.”

However, it was not so easy to solve things in the world, so it was not enough to just have an account and money. I made an account once, but I really didn’t have a single penny.

The reason I came here today was because I was buying dinner and giving coupons to a family restaurant.

“No, junior. You want to be rich, but don’t have 500,000 won in cash?”

The senior grumbled, but he gave me a coupon anyway. Other club members received a 30,000 won coupon, but I got a free drink coupon. It was a huge gain as I sat still and earned 4,000 won.

“Now, let’s evaluate the investment propensity analysis. Assistant, have you opened the multimedia room? Did you open the homepage? Okay, let’s go.”

That day, the professor was really like a mother guiding the ducklings, or rather, a father duck. We sat in front of computers in the multi-media room and answered investment questions.

Choose one of the five levels according to your degree. 1) I don’t want to risk any loss. Strongly agree 5, Not at all 1.’ It was like this.

“…Junior. Didn’t you say you wanted to make a lot of money with little money?”

“Yes.”

“But the investment evaluation is extremely risk-averse? In this way, you can only accept deposits and installment savings. Seniors have come to give you valuable time to tell you about good products, but this level of risk is not something you should take.”

I wonder if I was like that. It was an unexpected result, as much as the psychological test for boredom. However, when I listened to it, I was a little embarrassed.

“I signed up here because I really wanted to make a lot of money with little money. Can’t you tell me how to do that?”

Perhaps he didn’t want to be called juniors or backstabbers with no skills, the senior just rolled his eyes and didn’t say anything more. Instead, he murmured something that didn’t sound like a word: ‘Investment comes with a lot of risk.’

Thinking that seniors are more stupid than me, I didn’t buy a single ‘risk-seeking product’ or ‘inverse double leverage’.

So all I got was a coupon for a family restaurant and a drink coupon.

A month later, the club seniors who had joined the product abandoned the school leave as a group.