How To Be Misunderstood as a Villain in a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 2. Eric Tone Protocol (2)

It wasn’t just that. The ‘great seniors’ who persistently tried to text and call also lost contact. My advisor left the school for ‘personal reasons’.

A few days later my cell phone rang. It was a police station. I thought it was voice phishing so I teased him and hung up, but he was a real detective. It hurt so much that I actively cooperated.

“Have graduates ever asked you to sign up for insurance or derivatives?”

“Yes.”

“Did you explain the product correctly?”

“No. What happened?”

“It was illegal multi-level. The professor was the body.”

Like a late-night restaurant with several phones, all the companies on the colorful business cards were the advisor’s company.

The professor who became Unlucky Moriarty was erased from the school list, but remains forever in our hearts.

A few days later. I got a call from the General Club Federation.

“I’m the president? Why?”

“I’m the oldest among the students on the club activity list.”

“I don’t want to.”

“There is no one to take over. There is no professor who will take over. It’s not that there is no way, but if you don’t want to decide, you can apply to close the club.”

Perhaps the main point was this. ‘The number of students decreased, so they had no choice but to close the door.’ Say around. I didn’t want to use a dump like that.

“…Yes. There is about 300,000 won left in the activity fee.

It didn’t seem too bad to send a 30-year-old traditional club with my own hands.

“Then I’ll do it.”

I forgot about the receipt and the commemorative photo. I remembered only that if I used it alone, it would be embezzlement, so I called first-year students with ‘risk aversion’ or ‘no seed money’ like me. Everyone was younger than me.

“Let’s have a dinner and then disperse.”

“But where should we go? If it costs 300,000 won for 4 people, it seems like we have to go somewhere very expensive.”

Suddenly, a forgotten coupon came to mind. Unfortunately, there was a proviso that drinks were provided only to customers over 10,000 won, so the coupon reminded me of the importance of the terms and conditions.

“I have a coupon for a family restaurant, so let’s go there.”

Everyone was with their lover or family. When the four men, who looked gloomy and unsocial, but seemed to be active in front of the monitor, gloomily muttered the menu, the part-time worker spat out the words like an angry maid, asking them to speak a little louder.

“…It seems that the price of the plate is more than the price of the food. Why is it so small?”

Everybody was silent and only scratched their forks and knives. The food that took 20 minutes to wait was all gone in 5 minutes.

At the thought that something wasn’t going to happen like this, everyone was choking with meaningless laughter.

But there are always active people among them.

“Hey, Chairman hyung, don’t you play games?”

I shouldn’t have responded to that.

“Say it. And I don’t play games.”

“No, then, what kind of fun do you usually live for?”

I didn’t say that watching cat and dog videos is a pleasure. It was my own secret.

At first, it was fun just watching those cute things roll around, but at some point, training videos started popping up as related search words, and it turned into something similar to a hobby.

How to say, there was a strange pleasure there. The joy of being an orchestra conductor, watching public opinion go this way and that way on one of my fingers during my difficult and gloomy days of luck.

The difference is that the internet forum humans are all mad, but the dogs and cats are happy.

People get angry when I try to be their master, but animals prefer that certainty. I was satisfied with just imagining the panting, flipping over on my stomach, or clinging to my legs and looking up at me.

Someday you should raise it.

A colleague held out his mobile phone in front of me.

“…What is this?”

“Oh, hyung. This is a game from a new company that came out this time, and the reviews are really good? There is talk that listing is possible.”

No matter how much the domestic market is ridiculed by foreigners as a Korean discount and by Koreans as a box office for 1,000,000 years, it is still a safe and reliable place. Listing on the stock market requires a truly outstanding company.

But to the extent that a new game company is discussing an IPO. Even though I thought it was fluttering, I was curious.

“Ah, are you raising this demon?”

The motive quickly put away the picture of a half-naked female devil and put a gloomy picture. Against a gloomy background, it was a statue of a dried and twisted human twisting her whole body.

「Erysichthon Protocol」

“…Erysictone Protocol?”

“Uh. Cool isn’t it It is registered as a domestic studio, but the developers are all foreigners. There are rumors that a company that has nothing to do with game love is the owner… After all, they say they have a lot of money and good skills.”

After that, I listened casually. It wasn’t just because the three guys gathered there pretended to know about the game, and it made them feel alienated and repulsive, and it was because the explanation was too difficult.

That was my first encounter with this game.

* * * * *

I remember that night of disillusionment when I stumbled into my own room.

The night of the sparkling city where I sat down and pretended to be cheating on me. The signboards that hit me with colorful colors brighter than the stars in the sky.

… Then, in the world, I can do that too. Yes? This is neither bad nor good It’s natural and it’s not. People are either used or not depending on their usefulness, it is not something to trust and rely on.

It seemed as if the obviousness that was being pushed away hit me.

However, there was no way to appease the strange loneliness, so I installed the ergic tone protocol that my freshman classmate told me about on my laptop, and I fell in love with it more easily than I thought.

Everyone was everyone’s enemy here. Everyone is the only one who wants to catch me and kill me. So, I can kill myself as much as I want.

Using. Use it up while throwing away

Has it been said that games are an escape for someone? That’s right. At least because i did Because I was able to play a decent human being well in real life thanks to my heart’s content here.

I discovered an unexpected talent here. A tactic of messing with each other to fight, avoiding my own danger, and then taking only the important things.

The point where you think you’ll get angry if you do something like this, the part where you think you can get angry if you do this, I could see it very well.

People say it’s riotous and tickling. I say jay.

If you do something like this in society, you will be buried.

But that doesn’t matter here. Because it’s not real Because it’s virtual. And above all, because it’s fun.

It seems that the game company did not expect such a play, but it still worked well.

But now, I don’t know. Will I be able to eat it or not?

Too many things have changed. First of all, the safe zone… According to a guy named Hans, there’s a new thing called a ‘human sanctuary’.

The elements of conflict between countries originally remained only in the setting. In the game, it was added to miscellaneous item descriptions. Just like how I could tell at a glance that the ID Hans had sent me on his cell phone was fake.

In other words, a story and narrative came into a game where I had to kill and avoid everything in sight or survive alone. And the narrative and the conflict are likely to flow in a direction I do not know.

Of course I tried all the time zones. Immediately after the plague spread. A week later one month later. One year later ten years later I know what this world will look like.

But in the midst of the plague spreading like now, before the whole social system completely collapsed, it had never been done. The ending won’t be much different.

Everybody dies. So will this world. However, the way he died and the process he would go through would be completely different from what I knew.

… It is no different from real life.

* * * * *

I finished opening a can of condensed milk with a hunting knife. I drank a little on my bike ride yesterday, so it was cut in half.

I can’t carry more of the opened one anyway. Careful not to cut my hand, I gently pushed the lid open with a knife.

Til the can and drink the muddy, sweet condensed milk. I loved the feeling of sticking to my tongue. I was happy with the feeling of sweetly filling the space between my teeth.

I forcibly removed my mouth from the can and chewed on the condensed milk. Of course, there was nothing chewy, but I wanted to experience the feeling of ‘eating’ something.

He clamored for more. I took a sip of bottled water and tilted the can again.

Once something sweet went in, I couldn’t stand it. I drank water in between because I was afraid of choking, but it tasted better when I drank it again, probably because the sweetness was washed away each time.

“I am hungry.”

I was startled after muttering like a dream. It wasn’t out loud. Half a can of condensed milk. I ate 200g out of 400g. 320Kcal in 100g, so it’s already 640… He ate more than two bowls of rice.

Of course, condensed milk is neither rice nor bread, but closer to cream. However, it is also true that it is incredibly sweet and greasy. Even so, my stomach became more active than when I was hungry, telling me to put more out. The root of my tongue was sore because of how saliva was collecting.

“There is no more… “

After much thought, I poured the water from the water bottle into the condensed milk can and shook it slightly. My eyes went wide with hunger, so I had to do that at least. If I hadn’t been conscious of the sharp edges, I might have licked it with my tongue.

“Ha.”

The meal was over only after refilling the water boat unintentionally. I drank a bottle of 500ml plastic bottled water yesterday and today. Condensed milk has been emptied, so now all I have to eat is a sip of bottled water and an unopened sausage.

Now is not the time to go far. You have to find something to eat and drink in this area first so that you can move to the next area without difficulty.

Stay in one area, gather enough resources, do a good preliminary scouting before moving to another area, then occupy and secure it.

These three stages are the most basic way of survival. If you pack a lot of supplies and carry them around in a place you don’t even know properly, you’ll end up living like a treasure goblin.

This container isn’t a perfect base, but it could be a temporary storage warehouse. Since it is a place where not many people know or stay for a short time, there will not be much data about this place even from game companies that track and update ‘player patterns’.

But I shouldn’t stay too long. For a day or two, looking for a nearby area that comes to mind and getting ready to run long distances at once. Plan just that.

I’m hungry again.

* * * * *

I thought about it, but after standing in front of the mirror, it became clear.

My body is strange.