Chapter 19 – 19. Gaining Future Poetry and Embracing Despair

Since I was scheduled to meet with Mr. Han and his daughter in an hour, I spent the remaining time lying in the room and carefully reading the male survivor’s diary.

According to what was written in the survivor’s diary, it was clear that mutations would start crawling out on the 7th day after the disaster.

‘The total number of recorded variants is 20…’

The number of variants was surprisingly large. In fact, every seven days, a new variant emerges, and eventually even an evolved entity with high intelligence emerges.

‘Besides… If vampires start appearing… There will be no future for humanity… ‘

Moreover, the sun will disappear completely within a month. Eternal night is coming soon. Also, an endless winter will begin.

The man who wrote the diary seemed to have died without seeing the end of winter. He died less than half a year later. He said he saw 20 variants among the variants added every 7 days, so it would be correct that he died after less than half a year.

‘The world is completely ruined in just half a year…’

I continued reading the man’s diary. Remembering the appearance of the mutant species he described.

‘The ability that the writer possesses… Brings out the awl…’

The man who wrote this diary had the ability to fire large iron stakes from his palms, and it is said that the penalty for using this ability was to hallucinate for about 10 minutes. It was a penalty that caused mental problems.

‘Like Baek A-yoon.. A penalty that causes mental problems..’

The man in the diary solved this problem with an item. It seems that the penalty of his abilities was later completely offset by wearing various accessories such as drugs called’mental stabilizers’and’will-strengthening bracelets.’The information that the handicap and penalty of a skill can be offset with items was quite valuable.

‘These are also things obtained from the labyrinth… Labyrinth farming is the answer here… ‘

There may be a way to restore Baek Ayun’s mind to its original state. Baek Ah-yoon Because he was inwardly suffering from the fact that his mind was not normal. Moreover, I would rather live with a sane woman than with a crazy woman.

‘And above all… ‘

The word infinite labyrinth was written in the man’s diary. There was written everywhere complaining that an outlaw group of radicals, not the group the man belonged to, was taking over the Infinite Labyrinth for profit and kidnapping the people around it.

I don’t know exactly what the Infinite Labyrinth is, but just looking at the description, it appears to be a gate that doesn’t close even after completing the strategy. In other words, it means you can stay in that spot and go in for farming as many times as you want.

‘What we need to do now is to prepare for the winter when the sun doesn’t rise… And to secure the infinite labyrinth… Roughly these two things… ‘

It is believed that the man died during the battle with the vampires, so we need to gather more people with outstanding combat skills to fight them. They say vampires crawl out randomly from beyond the gate… As expected, we did a good job of attracting Baek Ayun to our side. Since she is the type of person who keeps getting stronger, wouldn’t she become strong enough to defeat even vampires?

‘I’m glad this man kept a thorough diary.’

Thanks to you, I got a lot of information. For example, the type of gate.

There were approximately five types of gates written in the diary. First of all, there is a blue gate like the gate I entered this time, and it is said to be connected to the simple labyrinth. Next is the green gate, this is the infinite labyrinth. These two places were the main farming areas and places that had to be entered as soon as they were created.

‘They say it is created in an unspecified location every day…’

A simple labyrinth was created on the apartment rooftop this morning. Various simple labyrinths have probably been created all over the world.

‘You have to register for the Infinite Labyrinth first..’

The green gate belongs to whoever finds it first. If an awakened person who meets the survival level required by the gate registers before others, the gate connected to the infinite labyrinth will belong to him.

‘This is a game where the person with the most infinite labyrinths wins…’

Looking at the description that the Infinite Labyrinth is movable, it appears that the registered human can be moved to a random location.

‘If you want to eat the Infinite Labyrinth, you will have to keep raising your survival level..’

First, I conquered the simple labyrinth and my survival level rose to level 2. Baek Ah-yoon, who hunts zombies and monsters more actively than me, would probably have a survival level of 3 or 4. It would be great if my mind was sane.

In any case, blue and green are not a threat on their own. It just draws people in and doesn’t spit anything out. It was a relatively benign gate that simply waited for people to enter for a moment and then disappeared.

However, the problem was the red and black gates among the remaining three types of gates.

‘Monsters, including vampires, come out of the red gate.. And huge monsters come out of the black gate..’

It is said that each is connected to a different dimension, but the contents of the diary were not very detailed. It was just a description of vampires rushing out of a red gate and running away, and a black gate appearing in the sky and dropping an absurd monster.

‘These two are dangerous..’

Whether we touch it or not, it opens freely and unleashes monsters. This was a disaster that was difficult for us to handle. If a red gate suddenly appears inside the house and vampires pour out… A situation with no answer will arise.

‘Next is information about the last gate…’

Four of the five gates made some sense. There were many similar settings in the novels I read in the past.

However, the last gate was quite a strange guy.

‘Gate connected to the store..’

The man who wrote the diary said that he entered the ‘general store’ after finding a purple gate. Here, he said he sold items and received ‘coins’…

‘This..’

It seems to be referring to an ‘old fairy tale’ learned while exploring the underground tunnel layers of this simple labyrinth. You can trade with merchants beyond the purple gate with goods that can be farmed in dungeons.

‘Really.. The world has gone crazy..’

The world was ruined like some kind of game. I couldn’t tell if it was a general store or not… I could only feel the malice of a being far superior to humans. A malicious being laughing while throwing 8 billion people into the abyss of death…

What is the purpose? Simple fun? Is it just to satisfy his own sadistic desires?

‘For that to be true, I created too many breathing holes..’

The existence of skills, the labyrinth… And even the store. We have prepared many ways to survive.

Maybe the beings that caused this series of events are all different? There seemed to be no connection between the fall of human civilization, the gate, and the skills. Should I say that it all seems like things that happened separately?

Someone tried to use the dead to exterminate humanity, someone else gave them skills to save humanity, and it seems like a third party took advantage of this opportunity to turn the world into their own playground…

“Inho, time is up. Uncle Junho is knocking on the door.”

“Ah, yes. Let’s go out slowly.”

An hour passed quickly. I handed the survivor’s diary to Saeyeon. This is an item that must be stored with special care in your sister’s inventory. That’s because it is a book written in detail about what will happen over the next six months or so.

When I grabbed my weapon and went outside, Junho and Seunghee were waiting for me. I told my companions.

“First, let’s rob the hardware store, rob the bakery… Let’s rob every store we see. Also, you need to bring firewood, charcoal, anything that can be burned.”

I need to stock up on charcoal and firewood, as well as books that can be burned. That’s right, I’m going to raid a library and get a lot of books to start a fire with. We need to get a lot of kindling before the endless winter approaches.

“Something that can be burned?”

“Yes… Winter will come soon. The sun won’t rise and there will be an endless winter.”

“Huh…”

Junho looked like he couldn’t believe it, but when I spoke with confidence, he immediately nodded.

“And we need to raise our survival level.”

This is the most important thing now. Now that they have discovered that farming is possible in the labyrinth, Saeyeon and Seunghee must raise their survival levels at all costs. That way you can go in with me.

First of all, efficient farming is possible only if you have Saeyeon, and if you have Seunghee’s unlocking skill, you will be able to easily open locked doors, safes, and boxes inside the labyrinth, so it is important.

‘Mr. Junho, if his daughter goes, she will try to follow him. It’s right to post them together…’

I can’t stop either. It will be easier to register in the Infinite Labyrinth if your survival level is high.

It would be very terrible if you discovered an infinite labyrinth but couldn’t register because your survival level was low.

‘My paths may diverge with Baek Ah-yoon..’

I put a note on the entrance to my house so it wouldn’t fall off. I’ll be out for a while, so when you arrive first, go home and rest.

“Then let’s go…” ” “

I took the lead and opened the staircase entrance. Because of the soldiers’ gunshots, almost all of the zombies had left the apartment complex, so no cries could be heard. I think it would be perfect to kill the remaining zombies and raise the survival level.

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“Uuuuu…”

“Off…”

Zombies are snooping around the broken down car. Their number is approximately forty. I guess all those who were left around came crawling over.

For your information, those guys were brought in on purpose. To kill zombies and raise your survival level.

“Okay then… “

I hit my temple twice.

-It’s so bad!!!

Blue electricity began to flow through the baseball bat. This has a very surprising effect: if you defeat a zombie with bioelectricity activated, you will be electrocuted and fall down. Yes, I was able to defeat the zombies without killing them. Neutralization is possible with just one blow.

“Kill me, sister.”

“Yes..!”

I defeated nearly 40 zombies in the front line by electrocuting them one by one. Of these, I ate 20 and ordered Saeyeon to kill 10 of the remaining 20.

First of all, Saeyeon needs to raise her survival level as much as possible and enter the labyrinth with me. The remaining 10 zombies belong to Junho and Seunghee. Junho wanted his daughter to become stronger, so he gave most of the zombies to Seunghee.

“Whoa…”

“Let’s take a break… “

“No.. They heard the sound and came again..”

Although I felt dizzy due to the handicap of bioelectricity, I had no choice but to continue using it because it was so effective. I wish there was a way to solve this in the future…

‘No, hair loss treatment comes first… ‘

More than anything, I hope there will be an item that helps hair grow.

-Kwazijic!!!

As I caught and killed about ten more, a notification window appeared in front of me.

[Congratulations! Survival level has increased!]

[Survival level 2 → 3]

It still goes up steadily just by zombie hunting.

“Sister, did you go up to survival level?”

“Yeah.. Haa.. Haa.. Now.. Level 2..”

“Oh.. That’s good. First, let’s go into the bakery and improve our physical abilities. Seunghee.”

“Yes, just a moment.”

Soon Seunghee opened the locked door of the bakery.

We hurried into the bakery.

I’m planning to sweep up the displayed breads and cakes into my inventory and eat some for meals now.

“Uh, over there…”

At that time, someone walked out of the bakery’s kitchen.

“Please help me…”

I was a part-time worker at a bakery here.

A pretty part-time worker that I sometimes met when I came to buy bread.