105 – The Returner Reorganizes (6)

A massive report handed over by Yoon Jung-hyeon. To summarize the main contents, it is as follows.

First. If you don’t try to protect the aliens, the difficulty level doesn’t get any more difficult.

Second. The moment you try to protect the aliens, the difficulty level rises sharply.

Third. Even if you prepare in advance for the appearance of monsters, a new monster appears the next day that nullifies it.

There is nothing I can do about the first and second parts. Since it was decided to save all the aliens anyway, the increase in difficulty was something that had to be accepted.

But the key point is the third. Even if you prepare in advance, it will be neutralized the next day.

“So, you should prepare in advance, but not use it all at once.”

In my opinion, the ‘joint room’ gimmick has enough potential to be used on the very last day. This is the defense method recommended by the 4th floor, and the results were good in the last episode as well.

“It’s the 4th floor, the highest, so it won’t collapse just by breaking down the wall. If you’re really anxious, you might as well leave some walls and tear them down. The key is to create space.”

What is there to hide? I explained everything about what was going to happen. Monsters will appear at dawn on the third day, and the difficulty increases every time you try to stop them. (It was not said that aliens seemed to be the target.)

So my design is like this. On the third day, that is, the first wave, you use your individual skills as much as possible to block it. I will do the best I can, with a few tricks.

Wouldn’t it be difficult? Of course it will be difficult. But if you think about it in reverse, the third day is the most worth trying. If you prepare thoroughly and use everything you can, including magic tools, you will be able to defend without having to block the passage.

After the third day, it’s easy.

Fourth day. Block the passage to the castle. Same as the third day of the previous round, block as many passages as possible and hold a sit-in protest in the remaining passages. Since it is a proven method, there is no way it will cause any damage.

However, if we wait like this until the 5th day, a slime that melts broken bricks will appear like before and catch us off guard. What appears here is the ‘giant room’ that is currently being prepared.

Unbroken bricks do not dissolve in slime. If you can just block the narrow entrance to the huge room that connects other rooms, you will definitely be able to survive with ease.

Looks simpler than you think? Simple is right. However, it is a strategy that can only be derived when all gimmicks are figured out in the first place.

I am in a position where I have returned after experiencing the future. But do you know my own experience? Thanks to Yoon Jung-hyeon’s report, the sample numbered dozens of times.

Not being able to prepare perfectly is bordering on incompetence. Wouldn’t it be foolish to suffer when you know the future?

“Then, Mr. Junghyeon and Mr. William Smith, please have the players grab their hammers and get ready. “We’re not going to start right now.”

“I understand.”

“Good.”

“And Baron Jorge… There are no materials because you didn’t destroy the 4th floor, so please do what you can first. “We just need to block the main gate today.”

“I understand.”

After quickly completing the instructions, an order was given to celebrate the guests. Three people leaving the room.

After confirming that they were far enough away, I breathed a sigh of relief.

“… “It’s better than I thought.”

I was observing their reactions throughout the story. This is because I was curious about people’s reactions when I openly spoke about future knowledge in a definitive tone.

And from what I see, the current reaction is exactly half and half.

I don’t know what that crazy bastard is saying, but looking at what he showed earlier, he seems to be incredibly strong, so let’s pretend to listen for now! I half think so.

Hmm… But what is this really? What do you know? It’s too detailed to be a simple bluff, right? I am also full of confidence. Just in case… I half think so.

In the first place, I didn’t think he would completely trust me. When people suddenly tell us this and that, saying it is future knowledge, wouldn’t it be foolish to believe it? Rather, the fact that they are being suspected is proof that they are not fools.

Anyway, an atmosphere was created where everyone followed what I said unless a major problem arose. If things continue like this, doubts will explode on the second day, then a monster will appear on the third day, and public opinion will flow that I was right. Everything is according to plan.

“Wow, but I feel refreshed inside.”

A strange pleasure tickles my chest.

This is the first time in my life that I have revealed future knowledge so openly. I’ve always been wary of the fact that I’m a regressor being spread, but now that I’ve actually done it, I feel relieved.

It’s so easy to just pretend to know, but wouldn’t it be better to just reveal that you’re a regressor from now on and then regress later? I feel like a fool for hesitating until now.

If you look at web novels, there is a plot that says, ‘The transcendent is watching, so we must never reveal the fact of the regression.’ But I didn’t see anything like that. If such conditions had existed in the first place, something significant would have appeared and made known long ago.

Now, looking back at the plan again, the design is perfect. Now all that remains is action.

“… Oh right.”

I almost forgot.

There was one last thing left to prepare.

**

“Young, car! Young, car!”

When I arrived at the main gate, demolition work was in full swing. Since construction on the 4th floor had not yet begun and there were no materials, they were breaking down the door first.

“Baron Jorge.”

“Philip, if you throw the fragments like that, someone else will…” Oh, what’s going on?”

Baron Jorge looks back at me instead of giving instructions. Although it was a bit unexpected, he decided to bring up business first.

“Territory residents summoned to the tower. “Do they all know each other?”

“I know very well. “Because he is my territory.”

When the aliens died, Baron Jorge mentioned their names one by one and buried them in the ground. This is evidence that there is great interest in Young Ji-min.

“Then, among the people summoned now, is there anyone who says, ‘This person must be saved?'”

“… ?”

Suddenly? It was Baron Jorge who couldn’t erase the expression, but he still got the right answer.

“… “There are about three of them.”

Luke is a young man with exceptional dexterity. Phil, a boy who was scheduled to enter the academy. Milia, a girl with a natural talent for predicting the weather.

The three people chosen by Baron Jorge were all boys and girls with bright futures. By the way, there are three of them.

“We need five people. “Please choose two more people.”

“… If I had to choose… “

“Oh, and bring him here right now. “I’m going to tell you something very important.”

“I understand.”

The five otherworlders who were selected like that. They are lined up in front of me.

Of course, everyone has an expression like, ‘What is this situation?’ Well, it’s worth it.

I was suddenly summoned to the tower and told to go into the castle, so I put on my winter clothes. After that, they are suddenly mobilized to work. But now you want me to stop working and come back again? It will be a series of incomprehensible situations.

“Okay, I’ll talk about it as we go. “Baron Jorge, please follow us.”

“… “Sure.”

Leading a total of six otherworldly people, he walks into the castle and climbs the stairs. While I was walking, my mouth got itchy, so I spoke to Baron Jorge without realizing it.

“Baron. Let’s say you find apples that are delicious enough for all the residents of the territory to covet. “It is a very rare variety of apple, so you never know when it will bloom again.”

“… However?”

“The apple is so sweet that everyone wants to eat it, but there is only one apple. What if the estate is not running properly because everyone is coveting the apples… How will you deal with it?”

“Um… “

Baron Jorge is lost in thought as he climbs the stairs. When we reached the third floor, his mouth finally opened.

“If it were me, I would feed those apples to livestock.”

“A precious apple? “Why?”

“If an apple is that precious, a fight is bound to break out no matter who eats it. No matter how fair it is, dissatisfaction will build up implicitly. In that case, wouldn’t it be better to just feed the livestock and clean up after them? “It may be unfortunate, but there will be no dispute.”

“I thought so too.”

With that said, he led the six otherworlders to a small room on the fourth floor. The players’ construction will begin soon. There is no time.

“But why are we here…?” ?”

Baron Jorge asks with a slightly trembling voice. Since I had no choice, I followed along, but as the situation unfolded, ominous thoughts seemed to cross my mind.

“Well, it’s nothing special… “

Kick strongly as if pushing against a thin wall with your heel. Bang! A wall collapsing with a sound.

“Hee, hee!”

“Woah, wow!”

The residents of the territory crouched down, thinking I was making a show of force, but only Baron Jorge was watching what I was doing.

“This, this…” “

“I’m going to take it and throw it away too. Apologize.”

-Wow.

When the wall collapsed, a blue portal was revealed. The portal is shaking and emitting a strange light.

[Great achievement notification!]

-I found a hidden escape.

-If you pass through the portal in front of you, you will clear the 4th floor. (5 People left)

“Tsk tsk.”

Without delay, I threw an alien into the portal.

“Ooh, ooh ooh!”

A man disappearing into a portal with a strange scream. His name was probably Luke.

“Hey, this is it.”

Since players can pass through portals, could it be possible that they are also aliens? I did it with that thought in mind. This is really happening.

Relieved, I threw the remaining four aliens into the portal.

[Five people passed.]

[The exit is closed.]

A portal that slowly disappears after swallowing a total of five people.

I looked at Baron Jorge, who was shaking his hands and his mouth was wide open.

“I feel like there will be a fight even if there are precious apples.”

In the previous episode, there was a fight because of this portal. It is said that some people were actually injured.

But voila? The portal disappeared. Therefore, there is no need for players to fight among themselves.

I like it, and the players also like it. Isn’t this really a good deed?