New beginning (2)
Zhou Mingrui looked around and pulled out a translator from the historical pores, recognizing that he was in Korea due to the writings on the wall.
His gaze dimmed as he briefly felt his humanity fade away due to despair. Would he have to search for a way home once again?
He resisted the madness and clenched his hand.
However, there was something strange. Wasn't his humanity lower than expected?
Zhou Mingrui didn't remember the 4th regression due to Xin Jian restraining the gray fog on his body when they first met in this world.
He didn't remember the 5th round either.
If he went above the gray fog, he could remember everything, but even in the 4th round, after checking that his connection to Sefirah Castle was intact, he never tried to go there.
At that moment, the clock ticked 7 p.m. and the subway train stopped.
It felt like the world was stopping.
[The free service of planetary system 8612 has been terminated.]
[The main scenario has started.]
After the explanations were over, Zhou Mingrui once again divined if he should just kill everyone.
'Yes.'
However, Zhou Mingrui had forgotten something.
Even as a Great Old One, divination wasn't omnipotent. Although the chances were extremely slim, it could still be interfered with.
Maybe he would come to regret that choice one day.
Multiple messages bombarded his ears.
[You have killed a living thing.]
Zhou Mingrui was tired and wanted to rest, even for a moment.
When he looked at the situation in the other cabin, he saw that a man had already killed someone.
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Yoo Jonghyuk opened his eyes in the familiar subway and instantly subdued Choi Han-Gyu, knocking him out.
Everyone stared at him with fear. They hadn't noticed that the terrorist possessed a bomb.
He sat down and covered his face, sighing.
This was already the 6th time he regressed.
It meant that he had failed as many times.
He was tired.
Cale regained his senses at the same time as Yoo Jonghyuk, his last memories were being killed by the regressor in an explosion. He guessed that he should now be in the 6th round.
Cale didn't know how far Yoo Jonghyuk had gotten this time, but one thing was clear.
The regressor had once again failed.
Familiar messages appeared.
[The free service period of the planetary system no. 8612 has concluded.]
[Main Scenario has begun.]
It was the third time he saw them now.
The lights in the subway went away the next second. The train came to a sudden emergency stop, and the surroundings rapidly filled up with darkness.
[Channel #B-7623 has opened.]
[Constellations are entering.]
[Welcome, everyone. Nice to meet you.]
[It's getting tiring to make the same introduction over and over again, but… Anyway, this situation isn't a movie shoot nor is it a terror incident…]
The first main scenario was introduced.
[I pray that you'll all show us an entertaining tale.]
[Main Scenario has arrived.]
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Type: Main
Difficulty: F
Clear condition: Please kill one or more lifeforms.
Time limit: 30 minutes
Reward: 300 Coins
Failure: Death
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And 'hell' began from then.
Cale had already made a plan.
"….Scenario? What is that?"
The passengers of the car no. 3707 began murmuring after receiving their very first scenario.
Desperate struggles taking place in other locations were then broadcast on the panels in the air – of the scenario where if you didn't kill, you'd be killed instead.
While everyone's attention wasn't on him, Yoo Jonghyuk also cleared the scenario by killing the knocked out terrorist.
He then blankly raised his head and stared at the crowd of living people.
All of these people had previously been killed by him in the last round, and the one before that.
He then turned his gaze toward the next cabin and tried to guess what was happening. However, he couldn't see anything because the aisle window was covered in blood from the other side.
He looked through the window and waited for the scenario to pass, exhausted.
A lot of scenarios were waiting for him.
Was it really possible to reach the end of the scenarios?
A lot of questions went through his mind.
While the sunfish was having his usual depression while staring out the window and giving off emo vibes with a brutally killed corpse at his feet, Cale stepped back to Yoo Jonghyuk's blind spot and turned to a gullible-looking person, ready to scam them.
With a friendly (scamming) smile, he whispered.
"I have found a way to survive without killing anyone, do you want me to tell you?"
The person hesitantly nodded their head, interested.
"Look, the condition is to kill 'lifeforms', but bacterias are also living beings."
The person realized what Cale's words meant.
"…But why are you telling me this?"
"I saw you using a hand sanitizer earlier, as compensation for telling you this information, I'd like you to lend me your hand sanitizer."
The person thoughtfully nodded, convinced.
After using the hand sanitizer, Cale waited for the end of the scenario.
This time, Yoo Jonghyuk didn't kill everyone in the cabin. On the contrary, he seemed engrossed in his thoughts.
Then, the scenario ended and people's heads began to explode.
Cale glanced to his side and saw the determined look on the face of the person who was convinced they would survive. However, their head also exploded.
As people died, Cale pretended to collapse and hid among the dead corpses.
[You have cleared the first scenario.]
[You have slaughtered a total of one creature.]
[You have earned 100 coins.]
[You succeeded in killing in a unique way that no one has ever attempted before.]
[A few constellations marvel at your killing strategy.]
[The Star Stream has acknowledged your unique way of killing.]
[You incited someone with false information, only for them to 'kill themself'.]
[The Bureau has given you limited recognition for your way of killing.]
[The Bureau has named your way of killing as 'demagogy killing'.]
[Main Scenario #1 – Proof of Worth has concluded.]
[You have acquired the normal clear reward of 300 coins.]
[100 coins have been deducted as the channel usage fee.]
[Additional compensations settlement will begin.]
This time, Cale survived the first scenario.
[The constellation 'Believer in Mysteries' makes a knowing smile.]
However, his presence would immediately be known if everything happened like before.
That's why, Xin Jian decided to help Cale and hid his presence from the Star Stream. The Oldest Dream reluctantly agreed to help her because the crimson-haired teenager had protected the young Shin Yoosung from Yoo Jonghyuk in the 4th round.
Cale felt the atmosphere change as everything turned black.
[Your constellation tells you to wait and not move.]
He did as told.
The list of survivors in the cabin was displayed and only Yoo Jonghyuk appeared in it.
After the sponsor selection, Yoo Jonghyuk got up and forced open the door, revealing the scene in the next cabin.
Only then was the protection on Cale lifted, but he continued to patiently wait for the regressor to leave, holding his breath under the bloody corpses.
In the next cabin, Zhou Mingrui was sitting on the side and made a polite smile to Yoo Jonghyuk.
Yoo Jonghyuk frowned and scanned the interior of the cabin. There was still no Kim Dokja.
Then, he turned to the man peacefully sitting among dismembered corpses and tried to ask the same thing for the third time.
"You, how did you survive?"
This time, Zhou Mingrui didn't know that there had been a terrorist in their cabin since Yoo Jonghyuk had subdued Choi Han-Gyu too quickly.
At a loss for words, he simply continued to smile, not bothering to reply.
Yoo Jonghyuk narrowed his eyes.
This wasn't the answer he should have received.
As expected, this man was hiding something. Maybe he had used a skill to deceive his Lie Detection before.
(Skill to deceive Lie Detection-> great rhetoric/vague words/charlatan's way of speaking obtained from experience.)
However, it would also mean that he knew what had happened in their cabin, and now couldn't give the same answer because he didn't have time to see the terrorist threaten people with a bomb.
Zhou Mingrui's silence gave him all the answers he needed.
Contrary to what the man had said, there had never been any bomb in cabin 3807.
Yoo Jonghyuk stared at Zhou Mingrui while the latter wondered what he had done wrong.
'As I thought, I should kill him.'
Yoo Jonghyuk unsheathed a sword that completely came out of nowhere and Zhou Muigrui's lips twitched.
The stranger he had just met seemed to be about to try to assassinate him.
'What did I do?'
Was this because he didn't answer?
But wasn't it too much? That man should already know that they had to commit murder to survive!
Even the other survivor was hiding under others' corpses to not have to face this man!
Cale, who was unknowingly discovered by the Pillar of the universe in the next cabin: *still waiting for Yoo Jonghyuk to leave*
Yoo Jonghyuk swung his sword at the Lord of Mysteries who evaded his attack, destroying the door behind him by the way.
Zhou Mingrui escaped outside and the regressor chased after him, both ignoring the voice of the dokkaebi.
From this round, Yoo Jonghyuk tried to kill Zhou Mingrui each time he had the opportunity (but failed).