Worn And Torn Newbie

Worn And Torn Newbie chapter 655
Closed Beta Testers (6)

Steam rises from the 4th basement floor.

Hot steam was rising from the top of the clear soup.

Zodiac bent an iron pipe over a bonfire made by burning the bed matrix and hung a pot under it.

was in a state of

In the pot, a white soup with a fragrant smell was boiling.

"In Korea, this is called bone soup, right? Puss."

Zodiac takes a bowl of soup and puts it in a bowl.

I stare at the zodiac with my disgust on my face

see.

We were on the 4th basement floor of the hospital, in the ossuary next to the mortuary.

The Zodiac is now eating the powder left over after the dead are cremated!

"Aren't you eating hoo-hoo-?"

"This is crazier than I thought, how do you eat it?"

No matter how much a game is, there are things you can do and things you can't do.

But the Zodiac looking at me just giggles and sips the hot broth.

I frowned once more.

"Why would you rather roast a corpse?"

"Are you stupid? A corpse is a corpse

I became undead, how do I eat it? If you're infected, you're out of the game. But that's not going to happen with bone meal. Long live the makeup culture."

Zodiac smirked and emptied the bowl.

I didn't want to see it, so I turned my head slightly to the side.

then.

" 1 99

Zodiac, who was drinking the broth, paused for a moment.

"Wow!"

Zodiac suddenly bowed his head and drank up the broth he ate.

Then he grabbed his stomach with a look of pain.

" o Mahan"

It's obviously moaning in pain

it was an action.

I doubted for a moment.

'Isn't the zodiac a body that doesn't feel pain?'

Sensing my questioning gaze, Zodiac raised his head for a moment.

And he smiled with a smile on his face.

Why? Is it strange that I feel pain?"

It's not really like that.

Painless patients also often transmit pain from sensory nerves.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be the case in which he would feel so much pain that he would die of shock.

For example, in case of terrifying pain such as stage 4 or higher terminal cancer or compound fracture of the pelvis.

"Does your pelvis hurt?"

"Pussy-"

At my question, Zodiac smiled with a displeased expression.

He wiped away the cold sweat, which he normally never possesses, and then emptied the soup.

I too couldn't stay starving, so I drank a little bit of plain water.

Just by drinking a little water, you can fill the hunger gauge to some extent.

How much time has passed.

Me and Zodiac knew the third mission was over.

(Third Mission: The Starving One)

When the mission was over, the transparent wall covering the entire hospital building disappeared.

Then I was able to get out of the hospital.

" This?

When I got out of the hospital, I was able to stare into the memories of the Zodiac's nightmare.

Destroyed roads, burning buildings, broken windows and overturned cars, zombies walking and crawling everywhere.

It is like entering the apocalyptic world at the end of the century.

The dark red sky was intermittently generating noise.

Broken system windows are visible in every corner of the field of view that cracks like a low-quality screen.

- Tiling!

[Deu E, Maki 口, you s room door 口 Hwan 口 /)

[ ne fOr Al/ fDr Hne]

[跌shi me tD Beta.

The s -w wIl starr sHDa]

" Hmm."

I could tell at a glance that this world was not normal.

There is something subtly different from the common sense of reality and the common sense of the game.

then.

The zodiac began to tremble. He looks at the message in front of him with fearful eyes.

It's probably because of the specific phrase.

I carefully looked into the system window in front of me.

Broken letters.

Perhaps the original text of these is something like this:

[One for All, All for One.]

[Welcome to Closed Beta. The show will start soon.]

I remember this phrase because I saw it once in the Tower of Murderers in the past.

Even then, the zodiac was Belpegol's nightmare

When I saw these words I pulled out from the inside, I started the game.

" Maybe it was the line that General Wilson gave?"

For reference, the Phoenix of the Parthenon, whom I met earlier, also had a similar line to it.

I looked at the zodiac with more and more doubts.

"Ouch turn it off... ."

Zodiac was drooling from the corners of his mouth and stroking his body with his hands.

It was as if he couldn't stand the pain.

It was the first time I had seen this guy like this, so I paused for a moment.

"Tell me if you think you are going to die."

Why? can you help me? Ah, in this pain

There is no medicine ."

"No, not that. Last but not least, I want to eat."

I lifted the razor upside down and pointed it at the Zodiac.

It was from the thought that if I was going to die even if I just let it go, I would have to take away even the essence of the stats I ate.

When the zodiac saw me like that, he had a blank expression as if he was amazing.

But then he giggled and laughed.

"That's why I like you, my friend. That's right, the lesson and life should be clear."

I think you're going to die if you leave it alone... Before that, please answer my questions."

There are still many things the Zodiac has not heard of.

Where the hell did he get this end-of-the-century experience, and why?

What does it have to do with Inji, Commander Wilson, and the Goblin Masks (probably the current GM squad).

At this point, it was necessary to hear what the closed beta was that he was talking about.

"Pussusu- So you should have spoken to me before then."

"Don't be shy. Who was the first to play the game every day?"

"Keppan, you have prepared a forum for conversation."

"It would be a hell of a dwarf."

In the midst of giving and receiving, we ended up standing in front of a subway station.

Inside the station, where black smoke was rising, there were dead bodies lying around on the stairs with missing teeth.

Essences of stats that had not yet been collected were emitting a sparkling light intermittently.

I looked up at the sign of the ruined subway station.

  Los Angeles Union Station

A history that was once very prosperous'. This place, which was made strong and clean, is now only covered with bloodstains, filth and corpses.

" This is LA? What is it?"

I frowned and turned my head, and Zodiac slumped against the pole of the subway station and sat down.

"Can't you see? the game is cheating It's virtual reality."

"Is this a game?"

"You really don't think the real world is like this, do you? If you're such a nerd, just here

It might be better to die standing there."

Zodiac raised his hands and said hard.

The sudden headache seems to be bothering him quite persistently.

I asked again.

"The nightmare dungeon of Belpegol recreates the real experience. You've never really experienced a world like this, have you? But why is this dungeon the way it is now?"

"Pussy, tell me how many times. This is virtual reality."

The zodiac is still my pace round and round.

In the end, I had no choice but to guess.

So. Is this the virtual reality of the virtual reality you experienced?"

Then the zodiac who heard me said

nod his head

In other words, the world that I am seeing is that the Zodiac has experienced in virtual reality as it has been transferred to virtual reality.

So, now the next question arises.

" Then who showed you this terrifying virtual reality? What game is this?"

A world where monsters suddenly appear in the world, bizarre missions are given, and people kill and kill each other.

A world where the faces you've always seen and lived are distorted by fear, pain and screams and dying.

Who put the Zodiac in a world like this? when? Where? how? Why? For what purpose?

Ask my questions full of doubts

The attitude of the zodiac was always the same.

He was terribly consistent, answering my questions with that languid smile on his lips, which is now creepy.

"This is a part of the game you know well."

"Do I know?"

right. Puss."

Zodiac touched the cracked ground with his index finger once and then pointed to the sky full of noise again.

and said

"This game is a 'Demonstration version of Deus Ex Machina.'

Demo version!

The moment I heard those words, I

I had no choice but to reminisce about the past.

It was just before the Killers' Top raid, when I visited the headquarters of the Dem Universe, I met and had a conversation with General Wilson Ringt.

[okay. Are there any inconveniences while playing the game?]

There is not.

[Tell me comfortably without adding or subtracting. The opinions of great pioneers like you are worth listening to.]

"Not really."

The moment I denied it twice, Wilson's brow furrowed slightly.

[ ] Really not?]

Yeah.

[Perfect?]

Yeah.

And the moment I affirmed twice, Wilson's brow furrowed even more.

[ ] So what, have you ever experienced anything strange in the game? It's a bug

I remember it was a slightly subdued voice.

Back then, I had no idea what Wilson was trying to ask, so I was just stating what I felt.

"Well, there were some technical bugs. Setting value bugs that occur near landscaped waters or the areas where map characteristics overlap, such as the boundary between light and darkness. Is it a bug where people and people's bodies are overlapped by certain items? They are all insignificant things."

Then Wilson listened to my explanation and

I remember he had a Luhan expression on his face.

A look that doesn't look like the person who asked the question,

[Ah, yes. It doesn't matter what You can swap engineers and programmers. Except for those little things. Why, something more serious.]

" Yes?

And finally, Wilson asked me.

[Something like a hack or a demo version.]

I think I just remembered Kim Jong-un, who was the leader of Mad Dog at that time.

A terrorist plotting to destroy the economic system in the game by making money copying and item copying bugs as well as 'helpers' that completely disrupt the battle balance such as speed hack and aim hack.

As I pretended not to know, Wilson asked the next question after a bit of thought.

[Then what about closed beta?]

If I said I didn't even know this, it would be a really blatant lie.

I remember that I answered relatively frankly.

"I've never heard of it. A karma user I met a few times in the past

I used to say that."

[ ] You mean the little boy named Angsin Zodiac, right?]

Yes. Do you know?"

[Of course. I don't know anything]

Wilson pressed his fingers to his temples as if annoyed.

I questioned Wilson like that.

"What the hell is that closed beta?"

It was a question with two intentions.

The first is to let me know that I don't really know anything, and the second is because I'm really curious.

But the answer that came back was not cool.

[If you don't know, that's fine. It's really nothing.]

[Well, it seems like I have some bad intentions when I say this, so I'll explain briefly. Do you know what the demo version is?]

"Roughly."

[It means a program for product introduction. It is designed to repeat simple actions or use only a few functions. Mainly for commissioning or red

It's baoyong.]

This is the first time I've heard of a demo version.

It was a word that came directly from General Wilson's mouth, so he remembered it relatively clearly.

At that time, Wilson explained while displaying the world map window of Deus Ex Machina on the hologram.

[No matter how large a country is, it is as large as all the lands of the earth combined.

Can't I design the world map by myself?]

"Yeah, that's right. So there are other story writers."

[right. But tell me Sometimes, among the story writers, there are those who are overly greedy.]

Yeah?

[Story writers help my imagination, and various monsters, dungeons, NPCs,

Crafting quests, items, etc. However, there are cases where they have excessive affection for the creations they have created.]

AKA, own character, short for own character.

If you get too caught up in designing and setting up your character, do you think that all the characters other than the one you created will feel insignificant, and furthermore, all the characters may feel like only supporting characters for your character?

[Some story writers were engrossed in their insignificant stories and tried to build their own world. To do that, he stole my skills and ran away. Even before the game opens.]

" Ah.

[These are the 'demo versions' that they made. Deus ex Machina was made hastily before, and can be seen as a prototype.

They're ignorant idiots. Poor imagination, improbable settings, hypocritical characters Haha, it's really disgusting.]

"Then what about the closed beta?"

[I guess that's a test run by the guys who played the demo version. I don't know, I don't care. Deus Ex Machina started in the open beta and never closed beta. You know that too, right?]

I ended the recall.

At the time, I believed everything Wilson said.

I think I can understand a little bit why the Zodiac and Kim Jong-un are holding hands.

I also thought that a gamer like me who plays the game diligently in accordance with the law-abiding spirit would never get entangled.

However, the story that is now coming out of the mouth of the Zodiac has a slightly different point of view.

"Pussy- ooh, this bastard's PTSD."

Zodiac ruffled his hair with a trembling hand.

And his deep, dark eyes lit up towards me.

Good. I will explain all of this."

I sat in front of him with a confused expression.

Contemplating how far to trust that snake-like tongue.

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