The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 188
Episode 188: Automatic hunting.
Everyone had a hunch.
This winter.
Among the survivors here.
More than half will not survive.
‘Most of them are probably survivors who have not awakened.’
Although no one said that fact.
For a moment, everyone was thinking the same thing without saying anything.
A heavy air settled inside the supermarket.
“But still!”
It seems like they are trying to somehow improve the heavy atmosphere.
A woman gathered her strength and opened her mouth.
“If we can increase the number of awakened people, what might happen?”
“what?”
“You know? Awakened people are relatively strong against cold and do not suffer from minor illnesses. “Even in winter, we will be able to get around somehow, so we will be able to secure additional firewood.”
“…How easy is it to increase the number of awakened people?”
“We now have a large number of awakened people, so if we take risks and go hunting more actively.”
It was a story about having some hope.
Such words can only be effective when they have some degree of reality.
“Miss Jiyeon.”
“yes?”
“I know how you feel. stop it.”
“…Ah yes.”
No matter how much you call yourself an awakened person.
Dealing with monsters is not easy.
How strong is a certain monster?
What weaknesses do you have?
Those who know nothing.
Even if there is just one monster wandering around, you can’t let down your guard.
Stories about a group being wiped out by a single monster have now become commonplace.
Just because you hunt doesn’t mean you can eat the meat.
Hunt a monster only when you feel that the monster needs to be eliminated.
That too is something that must be done very carefully.
‘Let’s take risks and actively go hunting. ‘That’s nonsense.’
If you do something like that.
The rate at which awakened people decrease will be faster than the rate at which awakened people increase.
It was a time when no one could easily say anything.
Oh…
someone.
I walked towards the shelf standing in the corner.
and.
Jijijik…
was there.
I turned on a small radio.
“…Ibo show!”
Survivors who saw it.
One of them got annoyed and pointed a finger.
“yes?”
“That damn radio. How long are you going to keep playing it!?”
“You look like a dog… why do you say that?”
“Then what can I say, like a dog? “It’s just annoyingly rattling around all day!”
In those words.
The woman who was trying to turn on the radio countered with her own logic.
“Our situation is not good right now. So, you should actually turn on the radio.”
“When I turn it on, all I can hear is that bitch crackling sound. What the…!”
“But now. You never know. “I wonder if I will hear some kind of message of salvation.”
“Salvation… Salvation? Words are good. however!”
In those words.
The irritated survivor could not hold back his anger and shouted.
“That kind of salvation won’t come!”
“….”
The man suddenly shouted.
The attention of the group members was focused on him.
“Damn it… It’s time to admit it.”
In the corner of the eyes of the man who shouted.
There were small tears in my eyes.
“There is no force that can save us.”
“….”
“All the soldiers were wiped out. It’s obvious that the government guys are the same. I can’t trust other groups either. You know that too, right? A large group that was recruiting people. “I went there and found that some crazy monster was enslaving humans.”
“Calm down.”
“Do you really look like it?”
The atmosphere is starting to gradually become more intense.
“I heard the kid is sick…! “I feel like I’m going to die of nerves because all the bad things are happening over and over again.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Why do you keep clinging to vain hopes?”
The woman who played the radio also moved her hands urgently.
“Ah, I get it. I’ll turn it off. “I’m going to turn it off, so stop…!”
“okay. “Stop making that annoying noise before anyone gets blood!”
Her finger reached for the radio’s power button.
– Jijijik….
at that very moment.
-hello.
There.
A human voice came out.
“What is hello…!”
The man, who did not realize the situation, became angry at the sudden sound.
The people watching didn’t even have time to pay attention to the man.
“Now wait a minute!”
“The bar just sounded. “Didn’t you hear it on the radio?”
“…what?”
People are either confused or not.
The voice that came from the radio was.
-We. It’s a legion.
He calmly brought up the next story.
“corps…?”
“Are you a soldier?”
but.
What was even more shocking was not the voice coming from the radio.
-We would like to share information about the monsters our corps has secured.
The voice began to recite calmly.
That information.
I think I heard that voice for about 10 seconds.
The group leader shouted urgently.
“…Everyone grab a notebook and pen!”
“Pe pen!?”
“It’s good if you can take notes on anything! hurry!”
Of course.
What started playing on the radio was very shocking.
‘The monster’s characteristics and weaknesses?’
In this day and age, information is difficult to obtain even if you pay a fortune.
Even the monsters that voice spoke of.
Some of them were monsters he had also encountered.
“Aren’t all the radio waves broken?”
“no. Rather than that…”
“You’re just revealing this kind of information…!?”
Astonishment spreads.
People muttering as if they can’t believe it while taking notes hastily.
Although it is questionable whether this is information that can be trusted in the first place.
There was no harm in taking note of it.
-Survive somehow. And then someday.
and.
A voice coming from the radio announced the end of the broadcast.
-Our corps will come to you.
There was silence inside the supermarket.
After a while.
Someone muttered in a low voice.
“The power that will bring salvation.”
“So there was one?”
but.
“I can’t believe it!”
Someone came forward to deny that story.
Just before.
The same man who scolded me to turn off the radio.
“If there was such a military unit, it should have come a long time ago!”
“….”
“You’re going to come and find me now? Just hold on until then? “How can you believe something like that!”
A man shouting excitedly.
That wasn’t really wrong.
“Ha, well.”
“In the first place. “These are the things we wrote down now.”
“Is it real or not? “You can’t believe it, right…?”
however.
A leader who leads them.
Hyeonsu calmly opened his mouth.
“How to check. “Isn’t it simple?”
His eyes turned to the outside of the supermarket.
At that place.
-Whoa….
A dead man wandering the ground.
There were zombies everywhere.
“All you have to do is awaken it.”
Even ordinary awakened people.
Zombies that can be easily defeated.
“Let’s look for that bug first. “If there are bugs inside the zombie’s body like they said on that broadcast.”
That gaze.
He moved towards the crying child.
“Let’s start by waking up Jinhyuk, who has a cold.”
* * *
[Guild – Steel Legion contributed to the battle.]
[Experience points equal to the contribution are obtained.]
“What is this?”
“Now this. “I’m not the only one who can see it, right?”
A phrase about gaining experience points suddenly appeared before my eyes.
the problem is.
That it appeared in front of not only me but all other members of the unit.
and.
“Why am I suddenly losing experience…?”
Let alone hunting.
After finishing the radio broadcast, we sat leisurely and talked.
To us like that.
It was the fact that experience points were suddenly given.
“…This can’t be right.”
Unlike the puzzled soldiers.
What kind of phenomenon is this?
It wasn’t difficult to figure out.
“Is it a contribution system?”
“yes?”
“We experience this often too, right? “Hunting one monster with a group of people.”
Experience gained when hunting monsters.
How that calculation is done varies from game to game.
What gets especially complicated is when multiple people kill one monster.
‘In some games, experience points are awarded to the person who hits the last hit. Some games provide the same amount of experience points to all participants.’
And some other games.
“Experience points are distributed differently depending on the amount of contribution to the battle.”
“Do you mean this is the experience we received in return for our contribution to the battle?”
“okay.”
The reason I was able to notice it faster than other soldiers.
Actually it was simple.
“This system itself is somewhat familiar to me.”
My job is [chef].
Usually, they do not directly participate in battles.
Nevertheless, experience points were steadily rising.
[The person who ate your cooking was active in the battle -]
If the person who ate my cooking won the battle.
This is because I have gained experience equivalent to the influence my cooking has had.
It’s still the same now.
“It means that we are gaining experience points equal to the amount of contribution we make to the battle.”
“What a contribution.”
“…When do you say you contributed? “We…”
The soldiers looked even more confused.
at that time.
“That’s information…!”
What answered the soldiers’ questions.
It wasn’t me, it was Sergeant Lee Min-jae.
He is the most senior member of the unit after me.
The person who made the decision to broadcast this radio broadcast.
“The information we leaked!”
He was always rational.
He blushed and shouted excitedly.
“There are people who succeeded in hunting with that information!”
That information.
The source was all my skill [Chef’s Eyes].
Even when I gave information to soldiers in the past.
I never gained experience because of it.
This is probably because it was a contribution that was difficult to earn experience points on its own.
but.
‘A lot of information was spread too widely.’
Even those small contributions can be accumulated.
It means that you can do it with enough experience points.
After answering, Sergeant Lee Min-jae closed his eyes for a moment.
“ha ha ha.”
“Minjae hyung?”
“Can you feel it? “Youngjun.”
It seems like they are trying to calculate the experience that has entered the body.
After contemplating his inner self for a moment, he closed his eyes and smiled.
“The amount of experience gained at one time is not large.”
surely.
I remember that no matter how weak a monster I hunted, I received hundreds of times more experience points than this.
There may be many reasons.
Firstly, the amount of experience gained from providing information is not very large in the first place.
The second is…
Isn’t this information published in the name of the guild?
The message still appears in the status window.
[Guild – Steel Legion contributed to the battle.]
That information.
Although the source is mine, the announcement itself was carried out in the name of the guild.
As such, experience points are distributed equally to all unit members.
“The amount is extremely small. but!”
The amount of experience gained at one time is never large.
but.
[Experience points equal to the contribution value are obtained.]
[Experience points equal to the contribution value are acquired.]
[Experience points equal to the contribution value….]
[Experience points equal to the contribution value….]
“…This frequency What about?”
The number of times it comes in.
There were so many that it was strange.
“Youngjun, you understand, right?”
“huh?”
“Even if all the survivors in Gangwon-do were waiting with their radios turned on, it’s impossible for experience points to come in with this much frequency!”
That means.
“…ah.”
A person who understood its meaning before I did.
Sergeant Lee Min-jae said, clenching his fists.
“It has been reached.”
Even if it reached the entire Gangwon-do, it is at a frequency that makes no sense.
Then, of course, that is the source of the remaining experience points.
‘It must have spread not only to Gangwon-do but also to the entire Korean Peninsula.’
The broadcast has just spread throughout the Korean Peninsula.
If only those who heard the broadcast started hunting for confirmation.
It is a frequency that is somewhat understandable.
“There were people who survived outside of Gangwon-do…!”
“Right.”
“Our message has reached those people, Youngjun!”
recent.
What happens to other humans.
Sergeant Lee Min-jae looked depressed, wondering if everyone had died.
“ha ha ha!”
He was like that.
I burst out laughing so happily that tears came out.
‘Our help has reached others.’
no.
To be exact.
‘Minjae hyung’s good will has reached us.’
I just.
Sergeant Lee Min-jae just added a spoonful of zombie killing to what he wanted to do.
Originally, I said I would broadcast on the radio to help others.
I’ve never even had a similar thought.
In the future, if there are people who survive because of the information we spread.
The biggest reason they were able to survive is.
I am not the one who gathered the information.
“Haha…. Just with that message, more people were able to survive…”
It seemed like he was greatly relieved.
That man wiping his face.
It would be Minjae hyung.
Eat.
“Does it feel that good?”
“…oh.”
Have you ever had a lot to worry about?
Sergeant Lee Min-jae burst into laughter while shedding tears.
“Hmm. hmm. Com.”
I laugh lightly and point out that figure.
He seemed embarrassed and quickly took care of his facial expression.
“Oh anyway. “Our operation went well or something like that.”
“Good.”
“Yeah… that’s really, really good.”
It didn’t just go well.
Sergeant Lee Min-jae and I’s goal is to simply spread that information.
Just making it easier for people to hunt zombies and monsters.
however.
“So, that’s right. Every time people hunt with that information….”
“Are you saying that everyone gets to share the experience?”
“It’s like that.”
The experience gained while hunting like that.
Because we can now share it.
by the way.
This is what happened.
“Minjae hyung.”
“hmm?”
“Brother, I think you’ll have to work a little busier from now on, right?”
“…What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Yeah and.
There is a word for that in games.
“We will have to do more broadcasts like this in the future as information accumulates.”
“So what is that?”
“Even if we don’t hunt, we get free experience, bro.”
Even though I didn’t hunt and someone else did the hunting.
It’s something that gives me experience.
in other words.
“It’s automatic hunting.”
I muttered, unable to hold back my laughter.
“We will spread as much information as possible to save as many people as possible. We will make as many people as possible raise their level.”
“…!”
“That’s right.”
Free experience gained through automatic hunting.
Wouldn’t the efficiency go up even a little bit?