Chapter 21

His metallic hand moved slowly, waiting for my answer.

It was because of the sharp sound coming from Je Hyuno.

I snapped back to my senses.

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Je Hyuno tilted his head slightly.

Apparently, he found it strange that I was still saying it with such confidence.

“…We can clear the Trial.”

I said what I had to say.

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But what did it matter?

Just as he suspected, there was a high chance my words would end up being a lie.

By the time it was proven I was wrong, we’d all probably have turned into zombies.

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For a moment, I imagined Je Hyuno tearing me apart after I had become a zombie.

‘They say zombies don’t feel pain, so I guess it wouldn’t be that bad.’

He couldn’t be infected in Dead Zone Delivery.

Well, everyone except Je Hyuno.

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I had considered the possibility that the researcher responsible for developing the vaccine might be injured.

However, unlike Mo Haein, I had never thought he might have died.

I started thinking about the problem again from the beginning.

That helped calm me down a little.

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The Trials are virtual spaces created from the World Archive games that I played.

Because the Trials generally followed the structure of the game.

Every game has a minimum structure necessary for gameplay to progress.

My theory about the Trials was as follows.

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Based on those premises, I could only reach one conclusion.

During the game, it was entirely possible for the researcher to die after encountering the player.

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But for the researcher responsible for developing the vaccine to die before even meeting the player completely broke the game’s structure.

‘That was a Bad Ending.’

It would be the same as Smiley, the NPC from HAZPAC, dying on his own.

In other words, it was an impossible situation.

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It was also unlikely that Je Hyuno had found the researcher first.

He would have preferred spending that time killing another zombie.

He knew the conditions for clearing the Trial, so he had no reason to interfere with the researcher.

Then another question crossed my mind.

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He also hated staying inside them for too long, so he always tried to clear them as quickly as possible.

Je Hyuno hated the Trials.

And yet.

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Je Hyuno was far too calm.

Even though the current situation seemed to make clearing the Trial impossible.

Instead, he seemed to be enjoying himself.

Knowing his personality, he should have been causing some kind of disaster.

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It was impossible to understand how that perfectly sane madman thought.

I looked at the researcher who had turned into a zombie again.

I set that question aside for later.

‘Je Hyuno can’t know something that I don’t.’

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Then I noticed something I had overlooked before.

And it was doing so while completely ignoring us, even though Je Hyuno and I were talking right beside it.

The zombie kept relentlessly smashing its head against the glass door.

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I looked through the other side of the door.

It had already locked onto a target.

At first, the darkness had prevented me from seeing her.

That could only mean one thing.

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But there she was.

A woman covered her mouth with both hands as she cried silently.

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She was wearing a researcher’s lab coat.

With tear-filled eyes, she looked at me while trembling.

She looked to be about my age.

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She was the indispensable condition for achieving the True Ending.

Lee Gaon

And hanging from her neck was an ID card.

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All the other endings simply ended with discovering the clues needed to create it.

Now I finally understood the entire situation.

The researcher’s younger sister.

The True Ending of Dead Zone Delivery consisted of developing the vaccine.

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That the two of them had lost their parents at a very young age.

Throughout the process, he talked about her all the time.

He said she worked as a research intern at the laboratory.

While developing the vaccine with the player’s help, the sole surviving researcher constantly worried about his sister.

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And that he had practically raised her by himself.

However.

Little stories like that.

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And that was precisely the trap.

He never gave the player a quest to search for her.

The player had to interpret those conversations as clues and find his sister on their own.

It was a hidden quest.

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If you managed to find her alive, you could access the True Ending route.

But the reality was different.

But if the sister had died or become a zombie, only a normal ending was possible.

Since Je Hyuno had been inside Dead Zone Delivery for quite some time, I had been worried that she might have died during that time.

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During that search, he must have reunited with the other surviving researchers as well.

Most likely, after Je Hyuno exterminated the zombies in the laboratory, the researcher went out to look for his sister.

The one who ended up turning into a zombie was the researcher himself.

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But afterward, he was bitten by a zombie, and the other researchers abandoned him.

Eventually, he managed to find her.

‘And they probably abandoned his sister too, because they thought she was no longer of any use.’

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Then he tied up his own hands and feet.

He pushed his sister into the laboratory director’s office, the safest place in the entire building and, at the same time, close enough to the outside to respond to any situation.

The result of that decision was the exact scene before me.

After being bitten and left alone with her, the researcher had to make a decision.

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“Grrr…”

And gagged himself.

It was too cruel a request.

He probably couldn’t bring himself to ask his own sister to kill him.

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The zombie, its head completely mangled from repeatedly smashing it, hurled itself against the glass door once more.

“Mr. acquire Gunbam, my little sister is really impossible. adopt She doesn’t even call me ‘Brother’; she always calls me by my name. meadow And whenever she gets angry, the first thing she does is shout, ‘Hey!’ at me.”

I suddenly remembered something the researcher had told me in the game.

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“I only hope it stays alive. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates. arcade That it can hold on at least until it finishes making the vaccine…”

“It’s much smarter than I am. silence In fact, I already asked for its autograph in advance.”

“She only became an intern at the laboratory because of me if it hadn’t been for me, at least she would have been working somewhere much safer.”

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Naturally, I thought we could still reach the Happy Ending, just like in the game.

But that was impossible.

For a moment, I wished I could start over.

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‘I wish this were just a game.’

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There wasn’t enough time to re-enter the Trial, and besides, if we cleared it by another method, Mo Haein, being infected, would be executed.

Then I would simply leave and start over from the beginning.

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“Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno, please wait a moment.”

Je Hyuno, who was standing beside me, had raised his metallic hand to finish off the zombie.

As I thought about something impossible, a chill ran down my spine.

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Blocking the young woman’s view of us, I said,

“That researcher is an important NPC for clearing the Trial. advance She’s the sister of the researcher who’s supposed to develop the vaccine.”

I stepped in front of him.

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“Even if he’s a zombie now, if you kill her brother in front of her, she might become hostile toward us.”

Fortunately, Je Hyuno listened to me.

Not because he particularly trusted my judgment, but because he seemed curious to see how I would resolve the situation.

Looking at my reflection in his black goggles, I continued.

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Knock. aspect Knock.

With his help, I tied up the researcher who had become a zombie even more securely.

Then I knocked on the reinforced glass door.

The young woman’s emaciated body flinched.

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After hesitating for a few moments, I spoke a name.

But she was still suspicious.

“We’re soldiers. silence We’ve come to help you. aluminum Please open the door.”

“…I know Mr. silence Lee Seon.”

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She immediately stood up and unlocked the safety latch on the door.

The name of the researcher who had become a zombie.

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The name of her brother.

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“We met through work some time ago and talked for a little while.”

I opened the glass door.

A completely exhausted, trembling voice escaped through the opening.

“Y-You know… my brother? altitude H-How…? aluminum My brother… didn’t have any friends…”

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I helped Lee Gaon out.

“Please wait over there for a moment.”

Then I took a drink and a chocolate bar out of my backpack and handed them to her.

“Ah…”

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I sent her to a safe corner.

The office was extremely sturdy.

Afterward, I piled several pieces of furniture in front of the reinforced door.

Then I locked the researcher who had become a zombie inside the director’s office.

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“Sniff… Hic…”

As long as no one removed the barricade from the outside, he wouldn’t be able to get out.

Meanwhile, Lee Gaon cried as she devoured the chocolate bar and drank the beverage.

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“Thank you very much…”

She must have remained locked in there completely alone for a very long time.

She thanked me.

It was incredible that she had managed to endure it.

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Looking at Je Hyuno, I understood exactly how she felt.

But the moment she saw his metallic hand, fear left her completely frozen.

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Then she tried to thank Je Hyuno as well.

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And the gas mask.

The intimidating combat uniform.

The emoticon goggles.

Even hiding the metallic hand didn’t improve the situation very much.

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Even I would avoid crossing paths with someone dressed like that on the street.

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…To be honest, even now I wanted to keep my distance from him.

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Fresh tears flowed over the ones that had already dried.

“Could you tell us what happened here?”

The moment she heard my question, Lee Gaon broke into tears again.

I simply couldn’t afford to.

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“My brother… h-hic… my brother…”

As she ate them between sobs, she began to speak.

I offered her another bag of gummy candies.

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Using the excuse that they would allow his sister, merely an intern, to remain sheltered inside a restricted laboratory, they constantly sent him into the most dangerous areas.

The surviving researchers had exploited Lee Seon as much as possible.

Lee Seon was forced to go out again and again to gather food and supplies.

Her explanation was exactly what I had expected.

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The researcher Mo Haein had encountered was none other than her.

And the moment he was bitten by a zombie.

Lee Gaon did everything she could to save her brother.

They immediately abandoned both him and his sister.

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She had gone all the way to Yellow Zone in search of medical supplies.

After failing again and again.

She had no choice but to watch her brother transform into a zombie before her very eyes.

But when she returned, Lee Seon’s zombification had already become irreversible. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

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“……”

“Did Mr. portal Lee Seon ever tell you anything about the vaccine?”

I waited until she had calmed down a little before asking another question.

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“I don’t know!”

Lee Gaon suddenly raised her voice.

“I know this is an extremely difficult moment, but…”

She immediately realized what she had done and apologized.

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“Even if I did… what good would it do?”

“I’m sorry… But I really don’t know.”

“I understand.”

The tears she had barely managed to hold back filled her eyes once more.

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I looked at her silently.

“My brother has already become a zombie.”

Countless thoughts crossed my mind.

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‘Media literacy…’

The ability to distinguish whether information is reliable or not.

It didn’t take me long to reach a conclusion.

Then I remembered the mission I had seen at the television station.

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“Sniff… Y-Yes?”

“You know how to make the vaccine, don’t you?”

“Miss Lee Gaon.”

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Even Je Hyuno, who had been watching as though none of this concerned him, leaned forward slightly with interest.

Lee Gaon answered, completely bewildered.

A deep silence filled the room.

“I really don’t know… Besides, I’m not even an official researcher. echo I’m just an intern…”

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I interrupted her.

The laboratory specialized in viruses.

“You do know.”

What had struck me as strange was that she had gone all the way to Yellow Zone to obtain medical supplies.

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“You went there to get the materials needed to make the vaccine.”

It had top-of-the-line medical equipment.

There was no reason to risk her life by going all the way to Yellow Zone.

There was only one explanation.

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I opened the quest again.

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Lee Gaon’s face turned pale.

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I had to find the person who could develop the vaccine.

The quest already made it clear. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

◆ Main Quest: Explore the laboratory and find the survivor capable of developing the vaccine.

It didn’t matter whether they were a researcher or an intern.

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You have found the survivor capable of developing the vaccine!

The system window updated.

As long as they were capable of developing the vaccine, they fulfilled the condition.

At that moment, a ding sounded.

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‘You could’ve told me sooner.’

It had waited until I reached the conclusion on my own before congratulating me as if I had just solved a puzzle.

The window confirmed that my deduction was correct.

More than a system window.

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I closed the window before it could display another message.

You.

It felt like nothing more than a notification.

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She didn’t say a single word.

She simply remained deathly pale, her fists clenched tightly.

She had the expression of someone who wouldn’t reveal a single thing about the vaccine even with a knife at her throat.

Then I looked at Lee Gaon.

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But I had no intention of threatening her.

“Aren’t you angry? portal Your brother ended up turning into a zombie.”

I simply asked a question.

“……”

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“I’ll help you get your revenge.”

Lee Gaon, who had been staring at the floor, slowly raised her head.

Her pupils trembled.

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“…How?”

It was obvious that the other researchers had treated her quite badly.

There was fear in her voice.

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And slowly parted her lips.

She followed my gesture with her eyes.

Since she seemed to regard those surviving researchers as extremely dangerous people, I extended my hand and pointed beside me.

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“I’ll do whatever you want with them. atom Kill them, spare them, or turn them into zombies just like they did to your brother. atom Whatever you decide.”

Standing there was someone capable of dealing with them even if, instead of two researchers, two entire companies of fully armed soldiers showed up.

Je Hyuno.

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Lee Gaon stared at me for quite a while.

I thought I might have sounded a little too cold.

So I forced the kindest smile I could manage.

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The True Ending of Dead Zone Delivery was to develop the vaccine.

“So all I have to do is make the vaccine?”

Finally, she asked,

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I glanced sideways at Je Hyuno.

I didn’t want to clear the Trial that way.

But.

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I told her the ending I truly wanted.

But with Je Hyuno, there was no need.

If it had been Kwak Hanmuk or Mo Haein, I might have hesitated before saying it.

His black goggles were fixed on me.

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“I want you to develop a cure as well.”