Stagnant Water of Apocalypse

Translator: Asta

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Editor: Aaghna

 

Proofreader: Kig

And yeah here you go… A placeholder chapter.
We will start updating regularly at the latest, next month.
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Going to post it at the same day we start releasing for real.

-Rabbit Princess: Ah…This game is so boring.
There’s really nothing to do.

-Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek: Well, it’s a failed game.
What did you expect?

-Survivor 1: So, going to play another game?

-Rabbit Princess: After playing this game for so long, I don’t think I will be able to play another game.

-Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek: LOL.

The only players left in this game were all stagnant water.
Just like usual, we were hanging out on the rooftop of a certain building as we chatted about various topics.
We didn’t have any choice but to do this because we had cleared everything this game had to offer.
On top of that, there are also no newbie players who came to play this game.

(T/N: Stagnant water refers to players who have played the game for far too long.)

If it weren’t for the fact that corpses of various kinds of monsters were scattered here and there, the night view from this place would have been very beautiful.
However, there’s nothing we could do about it, because in this game, players and corpses were inseparable.

This game was called ‘Survival Life’.
A virtual reality game advertised with catch phrases like, ‘Extremely realistic apocalyptic world where zombies and monsters roam freely!’

‘You are the only one who survives this hell!’

However, not anymore.
The impregnable difficulty of this game demotivated the users and everyone dropped this game one by one.
Moreover, the need for dedicated VR equipment to play this game also raised the hurdle as tall as Mount Everest.

Thus, within months after its launch, the number of players decreased significantly.

Then, what about a year after its launch? Well, let’s not talk about it.

-Rabbit Princess: Ah… There are no fresh newbies coming in….

-Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek: What are you going to do when a newbie appears?

-Rabbit Princess: I will go to them and greet them LOL.

-Survivor 1: Look at yourself in the mirror please, it would be a miracle if they didn’t run away.

-Rabbit Princess: Tsktsktsk, this kid really knows nothing even though he’s a stagnant water as well.

The appearance of ‘Rabbit Princess’ was that of a 30-year-old male, and it was very unique.
His whole body was covered in pink colour and a carrot was embedded on his face which acted as his nose.
The white tail on the top part of his buttock was disgusting, though.

Of course, the appearances of both Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek and Survivor 1 were also quite unusual.
And between all of us, I was certain I was the one with the best appearances.
At the very least, a newbie wouldn’t run away when they saw my appearance.
Even though what I was wearing was basically the same as wearing only underwear.

Then, out of the blue, a message popped out in the chat window.

-Newbie Is NubNub: Hello!

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It was a message from a newbie all of us had been longing for.
Both their nickname and greeting was very good.
We could also see a VR café icon beside their name.
They must be playing from a VR café which is rather popular these days.
Even so, all of us who didn’t care about those kinds of things swiftly answered to their message.

-Rabbit Princess: Sniff! Sniff! What is this smell?

-Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek: It smells dirty, HAHA.

-Survivor 1: This game finally has 5 players!

-Newbie Is NubNub: But what are you guys doing here?

It’s time for me to step up.
The other three players were the type of players who break through any kind of hurdle through their strength alone.
They wouldn’t be much help to the newbie.
Meanwhile, I was a player who analyzed every weakness of the monster and used my surroundings to hunt it.

-I Love Gimbap: Have you finished the tutorial?

-Newbie Is NubNub: No, not yet.
Do I have to finish it?

-I Love Gimbap: Yes.
In order to play freely, you have to finish the tutorial.
The title of the game is Survival Life, right? To stay alive is the goal of this game….

As I explained to the newbie, the other three began to chat sarcastically.

-Rabbit Princess: Here it comes!!

-Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek: Here comes the speed wagon!

-Survivor 1: But, Gimbap-nim is indeed qualified to do these kinds of things since the three of us are players who only smash through everything on our path.

– Rabbit Princess: I agree.

(T/N IIRC, Speed wagon is some kind of wikipedia, for those who read EER, that’s what Yu Ilhan called Erta.)

Damn it.
There’s a lot of background noise, so I’ll cut my explanation short.

-I Love Gimbap: Anyway, you have to finish the tutorial.
We can only help you once you finished it.

-Newbie Is NubNub: Okay.
Then I’ll finish the tutorial.

How long has it been since we had this kind of newbie?

Tears of happiness were dripping from the eyes of the stagnant water including myself as I started to explain about the placement of zombies, the effect of various items and where it could be found as well as the landscape of the tutorial to the newbie.

And then, the newbie stopped sending messages.
It seems like they are trying to finish the tutorial now.

Will it work out?

We prayed that the newbie would join us safely. 

-Rabbit Princess: Please, please, four of us have been praying for months! If there’s one more person, we’ll have more fun together!

I also feel the same way.
No more, no less, we only need one.

-Newbie Is NubNub: This game is so hard.
I give up!

When the newbie’s message came up, four of us were thrown into chaos.

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-Rabbit Princess: No!! Don’t go!!!

-Duck buttock goes kwek kwek: GO GO OUR NEWBIE! You can do it! Fighting!!

-Survivor 1: You’ll get warm support once you finish the tutorial!

-Newbie Is NubNub: But I’ve been doing the tutorial for 2 hours now….

Yeah, that’s right.
The difficulty of this game was really disgusting.
Does it make sense that there were only a few players who could finish the tutorial?

The funny thing is, the tutorial that the newbie did right now was a much easier version compared to the early version of the tutorial.
Back then, even after 3 days after the launching, no one was able to finish the tutorial.

I tried to encourage the newbie to try a little bit more and not quit.

-I Love Gimbap: It should take more than 3 hours, so please try a little more.

-Rabbit Princess: Without you, there’s only four of us.
We can’t make a five eagles brotherhood!

-Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek: But who will be the swan?

– Newbie Is NubNub: Bye!

Ah….That was it.

The newbie didn’t send anymore messages after that.
We could only sit down and lament.

-Rabbit Princess: It is confirmed that this game is a failed game!

-Duck Buttock Goes Kwek Kwek: It’s been a long time since this game became a failed game, though.

Yeah, that’s right.
We’re just holding on to a failed game.

If the update was also bad, maybe we would also give up on this game a long time ago.
However, the game company always updates the contents of this game on time.
But the problem is, we were done with the newly updated content as soon as it