Chapter 17: Masters of the experts (1/2)
Chapter 17: Masters of the experts
The creation of this type of situation couldn’t be blamed on the stupidity of the players. In the real world, they could be the type of people who rarely left their house – otakus and fujoshis. They were the type that rarely exercised and engaged in physical activities, so they would obviously never be as nimble as Liu Gan.
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Liu Gan was a parkour and mountain climbing expert, not to mention that these type of four story building were no big deal to him – even if was a ten story building, scaling the exterior wall would be as easy as walking on leveled ground for him. Only the plaza was an exception, otherwise normal areas like this wouldn’t be able to trap him.
The Trembling World was the type of game that resembled real life body qualities, in each and every capability. It seemed that nearly everything has been taken into account within the game, so the players starting stats were used as a basis.
Of course, all this was Liu Gan’s personal speculation of the game so far. As to whether or not this was still a game, this was the question that bothered Liu Gan the most. Right now though, was not the time to debate that question. Persevering and surviving through this game was his most important priority.
“Boss, what direction did you come from?” the plump-player asked Liu Gan after the 5 male and 1 female players came down from the building.
“It’s best if you don’t go in that direction – it’s the plaza where a corpse tide occurred previously, If you don’t believe me though, you can walk a few blocks towards it to find out. If you walk past the plaza, there are densely populated zombies” Liu Gan replied to the plump-player.
“Indeed. From the moment we entered the game, the streets had at least a dozen zombies just wandering. From the direction you came, there was a loud explosive noise, which attracted all of them over there. Then, they never returned” a skinny-glasses player nodded in agreement to what Liu Gan had said.
“Boss, are you alone? Would you like to join our squad?” Plump-player asked Liu Gan.
“Squad?” Liu Gan had a hesitant expression. His alloy metal limbs were a secret that he didn’t want others to find out, to avoid bringing himself more unnecessary trouble. If the other players decide to report him for it, the system would correct it back to normal. Even though the calling for GM and Logout function was greyed out, who knew when this function would return?
“Night’s coming soon, we should find a place to camp out. Camping in these kind of locations definitely requires someone standing guard, so being part of a squad is better.” the plump-player hard-sold the idea to Liu Gan.
“If you don’t want to join the squad, then forget it – just explain to us the situation with the plaza over there” Green-haired player cut off the plump-player’s sales pitch to Liu Gan.
The green-haired player stood near a yellow-haired and red-haired player, all looking at Liu Gan. The three looked around the ages of 17, 18, and their exterior appearances were nearly identical to each other. In the real world, they all knew each other, as at the green-haired player’s house they all logged in to game there. Upon transferring into The Trembling World, they all arrived at the same coordinates.
[TN: honestly I’m glad the author doesn’t give the minor characters names. This way we readers don’t have to memorize it]
After entering the game, they had been trapped on the top of the roof, unable to leave. Even though they felt as if the game was relatively realistic, they were also bewildered. They hadn’t yet experienced the dangers of zombies. So they couldn’t contain their naive excitement and expectations for this game world. The moment they could leave the rooftop, and discovered that there were no zombies nearby, and the last remaining one was eliminated by Liu Gan, they couldn’t help but feel disappointment. So they wanted to find a zombie in order to experience the joys of slaughtering.