Chapter 114 (2/2)
-[Jun Sung, where are you? This place is huge. What is this? We’re like families that were separated or something.]
Park Jin Hyuk’s voice comes out of the PDA. Where is he? How would he know. It is difficult to even choose a direction immediately. They are going wherever their steps lead them.
-[Cha Jun Sung, your location is zone A area 3. Exchanging locations with helper Zephyrus. Park Jin Hyuk is zone W area 2. The distance is 94km.]
Odin exchanged locations with Zephyrus. They are 94km apart. It would take days to meet by walking. If they get lost, there will be no end.
-[Since we’re all separated, we should meet where Jun Sung is.]
-[Okay!]
-[Good!]
Kyoko made the suggestion. It is right for them to go to the leader. The locations have been identified due to the helpers. They just have to choose a place to meet and get to the area.
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Moving is easy. There is mundane transportation as there is in reality. There are taxis, subways, and buses. As it is a quiet town, of course there are no Lifers.
There was no traffic because there were no people, so they were able to meet that much faster.
“I saw 2 people on my way here.”
“Really?”
“Yes. We only talked for a moment and they said something about Spain, but they said they were a cadre of a large guild. They looked really confused too since they aren’t used to all of this yet.”
Park Jin Hyuk saw Lifers while he was walking around. They are all in the same situation so they did not ask each other anything and simply exchanged courtesies.
Cha Jun Sung, Kyoko, and Koharu in contrast, did not see any Lifers. Whatever they are doing and where they are hiding, they cannot be seen anywhere.
They do not have the thought that they need to meet others. It is just an observation.
When they were standing on the roadside, several heavily armed cyborgs passed them. They did not pay attention as though inanimate.
“Look how they’re armed. They’re holding all sorts of things. It’s war setting.”
Park Jin Hyuk looked at the passing cyborgs and whistled. Like he said, the cyborgs’ arms are great enough to bring out admiration.
They seem to be the best. Their basic battling efficiency must be at least level 5. With that setting, they are estimated to be high level 5 or mid level 6.
“They need to do that much to prevent any Lifers’ unexpected behavior.”
“Is that right?”
“Imagine there’s someone making a fuss with a battlesuit on. They’ll need to beat them if they need to in order to calm them down. It’s a safety device to protect this city.”
-[You have guessed similarly. As there are more Lifers, there will be more cyborgs. Everything will be in proportion.]
Odin added on to Cha Jun Sung’s explanation. It is on speaker mode for the entire party to hear so that Park Jin Hyuk and the others could understand as well.
As the number of people entering increases, there will be weird people mixed in. If there is 1 crazy person in every 10,000, there will be 100 in 1 million people.
This is not the ultimate goal, but policing is one of the reasons for placing battle cyborgs. If they let their guards down, the city will fall into chaos.
“Well this is so sudden that I don’t know what we’re supposed to do first.”
“Since we’re here, let’s look around the city and find a place for us to stay. Once there’s an inflow of Lifers, there will be rapid changes to this place.”
It is empty and boring now, but say hundreds of people come gathering in. They will see the bizarre scenes they saw in the virtual version again.
They will be coming in and out constantly, and they cannot rule out the chance that they might stay long term. They need to select a good residence just in case that happens.
When there are more Lifers and an imbalanced supply and demand, Mechanic City would be occupied and they might have to stay in a cheap house.
“Let’s go there first.”
Cha Jun Sung pointed to the tremendous skyscraper. It is a mega tower, used as a place to meet. Its other significance is the store.