Ruler of the Game 492

Chapter 492 – Pocket Girls

Thinking so, her Seongil sends her back to her reality after lightly conversing with Patricia about her means of contact in the future.

‘Now … Patricia has also been taken over, and she must have gotten a clue about her psychic flowering device. Shall we go to work soon?’

In order not to raise unnecessary suspicion, Seong-il walks around the outskirts of the shelter under the guise of early morning jogging and frees Patricia in a secluded place.

After that, he actually jogs and returns to his lodging.

“Seongil, have you been exercising?”

“What time? Are you awake already?”

“Yes. I tend to wake up a little early too.”

It hadn’t been long since he had taken a shower, and he had long, straight hair that was still wet, and he was wearing his usual tights and white cotton tee.

‘He’s pretty, too.’

Seong-il begins to look closely and appreciate the beauty unique to his age without realizing it.

“Oh, why? What can I say?”

“Oh, well… It’s not like that.”

As if she was embarrassed by that gaze, Hana twisted her long black hair with her fingers, feeling embarrassed, then brought up the story as if to change the mood.

“Really? When are you going to go to Shelter C-1? It looks like you stayed in Area B longer than necessary because of this or that incident.”

“Well… I stayed here longer than necessary…”

“Yes. So I’m leaving in two days. Do you want to go with me?”

“Two days?”

Seong-il looks at Hana with a puzzled expression at the sudden appearance of a designated date.

“Yes. Unlike the adjacent shelters in Areas A and B, Area C is at least 100km away. It’s hard to walk, so I’m going to take a high-speed flotation boat that floats once a month to get to Area C.”

‘Oh right. There was something like that.’

A high-speed flotation ship that regularly floats on the sea to connect rebuilt cities by avoiding areas with many dangerous elements, such as radioactivity and other severe pollution, wild supernatural powers, monstrous mutants, and rampant war weapons. Seong-il hears a word and recalls the existence.

‘…In the game, if you just buy a ticket and talk to the sailor in front of the ship, you’re instantly transported to the next city.

“How are you going? Of course you’re not going to walk… Maybe you’re going next month?”

Hana looks at him with a slightly uneasy expression, probably misunderstanding that Seong-il is going on a leisurely trip unlike him.

“Um… I was originally going to do that, but since you said you’re leaving in two days, would it be good to go with you?”

“Really? Thank goodness!!!”

Hana is really happy to hear that Seong-il will go with her. At the same time, a strange blush begins to appear on her face.

‘I guess the sex with me the other day was really ecstatic?’

Seong-il immediately understands why Hana makes such an expression at a glance. Because of this, he thinks that he will never be bored while traveling.

“I’m going to do some shopping with the achievement points I’ve accumulated during that time, and I’m going to check the health of my partners… You?”

“Oh. Is that okay? Let’s go together.”

“Yeah!! Then buy a ticket for the regular line and let’s go shopping together!!”

“Good.”

Satisfied with Hana, who takes care of her game progress instead of her self, Seong-il goes on her way with her.

“Oh… Is this okay?”

“Yes? What is it?”

Seong-il goes to the shopping center with Hana. He looks at the first-aid kit in front of him and exclaims.

“Eh?! That’s an emergency kit. Have you ever traveled without one?”

“…Wasn’t there?”

“You can’t do that!!! It’s our trainers’ duty to urgently treat their partners when they get hurt!!”

“Ah… Uh… Sorry.”

Seong-il, flinching at the scolding, quickly puts the first-aid kit into the shopping cart.

‘Not only does it quickly stop bleeding, it’s an emergency bandage that contains non-resistant antibiotics and painkillers… And even a machine that automatically closes simple wounds… Yuna would like it?’

Even though it is a C-class game, Seong-il looks around every nook and cranny, interested in the fact that there are quite useful items.

“Seongil-ah.”

“…Huh?”

“Seeing you don’t even have a first aid kit, I guess you haven’t shopped properly at the trainer center… Did you buy this?”

After looking at Seong-il, who is curious, Hana shows it to Seong-il with a garment that looks similar to the tights she is wearing.

“…No. It’s the first time I’ve seen it?”

“Neo!! You can’t do that!! Functional tights like this are essential!! Not only are they not easily contaminated, but they are clothes that ideally preserve body temperature…”

One continuous nagging sound. However, Seong-il starts to listen to her advice with a serious expression instead of being annoyed because her advice is quite useful to be annoying.

‘Oh… I’ve been ignoring it because it’s a C-class game… There are quite a few good items, right?’

In the game, it was an item that merely raised the main character’s ability when equipped, but when it was realized in reality, the item transformed into products with powerful functionality and appeared in front of Seong-il’s eyes.

‘Well… Even in the game, ‘It maximizes the wearer’s activity!!’, ‘It’s light enough that you don’t even know you’re wearing it!’ There were modifiers like that. Of course, since it is a C-class Tsukkur game, unlike the explanation, I only raised the defense and agility, but…’

“You… You see… It looks like a mountain to live for. Do you have enough credit points?”

“Ah, the merit point…”

Seong-il, flinching at one word, takes out his phone and looks for information.

『Public points: 43,000 points』

“Uh… That’s a lot!? That’s ten times as many as me!? How the hell!?”

Hana was surprised to see the considerable amount of merit points listed on Seongil’s phone. She begins to alternately look at her name and phone with a shocked look on her face.

“That… Well?! I’m fine too…”

“Let’s take a look at the details!! Click on the point!!”

“Huh? Huh…”

Seong-il calmly goes through the details by pressing the merit point.

『Reward for solving the B-2 Shelter Hyper Team Invasion: 10,000 points』

『Dr. Lou Brandon’s Research Cooperation: 10,000 Points』

『Reward for solving the B-3 Shelter Hyper Incident Incident: 10,000 Points』

Since then, the history of obtaining merit points has been spread all the way. Hana, who saw the item, replies to Seong-il with a surprised expression.

“Wow… Seong-il, you did a lot in just one month!? Somehow, Dr. Woo Seong-il praised you so much…”

After patting her envious Hana, Seong-il starts to wander around the shelter with her.

“Whoa… Tickets have been purchased… Partners will have health checkups by tomorrow… Now, are we just the two of us in the evening?”

Hana pretends to be innocent and secretly sends a signal to Seong-il. Seong-il laughs at her obvious actions and naturally puts her own hand on her waist.

“Aww…”

And, seemingly ashamed of such a holy day’s behavior, Hana begins to quietly come close to him.

‘Huh… Shall we have fun with Hana for two days? It’s good to try SM play on the inner plane…’

Seong-il thinks so insidiously and moves to Hana and the pilgrim’s quarters.

『Wheein!!』

“Hmm…?”

In the meantime, a vibrating notification from the phone. Seong-il turns on his phone screen with a puzzled expression and examines the contents.

“Are you in hurry?”

‘…Dr. Jun?’

Seong-il looks surprised when he gets a call from Dr. Jun out of the blue in an unexpected situation.

“Huh? Why? Who is it?”

“Ah…”

Seeing Sungil’s expression, Hana asks him with a curious expression.

“Ah, if you ask who contacted me…”

Seong-il begins to calmly explain Dr. Jun’s identity to Hana.

“Wow… Then you’re Director Jiyeon’s older brother and Dr. Woo’s colleague?”

“Yes.”

“Why is that person…?”

“Oh, I can’t tell you the details. He asked me not to.”

“Ah…”

One look that is surprisingly not disappointing. Instead of continuing the conversation, Seong-il quickly tries to reply to Dr. Jun.

“No! I was shopping for a while. What are you doing?』

“Oh, you said you were leaving in two days?”

“Uh…? How do you do that?”

Even though he has never contacted Dr. Jun, Seong-il looks surprised when he finds out about his schedule.

『Whoops… I told the manager of the flotation ship about you. Since he is a pilgrim who has been of great help to the shelter, please register and help him well.”

“Aha…”

『Before you leave, can you come to my lab once? I can show you something interesting.”

“Oh… Is it fun? I absolutely have to go!!”

Seong-il accepts his invitation without any hesitation because it is not someone else’s invitation, but the invitation of Dr. Jun, who performed the psychic treatment on him.

“Huh? What’s going on?”

And Hana makes a puzzled expression while looking at the excited Seongil.

“Ah, I guess the doctor told the access manager about me. We wanted to talk a little bit before we left?”

“Ah, is that so? Then go! I’ll be packing up at the dorm!!”

“Okay. See you later.”

Leaving behind one request to go back, Seong-il hurriedly moves to Dr. Jun’s lab.

***

“Doctor! I’m here.”

Coogu palace.

Upon arriving at the location of Dr. Jun’s secret laboratory, Seong-il sends him a message as before. Then he naturally opens a secret door.

“Are you here?”

“Yes. How are you?”

“Haha. It’s only been about 10 days since I haven’t seen you, but it’s always the same.”

‘…For me, it’s been several months.’

The time when Seong-il swallowed gossip and was quiet. Dr. Jun takes Seong-il and leads him to a laboratory full of large monitors.

“…Is this place?”

“It’s a laboratory with a super-high-performance AI analyzer made in the world of destruction.”

“Aha…”

A large, unknown machine vibrated non-stop, and the monitors were doing something while displaying countless amounts of unknown information.

“Ten days ago, I tried to use this machine to analyze the ingredients and mechanisms of the potion you gave me.”

“Oh… Did you succeed in the analysis!?”

If he can train the elixir in large quantities, Seong-il’s uses will be endless, so he asks Dr. Jun with widened eyes.

“…No. Unfortunately, that was impossible. No matter how much I analyzed the ingredients, it was impossible to figure out the mysterious principle.”

“Hmm…”

“It’s a pity, but if we can analyze the mechanism and mass-produce it, the future of mankind will change…”

“That’s too bad…”

At Dr. Jun’s words that he failed in the end, Seong-il strangely feels remorse in his conscience.

‘Should I borrow the elixir after clearing the game later? But it’s a really important item to me, so it’s a bit difficult to write about it…’

The time when Seongil was in trouble. Dr. Jun suddenly changes his expression and continues his explanation in a bright voice.

“Ha. But!! So I changed the direction of my research, and thanks to that, I was able to reap great results.”

“…A turn? A big harvest?”

“Okay.”

After answering that, Dr. Jun inputs some command using the computer, and then a scene appears on the monitor where a mechanical hand holds a device that appears to be an eyedropper and sprays a very small amount of elixir onto a glass dish.

“I tried to figure out the ingredients of the potion through extreme repetition using AI, but I failed. So I decided to approach the problem in a different way rather than wasting that little potion.”

“…Which?”

“It is to focus on resolving the side effects of the ‘psychic flowering procedure’.”

“!!!”

“I took the brains of dead people and cast ‘psychic flowering procedures’ on them, and while the brains were mutated and destroyed, AI and I observed and analyzed the process of preventing the brains from being damaged by the potion.”

“…You don’t need a brain or two to do that, do you?”

Of course, knowing that Shelter’s scientists were thoroughly ethical, Seong-il believed that Dr. Jun would not have done anything illegal.

But apart from that, his words made Seong-il feel uneasy, and he asked him with a trembling voice.

‘…Fuck, didn’t he fall because of me?’