Chapter 97 – Player Highlight Video (1)

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Translated by Seoulbound

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[Dentist Candy Zone Walkthrough Highlight (NEW!)]

I was wondering anyway if my precious newbie was doing a good job with the walkthrough.

When I played the video, just like my 1st playthrough video a moment ago, the CCTV screen of that collaboration convenience store was broadcasted.

It seems that they count the moment of choosing a symbol in the convenience store as a highlight as well.

Waiting a bit, after a moment, a man wearing a white doctor’s gown stepped inside.

The man, who looked to be in his mid-30s with an impression like a literary figure from the enlightenment period, adjusted his round and thin-rimmed glasses and spoke toward the employee at the counter.

“Excuse me, are you the owner here?”

‘Oh.’

Perhaps because he hadn’t stopped by the convenience store to choose items, the Dentist didn’t even spare a glance at the shelves and walked straight toward the employee.

“I am not the owner… What is it about?”

The convenience store employee shown on the screen this time was a face I knew.

The guy who struck my head with the barcode scanner.

He looked to be in his late 20s.

With a build too robust for a convenience store employee, a tattoo resembling octopus suckers was faintly visible under his rolled-up shirt sleeves.

Since he struck me with a barcode scanner using that muscle-bulging forearm, how could I have avoided fainting?

“Ah, well, that is…”

Whether it was because he saw the tattoo engraved on the employee’s forearm, or because he felt that the build was unusual as he approached.

Adjusting his glasses once more as if slightly nervous, the Dentist spoke.

“This might sound strange, but I came to ask if this convenience store has something like a back door by any chance.”

“A back door?”

“It is nothing else, but the owner of the flower shop opposite is anxious because many customers enter here but no one comes out, saying it is a bit strange.”

“Hmm.”

When the convenience store clerk tilted his head with an intrigued look, the Dentist was startled and waved both hands.

“Ah, of course I am not suspecting you. Elders of that age naturally worry a lot, don’t they? I thought explaining that they must have gone out through the back door would put her at ease.”

“There certainly is a back door, but…”

“Ah, as expected, right? I should tell her there was a back door, haha.”

As the Dentist was about to turn around and leave with a good-natured smile, the convenience store clerk called him to a stop.

“One moment.”

“Pardon?”

“A doctor?”

“Ah, yes. I am a dentist…”

“Hmm.”

Scanning the Dentist up and down with pitch-black, lifeless eyes, the convenience store clerk showed a faint smile and spoke.

“Since you’re already here, pick one. We are neighbors now, so I will give it to you as a service.”

“Ah, I’m fine…”

“Choose. Quickly.”

“Uh, well.”

Showing a somewhat perplexed look at the clerk’s rather coercive attitude, the Dentist calmly walked in front of the shelves with a face saying that it would only be his loss to cause trouble by refusing goodwill since they were neighbors from now on.

‘I wondered how an ordinary person who didn’t even know Safe Zone came to that convenience store and bought candy, and this was why…’

Seeing how he deliberately induced him to choose an item, was it a strict rule to possess everyone who entered the convenience store?

Seeing how he confirmed he was a doctor before that… maybe there was some other intention.

“B-but this convenience store is really unique. To think there are only nine items.”

“It is because this is a convenience store where the future is at stake.”

“Even the future is at stake?”

After much deliberation, the Dentist picked up a candy, and the convenience store clerk wore a surprised expression.

“A dentist choosing candy?”

“If you think dentists hate candy, you are highly mistaken.”

“So you like it?”

“Do you happen to know how much dentists have earned ever since Tanghulu became trendy? A doctor only exists when there are patients.”

I was also puzzled that the dentist chose candy.

He was a more capitalistic newbie than I thought.

But hearing the Dentist’s words, the convenience store clerk remained silent as if lost in thought.

Then the Dentist sneaked a look at his expression and said, feeling embarrassed.

“Th-that was about half a joke. Since you said you’d give it as a service, I thought candy would be appropriate, so I chose it…”

“Ah. I see.”

Only then did the convenience store clerk look at the Dentist as if waking from his contemplation.

“If you felt unpleasant because it seemed I abandoned medical ethics, I apologize…”

“No. It is just that the worst and lowest human popped into my mind for a moment.”

“Pardon?”

“Anyway… you are lucky.”

“Me?”

“Because some idiot chose the knife even though I warned him.”

Just as I was about to think that the convenience store clerk’s tone had suddenly changed dryly, the clerk added bluntly.

“You may leave now.”

“Ah, yes, thank you, I will eat the candy well. Uh… but there seems to be no ingredient list for this candy…”

The Dentist, who was about to leave the convenience store, turned back to the clerk and said something, but the clerk only wore a mechanical smile.

“Good luck.”

With those words, the Dentist’s body disappeared from inside the convenience store,

and the video moved on to the next highlight scene.

Candy Zone.

A place where green foliage could be seen even though 99% of the world was covered in snow due to the Ice Age.

It is a zone where so-called Christmas trees grow wild, having grown bizarrely large under the influence of meteorites.

Because the temperature rises near the cluster of those trees, monsters strong against the cold do not go close, and thus the Candy Zone exists inside a giant Christmas forest.

Most of the residents reside in log cabins made of Christmas trees and hunt monsters hovering around the Christmas forest with bows and arrows to make a living, acting as a sort of hunter.

Should I call it a Hunter Village?

A huge candy-shaped meteorite is stuck in the middle of this zone, and this stone is the meteorite item of this zone.

Because the Christmas tree forest unfolds around this meteorite, the theory that the trees became giant under the influence of this meteorite is accepted as an established theory among players.

In the video, a ten-year-old child lay sleeping under a Christmas tree.

The Dentist’s appearance, simply having become younger from his original face, was shown.

After a moment, Candy Zone residents who had come out to hunt discovered the Dentist and carefully began to move him to the center of the village.

When the Dentist, who woke up not long after, panicked greatly and was confused, the Candy Zone residents calmed him down.

“Ah, a dream… is it a dream? It must be a dream…”

Perhaps because he lacked a sense of reality, the Dentist spent the day dismissing it as a dream.

The Dentist, who was about to eat the monster meat stew boiled by the Candy Zone residents thinking it was beef stew, threw the stew away and began to cry in terror when he engaged in the ‘player-style meal’ that had flustered even me, which I watched with great interest.

‘A player getting terrified while eating stew is truly novel.’

The Candy Zone residents worried about the Dentist and took him to the leader NPC.

“I-I cannot eat food. When I eat food, it disappears from my lips as blue particles. I don’t even remember why I became a child’s body like this. I don’t even know where on earth this place is…!”

While I watched freshly as the Dentist laid bare the phenomenon that happened to him to the leader NPC, the leader NPC led the Dentist to the village’s meteorite around the evening of the second day of possession, saying he seemed to have something different from them.

At the words to place his hand on the meteorite, the Dentist placed his hand on it with a dumbfounded face.

In an instant, the meteorite shone brightly enough to blind the eyes, wrapping around the entire Christmas forest before fading.

I watched with little emotion as the village residents got excited by that strange phenomenon, calling the Dentist the child of prophecy or our savior.

‘That meteorite was something that unconditionally shone when a player touched it.’

Actually, an ordinary player would have entered the ‘miracle child’ walkthrough here.

“I-I am not the child of prophecy. I am an ordinary human just like you! What on earth could I save with an ability to make a lump of stone shine? Pardon? That isn’t just a lump of stone but a meteorite? No, no, even if that is really a meteorite, where on earth would you use it by making it shine!”

In a scene where an ordinary player would have naturally pretended to be the child of prophecy or the savior of the zone, the Dentist was desperately persuading the residents of the zone.

“I am not a savior, I am a dentist. Pardon? What is a dentist? B-by any chance, do you… not have dentists? Can other people also eat without chewing food like me? They can’t? No… everyone, when was the last time you received a scaling? Do you know what brushing teeth is? What about dental floss?”

I was watching with excitement as he explained the importance of brushing teeth to the Candy Zone residents, when it moved on to the next highlight scene.

The next scene seemed to be after quite some time had passed since possession, and seeing that the scene of chatting with us was not included, it seemed they gathered only the scenes truly considered highlights.

‘He really made and distributed dental floss…’

Upon learning that it was a zone that hunted with bows, the Dentist utilized bowstrings to make dental floss.

I didn’t know why he was so sincere about oral treatment even after knowing he was possessed inside a game, but…

Looking at the highlight video that followed, I could tell that the Dentist was a very good-natured person.

Because after the chat, the Dentist, who learned that a player could heal their body by consuming food, tried to take on every single dangerous task in the zone.

Perhaps because he wasn’t a player of Safe Zone, the Dentist never once treated the village residents as NPCs.

The zone residents, after the Dentist’s long persuasion, accepted that he was neither the miracle child nor the savior, but even so, they seemed to cherish and respect the Dentist.

Since it was a zone that worshiped the player even if they just stayed still, I hadn’t thought of this kind of walkthrough.

‘Clearing it like that, he won’t take the annihilation route at the end.’

The most preferred walkthrough in the Candy Zone is the ‘miracle child’ walkthrough, but the disadvantage of that walkthrough is that the residents’ dependence on the player increases.

Because they think the player is a special child and make no preparations at all for the Second Apocalypse, they end up getting completely wrecked by other zones.

However, the Candy Zone NPCs in this highlight video were exerting all efforts to ensure the Dentist sacrificed himself even a little less.

Well, even so, the growth speed of the residents was still painfully slow, so it was a walkthrough that an efficiency bug like me would absolutely never attempt.

Even though he was a newbie with zero understanding of Safe Zone, it was quite encouraging that he was performing such a stable walkthrough.

The highlight video ended with the scene where the Dentist obtained the title ‘Saint of the Christmas Forest.’

I made a decision.

‘This newbie is mine.’

A content I didn’t want to lose to the veteran players of other zones.

Furthermore, seeing what he does, it looked like he would cooperate without a word in opening the logout, making me expect more.

However, since I had ignored the Dentist’s friend request in the meantime, I suspected other veterans might have already interfered with him.

Well, even if there is another veteran he already got close to, I can just steal him to my zone.

‘There are highlight videos of the other guys too, but…’

Actually, I wasn’t that curious.

Because the veterans are highly likely copying my walkthrough.

Even Shin Eun-jo was proceeding with my pseudo-walkthrough.

Therefore, I lightly played T-Bastard’s highlight video just to check what kind of hardships that T-Bastard bastard went through early on that made him want to kill me so much, but…

I ended up facing an unexpected figure in T-Bastard’s convenience store video.

“…You look familiar. By any chance, aren’t you a national athlete?”

“Ahaha, it’s been ages since I retired. You also came because of Safe Zone, right? My in-game nickname is Taejeongtaesebeyonce. How about you?”

…This guy introducing himself as Taejeongtaesebeyonce.

A former national soccer player who retired after getting caught doping.

It is Kim Tae-jeong.