Chapter 65: Welfare Facilities of Paradise
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 65: Welfare Facilities of Paradise
[Universal Folding Cart (★★★)]
– 2m x 2m x 2m
– A cart with Internal Expansion Mode applied.
– Weight Reduction (★★★) = 65%
– Durability (★★)
No matter how many different kinds of rare items existed in this world, I never expected to see a rare folding cart of all things.
Well, if you considered it a type of backpack, I suppose it wouldn't be strange for it to exist. But if you already had a rare backpack, this was a complete downgrade, making it an item with absolutely no reason to buy.
Yet, this piece of junk cost 500 coins.
The exact same price as a Level 3 Backpack.
I wondered who on earth would buy such a thing, but then Kim Ji-hee came to mind, so I bought one. Seeing how thrilled she was, it turned out to be a good purchase.
Kim Ji-hee needed proper rewards too.
While everything she enjoyed while freeloading off me was already a reward, she had been handling various chores quite well on her own lately. Seeing how friendly she was with Oh Yoon-seop and his family, I figured she could act as a bit of a carrot to balance out the whip I wielded.
So, I gave her one as a gift.
After all, Kim Ji-hee was someone special to me, wasn't she?
The woman who met me right as the zombie apocalypse broke out and sucked my dick.
Should I call her my first heroine?
Even if I was using her half as a cum dumpster.
"Oh my god, it's so light! Wow, it holds so much. I can just carry things around in this."
I had bought it because I remembered her struggling and grunting while carrying boxes back and forth over short distances.
Within the Safe Base, "Residents" had all their stats increased by 2 levels, so things wouldn't feel that heavy to her anyway, but the convenience of pulling a cart versus carrying a box was on a whole different level.
She ran off to the warehouse, saying she would bring back the ingredients for tonight's dinner.
– A base-exclusive mode. You will not be infected inside the Safe Base. The maximum range applies independently of the Safe Base's actual range.
– Inside the Safe Base, Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Mana increase by ★★★★★★★. This applies independently of existing stat limits.
– Staying in the Safe Base for 1 hour or more increases 3 random stats by ★★★★ for 10 hours.
– When receiving a fatal attack inside the Safe Base, "Adrenaline" is released.
(Health is immediately restored to 100%.)
(All stats increase by ★★★★ for 30 minutes.)
(Cooldown: 7 days)
– You can designate "Residents" of the Safe Base. (Max 100 people)
(Resident Benefit: All stats increase by ★★ inside the Safe Base.)
(Resident Benefit: Stat growth rate increases by 30%. Skill level growth rate increases by 30%.)
– The Host can use coins or points to level up or enhance a "Resident's" mode level. Cost is reduced by 20%.
– The "Safe Fortress" effect activates based on the number of residents.
(Current: Safe Fortress Stage 1 (1 / 1 person))
(Next: Safe Fortress Stage 2 (2 / 10 people))
(Coin Acquisition +10%)
– Inside the Safe Base, the effects of Normal Modes are enhanced. (+50%)
"Base Invincibility is getting absolutely insane."
It certainly proved to be worth the 3 points it devoured to level up.
In a zombie apocalypse, every single one of these options was so ridiculously broken that the veterans on the gallery wouldn't even deign to speak with anyone who used a mode like this.
It said "Normal Mode effects +50%," but since practically every mode except for Cheat Modes counted as a Normal Mode, it basically meant all my modes got a +50% boost.
What did this mean in practice?
Take [Zombies are an Excellent Source of Meat], which was the simplest mode I'd been enjoying quite a bit. It originally stated there was a 1% chance to obtain 1 kg of meat.
With the +50% boost, that became a 1.5% chance to obtain 1.5 kg of meat.
And what did that lead to?
A 1.5% chance for 1.5 kg meant that, in terms of actual yield, it wasn't just a simple 50% increase—the final efficiency was even higher.
Not that I, someone who had built a wall between himself and studying, cared about the exact math.
[Sex! Sex!] also gave a bit more coins when having sex... though that wasn't something I needed to worry too much about.
And [Cat Step].
Its 120-second duration increased to 180 seconds, and the noise reduction rate exceeded 100%.
Perhaps because going over didn't count, the noise reduction capped at 100%, and my presence reduction also changed to 100%.
The most absurd part was that even the mana consumption was affected.
The mana cost, which used to be 2, was reduced to 1.
"No, seriously, what the fuck. This is way too fucking broken."
Personally, I was highly in favor of broken modes.
I believed that if a game became easy, it had its own merits.
But regardless of that, I still knew when to call out something for being utterly broken.
"This is so fucking good."
The world is all about relativity.
If everyone else had broken skills too, then they weren't broken.
If a damage value of 20,000 per hit was fair and equal for everyone, then that was just the average damage.
But if everyone else was dealing 1,000 damage while I alone was dealing 20,000, then it became an incredibly fun game.
That was exactly how it felt.
Now, I couldn't wait for Level 8.
What on earth would Level 8 give me, considering it devoured a whopping 4 points?
Usually, the higher the cost, the lower the efficiency.
In normal games, at least.
But here, the higher the cost, the more valuable the rewards, which meant the ceiling was just that much higher.
Considering the value of this current option, 3 points was nothing.
Considering my future growth, it wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say it was worth over 300 points.
Of course.
There was a downside.
If I had to pick one, it was the chronic and definitive flaw of Base Invincibility.
It had no effect once I stepped outside the Safe Base.
However, having reached Level 7, the Safe Base's radius had expanded to 1 km, which was large enough to cover the entirety of Seongsu-dong.
As long as I didn't leave Seongsu-dong, my base stats inside would be 2/1/1/1.
Base Invincibility 7/7/7/7.
Rest Bonus 3/3/3/0.
With all of these combined, I would become a superhuman with stats of 12/11/11/8 just from these alone.
And if I added the Level 1 Strength from my Leather Gloves and the healing effect of the sauna, they would go even higher.
And that wasn't even counting the stats from Predation.
"Whew..."
My worries about whether I could unite all the factions in Seongsu-dong or crush them beneath my feet completely vanished with Level 7 of the Safe Base.
The difference between 800 pyeong and 1 km was unspeakably massive.
"Thank you, Safe Base."
With a lighter heart, I began to think more concretely about the Membership System.
Now that the system was in place, I had to prepare the corresponding facilities.
The details.
First, there wasn't much to do with the studio apartments in the building across the street, but I spent quite a long time agonizing over how much to charge for rent.
"Electricity, heating, refrigeration, freezing, and even running water. How much should I charge for a room that has everything?"
That was my initial dilemma.
But after thinking about it for a moment, I wondered, Is that really necessary?
"Refrigerators and freezers work as long as there's electricity anyway. Do they really need high-powered refrigeration?"
So, I only connected electricity, heating, and water to the building across the street.
With just those, I set the monthly rent to 40 coins.
20 coins a month for electricity, heating, and water, and another 20 coins a month for using the automatic door installed at the building entrance.
It seemed like a reasonable price.
The building across the street was larger and taller than ours, fitting about 20 households. Installing a single 70-coin automatic door and raking in 20 coins from each household every month was a guaranteed profit.
There was no need to install the 120-coin automatic door like the one on our building.
Upgrading it to Level 2, which had decent durability, would be more than enough.
This way, it was a win-win for both me and the users.
20 coins a month wouldn't be that much of a burden for them.
If it was too burdensome, they could just live without running water, hot water, and heating.
The choice was always up to the individual.
I didn't force anyone.
Next was the bathhouse.
I decided to use a three-story commercial building right next to the studio apartment building across the street as a bathhouse.
This required a bit of coin investment.
A basic Small Bathhouse cost 100 coins, but a Medium one was 300 coins, and a Large one required 1,000 coins.
What the fuck, why did the prices jump faster than real estate?
The only saving grace was that even a Medium Bathhouse was significantly larger than a Small one.
[Medium Bathhouse (★★)]
– Can be installed inside the Safe Base.
– Warm tub, hot tub, cold tub, sauna booths (2), shower booths (8), bathing booths (15), waterfall shower booth (1).
– Can be installed with separate men's and women's sections.
– Water service must be provided for the bathhouse to operate.
I would make one floor the women's bath and another floor the men's bath.
Surprisingly, I could even link this with the Membership System to control access.
By installing two automatic doors at the entrances of the women's and men's baths and linking them to the membership, only members of the corresponding gender could enter their respective baths.
"Fucking sick."
Just like that, the bathhouse was built in a flash, and the facilities for the membership members of Paradise began to take shape.