Chapter 72: Delicious Semen
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 72: Delicious Semen
When morning came, a welcome message greeted me.
[The number of 30-day payments for Paradise Level 1 Membership from the "Seongsu Station Faction" has been achieved. (284 / 200)]
[Quest Complete!]
[2 Points Acquired]
[Normal Mode Level (★) Selection Ticket x2 Acquired]
[Random 19+ Mode Unlocked]
Looking at the message, the first thing I felt was anger.
"Do these motherfuckers think I'm a joke?"
Did yesterday's warning not sink in properly?
Otherwise, there was no way they couldn't even fill the quota, especially after I lowered it to 300.
Of course, there were certainly mitigating circumstances.
At 10 coins per person for 5 weeks, that's 50 coins.
To sign up 300 people, they needed 15,000 coins right away.
The faction might not have had that many coins on hand.
But that wasn't my problem.
Whether they borrowed it or stole it, if I told them to get it done by today, they should have gotten it done.
Wondering how I should screw them over, I took a bite of my hamburger and stepped outside.
There, I saw the Left-hand Man I had met yesterday.
"Oh! Boss! Good morning!"
"...What the?"
I had stayed up late last night getting serviced by Kim Ji-hee, so the sun was already high in the sky. Why was he here?
I really didn't want to look at a guy's face first thing after waking up.
"As of right now, 284 people have signed up. Since our saved coins... are running short, we are currently working hard to gather more. I will make sure to fully carry out your orders and report back before midnight tonight!"
"..."
I paused to think.
Did I say by tomorrow, or by today?
I hadn't paid much attention, so I wasn't entirely sure, but I thought I said by today.
Especially since I recalled saying something about killing them all tomorrow.
"Didn't I tell you to have it all done by yesterday?"
"...I'm sorry. Practically speaking, the coins in our faction were held by the former boss and the upper management... but an accident..."
The Left-hand Man hesitated and hung his head.
Perhaps fearing he might die if he slipped up, his body trembled slightly. For his size, he was quite a coward.
"Hmm. Is that so?"
Hearing his side of the story, it did make some sense.
The ten guys I killed yesterday, whatever they were, must have been the influential ones since they stepped forward in front of the 300 people.
I didn't know if their boss was dead or alive, but either way, I felt I could grant them a single pass.
After all, he had come all the way to my doorstep, waited for me to come out, and even reported in like this.
In truth, it was mostly because my mood had improved after seeing the quest rewards.
"Make it 400 by today, then."
"...Yes... I will do my absolute best."
Of course, I couldn't just let them off easy.
From my perspective, either of the two quest completion conditions worked, but for the Delivery Rider Faction, this was a matter of granting them a chance at survival instead of killing them. If I just let it slide here, my words would lose their weight.
Watching the Left-hand Man scurry away in a frenzy, I squatted back down and finished my hamburger.
After all, the happiness of occasionally having a cold cola with a hamburger is hard to match with any other food.
It's fast, convenient, and filling.
Seeing people busily buying food since this morning—no, afternoon—made me feel even more satisfied.
After all, weren't those all my coins?
I stored a reasonable amount in the food warehouse and sold the rest of the supplies at the food store.
Since supplies arrived three times a day, the food store would never run out, and if it did, my wallet would only grow fatter.
My coins were steadily piling up.
The roughly 35,000 coins I had accumulated were thanks to the membership sign-up fees, combined with the massive surge in food sales.
"Were there really this many zombies?"
Level 2 zombies were starting to appear occasionally now, and I wondered if such numbers were only possible because this was Seoul.
And who knows?
Maybe the zombies were actually respawning.
In Zombie Apocalypse, the mod related to zombie respawns was distributed with an ON/OFF toggle, but most people kept it OFF. The reason was that no matter how many you killed, the zombies would never stop coming.
With so few survivors left, how could the zombies ever truly go extinct?
Considering the global population, the number of zombies was actually somewhat downscaled.
But reality was different.
Of course, there were plenty of people who had turned into zombies due to the zombie virus.
However, the number of survivors was also surprisingly high, and the number of zombies they cleared out was quite substantial.
Comparing Seongsu-dong now to just one or two weeks ago, a massive number of zombies had already vanished.
What about other places?
It was hard to find guns here, but what about military bases, large police stations, or prisons where firearms and weapons were readily available?
The system was set up so that zombies would have a hard time winning.
This meant that to prevent the Zombie Apocalypse from reaching an early ending due to the zombies' weakness in the early stages, there had to be some additional measures in place.
Whether that was zombie respawns or something else.
Of course, this was just my speculation.
Whatever the case, the coins in my wallet made me practically a billionaire at this point.
"I've gathered points, too."
I now had enough points to upgrade to a Level 8 Safe Base, and my Normal Mode Level Points had reached 3.
I also checked the 19+ Mode I obtained from completing this quest.
"Delicious Semen?"
I wondered if the system was shoving it down my throat because I hadn't been using the 19+ Modes.
Whether the system dynamically determined the reward based on my mod list, or if it was a pre-determined reward and I was just being self-conscious because I didn't have any 19+ Modes active, I didn't know.
But the name was certainly novel.
Could semen actually taste good?
I casually tossed my trash toward the waste disposal area, went inside, and flopped down right on top of Kim Ji-hee, who was rolling around playing on her phone.
"Ugh... You're heavy."
"Oh, really?"
"Kyaah!"
Subduing the struggling Kim Ji-hee, I asked,
"Does semen taste good?"
"Huh? So suddenly?"
"Just curious."
I knew full well how stupid of a question this was.
I had never tasted semen myself, but even if someone had lived completely cut off from the internet, a quick search would reveal reviews of its taste.
Even I knew it was fishy and tasted pretty bad.
But the reason I asked anyway was simple.
"I heard some girls eat it because they think it's delicious."
"Oh, come on, Oppa. That's just because they get caught up in the mood and excited. Even if they can't taste anything, the situation itself makes it feel 'delicious.'"
Kim Ji-hee answered honestly.
"Hmm. It's a bit fishy and leaves a weird aftertaste, but it's not like it's completely inedible. I guess you could say I've gotten used to it? Since I've swallowed yours so many times, Oppa..."
"..."
So it tasted bad.
What exactly were the effects of this contradictory mod?
`11. Delicious Semen (★)`
`- A Host-exclusive 19+ Mode. Your semen becomes delicious. It adapts to the taste buds of the consumer, making them perceive it as "delicious."`
`- Consuming the "delicious" semen increases one of the target's random stats by ★ for 12 hours. The effect is doubled upon a creampie.`
Indeed, the description showed an effect that overcame this contradictory term.
"Semen becoming delicious, huh... What kind of flavor do you think would make it taste good?"
"Hmm... Since it's semen, maybe yogurt flavor? Plain yogurt or strawberry yogurt would be nice."
Kim Ji-hee earnestly played along with my stupid question.
Strawberry-flavored semen, huh...
Despite its absurd premise, this mod was actually a perfect fit for a 19+ Mode.
It took something women would normally find repulsive and turned it into something they liked.
Of course, it was a shame that it didn't do anything to make the process of getting them to swallow it any easier. Still, once they realized that consuming this delicious semen also boosted their stats, it could become quite an attractive benefit in this harsh zombie apocalypse.
Though it didn't seem like it would be of much help to Kim Ji-hee specifically.
Out of curiosity, I invested exactly 1 Normal Mode Point into it.
I put the remaining 2 points into Zombie Meat.
`11. Delicious Semen (★★)`
`- A Host-exclusive 19+ Mode. Your semen becomes delicious. It adapts to the taste buds of the consumer, making them perceive it as "delicious."`
`- Consuming the "delicious" semen increases one of the target's random stats by ★★ for 12 hours. The effect is doubled upon a creampie.`
`- The "delicious" semen is absorbed by the body before implantation. This function can be toggled ON/OFF.`
"Oh!"
At Level 2, Delicious Semen had finally acquired the cheat skill of protagonists in adult webtoons: a legitimate contraceptive function that allowed for creampies.
This was truly broken. Creampieing carried the risk of STDs, but more than that, the moment pregnancy occurred, things would get incredibly complicated, which made me reluctant to do it.
Once a woman's belly swelled and she gained weight, her appeal as a woman would naturally decline while her appeal as a mother increased.
Since I wasn't creampieing to become a father, I had to be extremely careful. But now that this was given as a Host-exclusive mode, it could practically be considered a cheat mode in the world of 19+ Modes.
Personally, that was my assessment, and since I got it by leveling it up with Normal Mode Points, it was an absolute steal.
In fact, did I even need to level it up any further?
For now, unless I needed anything else, I decided to leave it at that and test it out immediately.
"That strawberry yogurt. I'll feed you some."