Chapter 85: Noona's Hands Are Fucking Healing Hands
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 85: Noona's Hands Are Fucking Healing Hands
In a zombie apocalypse, there is no such thing as a landowner.
Even if there was one originally, the moment someone with power claims it as theirs, the ownership is bound to change.
Whether that happens through trade or plunder.
That was why this theater troupe faction looked down on me and tried to put a price tag on the land to sell it.
When I first entered Seoul Forest, I couldn't find a single trace of anyone living there or guarding it.
The zombies had been cleared out pretty cleanly, but that was likely just because the troupe members had cleared the surrounding area for their own safety.
If they wanted to prove it was their faction's territory, they should have at least set up barricades or shown some signs of maintenance up to that point.
The reason they didn't is obvious.
The larger the territory you have to defend, the greater the risk.
You never know where zombies might slip in, and land that isn't fully controlled can essentially become a backdoor for them.
You can see this just by looking at Seongsu Apartment.
At first, they made a fool of themselves by wrapping barricades around the entire apartment complex, only for it to collapse in less than a day when the zombie rush hit.
In the end, trying to defend an area beyond your capability is just a useless waste.
Therefore, Seoul Forest does not belong to this theater troupe.
Since the person claiming to be the owner is gone, unclaimed land belongs to whoever takes it first.
"Are you going to give me 2,000 coins? Or are you going to pack up and leave?"
"It's that psycho..."
"The one who goes around crushing entire factions..."
"The Owner of Paradise..."
"Fuck... No wonder he looked so damn ordinary."
Finally, someone recognized me, even if it was a bit late.
Honestly, my pride had been a bit hurt.
In Seongsu-dong, I had shown my face and established my own signature moves, yet every time someone saw me, there were always so many bastards picking fights, asking who the hell I was.
With this many factions crushed, you'd think the neighboring groups would have at least heard the rumors and learned to be careful.
Well, as long as they recognized me in the end, that was enough.
"I'll give you plenty of time. Either prepare the 2,000 coins or take your time packing up and clear out. If I still see you after I move in, I'll send you to join the grandpa."
Whether we'll become neighbors or not, I'll find out the next time I visit.
After bidding them a warm farewell, I returned home.
"Oppa, how is the house site?"
"I like it. That'll do."
"Wow, we're finally moving...!"
Kim Ji-hee loved the Han River.
"Once we get a Han River view, I'm going to go for walks every day. Lululu. Oppa, if we move, can I raise a cat?"
"Your sibling?"
"...No, not that kind of cat..."
"Do whatever you want. You don't like dogs? I like dogs too."
"Geez..."
She said that thanks to the Base Invincibility effect, which boosted all her stats to level 5, she could kill a level 1 zombie on her own now. However, perhaps due to her personality, she didn't really like encountering zombies.
So even when she went outside, she only wandered around the immediate vicinity and never went far.
"Ah, right. About Se-i Unni. Is it really okay for me to use her as my assistant again?"
Her excited expression turned into one of worry.
It seemed that ever since that incident, Kim Ji-hee had been feeling quite guilty about not telling me beforehand that Oh Se-i was smuggling food.
She claimed she only found out late, but the fact remained that she hadn't spoken up.
This was likely even more true because her Dependency level had quietly risen from 5 to 6.
That was probably why she was trying to be as transparent as possible now.
I patted the anxious Kim Ji-hee to soothe her.
"Let her do it. If she still acts up after rolling around outside for fourteen days, she belongs in a mental hospital."
If she went that far, I'd have to assume Oh Se-i was doing it just to earn points for me.
Thanks to this incident, Oh Yoon-seop and Lee Mi-sook seemed even more apologetic and determined to work hard, so it wasn't a bad outcome in its own way.
It was just an incredibly stupid "cat mom" stunt, but I also believed that having one or two of those self-righteous justice-seekers in a faction wasn't entirely a bad thing.
If everyone were a pragmatist focused solely on results, the faction would become far too one-sided.
I look at ability, not personality.
I have to fill up to 2,000 residents; I can't exactly interview every single one to ask if they're a "cat mom" before letting them in.
It's fine as long as they are punished when necessary.
And where there is punishment, there must also be reward.
"How are the hospital patients lately?"
"They don't come often, but they do show up occasionally. Most of them seem to be people from other factions..."
Since I still had many Cheat Modes left to level up, and the 19+ Cheat Mode had also appeared, I couldn't afford to spend Cheat Mode points on "Residents."
However, since I had as many as 14 Normal Mode points, I figured distributing them reasonably wouldn't be a bad idea.
I needed to show them at least once.
The benefits of becoming a "Resident."
Right now, people believed that only those born with naturally good skills were chosen to be "Residents."
While that wasn't entirely wrong, I was always willing to accept anyone as a "Resident" if they achieved results through their own efforts.
As long as they weren't useless freeloaders.
Even if their Mode was completely useless, if they possessed a unique skill of their own that wasn't system-based, I could always interview them personally.
Among my own Normal Modes, there wasn't really anything left worth investing points into.
There was Delicious Semen, but instead of leveling that up, it would be far more efficient to use the points to raise a Resident's Normal Mode level and make use of them.
Naturally, I had to choose a trustworthy Resident.
And no one could deny that Kim Ji-hee was the prime candidate.
I realized this clearly during the Oh Se-i cat mom incident.
My trust and reliance on Kim Ji-hee stemmed from our business relationship, her Dependency, her pretty face, her great body...
Well, there were many reasons, but the most important one was that she wasn't exhausting to be around.
She read the room well, did her job, didn't hold back, and put in the effort.
Even when I didn't say anything, she would think ahead and try to grasp my intentions.
Unlike Lee Mi-sook, who stood by as a bystander, neither helping nor stopping her daughter even though she knew she was making a terrible choice.
Kim Ji-hee had the courage to oppose things she knew I would dislike, even if it risked making her look like the bad guy.
"I should give you a present, shouldn't I?"
"Yes?"
I could gather everyone and upgrade her level publicly.
If I did, the rumors would spread like wildfire.
The fact that I could raise someone else's skill level.
Sure, skill levels naturally rise with use, but that kind of effort could take months or even years.
If they saw a level 4 skill jump straight to level 10—not even level 1—with just a single click from me, Paradise would probably experience an unprecedented boom.
But not yet.
Even without that, Paradise had plenty of appeal.
I didn't need people who would lose their minds and crawl in just to suck up to me for a skill upgrade.
Besides, the word would get out anyway.
Kim Ji-hee of the hospital, who used to have a level 4 healing skill...
...would suddenly start treating people with a level 10 skill one day. There was no way people wouldn't notice.
[The level of "Resident" Kim Ji-hee's Mode "Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands (4★)" increases.]
1 Normal Mode Point was consumed, and Kim Ji-hee's Mode level increased.
"Huh? Oppa?"
Naturally, a message must have popped up for Kim Ji-hee as well.
"It says the Host raised my skill level. Did you do this, Oppa?"
I answered with points.
[The level of "Resident" Kim Ji-hee's Mode "Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands (5★)" increases.]
[The level of "Resident" Kim Ji-hee's Mode "Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands (6★)" increases.]
[The level of "Resident" Kim Ji-hee's Mode "Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands (7★)" increases.]
[The level of "Resident" Kim Ji-hee's Mode "Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands (8★)" increases.]
[The level of "Resident" Kim Ji-hee's Mode "Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands (9★)" increases.]
In an instant, Kim Ji-hee's healing skill reached level 10.
"Gasp!"
Having leveled up Cheat Modes, why did raising a Normal Mode level seem so incredibly easy?
It might be because the system tended to hand out Normal Mode points relatively more generously.
At first, it only trickled out points through tutorial quests, but as the repeat quests increased...
...and as the difficulty of the quests rose, it seemed the system calculated their value in Normal Mode points instead of regular points.
Well, it wasn't a bad thing.
Even if I were just raising my own skill levels, the amount of points needed to level up a Cheat Mode was fixed anyway. If it was the same amount of effort, it was far more efficient to raise Normal Modes using Normal Mode points, which held higher relative value.
It wasn't like spending points on a Normal Mode raised it by two levels at a time or anything.
[Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands (10★)]
- Healing efficiency increases by 200%. Healing duration is shortened by 200%.
- Consumes 1 Mana to use Healing Hands. Bleeding immediately stops in the area where Healing Hands is applied. Wounds close and heal.
- Consumes 2 Mana to use Warm Healing Hands. Immediately heals wounds caused by zombies. Lowers infection probability from scratches by 5%.
- Consumes 3 Mana to use Gentle Healing Hands. Grants immunity to pain for 3 hours. Wound recovery speed increases by 200%.
- Consumes 5 Mana to use Noona's Healing Hands. Lowers infection probability from bites by 25%. Immediately heals bite wounds.
- Consumes 10 Mana to use Miracle Healing Hands. Prevents infection from bites.
- Consumes N Mana to perform customized treatment.
"Whoa."
At this point, wasn't it truly a miracle hand?
Especially that "customized treatment"—depending on how it was used, its applications were endless.
"Can this cure erectile dysfunction by any chance?"
"..."
Hearing my wild imagination, Kim Ji-hee's hand slowly drifted toward my cock.
"Hey, you crazy bitch. I don't have erectile dysfunction."
"Ah, right."
As she startled and pulled her hand back, I grabbed it and brought it right back to my cock.
"But just in case, why don't you try treating it anyway?"
I seemed to recall hearing that [Noona's Hands Are Healing Hands] was only "hands" in name, and she didn't actually have to touch the area being treated.
But who cared about that?
As Kim Ji-hee massaged my cock with her hand, it quickly grew hard.
"The effect is great, isn't it?"
"...I didn't even use the skill yet..."
I threw Kim Ji-hee onto the mattress and climbed on top of her.
"Shall we see if my stamina improved as well?"