Chapter 1 (2)
Chapter 1 (2)
"Huk!?"
Thump!
"Ksseub! What the fuck is this!?"
Ah, fuck, my knees!
Wait, where the hell am I?
And what the hell was that pain from earlier?
I couldn't understand the current situation.
I was definitely creating basic settings in the character creation menu.
But after a sudden pain, I closed my eyes and opened them, and...
"...What the hell is going on......."
I'm just left alone in some forest.
And it's fucking cold.
This temperature is basically winter, isn't it?
"Shit. Whatever it is, I've got a bug."
Yeah, a bug.
It can't be anything else; this situation couldn't happen otherwise.
I logged out while thinking about how I was going to raise hell with the game company.
"Log out."
.......
.......
......?
"Huh? Log out. Exit. Disconnect."
I said every command I could think of to disconnect.
Not just the words, but I even focused on the thought of wanting to leave.
But all that greeted me was a cool breeze.
"Log out! I'm leaving! Disconnect!!"
What is this.......
What the hell is it.......
Why...why won't the connection cut off.......
"Sseup- huuu~ Sseuuup-- huuuuu~~"
Let's start with a deep breath.
Honestly, if I don't do at least this, I feel like I'll just collapse right here.
Yeah, let's calm down first.
Crying and throwing a fit here won't solve anything.
Let's open the status window and see which game functions are still working.
"Status window."
.......
.......
.......
"Even this is busted......?"
Besides that, I said inventory, options, every command I could think of.
But not a single one worked.
"......."
I'm screwed.
In a few days, I'll probably starve to death and end up on the news.
As some idiot who died from gaming addiction without even eating.
"Fuck! I can't die so pathetically!"
Yeah, everyone dies eventually.
But not like this!
At least like this...Kk!?
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"Kkeuuuk!? What...what is this......! This...what is this...Kuaaaak!"
My head! Something is entering my head!
Jjireureu- Jjireureu-
"Huh?"
As I open my eyes, I feel the cold ground and hear the chirping of night insects.
"Did I...pass out......?"
I must have passed out because I couldn't handle the pain in my head.
Ha...so this is what passing out feels like.
The fact that my consciousness vanished regardless of my will feels fucking terrible.
"Haa...in the end, I couldn't log out."
I sat up, my body sagging at the fact that I hadn't logged out.
But then, the reality of what happened next crossed my mind, and my whole body chilled.
"Wait....... I passed out inside the game?"
Virtual reality games touch the brain, so any potential danger is blocked in advance.
What that means is that if you pass out in-game, your character passes out, but the player becomes a third-party observer and can maintain a clear consciousness.
Besides that, if you get charmed by magic or hit with a mental status effect, the player's consciousness is designed to detach from the character.
For example, if you're under a monster's charm spell and get ordered to kill someone, you wouldn't want to log out and have no idea what kind of problems might occur, right?
That's why all game companies set it up so that if the character's consciousness leaves the player's control, the player detaches from the character and switches to an observer perspective.
But I passed out in this game.
I passed out and regained consciousness.
In other words, I am.......
"What the hell is going on......?"
I don't know. I have no idea what's going on.
I've never heard of this kind of incident.
I haven't seen this situation in any community.
"Ha, fuck. Am I in some dimension-hopping story? Dimension hopping into a game character's body, even modern novels don't do that...huh?"
I chuckled as I said it, but my heart wavered without me realizing it.
Nah, no way....... That only happens in novels.
There's no way such an absurd thing could actually happen.
Grrr- rumble--
"Oh, please."
The situation is fucked, and now my stomach is growling.
Huh? I'm hungry?
You can't feel hunger in a game, can you?
If a character is hungry in a game, it notifies you with a message window or a growling sound.
In other words, the player doesn't feel the character's hunger.
But I am currently feeling the hunger that the character feels.
"Is this for real?"
What if the hypothesis I thought of earlier, about dimension hopping, is true?
What if I really did move to the world of Pungun Murim as the game character Jincheon?
Rustle!
"Ugh!"
I hurriedly looked around when I heard a rustling sound from somewhere.
In the darkness, without a single bit of artificial light.
Seeing glowing eyes in the space made of darkness, I grabbed a nearby rock just in case.
'Should I just try dying?'
This thought suddenly occurred to me.
If I die, it should at least be treated as a game over, forcing a disconnection.
But my instinct rejected it.
Swish!
Just then, something jumped out from across the bushes.
"Ha...what is it, just a raccoon."
The owner of the eyes was a raccoon.
The raccoon saw me, got startled, and went back into the forest.
What a goofy little guy.
'I'm hungry, maybe I should....'
The moment I had a joking thought about catching the raccoon because I was hungry.
I realized the situation was more serious than I thought.
'Canine animal. The taste is similar to dog meat but a bit softer. Singe it with fire to remove the fur cleanly, remove the entrails, and wash the meat. It's good for stamina, so it's also used for medicinal cuisine.......'
"Ugh!? What, what is this......!?"
What was that knowledge that just popped into my head?
It was clearly about how to eat a raccoon and its nutritional value.
I don't know anything about raccoons?
Wait, could it be...because of my character settings......?
The character Jincheon definitely maxed out Hunting and Medicine.
Something was injected into my head earlier.
And knowledge I didn't know surfaced.
"No matter how I look at it, this is the beginning of a dimension-hopping novel......."
No! I'm not one of those losers who reads novels often and wants to dimension hop! I'm not!
But objectively speaking, this situation is exactly like a dimension-hopping story.
The fight between reason and intuition makes my head even more complicated.
You idiot! Dimension hopping? Is that what a 21st-century modern person's brain thinks?
Get a grip! I'm different from those losers who think novels are reality!
This is a game error! It's because of some fucking shitty error!
No matter how I look at it, the situation is a pattern of a dimension-hopping story!
Knowledge I didn't have appeared, and I can't log out of the game!
What kind of error would cause knowledge I didn't have to appear?
"Ugh...my head is starting to hurt......."
I emptied my head as much as possible to avoid my left and right brains grabbing each other by the collars.
Because there's a problem I've been putting off that I need to solve now.
'Whether it's a bug, an error, or dimension hopping, let's just deal with this first. Nights in the forest are fucking cold. Plus, this winter weather makes it even worse!'
The forest, turning into evening, is already darkness itself.
If I had a phone, I'd use flashlight mode, but obviously, there's no way I have that.
'Strange. It's normal for a forest in the evening to be pitch black, but it's strangely bright?'
Could it be the effect of Angong 100?
Angong is for training the eyes, and since this stat is at the maximum, maybe that's why I can see somewhat in the dark forest.
'Let's not just space out here, let's do something.'
First, I checked my attire.
I'm currently wearing a loose blue top that goes down to my waist, loose white pants, and black shoes that look like traditional socks.
It has some insulation, but it's not enough to survive a night in the forest.
I have two choices here.
Start a fire and move when it gets bright.
Wander around looking for a village.
'Obviously 1. Do I even know where I am to be wandering around at night? Plus, if I walk around in this cold, I'll freeze to death first!'
Normally, I would have set up a sect through character settings and started there.
But now, due to some error, I've been dropped in the middle of a forest.
Since I was dropped in the middle of a forest, I don't know where the village or the road is, so wandering around is suicide.
'Haa....... I'm unexpectedly filming Man vs. Wild.'
Fortunately, since the weather is cold, I easily found dry leaves and twigs.
Ah, I also found a thick branch to rotate.
The rest is a wooden block of a suitable size...will this be enough?
I'm lucky there are plenty of useful things around.
First, I acted by recalling the content I'd seen in movies or Man vs. Wild.
It would be nice to have dry grass, but I don't see any right now, so I'll give up on that.
Honestly, doing it with bare hands is hard...but I have no choice but to try.
"Huu...hup!"
Ssssasasasak!
"Huh?"
What is this? It's rotating incredibly fast?
Was I this strong...ah, Geungol 100!
My body must have become stronger due to the effect of Geungol 100.
In that case!
Ssssssssss!
I used my Geungol 100 body to create strong friction.
Oh! Smoke is coming out! Leaves! Leaves!
While rotating with one hand, I pushed dry leaves into the hole where the friction was happening and blew air with my mouth.
There's more smoke, but I still don't see any embers.
Please! Please let me finish this in one go!
If I use up my stamina in this weather, there's no answer!
Whoosh.......!
"Got it!"
A small fire is rising!
I quickly pushed in the leaves and grew the embers as much as possible.
The embers caught onto the dry leaves and started to grow bigger.
Then, I added small twigs to increase the scale of the fire sequentially.
Whoosh-
"Phew~ Got it, got it, I got it~"
Having confirmed the fire was rising, I added more twigs while gathering stones to make a fire pit so the embers wouldn't spread.
I don't know where the road is, so if a forest fire starts, it's a perfect way to die, so let's be careful with fire day or night.
'Starting a fire with bare hands is fucking hard, but I finished it easier than I thought.'
If it were normal, I would have gotten blisters on my palms, but my hands right now are.......
"Whoa. What the heck is this."
They were strong hands with calluses here and there.
When I clenched my fist, I could feel a heaviness reminiscent of a hammer.
Hands that were trained several times more than my own, even though I worked out.
I could feel the power of Geungol 100.
"Haa....... What should I do now......."
As the scale of the fire grew and I started to feel warmth, I thought about my future schedule.
"If all of this is a game error, I won't be able to escape the game and will starve to death."
Generally, there is a safety mode in virtual reality capsules that allows you to issue warnings and disconnect at certain intervals.
However, since I have a personality where I have to keep going once I get into the zone, I disabled that mode.
In other words, if this is a phenomenon caused by a game error, I'll eventually starve to death.
Rumble--
"Is this hunger the character's hunger? Or my real body's hunger?"
It's been 4-5 hours since I ate lunch, so honestly, I don't know.
'And did I really dimension hop, or not.'
If it's real, what on earth happened for me to dimension hop?
Looking at some regression novels, people drink and sleep while lamenting the world and return to the past, can't I just do it simply like that too?
'If there's one thing I suspect, it's the pain I felt before losing consciousness.'
I felt immense pain before losing consciousness.
Even if it was momentary, it was the first time in my life I felt such pain.
I wonder if there was some accident outside while I was in the capsule.
As I was poking around with a twig for kindling, growing the embers.
Rustle- rustle-
I heard a rustling sound from somewhere.
Is it another wild animal like a raccoon?
"Hey, that's a fire light, right?"
"I don't know what crazy bastard it is, but camping in a place like this."
"Let's see who dared to enter our territory."
But what I heard were the rough voices of men.
And they clearly had bad intentions toward me.
"Omma...can I cry?"
Seriously, this isn't a joke, it's a situation where I want to cry.
I'm wavering, not knowing if it's dimension hopping or a game error.
In such a situation, beings with malice toward me are approaching.