Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Perhaps because it hadn't seen human footsteps for a long time, the deep mountains were overgrown with waist-high grass.
The man and woman, as if they were Adam and Eve, were enjoying each other's bodies in the nude amidst the rampant nature.
"Haaang... honey... we're outside... hng..."
"Heh heh, you're enjoying it too, aren't you? Look at this."
"Aing... it's just because I'm shy... haat!"
"Ugh! You... you're tighter than usual...?"
"Haaang! I don't know! Hng! Hwaang!"
The sound of leaves rustling in the wind echoed through the mountains, along with the lewd moans of the two.
And just as honeybees are drawn to the scent of flowers,
Basrak...
'Are you crazy...? Public sex!? I'm so fucking jealous!!'
A man who had come up the mountain to gather medicinal herbs had completely forgotten what he was supposed to do and was focused on the sex show unfolding before his eyes.
Jji-ik
The man watching unzipped his pants, grabbed his already erect penis, and moved his hand at a speed similar to the couple in front of him.
"Haaang!! Honey!! It feels good!!"
"Hng! Me too!! You're so fucking tight!!"
'Someone's jerking off with their hand... damn it... still, the woman is fucking pretty though..'
Jjigeok! Jjigeok!
The two people's sex grew hotter and hotter.
"Haat! I! I think I'm gonna go!! Honey!!! Haaaang!!!"
"Heo-eok!! Me too... I'm cumming!!"
As the man and woman hugged each other tightly and their bodies trembled, the man who had been masturbating ejaculated at the same time.
Pyureuk! Pyureureuk...
'Oh, damn... It's nice to jerk off while watching a live-action porno, but... the post-nut clarity is no joke...
Are those perverts going for round two... I guess so.. I'm so jealous!!'
The man who had been masturbating sighed, pulled up his pants, and moved away from that spot...
Ppogak!
"Who's there!!"
He tried to get away, but thanks to a tree branch that snapped loudly under his foot, the man who had been enjoying the afterglow shouted while looking toward the grass where the masturbator was hiding, and pulled out a giant bow from who knows where and fired it.
Pusyung!! Pat!!
"Argh!!!"
The masturbator, hit by the arrow in the shoulder, collapsed right there.
His cold body sparkled and simultaneously disintegrated into polygon fragments, rising into the sky. In that spot, only the arrow that had pierced his body and his herb pouch remained.
--
"Argh!!!"
[You have died.
Cause of death: Killed by an arrow
Go eat more peanut butter, you rookie!!]
"Damn it!! It was a character that had barely survived a day..."
The man lying on the bed took off the helmet he was wearing, set it aside, and gulped down the water that was on his desk.
"Keu...
Sigh... Do I have to start from the beginning again...? But there's no substitute..."
The man put the helmet back on his head and lay down on the bed.
A beautiful woman's voice came from the helmet.
[Welcome, Kim Geum-seul-nim.
The game you recently played is (R.I.P).]
My name is Kim Geum-seul.
It is a name given by my parents, who pledged to remain a happily married couple even after giving birth to me, and it also carries the meaning of living happily with a good wife.
"Yeah, run RIP again."
[Executing Rest In Peanut Butter.]
"Sigh... I'll never get used to the name of this game..."
--
It is now 2035. As the technology for Full Dive was developed and stabilized, the first thing advanced companies in each country undertook was the development of virtual reality games.
In that short period, countless games were released and died out.
In that Red Ocean, the only virtual reality game that survived was a hodgepodge game that mixed a zombie apocalypse, fantasy, tycoon, roguelike, and finally, RPG: (Rest In Peanut Butter).
The creator was crazy enough to name the game and the currency after peanut butter, but the game was of such high quality that it sold worldwide.
Not only was there the freedom to do anything, but you could also create your own unique character with the skills gained from those actions.
It also boasted the difficulty of an extreme zombie survival game, stimulating people's competitive spirit.
High risk, high return! If you killed an opponent, the target dropped all their items and the character disappeared.
The creator, who knew how to use both the carrot and the stick, also created a well-made My Home system where you could intricately decorate your own safe space in such a tense zombie apocalypse world, making it a national game loved by men and women of all ages—a game that everyone had heard of, even if they hadn't played it.
Users called it a Ruined Game because of the name RIP and the fact that you lost everything if you died.
Wiiing...
"Ah... here again? They said it was a random spawn, what a bunch of liars..."
Having lost my previous character due to my recent death, I skipped the tedious tutorial and walked out of the village as usual.
Then, in front of me, there was a tree that reached up to the clouds.
"Huh...? Was there such a huge tree here?..?"
Even though it was my 37th start, I walked slowly toward the massive tree that I had never even seen on the internet and reached out my hand unconsciously.
As my hand touched the tree,
Sparkle!!!
[Traveler's action confirmed.
Acquiring new skill.]
"What...? You give me a skill this easily?!
Sigh... Since I got it for free, it must be trash..."
I habitually swiped my hand from top to bottom, and at the same time, countless system windows lined up in front of me.
I pressed the skill button that was flashing, begging to be clicked, and a new interface popped up.
[View My Skills]
[A] Blessing of Manmulcho: You can check the information of all beings in this world.
"This world... you can check all information!?
Plus, this thing was a plant!!!"
I was surprised that the effect of the skill I obtained so easily was cheat-level, and I was surprised a second time that the massive entity piercing the sky in front of me was a plant.
"Anyway, what kind of bullshit is it to check the information of all beings?"
I pulled out a handful of weeds that were growing abundantly under the Manmulcho, which claimed to be a plant despite being larger than a tree.
Then, a familiar interface popped up in front of me.
[Weed]
Info 1: If you eat it, your stomach will hurt.
"Uh... it's just a weed."
I threw the weed I was holding in my hand onto the ground.
"Then what about this..?"
This time, I pulled out the dagger provided for free upon character creation from my waist and used the ability.
[Dagger that will break soon]
Info 1: A dagger provided for free by the RIP company.
Durability 5/5
Attack Power 1~2
"Uh... yeah, since I got it for free, I didn't have high expectations..."
I put the knife back into my waist.
"15 years of gaming experience! This skill is definitely a good ability, no matter how I look at it...?"
Hoping that this precious character wouldn't die, I returned to the beginner village and logged out at the inn to find more information.
--
Having ended the game, I took off the helmet, set it aside, and got up from the bed, stretching my stiff body.
"Ugh, sometimes I need to exercise a bit.."
At that moment, a voice was heard directly in the helmet... no, in my head.
[We would like to express our gratitude to those who have enjoyed R.I.P.]
[The final hidden piece has been discovered, and the main story will proceed.]
[From now on, an update to reality will take place, so please wait a moment.]
As soon as the incomprehensible words ended, the room went dark.
"Power outage?"
I hurriedly closed the curtains on the window, and
"W-what... on earth... is this...?"
I couldn't believe the reality unfolding before my eyes.
==
The sky was dyed purple like the game I had just been enjoying, and two moons and one sun were moving.
Not only that, as if time were passing quickly, grass grew instantly in the yard as well as on the streets and roads, and wild animals and zombies from the game appeared from somewhere and wandered the streets that had turned into grasslands.
I couldn't help but gape in astonishment at the changes unfolding in real-time, and I came to my senses at the sound echoing in my head.
[The update is complete.]
[From this point on, all buildings will receive the Absolute Protection buff of My Home for one week.]
[Please use the system for additional payments.]
[Please enjoy a comfortable rest while eating peanut butter.]
As the beautiful voice disappeared, the world was quiet as if it had stopped, and then it instantly became a crucible of chaos.
"S-save me!! Argh!!"
"R-run away!! W-what is this!!"
Keu-eo-eo-eo....
Kwang!! Jjaeng-geurang!! Kyaaaaak!
The peaceful city turned into hell in an instant.
"W-what... on earth... is this..."
The grandfather and grandmother who had been chatting while sitting in the shade next to the alley were bitten by a zombie that had suddenly appeared and became corpses.
A moment later, the corpses began to tremble and became zombies, starting to walk around looking for living meat.
I was shocked to see a situation I had only seen in the game, and I tried to call my parents who had gone to work, but my smartphone wouldn't even turn on.
I hurriedly went down to the first floor and picked up the receiver of the landline phone, which was rare in this day and age, but there was no response.
"Damn it!! What the hell is going on!!"
Argh!! Help me!!!!!
I came to my senses at the sound coming from outside the house and recalled what I had heard in my head just a moment ago.
"In the Ruined Game, zombies are... right! Sight and hearing!"
I closed all the windows and drew the curtains in each room so that no one could see inside from the outside.
Then the living room, where the lights wouldn't turn on, became dark, and only a little light that penetrated the curtains existed.
"Damn... will my parents be okay... what kind of disaster is this all of a sudden..."
Even with all the doors closed, the loud noises continued to be heard, and I went back up to my room on the second floor and watched the situation outside through the gap in the curtains.
"A-are you crazy?!"
Pung!! Seogeok!!
"Kyahaha!! This is it!! This is it!!!"
"Die!! Die!!!!"
Outside, two men were causing a ruckus.
One man was stabbing zombies mercilessly with a kitchen knife, and the other man was shooting fire from his hands, burning the zombies.
It would be fine if they only attacked the zombies, but the crazed men were spraying fire everywhere, and the grass that had grown on the floor and walls began to burn from the men's flames.
Hwareureureuk!!!
"Keuhaha!! It's hell!! This is a fucking fun hell!!! Die, everyone!! Uwahahaha!!"
"It's hot!! You crazy bastard! Don't team kill!!"
"Figure it out and dodge it, you noob!! Uwahahah!!!"
The zombies killed by the men turned into polygon fragments and disappeared, just like in the game.
At the same time, a container containing a small amount of peanut butter fell in that spot.
"Peanut butter comes out when you catch a zombie... It's exactly like the game, haha!!"
"Hey!! Come with me!"
The crazed man who picked up the peanut butter ran again and disappeared somewhere, and the man with the kitchen knife followed him and disappeared as well.
"C-crazy bastards! In a world where you die if you get bitten...
Anyway, what should I do about that fire!!"
With no phone service, I couldn't call 119, and since the cars wouldn't start and were just standing there on the road, I had no choice but to watch the fire spreading.
At that moment,
Tititing!! Titing!!
"Oh...? Could it be?"
The flames, which had been growing in size as if to swallow the building, were blocked by something and could not spread to the house, disappearing into thin air.
I swiped my hand down just like I did in the game, and the same system window as the game popped up in front of me.
"Is this really a Ruined Game... that has become reality...?"
I pressed the house-shaped button that was flashing in red, begging to be clicked, and a new window popped up.
[7-6, OO-ro 6-gil, Daegu Metropolitan City]
My Home Owner: Kim Chan-su
Current Function: Absolute Protection (6 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes)
Add Function: View
Info: It is an old-fashioned detached house that was completed 24 years ago.
"Seeing that it's owned by my father, I guess he's still safe... right?"
I began to harbor hope and started to think about how I should overcome the situation ahead.