Chapter 1
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Translator: Silver Dragon
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: Shocking and Horrifying Newbie (1)
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It's been a full month since I arrived on this unidentified spaceship.
I still have no idea where the hell this place is.
Bang! Rat-a-tat-tat!
For some reason, the ship was crawling with monsters.
These damn things just keep coming no matter how many I kill.
"Arrrgh, just die already!!!"
The one silver lining was that I had a weapon.
A sci-fi-looking gun that resembled an anti-drone rifle.
Its firepower dwarfed the K-2 rifle I'd used in the army, but it was so huge and heavy I wondered if it was really meant for a person to carry.
Then again, it probably wasn't made for humans in the first place.
It was ridiculous for a human like me to complain about it.
At least I should be grateful to the aliens who left this behind.
Without it, I'd have been dead ages ago.
Bang! Rat-a-tat-tat!
I roamed the ship relying solely on this weapon.
Farming ammo and scrounging through the food stores for whatever scraps remained.
I'd been at this grind for a whole month straight.
"Fuck, these things never end."
Even after a month of wandering, I couldn't see the end anywhere.
Or if there even was one.
I hadn't fully explored even this one area after all that time.
The shocking part? This was just one level out of many.
How did I know that?
Simple.
There were broken elevators everywhere.
Every time I saw one, I couldn't help but think.
Are the other levels crawling with monsters like this one?
Or maybe better?
I'd only know if I went and checked.
Anything had to be better than sitting on my ass.
"Grraaah! Get the fuck out of here, you bastards!!!"
Br-r-r-rat!!!
Only after unloading a hail of bullets for what felt like forever did things calm down.
The floor was slick with disgusting bodily fluids.
'Ugh, the smell.'
I tiptoed carefully through the corpses on my toes.
I shoved aside the monster bodies blocking the door and opened the storeroom.
This time, I scored some ammo and rations.
This haul would keep me going a bit longer.
But how much further could this survival routine carry me? No telling.
Munch munch!
This shit tasted like absolute garbage.
Do aliens actually eat crap like this?
It was worse than the combat rations from the army.
"Hoo."
After sating my hunger, I started packing up the rest of the supplies.
That's when something glowing in the corner of the storeroom caught my eye.
"What's this?"
I cleared away the junk covering it.
And it floated up into the air with a soft hum.
"A crystal?"
A beautifully glowing crimson crystal.
No visible propulsion, yet it hovered majestically.
Drawn in by its allure, I reached out and touched it without thinking.
And then.
Activating Community Module
Holographic text floated before my eyes.
A whole new world unfolded right after.
[Xeno Ship Features to Avoid] [30]
[Stop the Infighting Among Ourselves and Just Kill Xenos] [282]
[Ship's Broken—Any Repair Tips?] [17]
[Fuck, Starting to Run a Deficit—What Now?] [9]
[Opened a New Colony and There's a Nursing Home Next Door FML] [42]
[What Tier Civilization Do These Guys Seem Like?] [26]
The newly appeared holographic interface.
It looked just like an internet community.
No, it wasn't just like one—it was one.
'A community means there are others like me?'
Apparently, I wasn't the only one dragged into this world.
Part of me wanted to immediately ask where this place was and what the hell had happened to me.
But first, I decided to check out the vibe of the community.
Title: Xeno Ship Features to Avoid
Author: Ragna Rothburg
Super flashy ships that look all grandiose.
→ Newbies just entering interstellar civilization. Beat 'em without a second thought.
Plain designs that scream engineer vibes.
→ Obsessed with efficiency? Probably tough bastards.
Ships that look kinda weird.
→ Start being careful here. High chance they're crazy strong. Especially if they have eye-like things on them—steer clear.
Cube, sphere, triangular pyramid—geometric shapes.
→ Building ships in geometric shapes is hard enough, and they made 'em FTL-capable? Total lunatics. Don't fight. You'll get shredded.
Lmao last one hits hard
The two-hearted lunatics cruising around in blue boxes are more dangerous than the Ancients
— Liberata Entertainment: Different universe, dude lol
Ancients all make their ships geometric solids. Why do old geezers love those shapes?
— Author Ragna Rothburg: Senility probably
— Aspiring Hero Warrior: Maybe some advantage we don't know? Every Ancient race does it regardless of species.
Even in games, hardcore vets run naked without armor. Same vibe.
Xeno ships? Ancients?
I had no clue what they were talking about.
'Gotta check the next post.'
I tapped the one right below.
Title: Stop the Infighting Among Ourselves and Just Kill Xenos
Author: Cleaning Specialist
So many aliens to kill, why fight each other?
Just kill one more alien in that time.
Why always the same humans bitching at each other?
Lately the Xeno apologists shielding Xenos are more disgusting than the Xenos themselves lol
Please refrain from hate speech. They feel pain just like us, and possess intelligence and emotions. They have rights too.
— Author Cleaning Specialist: How can non-humans have rights, you shit-for-brains?
— Alien Rights Activist: Disgusting. Guys like you are why wars never end. Study alien intelligences for once.
— Author Cleaning Specialist: Bitch, telling me to study? I've chewed, ripped, tasted, and enjoyed over 10 billion Xenos lol
I've dissected 3,000 species alone—who knows Xenos better, me or you?
— Alien Rights Activist: Disgusting. Is that something to brag about?
The comments on this second post were a total warzone.
One word kept popping up amid the arguments, grabbing my attention.
Xeno.
Greek for "stranger" or "foreigner."
Here, it referred to aliens.
The community users were split down the middle over their stance on Xenos, duking it out.
Or more precisely, the Xeno-haters seemed to have the edge in numbers.
'So this world is full of aliens? But more than that—over 10 billion Xenos killed? This guy's insane.'
I watched their brawl for a while longer, but the debate showed no signs of ending.
Watching more would just be a waste of time.
Time to make my own post.
Title: Where the Hell Is This Place?
Author: Auto-Nickname 1582
Woke up here outta nowhere. Did I get isekai'd?
Place is full of weird monsters. Found an orange crystal, touched it, and this community popped up.
Anyone wanna explain what's going on?
I kept my first post pretty casual.
Wasn't expecting much attention anyway.
[Confirm post?]
Right after, comments started flooding in like crazy.
What, a newbie?
Whoa, a newbie after how many years? Lmao
?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!!!
Newbie over here~! Newbie over here~! Newbie over here~! Newbie over here~! Newbie over here~! Newbie over here~!
Wow! First newbie in 3 years. So glad you're here!
The comments exploded at the sight of fresh newbie meat.
This level of attention was overwhelming—hell, suffocating.
Like they were shoving it down my throat.
Guys, calm down first and explain the situation. Where the hell is this place?
— Trickster General Trading: No clue lol
— Author Auto-Nickname 1582: You don't know?
— Space Engineer: Yeah. Plenty who've been here over 2,000 years and even they don't know exactly. But we all got pulled from different dimensions' Earths.
Hold up—2,000 years?
Did I read that right?
Wait, what? Someone's been here over 2,000 years?
— Space Engineer: Exactly that. No metaphor or exaggeration—literally reincarnated here and lived over 2,000 years.
— Author Auto-Nickname 1582: That's possible? So no one's found a way back in 2,000 years?
— Liberata Entertainment: Never even thought about going back?
— Author Auto-Nickname 1582: Why not? Don't wanna go home?
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Responses I couldn't wrap my head around.
Why the hell not?
What was so great about this barren, lifeless dump that they didn't want to go back?
Tech level here's way beyond Earth
The reason was crystal clear.
Say a modern human gets dropped in the Middle Ages.
No modern person would enjoy that backward lifestyle.
Same logic applied here.
They'd tasted advanced civilization.
To them, modern Earth felt like the Middle Ages—or worse.
Anyway, what's this about different dimensions?
— Space Engineer: Literal. Everyone from different dimensional Earths. Take me—my Earth had no magic.
— Author Auto-Nickname 1582: What? Isn't no magic normal?
— Democracy Bullet Delivery: Guess you came from a no-magic Earth too
— Brinicia Nomad: FYI, half the worlds have magic, half don't.
What? Way more than I thought?
Magic worlds were that common?
So your worlds have orcs, elves, dwarves, etc.?
— Space Engineer: My Earth had 'em too?
— Democracy Bullet Delivery: There are worlds without 'em?
— Alien Rights Activist: No way—no human sub-species in your world?
— Author Auto-Nickname 1582: Yeah, none.
Casual reply on my part.
But it detonated the thread.
No way, for real? No human sub-species???
Lying? A worldline without human sub-species?
— Author Auto-Nickname 1582: Why would I lie? No reason to.
— Cleaning Specialist: Tell us more about your world
— Behedia Federation: Curious too
— Lasker Knight Order: I'm warding this
Couldn't understand the hype.
Elves and dwarves were just fantasy novel fodder back home on Earth.
Accepting that worlds with them were the norm? Tough pill to swallow.
Title: Explaining My Earth
Author: Auto-Nickname 1582
I'm from a country called South Korea.
My Earth had no magic, no elves/orcs/dwarves.
The concepts existed in fantasy novels/myths, but purely fictional—no real ones.
No other species; we classified same-species variants by "race": mainly Caucasian, Black, Asian. Genetically negligible differences.
Maybe our world traded sub-species for races?
You really came from a weird Earth lol
That level of racial variance is normal. We mean biologically different species like elves.
No one's ever come from an Earth without human sub-species
We're talking other Homo genus species, not just Homo sapiens.
Cleaning Specialist's comment sparked a memory.
Way back in history, Earth did have multiple human sub-species.
I only knew from YouTube vids, so not an expert.
Probably Homo erectus or Neanderthals.
Some might say, "Those are ancestors, not sub-species."
Total misunderstanding.
They predated Homo sapiens, sure, but weren't our direct ancestors.
Like chimps are cousins, not grandparents.
Sub-species coexisted with us and went extinct after competition.
Recalling that, I replied.
Oh, yeah we had those.
— Ragna Rothburg: What the fuck, of course. Knew it.
— Space Engineer: Why say it like they didn't exist? Was thinking your world was a freak lol
— Author Auto-Nickname 1582: They went extinct super long ago, forgot about 'em.
— Brinicia Nomad: ?
— Democracy Bullet Delivery: ?
— Space Engineer: ?
As question marks piled up.
Why did they go extinct?
Why extinct?
Consensus was we wiped them out.
Wiped out meaning killed 'em all?
YouTube knowledge, so not 100% accurate.
But YouTube's reliable these days, right?
We killed 'em all, tens of thousands of years ago.
— Ragna Rothburg: ?
— Alien Rights Activist: ??????????????????
— Democracy Bullet Delivery: The fuck did you say?
— Behedia Federation: ??????
— Cleaning Specialist: This guy's a hook collector?
I had no idea that one line would cause such a massive shitstorm.