Chapter 6

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Translator: True Detective

Chapter: 6

Chapter Title: Superior Ability Awakening Stone

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Shortly after posting like this, comments started pouring in.

'Location sharing?'

It seemed that adding someone as a [friend] let you see each other's locations.

'Good thing someone told me.'

It had been worth the effort of diligently posting bread and milk, even if it was for points.

Anyway, after waiting a bit longer, fortunately, the answer I wanted appeared.

'Point Acquisition?'

Sure enough, there was a small [Point Acquisition] button in the bottom right.

'Press this and shove anything in, huh...'

For experimentation, I tapped [Point Acquisition], and the square gallery window turned black.

Assuming this was where I needed to put items, I tossed in the water canteen I'd bought first.

"0.4%?"

It said point acquisition, but what was this 0.4% fill?

Reading the real-time comments that followed, it seemed you needed to fill 100% to get 1 point.

Since the water canteen was basically trash, I figured that's why it only filled 0.4%, and soon thought of another use for it.

'Couldn't I just use it to dispose of trash?'

I bet others were using it that way too.

'Now that I think about it, there wasn't much trash on the streets.'

In the meantime, someone had shared how to access other channels.

It was simpler than expected, and a few comments followed below it.

'Can't read posts from other channels?'

Easy enough to check.

But first, to thank those who kindly answered, I left a comment.

I ignored the continuing comments and swiped the gallery window to the left.

A gallery in the same format appeared, and the text at the top read Channel 3.

'Is this a world where over 90% of the population vanished too?'

Skimming the posts...

'Zombies?'

Zombie kept popping up frequently in the Channel 3 posts.

And the words scattered here and there reminded me of the modern world.

'Did a zombie apocalypse hit the modern world?'

Of course, not the one I'd been in until yesterday.

'What was it? Oh, parallel worlds or something?'

Even more surprisingly, I could read the Channel 3 posts.

Maybe because they were in Korean, since they were posted here...

'I can read Channel 4 and 5 too.'

Same for Channels 4 and 5.

For reference, Channel 4 was mostly curses, and Channel 5 was like reports.

Confirming I could read them, I went back to Channel 3.

'Food seems to be an issue here too.'

Thinking of selling bread and milk on Channel 3 as well, I headed to the exchange.

As expected, there were tons of items posted by people, and one caught my eye.

'Huh?'

<Superior Ability Awakening Stone: 200,000 points>

'200,000 points?'

Way beyond what I could dream of right now.

Of course, that was for now—later might be different.

2,608 points...

'A bit short.'

About 98.7%?

Anyway, price aside, "ability awakening" piqued my curiosity.

To learn more, I tapped the post, revealing tons of comments below.

"Hm."

Did eating this give you superpowers or something?

I desperately wanted a way to protect myself, so it tempted me greatly.

The problem was the 200,000-point price—I had no way to buy it right now.

'Still, at my earning rate, I could save up in 1-2 weeks.'

Given the price, it probably wouldn't sell that fast, but who knew.

Plus, 200k was a huge burden for me, so I brainstormed ways to haggle it down.

'They seem short on food here too, so trading food directly might work.'

The seller's goal was probably food anyway.

Direct trade with food might let me snag it way cheaper than 200k.

'Let's haggle via 1:1 chat.'

Without wasting time, I requested a 1:1 chat with the seller.

'Nickname Ice Queen. The number means Channel 3, huh?'

Noting that, I replied right away.

She'd noticed the 2ch on my nickname too.

At that, Ice Queen replied promptly.

I interpreted that as including the value of two lives.

Hearing that, I checked the modern item list for decent food.

-Rice 20kg: 45 points

-Ramen 1 box: 23 points

-Instant rice 1 box: 31 points

...
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Naturally, multiple listings per item, but I picked the cheapest.

Rice had 20kg for 80 points too, instant rice up to 42.

Totaling 990 points.

An absurd discount from 200k.

Empty boxes? Possible, I guess.

'Then they could scam too.'

Like giving fakes or a lesser grade instead of superior.

Easy to understand—food was too little.

'990 points is pretty low, yeah.'

I thought more about it.

'Honestly, 1-2k points is easy money now.'

Just post red bean buns and milk on Channel 2 like before.

Even if scammed this time, I could recover in hours.

'If it's a real scam, I'll remember it forever.'

Decision made, I sent the reply.