“Oh.”
<Sturdy Rainbow Rubber Gloves 5 Sets: Won’t tear easily.>
He lucked out and farmed a random item. There was also an old toolbox in the corner. Pyeonghwa gathered up the rubber gloves and toolbox and came outside.
Right now they were somehow holding on, but seeing how the iron bars wrapped in heavenly silkworm thread were gradually bending, it wouldn’t be long before the zombies came pouring out. Pyeonghwa clapped his hands twice to gather people’s attention.
“Alright, alright! We can’t last even 5 minutes here anymore. Let’s go to the Viking!”
“The Viking? Why?”
“They say it’s safe there right now.”
“Ha, how do you know that? My phone hasn’t even been working since earlier…!”
[ah these npcs don’t fucking listen at all]
[you’ll waste all your time trying to persuade them just go lol]
[lololol they’re all gonna die there anyway just go already]
Pyeonghwa didn’t bother responding to the survivor who questioned him and just shrugged his shoulders. No matter how much he tried to persuade them, not everyone would follow him. This was an apocalypse world, and the most important thing was one’s own safety.
Pyeonghwa opened the toolbox. He handed out tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, and hammers to people who could fight. They weren’t items so their durability would be lower, but it was better than nothing.
To the five men who looked the biggest and strongest, he distributed rubber gloves in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, one to each. The man who ended up receiving the yellow rubber gloves furrowed his brow and asked.
“Why are we getting rubber gloves instead of weapons?”
“You’re human shields.”
“What? Are you telling us to sacrifice ourselves now? Meat shields!”
“I said human shields, not meat shields.”
“Same difference!”
“……”
Pyeonghwa realized he’d chosen his words poorly and rolled his eyeballs around. The viewers were busy mocking him with comments like ‘was doing well then suddenly his social skills went to shit’, ‘as expected of a malicious commenter lol you can’t hide your true character huh?’, and ‘who would like being told to be a meat shield’.
“Ah fuck, I’m just telling you to tank. Those rubber gloves won’t tear even if zombies bite them, okay? I’ll lure the zombies, so hyung-nims should each pick up a broken fence.”
“Ah, fence… so that’s what you meant by shield?”
“Yep. We’re going to make a barricade and move. The people with weapons will smash skulls from the inside.”
“W-won’t it be dangerous? If we get bitten…”
“Of course it’ll be dangerous. But if you hyung-nims don’t tank, we can’t save the kids.”
Pyeonghwa turned his gaze away from the rubber glove men filled with fear and looked around at everyone, shouting in a firm voice.
“You all heard that, right? If you get bitten, immediately go outside the fence and draw aggro. That way we can at least save the children. Okay?”
“Excuse me! How do you know the Viking is safe?”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
This time too, Pyeonghwa didn’t respond to the survivor raising objections and started walking. The others glanced around before following behind Pyeonghwa one by one.
They too were curious about why Pyeonghwa had designated the Viking as a safe place. But their instincts were telling them to follow Pyeonghwa. It was the influence of having experienced the arsonist and ImaDdakDae incidents.
[? this actually works]
[ignoring them completely works lololol]
[wow idk about other things but this is really fascinating]
Pyeonghwa stepped on the merry-go-round and leaped high over the silk wall made of heavenly silkworm thread. Landing with a zombie’s head as a foothold, several zombies rushed at Pyeonghwa. The zombies were much faster and more aggressive than Phase 1.
Using Fox Transformation to dodge the attacks, Pyeonghwa tied up the zombies tightly with heavenly silkworm thread. The heavenly silkworm thread wouldn’t break easily, so if you tied the knots well, you could render the zombies unable to attack. The zombies stuck to the ground like mice on sticky traps, squirming helplessly, gradually increased in number.
As Pyeonghwa cleared a path, the survivors crossed over the silk wall one by one. The rubber glove men hurriedly ran to the broken fences.
“Ah, Rainbow hyung-nims! What are you doing! Hurry up! Fuck, you’re so slow! We’re leaving without you?”
“W-wait, the fence won’t come loose…!”
There were a total of four fixing devices on the fence, but only one or two were broken. While they borrowed tools to cut through the other side, the man with the flamethrower and the man wrapped in bandages worked together to drive away the zombies. Unlike the others, their faces were filled with resolute determination.
There couldn’t be no sacrifices in this process. The survivor who hesitated to leave the merry-go-round until the very end hid in the machine room with a child, but eventually got bitten by zombies. Thanks to the zombies being dispersed into the machine room, the other survivors were able to escape safely.
“Oh, thanks for the aggro.”
Shortly after, the rubber glove men cut through all the fence fixing devices. Pyeonghwa gave the next instructions to them as they came running holding five fences.
“Red, Orange to the front! Yellow, Green to the left and right! Blue to the rear!”
“Huff, huff, yes!”
“Bandages to the front, Flamethrower watch the sides, the rest smash skulls from inside the fence!”
“Yesss!”
[fuck earlier he was annoyed and threatening now he’s just giving orders]
[but it works the npcs listen so well lololol]
[yup Pax is a famous npc tamer]
The survivors took positions inside the five fences and began moving toward the Viking.
Pyeonghwa wrapped heavenly silkworm thread haphazardly around every object in sight from outside the fence at the rear. There wasn’t time to completely disable them like before. Unable to withstand the weight of the rushing zombies, the knots came undone and trees snapped and fell over. The zombies followed again, but it was enough to slow them down.
Whenever the skill cooldown was up, he used Fox Transformation to deal with zombies constantly popping out from both sides. When using Fox Transformation, there was a 5% chance foxfire would be summoned, triggering critical damage.
Foxfire, despite being called fire, was a silver-blue will-o’-the-wisp that wasn’t hot at all. The foxfire spread quickly along the heavenly silkworm thread, eating away at the health of zombies that touched the thread.
But it was too much for Pyeonghwa alone to handle all these zombies.
“Kuk! My hand got bitten, I got bitten…!”
“Honey!”
“S-sorry, honey. You and Seoa must survive…! Uaaaah!”
“Daddy, daddy!”
Until they were completely infected, they became targets for zombies. The survivor who was bitten by zombies rushed outside the fence on his own to separate as many zombies from the group as possible.
The victims were mostly adults who had fought directly against the zombies. The children in the center of the fence were still safe.
The survivors shed hot tears and gritted their teeth. On their faces gradually appeared the determination to somehow not let the dead’s sacrifice be in vain.
“Like I’m watching some morning drama…”
Pyeonghwa muttered indifferently while swinging the heavenly silkworm thread. He had chosen the amusement park map to utilize the characteristic of family, but he couldn’t form any sense of empathy. Their attitude of not fearing even death felt contrived.
[Is Pax a T?ㅡㅡ]
[seeing that and not crying what a psycho]
[ㅠㅠ really should give the npcs an acting award the love of parents~~~]
Looking at the viewers’ reactions, it seemed he was the only one who felt it was contrived. Ah, family stuff, whatever. Pyeonghwa pouted his lips with a sullen face. Though no one could see it hidden by the gas mask.
Pyeonghwa gauged the distance to the Viking getting closer and closer. If nothing special happened like this, it seemed they could arrive safely.
But then, TralalaleroTralala turned on team voice. He was the team member Pyeonghwa had instructed to go to the Viking first to check the situation.
-This is Tral! Enemy team invaded the Viking! Fleeing after leaving behind ten survivors!
“Can you come this way? 45 degrees right from the bow!”
-Ah, fuck yeah!
“Who’s the enemy team?”
-Pro gamer Nam Cheolsu and that, that, BJ! CardCaptorChanmi!
Nam Cheolsu had been active in the second-tier pro league but failed to renew his contract after Pax’s analysis post. Like ImaDdakDae, he must have prepared thoroughly while holding a grudge.
CardCaptorChanmi was a gaming broadcast BJ with 500,000 subscribers. Due to her skill characteristics, she had better synergy with two people rather than alone. She usually traveled with the strongest person on the team.
“Ugh, I’ll have to revise the plan. I thought CardCap Chan would be with Yoon Gyeom.”
As Pyeonghwa grumbled, the spoiler prevention function activated several times in the chat window. Since CardCaptorChanmi was also doing a live broadcast, it seemed many viewers knew the reason why she was with Nam Cheolsu instead of Yoon Gyeom.
“Pax hyung!”
Thwack, thwack, thwack! Something like bullets flew from atop a building and smashed the skulls of three zombies.
It was the appearance of TralalaleroTralala (hereafter Tral) holding a Y-shaped slingshot.
“There’s a shortcut over there! If you open the back door of the blue roof, it goes straight to the Viking!”
“Okay, I’ll break through so support me!”
“Kiki!”
True to being an amusement park veteran, Tral guided them to a shortcut and shot his slingshot to smash the skulls of zombies rushing from the front.
