Chapter 177: Memories of Murder (2)

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It was a game I had already anticipated, and I had practiced accordingly.

There weren’t that many games where five people could play together.

Of course, I had never actually played this game.

Just like with other games, I mostly watched videos rather than playing it myself.

After the last penalty, I vowed never to spend my own money on horror games again.

I would never play a horror game with my own money in the future.

I exhaled lightly and checked the types of killers I was allowed to use.

Like its predecessor, required purchasing DLCs to use various killers. Fortunately, the game sponsored by the company included all the DLCs.

This game fundamentally had a tag format, with each character possessing unique abilities.

Both the survivors who needed to escape and the killers who needed to eliminate all survivors had distinct characteristics and skills.

Games where you could choose your own variables always created a lot of fun.

Just like , this game was no different.

Strategies would emerge and become optimized over time, but I didn’t think that level of skill was necessary for .

Except for Hae-chul hyung, the rest were almost beginners.

Honestly, I was quite worried initially because it was a horror game, but once I confirmed it was , my worries significantly decreased.

I chose the character I had prepared through prior study.

“Ghost.”

[You have selected Ghost.]

[The deep night will welcome you, and you will revel in the joy of slaughter in that night.]

-Voyeurism Mode ON

-Isn’t our villain playing this game for the first time? If it’s your first time, you should pick something simple and strong loln/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

-But why am I so excited just because our villain is playing the killer

-For real lol

-I’ll backseat so hard hehe

-Prepare for backseating

“If I see any backseaters, I’ll ban you, so keep your mouths shut.”

I said that, but I wouldn’t actually ban the backseaters.

Viewers enjoyed the broadcast for the fun of backseat gaming.

Phew!

Since it was the first round, I moved lightly to check my abilities.

The survivors finished their selections soon, and the map for my performance was decided.

[The map for this match is .]

[Eliminate all survivors in the game.]

“Whew!”

A farm, huh.

Luckily, it was the map I had studied in advance.

The game officially started, and after blinking once, I found myself on the field.

The extreme realism, a highlight of this game, touched my skin.

Just the right amount of tension.

The periodic cawing of crows from all directions added to the eerie atmosphere.

If I had been in the survivor’s position, I would have been scared, but…

‘National Murderer Association’ donated 10,000 won.

[We always welcome a newcomer with a suspicious smell! I’ll give you a mission: every time you hook a survivor, I’ll donate 10,000 won, hehe.]

Even though it was VRN’s account, PD Sung promised to give me all the donations coming through this account.

The same applied to the other cast members.

I thanked ‘National Murderer Association’ for their continuous support.

“Thank you for the mission, boss. Since it’s my first round in this game… Does hooking mean I have to kill the survivors?”

The nickname felt familiar, but right now, they were just someone who gave me a mission.

They answered my question with another donation.

‘National Murderer Association’ donated 10,000 won!

[No, no, you get extra for each hook, lol.]

They must have considered my newbie status and wondered how well I would do.

Well, I couldn’t deny that I was a newbie.

But if money was involved, it was a different story.

Capitalism was always right, and I was a money-crazed maniac.

Alright.

Let’s start the real game now.

Among the five gathered here, there was no expert.

Experienced Hae-chul hyung?

As far as I knew, Hae-chul hyung didn’t have great gaming sense.

Moreover, this was his first time playing the VR version, so the conditions were the same for everyone.

I began moving slowly, thinking quickly, and stopped in front of a closed portable toilet.

-???

-You’re camping here?

-If you’re camping, go somewhere else. Not many survivors come here.

-You’re wasting time here, just go around…

-For real lol, it’s obvious you’re a newbie.

“No, I saw it. I definitely heard footsteps, this is the spot.”

-What did you see?

-???

-What…

While viewers bombarded my words with question marks, I grinned slyly and slowly approached the back of the toilet.

There was a spot behind the portable toilet where one person could hide.

I had already learned this while studying the map.

And the footsteps had definitely stopped around here earlier.

The crow’s cawing might have masked it, but missing such small details was not an option.

The mission was on.

After a moment.

I slowly peeked behind and soon encountered a woman hiding there.

Our eyes met.

At that moment, a rough scream escaped her mouth, which had been holding its breath.

“Ahhh! Damn!”

-lolololololololol

-OMG lololol

-No way, what’s this

-Queen Sae-yeon lolol

-Didn’t she just make fun of our villain earlier?

Seeing her terrified expression, I realized one thing.

At least when I played as the killer, I could exclude fear.

As the killer, I just needed to pressure the survivors and become their fear.

I toyed lightly with the hunting knife in my hand, looked at Sae-yeon noona, and nodded with a grin.

I remembered the faces of those who called me Nyangmisha earlier.

“This is fun.”

Satisfied, I smiled at Sae-yeon noona’s terrified face.

If they were experts, they would have calmly used obstacles to escape, but Sae-yeon noona was frozen in fear.

Harvesting a stationary survivor wasn’t difficult.

I knocked Sae-yeon noona down easily and said,

“This is fun, right?”

“Ahhhhh!”

Right.

Survivors couldn’t hear my words, could they?

Anyway.

Their hell was just beginning.

4.

“Honestly, Shia only has good physical skills but doesn’t know what to do to win this game, right? Don’t you think?”

Kim Hae-chul leisurely tinkered with the generator while watching the chat window.

-Yup, agreed, lol

-Doesn’t seem to be thinking about winning the game.

-Still lacks game comprehension.

-Lol, but can you do it alone?

-Checked other rooms, everyone seems gloomy.

-Shia’s insane, lol. He keeps hooking them on purpose.

“Just hooking them all the time won’t win the game. Soon, we’ll be able to escape by fixing all the generators, right?”

Utilizing his experience from playing , Kim Hae-chul was steadily fixing the generators.

They were close to opening the escape route from the game.

Shia, who played the killer, was completely absorbed in tag and wasn’t paying any attention to the generators.

A common mistake among rookie killers.

Not knowing that hooking someone three times kills them instantly, Shia kept rotating the other three, excluding Kim Hae-chul, on the hooks.

“I’m the protagonist of this shoot. Admit it? I’m the only one who understands this game well, hehe. This is why experience matters, isn’t it?”

-Wrong.

-Wrong, lol.

-If you played Dead at Night 1 on PC, could you get treated like an expert?

-Lol, didn’t you say you only played about 30 hours of Dead at Night 1 on PC?

-That’s not enough to earn the expert title, no way.

-Shia’s making it too easy to fix the generators.

Kim Hae-chul knew his understanding of the game wasn’t that high.

However, as someone who enjoyed various games regularly, he had a rough idea of what kind of game it was, and compared to the other survivors suffering under Shia, he was performing decently.

At least, that’s what he thought until then.

[Screams of a teammate can be heard!]

With two generators left to fix.

Someone close by had been hooked.

Seeing the alert message and the location of his teammate, Kim Hae-chul nodded lightly.

“If there are two generators left and all survivors are alive… Well, it’s hard to reverse the situation. Shall I go tease Chan-sik?”

-Toxic mode ON

-Survivor killer mode?

-No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

-Just leave them and escape yourself.

-Our villain’s doing it on purpose.

-Bro! Stop messing around and just escape, lol.

-For real, lol.

With victory nearly certain.

Kim Hae-chul moved leisurely, planning to tease Shia a bit.

He had chosen an old retired soldier as his character.

A character popular in other zombie games, brought over with considerably good traits compared to other survivors.

“Sa-yeon, did you wait for oppa?”

He moved carefully to avoid being exposed to the killer, soon facing another survivor hanging on a hook.

Kim Sa-yeon.

Her anxious eyes, full of fear, turned to Kim Hae-chul.

“Oppa.”

“Wait a bit. I’ll save you soon. We’ve won this game anyway.”

“That doesn’t seem to be the point…”

“Huh?”

“…What’s the point of winning this?”

“Winning is good.”

Kim Hae-chul planned to save Sa-yeon and then tease Shia, paying back the humiliation from before.

Just as he was about to save Sa-yeon.

Sa-yeon, eyes tightly shut, spoke.

“If you wanted to win, you shouldn’t have come to save me.”

“What are you talking about? Isn’t Chan-sik chasing the others right now?”

Sa-yeon shook her head in disapproval.

Then, looking at Kim Hae-chul, she spoke in a somber voice.

“Why do you think Chan-sik kept you alive until now?”

Srrrkkk.

At that moment.

A sound like something sliding down was heard, and soon Kim Hae-chul’s heart began to pound wildly.

The sound of a survivor’s heartbeat growing louder.

It meant the killer was close.

Kim Hae-chul finally realized the situation.

But just as he did.

Thud-!

The killer’s merciless knife pierced his neck, and Kim Hae-chul’s body fell.

The killer character Ghost’s ability, .

Usually, a survivor needs to be hit twice to fall, but exposure to Stalk makes them fall in one hit.

At the same time, Sa-yeon in front of him screamed and collapsed.

“I don’t want to play this game anymore!”

“@!#@!$%%????”

“What are you saying, you pervert!”

At that moment.

Ignoring Sa-yeon’s reaction, the killer Ghost nodded while looking at Hae-chul’s fallen body.

And then.

-Lololololololol.

-Info: There aren’t many killers who can squat, but Ghost can.

-Hey, doesn’t this look familiar?

-Lolololol.

-Your butt is dirty.

-Why did you provoke our villain earlier, lol.

Chan-sik’s trademark teabagging had begun.

While Kim Hae-chul frowned in frustration, someone attempted to donate to his stream.

‘TwipodStreamerShia’ donated 1,000 won!

[Lolol, dentures confiscated for 2 weeks, okay? Bro, why did you provoke me, lol. Old fart, cut!]

After receiving that humiliating donation, Chan-sik spent a long time pressing his butt to Hae-chul’s face.

Enduring the humiliation, Kim Hae-chul made a vow.

If he ever got the killer role, he would repay this humiliation in full.

After Kim Hae-chul was hooked, the game collapsed rapidly.

The other three cast members, inexperienced in the game, failed to fix the generators and were caught by Shia, ending their first game with Shia’s overwhelming victory.

In the next round, which started immediately, Kim Hae-chul became the killer as he had hoped, but the situation he wanted didn’t unfold.

Instead.

“Catch me if you can~!”

-?????????

-Survivor killer mode ON.

-????????????

-Lolololololololol.

-What is our villain doing now, lol.

-True toxic game, lolol.

The real toxic game was just beginning.