Chapter 342
They grabbed gas masks, picked up their weapons, and headed out to the farming zone.
They divided the party into three groups.
“I’ll go alone.”
It was because of Seo-jun’s declaration.
“Ah…… yes. Go ahead. Yes. Alone…… well, I suppose that’s possible……”
There was no resistance, and Baek Do-yul gave his permission at once. No one knew that Seo-jun had been hoping for a little pushback.
The teams were split into three: Seo-jun alone; Baek Do-yul, Lee Mu-ah, Jo Am, and the tasting corner as one team; and the rich player along with Shut Up and Play were tasked with gathering basic materials for expanding the house.
For reference, the rich player and Shut Up and Play also took on the role of standing guard.
Of course, this timing isn’t exactly prime for someone to raid the house, but it’s still a necessary task.
“Let’s go.”
“Boss, you said you’re going alone. No need to say ‘let’s go.’”
“Yeah.”
Seo-jun answered Jo Am glumly before moving out.
* * *
Seo-jun put on his gas mask and stood before the entrance of the farming zone.
From Tier 1 farming zones onward, the probability of running into other people increases. It’s because the number of farming zones decreases.
But Seo-jun could relax as he stood at the entrance, knowing that there weren’t many teams who had acquired gas masks as quickly as his and made it to a place like this.
The farming zone Seo-jun chose was a place called the Abandoned Harbor.
It’s the closest spot to their camp. Relatively speaking, that is.
Since they built their house near a Tier 3 farming zone, in absolute terms, the distance was bound to be far.
So.
On the way there.
-lolololololololol crazy bastard lolololololololololol
-If you see an enemy, just charge lololololol
-At this rate, you’re gonna get yourself killed, lose your gear, and have to walk all the way back from home! Agh!
-The worst kind of rabble-rouser lolololololol
Seo-jun played the game in a way most fitting for Last.
If he saw someone, he robbed them.
That was all.
“Ha, resources keep duplicating, what do I do, everyone? On the way back if I see more people, I don’t think I’ll have inventory space.”
-He’s just a thug, this bastard lololol
-But he’s playing it the standard way?
-His tone is so thuggish lolol so aggravating
Seo-jun’s goal after arriving at the Abandoned Harbor was to take care of the NPCs here.
In Tier 1 farming zones, bosses don't exist yet.
But one wrong move and a bullet could send you to your grave in an instant.
Of course, if a player is careful, it’s hard to get shot and die in a place like this. That’s why it’s Tier 1.
“Alright, let’s head in.”
But if you go in through the front gate?
Ratatatat!
The NPCs who spotted Seo-jun immediately went into alert mode, and Seo-jun began weaving through the harbor, dodging their fire with his semi-automatic rifle.
-Why go through the front door lolol
-He’s consistently brazen, this bastard
Bang! Bang!
Only when an enemy attacked did he sidestep to the nearest pillar for cover. The moment their attack ended and there was a slight delay, he turned and fired.
Bang! Bang!
Another NPC collapsed with Seo-jun’s bullets precisely lodged between their eyebrows.
-Aim daebak
-When you watch, this bastard’s shooting skill is good too
-No, seriously, how is he good at everything?
The resources obtainable in a Tier 1 farming zone weren’t much different from Tier 0.
But component materials included things needed to craft Tier 1 weapons, and there were bombs here and there that made raids possible.
What Seo-jun needed to get from here was an item that allowed him to move on to Tier 2 farming zones.
Key Fragments.
Bang!
Bang!
After first roaming the Abandoned Harbor and taking down over ten NPCs, Seo-jun searched the empty farming zone and then started back home.
And while taking a different route back, he discovered a house.
* * *
Ha Yoon-ho.
After meeting Seo-jun right at the start, he immediately built a house and headed for a Tier 0 farming zone.
The building site they chose had many Tier 0 farming zones nearby, and those zones were rated low even among low tiers, so they succeeded in securing three farming zones without running into any other teams.
One could call that a very wise strategy.
His party had gone to a relatively distant location and was returning when—
That was until they heard someone shouting loudly at their front door, coming through extremely faintly over the radio.
[Come on out!]
It’s faint.
An extremely faint voice.
Because the other person was shouting loudly, the surrounding noise that normally wouldn’t be picked up came through the radio very softly.
And in that instant, Ha Yoon-ho felt a chill run down his spine.
This voice, could it be…….
[Please, can’t you just leave? Please. Please. Please.]
[I. Won’t. Eat. You. Ha. Ha. Ha.]
[I’m sorry! I’ve always respected you! Congratulations on setting the Travel viewer count record! Our party is just here to have fun. Really. We don’t even wish for prize money or raids. We’re just extra fillers!]
[You. Un. Der. Stand. Come on out.]
The urgent, desperate loud voice and the voice of subtle, forced acting intertwined.
And Ha Yoon-ho stopped.
He literally stopped and, without saying a single word, looked back.
He was near the house.
Right now, if he just barely peeked his head over the ridge of this hill, he would be looking at the back side of the house.
Ha Yoon-ho, unable to even breathe, began backing away little by little.
But then.
[Ah. Should I use a bomb? What a waste. If you just open up, I’ll only take a moderate amount, but if I open this, at that point I become a thug, you know? Lumi-nim? Are you in there? How about Ha Yoon-ho-nim? You two should know well, right?]
With a voice full of mischief, the unnatural acting from before nowhere to be seen, the threat flowed so naturally and smoothly that Ha Yoon-ho lunged forward.
It was survival instinct.
“Seo-jun-nim!!!!”
“Oh.”
“I’m here! I’ll offer up what we just farmed! Please save your bomb!”
“Oh.”
And thanks to that, he lived.
Without a fight, Seo-jun obtained the fruits of Ha Yoon-ho’s party’s farming and left satisfied, and Ha Yoon-ho went inside the house.
The streamers were wearing faces full of fear.
“Phew……”
“Yoon-ho-nim. We did the right thing, right?”
“Wow, this is true terror. One slip and our camp could have been obliterated in an instant.”
“A walking bomb……”
Ha Yoon-ho first tended to his team’s mental state.
“It ended well, didn’t it.”
Even though their items were mercilessly plundered by Seo-jun, the house wasn’t sacked, was it.
In that case, they could plan for the future.
“But now bombs will start piling up and it’s about time for raids. They know our house location, so what do we do?”
It was the period when they were farming bombs that could properly blow up outer walls or doors.
So they needed to seriously watch out for raids.
But since their location had already been exposed and their weakness revealed, the team members worried about an assault.
Ha Yoon-ho, however, was different.
“Don’t worry. That’s why I let us get robbed on purpose. Seo-jun-nim is, you see……”
“Yes.”
“He’s already robbed us once. Rather than a scrawny, starved pig like us, he’ll go raid a house that’s plump with meat! Let’s go back and work on chunking up!”
Ha Yoon-ho spoke as positively as he could.
Above all.
‘Come to think of it, can Seo-jun-nim’s team even pull off a raid? We won’t be the ones fighting them, but……’
That point was the most reassuring.
* * *
Arriving last at the expanding house, Seo-jun immediately sorted items into the storage before coming back out.
Simple outer walls had begun to encircle their house, and with the resources obtained from the Tier 1 farming zone, they made a Tier 1 workbench and began creating an item to strengthen their construction blocker.
In Last, as long as you had simple items, you could build walls anywhere except farming zones and even create ramps to go upward.
To prevent that, what you install at your house is a construction blocker.
Abbreviated as conc-block.
And the item that expands the range of this blocker was essential.
“Seo-jun-nim, you’ve arrived. I heard building it like this at this point in time is the best.”
Baek Do-yul, who had been expanding the house while relying on memory, greeted Seo-jun happily when he saw him.
He said that since there hadn’t been much fighting, it still felt like a camping atmosphere.
“No fighting?”
“……Yes. Well, in Seo-jun-nim’s case…… Anyway, it’ll happen soon, right?”
“Yes. It will. In a little while, other teams will also be doing Tier 1 farming. Now that they’ve got bombs, they can do a surprise raid at least once.”
Going straight to Tier 2 from here was too much.
They had obtained a key fragment, which is essential for exploring Tier 2 farming zones, but it was only a fragment. They needed to farm one more time.
However, Tier 1 farming zones were few in number, and they had to wait a bit for them to reset.
The options they could choose from here were few.
Either aim for a slim chance and go somewhere special to obtain the key fragment.
Or enjoy the downtime and gather resources.
Or.
“Plunder someone else’s key fragment.”
Baek Do-yul continued speaking as he raised walls.
“Will you be going? Plundering?”
“Hmm……”
“Don’t tell me you already got one?”
“No, it’s not that. When I left, of course there wouldn’t be any. On the way back, what are the odds I’d run into a team that just finished farming a key fragment.”
“True, they’re probably farming right now, right?”
“Yes. Since we were a bit quick.”
It was the result of shortening the time needed to gather a certain amount of basic materials.
“So will you go? Raid? How many party members?”
“Hmm……”
“Why?”
“Instead of that, please build me a sniper tower. Just an observation deck right on top of the house?”
“Construction resources are plenty. Do you think someone will come to raid?”
“Yes. At least one team will come, for sure.”
“No, what on earth did you do……”
Baek Do-yul sighed but started building the house according to Seo-jun’s request.
And then, a brief moment of peace arrived.
Seo-jun took his rifle and went up with Baek Do-yul to a modestly tall observation deck at the center of the house to talk.
Meanwhile, the team members spread out around the house carrying no items at all.
They were lookouts.
“Will they really come?”
Baek Do-yul asked, and Kim Tae-woo answered.
[That’s what I’m saying. This bastard Seo-jun’s intuition isn’t wrong, but right now? Of course, if they’re looking for a team with a key fragment, we’re the surest bet, so we’re worth targeting, but……]
Everyone knows they’re strong.
The team members had this question, and Seo-jun nodded, making a gesture to show he understood.
“Still, they’ll come. At least one team.”
“Okay……”
[Fine, got it.]
The reason Seo-jun thought they would be raided was simple.
Incredibly simple.
[Huh? It looks like one team is approaching from this direction. Confirmed, six fully armed enemies.]
[Oh? Enemy sighting here too. Are we perhaps looking at the same team?]
[No. I’m west and Rich-nim is east.]
[Aha!]
[Enemy team sighting north too. They spotted me and are shooting!]
Baek Do-yul cried out with a serious expression.
“Three teams? Is it teaming?!”
Teaming. The act of forming a team that isn't officially one according to the system.
It’s like corporate collusion.
[The western team is startled by the sudden gunfire!]
[The eastern team has also halted their advance! Crazy, is this the Slayer team?]
“It doesn’t seem like teaming. That’s a relief. Hahaha.”
“Seo-jun-nim.”
Now grasping the situation, Baek Do-yul looked at Seo-jun with an even more serious expression.
“Yes?”
“Could it be…… All three of these teams coming now are here to get revenge on you, Seo-jun-nim? Not after the key fragment?”
“……”
“……”
“I didn’t know three teams would come.”
Seo-jun averted his gaze and scratched his forehead.
“It seems everyone has quite a temper, doesn’t it? Is this right?”
Baek Do-yul glared at Seo-jun in disbelief.
Tae-woo’s radio message, tinged with admiration, came through too.
[Jin Seo-jun…… What on earth did you do?]
[Boss? They’re telling you to come out?]
From the very start, the gun barrels of all three teams were aimed at Seo-jun’s house.