WeTried Translations
Translator: Coughing Baby
Editor: Coughing Baby
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Chapter 271: Unread Messages
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「conservative_extremist: Fuck, what kind of bullshit development is this? Yang Yongbin is one absolute piece of shit.」
「AekDda: China, as expected. A public nuisance, as expected. Here or there, the only good Chinaman is still a dead Chinaman. I thought Han Gyeoul would be the first public broadcast to show a Days after Apocalypse ending... Looks like that’ll be hard now. Fuck.」
「GrandFerrol: Mao Zedong-sensei... I miss you especially today...」
「richdog: Mao Zedong? Who the hell is that? Chinese?」
「Red October: Everyone, here is another victim of Hell Joseon education. You don’t know Mao Zedong?」
「lemonade: Isn’t Zedong the sparrow massacrer? The “those birds are harmful birds” guy.」
「GrandFerrol: Yeah, for real, a great man. He starved fifty million Chinamen to death. If Mao-sensei had just tried a little harder, shit, the world’s number one pollution producer might have disappeared.」
「RetiredYouth: This is even more fucked because it’s a reconstructed past setting. If you showed Yang Yongbin, that motherless bastard, modern China and told him, “Even if your country hadn’t collapsed from the plague, it still would’ve ended up like this, gg~,” he probably would’ve felt deep doubt about his whole life and shot himself in the head on the spot.」
「LMAO: This is real. Ancient China was already savage enough, but if he saw modern China, I’d bet one of my balls he’d foam at the mouth and die instantly right there.」
「conservative_extremist: Communist Great Wall lmao. Invisible continent lmao. Ash-gray paradise lmao.」
「まつみん: I hate the far right no matter what country they’re from. Though China is especially bad.」
「HellFlavor: I fucking hate China. What was it they said again? Born in the arms of the Party and dying in the arms of the Party? They isolated their citizens while brainwashing them into thinking they’d completed a communist society, and meanwhile the ruling class was fucking... I curse our country every day, but it’s a hundred times better than China.」
「HellFlavor: And on top of that, they hack like crazy and make Afterlife Insurance security costs explode. Damn it, I know it uses brainwave recognition, but does chatting make any sense in the Virtual Reality era? Even with Afterlife Insurance coverage, subscribers have to pay separately for a security-enhanced line if they want to meet each other.」
「OldSpice: Officially, most hacking attempts are North Korea’s doing, aren’t they? lol」
「Mustafa: That is only because they are trying not to offend China. Does North Korea even have the guts for that? Besides, it’s not like other countries don’t do it too lol. The problem is that Afterlife Insurance is way too much of an over-technology.」
「HellFlavor: If it weren’t for security costs, the lower limit for Afterlife Insurance grades would drop by a ton, fuck.」
「GrapesOfWrath: Nothing we can do about it. If Afterlife Insurance collapses or the technology leaks, this country is finished, right? I think we should accept some inconvenience. I have to protect my afterlife.」
「Meussiel: I think the hacking threat is just some lie the government tells so it can eat our taxes. The Trinity Engine is supposed to be incomprehensible, right? Does it even need security?」
「conservative_extremist: Whew. Leftards and their conspiracy theories. This is why security complacency is dangerous, I say! Even if the engine is incomprehensible, accounts can still get hacked! Huh? Since they hate seeing our country doing well, they could declare war out of spite, like “if I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it,” I say!」
「Don’t_NickPun: It’s true that we need to be careful about security complacency. But the economic sphere built around Afterlife Insurance, the so-called 『Starlight Hegemony』, is so overwhelmingly huge that even China can’t touch our country lightly.」
「Don’t_NickPun: Nobody really knows the scale of the derivatives the global financial sector has tied to Afterlife Insurance. The Afterlife Insurance fund itself is enormous too. There are also so many facilities and projects entrusted to the Trinity Engine that it’s hard to count them all.」
「Korean-AmericanAlliance: Oh lol.」
「Don’t_NickPun: If the Trinity Engine is destroyed, rich Chinese people would probably go bankrupt in a chain reaction too. Even if Chinese people can’t come in, Chinese capital has entered in huge amounts. Though as a percentage of the whole, it’s low.」
「conservative_extremist: But who asked? Bastards like you who show off what they know are the most fucking annoying.」
「AekDda: These idiots really never change, so I’m getting attached lmao. Why are you throwing a fit while watching a broadcast? lmao. It feels like you’re not fighting because you have a reason. You’re looking for a reason because you want to fight lol.」
「まつみん: Matsuming is honestly a little scared... The whole time I watch the broadcast, I keep thinking of China in physical reality...」
「DomeHole: Actually, this person called Yang Yongbin is, whether you like him or not, an increwredible charwacter, you see? I have watched countless games and broadcast streams, but this is my first time seeing such a villain in sandbox Virtual Reality, not a fixed scenario or personality package! This cold, sticky evil! A virtual personality like this can only be implemented with a high level of empathy! That is what I can say.」
「TeamLeaderKimMi-young: Ha, seriously sticky. For a nuclear villain, he died in a really nasty way.」
「Blair: I thought it would end in a huge explosion.」
「Red October: Want me to make one prediction as a military nerd? It’s not over yet. There’s definitely something more.」
「Doochi: You mean that old Chinese geezer isn’t dead? It does feel like taking a dump and not wiping, but there doesn’t seem to be any way out, just like the host thought on the Teletype.」
「Red October: I mean there could be subordinates still alive. Somewhere else, not here. Think of armed infiltrators in the old days digging hideouts and staying inside. If someone hides with real intent, you can’t find them. And it has to be that way to screw America over more effectively.」
「Владимир: A reasonable prediction.」
「Wilma: Seriously...?」
「NationalBreadDuty: It’s a fact that the U.S. military of that era was relatively weak in irregular warfare. The impact is that the nuclear villain obviously would have known that.」
「LendMeYourStrength: I hated the old star whore’s broadcast because all the characters were stupid, but here I hate it because they’re too smart. What am I supposed to do?」
「storm224: You can just hate people.」
「KILL: Hey, can someone die from a concussion?」
「Meussiel: Yeah.」
「KILL: ...」
「KimJongUnIsABastard: I vote that Yang Yongbin is alive.」
「Meussiel: KILL, do you know how many times you’ve asked that during this broadcast? I’m sick of it, so stop already.」
「SweetMocha: Yeah, yeah, exactly.」
「MorningChamIsul: Two votes for Yang Yongbin being alive. Is there no way to know for sure whether this son of a bitch is dead or alive?」
「Wilma: Including DLC?」
「MorningChamIsul: Yeah.」
「HellExpert: This should do it, right? 『Big Brother Package』. Apparently you can find out most things with it. The function is so strong that the price is a rip-off, but they also sell a one-time use ticket with limited options for poor dirt-spooners like us, so if you’re interested, go for it. Yang Yongbin bothers me too.」
「Wilma: I looked it up, and even the one-time version is fucking expensive. I’m speechless lol.」
「BlackCat: That’s because it’s a DLC with broadcast fees attached, like the Death Return Package, meow.」
「yourmom: That fee is proportional to the number of viewers, right?」
「BlackCat: Exactly right, meow.」
「yourmom: Then wouldn’t it be awesome if the viewers worked together and left for a bit?」
「BlackCat: The Afterlife Insurance Authority isn’t that sloppy, meow. They calculate and apply the average number of viewers over a set period, meow.」
「GrandFerrol: Our country is fucking thorough with stuff like this lmaooooooo.」
「IngrownToenail: Damn cat knows a lot, yeah.」
「MorningChamIsul: But even if I buy it, I don’t have usage rights anyway, right? If Han Gyeoul refuses, that’s the end.」
「NitrogenPack: Yeah, I think they also need an option to open add-on element application rights to viewers.」
「AntiClique: I think that’s possible even now? The problem is every channel that does it blows up lol.」
「Nuclear Power: Ha, I watch this to relieve stress, but I feel so stuffed up, like I have indigestion. If I could use DLC myself, I’d buy something like a Destination Package or a Death〇te 1-page ticket and write down that shitty psycho bastard Yang Yongbin’s name.」
「AppGirl: That would change the genre lol.」
「KILL: Is anyone here in the medical field? If so, please answer... What are the odds something could go wrong with Lee Yura? They say the odds of dying from a concussion are very low, but I can’t relax at all... Please, I just hope there’s no cerebral hemorrhage...」
「NitrogenPack: I said stop, you otaku bastard.」
「FrankSausage: I’ll be pissed if the Chinese army does something stupid again.」
「まつみん: NitrogenPack, hey (╬ ಠ Дಠ)」
「まつみん: Please calm down, KILL. She had a lot of injuries, but none of them seemed severe. I heard most concussions are fine as long as there’s no second impact before recovery.」
「KILL: Exactly. Most. Not all.」
「Владимир: I’ve felt this for a while, but you are a phenomenon I must remember.」
「activeXfuckoff: What is this guy saying now?」
「Владимир: People do not die easily. They are surprisingly sturdy. Sturdy enough that you find yourself thinking, “This still doesn’t kill them?” I speak from experience. It may be Virtual Reality, but it is based on physical reality, so it should be no different from fact.」
「groseillier noir: Is that your own experience, or experience doing it to other people?」
「Владимир: Both.」
「richdog: This bastard really nailed his character concept lol. Feels like just yesterday he was struggling because he couldn’t install Active X lol.」
「BlackBroZack: That was honestly funny lol.」
「Владимир: Unpleasant. You people refused to help even though I asked politely... It is regrettable that the Daughter of Russia is carrying out an important task, so I cannot teach you a lesson.」
「まつみん: Uncle Vladimir, stop making dark history for yourself (´；ω；｀)」
「AekDda: From what I can see, the biggest crisis in this setting right now is the presidential election. Can’t Han Gyeoul just become president? He’s crazy popular. Is it impossible because he’s too young?」
「Don’t_NickPun: The age limit isn’t the only thing.」
「AekDda: Why? He’s an American citizen.」
「Don’t_NickPun: He also has to meet a fourteen-year residency requirement, and more than anything, he can’t because he’s an immigrant. He has to be American by birth.」
「Meussiel: Couldn’t they change that somehow?」
「Don’t_NickPun: That’s set by the Constitution. Amend the Constitution in this situation? Impossible. Maybe if America were on the brink of collapse.」
「100MillionDEBT: It would be a headache if a lunatic became the emperor of America in this situation.」
「Saebom: Considering Han Gyeoul’s nosiness, it’d be an even bigger headache. He’d probably make everyone eat sweet potatoes by saying he has to protect the Chinese people.」
「doomchitdoomchit: If he used his completely superior position to finally get it on with Li Ailing this time, it’d be thrilling enough to slap that old star whore back and forth.」
「Saebom: Wish for something possible.」
「MorningChamIsul: Ah, I hope Joanna shows up.」
「KILL: Ha. I can’t forget the burn Yura suffered. I’ve never felt this upset... It makes me so angry that she can never return to the appearance I came to like. It feels like Lee Yura has become incomplete.」
「HellExpert: This one really is something.」
「Doochi: Eek, otaku.」
「NitrogenPack: There’s also a way to put Death Return on that Lee Yura girl, but there’s no way that brat, who gives zero fucks about viewer consideration, would do it.」
「まつみん: Saying she “became incomplete” feels strange somehow... KILL, do you really like this person called Lee Yura?」
「KILL: Don’t say weird stuff. I do like her, but she isn’t a real person... I still have that much sense of reality. I also know I’m not normal.」
「まつみん: ...」
「conservative_extremist: lol. Still, thankfully, they have not completely lost their mind.」
「Cthulu: I wonder. Sometimes going completely insane may be happier, may it not?」
「MorningChamIsul: Ah, I want to see our gorgeous Joanna.」
「KILL: Ugh, please, I hope Yura comes back safe...」
「Red October: Child, don’t worry. If by some chance her symptoms are serious, they’ll send her to a hospital ship.」
「Red October: The U.S. military of that era was the only military in the world operating Echelon 4 hospital ships, and two of them at that. Though some higher-ups disliked them for being slow and eating up the budget.」
「Red October: Anyway, since there was a survivor rescue operation, at least one ship should be on the West Coast.」
「KILL: Echelon 4?」
「Red October: Yeah. It’s a NATO classification standard. Simply put, it means a full-scale general hospital level.」
「KILL: I see...」
「MorningChamIsul: Whew, I’m scared I might become like that person too.」
「MorningChamIsul: But I want to have sex with Joanna.」
========== Author’s Note ==========
#Reality Part
I have heard more than enough comments saying that reality parts, such as the viewers’ chat, the Chairman and Gaeul episodes, and the conversation between Gyeoul and Star Child, are unnecessary to the story’s development and interfere with immersion.
But in a novel, even every comma and period reflects the author’s intent. As I have already said several times, I write the reality parts because this novel needs them.
Some people also say they dislike me because I sound too stubborn when I say this.
But this is the author’s territory, and I cannot compromise on it. I, as the author, take full responsibility for the novel.
There are also many readers who view the reality parts positively.
I have tried not to bring up this issue until now, but since similar comments appeared right as I was serializing a reality part, it felt as if I were openly ignoring readers’ opinions. So I am answering one final time.
#Q&A
Q. PleasePickUpSoap: @Race of Hope and Madness. If both are on the same line, madness wins. Hope always feels relatively far away. I’m starting to think Gyeoul may already be nothing more than a madman shouting hope from the middle of madness. Since you struggle even when given childlike innocence, I send you purity, the raw material of childlike innocence.
A. The standard for judging a normal person is always relative. As mentioned in the work, Gyeoul is someone very far from normal. I will gratefully accept the purity. It feels like humanity from Dark Souls. :)
Q. Tigerhuco: @Even on Mars where I live, Tunguska’s childlike innocence was reaching us. Thanks to that, I received the second volume of Tunguska’s bible. The childlike innocence flowing out through the box as soon as I got it was... truly...
A. It is a shame that Mars’s rotation period is not very different from Earth’s. If the readers lived on Venus, a reader’s day would be 116 days for the author... If I serialized one chapter every 116 Earth days, it would still count as daily serialization...
Q. Iribless: @You’ve already written 70 percent? Does reclaiming America alone make the progress jump that much because of the game difficulty? Then have other people cleared this game too?
A. Questions about future developments are always no comment. There are plenty of private clears of Days after Apocalypse. Any setting is easy if an S-grade subscriber touches it.
Q. qgegegqe: @My goodness! You believe good readers exist. At times like this, you really do seem full of childlike innocence.
A. The darkness of the world is already enough with the fact that Santa Claus is a lie. Somewhere in the universe, the being known as a good reader must exist...
Q. Jeok Ilwol: @I tried to proselytize to a friend and was told, “You ossuary-like bastard.” How should I proselytize?
A. By the standards of a 21st Century Boy, please cut ties with them.
Q. Calpis: @That is a fresh comparison. Ossuary-like baby... Crawler?
A. It could also be Star Child. XD
Q. Crysis2: @This is the first work where every chapter feels chewy. For real, it’s the best. Please live long and keep writing for a long, long time...
A. Thank you. I will make sure to live until I am five years old.
Q. Arashiel: What content will be in the Volume 3 side story?
A. It is hard to say in advance, but it is only three chapters in the first place, so it will not be anything major. I think it will simply be a small bonus for those who want the pleasure of collecting it.
Q. Silent-Wizard: @I was taught that coupons should be fired off right away.
A. I buy rice and beer with those coupons. Thank you.
Q. AntiChrist: @My goodness... You told an active-duty soldier to become career military. I’m disappointed in you, author. I will shout Skarlochen and hurt you. Heil Skarlochen!!
A. You shout Skarlochen in every comment, and if you keep doing this, it will trouble me. Please leave impression comments from time to time too. If you refuse, I might get angry and go on vacation.
Q. DragonChicken: @Author, if Gyeoul got infected now, what kind of monster would come out?
A. An enhanced mutant or special mutant that inherits Gyeoul’s skills, the minimum intelligence needed to use those skills, and various corrections as they are.
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