Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 526

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 246
84. Group Assignment (2)
Between the zombie oozing with bubbling acidic liquid and me, there was only a desk standing as a barrier.
Grrrrrrr.
Watching the acidic liquid with bursting bubbles, I thought it would melt even the desk like ice cream.
In other words, I had absolutely no means to stop it.
That wasn’t all.
[Panic]
[Body movement slowed by over 90%]
This damned body was triggering panic at the most critical moment.
Even during the Zombie School early access days, I had suffered greatly while inhabiting a body with fragile mental fortitude.
Was this a similar concept this time?
Back then, wasn’t it because I was an ostracized child?
“Kyaaaaaaack!”
Finally, the zombie spewed out the acidic liquid.
-Psst~ I wanted this
-Failed right at the start? lololol
Oh no, I’m panicking ㅠㅠ
-???: I’m a fan!
Sssssizzzzle…!
My flesh vanished like foam in an instant, white bone exposed, and my vision rapidly descended.
My body was collapsing.
My vision faded to black.
Then—
Ding-a-ling ding-a-ling ding~-a-ling ding-a-ling ding-a-ling ling~♪♩
The school bell rang again.
‘Huh?’

* * *
“Ugh. What’s next? Korean class?”
“Oh. Nap time again.”
“It is Korean, right? Not math? I still haven’t borrowed my math textbook…”
I opened my eyes at the sound of the children chattering.
‘A classroom… a normal one.’
This time, it was the familiar classroom I knew. Not some horror movie set.
It was a classroom after class ended, where children laughed and talked.
“Ugh~ I’m so sleepy~~~”
“When are we going home~”
“What’s waiting at home?”
“Acting like you’re going home. This bastard. You’re going to the PC room anyway.”
Sunlight streamed through the morning classroom. Peaceful and warm.
For now, anyway.
-???
-Huh?
-Regression lol
-Making Sang-hyun Yu elite!?
-Ah it’s the prologue lol
Had I returned to the past, just as the chat was saying?
If so, was what I saw earlier the future?
“Hey. How long are you going to sleep? Wake up. Let’s go to the snack bar.”
Someone grabbed my shoulder and shook it.
[Jihun Oh]
I confirmed the name written on the name tag—it was Jihun Oh.
When Jihun’s eyes met mine, he asked again.
“You’re not going to the snack bar? By the way, where’s your name tag? If the teacher catches you without it, we’re screwed~”
His tone was a bit rough, but Jihun seemed like a genuine friend. There was no sense of bullying.
Ding.
[Find your name tag.]
The game seemed friendlier than before.
I thought so and searched my pockets.
I found it quickly in my right pocket, but the name tag was empty, without a name.
Ding.
[Choose your name.]
It seemed I had to choose my name here.
[Almond]
“What. Almond. Why do you keep your name tag in your pocket? Anyway, let’s just go to the snack bar.”
“Yeah, okay.”
I stood up from my seat, partly to memorize the school’s layout and partly to find the other guys.
At that moment, a message appeared.
[Find other colleagues who have shared the same dream.]
-But why does the message sound like that lol
-The “find” tone lol
-Isn’t that like a test question? Is this a school game lol
-Oh. So it’s Taco and Balloon Gum.
Finding colleagues seemed to be the first task.
Almond decided to follow Jihun toward the school store.
There was no reason they couldn’t meet there, right?
Thump. Thump.
While following Jihun toward the school store, I descended the stairs.
It was a familiar space.
‘This is the staircase where I used to secretly move bread with the store manager noona back then.’
The scale felt slightly larger, but the school’s structure seemed almost identical to the previous version.
But then—
“What the.”
I muttered without thinking.
It was because I had come face to face with a large mirror, the kind that typically hung on school staircases.
-Huh?
-Oh what? Almond’s face is rendered
-The concept is different from before
-But is that really Almond? Looks a bit different?
A sharp nose bridge and round yet sharp eyes. A jawline with appropriate weight. And shoulders sculpted by archery, possessing substantial presence….
‘That’s definitely my face.’
It was unmistakably me.
But something was different.
‘It’s right, but….’
A rendering difference? No.
With this level of technology, they could definitely implement it exactly.
Then why is it slightly different? Was there a reason to intentionally make it different?
-Ah. He looks younger!
-Whoa high school Mond extreme——lock
-Wow so cute lol
-Insane, the face got younger? Insane insane
-That, uh, is that Almond’s spit dripping? Is it?
That’s right.
I was rendered with my high school face.
This was one of the differences between Zombie School and the early access mode.
Zombie School’s graphics engine now traced back through a user’s past and rendered their face from that era as accurately as possible.
“What are you doing, man. Stop staring at your ugly mug. Keep moving.”
Jihun urges me from beside me to hurry up and go.
-??Ugly?
High school guys’ special trait: They’d rather die than tell their friend he’s handsome lol
-Who’s saying someone’s ugly, this sweet potato-looking guy
The viewers were outraged at the comment about being ugly, but Almond simply nods absently, his mind elsewhere.
“Yeah. Right. Right.”
I’m currently confused after deducing that even my colleagues’ faces have changed.
‘If my high school face is showing up… I don’t have much difference, but…’
Normally, finding Takoyaki in this zombie school wouldn’t be difficult at all.
Since he’d be the only bald one.
But if things are like this, the story changes.
What about Takoyaki during his high school days? Was his head really bald back then too?
While thinking such thoughts, I’d already made it down to the basement where the snack bar was.
“Ah! Just one bite!”
“You crazy bastard! You eat the sausage bread!”
“Miss! You should give me that lemonade too!”
It’s not even lunch time, but the kids are swarming around noisily.
“Wow… we have to get through that. What do we do?”
Haha, zombies have nothing on this.
-So this is a zombie game??
-Did you know? In the official launch, a special zombie called snack bar zombie appears
That’s a memory, wow.
Jihun scratches his head worriedly. While hesitating like that.
“Yo! Mond! Get in line with us here!”
A boy with thick, lush hair greets us. I thought he was just an NPC, but his speech pattern, voice, and facial features tell me otherwise.
He was Takoyaki.
That’s so funny/hilarious (laughing hard)
No, you’re a taco-loving weirdo lol
Ugh, I can’t adjust to this.
“Uh. Takoyaki?”
“Yeah. Yeah, come here!”
Jihun excitedly pushes me saying ‘Let’s go. Let’s go.’ and we end up cutting into the line where Takoyaki was standing.
“So you were in the same class. Mond’s face is easy to recognize. Where’s Kkeom?”
The moment I say such things.
“I’m here. So you guys were here too?”
Someone speaks from among the countless children and pops out.
Poof.
It looked as if they really made such a sound, emerging softly and squishy from among the children.
A student with pale skin and clean-cut features.
“Wow.”
Almond let out a sound without realizing it.
He was still round, but compared to the actual Balloon Gum, he seemed to have about half the body mass.
The balloon gum trend was crazy back then.
-Brother…?
-Wow how do they even implement this??? So crazy impressive.
A notification chimes as I find all my colleagues.
Ding.
[Well done!]
[Colleagues Who Shared the Same Dream – Complete]
A new Quest appears next.
Ding.
[Share stories about your dreams with your colleagues]
Hahaha you did so well haha
The school concept is on point lol
-Aren’t we supposed to talk about dreams?
I had to share stories about my dreams.
But I couldn’t just tell them anything.
[If your classmates hear a far-fetched story, you will lose trust]
[If trust is low, NPCs won’t believe you and won’t follow your commands]
In this game, it’s not just about surviving alone—I need to guide other students and save as many as possible, so losing trust would be a serious problem.
In other words, I had to send them to the classroom first.
‘Simple enough.’
Thinking that, Almond poked Jihun and spoke.
“Hey. Jihun. Go to the classroom.”
-…?
-School habits showing up here…
Are you seriously asking if that’s how it works?
“What? What’d you say. You crazy bastard. I’ve been waiting all this time for bread!”
“Just go.”
Hahaha just go lolol
-Fact) If this were a real school, he would’ve gone without complaint.
Just go, lol
Regardless of Almond’s persistent efforts to get him to go, Jihun only shouted louder in frustration.
“Ah! I’m eating bread before I go! If you’re going, you go, you bastaaaard!!”
Surprisingly, it was Balloon Gum who saved Jihun from nearly losing his mind.
“Come on, come on! Calm down! I bought several just in case!”
Balloon Gum handed out bread not only to Jihun, who was stuck next to Almond, but also to the other friends standing beside Taco.
Jihun’s flushed face quickly calmed down.
“Uh… Really? You’re just giving it away? This is the loyalty of Class 3!”
It seemed like I could hear the sound of his favorability rising.
Whoosh.
“Wow, thanks.”
“I’ll eat well.”
Once my friends got the bread they came for, they all headed back to the classroom first.
Such simple-minded guys.
“Alright.”
Clap!
Takoyaki clapped once to draw everyone’s attention.
“Now that they’re gone. Let’s talk quickly. First, both of you…”
Takoyaki speaks first after confirming the two nodding faces.
“Did you see any running zombies?”
Running zombies?
I couldn’t recall ever seeing anything like that, no matter how hard I tried to remember.
The environment wasn’t conducive to that either.
All that happened was a zombie lying like a corpse in the classroom woke up and spat acidic saliva.
Could I have accidentally hit some kind of ‘skip’ button without realizing it?
Having experienced many unusual game progressions due to my extensive gaming experience, I pondered that much.
“Huh? Running… did they run? Um…”
Balloon Gum’s memory also seemed vague.
“Hm? You didn’t see them? Some zombies were running around. Why… like at some building’s central entrance or something, they tried to block it with iron bars but failed and ran away…”
“What are you talking about? Taco. It was the sports field.”
“…Huh?”
I chime in as well.
“Yeah, it was a classroom for me.”
-They’re all different dreams??
-What? These are different dreams?
-Didn’t even dream lol
What is this…
Takoyaki scratches his awkward hair and tilts his head.
“Oh.”
Clap.
He claps his hands as if he’s figured something out.
“We all received different hints.”
“!”
“Right. It makes sense that our dreams are different. Otherwise, there’d be no reason to ask us to share our dreams.”
“Ah. So… the concept is to compare our dreams with each other and prepare for what will happen in the future?”
“Exactly!”
-Ooh…
-Game experience is scary
-As expected from a prophet octopus
Takoyaki’s hypothesis was plausible.
The only dream Almond had was panicking and dying to a zombie that spat acidic saliva. The information it provided wouldn’t be significant enough to use when saving the students during the zombie outbreak.
But what if the three of them each had different dreams?
That changed everything.
If I combined the information from each dream, I might be able to piece together some direction.
“Balloon Gum said the athletic field. And I was blocking the main entrance. What about you, Almond?”
“It was a classroom for me. But almost everyone was already dead. I’m not sure if I just passed out or fell asleep, but when I woke up, I ran into a zombie spitting something and died.”
“Spitting what?”
“Um… something like hydrochloric acid.”
“Ah…”
Blech.
Balloon Gum seemed to have a weak stomach and gagged.
But even so, he kept chewing his gum.
“To compile these dreams, we need to know the time sequence. The order things happened, I mean.”
“Oh. Right. As it is now, they’re all separate.”
“Mond said the students were already all dead in his scene. What about you? Were most of them zombies?”
“No. No, there were more students. The zombies were just entering the school.”
“I see.”
Takoyaki nodded as if he understood the gist of it.
“Then in chronological order, it would be your dream first, then mine, then Mond’s dream. That’s how it would go.”
“Oh…”
Balloon Gum pretended to be impressed, then scratched his head.
“But… why would it be that way?”
At Balloon Gum’s question, Almond quietly perked up his ears too.
He didn’t know either.
-Why is he explaining lol
-Lmao
-This is what Balloon Gum is about~
Almond waiting for an answer while nervously glancing from the side ㅋㅋ
-Mond~ I can see you rolling your eyes~
This team project didn’t seem like it would be easy.

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