Possessed a Healing Game, but It’s a Zombie Apocalypse - Chapter 31

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Episode 31

 

5. This is so frustrating I could die.

 

The place Sam guided her to was, surprisingly, a ruined general store.

 

The most severely collapsed location in Sweet Little Village.

 

Uncle Brody’s general store had crumbled so miserably that it no longer even deserved to be called a building.

 

The pillars had collapsed and even traces of the walls were faint.

 

Only occasional fragments of broken display cases and dust-covered items proved that this had once been a shop.

 

Sam stepped into such ruins without any hesitation.

 

“Is this really the right place? It doesn’t look like anything intact is left.”

 

Nana looked around with suspicious eyes.

 

“Yeah. Even if everything else is broken, those things should be fine.”

 

Sam’s tone was full of confidence.

 

Since he’s so sure, there must really be something there. And the Quest said to go see the inventions, not to see intact inventions, right?

 

They carefully passed over the debris and headed toward the inner area that used to be the residential section.

 

Despite being ruins that had collapsed long ago, Sam’s steps never once hesitated.

 

Rather, he walked familiarly in one direction as if he knew the way.

 

And finally, the place where he stopped.

 

A large iron door hanging from part of the collapsed floor.

 

It was a door with solid iron panels and a rusty handle that looked like it would never open with ordinary strength.

 

‘A kid who just got up from a sickbed is going to open that?’

 

Nana watched Sam with half-believing eyes.

 

But the next moment

 

Creak―

 

Sam opened the iron door very easily. Of course, it wasn’t Sam’s arm strength that opened the iron door. More precisely, it was his foot stepping on a pedal.

 

“My laboratory is down here. The parts here are things I brought when I was studying in the Grinnish Principality. Many of them are discontinued now and it would be hard for me to go back there again. I designed this place to survive safely even if some disaster struck.”

 

Nana was casually nodding when she suddenly became dazed.

 

Wait, he studied in the Grinnish Principality?

 

In the game, Greenwich was the country that first established the concept of mechanical engineering in the world.

 

Based on the golem technology of the Ancient Rune Empire, they dramatically advanced their technology, and now it’s a country where machines are distributed even to ordinary households.

 

Mass production facilities, mechanized agriculture, automated cities.

 

Even magic is being forgotten there.

 

It was the continent’s only non-magical nation that trusted science more than magic.

 

Nana stared blankly at Sam.

 

If this was true, then Sam was an exchange student who majored in mechanical engineering, which was truly surprising.

 

That’s because to Nana, Sam was a freeloader who did nothing but leech off his uncle’s back. A freeloader without any sense at that.

 

But it wasn’t that she couldn’t understand Nana’s feelings at all.

 

This was a setting you could only learn by choosing Sam as a romance target and following Sam’s route.

 

“Watch your step.”

 

Sam secured the iron door as a support and led Nana into the basement.

 

Below the stairs was nothing but pitch-black darkness, but with each step Sam took, the lamps on both walls lit up sequentially with ‘pop, pop’ sounds.

 

Wow… is this all automatic?

 

Not torches, not magic, but lamps operating purely through the power of science.

 

Such technology in this game world felt strangely out of place while also being slightly exciting.

 

“I haven’t been here for quite a while, but there’s still power left in the battery.”

 

Sam said as if it was nothing special.

 

“Don’t tell me you made this too?”

 

“The lamps are from Greenwich, but I did the circuit connections. There, they usually bundle circuits and devices together, but that method spreads problems when one thing breaks. So I connected them separately. That way, even if one circuit breaks, the rest are fine. It uses less power too.”

 

What Sam was explaining was clearly about series and parallel circuits.

 

If it had been another game character, they would have blinked and said ‘What’s that? Tell me in Kingdom language,’ but Song Nana, blessed with modern education, was different.

 

She vaguely remembered scribbling about series and parallel circuits on some test paper.

 

Korean public education shines at times like this!

 

‘Wait a minute… I thought the concept of parallel circuits hadn’t emerged even in Greenwich yet, but Sam understood this? This guy, was he a hidden genius character?’

 

At that moment, Sam’s rating was updated in Nana’s mind.

 

From an immature leech to a studious leech.

 

He was still a freeloader, but it was a moment when her perception improved just a little bit.

 

When they reached the end of the corridor, they saw a large metal door.

 

When Sam opened the door, something wing-like fluttered and flew around inside.

 

It was a small, light machine.

 

It was clearly something like a drone. A machine that really moved with electricity, not magic.

 

As Nana stepped into the room, there was a ‘clatter’ sound of metal balls rolling followed by ‘ting, tong’ sounds of metal colliding.

 

When a small ball traveling through a glass tube lightly touched a button, warm orange light spread like waves throughout the room, and various inventions began to slowly reveal their outlines one by one.

 

Complex structures where gears meshed and turned, pistons smoothly pumped, and levers and joints moved rhythmically.

 

…But the room is kind of a mess.

 

‘No wonder he said he’d never cleaned once. In this state, there’s probably more dust than in a junkyard.’

 

While grumbling inwardly, admiration naturally spread across Nana’s lips.

 

This was truly a space that seemed to gather all the dreams of a machine enthusiast in one place.

 

“There’s more power left in the battery than I thought? As expected, mixing in magic stones makes it last longer.”

 

Sam was examining the battery glowing dimly in the corner when Nana’s figure suddenly caught his eye.

 

Nana’s figure walking slowly while looking around as if she had entered a fairy tale.

 

Her expression was a mix of wonder, curiosity, slight admiration, and a pinch of emotion.

 

Sam chuckled and approached Nana.

 

“Most of the things here were made by me. Some were brought from Greenwich, but I personally modified them all. I’m confident they’re much better than the originals.”

 

“Hey… you.”

 

“Now you know I’m not a parasite who can’t do anything, right?”

 

“You were an engineering student.”

 

“Gongdaesaeng? What does that mean?”

 

“No, it’s nothing. Can I look around here in more detail? I think I need to look around to know whether to keep you on the farm or not.”

 

“Go ahead.”

 

When Sam obediently stepped aside, Nana tilted her head and slowly walked among the machines.

 

Looking closely, each machine was showing off its own presence.

 

A machine that cracks eggs exactly in half, a machine that ties ribbons prettily, a machine that peels fruit skin as thin as paper…

 

“…Ambiguously useful.”

 

Nana quietly sighed while looking at machines that were ambiguous between practical and toy.

 

They seemed like they might be useful, but they weren’t the kind of things that made her feel ‘I want to take this!’

 

【Special Quest: ‘The Precious Talent Brought Through Delay’ has been completed.</p】

-30,000 gold and experience points have been awarded as a reward.

 

-Adrienne Rogueton can take one of Sam’s inventions. Please choose what you want.>

 

‘I’ve seen everything. Though there’s nothing I particularly want to take.’

 

As Nana was casually scanning the machines, her gaze stopped on one particular item.

 

Rectangular. Iron. A square box with a door.

 

It looked simple in structure, but Nana instinctively recognized what it was.

 

“Hey… you, this thing…”

 

“Ah, that? Originally I was trying to make a machine to keep food warm, but strangely the food kept freezing. So I just stuck it in the corner.”

 

This is a freezer!!!

 

Ice! A freezer that can make ice!

 

Nana’s eyes lit up as if she had seen some kind of mirage.

 

Ding!

 

【Special Event: ‘Precious Talent 2 Acquired Through Delay’ has occurred.</p】

Hire Sam as a worker on your farm. If you hire him, your life will become prosperous and all his inventions will be yours. Then you won’t have to do laundry by hand, and you’ll be able to drink cool iced americanos even in summer, right?

 

Reward: Greenwich-made machine parts and three bundles of premium rare parts plus experience points.

 

Special events have a time limit. When the time limit expires, the event will automatically disappear.

 

Time limit: 5 minutes.>

 

Special… A special event! I have to buy this! No wait, that’s not it!

 

“Sam. Have you ever shown your inventions to Mrs. Paisley?”

 

“Oh, yeah, it was a machine with a motor structure that rotates in one direction. I assembled it so water wouldn’t get into the motor and made it so the inner tub could hold water.”

 

“Does it also have a hose attached at the bottom that automatically stops after some time and can drain the water?”

 

“That’s right! How did you know?”

 

How did I know? We decided to call that thing a washing machine.

 

No wonder Mrs. Paisley always looked at Sam with such warm eyes and a bright smile even when her do-nothing nephew was being a financial burden. It was for this reason.

 

The golden-handed nephew who saved her from laundry hell. That’s certainly a very precious existence.

 

“Can you make that again?”

 

“Yeah. I have all the blueprints and parts, so it’s possible.”

 

【The special event has 1 minute remaining.】

 

The moment the message appeared, Nana’s hand shot out and grabbed Sam’s shoulder.

 

And without hesitation, she said:

 

“You. Hired.”

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