Chapter 226: A Glimmer of Hope

The red electronic candle emitted a glow that illuminated the surroundings and Byeol looked around in confusion.

"Meow?"

What was going on? Why could he see again?

"Don’t be afraid. I’m here." While comforting Byeol, Joo Joowon felt somewhat heavyhearted.

He could already imagine how helpless humans would be if they encountered zombies under these circumstances.

Furthermore, he could also predict how many players would be defeated by the negative emotions produced by humans in the darkness during the special event [Voices of Eternal Night].

What would happen to players suffering from mental abnormalities? Would they become crazy?

Without any clues at all, Joo Joowon could not predict what kind of situation would appear. He did not hesitate and immediately allocated the attribute points he had obtained from leveling up today to Mental Strength.

Although he did not know the exact circumstances, no matter what happened, having higher Mental Power could never be a bad thing.

He opened the trading market. The players had all been thrown into a state of panic by this sudden situation, constantly venting their fear and anxiety through the trading market.

Joo Joowon silently watched them for a while before editing a new message and sending it out.

[ @Ashfall: Don’t let fear devour your heart. Don’t light fires or cook during these three days, and try not to make any noise. If you hear whispers, think about the things you care about most, or sing, sleep... In short, find something to keep yourself occupied. Don’t let yourself become trapped in it, and don’t let yourself remain mentally exhausted during these three days. Don’t panic. At least the Age of Apocalypse gave us a warning before the trading market opened. We still have thirty minutes to prepare for all of this. ]

After posting it, Joo Joowon exited the trading market and discovered that his message had immediately appeared on the front page.

However, this was not because the players had acted quickly. It was because of his reputation, and the system had already sent him a notification.

[ System Notification: Products posted by players with higher reputation will be given priority and displayed on the front page. (Note: The front page product display rules have been updated. Products listed by players with reputation account for 1/3, popularity ranking accounts for 1/3, and the number of front page purchase slots accounts for 1/3.) ]

Joo Joowon was somewhat speechless. He could not help feeling that this apocalypse game really would not let any opportunity to make money slip away.

However, these rules did not affect him much, so Joo Joowon did not pay too much attention to them. Soon, he noticed that the products displayed on the front page had changed.

[ @HanXin (Military Commander of Seorabeol City): Check my front page. We have listed various compressed foods and canned goods. Each person is limited to purchasing one portion, and they are being distributed for free. We hope everyone can safely make it through these three days. We have already established contact with the official authorities in all major cities that we can reach. Three days from now, we will go out to search for survivors. If everyone is willing, you can come back with us. Below, we have attached a list of relatively safe locations such as city air raid shelters that we have organized. (Image/Image/Image) ]

[ @HighlyCultured: Enter a negative number in the page number section of the trading market, and you will be able to purchase products belonging to dead players. The Age of Apocalypse only takes game related items. Perhaps you will have a chance to buy equipment cheaply. ]

After typing out these words, Go Minam felt as though a huge burden had finally been lifted from her heart.

Ever since her rebirth, she had constantly been struggling over this matter. In her previous life, the players had not known that the trading market had another hidden side during these three days, resulting in heavy casualties. She had always been hesitating over whether she should tell everyone about it.

Revealing it in advance would certainly save many people’s lives, but it would also erase much of her own advantage.

After all, there were indeed quite a few good things on the hidden side of the trading market. At present, players could not follow or pay attention to other users, so every time the trading market opened, they could only manually search for sellers. No one knew that even after a player died, the products they had already listed for sale could still be purchased.

This was a function that players in her previous life had only noticed after they were able to follow one another.

If she revealed it now, there would inevitably be many factions keeping an eye on the products on the hidden side. That would mean she had effectively lost one of her own "source of goods."

Go Minam closed the trading market and stopped thinking about it.

She had already done it, so let it be. After all, this was a function that would eventually be discovered sooner or later. There was nothing wrong with revealing it ahead of time.

Even though she had suffered betrayal in her previous life, she could not deny that not everyone in this world deserved to die.

...

After seeing the message posted by HighlyCultured, Joo Joowon was somewhat pleasantly surprised.

Originally, he had already planned to ask HighlyCultured about it, but it was naturally better that they had made the decision themselves first.

Joo Joowon was not surprised that the authorities would take action. Unless the Age of Apocalypse had erased all government personnel at the very instant it descended, he believed that they would eventually regroup and recover. They would not simply allow the entire country to fall into complete chaos, with everyone scattered and struggling to survive on their own.

It was just that under the apocalypse, the power of the authorities was extremely limited. Everyone was already struggling to take care of themselves, so even if they wanted to save a collapsing building, it was difficult to say what the final result would be.

But at the very least, some ordinary people who could not adapt to the changes brought by the apocalypse would have a chance to survive under the protection of the authorities, right?