Regressor Instruction Manual (PART 1)

Chapter 3. Adaptability

"W-What should we do now, dude?" Park Deok-Gu asked.

"Would we be standing here like this if I knew?" I answered.

I was still in shock about what just happened.

When I answered him angrily, Park Deok-Gu started walking on eggshells around me.

After the incident at the starting point, I continued talking to him casually but seeing how Park Deok-Gu didn't say anything about it, I guess he didn't mind.

"Since we don't know exactly what this place is, we should first look around," I suggested.

"A-Are you going to go outside?" Park Deok-Gu asked.

"Not right now," I answered.

"T-Then are you saying that you're going to go outside eventually?" he asked again.

"I said not right now," I answered.

We barely managed to find a hiding place within the maze-like interior. It was a bit cramped, but it wasn't bad since we were safe here at the very least.

'Water, food, and weapons.'

I didn't know when the end was going to be, but we could endure it. The problem was how long and whether this place was really safe.

I had a lot on my mind.

"I didn't think something like this would actually happen..." Park Deok-Gu said.

"You saw the status window and those monsters. They're neither holograms nor from a game. It's definitely reality... I wish all of this was a dream too."

"Ugh..."

The situation we were in was definitely real. Even though we weren't talking about what happened at the starting point, we actually saw people dying and encountered monsters we couldn't describe with words. Denying reality wasn't going to change anything.

"D-Didn't she say that the goal of this tutorial was survival or something? T-That strange lady d-definitely said that... then, i-if we continue hiding here..." Park Deok-Gu didn't finish his sentence.

"It's not as simple as you think," I said, interrupting him.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"The problem is that we don't know how long this situation will last. We managed to obtain food and water, but it'll be difficult to last a week with this... and there's no guarantee that this place is safe. This place might even be the shelter for the monsters," I explained to him.

"Really?"

"I'm just saying that it's a possibility, and even if we finish the tutorial now... how are we going to survive afterward?" I asked Park Deok-Gu.

"Wh-What do you mean?"

"I'm not certain about this, but when the tutorial ends, we'll be going to a place called the Continent. That means that we might get into a situation where the dungeon we're currently in may feel like heaven. There's no guarantee that the place we'll be heading next is going to be safer than here. Simply enduring this isn't everything..." I explained to him.

He remained silent because what I said was true. Of course, no one knew what was going to happen in the future. But as the woman mentioned, if we really were the players that were chosen to save the Continent, this wouldn't be the end.

We may encounter the same monsters as before, and there may be a time when we need to fight people instead of monsters. We could also encounter something worse than these in the future.