Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World (Final Revision)

Deadly flower (1)

Yoo Jonghyuk frowned.

After losing track of Zhou Mingrui, he had discovered a hidden dungeon. However, the trials there were a bit special.

[Difficulty: A.]

[The hardest trial for you will be chosen.]

Unexpectedly, his 'trial' was to swallow worms and foods that looked even more disgusting one after the other.

For him who even refuses to eat others' cooking, it was really unbearable!

In the end, with a terrible nausea, Yoo Jonghyuk passed the trial and faced the master of this dungeon who had made him go through all this.

"A-Ah... Spare me...!"

The regressor with a stomachache was in a bad mood and coldly swung his sword at the old witch.

Enraged, the old witch pointed at him.

"Be damned! You heartless being, you will die because of the person dearest to you!"

The regressor didn't listen to her curse and killed her when he received an odd notification.

[You are cursed.]

He paused.

[You are affected by the Hanahaki disease.]

Xin Jian was covering her mouth in a mix of disbelief and amusement since Yoo Jonghyuk's trial had been shown before.

Xin Jian: What am I seeing??

Meanwhile, Zhou Mingrui confirmed that Yoo Jonghyuk wasn't chasing him anymore and breathed a sigh of relief.

He then followed his spiritual intuition and headed to the tunnel where the specters were located.

Xin Jian: Your spiritual intuition has a serious problem...

***

When he received a notification that he had failed the scenario to cross Dongho Bridge, Cale got out of his hiding spot.

The other two should already be far away.

He pushed the corpses in disgust and looked at the dried blood on his clothes with a frown on his face.

Finally, he got up and sat down on a nearby bench before waiting for the dokkaebi. He was already familiar with the procedure when one failed a scenario.

Soon after, a fluffy creature appeared next to him.

[Huh? There's another survivor? How unexpected... Let me check this problem.]

Cale looked at the dokkaebi touching the air, probably trying to figure out why his presence had been undetected by the system for a brief problem, before it turned toward him.

[Huh... So, about the scenario's compensation. Since you failed the scenario, I will take your life.]

As its eyes glowed red to add a more threatening effect, the crimson-haired teenager stared at the dokkaebi who was trying to scare him, unimpressed.

[Huh? You aren't scared?]

"...The failure for this scenario wasn't death, it means that I won't die just because I failed the scenario."

The creature laughed.

[Fine! Haha. How smart. Then, you have to pay me 1000 coins.]

Cale frowned. He didn't have 1000 coins.

He glanced at the sky but didn't receive any sponsorship from his constellation.

The teenager turned back toward the dokkaebi.