Doomsday Life Simulator System In A Zombie Apocalypse World Update Era-Chapter 118: Starting The Loaning Service

[There were around 10 billion humans in Terra from what you remembered. In other words, there were approximately 100,000 regions at the start of the Train Survival World’s terran mass transmigration.]

[From what you know, most of the casualties on the first day were those people who couldn’t live without supervision and care, such as those who were really young or really old.]

[Some were disabled or on life support, and the mass transmigration likely ended their lives if they didn’t awaken a good enough innate talent to allow them to survive on their own.]

[However, not all died since there were cases of one parent becoming a train conductor with their child instead.]

[In some ways, the Train Survival World might have given a chance for those at the lower ranks of the social hierarchy to rise, given that they awakened a decent innate talent, but it also took the lives of many.]

[In your case, you didn’t care, as the doomsday life simulation for you was quite illusory. It bordered on treating it as a "game" as it ends when your "simulation self" or "character" dies.]

[But on the other hand, it feels real enough that you can’t help but treat it as reality, just like with your bond and connection with Jade, and interactions with your fellow train crewmates.]

[So, your approach was to be selective. Just treat every stranger as NPCs so that it won’t place a moral burden on you, but treat those who are close to you as real people so that you won’t regret it if ever these life simulations were truly real.]

[That way, you won’t compromise the benefits you could get for your real-world self when the simulation ends, but also won’t miss out on the real connections you could make while in this hypothetical reality.]

[’It’s quite jarring since if I don’t immerse myself in the doomsday life simulation and divide my focus with both my main body and this simulation body, it feels like I’m living in this reality, but also looking at a system screen displaying the text version of this simulation.’]

[’It’s a simultaneous experience of being the in-game player character while also being the gamer outside.’]

[Although that experience troubled you when it was your first time, it was no longer a problem as you got used to it.]

[Moreover, controlling multiplication avatars also gave you a somewhat similar sensation, so using it countlessly had also given you enough experience to deal with it.]

[While you were thinking about that, you decided to check the regional chat group.]

[You saw unfamiliar usernames, and as they chatted, you used Hint Prompt to learn their information and what innate talent they possessed.]

[You noticed that while there were still those Train Conductors possessing innate talents at F-rank and E-rank, they were now a minority, as they only survived due to luck. Most Train Conductors now possessed an average of C-rank innate talents.]

[You even saw a few Train Conductors possessing SS-rank and S-rank innate talents. However, none of those who chatted possessed an SSS-rank innate talent, which spoke of its rarity.]

[’The college where I attended in the real world should be an exception for having that many SS-rank and SSS-rank innate talent users. Moreover, I feel like if these Terras are parallel worlds, then it’s possible that not all SSS-rank innate talent holders in the real world would have an SSS-rank innate talent in the parallel world.’]

[’After all, even Jade’s innate talent in this doomsday life simulation is different from the real-world Jade. So it’s not impossible for a parallel world Terra where Jade didn’t have an SSS-rank innate talent but a lower-ranking one.’]

[Thinking of this, you didn’t stop using Hint Prompt to find potential debtors who possessed excellent innate talents that could be used as collateral.]

[You even started promoting your loan service in the regional chat group, offering all items you have at Silver-grade and below that you and Jade could mass-produce.]

[You weren’t worried that they’d be used against you in a multiplayer-type station.]

[After all, if you ever encounter them, they’d not only be way weaker than you, but their act of using what they owed against you was a good excuse for using World Order to prematurely seize their collateral, which was their innate talents.]

[You weren’t dumb enough to loan them those items at Gold-grade, so what they would be able to loan were those items you didn’t need and couldn’t harm you.]

[It’s another story if they used what they loaned from you to progress faster and obtain higher-grade items, which could harm you, but you’ll still hold an advantage due to being the creditor, so using World Order will always hold leverage over them.]

[Seeing that there was nothing useful to you and the Zenith Train Crew in the trading market, you put some bronze-grade items in your market and marked them for purchase with Train Coins instead of bartering.]

[You didn’t have any Train Coins yet, but the Hint Prompt could still inform you on the price of each item if they were put up for sale with Train Coins, so you weren’t worried about underpricing or overpricing.]

[After putting up some items for sale, you and Jade returned to the master bedroom to sleep since it was still around 1 AM.]

[Before sleeping, you handed temporary partial authority to control the turrets to Scarlet and Old MacDonald. It was in case they encountered stray trains near Zenith.]

{Zayne: @Old MacDonald and @Scarlet, Don’t forget to use Psychic Holder Turret first to lock them in place in the air beside Zenith. Use it to prevent the Train Conductors inside from attacking and, preferably, knock them out unconscious using any means necessary.} 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

{Zayne: I won’t suggest killing them outright, as they might possess innate talents that we could use. I’ll deal with them later and use my spirit avatar to extract their innate talents when I wake up later.}

[After sending that message in the zenith chat group, you accompanied Jade to sleep.]