Transformed into Cosmic Horror in a Sci-Fi Universe-Chapter 114 : Survival Game
The man on stage watched the confused people as if they were amusing entertainment.
He slowly opened his mouth while holding something like a microphone.
[ Now, everyone be quiet. ]
Zzzzing─
“Urgh?!”
“Aagh…!”
When he spoke into the microphone, people’s heads suddenly started throbbing with pain.
This sensation.
Though much weaker, it was a sensation they had felt before.
The planet with eyes that had caused tremendous headaches while communicating.
People recalled that.
And only then did everyone look at the man on stage.
“……”
“……”
Staying quiet as he commanded.
They couldn’t say anything.
They could feel it instinctively.
The planet with eyes had made their heads explode.
Though this man had a human form, he was undoubtedly a similar being.
Their heads might explode the moment they spoke.
That thought naturally kept their mouths shut.
But then.
“Who are you people?! Where is this! Where have you taken me!”
A man without a drop of blood on him shouted in protest.
He seemed to not properly understand the current situation.
Perhaps he hadn’t seen the people whose heads had exploded and died.
[ I said be quiet. ]
And the result was.
Pop!
With just a slight gesture from the man on stage, that man’s head exploded.
“Ky, kyaaaaaah!”
“Wh-what?!”
Several people nearby screamed at the sight.
Splat!
Pop!
The two who screamed met the same fate.
“……”
“……”
From then on, it was impossible not to understand.
That the moment you make a sound, your head explodes and you die.
Those who had lost family and were grieving.
Those who were trembling in panic.
Those who had never seen a person’s head explode and die before.
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Everyone kept their mouths shut.
[ Phew, finally it’s quiet. Now I can explain. ]
The man let out a relieved sigh.
Even though he was just speaking normally, people had to endure throbbing headaches.
Every time his thoughts pierced their minds, they felt considerable pain in their heads.
But the man continued speaking, paying no mind to such things.
[ Now then, you are the selected survivors from Earth. Well… when I say selected, we just chose randomly, so there’s nothing special about it. ]
Selected survivors.
And the reason they were selected…
[ From now on, we’re going to play a survival game to satisfy us, the gods. Since it’s too troublesome to watch too many, we reduced it to 100 people. Ah, now it’s 97. ]
Gods.
To become entertainment for beings called gods.
To participate in what they called a ‘survival game’.
At first, it seemed ridiculous.
That gods existed.
But thinking about it carefully, it made sense.
That all those people had died, that only these 100 people on Earth had survived.
That they had suddenly been transported to this unfamiliar place.
If you considered that planet with eyes and this man before them as divine beings.
This absurdity became somewhat explainable.
But even so, wasn’t it too unreasonable?
Even for gods, this was too much.
Killing everyone and forcing them into this survival game as they pleased?
Why was it necessary to kill everyone?
Why was it necessary to hold a survival game for entertainment?
The man answered those questions.
[ The reason for killing everyone is simple. Everyone except the survival game participants was unnecessary. ]
The reason they had to kill all of Earth’s humans.
It was so simple, so empty, and so unreasonable.
Just because they weren’t needed.
Because to the gods, they were merely cumbersome things.
Everyone was left speechless at such an outrageous statement.
Well, they couldn’t speak in the first place… but anyway.
[ And why we’re doing a survival game… as I said before, it’s to satisfy us gods. It’s just fun. ]
Fun.
Just for fun, they killed billions of people on Earth, leaving only 100 alive to participate in their arbitrary survival game.
There couldn’t be anything more unreasonable than this.
How could these so-called gods do this?
[ Well, I think I’ve explained the overview. Since it’s bothersome, shall we start now? ]
But the god didn’t give time for questions or acceptance.
Just announcing.
[ The first game is ring-out. Just knock them outside the arena. Simple, right? ]
He announced the first game with a smile.
And at that moment.
Rumble─
“?!”
“…!!”
The studio began to transform rapidly.
The place where people were standing became a massive circular arena, and outside of it, an underground area filled with an eerie black liquid was revealed.
“W-what is this…?”
Someone unconsciously spoke up.
Though they quickly covered their mouth in surprise, seeing this, the man on stage smirked and said:
[Ah, it’s fine, it’s fine. Everyone’s going to be noisy once the game starts anyway.]
Waving his hand as if it was too bothersome to kill them one by one, he pointed to the floor filled with black liquid below.
[Down there are our creations. They’re not that big. About the size of a finger joint? But despite their size, they’re always hungry and eat enormous amounts.]
No further explanation was needed.
They roughly understood what he meant.
[They like to slowly dissolve and eat flesh. If you don’t want to die painfully, you’d better not fall, right?]
But the man on stage grinned and confirmed it once more for good measure.
Then he explained the rules again.
[The rules are simple. Ring out people. We’ll have 50 survivors, half the total. Ah, is half not 50 anymore? Well, that’s just because I killed some out of laziness, so I’ll count it as 50. Merciful, right?]
“……”
No one could respond to those words.
It was too absurd that he would even mention the word mercy.
[The time limit is 1 hour. But it won’t do if everyone just hesitates and no one gets ringed out, right? So… if we don’t reach 50 people within an hour, I’ll throw everyone down there and kill you all.]
“…!!”
“Eek…”
After finishing his explanation, the man left his final words wishing them good luck and disappeared from the stage.
And right after that.
A one-hour timer appeared above the stage.
[00 : 59 : 57]
Time began to tick.
This was the beginning.
“W-what should we do? What do we do?”
“……”
People fell into confusion.
The sudden situation.
They didn’t know what to do.
To survive, they would have to throw 47 people down there.
To where those horrific creatures that slowly dissolved and painfully killed their prey waited.
No one stepped forward rashly.
There was no one brave enough to step up right away and kill people…
“Damn it, what else can we do! I have to kill everyone to survive!!”
A well-built man suddenly lifted up a frail-looking woman.
“Kyaa, kyaaah! Fuck! Put me down, fuck!!”
The woman screamed and struggled in resistance.
Lee Yujin could only freeze in place at the sight.
‘Should I help? But what if I become the target?’
She was confused.
Whether she should help.
Or if she should stay still.
But there was something strange.
‘They’re clearly foreigners, but I can understand what they’re saying.’
Was this the gods’ consideration?
They could understand foreign languages.
No, should this even be called consideration?
It felt more like… they wanted to make sure everyone could hear clearly what people said as they killed.
To clearly hear and remember the last words people left as they died.
“Fuck! Put me down! Someone stop this! You fuckeeeers!”
Whoosh─ Splash!
No one could stop it and everyone just stood still.
And so the woman fell straight into the black water below.
Shlurrrp─
Finger-joint sized bug-like creatures rushed at incredible speed.
And in incredible numbers toward the woman.
Chomp! Crunch!
They bit into her flesh with their tiny teeth and injected venom that slowly dissolved it.
Like tiny worm holes, countless holes appeared all over her body, and through those gaps the bugs burrowed in to eat the dissolved flesh.
“Kyaaaaaagh─!”
Terrible screams echoed from below.
“Aaaagh! Aaagh! It hurts so much! Help me! Fuuuuck! Die! Die you bastaaaards!”
“……”
“……”
For a while, terrible screams and cursing sounds could be heard.
No one had the courage to look down.
How horrific the sight must be.
They were worried they might end up like that too.
Above all, there was great fear that if they went near the edge now, someone might throw them down.
Everyone began to eye each other warily.
Especially the well-built man who had thrown the first person.
“Next, who’s next…”
He was already panting, looking for his next target.
They say the first time is always the hardest, but it gets easier after that.
He shook off any guilt about killing someone so horrifically and began hunting for his second prey.
‘No. I have to avoid him.’
Seeing this, Lee Yujin began to move, thinking she needed to at least avoid that man to survive.
And at that moment, as if everyone had the same thought, people began to move about in chaos.
