Chapter 30: Player Qualification Token
In gaming terms, this was essentially the beginning of PvP mode.
After all, compared to zombies that were difficult to kill and could even infect people, hunting humans was far easier.
Especially during the early stages of the apocalypse, many people still had not adapted to the new world.
Their vigilance remained weak.
Even players with decent levels could easily be ambushed and killed while completely unprepared.
Moreover, Killing Intent was only gained after opening the treasure chest.
That practically confirmed that Dead Man Treasure Chests were tradable items.
And that made things truly terrifying.
When players teamed up to kill zombies, the system distributed experience points fairly among everyone.
But Dead Man Treasure Chests could instead be concentrated into the hands of a single person.
Some large groups with enough manpower could easily use this method to nurture a powerful elite player.
The only cost would be sacrificing a batch of strangers they did not know.
Although Joo Joowon had previously asked customer service about PvP mode, there was no way he could have guessed an answer like this through speculation alone.
After all, some games encouraged PvP far more than PvE, while others focused mainly on PvE content and did not prioritize player killing very much.
Before the disadvantages of Dead Man Treasure Chests fully revealed themselves, Joo Joowon felt that once people discovered this mechanic, many would immediately point their blades toward innocent survivors without hesitation.
He slowly took a deep breath and chose to open the treasure chest.
[ You have opened the treasure chest. Random extraction in progress... ]
[ Extracting experience... This player was Level 0. Experience extraction failed... ]
[ Extracting carried belongings... Extraction complete!
[ Congratulations you obtained: Physique Attribute Point ×1 ]
Joo Joowon silently turned around.
This extraction system made him realize that player killing would definitely become impossible to stop in the future.
He understood better than anyone how valuable attribute points were.
Yet simply by killing a Level 0 beginner player, there was already a chance to obtain one.
Although he still did not know whether ordinary belongings like clothes were also included within the extraction pool, even if they were, it still would not stop players from gambling on Dead Man Treasure Chests.
Even Joo Joowon himself could no longer say for certain.
If he encountered people who offended him again in the future, but whose crimes did not necessarily deserve death, would he still first choose to drive them away or injure them?
Or would he instead directly kill them the moment conflict appeared?
At that moment, Joo Joowon felt as though something inside him had quietly changed.
He walked over to the corpse of the man called Kang Woo and picked up the Dead Man Treasure Chest that had dropped from the body before immediately opening it.
[ You have opened the treasure chest.
Random extraction in progress... ]
[ Extracting experience... This player was Level 0. Experience extraction failed... ]
[ Extracting carried belongings... Extraction complete!
[ Congratulations you obtained: Player Qualification Token ×1 ]
Joo Joowon blinked his eyes in surprise.
This counted as a carried belonging too?
After the extraction completed, the item transformed directly into a stream of light that entered Joo Joowon’s body instead of appearing physically in his hands.
He immediately opened his status panel to inspect it.
[ Joo Joowon ]
[ Level ]: 2 (16/20)
[ Strength ]: 5 (+1)
[ Physique ]: 5 (+1)
[ Agility ]: 7
[ Mental Power ]: 8 (+1)
[ Equipment ]: Beginner Shirt, Beginner Necklace, Beginner Weapon: Arm Shield
[ Items ]: Modern Compound Crossbow ×1, Bolts ×20, Zombie Core, Player Qualification Token ×1
[ Currency ]: Copper Coins ×9
Joo Joowon tried clicking on the Player Qualification Token entry to inspect it further.
After staring at the words "Player Qualification Token" for five seconds, detailed information finally appeared.
[ Player Qualification Token ]
[ Description: Tradable and mailable. A standard authorization certificate that allows intelligent lifeforms to obtain player status. ]
Joo Joowon subconsciously turned to look at Byeol.
Did cats count as intelligent lifeforms?
Joo Joowon planned to test it again after returning home.
For now, he first searched through the remaining apartments that had been delayed earlier.
He did not take too many things.
He only packed away all the medicine, some long lasting food, and seasonings like salt before standing in the hallway and speaking aloud.
"All the zombies on this floor have already been cleared out. There is still food left behind that I didn’t take. You can come collect it yourselves."
After saying that, he directly turned around and left.
Joo Joowon did not know whether there were still living survivors hiding somewhere on this floor who had never shown themselves.
And honestly, he did not care much.
After all, he was simply being generous using other people’s belongings.
Still, doing this made him feel slightly better mentally.
There was nothing wrong with being hypocritically kind sometimes.
Not wanting contact with strangers did not mean he was antisocial.
If there were things he could not use himself, he did not mind leaving them for others.
But the premise was that he willingly gave them away.
Other people could not demand them from him first.
This was probably the limit of what he, as an ordinary person, could accomplish.
He would not actively create trouble for himself.
But as long as his own interests were not affected, he also did not mind occasionally being a good person.
After returning home, Joo Joowon immediately tried using the Player Qualification Token on Byeol.
However, the moment he targeted the qualification toward the cat, a notification appeared saying it could not be used, causing him to frown slightly.
What exactly defined an intelligent lifeform?
How intelligent did something need to be before qualifying?
Logically speaking, animals should count as well.
Their intelligence simply varied from species to species.
Certain birds, for example, possessed intelligence comparable to seven or eight year old human children.
Cats and dogs could also possess intelligence levels similar to five or six year old children.
Some of them were even clever enough to seem as though they had never drunk Water of Lethe before reincarnating.
Wait.
Children?
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