Chapter 46: Unspoken Dangers
As for the attribute point talents, TheMadScientist did not believe Ashfall only knew about talents related to Mental Power.
Just like many others, he also believed that Ashfall definitely had an entire team supporting him behind the scenes.
Otherwise, how could a single person possibly know this much information?
As for the information regarding Dead Man Treasure Chests, it made his expression grow even more serious.
The fact that Dead Man Treasure Chests could drop experience points was absolutely terrible news.
Everyone already knew how difficult it was to gain experience points normally.
Compared to fighting zombies, there would definitely be people far more willing to raise butcher knives against fellow humans instead.
After all, humans were much easier to kill than zombies.
Putting everything else aside, even TheMadScientist himself could casually choose a random building, wait until everyone inside was resting, then start a fire.
Whether the people trapped inside were humans or zombies, would they not all end up dying anyway?
Of course, if he started a fire, he might not necessarily obtain the items they dropped afterward.
But what about poison?
What about explosions?
What about deception and traps?
TheMadScientist’s moral bottom line was the reason why, even though he had already discovered long ago that killing zombies using traps carried no experience penalty, he still never considered indiscriminately slaughtering people without caring whether survivors remained inside residential buildings.
However, not everyone in the world could maintain the same bottom line as him.
When someone possessed deadly weapons, murderous thoughts naturally followed.
TheMadScientist understood very clearly that other information might remain hidden for long periods of time.
But the truth about Dead Man Treasure Chests definitely could not stay secret forever.
Someone would inevitably test it eventually.
Not to mention that the marketplace was not divided between domestic and international networks.
In certain foreign regions, simply switching marketplace sections would immediately reveal information about Dead Man Treasure Chests.
There were simply too many people in the world.
Not everyone could keep secrets forever.
Perhaps people could suppress the truth at first, but after several days passed, that might no longer remain the case.
Especially once the marketplace shut down after the seventh day.
At that point, information would become isolated and communication would become extremely inconvenient.
Certain individuals would completely transform into local tyrants.
And once that happened, even if they slaughtered their fellow humans recklessly, there would be no righteous heroes appearing to stop them.
Unlike now, because communication still existed, some people feared becoming targets of public attention and therefore did not dare behave too excessively.
After all, although everyone’s attributes had increased somewhat, at the end of the day they were still flesh and blood humans.
Enough people gathering together could still kill them.
Even if most people were not geniuses, they were still normal adults with functioning intelligence.
Who would dare become recklessly arrogant this early into the apocalypse without any caution at all?
TheMadScientist secretly resolved that he needed to remain even more cautious and hidden in the future.
He also needed to become more wary of other people.
Who knew how many people had already discovered the secret of Dead Man Treasure Chests yet deliberately remained silent about it?
After browsing through the trading market for a while and confirming there was no suitable equipment available, Joo Joowon finally closed the interface.
Through the information he gathered yesterday and today, Joo Joowon carefully counted the currently known equipment slots.
He discovered that a person could equip a total of twelve pieces of equipment.
These consisted of a hat, upper clothing, gloves, belt, pants, shoes, necklace, waist accessory, left ring, right ring, weapon slot, and hidden weapon slot.
Just like clothing, the other equipment could not be stacked either.
No matter how many pieces someone wore, only one would take effect.
The only exception was rings, since players could equip two of them at the same time.
Joo Joowon did not know whether items capable of expanding equipment slots would appear later in the game.
Perhaps they would.
Perhaps they would not.
However, based on his many years of gaming experience, he believed there would more likely be special items capable of providing bonuses without occupying equipment slots.
For example, glasses, masks, cloaks, and similar accessories.
Of course, this conclusion was merely speculation based on his gaming experience.
It could also turn out to be complete nonsense.
After all, this was a game.
Yet at the same time, it was not merely a game.
After organizing all the cat food he had purchased, Joo Joowon narrowed his eyes and slowly walked around the apartment.
Unfortunately, he discovered no unexpected surprises waiting for him.
So he removed the Enhanced Cognition talent and switched back to Mind’s Eye instead.
Since there was no entertainment available anymore, Joo Joowon cleaned himself up, tightly shut the doors and windows, closed the curtains, and prepared to sleep.
He still did not know how intelligent those zombie birds had become.
Perhaps they were already smart enough to determine which apartments contained survivors simply by observing closed curtains.
Regardless, drawing the curtains was still better than allowing outsiders to immediately see people inside at a glance.
Joo Joowon made up his mind that tomorrow, while going out to hunt zombies, he would first close the windows and curtains of every room he had already cleared before.
That way, even if zombie birds intended to attack, they might not immediately identify his exact location.
He also needed to increase the speed of his hunting.
The upper floors no longer provided him with much sense of security anymore.
Perhaps basements had now become safer shelters and true safe houses instead.
Unfortunately, Joo Joowon had no such choice available to him.
After wiping Byeol’s paws clean, Joo Joowon carried the cat onto the bed.
As a cat that did not sprint wildly around the house at night, Byeol’s sleeping habits had long since synchronized with his own.
Whenever Joo Joowon slept, the cat would come over and sleep beside him as well.
Because Byeol was lightweight, even when it occasionally slept on his chest, it never felt especially heavy.
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