My God-Level System Can Rebuild Civilization in the Apocalypse!

Chapter 51: Growing Threats

That could only mean one thing.

Far more terrifying disasters would appear later on.

The game likely believed that if the marketplace had not been opened, then humanity might very well face complete annihilation, or at the very least the number of surviving players would become too small to handle future stages of the game.

And if that happened, then from the perspective of the game’s creators, the entire game would essentially be considered a failure.

Because of that, the system chose to strengthen a portion of players by opening the marketplace.

Joo Joowon did not know whether this speculation was correct or not.

He had always been someone who instinctively viewed others with suspicion and assumed the worst.

Although he was not paranoid to the point of imagining persecution everywhere, expecting him to optimistically interpret everything positively was genuinely difficult.

Still, being prepared in advance would rarely lead to disastrous mistakes.

After staring at the cat grass for quite some time, Joo Joowon indeed sensed a faint feeling of unease.

However, because the sensation was far too vague, he could not determine whether the talent was genuinely working or whether his own thoughts were simply influencing his body and creating an illusion.

Compared to the crude and direct method the apocalypse game initially used by randomly turning people into zombies, the rain’s mutation process clearly would not happen instantly.

Instead, it required time to slowly accumulate and develop.

Because of that, failing to immediately discover obvious danger during the early stages of mutation was perfectly normal.

After thinking for a moment, Joo Joowon removed Sixth Sense and switched to Enhanced Cognition instead, narrowing his eyes while carefully observing the cat grass.

Since the entire world had already become digitized, then theoretically speaking, the cat grass should also possess a visible quality rank.

At the very least, while it still had not become truly "alive," it should remain possible to inspect.

Enhanced Cognition could not inspect living creatures.

Joo Joowon had already tested this before by equipping the talent and looking at himself in the mirror as well as Byeol.

Nothing appeared at all.

However, the clothes he wore clearly displayed quality information.

Under the effect of the talent, the withered cat grass immediately revealed its true state, emitting an obvious gray glow.

Joo Joowon could not help releasing a sigh of relief because of this.

After all, rainwater was capable of drifting into the apartment from outside.

Fortunately, aside from the cat grass, he had not planted any other greenery indoors.

After confirming there were no problems, Joo Joowon stopped paying attention to it.

However, he also decided he would inspect it once every day from now on.

If one day he suddenly became unable to inspect it anymore, then that would mean the cat grass had already mutated into a monster.

Joo Joowon had no intention of eliminating the danger in advance.

After all, plants possessed a major weakness.

They could not move.

As long as the enemy remained exposed while he himself stayed hidden, then allowing the plant to continue growing before killing it later would likely provide far more experience than ordinary level one zombies.

Perhaps he might even become rich overnight because of it.

Even if incompletely evolved monsters provided only limited experience, Joo Joowon still would not dislike it.

Right now, he desperately lacked experience points.

The more he could obtain, the better.

He had even begun considering deliberately opening windows in several apartments and placing green plants inside them.

Among so many plants, surely one or two would successfully mutate eventually, right?

After all, the rain was still falling extremely lightly right now, yet it already generated such obvious danger signals.

Just imagining the level of "toxicity" involved made the chances of successful mutation seem extremely high.

Of course, Joo Joowon had no intention of doing this on the same floor where he personally lived.

That would simply be too dangerous.

If he accidentally trapped himself alongside the mutated plants, then he would only end up harming himself through his own cleverness.

Fear of fire was a shared weakness among most plants.

If things truly went wrong, Joo Joowon fully intended to burn them directly.

However, since there were still other living people inside the apartment building, he had no plans to resort to that method before obtaining alternative ways to gain experience.

Starting a large fire was easy.

Extinguishing one afterward was far more difficult.

Only after resting enough at home did Joo Joowon fully equip himself once again and head outside, directly descending toward the fifth floor.

However, upon arriving there, he discovered the entire fifth floor had already been cleared.

The fourth floor was the same.

Voices could be heard coming from the third floor, seemingly belonging to a team.

The second floor, on the other hand, appeared untouched so far.

Still, considering the presence of that group on the third floor, Joo Joowon knew that two fists could not defeat four hands.

Without hesitation, he immediately abandoned the idea and chose to head back upstairs instead.

The layout of the first floor was completely different from the apartments above.

Every unit on the first floor came with its own small courtyard.

There were many trees and plenty of grass there.

Normally, residents simply took the elevator down to the underground parking garage directly when leaving the building since it was faster and more convenient.

As long as the staircase leading to the first floor was not blocked, Joo Joowon had absolutely no desire to go down there.

After all, where there were more plants, there would naturally also be more insects.

Who knew whether elite monsters or even stronger lord monsters might already be hiding among the vegetation?

If he could avoid that route, then naturally it was better to avoid it.

Returning empty handed, Joo Joowon had no choice but to shift his attention toward the upper floors.

After adapting to the apocalypse for two or three days, many people had clearly become far more proactive.