บท 16: Kayden Answers Five Of The Unanswered Questions

Hearing the polite question as well as the offer of the handsome teenager, Weiss who acted as the old janitor spoke, "I appreciate the offer, but I am already old. The future can be left to youths such as yourself."

"You only need to answer five of my questions. As long as you answer them, you might receive all of the boxes of food and medicines as well as a special reward but it depends on your luck."

Faced with the old janitor's reply, Kayden Flynn, the handsome teenager, didn't force the old janitor and instead, he decided to listen to the old janitor.

"I have no problems with that. I only need to answer five questions, right? So let's start."

'The old janitor should be a special event NPC since he stands out from the rest of the NPCs. And if he was a player, he would have hoarded all of these food and medicines.'

'Although, I can't disregard the possibility of the old janitor being a player with hidden intentions. It's also possible that the boxes of food and medicines are poisoned and only by giving it to other players would allow the old janitor to obtain a special reward of some sort.'

'Anyway, if that's the case, I can only determine it after answering the old janitor's questions. This death game isn't as simple as it looked on the surface so I need to be vigilant and cautious but at the same time, I can't be too cowardly to the point I would lose opportunities presented to me such as this one.'

With that thought in mind and after agreeing with the old janitor, Kayden waited for the old janitor's response.

Since Kayden agreed to answer his questions unlike in Tawagoto Inu's case, Weiss proceeded to ask the first question to Kayden.

"A trolley is heading towards five people. You can pull the lever to direct it to the other track, killing 1 person instead. What do you do?"

"Just to inform you, you can't do anything other than pulling the lever or doing nothing. Since you have no time to untie those six people from the track before the trolley arrives to run either five or one of them."

Faced with the old janitor's question, Kayden was taken aback. He didn't expect that the old janitor would ask a question that didn't have a definitive answer to it.

Since it had no definitive answer, Kayden knew that whether his answer was correct or not depended on the old janitor. If the old janitor didn't think his answer was correct, then his answer wasn't correct.

Faced with that dilemma, Kayden gritted his teeth and decided to answer, "I will pull the lever to sacrifice the life of one person for the other five."

"Although I can do nothing and prevent my hands from being stained with blood by indirectly killing the other person, I am not such a coward. I might not be qualified to judge the value of a person's life, but assuming that all six of them have the same value, then the life of the five people combined is greater than one person."

After Kayden answered and gave the reason for his answer, Weiss replied, "If interpreting the question that way can make you feel better, then go ahead. Either way, I won't say whether you answered my questions correctly or not until all five questions are answered."

"If you don't mind, I can proceed with the second question."

In response, Kayden nodded, "Go ahead. I'm prepared to answer all five questions."

Since Kayden didn't disagree, Weiss continued with the second question, "If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?"

Faced with that question, Kayden pondered for a while before answering, "We kill people that kill people to prevent them from killing more people."

After Kayden answered the second question, Weiss proceeded with the third question, "If you're trying to fail and you succeed, did you fail or did you succeed?"

At this point, Kayden no longer cared and just answered for the sake of answering, "I failed successfully."

'This old man must be senile and knows he is going to die so he is just messing with me.'

Although Weiss could guess Kayden's thoughts, he continued with the fourth question, "Which came first, the egg or the chicken?"

Faced with the old janitor's fourth question, Kayden thought, 'I knew it! This old man is messing with me!'

Regardless of his thoughts, Kayden still answered the old janitor's fourth question, "The egg came first since birds evolved from reptiles. So, the first bird should have hatched from an egg that was laid by a reptile that was similar to, but not quite, a bird itself."

After receiving Kayden's answer to the fourth question, Weiss asked the fifth question, "If a vampire bites a zombie, does the zombie become a vampire or does the vampire become a zombie?"

Wanting to be done with this shit, Kayden answered, "Depends on which is stronger, the vampire venom or the zombie virus. But since this is a zombie-apocalypse world, then I can say that a zombie bitten by a vampire will not turn into a vampire, but the vampire who bit the zombie will become a zombie."

Since he already answered all five questions, Kayden awaited the old janitor's response. His next course of action will be determined by whether the old janitor will stay true to his words or fool him.

After Kayden answered all five questions, Weiss who acted as the old school janitor took out a coin from his pocket and responded, "Since you answered all five questions, then I will flip this coin."

"If you can correctly guess on which side of this coin it will face when it lands on the ground, then you can obtain the boxes of food and medicines as well as a special reward."

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บท 17: Special Event Item: Space Storage Bracelet

When Kayden heard the old janitor's words as well as saw the coin taken out by the old janitor from the old janitor's pockets, he couldn't help but ask, "Does that mean my answers to your questions don't matter? Even if I answer them incorrectly, it will still result in this coin toss challenge?"

In response to Kayden's inquiry, Weiss replied, "Yes. Otherwise, why did you think I mentioned the requirements of answering my questions and you receiving the rewards by luck? I never mentioned that answering my questions correctly will allow you to receive the rewards."

"This special event in the game mainly focuses on two aspects. And that's temperance and luck. As long as you can restrain yourself and prevent greed from clouding your mind, you can answer my questions and won't die."

"After all, you aren't the first to arrive here but that person had already died unlike you who didn't let your greed cloud your judgment. While that's commendable, you still need luck to receive these special rewards."

After replying to Kayden, Weiss paused for a while before he asked, "Do you want to proceed with the coin toss or not? Even if you answered my five questions, you won't receive anything if you don't win the coin toss."

Hearing the old janitor's question, Kayden didn't hesitate since he was still confident in his luck. "Go ahead. I choose heads."

Kayden didn't wait for the old janitor to toss it yet since even if he made that decision before the old janitor tossed the coin, he wasn't some monstrous prodigy with insane calculations. He couldn't calculate and predict the correct landing face of the coin after it was tossed by the old janitor so he decided to rely on luck this time.

Since Kayden already made his decision and chose heads, Weiss tossed the coin on his hand.

The coin flipped several times in the air before it descended to the ground and started spinning. In the end, it slowed down and fell on the ground, facing "heads".

When Kayden saw that it faced heads, he breathed a sigh of relief, as if an unbearable weight was removed from his body.

After all, it was more unbearable for him to not obtain the special rewards after participating in it compared to not participating in it at all. As long as he didn't participate and didn't know about this, he wouldn't have the regret of the special reward being so close to him yet not receiving it.

So after he chose the correct outcome for the coin toss, Kayden was relieved and he patiently waited for the old janitor's next response.

Since Kayden chose the outcome of the coin toss correctly, Weiss didn't have any plans of tricking him so he took out a space storage bracelet out of thin air.

The space storage bracelet appeared, levitating above Weiss' right hand. It had the appearance of a white metallic-like surface with one blue line circling its center.

Presenting the space storage bracelet, Weiss informed Kayden, "This is the space storage bracelet, the special reward aside from the boxes of food and medicine. After all, it's inconvenient for one player to bring all of these resources without getting robbed by others so this space storage bracelet is an important game item for surviving in the apocalypse."

"It doesn't have infinite storage and only has the storage of an average classroom. It also has an anti-theft feature so as long as you drop your blood into this, you will become the sole owner of the space storage bracelet and no one else aside from you can use it."

"Even if others kill you, they won't be able to use the space storage bracelet."

"Furthermore, the blue line circling the center of the space storage bracelet indicated its capacity status. The more you fill up the space storage bracelet with items, the blue line will be filled with red until it will completely become a red line, indicating that it is already at full capacity."

"You can store items in the space storage as long as you come into contact with them. After coming into contact with an item that you want to store, use your thoughts to think of storing that item and it will be successfully stored inside the space storage bracelet as long as it has enough capacity left. And if you want to retrieve the items inside it, just use your thoughts to think of retrieving the items you want."

After informing and explaining the usage of the space storage bracelet to Kayden, Weiss tossed the space storage bracelet to Kayden which prompted Kayden to catch it.

But when Kayden caught the space storage bracelet, he felt a stinging pain in his hand and he noticed that the space storage bracelet released a small needle that pricked him. When the small needle came into contact with his blood, Kayden experienced a sense of connection with the space storage bracelet.

Afterward, Kayden used his thoughts to control the space storage bracelet, causing it to latch on his right wrist.

After Kayden was pricked by the space storage bracelet, Weiss forwarded his hand as a flash of green light lit up on Kayden's wound. When the green light came into contact with Kayden's wound, it instantly healed Kayden's wound.

"You are the first player to ever receive a special event item so I have high hopes for you. It will be a joke if you died after a zombie virus entered your wound pricked by the special event item you just received."

"And you don't have to ask for my permission. You can store every box of food and medicines on the school rooftop to your space storage bracelet. You now owned all of it along with the space storage bracelet."

After receiving those words from the old janitor, Kayden thanked the old janitor before storing all of the boxes of food and medicines in his space storage bracelet.

After Kayden stored all of those inside his space storage bracelet, he covered the space storage bracelet with his long sleeves so that it wouldn't attract too much unwanted attention.

Kayden didn't leave yet and out of curiosity, he asked the old janitor, "Old man, you seem to be aware that you are an NPC. Are the rest of the NPCs in Zombie Survival Online aware of their existence as NPCs?"

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