Chapter 12: The Bestseller of Fear
This is the most powerless since Saitama's debut.
He can defeat everyone with one punch, but he can't enter the virtual world.
Ever since the incident was officially reported, many heroes have spontaneously begun to look for ways to enter "that world".
But there was no gain.
Except for the few who had been taken from the beginning, no one was missing, and no one could enter that world.
The half-hour deadline had expired, but no one could prove that someone had "died".
Perhaps, as "it" says, this kind of death is completely random.
The person who "died" for the first time was not found after the incident, perhaps he was a dying person, or he lived in some deserted mountain.
An additional death every half hour is simply not worth mentioning in a populous world.
This problem, which was ignored at first, is rediscovered over time.
Unable to find a way to enter "that world", a week later, the Hero Guild has lowered the hazard level of this bad guy to a lower level.
Most of the heroes have stopped dwelling on this case and moved on to other things.
After all, in this accident-prone city, new hazards arise every day, and the number of heroes is already small, so it can't be so "wasted".
In the end, only Saitama, a genuine B-rank hero, was left to follow up on the incident.
During this week, Shen Ye didn't show much restlessness, and Saitama was more Buddhist.
He had a gut feeling that Genos would not be in danger.
But this incident will not end there.
"When do you think they'll take this event seriously?" Saitama asked while stirring the hot pot.
Shen Ye adjusted the dipping water and bit his chopsticks, "When a big man dies, he will pay attention to it." ”
"Hmm...... That's going to have to wait a long time, that kid of yours, he's okay, right? ”
Shen Ye was silent for a while, "It's okay, it's just that it might be a little traumatic." ”
"Then let's get out quickly, okay?"
Shen Ye took a bite of food, "Then there has to be a way to find them." Our biggest problem now is that we can't find out where they are. ”
"Then how do you know that the child is not injured and is alive and well?"
"It's still updating at a very slow pace, and although it can't meet the conditions for stopping the slaughter, it's still updating, haven't you seen it lately?"
"Hmm...... I'm really not very interested in that subject. ”
"That's right, I'm not too interested."
"But recently, many people have gone to read that book because of this incident, and maybe that weirdo has become a lot stronger because of it."
"This kind of state of being in the dark is really uncomfortable."
Shen Ye sighed, he really had no choice, Yu Hegu had completely given up struggling, and there was no way to get any information from him.
Even contacting Genos became a luxury.
"Then we have to wait?" Saitama doesn't really like this passive state either, but he has no intention of changing either.
"It's better to pray quickly, die a big man."
While they were talking, without knowing the time limit for the first hour and a half, one of the major shareholders of the Hero Association suddenly died at the dinner.
At first no one noticed this, and it was as if he was asleep.
But when someone tried to wake him up, the moment they touched his shoulder, the whole person suddenly collapsed, and he became a terrifying dried corpse as if he had been sucked dry by something.
The tragedy didn't end there, the wrinkled skin fell off piece by piece, and his internal organs were alive and healthy.
Something even more terrible has happened!
This man, he is not dead!
He woke up, screaming miserably.
The glamorous, pot-bellied man of the past has become a monster who doesn't know what it is.
He struggled for a full half hour, and it wasn't until the next deceased appeared that he finally died.
Fear, suddenly exploded.
The person who died was the majority shareholder of the Hero Association, the big benefactor, and he donated so much money to the Hero Association that it was terrifying, and most of the S-class heroes were recruited back and began to investigate this terrible strange thing.
Under tremendous pressure, in just half an hour, everyone realized that this was a follow-up to the incident of "writer readers disappeared for no reason".
The results of this investigation had a very obvious point, and soon, someone found Shen Ye.
However, before they came to the door, Shen Ye and Saitama had already expected a qualitative change in this matter.
Just 10 seconds before the sudden death of the shareholder gentleman, Shen Ye received a new message.
Yu Hegu, who didn't know where he was, told him that the rules had changed!
After a week of evolution, "it" gradually realized that death is a common thing for humans.
In the face of death, which does not directly threaten the self, the indifference of human beings is beyond his imagination.
A human dies every half hour, and that doesn't cause any fear at all.
"It", released new rules!
The more resented a person is, the greater the chance of being chosen and the greater the chance of dying.
The deceased shareholder obviously did a lot of evil things during his lifetime, and he was unpopular.
As a result, he became the first target to be chosen.
When the people from the Hero Association came to the door, Shen Ye did not announce this rule to them.
Once such a rule was announced, he could not explain how he got in touch with Yu Ho Koo.
It will definitely be implicated.
But it's easy for them to speculate on the outcome for themselves.
Just have to wait.
When the crowd was scurrying around like headless flies, the second and third victims appeared.
They are in high positions like the first person, but they are not important government officials or hold important powers, they are all masters of money, and they are not creators of money.
This is also known as rice worms.
Driven by capital, the mediocrities who relied on blood relations became the first victims.
But perhaps it's also a cycle.
Virtue is not worthy of retribution one day.
It's just that this retribution came too quickly, and it was too cruel.
They'll be damned, but they shouldn't be so miserable.
Or that their deaths do no good to society other than to cause panic and waste resources.
But this is enough for "it".
"It" always believes that the strong pressure from the outside world can force this man with enviable talent to write hard and make himself happy.
In the midst of an almost unstoppable evolution, "it" has acquired a power beyond common sense, which is extremely terrifying.
Fear, which made this book an unprecedented bestseller, can be described as very ironic.
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