Born in apocalypse Chapter 150: About The Past

The old man looked at Dhruv as if he didn’t understand what he ant by, ’Old man, tell how things happened from the start...’

’Does the lord want to tell him how I got captured by the gang... or sothing else,’ the old man tried to guess, but he couldn’t understand. So, he turned to look at his lord and asked,

"I’m sorry, but I don’t think I understand what you an, My lord," the old man said, not hesitating to address Dhruv as Lord.

"What I an was, tell how things had happened before the start of the evolution and how it progressed from there on," Dhruv said, clarifying his interest.

"From the start?!!" the old man looked at Dhruv as if wanting a second confirmation.

"Yes, from the start," Dhruv pressed.

"O-okay!!!"

With slight hesitation, the old man took a sigh and began to explain how things went downhill...

"I don’t rember exactly the day, but approximately one year before the start of the evolution, the military presence in the city began to increase significantly.

They would randomly remove soone from their houses and would begin to guard that area. This has happened many tis throughout the city. And if anyone were to ask the previous owner of the house anything, the answer they would get was that there was so kind of infestation that had happened in their house...." The old man paused as he now understood the reason behind this action.

’So, they had also known about the dungeons and were removing people while guarding the area around the crack. Doesn’t that an the one who was guarding the crack would absorb the mana and beco the chosen one in the process,’ Dhruv thought, once again enlightened about the extent of the governnt’s knowledge and power.

’But the effect wouldn’t be that great, as the mana would be distributed among everyone present there... right?’ Dhruv thought. He controlled his thoughts and refocused on the old man.

"...At that ti, if they had told us about the existence of the dungeons, maybe we would have been better prepared..." The old man sighed.

He was about to bla the governnt but instantly stopped speaking when he rembered that they had a seven-day ti fra before the start of the real hell, the second quest, and yet they were unable to achieve anything.

"As ti progressed, the military presence increased, and the reason they had given was that there is so sort of virus which is appearing due to so bizarre reason, and that’s why we have to quarantine that place as soon as possible," the old man explained.

The old man looked at Dhruv and said, "You must be wondering, my lord, how the governnt was able to convince us with this bullshit reason, right."

With slight hesitation, Dhruv nodded as he indeed was thinking about this.

"I had heard sowhere that if the lies are told enough tis, they eventually beco the truth, and that’s exactly what the governnt did. Almost 24/7, they would show us made-up horrible effects of the virus, fake death counts, scientists researching the virus, etc on TV, in newspapers, and even on social dia. They almost engraved that thing in our brains, and eventually, we accepted that as well," the old man sighed.

Dhruv nodded as he took note of this thod, as it was a very effective way to influence the masses. Spread the misinformation so much that it becos the accepted information.

"This progressed until the day the evolution began. As you know, there was a worldwide announcent that had happened, and there wasn’t anyone on the planet who hadn’t heard about this..."

"...What was the reaction of people after the announcent?" Dhruv asked cutting the old man in the middle. There was a hint of curiosity on his face.

"Sigh! Everyone had different reactions. So thought of this as so alien invasion of so sort, I was one of them. So thought of this as a governnt secret project getting out, so thought this was the effect of that virus, and so thought of this as the response from their god. But everything changed after the second day...

"What happened on the second day?" Dhruv asked once again.

"What was the task of the first quest?" the old man asked.

"To get a class," Dhruv answered.

"Exactly, and by the second day, everybody had managed to get a class, I an almost everybody.

The first class I had gotten was ’guard’ because of my job as an ATM guard. As more and more people completed the task, they began to take the matter very lightly and thought that this was just so simple, there wasn’t anything to worry about.

And to hit the final nail in the coffin, every governnt began to say the sa thing: ’We don’t have to worry, and we will be able to pass everything easily," the old man said. with a hint of regret in his voice as if he was thinking that he shouldn’t have accepted what they were telling him.

"And due to getting reassurance from the governnt, nobody prepared for the future..." Dhruv asked with a frown on his face, as he could already imagine what would have happened in the second quest without any preparation.

"Regrettably, yes, this is what most of us decided to do. But so groups were urging us to prepare, that the apocalypse was about to happen, and we should prepare for it. But the groups were made up of teenagers, and nobody listened to their warnings. Now, am I wondering how they knew about the apocalypse?" The old man thought about this...

He instantly ca out of his trance and continued...

"Before the second quest, we even got the rewards. On the seventh day, we even got rewards for things we didn’t even do, boosting our ego further..."

After thinking for a while the old man continues,

"...If I rember correctly, I got a silver chest from which I got a necklace that provides with a 10-level increase in my Magic power, and there was this exclusive ability as well. My exclusive ability was ’Rational Thinker,’ and the use of it was to make think through everything from a rational perspective. It was due to this ability that I managed to survive the quest along with my grandchildren."

"Grandchildren..?" Dhruv asked with a surprised tone.