The Extra in the Money Game Is Too Competent Chapter 13 : Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Ding!

The door opened with a notification sound that we had arrived at the designated floor.

I, Lee Ju-seong, returned to the 1st floor.

Alive and well.

July stepped out of the elevator and passed through a short passage.

Then he imdiately turned left.

“The two of you who survived have earned the right to hear the full configuration of this ga.”

“First, I should tell you about the Ga Zone.”

“The Gym, Hall, Managent Building, and Ga Tower.”

“These four buildings are grouped together and called the Ga Zone.”

This was content that wasn't told before the first ga.

To my ears, it sounded like they didn't want to spend unnecessary effort on those who would die in the first ga.

The playground was empty.

Was it because we cleared it first?

That wasn't it.

Bloodstains for dozens of people remained on the playground.

The bloodstains wiggled long like snakes and crossed the playground.

Whether quite so ti had passed since they were spilled, they had discolored to a dark red as if soone had carved a scar into the ground.

All bloodstains started from the Ga Tower, left a long curve on the playground, and reached the Hall.

A wrinkle ford on Park So-yul's brow.

“Ju-seong, that over there……”

I counted the number of bloodstains with patience and nodded once to an I empathized with Park So-yul's feelings.

“There must be bloodstains left by the injured who finished the ga one step ahead of us.”

“Mr. Dealer, is there a dical facility in the Hall?”

July turned his head and stared at us.

The mask's tightening strap was loose, so the mask was slightly crooked.

“The explanation hasn't even finished, yet you're already having a Q&A session.”

“I will tell you everything kindly one by one.”

July, who quietly dismissed us as impatient people, passed through the front gate of the Hall with a balanced gait.

The Hall was shabby as if it had been built 20 years ago.

Passing the front gate, the lobby that appeared had thick cylindrical stone pillars placed here and there, and circular benches were installed at the bottom of the stone pillars to sit and rest.

The part to pay attention to was the people sitting on the benches.

On each bench, one or two players who finished the ga earlier were sitting or lying down.

While making groaning sounds.

“Ugh, uuuugh, kh-aaaah.”

“Gurgle! Gurgle-gurgle! Kehk!”

Pale complexions, blood scabs stuck all over their bodies, bandages tied as a stopgap asure.

Every single one of them was in a state that required being taken to the ergency room imdiately.

Nevertheless, the injured were left neglected on the Hall lobby benches.

Park So-yul closed her eyes tightly while walking.

“Oh my……”

In the place where Park So-yul turned her eyes away, unable to bear watching, a man in his late 50s was sitting.

The man was gasping for breath in a posture of wrapping his abdon with both arms.

Inside the wrapped area, part of his internal contents were slightly protruding.

Soon, the chest of the man, which repeated rising and falling, stopped its repetitive movent.

A mont later, people wearing red work clothes and copper masks appeared from outside the building with a stretcher and loaded the middle-aged man's body.

July said clearly with an unwavering voice as if it were a familiar scene.

“You might be curious why these people are dying without receiving treatnt.”

“However, considering the title of this ga is Money Ga, the answer is obvious.”

Park So-yul tilted her head to the side as if she couldn't guess.

On the other hand, I answered imdiately.

“One must pay money to receive treatnt. Is that correct?”

Since I already roughly knew the structure inside this Money Ga, I could answer imdiately.

Of course, I showed thoroughness by adding the words ‘Is that correct?’ to avoid giving off the hint that I had prior knowledge.

The light inside July's mask eye holes glistened.

Was it just my imagination that the gaze looking at felt like it had gained depth?

Whether July's interest toward would have a positive or negative influence on the new script to be written was unknown for now.

“As expected of Lee Ju-seong. You are quick-witted.”

“Would you please look over there?”

Before we knew it, we had passed through the lobby and co out to the other side of the Hall.

Beyond the Hall, in a place 50 ters away from the Ga Zone, a temporary building was placed grandly.

A large single-story temporary building.

Several signboards were hung vertically in a row on the edge of the temporary building.

[Luxury Restaurant]

[Non-Insurance dical]

[High-Tax Package]

[Security Hotel]

Four signboards were particularly noticeable.

There was a bulletin board with brand nas stuck all over it right inside the entrance of the temporary building, so one could tell that dozens of services were being provided inside the temporary building.

July revealed the official na of the building as he entered the temporary building.

“I said I would guide you to the Shopping Mall earlier, right?”

“This is the Shopping Mall.”

“It is the area where a paid restaurant, lodging reception, ticket office for selling boat tickets to return, and dical facilities reside.”

Park So-yul placed her right hand on her left forearm and said.

“Are you telling us to receive treatnt with our own money even for injuries sustained during the ga?”

“Of course.”

“Ms. So-yul, do you just leave after going to a hospital without paying dical fees?”

“You surely must have always left after paying the proper price.”

“That and this are different.”

“At the minimum…… at the minimum…… ugh…….”

Park So-yul trailed off her words in the end as she was about to say that they shouldn't take at least minimum asures as humans.

To demand at least minimum treatnt as a human, the side making the demand had to possess humanity to be persuasive.

However, all survivors were those who had killed or hard other players because of money.

It was sowhat unreasonable to ntion an ethics system based on common sense.

Abnormal is exactly what is normal.

It was a mindset I should hold like a motto inside the Money Ga.

July said with a snort mixed in as if satisfied with having crushed her in logic.

“This ga is the Money Ga.”

“Here, money cos before life.”

And he spoke as if adding to Park So-yul, who was biting her lips, speechless.

“Ultimately, not getting hurt is also an elent necessary to earn a lump sum of money in this ga.”

“Whether to include this fact in your strategy or not is your choice.”

The dical facility was located in a pri spot near the entrance of the Shopping Mall.

One could look into the interior of the facility through the glass wall, and the interior of the facility was no different from the waiting room of any neighborhood hospital.

The reception desk, the waiting room sofa, and a row of consultation rooms, injection rooms, and operating rooms lined up along the passage leading inside.

About a dozen various patients were staying in the waiting room.

However, not a single one of those caught my interest.

My sole interest was the expression of the patient paying dical fees at the paynt counter.

“That person is paying the dical fees. Their eyes are about to pop out.”

“At this rate, they're going to have to register for the ophthalmology departnt again.”

July chuckled and laughed at my joke.

“Naturally, it can't help but be expensive enough for eyes to pop out.”

“There's no way things like dical insurance would be applied here, is there?”

“I have a hunch that for so reason, dical acts are not the only things that will be expensive.”

“Check for yourself whether your hunch was right or wrong.”

The shop that appeared after turning the corner was a luxury restaurant.

In front of the restaurant entrance, a display case containing food models was placed.

From Western styles like steaks and wood-fired pizzas to Oriental dishes encompassing Korean, Chinese, and Japanese ho cooking.

Foods that made one's mouth water just by looking were lined up.

However, for having a fancy interior decoration and a wide range of nus, there wasn't a single custor inside the restaurant.

As a result of checking the acrylic nu board hanging on the wall of the shop, the reason why there were no custors beca clear.

[Tenderloin Steak (200 grams) - 500,000 won]

[Topping Custom Wood-fired Pizza (Regular) - 250,000 won]

[Full Course Korean al (Select 1 out of 2 types of Kimchi/Doenjang Stew) - 100,000 won]

The cheapest nu was the 100,000 won Kimchi Stew set or Doenjang Stew set.

Other nus easily exceeded 200,000 won, and high-end food like steak exceeded 500,000 won.

There was also wine, and for so wines, they were selling items for 1,000,000 won that could be bought for 100,000 won outside.

After comparing the prices in society, I spoke of the prices of the Shopping Mall.

“A price ten tis more expensive than the prices in society.”

“Since you've monopolized it anyway, why didn't you just set it at twenty or thirty tis?”

July shrugged his shoulders at my sarcasm.

“It's no use complaining to .”

“Because it's a price set by the higher-ups thinking it's a reasonable price.”

“Starve if you have no money?”

“Hahahaha, no matter what, we can't proceed with the ga by controlling even food.”

“Basically, free food distribution is prepared.”

“If you go to the Hall, you can receive free food distribution.”

Three tis every day, they distribute food to players for free at the Hall.

The nu is red bean bread and milk.

In the Hall, besides free food distribution, they provided minimum convenience such as wrapping bandages on bleeding areas.

It wasn't for nothing that the injured with no money were gathered in the Hall lobby.

I thought as I walked following July.

‘I asked this and that because I wondered if any singular points had occurred in the ga structure due to my actions, but the basic structure is exactly like the Money Ga drama I know.’

‘Up to the part where people flock to dical facilities in the beginning and there are no people at the restaurant, it is identical to the existing flow.’

Unlike , who was tensely continuing an invisible battle of montum against July, Park So-yul had significantly reduced her words since a while ago.

She seed to have words she wanted to say but couldn't easily put them into her mouth.

Park So-yul's interest was obvious.

For Park So-yul, who was unable to find the timing to cut into the conversation, I put her interest into my mouth instead.

“So, where can we get the boat ticket to return ho?”

“I rember you saying there is a ticket office that sells boat tickets.”

“We're almost there anyway.”

There was no need to hear the location of the ticket office separately from July.

After passing the restaurant and turning the corner, the ticket office appeared with double security of iron bars and tempered glass.

In front of the ticket office, as many as ten people were in the middle of an intense protest.

“What, are you playing gas with people now or what! Is this ticket price a price that even makes sense!”

“Bring the person in charge right now! You said you'd let us go back whenever we wanted!”

“It's different from the story you told at the Gym!”

“You should have made the ticket price clear, if you set it vaguely, what are we supposed to do? In this case, only those who earned a lot suffer more loss, so who would accept this?”

All those protesting belonged to the side with clean attire and bodies.

From their clean appearance, I felt that they had played passively during the ga to avoid a rough ti as much as possible.

They must have taken only a small amount with a low-risk low-return strategy.

It was a strategy that only those with a smaller amount of debt than others could exercise.

It was good to survive safely by sneakily taking a small amount, but the plan went wrong in the process of actually getting the ticket to return ho.

The reason why the players were protesting was written on the standing signboard placed in front of the ticket office.

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