I May Be a Virtual Youtuber, but I Still Go to Work - Chapter 116

I’m not completely fearless.

It’s quite specific.

I’d say I’m only afraid of things that can harm me but that I can’t immediately swat down.

Like when I cuddled up to Dora while she played Pandemic Village, I was totally fine, because, as I mentioned multiple times, I know in my head that if you just tackle the boss this way or that, it’ll be game over for them.

But what if it’s not a horror game with shooting action like Pandemic Village?

If they don’t even give me a club to swing, then I have zero interest in playing that game.

To put it specifically, I can easily sweep away a centipede the size of my forearm that suddenly pops out of my house with a broom, but a cockroach that just shows itself for a second and then disappears? That’s terrifying.

… So this zombie apocalypse escape attraction with the second generation is not exactly to my liking.

The reason is clear if you listen to the guide.

It seems they’ve renewed it this year and introduced some cutting-edge technology.

“You must wear AR goggles until you fall asleep. It’s not an instant disqualification if you take them off, but if you attempt a mission while wearing them, you’ll immediately find yourself facing a sad dinner of tents and sleeping bags.”

I was imagining something like a time-limited puzzle run through a giant set with various traps.

But from this year, it’s turned into an AR attraction that feels like ultra-realistic VR gaming.

I was wondering how it worked.

Once you put on the AR goggles, it senses our position and sound in real-time and allows us to sh**t zombies in the virtual world.

The movements of the zombies are rendered in a high-performance computer that incorporates the reality of light and the environment, and then sent to us as video feeds.

The video we watch has excellent quality, and aside from a tiny bit of latency, the feeling of reality is simply astounding.

They said they’d show us a sample of how the video comes out, so the three of us second-gen girls tested it.

“Yikes!”

“Eek!!”

“Ugh. Ugh.”

Thanks to the zombie that suddenly appeared between the three of us, we almost fell down in unison.

Indeed, watching someone in VR or AR goggles from the outside is quite fun.

… The issue is that I have to wear this thing too.

Although it’s virtual, there’s no way I’d really be harmed or anything, but the horror actually felt insane.

Once again, I’ll let the reactions of the three second-gen girls explain it.

“You… are way too… real…”

“Ugh… If only I had a g*n, I could just whack it with the stock.”

“It’s not easy at all. Ugh… it’s really nerve-wracking…”

Why, it’s VR gaming, and even if the 3D modeling quality dipped a bit, most people who try it end up screaming, right?

But perhaps because it’s AR, with the background being pure reality and a realistically rendered zombie popping up, it makes it even crazier.

It feels like a haunted house with all the part-time staff replaced, brought to life by cutting-edge technology.

I know the head is fake, but my eyes get tricked, and my heart jumps along at the same time.

I’ve felt this way about the pension couple for a while now.

They say they started the pension business as a hobby, but they sure seem to be investing quite a bit of money into their hobby.

These goggles we wear, for instance? They must cost hundreds of thousands of won.

If people start running around or breaking things, isn’t that a massive loss?

If I wondered whether there was a poison clause, nope.

No compensation liability for participants.

When I asked what was left for them, the guide responded like she was a rocket enthusiast pushing Dogecoin, with a similar mindset.

“My husband is already happily contemplating what to try out next year. Sure, the equipment does break down now and then, but the data gathered from you playing helps us create better content.”

Trying to wiggle out of breaking this expensive equipment is out of the question, and now I’m definitely off on a zombie apocalypse adventure with the second generation.

I want to tie up my own mouth for saying I’d take training together five days ago.

As I agonized with my eyes closed, Ena brought over the AR equipment and a military jumper from my locker and handed it to me.

“I think this is going to be so much fun! It’s a bit scary, but… I’m excited since we’re all doing it together. Is that a weird thing to say? What do you think, Jia?”

Even though we are in the same spot preparing for our debut, I don’t want to show a weak side in front of the members.

After all, they always reach out to me first whenever there’s a problem, believing I’ll somehow handle it.

I’ve shown a lot of that kind of image before the debut, and ever since, it’s been a mad movie of fixing broadcast blunders.

And because of situations like this, we’ve managed to safely elevate the first generation without major issues.

In corporations like ours, if VTubers can’t express their troubles or just muddle through, it often snowballs into something much bigger later.

In a way, the sudden graduation of Serena was a monumental issue for Rapitsu.

To summarize, I want to be someone dependable.

At least when it comes to the members.

I kept my lips straight and shrugged my shoulders.

“There’s no way I’d be scared of something like this.”