Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 948

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 079
27. The Uninvited Guest (1)
Truth be told, I had always been interested in fishing.
Even before I knew Pangeo.
Much, much earlier than that.
Unlike the other sports and leisure activities I dabbled in here and there, this interest traced back even further than my days at the athlete’s dormitory.
Back when my Survival Craft character was just as small as I was.
In my very early childhood. A friend had casually mentioned something that lingered in my mind.
“I’m going fishing with my dad.”
“Fishing?”
“Yeah. You’ve never been fishing before?”
“No….”
There was no way I could have.
My only family, my grandmother, was too busy running her business, and she had never pursued any hobbies beyond watching dramas throughout her life, let alone fishing.
“Then what’s your hobby?”
“Hobby?”
The very concept of hobbies was vague to me.
“Oh, never mind. What do you do during summer break?”
“During summer….”
I couldn’t answer that either.
I had never done anything special during summer break.
All I did was help my grandmother with her work.
“Um, eating chicken?”
“Come on. You can do that anytime, not just during break.”
“Hmm….”
Back then, I didn’t understand why I couldn’t answer, or why I felt so small in front of my friend.
So even when that friend came a few days later with this proposal, I couldn’t accept it wholeheartedly.
“Um… you know? Would you like to go fishing with my family during break?”
My friend must have later learned that my parents weren’t around.
So I instinctively shook my head.
“No.”
It was purely instinctive.
I knew that the place where my friend’s family spent their vacation wasn’t a place for me.
“Oh… I see.”
My friend nodded awkwardly and withdrew.
After that, I took up archery and transferred schools, and that friend’s existence faded so much that I couldn’t even remember his name anymore.
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[Occupation List]
Farmer
Fisherman
Herbalist
.
.
.
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Seeing “Fisherman” on this list, a faint memory from back then surfaced once more.
‘I want to try fishing.’
In this world so removed from reality, I decided to give fishing a shot.
“I’m going fishing~”

* * *
Meanwhile, the streamers had no intention of letting Almond go.
‘I need to build a solid team here somehow.’
‘Should I try teaming up with Almond?’
‘How can I get Almond on my side?’
It was only natural. The Platform Championship was coming right after this Cheese Village content.
The Platform Championship was an even bigger event than the Cheese Village content. Since people from other platforms would be coming too, it was literally twice as large an event, wasn’t it?
So there wasn’t a single streamer who could ignore the Platform Championship, and there wasn’t a single streamer considering the Platform Championship who didn’t factor in Almond.
Regardless of broadcast scale, Almond was the most reliable player from Tribby’s ranks.
So at this very moment, the streamers were desperately searching for Almond.
“Miho, do you know where Almond went?”
“Why?”
Someone hoped that other streamers wouldn’t find Almond.
“Oh, no… haha. Just. You know. Everyone keeps saying he’s so handsome. I just wanted to catch a glimpse…”
“It’s SD here anyway. What’s the point?”
Balloon Gum stepped in too.
“Right. Let me help you. Me. Why are you looking for Almond? My character here fits my body perfectly, so honestly I move better here than anyone.”
hahahahaha
That nerve war is insane lol
Why? lol that’s ridiculous
Hahahaha
-Balloon Gum really has no difference
“Aha… well, that’s fine.”
The streamers quietly retreated from Balloon Stars’ prickly response.
‘Damn. You Balloon guys, cut it out.’
They shook their heads and set out to find Almond themselves.
The fastest way was to ask the viewers.
“Did Almond appear earlier and then leave?”
“Where did Almond go after dying anyway? Haha. I’m, I’m just curious.”
“Guys. What does Almond like anyway? No, I’m just asking. Just asking.”
Because of this, the viewers couldn’t help but realize that many streamers had become obsessed with finding Almond.
Hahaha, is everyone an almond parrot?
-They’re searching like Nut Fans addicts
No, haha, we can’t move forward like this.
Did you bet your life on the platform war?ㅋㅋㅋ
From his very appearance, Almond was essentially becoming the protagonist of this Cheese Village.

* * *
The community began discussing this situation.
Superstar nuts lol
[Is finding Almond perhaps the village’s objective?]
There’s no denying that almonds are nowhere to be found in cheese lol
Almond actually goes fishing though lol
“Find Almond” had become the village’s motto, which wasn’t actually a good phenomenon from a content perspective.
The community was pointing this out.
-Hey, but will the game even progress like this?
└At least they’re still handling survival, so it should work out for now?
Some guys are way too obvious.
-Bringing real life into it kills the fun, but
└Forreal
└Yeah…
The greatest advantage of survival craft-type games is “deep immersion.”
The streamer becomes immersed as if this were their actual life, and the viewers enjoy watching it.
But when streamers start considering the real-life “platform competition” too much, the fun diminishes.
The Cheese Platform staff and people from Zhang Fei Productions also began to worry.
“Hmm. The village requires immersion, but people are searching for platform competition members. More specifically, they’re searching for Almond.”
They understood the situation precisely.
“Right. This is problematic, isn’t it? It’ll be difficult for Almond to play freely too.”
“It’s fortunate that Almond died and disappeared early… If he’d been here from the start, goodness, it would’ve been a disaster?”
“We’ll need to add a rule for this.”
They reached the conclusion that they needed to intervene somewhat.
“No mention of real life. How about something like that?”
“That seems fine for now.”

* * *
Meanwhile, Almond set out fishing peacefully, completely unaware of all the turmoil unfolding.
Ding.
[New Village Ordinance!]
[References to Real Life and Their Application Prohibited]
A message arrived for him as well.
‘What’s this about?’
But he didn’t pay much attention to it.
He was already expending all his mental energy trying to understand the game mechanics.
“There’s a hunger stat… and thirst too… it’s got a bit of that Zombie School vibe to it.”
He was studying the UI to figure out what kind of game this was.
-Is this really your first time in SurCraft??
-Not even practicing before jumping in, that’s some serious commitment to staying a beginner lol
-Why didn’t you at least read the wiki? lol
-You should know at least that much lol
-Yeah, it’s basically a survival game!
-Streamer Almond, forever the beginner at heart
He had read the Survival Craft wiki document before, but he’d never bothered to actually practice it.
At first glance, it looked like a fairly simple game.
“Well, I heard it was a game that elementary school kids play. So I just came in.”
But such excuses no longer worked on the Nut Clan, who had grown weary of his antics.
Ding.
[Gaji-bokkeun donated 3,000 won.]
[Spamming shop picks in the National Tournament…]
-lololol
-For real lol
-The National Tournament has a lot of elementary school kids participating anyway, right? lol
-Lmao
-At least you didn’t shop pick at the international tournament lol
-And yet you’re making excuses now, you’ve really grown
“Shop picking is a strategy, though?”
Almond tilted his head, genuinely confused.
Criticism like this didn’t faze Almond.
He genuinely believed it was a strategy.
“That’s what Taco told me.”
Because that’s how Taco had taught him.
-It is a strategy
-But the damage output doesn’t land, real talk
-Almondil’s Mount Tai logic lol
-Always Cookie this, Taco that lol
-The deal didn’t go through lol
“First, I need to find where the water is. I’m thirsty and I need to fish too.”
Almond paid no mind and scurried about on his short legs, searching for the sound of water.
Boing, boing, boing!
After running around for a few minutes like that, what did I find?
Water appeared.
Whoooosh….
It was an upstream current flowing quite rapidly.
“Oh.”
I approached and bent down to drink the water first.
“Wow. Almost fell over. My legs are too short.”
Gulp.
For a moment, my oversized head threw off my balance, but I managed to drink the water successfully.
-lololol
-Short legs aren’t adapting well
-So cute lol
-Put it in an empty bottle and drink it
[Thirst 50 → 0]
My thirst dropped to 0.
“But where’s the empty bottle?”
After hearing the suggestion to store water in a bottle, I opened my inventory, but there was nothing.
-You died so you dropped everything lol
-Even the starting items dropped lol
-Haha lol
-Huh? lol That’s right, I did die??
“Ah… I don’t have them because I died?”
Almond scratches my head.
‘What. It’s not like anything important disappeared, right?’
Should I go back to the starting area to look for items or not?
The starting items didn’t seem that important anyway.
Then, another stat that was slowly turning red caught my eye.
[Hunger 70]
“Ah. I’m hungry!”
I remembered that there was a hunger stat and cried out.
Ding!
[Rubisword donated 5,000 won.]
[My belly’s rumbling~]
“Thank you, Rubisword.”
[As a reward for the 5,000 won donation, you receive ‘Cheese Cookie’.]
A cheese cookie appeared in my inventory.
“Huh? Oh, right.”
I suddenly remembered the donation alerts I’d momentarily forgotten about.
Every 5,000 won donation spawns a Cookie.
Crunch crunch.
I was biting into a cheese Cookie when my hunger stat dropped.
Ding!
[Jay donated 5,000 won.]
[Almond eating a Cookie is so cute]
Another Cookie appeared.
“Thank you, Jay.”
Crunch crunch.
As I took a big bite, my hunger stat dropped again.
But this sparked an unexpected reaction.
The sight of my large-headed character gripping an oversized Cookie in both hands and eating it seemed to awaken some primal desire in my viewers.
Ding!
[Cute donated 5,000 won.]
[There we go!]
Ding!
[Infinite donated 5,000 won.]
[Wow, eat one more Cookie for us lol]
Ding!
[Golden Bell donated 5,000 won.]
[Donating a Cookie to the hungry Almond!]
Ding!
[Mother donated 5,000 won.]
[Oh my. Is this little guy going to eat his own face? // ???: Yes!]
Cookies were spawning far too easily.
Tumble tumble tumble.
A handful of Cookies spilled into my hands.
-Lol
-His face is literally being fed by the chat lmaooo
-Even with short legs, handsome guys get Cookies
-This dirty world… pity donations…
-What kind of life is it when you just say you’re hungry and Cookies fall from the sky…
-Getting donations with a handsome buff on an SD character isn’t cheating??
Pop.
After the last Cookie appeared.
“Wow, thank you all.”
I began preparing to craft a fishing rod.
“My hunger’s gone now, so let me try making a fishing rod.”
In Survival Craft, as long as players have the materials, they can craft virtually anything themselves.
[Combination Manual]
By reading the combination manual and matching the shape and material quantities, it would form automatically.
“Three twigs… and I need two pieces of thread?”
Twigs were easy enough—just break them off from a tree.
The problem was figuring out where to get thread.
“Let me start with the twigs first.”
I attempted to climb up the tree and snap some off easily, but—
“…Ugh.”
Short legs and arms, an oversized head… my character’s proportions were hardly suited for climbing trees.
“Ah, no. This is…”
Almond, experiencing this type of game for the first time, was flustered.
-The fall of the alpha male…
Haha, that won’t work, haha.
“After living as an 8-head-tall person all this time, how does it feel to become a 2-head-tall person? lol”
lol so flustered
Climbing trees here wasn’t easy.
‘So what do I do?’
I racked my brain.
No matter how I looked at it, I’d need to chop the tree down with an axe.
But where was I supposed to find an axe?
I only had Cookie; I was completely broke.
That’s when it happened.
“Ah. Is this where those guys gathered?”
“Probably. If we get any closer, they might spot us.”
“They just started moving here, so…”
Strange conversation drifted from somewhere.
‘What?’
Almond crouched down and hid in the bushes, holding my breath.
Two 2-head-tall characters were approaching along a pond, exchanging words.
‘I can’t see their IDs.’
They were unfamiliar faces.
And their IDs weren’t visible either. They’d turned off the display option.
Why on earth?
Were they Cheese Streamers?
They had equipment on them, at least.
Crude as it was, they had swords at their waists and shields as well.
‘Something feels off.’
These people felt different somehow.
More prepared, in a sense.
-What are those guys?
-Huh?
-They’re not NPCs?
-What?
At that, I turned off my game mic and spoke.
“Don’t you think those people might have fishing rods too?”
-Whoa
-Oh lol
-That makes sense?
-I dunno
-Even if they do, what’s he gonna do lol
There are only two ways to get items from someone’s inventory.
Either they give it to you themselves, or….
“When they die, they drop everything.”
They die.
Hahahahahahaha
-Already lol
-4. Shoot
-You said it was relaxing
-Nut Shake lol
-Is it Taang again?
-Fishing… right?
Hahahaha, you got me.

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