Gwanjongcheonma’s Game Broadcast - Chapter 99

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Chapter 99

 

“Good morning.”

 

Operations Team’s Lee Bi-su greeted the staff sitting in the conference room.

 

She was feeling as refreshing as the sparkling water placed on the table.

 

The ‘Code Black’ discovered last night.

 

Thankfully, a suspected hacker user was caught during her shift.

 

In capsule games like this, especially in genres where ‘aim’ was crucial, hacks posed a fatal danger.

 

The anger users felt when hit by auto-aimed hacks was no ordinary thing.

 

There were countless cases of users becoming disillusioned with game companies that couldn’t catch hackers and leaving the game.

 

That’s why every game company hunts down hacker users like catching fleas.

 

If the initial response goes wrong, the game’s popularity can plummet into the abyss in an instant.

 

“Assistant Manager Yoon. You distributed all the materials, right?”

 

“Yes, yes. Team Leader.”

 

One of Lee Bi-su’s eyebrows raised momentarily.

 

Somehow Assistant Manager Yoon’s expression while answering looked uncomfortable.

 

But she didn’t think much of it and took her seat.

 

“Code Black was triggered last night. Today’s meeting is because of that incident.”

 

When Lee Bi-su gave the signal, Assistant Manager Yoon Myeong-seok displayed the data screen.

 

On the screen was a gamer so handsome he looked sculpted.

 

The flashy Rooster Crest Skin seemed to pale in comparison to his appearance.

 

“The user’s name is Gwanjong Cheonma. As you saw in the email I sent, this is a user suspected of hacking based on circumstances.”

 

“Hmm.”

 

Lee Bi-su’s direct superior, Manager Jo, expressed his discomfort in his voice.

 

“Are there still hacks these days? You said there wouldn’t be incidents like this after developing the anti-hacking program.”

 

“Yes. This is the first time Code Black has been triggered in the past year. That’s why I urgently called this meeting. Initial response to hacks is most important, isn’t it?”

 

“That’s right. What’s going on with the Technical Team? Didn’t you say the new anti-hacking program made using hacks fundamentally impossible? You were so confident about it.”

 

At Manager Jo’s criticism, a Technical Team staff member gave a rotten smile.

 

It was a subtly rude reaction, but there was a reason for it.

 

“The program is operating normally. Manager.”

 

“What? Then how was that guy Gwanjong Cheonma able to play the game?”

 

“Because it’s not a hack. Code Black was triggered simply because his record was abnormally good.”

 

“Hm?”

 

Instantly Manager Jo’s gaze turned toward Lee Bi-su.

 

At the Technical Team’s sudden statement, her face flushed red.

 

“It’s not a hack? You can say that even after seeing Gwanjong Cheonma’s record?”

 

“It’s true we were suspicious after seeing the records. But we concluded it’s not a hack.”

 

“Ha! Aren’t you just unwilling to admit there are loopholes in the security program? Or maybe you failed to catch it.”

 

She hadn’t intended to speak this harshly.

 

But this was a meeting she had ambitiously called.

 

Especially Manager Jo’s gaze watching her from the side made her feel urgent.

 

“Team Leader Lee is the one handling work too amateurishly, if you ask me.”

 

“What?”

 

“It’s easy to verify even without the Technical Team. Team Leader Lee doesn’t even know that guy does game broadcasts, right?”

 

“Game… broadcast?”

 

It felt like a huge hammer had struck the back of her head.

 

Perhaps pitying her helpless gaze, the Technical Team staff clicked his tongue and continued.

 

“The gamer using the nickname Gwanjong Cheonma. He’s been streaming on Trend for about a month. Just typing the ID on a portal site brings it up…”

 

“Then, it’s really not a hack?”

 

“I don’t know about other users, but how can someone who does game broadcasts use hacks? They share their entire screen with viewers.”

 

“That’s impossible…”

 

Lee Bi-su, who had been hesitating, urgently called Assistant Manager Yoon Myeong-seok.

 

“Assistant Manager Yoon! Put up Gwanjong Cheonma’s video. Hurry!”

 

“Yes, Team Leader.”

 

Yoon Myeong-seok hesitated, then squeezed his eyes shut and pressed the play button.

 

The reason his expression had been troubled before starting the meeting was revealed.

 

Bang! Bang!

 

Boooom!

 

Kaboom!

 

Lee Bi-su watched Gwanjong Cheonma’s gameplay.

 

One question consumed her mind.

 

‘This kind of thing… is Survival Ground?’

 

Tying two bikes together and exploding them in midair.

 

Using that as propulsion to climb impossible places.

 

Exploding bulletproof shields to fly like missiles.

 

Riding zipline guns and performing acrobatics like a corps hunting giants.

 

Right from the start, beating down ten people with bare fists.

 

This wasn’t the Survival Ground she had been watching all this time.

 

However,

 

There was one certain truth.

 

Ironically, it was that Gwanjong Cheonma’s play was ‘not’ a hack.

 

“…”

 

After the video ended, a moment of silence passed.

 

However, Manager Jo didn’t leave Lee Bi-su alone.

 

“Say something, will you? If you called busy people here without even doing basic research, you should at least make an excuse.”

 

“I’m sorry, Manager. I got blinded after seeing only Code Black…”

 

“Looking at the video, we shouldn’t have called the development team and legal team.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

Manager Jo’s generous face keeps turning toward Gwanjong Cheonma’s gameplay video.

 

“We should have called the marketing team. Aren’t these the kind of gamers we were looking for?”

 

“Ah…!”

 

Had she ever made her brain work this fast in her life?

 

Fortunately, Lee Bi-su understood Manager Jo’s words perfectly.

 

“Are you talking about an ambassador?”

 

“Don’t think you can settle today’s wasted trip with a cup of coffee here. I’ll decide whether to let it slide based on how things go with the marketing team.”

 

“Yes. I’ll contact them right away…! And I’m truly sorry.”

 

Lee Bi-su bowed deeply to the technical team, legal team, and Manager Jo.

 

As soon as the meeting ended, she hurriedly headed toward the Marketing Department.

 

* * *

 

Gaming portal site Shotgun.

 

Since it was a large community covering all types of games, getting a popular post was like plucking stars from the sky.

 

[1st Place: Streamer personality controversy that broke last night! Video of abuse of power and harsh words to editor revealed!]

 

[#2: European League of Legends Finals Highlights! Oscar sweeping up pentakills ㄷㄷㄷㄷ]

 

[3rd Place: An idol appeared in Minecrafton! KPOP idol Park Cha-eun commercial filming video!]

 

Extremely provocative incidents and accidents.

 

Or highlights from major tournaments or gaming-related news about celebrities took up the spots.

 

And here,

 

[7th place: Finally broke through the wall of despair ㄷㄷㄷㄷ Got 50 kills in ranked on Sarge]

 

News related to Hae-rang achieved the feat of reaching 7th place in popular posts.

 

[Author: Choi Gang Gang-sik]

 

[Content: You can tell from the screenshot I took, right? 50 kills in individual ranked match.

 

This is a record that has never happened before in Survival Ground ㄷㄷ

 

The chicken skin this guy is wearing was also sent by the Survival Ground developers.

 

He was also the first to get all chicken in placement matches.

 

Isn’t this seriously insane? ㄷㄷㄷㄷ The username is AttentionSeekingDemon.]

 

First of all, the title alone was enough to draw attention.

 

Most of the early comments were reactions of disbelief.

 

-What’s amazing is your imagination is amazing lol

 

-You need to say something that makes sense. How can a person get all skins in placement matches?

 

-This guy writes fiction well. You could be a web novel author.

 

└Hey you. Do you know how hard it is being a web novel writer? I’m doing housework, taking care of the baby, and it’s past 1 AM now but I’m just starting to write ㅠㅠ

 

-Most kills and all chicken? You did two things that are hard to do even one of? At least put some effort into your lies

 

-You can check match history and see the stats. I’ll go check it myself.

 

The comments from users who checked the match history were literally a scene of shock and horror.

 

-Jesus. It’s real?

 

-It’s really true?

 

-Wow. The match history is insane

 

-Placement match all chicken isn’t the end? It’s nine consecutive chickens;;

 

-This guy streams. Search Gwanjong Cheonma in trends and it comes up

 

-That skin isn’t in the shop? Craft really gave it to him!

 

-Crazy;; At this level, isn’t he a god of gaming?

 

-Where did he get 50 kills? Wasn’t it in some ‘Abyss’ rank or ‘Bronze’ place?

 

-The intelligence level of that guy above lol He got a perfect score on the placement test, so why would he go to a place like that?

 

-Wow;; He got 50 kills in Master promotion match too;;

 

-So he reached Master in just nine matches? That’s shocking in its own way

 

-While doing Surg, first time seeing a record like this ㄷㄷ so big and beautiful ㄷㄷ

 

-I should go watch his stream from now on too;;

 

Most were amazed or praising.

 

But some public opinion was also trying to diminish Hae-rang’s achievements.

 

-Master rank isn’t even that special lol If you bring in kids who play in Challenger or Conqueror they all do that well lol

 

-For real, is it just one or two kids who shine in the low tiers then come up here and get schooled?

 

-If you were that good, you would have become Singularity!

 

-Making a fuss over a regular person tsk tsk

 

-Just watched the video and damn, they drive like shit lmaooo looks like their record will be back to normal soon

 

“Things were going well, but now the flies have swarmed.”

 

The author of the post.

 

‘Choi Gang Gang-sik’ Choi Gang-sik clicked his tongue.

 

It was good that he posted on Shotgun and got registered as a popular post,

 

but as Choi Gang-sik said, ‘flies’ had swarmed.

 

Looking at the nicknames of the commenters, most seemed to be fans of ‘Singularity’.

 

“What does it matter.”

 

Hae-rang, sitting on the opposite sofa, chuckled softly while savoring his Ssanghwa Tea.

 

“I’m actually grateful. Each of those comments is also attention. Thanks to them, I even got featured in ‘Shotgun’s’ popular posts, right?”

 

“You brat. Such carefree talk.”

 

Choi Gang-sik was getting angrier than Hae-rang at the comments criticizing him.

 

Even when he glared with his dark circle-filled eyes, it wasn’t scary at all.

 

Choi Gang-sik, who was reading through the comments one by one, suddenly raised his voice.

 

This time he looked even more heated than before.

 

“Hack? Cheat? Have these bastards really lost their minds!”

 

“Hack?”

 

“Ha! Your record is so good that you’re getting this kind of suspicion. It’s ridiculous. They’re suspecting that you’re running illegal programs.”

 

“Ah. I’ve been asked that question during games too.”

 

Because he was too good.

 

Because he didn’t seem human.

 

Hae-rang sometimes heard “You’re hacking, aren’t you?”

 

Every time that happened, Hae-rang

 

felt good.

 

“Isn’t that basically high praise? It means my skills are like those of a user who uses hacks.”

 

“From your perspective, it’s high praise. The problem is that they’re pushing the hack accusation as if it’s real.”

 

After being featured in popular posts, the comments had become a complete mess.

 

When there are many people, aggro appears everywhere.

 

‘Shotgun’ users were having a fierce struggle among themselves over whether it was hacks or not.

 

-Anyway, these mindless haters tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk If they had watched Gwanjong Cheonma’s broadcast even once, they couldn’t say this

 

-Do you know that Gwanjong is a streamer when you’re spouting this? Have you ever seen anyone use hacks while broadcasting?

 

-Whatever lol these Korean Wave fanboys, their intention to capitalize on this is so transparent, right?

 

-Must be some new type of nuke lol Only visible to them but not to the viewers lol

 

“These kinds of people are the problem. People who block one ear from the start and only say what they want to say. Even if you bring evidence and show them, these people won’t acknowledge it.”

 

“If you’re going to get that stressed, why don’t you just delete the post…”

 

“What are you saying! Do you know how many views this post has? 100,000! That’s ten times more than your subscriber count.”

 

“Why are you getting slapped in Jongro and taking out the facts on Han River?”

 

“Huh. You’ve grown a lot. You’re even using words you didn’t know before.”

 

Choi Gang-sik, who laughed bitterly once, smacked his lips.

 

“It would be nice if Kraft could give you official verification at times like this. That would be impossible, right?”

 

“That would be unreasonable. I’m not even Singularity, there’s no way they’d pay that kind of attention to just one user.”

 

“Right. Unless the Kraft staff were bored out of their minds.”

 

Buzz!

 

A sudden vibration.

 

Choi Gang-sik quickly answered the phone in a business-like tone.

 

“Yes.”

 

Then he suddenly shot up from his seat.

 

“Whaaaaat?”

 

Along with a voice that was not business-like at all.

 

“…What’s wrong?”

 

When Hae-rang asked Choi Gang-sik after he finished the call,

 

a deflated sound flowed from his mouth.

 

“These guys. Have they really lost their minds?”

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