Ch 3
Episode 2 – Something seems to have happened.
‘Ugh … the head.’
Jaejoo Kim woke up to a headache that felt like being stabbed by a needle. The scenery he saw when he opened his eyes was the same as in the video.
‘It’s also a cave.’
A large stone shining in the middle was the only light. The son-in-law was dark, but stalactites were hanging from the ceiling illuminated by stones.
[Starts broadcasting.]
[Streamer: Jaejoo Kim]
[Current number of viewers: 0]
[Number of following: 0]
[Owned Coins: 0]
After looking around for a while, a hologram window announcing the broadcast appeared.
‘As expected, do you have a phone?’
I put my smartphone in my pocket just in case. I rummaged through my pockets, but nothing caught on.
Excluding the jeans, a white short-sleeved t-shirt, and sneakers, only the body remains.
‘I do not care. Because I remember everything anyway.’
I’ve been watching you for two years. To the extent that I automatically remember what is happening in a few minutes and seconds.
It was empty because the smartphone disappeared, but it wasn’t a big problem.
‘The time has come sooner than that…’
Jaejoo Kim leaned his back against the shining stone and waited for the viewers to come soon.
‘You have to appeal to me as much as possible.’
One hour is given before the first floor trial begins. In the meantime, you need to communicate with viewers to receive coin sponsorship.
‘The coin shop…’
Jaejoo Kim looked through the broadcast settings window and found the coin shop window at the end.
‘There is a difference between just looking at it and actually entering the tower.’
Trying to calm his beating heart, he scanned the list in the shop window.
[Adjust the list according to the number of user floors.]
-Water 500ml : 1 coin
– 3 pieces of jerky: 1 coin
-Old Iron Sword: 5 Coins
-Old Shield: 3 Coins
-old ······
Except for basic food, weapons and armor were densely packed in the list.
‘If the difficulty level is ‘Sang’, it would be 1 Lizard Warrior or 2 Kobolds.’
The list of monsters in the tower was already lined up.
In the video, the enemy that Jaejoo Kim fought was a lizard warrior.
‘With the coins I was lucky enough to get, I fought hard by rubbing the items.’
Just thinking about it made my heart race.
From now on, I am in a position where I have to fight with blood.
[Completed entry of 1,000 people in flight 4891.]
[The ordeal begins after 1 hour.]
[Destroy all enemies that appear.]
[Remaining time: 59:47]
‘This is the beginning.’
Kim Jae-joo took a deep breath at the hologram window that announced the details of the ordeal and made up his mind.
[User ‘THE LOVE’ has entered.]
-hi
viewers came in.
“Are you here? Brother!”
Jaejoo Kim bowed quickly and greeted.
– When did you say you saw him as hyung?
– Still, it’s good that you’re not as stupid as the other kids.
[‘THE LOVE’ sponsors 1 coin!]
It’s time for other people to panic or cry and make a fuss. It’s a natural reaction for them, as the portals kidnapped people like they were possessed.
‘I can’t even do that.’
It should be clear from the start. He needed to instill the expectation that he was something different from the others.
“Thanks for your support!”
When Jaejoo Kim raised his voice even more, he thanked him for his support.
-lol
– I thought you enlisted.
– Do you know what a coin is and like it?
Jaejoo Kim, pretending to be in serious trouble, hardened his expression and opened his mouth.
“I looked in the broadcast settings window and there was a coin shop, isn’t it for that purpose?”
-Five?
-Have you already found the coin shop?
‘You have to look good.’
In particular, the viewers who came in now were big hands who shot coins well and had a lot of information they knew.
“It’s because I want to do something rather than just sit still.”
– It’s fast. It’s fast.
– I like it
[‘THE LOVE’ sponsors 3 coins]
“thank you!”
– I’m going to lose my ears.
– Where are you going to use the coin?
‘Originally, I would choose jerky or water.’
People experience extreme stress in the unknown.
Food is what catches your eye when there is no proper way to relieve stress.
Now the viewer was testing Kim Jae-joo.
“Um…we have to wait for a while. It’s like using coins carelessly in a situation where you don’t know who the enemies you are talking about in the ordeal are.”
This is the answer I thought about before entering the tower. In this situation, I thought it would be a bad choice to waste coins blindly without knowing anything.
-lol
– After a while, a funny kid came in.
[Following ‘THE LOVE’!]
-I’ll come back after seeing the other kids a bit more f2
[User ‘THE LOVE’ has left.]
“Yes. Come in!”
He bowed his head and said hello.
‘not bad.’
His expression brightened as he straightened his back again.
‘no. Very good. I’m sure you’ll get a following already.’
Not only did I get a passing score from Big Son, but there was also an unexpected benefit of following.
When viewers follow you, it means that I like your show.
If you follow one on the tower’s system, you cannot follow other streamers until you cancel it.
‘In other words, I saw him as the person most likely to break through the tower and climb up. furthermore······.’
A special reward is given whenever following increases by 100, 1000, or 10000 units.
It is a necessary reward because it is given a rare item that lowers the difficulty of the tower.
‘I wish the viewers would continue to exist, but now I’m greedy.’
Viewers are now looking for pearls in the mud for a long time.
It was still too early to hope that the older user ‘THE LOVE’ would remain.
While Jaejoo Kim was organizing his thoughts, viewers steadily came in one by one.
[User ‘dkansk123’ has entered.]
-hi
“hello!”
-You look good for being dragged to the tower.
“You have to think positively about coming here.”
Jaejoo Kim answered while groping his memory. I do not remember all the viewers, but the big hands and the viewers who are keen on information are firmly engraved in their minds.
‘I don’t remember.’
There was no need to express disappointment. Now, each and every one of them is precious.
– What difficulty level did you choose?
“I hit the top.”
-Oh haha
[1 coin sponsorship by user ‘dkansk123’!]
– A rare hero has appeared.
“Haha. Thank you. Please take a look around and spread the word.”
There was a merit just to have chosen the difficulty level.
It’s because people aren’t willing to choose the difficulty level because the rumors about the tower are so ugly from the outside.
‘I saw this in the video too.’
In the video, Jaejoo Kim was lucky enough to get past the beginning of the game as coin sponsorship poured in just because he hit the difficulty level.
The reason why he chose the difficulty award was ridiculous.
My hands were shaking and I pressed the wrong button.
As soon as he heard that, he was in the studio and kicked the blanket.
-ok.
– There’s still some time left before the enemy comes out, so I’ll come see you later.
“thank you!”
After that, viewers came in and talked to them, and then they disappeared quickly.
Little by little, at Kim Jae-joo’s appropriate answer, the number of coins and followers increased.
‘Unfortunately, I do not have a big hand.’
I wanted to know if it was because I properly publicized it to ask for a rumor, but there was no influx of big hands.
Jaejoo Kim pressed the broadcast status window to soothe his disappointment.
[Streamer: Jaejoo Kim]
[Current number of viewers: 15]
[Number of following: 7]
[Coins held: 37]
‘Still, this is enough.’
Following, 10 people were in front of me, and 37 coins were accumulated.
The situation is not enough to attack the first floor of the tower.
-I guess it’s time to come out now?
-If the difficulty level is higher, isn’t it?
-Oh, that’s right.
As the start time of the ordeal drew near, the frequency of leaving decreased as the viewers who had been wandering around had also hardened their hearts.
“Is it?”
Jaejoo Kim opened his mouth pretending not to know.
– ooh that
– That way of talking lol. Stop it. I’m going to get hurt.
“What is that?”
-That’s a little too much for me to say;
-If you say that aside from having fun, we are behind.
“Yes?”
– If you say you are a manager, you will be kicked out if you spoil it.
-If you don’t like it, you’ll be deported immediately.
“Doesn’t exile mean sending you back to where you lived?”
-Five?
– What is this? Do you have a clue?
-Is there a kid who fucks the manager this time?
“What is the manager saying?”
– Yes Kkondaejang
-It’s a classic of a kkondae.
Since then I haven’t been able to get any useful answers.
‘It’s something I know, but I don’t need to hear more.’
The reason I asked was to avoid unnecessary suspicion.
I didn’t say anything later, but if the question came up, the audience’s mood would be clouded.
“Can you tell me what the other people who came with me are doing?”
This time, I asked a question out of pure curiosity.
Because I didn’t know what other people were doing.
-Isn’t it the same?
-ㅇㅇ Stupid kids were already filtered out
-The kids who used to catch shit because they were good guys are probably riding shit ropes now lol
– There are always kids who flirt while saying I’ll show you something.
– That’s a way too haha
‘okay. The real goal of the trial on the first floor is not a force test.’
It was a test of communication skills rather than force.
How well can you get along with other people? Or how much self-esteem you can bend to survive.
The ordeal of the tower was not easy from the first floor.
“Who pressed the difficulty award?”
– It’s been quite a while.
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-The guy who said he clicked the wrong button because he was drunk should be blocked right away haha
– Surprisingly, there was a child who was perfectly fine.
-who? Are you a Seoul National University student?
-It’s nice to see you speak boldly.
– Because he’s handsome, women must have flocked to it.
-Didn’t you have a pretty girl too?
-ㅇㅇ The first time I saw it, I thought it was a celebrity haha
“okay.”
It seems that there are streamers who have won the difficulty award besides himself.
‘I don’t remember seeing it in the video.’
If you go beyond the 10th floor, not only Koreans but also streamers and viewers from abroad are mixed, so there is a high possibility that we could not meet.
‘Then the older ones who haven’t seen it must have gone there.’
Only then did Jaejoo Kim understand why the older ones didn’t go through him.
There are other outstanding people besides himself, and they reside there.
‘See you soon.’
But he was confident.
He said that the older ones will soon be on their broadcasts.
[Remaining time: 01:29]
The time between chatting and chatting with the viewers quickly dwindled.
[User ‘THE LOVE’ has entered.]
-hi
“Are you here? Brother!”
The older viewers also came.
-Hey, I call him my brother.
-It’s a dirty place that even newbies recognize.
– No, it’s just that I came here in the first place.
“To me, they’re all hyungs. Haha.”
– Cute lol
The atmosphere in the chat window was not bad.
[Remaining time: 00:11]
“Brothers. Then I will prepare. Please forgive me for not being able to see the chat window in the meantime.”
– Are we paying attention now?
– Are there newbies who are already worried about communication?
– Gazzaa
He reduced the size of the chat window and took a deep breath. After activating the shop window, he was ready to quickly take out the items.
‘come. Whatever it is, I’ll chew on it.’
The moment when the remaining time reaches 00:00.
The only light in the cave, the sound of something moving was heard in the darkness at the edge of the boundary lit by stones.
‘Lizard Warrior? kobolds?’
Kim Jae-joo’s throat went down.
As soon as the light reached the border, his identity was revealed.
– Belt?
– No, why are you here?
It was a creature with fluffy white fur the size of a fist.
The big eyes looked like they would shed even a little bit of fear.
“Popoi!”
The identity of the enemy was a creature that Kim Jae-joo was familiar with.
‘Something seems to have happened.’
-[User ‘Sun Moon’ has entered.]
-I’ve heard rumors that there is a real man who pressed ‘High’ on the difficulty level.
– Popoi? There are three?
-Wow; The statue was a portrait
-[User ‘Sun Moon’ has left.]