Episode 55
“Isn’t there anything interesting?”
Jamie pushed back the gaming chair in front of the computer. In front of him, all sorts of odds and ends were piled up in disorder.
Dried noodle cups with seasoning. iPad magazine e-cigarette. Oreo Oz cereal box and chocolate chunk cracker wrappers.
As a programmer with 4 years of experience, working from home was not unfamiliar to him, but even so, it was not fun to be alone at home.
This was because his company and client were based in Finland, and Jamie had to switch days and nights for regular video conferences and remote programming confirmations.
“I’m going to die first… Damn, why can’t this work again?”
Jamie, curled up in a gaming chair and smoking an e-cigarette, crumpled when the terminal didn’t listen.
It seemed that Danny had lost his taste as he smoked tobacco every day.
Well, the most delicious thing would be the owner who sucks every day.
“shit. shit. There is nothing going on. I’m going to die of boredom Why am I not on vacation? All you need is an O-Tube for beer. Am I asking for too much?”
widely!
As Jamie whined and waved his arm, the e-cigarette flew by the monitor desk.
It was a quad monitor.
A monitor with numerous broadcasting platforms such as O-Tube Premium, Switch, and America TV Star Cast LIVE.
Such Jamie’s monitor was one of the things he could know in a fragmentary way about his usual hobbies.
Among them, Jamie was feeling vicarious satisfaction while watching virtual reality games, which have recently skyrocketed with sensational popularity, leaving behind this beggarly job.
I don’t play the game, but that’s why I watch it all the time.
The price of the < Galaxy-M24 Apple > alone is tens of thousands of dollars.
In the words of experiencers that it is so realistic that it is indistinguishable from reality, they are actually crushed by monsters or killed by falling off a cliff.
I didn’t have to deliberately buy and experience things I didn’t want to experience.
Besides…
“Jamie? Bad news. I want the client to change the logic a bit. I guess…”
“Since the video conference is at 11:00 a.m., please don’t forget to attend. Jamie? What time did
you say it was there?” Jamie How about the programming I talked about the other day…”
Jamie, who has to deal with the schedule within the already busy company, could say that the biggest problem was that he did not have enough time to go into the capsule and enjoy virtual reality games.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think I’m crazy —” I think I’m going to be crazy – I think I’m going out —
In other words, for Jamie, who has to faithfully carry out her life in reality right now, throwing away all of her life in reality and jumping into virtual reality was nothing more than a piece of cake in the picture.
[Notice: JinSung123 has opened a live broadcast!]
“What?”
As the notification popped up on the main monitor, Jamie looked over while lying on her chair.
It was a familiar notification sound.
Although he did not have enough money or time to buy and enjoy capsules himself, he boasted a huge number of channels that he subscribed to and set notifications for, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that there were hundreds of channels.
This poor programmer, who had been stuck in his closet for a long time, could say that he had reached the point where he was enjoying his nerd life rather than having a big complaint about it.
That was the reason why he didn’t step out of front of the monitor.
If there was one characteristic that could define his subscriptions, it was that they were channels focused on games and anime.
Jamie was quickly filtering out what he needed to see and what he didn’t need to see, even among numerous notification messages and pop-up windows due to his consistent subscription tendency.
“who is this? this morning.”
Tring!
So Jamie saw the live broadcast of the cinema mode being played by splitting the main monitor in half, and he raised his head from being buried in the gaming chair and began to examine the video.
“I don’t think I subscribed… Platform main banner? Did any new streamers appear?”
As he said, broadcasting platforms often show live broadcasts of streamers who have signed exclusive contracts on the main banner, or sequentially rank the channels with the largest number of viewers to continuously expose viewers.
“I have to turn off this guy’s alarm, what am I really doing…
”
Eventually, Jamie leans back on her chair and pushes the floor with her feet while hovering over the live broadcast of the cinema mode, which at first glance looks like an advertising video, to turn off.
– Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
“Hey?!”
Suddenly, a grotesque scream began to echo from the screen in the monitor, and a corpse that looked like something you would see in a horror movie filled the camera.
“Quaaaaaagh!”
Udang-tang-tang!
It was a sight so shocking that even Jamie, who was full of mannerisms, fell from her chair.
“What the fuck is this!!”
Jump!
Jamie, who fell to the floor, raised her upper body, forgetting about the pain.
It was an odd thing.
Although it would be a lie if I said I wasn’t scared, but Jamie couldn’t help but be astonished by the sights in the video.
It wasn’t because of the suddenly popping (= suddenly popping out) zombie, but because of the red dot REC stamped underneath it.
“The number of viewers… 23435?”
Just like his crazy words, the video currently being played on the switch’s main banner recorded a tremendous rise enough to be ranked in the Top 50 real-time viewer count.
It had subverted all common sense Jamie had.
“JinSung123…? What the hell are you doing?”
Jamie put his head in front of the monitor desk, forgetting to pull out the gaming chair.
His eyes were full of confusion.
23435 people.
Although the number of viewers was not very high for a channel on Switch, the world’s largest Internet broadcasting platform, Jamie couldn’t easily think of a streamer who would have that many viewers during this time.
Considering that it was a ranking achieved while breaking through the famous channels, it was only natural that Jamie’s eyes widened.
“Nonsense. If it’s a general game streamer, there’s no way I wouldn’t know… Why was the channel named like this again?”
Unlike other channels that usually have names like < Kine TV > or < Jangtube >, this streamer doesn’t seem to have put much thought into naming the channel.
It was creating a strange phenomenon enough to steal his attention at once.
– You can do this. It’s not difficult at all.
Tring!
And when an index finger came up from the monitor, Jamie could feel a copper-colored muscular body reflected above his pupils.
“wild boar?”
It was a man with a boar’s head.
* * *
– wallnerxt: I Don’t understand. How is that possible?
– IiIiIiIiIiIi: amaaaaaaaaging. It’s an undeniable fact.
– KuKu11 : Why the hell did they find this guy now?
– VIVian : He’s Korean. That’s it.
– gilrsser : That’s crazy. I can’t do that either.
….
“…wow.”
Damian looked at the chat window that popped up on one side of his field of vision and his mouth was round.
It was a chat window that went up so fast that I couldn’t read it all with my eyes.
I didn’t know exactly what he was talking about, but one thing was certain: there were more than one person watching his videos.
Even though it was obviously a Korean channel, it was boasting a huge number of people who were suspicious that someone had taken the coordinates, seeing as there were overflowing English-speaking people of unknown nationality.
– Kim Pi-tang Man level lv99: ??
– Hyunseong Jang: What is this?
– $Ansan Mansour $: Why did the number of viewers suddenly exceed 20,000?
– Sigorjav Jong S2: Looks like the coordinates were taken in North America lol
– Saint Yusea: Isn’t it the first broadcast today? I’m seeing it for the first time
– Kokojjaeng: It’s my first time seeing it too haha I think I’m a bit tired of the physical.
– Minchodan is real: Aren’t they North American users?
– Poop Kick Poop Poop: Don’t you think you speak Korean too well for that? Are you this asshole?
….
Of course, the person concerned was utterly unaware of the fact that his video was being promoted with extensive exposure on the main banner of the switch platform.
“Uh… nice to meet all the newcomers. It’s the first broadcast today, so I’m embarrassed. haha.”
When the real-time chat window exploded, Damian scratched the back of his head embarrassedly.
It had just come ashore, dealing with swamp alligators.
Of course, when Damien signed an exclusive contract in reality.
Sung Hoon once said that there would be marketing benefits given to exclusive streamers, but Damian didn’t think that it would be marketing enough to devote the main banner of the platform.
No way, even Demian, who has quite a few bones, could not have thought that he would give such a massive push from the first broadcast.
It was hard to understand even when I saw it with my own eyes.
No matter how much the switch is counted as one of the global conglomerates, it was the only thing that supported such an unconventional marketing, both in the past and in the present life.
“For the newcomers… I’m in the Kirikorum Swamp, and I’m at about the center of it. There are several small islands in this swamp area… Please refer to the way to move to each island as I will leave it to you to watch again.”
“…the owner?”
As Damian spoke while watching the dot flicker with a translucent light, Munchchi started talking.
It was not a situation where he could casually introduce himself.
“Khehehe!!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaa!!”
All of a sudden, all around him, with hideous faces, screaming incomprehensible whether it was the cry of a beast or a scream.
The monsters who regarded him as mere prey were rushing at him with ignorance.
“Kiiiii—!”
“Owner bastard!!!”
Shyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
And the moment when one of the zombies, all covered in mud, thrusts his hand like a spear into Damian’s back.
“Aigo, thank you for subscribing for 6 months, Mr. Aker, Mr. Geon Hee-Jang, Mr. Oh Chang-Sense. What else is all this…”
Cheek!
Damian swung his < +9 Sashimi > and blew off the zombie’s arm, severing its limb joints at the same time as he bent down toward the translucent camera dot.
– asershinz : Holy… shit…!!
– ueharaYui : what the fxxxxxxk!!!
– Jjingjjingi Trumpet: Wow
– King of Broadcasting Kim Cheol-soo: ???
– The jungle is good: wow
– It’s one thing in the world:
– Doraine: What is physical?!!!!!
It couldn’t be anything but a terrifying physical enough to doubt the eyes of the viewers watching him.
