Chapter 14: Hacker
“Ah…”
Kang Soyul, who had been refused, let out a sigh.
However, it wasn’t a reaction of not having expected it.
Since she had already seen Baek Woohyun’s appearance of not caring about broadcasting at all, she had been thinking the probability of refusal was high.
That’s why she tried to continue persuading rather than giving up in disappointnt.
Until she made eye contact with Baek Woohyun again.
‘Ah.’
Pupils like those of a dead person, where no color of emotion could be felt.
Looking at them, one could naturally realize that no matter what one said, there wasn’t even a bit of possibility of persuasion.
From what Kang Soyul had felt while eting various people, those with such eyes absolutely never bent their decisions through soone’s intervention.
Thus she refreshingly gave up on persuading Baek Woohyun.
“I understand. Then if you change your mind, please contact
anyti.”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Ahaha. I kept you too long, didn’t I? It was very fun playing the ga together. Have a pleasant ‘Reverse Planet.'”
Kang Soyul, who bowed in greeting, slowly faded and soon disappeared from that spot.
She had ended the ga.
“……”
When Kang Soyul completely disappeared, Baek Woohyun raised his head to look up at the sky.
A night sky embroidered full of stars entered his view.
A sky that felt even cleaner with not a single cloud visible.
A scene he had seen to the point of boredom in that other world.
However, it was also a scene he could now only see within this place.
“……”
Baek Woohyun, who had been standing there for quite a long ti, lowered his gaze back down.
At so point, countless specters had surrounded him without gaps. They gazed at him with eyes shedding bloody tears as always.
To soone, it might feel like a scene from a horror movie, but Baek Woohyun didn’t avoid their gaze and t it.
In any case, for him it was rely a brief reunion with dear friends.
That’s why he didn’t get angry about losing himself and being swayed when eting Kang Soyul.
Considering the ties built up with them, that much was nothing more than a trivial prank.
He asked them with a faint smile.
“Do you feel a bit better?”
-……
-……
“Looking at your expressions, seems it was reasonably okay.”
Though they were still gaunt and withered faces, Baek Woohyun found faint satisfaction among them.
Even though it was revenge in a virtual reality ga—a false world, it seed to have given them a fairly pleasant feeling.
Like a kind of morial service for the dead.
Then he thought continuing this ga wouldn’t be too bad either…
‘…No, I have no choice but to continue.’
Baek Woohyun’s eyes shone coldly.
Hadn’t he more firmly realized the connection point with ‘over there’ by playing ‘Reverse Planet’ today?
‘Over there’ and ‘Reverse Planet,’ which could be called perfectly the sa world.
Even to unravel the mystery existing between them, he had no choice but to continue playing ‘Reverse Planet.’
‘Should I head out too.’
Having ended ‘Reverse Planet,’ Baek Woohyun ca out to the place he had made as a waiting space in the past.
Looking around the well-decorated room only briefly.
His body, standing alone, slowly faded.
***
“……”
The next morning.
Waking from sleep, Baek Woohyun felt refreshed for the first ti in a very long while. It was a clear awakening that could be said to be the first since returning to reality.
Feeling puzzled at the rare occurrence only briefly, he frowned as he checked his smartphone out of habit. Because he saw missed calls and Kokoatalk ssages piled up.
Kokoatalk ssages naturally go to 300
when people chatter enthusiastically in group chat rooms—in fact, most of the piled up Kokoatalk ssages were from group chat rooms—but what about missed calls?
‘Jeong Nayeon?’
Why would she suddenly contact him?
And going so far as to call, not satisfied with just Kokoatalk ssages.
Baek Woohyun, who had been tilting his head in puzzlent, opened the Kokoatalk chat room with Jeong Nayeon.
He could see that right around when he had been sleeping, she had sent about ten ssages like ‘?’ or ‘What’s this,’ and the very last ssage was this:
-Jeong Nayeon: What the hell have you been doing?
‘What have I been doing. Suddenly?’
-Baek Woohyun: ?
Was she awake? Jeong Nayeon’s answer to the brief ssage Baek Woohyun sent ca back quickly.
-Jeong Nayeon: You played RePla yesterday, right?
-Baek Woohyun: ????
-Jeong Nayeon: I knew it was you, Woohyun
-Jeong Nayeon: The na was the sa so I thought so
-Jeong Nayeon: Right now because of you the entire RePla community is burning up lol
‘What is this about.’
Baek Woohyun tilted his head again.
The entire community burning because of him. What was that sudden talk supposed to an?
All he did yesterday was at most finish the tutorial mission, and after that he ended the connection right away.
-Baek Woohyun: ?
-Jeong Nayeon: Just look
-Jeong Nayeon: [Link – Reasons why the no-assist no-gun video is hacking.txt]
-Jeong Nayeon: They’re calling you a hacker lol
-Jeong Nayeon: (Emoticon of rabbit bursting into laughter)
‘Hack?’
-Jeong Nayeon: Of course I know it’s bullshit ????
-Jeong Nayeon: What ability would you have to get a hack
-Baek Woohyun: Wait. Let
check it first
-Jeong Nayeon: ????????
When Baek Woohyun pressed the link posted on Kokoatalk, Hypernet naturally launched and the problematic post unfolded before his eyes.
[General] Reasons why the no-assist no-gun video is hacking.txt
Comnts: 999
| Views: 115877 | Recomndations: 9471
“Hmm.”
View count heading toward one hundred twenty thousand, recomndations close to ten thousand, and comnts numbering at least over a thousand.
Even Baek Woohyun, who hadn’t been very active in communities, could recognize these as trendous numbers at a glance.
Thinking that all sorts of things beco topics, he skimd the content for now.
[General] Reasons why the no-assist no-gun video is hacking.txt
Comnts: 999
| Views: 115877 | Recomndations: 9471
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