Chapter 137
“I’ve endured as much as I can...”
“Gasp.”
“Sigh, I can’t stand being bored anymore...”
The dryer tugged at my collar.
I couldn’t dare resist.
Faced with power beyond anything a human could overcome, I ultimately had no choice...
[Halli Galli]
Smash your opponent’s palm
and seize victory.
The famous board game, Halli Galli.
“Then we should play Halli Galli.”
“Halli Galli?”
“It’s hard with just two people, so let’s call Penny too.”
Luckily, the bunker had the minimum number of players required for a board game.
Three unemployed shut-ins.
There was a reason Halli Galli was so beloved.
Simple rules, yet an incredible rush of dopamine!
Come to think of it, unlike me, Penny and Dryer didn’t really have anything to enjoy.
“There weren’t even any games here.”
Was it because the world had been destroyed so early?
There weren’t even any common card or board games.
Considering that even books had been a pastime for the upper class, having one source of entertainment didn’t seem so bad.
I planned to try it among ourselves first and post it to the gallery if the reaction was good.
-Bang!
“I won again!”
“You’re cheating.”
“No, that’s bullshit.”
Every time five fruits appeared, Dryer smashed the bell with inhuman perception.
Wait, had Dryer really been this strong?
When I first met Dryer, they seemed weak because they couldn’t properly use their strength.
It wasn’t fun if one side kept winning.
“...Again.”
“Okay!”
Still, thanks to Penny’s strange competitive spirit, the game was able to continue.
Before we knew it, we were playing Halli Galli from morning until late at night.
“This seems good enough to put on the market.”
The fun seemed more than guaranteed.
It was when I logged in to check the gallery’s reaction.
[Title: Upvote If You Feel Sorry as Hell lol]
(GIF of a blizzard in the Fron region)
(GIF of a hunter frozen stiff like a snowman giving a thumbs-up)
Me, for starters.
[Upvotes 62] [Downvotes 0]
- How the hell is he still alive?
- What are you doing there?
ㄴ Author) I’m a hunter who makes money hunting monsters, and this is usually how it goes, yeah
ㄴ Author) I wait here for four or five hours, indefinitely
ㄴ Damn;
There seemed to be plenty of gallery users who were bored while waiting for long periods too.
“The timing is pretty good.”
I put the new Halli Galli up on the market.
[A new item has been registered in the ‘Market’!]
- Huh?
- Halli Galli ← Upvote if the name is fucking hilarious lol
- But I don’t know what it’s for. What is it?
ㄴ So you’re not buying it?
ㄴ Of course I’m buying it, fuck
*
Hunting is a battle against oneself.
Originally, it meant risking your life to fight monsters, but things had changed.
Ever since I released the trap series onto the market, it had shifted from all-out fights to a wait-it-out meta.
[Title: Breaking News) A Monster I’ve Never Seen Before...jpg]
(GIF of a hunter buried in snow)
I did some analysis, and
the monster’s behavior pattern is to sit motionless in that spot until it dies, yeah.
[Upvotes 2979] [Downvotes 27]
- A snowman monster, damn.
- Fuck, making a living is hard.
- I’m a hunter too, and this is boring as hell, yeah.
ㄴ Author) But honestly, thanks to Head Mod, I don’t have to worry about my life anymore lol
ㄴ Can’t argue with that.
ㄴ It’d be insane and ungrateful to complain about it lol, agreed.
- Head Mod*) Then do you want to try this?
ㄴ Author) Whoa, Head Mod.
ㄴ Gasp.
ㄴ Head Mod*) I’ll give you this (Halli Galli GIF), so try it and post a review, yeah.
ㄴ Author) I don’t know what it is, but thank you so fucking much!!!!!
ㄴ Wow, I’m so jealous of the lottery winner.
Of course, I initially expected the reactions to be lukewarm.
“Unless they know what a board game is...”
This was a world that had been destroyed.
Not only were board games gone, even the predecessors of modern card games had all died out.
In a world where even the necessities of food, clothing, and shelter had become luxuries, there was no room for something like games.
So I thought simply getting them to accept it would be a hurdle, but...
[Title: Wow, This Is Fucking Fun. What Is It?]
(GIF of a group of hunters playing Halli Galli at dawn)
(GIF of a group of hunters playing Halli Galli at noon)
Wow, this is fucking fun. What is it?
(GIF of a group of hunters playing Halli Galli in the evening)
Wow, this is fucking fun. What is it?
[Upvotes 4474] [Downvotes 0]
- Did they encounter some kind of bug?
- Is this a spot-the-difference game?
- The monster got caught in a trap and died around noon, but they’re still playing, lol.
ㄴ Why aren’t they getting up?
ㄴ Their brains seem to have frozen already, yeah.
ㄴ Bro, are these bastards laughing?
[Title: Halli Galli ← The One Undeniable Reason It’s Fun...jpg]
(GIF of villagers fighting monsters that broke through the palisade)
(Dynamic GIF of a bear monster with its mouth open)
I’m a rural guard.
This is so fucking fun that I didn’t even notice the monsters charging right up to our feet lol.
(GIF of villagers cheering after winning)
But we won because everyone stayed up playing Halli Galli lol.
[Upvotes 1042] [Downvotes 604]
- You bastard, was it you?
- You’re fucking shameless, you crazy bastard lololol
- This is unbelievable lol.
- Put your hand on the bell yourself and get the shit beaten out of you, yeah.
The reaction was unexpectedly positive.
“So my premise was wrong from the start.”
I had thought that, since they didn’t know what games were, the reaction might be lukewarm.
But in this world, dopamine was so scarce that even eating a meal could be a source of happiness.
Halli Galli, which even modern people enjoyed, was an irresistible pleasure to medieval people.
[Title: Let’s Test How Dead This Gallery Is]
(GIF of Head Mod’s left arm)(GIF of Head Mod’s right arm)
(Illustration imagining what Head Mod’s body looks like)
(GIF of Head Mod’s left leg)(GIF of Head Mod’s right leg)
Upvote, go go.
[Upvotes 9999+] [Downvotes 0]
- He takes care of our food, clothing, and shelter, and even worries about our entertainment...
- He’s literally the light itself.
- What the fuck, why’d you turn a person into a chimera? lol
ㄴ At least take some care stitching them together. What the fuck is this? lol
“Does nobody sleep?”
Usually, gallery activity naturally dropped during the early-morning hours.
But after I distributed Halli Galli, the daytime post rate was about the same as it was at night.
No? It had gone up even more.
- How to Properly Enjoy Halli Galli...jpg [31]
- The Final Halli Galli Strategy Guide [12]
- I’ll teach you how to hit the bell as soon as five fruits gather, bro [21]
Contrary to my expectation that hunters would be the main consumers, its popularity spread in all sorts of directions.
They started making strategy guides among themselves, as well as guides on how to practice in advance and improve their reaction speed.
Various other unique training methods also began to appear.
“Well, I suppose that’s natural.”
Up to this point, it was understandable.
If people were interested in something, I expected strategy guides and the like to appear.
The problem was that it began to take on a gambling aspect once stakes were involved.
[Title: Making Money Is Easy lol]
(GIF of a box containing 1,000 gyeongdan)
I won’t make a long speech. I’ll save you.
I’m picking five people to give 10 gyeongdan each.
[Upvotes 102] [Downvotes 1]
- Please save me.
- I started with just 3,000 because I thought I’d take it easy... Please help me...
- I’ll never carelessly raise the stakes again. Please, think of it as saving a life and help me...
ㄴ Author) Transferred it.
- Your face, yeah.
“Hmm...”
Once stakes began to appear, bragging posts disguised as charitable donations naturally followed.
Comments asking for money also began to appear.
It was one of the worst post templates for seriously disrupting the gallery.
“It hasn’t even been a day, and already?”
A day? It hadn’t even been half a day.
I’d expected stakes to be added only after at least a week, but the speed was bizarrely fast.
“I should start banning people soon.”
The moment money gets mixed into a game, it becomes difficult to enjoy, whether you like it or not.
I had to prevent the Otherworld Destruction Gallery from becoming the Otherworld Bankruptcy Gallery.
It had only been a few hours, but just as I was about to quickly post a warning notice—
[Title: Fuck, It’s Not My Fault]
(GIF of a hunter lying dead and cold)
(GIF of a box of gyeongdan covered in splattered blood)
This was originally my money.
This bastard deliberately used my money to inflate the pot and took it. It’s not my fault.
I wasn’t trying to kill him either. It’s just that this bastard...
I never liked this bastard anyway, but then he just... This. This.
This bastard was the one at fault, right, Head Mod?
[Upvotes 1] [Downvotes 162]
- Whoa.
- I thought this was a joke post. What is this?
- You crazy bastard, you’re definitely going to hell.
- Why are you calling for Head Mod, you filthy murderer?
“Huh.”
A murder post had finally appeared.
*
[Notice: It’s Me]
Author: Head Mod*
You probably roughly understand why I’m posting this.
The instructions explicitly warned you not to bet large sums in the first place.
But I never expected something like this to happen before even half a day had passed.
Obviously, you’re being permanently expelled from the gallery.
I also posted all your identifying information in full, yeah.
First, Halli Galli is discontinued.
I won’t reclaim it from the gallery users who already bought it, but never gamble with this.
[Upvotes 9999+] [Downvotes 102]
- Whoa, what is this?
- Permanent expulsion, damn; you might as well die.
- Serves the crazy bastard right.
- I don’t know about that, but if Halli Galli is fun, upvote lol.
ㄴ Idiot, please read the room.
ㄴ Agh, another gallery dumbass.
- What are the downvotes for?
ㄴ There were a few people trying to run gambling parlors with this.
ㄴ Head Mod got shit splashed on him for no reason.
There was a lot of talk in the gallery about the game’s side effects.
They said he had been blinded by money and murdered a fellow hunter.
But my thoughts were a little different.
Dragon Dragon Will Die: I read this man’s thoughts as you asked, but...
Dragon Dragon Will Die: Everything is black and rotten.
Dragon Dragon Will Die: The game was merely the legitimacy and pretext. It seems he already intended to commit murder.
Head Mod*: Okay, thanks.
“So he was just a criminal after all.”
The game was only an excuse; he had been a would-be murderer from the beginning.
But that didn’t mean I planned to leave the game unattended.
If I let it continue until the gambling became severe, he really might kill someone over money.
“But eventually, people are going to bet money.”
Halli Galli wasn’t difficult to make.
Now that it was already on the market, making a knockoff with a similar variation would be easy.
It was only a matter of time before money was wagered.
Blindly imposing restrictions would be meaningless.
“Then I’ll just do it first.”
In that case, I could start it myself, take control of the market, and establish the culture around it.
After deleting real-world board games, I introduced a system that I could control within the gallery.
[A new system has been added to the gallery!]
[Gallery Omok]
Compete one-on-one and get listed in the rankings!
Countless rewards await you!
- Oh, what is this?
- It’s not a market item. It’s a new system.
- Did a new source of dopamine just drop!!!!
Gallery Omok.
It was the first online game in the Otherworld.