Chapter 144
The Market can be used by criminals, too.
I could have listed chicken on the Market, but there was a reason I chose to use People of the Market separately.
[‘Taldru’ requested 3 chickens!]
[‘Lloyd’ requested 1 chicken!]
.
.
You can see exactly who ordered how many chickens.
[‘ㅇㅇ’ requested 6 chickens!]
[‘ㅇㅇ’ is ranked red. Not recommended.]
Besides, I didn't even need to check their gallery logs.
If they had a criminal record or a history of trolling, they were automatically filtered out and reported to me.
“The system's performance is unquestionable.”
The ranks were divided by rainbow colors.
Starting with the basic yellow rank,
the more they trolled, the redder their rank became.
If they were model gallery users, their rank rose to purple.
“Since it's the first day, I'll let everyone order freely.”
Things hurt more when you fall from a higher place.
I thought they would be more careful once they knew how good it tasted.
The system setup was complete, so I was just about to enter the gallery and see the reaction.
- Why aren't any posts going up? [1] Just now
- How do you use People of the Market? [3] 1 minute ago
- Let's test whether this gallery is dead [1] 2 minutes ago
“Huh?”
No posts were going up.
The gallery, which normally had dozens or even hundreds of posts every minute, had gone completely silent.
Even refreshing the page made no difference.
“This was the one thing I didn't want to do...”
In the end, I took drastic action.
[Title: Does Anyone Know How to Wear a Skirt? ㅠㅠ]
Posted by: Head Mod*
(GIF of a cat staring straight ahead)
Why aren't you guys posting?
What is everyone doing?
[Upvotes 9999+] [Downvotes 1021]
- Ah, fuck, I got baited again
- Wait, why is Head Mod posting bait? lol
- You get upvotes just for posting, so please stop trolling...
“What the hell? You were all here?”
The upvotes began piling up less than a minute after I posted.
In other words, everyone was still lurking in the gallery.
“But why aren't any review posts going up?”
Wasn't this the Otherworld Destruction Gallery, where everyone reviewed and rated anything new like mad?
- Head Mod*) Why aren't you guys posting?
There had to be plenty of posts for me to gauge the reaction and keep the popular-post rotation moving.
I asked them directly why, but all I got in response was confusion.
ㄴ ?
ㄴ What the hell is this supposed to be... Are you doing this on purpose?
ㄴ For fuck's sake, you handed out chicken.
ㄴ No, I mean you.
ㄴ Head Mod*) Yeah, but what does me listing chicken have to do with everyone being quiet?
“Shouldn't there be more posts instead?”
ㄴ ?
ㄴ Head Mod*) ?
ㄴ Oh, come on.
There was no chat. The atmosphere was icy.
“What is this? Is there something everyone knows except me?”
Only after I posted did posts begin appearing one by one.
But even then, it was obvious they were posting reluctantly.
[Title: ㅇㅇ]
(GIF of someone eating steaming hot yangnyeom chicken)
(GIF of the glossy red sauce coating the inside of a piece of yangnyeom chicken)
I have to eat chicken, so please don't talk to me.
[Upvotes 102] [Downvotes 12]
- LMAO, what a lunatic
- Even if it's Head Mod, I can't give this up, lol
“Wait, they weren't posting because they were too distracted eating?”
The posts themselves grew sparse, proving it.
The gallery only began to become active again after nearly an entire day had passed.
The limit I had set was ten chickens per person.
In other words, the posts only started going up once they could no longer buy any more chicken.
- Brother, I love you
- The sauce is incredible...!
- The perfect beer snack!
- Brother, would you sell more of this thing called chicken?
The dwarves, who ate the most, were the first to appear in the gallery.
The dwarves' endless stream of posts was all focused on discussing chicken.
“Did dwarves always post this often?”
Dwarves use the gallery, too.
But they had never been this obsessed, posting without pause.
Just as I was wondering about it, several more hours passed, and by evening, the gallery's regulars began to appear.
- Upvote if it's fucking delicious lol
- Regular chicken should just be renamed sex, yeah
- Ah... I fucking lost it, for real
- I think I just had the happiest dream ever
[Title: Would you call me ‘The Chicken's Complete Death’?]
(GIF of the remains of bones from ten servings of chicken)
(GIF of sauce smeared all over someone's face and hands)
The reason is
that I will soon become the chicken's death knight...
[Upvotes 3921] [Downvotes 102]
- Of course, ‘Commander of the Room-Confined Guard’
- Hey, ‘The Complete Death of Your Parents’
- Fuck, this bastard's loaded
ㄴ Ah, I should've made some money earlier, lol
[Title: ?]
(GIF of the stars visible outside the window at dawn)
Why is it dawn?
[Upvotes 494] [Downvotes 2]
- LMAO
- Are you back with us?
The elves showed up next, of course.
- Why did we ever eat mere Gourmet Slime...?
- I want to marry chicken...
- Gourmet Slime >>> an insurmountable wall >>> yangnyeom chicken
ㄴ ? You got the direction wrong, you idiot
ㄴ Typical elf lol
ㄴ Eek
They had abandoned Gourmet Slime.
It was the obvious conclusion from the start.
I had never worried that chicken, the number-one delivery food in the modern world, wouldn't catch on in the medieval world.
“The Slime problem is solved.”
The ingredient costs for Gourmet Slime alone were more than ten times higher by a simple calculation.
It also took an entire week.
And I had to watch over it to make sure the Gourmet Slime didn't eat anything else.
“But yangnyeom chicken?”
It was superior in quantity, flavor, and preparation time.
In the end, I had successfully turned everyone's attention to chicken before the gallery split apart.
I had also prevented needless overspending of gyeongdan.
“The profits are insane, too.”
More than anything, the profitability was absurd.
Approximately one million gyeongdan.
I had earned a billion gyeongdan's worth of experience in a single day.
[Yangnyeom Chicken] - 18p
Besides, the chicken only cost 18 points to purchase from the shop.
But when I sold it, I charged 30 gyeongdan—nearly twice the purchase price.
“It's a shame it isn't points, but whatever.”
To me, gyeongdan weren't merely currency; they were also a source of experience.
So I wasn't losing anything at all.
“If I do this a few times, I might even be able to dream of a nuke.”
I had never made this much money in such a short time from any other item.
- Head Mod, you'll sell it again tomorrow, right?
- If you don't, I'm seriously going to make a big decision!!!
- I'm halfway screwed, lol. All I can think about is that red sauce flavor lolol
- Ah, lol, you think I wouldn't sell it?
ㄴ ㅇㅇ, for real, Head Mod has no choice but to keep selling it
ㄴ I'd buy it even if it cost 100 gyeongdan
ㄴ I'd buy it for 200, yeah
ㄴ I'd sell my house and dance naked, yeah
ㄴ You son of a bitch, don't do that
The gallery users were half hoping I would sell it and half convinced I would, judging by the overwhelming demand.
Naturally, public opinion was increasingly leaning toward the certainty that I had no choice but to sell yangnyeom chicken.
- Head Mod*) lol
ㄴ Gasp! It's Head Mod!!!
ㄴ We love you, Head Mod!!!!!
ㄴ Head Mod, you'll keep selling it from now on, right?
And, naturally, I too was going to sell yangnyeom chicken tomorrow just as I had today...
“I'm not selling it, though?”
ㄴ Head Mod*) I'm going to restrict it.
[The ‘People of the Market’ ranking system is now in effect.]
[A purchase limit has been placed on ‘People of the Market’ items.]
I decided to normalize things immediately.
*
Trolls exist everywhere.
Trolls are like feces.
[Title: I'm a newbie using this gallery for the first time...]
Posted by: Head Mod, the Pretty Girl Who Smashes Grandma's Cart
(GIF of a naked female orc making a sexy, provocative pose)
[Upvotes 1] [Downvotes 194]
- Ah
- You!!! Fucking!!! Bastard!!!
- That username is fucking insane, lol
It meant that trolls were bound to exist anywhere people gathered.
No matter how much you blocked, threatened, warned, or ignored them, they wouldn't stop.
Why?
“Because they know it draws attention.”
Everyone said you just had to stop feeding trolls.
But the reason they continued to exist even when ignored was simple.
They knew that wasn't genuine indifference.
They knew everyone was gritting their teeth and trembling with rage while pretending to ‘ignore them and not feed them.’
That was why they carried pictures of naked female orcs around in their pockets.
- Posted by) I like attention
ㄴ You fucking bastard
ㄴ Posted by) Thank you
ㄴ I'm seriously going to catch you and kill you
ㄴ Posted by) (GIF of a slime with a hugely swollen belly)
ㄴ Ah
The whip couldn't stop them.
Then what about a carrot?
- Please stop, I've seen three of them since yesterday...
ㄴ I'll pay you. I'll send you 100 gyeongdan, so please...
ㄴ Posted by) (GIF of a frog emote pondering)
ㄴ Posted by) (GIF of a shaggy frog emote)
ㄴ You fucking bastard!!!!!
That didn't work, either.
“Even the modern world never found a way to stop trolls.”
So I decided to try something while I was at it.
[Welcome to ‘People of the Market’!]
1. Chicken
* Only users with the basic yellow rank or higher may order
* The higher your rank, the more additional chickens you can order—one more per week
- ? [Red]
- Fuck, this isn't right [Orange]
- Head Mod? [Yellow]
“The Market ranking system will make the gallery great once again.”
The whip doesn't work?
Then perhaps the whip simply wasn't strong enough.
But I excluded conditions like profanity from rank demotions.
For now, only gore and tactical nukes.
Even then, if someone was caught, I made it a choice between banning them and lowering their rank.
“There'd be no point in making the penalties too severe.”
Profanity sanctions were especially like that.
Being unable to swear wouldn't suddenly make someone kinder.
As some game had already demonstrated, they'd just find stranger, more roundabout ways to provoke people.
Besides, I wanted to be the gallery's Head Mod, not a librarian.
I only made the tactical-nuke behavior that everyone hated a rule violation.
“But this isn't enough.”
Chicken alone couldn't warn every troll.
So I decided to unlock a few more items.
[New items have been added to ‘People of the Market’!]
2. Tteokbokki
* Yellow-green rank or higher may order
3. Gukbap
* Yellow-green rank or higher may order
“What could possibly go wrong?”
Never imagining the calamity this ranking system would bring.