Villain’s Programming - Chapter 250

“What is that? What kind of crisis are you in?”

In response to Dojun’s question, a frowning emoticon appeared in the message window before his eyes.

“Okay.”

Dojun bowed his head deeply at Saetbyeol’s criticism and said.

“Anyway, to see the lost memories, you have to save Sally’s colleague Marshall.”

“Okay. Thanks.”

Dojun didn’t ask Saetbyeol any more questions. He had someone else to ask.

‘But how do I ask? Marshall is going to die, so I can’t ask him how he’s going to die.’

After thinking for a while, Dojun went to the bedroom.

* * *

When I entered the bedroom, the lights were brightly turned on.

“Sally, you didn’t sleep?”

Sally was reading a book in bed with the light on.

“Yeah. I don’t like sleeping alone. But are you done with work?”

“huh.”

“Who were you talking to? I heard you talking.”

Dojun felt like “Oh no.”

‘I guess you heard what I was talking about with Saetbyeol. I thought you wouldn’t hear me because I was in the room. I can’t do this. From now on, I’ll have to write down my conversations or go outside and talk.’

“Yeah. I was just looking into whether there were any AI experts out there.”

“Ah! Is it there?”

Dojun shook his head.

“No. It’s not easy.”

Sally came over to Do-jun, who looked discouraged, hugged him and said.

“Ah! Don’t be disappointed, I’ll look into it more.”

“No. There are probably few AI experts who are interested in games. My friend Marshall said he was interested. I’ll ask him again after I get back from my honeymoon.”

“huh.”

Dojun got into bed with Sally and stretched out his arms to hug her and asked.

“By the way, what kind of person is this Marshall?”

“What kind of person is he? His personality and things like that?”

“What, anything. Do you have a lot of enemies? Do you have a lot of friends?”

Dojun asked, recalling the message, ‘Save Marshall.’

‘If you’re in danger, doesn’t that mean you have enemies?’

“Marshall? Foot. No. Not only that, he’s really nice! In fact, he’s too nice, which is the problem.”

As she spoke, Sally told an anecdote about Marshall donating his entire salary to charity when he was at MS, and then walking for a month because he didn’t have money for transportation.

“That’s when I became friends with Marshall. Marshall lived not far from my house. I gave him a ride.”

“ah!”

‘At this rate… I don’t think there will be any enemies. Even if there are, they’ll just eat some of them and not kill them. Then what?’

Dojun thought about it again and then suddenly remembered that Marshall was getting married soon.

‘Marshal is a good man, but will his wife be a good man?’

“Sally, do you know anyone who’s marrying Marshall?”

Sally turned her head to look at Dojun at Dojun’s question.

“Why is that?”

“just…….”

“Dojun, be honest. Why do you keep asking me those questions?”

Dojun’s face hardened. He had to answer somehow, but his mind was blank and he couldn’t speak.

Sally saw that and chuckled.

“Okay. I don’t know what you’re hiding, but I’ll let it slide because your expression is so pitiful. Seriously, don’t go around lying, because if you lie, it’ll show right away.”

“okay.”

“Hmm. Marshall’s wife… her name is Ashley.”

Dojun relaxed his stiff face and asked.

“Sally, do you know Marshall’s wife too?”

“Yeah. They all worked at MS. But Ashley wasn’t a developer, she was in HR.”

“ah!”

“Dojun, I don’t know what you’re curious about, but if we’re talking about personality, Ashley was also a good person. Of course, not to the extent of Marshall. There are just people who are just ordinary good people, right? That’s Ashley.”

Dojun nodded.

‘If I do this, I’ll go out… … . There’s nothing unusual. Do I really have to go next to Marshall and watch?’

“Sally. Are you going to Marshall’s wedding?”

“No. I’d like to go, but it’s too far. I have to go all the way to San Francisco… … .”

Although Dojun went to America often, it was never easy to get from Korea to America.

“Well, there’s the distance and you still have to set up a team at the MS Korea branch, right?”

“Yeah. We’re hiring people, but it’s not easy.”

Dojun nodded.

‘Ugh. Should I give up on this lost memory? Eight, I don’t know. I’ll think about it later.’

Dojun turned off the light and went back into bed.

“Sally, are you ready to go to sleep now?”

“huh.”

Sally said, hugging Dojun’s arms.

“This reminds me of our honeymoon. Whenever I opened the window, I could hear the sound of the ocean.”

Dojun said with a smile.

“It was good.”

Looking back, choosing Hawaii as our honeymoon destination was the best choice.

“By the way, Marshall, where are you going for your honeymoon? If you haven’t decided yet, recommend Hawaii.”

“I already did. But I already decided to go somewhere else.”

“where?”

“Japan. Ashley is Japanese-American. But she’s never been to Japan, so she’s going to travel there for two weeks after getting married.”

Dojun opened his eyes wide.

“This…Japan?”

“Yeah, Japan. But why? Your expression is strange.”

“Ah… no. When did you say the wedding was?”

“March 6th.”

Dojun couldn’t stand it anymore and jumped out of bed.

‘March 6th! And you’re traveling around Japan for two weeks?’

Dojun knew exactly when and where Marshall would die.

‘March 11th, Japan! Fukushima!’

* * *

The Chinese economy, which had been reeling from the Lehman Brothers crisis, began to recover little by little in 2010.

Ma Huateng’s business also became a great success. As the economy recovered, people’s spending increased.

But these days, unexpected pressure from the government has come.

‘How is the Northeast Project game project going?’

The Northeast Project Game Project referred to the ‘Goguryeo Game’ project.

It was a project to create a game based on Northeast Project data in China to compete with the Goguryeo game being created by Hwang Do-jun.

‘But this is a project that was practically abandoned after Wang Xiang was arrested, so what can we do about it now?’

I wasn’t working, but I couldn’t honestly tell the government about it.

Ma Huateng said that it was still going on. Then the Chinese government immediately gave the order to demonstrate.

It was like a bolt from the blue.

“Ha! This is driving me crazy. How do I make this?”

Ma Huateng immediately gave instructions to get the project underway. However, problems immediately arose. Since it was a completely new genre of game, the developers were at a loss as to what direction to take.

‘I need a business plan.’

Of course, there is a ‘plan’ that Wang Xiang hacked and received a while ago, but it’s already been quite some time.

During that time, Hwang Do-jun must have supplemented the plan countless times.

‘Is there any way to get that plan?’

The first thing that came to mind was hacking, but it was virtually impossible. Hwang Do-jun’s company was the most secure place in the world.

However, I was not confident that I could beat Hwang Do-jun by creating a game of my own.

“This is driving me crazy.”

Ma Huateng sighed as he sat in his office. Then, a message appeared on the lower right of his monitor indicating that he had a new email.

‘This is!’

Ma Huateng had set this notification to appear only for emails from one place.

Ma Huateng immediately opened his mailbox. There was a ‘lucky letter’ there.

‘You’re finally here!’

After Zhang Linfeng’s funeral, an email arrived that had never arrived before. Ma Huateng opened the email right away.

[This letter… … .]

Ma Huateng immediately deciphered the encrypted text written in the email.

[Kim Joo-yeon is at Black Cat Studio.]

[Because she is a translation planner, she has all the plans from Japan.]

Ma Huateng was shocked when he saw the email.

‘A proposal from Japan?’

While researching the ‘Gae Ma Musa’ project, Ma Huateng learned that it was a joint project between Korea and Japan.

‘The core part is actually being done in Japan. But, the plan is in this woman’s hands?’

Ma Huateng no longer wondered how they knew he needed this now, because it had always been that way.

Ma Huateng read the remaining messages.

[The code below is for getting data through a computer with a blocked USB.]

Ma Huateng was impressed. He even told him how to break through Black Cat’s security.

‘You’re an idiot if you can’t eat it even though I did all this for you.’

The next day, Ma Huateng immediately found out about ‘Kim Joo-yeon’ through the Baeksent Korea branch.

‘He has strong vanity and pride. However, he does not get along well with others, and although he is capable, he has many troubles in carrying out his work.’

Just looking at this information, I couldn’t figure out how to get the information from Kim Joo-yeon.

But Ma Huateng did not give up on the task just because he could not do it.

“Tell the planning team leaders 1 and 2 to come.”

Less than ten minutes after Ma Huateng’s words, two people came to the representative’s office.

“There’s a woman like this at the Korean Black Cat. Tell me how to get a plan from her.”

“All right.”

“Just leave it to me.”

The way Ma Huateng did his work was simple.

‘Competition is fine.’

Ma Huateng also made competition fierce within the company, so he gave huge rewards to the teams that achieved more results.

So naturally, all employees threw themselves into their work with their lives at stake.

The results came out in three days. Ma Huateng had adopted the plan of Planning Team 2.

“It’s a handsome guy. This is okay.”

Ma Huateng sent a suitable person to the Baeksent Korea branch as written in the plan.

He was a handsome aspiring actor of Korean descent named Park Won-chun.

Park Won-chun changed his name to ‘Kevin Park’ and began his operation.

The results came quickly. Kevin Park had seduced Jooyeon Kim in less than two weeks and was reported to have decided to bring her to Baeksent.

And then in early February, I got an email from Kevin Park.

‘It worked!’

The email contained the AI ​​script and plan used for the ‘Gae-ma-musa’ project.

“ha ha ha.”

Ma Huateng clenched his fist.

‘So this is what you were going to do.’

In some ways, it was a game with too high a difficulty level and a high chance of failure. However, Ma Huateng’s heart was racing.

‘This will work.’

Although the difficulty was high, there was a hidden gameplay that made you keep challenging yourself. That was what Ma Huateng saw.

‘Hwang Do-jun, how do you make games like this? Are you really an irregular?’

Ma Huateng handed over the document to the ‘Goguryeo Project’ team and ordered them to analyze it thoroughly.

‘Then, we don’t need Kim Joo-yeon anymore.’

Looking at the information I’ve received about Kim Joo-yeon so far, I think she’s a useless woman to keep around any longer.

Ma Huateng tried to send an email to Kim Joo-yeon asking her to resign from Baeksent Korea.

But then, a new email arrived.

‘Huh? I got another email this quickly?’

Ma Huateng immediately opened the ‘Lucky Letter’.

There was a simple message written there.

[Kim Joo-yeon, March 11, Fukushima beach.]

* * *

The next day, Do-jun went to work and couldn’t do any other work because he was thinking about ‘Marshall’.

‘We must not let Marshall go near Fukushima.’

Dojun was wondering if there was a way, when he suddenly remembered something he had been worried about before.

‘That’s right. I was determined to keep FromSoft employees safe from the earthquake, and then I completely forgot about it.’

Dojun opened his eyes wide as he pondered over the method.

‘Wait a minute, this… if we do this well, we can solve Marshall’s problem and the FromSoft employees’ problem too?’

Dojun began to organize his thoughts on the computer.

‘We’re holding a workshop in Japan. It’s not just for developers, but for the whole family. If we hold a family workshop a day or two in advance, it’ll be fine. The most important thing here is for the developers and their families to get out of Fukushima. But if we hold a workshop, will people come?’

Dojun was thinking about what kind of content would attract people, and suddenly K-POP came to mind.

‘Isn’t K-POP pretty popular in Japan right now? And the music is loved by people all over the world. I’m sure the staff and their families will come too. And wouldn’t it be the same for Marshall?’

Dojun clenched his fist.

‘This is it!’

There was no reason not to come if Marshall, his staff and their families were provided with tickets to the show and lodging nearby.

‘If you say it’s a wedding gift, it’ll definitely come!’

Dojun, who was confident, called Miyazaki first.

‘The earthquake was on March 11th. The performance must be held on the day before, March 10th.’

Dojun explained the purpose to Miyazaki.

“I know that Fromsoft employees have had a hard time due to work-related issues. I would like to hold a workshop to show my appreciation. However, I would like to hold a workshop in Korea that is not just for employees, but also for families and lovers.”

– A workshop? A workshop that involves not only employees but also their families? Then the scale will be huge, right?

“It’s okay. I have a lot of money. And this isn’t your typical workshop.”

Dojun explained K-POP and J-POP performances.

“Isn’t there anyone who doesn’t like singing? I’m thinking of renting the biggest stadium in Tokyo and holding a concert. Of course, I’m going to allow the general public to participate.”

– Oh my goodness, then you can cover the costs there. Plus, if you can go to regular concerts for free, the turnout would be huge.

“That’s what I want.”

After finishing his conversation with Miyazaki, Dojun called the general affairs team leader and told him to prepare for work. The general affairs team immediately contacted Japanese companies and began preparing for the workshop.

‘Now the important thing remains.’

It was important to keep the Prompt developers, but it was also important to get Marshall here.

After a week, all the workshop plans were set.

Dojun came home with performance tickets and lodging tickets.

“Sally, I have a favor to ask.”

“Huh? What favor?”

Dojun said as he handed the ticket to Sally.

“These are tickets to a POP concert and accommodation in Japan. Can you give them to Marshall? As a wedding present?”

Sally, who received the ticket, said with a bright expression.

“Oh my gosh. I was already wondering what gift to give you, but Dojun solved it for me. Thank you, Dojun.”

Sally kissed Dojun on the cheek and then immediately called Marshall.

Sally talked to Marshall for a while and then hung up. But Sally’s expression wasn’t good.

“Sally? What’s wrong with your expression? Marshall can’t come then?”

Sally answered Dojun’s words.