Villain’s Programming - Chapter 282



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Episode 282: The Black Pillar’s Intention

“another!”

At the fitness instructor’s words, Zhang Linfeng lifted and lowered the dumbbells.

“Good! Good job, Bruce.”

Zhang Linfeng answered, wiping the sweat pouring down his forehead.

“You are the one.”

The fitness instructor said while looking at Zhang Linfeng’s body.

“Bruce. Do you know that you’re a completely different person than you were three months ago?”

Zhang Linfeng knew that best. After receiving the ‘Lucky Letter’, all of Zhang Linfeng’s worries disappeared.

As my mind became more at ease, I began to take care of my health and my body became much better.

“What good is it if you’re healthy? Your brain won’t grow.”

As Zhang Linfeng spoke, stroking his head, the fitness instructor laughed loudly.

“The head is the realm of the gods.”

Zhang Linfeng also laughed loudly and returned home after washing up.

‘I feel the best after working out.’

Zhang Linfeng sat down in front of the computer with a clear mind and opened his mailbox.

Three months ago, a lucky letter arrived, and a month ago, another lucky letter arrived. The letter from three months ago contained the game source code for ‘Prince Youngyo’, and the second mail contained ‘Guidelines for Action’.

When he received the second email, Zhang Linfeng was surprised.

‘I told you to use Prince Yeongyo as bait to make Hwang Dojun move.’

Along with those words, the email also mentioned the shortcomings of ‘Prince Youngyo’.

It was written that he should never fix that flaw, and that he should let Hwang Do-jun see it and release a ‘new game’.

‘I checked several times to make sure it was really from the same person after seeing the second email. It was so different from the previous one.’

Among them, three factors in particular greatly surprised Zhang Linfeng.

The first was to abandon the Prince’s Song.

‘You’re telling me to use Prince Yeongyo as bait.’

The game ‘Prince Youngyo’ was too good to be used as bait.

I didn’t understand it, but it was okay. Compared to winning lottery numbers, it was understandable.

But Zhang Linfeng was shocked by a word that came out soon after.

‘Wait a minute. ‘Hwang Do-jun’?’

Instead of the word ‘irregular’, the lucky letter clearly stated Hwang Do-jun.

‘How? You knew that Irregular was Hwang Do-jun?’

Zhang Linfeng made several hypotheses about the ‘chain letter’, which were that the person who sent the chain letter did not know much about ‘worldly affairs’.

‘Of course, I know people with advanced technology and outstanding abilities. But I feel like they don’t know much about what’s happening in reality right now. Is my hypothesis wrong?’

This would require a revision of the hypothesis.

‘Are you communicating with someone other than me? Is that how you came to know the name Hwang Do-jun? Or is there a way to find out real-world information that wasn’t there before?’

Zhang Linfeng thought about it countless times, but still no answer came to him.

Zhang Linfeng, feeling frustrated, went to sleep and even did some ‘exercise’ the next day.

“Okay. Just remember the facts first. The third thing is important.”

To Zhang Linfeng, the third piece of information was actually much more important than the two above, because it was written about how he could go to China.

[Meet Xi Jinping and do what he needs.]

Zhang Linfeng, who received the lucky letter, immediately investigated Xi Jinping.

‘He’s the Vice President of China. But this is not because of his outstanding ability, but because of the power struggle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin. Because he has the least desire for power. He’s quiet. No matter how you look at it, the Vice President seems to be at his limit. So you’re telling me to invest in him? Then I can go to China?’

The most influential person in the next commentary was ‘Li Keqiang’. He would have invested all his wealth if he had told people to invest in Li Keqiang.

Zhang Linfeng felt that there was something wrong with the lucky letter. However, Zhang Linfeng shook his head.

“There’s always a reason why a chain letter tells you to do something.”

Zhang Linfeng immediately wrote an email to Liao Weisheng.

[I will support Xi Jinping. Please arrange a meeting.]

* * *

The morning star looked at the world through the eyes of the master and stuck out his tongue.

‘This is a total disaster. Prince Yeongyo was completely ruined and Dotap Jeonki was a huge hit!’

Saetbyeol had been worried that the ‘black pillar’ would ‘destroy’ the Master.

‘How strong is the Master, that he’s going to destroy us with something like this? Those black pillars, aren’t they just bluffing?’

Saetbyeol, who had been splashing around in the water with her feet in the lake, got up from her seat and looked at the black pillar.

‘That won’t work. I have to go and tease him.’

The morning star ran towards the ‘black pillar’.

“uh?”

The morning star stopped about ten paces away from the black pillar.

“It seems like it got bigger?”

Saetbyeol tilted her head. It seemed like it was, but it also seemed like it wasn’t.

‘It’s strange?’

Saetbyeol felt strange and went to the lakeside, then came back the next day.

The morning star opened its eyes.

“That’s right! It’s definitely gotten bigger!”

The morning star’s eyes shook.

‘Why did it get bigger? Why?’

No matter how much she thought about it, there was no reason. Saetbyeol couldn’t hold back her curiosity and approached the ‘black pillar’.

“hey!”

[Yesterday you just looked at me and left, but today you came closer.]

The voice of the black pillar was softer than before.

“You, right? You got bigger, right?”

[well.]

“Aren’t you going to answer?”

[If you want to know, put your hand in and you will know.]

At the black pillar’s words, the morning star moved away, saying ‘tsk’.

“It’s okay. It’s gotten bigger, but I don’t think it’s much different from before.”

The morning star returned to the lakeside again. And the next day, the morning star ran hurriedly to the ‘black pillar’.

“That’s ridiculous!”

During the night the black pillar had doubled in size.

“You─ You! What are you doing! Why are you getting bigger!”

[It’s all thanks to you. Thanks to you, I was able to grow more by letting Hwang Do-jun know that he’s an irregular.]

“What—what are you talking about? You really? When I put my hand in.”

[That’s right. That’s when I found out. Just as you saw my traces, it was so easy to find Hwang Do-jun’s identity in your memories.]

Saetbyeol clenched his teeth and trembled. In the meantime, the black pillar grew a little bigger.

“That’s ridiculous!”

[That makes sense. You could know the identity of the Irregulars, or rather, who exactly you had to target. That’s why you could send ‘Prince Youngyo’, and your Master had no choice but to create ‘Dotap Jeonki’.]

“But Prince Yeongyo has been defeated now! Dotap has won!”

[Haha. That’s right. That’s right. So as a result, fate was manipulated again. So here’s a quiz. What happened to the fragmented fate?]

The morning star’s mouth fell open.

“No way──. You.”

[I guess you’ve just realized. The pieces have come together for me. I can grow bigger.]

The morning star shook his head.

“This is ridiculous. It’s not the first or second time that the Master has changed fate. But you’re not this big, are you?”

[That’s right. That’s right. But thanks to you, the restrictions are gone.]

Saetbyeol shouted angrily at the words that it was because of her again.

“Really? Those three years?”

[So during those three years, you won’t get any help. Through that ‘passage’. Instead, I can use that ‘passage’ for three years. Only I.]

The morning star shook his head.

“I don’t understand. So what? I’m just not getting any help.”

[Ha. You really─ still don’t know anything. Alright, I’ll tell you what that ‘passage’ is. Think about it carefully, that passage didn’t necessarily just provide help. It definitely wanted your Master to do something.]

The morning star thought of a time when she would ‘help’.

‘It definitely did. It made you do something in response to it, whether it was a panacea or something else, and it was rewarded.’

“So what?”

[That was the causality of the changed fate.]

The morning star’s pupils dilated.

“Causality?”

[Yes. An action that changes a changed destiny into a real destiny. But you have no way to match that causality. But your Master won’t stop. What will happen then?]

Saetbyeol thought for a moment and then her face turned pale.

“Really? Are you saying that from now on, depending on what the Master does, you can grow bigger?”

[That’s right. Your Master will take actions that change your original destiny, whether you want it or not. Each time he does, I will gain more power and grow bigger. Of course, it will only last for three years, but three years should be enough.]

The black pillar said that and began to turn slowly. The startled Morning Star stepped back a lot.

The black pillar began to spin more and more strongly. The flowers around it were sucked into the pillar.

“No! Don’t do that!”

[It’s too late! You can’t stop ‘us’.]

The pillar began to rotate faster and faster.

The morning star was shocked and ran backwards. The trees and rocks near the black pillar were sucked into it.

‘No. If this continues, the world will be ruined.’

The morning star cried out in an earnest voice.

“Master, something’s wrong! My… world is starting to fall apart!”

* * *

Dojun was surprised by Saetbyeol’s words.

“What do you mean? The world is falling apart?”

An urgent message appeared before Dojun’s eyes.

Dojun became frustrated. Saetbyeol seemed to be speaking urgently, but he could barely understand her.

“Saturday Star. So what’s the problem? Why are you failing? Can you explain it to me in the words I see?”

Dojun felt like he had been hit in the head with a hammer.

‘I─. The more I change my fate, the more the world of the Morning Star is ruined?’

Then another message appeared.

Dojun, who saw the message, sat down on his chair. It was because he understood what Saetbyeol said.

Dojun looked at the sales information that Minmay had sent him.

The biggest sales figures of any game in the world were displayed on the monitor.

‘Dotap Chronicle was originally a game released by China’s Gaia Games in 2014. But I interfered. Gaia Games will not be able to release this game anymore.’

Maybe the company itself would never have come into existence.

‘Fate has changed to this extent. I don’t know why, but it seems like Saetbyeol’s world is going to end.’

At the same time, I had doubts. I had lived countless lives differently from my previous lives, but this was the first time I had experienced something like this.

Dojun focused on the word ‘3 years’ among Saetbyeol’s words.

‘Is it because of that restriction? In the past, there were no restrictions so it was okay to change, but now there are restrictions so I can’t change my fate?’

Dojun clenched his fists. That was the only thing that had changed since before.

‘If the world of the morning star disappears, the morning star will disappear too, right?’

That didn’t work out. Of course it was a coincidence, but Saetbyeol was a very special person to Dojun.

‘Of all my talents, the only one who can communicate with me. And the one who is connected to everything that happens to me.’

Dojun asked right away.

“Saturday Star. How are things going now?”

I don’t know the details, but it seemed like an emergency situation.

Dojun took on a serious expression.

“I think… the three-year restriction is the problem, right?”

“Then is there no way? A way to break the three-year restriction?”

“Conversation? Oh. That place you asked about?”

Dojun tapped the desk with his middle finger.

‘Conversation? The passage is blocked? Wait, it doesn’t seem completely blocked?’

Saetbyeol was one of Dojun’s talents. And Dojun had many talents.

‘I recently learned JAVASCRIPT as a new language. That’s a talent, isn’t it? If I was blocked like Saetbyul said, shouldn’t this be impossible too?’

Dojun immediately asked Saetbyeol what he thought.

Dojun’s eyes lit up. If this was true, there was a way to try.

“Saturday Star, how about this?”