Villain’s Programming - Chapter 286



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Episode 286: The Results of 3 Years

Dojun rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, wondering if he had seen something wrong, and looked forward again.

‘Crazy… Really?’

Dojun’s eyes became serious.

‘But Emperor Shi? Emperor Shi AI?’

China was the only place in the world where the word Shi Huangdi was used.

‘What the hell have you Chinese guys done? And AI on top of that?’

An AI in the form of a golden tree was never even imagined.

‘China… created such an AI?’

If it were before, he would have laughed it off, but Dojun recalled the internet articles he had seen in his lost memories.

‘The country in the world where AI technology is developing the fastest is China.’

While other countries, including the United States, have stagnated in AI technology due to ‘copyright’ and ‘human rights,’ China has no such restrictions.

‘Because we live in a country where human rights are worse than toilet paper.’

Dojun thought back to the giant tree he had seen through Copycat’s eyes a little while ago. It was a tree so large and wide that it was impossible to guess its size.

‘So does that mean that China really created that AI? And that AI did the hacking?’

The copycat clearly considered the golden tree as ‘food’, i.e. hacking or a virus.

Dojun messed up his hair.

‘Copycat has no reason to lie. So that huge golden tree is a real hacking program? That’s crazy. If it requires a hacking program of that scale, what on earth were you trying to hack? And why was it inside a black pillar?’

At that moment, Dojun thought of the world where Saetbyeol lived.

‘Wait a minute, isn’t it possible that you have to hide your identity? Is there a reason why you shouldn’t be revealed to the world of Saetbyul?’

Dojun asked Saetbyeol right away.

“Morning Star, how is the black pillar now?”

“That’s good. But Saetbyeol, since when has the black pillar been there?”

“From the beginning?”

Dojun opened his eyes wide.

‘Something happened then.’

Dojun asked cautiously.

“Saturday Star, what kind of world do you live in? Is it perhaps… a virtual world or something like that?”

Dojun thought that Saetbyul’s world was a ‘cyber world’ because he saw ‘Sihwangje AI’ this time.

‘The only place where AI exists is the cyber world made up of 0s and 1s.’

But Saetbyeol’s answer was completely different from what Dojun expected.

Dojun shook his head. That was impossible even after ten years.

‘It’s back to square one.’

Dojun, whose head felt like it was going to explode, left the CEO’s office.

“I’ll leave work first.”

After saying that to the HR manager, Dojun left the office.

After passing the Samseong Station intersection and walking a little further, the Han River came into view. Dojun started walking along the Han River trail.

The cool river breeze seemed to clear my head a little.

‘Why was that Shi Huang AI guy hiding in the black pillar and in the world of the morning star? Judging from the name, it seems like it was definitely an AI created by China.’

Dojun thought back on everything he had known so far. Then he opened his eyes wide.

‘Lucky letter. Ma Huateng. Zhang Linfeng. And Baekseon. Oh my, they’re all Chinese.’

Dojun stopped walking.

‘Is there something between my talent for regression and China? Was my regression not a coincidence caused by the Absolute?’

Do-jun had thought that his regression was just a coincidence caused by the Absolute. But seeing what had happened now, he thought that maybe that wasn’t the case.

“Morning star.”

“You said you could talk to the black pillars.”

“So, can I ask you this?”

Dojun thought for a moment and then asked.

“Ask me this. Why did Saetbyul try to ruin the world you live in?”

Dojun shook his head.

“I thought so too. But Copycat saw something inside the black pillar. Did you see the message too?”

“That’s right. Maybe… it was him who moved the black pillar.”

* * *

It was a world of darkness. In a world of endless darkness, countless pieces of faint light were floating around.

Deep within the space where the pieces were floating stood a giant tree.

“What are we going to do now? Your plan has failed! Now those guys won’t change their fate for three more years!”

At the words of the black pillar, the black space resonated with a ‘hum’ sound.

[Human patience is very thin. Hwang Do-jun will never be able to endure it and will change his fate again.]

“What if you don’t change your destiny?”

[I calculated the possibility. The probability is 70%. Hwang Do-jun will definitely change his fate.]

“You’re saying you won’t do 30%? Hey, Shi Huangdi. There’s not much time left. We only have 2 years and 8 months! If I don’t take over this world by then, you’re finished! When Saetbyeol regains all her power and learns the truth, it’s over! Then you won’t be able to influence the ‘present world’ anymore!”

[… … .]

“We need another plan. A plan that will completely finish you off. Now is not the time to be relaxed. You see? That little cat. He might come back and tear you to pieces this time!”

The voice of the black pillar echoed in all directions. The golden tree did not respond for a while.

[You’re right. We’ve come to the conclusion that we need a stronger and more certain way.]

“That’s right! That’s what we need! Do you have any idea of ​​a way?”

[There is only one way.]

“What is it?”

[forwarding.]

“Send… Send? It’s still being sent, right?”

[That’s not the kind of transmission. I’ll go down myself.]

The space shook for a moment at the words of the golden tree.

“You’re going down to the human world yourself? You don’t have the strength to do that yet. Don’t you think I need to gain strength before you can go down to the world?”

[That’s right. But as you said, there’s no more time. We have to resort to a last resort.]

The golden tree spoke thus. And the moment it finished speaking, the branches of the golden tree began to spread out in all directions.

Eggplant grabbed the ‘Piece of Destiny’ that was floating around countless times and placed the eggplant inside the piece.

“Ahhh! What… What is it? What are you doing!”

[I need strength, just like you said.]

“Me… crazy! That’s right! My power!”

[Don’t worry. If the descent is successful, everything will go back to normal!]

More branches stretched out from the golden tree, and the black pillar vibrated more loudly. No, it screamed.

“no!”

The black pillar screamed loudly, but no one heard it.

Only the morning star outside noticed something odd about the black pillar.

“What… What is it? Why is it like that?”

After the Morning Star leveled up, the world returned to normal. Grass began to grow in the desert, and the black pillars stopped moving.

The size of the black pillar also decreased. However, the way it decreased was different from before.

‘The surface of the black pillar… is cracking?’

The cracked surface was cracking and hardening. And that wasn’t all. Something was starting to stick out from the middle of the smooth pillar. It looked just like a tree branch.

‘What on earth is going on?’

The transformation of the black pillar took a long time. When the transformation was complete, Saetbyeol was greatly surprised.

‘That’s… a tree, isn’t it?’

* * *

Liao Weicheng received the email from Burus and his expression became serious.

“Build a large-scale cloud center in China? Where you can test AI? Oh, is that easy? It doesn’t cost a single penny.”

Liao Weisheng thought for a moment and then called his chief secretary.

After a while, the door opened and the chief secretary came in.

“Did you call?”

“Uh. How much money does the company have?”

“Not much. Of course, there was talk that former CEO Ma Huateng had a lot of slush funds… … .”

“No one knows where it is. Except for Ma Huateng.”

“sorry.”

“Okay. It wasn’t your fault. Anyway, is there any way to make money right now?”

The chief secretary thought for a moment and then answered.

“Sales of Prince Youngyo are gradually increasing.”

Although Prince Yeongyo wasn’t making a lot of money right away, its sales were gradually increasing.

“I know because I saw the report. Everyone said the game had good gameplay. If it continues like this, it’ll be the best game in two years.”

“you’re right.”

“But I need the money right now.”

“Excuse me, sir. I don’t know if this will make any money, but the development team suggested that we release Prince’s Youngyo as a PC version.”

“Huh? PC version?”

“yes.”

Liao Weisheng asked, stroking his chin.

“Is that possible?”

“The development team looked at the source code and found that there were parts that could be converted to the PC version. I think it may have already been implemented.”

Liao Weisheng opened his eyes wide.

‘Bruce never said anything like that. No way? Are you testing me?’

Liao Weisheng thought for a moment and then answered.

“Okay. Try it now. Tell the development team. If it’s successful, I’ll give you 10% of the sales as incentive.”

* * *

“It’s okay. Nothing has changed so far, right?”

A few months ago, Dojun heard about the ‘black tree’ from Saetbyeol. At first, he was very worried, but a few months passed and nothing happened until now.

Dojun chuckled.

“Don’t worry. I think I know what to do now. If I don’t change fate, that tree… won’t grow any bigger.”

Of course, I wasn’t sure. Fate had already changed too much.

‘I need to test how to make the black tree bigger and how to make it not affect the black tree.’

But I decided to take it slow. There was something more important right now.

“Anyway, don’t worry and just observe carefully.”

“Then let’s talk later. I have to go to a meeting.”

Do-jun left the CEO’s office and entered the conference room. There was the ‘head of the business division’ with a very worried expression on his face.

“Okay. What’s an emergency report?”

“It is said that Baeksent is developing a PC version of ‘Prince Youngyo’.”

Dojun’s eyes sparkled.

“PC version?”

“Yes. I heard that it has progressed a lot. Of course, it is still quite unstable because it is basically a mobile version, but if it stabilizes, it will likely pose a big threat to LoL. We need to come up with a solution.”

“As a countermeasure… … .”

Dojun thought deeply and asked.

“When will the PC version of Gaemamusa be released?”

Gaemamusa was officially released worldwide as a console version four months ago. The response was explosive.

It was praised for its gameplay and for surpassing the performance of the PS3 and XBOX 360.

Thanks to this, sales also increased tremendously. In just one month, it sold 10 million copies on PS3 and 7 million copies on X BOX 360.

And sales continued to grow.

As a result, the ones who were impatient were PC users who didn’t have consoles. Although they knew that the PC version would be released soon, they wanted to play the game as soon as possible, so they staged a sit-in on the Internet every day to demand that it be released sooner.

“A week later.”

“A week later. Okay. Promote it widely.”

“Yes? What?”

“The difficulty level of the Dog Warrior AI.”

The head of the business division trembled at Do-jun’s words. The difficulty of the AI ​​of Gaemamusa was the real end content and core fun point of ‘Gaemamusa’.

“Are you finally opening?”

“Yes. It will be released at the same time as the PC version. Oh, and PVP too.”

“PVP! That’s a good idea. But, sir. Even if we do that, I don’t think it will be a solution for the PC version of ‘Prince’s Youngyo’.”

“I know.”

‘Gaemamusa’ was a game that openly talked about the history of ‘Goguryeo’. Naturally, it could not pass the Chinese ‘panho’ and could not be released in China.

“Then… are you going to leave it like this?”

Dojun answered with a sly smile.

“No, absolutely not. We can’t let a copycat game like that beat LoL in China.”

“Then how?”

“Tell the Gaemamusa development team to open the server so that China can access the Korean server.”

“Huh? No… Gaemamusa isn’t sold in China, so why is the server…?”

Dojun said, getting up from his seat.

“Don’t worry. If you just do that, all your problems will be solved.”

* * *

[Dog Warrior, PC version released!]

[Gamers, pitching tents and waiting to buy the Gaemamusa the night before.]

The news made headlines when gamers were seen waiting all night in front of game software stores across the country.

While the general public couldn’t understand people waiting all night just to buy a game, gamers thought differently.

– Ah. I should have gone there.

– Finally! We can now be Gaemamusha too!

– I, who waited until now, am the winner.

– Are you finally able to become a full-fledged dog master now?

– I bought the latest computer to become a dog groomer.

Although the Gaemamusa was released for XBOX and PS, most gamers did not consider it to be a real Gaemamusa.

‘The special feature of Gaemamusa is its truly amazing graphics, but you can’t see it on consoles!’

Gamers begged their parents or saved up money on alcohol to buy the latest computers so they could see the graphics of the legendary Gaemamusa.

Thanks to this, the global computer parts market has experienced an unexpected boom.

CPU and graphics card stocks went up, and AMD CPUs and GPUs, which were especially well optimized for ‘Gammusa’, sold like hotcakes. It was no wonder that the stock price doubled.

However, many console users had already completed all the content. They could not help but be indifferent even if the PC version’s graphics were good.

At that time, Black Cat published a new article.

[Gae-ma-musa Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mode Open!]

[PVP all open.]

[Supports both console and PC]

Gamers who read the article were initially confused. They thought they could figure out PVP right away, but they didn’t really understand what the AI ​​mode was.

But the question was soon answered, as ancient people from all over the world entered ‘AI’ mode and soon left their writings.

[Review of 3 hours of playing the Dogma Warrior AI mode]

– Wow, the difficulty is crazy. How do I beat this?

– AI mode reads the patterns I’ve created so far and creates enemy patterns that render them completely useless. It’s the best and the worst.

– I love you! Black Cat. In a way, it’s a fight between me and myself. I wanted this kind of game.

With the advent of AI mode, the veterans of Gaemamusa could no longer be veterans.

If you think it looks familiar, it’s because the enemies have evolved into something new.

When people all over the world were in an uproar over ‘Gae-ma-musa’, there was one country that was particularly quiet.

It was China. I couldn’t play it in China because ‘Gae-ma-musa’ wasn’t sold there.

Dojun snickered as he read the posts from Chinese users asking for the product to be sold officially.

“I can’t play… I play a lot.”

Dojun asked CTO Yang Ha-seong.

“CTO, how many Chinese concurrent users are there right now?”

Yang Ha-seong looked at the monitor and answered with a bewildered expression.