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    The interior of the accommodation decorated with beautiful flowers. Various flowers were neatly arranged by type and decorated the room.

    The original interior looked similar to a hotel room, but with the housing made of dried flowers, the scenery became closer to a flower garden.

    In a room where you could feel the scent of flowers filling your nose just by looking at them, Flower Malleng finished decorating by placing the vase on the table next to the bed.

    Like the vase, the butterfly decoration purchased from the management of Dried Flower Awaken fluttered around the room.

    “Wow! Completed!”

    -ㅊㅊㅊㅊㅊㅊㅊ

    -Looking at it like this, it’s still worth seeing.

    -You had a hard time haha

    -It’s finally over.

    -It was really long lol.

    [Machimachi donated 50,000 won!]

    Wow, I really thought I was going crazy from being so heated!!!!

    “Hehe… Thank you for the 50,000 won for dried flower salad!! Still, it looks good once completed, right?”

    Both Chat and Ji-won, who had been watching him dig up resources and decorate the room all day, seemed to be fed up, but Kkotmallaeng bent his waist to 90 degrees with a bright smile on his face.

    I agreed with Kkotmallang’s comment that the chat window looks nice too. The interior of what was an ordinary hotel room was covered with flowers, making it look like a place where a princess would fall asleep.

    The flowers were not simply scattered haphazardly, but the arrangement was divided into sections so that it almost looked like a flower bed decorated by a professional landscaper.

    -That’s ㅇㅈ

    -It was well made haha.

    -I keep seeing the slime doll on the bed, it’s cute.

    -I was wondering what kind of doll was a trophy and I guess it was for something like that haha.

    -It goes well with the avatar.

    -But it took too long ㅠㅠ

    -Now let’s start exploring the dungeon in earnest!

    “Is that so?”

    Flower Malang nodded to the viewers’ opinions. It was because she was planning to leave the room again.

    ‘Should we just collect monster dolls by type? I liked the slime doll because it was cute, but I’m not sure if the other dolls would be the same.’

    Although it had already been a while since the broadcast started, she was not sleepy at all. The reason was that real-life Minecraft, housing, and dungeon exploration were fun, but the biggest reason was that the number of viewers increased significantly.

    ‘Almost 6,000 people… !’

    Dried Flowers bit its lip as it glanced at the number of viewers, which was several times the usual number. Otherwise, I was afraid I would end up laughing like an idiot.

    In other words, right now, Kkotmallaeng was in a situation where his eyes were watering due to the constant burst of dopamine.

    “It’s evening, but probably no one is sleeping already, right?”

    -ㄹㅇㅋ

    -You have to row when the water comes in.

    -So the party is Sommaran again this time?

    -We tried it with two people earlier, but we got stuck in the beginning, so let’s recruit one more person this time.

    -Or, if we use up all the remaining resources and upgrade our equipment, will the two of us be able to do it?

    When it looked like there would be something to see again, viewers came up with a ton of ideas.

    Flower Mallaeng looked at that with a smile. I felt happy because everyone seemed to be genuinely enjoying their broadcast.

    “Where is Somma? ”

    Contacting Somma wasn’t difficult. This was a feature I discovered while fiddling with the helmet while broadcasting, and like Minecraft, the real mark they were playing could also send a whisper. Even though it’s a voice message, not a text.

    ‘It’s a little bit like I had to figure out the whisper function myself… Still, I think it’s more fun because it only teaches you the most basic things for broadcasting and allows you to act freely.’

    “Somma, what are you doing now? If you’re not busy, could you please reply?”

    The moment she sent the dried flower whisper, she saw something strange in the corner of her vision.

    [5820 viewers]

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    [Number of viewers: 18,526]

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    .

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    [5829 viewers]

    “Huh?”

    The number of viewers fluctuates momentarily. Although it soon returned to its original number, Kkotmallaeng clearly saw that the number of viewers had suddenly risen to about 18,000.

    The same was true for chat.

    -So are you going to do housing from now on? (This is a deleted message.)

    -Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go~ (This is a deleted message.)

    -?

    -I watched Somma’s broadcast, and she’s almost done with her housing. Do you think I’ll just have to wait a little longer?

    -I watched Somma’s broadcast and she said she was also doing housing (this is a deleted message).

    -What did you just wallpaper?

    There were a lot of chats that did not fit the context of the broadcast at all, unnatural chats that seemed to be cut off while entering content, or chats that were copies of other people’s chats. Such strange chats were uploaded quickly and then deleted in an instant.

    Because it was deleted so quickly, people watching the chat window could not see exactly what the chat was about. I could only guess that it was probably wallpapering.

    Somma’s voice was heard in the ears of Kkotmallaeng, who was frozen as he wondered if there had been some kind of error.

    -Uh, what’s going on?

    “Uh… ? Oh, I thought we’d go exploring a dungeon together.”

    Since the broadcast was back to normal, Kkotmalang quickly came to his senses.

    Somma answered in an excited voice. Even though you couldn’t see it, the sight of it running around was an energy that was automatically drawn.

    -I’m good!

    “Then do you want to come to my room now?”

    -okay! Since it’s on the same floor, just go out the door… Ugh… ! what? Why is chat like this all of a sudden?

    “Huh? What’s going on?!”

    -Yes… Suddenly the wallpaper came up. It was deleted right away, but I was surprised. As expected, King We Got Big! The manager is the best!

    ‘papering?’

    After hearing Somma’s words, Kkotmalain instinctively felt that what happened to her was the same as what he had just experienced.

    “Umm… ”

    It may have been just a technical error, but she decided to send an inquiry to Awaken.

    Todok Todok…

    I took out my smartphone for a moment and sent a text message to my Awaken representative. After conveying the truth to the company she could trust to handle the future, she welcomed Somma with a light heart.

    Suddenly~

    “Wow! Why is it so pretty here?! it’s crazy… ! It’s like a princess room! Aren’t you talented at interior design?”

    “Ah, not that much. Hmm… ”

    “No… After the expedition is over, please help me decorate my room!! Please!”

    ***

    Boom!

    “Damn, what? Why are you responding so quickly?”

    Jinsu Lim gritted his teeth as he looked at the two women squealing beyond the screen.

    “The viewbot was clearly installed properly… ! Why does it return to normal so quickly?”

    It was like that. The reason why the number of viewers and chats of Flower Malang and Somma suddenly became strange was because of Lim Jin-soo’s masterpiece.

    He felt a strong sense of crisis over the growth of Awaken’s streamers, and chose to secretly add a viewbot as a way to hold them back. This applies not only to Kkotmallang and Somma, but also to all Awaken streamers who broadcast on Twatch.

    Viewbot, as its name suggests, refers to the illegal act of using programs to increase the number of viewers.

    Typically, Viewbot was a method mainly used by Hakko broadcasters who wanted to quickly increase their weight class. When selecting a broadcast category on a streaming platform, the broadcasts are listed in order of number of viewers, so in order for the broadcast to be exposed to more viewers, it is necessary to secure a certain number of basic viewers.

    But such cases usually did not produce good results. This is because using Viewbot without proper preparation and talent is no different from drinking sea water.

    The number of people who actually benefited from using Viewbot was less than 1% compared to the number of people using the service.

    And Im Jin-su was one of the people who survived by drinking sea water.

    The viewbot he used this time was also a service he used during his days at Hakko.

    Instead, this time, the viewbot was not intended to raise the broadcast’s weight class, but to intentionally cause trouble for the target streamer.

    An act called viewbot terrorism.

    It’s not a common occurrence, but there’s never been an easier way to get a rival streamer into trouble.

    ‘How on earth did they defend themselves?’

    Jinsu Lim thought as he roughly extinguished his cigarette in the ashtray.

    According to his plan, Awaken’s streamers should have been completely embarrassed by the unidentified viewbot that suddenly appeared by now.

    This means that the broadcast was disrupted, and because they were not able to deal with it properly, they had to create controversy on their own.

    However, Kkotmallaeng and Somma, as well as other targets, continued broadcasting just fine.

    Most people didn’t even notice that something had happened, and those who felt something didn’t even realize that they had been subjected to a Viewbot attack.

    Jinsu Lim didn’t know, but Awaken’s streamers are basically supported by management AI with manager authority.

    Therefore, when an abnormal digital signal came into the broadcast, the management AI judged it to be an attack and blocked it.

    The first move prepared by Im Jin-su was destroyed in an instant.

    ‘If I do this, things will get more complicated… ‘I can’t help it.’

    Im Jin-su got up from his seat and began to move busily again.

    -Hehe… I was watching what was going on… What a laughable human being.

    He didn’t even know that there was an artificial intelligence that had noticed and watched him from the beginning.

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