Chapter 118: Secret method of contact

Even though Mollru was the first to discover the Easter egg, it didn’t mean the challenge was over.

The total number of Easter eggs and hidden routes that the World 23 developers had hidden in the game was 23.

The challenge would end when all of them were discovered, and the winner of the challenge would be determined based on the amount and importance of what they discovered.

Simply discovering a lot wasn’t necessarily a good thing. The higher the score, the more related it was to the game’s hidden story, or the more effort the developers put into setting it up.

The person with the highest score at the end would be in first place. Then 2nd and 3rd place would follow.

Therefore, the heat of the challenge didn’t cool down at all after Mollru discovered the first Easter egg.

Rather, it was right to say that it burned even hotter.

Whether there really were Easter eggs or not. At least people who had been finding nothing, calling it finding a needle in a haystack, had confirmed its existence.

Although it was an unconventional method, Mollru eventually found it.

That alone was enough. Enough for other streamers to think, “I can do that too.”

As a result, ATX’s monitor room was bustling with a festive atmosphere again today.

“I knew Mollru was the goddess of luck. For some reason, I had a feeling that Mollru had to be there.”

The team leader, who had a tired and haggard impression from fatigue, had an impression that had improved to the point that he had been hearing that his face had bloomed recently.

It would be stranger if that weren’t the case, since the work he had put his heart and soul into for days was shining like this.

On top of that, he had been promised more compensation than he had imagined from the CEO, as he had achieved more than expected.

Just a smooth road, when did this smooth road start?

It’s a sad thing to say to his wife who’s waiting for him at home, but he thought it all started when he first discovered Mollru and decided to entrust her with the advertisement.

As artists call it, a kind of muse.

A symbol of luck and a being that gives them inspiration.

Mollru was like that to the team leader.

“Um, team leader.”
“Haha, yes. Our cute Deputy Manager Kim.”

The deputy manager, who wasn’t used to the team leader’s high tension, coughed and said.

“That tweet you left. ‘Mollru is a goddess.’ That one.”
“Yes, it’s my pure impression. Why?”
“Mollru-nim left a dislike.”

The deputy manager held up his phone and showed it to the team leader.

Mollru’s broadcast was playing on the screen. She was pressing the dislike button on the tweet with a disgusted face.

Of course, that disgusted face was also very beautiful.

“Um, was she very embarrassed?”

The deputy manager sighed inwardly as he looked at the team leader scratching his head.

How could a normal person suddenly become so out of it?

Of course, the marketing was more successful than expected, but…

‘Is this the Mollru effect?’

The deputy manager recalled a post he had seen in the community. Once you fall for Mollru, you can’t get out. At that time, he had simply dismissed it as the end of a broth that had been simmered too long.

But now, wasn’t there an example right in front of him?

‘I think you fell for her in a slightly different way, though.’

The process of simmering the broth that was mentioned in the community was different. This seemed to be simply close to being a fan.

After thinking for a while, the deputy manager shook his head.

I don’t know. Whether the team leader becomes a simmered broth or a fanatic, what do I care. Good things are good.

The deputy manager felt like he was about to fly away with the bonus he would be getting soon. It’s no wonder the team leader is acting like that.

“Monitor 3, streamer Tex. Discovered Easter egg #3.”
“Monitor 7, streamer Papi Joa. Entering hidden route #4.”

The employees in the monitor room were announcing news from all over the place.

Starting with Mollru, streamers were discovering Easter eggs and hidden routes one by one as time went by.

“Is there any news from Mollru yet?”
“No, it’s been quiet since yesterday.”
“I see…”

The team leader openly showed his disappointment. But the deputy manager nodded.

‘I think it’s too much pressure because she’s been praised too much.’

The deputy manager accurately read Mollru’s mind, although he didn’t intend to.

He predicted that if Mollru won this challenge, her already high stock price would skyrocket.

‘It’s not bad to take a break once in a while.’

It’s not like her evaluation will drop if she does.

Kim, the deputy manager, who was a true Moll-boong who genuinely cared for Mollru, thought so.

But as always, things in the world don’t always go as intended.

It’s been 5 days since, and I’m still playing World.

Not just because of the challenge, but simply because the game is fun. The map is so wide and packed with features that it had a different flavor every time I played.

I won’t get tired of it for a while.

Apart from that, there was news that I occasionally heard through the grapevine.

“Tex-nim discovered an Easter egg, and Papi-nim entered a hidden route?”

People who have a connection with me. People who made a connection with me in the early stages of my broadcasting career, which wasn’t that long ago.

Now that I’ve grown so much, they’re also being tied together with the ridiculous name of the Mollru Division.

“He kept eating food at street stalls to raise his gourmet level, and then he inherited the store as it was…”

That’s Tex’s story. Similar to me, he realized it was an Easter egg when a system message appeared.

[It’s about Skewer XX ㅇㅇ]
[The CEO must be a regular there]
[Is it a popular restaurant?]
[It’s famous there]
[I’m the only one who doesn’t know]
[It’s delicious there]
[Restaurant characteristic) Doesn’t exist in our neighborhood]
[Jeju Island residents are hearing about it for the first time]

Apparently, this was a famous anecdote. Seeing that some of the viewers were agreeing with the story, it seemed to be true.

“Papi-nim changed to a hidden class? The name is… a Taoist? That’s unique.”

A hidden class that wasn’t revealed in the job categories. Papi Joa seemed to have opened that path through a hidden route.

“He climbed up the waterfall backwards, and a Taoist appeared and was impressed by his mental strength and tenacity and made him his disciple? No, why did you climb the waterfall in the first place?”

[Climbing is his hobby~]
[Why else, it’s because he had to do something]
[I think he just got lucky while doing something?]
[He’s lucky]

So there are cases where you get lucky while doing those kinds of bizarre things.

Well, my case is unique, and most of the people who are discovering hidden routes or Easter eggs now are discovering them through those kinds of processes.

It wasn’t a bad story for me. My shoulders, which had been rising without knowing how scary the sky was, came down a little.

It was a calculation that the developers and viewers wouldn’t raise me up so much anymore.

[When is the streamer going to find it?]
[Mollru paved the way first, so the latecomers were able to run like this…]
[She knows everything but she’s deliberately not finding it lol]
[Fr lol, Mollru is going to win anyway, right? It’s all in Mollru’s palm, right?]
[Mollru is smiling… no matter how much the racing dogs run, they can’t beat Mollru, who is a cheetah… because the seed is different…]

Um, I think I need more time. It’s not enough to get rid of these people’s madness yet.

“What do you mean I’m not finding it on purpose? I’m working hard to find it.”

I said, lifting the jingling coin purse. I thought something would appear, but nothing appeared.

I guess there’s nothing here?

-NPC Jack is wailing.

-Please, just give me a break. If you take that, my beloved wife and rabbit-like children…

“No, I can’t. The world of competition is originally ruthless.”
A game against the famous gambler Jack at the casino. The result was my overwhelming victory.

Why are you being so pathetic when we all know what’s going on? If I had been robbed, you would have taken everything, including my underwear, without showing any mercy.

[This is a familiar picture…]
[Casino? Cyber casino? Ugh, my head]
[JJ ya…]
[??? : Welcome to Mollru Land, the land of fantasy]
[Are Flare’s kids doing well?]
[Is the streamer really a player? She’s taking everything]

“I was lucky.”

The viewers were making a fuss about it being a scam, being humble, and being the Great Mollru, but I have nothing to say but these stock phrases. But that’s the truth.

Thanks to that, my gold holdings have increased by about 2 times. What should I do with this?

-Buy a newspaper… buy a newspaper…

-Would you like to purchase a newspaper from the NPC newspaper-selling girl?

My choice wasn’t far away.

I approached the girl who was selling newspapers while sniffing, and bought a newspaper to revitalize the market economy.

-Please enter the quantity to purchase (maximum: 99)

Quantity, quantity is… I got the money for free anyway, so should I just buy everything?

-Wow, really. Are you really going to buy everything?

The girl hands over the pile of newspapers with a bright smile. It’s nice to see her so happy.

I was putting the newspapers in my inventory after leaving the girl, who had accepted the money and was running off somewhere as if something had happened.

*Condition met.

-You purchased all of the newspaper-selling girl’s newspapers with money stolen from an evil character.

-A special event will occur.

[Kittaaaaaaa]
[Did the streamer do it again?]
[What is it this time?]
[The condition is legendary lol. Is it something like rewarding good and punishing evil?]
[Mollru has a plan for everything…]

I just stayed quiet. I don’t even have anything to say anymore.

-Easter Egg, Secret Meeting Method of the Information Guild.

*You have seen through the meeting method of the Information Guild, and you can now use the Information Guild.
*The Information Guild is watching you.

What kind of Information Guild meets like this?