Chapter 66
Chapter 66
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 66
Chapter Title: Now It's a Tradition
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[Anomaly Broadcast: Code 120053]
[Broadcast ending soon.]
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The moment the newb's broadcast ended.
The ritual began.
The Anomalous Tale Gallery users clustered in one place were finally unleashed.
And the next action those freed gallery users would take—
It was a predetermined sequence.
To describe their current state in one word:
Severely, completely dominated by dopamine.
Judgment, reason, even emotions were blurred.
All thoughts had been overtaken by dopamine alone.
No one tried to escape that domination or resist it.
If there had been an outlet, things might have turned out differently.
Like shutting off the game and chatting with friends, or venting in the gallery.
They could have cooled off this fever.
But reality was different.
Their words and excitement.
Couldn't be understood by anyone who hadn't seen the anomaly tale.
Sympathy was hard to come by from the start.
No matter how much you yapped at someone who couldn't even watch the broadcast, it was no different from preaching to a rock.
In the end, the only place that could understand these feelings was the Anomaly Tale Gallery.
Just one place.
And so—
The hyped-up gallery users exploded all at once.
Comment sections boiled over, threads shot up.
It wasn't a mere reaction.
It was another colossal wave.
Up until they arrived, the wholesome time of swapping tidbits of info,
asking and answering questions, was now completely over.
[Anyone know how to deal with Code 521-AD-41 anomaly?](+5)
[Understanding rule fluctuations by worldline and the principles of generality](+8)
[Must-buy essentials from the anomaly shop, compiled](+11)
[Newb is God? Newb is God? Newb is God? Newb is God? Newb is God?](+45)
[Breaking down the box office elements of this movie.](+33)
[Let's dig into the logic of poker and chess.](+25)
[Is God newb? Is God newb? Is God newb? Is God newb?](+52)
[The correlation between checkmate and check](+66)
[Quantum physics breakdown of newb's behavioral principles](+41)
Dozens, hundreds of nonsense posts piled up with overwhelming firepower.
Posts flying in 4-5 at a time every few seconds.
Normal posts, barely one per page, couldn't hope to stem this tide.
A few anomaly gallery users tried desperately to hold the line by posting,
but it meant nothing.
The anomaly gallery was already under the control of the "newb troll horde."
[Title: My chest swells so grand, that guy's smallㅡ]
—Author: Darkmeter
That small newb, right?
Felt it from the first glimpse, knew they were worlds apart.
Now if I say I'm a newb broadcast subscriber, people give me a second look wherever I go.
I even pick up trash off the ground, and the anomalies that used to torment me go "hieek,"
screaming as they vanish when I say I'm a newb subscriber. My chest swells with pride.
[Poison Needle Pufferfish]: What the hell is this even saying?
[Happy Storage]: Leave it. They're high on newb dope right now.
└[Hushed Ant]: Real talk lol, they won't be sane till the high wears off, got it?
└[Solo Nick Friend]: What're you even saying? Please use spaces.
[Narita]: I don't get it at all!
[Title: Ah. That 3rd floor thing was insane.]
—Author: Patianwang
When fighting the donkey mask.
lololololol
Seeing the card flip through the screen, why was my hand sweating?
[Organism]: Real lol
[Flounder]: Ahh. That's called a reversal.
[Narita]: So what was that? 3rd floor? What happened there?
[Title: You think you can say you watched this broadcast without seeing Floor 2?]
—Author: Human Centipede
Floor 2 is where the real race begins, you know?
[Narita]: Race? Floor 2? That was the key?
[Title: Newb noobs. Wait, talking Floor 2, Floor 3? Not starting from Floor 1?]
—Author: Crazy Woman
lolololololololololololololol
Post made me burst out laughing IRL.
And you call that watching?
How many seconds did you last?
I cleared newb's broadcast in 23 seconds.
[Organism]: lolololololololol
[Narita]: Floor 1, right! So what was it?
[Title: Honestly, more than that, the first minute...]
—Author: Flounder
Honestly, more than that, the first minute was the cutscene that ate the whole thing alive, the killing point.
No one missed it, right?
You can't say you watched newb's broadcast without seeing that.
When you first enter the anomaly and your view of watching anomalies changes.
Whoa.
Gave me legit chills lololol
[Narita]: Are you ignoring me on purpose?
And the problem with these malicious troll spammers' behavior was.
Their addictiveness and contagion were beyond imagination.
A few knowledgeable or relatively rational users protested and tried to talk,
but it was useless.
They endlessly chanted the code number "120053,"
chanting "Gwangju Station Anomaly," "New Employee First Day Anomaly,"
"Doppelganger Maze Horror," "Happiness Sharing Hospital Anomaly"—
They wouldn't talk to users who hadn't seen them until the hype died down.
A few users raged at their antics.
And sought out those videos.
The users who returned were no longer "the ones they knew."
—Newb... is... God?
—...Comrade!
Barcode was one of the users still holding out somehow.
Devil's Gamble Horror.
Even hearing that Floor 4 of the anomaly—which had no solution except maintaining the status quo—had been revealed.
He was one of the resistors who absolutely refused to log into the broadcast.
But even he couldn't endure the renewed onslaught of newb trolls.
[Title: Anyone know how to deal with Code 521-AD-41 anomaly?]
—Author: Barcode
521-AD-41.
Sometimes moves faintly under the surface, making it hard to counter.
If anyone knows, could you share some info?
[Patianwang]: Gwangju Station Anomaly
[Flounder]: New Employee First Day Anomaly
[Darkmeter]: Doppelganger Maze Horror
[Narita]: The method is simple. You need bait. The bait is—
[Organism]: Happiness Sharing Hospital Anomaly
[Crazy Woman]: Devil's Gamble Horror.
This time, one more thing was added.
Barcode couldn't hold out any longer.
He finally made up his mind.
Whatever that damn thing was, he'd check it out.
And then tell them.
Loud and proud.
[Barcode]: Newb is God.
One resistor fell.
As the excitement gradually subsided and the waves calmed.
Someone whose reason was slowly returning posted.
[Title: But. Got a question.]
—Author: Patianwang.
Who the hell smashes up the casino in our worldline?
I watched from start to finish.
Rulebook establishment is done, right?
Even accounting for 5-15% differences due to worldline variances here.
Shouldn't be hard to make a rulebook.
A casino's rules probably aren't that different.
But...
...How the hell do you clear Floor 3?
I watched and still can't do it?
Unrealistic advice like smashing signs in sequence from Floor 1 to 4.
Real talk, is that humanly possible?
lolololololololololololololol
One wipe and you're casino-bound?
Who the fuck does that?
I'm called iron-hearted myself.
But if you told me to do it.
I'd grab the asshole giving the order and kill them.
If I couldn't, I'd rather shoot myself in the head.
[Hopeless Life]: Came to bitch, now I'm solemn af
[Human Centipede]: Dunno lololol just give up. Giving up is freeing
[Coffin Fairy]: Yup, we already suppressed the casino in our worldline~
└[Patianwang]: Real? How?
└[Coffin Fairy]: Almost all the humans died.
└[Coffin Fairy]: No one left to gamble in the casino. What can it do?
└[Coffin Fairy]: Total dogshit lololol
└[Coffin Fairy]: Money? lololol here cigs are currency lolololololol
The chat grew even more solemn.
But in stark contrast.
One gallery user whose excitement wasn't dying down—in fact, growing fiercer and more violent.
[Narita]: I'm gonna kill them. Kill them gruesomely.
[Narita]: Why's no one mentioning it? Don't wanna lose your head?
[Narita]: Should I snap their necks for you?
That's when one post caught Narita's eye.
A post rocketing to the top with massive upvotes.
The title alone was ominous.
Unlike the other trolls who'd been teasing and tormenting her, it was clean.
'One-Line Summary.'
No caps, no special chars, no clickbait vibe.
She had a feeling.
This one was different.
'Finally! Finally!'
Narita's heart pounded.
The compiled summary she'd been waiting for.
Narita quickly moved her mouse.
Worried someone might snatch the post.
Without even catching her breath.
She clicked it.
[Title: One-Line Summary.]
—Author: Serious Junkie.
[Paint 1]
[Paint 2]
[Paint 3]
lol
[Upvotes 713] [Downvotes 13]
[Narita]: So where's the summary? Just weird drawings?
└[Human Centipede]: ?
└[Human Centipede]: Looks fine to me?
└[Patianwang]: Real, didn't watch the broadcast. Got it all from this.
└[Narita]: ? Are you mocking me for being Japanese now?
└[Human Centipede]: Look closely. Right now. See the upvote count? You think that many people would upvote a troll post that hard?
└[Narita]: Ah.. no way?
Gradually, the gallery user took the bait.
That's when a familiar name jumped into the conversation.
└ [Veteran84]: Let's cool it, guys.
The chat's mood froze instantly.
A vet.
One of the few big names in the anomaly gallery.
└[Veteran84]: That's not what you think it is.
And now—
└[Veteran84]: It's letters drawn as pictures.
└[Veteran84]: Looks meaningless at first, but stare for 10 minutes... it'll start making sense.
└ [Narita]: Ooooh! That's what it was?!
└[Narita]: I'll do it!