022. Outdoor Stream for Health
022. Outdoor Stream for Health
There hadn't been time to ban them.
The viewer bolted out of the room too fast.
"What the hell was wrong with that bastard?"
This went beyond a bad-faith troll.
They were a straight-up psycho.
Telling me to eat a poisonous mushroom.
This wasn't mere ignorance. It was blatantly, deliberately malicious.
They said they'd been caught and then left the room.
Chills ran down my spine.
The world really was full of every kind of lunatic.
【Yoho】—Did that person actually know what they were doing?
【BigGirl】—Seeing their reaction, it definitely looked like it.
【Qkrnfl892】—That's so damn creepy.
【Se-hun Defense Force】—Wtf, that crazy bitch is pulling this shit.
【Dick Lover】—That crosses a line.
【Min-ji】—Should we report them?
【Plum Tree】—I captured the recording, for the record.
【Hottie Licker】—?? What happened?
【Reformed Guburi】—Is that fucker insane for real? Se-hun, you could've been in serious danger. You can't just let this slide.
The viewers unanimously grew heated.
And rightfully so.
Broadly speaking, what that viewer did was tantamount to attempted murder.
"Wait, Guburi, more importantly. Is it really true that just touching this mushroom is dangerous?"
【Reformed Guburi】—Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't touch it. Absolutely don't.
【Reformed Guburi】—It's called the Red Deer Antler Mushroom, the most toxic mushroom native to Korea. There are even claims you can get poisoned or develop dermatitis just from touching it. Not fully confirmed, but it's safer just not to touch it. And obviously don't even think about eating it. Eat it and you'll cross the River Jordan instantly.
"Fuck..."
That was news to me.
A poisonous mushroom dangerous even just to the touch.
I had no idea why something like this was growing wild near a hiking trail.
【Qkrnfl892】—Whoa, never knew there was a deer antler mushroom.
【Reformed Guburi】—Not antler mushroom, deer antler mushroom.
But how did she know so much?
Guburi was surprisingly knowledgeable.
She seemed like a different person showing off that intellectual side.
"...Anyway, it really could've been a disaster if I'd touched it without knowing. Thanks, Guburi."
【Reformed Guburi】—Sex.
I looked at the mushroom again.
The Red Deer Antler Mushroom.
This needed some kind of action.
As a precaution against any possible accident.
Some other hiker might touch it out of curiosity, or try to pick it.
‘Probably best to at least write a warning sign.’
Unfortunately, I had no paper or pen.
But that didn't mean I had no options.
Among the stones scattered nearby,
I picked up a nicely sharp one.
‘They had warning signs about wild boar appearances, yet no caution notices for poisonous mushrooms like this...’
Using the stone, I carved letters into the dirt ground.
<Warning! Touch this mushroom and you're dead>
It was a stopgap measure.
Touching it wouldn't actually kill you, but I wrote the warning a little roughly to drive caution home.
For now, I decided I'd leave it at this and come back tomorrow to install a proper sign.
***
I continued climbing.
The viewers were still talking about that psycho.
【Qkrnfl892】—For real, the more I think about it, the more chills I get.
【Dick Lover】—This deserves fitting retribution.
【Plum Tree】—When the hike ends, go straight to the police station and press charges. I'll send you the recording.
【Yoho】—Host. Did you block them?
"Block? They ran away before I could permanent-blacklist-ban them."
There were two types of bans on Chur.
The regular ban and the permanent-ban blacklist.
If I chose the latter, the viewer was banned and could never enter my stream again.
But it was impossible to blacklist-ban a viewer who had already left.
"Can you separately blacklist a viewer who's already left?"
【Reformed Guburi】—This platform probably lets you.
【Se-hun Defense Force】—Does blacklisting even matter? They can just change their nickname and come back in.
【Reformed Guburi】—A blacklist bans the account itself. Just changing the nickname, they can't get back in. They'd have to create a whole new account to re-enter.
Guburi really was a professional.
She knew a lot, probably because she was someone who used the cloning technique with multiple accounts online.
"Anyway, so even if they've left, I can still blacklist them?"
【Reformed Guburi】—Yeah. They won't come back on that account anyway; they'll just change accounts entirely. But still, just in case, go ahead and blacklist them.
"Yeah, I should. But can't the managers do the blacklisting? I'm hiking, it's a pain to do it myself."
【Yoho】—You'll have to configure the permissions separately.
【Reformed Guburi】—Give me the permission.
Looking for the permission settings sounded more cumbersome.
I just went to the trouble of doing it myself and handed down the blacklist.
Deciding to press charges tomorrow morning, I continued my hike.
***
A woman stared intently at her monitor, gnawing on her lip.
‘That son of a bitch. He dared to harm a man I had my eye on?’
Thud!
The woman slammed her desk fiercely.
Her anger didn't subside.
Because the male cam streamer Gye Se-hun, whom she'd recently discovered, had nearly been put in a life-threatening situation by some weird viewer.
‘I couldn't let a bastard like this slide.’
It had been a truly close call just moments ago.
If no viewer had been knowledgeable about mushrooms, he might have gone ahead and picked it and cooked it.
Thanks to malicious false information.
‘This had gone too far. If I went easy on him, that bastard would do something even more dangerous later.’
The woman swiveled her chair.
And she spoke in Chinese.
"Mengyao. Are you busy right now?"
"Hmm?"
A woman named Mengyao, who had been sprawled on the sofa, sat up.
She pushed up her slipping glasses, scratched her disheveled hair, and asked,
"I'm not busy, why?"
"Just dig up someone's personal details for me."
"All of a sudden? Did a job come in? You're on vacation right now."
"It's just a personal thing."
Mengyao tilted her head.
"It's rare to see you act on personal motives? Well, fine. It's not a hard task."
"How long will it take?"
"I'll have it licked in an hour."
"...A girl who can't even get licked, what's this about licking?"
"Want me not to help?"
"Sorry."
"Just move. I need the computer to figure things out, whatever it is."
The woman rose from the chair, and Mengyao sat in her place.
Mengyao looked at the monitor and asked again,
"You were watching a male cam again... Anyway, so, which bitch are you trying to find?"
"The user with the nickname Cheosu who came into this stream."
"Okay. Wait a moment."
The woman standing behind Mengyao put a cigarette between her lips.
Then she took out a lighter and sparked a flame.
The lighter she held had letters engraved in relief that stood out.
[Dick Lover]
Codename Dick Lover.
She was a contract killer who made her living as a hitwoman.
***
Mengyao succeeded in the hack.
She collected the member's information from the platform where Gye Se-hun was streaming.
Not only that,
she even scraped up every single piece of that member's private information without missing a detail.
"Let's see... Name: Cha Min-su. Gender: male, residing in a region called Andong. 33 years old, jobless. Just as you predicted, he's also active in a Male Supremacy Group community."
"Fucking Male Supremacy bastards... I usually tolerate and overlook most things, but this crossed the line..."
"I also obtained his ID photo, want to see?"
The man's photo appeared on the screen.
Dick Lover looked at the monitor, immediately narrowed her brows sharply, and clicked her tongue.
"He looks like shit. More importantly, what's his family situation?"
"No parents, three wives... What the hell, they all died in accidents?"
"He had three wives? Guess it's possible to get married even with that face. Maybe because he's a provincial bumpkin."
"Huh? What does living in the provinces have to do with getting married?"
"Most of the men in the Republic of Korea are concentrated in the capital area. The provinces have an extremely small male population, so even orc-looking bastards like this are in demand."
"Really? I didn't know."
Mengyao worked the computer, this time collecting information on Cha Min-su's wives.
"Wow. After just looking it up, no matter how I see it... it reeks of him killing his own wives for the insurance money. This guy's the same breed as us."
"I don't give a shit about that. Just text me the bastard's address."
"To take care of him? Don't you avoid killing men?"
"This time's an exception. Because if this bastard stays alive, my prince will be at risk."
"Prince my ass... Anyway, I just sent the address."
"Thanks."
"Make sure you clean up well afterward. This country has a lot of CCTV, so be careful."
"All those worries. Did you forget who I am?"
"...True enough. There's no way the great Dick Lover would make a mistake."
"Then I'm off."
Dick Lover, who had changed into a black suit, left the house without hesitation.
***
An alleyway at dusk.
Cha Min-su was slowly walking down the street, scrolling on his phone.
‘Heh heh. I posted a story about suing a Korean bitch for eye-rape, and the view count's insane.’
Cha Min-su cackled quietly as he looked at a post.
It was a post he had made on the Male Supremacy Group community.
‘Next, I should tell the story about marrying three gullible Korean bitches and living off them? Leaving out the part where I disguised their deaths as accidents to collect the life insurance.’
After having that thought,
Cha Min-su lifted his eyes from his phone and raised his head.
That's when a woman came into his view.
She was a blonde foreigner leaning against the corner of the alleyway.
‘Wow... her proportions... Was she a model? Western women really were incomparable to Korean bitches.’
She was looking at Cha Min-su too.
Their eyes met, and just as Cha Min-su, feeling embarrassed, was about to hastily turn his head—
the foreign woman suddenly greeted him.
"Hello?"
"...Y-Yes? Do you know me?"
"No? I just said hi because our eyes met?"
"Oh..."
If she'd been a Korean bitch, he would have felt annoyed.
It was always like that.
Whenever a woman tried to talk to him, Cha Min-su would unabashedly show his displeasure and ignore her.
But a pretty foreign woman was a different case.
"By the way, your Korean is really good."
"Thanks."
A grin stretching ear to ear, Cha Min-su tried to keep the conversation going.
At last, his love life was looking up.
He was getting to meet a Western woman, not a Korean bitch.
He was lost in that delusion.
But the foreign woman, seemingly uninterested, started walking right past Cha Min-su.
Cha Min-su hastily tried to stop her.
It was to muster the courage to ask for her number.
"Ah, uh! Excuse me... Could I maybe get your number?"
"I don't have a phone."
"What...? Uh... Then, at least your name..."
If he couldn't get her number, his plan was to at least get her name and search for her on Instagram.
"Name?"
The foreign woman came to a stop.
She smiled brightly and said,
"Dick Lover."
As she started walking again, the woman murmured under her breath,
"But I don't like your dick."
Just low enough that Cha Min-su couldn't hear.
***
That evening.
A man drew his last miserable breath alone at his own home.
And quietly placed next to his corpse was a single mushroom.
It was a Red Deer Antler Mushroom.