Authority of the Integrated Channel Administrator
Authority of the Integrated Channel Administrator
〈Ice Queen☆*(3ch)：Do you have a way?〉
〈Survivor★(2ch)：Yes. Anyway, if it's not too much trouble, please look into some High-Grade Awakening Stones for me.〉
〈Ice Queen☆*(3ch)：I'll make some inquiries. And don't you also need some decent abilities?〉
Of course, I needed abilities too.
〈Survivor★(2ch)：Do you happen to have any good abilities?〉
〈Ice Queen☆*(3ch)：We've taken in a lot of people recently. There are quite a few Awakened among them.〉
Ice Queen had received numerous requests for migration after showing on broadcast how she wiped out all the looters.
Thanks to that, it seemed her group size had grown, and recalling that fact, I decided to get ability recommendations from Ice Queen as well.
〈Survivor★(2ch)：Then I'll ask for that as well.〉
〈Ice Queen☆*(3ch)：I'll compile a list and send it to you later.〉
Having finished my 1:1 conversation with Ice Queen, I decided to post an announcement on Channel 3.
'Bringing out the Guardian Angel inside me... probably wouldn't work, right?'
Since this announcement was a serious warning, the Guardian Angel's tone wouldn't fit.
Regrettably, I decided to give up on the Guardian Angel and wrote and posted a normal announcement.
[This is the Integrated Channel Administrator. I ask that you cease all looting activities.]
Like other worlds, this Channel 3 is entering ruin due to the zombie outbreak.
In such a situation, looting that prioritizes only personal desire is a shortcut to accelerating the ruin.
As the Integrated Channel Administrator, I will prohibit any looting activities that occur in Channel 3 from now on.
If you engage in looting, I will administer punishment accordingly.
P.S. Let's help each other and prevent the ruin.
'This should be enough.'
【An administrator announcement has been posted to Channel 3.】
As soon as I posted the announcement, a message appeared in the Gallery window saying an announcement had been posted.
Looking at it, it hadn't even been a few seconds since the announcement message appeared across all of Channel 3, and dozens of comments were already posted.
-OO: Huh? What's this?
-OO: Did this Gallery even have announcements?
-CouchPotatoDoomFan: It's an announcement from the Integrated Channel Administrator!
-Let'sAwaken: I can't believe the Integrated Channel Administrator was a real person.
-DreamOfGourmet: Administrator-nim! Please deal with the looters!
-OO: Banning looting is fine, but how do you plan to punish them?
-DeadShot: The punishment is a permanent ban from the Gallery, lol.
-OO: F*ck, lol. If a permanent ban is the punishment, that's pretty funny too.
-BloodChopper: Punishment? Lol, what a load of bullsh*t, lol.
-LifeInHell: It'd be funny if anyone was actually scared by this.
............
......
'Well, I posted it, so that's that.'
Whether to believe my announcement or not was up to the individuals concerned.
I'd given the warning, so if they continued to loot, I could just show them then.
'Hm?'
Then, looking at the posts on Channel 3, a certain title caught my eye.
[That Integrated Channel Administrator bastard is going to punish us? Lol] [15]
Seeing the word "us," I figured it was probably a looter.
So I clicked on the post, and it contained content that was almost mocking.
[Title: That Integrated Channel Administrator bastard is going to punish us? Lol]
I'm writing this because I was dumbfounded after seeing the announcement, lol.
Did they get some administrator title somewhere and think they're something special?
Ah. You said you're an administrator, so what, are you going to restrict my Gallery access?
Even if you do, I can just grab a few survivors and trade or whatever, lol.
I'm going to go loot survivors again today, so try and punish me all you want.
"......."
I didn't expect them to say they'd loot so openly.
'Well, I needed an example anyway, so it doesn't really matter.'
I clicked on the nickname and started checking everything from their name to what the bastard was doing right now.
"Punishment, my ass."
Hwang Byeong-cheol waited for a long time after posting that they should try and punish him, but nothing happened.
"I thought they'd at least restrict my Gallery access."
Hwang Byeong-cheol considered it only a minor inconvenience if he couldn't use the Gallery.
Various items on the Exchange? Jelly from Channel 4? I can just take them from other survivors anyway.
"Alright, let's go!"
And if he needed to post on the Gallery again, he could just ask someone else.
Therefore, threatening not to loot by holding the Gallery hostage was just laughable.
"Hwang Byeong-cheol. What if you get suspended from the Gallery?"
"I can only write posts anyway, so what if I'm suspended?"
"What about trading?"
"There has to be something to buy."
Survivor posted various items on the Channel 2 Exchange, but people in Channel 3 couldn't use it.
In short, there was nothing to buy except for a few items posted by Channel 3 people or the Jelly from Channel 4.
"Besides, I can just rip food and stuff from other survivors."
If I tell them to buy a pile of Jelly with their points, that's enough.
"More importantly, the scouting report from yesterday is solid, right?"
"Yeah. I checked, and there's a grandmother and her granddaughter hiding and living there."
"Good. I hope the granddaughter is pretty."
"Pretty? She's the type you wouldn't even glance at before."
Hwang Byeong-cheol was inwardly disappointed by that answer, but when you get down to it, the fact that she was a woman was what mattered.
"She'll be enough to have some fun with for a bit."
Afterward, Hwang Byeong-cheol led his 6 friends and headed to the house they'd found while scouting yesterday.
At that moment.
【You have been permanently banned by the Integrated Channel Administrator.】
"Huh?"
Hwang Byeong-cheol stopped for a moment, looking at the message that appeared before his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
"The Integrated Channel Administrator permanently banned me?"
"Permanent ban? Why do it now instead of at the beginning?"
"Seems like they were struggling because they didn't know how to do a permanent ban."
It goes without saying, but Hwang Byeong-cheol didn't think Survivor was watching him right now.
Meanwhile, the message that they had been permanently banned from the Gallery also appeared before the eyes of the other five people with Hwang Byeong-cheol.
"Huh? It says I'm permanently banned too?"
"I've never even posted on the Gallery."
"What the? How on earth did I get banned?"
As the rest of the people with Hwang Byeong-cheol were also permanently banned, everyone started to feel confused.
【The Integrated Channel Administrator is confiscating all your points.】
【Points confiscated: 761.】
"......."
Hwang Byeong-cheol was momentarily flustered by the situation where even his points were all confiscated, but he soon thought it was no big deal.
"Hwang Byeong-cheol. The Administrator confiscated my points too?"
"Was point confiscation even a thing?"
As his friends panicked, Hwang Byeong-cheol spoke as if there was no need for such a reaction.
"Don't worry about it. If there's something to buy, just make a survivor do it. And look, I can still enter the Gallery."
In reality, even though he was permanently banned, he could still enter the Gallery.
In other words, he couldn't do anything other than enter the Gallery.
"I can't even click on Gallery posts."
He could only see the titles; he didn't know what was written in the posts.
Simply put, it meant that even if he could enter the Gallery, he couldn't use any of its functions.
"Hwang Byeong-cheol. Wouldn't it be better to turn back now?"
"Turn back? Do you think that Administrator bastard will unban me? I don't need the Gallery anyway."
"No, wait. Hwang Byeong-cheol. Your name is written here in the announcement?"
"Announcement?"
Hwang Byeong-cheol looked at the Gallery once more.
Just as his friend said, his name was written in the Gallery announcement.
[🎥 Real-time situation of looter, Hwang Byeong-cheol.] [378]
"......."
Hwang Byeong-cheol clicked on that announcement without realizing it.
Other posts wouldn't open when clicked, but the announcement was different, and he was able to enter.
"Th-this, what is this?"
When he entered that announcement, his appearance was being filmed there like a broadcast.
It was an angle as if there were a camera above, and Hwang Byeong-cheol immediately looked up at the sky.
"There's nothing there?"
But looking back at the Gallery announcement, his image was still being filmed.
"Crazy! This is voyeurism!"
"Hwang Byeong-cheol. Look below."
Hwang Byeong-cheol looked at the text written below the video at his friend's words.
[Name: Hwang Byeong-cheol (Male) 27 years old.]
[Location: Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do.]
[List of posts written so far.]
[List of items traded so far.]
And below that, numerous comments were posted.
-GiveMeCheatAbility: Wow. So this is what happens when you get targeted by the Administrator.
-AwakenedNewbie: 24-hour voyeurism, lol.
-OO: Isn't the Administrator's authority too strong?
-OO: That means they can film anyone like this, right?
└GalleryLife: If you don't like it, leave the Gallery, go go.
└OO: There's no leave button in this Gallery, you idiot!
└GalleryLife: If you leave life, you automatically leave the Gallery too.
-ZombieKiller: It's definitely scary, but will this count as punishment?
-OO: Anyway, the execution is top-notch. Looting right after posting, lol.
-OO: He's a real man's man, lol.
............
......
"Hwang Byeong-cheol. Let's turn back even now. Maybe they'll unban you."
Hwang Byeong-cheol felt like doing that too, but for some reason, it felt like he had been defeated by the Administrator.
With a surge of defiance, Hwang Byeong-cheol decided to be even more cruel since things had already gone this far.
"Unban, my foot. This is actually better. I'll kill them as cruelly as possible to at least send a warning to that Administrator bastard."
As soon as Hwang Byeong-cheol said that and took a step.
Pat―
"Huh?"
An object the size of a fist appeared before his eyes.
As soon as Hwang Byeong-cheol saw the olive-drab object, he immediately grasped what it was.
"Gr-grenade?!"
Kwaaaaang!!―
The grenade, with the safety pin already pulled, exploded as soon as it hit the ground, sweeping away Hwang Byeong-cheol and everyone else.
Along with the explosion of the M67 fragmentation grenade, the shrapnel flying in all directions was enough to tear their bodies to shreds.
And.
Hwang Byeong-cheol's real-time situation posted on the Channel 3 announcement was deleted.
"......."
I ended up killing Hwang Byeong-cheol by sending a grenade to him, as he didn't give up on looting despite my repeated warnings.
I was engulfed in an indescribable feeling at the fact that I had killed a person for the first time in my life, but I tried hard to accept it.
'This was a warning to all looters. It was a necessary thing.'
Of course, my mood didn't improve or anything.
As I sighed, feeling troubled in many ways, Rubyel reacted to it.
"Why are you like this again?"
"It's just troubling because I killed a few people after warning them, just as you said, Rubyel-ssi."
"If they were bastards worth killing, it's fine. Wouldn't the damage have just grown bigger if you left them alone?"
I thought about what would have happened if I had left Hwang Byeong-cheol alone.
He was a bastard who committed looting despite frequent warnings, so it was clear that victims would continue to arise if I left him.
'Also, it's a gain if the looters just get scared by this.'
I thought it was probably a sufficient warning.
'Because I showed them what the Integrated Channel Administrator can do.'
Furthermore, thanks to this Hwang Byeong-cheol incident, I was able to learn more about the Integrated Channel Administrator's functions.
I could post hidden cameras as announcements, and I could also check the nicknames of the people seen through those hidden cameras.
'The problem is.......'
I figured it was probably the people's reactions.
So, when I went into the Gallery, as expected, posts about what I had done were popping up in droves.
[Anyone know where the Administrator lives?] [36]
[The Administrator has our lives in their hands, right?] [35]
[Real-time surveillance is totally insane, lol] [38]
[Anyone know how to leave the Gallery?] [34]
[If they want to, there's no such thing as secrets.] [49]
[In my opinion, the voyeurism is what's really crazy.] [50]
[The Integrated Channel Administrator is super scary, ddd] [42]
[What on earth was that grenade at the end?] [44]
............
......
'Just as I expected.'
The hidden camera and item delivery functions did have that much of an impact.
Therefore, while watching the expected reactions come up, one post caught my eye.
[Administrator-nim, thank you.] [4]
'Thank you?'
I clicked on it, and there was no special content, just words of thanks.
Curious, I clicked on the nickname and found out it was someone near where Hwang Byeong-cheol was a moment ago.
'Was it one of Hwang Byeong-cheol's looting targets?'
I stared at that thank-you post for a while, then soon posted one more announcement.
Since many people seemed anxious about the Gallery, I wanted to tell them how to leave.
[I will inform you how to leave the Doom Salvation Gallery.]
The way to leave the Gallery is to escape the ruin.
The name itself is Doom Salvation Gallery, after all.
If you escape the ruin, you can leave.
So, I hope you try hard.
'Of course, that's just my guess.'
I wrote that post and posted it on the Channel 3 announcement, as if to show it off.