Episode 15. Traitor Hunt (5)
“Huh. Isn’t that Goblin Mom?”
“Huh? Has Goblin Mom returned?”
“Look at this.”
On the Caron Kingdom board of a certain Face Chronicle community.
Those who frequented the place felt glad to see a post from a writer who had appeared after a long time.
“So this person still uses the Caron board these days.”
“Ah, what the. I thought they’d give some good tips or something this time too, but it’s just another meaningless shitpost with no real content.”
A welcome nickname seen after a long time.
However, the post’s content was a simple complaint no different from any other post on the board.
No one felt anything strange about such a post.
After all, 90% of the posts dominating the board were simple affairs with a one-line title and one-line content. There was no reason Goblin Mom couldn’t write those too.
Posts like that from Goblin Mom went up for about three days, roughly five or six in total.
Vague posts whose meanings couldn’t be properly understood.
They were posts that would normally get around 50 views and move to the next page, but thanks to the author’s name recognition, the views surpassed 300.
One of them even made it to the best posts despite being a shitpost, thanks to the board users’ indiscriminate recommendations!
‘Good. This should be enough.’
Cheon Gyeong-u, who had scattered bait beneath the surface, checked his chat.
—Ted: Is it going well?
—Kaison: Yes. About 100 left now.
—Kim Saja: Wow, Kaison nim, ha, you did a lot. I think I have about 200 left.
—Ruk: I’m done!
—Linda: I’m the slowest. Sorry……. About 400 left.
—Ruk: Ah, Linda nim, let me help you!
Personnel who had come out to support from
They had been checking the 6,730 messages sent to Ted’s board accounts
The messages were of many kinds. From begging messages, spam-like advertisement messages, guild scouting offers, and so on.
But among them were messages giving off a slightly different scent……. And those were exactly the messages Ted was looking for.
Those who wanted to possess items they shouldn’t have as users, using the Scout class.
The volunteers from
On the day it became the fourth day.
Of the 6,730 messages on the two accounts
These were precisely the guys with a high possibility of being traitors.
—Ted: That’s good. Thank you.
—Kim Saja: So that’s how you catch the traitors, ha.
—Ruk: But it seems a bit insufficient! In-game user nicknames and board user nicknames are often different…. Do you have some method!?
—Ted: Of course.
It was an obvious fact.
Even Ted was
Cheon Gyeong-u gave them another order and smiled softly. The real game was starting now.
The four volunteers listened to Cheon Gyeong-u’s orders and began sending messages to the selected 580.
To summarize, the message content was as follows:
He didn’t reveal his identity like in the past.
And to avoid making it feel like spam, he asked the four volunteers to write earnest messages.
Finally, Cheon Gyeong-u included two pieces of evidence in the written message.
The first was a photo of , obtained from Cheon Si-u. Of course, it was taken from multiple angles to avoid being suspected of being fake.
The second was a photo with only about 20% of the
‘The evidence is solid.’
Furthermore, there was nothing to worry about regarding exposing Ted’s location or identity.
—Ted: Send them.
Soon, messages were sent to 580 people under Goblin Mom’s name.
Watching this, one of the volunteers raised a question.
—Kaison: But I don’t think it’ll be easy.
—Ted: Yes. What do you mean?
—Kaison: From what I know, traitors have their own communities. I heard they’re called shadow communities or something……. Wouldn’t they share the messages sent there among themselves and get suspicious?
—Ruk: Really!
Cheon Gyeong-u nodded.
—Ted: You’re probably right.
They could be plenty suspicious. And many wouldn’t take the bait. But that was fine.
—Ted: They’ll probably be forced to take the bait. The situation leaves them no choice.
That was right. The very definition of bait was something you had to bite despite suspecting it.
The current situation for the traitors was like a riverbank where an algal bloom had occurred and there was nothing to eat.
They had switched to Pixie thinking it was doing well.
But what do you know? Caron had turned the tide.
Changing nations is very simple for Otherworlders. However, those who have defected cannot reapply to change back to the Caron Kingdom.
When the war ends, the traitors will have to leave the nation. Otherwise, they’ll be caught by the security forces and imprisoned.
The traitors are those who abandoned Caron for profit. In that situation, would the many users who haven’t gained anything just pass up decent bait placed right before their eyes?
‘What are you going to do, muttering in your back-alley communities?’
The desperate ones are hungry fish.
With the mind of an angler, Cheon Gyeong-u leisurely began fishing.
—Linda: Ah, a reply came.
—Kim Saja: Ooh, haha, me too, hahaha
Soon, the bites began.
The suspected traitors who checked the message replied saying
Of course, among them were those who were suspicious.
—Kaison: Then. We can catch about 500 or so like this.
—Ruk: Krrr… This is fun! Isn’t this the best?
The volunteers sent messages sounding excited.
‘No, that’s not enough.’
But Cheon Gyeong-u looked at the chat with a calm face.
Up to here was a normal fishing situation. But what Cheon Gyeong-u wanted was nowhere near satisfied with just two or three hundred.
‘I need to make a solid killing this time.’
Each Otherworlder traitor was worth 200 points. Cheon Gyeong-u wanted at least 80,000 points.
Cheon Gyeong-u gave the volunteers different orders.
—Ted: Don’t reply immediately. And after leaving a bit of a gap… send a message with this content.
Cheon Gyeong-u began creating a reply template.
‘Hmm, this should be enough.’
Here, Cheon Gyeong-u planned to distinguish between traitors and non-traitors.
The nationality shown on the status window…… would prove they were fish, not crabs or jellyfish.
‘Something feels missing…….’
After pondering briefly, Cheon Gyeong-u added one more line.
‘This is it!’
Seeing the completed reply template, Cheon Gyeong-u smiled brightly.
* * *
Secret communities that require thorough identity verification to join.
They were shadow communities that the traitors had joined.
Recently, only gloomy posts had been appearing in succession on the shadow community boards.
Traitors feeling self-loathing!
To them… a ray of hope shone.
It was Goblin Mom’s message.
Goblin Mom was a traitor in the same situation as them!
However, unlike others,
But they couldn’t pass through the
Therefore, Goblin Mom was looking for Otherworlder traitors.
Goblin Mom wanted each person to carry four elixirs. The story was that if they successfully transported the elixirs to Pixie, they would be given 200 gold, half their value.
‘Hmm?’
‘Uh?’
It was an extremely attractive offer to those who had lost everything due to Caron’s comeback and were trying to flee overseas.
They’re giving 2 million won in cash just to go overseas? Who would refuse that!
Of course… there were also those who viewed such a message with suspicion.
Those whose suspicions were aroused soon began searching for
Soon they found posts written by Goblin Mom on the Caron board.
There were posts scattered about that regular board users who didn’t know the facts would consider shitposts.
They were precisely the posts Cheon Gyeong-u had deliberately leaked!
‘Huh? Is this real?’
‘Hmm…….’
Soon even the suspicious people tilted their heads and reconsidered Goblin Mom’s offer.
But at that time, there were still many cautiously watching the situation.
The newly arrived message lit a fire under the feet of those who had been hesitating.
‘I have to do this before others!’
* * *
—Ted: So how many of the traitors volunteered?
—Kaison: Yes… uh… it’s 627 so far.
—Ted: That’s good. You’re saying 627 people have all uploaded nationality status window verification, right?
—Kaison: Yes. Whew, I thought my head would burst from organizing it all.
—Ruk: Should we cut it off at 200 first-come-first-served like this?!
—Ted: No. Of course we have to accept all of them, haha.
Cheon Gyeong-u swallowed the words ‘Those are my precious points’ and held back the corners of his mouth from rising into a grin.
With this, he had caught 627 traitors.
‘Even so, this is probably not even half of half the traitors still active within the Caron Kingdom.’
According to the Caron royal family’s estimate, the number of Otherworlder traitors still active within the Caron Kingdom without having fled to other countries was approximately 3,000. Cheon Gyeong-u had caught about 1/5 of them.
‘Still. This much is satisfying.’
It had taken a whopping 5 days from planning until now.
During that time, there had been several changes in the war.
First, the Gollern Fortress territory had fallen into the hands of the First Legion.
In addition, Caron Walker had ultimately been able to reclaim 60 territories.
Finally, rankers were gathering in one territory. Perhaps preparing for the final battle.
‘In two days, I’ll have to head there too.’
Now only the most important part remained: the process of directly rounding up the traitors.
Just as Cheon Gyeong-u was smiling in satisfaction looking at his successfully completed scheme.
Another chat was received on Ted’s account.
—Caron Walker Dispatched User Chatroom (Gollern Fortress)(Group Chat): Ted nim, contacting you from Gollern Fortress. We have secured two out of three guild members of the traitor guild
‘Finally caught them, those bastards!’
It had arrived now.
Another piece of news Cheon Gyeong-u had been waiting for these past few days!
Cheon Gyeong-u hastily opened the capsule door and went inside.