episode_0016

“Sa… Save me… You’re the problem solver! Save me! This crazy bastard is me… me…!”

Park Ji-hye shouts and Sonagi shrugs her shoulders.

“Well, I don’t see any reason for me, who’s getting paid to work, to help you. I was just told to kidnap you… And you don’t die from being raped, right?”

“I’ll give it to you. I’ll give you money! F**k, fuck! Stop this kid! Stop him! ”

Park Ji-hye shouts, desperately pointing at Ji-hoon with her chin. Her pitiful voice and shaking eyes show no trace of her initial composure.

The pure white bra that had been forcibly taken off dangled like a rag, and in an attempt to escape from this situation, she shook the wooden chair making a rattling noise, but that was all Park Ji-hye could do.

A pathetic gesture that arouses the sexual desire of a person who is about to rape.

“Ah… That makes me really jealous.”

“Isn’t it a bit too much to just ask for my life without even saying how much you’ll give?”

“Dude.. F*ck. Seriously..! I’ll give you whatever you want! Stop it!”

Sonagi’s hand finally moves. Sonagi, who thought that Ji-hoon had no intention of raping Park Ji-hye from the beginning, pretends to stop him and points her finger at Ji-hye’s head.

“Madam. Are you the branch manager of Incheon Central Bank?”

“So…what do you want…”

Park Ji-hye swallows, feeling uneasy. She was desperate, thinking that she was having a ‘conversation’ with Sonagi, unlike the crazy guy who was just thinking of raping her.

“I need the blueprint on your head. Will you give it to me?”

“Seo… . Blueprint? Ha.. haha, ha! Hahaha…”

Park Ji-hye bursts out laughing. She lowers her head for a moment, looks at Sonagi’s face, and spits.

-Tch.

A light drop of saliva falls on Sonagi’s face, but Sonagi’s expression does not change at all.

“Madam. Don’t you understand the situation? I already got my money. If I get the blueprint from you, I’ll have something to sell to the fixers. It’s not a loss if I don’t get it, right?”

“Ha.. Where did you lie…”

“Do you think I’m lying? Do whatever you want. I already got money from this guy.”

Sonagi hits Jihoon’s chest with his left hand as if he were a stranger and turns his body around.

“This room is only safe for half a day. Use it as you wish. If you use the connector over there, you can turn me into the woman you want?”

“I’d rather act like a prostitute than a ticking woman.”

Ji-hoon speaks and picks up a wire rolling on the ground. The black wire is heavier than expected, and the end is shaped like a USB port.

The hole at the end was thick and large enough to remind one of a gas pump, but anyone could at least tell that the end could be inserted into the external port at the base of Park Ji-hye’s neck.

“Sleep…sleep… . Sleep… . Sleep….”

Park Ji-hye’s eyes waver.

She was genuinely shocked by Ji-hoon’s attempt to upload a malicious program from outside that could completely change a person’s personality, not just rape her.

The ‘personality deletion program’ that Sonagi spoke of is absolutely not an urban legend. In fact, when a rape incident occurs in Incheon or even in Neo-Seoul, it does not end with a ‘physical’ rape.

In a world overflowing with people implanted with cyberware, the physical power gap between men and women was narrowing, and depending on who had which threatening and powerful cyberware, a slender woman could knock a gorilla-like man to the ground.

So, guys who want to rape and commit rape use programs that erase a person’s head. While it takes a fairly large computer to reinstall a personality, deleting a personality using a brain chip can be done with a small external device and program.

‘This… this kid… no way… no. That… can’t be…’

Park Ji-hye looks at the black wires connected to the old computer, sweat dripping down her forehead. What would happen if the cable that Ji-hoon is holding was connected to her head?

It didn’t end with the deletion of the personality, but it also meant that the personalities of some filthy and dirty prostitutes might be installed on his body.

“Have fun~”

Sonagi waves her hand and tries to get out of the container. Park Ji-hye, who was her last hope, trembles and opens her mouth. Ji-hoon’s hand is holding the back of her neck, and it’s the moment he’s about to connect the cable.

“I’ll give it to you! I’ll give it to you! I’ll give it to you! You…! Stop this crazy kid!”

At Park Ji-hye’s words, Sonagi stretches her left hand back. She winks. In order to act realistically, she has no choice but to pick something out of her wrist!

“Oh my… F*ck..!

A thread gets wrapped around Ji-hoon’s right arm, which is holding the cable. What is this? The moment he thinks, “Zzzz!” Electricity shoots out and Ji-hoon feels pain. He curses and drops the black wire to the ground, and with great difficulty, he pulls off the thread wrapped around his wrist, enduring the stinging pain.

“Madam. Do you know that if you lie, you won’t get any soup? If you try to play with strange files…”

Sonagi takes out a gun from his waist and shakes it around. Park Ji-hye’s face turns pale, but she swallows and nods.

“I’ll upload it to you right now. Get it quickly…”

“It’s good that you act quickly. You thought well.”

Sonagi smiles brightly. The two women’s eyes flash red, and Sonagi, who has finished communicating, shrugs her shoulders with a very satisfied expression on her face.

“Isn’t security too lax for Incheon’s central bank? Even if they’re not the family members, if a few thugs come in with guns, everything will be stolen. ”

“Ha.. Physical security isn’t important…”

Sonagi snorted at Park Ji-hye’s words. She was right. In this other world where everyone has a chip implanted in their head, it was hard to find a safe to store cash in, and even if you tore apart the servers in reality with your own two hands, the money wouldn’t go into your pocket.

‘But still… there’s a big difference between having a blueprint and not having one. That’s what they say, but there are CCTVs in every corner of the building…’

Sonagi snorted and put her hand on Park Ji-hye’s breast and squeezed it lightly. Her breasts were softer than she had thought, and she could tell that at least there was no silicone or anything inside.

“Ma’am, you have a nice body. Is there anything else you want to tell me?”

“Ah.. There’s… nothing. Now get me..! Fuck. Get me out of here!!”

They don’t say they won’t report it to the police. Even if they did, the police won’t come to the police for cases like rape or kidnapping. Sonagi and Park Ji-hye don’t talk about the police at all or even think about it.

“Ma’am. Isn’t that some kind of security program on your head? The blueprint you gave me. If I have it, won’t the corporations track me?”

Sonagi smiles and presses the gun he was holding against Park Ji-hye’s chin.

“What..what…”

“What are you talking about? All corporate bastards act like that. Right? Reporting to the police won’t help, so they don’t do it. Instead, they take personal action. They don’t want to get shot in their sleep and end up dying.”

“No! No! That’s not a thing! I’m a kid, from the beginning! I didn’t want to be a branch manager!!!”

When Park Ji-hye shouted, Sonagi smiled slightly and nodded. It was as if she was giving her a hint to say more.

“Hey.. What hope is there in Incheon that I should bother with the branch manager! There aren’t many coins stored on the server!! I don’t even have enough money to install a security program on the chip! I’m not an important person!!”

“Oh… Really? Ma’am. Is it true?”

The gun’s muzzle is pressed against Park Ji-hye’s chin once more. She trembles and squeezes her eyes shut.

“Really… Trust me. There’s no security program… Uh, I don’t know how to tag things…”

“Ma’am. Then, do you know where the chip implanted in your head was made?”

“Ru… . Lucky Venus…”

Sonagi finally gathered all the information and put the gun back on his waist, grabbed Park Ji-hye’s head with his left hand and made her bow down.

“What, what are you doing…”

“What is that? I’m hacking. Jihoon, bring me the cable over there. The black one is Basar, so don’t bring that one… Bring me the red one.”

“Ah… . Shit. Seriously… It stings so bad.”

Ji-hoon, who had been sitting against the wall until now, did as Sonagi told him and found a red cable on the ground and handed it to him.

“Let go. Let go! Stop… Stop it!”

“Ma’am. This may be a little embarrassing, but let me read your memory. From what you’re saying, I guess there’s no security program in the black box.”

The hand of Sonagi, holding the red cable, moves to the nape of Park Ji-hye’s neck. When he presses her neck with his thumb, the artificial skin really peels off and a small lump of metal is revealed.

Ji-hoon touches the back of his neck for no reason at the sight of the hole, which doesn’t look much different from a USB port. Of course, there was no artificial skin on his neck.

“Ah… ahh….”

Park Ji-hye moans, her eyes glowing red. With a bang, the cable is securely connected to the hole at the back of her neck, and Sonagi claps her hands in satisfaction.

“Hey.. But what kind of machine is this?”

“It uses a brain chip to retrieve various memories stored in the head. Well… the downside is that it can’t be converted right away because it’s an item that’s over 10 years old…”

Sonagi points with his finger to the chair in front of the computer. Just in front of the chair is a small helmet that looks like something you would wear on a person’s head.

“If you wear that helmet, you can see this woman’s memories as if you were experiencing them yourself. Of course, you can see it from a perfect third-person perspective by pressing a few buttons.”

“Can you see all the memories?”

“Of course. We’re not looking at commercialized brain data right now. We can see anything, we can experience anything. We can even know what this woman is thinking about.”

Sonagi wiggles his fingers and points to the helmet, obviously meaning for Jihoon to put it on.

“Wait a minute. Isn’t this a bit dangerous? What if there’s a virus, like a security thing?”

“Didn’t you hear what that woman said earlier? She said there wasn’t one. And if there was one, would this old computer just sit there?”

“…Just a minute…”

Ji-hoon took out his smartphone and looked around the computer. He found a familiar USB cable and connected it to his smartphone.

‘…I don’t think that’s possible…’

Ji-hoon wanted to choose the safe way rather than wearing a helmet and experiencing ‘a woman’s life’ in a situation where he didn’t know what would happen.

“Oh.. What is this? This external device… It seems to be able to read brain data and output it as a video. Where did you get it?”

“I bought it a long time ago.”

Contrary to Sonagi’s expectations, Ji-hoon’s smartphone was properly displaying the memories of ‘Park Ji-hye’.

The date October 20, 2077 was written in the corner of the screen, and the video froze with Sonagi’s face and Jihoon’s face displayed.

“The UI is similar to the program I know. Try turning the date back a little bit or turning the time back about 6 hours.”

“Let’s see…”

Although it was his first time using a program, from Ji-hoon’s perspective, it was no different from any other ordinary video player program.

As you press the scroll bar with your finger and move it to the left, the memory images that appear begin to show scenes from the past.

-Crunch.

The sound of urination can be heard vividly on the smartphone. Even if time were to be stopped, it would stop at the time when Park Ji-hye was doing her business in the bathroom. Ji-hoon coughs for no reason and presses the ‘stop’ button.

“I don’t think this is the bathroom at home. Isn’t it behind a partition?”

“Oh.. Right. Then should we move forward a little bit more?”

“Try it.”

Fortunately, Park Ji-hye’s eyes were focused on the pristine white partition door of the bathroom, so she couldn’t see the dirty sight. As Ji-hoon moved time slightly to the right, he could enjoy Park Ji-hye’s vivid memories.

I saw her coming out of the bathroom, fixing her makeup, and going about her business as a branch manager.

“Wow.. This woman is so… a pervert.”

Even though Sonagi said that out of the blue, there was nothing she could do. This woman, Park Ji-hye, was spending her time ordering adult products on her computer or fantasizing about stupid and obscene things during her working hours.

Such actions and memories were being shown to Ji-hoon and So-na-gi in a blatant manner, without any filtering. As Park Ji-hye said, no one at the bank in ‘Incheon’ seemed to care much, as if he was not busy as a branch manager.

Even the people working at the bank didn’t look that busy. It was a fairly large bank in Incheon, but since most of the work was done through ‘internet banking’, the employees sitting at the counters were often yawning, and the people working in the office didn’t look busy either.

They would answer the occasional phone call with a nod of their head and give a trivial consultation.

“Ah. It’s a shower. Isn’t this it?”

Ji-hoon taps his finger and points to the screen. He sees Park Ji-hye, who appears to be going to the bathroom again, passing by a place where there is a large red ‘No Trespassing’ sign.

It was a fleeting screen, but if Ji-hoon paused the video, he could see Moon’s appearance more clearly.

“That’s right, this is it. It seems like you can’t even get in without an ID card… Come out of the branch manager’s office…”

Sonagi records the locations of the physical servers in the blueprint in his head by moving the video back and forth slightly.

“I think this is enough. It’s a bit disappointing that the physical server is smaller than I thought. After all, our only goal is to upload the program as Grandma Ha told us to.

This is enough. Sonagi smiled, got up from her seat, and patted Jihoon on the shoulder.

She thought she was done with her business and got up from her seat to leave the container, but Ji-hoon was a little different.

“Hey. Rain. What should I do with this woman?”

“You should leave it like this. What should I do? Why? Do you want to eat it?”

I could feel a strange emotion from Sonagi’s words. Thinking about it, Jihoon had been naked since a while ago. He felt awkward for no reason and pulled up his pants that had fallen on the floor.

“No.. What, would I eat a thirty-year-old woman like this when you’re here? But… Is it okay if I don’t unplug this cable? Is it okay if I leave it like this?”

“Of course not. You’re just going to sit there drooling like that while the cable is plugged in? But if we call Grandma Ha, she’ll take care of it.”

“Processing…”

Ji-hoon felt really uneasy, but he couldn’t openly flirt with Park Ji-hye, who had turned into a vegetable, in front of Sonagi, who considered him her boyfriend.

“..Oh. I’m sorry.”

He patted the pretty Park Ji-hye’s cheek with a complicated mind and followed Sonagi outside.

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● How to complete the quest

– Complete all conditions below

Ⅰ. Obtain the blueprint of Incheon Central Bank.

Ⅱ. Find a way to connect to the physical server.

Ⅱ. Start the heist.

Ⅳ. Be sure to hack using the program requested by the client.

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