episode_0027

Hong Seo-yeon.

He was a CEO who could be called the owner of a future company.

The reason Ji-hoon knew this woman’s face was simple. From breakfast, lunch, and dinner, she talked about stocks all day long.

Even if he didn’t want to know, he couldn’t help but know. He just didn’t look at this woman’s face and name carefully, but they remained in his mind.

“That…what is that, you must be very heartbroken…”

Ji-hoon laughs awkwardly. Hong Seo-yeon’s expression was so relaxed that it was hard to believe she was someone whose market capitalization had been blown away by trillions of won.

She smiles and takes a step forward, pushing Ji-hoon against the wall. The strangely strong smell of flesh rising from her body makes Ji-hoon nervous.

I wish the rain would come quickly to save me, but time passes annoyingly slowly.

“What do you mean?”

“I saw the news…”

“Oh, that’s it. It’s nothing. Some weird net-user hacked our company last night and caused a little damage.”

Seoyeon smiles and extends her right hand. Her palm touches the side of Jihoon’s face.

Looking at this, some might say, “Isn’t it a gain to get slammed by a beautiful woman?” But that wasn’t the case for Ji-hoon.

He knew on an instinctive level that this situation was fundamentally wrong. He shouldn’t be here with this woman.

To use a game analogy, it felt like I had only finished the tutorial for 5 minutes and then encountered an incredibly difficult boss like the ones you see in DLC.

‘How can I run away from a woman like this…!!!’

Nothing will change even if you curse inwardly. You have to talk until Hong Seo-yeon is satisfied.

“Well… if it’s a future company… that level of damage is okay, right?”

“Well, that’s true, but I found out who the rat that caused damage to our company is.”

Seoyeon smiles and snaps one of her fingers in front of Jihoon. A blue light emanates from her wrist, creating a hologram.

“…”

Ji-hoon shuts his mouth at the image he sees before his eyes.

It was Incheon. Of all the places in Incheon, the laundry shop where Grandma Harkas was was the one that was captured.

“Do you know anything?”

“Isn’t that a laundromat? It’s not a place that someone like Hong Seo-yeon would be comfortable using.”

Ji-hoon decided to act shamelessly. He stole money from the bank, but it wasn’t Mirae Corporation’s money. It was the security team of ‘Lucky Venus’ that was guarding Incheon’s central bank.

Of course, it is difficult to think that a company with the name Lucky Venus would suffer losses, but it is true that a future company would suffer losses.

“That’s right. It’s a laundromat. In the old days, we used to say that they wash money. Isn’t that amazing? The old lady at the laundromat washes money for you…”

Seo-yeon speaks with eyes that see through everything and leans closer to Ji-hoon.

Her large, plump breasts cling to Ji-hoon’s body.

‘Sigh… Foot…’

How great would it be if I could control this woman with a cyber hypnosis app?

But I can’t.

“You really don’t know anything?”

“I don’t know anything. What does that have to do with me and my grandmother working at the laundry shop?”

“Yes, that’s right. What does that have to do with you and the old lady who works at the laundry?”

The woman smiles and tilts her head slightly.

“Kill him.”

The woman’s earlobe glowed red for a split second.

“…”

Ji-hoon swallowed hard. There was no need to ask who he killed.

‘Yeah, fuck… It’s not just a penny or two…’

Not a thousand won, not ten thousand won. One hundred thousand ten million billion…

A trillion dollars disappeared, and it was hard to even count the number of zeros. As the CEO of a megacorp, it was only natural that he would be ruthless toward anyone who touched his assets.

Ji-hoon exhaled very slowly, praying for the repose of Grandmother’s soul inwardly.

“Excuse me.. Hong Seo-yeon. I don’t know why you’re doing this to me.”

“It seems like you don’t know.”

Seoyeon looks into Jihoon’s eyes with a smile.

“You’re not registered as a resident, you don’t have a chip in your head, and you’re carrying a smartphone that was discontinued 100 years ago… There are more than a few suspicious things about you”

“Oh my…”

“I was going crazy because I couldn’t chase down the net runner who had his hands on our company’s money. Isn’t that really weird?”

Seoyeon gently strokes Jihoon’s chin with her left hand and then taps his cheek.

“There are net runners who are connected…but they can’t be tracked. Isn’t that amazing? If you live in Neo Seoul…no, South Korea, you are connected to the internet 24 hours a day, 365 days a year because of the chip implanted in your head.”

“Ha, I don’t know… Isn’t it possible for anyone with an external device, without a chip in their head, to do something like that?”

Ji-hoon spoke indifferently and took out his smartphone, shaking it from side to side.

“You said it. This is something that was produced 100 years ago and then stopped. If there is a problem with the server that can be hacked with something that was made 100 years ago… .”

Ji-hoon’s shoulder is grabbed before he can finish speaking.

“Ugh…”

Seoyeon was pushing so hard that it seemed like her bones were going to break, and she was ‘making’ a smiling face.

“I don’t know your name. You’d better not say anything carelessly. Our future company is the most successful megacorp in Korea. It’s different from the likes of Basar and Lucky Venus, who climbed up by making a few electronic products.”

Hong Seo-yeon’s hand lightly taps Ji-hoon’s shoulder as if playing the piano.

“To be honest, I think your skills are excellent and I will hire you to work in the security team of the future company. It’s not like anyone can cause damage here with such an old smartphone.”

“…Nimi.”

Seoyeon’s words didn’t sound sweet at all. If she were to speak honestly here, she was worried that someone would pull out a gun and shoot her in the head.

“It’s not that hard of a decision, is it? Be honest, where are you from, who helped you come to Neo Seoul…”

Seo-yeon whispered and lightly stroked Ji-hoon’s waist. She was a woman who was either seducing or threatening.

“Just tell me who made the items here.”

“So…”

Ji-hoon had to make a decision now because of Seo-yeon’s blatant actions of touching her smartphone. She seemed to have already guessed that he was the culprit of the heist…

‘If I’m honest here, I’ll die…’

This is a mess. Ji-hoon swallowed hard and used his right hand to hit Seo-yeon hard in the face.

“Get down, you idiot!”

Ji-hoon really bows down at the sound of the rain coming from far away.

“Tsk..”

Hong Seo-yeon clicks her tongue and points her left hand toward the rain. At that moment, something opaque floating in the sky slowly reveals itself. It was drones.

As soon as Seo-yeon moves her finger, drones hidden in the air appear and fill the gap between her and Sona.

“I told you to really stay still..!”

Sonagi pulls the trigger without hesitation even while cursing. Ta-da-da-dang! A refreshing burst of flame shoots out from the gun barrel and hits the drones.

‘I guess the bulletproof performance is killing me…’

There was a bang bang sound and flowers were flying out from the bodies of the drones floating in the air, but none of them actually fell.

Even when Sonagi takes out the bomb on her waist and throws it, Hong Seo-yeon moves her right hand without a moment’s hesitation.

Her right arm is festooned with small drones, which instantly transform into armor.

“Huh…”

With a truly insignificant expression, Seo-yeon watched the bomb in her hand explode with a bang!

“Wait a minute…”

She was momentarily flustered and pulled out her right arm. Clang! The object Sonagi used was not a grenade or something, but something that emitted electricity. In an instant, the drones that had been attached to her right arm became scrap metal and fell to the ground.

Hong Seo-yeon grabbed her heart with her left hand and exhaled painfully, but Ji-hoon did not wait for that moment.

“I’m sorry about that..!!!”

He stood up, raised his knees, and aimed for Seo-yeon’s vagina with precision. It was a truly lethal and vulgar attack, but this was the only way he could think of to defeat a woman who would make suits for him by making drones appear with the movement of a single finger.

“Ugh…! Ugh…! Ugh..!!”

Seo-yeon falls to her knees after experiencing the worst pain a human can feel. There are still drones around her that are still cloaked, but they do not attack Ji-hoon or Sonagi.

“Ugh… ugh… ugh… gasp… huh…”

“What…what is it…why does it hurt so much.”

Ji-hoon stopped walking at the sight of Hong Seo-yeon, her face turning blue and her breathing labored.

If she was struggling to pee, I would think it was because of the pain in her vagina…

“Ugh… Huh…”

Hong Seo-yeon was in agony as if she couldn’t breathe. Her face gradually turned pale and she was clutching her chest with both hands.

“Hey! What are you doing, you idiot!”

Sonagi shouts and grabs Jihoon’s hand.

She quickly aims her gun at Hong Seo-yeon’s body.

“Boss!!”

A group of big, muscular men wearing black clothes and sunglasses appear in an instant.

It was fortunate that he showed up not to target Sonagi and Jihoon, but to protect Seoyeon.

‘Human Wall’

So many bodyguards appeared, blocking Hong Seo-yeon’s view, that it was fitting for such words. Sonagi knew that killing these bodyguards was meaningless, so he put the gun in his pocket.

“Hey! Kim Ji-hoon! Grab my waist!”

“What?! Why!”

“Catch me! If you don’t want to get lost!”

Sonagi screamed and Jihoon had no choice but to grab her waist.

Sonagi, who had no intention of stopping her legs, ran into the noisy street in front of her. There seemed to be no problem on the outside, but there was a problem that Jihoon also knew about.

To the ‘eye’ eye, it looked like a ‘street’ with people walking around and talking noisily, but in reality, there was a ‘hologram’ wall in front of them.

Running towards this wall would have been tantamount to committing suicide, but Sonagi jumped forward and put both feet out as if she knew exactly what kind of wall this street was.

─Wow!

The glass shattered coolly and Ji-hoon and So-na-gi were able to escape the building. It was a perfect escape, except that it was on the 34th floor.

“Hey!! Crazy! Rain shower!!!”

“Shut up! There’s a way!”

The sound of the rain triggers the implants on his arm to operate at full power and he grips the glass window with his five fingers.

─Kihikikiki! Chiiing!!

The glass shatters and shards hit Sonagi’s fingers. Blood spurts out, but Sonagi’s expression doesn’t change at all as she braces her thighs.

After making sure that the speed of falling to the ground has slowed down enough, they use their legs to jump forward. Sonagi and Jihoon were able to jump onto the roof of a nearby building…

“Ugh..! Ugh..!’

“You… Rain…”

“Okay.. It’s okay.. Ugh.. It’s okay.. Shit! This is nothing.”

Sonagi exhaled with difficulty and got up. Her legs were shaking and her left arm was horribly covered in shards of glass.

“You are a human being…”

The shower was insisting that it was okay, but it was impossible. No matter where you looked, it was necessary to get treatment immediately. It wasn’t at the level where you could go home, put on a bracelet, disinfect yourself with nanorobots, and spray some weird spray.

─Wooow!

“Are you kidding me…”

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● Goal update!

Ⅰ. Survive.

Ⅱ. Move in the direction indicated!

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“…”

The appearance of a quest that seemed to tease people. However, Ji-hoon, who didn’t know anyone in Neo Seoul, could only move as instructed.

“Hey.. Where are you going…”

Supporting a raindrop that couldn’t even stand properly on two legs and moving forward.

When I hear the annoying ding-dong sound, I go down the stairs and move to the left…

“You… Huh. Huh, you don’t know anything here. Just… leave me and go.”

“Where are you going?”

“Do you think future companies are shit? We’re both fucked. But you’re different..”

Sonagi chuckles and points to Jihoon’s head with her finger.

“Because you don’t have a chip, you can go anywhere freely…”

“What would I do without you?”

Sonagi laughs bitterly at Jihoon’s words. Whether because she lacks the confidence to persuade him further or because she can’t stand the blood flowing out, Sonagi stops talking.

─Ding dong.

The sound of the smartphone finally stops. 15 times to be exact.

I did as I was told and left the building, walking silently, ignoring the loud siren.

Ji-hoon, who arrived at the dark back alley, checked Sonagi’s condition. There was so much blood flowing out of her arms and legs. It seemed like she would die if she didn’t get a blood transfusion somewhere urgently.

─Clap clap clap

Applause is heard from afar. A man wearing red sunglasses appears in the dark space.

“Bro-!”

It was English. The person who appeared clapping his hands was a black man who spoke English.

“Welcome. I’ve been waiting for you.”

A black person who you would only see in movies speaks Korean and English mixed together. Ji-hoon felt like his already dizzy mind was going to break.