episode_0423
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Crack!
“Wow… !”
As I clenched the hand with the telekinetic gauntlet, the last remaining piece of trash made a crunching sound from its neck and its breath was cut off.
The body was roughly put into the inventory. I was planning on throwing it away later while traveling to another destination.
‘Convenience is the best with inventory.’
The monster in the tight suit thought to himself. Of course, the identity of the gunman here was me, Lee Min-ho.
In fact, I had already worn the Ignis suit once in the U.S., so it was a bit difficult to wear it again, but Maria easily solved that problem in just a few minutes.
Maria quickly deleted the material taken at Comic Con and around San Francisco.
In the end, information about the Ignis suit remained in the memories of only a few people.
-There are no CCTVs around here, and even if there are, you can just erase the owner’s image from the screen!
Maria said confidently. Now, even if I use my abilities in real life, I no longer have to worry about my identity being discovered.
I grumbled as I put the gauntlets into my inventory.
‘Why are they all just bad guys? Those guys from earlier were really good guys. Thieves are the nicest… The world is going well.’
-Compared to these guys, Phantom was closer to a model citizen. Even worse, they are mainly thieves who prey on rich people who are dishonest.
‘okay? I guess it was something similar to a rogue. ‘Good thing I only killed one scum.’
When I invaded the hideout of thieves called phantoms or something, Maria displayed their history in my field of vision and told me in detail. According to the history she showed, she had never really harmed anyone, so she just saved their lives, and I thought it was a good thing she did.
Otherwise, wouldn’t it have been like annihilating all the people we met today?
Among the people who accepted my request on the darknet, they were the only ones who didn’t kill anyone. Except for a guy named Vincent.
‘A thief who robs bad guys. Somehow, they reminded me of Baek Geon in Tuseonhyeophaengrok, so I may have wanted to save them more.’
Since the other guys were so evil, there were some that looked relatively better.
Surprisingly, even in the supposedly peaceful reality, it was filled with so much trash that it was truly hard to imagine.
The ones I just cleaned up also committed murder, rape, robbery, drugs, etc… They were human trash who committed a very comprehensive crime.
-People like that are everywhere. Until now, I just haven’t been able to see it because the world I live in doesn’t overlap with my master.
Maria is right. This kind of trash has always existed, but as my scope of activity has expanded, I have come across it only now. Just like a secret society.
Can we say that they are like cockroaches hidden in the shadows of society that become visible as our vision becomes brighter?
I just slapped my hand away and turned around.
Behind me, I could see traces of trash being swept away.
‘The only traces left are traces of blood spilled from shooting and killing one another.’
There was no need to burn such things with the supernatural ability or take out the Super Water Copper Baekjang and wash it with water. Because there is nothing that can be inferred from there.
The eradication of cockroaches is now over.
Next, it was my turn to meet the client who had dared to offer a bounty to my company.
‘Maria, upload a picture of Hisako Network.’
-yes!
***
Hisako Network.
It is the name of an IT company and affiliate of the Hisako Group in the United States.
It was a fairly famous company that most people interested in the industry would have heard of at least once.
However, that reputation was not in a good direction.
The reason is that although Hisako Network is a corporation officially established in the United States, it does not properly operate services for individuals or companies. A company with no performance or sales was just wasting the group’s money, so although the Hisako Group’s name was famous, it couldn’t have had a good reputation.
So what is Hisako Network’s main business?
It was actually closer to research and development than service. If stealing other people’s technology with a slight twist can be called research and development.
Their main job was to copy and steal new technologies from startups developed in Silicon Valley and make them their own.
In Silicon Valley, new startups spring up every year, and just as many disappear.
People usually pay attention to companies that survive and do not pay attention to startups that have disappeared. This is because it is thought that those who survive have good skills, and those who disappear do not.
But the reality was a little different.
Not all startups with good ideas and technologies survived, and some survived with ridiculously unrealistic or poor technologies.
What Hisako Network is targeting are startups that have good ideas and technologies but cannot survive for a long time due to lack of funds or poor management.
Hisako Network initially approached them with a proposal for collaboration, supported investment funds, and shared technology, but coldly withdrew and stopped investing, saying that absorbing all the know-how and technology would make no business sense.
When such good ideas and technologies are obtained, Hisako Network passes them on to the Hisako Group behind them. And the Hisako Group selects affiliates that are suitable for new technologies among each affiliate and conducts business.
There were times when products and services were introduced in Japan, which has a completely different market, and there were also cases when the business was carried out in the same United States.
In most cases, the startups have already failed or are in the process of going bankrupt, so they dry up and disappear from the competition due to the Hisako Group.
Hisako Network has repeatedly robbed unprocessed gemstones at low prices. In that way, we achieved quite a bit of success.
However, Hisako Network’s actions have recently encountered resistance.
“Damn… ”
Hisako Network’s headquarters in San Francisco. Tomoya Takahashi cursed softly in his office on the upper floor of the building.
He, the managing director of Hisako Network, was recently under stress because of things that were not going well.
It was because of conversational AI developed by a company called Amor in Silicon Valley.
That was also one of the items that Hisako Network had its eye on.
But this time there was a problem.
A company that should have slowly withered away, held on by a thin thread, and eventually was fortunate enough to attract new investors and be revived.
Thanks to this, Hisako Group’s AI, which was preparing to provide services around the world, became embroiled in a lawsuit.
Tomoya Takahashi, who swept back what little hair was left, complained.
“The research team can’t handle even one thing like this!”
Originally, in order to avoid lawsuits like this, we did business using technology that was subtly different from the original, but this was not possible this time.
No matter how much Hisako Network was known for copying, it was their first time entering the field of AI, so it was bound to stand out. This is because it is not easy to maintain existing performance while twisting the logical structure and learning method of AI to the point where it appears to be separate from the other.
“An opinion was raised about whether it would be better to expand AI manpower in the research team.”
“I tell you to stop making excuses like that! If you’re going to spend that much money, why not develop it yourself in the first place!”
Tomoya Takahashi took out his anger by yelling at his assistant for no reason.
He wasn’t this angry person to begin with. However, the problem was that the recent trial with Amor was more shaky than expected.
‘By selling the name of Black Foot for no reason… ‘
Black Foot, a secret society to which the Hisako Network belongs. Even managing director Tomoya Takahashi did not know exactly how far in the country it had taken root.
What was certain was that Hisako Network had a curtain wide and thick enough to cover all illegal activities.
And at the same time, it was also a group obsessed with profit creation more than anything else.
Usually, such groups recognize the achievements as long as they succeed no matter what they do, but they are characterized by a personality that is not tolerant of failure.
Since his secret effort to sell the Black Paws name to the plaintiff’s lawyer failed, it was clear that his reputation within the organization had fallen significantly. If I made one or two more small mistakes, I might lose my current status and fall.
But Tomoya Takahashi did not give up. He was a man who understood the black-footed logic that if the results were good, he could cover the results with the ball.
‘… ‘As long as we finish well, we can recover.’
“Shall we try again for sure this time?”
“After… no. You will be thoroughly prepared now. Even so, Amor is a startup that has not yet opened its actual service and is wasting its investment money. If the lawsuit drags on, investors will drop out and eventually die. The ending doesn’t change.”
He decided to wait a little while to deal with this matter. It was enough to take a risk just once to get results quickly. However, I was just annoyed by the slow progress of the work.
But it wasn’t all bad news.
Unexpected good news was also waiting for him.
he asked the secretary.
“What about requests posted on the darknet? Is it the same as it disappeared?”
“Yes. It has been deleted and cannot be uploaded again. However, there were many mercenaries who accepted the request in the meantime, so there should be no setbacks in progress.”
The request they were referring to here meant stealing Glitch’s entire broadcasting system, including its real-time MR rendering technology and management AI.
Hisako Network’s next target was glitch technology.
Tomoya Takahashi realized the value of the technology the moment he first saw it. If we could achieve that, we would be guaranteed an unrivaled leadership position in the related field for the next 10 years.
And the related field was not limited to one area. Gaming, medical, military, architecture, design, etc… There were endless fields and ideas to utilize.
Since only a young Korean company possessed such technology, in Tomoya Takahashi’s eyes, it was almost like a gem whose owner was the one who picked it up.
“Yes. I don’t like that the request has been taken down, but I guess that’s enough.”
Tomoya Takahashi nodded. Now that he was in a situation where it was difficult to use Blackpaw’s influence, Darknet’s request was his next best option.
The reason why the request was deleted was unknown, but there were many mercenaries who had already accepted the request. If so, it wouldn’t be long before Glitch’s core technology would be in his hands.
“You should have accepted it when collaboration was proposed. Hehehe… ”
Tomoya Takahashi let out a dark laugh as he thought about how the collaboration email he sent to Glitch was politely rejected.
My heart swelled with anticipation that if this request was successful, I would be able to build a track record that could not be compared to Amor’s lawsuit.
At that time, the light in the office blinked momentarily.
Blink ㅡ
“Huh? Has the fluorescent light reached the end of its life?”
“I will replace it with a new one before I go to work tomorrow.”
“Yes. It seems like it was recently replaced, but it feels a little strange.”
Everyone thought it was no big deal that the lights were blinking.
In that very brief moment, no one noticed that a shadow had entered the Hisako Network building.
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