episode_0002
by fnovelpia‘Wait a minute… there’s no need to be scared.’
With the name of the problem solver and the gun in his hand, it was inevitable that he would feel fear. It was natural that Ji-hoon would feel so scared that he would instinctively hide behind the desk.
Having handled a gun in the military, he knew very well how a gun could kill a human being.
‘Can’t we just hack with this?’
Ji-hoon touches the screen as if he is afraid of what he is thinking.
Cold sweat runs down my forehead.
It’s already this close. Ji-hoon moved his fingers, thinking that he had to hack it quickly, but the screen didn’t change.
“The target’s ICE rating is high. Rating: Sturdy”
─Tiding- Tiding!
“You can’t hack it.”
Unlike the hacking of the thugs, there was no screen asking for the program to be uploaded, only an unpleasant sound. The hacking was not working.
‘I don’t know what ICE is, but… I can’t do it in this condition, right? Fuck, then…’
Ji-hoon turns the screen to the side while thinking. The strange anticipation that the ‘cyber hypnosis app’ that hacked the gangsters couldn’t end here was not wrong.
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☆ Scan
☆ Select special benefits *
☆ End
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There’s a small change to the menu screen. Apparently there wasn’t a little star icon behind the perk selection, but there is now.
Ji-hoon naturally touches ‘Select Special’.
[LV.1 -> LV.2 achieved!]
[Congratulations! Check out the unlocked perks!]
‘You leveled up? It’s not like this is some game…’
I felt uneasy, but there was nothing I could do. The footsteps of the troubleshooter walking around the lower floors were getting louder and louder, and there was a chance that he would come up to the second floor where Ji-hoon was at any time.
I don’t know if the solver is thinking of killing me or saving me from this place, but I didn’t want to meet him in a state where I couldn’t do anything.
[Kim Ji-hoon’s special privilege]
“You are a pure human. You have not been treated with cyberware and you have no implants!”
“Ice Breaker’s performance has been improved!”
“Breakable ICE Grade (Common → Strong)”
‘…What…What is ICE…Shouldn’t you explain it in more detail?!’
Ji-hoon, who didn’t know what ICE was, couldn’t figure out what kind of privilege he had received. Pure also didn’t know what cyberware or implants were, so he couldn’t figure out if this was a good thing.
At least I had gone up a level I didn’t know what, so maybe I could hack the solver. But I wasn’t sure.
Kim Ji-hoon was so frustrated that he wanted to throw his smartphone, but he couldn’t because of the sound of high-heeled boots.
‘Icebreaker… It must be the ability to break what is called ICE…’
Swallowing, Ji-hoon checks his smartphone again.
[Solver-02077’s ICE Rating: Sturdy]
‘Wait a minute… Can’t you just hack this? The ICE grade means it’s secure?’
It might be a delusion.
There was just a chance that the words might be the same. However, Kim Ji-hoon did not give up and swept the screen to the side to the scan window where the name of the ‘problem solver’ was displayed.
‘Please… please…’
While praying, I press the name of the problem solver with my thumb. The feeling of touching it is different from before. It feels like a definite choice has been made.
[Hacking…]
Suddenly, a very crude puzzle appeared on the screen of my smartphone. It was a crude puzzle with five dots that would break if I drew with a single stroke.
Ji-hoon used his skills from playing countless games to solve this sloppy puzzle in less than 5 seconds.
[Hacking Complete!]
It worked. It was just a sloppy puzzle, but Ji-hoon hacked into a real woman.
Ji-hoon curses inwardly and holds his smartphone tightly with both hands.
He was so excited that he was applying so much force that I thought the LCD might break.
‘So what can I do now? Kill them like those punks did earlier? No, that’d be a fucking waste…’
The body of the solution provider who had been hacked was, of course, simplified and represented on the smartphone. The problem was that the body was very different from that of the thugs earlier.
Unlike the gangsters who only had eyes, ears, brain, arms, and legs, the problem solver had a huge number of points he could touch.
There were more than four points on the face, and when I put my finger down to check the chest, there were points not only on the heart, but also on the spine, legs, and pelvis.
For some unknown reason, there were two points where the woman’s uterus was, and further down, there were points on her legs and feet.
‘This blue dot… shows a ‘program’ that I can control? Let’s think about it simply…’
Ji-hoon swallowed hard and chose the woman’s ‘brain’ for now.
“Hey, I know you’re hiding there. Come out and stop hiding behind the desk.”
At that moment, the voice of the ‘problem solver’ who had arrived at this place was heard. It was the voice of a woman who seemed to be the same age as Ji-hoon or a year or two older.
‘You have to choose carefully here…’
Rather than responding to the problem solver’s words, Ji-hoon focused on the screen. There was no way he could have a normal conversation when he didn’t even know how the world worked.
[ Please select the program to upload to ‘Brain Chip: Lucky Venus Mk3’ ]
The only program that could be uploaded was ‘Relationship Setting’, so Ji-hoon had no choice but to choose that.
[Your relationship with ‘Problem Solver-02077’ is as follows.]
[Please enter the desired relationship.]
‘…what.’
Unlike before, a box where you can enter text suddenly appeared. You don’t even have to select a button, you have to ‘directly’ enter the relationship…
“If you don’t come out, I have no choice but to go. Let’s not shed blood unnecessarily.”
The troubleshooter walks forward, snorting. Step, step.
The distance between them was not that far. If they made up their minds, they could see each other’s faces in an instant, and Ji-hoon’s fingers were trembling sweetly.
‘Fuck.. what the hell do I type? Boyfriend? No.. fuck. What if she’s some crazy psychopathic bitch who kills her boyfriend?’
I wrote boyfriend, but I couldn’t find the courage to press enter. What if this hacking is sloppy? What if the troubleshooter finds out that I hacked him and wants revenge?
The risk was too great. I never imagined being the boyfriend of a girl who carries a gun, so I didn’t have confidence in my ability to act well.
‘Fuck… Then little brother? No. A request? Then since you’re a problem solver, you must have received a request and come here?!’
The client, that was also good. But what on earth did he think he was entrusted with and why did he call his relationship a client? Ji-hoon erased the words he had written and closed his eyes.
He felt stupid, but it wasn’t the worst choice. Ji-hoon pressed ‘Enter’ on his keyboard, and the screen of his smartphone flashed.
“What’s going on there…”
Her eyes meet the problem solver’s. She presses her palm against her temple for a moment. Her eyebrows furrow and she bites her lips.
“Um… uh…”
A painful breathing sound is heard. Ji-hoon gets up from his seat as if nothing happened. After getting up from his seat, he realizes that the problem solver and he are about the same height.
“You… damn… what are you doing here.”
The troubleshooter puts the gun in her hand on her waist, ties it, crosses her arms, and glares at Ji-hoon. Does she really think of Ji-hoon as a ‘friend’? At least Ji-hoon can speak calmly since the gun isn’t pointed at him.
“Some strange punks followed me, so I couldn’t do anything.”
“Hooligans? Are you talking about the family members on the first floor?”
“Ah…! Yeah, those guys!”
Only then did Ji-hoon realize what the English names of the thugs he had hacked meant. The troubleshooter closed his eyes tightly for a moment at Ji-hoon’s words.
Her outfit was quite provocative, so Ji-hoon was honestly starting to get greedy. He still didn’t know what the smartphone in her pants pocket could do.
But since it’s a ‘hypnosis app’, wouldn’t it be possible to do something so unimaginable? Ji-hoon’s head was filled with various random thoughts as he looked at her breasts about to burst out of her black bodysuit.
“Strange thug… thug… Anyway, you. You must have seen me because you were hiding in this building. Didn’t you see me?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“What the heck. Pure.”
“What is pure?”
The problem solver frowns at Ji-hoon’s question. Why are you asking such a thing? That was his expression. What should I say? It was the kind of expression you would see when a fellow Korean asks, “What is kimchi?”
But the power of the cyber hypnosis app was quite strong, so the solver scratched his head with his hand once.
“A person who doesn’t have a single implant in their body like you is called pure. Don’t you know English? PURE means pure human.”
“Ah… Yeah, I told you just in case you didn’t know.”
As Ji-hoon spoke with a smile, the troubleshooter clicked his tongue. She seemed to be approaching Ji-hoon, but she just hit his shoulder and passed by. The troubleshooter put his face against the window and looked around naturally.
“If you can kill those bastards, you’re pretty skilled…”
“Why are you trying to catch that guy called Pure?”
“That’s because you can make money if you catch them. If there were clean arms and legs, who would turn their eyes upside down?”
“Uh… How much can I get?”
“You can get 3… no, up to 3 and a half S Coins. Depending on the condition, it could be more. If it was a woman, you could get 10 times more.”
The problem solver spoke with a sour taste in his mouth, but did not glance at Ji-hoon.
‘What is this woman… She’s not the type of person to sell out her friends? She called me pure earlier…’
I wonder if there is a way to find out. Ji-hoon was a little worried, but for now, he had no intention of letting go of this rope of salvation that had been handed down to him.
“Tsk… I got a bad surprise. I came here expecting something because there was a fuss on SNS saying that Pure suddenly appeared, but my family members are dead and I only spent money on gas…”
The troubleshooter clicks her tongue and turns around. She came here to make money, and since she can’t make money, she naturally turns back.
Ji-hoon couldn’t let the problem solver go like this, so he quickly started following after him. It was nice to see the problem solver’s plump butt wiggle from side to side every time he walked, but now was not the time to watch it and get his dick up.
“Okay.. Wait. Am I just going to leave you?”
“What? Of course I’ll leave you behind. Why would I catch you, take you somewhere, and sell you?”
“No, that’s not it. It’s been a while since I saw you, so are you just leaving?”
“What?”
The troubleshooter turned around and squinted his eyes, quietly examining Ji-hoon’s face.
‘Fuck… This is the only thing I can believe right now. There’s a program or something in this woman’s head. She’ll probably accept it even if I lie to some extent…!’
Ji-hoon’s thoughts were not completely wrong, so the problem solver frowned and spat on the ground.
“Come to think of it. It’s been a while since we last met. But still. What do you want me to do? Buy me a meal?”
“Of course I should buy it for you. I bought it for you last time. Don’t you remember? Sister Problem Solver.”
“…Huh…Kim Ji-hoon…! You!”
The troubleshooter narrows his eyes. Then he suddenly moves his arm, grabs Ji-hoon’s neck, and puts it under his armpit.
A huge lump of flesh was rubbing against Ji-hoon’s head, but she didn’t care and continued to hold the headlock with exquisite strength in her arms.
“Hey! Kim Ji-hoon! Since when have you been calling me to solve things! Hey! You’re really crawling up on me without me even noticing! Bam! Just! Let’s fight like back then! ”
“Okay, wait…! Wait…! Stop!”
“Shut up, man! You’re going to die today!!!”
The problem solver squeezed Ji-hoon’s neck with his armpit a few more times, then released him and lowered his hand to slap his back with the palm of his hand.
“You. You said you were a netrunner or something, but what happened?”
Netrunner, there was definitely a word like that among the thugs’ remarks.
Since he couldn’t pretend not to know here either, he decided to use the skill he had used every time he met his elder relatives in the countryside for many years.
“Well, is that up to me? It didn’t work out as well as I thought, so I came back here.”
“You bragged to me about going to the city and becoming successful, and you did well. Yeah. Is this the best? I really don’t know how you live in the city.”
The troubleshooter snorts and starts to move her feet. She’s being so friendly that you really think she’s become your friend, and she walks over to the red motorcycle parked in the alley.
“Yeah, this is the best. You’re my one and only precious friend… but uh…”
This is where it gets tricky.
Men and women should not sit together when they are seven years old. There is no need to say such annoying words. No matter how close a man and a woman can be, what I am about to say is something that can easily be rejected.
But Kim Ji-hoon was needed. In order to survive in this world where neon signs flashed obnoxiously and chips were implanted in the head, he needed someone who could give him information, and a place to eat, sleep, and rest.
“I spent all my money in the city and now I have nothing. I’m really sorry, but can I just sleep at your house for a few days?”
The problem solver looked at Ji-hoon’s face without saying anything. At that moment, Ji-hoon felt his smartphone so hot that he thought his thighs were burning.
But he couldn’t take out his smartphone when the problem solver was looking at his face.
“..Bread!”
“Ugh.. eww..!”
The troubleshooter suddenly lifted the gun on his waist, aimed the gun, and shouted. Ji-hoon was so surprised that he almost fell over, but the troubleshooter’s hand was faster than him and caught his arm.
“Hey, what kind of man in the world asks to sleep at a woman’s house for a few days?”
Contrary to what he said, the fixer zipped up his body stew all the way to his neck and got on the motorcycle. Instead of sticking his butt all the way back, he pulled it forward as much as possible, and she showed off her waist with her hand.
“Kim Ji-hoon. Hold on to my waist because I don’t have a helmet. And if you talk nonsense about gaining weight or anything, I’ll kick you. Don’t even think about talking nonsense.”
“Of course I wouldn’t say such nonsense. Troubleshooter!”
Ji-hoon had no intention of spitting out the rice cake that was in his mouth. He quickly clung to the butt of the problem solver. It was natural to cling to the seat of the motorcycle, which was not able to accommodate two people in the first place.
It felt like I was sexually harassing her by rubbing my clitoris against her rather large buttocks, but she didn’t say anything. When I put my hands down and grabbed her waist, instead of gaining weight, I had no fat to grab onto, so I had to hug her arms like I was linking them.
“Hold on tight!”
The problem solver, who saw Ji-hoon clinging to his back, started the motorcycle without a moment’s hesitation.
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[Mental stability of Solver-02077]
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