episode_0026

“What happens if you get caught like that?”

After finishing his meal at a Japanese restaurant, Ji-hoon pointed at the android and the black man with his finger.

The android, who had pure white skin and looked beautiful no matter where she looked, was naked without even a single pair of panties. There was a strangely sexual feeling when looking at a woman with a mouth-wateringly beautiful body, panting in pain.

Even the fact that the opponent is a black man wearing a gray coat and red sunglasses gives Ji-hoon a strange feeling.

“What…”

Sonagi briefly strokes her hair and watches the completely subdued android rise from its seat. Unlike the android that worked as a waiter at the Japanese restaurant, the android with a red light emanating from the side of its head seemed to have lost its will to resist.

“You’ll be taken to the factory where the memory will be reset and the chip replaced.”

“Then the self that was created will also disappear.”

“Yeah, honestly, I think androids are more self-aware than replicants-”

Before Sonagi could finish speaking, the android’s body moved. She grabbed the hand of the black man who was holding her hand, stretched her legs back, and did a somersault, kicking her thighs with her arms.

With a whizzing sound, his arm swings around in a flashy manner, but just before it snaps, he kicks the black man in the chest and knocks him down.

“…Please help me.”

These were the words of the android that landed neatly in front of Ji-hoon.

“What..”

“Ignore it.”

Sonagi puts her hand on Jihoon’s chest. At that moment, the android exposes its body to the men next to it and starts saying the same thing, “Please help me-“.

“It’s not illegal to own an android that has a self, so that’s why he’s asking you to buy him.”

“If I buy it, what will happen to that black man?”

“Ah… That old man has nothing to lose. The item he was supposed to sell just ran away because it had an ego, so we came to catch it. If someone buys it here, the company doesn’t lose money, right?”

“That’s funny.”

Ji-hoon was dumbfounded, but since he knew a little about how the world works, he didn’t complain any more.

“…sigh.”

The black man, who had adjusted his red sunglasses, spat out the blood that had accumulated in his mouth and pulled out a black baton from his waistband. Blue electricity shot out of it with a frightening intensity.

“Sob..!’

With a slight roar, a black staff was swung at the android. At first, he dodged, then the next, but the last stab was unavoidable.

“Ahh, ahhh-! Aaaahhh-!”

The android slumps down, letting out a mechanical sound that seems to have been synthesized incorrectly. The black man clicks his tongue and, without paying any attention to the people around him, grabs the android by the waist and carries it up on the ground.

He has done this a lot and seems to be used to it, so he disappears into the crowd without saying a word.

“Is that guy a problem solver like you?”

“You could say it’s similar, but it’s different for people who work in companies.”

It was nothing to Sonagi, but it was a strange feeling to Jihoon.

“Don’t be so complicated. It’s common in this city, and it’s the same in Incheon. It’ll be the same in a country on the other side of the world.”

“Just because the same thing happens everywhere doesn’t mean it’s natural.”

“But we don’t have the power to change it.”

Ji-hoon nodded at Sonagi’s words. In reality, Ji-hoon didn’t think of ‘wanting to save’ the android in front of him.

Was it because there was a hunter sent by the company right in front of him? Or maybe it would have been different if a naked woman suddenly appeared in front of his house and asked him to save him? Honestly, I don’t know.

“Hey, you said you were going to the bathroom.”

“That’s because you asked about this and that.”

Sonagi laughs and naturally takes Jihoon to the bathroom. Of course, that doesn’t mean she’s going into the women’s bathroom with him.

“Don’t worry about it here, just wait.”

“What kind of dog am I?”

Ji-hoon couldn’t just wait for the rain to stop and go into the bathroom, so he took his smartphone out of his pocket.

“This guy isn’t even a diamond…”

The battery of the smartphone, which he couldn’t even remember when he last charged, was full. Ji-hoon found it a little strange, but he moved his fingers without thinking much about it.

“Should I try scanning it…”

There’s no quest that asks you to scan, and you can’t get anything by scanning passing women.

But this was pretty fun.

[Park Ye-jin (Ye-jin-0827)─ ←123M]

Even just looking at the woman named Park Ye-jin that Ji-hoon just scanned, he was able to find several elements that were moderately amusing.

[ICE Security Level: Common]

The people living in Neo Seoul and Incheon were different in many ways, but the biggest difference that Ji-hoon felt was the ICE security level. In Incheon, if you scanned anyone, the result was ‘lax’, but here, the basic level was common.

Women who were a little good-looking or pretty could even be confirmed to have a ‘reliable’ level.

[List of cyberware and implants owned by Park Ye-jin (Ye-jin-0827)]

“Brain Chip”

“Female Hormone Regulator”

“Strength enhancer”

“Stress regulator”

‘And this is it… The brain chip is something that everyone in this world installs, and the female hormone regulator is…’

It was also in Sonagi’s body. Jihoon honestly thought Sonagi was a bit special, but it wasn’t. Sonagi was actually someone who used the most spherical of spherical shapes, and among the women in this cyberpunk world, there wasn’t a single one who didn’t have a female hormone regulator implant installed.

The strength enhancer was similar to the one on Sonagi’s arm…

‘This stress regulator… it has some weird terms on it though…’

Contrary to Ji-hoon’s expectations, it wasn’t that great of a thing. It was something that operated ‘automatically’ in the first place, so there was no way for Ji-hoon to mess with it.

He continued to scan the women and search their profiles with the same sense of a child playing a prank by grabbing a girl’s skirt and lifting it up.

In particular, if you can hack into a profile, you can check out women’s sexual experiences at will. Although it is unknown when, where, what, how, and why they did it.

『Park Ye-jin (Ye-jin-0827)’s sexual experience』

“V Experience: 73 times”

“A Experience: Virgin”

…

…

‘Wow, he’s wearing glasses and looks incredibly plain. He’s no joke…’

Isn’t this a lot of times for 73 times? Ji-hoon is surprised by the woman whose face he doesn’t even know, and touches the ‘female hormone regulator’ and adjusts the ‘menstrual period’ to the present.

The woman, who had been walking briskly with her heeled legs, was startled by what had happened in her lower abdomen. She made a helpless expression and quickly passed by Ji-hoon, who was holding a smartphone near the women’s restroom, and went inside.

‘under..’

It was a very crude prank, but it was something that Ji-hoon, living in the 21st century, could not have imagined.

‘Oh, what the… There’s a woman with the thing that Lee Ji-hye was trying to install…’

Ji-hoon, who is now able to scan freely, notices that a pretty pretty woman has undergone cyberware vaginal treatment.

‘and..’

There were a lot of things that could be easily adjusted without having to upload a program. There were things like making the love juice spurt out immediately, and things like a ‘cleaning mode’ that had no meaning.

To be honest, Ji-hoon wanted to experiment with how great the cyberware was by pressing the buttons one by one from top to bottom.

But I couldn’t do it.

“Excuse me.”

Because a woman appeared in front of me. She was wearing large black sunglasses and had long, wavy hair that reached her shoulders.

Could it be because the hair colors of the women around her were brown, blue, red, and pink? She, who had plain black hair, looked strangely unique.

She was wearing a black striped jacket. Her breasts were so large that she could only button up the bottom of the three buttons on her jacket, revealing her milky white cleavage.

Underneath the black jacket, she was wearing a purple camisole-like lingerie, and Ji-hoon’s eyes were riveted to this alluring woman.

“Ah.. yes, yes.”

Ji-hoon awkwardly answers and turns off the screen of the smartphone he was holding. He was acting childishly, like an elementary school student, just a moment ago, and now he feels embarrassed.

The very short miniskirt the woman was wearing had the same striped pattern as the jacket, subtly hinting that she was an ‘office worker.’

“Did you do something bad? You’re really surprised.”

“Oh, no. Haha. That’s because someone so beautiful suddenly spoke to me. ”

Ji-hoon spoke honestly, and the woman looked at him silently through her sunglasses before snickering.

“Is that a compliment? Thank you. It’s not something else… Is it something like this… Hey. ”

The woman smiles and touches something with her finger, then stops. She scans Ji-hoon naturally and realizes that he is a ‘pure human’ without a ‘brain chip’, and then touches the corner of her mouth without saying a word.

“…You’re amazing.”

“Excuse me. I was trying to ask you something, but wouldn’t it be nice to say something like that?”

“Ah… Sorry. It’s been so long since I’ve met someone who doesn’t have a chip implanted in their head. So…”

The woman put her hand on her hip and took out her wallet. It was the first time she had seen it since she came here. Ji-hoon almost cried, but the woman took out a picture from inside without a care.

There was a drawing of a woman with a very similar appearance to the woman. The fact that she was wearing a red gym uniform gave off a strange feeling, but…

“Are you looking for this girl?”

“Yes, that’s right. Someone said they saw it around here, but have you never seen it before?”

“Um… .”

Ji-hoon felt a strange sense of foreboding when he looked at the photo. Something, really something. It was someone he had seen somewhere, but he couldn’t tell exactly who it was.

He looked at the woman wearing sunglasses in front of him once, and then at the woman in the photo twice, but he couldn’t figure out what this feeling of unease was.

“If that’s my friend, he might know…”

Ji-hoon points to the women’s bathroom with his thumb. The woman smiles with the corners of her lips raised and gently twists her wavy hair.

─Wooow.

At this crucial moment, the smartphone rings. Ji-hoon, who happened to be holding it in his hand, lowers his eyes. Since he had no one to contact, he was planning to quickly press the power button to turn off the screen.

‘what…’

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[Sudden Quest Begins!]

☆ Survive!

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That was all that was displayed in the tiny pop-up window.

Survive? What the hell is this nonsense? Ji-hoon couldn’t understand it, but he was concerned about the woman in front of him.

‘Is this really…’

A woman appeared in front of me and spoke to me. I showed her a strange picture and had a few conversations, and then the quest began.

‘Fuck…’

No matter how I looked at it, the woman in front of me was the problem. He must be screwed. Hoping that it wasn’t true, Ji-hoon put his thumb on his smartphone.

‘Please, please, please…’

[Scanning… Scanning…]

[Scan completed]

[Information cannot be confirmed (???) – 1M]

Ji-hoon swallowed slowly as he looked at the information that appeared on his smartphone. No matter how high the security level, the ‘name’ and ‘ID’ were printed out, but this woman was different.

It doesn’t show anything. Ji-hoon, who can’t even imagine how great the woman in front of him is, moves his legs slightly to get away from this place.

“Ha, haha. That’s the call I got. My friend is sick and asked me to bring him something…”

“Oh, really? That smartphone works. Those external devices were discontinued almost 50 years ago, so no one uses them…”

The woman smiles and takes off the sunglasses she is wearing with her left hand. She has red eyes that feel strangely different from her black hair.

“This…”

Ji-hoon realizes.

It was only too late that I realized where I had seen this woman.

Since this morning, I have been hearing the same story loudly as I got on the elevator. ‘Future Company’

The CEO of that promising future company was right in front of Ji-hoon.