episode_0032

“OK, she will guide you from here on out.”

The woman Hong Gil-dong pointed to was the Ripperdoc who had treated Sonagi. Her pink hair was noticeable even from a distance, and she was wearing a pure white gown, so it would have been more strange not to recognize her.

“Your name is Damon, right? We couldn’t even talk properly last time…”

Hong Gil-dong nodded and pointed with his hand at the woman who had approached him, and then at Ji-hoon.

“Have a good time, her explanation will be of great help to you.”

Hong Gil-dong, who had said that, climbed onto the motorcycle parked next to him. Without even wearing a helmet, he stepped on the pedal absentmindedly and disappeared into the back alley with a whirring sound.

Ji-hoon, who was suddenly left alone with Damon, was neither flustered nor embarrassed. He had heard a sufficient explanation from Hong Gil-dong about what he was going to do from now on.

“Is this the human resources office run by Lucky Venus? It’s much bigger than I thought…”

“Then to be exact, it is Lucky Venus’ Junggok-dong 13th office.”

Damon shrugs and enters, the heels of her high heels clicking. She walks to the front of the elevator, presses the button naturally, and looks back at Ji-hoon.

Even in that brief moment, Ji-hoon’s heart seemed to be shaking strangely, but he had work to do today.

“You said you’ve never worked in Neo Seoul before~? That’s strange, Sonagi said you got a head injury while working~”

“Ah.. What is that, I just… Instead of going to the human resources office, I went straight to the work site and worked.”

“You worked illegally. That’s why you didn’t get proper treatment even after getting hurt~”

Damon snorted and took Jihoon’s hand into the wide-open elevator. Her large flesh began to rub against his arm, but Jihoon had no intention of pulling his arm away. What man would turn down something this good?

“Our Hwalbindang people are working hard in this office. Jihoon can’t work because he doesn’t have a brain chip, but… It’s okay. I’ll tell you everything. ”

The woman making a snorting sound was obviously trying to seduce Ji-hoon. Unfortunately, Ji-hoon, who was sucking the semen from Park Ji-hye, had no intention of doing anything and only wanted to resolve the curiosity in his head.

─Ding dong

The elevator doors open and a huge hallway comes into view.

“What is this… I think I saw this before…”

There were large glass doors on both sides of the narrow hallway, which could fit about three people. Inside the glass doors, there were people sitting on black sofas and a huge computer.

‘These… are the machines used by the cyber prostitutes I saw last time.’

Although it wasn’t exactly the same, it didn’t look that different. Ji-hoon, surprised, moved his feet and looked around the room, and he could see people using ‘old’ computers.

Unlike the people using the ‘new type’, they were moving their hands and feet to control something diligently. To the eyes of a 21st century person, it looked like they were diligently playing a game on a VR machine, but the screen shown on the small monitor next to them was different.

‘…What the heck. Nogada? What the fuck… That’s why I said it was weird.’

The ‘robot’, which was being diligently controlled by a naked man, was working at a construction site. The robot’s arm, which was ‘attached’ to a large steel bar, was moving diligently and welding.

With the press of a button, a huge steel frame could be moved and electrical wiring could be checked.

“Controlling a non-humanoid robot in a building like this requires a license~ It puts a lot of strain on the brain chip.”

Damon smiled and explained, hitting Ji-hoon’s buttocks against the glass door. She shrugged slightly and pointed to the next room.

“No matter how automated the world is, running a factory with 100% perfect automation is extremely difficult. Do you know that, Ji-hoon?”

“…Of course I know. It would be faster to just throw things in with people than to use a conveyor belt for loading and unloading. ”

“Dingdongdang, that’s right~ If it’s something where you have to simply repeat the same thing forever, then that’s fine, but if it’s something that requires instantaneous judgment and understanding, then it’s a shame, but it’s a little unreliable to trust an automated program. ”

Tok Tok Damon spoke and pointed to a new glass door.

“The man you see here has been working here for a very long time. He works at the factory checking defective products. What’s surprising is that the robot he’s controlling is not in Neo Seoul… a little further away in Gyeonggi-do, but in Busan.”

In front of the robot controlled by the man was a pure white pack containing golden-brown fried eggs. It seemed that the robot was checking whether there were any small shells on the vacuum-packed fried eggs, and its hands were very busy.

When he moved his left hand, the robot moved its left hand in the same way and threw away the fried egg. There didn’t seem to be any difference in time.

“It’s quite a distance…but it doesn’t seem to lag at all…”

“Then, it doesn’t matter at all. In the case of our country, where the land area is small, there are robots that cannot be controlled in Neo Seoul… Well, I think you would have to go to Jeju Island or something.”

Damon smiled and moved one leg, lightly climbing up one level. Surprisingly, the scenery had not changed.

“This place seems to be over 40 stories high, but there aren’t just machines and people in the entire building, right?”

“Isn’t this a human resources office? Everyone here is either working in the real world by operating robots or working in cyberspace.”

“…Then I guess I can commute to work from home…”

“As Jihoon said, there are many people who work from home. Especially, most people who work in cyberspace work from home. But…”

Damon smiles and points to the couches and computers where people are sitting, all of which have large ‘Lucky Venus’ logos and letters on them.

“Ah… . All the people working here are employees of Lucky Venus.”

“Whether it’s cooking, building factories, or checking the finish of manufactured machines… these people are just employees of a huge company called Lucky Venus, doing physical work instead of using robots. ”

Damon smiled and gave her an expression that seemed to say, “Enough?”

“So… Megacorps builds a bunch of these human resources offices here and makes people work here? Only here? Instead of giving the work to people who live in Busan.”

“That’s right. This method is a little easier to monitor, and they feel it’s more efficient. After all, the houses that Lucky Venus employees live in are also Lucky Venus’s, and their food, implants, and cyberware are all the same. ”

“Wow…Fuck.”

Is there no way for someone working at Megacorp to escape from that giant hamster wheel? Ji-hoon points at people with his finger, his head slightly dazed.

“Then what do you do at Hwalbindang? Do you save the people here?”

Damon snorted at his words and laughed softly. She smiled for a long moment before straightening her hair.

“They work under Lucky Venus and spend all their money on the company, but these people live like human beings in Neo Seoul.”

“Then you could not possibly have stolen money from these people’s pockets…”

Is it being used as operating funds? Ji-hoon had a strange thought about Hwalbindang for a moment. However, Damon shook his head because his thought was so stupid.

“What we’re stealing here is something else.”

“You did steal it.”

“It doesn’t matter because I’m not stealing money from the company employees’ wallets. I’m just emptying Lucky Venus’ wallet.”

Damon smiles and climbs another flight of stairs.

There was a warning sign there that looked like it could be seen in the 21st century: ‘No entry for authorized personnel.’

“This is where the robots controlled by the company employees in this building are managed.”

Damon smiles and puts his hand on the doorknob. A black, mechanical tentacle emerges from her palm, naturally disabling the electronic door lock and opening the door.

There was no one inside. It was unclear whether Damon or Hong Gil-dong had already taken care of it, whether there was no one there at this hour, or whether the place itself was not managed in the first place.

Damon shamelessly placed his butt in front of some computer and stuck his tentacle into the small external port with the palm of his hand.

“…What are you doing?”

“I’m going to do a really good job. Because of the program I uploaded, the robot controlled by the old man you see here…is like this…”

The screen changes with a beeping sound. The man who had just been building the giant Lucky Venus building was now doing electrical work in a dark place.

“Those people get paid based on the time they control the robot. They don’t lose anything and we only gain, so it’s really great, right?”

Damon smiles and leans back in his chair.

How nice it would be if the world went according to her word.

Ji-hoon was somewhat surprised by Hwalbindang’s quirky behavior, even though he thought things wouldn’t go that easily.

“Not stealing money…”

The Hwalbindang was stealing ‘labor’. Because of the program uploaded by Damon, the company employees ended up controlling robots prepared by Hwalbindang, not Lucky Venus’ robots.

The robots work for the poor, whom neither the government nor Megacorp cares about. The company employees don’t really complain. Their screens show how much they are earning, and they just move according to the instructions.

“But, is it okay to do it like this? Isn’t it harmful to anyone?”

“Can’t you see that there’s no one here? The higher-ups in the company never dreamed that something like this would happen.”

“Huh… . Really.”

“Of course there is someone like the office manager, but how can that manager check exactly what the 500+ robots working here are doing?”

“But if the robot working on the construction site doesn’t move, you’ll be suspicious.”

“It’s okay.”

Damon snorts and crosses his legs. The pure white gown falls down, exposing her thighs.

She acted as if she had no qualms about the fact that the employees at Lucky Venus were fired because of her mistake.

“Most of the people working here aren’t controlling a specific robot. Mr. Kim over there could be building a huge building today, or cleaning a basement tomorrow.”

“Why do you do that?”

“Because you have to pay more when you become a skilled worker. Well. It seems like some people can’t help it…”

Ji-hoon was dumbfounded, but it seemed that the work of inspecting defective products was definitely done by designated people. Their screens didn’t change. If the robots controlled by those people stopped, it seemed that Lucky Venus would know that there was a problem.

Only the screens of people doing things like ‘cleaning’, ‘simple labor’, ‘carrying trash’, and ‘odd jobs’ changed, and Ji-hoon nodded as if he was starting to understand.

“But.. Mr. Damon. Why does a company that likes to make money also do things like cleaning? It doesn’t seem like it would make money.”

“Of course, it won’t cost you money. But the government will give you money, right? Think about it simply. If Lucky Venus picks you as a sanitation worker and gives you 100 million won a month…”

“Can we just select people who can spend around 50 million won?”

“Then. You can eat blind money very deliciously.”

Ji-hoon scratched his head a little in disbelief. He wondered if this was against the law, but he had a strange feeling that in a world where the police don’t respond even when people die or are reported, this level of corruption would be nothing.

‘Well, damn it… Isn’t that why they’re called Megani and all, because they commit corruption and harm others by penny by penny?’

Damon chuckled and smiled seductively at his troubled appearance before looking at his face.

“But our Hwalbindang can’t be satisfied with just replacing robots like this. We’re thinking of doing something big.”

“What are you going to do? I’ll tell you in advance… . Don’t expect anything from me, unless it’s a shower.”

Damon smiled slightly and shook his head.

“Don’t worry~ It’s with Sonagi. It’s very simple…”

“What is it?”

In response to Ji-hoon’s question, the woman waves her hand as if to tell him to come closer. Ji-hoon has no choice but to bring his ear to her, and Damon playfully bites her earlobe.

“Would you like to make some noise with the rain?”