episode_0087

“The risk is too great.”

“Honey, you don’t have to do this. You know I’ll become a widow if I do something wrong, right?”

Hong Seo-yeon held Ji-hoon’s hand and spoke in a sorrowful voice.

Ji-hoon knew she would react like this, so he held her hand and looked into Hong Seo-yeon’s eyes.

Of course, Sonagi, who had heard his plan from beginning to end, was worried about him.

“No matter how much Mr. Hong Gil-dong has upgraded, his opponent is Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae, so there’s no way to know what kind of shitty thing he’ll do.

“Yes, Jihoon’s analysis is accurate. We must take him down for sure this time.”

“If you can’t even have a proper conversation and are just tortured by clone soldiers, you won’t be able to get any information to spread to the reporters.”

After hearing Ji-hoon and Gil-dong’s words, Hong Seo-yeon closed her eyes for a moment and rubbed her forehead with her hand.

Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae immediately responded to the message sent by Hong Gil-dong.

He readily agreed to the meeting, and he chose the location.

Because of that, I ended up in a situation where I had to go into a tiger’s den to hunt a tiger.

“First of all… The place where the old lady set up the meeting is a fine dining restaurant that sells Korean food operated by Mirae Enterprise. It occupies the first to fourth floors, but the actual spaces that customers use are the third and fourth floors.”

“Ah… I know that place. Isn’t it a really expensive place? Foreign business people always go there…”

Sonagi shivered and stuck out his tongue.

Just imagining the expensive food made me think that Sonagi could make it with just a little bit of effort.

“Ojinam is a restaurant like Daewon-gak or Samcheonggak. Since it is run by a future company, it is on a different level from Korean restaurants overseas. You could call it traditional Korean food…”

“I’ll go later,” Hong Seo-yeon said, looking into Ji-hoon’s eyes as she lightly touched the HUD.

“Anyway, I’m not going to go eat, so it doesn’t matter what they sell. As you can see from this drawing… the first floor is actually where the customers are received, and the second floor is just the kitchen.”

“Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae will probably talk to Mr. Hong Gil-dong on the 4th floor… I see here that there is a room that can be used privately.”

“That’s right, honey. Considering the nature of that old lady, she might be thinking of letting Oh Jin-am rest for a day and talking to him. On the contrary.”

“There’s a high possibility that he prepared a trap to kill me.”

Ji-hoon nodded at his honest words.

“That’s why I back up in the underground parking lot. Looking at the diagram, there are more than 10 external ports. I guess I can hack it by connecting a wire inside the car?”

“There is no problem. The car owned by Chairman Hong Seo-yeon is equipped with all the features that Mr. Ji-hoon mentioned.”

“Okay, if I succeed in hacking, I can deal with all the clones or people coming in from the outside.”

“If Ji-hoon has the skills, he could hack all the electronic devices inside and prevent them from attacking Mr. Hong Gil-dong with things like sentry guns.”

After hearing the explanation, Hong Seo-yeon silently touched her chin.

“But… Even if we can stop the clone troopers, it’ll be pretty hard to stop the private soldiers… . If we use something like an EMP bomb…”

If Ji-Hoon had been a normal net-runner, his brain might have been burned by the sudden electromagnetic pulse attack.

Luckily, he wasn’t worried about that part at all since he was going to hack using his smartphone.

“That’s okay.”

“…It’s fortunate that my wife isn’t hurt, but all the security devices that prevent outsiders from entering will be broken.”

“I can do something about one or two people…”

It was still unknown how many people Ji-Hoon’s cyber hypnosis app could upload the program to.

‘In the worst case scenario… the hypnosis that Hong Seo-yeon is under could suddenly be lifted.’

In the end, Hong Kwon-tae’s private soldiers had to be stopped from entering the building.

“Jihoon, there’s nothing I can do.”

Sonagi spoke with a serious expression, and Jihoon knew very well what she meant.

“Yeah… I can’t help it. I have to cover my face as much as possible.”

“…What are you saying, honey?”

“If there’s someone who’s good at this, don’t worry. They probably don’t know you.”

* * * * * *

“The private soldiers will be stopped by Lee Ji-ah and her pet girls…”

Ji-hoon arrived at the underground parking lot of Ojinam in Hong Seo-yeon’s car and took his smartphone out of his pocket and connected it.

“It’s amazing no matter how much you look at it… You don’t even have to charge the battery…”

In fact, isn’t it not the smartphone you know, but some incredible object created by someone in this cyberpunk world?

Ji-hoon thought seriously for a moment, but it was not the time to think any further.

“Honey, Mr. Hong Gil-dong just entered the building. What’s the situation?”

“As expected, unlike the blueprint, there are a ton of sentry guns prepared, and there are even security androids. Damn, isn’t this completely for combat?”

Ji-hoon was surprised and quickly transmitted the various information displayed on the HUD that he could see thanks to his sunglasses to Hong Seo-yeon, who was waiting at the vacation home.

Of course, if Hong Seo-yeon came here, she could have been killed by Hong Kwon-tae’s private soldiers in the worst case scenario, so she stayed at home.

“…I checked. That’s right. It’s not for combat use, but it’s something our company supplied for military use. Well, it seems like it’s not a lie that that old lady eats with famous politicians at Oamjeong.”

“Ha, are you afraid that the troubleshooters will do something foolish against those high-ranking people?”

Hong Seo-yeon didn’t answer, but Ji-hoon’s inference was not wrong.

“Then I’ll make this mine too…”

Ji-hoon quickly hacked the sentry gun installed in Ojinam and the AI controlling the military androids.

With just a snap of his fingers, he made them listen to his commands, and his next target was the women working in the kitchen.

‘We need to make the cooking come out as late as possible. And when Hong Kwon-tae starts attacking Mr. Hong Gil-dong… We need to control the situation internally as much as possible through these women.’

Outside, Lee Ji-ah and her pet girls were pretending to be ordinary citizens and waiting 100 meters away from Ojinam.

If Hong Kwon-Tae called in private soldiers or clone troopers in dump truck units, they would naturally be stopped.

Simply fighting the soldiers with sentry guns and military androids could have potentially neutralized the EMP, but with Ezia and her pet girls, it was a different story.

Because even if you tried to use an electromagnetic pulse, you could block it.

“Okay… Everything is ready here. Mr. Hong Gil-dong. Can you hear me? Right now, there are no regular guests in the building except for you and Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae.”

“I guess you’re thinking of spending some quality time with your son whom you haven’t seen in a long time. This old woman.”

“Haha, I wish that were true…”

That can’t be true.

The reason Hong Gil-dong asked to meet was because he threatened to reveal that he was the son of Chairman Hong Kwon-tae and the problem solver who killed Hong Ryeon.

* * * *

“You look just like your mother.”

These were Hong Kwon-tae’s first words when he saw Hong Gil-dong coming up the stairs.

His voice, his face, and every single expression of disgust he made were all stored in Hong Gil-dong’s eyes and brain chip, and were shown to Hong Seo-yeon, Ji-hoon, and Sona-gi who was waiting outside.

Hong Kwon-tae sat there with a very displeased expression, not even knowing that fact.

“…”

“I think I know who your mother is by looking at your skin… After telling you a few lies, you fell for it all.. Hehe.”

He watched Hong Gil-dong sit down with a sinister smile and continued talking.

“Still, I’m glad you’re my son. Hongryeon… That bitch was too stupid. She was such a stereotype that I refused to modify Hong Seoyeon and Hong Hyeyeon’s DNA at first.”

Hong Kwon-tae clicked his tongue and smiled in satisfaction as he saw the waiter place food in front of him and a small glass of water in front of Hong Gil-dong.

At a dinner with his son whom he had not seen in decades, Hong Kwon-tae did not offer anything in return.

“So you want money?”

Hong Kwon-tae speaks, picks up his chopsticks, and begins to tear the leg of the chicken in front of him.

“If you’re a problem solver, you want money. Yeah, you killed my brother for that money…”

The oily seasoning dripped from the torn chicken flesh, and Hong Kwon-tae, who had a snow-white beard, ate the food while telling a story.

“I’ll give you as much money as you want, but before that, Hong Seo-yeon… I have to find that rotten bitch and kill her. I ask you as a father. Hehe, I can’t let the hen that will ruin the family keep crowing, right…”

He freely said whatever he wanted to say.

When Hong Gil-dong sat quietly for a long time without answering, he seemed to think he needed time to think and continued eating in silence.

It was hard to believe that he was over 100 years old, and his appetite was so voracious that in some ways it almost made you feel his ugliness.

“Do you remember your mother’s name?”

Hong Gil-dong’s voice was as emotionless as possible, but a faint anger could be felt.

“There were more than a few bitches with that common dark skin… Hehehe, just modifying their faces with cyberware won’t change the nature of those dirty bitches. Where the hell do you get the courage to stick to me and sell your fate…! No way, no way..!”

He didn’t answer. He didn’t even think.

I just had a fleeting thought that she was just one of the many women Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae had hugged so far.

“Do you know when my birthday is?”

“…Killing Hong Seo-yeon is not a request, it’s an order. Hong Gil-dong, this is the price your father pays for acknowledging you as his son.”

Hong Kwon-tae ignored Hong Gil-dong’s words.

He had no other intention than to use his son thoroughly. He would take this opportunity to deal with his annoying granddaughter and naturally deal with Hong Gil-dong as well.

“… ”

Hong Gil-dong, who had naturally expected this kind of ending and attitude, reached for his sunglasses and fiddled with them for a moment.

He harbored a hope that his father, who was right in front of him, might have some regrets now that decades had passed, even though he had abandoned his mother and himself.

“Did you forget how to speak?”

Hong Gil-dong stood up from his seat and placed both knees on the floor as he watched the man greedily devouring the food in front of him.

“father…”

He bows and speaks in a voice full of emotion.

“Can I call you father… . Father… . ”

His dull voice filled the room.

Hong Kwon-tae stuffed his mouth with juicy meat.

“You idiot, I don’t want to be called father by a black guy like you. If you want to be treated like a son… Hurry up and go get that Hong Seo-yeon’s head.”

Hong Gil-dong, who bowed to the man’s words, naturally put his hand on his back, and there was a gun there that could kill the man in front of him.

“Do I look like such an easy and sloppy guy?”

Hong Kwon-tae brought the food to his mouth and chewed it, then placed his hands on his waist.

The belt that created the energy shield that had been shown at Hong Seo-yeon’s new product launch was there, and he turned it on without the slightest hesitation.

“This guy, that guy, they all look at me like water. I’ll make them come to their senses. Since ancient times, a club has been the best medicine for a mad dog. Hehehe.”

Hong Kwon-tae looked at Hong Gil-dong, who was getting up from his seat holding a gun, and reached for the cane lying next to him.

A staff that emits blue electricity, it was a ‘weapon’ that could never be considered for crime prevention.