Chapter 230 – -229- Minutes of the Murderers

Not long before Jeong Jin-hyuk destroyed the martial arts worldview, a secret meeting was being held somewhere in the GK Group.

“You’re late, Boss Kim.”

Kang Soo-ah, who succeeded in business expansion that was almost like gambling, inherited GK Group, and was reborn as the only sun in the business world, spoke in a dry voice.

“Hehe, sorry”

“Well, obviously. There must have been some reason, right?”

She smiled and looked at President Kim.

Her eyes were smiling sadly like always, but no one here seemed to relax when they saw her smile.

From what they saw, she was a cold-blooded person who could treat people without any worries with her smiling face.

“I’m sorry, Chairman. I have urgent business to attend to…”

‘Stupid bastard. Even if you lie… What do you say you have to do?’

The excuse she spat out, her protruding belly bouncing wildly, didn’t convince her.

It would be easier to believe that fish swim in lava than that this servile man, who looks much older than his age, is late for work.

She knew very well that he was an incompetent and greedy opportunist.

“Yes, I see. Please take a seat. We have to start the meeting.”

As soon as her man finished speaking, she wriggled her bloated body and crumpled into her chair.

Kang Soo-ah managed to hide the disdain that almost appeared on her face, and she chaired the meeting.

“The company’s crisis could not have been resolved without the help of the committee members here.”

She confidently declared that they had saved the company and looked at the faces of those gathered.

There were no affiliates that were not important to the company, including GK Bio, GK Virtual Business Division, GK Holdings, and GK Security.

“As you have overcome the past crisis wisely, we need to have in-depth discussions about future management policies.”

The last crisis she mentioned was the sudden death of research director Jeong Jin-hyuk.

After his sudden death, which was GK Group’s core asset, GK Group’s stock price fluctuated, and the company fell into a liquidity crisis.

What saved GK, a faltering dinosaur company. It was a management innovation committee launched with the eldest daughter Jeong Su-ah at the head.

After purchasing its own shares with cash on hand, the committee put the company back on track by announcing a series of new innovative technologies.

Despite the sudden accident, they became the company’s heroes by growing the company beyond the initial level.

… Well, it’s ironic considering that they were the ones who caused the crisis.

To tell the truth, the Management Innovation Committee was no different from a gathering of accomplices in the Jeong Jin-hyeok murder case.

It was a gathering of murderers to get rid of Dr. Jeong, who did not move in the desired direction, and to steal the virtual world control source code he was developing.

The accomplices who wanted to get rid of the doctor who was interfering with their management policy in every way with his huge stake and sided with Jeong Su-ah and obtained the soybean oil were gathered here.

They wear the title given to them by their owner, Jeong Su-ah, who has made enormous profits through the Innovation Committee.

‘… Someday, I have to cut it all down’

Hiding her true intention of wanting to boil a hunting dog, she encouraged everyone with a benevolent expression.

All the people gathered here held important positions in the GK Group, and since their shares in the group were scattered among them, it was necessary to not lose their favor just yet.

She smiled leisurely and listened to reports from each department.

“GK Bio’s Phoenix project has been completely reorganized after the last unfortunate accident and is generating enormous profits.”

Giving a new body to the old business world’s ugly figures was, of course, a great way to make money.

Old people who would pay a thousand dollars for a year were waiting in line for her to be saved.

“The multiplayer martial arts worldview that was being beta tested by the Virtual Business Department is also progressing successfully.”

“Hmm? As far as I know, I heard there is no way to contact individual users. How did you measure the results?”

The man questioned revealed that one of his subordinates had made an ‘indirect’ observation with a creative solution.

“… That’s nice”

Even as she smiled and listened to the positive reports pouring in like competition, one word stuck in her mind.

‘It’s an indirect observation… Sigh, I’m not satisfied with this…’

The various good news she heard certainly pleased her ears, but the news she desperately wanted did not come.

Complete control over GK Group’s controlled AI.

What she really wanted was not in her hands yet.

‘Ha… As expected, I was too hasty in killing him…’

She was slightly regretting killing Jeong Jin-hyuk with her own hands.

It was only after he disappeared that I realized how great his abilities were.

Without him, we could never create a control AI that was completely compliant.

He clumsily pieced together what Jeong Jin-hyuk left behind and created something similar to a control AI, but it was half-hearted and didn’t listen to anything.

It was subtly hostile to the company and was strangely protective of all users’ information.

They tried to improve, but judging by the data left behind by the doctor, they failed to make any progress.

Kang Soo-ah glared directly at the head of the research center, who had been avoiding her gaze from earlier, and called out to him in a clear voice.

“Director of the research institute? Has there been any progress since the last performance?”

A young man with a very crooked neck apologized with sweat pouring down his neck, which was as thick as the prescription of his glasses.

“… I’m sorry”

“I see”

“Well, if only we had a little more time and manpower…”

Even though I didn’t have high expectations, I couldn’t avoid feeling disappointed.

“How many times have I heard that story?”

The meeting ended with an excuse from the lab director who seemed to have more excuses than his remaining hair.

‘… When will I get what I truly want…’

Just as she was about to get up from her seat, sighing deeply, her skinny man stopped her.

“Um, Chairman. I have something to tell you.”

“… What is it?”

The person who caught her was the president of GK Security, whose position had been diminished since the emergence of her control AI.

After fiddling with his watch chain like a paranoid person, he took a deep breath, as if he had made a big decision, and began to ramble, distorting his already thin face even more grotesquely.

“This is a story I heard from a brave shaman…”

As soon as I heard the first words he spoke, the sigh I had been barely holding in almost burst out.

‘The president of a cutting-edge security company believes in shamans…’

‘Ma got stuck. The tirade, which started with general nonsense such as ‘there is a bad energy in the air’, gradually grew into nonsense.

She carefully whispered that the undead ghost was alive and spreading her poison, and by the time she was afraid and said that she should offer up a sacrifice… She couldn’t help but frown.

‘Ha, are you saying Jeong Jin-hyuk is still alive? You’re saying something ridiculous’

Kang Soo-ah, who tolerated his nonsense with superhuman patience, firmly shook him off.

“Yes, I understand the boss’s concerns. I will take them into account. I have other plans to attend to…”

He shook his hand and said to the back of his head, “I received this from a really brave shaman…” He looked like a crazy person to anyone who saw him.

‘… That guy should be cut off before other rotten branches…’

As she mentally planned the purge, she put her mind to it.

I will accommodate them for a while until I achieve my true goal.

‘… I’m tired’

In the car on the way home, she closed her eyes and thought about the virtual division’s last report.

‘I boasted that the completion of an unlimited multi-access worldview that would make all previous services obsolete was just around the corner.’

She felt that it was worthwhile to use the resources of the first server room that she had been saving until the end.

‘I didn’t create it, but I left everything to AI, so bragging about it as if it was my achievement was a little funny.’

She wondered how much more sophisticated the world, which was still praised as perfect, would become if it had more resources.

“It’s a perfectly good world where everyone can enjoy together… I guess I can relieve my stress there too…”

She was someone who didn’t want to waste a single minute in a fake world, but today was such an annoying day that she dreamed of escaping to the virtual world.

… At least for now, she believed that today was a very unfortunate day.

***

As soon as I heard Kang Su-ah’s voice in the recording, I was surprised and asked.

“How did you get this? It must not be easy to access…”

In response to my doubts, Lee Se-ryeong and Chae Yu-na smiled and boasted.

“That fat pig hacked the cell phone I had hidden in order to contact my adulterous woman. There was no security app installed, so the conversation was clearly recorded.”

“It was easy because even the president of GK Security turned into a stupid bastard!”

I was grateful to that tardy pig. Thanks to that guy’s affair, I got some good information. Also, to that guy who fell into shamanism.

Through the information they asked me, I was able to specify the target of my revenge.

‘How many people are there in total? These guys… They were all part of one group…’

Although I was secretly expecting it, I was surprised that so many people were accomplices in my death.

‘. Kill them all…? No, I have to make it worse than death’

As the recording continued, I felt more and more empty.

‘I’m going crazy. What you achieved by killing me was nothing more than an insignificant achievement?’

It drove me crazy to brag about the meager results achieved through my own death.

I never thought a banquet held over my corpse would be so shabby.

To betray me just for the sake of glory… Kang Soo-ah must be really stupid.

“… I can go wild more”

I now seemed to understand why there were no sanctions no matter how wild I ran in the Central Plains.

Considering what Chaeryeong Lee said and the current conversation, it was clear that GK did not have any control over the AI.

‘Wait, Kang Soo-ah’

If only this world view was over. Finally, you will be able to break through all of GK’s security measures.

If I eat up the last server, if I gain the computing power of the quantum computer I designed… I will be no different from a god.

Omnipotence in reality, not virtual reality.

All humans who enjoy virtual reality will be under my control.

It will become a deus ex machina in the true sense of the word.

It would have been an idea that would have horrified Jeong Jin-hyeok, a moral researcher from the past, but… It was a very sweet suggestion to me, who was already broken.

‘Be a little happier, I. So that I can push you from a higher place’

Imagining their impending fall, I wished for their brief happiness.