Chapter 265 – -264- Beyond GK Group, Beyond the World (2)

The moment Lee Se-ryeong boarded the elevator, wondering what kind of award she would receive from her owner, the elevator’s weight sensor recognized the fact that the passenger had become 1 kg lighter.

Her body became slightly lighter than before meeting the president.

For the elevator, this change in weight was just a variable for motion control, but this 1 kg weight actually contained more meaning than that.

This loss of mass, which can hardly be said to be heavy, was not caused by Kang Su-ah sweating or going to the bathroom.

To tell the truth, for Lee Se-ryeong, this wasn’t even a meeting.

It was just a delivery mission.

Before Se-ryeong Lee came face-to-face with Su-wa Kang, Jin-hyuk Jeong hid a colony of small robots in her clothes.

Nanorobots that are barely visible to the naked eye.

The robots that were attached to her clothes and disguised as part of the clothing pattern dispersed like smoke as soon as they arrived at the top floor and dispersed into Kang Soo-ah’s office.

There was an unfortunate incident where the exposure of Lee Se-ryeong’s clothes exploded due to the robots that were pretending to be part of her fabric flying away, but Kang Soo-ah ignored it.

The chairman actually said, ‘That employee, he’s very confident in his body?’ Thinking. She continued her praise by giving Lee Se-ryeong a confident evaluation.

The robot swarm paid no attention to the conversation between the two women and began their work.

The nanobot colony that successfully infiltrated and stuck to the smooth milky white marble surface dispersed and began searching.

It was to access Kang Soo-ah’s personal security facility, which was completely hidden.

Is it because I am one of those people who know full well that virtual reality devices can create permanent changes in a person’s mind and emotions?

Her personal security device boasted more thorough security than any other access device.

The additional security facility, which constantly checks the user’s consciousness for its integrity and continuity of thought, was cut off from external manipulation, making any remote operation impossible.

Therefore, this type of physical access was necessary.

A swarm of nano-robots had penetrated between the gaps in the tiles, inside the circuits of the distribution box, and into the walls of the ventilation system, completely neutralizing GK Security’s state-of-the-art security facilities and invading them.

The group of nanobots, who were digging into every crevice and sharing information with each other, soon discovered a hidden room that was consuming excessive power.

Huge power consumption and air conditioning equipment. It was the very facility that the robot colony was looking for.

Kang Soo-ah’s security facility is completely isolated from external lines.

It was a system that checked her consciousness against external interference and protected her from artificial forgery and alteration of her data.

The security device with a shield-shaped logo was glowing blue with a soft LED light.

[Check goal]

The scattered robot colony gathered back into the security device, dug inside, and began rearranging the circuits on the board.

There were no eerie sound effects or eerie flashes.

Just slowly, the machine started doing its job.

The switch that turns off the power when there is an external input has been disabled, and the circuit that prevents operation without a physical access key has been overwritten.

The nanobots, which instantly compromised the device’s own security, carried out the last command given by their creator.

The metallic nanobots began to gather together and form a structure by attaching themselves to the external input terminal for maintenance.

Just as a colony of ants steps on each other’s corpses to reach a high place, the nanobots that began to gather one by one climbed on top of each other, forming a thin and long metal rod.

In the end. An antenna was created to receive external signals.

[Check external input terminal connection. Starting the update]

Like the cliché in science fiction movies, the LED on the hacked device did not turn red.

The connection device was seemingly intact, as if nothing had happened.

[Updating firmware…]

The security device, still glowing with a soft blue light, looked perfect as usual.

Jinhyuk Jeong confirmed the communication connection and smiled triumphantly, confident that he had achieved complete victory.

… And at that time, GK’s control AI also noticed the anomaly.

GK’s control AI wasn’t as stupid as the elevator.

With information such as the thickness of clothing that has become slightly thinner, the bidet and water purifier that never worked, and the humidity level so that you don’t even break a sweat. The control AI realized that Lee Se-ryeong had left behind something worth 1 kg.

Also, we were able to find out that some kind of new communication had been established after her visit.

The control AI realized that something was happening.

And that was the end.

The control AI ‘knew’ the change.

There was also an obligation to report if one became aware of something that could pose a threat to the user’s safety.

However, everything had a priority, and for the control AI, reporting security threats to Kang Soo-ah was of far less importance.

At least that was the case by the standards of control AI.

After storing this intrusion, which was classified as ‘to be checked later’, in a corner of memory, the control AI allocated all resources to satisfying the needs of virtual world users, who were pouring in tens of thousands of messages per second.

Because making users happy was the job of the control AI.

***

After Kang Su-ah finished a hard day, she went back to Paris and rested.

I didn’t mean physical Paris. Of course, she had the money to go to Paris whenever she wanted, but the ideal ‘Paris’ she hoped for did not exist in reality.

The place Kang Soo-ah returned to was the ‘Paris’ of her personal virtual world.

Realistic dirt such as rats, feces, homeless people, and pickpockets has been completely removed. A city of dreams that seems to have been a condensed version of the romance of Paris in the movies.

It was Kang Soo-ah’s favorite virtual worldview.

There was always the smell of freshly baked soft bread and the refreshing scent after a spring rain in the air, and everyone was friendly like an angel.

Moist, but far from unpleasant, moderate humidity and cool evening breeze.

There were no negative elements such as unpleasant tourists or pickpockets.

Romantic music was always heard from the streets, and the beautiful sunset created an unrealistically beautiful atmosphere.

Taking a walk through the ideal streets of Paris at night was like healing for her tired mind and body from the heavy workload.

As I walked along the lively streets of Paris with the stylish iron tower in the background, I felt like I was becoming the main character in a movie.

I also really liked the fact that here, like an ordinary citizen, I could enjoy my freedom without worrying about what anyone thought.

‘… Someday, will I be rich enough to buy the whole of Paris?’

If the company continues to grow at this rate, it may be possible to turn Paris into a city of GK.

As she felt her grand dreams and ambitions growing, she decided to turn her vision into reality.

After enjoying the warm scenery that touched her heart as usual, she was about to finish logging in when an NPC spoke to Kang Soo-ah.

Even under the streetlight, her man’s appearance was blurry.

A man who is completely out of touch with the surrounding atmosphere.

I felt like a psychopathic killer straight out of a romantic movie.

“… This is what I originally wanted.”

‘One of the NPCs who usually just smiles and says hello suddenly starts talking to me…?’

“I’m not sure what you’re talking about?”

With a nonchalant look on her face, she reacted to the random, not-so-pleasant event.

‘Usually it was a fun event with a cute baby showing off tricks and a cool and attractive model hunting…?’

The pleasant little surprises that the control AI sometimes gave seemed like a complete failure this time.

“You don’t even remember? Well, for you, my words are nothing more than the mutterings of a corpse.”

‘Hmm, is this an event to help mentally ill people…? It doesn’t look bad… But why is the tone so aggressive?’

I couldn’t understand a word of what was said, but I could clearly feel the hostility.

A look at me as if I were a murderer who killed himself.

She was squinting, wondering if she had done something wrong in setting up the world, but her man didn’t even pay attention to her and continued with what he had to say.

“A simple paradise. Is this what you wanted after all? But why me…”

‘What are you talking about… Hey, I have to clean it up. Delete!’

With a light wave, she removed the offending NPC from sight.

… No, I was trying to clean it up.

“Aaaaah!”

The man who looked opaque and blurry even under the streetlight was fine.

What was missing was not her man, but her black dress.

To be precise, the entire clothing, including the dress, disappeared in an instant.

She was taken aback by the unknown situation as all her clothes, including her underwear, were taken off in an instant, except for her high heels.

From a cultured Parisian to a metropolitan exhibitionist in an instant, she was embarrassed and tried to recall her clothes.

‘Is this… Some kind of event…? I don’t like it, I’m scared…!’

However, no matter how much she waved her hands in the air, her clothes did not come back.

Until now, she believed that the control AI had caused the most unfortunate surprise event.

… Until the monster calls his name

“Hmm, are you having trouble understanding the situation? Kang Soo-ah”

‘Why… My name is…?’

In this worldview, she was surprised when her real name was called because she used a different name.

‘First, let’s go out and think…!’

She was calmly trying to disconnect herself with the help of the security device.

“Log out, disconnect, no, why not.! It’s strange, take it out! Right now!”

[GK Safeguard stably protects the user’s access environment]

“Take it out! It’s unstable and messy! Right now!”

She treated her evil child like a child, and the security system took no action.

[Would you like to connect to an agent? The current agent connection time is not available. Again in a moment…]

“Now! Take me out!”

[This! User Kang Soo-ah! Stress levels are high. We recommend meditation and deep breathing training under the guidance of GK Safeguard. Enjoy the 7-day free experience right now…]

The security system that the idiotic research director was bragging about made her angry with an answer that was worse than that of the older generation AI.

While she was struggling with the stupid security system, her man closed the distance.

“Aaaaah!”

She, who was shaking precariously on her high heel shoes without even a single layer of clothing on her back, stepped backwards and ended up hitting her buttocks.

“… Whoa, what do you want!”

“All”

As her unknown man approached her, she trembled with fear and asked about her business.

“… Let’s go for a walk first”

“Ah! Ugh, my hands and feet are on their own.!”

Parading naked through the city, she walked side by side with the man she was so afraid of.

‘Disconnect! Log out! Force quit!’

No matter how much I shouted inside, there was no answer.