Became a CyberPunk Tycoon - Chapter 178



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Episode 178. Hero (2)

The boy swallowed hard. All the food he had saved was gone, so he had no choice but to move.

He quietly entered the warehouse, holding his breath. The small bundle he was holding in his hand was like a lifeline to him and his family.

‘It’s not that I did anything wrong… … .’

These were the food he had originally received. They were the items he had received in return for cooperating with Hansan.

However, after the ‘Stella City’ army left, the Hansanmok army that took their place tried to seize all of those items.

It was almost like a threat. The Blakron citizens who had documented evidence escaped the robbery, but there weren’t many of them.

‘It’s not that it’s lacking… … .’

This is Hansan’s army. They were so short on food that they couldn’t possibly conscript local supplies.

If anything, it might have been a little more acceptable if they had taken these foodstuffs to eat.

The strong taking the things of the weak was something that was all too familiar to the citizens of this city.

But Hansan’s army did not take food for them. They simply took it to starve the citizens of Blacrohn.

There was a justification for this. The reason was that ‘indiscriminately distributed materials were flowing into criminal organizations.’

‘What the heck… … .’

But in Blakron, such a way of thinking was unrealistic.

Everyone is a gangster. It’s a city where corporations have left, so it’s extremely difficult to make money by doing normal work.

Even if someone were determined to do so, their ‘customers’ are ultimately other gang members. It makes no difference whether they run a restaurant or a motel.

In that situation, accusing someone of being connected to a criminal organization was basically the same as saying that you were going to take away all the supplies. It meant that you were going to take away everything that Han San-woo had given them.

‘… … Found it!’

The boy found a box containing food.

These are freeze-dried, coarse biscuits. They are tasteless and you have to soak them in dirty water to eat them without damaging your mouth.

Nonetheless, it was clearly something outside the city.

Compared to the primitive vegetables grown with great difficulty in polluted land, it was nothing short of a feast.

Just take this. If you have this, your family will not have to starve.

He roughly cut open the box with the knife in his pocket and hurriedly put the contents inside into a bundle.

It was time to run away. He gathered his things and started moving his body around in a hurry.

“Hey, stop there.”

A cold man’s voice stopped his steps.

He was caught. The boy tried to move somehow, but there was quite a bit of light stuck in his body.

The moment I took even one step, they would pull the trigger without hesitation. There was no choice.

“The rat came in. Anyway, why did you come in here and make things difficult for each other?”

“Don’t be so harsh. You had to meet your quota anyway, right? It would be nice if the results came to you on their own.”

“you…….”

The soldiers of Hansan exchanged words. The boy sweat profusely and looked for an opportunity to escape.

A man who was smiling as if nothing had happened seemed more dangerous than a man who was getting angry right away.

The soldier slowly approached the boy, his smile still on his face.

“I understand. You’re hungry, right? But you shouldn’t steal other people’s stuff, right?”

“You guys go first-.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. So what, you’re saying you made biscuits in a place like this?”

“It was made in Stella City-.”

“But you couldn’t have bought this with your own money. You either stole it or received it from someone. Even if you received it, if you ate it, you should pay for it. Right?”

The soldier began to slowly press against the boy.

“Put down your belongings, and throw away any weapons you have. I’ll spare your life. Our chairman is so kind-hearted that he’ll even let guys like you live without starving.”

I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it.

But the boy had no choice but to not believe him.

It doesn’t make any difference whether you get shot and die now or trust the other person and get tricked and die later.

“Follow me.”

Hansan’s soldiers took the boy away. After the handover was over, the two soldiers returned to the warehouse.

“You’ve ripped open the box so badly. It’s going to be a pain to fill it up again, isn’t it?”

The soldier who had taken the boy away smiled brightly without losing his smile.

The soldier next to me had a drooping face and was sighing repeatedly.

“What will happen to the kids who were taken away?”

“Well, it’s not something we should worry about. We did enough. We didn’t kill him right away.”

The depressed soldier knew that the smiling soldier was right.

They are just mere soldiers. They have no right to evaluate or judge anything.

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The moment you enter Hansan, it is no different from deciding to follow Hansanmok’s orders. If you don’t like it, just leave Hansan.

For him, who was guarding Hansan’s warehouse while receiving money from Hansan, it was not very productive to feel pity for the thief.

“……I’m anxious. There are rumors of ghosts wandering around these days.”

“Do you believe that? In this day and age?”

“Do you believe me? Just…….”

In a world like this, it might be better if there were ghosts. That’s what he thought.

People have already expanded into space. Rich people are enjoying their pleasures in luxurious casinos on satellites, spending money like water.

There was no room for unrealistic superstitions.

In the distance, a human figure seemed to be reflected. The figure of a man wearing a dark blue shirt.

“Congratulations on your discharge!”

A middle-aged man was walking out on two feet. As soon as he saw him, Claire set off firecrackers in celebration.

“Claire? Aren’t you busy?”

“This much is okay!”

In fact, it wasn’t okay. It took a lot of effort to fully cover one person’s hospital bills.

Still, she could do this much. It was for her father.

He handed me a white cake that he had bought for a lot of money.

“Why all this…….”

“I bought this because I wanted to eat it, so don’t worry about it, Dad!”

Claire held out the cake. Her father awkwardly put his hand out.

His right hand was replaced by a machine.

It wasn’t an expensive item compared to similar implants, but it was a bit too much for Claire, an ordinary taxi driver, to afford.

“Is your head feeling better? Does it hurt?”

“He said that if you’re not going to use it for combat, you don’t have to worry about side effects. The item itself is really good… I’m sorry. I didn’t do anything for you, but I made you suffer so much.”

“Why to this extent…….”

Claire and her father entered the cafe below the hospital.

Order a drink and eat some cake.

The violent sweetness of sugar and the flavor of whipped cream lingered in both their mouths.

After today, Claire will once again be driving a taxi, splitting her sleep schedule. Her father will also have to find a new job, somehow.

Nevertheless, the happiness of this moment did not disappear.

“How did you get the hospital bills…?”

But my father couldn’t fully enjoy this moment.

Their income level was obvious. Stella City’s hospital bills were sky-high.

It was hard to expect Claire’s family, who didn’t even have proper insurance, to have the means to pay that kind of money.

“You didn’t do anything bad, did you?”

In Stella City, selling your body may not be such a big deal.

But people’s thoughts were different. Her father, especially, couldn’t help but hope that Claire hadn’t done something like that.

Even if I bring my boyfriend, I feel like splitting up all my money and buying a shotgun.

For the sake of my father, I couldn’t stand seeing him being held by a man I didn’t even love.

“That’s not it.”

“I see, right?”

Her father nodded obediently. Halfway, he also thought that Claire would not have made that choice.

Ironically, the amount was too large.

Claire was beautiful, of course, but it wasn’t the kind of money you could get for ‘just a pretty woman selling her body for a few months.’

Not only did they provide first aid, they also had prosthetic hands that had no special functions but were good enough to function as hands, and they were even able to do rehabilitation training.

“I just helped out a little in Hansan.”

Claire smiled brightly, remembering the help they had given her.

If you think about it, it was almost like I was receiving help from them from the moment the accident happened.

If Han San-woo had not come out to the press to denounce the safety conditions in the food factory, the company her father worked for would not have taken even the minimum protective measures.

I was able to escape from an accident where it would not have been strange for someone to die, barely losing an arm.

“Originally, I had a lot of debt… but it’s okay now. If I work hard, I can pay it off.”

Hansan helped pay for the medical expenses. It wasn’t a pure intention.

It may have been intended to create the image of ‘greedy companies that did not listen to Hansanwoo’, but Claire, who received the money right away, could only be grateful.

“This time… I received money for cooperating with the investigation. You can get some rest.”

It’s comfortable. I wish this moment could last forever.

Claire swallowed the sweet cake and enjoyed the moment.

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