Became a CyberPunk Tycoon - Chapter 182



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Episode 182. Hero (6)

It was a dark room. Hansanmok quietly chewed on his loneliness as he walked through the camp filled with sleeping people.

“What’s the progress?”

His adjutant urgently reported the situation.

“The emotional control phase has ended. Once we have sufficient quantities, we will move the transmitter inside the ship.”

It’s a hassle. It’s a headache.

There was no sign of catching the criminal. This was not incomprehensible.

If he is using the power of ‘God’, we will not be able to trace his traces with these flimsy mechanical devices.

The way to fight a rat is not to shoot it with a gun and kill it.

That’s something a master marksman might do as a skill, not something a CEO in charge of a company could do.

All you have to do is block the rat holes. Burn their habitat and spray poison to prevent them from escaping.

Things were going according to plan.

Many people will ridicule Hansanmok for not catching a single criminal, but it would be better that way.

Compared to the secret being revealed, it was a manageable failure.

Hansanmok looked at the fully packed capsule.

The person inside will not feel any pain, because that is what it was made for.

Pain is destructive, explosive, a sensation that makes humans unpredictable.

It is a self-evident truth that it is easier to tame a happy man than an angry man.

It would be even easier for helpless humans, but they were as worthless as they were easy to handle.

“Coming here again, I feel that President Hansanwoo is amazing. How on earth did he get through this hell?”

“Because he’s my grandson. He can do it. Even if he stumbles a little and is a little inefficient, didn’t he find the answer himself?”

The old man smiled comfortably. Even though he was in a hellish city and surrounded by flames, he could still smile whenever he thought of his grandson.

“Did you know? You were doing charity work on purpose…….”

“It’s highly likely that they didn’t know. In the first place, what influence could those garbage people who didn’t even have proper implants have? It doesn’t matter whether they’re happy or unhappy.”

But the direction of ‘happiness’ itself was not wrong. Perhaps, Evan’s wild behavior may also be due to that problem.

“But… maybe, it was because they knew a little more than we did that they were able to do such a reckless thing.”

Hansanmok has lived his entire life hating the saying, “Ignorance is bliss.”

It is just a sentence made up as an escape by those who have neither the will nor the ability to face the problem.

If you truly understand the problem and have the will and ability to overcome it, knowing it well is a much more useful medicine than not knowing it.

Nevertheless, now he could not help but curse his knowledge.

If only I had known, if only I could have dismissed eternal life as a nonsense filled with the desire to ‘exist’ like other ordinary people.

Maybe I didn’t have to be so greedy.

“Strike Team C… Is the funeral over?”

“Yes! We secretly called the families and thoroughly checked their admission. Since the Chairman came to visit in person, they must have realized the gravity of the situation.”

A person died.

Hansanmok’s direct unit was annihilated. Not just a bunch of people created to fill the numbers, but real unit members who moved like his limbs.

These were the people who reached the peak in all areas, including implant aptitude, loyalty, and combat prowess.

There probably weren’t any stronger ones anywhere, not even in Stella City or Blacrohn.

They disappeared in an instant, turning into corpses and rolling around on the ground.

“What great fortune it was that Hansanwoo was the first to take charge of this work…….”

The world was letting down its guard. Given the scale of the problem, it wasn’t something Hansan could solve alone.

But people were letting their guard down. Most humans didn’t think Evan was that big of a deal.

If things hadn’t gone that way, if Stella City had fallen into chaos, and Evan had continued to spread his influence.

Hansanmok would have bitten his lips, acknowledged his failure, acknowledged that he could not turn back from that failure, and called in other megacorps to work together on this matter.

“Perhaps, President Hansanwoo himself may have caught that criminal.”

“That’s not likely.”

The old man shook his head as if it wasn’t worth listening to.

It wasn’t my grandson’s fault. He did his best.

Hansanmok believed that anyone who did not know about ‘God’ would be doomed to failure if he were to sit in Hansanwoo’s place.

And, very few people knew this.

Although there may be those who vaguely know its shape, there are no people who know its true nature, except for Hansanmok and a few people related to it.

It was a problem that involved concepts that were easy to confuse. Knowing something indirectly was worse than not knowing at all.

“Let’s go now.”

It would take more time for stabilization to be complete. Now that he had seen with his own eyes that the work was being done properly, there was no reason for him to stay here.

Hansanmok’s old body developed a subtle disharmony. Although he had maintained his life through various surgeries and good medicine, he could not completely free himself from the discord between his consciousness and body.

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“I was too greedy……”

What if, like others, I had lived in a fantasy world with the mindset that ‘if I do good deeds, I will receive God’s favor’?

It wasn’t the life he wanted, but it was hard to say it was the worst.

What if, like his friends who were slowly preparing to end their lives, he had accepted a normal lifespan?

They wanted to get everything. It was so important, but they didn’t monitor it closely.

I just let my guard down thinking I had someone I could trust, and I just let things go from bad to worse.

The time had come to pay the price. Death incarnate, a god who did not want to be tamed, a living, breathing doll, was coming to take away the rest of his life.

Hansanmok made up his mind. He still hasn’t forgotten who he is.

Businesses built, wars won, nations destroyed, cities revived.

And to protect what is more precious than all of that, he will move.

“It’s been a while. How have you been? Don’t you miss the detention center?”

Edrin was wearing a strange hat as always.

“……What does Hansan gain by doing this?”

The party was in full swing. She called me aside and glared at me with cold eyes.

“What are you nitpicking about? Are there people who don’t like drinking alcohol?”

Former leader of the Brownhood. Although she has now handed over power to Rick, her symbolism cannot be ignored.

“I don’t think it would be easy to call it a show of force.”

“I just called you here so we could see each other’s faces. It would be a pain if we started fighting over nothing.”

“You seem familiar with that. Are there a lot of people shortages in Hansan?”

“It just so happened. It’s a hassle to create new people, and it’s better to use someone you trust until the end.”

“……Why did you call me?”

It’s strange. There’s no way she would react this hostilely to me.

Rick and Enzo, the wealthy, took control of Stella City through the Brownhood and Hansan audit teams respectively.

If she has any complaints, she can just tell Rick.

“I just thought it would be a shame to let my skills rot away.”

“……Are you mistaken about something?”

There was anger in her eyes.

“For now, I think it’s inevitable for this city. I agree that Brownhood and Hansan cooperating will change this city in a better direction.”

“Then, wouldn’t it be okay if I helped you a little more actively?”

“But I don’t trust you. I don’t trust Hansan either.”

it’s a shame.

Her abilities are clearly out of the ordinary. A truly proper ability that even some companies can’t keep up with.

It was a shame that she couldn’t use that ability, but the fact that she was complaining to me seemed to hint at a bigger problem.

My system was based on the consensus of many people.

The citizens of Stella City were also aware that Hansan was controlling numerous rules and businesses and freely roaming around Stella City.

The reason they tolerated that society was because they trusted it. They trusted that Hansan could resolve it when they were truly wronged.

If Brownhood leaves and Rick refuses to follow my orders, this order will be shaken.

“If there’s anything you want, just tell me.”

But it was a blessing in disguise that the woman dared to bring up this story in front of me.

At least it means you’re willing to talk.

“……I don’t think you didn’t know this.”

She took out her worn-out cell phone. A video stream started playing.

Since neither of them had implants, they had no choice but to share information in this way.

It was Blakron. Familiar buildings and roads came into view.

But the sight reflected within it was not at all familiar.

Guns fly. People die. Massacre occurs.

It was not a legitimate use of force to defend oneself. Soldiers with Hansan’s mark were shooting and killing civilians without any hesitation.

“If you’re going to drag me in, at least explain Hansan’s actions.”

I kept staring at the video with my lips tightly shut.

There is no evidence of manipulation. To be more precise, Hansan’s video team would have to be involved, but at least with my eyes, it was realistic enough that I couldn’t find any problems.

“How did you get this…?”

“I have connections here and there. It’s no use trying to shut my mouth. This information is already-.”

“That’s not the problem.”

The situation was more serious than I thought. There were more problems than I imagined.

“How could you know this information before me?”

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