Just Walking Makes You a Millionaire - Chapter 224



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◈ 224. Towards the End (2)

“We finally meet.”

“Okay. How have you been?”

Jae-woo meets his friend again who had disappeared.

His later years were quite complicated as he had to deal with a lot of difficult problems.

“What about Yuhan?”

“If you’re so curious, why don’t you just check it out yourself?”

“You know that won’t work.”

Jincheol got up at Jaewoo’s grumbling words.

“Is your leg better now?”

“I don’t have to run anymore, but I think I could run once.”

Jincheol looked at his legs and wondered if he might be able to run again at least once.

Of course, there was no need to do it because something I didn’t want to think about would happen next.

“Okay. This.”

“Thank you.”

“Thank you. But I think my nephew will be very resentful if he finds out the truth.”

“There’s nothing I can do.”

Jincheol received a coupon from Jaewoo.

In the past, if you planted a seed purchased from Cash Up and allowed it to fully grow, you could obtain something called a coupon.

So I got a coupon but I didn’t know how to use it.

I thought I would be able to use coupons as I leveled up, but I couldn’t find a way to use coupons until I reached level 20.

While I was collecting coupons little by little, I handed over my Cashup account to my son, Hyunjin, and only then did I learn how to use coupons.

Although CashUp points can no longer be used directly, some of CashUp’s functions can now be used through coupons.

Of course, there was a price.

After handing over Cashup’s account to Hyunjin, Jincheol became a forgotten person in the world.

The place where Jincheol and Jaewoo are meeting now was also a lost world.

Even Jae-woo had to forget about Jin-cheol for a while.

The reason he remembered Jincheol was because Shinbi, Jaewoo’s wife, remembered Jincheol and Ruby also didn’t forget him.

Through Jincheol’s coupon, Jaewoo visited the Lost World to meet Jincheol, and his memories returned when he saw Jincheol.

“You can’t grow plants here, you know.”

“Yes. The chrysanthemum. Your son is currently working hard to find a flower to honor you.”

“What about Jinmangcho? What’s the outside world like?”

“It’s going to get worse. You were slowing down the situation with your abilities, but now that’s gone, it’s certain that we’re going to fail.”

Jincheol sighed at Jaewoo’s gloomy words.

Sometimes I wonder if it would have been okay if I had a little more strength.

“How many points is one of these coupons worth?”

“About 100 million points per sheet.”

“If I have 100 million points, can I use hundreds of billions of points?”

“I kept using it while it was coming in, so now there isn’t much left.”

“That’s right. I guess they throw things that are needed on Earth every now and then.”

Jincheol sent artifacts and items from the lost world to Earth.

Although he himself cannot return to Earth, he sends things that can be helpful to Earth.

“This time, we found plants and organisms that can survive tropical high temperatures. And we also found green algae that removed carbon from the Earth and created oxygen in ancient times.”

“If we do this wrong, won’t an ice age come?”

“Maybe so.”

Jae-woo also knew that he had to be careful about applying what Jin-cheol had found to Earth, because he knew what changes their artificial intervention would bring to the Earth.

It was inevitable because the situation was so bad and extreme, but it was inevitable that it would make the situation worse.

And that was something that Jincheol also acknowledged.

“Jin-i seems to have recognized your existence. I may have been too hasty in the design. Jin-i may end up fighting with Woo, her younger brother. Hyun-woo seems to have instinctively felt that you were his older brother, and he seems to be really fond of you. That may turn into hatred later on.”

I didn’t know that it might have been a problem that Jincheol had made the group that was the driving force behind Hyunjin’s growth into an enemy.

Of course, there was no guarantee that the group without Jincheol would remain on the good side until the end.

Even though his wife, Choi Yu-han, and his friend, Jae-woo, were in the Balbal Group, the Balbal Group itself had already become a powerful group.

And that power group was difficult to completely control by the will of a few people.

“It was the last resort. If the current footstep group had not existed, the situation would have only gotten worse.”

“Yes, I agree with that. But now I’m just afraid. I might become like a runaway train that won’t stop.”

“Hyunjin will definitely do well.”

“Well then, that’s good. Phew! I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that.”

Jaewoo sighed at the fact that he, the number two in the Balbal Group, was trying to destroy the group.

It is disappointing that he, who spent most of his life working hard to grow the Footsteps Group, is now devoting his energy to destroying a group that could pose a threat to the world.

“Huh! That doesn’t seem like something the leader of the anti-footsteps should say.”

“Anti-step? There is actually a name called Hongikhoe.”

“What is Hongik?”

The leader of the resistance force that Hyun-jin secretly belongs to was none other than Jae-woo.

Even Hyunjin didn’t know this secret.

It was Jae-woo who was providing massive support to an organization that was trying to destroy his own footsteps group.

Of course, it was something no one could have imagined.

“But by the way, there’s a place we haven’t been to yet.”

“The Last Day?”

“Yeah. Did you go and come back?”

Jincheol didn’t answer Jaewoo’s question about whether he had been to the Last Day, the last place he had not even tried among the red-level travel destinations.

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Jaewoo nodded, as if he had understood that there was nothing good to find out about such a situation.

In any case, it was something that neither he nor Jincheol could do anything about.

Although he could stand up again, Jincheol’s legs were not normal and Jaewoo himself could barely move one of his arms.

As the name “Doomsday” suggests, it was clearly a desperate place.

“The final disaster there will make everything up to that point meaningless.”

“Is that it?”

“Yeah. Actually….”

Jincheol told Jaewoo the story he had learned, thinking that he knew it too.

Jaewoo was shocked but soon nodded.

“Is it possible for Hyunjin to solve this?”

“I don’t know. But as I said from the beginning, someone had to do it.”

“Do you know when this will happen?”

“Yeah. I don’t know. But it’s definitely going to happen. They tried to stop it by creating this world.”

“Them. You mean the guys who created CashUp?”

“That’s right. Thanks to that, humanity was able to survive.”

Jincheol muttered something difficult to understand and then took difficult steps to do what he had to do.

The last time I walked, I earned well over 100,000 points per step.

‘I wonder if Hyunjin’s one step has surpassed 100,000 points by now?’

I had no idea what the minimum wage on Earth was right now, but with just one step, I would be earning points close to a day’s wage.

If I had been as greedy as Jincheol, I might have walked until my knee joints were completely out.

“Didn’t you say you don’t run marathons these days?”

“That’s right. I sometimes host marathons, but our chairman hates them.”

“Isn’t there anyone?”

“Oh. I think you think the reason I lost you was because of the marathon. Of course, you don’t remember, but I think you subconsciously hate marathons.”

Jincheol felt a little sorry that Chairman Choi Yu-han instinctively hated marathons.

She was the one who ran a marathon even though she wasn’t good at running, just to meet herself.

And although she tried to run a marathon a few times to impress Jincheol, she gave up after getting married because it was too difficult.

Although Jaewoo continued to hold marathon competitions, the Footsteps Group did not participate as they did in the past.

“Instead, Hyunjin went hiking.”

“I see.”

“Ah! Hyunwoo was fishing.”

“Fishing?”

“I found your fishing rod in the warehouse and went fishing every weekend.”

It wasn’t a marathon, but Jincheol thought it was enough since they both had their own hobbies.

Anyway, the marathon was also a means to earn points.

In this way, Jincheol did what he could while waiting for his son to come to him someday.

After meeting Jincheol, Jaewoo could not meet him again.

Occasionally, Hyun-jin would grow the seeds of the wild chives that she had collected, harvest coupons, and throw them into the bag connected to Jin-cheol.

“I wanted to have a drink with that struggling guy before I die, but it looks like I won’t have the chance.”

It was not uncommon for even healthy people to lose their health in an instant.

Jaewoo began to feel that his death was imminent.

A few years ago, his wife, Shinbi, also died.

Fortunately, his daughter was already grown up, so Jae-woo’s work was over.

As her health began to deteriorate, she was in a hurry to prepare for her wedding with Jincheol’s second son, Hyunwoo, and was hoping to at least be able to witness the wedding.

Although Chairman Choi Yoo-han would come to visit him once in a while to check on his health, Jae-woo could feel that Chairman Choi Yoo-han had gotten quite old.

Even though the Footsteps Group had become a powerful group, she was still devoted to research in order to prevent the destruction of humanity.

The problem was that some people were trying to exploit the results of her research, but if her research was completed, the survival of humanity might have been prolonged.

If the marriage between Hyunwoo, the second son, and Jaewoo’s daughter were to take place, Hyunwoo would completely seize power over the Balgeum Group.

‘He’s a smart guy, so he’ll do well.’

On the one hand, I felt sorry.

However, since it was for the fate of all mankind rather than just one person’s life, Jae-woo was unable to help but turn a blind eye to his own mistakes.

In the midst of the light of life gradually fading away, Jae-woo was finally able to watch the wedding of his daughter and Hyun-woo, who had risen to the position of vice president of the Balgeum Group.

Even the president of South Korea, which has become the hegemon of East Asia, was said to be in the hands of the Baljeol Group.

So, after the wedding was over and Jae-woo was out of breath, CEO Choi Yu-han came to visit.

“Haa! Haa! You’re here?”

“Now tell me the truth.”

“Haa! Haa! Are you done?”

“Okay. I’m done. The last bit of research I have to do….”

She was the one who finally completed the half-assed research paper she had received from Jincheol.

She finally completed the research that even Jincheol thought he would never be able to complete.

With nothing left for her to do, she came to find the dying Jae-woo to hear the truth.

“Haa! Haa! Go to that room. You’ll be able to meet him there.”

Jaewoo raised his hand with difficulty and pointed to the door of the small room.

The moment Chairman Choi Yoo-han opened the door and was about to enter, he could hear Jae-woo’s voice.

“I’m sorry. And please say hello to him, Sister-in-law.”

When Jae-woo, who used to call him the highest chairman, said “sister-in-law,” Chairman Choi Yu-han flinched for a moment and then went into the hidden room.

And I could see a large picture hanging on the wall of that room.

She approached the painting as if entranced by its familiar feel and walked into it.

“It’s been a while.”

“Hey…hey.”

Her memory returned.

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