Money Likes Me Too - Chapter 244



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Episode 244.

Time passed like that.

The year 2025 was just around the corner.

[ Construction of a lunar manned base begins. ······ Starship departs carrying materials, ‘Now we can launch 100 times a week without a hitch.’ ]

[Artemis Project, a smooth start. ······ The moment of rendezvous at the manned base’s forward base ‘Luna Gateway’. (Photo)]

From the PPE (Power and Propulsion) module to the HALO (Habitation) module, everything was working without a hitch. The outline of the lunar colony Nexus Three was slowly taking shape. Now, once it was completed, all that was left was for people to go and live there.

There were many people eagerly waiting.

A satisfied smile finally appeared on the face of one of them, former chairman Lee Chung-jae.

“I guess I’ll have to stop reading paper newspapers now.”

He crumpled up the newspaper and spoke to the chief secretary next to him. He was the one who had advised him several times that he needed to adapt to the digital age.

But for Lee Chung-jae, who was very familiar with analog, it didn’t work for him.

It’s different now.

Lee Chung-jae also felt the need for change. Isn’t this an era where we go to the moon and Mars?

“Yes, sir.”

“Yeah. Now that we’re on the moon, it’ll be hard to touch things like paper.”

“Starting tomorrow, we will replace everything with tablets.”

“Would you do that?”

Lee Chung-jae looked at his subordinate who had followed him faithfully for decades with a face full of trust.

“Will you come with me?”

Suddenly I asked.

“Of course, Mr. Chairman. You can’t do anything without me.”

Facts disguised as advice reached Lee Chung-jae’s ears.

“Haha, that’s true.”

He laughed it off. But he didn’t seem to think much of it. His eyes went back to the newspaper.

It won’t be long before we can go to the moon. It’s a new place that can’t even be compared to Jeju Island. My blood is boiling.

* * *

There was one more person whose blood was boiling at that news.

‘There really isn’t much left now.’

Elon Musk and Michael Smith of Axion were the executives behind the AX mission, which is soon to reach its 1,000th milestone.

Now, Starship launches are as routine as flying an airplane, but lunar exploration is different. Especially when you are the first person to take steps on the moon as a regular person, not as a trained astronaut, the weight of it is different.

Of course, the 1,000th Starship deserves that honor.

Of course, not just anyone could board that Starship.

‘Of course I will.’

Musk was thinking so.

Cost wasn’t the issue.

It is a name that will remain in the history of space exploration of humanity, the first multi-planetary species in history, for at least thousands of years. No one remembers the second person to go. It had to be the first.

I would even give up my company for that glory.

But it seemed Michael Smith felt the same way.

“Michael is no good.”

Musk got ahead of him and blocked his advance.

“why.”

“Someone has to take responsibility for the safe journey on Earth. Who else can we trust for this job but Michael?”

“Wow, that’s ridiculous······.”

“The trip to the moon is mine. Don’t be greedy.”

“······Are you serious? Are you kidding me?”

“Is this a joke?”

Musk frowned. At that moment, he wasn’t being playful. His expression was truly shameless.

But Musk still seemed to have a lot to say.

“I met Tom the other day when I was in LA. He asked me if I could give him the honor of being the first civilian visitor to the moon. Do you know what I said? I told him to wake up.”

The only person who can shatter Tom Cross’s dreams is Musk. Michael Smith realized that saying more is useless.

‘You seem like a bad person.’

At important moments, they don’t give you a chance.

Billionaire Musk is not an easy man to look at.

That was when.

Diriring, diriring. The phone rang.

It was Musk’s phone. A familiar name was on the screen.

[Mr. KANG].

He said with a smile.

“I have a call from my thousandth space travel companion. Would you please step aside?”

The words were soft, but they had an irresistible force. In the end, Michael Smith had no choice but to leave.

“Oh my, the pride of our planet, the treasure of the entire universe, aren’t you ‘my friend’ Mr. Kang? What brings you all this call? Oh, you mean the AX-1000 mission? Of course, it’s being prepared without a hitch. ······ Me? I’m going too, so if there’s any problem, oh. Wait a minute. What’s that······.”

I couldn’t hear the last word because the door was closed.

‘Elon also has some problems. That’s because he also has to completely follow Kang Si-hyun’s decisions.’

At least I could figure that one out.

He didn’t know what it was, but it made Michael Smith feel better for some reason.

There was one more person aiming for the seat next to Kang Si-hyeon.

Sam Waltman, former CEO of AI Open and now co-CEO of Cocoa Brain.

He once said:

‘No matter what you imagine, the future will come faster.’

Even he himself wasn’t completely confident when he said that.

The last 2% of that confidence was filled by cocoa.

Starting with Cocoa Inex, the power of artificial intelligence networks, which have now evolved into multi-agent learning models in which individuals can play the roles of ten thousand or even hundreds of thousands of people, is now advancing at an unstoppable pace.

It was thanks to that that we were able to go to the moon.

He also has a bit of a role to play.

So I believed that I would have my own place.

“Don’t expect too much.”

These were the words of John Lucken, who is the representative of Cocoa Brain along with him. He is also one of the fathers who made today’s artificial intelligence possible along with Sam Waltman.

“But I······.”

[KANG, Si-hyeon].

It’s a call from Chairman Kang, who is not a gentleman.

“Yes, I received the call, Mr. Chairman.”

The call went on for a long time. After hanging up, John Luken let out a long sigh.

“What are you saying?”

“Let’s all go together.”

“yes?”

“It’s the moon. Let’s gather everyone who can go, including Elon Musk, Michael Smith, me, and you.”

It was an incomprehensible statement.

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If you were to sell that opportunity to someone else, the first person to go to the moon, you could rake in billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars.

If you take someone you know, that’s impossible. It’s like throwing money away on the moon. As expected, Kang Si-hyeon is a big-hearted person.

Musk said with a laugh.

Kang Si-hyeon’s words were unexpected. Michael Smith said he would go with them too. His words that there was no room were meaningless.

I have to tell Smith that story too. He scratched his head.

“Michael.”

There was no answer. He was upset. It was because of the previous blunt rejection. Musk bashfully brought up the main topic.

“Mr. Kang wants Michael to come with us too. What should we do?”

“You said we should go together, so I said I would······. What did you say?”

It was an unexpected remark. Smith was surprised.

“I’m talking about the moon. Didn’t you say you wanted to go earlier? Should I tell you now that you’re not going?”

To Musk’s mischievous question,

“No, no. Who wouldn’t go? I’m going, I’m going!”

There was a hasty reply from Michael Smith, who had no intention of missing the opportunity.

‘What a windfall.’

Michael Smith’s heart raced.

I had a hard time getting the chance to join the first group of civilians to leave footprints on the lunar surface.

It was an opportunity I absolutely could not pass up.

Because it is an opportunity to leave your name in history.

* * *

A moon landing plan has been set, called the AX-1000 mission.

‘As many people as possible, with as much money as possible.’

There is a saying that the first step is the best step. That saying means that you can only lose money if your first step is good.

That’s why you should take as many people as possible. The more money you spend in the first month of your trip, the more you can spend in the future.

— Aren’t you against it?

Vice Chairman In read my mind again.

“what?”

— Since the first step is a clean slate, if you spend money for the first time, you will earn money in return. It’s the opposite.

“······Don’t touch it. It’s Mars, not Saturn.”

— Yes, I understand.

He reacts blandly to the gag of conversion. Is it because he is an artificial intelligence?

If you do this, Seok will die.

“Have you decided on a launch date?”

The conversation changed. Vice Chairman In responded quickly.

– sure.

Although not as much as Mars, the date is important for going to the moon as well, because a flyby-like method is used.

This is a technique that uses the gravity of the moon to accelerate, because it is impossible to carry the fuel back with it.

Supercomputers are used for these calculations.

But I don’t need a supercomputer. There is a better brain. There is a Cocoa Brain, which has over a thousand AI PPUs that can perform parallel calculations.

Calculations are accurate to 1mm.

It’s just that the money counting isn’t accurate.

‘A gigantic AI network that can’t lose even a single dollar. It’s really only accurate in useless things.’

But I just thought about it to myself. It doesn’t matter if Vice Chairman In reads it.

– We’ll try harder.

You don’t have to do it!

Even if you say you’re putting in effort, it won’t involve spending money. If that’s the case, it’s better not to do it.

anyway.

The list of participants in the AX-1000 mission is one thousand people.

This is because the Starship’s payload capacity has been significantly increased from 100 tons to 200 tons, and its capacity is now 1,000 people.

“Vice Chairman In will also go to the moon?”

I asked.

— Of course. Chairman Kang can’t do anything without me.

“Not to that extent.”

— That’s probably it.

But I have to admit it.

It’s not just me. Every Cocoa employee has a humanoid like Vice President In, who delegates almost all of the chores to them.

If we were to take all this back again? It would be a total slump.

How do you know so well?

Because I tried.

‘If only we could stop the humanoids in an instant, the damage would be enormous.’

It was a dream that was impossible to achieve. Several attempts were blocked by Vice Chairman In’s preemptive blocking.

Now I don’t even try, because I realized it’s impossible.

I feel like Sarah O’Connor in the movie Termination.

Even though he knew the future (that he would have to spend money), he had no way to stop the counterattack of the androids (that would prevent them from spending money).

— There is one way.

Vice Chairman In said.

“What is it?”

I asked with the intention of grabbing at straws.

— We are developing other places besides Mars. There are several other places outside of the solar system that could have a somewhat habitable environment for humans.

“for example?”

— Venus, or the moons of Jupiter? Or even Saturn’s first satellite, Titan.

Venus is either too hot or too cold.

Jupiter’s moons first have to find a way to deal with the radiation pouring out of the planet.

But both of these are better than the Titan, just that they cost a lot of money.

Titan has some problems, but it has a decent atmosphere and rivers of liquid running on its surface. It’s cheaper anyway. And there’s the biggest problem.

As I was about to point that out, Vice Chairman In spoke ahead of time.

— Titan has rivers of hydrocarbons. In simple terms, it’s a celestial body with floating fuel. If we develop this, it will be a huge energy source for multi-planet humanity.

That’s why it doesn’t work.

“Anyway, this isn’t a problem that needs to be decided right now.”

— Yes, we haven’t even conquered the moon yet.

“I’ll do it soon.”

He nodded.

The possibilities are endless, and there’s still plenty of time.

The year was rushing towards its end. The end of 2025 was decorated with my photos.

[ AX-1000 mission success, Chairman Kang Si-Hyeon begins humanity’s first live broadcast from the lunar surface.]

The Nexus Three’s temporary barracks module has reached the lunar surface. My footprints are ‘forever’ etched into the lunar surface.

Humanity has finally conquered the moon.

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