<[Episode 24] Research (2) >
Kim Da-bin sent telepathy in a tense tone.
[Manager Yang. Please connect me.]
There was a moment of silence.
and.
Woohoo-
Kim Da-bin’s cell phone on the desk started vibrating.
And on that screen.
[Director Yang Ji-ho]
010-1234-5678
Yang Ji-ho’s phone number was printed on it.
Kim Da-bin pressed the call button and then switched to speakerphone.
At that moment.
[hello?]
Yang Ji-ho’s voice was heard from the other end of the phone.
“and!”
“Connected!”
“Crazy! This is real!”
At the same time, exclamations of joy erupted here and there.
[Hello? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?]
The monumental first call was made.
Kim Da-bin smiled and spoke using her real voice, not telepathy.
“Yes, Manager Yang. I can hear you very well.”
[Oh, sir. So it was a success?]
“I think so.”
[yes-!]
As Kim Da-bin declared, cheers began to be heard from the other side.
‘It really worked.’
As people’s lives rapidly stabilized, the administration led by Kim Da-bin also found some leeway.
Kim Da-bin mobilized the manpower and invested it in restoring TV, Internet, and telecommunications, but there were many problems.
As Kim Jae-hyun’s territory expanded, he came into possession of most communication equipment and facilities, but there were few experts with knowledge about them.
Moreover, the biggest problem was that most of the facilities in Busan were merely serving as relay stations, and all the central facilities were concentrated in Seoul.
There is no facility to serve as the main server.
Because of that, I had no choice but to have a hard time getting here.
‘Still, I did it somehow.’
Kim Da-bin reported to Kim Jae-hyun using telepathy with a proud smile.
[Jaehyeon, the communication network has been restored successfully.]
[Thank you for your effort.]
When I heard Kim Jae-hyun’s encouragement, I felt pride rising from the depths of my heart.
Kim Da-bin opened her mouth to convey that to her team members as well.
“Everyone, you’ve all worked really hard.”
“Thank you for your effort!!”
To celebrate the success of building the communications network, the team members each called a loved one.
“Hello? Mom? It’s me!”
“Uh huh. I’ll be answering the phone from now on.”
“Surprised? Hehe.”
The relay phone line that started like that showed no sign of ending for a while.
[The network has been successfully restored. Please note that calls are now possible.]
Kim Gun, who heard Kim Jae-hyun’s voice, sat down on a suitable rooftop and released his union with Kkamang.
I had already charged my phone and brought it with me because I had heard in advance that they were going to try to restore the network. When I unlocked it and tapped the phone app, a familiar keypad appeared.
When I entered 010 there, the family numbers appeared at the top.
“Hoo-“
Kim Geon let out a deep sigh as he looked at the numbers, and with trembling hands, he touched the number saved as [Mom].
The number stored at the top of the keypad flashed before his eyes, and his poor, trembling thumb slowly pressed the call button.
Okay then.
Doo doo doo doo doo
The call connection tone has started.
“!!”
Kim Geon’s eyes widened at the unexpected development.
‘I didn’t get a notification that my phone was turned off!’
This means that your phone is turned on, which means that your phone is charging.
And what that means is.
‘Mom is alive!’
My nose suddenly got tingly and my vision became blurry.
I wiped away the tears that had welled up in my eyes without me knowing and stared at the screen of my phone.
and.
[…hello?]
An unfamiliar voice came over the phone.
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“…uh?”
Kim Geon’s voice, which was trying to call his mother, was stopped and could not come out.
Because the voice I heard on the other end of the phone was an unfamiliar voice.
It was a voice that I couldn’t believe was my mother’s.
Kim Geon slowly opened his mouth, trying hard to ignore the despair that came from that fact.
To check the voice again.
“hello?”
[Who are you, sir?]
That innocent and pure voice broke Kim Geon’s heart.
“…her.”
Starting with a sigh of emptiness, and then falling into despair.
[Ma’am! There’s a phone call!]
A faint glimmer of hope came from the other end of the phone.
and.
[Hello? Who is this?]
The voice that sounded somewhat bewildered and confused was a voice that was all too familiar to Kim Geon.
“mom!”
The despair that had been engulfing my heart ebbed away like an ebb tide, and tears poured out as if a dam had burst.
“Mom, it’s me! Geon-i!”
I cried, holding onto my phone, letting hot tears flow down my cheeks.
[What? Really, really?]
“Ugh. Sob. It’s me, it’s me!”
[Ugh. Hehe.]
For a while, the only sound coming through the communication was the two people sobbing.
But for the two of them now, that was enough.
That my son and mother are alive.
Because that alone was enough to fill me up.
“Mom. Sob. What about Dad?”
[Dad, you’re doing well too. You’re safe.]
“Whew. Where are you now? Where are you?”
[Here…? Inside the shelter…]
“I’ll go now. I’ll go now, right now.”
It wasn’t just Kim Geon’s family who had to confirm life or death over the phone.
Many of those who were forcibly separated from their families as the world was destroyed were able to confirm each other’s survival.
Looking at the scenes unfolding everywhere through the eyes of the Absolute, a smile naturally formed on my face.
‘It’s a good thing they’ve been providing free electricity for a few days now.’
The citizens currently within the area were largely divided into two groups.
There were two groups: those who were aware of my abilities and those who were not.
The group that was aware of my abilities didn’t really have to worry.
Because I earn money on my own and buy things I need from the store.
However, the group that was unaware of my abilities didn’t even know what items were in the store right away.
Even when shops were built among them, they were often wary because they did not know what they were for. Even those who happened to visit the shops did not know that they could buy things like electricity, water, and gas.
So, we took special measures.
It provides free electricity to the entire area for several days.
‘In fact, there is almost no loss thanks to the solar power plants built here and there.’
We have been diligently expanding solar power generation facilities, but there were some circumstances behind this.
‘Its original purpose was to dispose of trash, you know.’
As the area expands, monsters processed by the system no longer leave corpses behind.
But before my territory could truly expand, all the remaining corpses were left as they were.
Monster corpses and human corpses.
And broken-down cars left on the road, tons of trash strewn everywhere, buildings collapsed or partially destroyed by the fighting.
Construction was the thing that could handle all of those things at once.
Whether it’s a gym, a store, or a solar power plant, using construction could make all the trash in the area disappear, so they took advantage of this to gather and build on the difficult-to-dispose-of trash in one place.
The facilities that have been added one by one are now enough to supply electricity to the entire Busan area.
‘Even if we say the whole of Busan, there are only 200,000 people.’
In addition, the efficiency of solar power generation facilities increased tenfold due to Kami’s growth.
This has dramatically improved the low efficiency, which is the biggest drawback of solar power generation facilities.
‘I guess we should actually consider it a creation.’
And the source of all this power is.
Hwaruk-
It was a black energy coming from me.
‘The power of divinity.’
I’ve experimented with it in many ways, but the only thing this black energy can do is pure destruction.
I held the black aura blooming on my index finger toward the can of Coke I had just finished drinking.
Hurrruk!
The black flames burned the cola can according to my will.
[141 won was deposited into the wallet of the absolute owner of the house.]
The sight of the trash disappearing was no different from the sight of a monster’s corpse disappearing.
It was the same until the whole process was completed and the settlement money was deposited.
‘The efficiency is also pretty good.’
Basically, this power was a power that was exerted by using the settlement money in the Absolute’s wallet.
The energy that just went into burning trash costs about 30 cents.
It was like burning trash and making a net profit of 100 won.
You may wonder what a small sum of money means, but when the garbage pile grows, it can add up to quite a significant amount.
‘Thanks to this, the road opening will probably be faster.’
In the past, we had to mobilize manpower to remove each and every vehicle left on the road, but now we can just burn them with this force.
The profits from burning vehicles were more lucrative than expected.
When you scrap a car, the money is copied.
It was quite a satisfying achievement to learn that waste that had been a headache could be recycled in this way.
‘The only thing you can do with black energy is destruction.’
However, the settlement money obtained in this way is transformed into the power of creation through skills.
‘Destruction and creation.’
If you just look at the structure of that power, it really does seem to be no different from the power of God.
‘Anyway, the use of black energy is more about using it with skills than for trash disposal.’
Adding this destructive power to a skill will make the skill’s functionality one level more powerful.
‘It costs a bit of money, but…’
The act of covering skills with black aura was a money-eating hippopotamus.
The effect was better than expected, but it came at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
‘But the effect is certain. Anyway….’
I was lost in thought, staring at the one remaining skill point.
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with various things with black energy, and I’ve been suffering from one impulse.
‘Should I just scream?’
The solution was to invest skill points into the invisible hand.
The most destructive result when currently overlaid with black energy is undoubtedly the invisible hand.
This is because it was a skill that could amplify the destructive nature of black energy.
‘In addition, thanks to the Bukdaemun Gate, the usability of the invisible hand has also increased.’
The North Gate can be activated anywhere the Eye of the Absolute can be used.
It could open its doors at any time wherever there were vassals, and support was always available through the open doors.
So, this means that it is possible to utilize the invisible hand through the Bukdaemun Gate.
That was when.
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
I felt a faint pain along with a notification.
‘huh?’
The result of using the Absolute’s eyes right away.
‘Who is this guy?’
There was a winged vampire there.
He was a high-level vampire and one of Jinjo’s subordinates.
But one strange thing was that there was a red aura flowing out of the bastard’s hand.
‘Something is different.’
An unpleasant feeling was transmitted from the upper-level vampire.
At the same time, the transparent barrier swelled and burst.
‘!!’
[The Mirror Stops Water skill is activated.]
In the midst of the pain that was clearly being transmitted, reason was clearly maintained.
As he entered the punctured area, the upper-level vampire’s entire body began to burn.
However, the red energy blooming all over her body seemed to be preventing her from disappearing.
The movement with a clear purpose was towards the World Tree.
however.
‘Dongdaemun open.’
As Dongdaemun opened, the woman’s figure appeared right in front of me.
“Huh, you…?”
I could tell by the way her expression distorted.
This kid was clearly a remnant of the Jinjo that was dealt with back then.
‘Invisible Hand’
Let’s activate the invisible hand and add black energy there.
Hurrruk!
Black fingernails grew from the transparent hands.
and.
Phew!
It pierced the woman’s heart in an instant.
Whoosh whoosh-!
The black flames that started from the heart burned the vampire’s entire body without leaving even ash.
<[Episode 24] Research (2)> End
