After the Divorce, I Found a Thousand Bitcoins - Chapter 160
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I Got Divorced and Found a Thousand Bitcoins Episode 160
Silicon Valley, California, USA.
KH Group’s US Subsidiary’s Executive Conference Room.
A tense atmosphere hung around the massive mahogany table.
“Chairman Choi. This is a clear insult to us.”
Thomas Evans, CEO of Orbis Robotics.
With his face flushed red, he roughly pushed away the acquisition proposal on the table.
“One-fourth of the market valuation! I’ve never seen such ridiculous lowballing.”
“An insult.”
Kang Hyeon lifted his teacup and spoke in a very dry tone.
“I thought I offered a very generous price for defective goods.”
“Defective goods! That’s going too far!”
Thomas roughly loosened his tie and raised his voice.
“Our Orbis has the world’s best bipedal humanoid technology. An innovative model that could change the world could be released as early as tomorrow!”
“If the time to change the world is only about 10 minutes, that would be quite innovative indeed.”
“…Excuse me?”
Thomas’s brow furrowed with confusion for a moment.
Kang Hyeon stared at him with cold eyes and set down his teacup.
Clink.
The clear, cool friction sound of porcelain heavily tore through the conference room’s air.
“Titanium alloy frame, 40 degrees of freedom, proprietary AI neural network chip.”
Kang Hyeon recited their specifications in a low, sharp voice.
“Perfect on paper. But you’re hiding quite a fatal weakness to package it as perfect technology, aren’t you.”
“I, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“The humanoid’s core components – the high-performance AI chip and joint actuators.”
Kang Hyeon leaned his upper body slightly forward.
The cold gaze of a predator targeting its prey’s throat.
“The terrible heat generation when those two operate at maximum output simultaneously. You haven’t solved that problem at all yet.”
“…!”
Suddenly, the CTO sitting beside Thomas flinched greatly.
His pupils shook wildly as if struck by an earthquake.
Kang Hyeon never missed that minute, fatal crack.
“No matter how many air-cooling heat sinks and cooling fans you slap on, the limit is clear. The internal design structure has far too few openings for heat to escape.”
“Ch-Chairman Choi. That’s just a minor issue that commonly occurs during the technical development process…”
“Minor?”
Kang Hyeon mercilessly cut off the CTO’s excuse with an ice-cold voice.
“Just 10 minutes of high-intensity movement causes the internal temperature to break through the critical point. Throttling kicks in, the robot’s brain stops, and in the worst case, the joint motors burn out and it collapses.”
“…”
“Literally a walking weapon and time bomb. That’s the real face of the innovation you’re hiding, isn’t it.”
The fatal Achilles’ heel that Dr. Nathan had pointed out.
It was a perfect dagger that pierced straight through Orbis’s heart.
Cold sweat began to form and drip from Thomas’s forehead.
But he forced himself to act nonchalant and squeezed out his voice.
“I don’t know where your information comes from, but it’s clearly speculation and exaggeration.”
“Exaggeration?”
“The heat problem was already perfectly solved last month with our own software patch! The delay in commercialization is simply due to production line yield issues!”
Vicious and shameless bluffing.
Instead of answering, Kang Hyeon quietly narrowed his eyes and opened his ability toward Thomas.
‘What a pathetic lie.’
In Kang Hyeon’s vision, a strange light wrapped around Thomas’s body.
It was a very thick and terrible blue light that had lost its vitality and was rotting away.
Investment funds had already hit rock bottom, and there was no technological breakthrough to solve the heat problem.
The massive cliff of bankruptcy had approached right under their chin, choking their breath.
“There’s nothing wrong with our technology.”
Thomas put on airs and arrogantly lifted his chin.
“Even without KH Group, big tech companies wanting us are lined up in Silicon Valley. If you won’t pay fair value, this negotiation ends here.”
He crossed his arms firmly and leaned back in his chair.
A cliff-edge tactic based on the shallow calculation that they would come begging first.
But the capital predator Kang Hyeon’s hunting method was different.
“I see.”
Kang Hyeon spoke very dryly as if he had no regrets whatsoever.
Thud.
Kang Hyeon closed the acquisition proposal folder spread on the table without hesitation.
Thomas’s eyebrows twitched slightly at that decisive sound.
“Then go sell your tin can robots to those wonderful big tech companies.”
“…Excuse me?”
“The negotiation has failed.”
Kang Hyeon stood up mercilessly.
His movements of lightly brushing off his suit and buttoning it were terribly elegant and cold.
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol, who had attended the meeting, also immediately gathered his documents with a stern expression and followed behind Kang Hyeon.
“W-wait! Chairman Choi!”
As the situation flowed differently than expected, a flustered Thomas jumped up urgently.
His arrogant face turned pale at Kang Hyeon’s unexpected sharp move.
“I doubt there are any suckers left in Silicon Valley willing to invest in scrap metal that catches fire in the head.”
Kang Hyeon turned his head coldly while grasping the conference room door handle.
“For a company about to go bankrupt, your pride is quite admirable.”
“Wh-what do you mean…!”
“Good luck, CEO Evans.”
Click.
The door opened without hesitation.
And that cold metallic sound was like a perfect death sentence cutting off the Orbis executives’ lifeline.
“C-CEO! If KH leaves like this, our company won’t be able to cover next week’s promissory note payments and will be completely finished!”
“Damn it! Catch Chairman Choi right now!”
Through the gap of the heavily closing door.
The CTO’s desperate scream mixed with despair and Thomas’s agonizing cry echoed like wild beasts.
The prey cornered at the cliff’s edge had finally begun its desperate struggle on the predator’s trap.
[Exclusive: Orbis Robotics faces complete difficulties in sale negotiations with big tech companies.]
[Fatal defect suspicions spread. Apple and Google consecutively express rejection of acquisition.]
Thomas Evans’s petty bluff didn’t last even a week.
He abandoned his pride and desperately went around Silicon Valley’s big tech companies begging.
But the moment Kang Hyeon stormed out of the conference room, ominous rumors had already spread throughout the market.
“Rumors are rampant that the mainboards completely melt due to heat problems.”
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol reported very dryly while flipping through his tablet.
“Everyone is reluctant to invest. Moreover, the promissory note due date is tomorrow.”
“Orbis must be completely bleeding dry.”
“Yes. By now, their board meeting must have a funeral atmosphere.”
Kang Hyeon leaned deep into the plush sofa of the hotel suite room and chuckled.
A beast hanging on a cliff’s edge falls faster the more it struggles.
For Kang Hyeon, who knew the cruel physiology of capital markets better than anyone, this waiting was quite leisurely.
Kang Hyeon’s gaze was already directed toward higher places, not some tin can robots.
A list of numerous American aerospace-related startups displayed on the large screen.
The next prey to receive the massive 200 trillion won war chest densely filled the display.
“Low Earth orbit satellite networks, reusable launch vehicle technology, and deep space communications.”
Kang Hyeon slowly scanned through the names on the display with coldly settled eyes.
“I need to find those gems.”
Simultaneously, a chilling and eerie ability opened with fierce intensity across his retina.
‘Even if their market value is insignificant, there’s definitely one hiding that holds real golden eggs.’
A colorful symphony of light unfolded over dozens of corporate logos.
Dark and terrible blue light from companies that wouldn’t be surprising if they went bankrupt immediately.
Or bland gray light maintaining just mediocre vitality.
Kang Hyeon swam leisurely through that sea of light without showing the slightest impatience.
He quietly waited for that overwhelming and intense red light his ability would find.
Buzz- Buzz-
The secure smartphone on the table vibrated loudly.
The caller displayed on the screen was Thomas Evans.
The exact timing he had expected.
A deep sneer formed at the corner of Kang Hyeon’s mouth.
He deliberately waited until just before the ringtone would cut off, then answered the phone very leisurely.
“This is Choi Kang-hyeon.”
-Choi, Chairman Choi! This, this is Thomas!
The voice coming through the receiver was desperately urgent and miserable.
The arrogant Silicon Valley CEO from just a few days ago was nowhere to be found.
-The conditions you proposed, Chairman! Quarter price, I’ll accept unconditionally!
“Accept, you say.”
Kang Hyeon spat out in an ice-cold voice.
“You’re a bit late in grasping the situation. The negotiations completely ended several days ago.”
-Please, I’m begging you! If I can’t cover the promissory notes tomorrow, the company will disintegrate!
Evans’ desperate scream rang sharply through the speaker.
The miserable voice of a beast clinging with its pride buried in the gutter.
Kang Hyeon lifted his teacup and replied very dryly.
“Fine. We’ll immediately cover the urgent promissory notes through our KH Capital.”
-Ah…! Thank, thank you, Chairman! Thank you so much!
“However, one condition will be added.”
Kang Hyeon’s eyes sank coldly like a northern winter wind.
“Simultaneously with the acquisition contract, all existing management including CEO Evans.”
-…Excuse me?
“Pack your bags and leave the company without leaving a single person behind.”
A cruel and merciless death sentence.
The sound of rough breathing could be heard clearly through the receiver.
-What, what do you mean! If you kick out all the management, who will run the company!
“We don’t need incompetent management that nearly severed the company’s lifeline.”
Kang Hyeon laughed coldly.
-Chairman! Please show some mercy! This is the company I devoted my entire youth to!
“This is the rightful price for deceiving the market by packaging defective scrap metal as innovation.”
Petty mercy doesn’t exist for a predator of capital.
Especially not for those who were arrogant, overconfident in their abilities.
-Chairman Choi! Please, just one more time…!
Click.
Kang Hyeon mercilessly pressed the call end button.
Unnecessary emotional expenditure is merely a luxury for a manager.
A few days later.
Global economic journals uniformly featured KH Group’s massive moves in headlines.
[KH Group strikes with acquisition of promising Silicon Valley robotics company ‘Orbis’!]
[Bold move of complete management dismissal. Chairman Choi Kang-hyeon declares full-scale entry into robotics industry.]
“The acquisition procedures and dismissal notices for existing management have been completed very cleanly.”
Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol presented the perfectly organized merger report.
“Good work. Hand over all of Orbis’s core blueprints to Dr. Nathan.”
Kang Hyeon instructed while signing the documents smoothly with his fountain pen.
“Tell him to completely freeze that damn tin can robot’s brain with liquid immersion cooling.”
“Understood. I’ll immediately transmit the data to the Ulsan Research Center.”
The combination of massive capital and overwhelming cooling technology.
Orbis, freed from the shackles of fatal overheating, would soon be reborn as a monster that would shake the world.
Kang Hyeon looked down at Silicon Valley outside the window and smiled coldly and chillingly.
A massive hunt unfolding in the heart of America.
Now KH Group’s powerful heart had begun pumping fierce blood toward the future robotics industry in earnest.
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