After the Divorce, I Found a Thousand Bitcoins - Chapter 165

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I Got Divorced and Found a Thousand Bitcoins Episode 165

[Breaking News: South Korean Government-KH Group, Mega Deal Concluded for Future Advanced Industry Development!]

[Establishment of Humanoid Regulation-Free Zone in Capital Region. Agreement to Provide Millions of Pyeong of Space Launch Site in Saemangeum Area.]

[Chairman Choi Kang-hyeon, “We will draw perfect coexistence between humans and machines beyond simple job creation.”]

The breaking news that awakened South Korea’s morning was literally phenomenal.

The political noise that had been noisy with privilege controversies was instantly buried.

What filled that place instead was the public’s explosive enthusiasm for an overwhelming future.

-Wow, is a space base really being built in Saemangeum? It’ll rival SpaceX.

-Regulation-free zone is awesome. Can we now see Terminators walking around on the streets?

-Privileges or whatever, the fact that this scale is coming from our country is insane.

-Look at Choi Ganghyeon’s mindset of wanting to coexist with humans. He’s a true hero ㅠㅠ

Internet communities and stock forums heated up with explosive excitement.

Even civic groups that had been voicing opposition lost their strength before this perfect compromise that secured both justification and practicality.

It wasn’t simply giving away territory.

Kang Hyeon’s insight that even addressed the future of the labor market that robots would replace.

That was the decisive move that completely turned public opinion toward support.

Massive capital backed by the nation’s solid support.

That merciless trajectory finally began explosive acceleration.

10 AM. KH Group Headquarters top floor office.

Kang Hyeon coldly stared at the massive Saemangeum map displayed on the transparent board.

Behind him stood KH Construction’s President Kang Myeong-gu.

“The government has perfectly resolved the site acquisition.”

Kang Hyeon turned around and spoke in a very dry tone.

His gaze fixed on the millions of pyeong of land marked in red on the map.

“Now turning that barren field into our perfect fortress is President Kang’s responsibility.”

“I’ll keep that in mind, Chairman. I’ll immediately pour all available resources and heavy equipment within the group into Saemangeum.”

President Kang Myeong-gu’s voice carried deep enthusiasm.

He had already solidly established his position within the group through India’s smart city construction.

But this project’s scale was an abnormally massive scope he had never experienced in his lifetime.

The massive electromagnetic space launcher to be built on the vast reclaimed land.

And the robot demonstration complex to be created by bundling the entire core area of the capital region.

“Just the foundation work for Astra’s launch pad will cost trillions of won.”

Kang Hyeon lightly tapped the desk with his finger.

“It’s a vacuum tube that will shoot payloads at dozens of times the speed of sound. The error range of the foundation supporting it must converge to zero.”

“…!”

“I won’t tolerate even a single millimeter of distortion. Design the robot demonstration complex as both a thorough control zone and cutting-edge research facility.”

Kang Hyeon’s demands were harshly cold and precise.

President Kang swallowed dry saliva and wiped away thick beads of sweat.

This wasn’t simply the level of building apartments or factories.

This was building South Korea’s massive launching pad toward space and a huge cradle for the robot industry.

As much as the burden, President Kang’s two fists were trembling with overwhelming excitement.

“Capital will provide unlimited funding.”

Kang Hyeon’s cool and heavy declaration.

“I don’t care how much it costs. Buy time with money. What I want is overwhelming speed.”

“I’ll bury my bones here, Chairman! I’ll offer a perfect fortress that will remain in world construction history!”

Right after President Kang left the office with an overwhelmed face.

The large display on the desk turned on and the screen switched to a multi-party video conference system.

Nereid Data Center in the waters off Ulsan.

And Astra’s Arthur Clark and Orbis’s chief engineers staying in Silicon Valley, USA.

Geniuses who would change the world gathered in one place under Kang Hyeon’s call.

-Boss! Looking at the Astra guys’ blueprints, they’re totally mind-blowing!

As soon as the screen turned on, Dr. Nathan giggled in his characteristic high tone.

He was spinning hologram blueprints around with an excited expression like a child.

Sparkling eyes that showed glimpses of genius madness.

-The frictional heat generated in the coils when shooting projectiles with electromagnetic accelerators is no joke. But if I apply my immersion cooling solution all around there and circulate it, it’s solved in one shot!

“Excellent.”

Kang Hyeon took a sip of cold coffee and lightly nodded.

Arthur Clark’s face on the screen was flushed red with shock and overwhelming joy.

-It’s a miracle, Chairman Choi! Dr. Nathan’s cooling technology is at a level that ignores the laws of physics!

Arthur brought his face close to the screen and shouted in an excited voice.

-We can reduce the massive cost and weight that went into the projectile’s heat-resistant design to less than half. We might be able to test stratosphere orbit entry as early as next year!

“Next year. That’s faster than expected.”

A faint smile spread across Kang Hyeon’s lips.

The synergy of geniuses who received capital transfusions far exceeded his calculations.

Soon after, Orbis’s chief engineer also turned on the microphone with an excited expression.

-Same goes for the humanoid side! The simulation of implanting mini immersion cooling systems in the core driving parts of the brain and joints was perfectly successful.

Orbis’s technical staff who could focus solely on research after management was purged.

The tin can robots they made finally broke free from the shackles of fatal overheating.

-High-intensity performance that was limited to 10 minutes can now be maintained indefinitely until the battery runs out. We’ll immediately begin assembling prototypes to deploy in the regulation-free zone the government designated!

Robots, space, and overwhelming cooling technology.

The choice fragments of America that had been scattered were perfectly melting into one within KH’s massive furnace.

That synergy would certainly unleash explosive power beyond imagination.

“Good. Let’s run like crazy in each of your domains.”

Kang Hyeon leaned back comfortably in his chair.

It was a relaxed posture, but his eyes were shining sharper and colder than ever.

The eyes of a predator who had regained composure, slightly freed from the obsession of trying to shoulder all the world’s burdens alone.

“That line you all thought was the limit.”

Kang Hyeon’s dry and heavy voice overwhelmed the entire video conference room.

“KH’s capital will perfectly smash it for you.”

After finishing the agreement with the government, Kang Hyeon fell into deep sleep for the first time in a while.

And when he opened his eyes, he was standing in a different space.

Deep and distant abyss.

Black void where gravity had disappeared.

Kang Hyeon was floating alone in the middle of empty space, looking down at his feet.

Massive land stretching endlessly.

It was the Korean Peninsula.

‘Last time I dreamed of being in space. This time it’s above the Korean Peninsula?’

A unique experience.

But it wasn’t bad.

Kang Hyeon lowered his head to examine the rarely seen panorama of the Korean Peninsula.

Stark contrasts crossed over the land where night’s curtain had fallen.

South Korea was brilliant.

Roads extending like spider webs and massive building forests.

The dazzling golden light emanating from there was small, but pulsed more intensely than any continent.

It was a miraculous result created by KH Group’s massive capital and vitality that he had led.

‘Korea is indeed overwhelming.’

But when he turned his gaze upward, the situation completely reversed.

The land north of the Demilitarized Zone.

That place was miserably dead in pitch-black darkness.

Pyongyang’s small light barely clinging to life.

Excluding that, the entirety of North Korea was submerged in an eerily perfect darkness.

It was the perfect bare face of rotten land that had been isolated for decades, its blood dried up.

‘What is this.’

Kang Hyeon’s cold gaze turned toward the highest peak of the Korean Peninsula.

The northern end, the place called the sacred mountain of the nation.

Mount Baekdu.

At the center of that massive mountain range, a strange anomaly was beginning.

Slowly rising.

A bizarre haze emerging from the darkness.

It was a chilling color that Kang Hyeon had never seen even once before.

It wasn’t the cool blue light symbolizing destruction.

When Harvey Goldwin had driven the entire world into the quagmire of war.

It was much deeper and more ominous than that terrible light of despair that had covered all of the United States.

‘Deep black color…’

Pure black.

An overwhelming color of death that devoured all light and life without leaving anything behind.

That sinister black light hinting at absolute annihilation was boiling up like lava from Cheonji at Mount Baekdu.

Whoosh-!

The explosion was instantaneous.

The black haze that swallowed the mountain peak began expanding madly.

Like a massive tsunami, it rushed fiercely along the mountain range.

Pyongyang’s faint lights were instantly devoured by the black tidal wave.

Perfect annihilation without even the slightest resistance.

The black light that crossed the Demilitarized Zone mercilessly trampled and extinguished even South Korea’s brilliant golden glow.

A massive curtain of death swallowed the entire Korean Peninsula whole.

It wasn’t the end.

The black wave crossed the sea and instantly turned the entire vast Asian continent black.

‘No.’

Kang Hyeon tried to reach out his hand, but his body wouldn’t move as if frozen solid.

Endless black light filling his vision.

That massive darkness that had brought complete destruction to the world finally pierced through the atmosphere and soared up.

And it swallowed Kang Hyeon’s body floating in the void in one gulp.

“Gasp…!”

Flash.

Kang Hyeon opened his eyes while exhaling rough breaths.

The luxurious chandelier hanging from the ceiling was swaying slightly.

It was the bedroom of the highest-grade penthouse in the heart of Seoul.

“Haa, haa…”

His entire body was damp.

The finest silk pajamas were soaked in cold sweat, clinging unpleasantly to his skin.

His heart was pounding violently as if it would break through his ribcage and burst out at any moment.

‘This isn’t just a simple nightmare.’

Kang Hyeon leaned his body against the headboard and rubbed his face dry while regulating his breathing.

He was someone who had experienced all kinds of hardships as a predator of capital.

But that vivid and violent vision from just now was definitely not an ordinary dream.

His intuition was sharply scraping at all the nerves in his body, screaming madly.

Drip.

That’s when it happened.

A lukewarm and sticky liquid flowed down along his philtrum.

Kang Hyeon unconsciously raised the back of his hand and roughly wiped under his nose.

The fishy smell of iron.

“Nosebleed…”

Kang Hyeon’s brow furrowed heavily.

Inside the room where moonlight seeped in.

What had stained the back of his hand was a dark red and vivid bloodstain.

There had been times like this before.

When he had pushed his ability to the extreme limit and forcibly tried to see through the future of the game.

That ominous memory of bleeding from his nose along with pressure that felt like his brain vessels would burst.

It was the most primitive and fatal warning sent by his ability as it gnawed away at his body.

But this time, he hadn’t intentionally opened his ability.

The unconscious state of sleep.

It meant a disaster so overwhelming and massive that his ability was forced to open through that gap.

That light of death’s black color that started from Mount Baekdu was very persistently imprinted on Kang Hyeon’s retina.

“Just what the hell is happening in the north.”

Kang Hyeon clenched his blood-stained hand tightly and muttered dryly and sharply.

Beyond the Demilitarized Zone, a perfectly severed unknown world.

Was it simple economic collapse, military provocation, or a natural disaster that the mountain itself harbored.

Kang Hyeon got out of bed and approached the wide floor-to-ceiling window.

Below his feet, the dazzling and peaceful night view that his homeland was breathing out was rippling.

But the world reflected in Kang Hyeon’s cold eyes was no longer safe.

An unknown terror was slowly coiling in the thick darkness of the north.

Kang Hyeon’s two pupils glowed coldly and fiercely in the darkness.

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