After the Divorce, I Found a Thousand Bitcoins - Chapter 177

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I Got Divorced and Found a Thousand Bitcoins Episode 177

Massive steel structures rose up from India’s once barren land.

The smart city project led by KH Group.

The enormous future city with tens of trillions of won invested was gradually revealing its distinct outline.

[Global Big Tech Makes $40 Billion Lightning Investment in Indian Smart City!]

[Nvidia, Microsoft and other world-class Big Tech companies head to New Delhi.]

The front pages of global economic magazines were plastered with smart city articles day after day.

Capital backed by the strong protection of the US President.

And overwhelming infrastructure combined with the world’s greatest intelligence.

The world’s attention turned in unison to India’s barren land.

An irresistible perfect blueprint.

Before that grand vision, capital from around the world began pouring in like mad.

“Currently, over 800 global companies are hoping to move into the smart city.”

KH Group Headquarters Meeting Room, Seoul.

Kim Ha-ryul reported while displaying a list on the large screen.

The meeting room was packed with executives from subsidiaries participating in the India Smart City Consortium.

“It’s not just simple occupancy. Standby funds from global private equity funds and venture capitals wanting equity investment in the consortium itself have surpassed $60 billion.”

“The atmosphere is very good.”

A construction executive added with an excited expression.

“With this level of funding, we can immediately advance the planned Phase 2 expansion construction. Since it’s money wanting to come in right away, there’s no reason to refuse.”

An optimistic atmosphere flowed within the meeting room.

Overflowing cash is always welcome to companies.

However, the expression of Kang Hyeon sitting at the head seat was calm as a lake.

“When the game gets bigger, flies tend to swarm.”

Kang Hyeon lightly tapped the table and spoke dryly.

“What we’re building isn’t a simple industrial complex. We must thoroughly filter out places with poor capital quality.”

“But Chairman, the investment companies currently on standby are quite renowned even on Wall Street.”

“Name tags aren’t important.”

Kang Hyeon pulled over his tablet and slowly scrolled through the list.

As he focused his consciousness, familiar colors bloomed over his retina.

Flash.

Various hues appeared over the hundreds of names displayed on the screen.

Clear and dynamic red light swirled over solid companies and stable capital.

Kang Hyeon’s gaze quickly swept past those red trajectories.

But the moment his gaze lingered on certain investment companies’ names.

Flash-!

Murky and unpleasant blue light blinked violently.

A acrid color like rising from a rotting corpse.

It was a signal of bad capital either facing bankruptcy or about to burst internally.

A clear sign of decline and collapse that his ability warned of.

Kang Hyeon picked up his fountain pen and casually drew lines on the tablet screen.

“Arc Venture Capital. Please reject their investment proposal.”

Kang Hyeon’s dry voice echoed through the meeting room.

“Next Mobility, notify them of occupancy denial. And delete Silverstar Partners here from the list entirely.”

Kang Hyeon mercilessly struck out the names tinged with blue light with his pen tip.

A perfect purge without a second’s hesitation.

The brows of executives in the meeting room furrowed in unison.

“Chairman. Arc Ventures that you just excluded is the most watched fund on Wall Street recently. Their investment proposal alone amounts to $3 billion.”

The Finance Executive tried to dissuade him with a flustered expression.

“Next Mobility hoping for occupancy is also the most promising Silicon Valley startup in the autonomous driving sector. If we exclude them, the consortium internally and the media will find it strange.”

“I cannot let time bombs into the city I’m building.”

Kang Hyeon pushed away the documents and continued firmly.

“They’re packaged glamorously but their internal cash flow is abnormal. Exclude them all. I won’t take any more questions on this matter.”

Clear and uncompromising instructions.

It was the owner’s arbitrary decision without clearly presenting rational grounds.

The executives only watched each other’s reactions, not daring to speak further.

After the meeting ended, immediate complaints erupted within the consortium.

It was backlash against kicking away tens of billions of dollars in prime investment funds without any physical basis.

Some quarters even sneered that Kang Hyeon’s instincts had finally shown their limits.

Criticism that he was intoxicated by overwhelming success and couldn’t recognize Wall Street’s promising capital.

But those hasty complaints didn’t last even a month.

[Breaking News. Wall Street’s rising star Arc Ventures, FBI conducts lightning raid on massive Ponzi scheme charges!]

One morning.

Global economic news headlines were covered in bright red breaking news.

[$7 billion in investments evaporated. Arc Ventures CEO arrested at airport while attempting to flee to South America after embezzling client funds.]

The naked truth of massive financial crime hidden beneath glamorous packaging was thoroughly exposed.

The praise as an innovative fund was nowhere to be found, leaving only the stigma of being the worst fraudster in history.

That wasn’t the end.

Next Mobility, the autonomous driving startup that Kang Hyeon had flatly refused occupancy, was also embroiled in a major scandal.

[Next Mobility faces allegations of unprecedented technology manipulation scam. Core autonomous driving demo videos revealed to be thoroughly staged fakes.]

Vicious technology manipulation controversy that thoroughly deceived the market.

As soon as the US stock market opened, Next Mobility’s stock price plummeted over 85% in a single day, literally falling into the abyss.

It was a chain of major incidents that turned both Wall Street and Silicon Valley upside down.

KH Group Headquarters Meeting Room, Seoul.

Key executives of the consortium stared at Bloomberg’s real-time news with stunned faces.

Heavy silence pressed down on the room.

“…This is insane.”

Team Manager Lee Gi-cheol muttered while swallowing dry saliva.

“If we had accepted their investment and allowed occupancy, the credibility of the Indian Smart City would have been completely shattered before even breaking ground.”

“Thank goodness. Without the Chairman’s decision, the tens of trillions of won project would have been forever tagged with fraudsters’ labels.”

The executives gathered in the meeting room felt their spines chill.

A sophisticated fraud that completely fooled even Wall Street’s excellent analysts and Silicon Valley’s venture investors.

But Kang Hyeon had instantly seen through the rotten smell hidden behind their glamorous financial statements.

“What kind of information network does he have to know such things in advance.”

Everyone nodded heavily at someone’s shocked muttering.

Absolute awe beyond amazement.

Kang Hyeon’s cold and intuitive decision had perfectly protected the massive organism called the smart city from contaminants.

Complaints about his insight instantly turned into blind trust.

At the same time, in the top floor executive office.

Kang Hyeon casually scrolled through Arc Ventures’ bankruptcy-related news displayed on his desktop monitor.

‘Blue light doesn’t lie.’

He took a sip of his freshly brewed espresso and gazed out the window.

There was no exaggerated smugness or joy about being right.

He had mechanically followed the collapse indicators his ability intuitively showed, and the results were proven very accurately as always.

Ring.

The intercom rang briefly and Kim Ha-ryul’s voice was heard.

-Chairman. Contacts are pouring in again from Wall Street.

“What’s the content?”

-They’re amazed by your foresight in filtering out the fraudsters in advance, and requesting that KH lead the formation of a private equity fund this time. More than a few places are offering blank checks.

A cool and dry smile crossed Kang Hyeon’s lips.

Capital always bows its head first and most shamelessly to the certain victor.

“Have them wait for now.”

Kang Hyeon pressed the intercom button and gave calm instructions.

“First, compile a new waiting list of candidates to fill the spots left by the filtered-out trash. Now that the board is clean, we need to increase the density of capital.”

-Understood. I’ll prepare it immediately.

The massive fortress of the future being built in the heart of the Indian continent.

That place had to be constructed with only the purest and most powerful money.

While the boards in India and the United States were simultaneously turning turbulently.

Kang Hyeon, staying in the top floor office of KH Group headquarters in Seoul, was organizing documents.

Buzz- Buzz-

The secure communication network on one side of the desk rang briefly.

The caller displayed on the screen was Nathan from the Ulsan Nereid Research Institute.

Kang Hyeon put on his headset and pressed the call button.

“Report.”

-Boss. The power grid control AI for the Indian Smart City is perfectly configured.

Nathan’s voice through the receiver was quite bright.

-Test run results show power leakage rate below 0.1 percent. The third-generation joint control modules for the Ohio Robot Factory also exceeded 95 percent yield.

“It would be fine to put them on the mass production line immediately.”

-Yes. Software and robotics are rolling along smoothly as planned. But….

Nathan trailed off.

The cheerful typing sounds stopped, and the sound of him scratching the back of his head came through the communication network.

“What problem has arisen.”

Kang Hyeon calmly asked while bringing up the list of ongoing projects on his monitor.

-Astra is the problem. Commercialization of the next-generation engine for space launch vehicles keeps getting delayed.

“All Federal Aviation Administration regulations have been cleared.”

Kang Hyeon’s voice dropped slightly.

“Money and manpower have been poured in as much as desired.”

-It’s not a matter of manpower or capital. It’s a purely technical bottleneck.

Nathan let out a heavy sigh.

-Astra is combining plasma ignition auxiliary engines with the launch vehicles to be launched from the Texas Facility. It’s core technology that will dramatically boost fuel efficiency and thrust.

“But you’re saying problems arose at that junction.”

-Correct. It’s perfect in theory, but when we actually combine the plasma core with the physical thruster and increase throttle, unexplained power reduction occurs.

It was a fatal flaw.

Engine output instability in space launch vehicles meant the aerial explosion of launch vehicles worth hundreds of billions of won.

-We’ve run fluid dynamics simulations thousands of times with Nereid’s supercomputer. Even all of Orbis’s Chief Engineers have been working on it for days without sleep, but we can’t find the cause at all.

“….”

-Combustion chamber internal pressure is normal, and fuel pump flow matches design specifications exactly. It’s enough to make ghosts weep.

A report tinged with frustration.

It was a bottleneck phenomenon that couldn’t be solved even with the world’s greatest geniuses gathered together.

At this rate, the first commercial launch schedule from the Texas space facility in the United States would have to be postponed indefinitely.

‘Astra’s launch delay means delay in securing space infrastructure dominance.’

Kang Hyeon lightly tapped the desk with his finger.

When finding the safest path to drill through Mount Baekdu’s geological veins.

When catching minute circuit defects in volcanic ash defense drones.

At narrow passages where the knowledge of geniuses and supercomputer calculations were blocked, intuitive ability always opened the way.

Whether it was capital flow or machine blueprints.

He knew through thorough experience that wherever errors existed, ability would inevitably respond.

“Those engine blueprints.”

Kang Hyeon spoke in a calm tone.

“Transmit them to my desktop now.”

-Huh? Boss, this isn’t software code. These are hardware blueprints mixing hypersonic fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Unless you’re a specialist, you won’t even know what the scan data means.

“No explanation needed.”

Kang Hyeon cut Nathan’s words short.

“Send them.”

A firm instruction.

Nathan on the other end of the receiver fell silent for a moment, then quietly began typing on the keyboard.

He too clearly remembered Kang Hyeon’s past of instantly pinpointing drone defects.

-…Understood. I’ll transmit through the highest security server right now.

Click.

With a brief enter key sound, a massive file downloaded to Kang Hyeon’s desktop main monitor.

Complex equations, geometric engine cross-sections, and three-dimensional 3D scan data filled the screen densely.

Dizzyingly intertwined fuel pipes and pumps, and the junction of core modules where plasma shoots out.

To ordinary eyes, it was merely a complex black and white drawing of mechanical devices.

Kang Hyeon removed his headset and set it down on one side of the desk.

He leaned back deeply in his chair and quietly stared at the blueprints on the monitor.

‘Where did it go wrong.’

He scrolled the mouse wheel to magnify the engine core junction to fill the screen.

And loosened his tie slightly while concentrating his consciousness.

He emptied the distracting thoughts in his head and slowly drew up his intuitive senses from deep within his mind.

Flash.

Kang Hyeon’s vision shifted as if a transparent membrane was being lifted from his retinas.

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