The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 208

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Chapter 208: Why Does This Work?

Tae-ju met with Baek Seo-yeon.

“Have you been well? Nothing happened, right?”

“Yes… Did your work go well?”

“Thanks to you, I returned safely.”

“But by any chance, where did you…?”

Her eyes were filled with anticipation.

“You’re thinking correctly. I went to the Immortal Realm and came back.”

“Oh my! What about Father?”

“He said he’ll stay a bit longer and come back. He seemed to be having a great time.”

Actually, he was more worried about Ilisambaeyi than Baek Hong-pyo.

He had planned to stop by the Hwansu Realm to check if he was doing well.

But since Dok-seon said he’d take care of it, he had to trust him.

“Sorry to ask this right after arriving, but Seo-yeon has something to do.”

“What is it?”

“I’m thinking of installing LTE communication base stations at specific locations.”

“Base stations? Why would you… Ah! Could it be?”

“That’s right. The Immortal Realm.”

Baek Seo-yeon couldn’t help but be surprised.

“From now on, I’ll make it possible to communicate between Earth and the Immortal Realm.”

“Oh, um.”

The Immortal Realm is a different world.

Would it connect just by setting up a base station?

However.

“I found a way. First, please contact the telecommunications company.”

“Yes!”

She answered without hesitation.

If the chairman said it would work, it would definitely work.

“Tell them I want to install a base station that can cover at least one decent-sized city. And repeaters too. Say that I’ll cover all the costs.”

Baek Seo-yeon held her notepad and took notes of Tae-ju’s instructions.

“Tell them to run the optical cable that connects to the base station to my residence.”

“Then where will the base station be?”

“Hmm, for now, that should also be at the residence… No, first I’d like to know the installation process. It would be good to have both new and used equipment.”

“Ah! I understand. So we need to prepare two sets each – one for learning installation and one for actual installation.”

“And let’s sign up for service too. Coordinate with the Ministry of National Intelligence to create identification first.”

After finishing his conversation with Baek Seo-yeon.

Tae-ju came back to the basement training room at his residence.

The dimensional hole was still open.

Quite a lot of time had passed.

This meant the mana supply device was doing its job.

While he was briefly away, two letters had arrived.

One was sent by Dok-seon.

– Ilisambaeyi is doing well. Mi-ho Seon-ja will take good care of him. And I’ll be dispatching Gwi-gok and Gal Hong to Earth soon, so try operating the gate generator at an appropriate time.

It was fortunate that Ilisambaeyi was doing well.

He had worried that the guy who rolled in from outside might be ostracized.

There was also a letter from Yama.

– Thank you. Feel free to keep the dimensional hole open.

‘I’m more grateful.’

Hwangcheon-gye.

He was borrowing Yama’s residence as an experimental site.

It would be shameless to just walk away without acknowledgment.

Swoosh!

He put things in whenever he had time.

It wasn’t just filtered cigarettes.

He also prepared leaf tobacco, cigars, and pipe tobacco.

Cigars are quite strong, so people usually roll the smoke around in their mouth to enjoy the flavor, but Yama King could probably just inhale them deeply like regular cigarettes without any problem.

He wanted to fill his subspace bag and send it through the shared warehouse, but Dok-seon had earnestly asked him not to, saying that was absolutely not allowed and that principles must be maintained.

Meanwhile, a delivery also came from the Immortal Realm.

The items inside were a dimensional gate generator and a mana supply device properly made by Gwi-gok in the Immortal Realm.

The generator could be used when summoning Immortals, and the mana supply device was for replacement.

One day passed, then two days, then three days…

Baek Seo-yeon came to the garden of the Gurye residence with installation technicians and loads of base station and repeater installation equipment.

“These are used machines that were previously in service. We brought them for installation demonstration.”

“What about the new products?”

“They’ll come separately.”

She would have handled all the procedures for activation herself.

She had also run optical cable separately to the basement of the residence.

‘Time to start.’

Tae-ju sent a letter through the dimensional hole.

And a reply came immediately.

– Activate the dimensional gate generator.

Inside the basement training room.

Whoosh!

Whirring!

The gate opened.

Crackle, crack!

He broke the chains of light binding his body in one go.

Swoosh!

Gwi-gok and Gal Hong appeared through the gate.

“Welcome.”

“Good to see you, Kim Tae-ju. I left without even greeting you last time.”

“We’ll probably see each other often from now on.”

“Hahaha, that’s right. Where are the base station equipment…?”

“Why don’t you rest a bit first?”

“Absolutely not! We need to start right away. Don’t think all Immortals are like the Swordsman.”

“That’s right. We can’t stay here long anyway, so we need to learn quickly.”

Come to think of it, when Gwi-gok came here in the past, he didn’t play around either and just holed up in the library.

Tae-ju guided Gwi-gok and Gal Hong to the residence garden.

Then Baek Seo-yeon said.

“Welcome.”

“Are you Baek Seo-yeon? The adopted daughter of Baek Cheon-in?”

“Yes, if you need anything, please let me know.”

“Understood. We’ll be in your care for a few days.”

These were the greatest geniuses of the Immortal Realm, specialists.

Immortals dispatched by Dok-seon to learn the principles and installation methods of base stations and repeaters.

They would learn quickly.

More time passed.

Tae-ju and Danggumak exchanged conversations through letters via the dimensional hole.

Along with logistics delivery through the shared warehouse.

He shipped the equipment that would be installed in the Immortal Realm.

The bulky items go in the shared warehouse, and the small ones in subspace bags.

The biggest thing is the base station antenna.

Even though it’s a steel tower, if you divide it into parts, it fits in the shared warehouse.

– Where will you install it?

– On the top floor of the multiplex, in the house where I used to live.

– What about the antenna then?

– It needs to be erected on the multiplex roof.

– But then you won’t have a house to live in.

– It’s fine. When the apartment is completed, I can move in there.

It took about 3 days.

During that time, Gwi-gok and Gal Hong perfectly learned every process of base station installation.

Soon it was time to go to the Immortal Realm.

The Immortals automatically return when the time comes, even without a gate.

“We’ll be going now.”

“Yes, all the installation equipment has been sent to the Immortal Realm.”

Spot!

Gwi-gok and Gal Hong disappeared.

Tae-ju went to the underground training room.

The dimensional hole was still open.

‘Let’s see. Where’s the mana supply device?’

The compressed Beyond crystal was the energy source.

Checking the remaining mana level circuit, not even 1% had been consumed.

‘It’ll last longer than I thought.’

At this rate, the experiment was a success.

Let me add some more cigarettes.

I’ll have to close it soon anyway.

And about ten days later?

A letter from Danggumak arrived through the dimensional hole.

– Finished installing the base station. The communication range extension repeaters can be installed slowly later.

– Understood. Then I’ll open a new hole.

The historic moment was approaching.

The new dimensional hole would be on the top floor of the multiplex.

He concentrated his mind.

Swooosh!

Mana gathered to a single point.

Ziiing!

The existing dimensional hole disappeared and a new hole appeared.

‘Finally…’

Tae-ju pushed the optical cable into the hole.

* * *

Immortal Realm.

Top floor of the multiplex.

It was originally the house where Danggumak lived.

The furniture and appliances were nowhere to be found.

Instead, base station equipment was placed throughout the entire house.

A large steel tower also stood tall on the roof.

The Immortals wondered what that was, but he just brushed it off saying it was an Immortal Realm Wi-Fi amplifier.

Danggumak, Gwi-gok, and Gal Hong gathered inside the base station.

“When will the hole open?”

“Just wait a moment…”

Right at that moment!

Ziiing!

A small hole appeared on the floor.

“There!”

“It’s open.”

Swoosh!

The optical cable came out too.

Now it was time to connect it to the base station equipment.

Carefully using tools, he plugged a connector into the end of the optical cable…

Click!

He connected it securely so it wouldn’t come loose and turned on the power.

Whiiiiing!

Lights flickered on the equipment.

From red light to yellow light and then green light.

Data from Earth’s telecommunications company traveled through the optical cable, the optical cable passed through the dimensional hole to the Immortal Realm base station, and the base station transmitted LTE signals to the Immortal Realm.

“Oh, let’s try it quickly.”

Danggumak took out his smartphone, turned it off and on again, rebooting it.

It wasn’t a phone exclusive to the Immortal Realm.

It was a phone he had used on Earth.

Since the signal came from Earth, it required a carrier SIM chip.

Gwi-gok had one too. Gal Hong had also made one when he went this time.

The fees?

Since Tae-ju was paying for them, the membership was being maintained.

The tense moment!

When he launched the internet search app, the green window.

“It, it works!”

“Oh! It really works.”

“My goodness! What a world-changing event!”

The moment theory was proven by results.

Danggumak opened KakaoTalk and sent a message to Tae-ju on Earth.

[Dok-seon]: Amazing.

[Tae-ju]: Oh! It worked.

[Dok-seon]: Hahaha, it’s all thanks to your dimensional hole.

[Tae-ju]: Please send me the list of Upper Realm members. I’ll handle the registration here and send the SIM chips separately.

[Dok-seon]: Got it.

He even sent emoticons.

He invited Gwi-gok and Gal Hong to the chat room to talk with each other.

Now what remained was…

“Dok-seon, when will you tell the Immortals?”

“…Let’s keep it secret for now. We need to approach this carefully.”

“Right. If Earth and the Immortal Realm become one network, the existence of our Upper Realm will be completely exposed.”

Danggumak chuckled and shook his head.

“Isn’t that already all revealed?”

“True, with all the commotion the Swordsman and Jecheon Daeseong caused, it’s not a secret anymore.”

“Gwi-gok, didn’t you broadcast too?”

“…Hmm, everyone else was doing it.”

“You even filmed commercials.”

That was true.

Now almost everyone knew about the existence of Immortals.

Of course, there were still many people who didn’t believe it.

“Then why keep it secret? Is it because of communication etiquette?”

“Aha! That’s it. Cyberspace is like a kind of world too. You can cause all sorts of trouble there if you want to.”

Once again, Danggumak said no to Gwi-gok and Gal Hong’s speculation.

“You underestimate Earth too much. Do you know how many crazy people there are in that internet space? How could the Immortals even compare? Malicious comments, hacking, witch hunts – it’s already complete chaos there.”

“Ah…”

“I, I see.”

That was also a valid point.

In cyberspace, the Immortals were one step below Earthlings.

“The reason for keeping it secret?”

“I’m trying to revise the billing policy. We need to create regulations, don’t we? Can we just let them use the airwaves for free?”

“…Huh? You mean rate plans?”

“Of course. We need to charge separate fees for the Immortal Realm. There are too many coins in circulation, so we need to collect them back.”

“…”

Gwi-gok and Gal Hong clicked their tongues inwardly.

Truly a thought worthy of a poison demon.

To be thinking about billing policies in this situation.

However, Dok-seon’s plan to keep it secret for the time being was instantly reduced to nothing.

* * *

Vroom vroom vroom! Vroom!

Swordsman was out for a drive on his Harley bike after a long time.

He visited Dowon where the lush Seondo was in full bloom, checked out the apartment construction site where apartment building was in full swing and Jamigung, and even went to Hwangcheon-gye through the permanent gate to tour Hell.

Going round and round, he arrived at the Multiplex.

After parking in the open field, he took off his helmet and put it in the top box.

Short-cropped hair, well-groomed beard, wearing a one-piece bike suit with sunglasses on top – the appearance of a handsome middle-aged man.

‘Still too short.’

Even though he had worked hard to build roads, it took less than an hour to tour everything.

If he had been driving on Earth, he could have kept going around for days and days.

‘Earth, when will I go there again?’

The good days were all gone.

He shouldn’t even dream of going to Earth for the time being.

Swordsman was also an Immortal who knew shame.

He had already been to Earth twice – how could he go again?

Well, honestly, he wasn’t the type to be overly considerate, but if he went down a third time, other Immortals might beat him to death.

It was bearable even without going.

This wasn’t the old Immortal Realm, was it?

The Immortal Realm now had plenty of entertainment, even if not quite as much as Earth.

But he still couldn’t forget.

Meeting Earth viewers through live broadcasts, receiving explosive interest and support all at once.

Swordsman took out his smartphone from his pocket.

He had two smartphones.

One was a phone used only in the Immortal Realm.

The other was the phone he had used on Earth.

The smartphone he took out now was the one he used for live broadcasting on Earth.

Since Kim Tae-ju had set up automatic payment for the fees, the membership was still active.

‘Those were good times.’

His golden age, his prime.

Could he taste that thrill once more?

Swordsman turned on the phone and tried running the YouTube icon.

But then?

“Huh?”

Strange.

Why is this working?

So he unconsciously pressed the live broadcast start button.

[Starting live broadcast.]

“…What?”

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding…

Viewers who had subscribed to the live channel came flooding in like crazy.

“Gasp! What the?”

└ Sword-ha!

└ He’s here!!!

└ Wow! It’s really Swordsman.

└ The universe’s greatest streamer!!!

└ I’ve been waiting.

└ As expected, our Immortal who never disappoints!

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“Uh uh uh…”

The flustered Swordsman ended the live broadcast.

‘Am I dreaming? Or am I on Earth?’

He looked around.

He could see the Multiplex.

He could see Seon-gye World too.

He could see a delivery clone Monkey passing by.

‘This is definitely the Immortal Realm…’

He opened his smartphone again and checked if other apps would run too.

“Haha!”

They worked.

This worked and that worked too.

‘Why?’

But the question was only momentary.

Was the reason important?

What mattered was that live broadcasting worked.

Swordsman used telekinesis to float his smartphone in the air.

After carefully adjusting the distance and angle.

He pressed the broadcast start button again.

[Starting live broadcast.]

Ding, ding, ding-ding-di-di-ring! Ding…

“Have you all been well?”

└ Oh! It works.

└ Why did you end the broadcast earlier?

└ Seems like he wasn’t ready earlier.

└ What kind of content is it today? I’m curious.

“Hahaha, let’s keep it simple.”

Swoooosh!

The smartphone rotated 360 degrees around Swordsman like it was orbiting him.

“Do you see? This is the Immortal Realm. The world where Immortals live.”

└ Immortal Realm?

└ Really?

└ Hmm, isn’t that an amusement park?

└ No way, this isn’t right. Anyone can see this is Earth.

└ Where did the Immortals playing baduk go?

At that moment!

Baek Hong-pyo happened to be passing by.

“Oh! I can see Cheonin Baek as well. I wonder if you know him. They say he’s the director of Happy Village, a Cheonin named Baek Hong-pyo who is temporarily staying in Cheon-gye for a while because he’s done many good deeds.”

Putting his arm around his shoulder as if they were very close friends.

“Ah! If you don’t understand Cheon-gye, think of it as heaven or paradise and you’ll get it.”

Baek Hong-pyo, who had no idea what was going on, made an awkward expression in front of the camera.

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The chat window went into chaos.

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