chapter 10
enter this game
“Do you know what a gun’s weakness and strength are?”
When Kang Ji-yeon asked as she opened the door behind the info, Si-yoon shrugged.
“well.”
“That means the gunshots are too loud.”
“I know it’s a weakness… but why is that a strength?”
When Pil-wu asked, she answered as she unlocked the dark warehouse.
“Hundreds of years ago… when matchlocks first appeared on the battlefield, soldiers who first saw them collapsed helplessly.”
After unlocking the three-fold padlock, the fingerprint reader lights up this time.
Placing her index finger on the sensor, she continued.
“How could that be? Because the matchlock was too powerful? Of course there will be that too. But that was not the decisive reason.”
With a sigh, the thick iron door opens. Soon, the lights started to turn on one after another, and the shelves inside caught my eye.
Pilu’s eyes widened at the sight of countless firearms on display.
“The decisive reason why the soldiers fell so easily… it was the gunfire.”
“shot?”
“yes. As if the sky had been furious, as if lightning had fallen to the ground, the huge gunshots of the matchlocks that rang heads and tore ears… and broke the formation in an instant.”
Stroking the rifle in front of her, she raised one corner of her mouth.
“Especially, the gunshots heard up close can’t compare to the artillery fire magic of this era.”
President Kang laughed lightly.
“Shock and awe. That is the strength of gunfire.”
Kang Ji-yeon, who went further inside, looked around and opened the latch on the green box piled up in the corner.
“Those who hear the gunshot for the first time are bound to be shocked, big or small. Because it’s much, much bigger than what you’ve heard in media like movies.”
She carefully took out something piled in a cloth from inside and gave a fishy smile.
“Moreover, what about things these days that have not even been exposed to such media? You wouldn’t even know that a gun made such a loud sound in the first place.”
“These days…”
Phil’s expression became strange.
‘How old is this person?’
“Even the security guards of the top companies by market cap these days are mostly people who have never heard a gunshot. Well, is there anything to hear? These days even bullies don’t use guns.”
she shrugged.
“Relics of the past like me and a few outliers come to the shooting range in the corner of an entertainment district to shoot a gun somewhere.”
For some reason, she glanced at Siyoon in the part called “Byeotype.”
Siyoon coughed slightly.
“So, don’t let the real ‘gunshots’ be heard.”
“Right···.”
Siyoon nodded as if she understood what she was saying, and Jiyeon Kang smiled.
“You seem to understand? As expected, the rotation of the head is filthy fast.”
Approaching a nearby desk, she carefully unwrapped an old rag and continued talking.
“It is necessary to save up to such a decisive moment, when it is absolutely necessary to shock an opponent who has never even imagined the ‘gunshot’ itself.”
What was piled up in cloth was in the shape of a barrel.
A long barrel with a smooth silver surface.
Seeing that familiar shape, Siyoon murmured involuntarily.
“This···.”
“Gynix’s XA-05. It’s one of the few prototypes made in America that we’ve lost contact with.”
What was there was none other than the silencer.
“For a short one, it holds recoil well and has good elasticity. Above all, it is a masterpiece that dramatically reduced muzzle flame and gunfire. If it hadn’t been for the gate disaster, it might have been mass-produced…”
No one knew what had become of the Americas after the outbreak of World War III.
This is because not only the sea route, but also the sky route is blocked by gates and monsters, and there is no way to contact the continent.
Although it has stabilized a lot now, mankind, which has gone through various events, has not survived as much as before.
Kang Ji-yeon, who was looking at the silencer as if she was sorry for something, opened her hand to him.
“Give me the gun.”
When Si-yoon passed the Magic gun, she fumbled with it as if she was deeply moved, and as if showing off to him, she set the silencer to the muzzle.
“You just put it here like this, adjust it and return it. Is it easy?”
After receiving the gun back from her, Si-yoon looked at the pistol equipped with a silencer and admired it slightly.
“It is very light.”
“Because it’s a masterpiece.”
Looking at the silencer, the thought that it would be nice to engrave it also crossed his mind.
‘I’ll have to look for some useful magic.’
“Use that for now. It really cuts down the sound like a silencer in an old movie. Oh, I don’t even know how to say it.”
I didn’t know anyone else, but I could understand Choi Si-yoon enough.
Siyoon, who disassembled the silencer and placed it in his bosom, said.
“I will write well.”
“That ain’t free. We need to add a relevant clause to the contract.”
“Is it possible?”
“Oh, and this.”
Searching through the iron chest of drawers, she took out sunglasses thick like goggles from inside.
“I must have intended to cover my face with a mask or something that wasn’t funny anyway. Rather than write something like that, write this.”
“This···?”
“It is a magic tool imprinted with perception-defying magic that was produced at the end of the war. If you use this, your impression will be blurred and your face will not be easily recognized. As a bonus, it protects your eyes and prevents gunpowder gas and bullets.”
“Cheap…”
Strangely, it was definitely sunglasses, but it didn’t look dark at all, only the surroundings became a bit hazy.
Kang Ji-yeon clicked her tongue as he sent a moving look at her like a generously giving tree.
“Once again, I am not giving. pay it back.”
“Don’t worry about that.”
“under. Even if you don’t say anything, you can buy it and worry about it.”
She recalled the image the man in front of her had just shown.
Normally, he just looked like a stupid young man, but when he revealed his identity to her, the appearance of Choi Si-yoon that he showed her was that of a ruler no matter who looked at it or how it looked.
‘… after all, blood can’t be cheated.’
She recalled Choi Ho-jun, whom she had seen from afar, a long time ago.
He left the long limousine with countless escorts, and he was still vivid in her memory.
A human being who feels like it is natural to dominate and was born that way. Kang Ji-yeon had never seen such a person before.
“…”
However, she unconsciously thought that she might have seen that piece from Choi Si-yoon from before.
“Okay then. Where do you plan to start? Siyun Choi. I bet it’s not like there’s no plan after making a loud noise.”
Then he put the gun into the pistol holder and grinned.
“Where do I start?”
Shiyoon’s finger points to the floor.
“Of course, isn’t it the norm to start from the bottom?”
Now it was time to move on to the main game.
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Siyoon thought all along.
What is the most necessary condition to destroy Director Choi Woo-hyeok and the three sons who rule Hanam, Choi Jin-seong?
The first thing that came to mind was capital.
In particular, a huge amount of capital was essential for his plan to overthrow Choi Jin-seong.
But he wasn’t particularly worried about that part. Capital was something that could be obtained if the rest of the conditions were met.
The next thing that came to mind was information.
Now, it was different from the time when anyone could freely use the Internet and access a variety of information so easily.
It was clear that securing information from a solid source would give him more power than expected.
He had already envisioned several scenarios for it.
But even this couldn’t be more important than the last condition.
‘That’s reputation.’
Call it reputation or fame, it didn’t matter.
A high name value in itself leads to proof of strength and ability.
And this would be a decisive card for him to reveal himself and embrace the people he wanted at the right time.
The value of a name to win people, he needed it.
However, Choi Si-yoon had a restriction that he could not reveal his identity.
The place where Choi Si-yoon could ‘start’ could not be a place like the clean 1-dong of Hanam-si, where employees of Hanam Management Construction affiliates frequented.
The place he should head for is the shady street outside Building 1.
It is the graveyard of numerous subcontractors and irregular workers, and the city of the downtrodden, where those without names or status move secretly in dark alleys.
‘Part 4.’
Siyoon walked along the same road that he had come across many times in the game.
An old commercial building caught his eye. A homeless man and his son passed through a paved road and stood in front of a late-night restaurant that was lit even late at night.
‘It’s been a while…’
After a short impression, Siyoon opened the restaurant without hesitation.
Then, as if he had been waiting for it, a warm feeling passed through his skin. and the smell of savory food.
“Welcome~!”
At the sound of the bell ringing as the door opened, a girl in an apron who had been chatting with a customer on one side of the store came forward with bouncing steps and greeted them lively.
“what? It seems like I’m meeting you for the first time. How did you come? Are you here for dinner? Or coffee?”
Siyoon glanced at her, who was ‘acting’ with her entire body as an active and cute employee, and answered calmly.
“With coffee.”
“……Ah, coffee?”
At that, he felt the glances of several men who were drinking silently pass quickly past him.
The girl in front of him stared at Siyoon’s face with an incomprehensible gaze, then turned around with a bright smile.
“Installment~! He said he came to drink coffee!”
“What?!”
Before long, a large old man from the kitchen across the nightstand poked his face in and shouted.
“Who drinks coffee at such a late hour?!”
“Payment! A guest, a guest!”
“I’m far away!”
Eventually, when he disappeared back into the kitchen, the girl turned back to Siyoon and pointed at the stairs next to the nightstand with an exaggerated gesture.
“Then I’ll take you to your seat!”
He nodded and followed her down the narrow stairs.
The girl who grabbed the old doorknob at the end said with a bright smile.
“Come inside!”
Sigh. The door opened and a dark room greeted him.
At the same time, several gazes focused on Siyoon.
As he quickly glanced around, none of them looked normal.
“Then I’m out of here! Have a good time~!”
Pushing Shiyoon’s back into the door, she closed the door with a cute wink.
“…”
However, for Choi Si-yoon, who knew that it was acting, it only had the effect of making her feel uncomfortable.
That would also be the case because that woman was already famous as a named NPC in the Legend of Heroes.
Her name is Ara Kim.
He was one of the important people he had to recruit someday.
“Understand. My granddaughter is a little… not without a burden.”
Saying that, the old man from earlier appeared from the darkness.
“…”
Contrary to his previous appearance in the kitchen, he looked quite decent and stepped over the bar stand and pressed the power button on the coffee machine.
“By the way… a guy who wears pretty old antiques? I never thought I would see it again.”
“…”
That would have meant the sunglasses that Choi Si-yoon was wearing that had a perception-damping effect.
He was also a soldier at one time, so he should have known enough.
Siyoon sat down in front of the stand and asked.
“So what’s the problem?”
“No, there is none. Is there one or two guys with circumstances on this floor?”
It was because of that advantage that I came here.
Even if you don’t have a clear identity, even if you cover your face, even if you have a dirty corner, it doesn’t matter if you take care of your work properly.
It was such a place.
“Judging by his behavior, he obviously doesn’t have an employee ID… Still, I have to point this out.”
he asked, casting his large body on it.
“Aren’t you supposed to be a resistance fighter?”
However, even here, the resistance was an exception.
Because no one in this city had ever gotten involved with the resistance and ended up on a good side.
“no.”
“If it’s a lie, you’d better not tell it. Because there is a way to find out everything. If, by any chance, it turns out later that he cheated on us…”
The old man laughed and said.
“I believe you will know even if you don’t say anything. If you’ve come all the way here, there’s no way you wouldn’t know the physiology of this floor.”
“Why don’t we get to the point soon?”
“I will.”
He quickly made a cup of coffee and set it down in front of Siyoon.
“It’s a service.”
Siyoon raised her eyebrows and took a sip without hesitation.
“This time, I want you to be a customer who knows the taste of coffee.”
The old man with a small smile took out a bundle of cards from his bosom.
As he moves his hand over the stand, the cards unfold like stairs.
It was a number card with numbers from 1 to 10 written on it.
At that moment, the characteristic ‘achievement hunter’ was activated.
[Discover a new achievement.]
[Successfully handle the job and get hired as a temporary worker.]
And the light of the attribute ‘Achievement Hunter’ was coming from the 3rd card.