Chapter 178 – Episode 21. Plan B.
There was no such thing as a restaurant with several years of tradition in Pyongyang’s Special Technology City. In the first place, there was no way there would be a traditional restaurant in a city that was completely bombed and rebuilt from scratch. Even if there is a tradition, it is probably an 8-year tradition.
Although chefs who had fled during the war returned to Pyongyang, all the large companies had already taken over Pyongyang, so they had no choice but to either become low-wage chefs or settle down in Pyongyang’s new satellite city, which was rebuilt along with Pyongyang.
So, Pyongyang’s gourmets came to eat food from Pyongyang’s satellite cities such as Nampo City and Pyongsong City. But I didn’t have time to go to the satellite city. Since I had work at night, I had to eat something delicious in Pyongyang.
So, after searching in order of ratings, I found that the most delicious restaurant in Pyongyang’s Special Technology City was an Italian restaurant. Pyongyang and an Italian restaurant… They don’t go well together, do they?
Hmm… Before Possession, no one would believe me if I told them that the best restaurant in Pyongyang was a pasta restaurant…
I headed to the most highly rated Italian restaurant, Italiano-Pyongyang (italiàno-paese di Pyongyang). The biggest advantage of this restaurant was that among the highly rated restaurants, it was closest to the hotel I was staying at.
“Benvenuto! Welcome!”
I was greeted by a very cute female waitress and sat down. As I sat down, a menu automatically appeared on the screen of my sunglasses. Hmm, I’m not used to it, but it’s comfortable. I looked at the menu and ordered Vongole pasta, Carbonara pasta, and Bolognese pasta. At this rate, my stomach will be somewhat full.
Then I picked up my smartphone and checked the surrounding geography. It was a dark map app that was downloaded from the dark app for a considerable amount of points and was useful for people in back alleys, such as the location of CCTV or the patrol route of Pyongyang autonomous police. There are similar map apps for Tokyo and Chiba, but I haven’t purchased them because I haven’t found any use for them yet.
There were not many CCTVs in Pyongyang. This is because almost 90 percent of people were connected to Pyongyang’s cyber network and VR devices anyway, so there was little need to install CCTV. No matter where you go, there is no need to install CCTV because it is recorded in Pyongyang’s central VR cyber system connected to VR devices.
“Then, first stop by the hotel again and remove the device…”
As I was muttering, the waiter smiled and served the food. As expected, it had the highest rating, so there was a lot of it and it smelled good.
“Bon appetite.”
“Thank you.”
I inhaled my pasta while still looking at my phone. By eating the three flavors in turns, I was able to have a delicious meal without getting tired of it.
While eating, I took out a napkin from under the bowl to wipe my mouth, and there was something that looked like a phone number written on it. Ah… Did the female employee put this in place?
And when I look at the female employee, she smiles slightly. She’s pretty and has a nice body. I raised my hand and called the waiter. The female waitress quickly ran towards me with her face slightly red.
“When do you finish today?”
“10 o’clock!”
It’s 10 o’clock… For a restaurant, it closes late. But that was just enough. If you take care of work right away and meet this cute female employee, your alibi will be quite good.
“Then… “We will meet at the bar of the Platinum Hotel in Pyongyang around 10:30.”
“Yes…Hehe, is there anything else you need?”
“Is there a drink you like here?”
“Ah! “Our restaurant’s granita is good.”
“Then I’ll order two drinks of that. “Please have a drink there.”
I didn’t know what granita was, but when the female waitress went to deliver the order to the kitchen, I looked it up and found that it was a traditional Italian drink like a slush made by mixing champagne, sugar, fruit, and ice. It must be delicious.
After drinking all the granita the waitress brought, I got up. When I waved at the female waitress, she winked at me. It is now a little past 6 o’clock. Because it was July, the day was still bright.
After finishing my meal, I took a walk around the area for a while and then returned to the hotel. I thought I could start work around 8 o’clock when the sun sets.
Before that, you need to turn off the VR device. A person who had a VR device embedded with a cyber implant could not unlock it, but a tourist like me could easily unlock it. Of course, the Pyongyang autonomous police were aware of this fact, but because the cost of installing CCTV was expensive, they were only protecting themselves by installing CCTV at important points.
I prepared for this project for two hours.
“Now that it’s dark… Even when the sun sets, it’s not dark.”
Even though the sun had set, the street was not dark due to the brilliant light of the neon signs. I left my device at the hotel and escaped through the window. Then, based on the records of the VR device, you will be able to prove your alibi because you will still be in the hotel room. I kicked the wall of the front building and the hotel wall alternately and landed.
I knew all the locations of the CCTV cameras, but I was afraid I might get caught, so I went to the northern area of Pyongyang’s Special Technology City wearing a mask. The northern region was home to the research complexes of each major company, and of course, there was also the BS Group research complex.
These days, when BS Group was split in half due to a succession war, it was a time when something could be easily stolen.
What was useful in the BS Group was armor-type materials such as tech wear and cyber suits. BS Defender also creates new products using research data established at the Pyongyang Research Complex, so obtaining data from here will be a significant weapon.
“That way.”
After walking for about 30 minutes with a feeling that was somewhere between a brisk walk and a run, I came across the BS Group’s research complex. Walking while avoiding CCTV took me 30 minutes to cover a distance that should have taken 15 minutes at my brisk pace. It was a research complex that looked quite complicated, but since I had been there several times in the game, the terrain was clear to the eye.
I climbed up the wall of the research complex, created a place to step using shadow control, and jumped up. Because electricity was flowing through the barbed wire on top of the wall, we had to jump over it without touching it.
I ran stealthily to a medium-sized lab other than the largest building. Because there was shadow control, infiltration was easy because one could hide oneself in the shadows.
Perhaps because I used it often, my mastery of shadow control increased and I was able to cover my entire body with shadows, so even when guards came and went, I was able to assimilate into the shadows and hide, avoiding getting caught.
The place I was going to was the 5th floor, the top floor of the research institute. This is a place where secret data is located, and the information you want will be there as well.
There were no windows on the 5th floor, so you had to go to the 4th floor and use the regular passage to go up to the 5th floor. I went to a wall that wasn’t very crowded and started climbing the wall. Climbing the wall was easy. Since I was able to create a place to step through shadow control, I just had to climb up like a ladder.
I climbed up in an instant, stuck under the window on the fourth floor, closed my eyes, concentrated my mind, and used my master’s senses to see if anyone was there.
Hmm… ! It’s quiet. Did you get off work? Or is it just that there are no people here? I quickly opened the window and went inside.
The place I entered was like a warehouse where unused documents were collected. At this rate, there is no sign of anyone.
I carefully opened the warehouse door and came out. As expected, there was no one. It looks like everyone has left work, right? I quickly ran to find the stairs to the 5th floor.
Oh, there are two! They were guards. It was clearly an important place, so it was guarded by security guards who looked quite elite. The equipment looks pretty good, doesn’t it?
At that moment, an idea occurred to me. After finishing reviewing the idea, I raised a shadow blade at the tip of my finger. And then he ran at top speed and attacked the two guards. Just like that, he clawed and cut into the vital parts of the guards with both hands that had shadow blades.
In the sudden surprise attack, the two guards fell down with blood spraying from their necks and faces. No matter how well equipped they were and how elite they looked, they were only security guards and could be easily defeated.
The bodies of the guards looked as if they had been hit by the claws of a wild beast. This could confuse Park Il-soo and Park Il-man, who have been fighting over the succession of BS Group for quite some time. If the guards were dead with wounds similar to Park Sang-beom, anyone would suspect both of them. Those who doubt Park Il-soo will suspect that he killed him in the same way for revenge, and those who doubt Park Il-man will think that he used a similar method as Park Sang-beom.
I stepped over the corpses of the guards and headed toward the entrance to the fifth floor. The reason I spent two hours preparing after dinner was because of this password. Because it was a variable password that changed every day, I was struggling to calculate it, but eventually I contacted Han Yu-kyung, the smartest person I know, and told her the formula and had her solve the password. I was dumbfounded because Han Yu-kyung was able to solve my problem in just 20 seconds while I was moaning for an hour. It occurred to me that the difference in intelligence was bigger than I thought.
The formula for finding this password was one of the things I randomly recorded in case I needed it after being possessed, but if I hadn’t written it down in the beginning, I would have forgotten it by now.
Looking at things like this, it seems like some intelligence is needed… Still, since there are many more necessary stats, intelligence and other unnecessary stats always took a backseat.
I entered the password slowly so as not to make a mistake on the password pad. After a beep, the door opened with the sound of the lock being unlocked. A computer was operating in the middle of a huge mechanical device.
The Ai system was automatically organizing the data sent from the BS Group research center. I sat down at the computer and plugged in the hacking USB. Then I operated the computer and gathered the data I needed.
First, I put in the next generation tech armor (12-11) file, which was the material I wanted the most, then cut out the rest of the material that looked good and put it in the USB. The transfer speed was so fast that I was able to insert the data I selected in less than 2 seconds.
I had some time left, so I looked around to see if there was any useful information, but the information was so vast that I couldn’t find it right away. I’m not an expert in this field, so I don’t know anything other than the information I already know.
I just picked a few names that seemed interesting. Ai algorithm improvement – final – final final 3 files… I put the file on USB. I think I’ll give you quite a bit of points if you sell this on a black market…
Unusually, Amsang was famous for giving generous points to anyone who retrieved information about Ai, so I planned to stop by the Pyongyang branch on my way back to the hotel.
