## Chapter 323 – 32. I’m Serious (4)
Faced with a matter of unexpected magnitude, Sua took a deep breath and slowly flipped through the documents.
A massive project to hold concerts in a total of 24 cities, spanning the Korean Peninsula beyond Incheon, and extending to parts of the continent, Japan, and Southeast Asia, over approximately one year.
The target period was roughly one year, from November of this year to November of the next, with a total cost of about 300 billion won.
Even that was just a minimum estimate, and the actual cost could be much higher once the project got underway.
Even that would be manageable.
The problem was that the two vice presidents of Goryeo Entertainment, who were pushing this plan forward, had conflicting opinions.
Rainbow Miracle’s CEO, Emilia Kang, wanted to confirm the plan as is, while Taehee Na of Nokonoko Headquarters wanted to expand it further into North America and Europe. The reason was that LUMINA and Nokonoko Girls were gaining significant popularity in those two regions through Mytube.
Depending on which option was chosen, hundreds of billions of won could be added to the cost.
‘I, is this really a scale I can decide on…?’
Sua’s hands trembled.
Gomu-yeol had told her to make her own judgment, but was it really right for her to proceed with a project of this magnitude based on her decision?
‘My decision… hundreds of billions…’
As she struggled fiercely, she unconsciously reached for her phone.
She felt that, at the very least, she should report something of this size.
But,
Halt.
Looking at the time on her phone screen, she stopped her outstretched hand.
– Until I say otherwise, I’m not here. No need to report separately, and don’t come looking for me.
– You’re going to take the team leaders here, create a task force, and handle things based on your judgment.
‘…’
The words she had heard just moments ago echoed in her mind.
It hadn’t even been an hour since she received the delegation order from Gomu-yeol, and if she made a report like, “Is it really okay to proceed with this?” how pathetic would Gomu-yeol think she was?
‘Then, should I, should I put it on hold…?’
She considered that option, but she didn’t know when Gomu-yeol would return.
The incredibly busy Gomin-yeong had suddenly come to Muyeol Land just hours after they had parted.
And Gomu-yeol had gone to the lab with her, declaring with an endlessly serious face, “I’m not here for a while,” and entrusting all the work to Sua.
Something terribly serious must have happened, but wouldn’t it be difficult to postpone indefinitely?
‘He definitely… told me to handle things based on my judgment.’
Moreover, he had said that when he was away, she, as the chief of staff, had to fill his role.
He wouldn’t have said that expecting her to put things on hold.
‘Maybe this is… a test…?’
The thought suddenly occurred to her.
The amount of work Gomu-yeol was doing was increasing day by day, and he was heading towards overload.
The time had come to seriously consider “delegation.”
If so, the issue would be who to delegate which tasks to, and Gomu-yeol might be trying to test her while he was at it.
Gulp.
‘…I have to do it.’
Sua decided to steel her resolve.
With the hand she had reached out to grab her phone, she pressed a button to call someone.
– Yes, Chief.
“Connect me with the vice presidents of Goryeo Entertainment. Tell them I have a judgment to make regarding the concert matter.”
– Understood.
Doing her best to calm her pounding heart, she began her work in earnest.
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“D, don’t look at me so strangely…”
As the heated atmosphere that began with her pounce subsided, Gomin-yeong wore an uncharacteristically delicate expression.
Her face, still flushed from her recent shower, was averted, and her gap moe was considerable.
“I’m not looking at you strangely… I’m just a little surprised.”
“Ugh…”
She had confirmed the superconductivity of RK-99, yet the first thing she did upon arriving was have sex.
It wasn’t incomprehensible, but it was a bit shocking.
It meant that mixing bodies with me was a higher priority than even room-temperature superconductors.
Well, I guess… it’s not entirely incomprehensible.
My compatibility with her is so good, and she has that sexual dominance trait. She must have been restless even after being apart for a short time.
“Ahem…!”
Gomin-yeong cleared her throat, readjusted her clothes, and tried to appear nonchalant.
“The RK-99 you gave me, after checking, it’s definitely a superconductor. More detailed information will require precise testing, but the superconductivity itself is as good as confirmed.”
“Right?”
The woman who had been panting and flushed just moments ago had completely changed her expression and was speaking with the face of a vice president. Why is that so hot? It still feels like my dick is inside her.
“How did you get this… Can you tell me exactly?”
It would be rude to laugh in the face of her seriousness, so I decided to be serious as well.
I pulled up a chair and sat opposite her.
“As I said before… I made it.”
“…How?”
“…”
“…”
But my lips won’t come off.
How did I make it?
I ground up copper, sulfur, and lead and baked it.
That’s what I should answer…
But who would believe that…?
I was hurriedly making a new RK-99 because I knew she wouldn’t believe me, but Gomin-yeong came too early.
It will take at least another 30 hours or so. I’ll have to talk my way through it until then.
“…Min-yeong, promise me one thing first.”
“Promise…?”
“Promise you’ll never, ever doubt me.”
“What… what are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“I’m not the kind of guy who would joke about something like this in front of you.”
“…I suppose not. I doubted your intentions at first, but now that I’ve confirmed the superconductivity of RK-99, I won’t doubt you anymore.”
“…Really?”
“Yes.”
“Really, really?”
“…Yes.”
“No matter what you hear?”
“…Muyeol, I don’t doubt you. Don’t you trust me?”
She must have gotten angry because I kept pressing her.
Her brow furrowed and her voice rose slightly.
“Ahem… Then… please listen with an open mind.”
“…”
I took a deep breath.
“If you grind copper, sulfur, and lead, mix them in a certain ratio, and bake them in a kiln, you get a superconductor.”
“…What?”
“You grind copper, sulfur, and lead, mix them in a certain ratio, shape them, put them in a kiln, and bake them, and the resistance becomes zero.”
“…?”
She must have heard me correctly, but Gomin-yeong frowned and tilted her head.
Hye-yeong Kang looked no different. Baekseol was smiling slightly, perhaps reminded of her former self.
“So… you get a superconductor by baking copper, sulfur, and lead? That’s it?”
“To be precise, you have to grind them and mix them in the right ratio.”
“…”
“By the way, if you change the ratio and the baking time, you get RK-77.”
“No…”
Gomin-yeong rubbed her temples as if she had a headache.
“Muyeol,”
“You said you wouldn’t doubt me.”
“…”
I preemptively shut her up.
She was probably going to say something like, “That’s ridiculous.”
“B, but…”
“You said you trusted me.”
“…”
Her lips kept twitching.
She looked like she had a whole bunch of things she wanted to say.
In the end,
She couldn’t hold back.
“A superconductor is a material with zero resistance. Not close to zero, but perfectly zero. It’s a dream material that can transmit electricity from Dalian to Busan with zero loss.”
“That’s right.”
“Even then, resistance is only zero in extremely low temperatures or under ultra-high pressure of tens or hundreds of gigapascals, and resistance increases with even slight changes in the environment. That’s why all industries that use superconductors require complex, cumbersome, and difficult-to-manage giant cooling systems to maintain this.”
“That’s what it used to be like.”
“Even the ultra-high-temperature superconductors we use in the military require maintaining a temperature of -30 degrees Celsius. And that’s under the condition of applying 100 gigapascals of pressure.”
“That’s what I heard.”
“The most difficult and challenging problem for moving to 9th-generation mecha is managing the temperature and pressure of these superconductors. We only barely succeeded in raising the temperature and lowering the pressure with the 8.5th generation.”
“That’s why our Baekseol pushed herself and survived. Thank you.”
“The research costs poured into creating that ultra-high-temperature superconductor alone amount to hundreds of trillions of won,”
Gomin-yeong hesitated and hesitated before finally speaking.
“But just by grinding copper, sulfur, and lead and baking them, you get zero resistance at room temperature and pressure?”
“Yes.”
“That’s how the superconductor was made?”
“Yes.”
“…”
My simple answer seemed to drain her energy. Gomin-yeong, who had been gradually rising to her feet as she spoke, deflated like a balloon and slumped back into her chair.
“You’re saying that-,”
“You said you wouldn’t doubt me.”
“…”
Gomin-yeong was suffering.
She looked like she had so much she wanted to say, but couldn’t because of what she had said earlier.
“Sigh… I know you can’t believe it. I was quite confused when I first discovered it. Even Baekseol, who’s a knight, kept denying what I said until the end.”
“Ahem…”
I leaned my upper body towards her.
“I understand that it’s hard to believe. Who in the world would believe that a superconductor came out of grinding and baking common copper, sulfur, and lead?”
“…”
“But that’s what happened. That’s RK-99. The one you’re holding.”
“…”
Gomin-yeong took out RK-99 with a confused expression.
It had a truly unimpressive appearance.
Even I couldn’t believe it was a superconductor.
