## Chapter 328 – 32. I’m Telling You, It’s Real (9)
‘No way.’
There are many expensive materials in the world, but they are usually limited in quantity.
However, RK-99, priced at 20 million won per gram, is expected to have enormous trading volume.
And that’s just for military use.
There’s no way to hide this.
The Financial Supervisory Service would immediately notice something amiss, and various national and intelligence agencies would pick up the scent.
And by then, most intelligence organizations would likely sense something strange.
‘Of course, Prestige too.’
Should I just tell Grandpa?
Since he’s the top elder of the Koryeo Group, it might be best to do that…
“No matter how long you try to hide it, the limit is about a year. Keep that in mind.”
“Should I tell Grandpa?”
“You could, but it wouldn’t make much difference. Muyeol Chemical is too small to handle RK-99. No matter what you do, you’ll be noticed. Unless you trade it on the black market.”
“Hmm…”
Black market trading… that means tax evasion, right? Preventing the report from even reaching the financial authorities, like smuggling.
‘But wait a minute…’
Something came to mind.
“…Let’s just go legit?”
“Huh?”
“Place huge orders, and pay 20 million won per gram in cash, right away.”
“…?”
She tilted her head.
She probably wasn’t used to my sudden change in attitude.
I just thought of it, so it’s understandable.
“Thinking about it, our goal is to keep the superconductor from being exposed, right?”
“That’s… right?”
“Muyeol Chemical is supplying RK-99 paste, which is made of copper, sulfur, and lead. They’re roughly mixing it and selling it for 20 million won per gram. Who would look closely at such junk? They’ll just think corrupt chaebols are playing with money.”
“Hmm…”
It’s copper, sulfur, and lead, no less.
These aren’t useless materials, but no one would think that buying them would lead to creating something amazing, something worth 20 million won per gram.
They’d probably think that my aunt, Ko Min-yeong, is just putting money into her nephew’s company as a gift or inheritance.
Of course, this is also illegal. Using something without commercial value for inheritance to transfer a large amount of company assets would probably be considered embezzlement or breach of trust.
So, it could actually be a disguise to hide the real thing.
People’s psychology is like this: if you’re digging and find a treasure chest, you open it and are satisfied, you don’t try to dig further below.
‘Those bastards are at it again. Damn chaebols.’
That’s the kind of psychology I’m aiming for.
“Buy a bunch of non-essential materials, discard the unnecessary ones or consume them internally, make RK-99 paste, and supply it to the military. Min-yeong pays Muyeol Chemical the full price. And I own 100% of Muyeol Chemical.”
Technically, Koryeo Entertainment owns 100% of it.
“So, disguise it as your aunt embezzling company money to give her nephew an allowance?”
“Allowance is a bit much, more like an inheritance?”
“From the outside, it’ll look like my dad told me to do it. Not a bad idea.”
“Right? Plus, we bought all sorts of stuff besides copper, sulfur, and lead, so we can hide the recipe too.”
Buy whatever else, it’s all useless junk.
No one would imagine that these things could produce something amazing worth 20 million won per gram.
So this is…
Just illegal money laundering by chaebols…
“Since I’ve practically taken over Incheon, it’ll seem even more plausible.”
“True… You’re right. They’d never suspect a superconductor. I didn’t believe it even when I saw it with my own eyes.”
Ko Min-yeong nodded with a somewhat deflated smile.
As long as we can hide the existence of the superconductor, the rest doesn’t matter.
She’ll turn a blind eye to such minor (?) crimes like breach of trust.
No one would risk their life to go against Koryeo Group for that. Only a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor would be worth risking everything for.
‘I got scared for nothing.’
Once I thought that way, I calmed down a lot.
Damn it.
Who cares about a mixture of copper, sulfur, lead + other junk?
Is this what they call the trap of knowledge?
I think there was a term like that.
Knowing too much prevents you from making rational decisions.
The impact of the room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor was so strong that I was fixated on it, racking my brain, thinking, ‘What do I do?’
But in reality, from the outside, it just looks like a chaebol heir’s foolish act and a chaebol aunt buying worthless trash for a huge sum.
Ko Min-yeong was the same.
Looking at RK-99 from the perspective of a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor made her overestimate its aggro potential.
“Hehe. An allowance from Muyeol… Feels good?”
“Thank you, Aunt.”
“It’s been a while since I’ve been called Aunt…”
I felt some tension release.
Ah.
RK-99.
Even the materials are perfect.
“I’m hungry, let’s get something to eat.”
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Ko Min-yeong and I talked about RK-99 until late in the evening.
Besides the delivery and price, there were many things to discuss.
“It would be much better if we could use it as a liquid even at low temperatures below 100 degrees Celsius. Can we conduct related research? Or you could do it.”
“Um… I’ll try it first.”
The RK series ranges from RK-11 to RK-99.
Each one has fraudulent characteristics, but RK-99 is the most expensive.
But none of them are ‘room-temperature liquid superconductors’.
Even RK-99 needs to be heated to almost 1,000 degrees Celsius to be used as a liquid.
‘I feel like it might come out if I modify the recipe.’
The common feature of the RK series is that the materials are similar.
Giving differences in the ratio, baking temperature, and time results in materials with completely different properties.
So, if I research this in various ways, might something come out?
Since it’s a fraudulent item from birth, I feel like I might find the answer somehow.
If it doesn’t work, maybe I can just sprinkle finely ground RK-99 powder into something like water to create something similar to a liquid superconductor?
‘Come to think of it, what happens if you grind RK-99? Does it become superconductor powder? If you spray it very quickly and rotate it? Superconductor field??’
I realize there are many things I haven’t tried.
If I were a scientist who gets excited about this, I’d be jizzing my pants right now.
There are so many endless possibilities.
“Okay. Let me know when you get results.”
“I will.”
After roughly finishing our discussion, we finally left the lab.
Since everything related to RK-99 is done, there’s no need to be stuck here anymore.
‘How long was I here…’
Starting from Monday the 26th, today is… Friday the 30th, so I’ve been stuck here all week.
My perfectly fine body suddenly feels stiff.
People need to go outside and exercise regularly.
“You have an appointment tomorrow?”
“Yes… unfortunately. When are you going back, Min-yeong?”
“I want to stay longer… but I have to go back tomorrow too. I have a lot of tasks to do.”
“That’s too bad.”
“Instead… tonight…”
“….”
Our eyes met.
And we exchanged.
The will to intensely desire each other tonight.
“Ah…! Master!!”
When Ko Min-yeong and I appeared, all the busy secretaries stopped working.
Sua ran over like a tail-wagging puppy, her eyes glistening with tears.
It seems she had a lot of work to do even after yesterday.
I should give her some time off.
“Good work.”
“Aaaah…”
“Anything unusual?”
“N-no, nothing like yesterday…”
“Yesterday…”
There probably won’t be anything like that…
Nothing can compare to almost standing up Go Hayan…
“You look very tired, go get some rest. You’ve organized the contents, right?”
“Y-yes!”
“Okay. Eat and go to sleep. You have a day off until tomorrow.”
“Thank you!”
“Okay, everyone else, finish up roughly today and go to sleep.”
I gave a short break to all the secretaries, including Sua.
I didn’t set an exact time… but if I meet Hayan tomorrow with a simple entourage, they can still rest for a day.
I don’t know when the meeting with Hayan will end.
‘I should give them a bonus.’
In terms of time, there probably isn’t much difference from usual.
Secretaries work 24 hours anyway.
But there’s a big difference in workload. Especially for Sua, the mental stress must have been considerable.
‘Sua… should I give her some shares?’
I was originally going to give her about 0.1% of Koryeo Entertainment a long time ago, but it got lost in the shuffle due to various events.
Compared to then, she’s doing much more work now, and since I see some potential for auto, it seems like the right time to nurture her.
‘I’m gradually building up the size of the group, so I need to create a proper board of directors and managers.’
Either Im Sua or Seo Aram will probably be Auto No. 1. I can have Sua complete some training and stick her in as a president somewhere.
Well… since she’s not from a business background, she might make some mistakes in the beginning, but what’s important to me is loyalty over ability. I can tolerate that much. I can have her study.
‘Wow… President Im, you better treat me well. How far is a mere detective going to climb?’
It’s hard for me to say it myself, but I’m a really good master, aren’t I?
