## Chapter 139 – 14. Don’t Block My Work
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“PMC name is Snow White….”
Gong Seo-yeong grumbled as she signed the contract.
She had cried and made a fuss after I took her, but when I actually offered her a contract, she stopped abruptly, saying, “Huh…? R-Really?”
It seems she thought I was just going to use her and throw her away.
What does she think of me…?
I’m the kind of guy who even takes in Yoon Ha-yeong, that annoying, stubborn, flower-brained reporter, and uses her as a sex slave for a beast.
How could she even think I’d just use her and dump her?
Unthinkable.
“Hey. Shouldn’t you negotiate or something before signing so easily?”
She signed the contract readily.
She just read through the clauses and nodded before signing her name, to the point where I was worried.
I heard that her previous company, Skyforce, was a complete black company with terrible treatment, so I wondered if she was getting ripped off by signing a contract like this.
“Huh? Why would I hesitate when the salary is five times higher?”
“Oh, really?”
Five times?
I just casually offered it, but five times…
“Plus, they provide medical support and compensation for injuries, and if I’m seriously injured, they give me six months’ salary upfront and cover medical expenses separately. And if I become disabled, they provide free implants and maintain my employment…! This is utopia!”
Seriously, as a war company, a PMC, this is just basic stuff, but if this is utopia, how terrible was her previous company? I can’t even imagine.
“I’m glad you like it.”
She was just raped by me, but she’s signing a contract with such a bright and serious face. She must have a strong mentality.
“But why is the company name Snow White? It doesn’t suit it.”
“The company representative’s name is Seol.”
“….”
Gong Seo-yeong was silent for a moment.
“You thought I was being insensitive just now, didn’t you?”
“Huh? W-What are you talking about? I thought it was great.”
“You’re lying. It’s written all over your face.”
I flicked her forehead.
“Ouch….”
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After arriving at the artificial island, I sent Gong Seo-yeong to the resident doctors.
I plan to have her undergo a basic checkup first, and if there’s anything seriously wrong with her body, I’ll send her to Korea Medical to get it fixed.
“Seung-hee, bring up the map.”
“Yes.”
A panoramic view of the artificial island unfolded before me.
The fact that the island’s forest is almost cleared and the prison site has been decided means that it’s almost time to start using the artificial island in earnest.
It doesn’t make sense to use this vast land only for a prison, does it?
It’s a tenth the size of Incheon City.
I’ll bring in all sorts of armories, military supplies, and various medical centers and companies.
The top candidates are, of course, Korea Military and Korea Medical.
And then maybe Korea Chemical.
But there’s a slight conflict here. If I bring them to the artificial island, it feels like a supervisor is entering my private space.
Even now, my aunt is watching my every move, so even more here…?
Of course, my aunt is hot and good, but hmm….
Anyway, it’s something.
But I can’t just not bring them in. The most obvious reason for the artificial island is to operate a prison. A guy who wants to run a prison, and the grandson of the Korea Group at that, doesn’t bring in Korea Military and Korea Medical?
That’s a strange picture. My aunt might be disappointed.
‘First of all, the checkup on my body must be kept strictly confidential. Of course, my aunt can’t see it either.’
Medical data is very sensitive.
Especially if the mind-scanned data is passed on to the owner’s family…
I can’t predict how the situation will unfold then.
It’s a situation I must avoid at all costs.
‘In the end, do I have no choice but to have Snow White handle the medical side?’
Someone who will never betray me and can acquire the relevant knowledge in a very short period of time.
She said she would study enough to perform implant surgery on me anyway.
It’s just that she can’t actually do the implants…
‘If it weren’t for my grandfather, I would have already plastered myself with implants.’
My grandfather’s view on implants, and the owner family’s view, is very negative.
They think of it as a symbol of the lower classes, like the stamps that the lower classes, the slaves, used to put on their foreheads or chests to distinguish them from free people.
Well, it’s a common cliché in cyberpunk stories for chaebols to hate implants and love pure flesh, so it’s not surprising.
The more prevalent implants and cyborgs are in a society, the more ambiguous the differences between humans, machines, and robots become. The sense of superiority that they alone exist as pure living beings, as ‘humans themselves,’ is the symbol of a cyberpunk chaebol.
It’s the same here.
If I, the eldest grandson of the Korea Group, get implants, it will probably be a reaction similar to starting drugs again.
So, it’s on hold.
‘Still, I’ll be able to squeeze a lot more out of the family in the future…’
I give up on what seems impossible and focus my investment on what seems possible.
‘My grandfather actively uses anti-aging and other biotechnology, so there won’t be any problems in this area.’
Highly developed biotechnology is no different from robotics…?
Hmm. Something’s strange.
Anyway, there are endless possibilities in this area, so I can soothe my disappointment that way.
“Seol-ah, are you still studying?”
“Yes?”
She tilted her head for a moment at the sudden question, then nodded as she remembered something.
“Ah, yes! I am, my lord.”
“Good. Keep up the good work. I can only entrust my body to you.”
“!! P-Please entrust it to me.”
“Okay.”
After taking care of her appropriately, I order Seung-hee.
“I want you to build a Korea Group complex here. Select things that will be helpful to me, including Military, Medical, and Chemical, and bring them in, and draw up an operating plan.”
“Yes.”
“This area will be a cultural and entertainment complex. Basically, the people on the artificial island can’t leave without my permission, so there must be things to enjoy here. But don’t buy any male prostitutes or anything like that. This whole island is off-limits to men.”
“Then what kind of things should I bring in?”
“Take a vote, or just have a meeting among yourselves and decide.”
“A vote…?”
Ah, there aren’t any residents yet.
At most, there’s Ha Eun-yeong and Ma Yeon-joo, but it’s a bit much to have them vote.
“Are there any female celebrities who have fallen from grace?”
“Are you talking about people who can’t come out because their sex bribery facts have been exposed?”
“Yeah. What are they doing now?”
“I know that some are holding out with the money they’ve earned, waiting for an opportunity, and those who don’t have enough money have already gone into the entertainment district.”
“Exclude the ones who have gone into the entertainment industry, and just bring all the ones who are lying low to the artificial island. Have them do a survey or something to create a cultural and entertainment complex plan.”
“I understand.”
“This area can be used for drug-related things.”
Now that I’ve decided to distribute it, I need to figure out the structure properly and open up a route to production.
To do that, there will be a lot of trial and error, and depending on the situation, I may have to procure the materials directly. Or cultivate them. I’ll use this land for that.
In addition to that, I threw out all the ideas that came to mind and designed it.
It may be drastically changed later, but for now, this is it.
As the artificial island will be the core of my power in the future, I paid as much attention as possible.
“Hey, when will the ownership be transferred?”
Surprisingly, this island is still owned by my aunt on paper.
It will still take time and procedures for it to be transferred to me, or rather, to the corporation that will be established to manage this artificial island.
“They said it will take about a week longer.”
“Isn’t it just paperwork? Why is it taking so long….”
“Artificial islands have a lot of related laws and regulations…. In fact, floating it in front of the city like this is illegal in a broad sense.”
“Everything’s illegal.”
“It’s a threat to the city from a strategic point of view…. It’s like having an aircraft carrier floating in front of the city, so I think it’s natural for laws to be created. In addition, from the residents’ point of view-,”
“….”
She lowered her head, startled, when I stared at her.
“Whose side are you on?”
“Huh? No,”
I grabbed her and tormented her.
“Kyaaak!”
“You had to add another word. You need to be punished.”
“I’m, I’m sorry!! Ahh!”
After tormenting her with caresses for a while, she gasped and slumped down.
“Ahh….”
“Who’s the Namdong-gu council member?”
“Na, Namdong-gu?”
“I need to talk to the city council too. Who’s the Namdong-gu council member?”
“Ah.”
Seung-hee quickly pulls herself together and gets up.
“Th, the head of Namdong-gu is a person named Yeo Chae-rin, and she belongs to the Progressive Innovation Party. The Namdong-gu Gap council member is Kim Eun-ji from the Better Future Party, and the Namdong-gu Eul council member is Jeong Gyeong-min from the Equality and Freedom Constitution Party.”
“What a mess.”
It was a three-way battle….
“Among them, the one who is directly related to the Namdong Industrial Complex is Kim Eun-ji, the Namdong-gu Gap council member. In fact, most of the district is the Namdong Industrial Complex…. Decades ago, the city hall was also there, so it was Incheon’s No. 1 political district, but now it is being criticized for only occupying a seat.”
“Oh…. Is she a woman?”
“Yes. She’s a young rising star.”
“Call her.”
