Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 617
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EP.555 Episode 555 – New Agent Cha Jin-cheol
Episode 555 – New Agent Cha Jin-cheol
– Cha Jin-cheol
— Ring ring! Ring ring!
“Uhm, it’s you again, hyung – huh?”
I thought it was Sang-Hyeon hyung calling me again to dissuade me, but it was Elena.
As soon as I received it, I heard a cheerful and bright voice.
“Mr. Jincheol, did you receive the invitation? I sent it to you by email!”
“Haha, of course.”
“Are you coming? I’ve prepared the best room for you -”
“Ahem! Ahem! That, Elena. This time it seems like it’s going to be tough.”
“… Hmm.”
A voice filled with regret.
I couldn’t help but feel heavy-hearted at the thought of disappointing my colleague, who boasted such extraordinary beauty.
But, it’s a busy time for me right now!
“Elena, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but I’m a little busy these days.”
“Yes. I heard from the doctor. It’s okay! There will be another chance.”
Elena reacted happily, saying that Songi, Eunsol, and even Gain would be coming soon.
I don’t know about Song-i and Eun-sol, but since Ga-in said that guy is going, wouldn’t it be good for Elena?
Thanks to that, my guilt disappeared.
Now that she has finally left the hotel and returned to reality, I hope that her love will also have its desired results.
“Elena, you look happy these days.”
“Of course~! I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to write ‘dream’, but I think I wrote it well.”
“congratulations.”
The call is over.
“…”
Now that I have a rough idea of ??how my colleagues live,
Thinking of ‘Yoo Song-i’ and ‘Elena’ gives me a rather strange feeling.
It’s not like the two people had any particularly malicious wishes.
Rather, it’s fun and even a little bit envious.
But what if we think about it from the perspective of a third party or a regular person, not a hotel colleague?
“…”
I’m starting to understand why the administration is wary of hotel escapees.
Because the two created their own amusement park.
“… Let’s do some investing.”
*
10, 17, 22, 30, 35, 43, bonus number is 44.
This is the lottery I won a little while ago.
The prize money is 12.7 billion won, and even after deducting taxes, it is still worth an enormous amount, roughly 8 billion won.
The money arrived in my account a little while ago.
Before I experienced the hotel, I would have been half out of my mind wondering if this was a dream or reality.
“…”
I have no inspiration.
Anyway, it’s just fake luck that the management periodically manipulates, so what good does money mean to me if I want to become an agent?
“A little more… .”
It’s still not enough.
This is because first prize lottery winners pour in every week in South Korea.
So, just because I won the lottery doesn’t mean the administration considers me a ‘regressor’.
Lottery winnings are simply the initial capital, and the real money comes from what happens next.
“Is this correct?”
I searched the internet and downloaded a weird program.
It was said to be some kind of trading program, but it was extremely complicated and very sloppy.
“Hmm… No matter how I look at it, it’s strange.”
According to Ari, the prices of these weird things will go up like crazy within three years.
“…”
Does that make sense?
I may not have much economic common sense, but does this make sense?
They say it’s currency, but it’s unclear who issues it.
There is no financial authority to control the circulation, and no credible institution to guarantee its value.
Crucially, no one knows where this currency can be spent.
I doubt if this would even buy you a slice of pizza!
“Ah~ This is really weird. Is Ari’s memory wrong?”
I can’t believe that enough money will be invested in this piece of data to shake the whole world within 3 years.
Even according to Ari, this is also the result of the management’s ‘adjustment’ that greatly delayed the surge period.
“Just put in a little bit. Just a little bit…!”
Even though it was free money from winning the lottery, I feel a bit bad about throwing it away somewhere on the internet.
Let’s just spend 100 million won.
— Click!
Buy 5,000 Bitcoins.
“Okay.”
I spent my time investing 8 billion appropriately with this feeling.
The remaining money is about 1.7 billion won.
Now is the time to go buy the dreams and hopes of 50 million Koreans.
*
The outskirts of Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do.
The old real estate agent from ‘Happy Real Estate’ opened his eyes wide.
“Oh, Chairman! Oh, uh, are you saying that you want to purchase the land and building in xx-ji, Jigok-dong at once?”
Was it because it was a transaction worth 1.5 billion won in cash, and even a transaction for some kind of malicious property?
The real estate agent automatically started saying, “Mr. Chairman.”
“How many times do I have to tell you that?”
“T, I understand what you mean, but I think it would be better to go see the scene first -”
“Just contact the landowner.”
I have never once looked at what kind of land or building they are buying when they say they will trade real estate worth 1.5 billion won.
Even I think it’s an absurd situation, so how absurd would it be for a real estate agent?
“Okay, just wait a moment. I’ll contact the seller.”
It’s too much to spend 1.5 billion without even seeing the product, so should I just look around?
No, if I think about my true intentions, wouldn’t it be normal for me to act in a way that would make anyone suspicious?
At that moment, as I was lost in thought, a tall, young employee gently touched my shoulder.
“Mr. Cha, would you like to come and inspect it?”
“it’s okay.”
“It will take quite some time to meet the seller anyway.”
“Then let’s go and take a look.”
*
Barren land, shabby buildings.
This is my objective assessment of the property worth a total of 1.5 billion won.
No matter how expensive real estate is, I wonder if this price makes sense since it’s not even in the middle of Gangnam.
But I came here to buy this.
“Mr. Chairman, would you like to take a look around here too?”
“…”
The employee next to me started talking about the current market price of Jigok-dong and the building code for a three-story villa.
It seems like he studied a bit, but since Chairman Cha is not interested at all, it is useless to read sutras to a deaf ear.
Has about 30 minutes passed?
As the sky began to darken, I received a call from the real estate agent.
“Sir, I’ve contacted the seller. Shall we go?”
“Okay.”
At that moment, the employee asked cautiously.
“Excuse me… Chairman Cha.”
“hmm?”
“Excuse me -”
“If you think it’s rude, it’s better to stop.”
This is my theory.
“Oh, um, that’s true, but I’m just curious.”
“what?”
“That… . I told you the market price earlier, so you might have guessed, but honestly, this isn’t worth 1.5 billion won?”
“okay?”
“… Did you get any inside information?”
Do you think I have information from a high-ranking official or politician that could increase land prices?
Well, for an ordinary person, this is a reasonable judgment.
“Well? I don’t know.”
“Hey~! Who would invest 1.5 billion in something they don’t know? Don’t you know something?”
A tone of voice that is subtle and poking.
I accepted it because it looked funny.
“What if I knew? Why are you curious?”
“Are you curious?”
And the young man laughed.
“Yes! I’m curious. The fact that the government will announce a new high-speed train line in three months, and that the price of that property will increase twelvefold in three months because of that!”
The young man smiled broadly.
“Lastly, all of the above information is a cover-up, and the real reason is that serial number D – 0241 is trapped in the basement of the building! I wonder how much you know.”
He was no longer respectful to me.
Finally, the administration approached me.
*
— Thud! Thud!
Early autumn, a quiet road with a cool breeze blowing.
The young man said as if he found it amusing.
“Is this a really fun time?”
“…”
“Shall I tell you what happened to you? As usual, while I was going about my ordinary daily life, something like something out of a novel happened.”
“…”
“From the sky, an inexplicable light came down and everything disappeared. When I came to, I was awake in the past.”
“…”
“Oh, isn’t this it? From the sea, I heard a roar that shook the heavens and the earth. A whirlpool that seemed to pierce the sky tore apart South Korea in an instant. When I came to my senses, I woke up in the past.”
“…”
“Isn’t that it? There are countless scenarios of destruction in this damn world, so understand. The point is, the world is destroyed and you wake up in the past.”
Regressor.
Soon, agent candidate.
“Now that I’m back in the past, there’s something I have to do, right? Of course! First, I have to buy a lottery ticket. I won~! Oh, that’s great! What’s next? You bought Bitcoin too? What’s with the 100 million won worth? If you bought too much, it’d upset the balance of the world? Or maybe the butterfly effect?”
The voice of a playful young man.
“Haha! Chairman Cha, have you ever thought about this? Maybe the luck I’ve had isn’t just mine.”
“…”
“There may be other regressors in the world besides me.”
“Is that you? Or the organization you belong to?”
The young man smiled broadly.
“You’re not clueless.”
He looks five years younger than me, but he speaks informally to me often.
I don’t feel bad.
If this person is an agent, he may have actually lived much longer than me.
“So, you’re trying to scold me? What, for taking away someone else’s luck?”
This is the essence of the gain that the regressor obtains.
Taking advantage of something that should have gone to someone else.
Lottery winnings, coin investments, real estate price differences.
Originally, all these benefits should have gone to someone else, not me.
The young man answered my question with a laugh.
“Foot!”
“…”
“Ahhhh! Ahaha!”
“Is it that funny?”
“It’s not funny. It’s funny!”
“What part do you find so funny?”
“You take away someone else’s luck? Haha! That’s not wrong, but how could ‘we’ blame you for that, let alone someone else?”
The administration doesn’t blame me for ‘that reason’.
“Can you guess where I come from? You know where ‘strange’ people like me belong.”
“Administration.”
“Have you ever thought about this in your life?”
A thought that everyone has had at least once.
“Where does the management get their money from? That’s what I’m thinking.”
The police go back to the government budget.
The military also returns to the government budget.
It is common sense that public organizations that protect the world are funded by taxes paid by ordinary citizens.
The administration is a group that deviates from this common sense.
No individual, business, or government pays taxes to the Bureau.
Yet the bureau has branches all over the world and provides generous salaries to its members.
Even labor costs are only a small part of the operating costs of the management office.
Numerous war machines to fight the chaos entity, satellites and drones to monitor the entire planet, and even a system to control the Internet!
Where do the resources for all this come from?
Because it is something incomprehensible, conspiracy theories are widespread in the world.
The actual owners of various large corporations are the management bureaus.
A portion of the taxes paid to the government goes to the administration office.
…
They were all wrong.
“People of the world think that they have never paid taxes to the government.”
“…”
“It’s a mistake. All of humanity pays taxes to us. And the heaviest taxes!”
Lottery winnings that would have originally gone to someone else.
Coin investment profits that would have been earned by others.
The difference in market price that the original land owner would have obtained.
An organization that collects all this ‘luck’ from all over the planet!
A black limousine appeared in front of me.
The moment I was about to approach, the young man touched my shoulder.
“Until yesterday, you were a ‘child in the playground.’”
“… playground.”
“Congratulations. From now on, you are an awakened person. So remember this sentence.”
The one and only sentence that those who manage the ‘playground’ believe in.
“All men are equal. Except us!”