Chapter 55 – 055. Code: XTK
055. Code: XTK
[Hacking succeeded.]
[You can hack the legendary blade for 15 minutes.]
It’s a fact I found out a while ago. As for hacking, once connected, I was able to hack sites and games at will.
I started changing the taker character. The character’s level becomes 200 in an instant. All stats became 99999, and equipped items changed to the best items in the game.
A rainbow aura of seven colors was flowing from the character’s body.
GM Taker: Can’t you believe this?
Anything: Mr. Taker. I guess I’ll have to meet you in person.
•••
Having made an appointment with Raffles, I returned to reality.
Code: There was nothing I had to do right away in the XTK game world. I ran auto progress.
‘Let’s spend time with automatic progress until the appointment time. And there are things I want to experiment with.’
This experiment is about automatic progression.
Avatar is affected by my behavior, attitude, and values. When the avatar of the vampire detective is set to auto-progress, it sets aside everything else and searches for the woman first. Go to Yeong Hye-jeong or contact Hera and Choi Seon-mi.
‘And sometimes I put on a cheap clown mask and move to assassinate a vampire hunter.’
In other words, the avatar that automatically progresses follows my life pattern. When a variable arises, I respond like I did. Avatar can also use the skills or characteristics I used in the Yu-Gi world. His physical abilities are the same as mine. However, the inventory cannot be used.
‘The problem is that they are not exactly the same. A short automatic progression is okay, but it’s impossible to predict what will happen if it’s long.’
Here is the question What would happen if I didn’t do anything special in the game world?
‘Should I act like the real me? Or should I act according to the avatar’s original setting?’
It is predicted that it will probably be closer to the latter.
‘If I know this, I might be able to use it later.’
I stared at my smartphone and watched the actions of Code: XTK’s Avatar, Yujin Park.
7 o’clock in the morning. Park Yoo-jin and her roommate get up, get a quick meal of ramen, and get ready for work.
8 in the morning. Work at the factory. A middle-aged man called the head of management calls the staff together and briefly informs them about today’s schedule. And he starts working right away.
My job was to make machine parts. Strictly speaking, machines make parts. What people did was to manage the machine, put the ingredients in, and pack the parts that were made.
Park Yoo-jin is exceptionally called to the manager and receives nagging and scolding. The way I see it, Park Yujin didn’t make any mistakes. In the first place, what he does is simple repetitive work. There was nothing difficult about the job.
Park Yu-jin was just not on good terms with the manager.
12 p.M. He eats lunch, rests a bit, and goes back to work.
2pm. An oddity occurred here. Park Yu-jin used her hacking skills to look at the manager’s smart watch. Park Yoo-jin noticed that he stole some of the raw materials and sold them personally to make an unfair profit. Park Yu-jin sent the data to the factory manager.
3 p.M. The boss came to the management department. The two looked at each other and talked, their voices rising. The head of the management department didn’t admit that he had done something wrong, but he got angry with a red flag. The boss was angry at the brazen attitude of the manager, just like the boss.
The atmosphere at work was the worst.
In the end, the boss called the police, and the head of the management department, who gave strength to his neck and was angry, quickly became a jjuguri. This is because the police in this world often take out their guns without hesitation if the target rebels even a little.
Park Yoo-jin saw the manager being dragged away by the police, and she giggled involuntarily.
6 pm. She got off work For dinner, we ate at a shop near her dorm, then went to the PC room and started playing games. She is doing her best by using hacks to boost the stats of her own game characters.
“…… As for Yujin Park, she wasn’t really influenced by me.”
She wrote hacks, but that’s it.
If I were Yujin Park, she would not have been to the factory from the beginning.
Manager? If she really didn’t like it, she would have hacked the machine and killed it by accident.
And hack her bank to make her money your own. Code: In XTK, the use of hacking was endless.
‘Are you sure. If I don’t do anything special in the game world, the avatar behaves according to the original setting. And if I act with sincerity, the avatar will also act with sincerity under my influence.’
It would be convenient if I could move my avatar the way I want.
‘My appointment with Raffles is at 9pm. Now let’s go see Raffles.’
[The game begins.]
•••
Waking up in the PC room, I frowned.
[The hacking cooldown is 2 hours and 45 minutes.]
‘This… Fuck!’
Because Park Yu-jin hacked her game to study, she was in a state where she couldn’t use hack right away due to the cooldown.
‘I was supposed to meet Raffles at 9, but it’s cooldown time!’
The time now is 7:10 PM. It’s almost 10 o’clock when the cooldown ends.
‘No wonder Raffles will ask you to show off your hacking skills. Now that it’s like this, I’ll have to leave about an hour late.’
I sent a message to Anything saying that I would be late and left the PC room.
“… Ugh.”
I frowned and covered my nose.
The city was noisy and smelled of metal. This is a factory area on the outskirts of Seoul. It wasn’t a very nice neighborhood.
I looked around. Neon signs flash, and street lights exist. However, the building itself is large and all look similar, so it has a dark atmosphere.
In the streets, cleaning robots that look like 1M-sized cans are walking back and forth. AI doesn’t look very good.
‘The air is rotten! Shit!’
I see some people wearing gas masks on their faces. Air pollution was serious.
I looked at either side and frowned.
‘Why are those bastards leaning against the wall of the convenience store with their tops open? Technology has advanced, but citizenship has declined in inverse proportion.’
He looked to be in his early 20s, but his upper body was full of tattoos. And on the right shoulder or arm, there is a machine that I don’t know where to use. Human body modification was common in this world.
‘It’s a world where machines are attached to normal bodies just because they’re cool.’
I didn’t understand it at all. Life becomes easier by replacing parts of the body with machines.
They looked at me It felt my gaze.
They giggled and stopped at me. I smiled and pulled the pistol I had brought from my real life out of my jacket pocket and pointed it at them. They were startled and disappeared in a hurry down the alley next to the convenience store.
“Things that don’t matter.”
I put the pistol back in my pocket.
Code: XTK’s South Korea was a world where gun ownership was legal. No, owning a gun is at the level of aegyo. There are also guys with heavy machine guns on their arms.
I walked down the street While the air in the city was stinky, the buildings in the city glittering with neon signs were quite a spectacle.
‘I never thought I’d enter the real webtoon world.’
Wandering the streets, I stopped in front of a store.
Blay Gun Mart.
Gun Mart. It’s a pretty fun name shop. And, as the name suggests, it was a place that sold guns. I went inside without much hesitation.
The size of the store was roughly the size of a meat restaurant, but the walls were made of steel, and there were more than 5 people standing guard inside. All five are cyborgs.
A middle-aged man sitting at the counter looked at me. The right half of his face was covered by the machine. The red mechanical eyes glow and stare at me.
“Sorry. Did you come to buy a gun for self-defense? If you want, I can recommend a pistol that is easy for beginners to use.”
“Here. Do you buy firearms too?”
“Are you here to sell guns? Well, if it’s the right thing, there’s nothing you can’t buy. Take it out.”
I put the pistol in front of him.
HK USP.
HK’s universal automatic pistol.
I don’t particularly care about the model of the pistol. This was also brought because it was easy to carry among the roughly stacked firearms.
“Wow…. Plastic? It’s a complete antique. I hope there is someone who brings something like this. This is the first time in 15 years of my store experience.”
“This is a good gun.”
“It’s good, bitch. This is ornamental. Ornamental. It has no advantages other than being rare.”
Not much to say about the pistol, I shrugged. I don’t even know much about pistols.
He grabbed his pistol with his mechanical right arm and began to scan it around.
“Uh. It’s a real antique that hasn’t even been remodeled. 50,000 won… No, it’s an antique, so I’m going to give it a rarity value. It is in almost new condition… 1.9 million won. That’s about it.”
“…… Uh, 1.9 million won? It’s more expensive than you think.”
“Because this is a genuine antique that has not been remodeled. When it comes to firearms, there are not a few people who collect them. If it were them, they would salivate and try to buy this too. HK is a company that has already disappeared. It will probably rise at least 7 times in about 10 years. Are you really going to sell it now?”
“I live only for today, not for the future.”
“Don’t regret hitting the ground later.”
I sold him a pistol. Payment was made with a smart watch.
I found out in the process that his name was ‘Kim Blay’. I thought he was some kind of nickname, but his real name is ‘Kim Blay’.
“I recommend this pistol for self-defense. It is the latest automatic pistol from Mail. Even if you put it in water, it doesn’t break down at all, and there is little recoil. It’s perfect for a kid.”
Seeing the handgun he pulled out, he frowned.
“This is too small.”
“Small is good. Isn’t it for self-defense anyway?”
“I want combat, not self-defense.”
Bray scanned me up and down. He soon sighed and laughed.
“You are a noob. My body seems to be in good shape, though. But in the end, unless you’re a cyborg, it’s hard to handle combat use. If you’re going to fight, why don’t you remodel your body first?”
Normal.
It refers to ordinary people who do not have machines in their bodies.
“I am strong.”
“Well, it looks like you’re stronger than the bastard in my house.”
“I am a guest.”
“… Oops! I forgot about it. I was fooling around for nothing. So dear guest. Which combat gun do you want?”
Bray changed his attitude. This is correct I am a customer and he is a merchant who has to sell me goods.
“I want something universal. And I want it to be a bit stronger.”
“Then I recommend this. Black Kite F.”
“Black Kite F? What gun is it?”
“It’s such a gun.”
He pulled out a pistol and showed it to me. It’s a black pistol that looks just like the UPS I had. The details are a bit different.
“Its appearance resembles the antiques you brought. I think you like things like this. But the inside is completely different. I have to charge the battery with electricity for about 30 minutes a month. Most of the magazines are 9mm, including those used for antiques. Its power is at least twice as powerful as the gun you brought.”
I got a pistol The grip was quite good. Most of all, I liked the electronic screen on the back of the pistol instead of a hammer. You can check the number of bullets through the screen.
“It’s good. How much is it?”
“7 million won. It’s a bit expensive because it’s something I remodeled myself. Instead, stability and durability are top-notch. You can use all the different types of special bullets, and there’s no heat problem even after firing 1,000 shots in a row. It is the most versatile gun you could ever want.”
“It’s good. I buy it.”
It was an impulsive choice. It wasn’t bad in my opinion. It would be nice to have at least one of these pistols as a collectible. In addition, there may be something to write about in the future.
“It’s a simple decision. This guy who looks insincere has great distribution. I’ll give you 10 explosive bullets as a service.”
“Your name is Black Kite F? Do you mean anything?”
“Kite is my friend. He’s black Originally, that was what the friend ordered. I lost fighting with a gangster before it was finished. F is for Friday. It’s the day the friend passed away.”
The origin of the name seems a bit confusing.
Well, that was fine for me.
“What are the special bullets?”
“There are explosive bullets, freezing bullets, armor-piercing bullets, prickly bullets, and lightning bullets. Among them, explosive bombs are the most expensive. It’s 30,000 won each.”
“What about regular bullets?”
“400 won each. Buy 100, get 10 free.”
“Do you sell daggers here too?”
“They sell a few knives, but this place specializes in firearms.”
Bray said to me as I finished the payment and left the store.
“I don’t care where you pull the trigger or who you pull the trigger on. Still, as a guest of mine, I’d like to give you some advice: don’t attach meaning to the human body. Turn your body into a machine That is more efficient.”
It was nagging. I listened to him in one ear and let it out in the other.
“Yes. Yes. Sell a lot.”
