Gold and Silver Alchemist

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I woke up to the ringing of the phone.

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Without even opening my eyes, I picked up my cell phone from my bedside.

“hello?”

-Hello, customer! This is the xx electronics store. The goods you purchased have now departed for your home. It should arrive in about an hour.

“Ah yes! All right.”

I kicked off the blanket and stood up.

Looking at the wall clock, it was 10:00 AM.

‘I overslept.’

Wandering around the electronics store, I bought everything that caught my eye, including TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, water purifiers, air purifiers, dishwashers, robot vacuum cleaners, and espresso machines, which are called the ‘three greats’ of home appliances, and they arrived at my house in an hour. .

I hurriedly washed my face and brushed my teeth.

Then I stood in front of the mirror.

hiss-

My lower body, which had been wearing shorts, was quickly covered with pants.

I put on the clothes that were in my inventory right away.

The more I used inventory magic, the more I could control it more and more delicately.

It’s not possible to wear tops and bottoms at the same time yet, but I think that will be possible soon.

hiss-

I put on a top and trimmed my clothes.

After getting ready to go out like that, I left the hotel room less than 10 minutes after waking up.

Passing through the lobby and out the front door, a taxi was standing right there.

The hotel staff opened the taxi door and got on.

“How far shall we take you?”

“Cheongdam-dong.”

humming-

The taxi departed.

It’s right in front of the house from here, so even if the road is blocked, 15 minutes will be enough.

I was looking out the window with my back comfortably leaning against the sheet, and suddenly I remembered last night’s dream.

Alan had a grand plan in place to claim the gold of the entire universe.

4.5 tons of gold consumption per month in a 100-step factory seemed absurd at first, but compared to the amount of gold in the entire universe, it was by no means a large amount.

When neutron stars collide in space, the amount of gold produced is several times the mass of the Earth.

‘Anyway, the universe.’

In fact, this part was not surprising either.

Looking at Alan’s memory fragments, I already knew that his scale far exceeded the human realm.

He is a person who has lived an eternity of time, enough to feel 100,000 years of long time in an instant, and searched half of the universe he belonged to to obtain the seed of the tree of records.

In a word, it was an existence that was free from the bondage of time and space.

There is no way that such a person would have made plans confined to the small planet Earth.

‘What am I going to do with this huge gap?’

But I’m different from Alan.

I’ve never been outside the atmosphere, let alone space.

No, I have never stepped on the continents of Africa and the Americas, let alone the atmosphere.

The only place I’ve been to besides narrow Korea is Bali, Indonesia, which I recently visited.

Although I possessed the same soul, now I was a person of such a small scale that comparison with Alan was meaningless.

same but completely different beings.

Will the current gap disappear when the years pass and the tree fully grows and takes over all of Alan’s knowledge and memories?

What will happen to my identity if I take over all of Alan’s memories?

Even then, am I still Minhyuk Choi?

Or will it become Alan?

“We are here!”

After struggling with dog sh*t philosophy, I arrived home before I knew it.

I got out of the taxi and stood in front of the gate of the house.

‘This is my house!’

For a moment, my heart swelled.

The contemplation of ‘the universe’ and ‘me’ that filled my head a moment ago disappeared in an instant, and I found myself standing in the middle of the secular world again.

Now that I own a detached house in Gangnam’s wealthy village, am I one of the 1% in Korea?

I’ve seen it somewhere before, and if you have assets of 3 billion won without bank debt and an annual income of about 200 million won, you’re in the top 1% of Korea.

So, I bought a 10 billion won house without paying a penny in loans, and I was a person who was in the 1% of Korea.

Belt- Belt- Belt- Belt-

I entered the password into the door lock.

clap-

The door is open.

Upon entering the gate, a smooth lawn like a carpet caught my eye.

The previous landlord called a company to not only clean, but also tidy up the lawn.

The lawn, which was neither too wide nor too narrow, seemed perfect for a dog to run around.

‘Should I get a dog?’

If you don’t have a family, raising a dog will be healing and good for your mental health.

Originally, I liked animals, but I never dreamed of having a pet while living in a single room.

Bread-

I looked outside the gate at the sound of the klaxon and saw a large truck stopped.

The truck from the electronics store arrived.

‘Oh yeah!’

It feels good to deliver just one courier box, but when the whole truck arrives, it feels good.

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After all the home appliances were placed, I checked all the working conditions.

“Please sign here.”

One of the delivery workers held out a terminal and touch pen to me.

Sussuk-

Signed on the touchscreen.

“Goodbye!”

“You worked hard.”

burrung-

the truck has left

‘Today’s work is over.’

The furniture is all custom-made, so it will arrive in a week or so.

I looked at the clock with a relieved heart, and it was 1:00 PM.

‘Let’s eat.’

I drank a lot yesterday and didn’t eat breakfast, so my stomach was very empty.

I’m debating whether to have jjambbong delivered from a Chinese restaurant or go out and buy hangover soup.

Ding Dong-

The intercom rang.

The face reflected on the screen was the former landlord.

I opened the gate remotely and went out to the garden to greet him.

“hello.”

“Are the preparations for moving going well? If there is even a small problem, tell me right away. I have to clean it up and hand it over without any problems so that my mind is at ease.”

“all right.”

Grandpa glanced around and opened his mouth again.

“But isn’t your wife here?”

“I am not married yet.”

“is it so? Are you living with your parents then?”

“No, my parents aren’t there either.”

I lost my parents early and lived with my grandmother in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do.

Then, six years ago, even my grandmother passed away.

When I brought it up, my grandfather nodded.

“It was. He also lives a very lonely life.”

“I’m used to it now, so it’s okay.”

“But did you eat?”

“I haven’t eaten yet.”

“Then let’s go eat soup with me. There is a good house nearby.”

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‘Oh, it’s true!’

The haejangguk soup was awesome.

I thought restaurants in this neighborhood were only good at food like steak, but rice soup was also an art.

“How does it taste? This house is over 40 years old. Is it worth eating?”

“Yes, it is very delicious.”

“I’m glad.”

Grandpa smiled and asked me something else.

“By the way, where are you doing the gold and silver room?”

“Ah, that’s… The previous store was closed. After moving, I plan to open a new business near my house.”

It is said that lies lead to more lies, and this is exactly how I am now.

“is it so? Then, how about the seat across from me?”

Grandpa pointed to a flower shop across the street from the soup restaurant.

“I heard that old woman at the flower shop is going to her eldest son’s house in America after giving up her business. They say the store will be closed next month, but it seems to me like a perfect place to set up a gold and silver room.”

“Is that shopping mall also an old building?”

“So that’s what we’re talking about.”

“ah···.”

He said he owned dozens of commercial buildings in this neighborhood, and the commercial building across the street was also his grandfather’s.

Grandpa said.

“Originally, there aren’t many vacancies in this neighborhood. So, if you have any thoughts, tell me quickly.”

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After dinner, he returned home alone.

Grandpa’s proposal to set up a gold and silver room in his building should be positively reviewed.

Anyway, I was planning to set up hundreds of gold and silver rooms across the country to purchase bearer gold.

If possible, I wanted to open the first store near my house.

‘First of all, I’ll finish the job of President Baek.’

Before anything else, I plan to finish the 2,000 kg gold transaction neatly.

Of course, I had no intention of giving money to Baek.

I’m going to catch him off guard again and steal the gold.

‘In order to do that, information is essential.’

I came down to the basement storage through the outside stairs.

Then he locked the warehouse door and reached out into the air.

hiss-

A man appeared in front of me.

He took out the head of the secret agency that had been locked up in the inventory.

“uh?!”

He looked around with startled eyes.

“Where is this? Where did you take me?”

Since time does not pass in the inventory, it would feel like being in the Han River Park and then suddenly teleported somewhere.

I smiled and said to him.

“It’s not ‘where’ that matters, it’s ‘when’.”

“yes? What do you mean?”

I showed him the time displayed on the phone screen.

“Mo, Thursday? It must have been Wednesday today! Could it be that I’ve passed out for a day? It’s not! I can’t do that… no way! Did you time travel to the future?”

“Not similar.”

“Then could you perhaps send me to the past?”

“Go to the past and do something.”

“Going back to 2009, I will buy a lot of bx coins as soon as they come out. ah! Before that, I need to divorce my wife.”

Even in the middle of this, I smiled as I looked at the guy who was devising to satisfy his greed.

“Sorry, but I can’t go to the past. I can send it to the future as much as I want.”

Then he put on a disappointed expression.

Then he started begging me again.

“Then please release me! I want to go home!”

“He said he wanted to divorce his wife. Go home and do something.”

“I miss my daughter!”

I shook my head and said.

“You can never go home.”

The sound turned his complexion blue.

“Instead, if you do what I tell you to do well, I’ll let you live.”

“A job? What is it?”

“I heard that wiretapping devices were planted in all the cannon phones they use. Please eavesdrop on the conversation between President Baek and tell me. ”

***

late night time,

A group of men arrived at a factory in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

It was Boss Baek and his subordinates.

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The factory door opened.

Baek took the lead and went inside.

A large wooden box was placed inside the factory.

“Open it.”

At Baek’s command, his subordinates opened the wooden box with a paru and a hammer.

It has a 3 phase induction motor.

It was a large-capacity electric motor used to turn a large pump.

“Connect the electricity.”

Men in factory overalls connecting wires to electric motors.

“Turn around.”

yes-

When electricity was supplied, the motor spun vigorously.

hahahaha!

I liked President Baek so much that I burst out laughing.

“It actually works like this, but how are they going to catch it? ha ha ha!”

The motor in front of President Baek was not an ordinary motor.

The internal parts are made of gold, not copper.

Gone are the days of smuggling golf clubs and hangers made of gold.

That’s because it’s easy to catch the surveillance of customs.

That’s why they made a machine out of gold this time.

Gold and copper have similar electrical conductivity, so if you use gold instead of copper parts to make an electrical device, it actually works.

“Since we brought in one, it wouldn’t be a problem to bring in 200, right?”

At Baek’s question, Chief Kim smiled and nodded.

In 15 days, 200 motors will arrive through Pyeongtaek Port.

It was 10 kg of gold for one motor and 2,000 kg for 200 motors.

“What is this, swimming on your stomach!”

Baek’s plan was almost perfect.

Except that someone is eavesdropping on their conversation.