chapter 7
The director who arrived at Seron Co., Ltd. said with his mouth wide open.
“Eh, what is this!?”
A small factory with only one warehouse.
However, in front of it, hundreds of porters are queuing up to enter the warehouse, and behind the warehouse, porters come out with happy skeletons.
At that time, a field employee who was counting the skeletons saw the warden and ran to him.
“Cow, warden!”
“Three hundred?! Does that make sense!?”
32 were also interesting, so they were included in the special management target, but suddenly the number increased tenfold.
But that was just the beginning.
The staff said with a pale expression.
“That’s a shame, we just crossed 350!”
The warden opened his mouth wide and said.
“350?!”
I feel like my mind is confused by the number that is so far away.
“Ha, where is Han Ji-hyeok!”
“Now in the warehouse…”
“let’s go!”
The director and researchers stride into the warehouse.
At that time, a person who seemed to be an employee of Han Ji-hyeok, who was managing people at the warehouse entrance, said.
“You will enter one after another. Get in line!”
“Han Ji-hyeok, where are you? It’s from the gate management office.”
“Gate Administration? uh······.”
The embarrassed employee called somewhere and said something.
“Please come in.”
At that, the warden opened the warehouse door and looked at the scene inside, and his legs were momentarily untied.
“Are there more… are there more?”
More than 350 have been released so far.
However, there seemed to be dozens of skeletons working on voice registration for porters even in the warehouse.
At that time, Han Ji-hyeok, who discovered the director and researcher, raised his hand and said.
“Let’s take a break, because it’s lunch time. Kang Chan-soo… No, Chief Kang.”
“yes!”
“Everybody worked hard even though it was their first job, so buy something good to feed them.”
At those words, Kang Chan-soo stood still as if he was holding a military flag.
“All right! president!”
Han Ji-hyeok patted Kang Chan-soo’s shoulder and said.
“It’s a very good attitude. I will do that in the future. Should I pay for double the salary?”
“of course! I will do my best for the boss and Saeron!”
Han Ji-hyeok, who had declared a break, trudged over to the director and said.
“You said you came from the management office? I am Han Ji-hyeok.”
Originally, the warden was trying to ask what the hell was going on and whether he really summoned it.
“ah······.”
Rather, he was speechless at the overwhelming number of skeletons beyond common sense, and said nothing.
At that time, a researcher stepped forward and spoke on behalf of the director.
“hello. Do you remember me?”
“who are you?”
“I am the researcher who was in charge of Han Ji-hyeok’s test.”
“is it so? Long time no see. hahahaha.”
The researcher looked at the skeletons and said.
“…are they all summoned beasts?”
“That’s right.”
“My staff has already figured out that there are over 350.”
“Yes?”
Han Ji-hyeok answers so calmly.
Researcher Qimin said something incomprehensible tantrums.
“Can’t you figure out what’s going on right now? That means the number of summons is over 350! Do you think this is normal now?! Did you fool us during the test?”
Then Jihyeok Han shrugged and said.
“I didn’t cheat, because I didn’t know how much summoning was possible.”
Then the warden came to his senses and said.
“For now, please stop.”
“hmm?”
“Even if it exceeds 100, it would be frightening, but 350…. This is a level that goes beyond common sense for summon-type Awakeners! It’s not something an F-class Awakener would do!”
Then Jihyeok Han looked at the warden and said.
“Stop it?”
“That’s right.”
“Why me?”
Then the bewildered warden said:
“Why?! This is a strange situation for anyone to see…”
“It’s not strange.”
Han Ji-hyuk smiled brightly and said.
“When I established the company, I requested a review of the subpoena-related bill through my lawyer, but there was no separate legal provision for the number of subpoenas.”
At Han Ji-hyeok’s words, the warden said in shock.
“Ha, but there are also safety issues…”
“safety? Is that the same MK.4 as the one you played before? Before that, why didn’t you say anything? Why are you doing this now?”
The director was speechless at Han Ji-hyeok’s words, as if he had prepared in advance.
The warden whispered to the researcher.
“…Is there really no problem?”
“Yeah, that’s legally… Because it wasn’t a bill made with this amount in mind in the first place…”
Han Ji-hyeok said with a confident expression.
“It has been established as a special corporation for awakeners that rents and uses the abilities of awakeners for the purpose of generating profits, and the safety will be proven by those who have already used it without any problems. Anything else to worry about?”
Then the warden said with a tearful expression.
“is it so! I know there are no legal issues. I get that… I get it!”
There is only one problem.
There is no problem legally, but there is no way to rationally accept that ridiculous number.
The warden pointed to the skeletons and said.
“There are too many of them, right?”
*
The warden tried to control the situation somehow by making excuses that didn’t work.
But in the end, the warden’s words came down to one thing.
The law, safety, or that, or the rating review, etc. were mentioned, but the point is that there are too many of them.
However, there is no reason to stop me just because there are too many, so in the end, I repeat like a parrot, saying that there are too many, and after lunchtime, when the skeleton assignment that started again exceeded 500, the director went crazy.
“Just do it.”
Bombing is also the answer.
If I had added dozens of them, I would have been surprised as well, but tackles would have come in here and there, such as trying to investigate with various excuses.
However, when 500 of them are thrown at once like dropping bombs, everyone just stares blankly at them.
“Originally, people’s thinking stops when something outside the scope of their common sense occurs.”
Just as the warden, who must have dealt with many awakened people for a long time, was embarrassed and repeated why there were so many.
I said with a grin.
“Then shall we continue running? see. If it is 500 in addition to the existing 32…”
No matter how low your daily income is, it exceeds 200 million.
Since the production cost of one MK.2 is 700,000 won…
“You mean you can produce 300 of them a day?”
I said with a smirk.
“At times like this, you have to run.”
When everyone can’t figure out the situation, running like crazy when you’re parenting is the way to lose your mind even more.
“Let’s wait for a week and then solve it at once.”
Wouldn’t it be possible to make 2,000 in a week?
Even 500 is shocking, but 2,000?
That’s when the game really ends.
“good.”
I said raising the corner of my mouth.
“Let’s do it properly!”
*
After receiving the opening buff, he proudly declared…
“Ahh.”
I said as I slumped in my chair.
“do not want to do it.”
just 4 days.
That was the amount of time it took me to build a thousand transportable skeletons.
In the meantime, various media made a fuss about the appearance of an Awakener who could summon up to 500 summons, but that’s none of my business, and the important thing now is that I don’t want to work really hard.
“Were you so excited about creating the company? 300 a day is no child’s play…”
Normal combat skeletons are made entirely from the bones of a deceased corpse.
why?
because it’s convenient
The reason is simple.
This is because the body size of each individual is different, so the length of the bone is also different.
“Should I just cut it down to 100 a day? It’s too bothersome.”
That’s why I use one corpse entirely.
Because if I use all of them, I don’t have to bother with balancing them.
However, the transport skeleton is a combination of bones from birth, so I have to adjust the incongruity myself.
However, excluding trivial bones, even if only long bones such as limbs and torso were used, hundreds of bones were required per transport skeleton.
“Ahh. I hate working!”
Even if you only take 2 minutes per piece, if you have 300 pieces, the amount of work per day is a whopping 10 hours, far exceeding my work limit.
I came to retire because I didn’t want to work, but this vicious cycle of having to work again for that retirement.
Horrible.
I sat down in a chair and said with a blank expression.
“It’s just 2,000 pieces, should I solve the one I just made? Even if you solve a thousand, it’s twice as much as before. After that, if I take a good rest for a month or two, won’t the motivation to work come back?”
Once the annoyance comes, I hate to add it more and more, and I put it down one by one.
After worrying about 300 to 100 things, now I just want to play after hitting them all.
“Ahh.”
That time when I sat in the chair in the president’s office and suffered from boredom and annoyance.
“president.”
Kang Chan-soo knocked on the door outside and said.
“I have something to tell you.”
“Come in.”
Kang Chan-soo, who came inside and saw me lying on the chair, said startled.
“What are you doing?”
“No, it’s just that everything bothers me. do not want to work······.”
“It’s only been four days since I started the company.”
In those four days, I worked for dozens of hours.
exhausting enough
“Do it roughly. What are you going to say anyway?”
“That’s because there is a community that porters often use, and there are complaints about it.”
“dissatisfaction?”
what a complaint
I was so excited when I solved 500.
“therefore······.”
*
“Job disappears.”
“yes.”
Kang Chan-soo looked at me and said.
“That, so, is absolutely not my personal opinion. I just listen to people’s reactions and deliver them. I want the president to make good use of his ability to achieve this level of achievement…”
Kang Chan-soo urgently makes excuses for fear of sparks flying at him.
“I understand, so don’t worry, I’m not that kind of a clogged guy.”
It’s just the end of the annoyance that has already been burned out and completely retired.
“thank you.”
The main reason why the porters had dug a trap for me before was that I was being pushed by the Skeleton’s overwhelming cost performance.
Then, when I hired a porter, and it became money again, the complaint went into it.
However, when he solved 500 transportable skeletons at once, the story changed again.
“Assuming that one skeleton modification replaces 6 porters, we now have 266 groups… 1,600?”
Arithmetically, when I calculated with only the skeletons I had so far, 1,600 porter jobs disappeared.
Before that, there were not so many of them, so only price competitiveness was on the cutting board, and the topic was that they might all be pushed out of this area.
“As the number of skeletons increases, except for a small number of leaders, they continue to worry that they will lose their jobs.”
“…”
Of course I knew.
At least that there would be porters who would lose their jobs due to skeletons.
However, when I did the calculation myself, the seriousness of the work struck me even more.
‘If you add 1,000 here… you’re saying that nearly 5,000 jobs will disappear.’
I hear it.
It sounds vivid in my ears.
“You’re going to eat this with curses?”
It’s a problem on a different level than the guys who touched it before.
Assuming that 5,000 porters lost their jobs by simple calculation, the number of people whose livelihoods are threatened by skeletons, including their families, would well exceed 10,000 units.
The problem is that I need to make at least 10,000 more in the future to achieve my goal, and by that time, the number will far exceed 100,000.
If that happens, will the media and politicians stand still?
Absolutely not.
“Wow Mr. Isn’t this normal?”
If that happens, everyone will blame me, not just the porter.
They say money has made tens of thousands of people unemployed and threatened the livelihood of their families.
A situation in which, while trying to make money comfortably, there might be something that bothers me by following me like a tag for the rest of my life.
“I’m sick of being cursed at.”
If it’s insulting, I ate enough to eat at Seron.
I’m determined not to care about the spotlight, not just going out like I was in Cerrone and trying to mass-produce people who hate me.
I just want to live in peace in my hometown, hanging out with as many people as quietly as possible.
If possible, while listening to good sounds.
I thought about it for a while and said.
“Then let’s just stop here and say there is no additional supply.”
“yes?”
No matter how you think about it, this is not worth the money.
I can’t ruin my retirement life itself just to make some retirement money.
If you go ahead like this, you will surely be insulted by the people.
okay.
it was better
It was difficult to put together a carrying skeleton even if it wasn’t so, so let’s take this opportunity to look into the other side.
It’s a waste of cloth already made, but the carrier isn’t the only one who needs it, and if you look for it, can’t you find a place to do it?
“In the first place, I started because the porter stood out, and it wasn’t like I had to do just that. It’s not the only way to make money. I think it would be better to just end it with 500 than to loosen it up and curse several times over.”
“Yes, boss.”
Kang Chan-soo said with an impressed expression.
“I can’t believe he was such a caring person…”
Hmm… It’s not that I’m considerate, it’s just that I don’t like bothersome things happening, but the explanation is annoying, so let’s just leave it at that.
“is it so. Let’s go.”
“yes!”
After Kang Chan-soo left, I was left alone in the president’s office.
“okay. There’s no need to earn money while swearing at me, I just need to do something else.”
Skeleton’s potential has been confirmed anyway, so you don’t have to curse and find something you can do comfortably.
“Let’s see… what would be good?”
I took out a notebook and started writing down various things.
“It has to be easy to make.”
If you just raise the bones from one corpse into a barrel, there is nothing to calculate, and how convenient it is.
At this rate, you can make dozens at the same time, not just one in two minutes.
So, there are things that can be done by simply raising a bipedal monster in its original form.
“Combat pass.”
One of the biggest reasons people accept it relatively calmly even though 500 transportable skeletons were dropped is that they have virtually no fighting power.
And to be honest, I don’t like making macros for combat because it’s too cumbersome.
I need to find something that can be done with simple commands.
“In addition, there should be no damage to existing people.”
If I was a violentist in Seron, now I am a pacifist.
If you don’t touch me, I won’t touch you. I’ll go to mode.
“First of all, these three are the most important… what should I do?”
I don’t like being bothered, so I put shackles on, but I can’t think of what to do.
Bipedal skeletons should eventually go in the direction of substituting or helping human labor, but then their jobs will be taken away automatically.
“Is this surprisingly difficult?”
Were the conditions too demanding?
But if you don’t do this, it’s too annoying.
Didn’t you get completely exhausted after making a transportable skeleton in just 4 days?
But I can’t give up the peaceful retirement life I’ve been dreaming of for 30 years.
After thinking about it for a while, I saw an English sentence written next to a ballpoint pen that caught my eye.
“Made in China?”
It was just made in china.
“uh······? wait for a sec.”
Starting with the ballpoint pen, I started checking the country of manufacture of the household items around me.
“This is also from China. this too. this too.”
Truly everything is made in China.
“Products made by Chinese people in China…….”
Isn’t it because the problem right now is taking away jobs from people in ‘Korea’, my hometown and where I plan to retire?
I said with my eyes shining.
“Isn’t there a need for me to be considerate of China as well?”