Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Taek-gyu seemed perplexed at my words.
[Why are you doing this? What is the reason?]It is natural to have this kind of reaction.
He suddenly told me to sell, ‘Yes. Okay. It would be weird to say, ‘I’ll sell it right now’.
I don’t even know why I’m saying this.
But more than just a feeling, I felt a strong conviction. Sometimes instinct takes precedence over reason. If I hadn’t done that then, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
“Listen to me.”
[so why?]“Do you believe me?”
[Why? Need a warranty?]I screamed.
“Shut up and just sell it! You don’t lose money just because you sell it. Cash out now.”
[No, you have to tell me why in order to understand.]
“·················ogue.”
How do I explain this?
I wrote another way instead.
“You said you practiced driving before, and you broke the side mirror of Hyunjoo’s car. You said that if you get caught, you’ll be beaten to death, so I said I was driving. At that time, I begged Hyunjoo noona instead of you.”
Taehyung was perplexed.
[Go, why are you talking about that all of a sudden, you idiot?]“Do you remember when you agreed to grant one of my wishes in return?”
[You are a bitch…]“Now is the time to grant that wish, nigga! Sell Bantcoin right now. okay?”
For a while nothing was heard.
Why would you want to come here and bring up old stories? I hope you don’t ask any more questions and just follow my words…
After a while, Taek-gyu grumbled as if he had lost.
[Okay. I told my sister to sell it anyway, so I set up a dollar account too. I was going to sell it slowly, but as you said, I’ll sell it right away. Is that okay?]I breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
“I thought about it.”
[When do we meet?]“I’ll see you tomorrow. I will go to your house.”
[Okay.]I hung up.
The hologram that floated in front of me was gone. I wondered if I had seen something wrong.
Wouldn’t that be the same as back then?
“Ah, no way…….”
Even if nothing happens, there is nothing to lose by selling. If the Bantcoin price rises later, my stomach hurts a bit.
It’s just a waste to spend one wish (?) that I’ve been saving like this.
“13.5 billion ….”
How much was the winning lottery prize these days? 2 billion?
This is the equivalent of winning the lottery many times.
Such luck cannot happen in real life. Even for a guy like Oh Taek-gyu.
In an instant, something from the past came to mind.
When he was in high school, he lied to me about winning the lottery. He thought it was real, so we took a taxi and followed him to the Nonghyup head office.
I remember laughing at me right before I walked in and giggled.
“Are you sure this bastard has been beaten?”
Am I deceived again?
* * *
As I lay down, the sun was already setting.
Cheeky!
The sound of the front door opening was heard.
My mother came in and was happy to see me.
“I was at home, son.”
“Are you here?”
It’s been a week since I last saw you.
Mother put down her bag and said.
“Let’s go out for a meal to commemorate the military service.”
“Yes.”
I got dressed and went out with my mother.
“What does my son want to eat? Would you like to eat meat?”
“Eat anything.”
We went into a nearby pork ribs house.
Mother took tongs and scissors and started grilling the meat. Her hand, holding her tongs, was trembling wildly.
I saw her mother’s face.
When she looked closely, her eyes and lips were full of fine lines. He looked a lot thinner than he had seen before.
After her father passed away, her mother became the head of the household. Unlike me, who had a sequel to her in the military, her mother worked at random.
She is a mother who has only lived at home all her life. It was obvious what a middle-aged woman with no skills or experience could do.
“What are you doing without eating?”
“Oh, I’m going to eat now.”
For a moment, it felt like her throat was choking.
I pretended to eat meat and bowed my head quickly.
“Isn’t it difficult to do what you are doing now?”
“then. After all, I sit down and talk to customers.”
“Who are the real smokers? There are a lot of people like that these days.”
Mother laughed and said.
“It’s a good neighborhood, so there’s no one like that. How kind and nice everyone is. Do you know how easy it is to find a comfortable job like this?”
“Then I’m glad.”
A pile of overcooked meat piled up in front of me.
“Bake, but drink and eat.”
“Mom has eaten a lot of delicious food at the department store. So, she eats.”
I chewed and swallowed the meat that didn’t fall over.
“By the way, when are you going to go back to school?”
“I have time, let me think about it.”
“Mom has all the tuition, so don’t worry.”
Because Hankuk University is a national university, the tuition fee is lower than that of private universities. Still, it is a large amount that can be a burden to the general household.
It seems that you have saved up your tuition for a living that you don’t have.
“I see.”
* * *
She spread the blanket on the small floor and lay down with her mother.
She must have been tired, and her mother fell asleep as soon as she lay down. In her darkness, intermittently, the sound of her mother’s cough could be heard.
Is it because her bed has changed?
She couldn’t sleep easily. After trying to sleep for a long time, I finally gave up and got up.
I looked at my phone and it was 3 in the morning.
Shall we go to the convenience store and have a beer?
I got out carefully so my mother wouldn’t wake me up. The night air hit her coldly in the face.
“Sigh.”
I thought I would become something just by appearing in society. However, when I actually finished the entire campaign, the future was bleak.
I can’t make my mother work alone, so I’ll have to make some money quickly.
As I was going to the convenience store, thinking about this and that, my phone rang.
Tirling!
Who’s calling at this hour?
I looked at my phone and it was Taek-gyu. I pressed the call button.
“Hey! What kind of phone calls are you making at this hour?”
Before I could finish my words, an urgent voice was heard.
[Big, big trouble!]“You sound like a big deal. Are you kidding me earlier?”
[The Mountain Hill Exchange just closed!]I said timidly.
“Stop joking around when you say nice things.”
Then Taek-gyu groaned.
[Is this a joke!?]“Then no?”
[Where are you now?]“It’s home.”
[Come to my house now. Check with your own eyes if it’s a joke or not!]Taek-gyu said so and hung up the phone.
“·················ogue.”
what? Could it be real?
I went out to the main road and waved at the taxi.
“taxi!”
When the taxi stopped, I quickly got on.
“Please go to Gangnam. Hurry up.”
* * *
Taek-gyu lived in a studio in Yeoksam-dong.
When he goes on vacation, he often goes out to play and memorizes the off-duty. When he opened the front door and went inside, game magazines and comic books were scattered on the floor, and animation bromide was stuck on the wall.
On the desk, the wires from the computer and the game console were tangled in a mess. And a man sitting in front of him.
He was a man in his early twenties with his chubby body, short hair cut like a soldier, and thick horn-rimmed glasses that made his eyes look small.
It was as if he had lost his mind.
“Hey! What happened?”
Instead of answering, Taek-gyu pointed to the computer monitor.
The bulletin board was open on the Internet window.
-All the Vantcoins registered in Mountain Hill are gone.
-Me too. 150.387BNT is gone!
– That’s all my property.
– How did this happen?
– Take my money!
– I can’t connect to the exchange, and I don’t answer calls.
– There’s news on CNN right now. It appears that Mountain Hill has been closed due to a hack.
-Hackers hacked the exchange and stole all BANTCOIN.
– So what happens? Does Mountain Hill pay for it?
– No, you bastards!!!
I kept reading the posts that came up.
People who are angry, people who are desperate, people who cry, people who swear, people who are dying, etc.
The bulletin board was no different than Abi Gyu-hwan.
“What is this…?”
I said looking at Taehyung.
“Hey, please explain.”
“You said Mountain Hill is closed.”
The exchange was closed when Taek-gyu called me. I was suddenly unable to connect to the exchange that was open normally.
If it were just that, he might have thought he was just checking it out.
However, all BANTCOIN has disappeared from the account registered on the exchange!
Just like voice phishing, the balance was completely drained out without her knowing. It wasn’t just one or two people, but all the users of the Mountain Hill Exchange suffered the same thing.
So, was everything Taek-gyu said during the day true?
The first thing that came to mind was 11,000 BNT that Taek-gyu had.
“How are you? Have you all been robbed?”
“·················ogue.”
Taek-gyu was still sitting with a blank expression on his face as if he didn’t hear me.
An ominous feeling ran down his spine.
I shouted and shook Taek-gyu’s shoulder.
“Hey! Oh Taek-gyu!”
Taek-gyu looked at me with unfocused eyes. Then stuttering, he said.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)
“Oh, I sold them all. listen to you About 12 o’clock at night.”
“Sigh!”
In an instant, it felt as if all the strength in my legs had been released.
Still got it
While I was thinking that, Taek-gyu suddenly grabbed my shoulder.
“Did you ever know?”
“What?”
“Mountain Hill is going to be hacked! Did you know?”
I shook my head.
“No, I didn’t know either.”
“Then why did you tell me to sell it right away? That doesn’t make sense!”
“that’s······.”
In fact, it is natural for Taekyu to react like this. Unless you’re an insider, it’s impossible to know in advance that a hack will happen.
When I didn’t answer, Taek-gyu spit and questioned him.
“Hey, did you hack it? So did you tell me in advance?”
I screamed out of disbelief.
“What kind of bullshit?”
Taek-gyu said with a confident expression on his face.
“You don’t even have to hide it from me. I’m not going to report it to the police, so be honest.”
“Because it’s not.”
Actually, I am the person who is most embarrassed by this situation.
“I’ll talk to you, then calm down.”
I calmed him down and sat him down. The boy sat down on the floor and took a deep breath.
Taek-gyu calmed down his excitement a little and said if it had any effect.
“Come on, tell me.”
I pondered for a while.
Should I say that a hologram suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, or should I not?
This guy is the only person I can trust except for my mother. You don’t even have to lie to him, right?
If you tell someone else anyway, they won’t believe it.
After thinking about it, I honestly talked about the situation before.
“So that’s…”
Taek-gyu nodded his head as if he understood.
“Ah, that was it. While on the phone, the phrase “Mountain Hill Bankruptcy” came to mind like a hologram. Is not it?”
“uh. That’s right.”
Taehyung groaned.
“are you kidding!?”
“······Really.”
It’s normal not to believe.
I sighed as I recalled the past.
“Actually, this is not the first time this has happened.”
The first time I saw ‘it’ was in the military.
