Chapter 196
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Translator: 8uhl
Chapter: 196
Chapter Title: Unread Messages and Security Committee
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#Unread Messages (8)
[Matsumin gifted 100 stars.]
[Matsumin gifted 100 stars.]
「Dom Hole: Kyaa....... This was truly a dungeon suspense. The tension was so chewy, and the thrill of Dom Hole breathing heavily! In a world where you overcome crises with star spam, it's a womb-like reality you've never experienced even once, right? Exactly, as I said, it's the absolute pinnacle of tuning!」
[Matsumin gifted 100 stars.]
「Doom Chit Doom Chit: What the fuck, ending the stream here? Even if it's longer than usual, shouldn't you at least go till the safe landing? It's not like you were banging when trapped. You built up all this hype and then dip after a quick peek. Really feeling the lack of sincerity now. Streamer, you watching? Or you already out?」
[Matsumin gifted 100 stars.]
[Blair gifted 1051 stars.]
「Ryeo Gwon Nala U: Ah……. Logging off scares me. My terminal's cheap, so neural block isn't 100%. Feels like I might've pissed my pants a bit…….」
[Matsumin gifted 100 stars.]
[Matsumin gifted 100 stars.]
[Matsumin gifted 100 stars.]
「National Bread Duty: Matsumin stop with the stars lolololol」
「Ho Gut Ho Gu Gut: Matsumin lmaoooooo」
「Matsumin: Haa haa, Matsumin can't help it. The body heat of Winter when he went into Joanna while trapped in the dark was just....... Ah, such a moving emotion you can't feel on any afterlife insurance channel. I think it's a scene that only comes out if you see virtual personalities as real people. If they'd fucked hot and heavy right then, even if the world ended, it would've been a beautiful finale! Regretful yet relieved it didn't end—such mixed feelings!」
「What Are You: Watching Han Gyeowol gives me hope. If I try hard, maybe I can have a decent time on basic coverage without extra payments…….」
「Nuke Cute: Bitch, you're not even a fraction of a fraction of Winter's cuteness.」
「What Are You: Why you starting shit all sudden. If you weren't a girl, I'd be cursing you out.」
「Matsumin: Guys, why do you always fight like this?」
「Groseillier Noir: Koreans seem so hot-tempered.」
「BigBuffetBoy86: That's why they die young too.」
「Hell Pro: ㅃㅂㅋㅌ ㅂㅂㅂㄱ」
「Your Mom: But even with TOM talent cheat, can you really see virtual personalities as people? One mind-control DLC and they're brain-dead. That star-spamming geezer seducing married women with love potion was total dogshit lol」
「Billy Herrington: Dogshit expert approves. But at least more human than mongrel trash like you or me, right?」
「Hard Gay: Real self-deprecation lololol」
「Your Mom: Fuck. This uneducated prick shoving facts with no manners.」
「Billy Herrington: Relax. Everyone here is retarded.」
「Billy Herrington: Only the one who's never wanted to dominate or crush someone at will can throw the first stone at that guy.」
「No Nick Drip: Yeah, true. No one treats me like human, I don't treat anyone like human. That's the world. I think that's why people who miss that watch this stream.」
「Shit Doodle: Daddy's girls' wise-up time ends here!」
[Snowfield Fox gifted 10,000 stars.]
「Old Spice: Look at sis Fox quietly dropping stars with class.」
「Old Spice: Gimme one star so I can sell sweet potatoes.」
「Mitsiel: But Han Gyeowol's real mypace is insane. This channel just ranked on the real-time pleasure leaderboard, new streams exploding, but ends right on time.」
「Black Bro Gang: Real-time pleasure ranking? What's that?」
「Mitsiel: Yeah, oversight personality update or something. Averages pleasure from connected users for rankings. But #1's still the star geezer. That old man's world is human trash heap. Can't imagine higher pleasure.」
「No Nick Drip: Figures. People who've never been respected don't wanna respect others. Chance comes, they wanna power-trip, force shit, ignore others, get off on stepping on and dominating…….」
「Shit Doodle: Cut it out you fuck. Giving me chills.」
「Wind of the Wind: This channel's great. Seeing the streamer not chase easier flow even with tons of stars incoming makes me reflect on myself—always taking the easy path, achieving nothing. Constantly hunting proof the world's wrong to justify my laziness. Shameful.」
「Wind of the Wind: World's unfair for sure, but if I'd pushed through, even failure would've made my life beautiful.」
「Wind of the Wind: Now I'm as ugly and dirty as this world.」
「Magna Carta: Th-that ahh! Time-space cringing!」
「Shit Doodle: Woof woof! Bullshit sour! Grrrrr!」
「Dolce Been There: Dream interpretation over lololol」
「Ex Conservative: Ego overflowing retard down. Literature major?」
「Nitrogen Packed: Yo, you're a retard too lol. When was the last lit major in our country. Humanities now just business lololol」
「Grand Ferrol: Kinda off, but was that worth flaming?」
「Dongmakgol Smigol: Overflowing fake-ass pretentious bullshit.」
「Storm224: 2222222」
「Dolce Been There: 100% agree ㅇㅇㅇㅇ」
「No Nick Drip: Seeing you lot agree, afterlife's obvious without looking.」
#Security Committee
「Committee Member A: Everyone. Something's happened to the afterlife insurance security tech team.」
「Committee Member B: Security tech team?......Oh, the ones making ActiveX-like security modules? What about them?」
「Committee Member A: Just got word from NIS. Some missing, rest found dead. Even the outsourcing rep dead at home. Massive leak of security program dev data.」
「Committee Member C: Damn, quiet for a while then this hassle. Who's behind it this time?」
「Committee Member A: Not sure yet. Not many nations can pull off espionage this covert and organized....... Anyway, they're eyeing recent intel agency entries. Meaningless, but here's the list.」
「Committee Member C: Whew, faces I haven't seen in ages. Back in early afterlife insurance days, saw 'em every alert. Wait, Russia's head changed? Wow! Hot babe? Rare even for virtual.」
「Committee Member C: Skin so soft, tongue-lick melt. Spy world, beauty's the stat regardless of era? Predecessor was genteel old gent too.」
「Committee Member E: Cut the useless talk. Anyway, new face is noteworthy intel. Predecessor elite from intel special forces, flashy career. Green young woman replacing? Means skills plus massive backing.」
「Committee Member B: Who knows. Maybe she's decoy, old head lurking shadows. Or third country using Russia shuffle. NIS got nothing?」
「Committee Member A: Told you, nothing solid yet.」
「Committee Member B: Tsk. Afterlife insurance, heart of economy, and taxpayer intel agency this slow? External audit?」
「Committee Member E: Dark joke there. You know the situation, ease up. They don't want pointless probes. Letting foreign spies slide helps both sides sometimes.」
「Committee Member B: Nah, just thinking good excuse to parade. Need these self-clean events to boost gov trust, make public go 'Ah, country's running right!' Us in press, sternly rebuking intel laziness in public's name?」
「Committee Member C: Nice. Public needs owner-feels to suppress gripes. Stoke national crisis for unity, indirect warning to perps. Worth trying?」
「Committee Member E: You guys....... My nephew-in-law's NIS chief. Touch him, I won't sit idle.」
「Committee Member A: Right, forgot. Sorry. Everyone, chill.」
「Committee Member D: E, just say that from start. Committee's informal anyway, no face needed.」
「Committee Member F: Um, everyone. Hold on.」
「Committee Member A: Speak.」
「Committee Member F: Can't grasp this vibe. Why so casual? Afterlife insurance leak, and jokes?」
「Committee Member B: Hahaha. Calm down, F. Newbie, don't know. Security modules secret on surface, meaningless in reality.」
「Committee Member F: ......Really? More details?」
「Committee Member B: Sure, family now. Bottom line: Never needed security modules from start. Haha.」
「Committee Member F: Huh? Why?」
「Committee Member B: Expert talk...... Oversight personality's built-in firewall blocks all assumed attacks, and even if breached, Trinity Engine literally inscrutable—so breach or not, irrelevant.」
「Committee Member F: Inscrutable? Untranslatable/unreplicable?」
「Committee Member B: Yes. Top experts swear: Revive genius designer and team, pour decades and billions—can't reverse-engineer current Trinity or oversight. Reproduce early version maybe. But contemporaries called it miracle....... Even original state hard to replicate.」
「Committee Member F: Sure? Trustworthy?」
「Committee Member D: Relax. We know importance, verified tons. Copied core code chunks, anon to foreign expert groups and AI engines—didn't even spot Trinity component. Annoyed, called junk data prank.」
「Committee Member F: Whoa.......」
「Committee Member A: Settled long ago among us. Even new Trinity can't catch 20+ years self-improving original. Hardware investment keeps gap. Afterlife hardware always world-top.」
「Committee Member C: Original designer dead ages ago, non-core outsourced to oblivion—untraceable now. Contracts half-assed anyway.」
「Committee Member E: Lost tech no one understands, no system analyzes—secret? Steal whole dispersed data centers maybe. Engine cores national key facilities.」
「Committee Member B: Why we chat carefree? Afterlife security ironclad. Drop needless worry.」
「Committee Member F: If Go Geoncheol, who nabbed Paradise Group, gets ideas?」
「Committee Member B: Let him try. Oversight can't break law. No edit power now. Our laws protect us—from foreign intel or crazy rich domestics. Worry if oversight goes berserk. Hahaha!」
「Committee Member E: Ugh, no wild fantasies. Anti-afterlife hacks' stale routine. Sick of it. Flawless since creation—why sudden rampage? Stable AI like this? Rare.」
「Committee Member A: That's it. F, got it? Just aid checking Go Geoncheol. That's why your seat. Bipartisan needed vs monster. Play opposition outside.」
「Committee Member F: Roughly. One more since on topic. Need to convince my folks.」
「Committee Member A: What?」
「Committee Member F: So security module's bait for industrial spies? No other function?」
「Committee Member B: Why not.」
「Committee Member F: There is?」
「Committee Member B: Yup. Real purpose: Make afterlife insurance inconvenient.」
「Committee Member F: What? Why inconvenience?」
「Committee Member B: Reasons. Security updates/complexity shifts access by generation.」
「Committee Member F: Access?」
「Committee Member B: Uneducated lazy olds perfect for center dream paradise peek. Basic tires 'em out—problem. Old story now. Current olds different. Early dilution strategy.」
「Committee Member F: Now?」
「Committee Member B: Instills anxiety too. Korea's core afterlife always threatened! Prep before saying.」
「Committee Member E: Main: Budget grab.」
「Committee Member E: Guarding econ heart security dev—perfect taxpayer cash grab? Protect security firms' monopoly, we get kickbacks. Win-win.」
「Committee Member F: Jeez....... You lot feasted good.」
「Committee Member C: Don't be sore. Family now, like said.」
「Committee Member F: Know complaints flood?」
「Committee Member A: Inconvenience not issue. Can vs can't. Doable? Complaints stay complaints.」
「Committee Member F: Hmm.」
「Committee Member E: Like columbarium visits. Too hassle, can't. Excuse. Can but lazy.」
「Committee Member E: Truly love deceased family/parents? Procedure issue?」
「Committee Member B: Right. Young weak-willed vs us. Our age? Drove 10hr holiday jammed highways to parents. Complex visit app? No-excuse graves.」
「Committee Member C: They gripe surface. Rationalize no-visit as hassle. We scratch itch.」
「Committee Member F: Makes sense. Logical.」
「Committee Member A: Masses never satisfied even well-treated. Better living than industrial era, still whine lack. Afterlife low satisfaction same. No need perfect. Sieve water.」
「Committee Member E: Grant all demands? Country doomed. Awake minority bears cross, leads society right.」
============================ Author's Note ============================
#Signed Books
Too many DMs/emails misunderstanding notice, requesting buys/free shares.
Signed books purely reciprocity for reviews, fanart, covers etc.
Not personal sales.
I'd never sell black history like signed books.
Nor free—daily few free shares = loss on Joara only.(...)
World has better ramen stands than my signed books.
Like self-igniting optimal-temp Galaxy S7...
So no obsession, shop elsewhere.