We Do Business In Full Auto [EN]: Chapter 95

095

The Age of Full Automation (1)

“Is this today’s menu?”

“Yes. I’ll have to go and make it myself.”

Today is the day my wife makes her official public appearance.

To some extent, my wife and Sujeong’s faces have been circulating, and it was bound to happen eventually. With Sujeong starting elementary school, it seems I’ll have to take care of Sua while my wife is cooking.

I taste the spicy pork.

The pork is domestic.

Since it wasn’t fresh meat, I had to put a lot of effort into tenderizing it and removing any unpleasant smells. There’s quite a bit of work involved in seasoning, marinating, and stir-frying it.

But spicy pork is still a popular item in lunchboxes, so excluding it was out of the question.

Spicy pork and bulgogi are like the two mainstays of lunchboxes.

Until now, CL Convenience Store’s spicy pork and bulgogi haven’t received very good reviews. The reason was that they tasted worse than the competition’s.

“Wow!”

Juice bursting in my mouth.

It was possible because it was parboiled once, and the taste is amazing.

For a taste like this, I was starting to think that parboiling was something we should definitely do.

“Try the seasoned vegetables too.”

“You microwaved them, right?”

“Yes.”

Crunch!

Despite using the microwave, the crispiness hadn’t disappeared.

My wife smiled and said,

“I figured preserving that texture should be the priority.”

“How did you do it?”

“I cooked it expecting it to be microwaved for 2 minutes and 30 seconds.”

“You even calculated that?”

“Isn’t that basic?”

I think my wife is a genius. A culinary genius, that is.

Of course, others might think I’m just showing off my wife. She made the food while naturally considering how it would be heated in the microwave when making lunchboxes.

I quickly finished the rice with a few side dishes.

“It’s very delicious.”

“But there are bound to be limitations. You know that, right?”

“That’s obvious. There’s no way serving food right after making it can be the same as heating it up after it’s been in the fridge.”

Even if my deceased mother came back to life, that would be impossible.

At this point, the taste was improved several times compared to the existing lunchboxes.

“It’s obvious that good ingredients make good products. I think it’s important to source ingredients through direct transactions.”

“Yeah. I was already thinking that was a problem.”

Convenience store companies already had many things to worry about. That’s why they purchased ingredients all at once through intermediaries.

That’s how lunchboxes are manufactured and distributed from the lunchbox factory. But that wasn’t the only problem.

“Aren’t several lunchboxes made at headquarters, but almost 70% are outsourced with royalties?”

“That can’t be helped. You have to see it as the limit of the headquarters.”

“If we could make lunchboxes directly, we could cut out one stage of the margin and make better quality lunchboxes.”

“I’ll think about that.”

“Yes. I’m sorry if I overstepped.”

“What are you talking about? You’re my wife. It’s okay for you to manage the business instead of me, so don’t talk like that.”

“Thank you.”

This was enough as a warm-up.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

It’s still early.

I’m heading to Beomdo.

By now, Rin would have somehow made the dummy.

At first, I even thought about covering the dummy with silicone. But silicone technology hasn’t developed that far yet.

Even if you can make something that looks similar to a person at a glance, it was impossible to produce skin with a texture similar to that of a human.

Because of that, I thought about covering it with skin using black magic.

Fortunately, extracting protein and covering the dummy wasn’t that difficult, and I thought I could make a beautiful android if I did the plastic surgery well.

If it’s not satisfactory, I’ll just have to take it in the form of a skeleton and do the demonstration.

Rin hasn’t arrived at the port yet.

“What’s this?”

I called her right away.

I need to get the dummy as soon as possible.

There were media and protesters gathered in front of the company. Since we decided to have a public negotiation, it means I have to go right now.

-Ugh. Hello.

“Don’t tell me you’re still sleeping?”

-Tch. It’s because I was up all night making it.

“Why aren’t you hurrying up?”

About 10 minutes later, Rin comes strolling along.

There was a woman next to her, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

There was a slightly unnatural aspect to her movements, but this should be seen as a limitation of the dummy. No matter how elaborately you try to make it, it wasn’t an entity directly connected to me, and there was a limit to the acceptance of magic power, so it showed a bit of stuttering movement.

Even so.

I’m satisfied with this much.

I was about to run over and hit Rin on the head, but I decided to reduce the punishment because she made a beautiful dummy.

“Why aren’t you walking faster?”

“I went to sleep an hour ago.”

“If you know you’re going to be busy today, you should have stayed up all night.”

“Ugh. Isn’t that too much?”

Rin glared at me with a fierce look.

Rin had to go to the Ilsan Training Center soon. Today, the trainees were leaving the training center, so she had to take over. Then she would be immediately deployed to Pyeongtaek. Because we have to demolish the US military base.

“I don’t even have the strength to fight.”

“What about the others?”

“I’m making them.”

“Can you make them quickly?”

“First of all, it was important to create the prototype. It’s possible to mass-produce this face even now.”

“How long will it take?”

“A few hours or so.”

“Okay. I’ll just take one.”

“Eh. Whatever.”

“Oh? This one’s lost her mind?”

That’s what I was saying, but I didn’t really feel like scolding Rin.

Part of it was because Rin’s personality was messed up from the start, and I was slowly getting used to it.

In front of CL Retail headquarters.

As forewarned yesterday, today, the representatives of the store owners and CEO Lee Yoosung were scheduled to hold public negotiations here.

It was already known that there were many problems with the company in the convenience store industry, and there was a lot of interest in how the negotiations would proceed today.

Reporter Kang Sora was one of them.

The economics department was also dealing with this issue very seriously.

It wasn’t just because the store owners were protesting, but because the world’s first commercial android was appearing today.

Robots have been used for commercial purposes, but the android, which resembles a human, will be introduced for the first time in the world.

If androids become capable of performing complex tasks, their uses are endless.

The first is for military purposes.

If they can use the strength of an adult male and have strong durability, they can be used as war weapons and can be deployed in various dangerous missions.

The second was for commercial use.

If such androids are commercialized, labor costs can be drastically reduced. However, the price is a problem, but if it goes in the form of a lease, it is obvious that it can suck up the wealth of this world.

Of course, there were also several social problems that could arise here.

A large number of jobs will disappear, and the resentment will go directly to CEO Lee Yoosung.

I don’t know if it will be possible to create a large number of jobs in the robot industry, but the trend worldwide is to reduce labor costs.

The promised time was approaching.

CEO Lee Yoosung was scheduled to come out at 10 o’clock, but he hadn’t even come to work yet.

“Isn’t CEO Lee Yoosung not coming out?”

“No way. He talked so confidently to the media, would he try to run away?”

“He might.”

It’s 5 minutes before.

People were rather disappointed.

Could it be that androids and everything else don’t exist?

If he talks about opening the age of full automation and breaks his promise, CL Retail’s stock price will plummet.

Even though management was already deteriorating, it could get even worse.

But if the android comes out.

First of all, people will try to check it out of curiosity. Humans were beings who were interested in new things.

2 minutes before 10 o’clock.

A series of cars arrive.

CEO Lee Yoosung got out with some beautiful women.

A blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty and a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman.

Both had an inhuman beauty, but it was undeniable that the blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty was more beautiful.

“Could it be that the androids have come?”

“No way. That perfect?”

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty stood in front of the reporters.

“Hello. I’m this person’s wife, Lisa Cotton.”

“Lisa Cotton!?”

“Huh! Is it true that the British royal family is his wife?”

Then CEO Lee Yoosung comes over holding a baby.

The baby also had blonde hair and blue eyes and looked very similar to Lisa. You could tell at a glance that it was Lisa’s baby.

“Let me introduce you. This entity is an android.”

Whirr!

The light created by the camera poured onto the machine.

I have to block the light from the camera.

Sua frowned and said as the light came in too harshly.

“Daddy, it’s too bright.”

“……”

The surroundings become quiet for a moment.

No matter how you look at it, Sua was a baby who had just passed her first birthday.

She just started walking and has to wear diapers and toddle around. But Sua doesn’t wear diapers. Because she is potty trained.

In addition to this, she was even talking, so people had an amazing expression on their faces.

“Su, surely a child who has just turned one is talking?”

“She’s fluent……”

“Get the camera out of the way. Sua’s eyes hurt too much.”

“……That’s right.”

“She’s a genius.”

“I heard it’s a genius family, and it was true.”

The moment Sua spoke here, all the families were branded as geniuses.

A genius scientist, the first daughter is also a genius, and the youngest daughter is also a genius.

It was something that would be known someday, so there was nothing I could do.

Again, attention is focused on the android.

“Mr. President! Is this person really an android?”

“Yes. It’s not this person, it’s this thing.”

“This texture…… Does it even talk?”

“Why would it just talk? It can also perform quite complex tasks. Now, say hello.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Android No. 1, Yan.”

“Heo!”

“Has an android really been born! Even one that looks like a human!?”

It was a moment when people were shocked.