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Society Protocol Season 2_17

Brainwave Corporation

In Korea, there was a company that was trying to create something using radio waves, though it was unknown to anyone.

The name of that company was Brainwave.

Initially, it was a sort of hobbyist group formed by engineers from mobile phone development companies who gathered with the idea that they could create something new using the radio waves and electronic circuits they knew.

However, one engineer who was a key figure in that group actually established a company.

While conducting various experiments with radio waves at the company,

they accidentally discovered that a specific frequency affects the brain.

Consequently, they received investment from overseas venture capital firms and developed a product.

Then, they conducted animal and human trials.

Although the specific frequency cannot be disclosed, it is known that the wavelength is in the millimeter range, around GHz.

Initially, they discovered that radio waves affect the brain through a chance experiment. When a specific frequency was shone on the head, the subject could hear but could not speak properly.

When the location was changed and the radio waves were emitted, this time the subject could speak but could not understand properly.

They discovered that specific frequencies and locations within the brain affect various senses and behaviors.

They attempted to use this machine to treat epilepsy and schizophrenia, which was formerly known as mental disorder.

They also continuously conducted experiments to find a method to treat a type of physical paralysis caused by the brain.

They also conducted experiments to enable people who could not see or hear due to accidents or congenital abnormalities in their eyes and ears—which act as a type of sensor in the human face—to see or hear by sending specific frequencies directly to their brains.

This required an enormous amount of capital.

They had absolutely no profit and lacked the ability to commercialize it.

However, they were able to continue the experiment.

It was due to someone's continuous investment and support.

They spent nearly 100 billion won on the experiment, and then it was halted.

It was due to an accident involving a young man conducting the experiment.

That young man was called Cao Cao.

He was a young man who loved literature and was completely immersed in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

However, perhaps due to genetic influence, his father, who had pursued literature, ended up committing suicide at a fishing spot.

His mother opened a sundae gukbap (blood sausage soup) restaurant to raise him,

and the restaurant became so popular that it even established itself as a famous eatery.

However, the young man named Cao Cao, who was mentally disturbed, was fighting against someone attacking him with radio waves from the ceiling,

while suffering from auditory and visual hallucinations. It is said that Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms also suffered from a similar migraine.

Although it was a novel, the young literary enthusiast almost identified himself with Cao Cao.

However, a kind of difference was emerging between his real self and the Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms.

It was precisely his relationships with people.

The literary enthusiast Cao Cao found it difficult to speak with others.

However, the Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms was surrounded by many brothers, heroes, and talented individuals.

He wanted to become that kind of person.

However, he was unable to lead a normal social life due to persistent headaches and an inexplicable sense of fear.

He happened to catch the eye of researchers from an electronics company who were regulars at the sundaeguk (blood sausage soup) restaurant run by his mother.

He, who had been holed up at home, had suffered a sort of seizure while helping his mother manage the restaurant's parking.

The employees of Brainwave, who were looking for new human test subjects, made a proposal to the mother, the owner of the sundaeguk restaurant, and Jojo (Korean pronunciation of cao cao).

They suggested that they might be able to cure mental illnesses using radio waves.

Jojo was initially skeptical, but after witnessing the actual animal experiments they conducted on rats and monkeys, he volunteered to become a test subject himself.

This was not a test for medical devices.

It was authorized as a test regarding the human health risks of electronic products.

And even that was not an official authorization. Since there is no law allowing for direct testing on the human body regarding the harmful effects of radio waves, this actually became a loophole.

Jojo, the literary youth, had several characteristics that distinguished him from ordinary people.

One was his exceptionally high intelligence,

and the other was his extremely high sensitivity to radio waves.

He could directly sense even the weak radio waves that ordinary people could not perceive.

The idea that someone was trying to attack him with radio waves from the ceiling might not be entirely untrue.

He was directly sensing electromagnetic waves leaking from electronic devices somewhere and being affected by them.

People are born with various abilities.

In Cao Cao's case, he displayed exceptional abilities in high intelligence, concentration, and sensitivity.

From a modern perspective, this was perceived as a kind of illness.

Brainwave Corporation's test was relatively simple.

He wore an electronic device equipped with a battery resembling an old Walkman on his waist,

and a device connected by a headphone-like cord on his head, which he wore like a thin bucket hat.

The mechanism was designed so that when a specific part of the brain became activated and brainwaves were emitted, it would detect the low-frequency brainwaves,

and then shoot high-frequency waves at that specific area to block neurotransmitters or reduce their activity.

Then, Mr. Cao Cao's pain disappeared, and his hallucinations and auditory hallucinations began to vanish.

The experiment was a huge success, and these results became known to the venture capital firms in San Francisco that were investing in the project.

And the U.S. intelligence agencies also became aware of the fact.

They shared all the information, and Cao Cao's data became their most important asset. Jojo, the young man passionate about literature, had now begun his social activities in earnest.

Because he was intellectually gifted and had been exposed to a wide variety of literary works, he possessed a charming way of speaking.

Furthermore, his handsome appearance earned him the favor of others.

He founded a club related to literature and film, and through his activities there, he attracted a crowd of people.

He also became a famous video producer who created videos reviewing movies and literary works.

It seemed as though everything was going well.

And Cao Cao continuously conducted various tests with Brainwave.

In these tests, using specific frequencies related to the frontal lobe caused rage to surge,

and directing waves at specific parts of the body induces hallucinations akin to taking drugs.

Furthermore, there were actually areas where he experienced sexual arousal and pleasure.

This was despite the fact that he was merely wearing a helmet and using only radio waves.

When specific waves were applied to specific body parts, he suddenly lost his sight.

Then, what he saw began to become distorted.

At certain frequencies, he could hear nothing,

and when waves were directed at various other body parts in rotation, strange sounds could be heard.

Cao Cao truly experienced a wide range of things.

He experienced sensations that he could not feel in his daily life and fell into a state of fantasy.

He wanted to continue experiencing such pleasure. Taking advantage of the brief moment the researchers left the laboratory for a meal, the young literary man, Jojo, secretly copied the data recording which frequencies and locations triggered various sensations.

He then studied programming languages on his own to unlock a kind of software lock on the equipment designed to treat his brain,

and began to continuously manipulate radio waves to derive pleasure.

Eventually, the equipment intended to treat his schizophrenia was repurposed; it stopped generating frequencies to block changes in brainwaves.

Wanting to feel pleasure even while walking down the street, Jojo continued to increase the intensity of the radio wave equipment.

Eventually, an accident occurred.

In addition to his existing illness, Jojo became chronically addicted to pleasure,

and now, he felt an intense sense of discomfort if he did not stimulate those pleasure zones with radio waves.

And this led to rage.

One day, when his battery had run out and people had gathered for a meeting related to literature and film,

JoJo felt the moment the stimuli that had enveloped his entire body in pleasure suddenly turned violent.

He felt that everyone was trying to harm him.

As the continuous increase in the pleasurable stimulation was cut off, anger and irritation arose instantly.

As his frontal lobe was damaged, he attacked a female student who asked if he was okay with the ballpoint pen he was holding.

Then, he began attacking those trying to intervene by throwing chairs.

Everything he could get his hands on became a weapon,

and everyone in front of him began to look like a monster to him.

It felt as though he had to eliminate them all to survive.

For some reason, JoJo's grip strength increased, and his judgment and all his physical abilities suddenly became exceptionally superior.

As a result of this incident, 17 men and women died, and 20 suffered serious injuries.

And JoJo threw himself out of the building window. As a result of this incident, Brainwave Corporation was forced to close its doors.

They went out of business immediately after completing their first integrated prototype, Hua Tuo No. 1.

Hua Tuo No. 1 was placed in a box and transported to a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in San Francisco that had invested in Brainwave.

Inside the box were all the experimental data and software programs.

Furthermore, the results and reports were recorded on an external hard drive, which was also contained within the box.

That box had been stored unbeknownst to anyone for several years in a warehouse at a shopping mall in San Francisco.

Outwardly, the box looked like a packaging box for a rice cooker used in Asia.

That very box had now arrived at Reno-Tahoe Airport in Nevada, held in Pastor Branson's hands.

They had no prior information whatsoever.

Not even how this box would be used or what was inside.

The same was true for the serpent organization known as the SS.

Since it had already been several years, and because it was an item developed in a small Asian country, there were hardly any American officials interested in it.

To them, Korea was nothing more than K-pop girl groups, entertaining dramas, the samgyeopsal eaten in LA's Koreatown, and jjimjilbangs.

Pastor Jackson, who had been waiting for Pastor Branson, took the box.

He didn't know what it was himself, but it was an object chosen and sent by an angel.

It was practically the will of God.

Jackson did have some interest in machinery.

He had watched his father build houses himself and repair cars on a lift at home since he was young. However, he did not know much about electronic products.

Although he could handle broadcasting equipment and edit on a computer himself.

Fortunately, experts in this field were present within their base.

Since the detailed roster was already divided by field, they simply needed to call those believers and make requests as needed.

However, because they could not tell which people were correct, a man who knew almost everything was called to the spot.

He was an engineer from Korea.