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Society Protocol Season 2 Episode 18

Workers Sent by Angels

After the youngest angel disappeared from the world created by God,

the angel who had wrestled with Jacob began to wreak havoc on the human world in earnest.

Knowing that the descendants of the serpent—though they did not know the exact method—quickly detected the angels' appearances in the world and were monitoring the place, the angel minimized the instances of showing himself directly to humans.

He also refrained from entering human bodies.

This was because he believed that the moment he entered a human body, the probability of disappearing from the world increased.

Therefore, although the angel did reveal his form directly,

he chose a method to minimize the time he remained in the presence.

That method was to project his image directly onto the human brain.

This was similar to appearing in dreams.

The difference was that it had to appear during daily life, not while the person was sleeping.

The mechanism was different.

And since it was their first attempt, they did not know if it would be possible. However, just as one must chew on medicinal herbs to know their effects, someone performed the act of displaying the form of an angel to the brains of various unrelated humans.

The problem was that this was immediately uploaded to the internet.

Experience stories from people claiming to have gathered angels simultaneously began to appear online.

At first, accounts surfaced claiming that an entire region had witnessed such a sight.

And simultaneously, accounts began to emerge from completely different locations where people had seen it.

The angel tried various approaches.

Eventually, it developed the ability to control its power to the point where it could send the form directly to the brains of exactly one person at a time.

The angel began flying over the Earth and scanning.

It was to verify who possessed what abilities.

The descendants of the serpent fell into confusion as the angel's form appeared and disappeared frequently and in various ways across the globe.

Even the Watchdogs protecting the Earth eventually reached their limits and stopped deploying every time.

It felt completely different from the angels that had appeared before.

It felt like an insurmountable being, beyond their ability to overcome.

However, they did not give up.

They connected large-scale battlefield drones like a spiderweb.

And they began researching methods to capture every signal from satellites.

Although they could not physically chase the angel by deploying themselves,

they were able to obtain a history of where it had appeared.

Obtaining such a distribution of appearances alone provided them with a great deal of information.

The angel was primarily found in Russia, Europe, India, Korea, and the western United States.

Occasionally, it was also found in Australia.

It was even found in Nevada, where Reverend Jackson was located.

That moment lasted almost no more than a second.

The angel shot its message into the human brain. And then it vanished.

The signal that entered the human brain was then converted to the speed of signals experienced in everyday life. It was similar to how information received at the speed of light transforms into music.

It is a principle similar to how playing a downloaded movie for a few seconds turns into nearly two hours.

In this way, the angel selected the people he needed from among humanity.

And he delivered a message to them.

‘Go to the American West. And do God’s will.’

Among them were atheists and devout Hindus.

However, the message was so vivid that they could not ignore it.

They began to gather in Nevada, each in their own way.

They were primarily electrical engineers, telecommunications engineers, programmers, and roboticists.

There were also some chemists, psychologists, and medical professionals.

They all arrived in Nevada less than two days after Pastor Branson had brought the rice cooker box.

Pastor Jackson decided to first gather some of the believers he trusted and open the box in the conference room located in the chapel's basement.

It was a kind of panic room where they could hide, even if only briefly, in the event of an enemy attack.

Although it had a structure similar to an underground bunker, it was only about three stories deep because they lacked the ability to dig deep into the ground as the government does.

However, even that depth was enough to feel safe.

This was because only a very small number of people knew exactly where it was buried within the entire chapel.

Therefore, they felt secure because they believed it would be difficult to become a target.

It was the first time they had used that space since it had been built. The group gathered in the panic room consisted of six people: Pastor Jackson, Pastor Branson, the General Manager (an elder), the Chief of Operations, and a Korean-American engineer with a background in electronics development who had never had a direct, significant encounter with the sanctuary designer.

He had received a message from an angel.

And he had informed Pastor Jackson of receiving that message well in advance.

They had already finished their conversation before Pastor Jackson saw Pastor Branson off.

That is how he was able to attend.

He had been in Korea for several years and reportedly developed antennas for a mobile phone company.

His name was Kim Su-hwan.

His final career was in Palo Alto, San Francisco, but immediately prior to that was Brainwave, a company located in Korea.

He was a founding member of Brainwave.

He was also the one who conducted the first antenna test.

He was the one who discovered Jojo at the sundae gukbap restaurant,

and he was the first subject of an experiment demonstrating how radio waves affect the brain.

He was the one who built the machine for Jojo, and he was the one who was arrested and interrogated by the police.

He bore no legal responsibility.

This was because the user had modified it himself.

However, he always lived with a sense of moral responsibility in his heart.

He became deeply immersed in religion and always attended church passionately in the United States.

To repent for his sins,

he lived always feeling as though he were paying the price for the many victims caused by his wrongdoings.

Then he met someone he loved and lived there, raising a child.

It was then that he came to Nevada after seeing the content of Pastor Branson and Pastor Jackson, whose sermons he often listened to online, through the internet. He had advised on broadcasting equipment, in-house power generation facilities, and communication facilities, and had even personally carried out the construction work.

It was this man who had recently come to this place after receiving a message from an angel.

The moment Kim Soo-hwan saw the rice cooker box handed to him by Pastor Branson, goosebumps ran down his spine.

The very device he had always tried to forget—yet could not—was right before his eyes.

He knew that it possessed infinite power.

However, he did not want to encounter it again.

This was because he also knew how terrifyingly humans could change due to that device.

But ultimately, this was proceeding according to God's will.

Didn't even an angel deliver a message to him?

Reverend Jackson took out the survival knife he had strapped to his waist and began to cut through the tape on the box.

He carried it for self-defense, as there were wild animals like coyotes and venomous snakes.

He also kept it strapped to his waist because, although the blade wore down a bit when cutting through boxes, it was still useful.

When he cut the tape on the box, a thin, opaque white plastic sheet covered the contents.

When he lifted the plastic, the entire contents came up.

It looked like a motorcycle helmet.

When he tore open the white plastic packaging, a blue object resembling a motorcycle helmet was revealed.

A cord was connected to the right side of the helmet, and at the end of the cord was an electronic device the size of a smartphone.

And beneath the helmet was a sponge box.

When he opened the box, he found a small, palm-sized paper manual and a palm-sized external hard drive inside. On the cover of the booklet, along with the words "Brainwave," was a brand logo shaped like a round human head with a sine wave passing through it.

It had been nearly four to five years since Kim Su-hwan last saw this product.

It was a device capable of controlling almost every action related to the brain.

For about two years, they identified various frequencies and different locations within the brain to observe changes in behavior or the body.

Kim Su-hwan was the second subject of the experiment.

The first was the company's youngest employee, who happened to participate in the experiment.

That employee was originally a subject intended to test whether the device could receive specific frequencies emanating from the brain through an antenna.

Therefore, they did not think it would have any effect on the human body.

However, when the hardware research team leader present at the time could not find any reaction, he changed the antenna's code.

As a result, the situation arose where the human brain began receiving the signal, and the external antenna attempting to receive it was transmitting the specific frequency to the brain.

At that time, the youngest employee conducting the experiment began speaking based on what he felt, without even knowing what he was doing.

However, those words were not proper.

Although they could be heard, the speech was distorted in strange ways.

Yet, the subject did not feel anything was wrong at all.

From then on, the experiment began in earnest, and the second subject was Kim Su-hwan, the Antenna Team Leader.

He personally felt the sensations and wrote down the results.

It was similar to Shen Nong from ancient tales.

Like Shen Nong, who is said to have tasted every plant in the world, personally experienced their efficacy, and turned them into medicine, he intended to experience it firsthand by shooting various radio waves into his own brain.

The most dangerous moment was then.

It was when he irradiated his brain with a frequency lower than the generally used frequency.

In that instant, he could not breathe, and his lungs stopped.

It turned out that irradiating a part of the brain with a specific frequency could halt the part of the body responsible for breathing. And when he used the front part of his brain with a specific frequency, he became enraged without realizing it,

and as he grew incredibly strong, he smashed objects and a murderous aura emanated from him.

When the radio waves were cut off, he found himself unable to even retain proper memories.

The product was created in three prototypes.

Hua Tuo No. 1 was a device containing all functions,

Hua Tuo No. 2 was a version where software developers could access frequencies specialized for schizophrenia and epilepsy.

Hua Tuo No. 3 was a treatment device for schizophrenia and epilepsy that allowed the user to adjust only the intensity.

This product was the final version of Hua Tuo No. 1.

He had never seen it himself.

There was a time when he stopped coming to work while under police investigation.

It seemed to have been created at that time.

Reverend Jackson connected the external hard drive to his laptop. Inside the laptop, there was a report containing experimental data, specific frequency specifications, and even diagrams illustrating the manifestation of symptoms based on the location of the brain corresponding to those specific frequencies.

There was also an instruction manual for using the helmet, written in both Korean and English.

Another folder contained usable operating programs and developer software.

In the last folder next to that, there were video files.

Jackson opened one of the videos at random.

The video showed a frontal lobe test being conducted.