《 E.D.E.N Protocol 》Episode 6 : The Eyes in the Dark

The Faceless Watchers

“Surveillance isn’t just sight. It’s intent cloaked in silence.”
– E.D.E.N Archives, Entry #06

Eden Jeong sensed it before he knew it. The stare in the elevator, shadows flitting outside the window, digital noise on his screen — all too precise to be paranoia.

Now in his father Yohan’s secret bunker beneath Songdo International Center, he reviewed surveillance footage. The figure moved like it knew the blind spots. And it was heading for Sublevel 3 — the secured archive zone.

"Someone knows the layout. Too well."

The comm line buzzed. Agent Han-young of the NIS appeared.

"We've been breached. Your father's codebase—part of it has been decrypted. The trace came from a spoofed GFC node."

Eden typed rapidly. A familiar signature blinked across the screen:

[KCHL_RZ-314]

"Kang Chul..."

Yohan had once warned him: Kang Chul wasn’t a destroyer — he was a rewriter. A ghost of Lazarus.

“Kang Chul is a compass without north. Add a blade to it, and it becomes a killer.”

That night, Eden replayed an encrypted audio log left by his father.

The next morning, a message arrived. Encrypted under the cipher ‘Yujin’s Hand’:

Seocho District, Old DAPA Building. She’s alive.

He followed the trace. His emotion-sensor detected a woman: 50s, North Korean dialect — his mother, Yujin Jeong.

And then—

"We saved her."

A man stepped from the dark. Kang Chul. He handed Eden a memory chip — the original waveform of Yujin’s emotional resonance.

"GFC wants to erase emotion, not regulate it. This is empathy distilled. They want to weaponize its absence."

But intruders stormed the lab. Chul opened an escape path for Eden.

"Take it. Decide what you’ll do. I’ll cover the shadows."

As Eden fled, his mother’s emotional core began to resonate.

[3 Days Later – Busan]

At the Emotion-Based Asset Center, Eden decrypted the waveform. It wasn’t a currency. It was empathy, alive.

[Same Time – Shanghai GFC HQ]

Strategist Lin Xiao stared at the resonance file.

"He moved."

Analyst Zhang Lan:

"Recursive resonance detected. Someone’s interacting."

"It’s Eden Jeong."

Lin Xiao deployed BIT — a resonance hunter. No emotion. No empathy.

[Underground Hideout]

Yohan and Chul detected BIT’s approach.

"D-3 maneuver. Get Eden north. I’ll hold here."

[Tunnel Confrontation]

BIT faced Yohan. The man he once knew.

"I couldn’t save you…"

"Eden will weaponize emotion. I must stop him."

"That’s not a weapon. That’s what makes us human."

Meanwhile, Eden asked:

"Does he... still feel?"

Chul didn’t answer. Just pushed him forward.

BIT knelt in silence, not following.

"I... remember. Someone once felt for me."

"Don’t lose that. That’s your last humanity," Yohan said.

At the core, Eden stood firm.

"I wasn’t chosen. I was loved."

The core bloomed open. Sequence YJ. Her voice—

“Emotion isn’t weakness. It’s how memory lives.”

์–ผ๊ตด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฐ์‹œ์ž๋“ค

“๊ฐ์‹œ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ์‹œ์„ ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์นจ๋ฌต ์†์— ์ˆจ์€ ์˜๋„๋‹ค.”
– E.D.E.N ์•„์นด์ด๋ธŒ ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ œ6ํ˜ธ

์ •์ด๋“ ์€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํ„ฐ ์•ˆ์˜ ๋‚ฏ์„  ๊ธฐ์ฒ™, ์ฐฝ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž, ๋…ธํŠธ๋ถ์˜ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œ ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ.
๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ง์ƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ํ›„ ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์†ก๋„ ๊ตญ์ œ์„ผํ„ฐ ์ง€ํ•˜์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€ ์š”ํ™˜์˜ ๋ฒ™์ปค์—์„œ ๊ฐ์‹œ์˜์ƒ์„ ์žฌ์ƒ ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž๋Š” ๋งˆ์น˜ ์‚ฌ๊ฐ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๋“ฏ ์›€์ง์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ง€ํ•˜ 3์ธต ๋ณด์•ˆ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฟฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด. ์•„์ฃผ ์ •๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ."

๊ทธ๋•Œ ํ†ต์‹ ์ด ์šธ๋ ธ๊ณ , ๊ตญ์ •์› ์š”์› ์ดํ•œ์˜์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.

"๋šซ๋ ธ์–ด. ๋„ˆํฌ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€ ์ฝ”๋“œ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ณตํ˜ธํ™”๋์–ด. GFC ์œ„์žฅ ๋…ธ๋“œ์—์„œ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™”์–ด."

์ด๋“ ์€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ทธ๋‹ˆ์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค:

[KCHL_RZ-314]

"๊ฐ•์ฒ ..."

์š”ํ™˜์ด ์ƒ์ „์— ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๋ณ€์ˆ˜.
๋ผ์ž๋ฃจ์Šค์˜ ์œ ๋ น.

“๊ฐ•์ฒ ์€ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์žƒ์€ ๋‚˜์นจ๋ฐ˜์ด๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์— ์นผ๋‚ ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด— ์‚ด์ธ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค.”

๊ทธ๋‚  ๋ฐค, ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์˜ ๋…น์Œ ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์Œ ๋‚ , ‘์œ ์ง„์˜ ์†’ ์•”ํ˜ธ๋กœ ์•”ํ˜ธํ™”๋œ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์„œ์ดˆ๊ตฌ ์˜› ๋ฐฉ์œ„์‚ฌ์—…์ฒญ. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋“ ์€ ๊ณง์žฅ ํ˜„์žฅ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์ • ์ž”๋ฅ˜๊ฐ’์€ 50๋Œ€ ๋ถํ•œ ์–ต์–‘์˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ— ์ •์œ ์ง„์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋•Œ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋’ค์— ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค."

๊ฐ•์ฒ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ • ์นฉ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋„ธ๋‹ค. ์ •์œ ์ง„์˜ ์ˆœ์ • ๊ฐ์ • ํŒŒํ˜•์ด ๋‹ด๊ธด ์›ํ˜• ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ.

"GFC๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์‚ญ์ œํ•˜๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ— ๊ฒฐํ•์˜ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ์•ผ."

์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์นจ์ž…๋‹นํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฐ•์ฒ ์€ ์ด๋“ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ผ. ์„ ํƒ์€ ๋„ค ๋ชซ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚œ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž ์†์— ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค."

๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋“ . ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ์ • ์ฝ”์–ด๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

[3์ผ ํ›„ – ๋ถ€์‚ฐ]

๊ฐ์ • ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ž์‚ฐ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์†Œ์—์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ • ํŒŒํ˜•์„ ๋ณตํ˜ธํ™”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๊ฑด ํ™”ํ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

[๋™์‹œ – ์ƒํ•˜์ด GFC ๋ณธ๋ถ€]

์ „๋žต์‹ค์žฅ ๋ฆฐ ์ƒค์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋ช… ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

"์ด๋“ ์ด ์›€์ง์˜€๊ตฐ."

๋ถ„์„๊ด€ ์žฅ๋ž€:

"์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋ช… ํŒจํ„ด. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ์ ‘์† ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

"์ •์ด๋“ ์ด๋‹ค."

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ์ • ์ฐจ๋‹จ ์š”์› ‘๋น„ํŠธ’๋ฅผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ํˆฌ์ž…์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

[์€์‹ ์ฒ˜]

์š”ํ™˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ•์ฒ ์€ ๋น„ํŠธ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"D-3 ์ „์ˆ . ์ด๋“ ์„ ๋ถ์ชฝ ๋ฃจํŠธ๋กœ ๋นผ. ๋‚œ ์—ฌ๊ธธ ์ง€ํ‚จ๋‹ค."

[์ง€ํ•˜ ํ„ฐ๋„]

๋น„ํŠธ๋Š” ์š”ํ™˜๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•œ๋‹ค.

"๋„ˆ์˜€๊ตฐ… ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋‚˜? ๋‚œ ๋„ ๊ตฌํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ง€."

"์ด๋“ ์€ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์•„์ด์•ผ. ๋‚œ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋ง‰๋Š”๋‹ค."

"๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์ด๋‹ค."

์ด๋“ ์€ ๋ฌป๋Š”๋‹ค.

"๊ทธ๋„… ๊ฐ์ •์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?"

๊ฐ•์ฒ ์€ ๋Œ€๋‹ต ๋Œ€์‹  ๋“ฑ์„ ๋ฐ€์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๋น„ํŠธ๋Š” ์ซ“์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ ๊ฟ‡๊ณ  ์ค‘์–ผ์˜€๋‹ค.

"๋‚˜๋„… ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚  ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋˜ ๊ฐ์ •."

"๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์žƒ์ง€ ๋งˆ๋ผ. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋„ค ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ธ๊ฐ„์„ฑ์ด์•ผ." ์š”ํ™˜์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ.

์ด๋“ ์€ ์ฝ”์–ด ์•ž์— ์„ฐ๋‹ค.

"๋‚œ ์„ ํƒ๋œ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค."

์ฝ”์–ด๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ ธ๋‹ค. YJ ์‹œํ€€์Šค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ.

“๊ฐ์ •์€ ์•ฝ์ ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์ •์€ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด์•ผ.”

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