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00://hack (Pronounced "Zero Hack") is a post-apocalyptic sci‑fi drama that follows Jun‑lee, a physics teacher who awakens thousands of years in the future after cryosleep and finds a world radically changed by catastrophe. Struggling to adapt to a harsh new era, he joins the organization S.A.I.D. and forms bonds with fellow survivors while confronting grief, loneliness, and the weight of his past. As humanity fights to rebuild and endure in a dangerous world, Jun‑lee embarks on a journey of self-discovery, friendship, and healing. Blending action, mystery, romance, and psychological drama, 00://hack explores what it means to move forward when the past refuses to let go and whether people can find hope, purpose, and happiness after unimaginable loss.
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Chapter 1 - Re-Awakening

"It's been a long time, Jun-lee."

It's 2029; Jun-lee went to work as a teacher at Gyoyuk-Hagwon High School for the first day of the new year. He was a physics teacher who barely earned enough money to even feed himself. Jun-lee was driving his BMW M3 E46, for which he barely even paid his taxes. He drove to a forest near a river where he put up a tent. There were theories going on about the forest that it was used for military testing, but Jun-lee lived there for two years. He had pots, cosmetics, and all his personal needs. He would usually store his food in the trunk of his car, where he knew it was safe. 

He had a shotgun to kill animals for dinner, and Siberian musk deer was his favorite. He would sleep in a sleeping bag in his tent in the summer, but in his car in the winter or maybe when there is rain, because his tent is getting old and is beginning to leak and he is trying to save money for greater causes. He had no phone or any communication with the outside world, except his flare gun.

He got to class and greeted his fellow students, "Good morning, students.", while the students greeted back, "Good morning, teacher.", but as always, Xi was sleeping. Xi was a transfer student from China due to his behavior at his older school. He bullied kids and had a fighting spirit at his old school, being the strongest gang leader in the school. Even in his new school, he remained the status as the strongest. Jun-lee always ignored him, because he always thought of Xi as a nuisance. Xi had brown eyes, with dyed wavy grey hair that reached the neck, showing his piercings and a small depiction of his tattoos. Jun-lee was all that the Asians thought were the 'regulars'. Brown hair, brown eyes, bowl cut, glasses, and nothing more. Jun-lee was handing out the results of the assignments, and everyone got above an A-, but as always, Xi got the highest mark. 

Jun-lee and Xi had a phone call that rang at the same time. They had the same number ringing, strange. They answered at the same time, and they got the same answer, 'Look at the Window.'

They felt a laser hitting their eyes, and the phone said, 'You should've listened to the theories,' and there, they saw two soldiers aiming a rifle at their head. Jun-lee saw it end and woke up in water. Jun-lee was cold from how freezing the water was. He got out of what seemed to be a barrel. He only remembered the soldiers shooting him but didn't really remember himself in a barrel of cold water. Jun-lee walked to a mirror and saw himself naked, and he instantly started looking for clothes, desperate to have them. He found skeletons wearing soldier camouflage pants, and he put them on, even the underwear, because he thought the bones were cheap cosplay for testing. He saw Xi in a barrel, frozen and unable to move. He thought it was a prank, but saw a paper saying.

Name: Tian Xi

Date of birth: 2012/07/03

Place of Birth: Shanghai, China

Date recorded for freezing: 2029/01/09

Date recorded for removal: 3069/09/02

Bpm: 28

Jun-lee was astonished at this document, because he was in the later millennium. He then thought to maybe check the date on a working computer, but all of them were busted. All of a sudden, the ice in Xi's barrel began melting, and he woke up. Luckily, the barrel was open, and Xi was able to come out. Jun-lee realized that he was in the future.