The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 112

112. A Joyful Stowaway

A few minutes earlier, at the cargo sorting area of Nampo International Port.

Mo Chang-gui was fixated on a container, his eyes darting around.

‘Why is that son of a bitch here?’

Mo Chang-gui gritted his teeth at the sight of Shin Hae-soo, the very person who had put him in this predicament. A surge of anger flared up, but he knew now wasn’t the time for a confrontation.

He pulled out a prepaid cell phone and dialed a number.

-The phone is turned off…

‘Damn it, that bastard…!’

The subordinate who was supposed to deliver the money and a forged passport had vanished. It was a betrayal, something unimaginable before Mo Chang-gui’s time in prison.

For some reason, the subordinate kept making excuses about delivering the money and passport, and eventually, he ratted him out to the police.

Mo Chang-gui’s mind raced. He was in a bind.

However, if he turned back or remained where he was, his location would soon be compromised.

Just then, he noticed a couple passionately making out between containers in a secluded spot. Seeing a travel carrier nearby, it was clear they had sought refuge there, too eager to wait for the ship’s departure. They looked ready to rip each other’s clothes off.

Chang-gui approached them and said, “Hey, let’s switch clothes.”

“Oh my!”

The woman gasped and recoiled, while the man scowled and retorted, “What? Are you crazy?”

“Koreans only understand when they get a beating.”

Chang-gui shook his head and casually raised his fist.

Pow-

His fist landed squarely on the man’s nose.

A short time later, inside a container.

“Take that ship and go. If you don’t want to see your girlfriend’s neck sliced open in real-time, don’t get caught, got it?”

“Yes, yes, please….”

The man, now dressed in Mo Chang-gui’s clothes, nodded, blood gushing from his nose.

Mo Chang-gui connected his and the woman’s cell phones via video call, ensuring her face was visible on the screen.

It was a way to monitor the man’s words and movements, and a constant threat to kill the woman at any moment.

“Now, go.”

“O, oppa [term of endearment for an older brother or boyfriend], oppaaaa….”

The woman sobbed, tears and snot streaming down her face, as Mo Chang-gui held her firmly. His knife was pressed against her pale neck.

The man took a hesitant step, glancing back at the woman several times before shuffling forward, his legs trembling.

While the man headed toward the ship Mo Chang-gui was originally supposed to board, Mo Chang-gui and the woman remained alone in the container. Suddenly, a cold glint flickered in Mo Chang-gui’s eyes.

The woman instinctively sensed danger and trembled.

“Save, save me….”

Mo Chang-gui muted the phone and grabbed her hair, asking, “Why should I save you? There’s no reason to. He doesn’t know whether you live or die and will go to that country.”

“Please, please… I’ll do anything.”

She clasped her hands together and pleaded. Mo Chang-gui studied her silently for a moment, then asked in a low voice, “You want to live that badly?”

She nodded vigorously.

“Okay, but you have to do well.”

He abruptly began tearing at the woman’s clothes, forcibly stripping her until she was left in only her underwear.

She covered her chest with her hands, humiliated, and lowered her head. Tears dripped onto the floor.

“Raise your head.”

His icy command instantly extinguished any trace of emotion. The woman quickly looked up.

Mo Chang-gui wrapped his arm around her shoulder and slowly turned her body, positioning her to face the entrance, not the ship her boyfriend had boarded. He pointed with his index finger, saying, “You’re going to run over there. To where the guards are, got it?”

“Yes, yes, I understand.”

It was clear that he wouldn’t humiliate her further and would save her. The woman’s face brightened.

“If you stray elsewhere, you’re dead. Go!”

At the same time, Mo Chang-gui slashed her wrist with a knife.

“Kyaaa!”

Blood splattered inside the container. Before she could register the pain, Mo Chang-gui kicked her in the butt.

“Go!”

Hearing the voice of the Grim Reaper, the woman clutched her wrist and ran toward the guards, driven by pure survival instinct. She could feel the blood pouring out, her wrist burning.

Running naked in front of so many people was the least of her concerns now.

“Heeu, save me. Please save me!”

Seeing the woman running toward them, the guards rushed to meet her.

“W, what’s going on!”

“Are you okay?”

“Jang, Jang! Call 119 [emergency services number in South Korea], 119!”

Meanwhile, plainclothes police officers pushed through the crowd.

When Oh Gyeong tried to get past the guards, they resisted, but the team leader who followed closely behind flashed his police badge.

Oh Gyeong applied direct pressure to the wound while questioning her.

“I’m a police officer. Who did this? Does he look like this?”

Oh Gyeong held up a photo of Mo Chang-gui to her. However, she didn’t even glance at the photo, trembling in fear.

Feeling that she had reached safety, all the tension in her body released, and she couldn’t hear anything.

The team leader, who was watching from behind, felt frustrated and shouted at her.

“What clothes was he wearing? Just tell me what clothes!”

Her trembling pupils shifted to the team leader. She heard the voice and understood the question, but she kept her mouth shut, afraid that she or her boyfriend would be harmed.

The devil still had her cell phone.

“Ha… really.”

Oh Gyeong and the team leader immediately understood her state and sighed deeply.

Meanwhile.

Hae-soo, the youngest detective on the team, and the special forces were searching the area from which the woman had emerged.

“Here!”

At the sound of the special forces, Hae-soo quickly ran over. Inside a half-open container, blood was splattered everywhere, and the woman’s torn clothes were scattered on the floor.

But there was no one inside.

The special forces commander narrowed his brow and shouted, “Spread out! Squads 1 and 2, follow me! We’re going to the port!”

Hae-soo watched the special forces scatter and then looked back at the scene, lost in thought for a moment.

‘Mo Chang-gui, Mo Chang-gui, where did you go…?’

The Coast Guard was also on standby, so if they could identify a specific ship, they would stop it, but they couldn’t stop all the ships and search them for hours.

There was also the possibility that he hadn’t boarded a ship.

He wondered what choice he would have made if he were Mo Chang-gui, but he had no idea because he was a guy who didn’t know where he would jump. Reading the mind of someone so abnormal like him was the hardest thing to do.

“Detective, where should we….”

“Damn it….”

Hae-soo seemed to be wandering in the youngest’s eyes. It was the first time he had seen such a sight.

He was not simply obsessed with the criminal, but too focused on a specific person named Mo Chang-gui, and his mind was not working properly.

While the violent crimes unit and the special forces were busily searching, a small boat was moving in the distance.

* * *

Taking advantage of the commotion caused by the woman, Mo Chang-gui slipped away and boarded another small fishing boat.

Looking at the crew members, it was obviously a boat suspected of smuggling.

When one of the crew members saw him secretly boarding, he smiled and made a circle with his thumb and index finger [a gesture indicating money].

“I have a lot of money, so give me a ride.”

The crew member hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand and gestured for him to follow.

It didn’t matter if he checked whether he had a lot of money or not later. If he didn’t have it, he would just take it away, and if he did, he would take it and sell him off.

Everything that happened on the boat would be buried in the sea.

Following the crew member, he came to a dark underground area. When he opened one of the rooms there, a musty smell wafted out. The space, which was less than four pyeong [a Korean unit of area, approximately 3.3 square meters], was packed with people.

Everyone was dressed in dirty clothes.

“You want me to go in here?”

“If you don’t like it, get out.”

Mo Chang-gui frowned and went inside, and the crew member slammed the door shut.

He looked down at the people as if they were bugs and looked around for a place to sit, but there was nowhere to sit. Not only the wall side but also the place where he was standing now did not have enough space to sit. He was wondering if he should beat someone up when he felt a slight tug on his pants, so he lowered his head.

A boy of about ten years old looked up at Mo Chang-gui and wiggled his butt, making a little space. It meant to sit down.

He let out a hollow laugh and sat next to the little boy.

“Hey, where is this boat going?”

“I don’t know either.”

“You’re going without even knowing where you’re going?”

“I was kidnapped.”

He was either kidnapped or sold by some organization.

Mo Chang-gui thought it was good. If it was human trafficking rather than simple smuggling, they would hide the boat more thoroughly. That would reduce the chance of being caught by detectives.

“Mister, your hand.”

“What?”

The boy, not afraid of Mo Chang-gui, whose body was covered with scabs, grabbed his hand. Then he took something out of his inside pocket.

It was a small, old vinyl pack, containing various types of bandages, seemingly collected from various places.

“I used up all the medicine, so this is all I have.”

He put a bandage on the scratch on Mo Chang-gui’s arm. Chang-gui stared at it for a moment and said.

“I’ll save you.”

“Yes?”

Mo Chang-gui didn’t intend to answer his question and looked up at the iron door.

A moment later.

Squeak-

The iron door opened, and two crew members with fierce expressions appeared. One was the crew member who had brought Mo Chang-gui, and the other was a bandit-like crew member with a thick beard.

The bandit crew member slowly looked around at the people and pointed to the boy next to Mo Chang-gui.

“Hey, come out.”

“M, me?”

He only asked once. The answer to that question was not his mouth but his feet.

Thud!

The boy fell backward from the rough kick with his weight on it, and he was kicked in the stomach several times in a row.

The bandit-like crew member grabbed the boy’s collar and lifted him up, panting and looking around at the people.

“Don’t make me say it twice, unless you want to become fish food.”

The boy was dragged away, and not long after, the slit-eyed crew member who had brought Mo Chang-gui came back.

“Hey, you, come out.”

“Okay.”

Mo Chang-gui willingly followed him. There was no one around, and it was dark.

“Why did you take that kid?”

“Why, do you want to get hit too?”

It was the first time he had been treated like this in a long time, so it was refreshing, and he even laughed. The crew member frowned at Chang-gui.

“If you don’t want your stomach ripped open, control your expression. Give me your money.”

Chang-gui shrugged his shoulders.

“I’ll give it to you when I get to land, but where are we going?”

At Chang-gui’s question, the crew member took out a rusty knife from his pocket and sneered. He seemed very familiar with threatening.

“If you’re too curious, you’ll die. Let’s start with one finger first.”

“Okay.”

Mo Chang-gui nodded, took out a small knife from his pocket, stabbed the crew member’s side twice with a blank expression, pinned the hand holding the knife to the wall, and stabbed the knife into the back of his hand.

It was instantaneous.

Stab stab whack!

“Kkeueup!!”

Before a scream could escape, Chang-gui gagged the crew member and whispered in his ear.

“Where should we start? Pinky finger? No, no, that’s too boring. We have to go strong from the beginning, starting with the thumb….”

Then, he dragged the knife from the back of his hand and cut off the crew member’s thumb.

“Kkeueueueuk!!!”

The crew member groaned in pain, but he couldn’t do anything because of Mo Chang-gui’s strong strength.

“I think you’re ready to answer my questions now, but is it not enough?”

The crew member nodded his head about six times a second. His trembling eyes were full of tears. Only then did Chang-gui take his hand off his mouth.

“Where are we going?”

“S, Shanghai.”

Chang-gui’s expression hardened. Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, anywhere was fine, but China was not good.

His face was already well-known, and there were many guys trying to catch him.

“How many are there upstairs?”

“Seven….”

“Really? I see.”

Mo Chang-gui pulled out the knife, stabbed the crew member’s neck twice, and chicly walked past him.

The crew member sprayed blood like a fountain in the hallway and slowly collapsed on the spot.

Upstairs, the captain’s room on the deck.

Thump!

The boy with a swollen face was lying on the floor. The bandit-like crew member put his foot on the boy’s head and sneered.

“Can’t you understand me? Don’t you know Korean? Should I speak in Chinese?”

“I, I’m sorry….”

Step step step

At that moment, the sound of footsteps came from the stairs, and a man slowly appeared, twirling a knife. There was a streak of blood, presumably from someone else, on his face.

The bandit crew member, as well as the other crew members behind him, questioned the strange man.

“Who are you?”

Mo Chang-gui looked at the boy lying on the floor covered in blood and opened his mouth to the bandit crew member.

“Turn the ship around, to Nagasaki.”

“What is this crazy bastard saying?”