But he might have gotten a sense of it to some extent. Assigning him to a place with no people to create an opportunity was too obvious.
Even though they assigned him, wasn’t that like saying that even if they call themselves family, they have no qualms about killing you if you’re not one of their own?
“It’s enough to shake those guys up this time.”
“But what are you going to do? It’ll be dangerous, even though we don’t know how they’ll react.”
“Don’t worry. I have a plan. My bodyguards are quite burly too.”
“Burly?”
“Yes, isn’t it good to have money?”
Park Do-joon grinned.
Park Do-joon and Jung Yi-yeon leisurely got into the car and set off.
“Detective, this is going to cost a bit for repainting, right?”
“Well, it’ll be worth it if we catch the culprit with it. And isn’t that what insurance is for?”
“That’s true, but will it be safe?”
“Of course, it’s safe.”
Pushing someone off the road isn’t so dangerous that they’ll definitely die. Rather, doing such a thing on the highway increases the chances of them getting caught up in it and dying themselves.
The reason why cars can crash into each other in movies without accidents is because there are no other cars around.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and if the other party resists to survive, the pushing side will inevitably be pushed back and bounce off.
“But are you confident?”
“Of course.”
And Park Do-joon was confident in such car crashes. Because he had already taken a class related to it. In fact, Korea has almost no car chases, so the police don’t receive car chase training. Naturally, most of them don’t even know if they can withstand such situations.
Rather, if they do such a thing, the police have to bear the cost of repairing the car alone. That’s why the police are at a loss in such car chases.
‘The criminals probably don’t know that I learned this in America.’
In America, they actually learn about such chases as part of the curriculum. Of course, you can’t apply the exact same methods in Korea.
Because American patrol cars are modified appropriately to prepare for such car chases. But the difference between knowing and not knowing anything is significant.
“Don’t worry too much. And we have our bodyguards, right?”
“That’s true, but…”
“Let’s get going.”
Park Do-joon slowly drove the car and got on the road. Naturally, there were no problems. There’s no reason to do such a daring thing on the highway. But when he arrived at a somewhat deserted place with few cars, and a rather dangerous place at that, two cars started following Park Do-joon.
“Should I say ‘as expected’? Or ‘stupid’?”
The two cars following him. It was obvious that they were SUVs.
“Isn’t that dangerous?”
“No, it’s not as dangerous as you think.”
“Yes? Why?”
“Those SUV cars have a high chassis.”
To cause a car accident, or more precisely, to push someone off the road, a sedan with a low chassis is surprisingly more advantageous than an SUV. Because if a car with a low chassis impacts the bottom of a car with a high chassis, it lifts the rear wheels, causing them to lose steering control momentarily.
In fact, that’s what’s applied to American patrol cars. To be exact, they modify the rear bumper so that the rear wheels lift up the moment a specific point is hit, and they train for that.
Once a car loses steering, it sways from side to side, creating an amplitude, and eventually flips over.
“It’s difficult to do that with those SUVs because of their size.”
It’s only possible to push them away, not to flip them over by pressing down from above.
“In that case, there’s not much we can do. Even if I resist, I have to push them away with force.”
Park Do-joon said that while subtly gauging the situation. One of the two cars slowly moved forward.
“It seems like they’re trying to block the front and push us from the side.”
Just a little further and there’s a bridge. And if they push him off there, they can definitely kill him.
“They can’t deviate an inch from my expectations.”
Park Do-joon had anticipated that they would aim for that spot because it was the best place to induce an accident.
“T-There won’t be any problems, right?”
“There won’t be any problems.”
Park Do-joon said, watching the car slowly approaching.
“Fasten your seatbelt tightly.”
The car slowly began to approach, and the moment it came very close, Park Do-joon slammed on the brakes. The car immediately slid backward. And at that moment, the other car, which was pushing in, scraped the guardrail and narrowly stopped from going off the edge.
“Too bad. I could have sent them off.”
“No, they would have fallen and died if the guardrail had broken!”
“Are they going to die, or am I going to die?”
Perhaps realizing that they almost fell to their deaths, the criminals hurriedly returned to their original lane. And the two cars suddenly reduced their speed to push Park Do-joon off.
“How foolish.”
Not knowing why Park Do-joon wasn’t speeding up to escape, they were only focused on pushing Park Do-joon off.
“Aren’t we slowing down too much?”
“That’s why I’m slowing down even more.”
“Yes?”
“The amount of impact is greatly affected by speed.”
Of course, the faster the speed, the less the impact.
“And at a speed of about 30 to 40 kilometers per hour [approximately 19 to 25 miles per hour], even if they try to push us off, they won’t have enough force.”
Since the impact is insufficient, the guardrail will withstand it even if they push us to the side. There’s no way the guardrail that withstood it earlier will collapse with that amount of impact.
“They probably think we’ll speed up and run away if we think it’s dangerous.”
Because that’s the reaction of most people.
“But that’s not what I want. Did you send the signal?”
“Yes? Ah, yes, yes.”
At Park Do-joon’s question, Lee Ji-soo quickly said, grabbing the passenger seat handle tightly. Her heart was already racing like crazy even though they hadn’t crashed yet.
“Don’t worry. Nothing will happen.”
Park Do-joon said that and stepped on the brakes again. As a result, the car blocking the front had no choice but to slow down even more.
Perhaps thinking that the bridge was almost over, the car on the left tried to push him again.
“I told you, force won’t work.”
Park Do-joon pushed to the side and stepped on the brakes. There’s no reason to maintain speed like in movies or dramas. They do that in movies and dramas to escape.
Naturally, as Park Do-joon reduced his speed, the other car that was pushing him swayed inward.
The driver barely managed to steer the car to prevent it from overturning, but Park Do-joon wasn’t going to let it go.
“Amateur.”
Park Do-joon increased his speed and crashed into the rear of the car that was barely moving from side to side. And with that impact, the car’s tail swayed wildly from side to side, and eventually, it couldn’t withstand it and overturned.
Crash!
The car rolled across the middle of the road and moved away. Lee Ji-soo widened her eyes in surprise and watched.
“They’re not dead, right?”
“They won’t die from that. Anyway, the other team following behind will arrest them.”
Park Do-joon isn’t an idiot. He had already arranged for another profiling team to follow behind.
“Still, we have to catch those guys alive. Well, I don’t know if we’ll catch them in good condition.”
As soon as one car was taken down by Park Do-joon, the panicked car slowed down again, as if trying to do something, and tried to come to the side again.
“They don’t seem to know why I reduced my speed?”
Just to reduce the impact? No.
“You’ll see them soon. Ah, there they are.”
Two large 8-ton trucks were visible in front. The two trucks were driving side by side, blocking the road. Naturally, those two trucks were slowly reducing their speed.
“They’re here from behind too.”
Naturally, two trucks appeared from behind. The second reason Park Do-joon reduced his speed. It was to buy time for the rear truck, which was relatively far away, to catch up. The lead truck can just reduce its speed, but the rear truck naturally can’t gain speed because of its weight.
“I told you, my bodyguards have some weight. Hahaha.”
There’s no way those SUVs can do anything to an 8-ton truck loaded with sand. Rather, the moment they try to break through, they’ll be crushed.
The pursuer, who still didn’t know why the trucks were there, continued to approach the side to attack Park Do-joon’s car and tried to push him again. And sparks began to fly from the car.
“Adios.”
But Park Do-joon endured with that guy appropriately and then stepped on the brakes. The guy seemed to have expected it, and unlike the guy from before, he didn’t sway.
“But what is he going to do now?”
However, there was nothing he could do anymore. Park Do-joon didn’t just reduce his speed, he stepped on the brakes completely.
And one of the two trucks driving in the left lane slowly entered the lane Park Do-joon was driving in. Naturally, the car that was trying to push Park Do-joon was surrounded by 8-ton trucks on three sides.
Only then did the guy desperately try to escape, but he had already reduced his speed so much that he couldn’t even push Park Do-joon’s car, so there was no way he would have the power to push an 8-ton truck.
As the lead truck began to reduce its speed, he had no choice but to reduce his speed as well to avoid being crushed.
As soon as the car stopped, Park Do-joon got out of the car, took out his gun, and ran. Then, he pointed his pistol at the criminals who couldn’t move in the car.
“Hands up! Don’t move. I’ll shoot if you move.”
The criminals looked around inside the car, not knowing what to do, but unfortunately, there was no escape for them.
The trucks surrounding them had completely stopped, and the only place that was open was the cliff.
Wee-ooh! Wee-ooh!
And the police cars, knowing that the situation was over, ran straight in, and Jo Sang-gyu came out of the car.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine. Expensive cars are strong after all.”
“No, are you joking, you crazy bastard!”
They tried to kill a police officer. And they sent him to die from within the police force. He couldn’t even grasp how big this problem would become.
“What about those guys?”
“We dragged them out and arrested them. But just in case, we sent them to the hospital right away.”
It seemed that the guys in the overturned car were also arrested properly.
“By the way, they don’t seem to be coming out?”
“Should I shoot them?”
“Don’t. It’ll turn over.”
Instead, other people jumped in. They ran in coolly, unfolded their batons with a swish, and then swung them to break the windows.
However.
“I’m speechless.”
Park Do-joon chuckled as he watched the batons bending instead of the windows breaking.
“How much have they been embezzling? You son of a bitch.”
Fortunately, that alone scared the criminals, and they slowly came out, and they were able to arrest them without difficulty.
“They’re Chinese. They said they were hired.”
“Chinese… Who hired them?”
“Wang Woo-hwan.”
Park Do-joon frowned at those words. An unwelcome name had popped out.
“Hasn’t he been caught yet?”
“Yeah. It’s certain that he’s in Korea, but…”
It’s certain that he’s in Korea. But he can’t be tracked down.
“He’s probably under Hong Woo-jong [a powerful and influential figure].”
“That’s right. The problem is, can’t we interrogate a current member of the National Assembly [Korea’s legislative branch]?”
“That’s the problem.”
Park Do-joon sighed deeply.
Profiling is My Calling