Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 243

243. Smells Fishy (2)

“The helicopter and the prosecutor were also called by Yeon-woo, right?”

“Yes, well….”

“I know very well that Yeon-woo isn’t the type to show off. I also know that you deliberately didn’t say anything. But as the person in charge here, I have no choice but to thank you.”

He bowed.

Kil Sang-jun, a star PD [Production Director] who made a mark in the entertainment industry and earns more than the president of a decent company with his outstanding abilities alone.

He had great pride and self-esteem.

Apart from being a good and kind person, he was very aware of his position.

Such a man bowed his head.

With all his heart.

“Thank you so much. I don’t know how many times you’ve saved our drama.”

[Truth]

The intention analysis status window floated above Kil Sang-jun’s head.

It wasn’t just an intention to deal with the situation.

“I just did what I had to do.”

“There are many people who don’t do what they have to do. There are people who deliberately ignore injustice because they don’t want to be bothered in this society.”

“I’m glad you say that, Director. You said it was hard to find this filming location.”

‘It’s because you were possessed by evil spirits.’

In any case, when you think about it, it’s like ruining the entire filming schedule.

How can you film in a place where a body was found?

Well, there might be a way to use this sensationally, but fortunately, Kil Sang-jun wasn’t that extreme.

“Now that I think about it, I don’t know why I was so obsessed with this house.”

[That’s because you’re possessed by a *japgwi* [a minor, mischievous spirit]. You want to come more and want to die. That’s how you get eaten. You should be more grateful for that than the filming. Tsk tsk.]

Sometimes, not knowing is better.

“Oh, you’re really a lucky charm, a lucky charm.”

Even writer Song, who had completely lost sleep due to the series of events, joined in.

Song grabbed Yeon-woo’s hand and stroked it repeatedly, saying.

“You have to…… work together on the next project, too? Okay? I’ll really give you all my guarantee and get PPL [Product Placement] in my name.”

“It’s okay.”

“It’s not okay at all. I’m not okay. I really want to pick the stars in the sky and give them to Yeon-woo if I could. Do you know my heart?”

I don’t know.

But Yeon-woo silently nodded.

This was thanks to having experienced several times that continuing to decline here would only prolong the conversation.

What’s amazing is that everyone takes this situation for granted.

They’re looking at this side with a very satisfied expression.

“That’s not enough. Yeon-woo took care of everything while we were out of our minds? I’m really grateful a hundred times over. If it weren’t for this, I would have had nightmares for the rest of my life. Oh, that was really a haunted house, a haunted house.”

Gu Jun-wook rubbed his goosebump-covered arm.

Then he subtly added a word.

“Do you have a boyfriend?”

“Yes?”

Yeon-woo doubted his ears for a moment.

What is this all of a sudden?

“You have a lot of courage, your personality is sincere, calm, and composed, you have a handsome and dashing appearance, and you are smart and intelligent. In my opinion, you are the perfect groom material…….”

“Oh, teacher. That’s enough. Why are you introducing someone here? Our Yeon-woo has a bright future ahead of him!”

[Is this *ajeossi* [middle-aged man] crazy? If you knew our actor, you’d be shocked!]

Even the child spirit was yelling.

In any case, thanks to that, the awkward atmosphere was slightly relieved.

The feeling of fear that had weighed down heavily since after checking the video gradually faded away.

“I’ve heard that people often find bodies while experiencing haunted houses…… It’s really a strange thing…….”

The emptiness filled the space where fear had left.

And that emptiness led to anger.

“But they said the basement was extended and rebuilt several times. Then who is the culprit? The homeowner? The landowner?”

“I think it’s the landowner. That bastard was the most abusive.”

Before he knew it, the landowner had been demoted to ‘that bastard.’

“The homeowner said he wanted to film here and leave it as a record. The landowner suddenly stopped resisting and kicked the homeowner out with extra money.”

If it weren’t for the homeowner, he would have become a wandering bum, let alone filming.

Because having a filming location that you worked hard to find unilaterally canceled is like a bolt from the blue.

“Then, rather than the homeowner…… the landowner is more likely, right?”

“The first owner of this house was the landowner, so that must be right, right?”

“He looked like he couldn’t be used, but he was really crazy. What is he, a psychopath or something?”

“We’re filming a psychopath serial killer, so why do strange guys keep appearing…….”

The filming was already long gone.

The prosecutor’s investigation team that appeared at the filming location the next day confirmed that belief.

*

“Things are getting bigger…….”

Lee Gye-hyun, a prosecutor with a sensitive impression, returned to the abandoned house early in the morning with his dedicated investigation team.

Not only that.

“I’ve never seen so many police officers like this…….”

After the investigation began in earnest.

The filming team was no different from a bundle of barley [meaning they were easily pushed aside and insignificant].

“Did they gather all the nearby police officers?”

Multiple bodies, not just one, were found.

Naturally, it was a violent crime.

Accordingly, prosecutor Lee Gye-hyun, who was in charge of the investigation, mobilized all the nearby police officers.

This was to estimate the exact extent of the damage and find clues that could identify the victims.

“That’s the forensic science team, right? Wow…… It’s my first time seeing them in person.”

“Have you seen a body several times?”

“Of course not…….”

Thanks to so many people flocking to the scene, the filming team was naturally pushed to the side.

“But when are we withdrawing? I don’t think we have anything more to do.”

The filming was already ruined.

The abandoned house, which was the planned location, had already become a huge piece of evidence.

Of course, the thought of filming there had already disappeared.

‘The child spirit ate it well. Thanks to that, the director is back to normal.’

The eyes of Kil Sang-jun, who seemed to have been possessed by the guy who possessed PD Kil, were clear.

He was told that he would need to make a statement later as he was the first witness to discover the situation, but it wasn’t right now.

So there was no reason for the filming team to be here like this.

But why are they staying here and watching the investigation proceed…….

“We can withdraw now, but…… doesn’t something seem strange, *jogama* [term of endearment, literally ‘little bird’]?”

It was because he had a strange feeling.

It wasn’t just Kil Sang-jun who felt that way.

“Am I too immersed in the role of the police chief? Director, you think it’s strange too, right?”

“My long-standing police intuition is telling me. I think there’s something fishy.”

“Our Si-hyuk is doing method acting. Oh, how admirable.”

In the play, Kim Si-hyuk’s role was an incompetent police officer who couldn’t do anything right.

He runs around trying to achieve results, but doesn’t produce any results.

Or, he doesn’t solve the problem, but rather makes it more complicated and ruins it.

Although he was an incompetent role, Kim Si-hyuk and Gu Jun-wook asked for understanding from several police stations and obtained permission to directly experience the atmosphere of the scene in order to further enhance the reality of being a police officer.

What kind of atmosphere it is roughly.

What kind of sense of duty do they have when dealing with a case.

Etc.

They said they had been learning and mastering it diligently, although it was only superficial.

But.

“Are they really police officers?”

Someone threw those words out.

From that point on, people began to whisper here and there.

“Did they get guys wearing police uniforms from somewhere instead of police officers?”

“No…… How can they be so insincere?”

“If they’re police officers…… it’s a murder case…… Is that okay?”

Why is there a title called the staff of the people [a common saying referring to public servants]?

If they are police officers, shouldn’t they have at least some sincerity in any case?

Well.

There are all kinds of people in the world.

There are people with a sense of professionalism, and there are people without it everywhere.

I know it just by looking at this industry.

There are celebrities who don’t do any self-improvement and are busy acting important.

There are also people like Kwon Seong-hyun who are at the top of their game but constantly repeat acting research and practice.

So there should be no overinterpretation of misunderstanding the whole group by looking at only one group…….

‘They’re really all too lazy.’

Yeon-woo stared at the status windows of the police officers who were loitering around in a very lazy manner.

-Current emotional state: Annoyance

-Current emotional state: Irritation

-Current emotional state: Troublesome

…

It wasn’t just a feeling.

Status windows that seemed to list all kinds of *gwichanism* [extreme aversion to effort] were floating around here and there.

At first, I thought I saw it wrong.

‘Annoyed? That a murder case was discovered?’

Not someone else, but the police?

So I deliberately went around handing out drinks.

It was for that reason that I activated all the status windows one by one.

Yeon-woo’s eyes narrowed.

“It feels more like *byeongjang* [sergeant] in their final year [of mandatory military service] than police officers?”

The feeling of *geunmu taeman* [negligence of duty] that they don’t want to work was strong.

Even the police officers from the jurisdiction were openly indifferent.

“Ah…… I’d rather search myself.”

“How long will it take them to investigate like that? It’ll take them ten more years, *sewora newora* [expression meaning taking one’s sweet time].”

For some reason, everyone could clearly see that they were very uncooperative.

The only people who were working properly were the prosecutor and his team from Seoul.

“Why are you trying to call the landowner?”

“Of course, an unidentified body was found in his mansion, so it’s for reference investigation…….”

“Oh, that person is a native of this neighborhood, so we all know him. He’s not that kind of person.”

“We have to see and confirm whether he is that kind of person, so we’re summoning him…….”

You can feel the investigator drawing the character *chameul in* [忍, meaning patience].

“Well, since there’s no owner in a good house, it looks like a bum came in and died. Why bother searching for such a thing…… I told you that there were no missing person reports, right?”

“No, *gyeongjang-nim* [officer]. It’s difficult to say that now. How can this be a simple trespassing? Besides, the place where it was found is a secret room in the basement, a secret room. You know what a secret room is, right?”

“Didn’t they get trapped by accident? You’re from Seoul, so you don’t know, but there are many houses here that people have abandoned to go to Seoul, so *byeonsache* [unclaimed corpses] are often found. We can’t *ilili* [one by one] crack down on bums who enter empty houses and live there secretly.”

“No, isn’t this that kind of case right now?”

Yeon-woo thought after hearing that conversation.

‘If you want to investigate, you have to have that level of patience.’

The status window of this police officer that Yeon-woo checked was similar to that of other people.

Except for one thing.

‘Tension?’

The word tension that was not seen in other people.

That police officer was getting more and more nervous as the investigator persisted.

‘It’s okay to be annoyed, but why are you so nervous? Is there a reason……?’

Let’s concede a hundred times that it’s possible to be insincere in the case investigation.

But to be so nervous and deliberately try to downsize the case?

‘It’s strange. It’s very strange.’

Yeon-woo’s senses were tingling urgently.

That’s probably why.

“No matter how I look at it, it seems like it’ll be roughly wrapped up and covered up if we just stay still…… This somehow smells like a case. What do you think about us stepping in?”

It was Kil Sang-jun who nodded at the words of Kil Sang-jun, who suddenly suggested digging into the case while filming a drama.