Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 245

245. I Want to Know About That (2)

July 3, 2022

Have you ever seen a drama filming location suddenly become a crime scene?

Yeon-woo could confidently answer.

He was seeing it right before his eyes.

[We were able to confirm at the scene. Unidentified bodies buried deep in the basement of a luxurious mansion. Where did these people come from, what did they do, and why were they brutally murdered and left in such a place? Our reporting team headed to a small, remote village in the countryside to uncover the truth.]

‘I Want to Know About That’ [a South Korean investigative journalism program similar to “60 Minutes”].

It was a very famous journalism program.

They re-examined various incidents and accidents, boasting investigative skills comparable to those of investigative agencies, and in some cases, the ‘I Want to Know About That’ team even solved cases.

The incident that had completely turned the drama team upside down a few weeks ago was being broadcast on such a famous program.

Huff, huff.

Heavy breathing, belonging to someone unknown, could be heard.

In the completely darkened black screen, only a few strands of light from a flashlight pitifully scanned the surroundings.

[Are we really okay going like this?]

A trembling voice asked cautiously.

As if to show that the situation was extremely tense, everything was trembling.

Even the camera screen was shaking wildly.

At that moment.

A strange sound was heard.

Chzzzz-

Chzzzz-

“That didn’t come out like that right away in the actual scene.”

[Right. It only came out after going in quite a bit, right?]

The video, which had undergone the magic of editing, maximized the sense of horror at a very fast pace.

Chzzzz-

Save…… me.

Chzzzz-

A message played with noise in a slow voice.

After that, the screen shook like crazy.

The host pointed to the scene and said.

[This message. Who, where, why, and for what reason sent this message? The video was received as a tip-off from a drama production team that went out to film an abandoned house. Now, let’s listen to it again.]

The host, with a serious expression, played the sound with increased speed.

[You can clearly hear a message among the noise. To determine the possibility that this video was manipulated, we went directly to an expert.]

After this, the content continued with the team visiting an expert to verify whether the video was manipulated.

Of course, since it couldn’t be a manipulation, the host continued the narration with a serious expression once again.

[A Message from the Dead]

This was the subtitle of the program.

The screen continued to show scenes of coverage in succession.

The appearance of a closed-off local community.

And even the attitude of negligent police officers.

The skill with which these two were cleverly intertwined was remarkable.

They hooked the viewers’ attention with a seemingly psychic video and gradually planted the seeds of doubt.

‘Why suddenly a rural village? Aren’t they investigating the culprit?’

‘Tsk tsk. The police aren’t doing their job properly.’

If you look at them separately, they are just common sights that can be seen anywhere.

It’s a bit sad that they are common, but it’s not a very unique and rare phenomenon.

But.

[It was a very closed-off neighborhood from the start.]

What happens when the two are intertwined?

Even if A and B are common, there is a possibility that AB is not common at all.

Just like now.

“I heard they took an interview, and it’s really coming out.”

I received a call a while ago.

It was from Seo Woo-jung.

He left a message for Yeon-woo, along with overflowing words of gratitude, saying that he had finished the interview as a witness.

-“Really…… I don’t know if we deserve to receive this. You don’t have to do this much for us……!”

Yeon-woo knew very well how difficult the backlash from a closed group could be.

A community that shows tremendous cohesion tends to exclude those who are different from them.

It doesn’t just mean that village or neighborhood.

If I had to say, our surroundings, which we can commonly see, are also included here.

A small class within a school, a group of peers living in the neighborhood, or…….

Well.

In short, it was a very familiar situation for Yeon-woo.

As Yeon-woo, who knew well enough how much that feeling of being excluded gnawed at a person, it was something he had to do.

‘Anyone should be able to be saved from that hell.’

Yeon-woo himself had found the answer in an unexpected place.

In acting, which he had never even thought of.

Anyway, for that reason, Yeon-woo paid all the family’s relocation expenses with his personal funds.

No, he was going to.

-That’s something the company should handle as part of welfare, not Yeon-woo.

‘Does it go that far for welfare?’

Well, Kwon Seong-hyun would know that side of things better, so he would have taken care of it.

I had already told him to pay it with the accumulated settlement money.

His father had used all his funds to return to farming after retirement, and he said that he had been ostracized in the village but had to endure it because he had no money.

‘He must be free now.’

He said that he had no regrets or apologies left for that village, so he must be living well in the place he wanted.

[A video in which a psychic phenomenon that might have ended as a mere happening appeared. However, we were able to confirm in the interview that this psychic phenomenon was not a simple happening.]

The content progressed quickly.

It said that the discovered bodies were sent to the National Forensic Service for examination.

After identifying the victims through autopsy and DNA analysis, everything went smoothly.

Finding the murder weapon used in the killings also played a part.

The suspect’s traces and DNA, as well as the victims’ traces and DNA, clearly remaining on the murder weapon were the most definitive evidence.

[Ah. The prosecutor is coming out too. Well. He’s the main character who solved the case, so is it natural? But that prosecutor was a bit unique too, right?]

He was unique.

From the start, he went into the investigation without asking any questions.

Even when Yeon-woo suddenly handed him the murder weapon, which was the most decisive piece of evidence, he didn’t say anything.

“Is this it?”

“Yes.”

“Okay. Confirmed.”

“……Aren’t you going to ask?”

“Ask what?”

“Like where I found it……?”

“Ah. That. Hmm. Where did you find it? Just tell me the approximate location. Well, you don’t have to tell me.”

“Is it okay to handle it like that?”

“Did you manipulate it and bring it here?”

“Of course not.”

“Then it’s fine.”

He was so cool that it felt like the Siberian north wind was blowing.

‘Well. I guess there are all sorts of people…….’

In a world where there are police officers who are slacking off, there’s no reason why there can’t be a prosecutor like Lee Gye-heon, right?

It’s not for the sake of satisfying his personal desires, and it’s just a means to catch the culprit anyway.

Of course, it would have been difficult for Yeon-woo to ask in detail.

[Here…… here.]

[It hurts…… it hurts…….]

He couldn’t possibly answer that the vengeful spirits directly told him where the murder weapon that killed them was buried.

[Where do you think you are suspecting people?! This is private property! Get lost?!]

Coincidentally, a mosaic-covered face appeared on the screen.

Although it was all covered and even the voice was altered, the familiar figure and the unique, obnoxious tone could not be hidden.

>Ugh. That obnoxious human.

>I had a feeling about that human from the first time I saw him??

>Kya~ The scent of that troublemaker cannot be hidden even with a mosaic.

>Not a troublemaker, a murderer. A perverted murderer at that.

>Hey, I’m the one writing about murderers, so why do murderers keep popping up in strange places?

>Isn’t that…… because the writer is writing about murderers, so they keep getting involved?

The group chat room was on fire when the landowner appeared.

They already knew the progress and details of the case, but it’s still different when it’s on TV.

They had to see it and confirm it.

If it weren’t for them, it would have been redeveloped without anyone knowing and disappeared forever into the annals of history, so they had every right to be proud.

>He pretended to be such a nice, cool, and capable person to us, but it turns out he’s a murderer.

The production team, who had been swayed by the landowner’s abuse of power, laughed at the landowner shouting on TV.

Until then, the landowner had brazenly maintained ignorance, but as soon as the murder weapon was discovered, his face changed.

And he staged a very farcical short chase.

He was so fat and slow that he tripped over his own feet before he could run far.

[Ugh!]

The moment that should have been urgent became so trivial and ridiculous.

[You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say can be used as evidence against you…….]

The prosecutors, who had been waiting, easily subdued the fallen landowner and recited the Miranda rights.

The landowner was arrested and indicted on charges of thirteen counts of murder, defilement of corpses, and concealment.

The victims were none other than foreign workers who had been hired as helpers when the landowner was the homeowner.

‘I wondered why he kept repeating such short words even though he could speak…… it was because he was a foreigner.’

It was because he didn’t know many Korean words.

>Kya! Catharsis!

>That bad guy should definitely get the maximum sentence. Not just anyone, but people who came to our country to work like that ㅠㅠ

>I agree, I agree. If we hadn’t found those people, they would have just been buried as illegal immigrants and it would have been over ㅠㅠ

>Everyone, a petition has already been posted!;; Coordinates>http:// .. A petition to dismiss local collusion police officers and investigate foreign workers exposed to crime in the blind spot of the law~

[Those people are so pitiful. How frustrated they must have been, coming all the way to a foreign land. They wouldn’t even be able to return to their own country, so they must have been frustrated.]

Dongja-ryeong muttered.

The first homeowner and landowner, the perpetrator, hired foreign workers who could be hired cheaply to manage the large property.

Up to this point, well, I could understand.

Even in rural areas with a shortage of labor, it was common to hire foreign workers.

The problem was that the landowner was very sensitive to money.

He had the personality to rip people off by selling houses with serious defects.

To be exact, he was stingy with money going to others.

Even when he used people for his own needs.

>No matter how I think about it, he’s a real 개1새끼 [gae-sae-ggi, a Korean slur meaning “son of a bitch”]. How could he not want to pay their salaries…… ugh, but he took so much money from us.

The first murder was accidental.

The landowner, who had come home drunk, was angry at the foreign helpers’ request for their overdue wages.

When he came to his senses, he had smashed one person’s head with a blunt weapon.

Another helper saw the scene and immediately ran away to report it.

The landowner, realizing that he couldn’t be caught, killed that person as well.

That’s how two people disappeared in an instant.

But no one was looking for them.

The tightly knit, narrow local community did not care about foreign workers who were not internal residents, but came from outside, even from other countries.

-What is it? Did they run away?

-I heard they stole something and ran away?

-Tsk tsk. That’s why you shouldn’t use foreigners. Anyway, they don’t even know how grateful they should be for being hired.

As the saying goes, the arm bends inward [meaning people favor those closest to them].

Two people disappeared at once, but no one felt strange.

No one reported it.

They just accepted the landowner’s excuses.

That happened several times.

Houses where the homeowner disappeared continued to appear on the outskirts of the neighborhood.

[It’s not that they didn’t investigate, but since the missing person is of foreign nationality, it is true that they have difficulty in tracking or searching…….]

The police also eagerly swallowed their excuses.

The local police did not even have the will to conduct a proper investigation.

In the first place, no proper report had been filed.

Of course, there are people who receive proper visas and stay legally, but it is also true that there are many illegal immigrants who remain illegally even after their stay period has expired.

>I think everyone there knew about it.

>I think so too. They must have kept it quiet. Even if it happens once, they couldn’t have not known when it happened two or three times.

That’s how more than ten victims were created.

While people pretended not to know and closed their eyes and ears.

The murder that started accidentally at first.

However, repeated murders could never be accidental.

The landowner had become a murderer who deliberately targeted and murdered only foreign workers who were difficult to track.

The basement of the large mansion became a good place for secret burials.

Even the walls were newly constructed and neatly finished.

No one would have thought that there were bodies there.

The landowner thought so.

Without even imagining that a filming request would come to that mansion that he later sold off.

He had scheduled the redevelopment to quickly destroy the evidence because of the anxiety that he might be caught, even though he had received the money.

In the end, he did not even anticipate that he would be caught before the redevelopment.

The tail that everyone had worked together to hide was revealed in that way.

[It’s over.]

The program ended with several messages.

It illuminated and exposed the reality of foreign workers who were sacrificed in the blind spot of the law, and suggested what worst results would occur when this phenomenon was combined with the closed nature of the local community.

It was like ‘I Want to Know About That’ to point out the problems of the community by using this case as an example, rather than just dealing with one case.

>Okay, it’s over, so let’s go to sleep. Tomorrow’s filming is waiting for us~!

>The director is so excited.

>He achieved his Kkumedeurim [Korean slang for “dream come true”] by getting out of that crazy mansion, so it’s understandable;

The firepower of the group chat room gradually subsided.

Right tomorrow.

Filming was waiting.

It was the very scene that couldn’t even be started because ghosts and bodies were found.