My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 292

“Looks like they fled?”

Team Leader gave Park Do-joon a bitter smile.

“We checked upstairs first, and they took everything of value.”

“Cho Kang-hwa didn’t take it, did he?”

“No. After the missing person report, the mother came to the police station and even gave a statement.”

“Tsk, I had a feeling it would turn out like this.”

He didn’t know how they were involved in the case, but their mother was definitely involved.

“But things are about to go wrong…! Haa, I didn’t expect it to go wrong like this…”

“Indeed.”

Park Do-joon had tried to persuade Cho Kang-hwa to secure the vehicle’s navigation system. The car was left behind, and since the car owner was the company, he thought they could get the information using the company’s influence.

However, he realized the problem only after checking the car. Unfortunately, the car didn’t have a navigation system. Analyzing the navigation system would have allowed them to check the route, but unfortunately, it was impossible to track the location without anything to track the route.

“What about the people around him?”

“We can’t figure out which of the people who left the country are part of the gang.”

Whether they left the country together, or on different flights, or to different places… there are too many variables.

“We’re tracking call records, so we can find out who left the country, but…”

“To get the records with that…”

“It’ll take some time.”

It would take two days to investigate the call records and identify the gang, and then more time to investigate the gang. And then more time to find their vehicles.

With only about five days left, that method, while reliable, had a high probability of the victims dying of thirst.

“The best way is…”

Park Do-joon’s mind was a mess.

‘The best way, the best… what is it?’

As Park Do-joon was racking his brain, an unexpected voice came from behind.

“Detective, did you check the account transfer history?”

“Lee Yeon-ah? Why are you here?”

Turning his head, he saw Jung Lee-yeon standing there. Park Do-joon’s eyes widened at her sudden appearance.

“Did I come to a place I shouldn’t?”

“No, this place has nothing to do with Moonlight Law Firm, does it?”

“When the police flock like this, residents can’t help but be curious.”

“Residents? Ah…!”

Only then did Park Do-joon realize. He didn’t know where Jung Lee-yeon lived. He met her father at the company, but he’d never been to her house.

“Isn’t this a ridiculously expensive neighborhood?”

“Since it’s a ridiculously expensive neighborhood, I must live here, right?”

“That’s right. I keep forgetting.”

Because Jung Lee-yeon is so easygoing, but her family is incredibly wealthy.

“Why didn’t you say so before?”

“What you asked me about was information about Cho Kang-hwa, not Cho Tae-woo. Cho Kang-hwa lives separately.”

So Jung Lee-yeon didn’t investigate Cho Kang-hwa’s father separately, so she didn’t know he lived near her. Besides, it’s not a neighborhood where people visit each other, so she didn’t know that Cho Tae-woo lived here either.

“But account transfer history? What are you talking about?”

“You don’t know the spending patterns of the rich.”

“I don’t.”

No matter how much of a profiler he is, he can’t know what he hasn’t studied or experienced.

“Rich people’s lives are all about cards, cards.”

Jung Lee-yeon took out a credit card from her wallet and waved it.

“Wherever they go, they swipe their cards. How can they carry hundreds of millions of won in cash? Especially someone who runs a holding company like N Gang Holdings, they’ll swipe everything with a corporate card.”

“Really?”

“But rent can’t be paid with a card, right? Whether it’s monthly rent or a deposit. I don’t think there will be that many account transfers.”

Especially large sums of money that could be rent are rare.

“So check the transfer history.”

“How did you know what I was worried about?”

“Do you think I’ve only known you for a year or two?”

Jung Lee-yeon smiled. Well, she said she had feelings for Park Do-joon since high school, so in a way, she must know him better than anyone else.

“When I saw you staring at the car with such a troubled face, I thought I knew what the problem was.”

“You know there’s no navigation?”

“Who puts navigation in a Ferrari? I don’t either. It doesn’t look cool.”

“You have a Ferrari?”

“Ferraris are red.”

At her words with a smile, Park Do-joon let out a sigh of relief. Not just because she’s rich, but because he got information that could speed up the search.

If they transferred the money, they can track the flow of who received it.

Even if the gang received it, it would have been passed on from there, or it could have gone directly.

“We’ll get a warrant this time, right?”

“We have to make it happen. If it doesn’t work this time, I’ll grab some reporters and start talking.”

Team Leader smiled at the unexpected method.

As Jung Lee-yeon said, tracking who received the money wasn’t difficult once they tracked the account.

The account was transferred to a man, and that man transferred the money to a third party as it was. Of course, that man would be part of the gang, and the person who received it immediately told them the location of the house he had lent them.

The house was located in a forest in the countryside, as expected. It was originally built for his father to live in, but after his father passed away, someone who said they were settling down in the countryside asked to borrow the abandoned place.

The homeowner lent the place without thinking, and then things unexpectedly escalated.

“The door is locked?”

“The homeowner said we can break it, so it doesn’t matter.”

Park Do-joon headed to the house with the other police officers, but as expected, the house was tightly locked.

“Step aside.”

Park Do-joon had people step back, and then picked up a large rock that was lying around and threw it at the large picture window. The window shattered with a crash.

Park Do-joon cleared the sharp parts with a stick he found nearby and then went inside.

“…There are signs of life.”

Park Do-joon was convinced as he looked inside.

Clothes scattered everywhere and roughly scattered trash. And unwashed dishes.

It looked like someone had been living there until recently.

“But is this the right place?”

“It must be.”

They had already received consent from the building owner to break in. Even if the tenants weren’t them, there would be no legal problem.

“Find out where the basement is.”

Team Leader shouted as he came in through the broken window, and a police officer shouted a moment later.

“There’s a locked door here.”

When they went there, there was a door locked with a thick padlock, and it was quiet inside.

“This isn’t good.”

They should have heard the commotion from above. But there’s no reaction? Then there are two possibilities: either they’re barking up the wrong tree, or they’re already… dead.

“Damn it, the padlock is so thick!”

The thickness of the padlock was almost as thick as a finger, so cutting it wasn’t easy.

“Is there a cutter?”

“There’s no cutter.”

“Where’s the nearest fire station? Tell them to come right away.”

As they were flustered, Park Do-joon stepped forward.

“Even you can’t break that, can you? Hey, hey!”

Team Leader was horrified to see Park Do-joon stepping forward and taking out his gun.

“Hey, breaking a padlock with a gun is only possible in movies! Don’t do it!”

The padlock is made of solid steel. On the other hand, bullets are lead. Of course, it’s impossible to break a padlock, especially such a thick one, by shooting it. But Park Do-joon was already aiming.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Shots rang out in succession. And when the six shots of the police revolver were over, what people saw was the latch on the door, broken and dangling.

“There’s no law that says you have to break the padlock.”

“Ah, that’s right. The locking mechanism.”

The padlock is heavy and strong, but the locking device that holds it is ultimately fixed to the wooden door with screws. If you break the part of the door where the screws are embedded, it’s not difficult to tear it off completely.

“Let’s go in.”

Park Do-joon threw the door open, and people went inside.

The smell that wafted out at that moment made people cover their noses.

“What’s that smell?”

“Doesn’t it smell like a toilet?”

“They wouldn’t have cleaned the toilet for the past few days.”

Park Do-joon went downstairs.

What they saw were four rooms. Two on each side based on the center, with interior walls made by roughly stacking bricks.

It couldn’t support much weight, but it was enough to confine people. Fortunately, the locks were on the outside and there were no padlocks, so it wasn’t difficult to open them.

When they opened the door there, they saw a girl who looked like a middle school student collapsed.

“How far away is the ambulance? Call more! There are four rooms!”

Team Leader shouted outside when he saw that, and Park Do-joon approached the child and checked her pulse. Then he let out a sigh of relief without realizing it.

“She’s still alive.”

There was no water in here, but fortunately, she hadn’t died.

‘She endured well.’

The basement was hotter than he thought. This kind of place makes you sweat and causes dehydration. So even though they rescued her sooner than expected, the child had collapsed from dehydration.

“She’s alive here too.”

“Here too!”

Fortunately, no one had died yet, so the police officers picked up the children from the basement and carried them out. And as soon as they came out, they urgently poured water into the children’s mouths.

The children felt the water even while unconscious and desperately grabbed it and started gulping it down. The instinct for survival urged their movements.

“Slowly… it’s okay, slowly…”

Lee Ji-soo poured water little by little into the child’s mouth. In this case, you have to be really careful when feeding them. If they drink too quickly and it goes into their windpipe, a ridiculous incident can happen where they barely rescue them, but water enters their lungs and they drown.

“Hoo~!”

Team Leader rubbed his face as he watched the scene.

“…These crazy bastards.”

Four children in total. It wasn’t difficult to imagine what the children had gone through.

“The upstairs is a complete mess.”

There were all sorts of bizarre sex toys, and condoms that hadn’t been cleaned up were rotting and giving off a foul smell.

“It seems they dragged them up from the basement, raped them, and then imprisoned them back down.”

“It would be even dirtier for them to rape them in the basement.”

Of course, violence was used in the process. Domination isn’t just about raping the other person. Knowing that the other person can’t resist them and feeling pleasure from it is one of the common symptoms of dominance-type criminals.

In fact, the children had bruises all over their bodies.

“We have to catch these guys no matter what.”

Park Do-joon gritted his teeth.

-Unprecedented kidnapping and rape case.

-An unprecedented situation of kidnapping minors and making them sex slaves.

The police didn’t hide this incident. No, they couldn’t hide it in the first place. If they concealed this kind of incident because it was related to a wealthy family, the backlash would be even greater.

A Natural Born Profiler