And the moment Young Yoon-jin crosses into China, he’ll be executed there.
“Even if he gets 20 years here, they can just hand him over before he’s released.”
But conversely, if he’s sentenced to death here, at least he won’t die there.
“So, to survive, he’ll have to put pressure on them…….”
At that moment, a police officer entered the interrogation room. He approached the Violent Crimes Unit chief with a bewildered expression and whispered something in his ear.
“What? The arrest warrant was rejected? In this situation?”
“They say there’s no risk of flight or destruction of evidence…….”
“What the hell are you talking about!”
Even though we’ve secured the evidence, how can they say there’s no risk of flight for a boss of a violent organization, especially one who’s facing a confirmed sentence of 20 years or more if he loses the trial?
“They’re ordering us to release him immediately. The emergency arrest time has expired.”
“Damn it, tell them not to talk such bullshit!”
“Chief, there’s no way around it. They’re ordering us to release him from above.”
The time allowed for an emergency arrest is only 24 hours. To hold him any longer, an arrest warrant is absolutely necessary. But it didn’t come through. Everyone’s face hardened at the unexpected situation, especially Park Do-joon’s.
In the meantime, someone went into the interrogation room and said a few words, and Young Yoon-jin, along with his lawyer, stood up, looking at the other side of the mirror with a bitter smile. Then, he left and slowly walked out of the police station.
Park Do-joon, who had been frozen for a moment, quickly moved and followed him, managing to grab Young Yoon-jin just as he was about to leave.
“Stop.”
“What is it?”
“Let go of me. Is the police assaulting me?”
The lawyer strongly protested the sudden action, but Park Do-joon, instead of answering, warned him.
“You’ll die if you cross over there. Turn yourself in.”
“Huh, lawyer? Is this cop threatening me right now?”
“What are you doing? Let go of my client.”
“It’s not a threat, it’s a warning. You’ll die if you go out there. Turn yourself in if you want to live.”
“Bullshit, you cop bastard……. Spit!”
Young Yoon-jin, as if disgusted, forcefully pushed away Park Do-joon’s hand, spat on the police station floor, and went outside. Park Do-joon could only look at him with pity.
Because he couldn’t stop him, and he couldn’t save him.
“Please, please……!”
A shabby warehouse. A place where no one comes. In that space, Young Yoon-jin, tied to a chair, begged and begged someone to save him. But that someone quietly said from the darkness.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think that’s going to be possible.”
“Please…… I did everything you asked! Please save me.”
“That’s the problem. You did what I asked, but now you can’t. That’s a serious problem.”
A man emerges from the darkness. Hong Woo-jong’s eyes gleamed with excitement.
“Now that you’re useless, why should I bother keeping you alive?”
“Please……!”
“You know I hate long speeches.”
At his signal, a man next to him gagged him. Hong Woo-jong’s eyes gleamed at him.
“If you had done your job properly, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“Mmph!”
“Bring her in.”
At that moment, another gang brought a woman out of the darkness.
“Honey!”
“Mmph!”
“I’m not the type to enjoy playing with old women, but there’s no other way.”
“Mmph!”
“Please save me! Please save me!”
“Humans, you know. Aren’t they interesting? They always say those words even when they know it won’t work, right?”
Perhaps it was because of the anticipation of what was about to happen? Hong Woo-jong grinned.
“Well, she’s not my type, but since they’re a couple, it’ll be a different kind of taste.”
“Mmph!”
The two people struggled. And Hong Woo-jong watched them with a joyful expression. Wang Woo-hwan approached him.
“We work thoroughly.”
“No loose ends?”
“It’s difficult to compare us to those idiots.”
“By any chance, can you supply more?”
“If you give us money.”
“How much do you want?”
Then Wang Woo-hwan smiled and held up one finger. Hong Woo-jong, understanding the meaning, frowned.
“That’s twice as expensive as that bastard.”
“It’ll be much cleaner and much more enjoyable. Korean screams are easier to understand than Chinese screams, wouldn’t you say?”
“That’s true.”
“We can have them ready right away if you want.”
“I’ll contact you soon.”
Hong Woo-jong gestured, and Wang Woo-hwan nodded and went outside.
“Kkyaaaaak!”
“Aaaaaaak!”
In the empty factory where no one was, the screams of two men and women erupted, but Wang Woo-hwan didn’t pay much attention. Neither did his subordinates. What they cared about wasn’t the screams, but another problem.
“Our line in China is being destroyed. It seems the Party is determined to break it.”
“I didn’t expect this. There’s no way the Korean cops could be this competent.”
In fact, it was Wang Woo-hwan’s organization that operated the smuggling line. And that place was caught unexpectedly. The reason they caught Young Yoon-jin and his wife and handed them over to Hong Woo-jong wasn’t just because he asked, but as revenge for Young Yoon-jin, who had messed up and caused them to lose everything.
“We’ve evacuated all the guys we need to evacuate, but it’ll take a while to revive the line.”
The reason Wang Woo-hwan mentioned Korean was not just because of Hong Woo-jong’s taste. The line for smuggling from China was destroyed, so it wouldn’t be easy for the time being.
If he told Hong Woo-jong the truth, Hong Woo-jong’s personality would lead him to ignore him, so he slightly changed his words. He said he would kidnap and supply them from Korea to suit his taste.
So, for the time being, they had no choice but to take the risk of kidnapping in Korea.
“The damage is significant this time. I don’t like it.”
Wang Woo-hwan said, smoking a cigarette with someone’s screams as music.
“Tell the Korean organization to be careful. There seems to be a competent guy inside the Korean police.”
“Yes, Ta-ge [Big Brother].”
“I’m curious who it is, but there’s no reason to take the risk.”
With that, he blew cigarette smoke into the air.
That night, the screams continued for a very long time.
# Global Crap, Really
The sight of a corrupt and fallen person is ugly. Beyond ugly, it’s miserable. And right now, Lee Chang-man, who was the team leader of the Metropolitan Profiling Team, was in a situation that suited those words all too well.
“Ah…….”
A lonely figure carrying his belongings in a small box and leaving. In that short period, he had brought so many things that there were three boxes, not just one. And he glanced around the profiling team, wondering if someone would carry them for him, but everyone turned their eyes away, and no one tried to help him.
“…….”
In the end, Lee Chang-man had to lower his head and carry the boxes himself, one by one, and leave.
“Stupid.”
The documents found in Young Yoon-jin’s safe. The documents contained evidence of when and where Lee Chang-man had been entertained. It even stated who the woman who entertained him was. And as Park Do-joon expected, that woman was the victim who was found dead.
In other words, Lee Chang-man knew she was a victim but kept his mouth shut. Receiving sexual favors alone was enough to get him fired, but he was caught for not reporting who the victim was, even though he knew, and even trying to cover up the case by poking around here and there. No matter how much Lee Chang-man was sent to take down Park Do-joon, there was no one who could protect him.
In the end, he had no choice but to lose everything and leave the scene sadly.
“That person is finished now.”
“It’s just the beginning.”
“Is that so? Well, maybe so.”
The end means the end of everything. But for Lee Chang-man, it’s not the end, but the beginning of the fall. The police started an audit, and the possibility of going to prison became very high. On top of that, the higher-ups cut the line sharply, and it was no secret that Lee Chang-man’s wife had filed for divorce for various reasons.
“Stupid.”
Park Do-joon shook his head as he looked at Lee Chang-man. In the end, ruining his life by falling for a woman was his own choice.
“Okay, okay, now we can do our work. We’re going to be busy for a while.”
“Well, not you.”
“Yes?”
“For the time being…… you’ll probably have to do administrative work as an internal affairs officer.”
“Yes? Where are you going, Senior?”
“I’m…….”
Park Do-joon glanced at his cell phone and said.
“I think I’m going to be dispatched? For quite a long time.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It’s usually a space very far from the police, so there’s almost no reason to come here. But Park Do-joon came here today on an unofficial dispatch.
“Park Do-joon?”
Yoon Tae-min, who had been waiting in advance, recognized Park Do-joon and raised his hand.
“Let’s go. They’re waiting.”
“Let’s do that. By the way, how did you manage to clean up the mess?”
“That’s…….”
‘Well, if it had been cleaned up, there would be no reason to call me.’
Since it wasn’t cleaned up, they must have called a profiler as a last resort.
‘But there wasn’t anything particularly big that came out in the news around the time Team Leader Cha Dae-hoon was dispatched.’
That means Team Leader Cha solved it in some way.
“There’s something you need to do before you go in.”
“The confidentiality agreement, right?”
“Yes, you know it well.”
‘Because I’ve done it before.’
Group interpretation through profilers is not yet active in Korea. But before the regression, they always had one person attend the meeting.
‘Maybe this will be effective and they’ll settle it down.’
And Park Do-joon, who was skilled, was one of those profilers.
However, he was later kicked out because he stubbornly expressed normal opinions on political issues and was disliked by the core line representing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Let’s go in.”
As Park Do-joon was guided inside by Yoon Tae-min, some Ministry of Foreign Affairs employees were sitting there with troubled expressions.
“Are you Park Do-joon?”
Even though it was the first time meeting, Park Do-joon nodded to them, who threw out a blunt remark from the start. It’s not that he doesn’t know what kind of people they are. They are guys who have a sense of superiority that they are superior.
‘That’s why they cause most of the problems.’
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs represents Korea in other countries. But how many times have they been ostracized for doing stupid things that ignore even the representatives of other countries because they are crazy about their sense of superiority?
“First of all, the situation is urgent, so take a look at this first.”
People handing over a thin file. Park Do-joon received it and began to read it. In fact, when it comes to diplomatic issues, people often think of political decisions or judgments about global issues.
But this case was not like that.
“Well, I expected this.”
“You expected this?”
“Yes, if it was really a problem with the diplomatic situation, they would never have called me.”
As expected, it was a diplomatic issue, but it wasn’t a complex issue like international affairs or changes in the world order. To be exact, it was closely related to diplomacy, but at the same time, it was closer to the crap that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had created coming back.