My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 407

Oh Chil-soo was a delivery man.
A professional delivery man who made many deliveries every day. He was quite famous in his field.

“Han 끼 Ttukttak here [One Meal Done].”

He shouted as he entered Indochina [Restaurant name] as usual.

“Number?”

“340403.”

When making a delivery, the code is never given unconditionally. Someone might come and steal it, pretending to be a delivery person. This actually happened in the early days of delivery apps, so to prevent that, the delivery man and the restaurant now send the same code number to compare and hand over the goods.

“Loyalty Apartment, Building 3, Unit 402.”

Loyalty Apartment is one of the apartment complexes where Korean officers live. To be exact, officers from major to colonel. It’s a luxury apartment complex with top-notch facilities for officers’ residences.

Of course, Yongsan has not only the U.S. military base but also the Ministry of National Defense, so accommodation must be provided for field grade officers working there.

“Yes.”

He received the goods, quickly loaded them onto his motorcycle, and sped away like crazy.

Buda-da-dang!

“Hey, you crazy bastard!”

“Mom!”

Lane splitting, running red lights, and cutting people off.

He drove while committing all sorts of violations because that’s how he made more money.

“You son of a bitch! Drive properly!”

When a man who almost had an accident because of him opened his window and screamed, he turned, raised his middle finger, and sped away. After all, ordinary car drivers couldn’t catch up to him.

“Idiot, only idiots obey the law.”

The faster he drove and the quicker he went, the more money he made. That was Oh Chil-soo’s philosophy. Thinking that way, he recklessly ignored signals and order, and sometimes when the road was blocked, he drove on the sidewalk.

Because he had several items to deliver, he was in a hurry. As he was speeding like that, he couldn’t help but curse at the sound of sirens coming from behind.

Wee-ooo-wee-ooo~!

“Ah, damn it.”

When the cops stuck to him, he hesitated for a moment. He could escape through the heavily congested road.

‘Damn it, no choice.’

But he soon gave up because this neighborhood was full of CCTV cameras. Even if he escaped, he would be identified quickly. And because there were many sensitive facilities around, if he acted suspiciously even a little, even the rare motorcycle police would pop out and chase him, giving him a headache.

Screech!

A police car approached Oh Chil-soo, who stopped with a loud screech. Two police officers got out and approached, showing their IDs.

“Police.”

“I’m sorry. I’m behind on deliveries. Just give me a ticket, and I’ll pay it diligently.”

Making more than ten million won a month by driving like this, a speeding ticket worth tens of thousands of won was nothing to Oh Chil-soo. But the police didn’t stop him for speeding.

“Let’s take a look at the contents.”

“Contents?”

“Yes.”

“Come on, the contents of a delivery are obvious.”

“Contents, let’s see.”

“That’s a bit…”

Oh Chil-soo drew a firm line but flinched at the next words.

“We received a tip that you are delivering drugs.”

“What are you talking about? Why would I deliver drugs?”

“Isn’t that why you ran away so fast? I almost had an accident, too.”

“That’s because…”

That’s just how he made money. But drugs?

‘This is ridiculous. Was it that bastard from earlier?’

Oh Chil-soo thought of the bald man who opened the window and yelled when he almost had an accident while lane splitting, but he couldn’t say no.

“If you refuse, we will forcibly take you in.”

“No, um… this is Chinese food, right? I really need to go quickly?”

“Then show it to us quickly and go.”

“No, really…!”

“Let’s just go to the police station together.”

“Damn it!”

He opened the delivery compartment, annoyed.

“See?”

“We need to see the contents.”

“Ah, really! I’m so busy…”

But the police ignored his words and took out the food inside. Then they clicked their tongues.

“Black bean noodles [Jajangmyeon], curry, pizza, and short rib soup [Galbijjim]? Are you delivering four items in one go?”

“I’m busy, I tell you.”

He was annoyed because he couldn’t make the money he wanted if he didn’t ship them together like this.

“See? It’s not there.”

While Oh Chil-soo was getting angry, Park Do-joon, who had been told in advance, approached the police.

“Police.”

“Oh, you’re the one who called?”

“Yes.”

“But what should we do? We’ve already searched, but there’s nothing there?”

At those words, Park Do-joon looked inside again, but there was nothing to be seen inside. Just ordinary food.

“Give it to me now; I need to go quickly.”

Oh Chil-soo said annoyingly because they would complain if the noodles got soggy. But instead of letting him go, Park Do-joon opened the plastic bag containing the curry.

“What are you doing?”

“Hmm.”

Park Do-joon opened the plastic bag containing the curry and shook the container holding the curry. But because of the thick curry, he couldn’t see what was inside.

“No, what are you doing!”

Oh Chil-soo, who didn’t know the situation at all, flared up and tried to argue. But Park Do-joon easily ignored Oh Chil-soo’s protest. Instead, he turned the plastic container containing the curry upside down and shook it.

“No, you son of a bitch! What are you doing! Are you going to pay for that if you break it? Are you going to pay for it! Ah, these crazy cops…”

Oh Chil-soo, who was angry, trailed off at the last moment. He felt an instinctive sense of unease seeing the smile on Park Do-joon’s face.

“Heavy things tend to sink to the bottom.”

“What?”

Instead of answering, Park Do-joon tore off a pair of chopsticks and stirred the curry container. Then came a multi-layered plastic bag, and dozens of pills inside the plastic bag.

“This doesn’t look like vitamins, does it?”

“Ah… huh? Wait, I don’t know. Really. I don’t know!”

But the police, who didn’t believe those words anymore, approached him and handcuffed him.

“You are under arrest for drug distribution.”

“No, I don’t know!”

Oh Chil-soo, who was desperately protesting his innocence, using polite language unlike before. But with drugs already found at the scene, there was no way to avoid it.

“You’ll have to come with us.”

Park Do-joon smiled as he watched Oh Chil-soo being dragged away.

“Detective, how did you know?”

“Know what?”

“That there were drugs in this curry container.”

“It was too big.”

“Yes?”

“The rice portion is for three people, but the curry in here… it’s enough for five people.”

Park Do-joon shrugged and said.

“Usually, when you order something like this, one-on-one is the basic [one portion of curry per order].”

It is common to put one person’s portion of curry in a small container and deliver it separately. There are hardly any cases where a large amount of curry is put in such a large container and sent.

“So you turned it upside down?”

“Heavy things tend to fall to the bottom. And you can’t feel anything even if you shake the curry.”

Because the curry itself is so thick, you can’t tell what’s inside even if you shake it. You can’t just tear it open as you please. Because that’s the only way the curry can be noticed.

“Ah, those guys must have been aiming for that.”

If the buyer orders it and sends it in the curry, even if they get caught in a random inspection, they can’t know that there are drugs in it until they open the food.

So they can avoid crackdowns enough. That must have been their judgment.

“But as I always say, heavy things tend to fall to the bottom.”

When you turn the curry upside down, the translucent lid tends to come down, and then something with weight, like a lump of plastic bags containing medicine, tends to fall down.

“Wow.”

Then you can check the contents without opening it.

“Then can we go catch them right away with this?”

“No, they’ll run away if we do that. So this delivery has to be done naturally.”

He said that and called the quick delivery man he had called in advance.

“Please deliver this to the location marked here.”

“Drugs?”

The quick delivery man was horrified when the police told him to deliver drugs.

“All of it.”

“Um, even if it’s like this…”

“Ah, we’re not trying to punish you. We’re trying to crack down on them all at once.”

“All at once?”

“Yes, looking at the amount delivered, it’s not an amount that one person would do.”

It’s rolled up so you can’t tell, but it looks like ecstasy at first glance. One person wouldn’t eat all of that. There are probably guys who get together and do drugs.

“We’re trying to raid the scene. If we just stay like this, the military will never open the door.”

“Yes, I understand.”

No matter how much of a police officer you are, you can’t just access military facilities. And due to the nature of the military, the moment you submit a report, information will leak in all directions, and drug offenders will unconditionally deny it.

Furthermore, the delivery place is Loyalty Apartment, that is, where high-ranking officers of the Ministry of National Defense live.

Considering the power of people working in the Ministry of National Defense, not just front-line units, there is a high possibility that the Ministry of National Defense will desperately try to cover it up.

“Well, if the drugs we sent went into a residence managed by the military, even the military wouldn’t be able to stop it.”

That in itself is strong evidence, so if they block it, it becomes an excuse that the Ministry of National Defense protected the criminals.

“We have to clean it up properly when we clean it up.”

Park Do-joon smiled.

The quick delivery man delivered the food to them as if he were a natural delivery man. In fact, there was nothing particularly different between a quick delivery man and a food delivery man, so the people who received the food didn’t suspect anything. Some just grumbled about why it was so late. And when he delivered the curry for the last time, the person waiting for it said in a rather sharp voice.

“What on earth were you doing that you’re only coming now?”

“I’m sorry. There was a bit of an accident on the way.”

“Even so, you should have come on time.”

“I’m sorry. I won’t be late next time.”

The quick delivery man didn’t want to get involved with them, so he just kept saying sorry. The woman who received it snatched it away annoyingly and went inside.

When he came out, Park Do-joon approached the delivery man.

“Did you check?”

“Yes, there were a lot of shoes in the hallway.”

“I knew it.”

Park Do-joon smiled bitterly at those words. In fact, Park Do-joon told him to count the number of shoes when he went in because they wouldn’t let him inside anyway. But people usually take off their shoes outside without thinking.

“What do you mean ‘I knew it’?”

“Ah, did I tell you? The amount of medicine is too much for one person to use.”

“Yes.”

There were easily dozens of pills, and generally, one pill at a time is the right amount.

“But you can buy it and pile it up, right?”

“The price of drugs isn’t cheap to begin with.”

Drugs aren’t something that costs 10,000 or 20,000 won per pill [approximately $8-$16 USD].

“How much do drugs cost these days? Looking at it earlier, it looked like ecstasy.”

“If it’s ecstasy, it costs about 60,000 to 70,000 won [approximately $48-$56 USD] even if you get it cheap. Chinese-made. But since this is from those vanilla bastards [slang for foreigners], you’ll have to pay at least 100,000 won [approximately $80 USD].”