My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 422

“I…”

“Of course, if you fully cooperate with the police, we can take your circumstances into consideration to some extent.”

“…….”

Yeonhwa-in couldn’t say anything to that. No, she couldn’t.

In fact, from her perspective, she wanted to dig up information. At the very least, she had sent a whopping 100 million won [approximately $75,000 USD] and hadn’t been contacted since. To be punished and go to jail in that situation?

Not only would her life become difficult and arduous, but she wouldn’t live long. She didn’t want to die like that.

“What do you want?”

“Cooperation.”

“So, what kind of cooperation?”

“Well, I’d like to check all the content within that site.”

“I don’t know who those guys are either.”

It’s not a cafe or anything like that, but an individually created homepage.

Of course, the personal information of the people on it isn’t something she can access. However, in the case of Joo Chang-soo, she knows him because he was the one who introduced her to the Baduk [Go] club.

“From the start, it’s not a place for people to socialize, and anyone who tries to do that is subject to expulsion from the site.”

“I know that.”

From the criminals’ point of view, they wouldn’t want the fact that they were scamming people to spread.

“So, I want to go in and check it out first.”

“…….”

“If you refuse, I’ll get a warrant.”

Park Do-joon said that, turning his head to look at a room that could be used as a study.

“Don’t change the computer.”

Yeonhwa-in’s face contorted at those words.

Because Park Do-joon was acting like he knew everything, she felt like there was nothing she could do.

“I’m… a victim.”

“Show me the evidence, and I’ll acknowledge it.”

“Evidence…”

At those words, Yeonhwa-in finally got up from her seat.

“I’ll show you, then.”

“Yes.”

“Follow me.”

Taking Park Do-joon to the computer, she headed to a homepage that was bookmarked on the internet.

‘This is the rumored Baduk [Go] club.’

A Baduk [Go] club homepage with a separate homepage called Baduk Nara [Go Country]. But there wasn’t anything particularly active. To be exact, all that was visible were articles related to real Baduk [Go].

“Is this really the organ trafficking site?”

Even Lee Ji-soo, who was subtly looking at the site address and Yeonhwa-in’s ID and password, remembering them just in case, asked as if it was strange because most of the content was just Baduk [Go] stories.

“I don’t think so. From the start, there’s no one who knows anything about Baduk [Go].”

“Pardon?”

“A pawn doesn’t become a king even if it goes to the end of the game board. That’s a chess rule.”

In chess, there is a rule called promotion where a pawn can become a queen, bishop, knight, or rook if it reaches the end of the opponent’s territory. But that’s a chess rule, not a Baduk [Go] rule.

“This is a kind of filter.”

“Filter?”

“There might be some guys who accidentally came in.”

But if those guys discover organ trafficking or illegal organ transplants, it can be a headache.

“So, they have a ranking system. The problem is that if they create a ranking system, they might actively write articles and climb up.”

There can be so-called cliques everywhere. In fact, cliques are one of the biggest reasons why any internet site dies, so many sites block cliques.

“But if these ridiculous posts are uploaded on the homepage, people with at least minimal knowledge will be dumbfounded.”

“Ah, I see what you mean.”

Of course, people who really like Baduk [Go] will ignore it early on and just not be active. And just by weeding out those guys, this place can maintain considerable security.

“On the other hand, guys who are really aiming for organ trafficking won’t care what’s there.”

Because the place they’re active in will be just one out of many.

“It’ll be the place written as Pro Channel.”

“You know it well.”

“I investigated it.”

To be exact, the Pro Channel is a place where you can enter by meeting the other person’s activity history and obtaining the approval of the management team. In other words, just by looking at it, the management team can know why the other person came here.

“There’s nothing better than this to filter out people who came in by accident or found it by mistake.”

Having a clumsy security system will only attract the attention of hackers, and it’ll be a daily occurrence to get hacked.

“Take a look.”

At those words, Yeonhwa-in had no choice but to log in and show the screen.

“Look, the articles I wrote.”

In fact, most of the articles Yeonhwa-in wrote were related to organ trafficking, specifically articles saying she wanted to get a transplant, but the most recent article was about not being able to contact the broker.

“Oh…!”

Park Do-joon frowned when he saw that.

“I’ll use the account from now on.”

“What?”

“I mean the account on this computer. I’ll use it right now.”

“No, why?”

“You said you’d cooperate.”

Yeonhwa-in frowned at those words, but eventually gave up her seat. And Park Do-joon urgently said to Lee Ji-soo.

“Capture all the articles here.”

“All of these articles?”

“Yes.”

“Besides what Ms. Yeonhwa-in wrote, the others too?”

“Yes. You capture them. I’ll take pictures just in case.”

Park Do-joon hurriedly started taking pictures of all the articles there. Lee Ji-soo didn’t know the situation, but she tried to capture them as she was told.

“Huh?”

But for some reason, the screen capture key didn’t work.

“I guess they prevented it? Hurry up and turn the screen so I can take pictures.”

Even the time it took to turn the screen was precious, so Lee Ji-soo turned the screen and Park Do-joon hurriedly took pictures of the screen with his phone.

Because the number wasn’t that large, it proceeded faster than expected. And just as they were reaching the last page, the situation suddenly changed.

“Huh?”

With the words that there was no authority, they were suddenly kicked out of the homepage.

“What is it? It kicked me out?”

“Can you try logging in again?”

Park Do-joon said to Yeonhwa-in, and at those words, Yeonhwa-in tried to log in again. But no matter how many times she tried, nothing changed.

Only the words that there was no such member appeared, and it was impossible to log in.

“Why is it doing this? No, why is it doing this!”

“One thing is certain.”

Park Do-joon said with a bitter smile, looking at the frozen screen.

“You’ve been scammed.”

At those words, Yeonhwa-in collapsed as if she had lost the world.

# Where They Are

“Hmm…”

The chief groaned while receiving the report. The numerous names in the photos. And the contents were only telling one thing.

“Organ trafficking… no, this organ transplant scam must be serious.”

“It seems so.”

“But why did you suddenly take pictures?”

“Ms. Yeonhwa-in wrote an article.”

“An article?”

“Did you see the last article?”

“I saw it. It was an article saying she couldn’t contact the broker, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Was that strange?”

“It’s not that it was strange, but what do you think those guys would think when they saw that? They wouldn’t want to leave a reason to be suspected.”

“Ah!”

“Furthermore, this place can be entered through an introduction. What does that mean?”

“It means there’s a possibility that the scam will be exposed.”

“That’s right.”

Someone who has been scammed might tell the person who introduced them, or someone might post a complaint here.

“In fact, according to Yeonhwa-in, Joo Chang-soo used the nickname ‘Big Village’.”

But nowhere in the captured content was there an author with the nickname ‘Big Village’.

“Maybe they just delete the articles when they think they’re no longer needed after scamming people.”

If they feel something is strange, or if they have complaints about them… anyway, if they see an article that gives them a strange feeling, they delete it unconditionally. And then they erase the account and block access, that’s their method.

“And people don’t know that?”

“There’s no way they’d know. They’ll only see what they want to see.”

“They only see what they want to see…”

“Look at the articles that were taken in the photos. There are quite a few reviews.”

In fact, there are quite a few reviews saying that they are living a new life after receiving a kidney transplant, no, almost at the level of testimonies.

“But there are almost no complaints at all. Why is that?”

“They delete them, right?”

“That’s right, and considering human psychology, writing these testimonies is not an easy task.”

Most people in the world are too lazy to even write reviews about the things they bought. That’s why each homepage gives bonus points to people who write good reviews.

“It’s hard to get reviews like that even for legal items, but you’re telling me to write and upload these testimonies? Even about illegal activities?”

“Well, that’s true.”

Lee Ji-soo said as if acknowledging Park Do-joon’s words. Because she rarely writes reviews herself.

“Furthermore, humans are very reluctant to write about illegal activities. Moreover, this is not just a problem like prostitution or illegal Toto [gambling]. It’s a matter of human life.”

The organs they received, such as kidneys or livers, may not have just been sold, but may have been taken by killing living people.

“But they proudly upload reviews about it?”

It doesn’t make sense. Moreover, the articles with these reviews are not just about kidneys. There are also livers and hearts.

Livers can be transplanted by partially resecting them, but the moment the heart is taken out, the other person dies.

“Unless they’re real sociopaths or psychopaths, they can’t upload these articles.”

Even if they sell organs for money, there’s no one who would sell their heart.

“And look at this article. It says they successfully had a retina transplant.”

“Is that strange?”

“The retina is an organ that cannot be transplanted.”

“Yes, but I’ve definitely seen it on the news a few times.”

“That’s not the retina, it’s the cornea.”

The retina and cornea are completely different parts of the body. The cornea can be transplanted, but the retina cannot be transplanted.

To be exact, it is true that extremely few experimental surgeries have been performed around the world, and it is also true that extremely few of them have been successful, but the success rate is quite low, and it is difficult to even obtain them, so it is right to think that retina transplantation is impossible.

“But a retina transplant, not a cornea, wouldn’t you even be able to distinguish whether the organ you’re transplanting is the cornea or the retina?”

“No.”

It doesn’t make sense for a patient to not know the part of their body that hurts. Moreover, someone who spends hundreds of millions to get that part transplanted doesn’t know?

“Of course, that’s ridiculous. In other words, this article itself is an article that those guys are manipulating and uploading.”

And wouldn’t they delete articles that are unfavorable to them in a place that is managed like that?

“Since Ms. Yeonhwa-in revealed her suspicion, are they erasing all of that?”

“That’s right. Anyway, they’ve already received the money… it’s fortunate that she was caught before receiving the immunosuppressant, at this point.”

“But then don’t other people feel something is strange?”

“Humans only see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe.”

Furthermore, they cannot communicate or contact each other. No, they have made it impossible to do so.”