My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 475

“Unfortunately, our efforts to find the culprit have yielded no results. In the worst-case scenario, we may not be able to find the culprit at all.”

“What?”

“What the hell? What are you talking about now?”

“So, you want us to work in this mess?”

The atmosphere of the people who were just talking about incompetence suddenly changed. The people who were complaining about being bothered suddenly fell silent, and everyone started looking at Park Do-joon.

“Let me be honest. We have not been able to identify the culprit with all the investigation methods we have mobilized so far. We cannot rule out the possibility that the culprit may flee.”

“Crazy!”

Before anyone knew it, the complaints disappeared, and everyone’s eyes were on Park Do-joon.

“Therefore, the police have decided to change the direction of the investigation to an open investigation.”

“Open investigation?”

“Are you going to leak it to the press?”

“No, not yet.”

At the word ‘yet,’ everyone looked at each other. The open investigation they were thinking of usually involves informing the press and tracking down the culprit.

“So far, the culprit has not fled. So, there is no reason to conduct an open investigation. Unless they flee.”

“Then…….”

“So, I’m thinking of asking you for help.”

“Us?”

“Yes, please let us know about anyone who has shown any unusual signs.”

“Are you asking us to betray [inform on someone]?”

“That bastard betrayed us, not you.”

At those words, people nodded their heads without realizing it. Certainly, the person who betrayed them was the spy, not them.

“But how do you know what kind of people we are?”

“The culprit is likely to be someone who works hard on a regular basis. They probably have a close person in the computer team. They probably have a lot of complaints about the company. And they are probably very interested in the work of other departments besides their own, and they have actively tried to help.”

“Hmm.”

“If you know such a person or think you know who it is, please let me know immediately.”

“And?”

“That’s it.”

“I’m busy to death, and you’re telling me that’s it after calling us together?”

“I know everyone is busy, so I’m just getting to the point. It wouldn’t be right to sing the national anthem here, would it? Hahaha!”

Park Do-joon’s words were not wrong, so everyone nodded and got up from their seats.

“I’ll contact you if I think of anything while working.”

“Should I tell the security team?”

“Yes.”

Then, people got up and left before he could even finish speaking. As people quickly left, Yoo In-hye, who was watching, approached Park Do-joon, who was standing alone on the platform, as if she was dumbfounded.

“What are you doing now?”

“What do you mean?”

“You leaked all the information!”

“I didn’t leak the information; I stimulated the culprit.”

“What did you say?”

“Well, if the profiling I have is information, then it is. But how are you going to find out about it?”

“Pardon?”

“How are you going to investigate based on this information? It’s obvious. You’re going to call people in one by one and ask if they know someone like this or who is acting like this.”

That’s the basis of a secret investigation.

“Then what do you think the answer will be? It’s obvious, they’ll say they don’t know, or they don’t remember.”

“What?”

“Understand the power dynamics properly. Who do you think is the boss in this situation?”

“The boss?”

“Yes, who do you think is the boss in this situation?”

“Of course, it’s the National Intelligence Service [NIS].”

“Really? And how long will that last? If a researcher gets pissed off by the NIS and quits, what will Daeguk Group say? Will they say, ‘Oh, our NIS is doing a great job’?”

Yoo In-hye couldn’t say anything to that. The NIS can’t monitor 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and no matter how important the Daeguk National Defense Research Institute is, it is ultimately a private company.

“In the end, the NIS is a place to leave, and the research institute employees are the ones who will stay. But are the talents here just any talents?”

They are talents who are in the top 0.1%…… no, 0.01% in Korea, so they can quit here and go anywhere.

“If those people rise up and quit, can the NIS continue to investigate?”

Of course not. Right now, Daeguk Group is fully cooperating with the investigation, but if things get to that point, they won’t cooperate either.

“The NIS is a public official, and they are private companies. Understand the difference.”

No matter how much the NIS is a secret organization that stakes its life on maintaining security, the limitations of being a public official remain. Even if it is not an organization that is unwilling to work, it is ultimately an outsider from Daeguk Group’s point of view.

“And in that annoying situation, will people talk to each other?”

“Talk?”

“Individuals are afraid of responsibility.”

For example, let’s say there is someone suspicious. But is it really easy for other researchers to tell the NIS that the person is suspicious? No. Because if they say that and it’s not true, they will be responsible in the worst case.

The NIS guarantees secrecy, but it is ultimately an external group, and there is no guarantee that they will keep their promise to take responsibility.

“If key researchers report ‘someone is suspicious,’ they will naturally not say anything because they are worried about the responsibility. Is there anyone in the world who knows 100% of the other person?”

This person is about 10% suspicious? Then that person just thinks, ‘I must have been mistaken,’ and easily dismisses it.

“That’s how the Hwaseong serial killer got away with it.”

The Hwaseong serial killer was surprisingly a suspect. But at the time, the police officer in charge of the police station said, ‘This is someone I know personally, so it can’t be,’ and excluded him, and even other police officers wrote ‘no suspicion’ in the records, so they just didn’t investigate at all and passed it over.

“But I told them very easily, as if it was nothing.”

All they said when they gathered was, ‘Please report it if you think of anything.’

“People are perfect for gossiping in this kind of situation.”

Not reporting or accusing, but gossiping among themselves. Just that level of raising the issue.

“They’ll talk about who it is for fun while drinking coffee and eating. Then the 10% suspicions will gather.”

I suspect 10% because of this, and someone else suspects 10% because of that…… If that accumulates, they will think, ‘Huh?’

“And around that time, someone is more likely to report it just in case. In short, I used collective intelligence.”

“Collective intelligence? This?”

“They are researchers.”

They are not students learning something, nor are they office workers who do as they are told. They are researchers who discuss and talk to find solutions, and such discussions and conversations are a familiar culture to them.

“Collective intelligence is a culture for them.”

And there is definitely someone whose suspicion is growing inside.

“Moreover, they will feel uncomfortable. The fact that the culprit is around them causes people to feel unpleasant.”

For example, if the police say, ‘We can’t catch the killer,’ people will curse, ‘Those incompetent police bastards.’

“But if they say, ‘We can’t catch the killer in area A,’ people in area A will go crazy.”

In fact, in such cases, the reporting rate of unusual signs in that area increases rapidly. Because the person can be a victim, they actively try to solve the problem.

“That’s why I talked about the research institute’s open investigation.”

If the culprit is not caught, they will continue to feel uncomfortable and annoyed. And the records they have researched will definitely leak. In other words, I indirectly told them that they could be victims.

“Then the researchers will think about who that bastard is.”

In such cases, people try to catch the culprit and maintain their peace in any way possible.

“With collective intelligence and surveillance of the surroundings alone, the culprits will not be able to hide their anxiety.”

“But what if they run away?”

“Run away? How? Do you think I’m stupid? The NIS must already be monitoring all the researchers here, right?”

Yoo In-hye’s eyes shook at Park Do-joon’s words.

“I’m not stupid, Agent Yoo.”

People who are engaged in national defense work must obtain permission from the Ministry of National Defense to leave the country. Even officers in front-line units have to do that, so is it easy for researchers at Korea’s top research institute to leave the country?

The moment they try to buy any ticket, the Ministry of National Defense is 100% contacted.

“That’s the case even in normal times, so there’s no way they wouldn’t be monitored in this situation.”

So, he can’t run away. Stowaway? In the first place, a researcher who has only been doing research, not a criminal, has no way of knowing the route for stowaways.

“And as I said before, these industrial spies are just targets for abandonment.”

The Chinese line that they were already in contact with has been cut off, so they can’t even ask them for help.

“In that situation, if they see that the people around them are starting to suspect them, they will start to show strange behavior without realizing it.”

Stress starts to affect their behavior patterns, and people tend to suspect them more and more as they watch it.

“So, is that why you said the body is honest [behavior reveals the truth]?”

“Did you think I meant it in a 19+ way [adult joke]?”

Park Do-joon said with a smirk as if he was dumbfounded.

“If they can’t run away, and their story starts to come out within the organization, they will definitely start to act strangely.”

“What kind of behavior? Are you saying they will refuse to come to work?”

“No, they will probably start working even more actively.”

“Actively?”

“I already told people that they are the type who have a lot of complaints. Then what should they do to get rid of suspicion?”

“Ah…….”

Of course, they will try to hide their complaints by working actively. There is no reason for someone who has nothing to hide to do that.

Annoying is annoying, and bothersome is bothersome. Is it even human if they have no complaints about their work life in the first place?

“It would have been meaningless words that they would have heard and ignored if they weren’t the culprit.”

Complaints are natural in work life. Moreover, horizontality is emphasized more than verticality for people who do research. It’s not that there is no verticality, but if they can’t speak up, nothing will change.

Of course, they will easily talk about their complaints to each other.

“But they will say they are not.”

The culprit won’t be. They will be suspicious, cautious, and afraid. Now they have to look good to the people above.

“Changing doesn’t just mean changing for the worse.”

A situation where they have no choice but to cosplay [pretend] as a good office worker to protect themselves.

“Who will get caught?”

Now all that’s left is to wait.

Profiling is My Calling