My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 581

But whether it’s from China, Korea, or Japan, a fish is just a fish.

“But…”

“Ah, you can’t tell anyone else about this. It’s exclusive.”

At those words, the Coast Guard officer said with a dubious expression.

“Are you really sure about this?”

“I’m sure.”

“But to track a 100-ton fishing boat, you’d need at least a Taegeuk-class, no, a Han River-class…”

The Taegeuk-class is a 500-ton patrol boat used by the Coast Guard. It has basic armaments and is in active service. Of course, it also carries out patrol duties as a real police vessel, but it also has cannons for military use in case of emergency.

The Han River-class is a 1,000-ton vessel. Of course, there are smaller vessels, but according to Reporter Seo Ju-ran, to monitor from a distance and follow naturally, you need at least the radar performance of the New Marine, which means you need at least a Taegeuk or Han River-class.

“It’s not easy to move those.”

Of course, transferring cargo on the high seas from a 100-ton fishing boat is a major crime, but it was questionable whether the higher-ups would easily allow the pursuit of such a small vessel.

“Oh my? So it is.”

“…So it is?”

At that moment, Seo Ju-ran quickly covered her mouth with a look of realization.

“No, nothing. Hehe! You must have misheard. I’ll be going now.”

Reporter Seo Ju-ran hurriedly tried to leave. The Coast Guard officer instinctively felt that something was off about her behavior.

“No, wait, Reporter.”

Having worked with external reporters in the Coast Guard, he had a chilling feeling.

“Just a moment, Reporter. Reporter!”

He stopped Seo Ju-ran from leaving and said with a pleading look.

“Please, tell me. I’ll be dead if this blows up.”

He had a chance to cut it off once, but he missed it? He was 100% sure he was going to get fired.

“Hmm, well, I guess the public relations office wouldn’t be involved.”

“What’s going on? What is it?”

“The tip also mentioned that the Coast Guard already knows.”

“Ah, they already know?”

“Yes, and they’re turning a blind eye…”

“What? Who would say such a thing…?”

“Come on, you know.”

The informant can’t say.

“But, if this gets cut off, we’ll have no choice but to post it on the news right away.”

Of course, moving a 500-ton vessel isn’t easy. But it’s not impossible either.

If the target vessel is a 100-ton vessel, then it’s hard to track or suppress it without a vessel of that size.

“If a tip comes in and you don’t investigate, the answer is obvious.”

“That’s…”

The public relations officer’s face turned sour. Of course, if that happened, the Coast Guard would immediately dispatch a vessel. But before that, the culprit would either flee or stop the transshipment for a while.

“So, just let us on board once.”

Would they be torn to shreds and investigated, or would they investigate first and then blame the reporter if it didn’t work out?

The answer was obvious.

“Hoo~ I understand.”

In the end, the Coast Guard official sighed deeply. He decided to write the report as threateningly as possible. And Seo Ju-ran was convinced as she watched.

‘Nice.’

As Park Do-joon said, the Coast Guard would move, and now they could track the culprit.

‘Now all that’s left is to wait.’

A smile never left Seo Ju-ran’s face as she thought about the exclusive headline.

# Chase on the Sea

The New Marine, a vessel belonging to the Daehan Younggwang Group, usually went out for fishing like any ordinary fishing boat. Therefore, it was difficult for the Coast Guard to know when and how it would set sail, putting them in a difficult situation.

“In a week.”

But unexpectedly, Park Do-joon pinpointed the date.

“How do you know that? Even the police don’t know.”

“These boats stay out for a long time once they leave.”

Since the hold [cargo space] is large, they need to fill it to make a profit. Naturally, they take a break after going out once.

“But the crew members were going far away.”

“Yes?”

“I already approached the crew members and talked to them.”

Park Do-joon had already struck up conversations with the crew members, acting friendly and asking questions.

“You can’t talk about the rough sea life without alcohol.”

“And the best friend is the one who buys you drinks.”

If you approach them with the excuse that you want to work as a crew member and ask for advice while buying them drinks, the crew members are surprisingly willing to talk. Because crew positions are always hard to fill.

“And in the process, there was an interesting story.”

“An interesting story?”

“Yes, their company gives them a week of paid vacation every three months.”

What company in the world would voluntarily give its employees paid vacation? Moreover, people who work on fishing boats are paid daily rather than monthly. Naturally, they need to go out as many days as possible to earn more money.

But paid vacation for crew members who aren’t even regular employees?

“So, I casually asked them if they stop fishing during that period.”

“No way?”

“Yes, they don’t stop during that period and hire outside personnel to go out.”

No shipowner would do such a foolish thing. Because each ship has a different structure, the probability of accidents increases until you get used to working on that ship.

“They have to pay anyway, so they give paid vacation and hire people again? There’s no way.”

But the crew members didn’t know the reality and believed it was just a benefit.

“That’s definitely strange.”

Lee Ji-soo couldn’t help but think that something was strange at those words.

“Why are they sending them on vacation?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head at those words. Then Park Do-joon cleared up Lee Ji-soo’s misunderstanding.

“Basically, think about the tendencies of the guys who join criminal organizations.”

“Those guys are… Aha!”

“Do you understand?”

“I don’t.”

Unlike Lee Ji-soo, who understood right away, Seo Ju-ran had a blank expression.

Park Do-joon had no choice but to explain it to him again.

“Simply put, the guys who work in criminal organizations are dominated by their ego. Earn money steadily and live a normal life? They can’t do that.”

In fact, you can earn a considerable amount of money if you work properly on a fishing boat. The job of a crew member on a fishing boat is a typical 3D occupation [dirty, dangerous, and difficult], and it has been a while since they brought people from overseas because there are not enough locals.

But there’s no reason to refuse to work there.

“Just look at me.”

The fact that Park Do-joon approached them with interest in working on a fishing boat and gave him advice while drinking with him means that he has that much goodwill.

“The problem is that criminals don’t do that usually.”

Will a criminal quietly work and earn money and only turn into a smuggler or illegal immigrant at the time of smuggling or illegal immigration? There’s no way.

“Those lifestyle criminals have a sense of aversion to actions that cross the line of murder.”

The appearance of concealing themselves as criminals in everyday life and living everyday life is completely different from the appearance of acting as criminals.

“I don’t understand?”

“Well, that’s probably the case in general. Certainly, ordinary people and criminals have different senses.”

Park Do-joon scratched his head and said simply.

“The future has no value for criminals.”

“No value?”

“Yes.”

For criminals, the value of the future does not exist.

“For example, when committing a crime, ordinary people think about the future.”

If I commit this crime, most people will give up the crime if there is a possibility that the damage will turn their daily life upside down.

“That’s why people are mistaken.”

People think that punishment should be strengthened to prevent crime. But psychologically, strong punishment does not help prevent crime much.

Because the perpetrators of serious crimes that require severe punishment don’t think deeply about the future anyway.

They think, ‘Isn’t it okay if I don’t get caught anyway?’ So they don’t care even if they get life imprisonment.

Of course, it is surprisingly effective for intelligent crimes such as fraud.

“In the past, there was a time when all criminals were executed.”

The execution of criminals was a spectacle in one area, so people gathered to watch it.

The funny thing is that in such a situation, a criminal was being beheaded alive in front of their eyes, but pickpockets were walking around among the spectators, stealing money.

“There were many cases where a pickpocket was caught stealing during the execution, dragged straight to the gallows, and executed.”

What’s even funnier is that other pickpockets are still stealing in that situation.

“That’s crazy.”

“Rather than being crazy, it’s because there is no value for the future. But what about ordinary criminals who lead everyday lives?”

Do they have no value for the future? No. It is true that their value for the future is lower than that of ordinary people, but that does not mean that it does not exist at all.

“Human psychology is not 100% or 0%.”

If the benefit of committing this crime is higher than the peaceful life of the future, they will commit the crime.

For ordinary people, the figure is so low that illegal parking or illegal dumping of garbage is the limit, but those who are slightly higher will commit fraud such as used goods, and those who are higher will do everything from theft to drug trafficking.

“But no matter what, it’s not a massacre of thirty people.”

It is a crime that goes beyond the level of destroying my future and destroys my dignity as a human being.

There is no human being who can easily do that.

“So those people don’t work together.”

Anyway, if it’s just one smuggling or illegal immigration, hundreds of millions will be made, so who would want to work hard?

“So only those guys work at that time.”

“That’s right.”

Seo Ju-ran, who understood Park Do-joon’s words, sparkled her eyes.

“And according to the crew members, they will be going on paid vacation in a week.”

That means there will be smuggling or illegal immigration or something in that gap.

“Okay. Then I’ll tell them that.”

“Good. We’ll prepare on our side too.”

All that was left was to raid the scene.

A week later. As expected, the New Marine slowly went out to sea with new crew members. The New Marine was going on for a while.

The captain of the Han River No. 3, who was chasing it, groaned at some point.

“The GPS signal of the New Marine has been cut off.”

The radar clearly shows that the New Marine is operating normally. But the GPS is off?

“It looks like they’re doing something that would be difficult if they got caught.”

“Right?”

Seo Ju-ran said confidently. Her face brightened as the work went as expected.

“There’s no reason to turn off the GPS signal for no reason.”

The captain nodded and asked the employee again as if to confirm again.

“Are you sure you’re tracking it?”

“Yes.”

“You can’t tell from the New Marine, right?”

“There is a difference in radar performance. The radar distance is more than 5 kilometers away from us, so you won’t get caught.”

“Maintain the proper distance.”

“Yes, Captain.”

The ship moved endlessly following the New Marine.