My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 608

“Prosecutors really love their shoes.”

Park Do-joon scoffed and clicked his tongue.

“Looks like he didn’t even try to hide himself from the start.”

“Well, I guess so. There’s no one else who would come, right?”

That’s right. Yoo Joon-seung was dead, and his family had fallen apart. Yoo Joon-seung’s wife was also dead.

“In such cases, the nephews should take care of their uncle, but…”

“It’s realistically difficult.”

With everything collapsing due to their father’s fraud, there’s a clear limit to their ability to care for their disabled uncle.

“For them, putting him in a nursing home was the best option.”

And they wouldn’t have managed the house.

“They’re not coming down here, are they?”

“I don’t know if they’re completely ruined, but they’re not quite at that level.”

They’re still young and working. Fortunately or unfortunately, they received considerable support from Yoo Joon-seung and also had their own careers.

“Then it’s hard to auction off the house they’re living in, isn’t it?”

“That’s true. Korea doesn’t recognize guilt by association.”

If the children had received 100% of their assets from Yoo Joon-seung, it might be possible to recover it, but the children each had their own businesses anyway. And they were making profits.

“It’s hard to take this house away in that situation.”

In that situation, they would abandon everything and come down to this house? There’s no reason to. They’re married and have children, so they need to work to feed their children.

“So, since there’s no one who would come here, someone just ransacked it?”

“Probably.”

“Then where would they have put the external hard drive?”

Park Do-joon looked around. The house was a mess. Whoever came first had overturned the bed, ripped the sofa, and pulled out the insides. It means they were searching for the external hard drive.

“There’s nothing much in the house.”

In the meantime, Jung Yi-yeon went around each room, checking the house.

“He was disabled from the start, after all.”

Such a person wouldn’t have lived alone.

“Maybe that man was in the hospital from the beginning?”

“So that’s why the house is so empty?”

“Right.”

“No, why leave property to a disabled person?”

“Because he is his child.”

Parents with disabled children are said to not be able to close their eyes even in death. They try to ensure their safety by any means possible.

“One of those ways is leaving them property.”

If they leave all the property to a healthy child, they might abandon them, so they leave the property to the disabled child.

And if they want to receive it, they should take good care of their disabled sibling.

“That’s a cruel thing to say.”

“And it’s reality. Either way, it’s not really a house to live in.”

There wouldn’t be much need for furniture. Just enough to have a sofa or a bed.

“They didn’t take it from here?”

“I told you. The safety they can provide is even more limited.”

So they would try to store it in a place where they wouldn’t be involved even if caught, and at this point, this place is quite likely.

“But there’s no place to put an external hard drive, is there?”

There’s no safe, and the closet has already been ransacked. The refrigerator is empty, and the drawers have all been checked.

“Isn’t it too obvious a place?”

“Too obvious?”

“Think about it. These kinds of places are the first to be searched when thieves, prosecutors, or police come. Park Tae-woon, who has been a prosecutor, couldn’t possibly not know that.”

Would Yoo Joon-seung really put it in such a place? There’s no way.

“Park Tae-woon even judged that there’s no safer place than here.”

A place that even a prosecutor thought was safe and wouldn’t be found. Where could that be?

“Hmm.”

Park Do-joon looked around the house and then turned his gaze.

“He went out again.”

“He went out again?”

“Look. The shoe prints are fading, right?”

Some of the shoe prints that were there when he first came in were smudged.

“He stepped on them while going out to erase them.”

“So?”

“That means there’s such a place outside.”

“Outside? Wouldn’t it become unusable then?”

“It could be, but…”

Park Do-joon went outside. Then, without realizing it, he chuckled.

“This way, they really won’t find it.”

“Huh?”

“Don’t you hear anything?”

At those words, Jung Yi-yeon remained silent, trying to hear something. But she couldn’t hear anything.

“Nothing at all?”

“Wait a little longer.”

After waiting for a while at those words, at some point, a whirring sound was briefly heard and then disappeared.

“What? Is there something around here?”

“I think I know, so follow me.”

Park Do-joon slowly headed behind the house. And repeating walking and stopping, he slowly headed towards the back of the house. It took quite a while to find the place because he had to rely on the sound that was heard for a very short moment to determine the direction.

“It’s here.”

“Here?”

“Yes.”

Park Do-joon tapped the ground. But instead of the tapping sound of the dirt ground, a hollow sound like metal bouncing came.

“He dug into the ground and buried it?”

“That wasn’t the purpose of digging, but it’s not wrong.”

Park Do-joon rummaged through the ground with his feet. Then a large iron plate lid appeared. When he opened it, he saw all sorts of cloths stacked in layers.

“What is this?”

“A pump.”

“A pump?”

“These rural areas don’t have water lines.”

Then how should they use water? Of course, they have to use groundwater. And how to supply such groundwater?

“They pump it up with these pumps. But you can’t leave the pump outside, can you?”

Otherwise, it would freeze. But they can’t build a building just to run a small pump. Then what’s the solution? It’s simple. Dig a hole in the ground and put it there.

“And the space is quite large because people have to go in to do the installation work.”

The underground is basically insulated to some extent, so it doesn’t freeze even in winter.

“And to prevent any possible situations, they fill it with old clothes or fabric blankets like this.”

Then, even if winter comes, there’s usually no problem using water.

“And.”

Park Do-joon bent down and continued to take out all sorts of cloths from the inside. And after searching the bottom for a long time, he opened a small tin box inside.

“Bingo.”

“Could it be?”

Jung Yi-yeon quickly ran over and opened it. Inside were four external hard drives, packaged in plastic and then vacuum-sealed.

“Found it! But to put it outside like this?”

“The underground pump room has better storage than you think. Assuming it doesn’t get damaged.”

First of all, it’s a concrete space, so nothing can dig in or out. In addition, the lid is basically made larger than the space, so rain doesn’t get in. The temperature is also more stable than you think because it’s underground. And even if some water seeps in, the cloth or blankets absorb it all in the process of going down.

“If you store it like this in three layers, there’s almost no chance of it breaking down due to moisture.”

And external hard drives can be stored long enough if they are dry without moisture.

“And prosecutors and police are surprisingly ignorant about these kinds of places.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Where are there groundwater facilities in the city?”

Of course, cities supply water through water facilities, not groundwater. Such places don’t have a large space, and there’s no space to hide anything. Furthermore, it’s a place that’s opened regularly to check usage. It’s impossible to hide something like this.

“Usually, when they search, they turn the house inside out.”

Even if they search outside the house, they search the warehouse or a place where something can be stored, but they usually don’t think about underground.

“This place can be stored well enough.”

A house in someone else’s name that he manages. And underground there, who would have expected it?

“Definitely, no one would find it here.”

Even if a thief breaks in, there’s no reason to search the pump in the basement. Because no one puts jewels, precious metals, or cash there.

“How did you know, Oppa [term of endearment used by a younger woman to an older man]?”

“Because of the sound.”

The whirring sound heard at that moment.

“Do you hear it? The sound of the pump running.”

“Yeah.”

“Because the pump runs on electricity.”

Park Do-joon often had to go to rural areas for work, so he knew about the existence of places where these pump sounds were heard, so he had more information about the issue.

“You can hear it because the electricity comes on at night.”

“During the day?”

“You wouldn’t hear anything.”

If so, the prosecutors or police would only search the inside. Since most searches are done during the day, they wouldn’t recognize the existence because they wouldn’t hear the sound.

Even if they did it at night, there’s almost no chance that the sound would be heard in the chaotic process of the search.

Even now, you can only hear a low humming sound after coming outside.

“Still, with this, compensation will be possible, right?”

“No. It won’t be.”

“What?”

Jung Yi-yeon was startled at those words.

“Why not? We found it, didn’t we?”

“Do you know the password?”

“Ah……!”

“Of course, there will be Bitcoin here. But you don’t know the password, and is there any evidence that this is Unicorn Group’s money in the first place?”

“……”

Of course not. Even if we take this, it’s impossible to sell the virtual currency inside and return it to the victims.

“Then what do we do? Even if we ask Park Tae-woon for the password, he’s not the kind of guy who would give it back, is he?”

“There’s no way he’d give it back. So we have to set a trap.”

“How?”

“Every human thinks they’re special. But surprisingly, in fact, all humans are similar.”

Park Do-joon shrugged his shoulders and said.

“Especially those who think they’re very smart think they’re making good choices, but almost all of them use obvious tricks.”

Rather, guys with low intelligence often don’t know what they’re really going to do.

“So we have to make him come out.”

Park Do-joon said confidently.

“A rumor… This isn’t Wolgwang Law Firm’s style.”

Due to the rumors circulating in the gossip, Park Tae-woon was briefly annoyed. At first, he got angry, but soon most people were just panicking because they couldn’t find a way.

“It’s annoying, but.”

The case that was supposed to be forgotten was revealed, and it was revealed that he had deleted the data.

But he’s not worried. He’s taken enough measures to prevent it from being revealed.

They’ll suspect that he deleted it, but there’s no way to prove it, and if they can’t prove it, the government and the victims won’t know that he stole the password from the scene.

‘This is an opportunity.’

He has some influence in the Daegu area, but his thirst for power is endless. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t enter Seoul, the center of power. He lacked connections and power. Decisively, he lacked money.

‘If it’s 850 billion won [approximately $640 million USD].’

With that much money, he can do anything. If he wants, he can go through a member of the National Assembly and aim for the presidential election.

A Professional Profiler