My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 669

“Too bad.”

“It can’t be helped. For now, we should be satisfied with just cutting off Hong Woo-jong’s hands and feet.”

Jo Sang-gyu nodded at Park Do-joon’s words.

“Then how do we seize the opportunity? It doesn’t seem like those guys can monitor you, Detective.”

Even knowing they are being tracked, they wouldn’t follow Park Do-joon to kidnap him. Moreover, since the last time they set a trap to kill Park Do-joon, all the killers who came from outside were caught, they are likely to be even more cautious.

“They’ll have no choice but to come to catch me.”

“Yes? Why is that?”

“Hong Woo-jong definitely has someone planted in the police. Do you think they wouldn’t know the information we obtained?”

Of course, they would know.

“And they’ll pass that information on to Wang Woo-hwan.”

That way, he’ll struggle even more to catch Park Do-joon.

“So, if we show them an opportunity, they’ll rush to grab it no matter what.”

“Won’t they be suspicious?”

“That’s why they’ll set a trap.”

“Yes? But you said they wouldn’t target Jung Yi-yeon?”

“Of course, they can’t target Yi-yeon anymore. But I told you, they found out about the Hellfire Clan incident. Do you think they won’t use that?”

Park Do-joon said confidently.

“They’ll contact us first. Hehehe.”

“They noticed us?”

Wang Woo-hwan’s subordinates’ eyes widened at his words.

“Yes, I don’t know how they found out, but…”

What was certain was that Park Do-joon had realized that Wang Woo-hwan was behind this Hellfire Clan incident, which was surprising.

‘How? I handled it so cleanly.’

They erased fingerprints and even set a fire. They checked that there were no CCTVs around, and when they went there, they completely covered their faces when passing through alleys, worried that someone might identify them.

Realistically, there was no way they could be identified this quickly.

Wang Woo-hwan had completely forgotten that there might be a black box [vehicle recording device] in the car, and he didn’t even think that it could record internally.

‘Of course. There is no widespread black box culture like this in China,’ Park Do-joon had said, pointing out cultural differences.

Wang Woo-hwan didn’t know that, so he didn’t pay any attention to the black box in the car.

Furthermore, since he didn’t know that the White Dragon Society itself was a lie, he was naturally confused.

“Hyung-nim [term of respect for an older male], what should we do in this situation?”

“Tch.”

The White Dragon Society is tracking them, and now even the police have caught on? Then there is no choice. They have to hide somehow.

“There’s only one way. We have to catch that bastard Park Do-joon.”

He felt uneasy about that. Every time he was involved with him, he had always lost. He kept telling himself it was a coincidence and that eventually their paths wouldn’t cross. But that failed, and now Park Do-joon was tightening the noose around his neck.

‘He’s more capable than me? I can’t believe it.’

Decisively, Wang Woo-hwan couldn’t believe it. No, he didn’t want to believe it. That’s why he had been ignoring Park Do-joon. But instead, he fell into a trap and was cornered. With those personal feelings added, his judgment naturally began to decline.

Park Do-joon kept saying that he needed to keep his center to get proper profiling done, but from the moment he became a criminal instead of a police officer, his judgment was bound to decline.

“There’s only one way. To catch that bastard.”

“Hyung-nim, but how are you going to catch him? We can’t even monitor him.”

“We have to set a trap.”

“If you mean a trap?”

“That bastard knows that the Hellfire Clan was attacked by us. So, if we say we’ll pass on information related to that, he’ll come looking.”

“Yes? We will?”

At those words, Wang Woo-hwan looked at his subordinates.

“What they know is me, not you guys. That means if one of you approaches them, they’ll be suspicious, but they can’t help but come.”

“Ah!”

“And usually, when the police come to receive information, it’s at most two or four people.”

But there are six of them here. Moreover, they still have gas guns.

“If we attack, Park Do-joon won’t be able to resist. Moreover, Park Do-joon’s partner is a bitch.”

Of course, it’s hard to expect combat power from her, so if they just subdue Park Do-joon, it’s done.

“Then maybe…”

The subordinates’ eyes turned red at the word ‘woman’. Well, they’ve been hiding so long that they can’t even remember when they last enjoyed themselves with a woman.

“Well, what we need is that bastard Park Do-joon.”

They don’t need her.

“Thank you, Hyung-nim!”

“But we have to set the trap properly. So we can’t escape anymore.”

Wang Woo-hwan could intuitively know.

That this was the last chance.

“It’s so obvious that it’s absurd.”

The survivor of the Hellfire Clan. He said he would testify on the condition that his safety was guaranteed. However, he asked for a reliable police officer to be sent to guarantee his safety.

“What do you think?”

“Perhaps that reliable police officer is me.”

“That’s right.”

“Why didn’t they directly mention you, Detective?”

“I’m not someone who was directly revealed in the Hellfire Clan incident.”

“That’s right.”

“So, the moment they mention me, it becomes evidence that this is a trap.”

“Ah!”

Lee Ji-soo nodded as if she understood Park Do-joon’s words.

“They set a trap to catch you, but they can’t bring you in directly.”

“That’s right. This is a battle of wits between me and Wang Woo-hwan. We’re both setting traps for each other and waiting for the other to fall in first.”

Fortunately, Park Do-joon is in the lead so far, but if he makes a mistake, his life could be in real danger.

“This is the same. If they say they are the surviving Hellfire Clan, we have no choice but to go.”

“But I don’t understand how they’ll call you out?”

Jo Sang-gyu tilted his head. He is a profiler, but even if he knows a lot about psychology, he doesn’t know much about traps.

“First, we’ll know by looking at where they contacted us. They contacted our profiling team, right? I’m the one in charge of this case in that team.”

“It seems like a coincidence, but it’s not a coincidence?”

“Yes, if it was really a survivor of the Hellfire Clan, they would have contacted the police station directly. But the fact that they contacted the profiling team itself is a trap. And in the first place, the real Hellfire Clan wouldn’t know that profiling was involved.”

Usually, if they ask to send a reliable person, they naturally send the person in charge of the case. Moreover, they wouldn’t know about profiling.

“Then that means it’s a trap.”

“Yes, 100%.”

“But then it makes even less sense?”

Jo Sang-gyu had a completely clueless look on his face.

“Wang Woo-hwan is a smart guy. Of course, if he knows you’re involved, he’ll know that you’ll suspect this is a trap, right?”

In the first place, Park Do-joon was convinced that this was a trap just because the contact came here. But would Wang Woo-hwan not know that?

No matter what, even if he’s a bit rotten, he’s still a *junchi* [a type of fish, implying he was once sharp]. Even if he quit being a police officer and became a criminal, Wang Woo-hwan’s essence is a profiler, and it was too obvious that he wouldn’t easily think that Park Do-joon wouldn’t suspect him.

“Yes, of course, he’ll suspect. That’s why he’ll contact us like this.”

“Why is that?”

“They’re targeting me, but they can’t bring me out directly. So, they need to attach people around me. That’s the purpose.”

“Who?”

“Their gang.”

“You’re saying they’re calling you out to attach their gang now?”

“That’s right.”

At those words, everyone looked at Park Do-joon as if they didn’t understand.

“Wouldn’t it be solved if they attached them secretly? Or are they afraid because of that White Dragon Society? Even so…”

Lee Ji-soo couldn’t understand even after thinking about it, so she couldn’t help but be confused.

“There’s that too.”

“There’s that too? But why are they calling us?”

“To put it simply, it’s to request protection.”

“From us?”

“Yes.”

“From the police?”

“Yes.”

Lee Ji-soo was even more confused. Park Do-joon easily explained it to her.

“Do you know the exact number or list of Hellfire Clan members?”

“Uh, I… I don’t know?”

“That’s right. You don’t know. In the first place, the Hellfire Clan isn’t a Korean organization either.”

Chinese organizations have fast member turnover and are difficult to access, so Korean police have poor information about such Chinese or overseas-based organizations. As a result, they can roughly recognize their existence, but they don’t know detailed information.

“Then, if someone contacts you now saying they’re from the Hellfire Clan, what would you do?”

“That’s… uh?”

Only then did Lee Ji-soo realize what the problem was, and her face hardened.

“They’re a protected target?”

“Isn’t it funny? But that’s the reality.”

The Hellfire Clan is completely dead. So, even if someone says they’re from the Hellfire Clan, there’s no way to verify it. There are no photos, no lists, nothing.

“In that case, they’re definitely a protected target from the police’s point of view.”

Jo Sang-gyu exclaimed without realizing it. At some point, they disguised themselves as victims and moved naturally.

“And we officially don’t know the criminals.”

“Yes? It’s Wang Woo-hwan’s gang, right?”

“There’s no evidence, right? They set a trap, but that’s only something we did secretly.”

The biggest evidence that Wang Woo-hwan is the culprit is that they said in the black box, ‘The White Dragon Society has offered a reward.’ Park Do-joon spread the rumor itself, so the target is naturally Wang Woo-hwan, but there is no evidence related to him.

“Wang Woo-hwan doesn’t know that. He really believes he’s being tracked by the White Dragon Society. Then here’s the question, what if those guys say they’re the Hellfire Clan themselves?”

“Their safety is guaranteed.”

“That’s right, Team Leader.”

Once they say they are the Hellfire Clan, they are officially protected by the police. They are murderers, but they are being protected.

“First of all, since they said they were the Hellfire Clan, it’s okay to fabricate the events that happened at the scene to some extent.”

The only people who can know what happened at the scene are the criminals or the victims. And since they are claiming to be victims, we have no choice but to believe what they say about the scene.

“Wang Woo-hwan has embellished it appropriately, so we’ll probably believe it.”

“Then…”

“Yes, from the moment they are on the police’s protection list, they are safe from the White Dragon Society.”

Even if the White Dragon Society comes to Korea, it will be difficult to touch the people under police protection. Of course, the place where they are hiding will be secret.

From the police’s point of view, they are victims, so they can’t leak their personal information. The culprit hasn’t been caught either.”