My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 721

“No, we’re not killers. We’re fellow officers.”

They were trying to escape by exploiting their shared identity as police officers.

But Park Do-joon knew that all too well. That’s why he pretended to have been tracking them for a long time, to tie them to other crimes as well.

“As you can see…”

“I warned you, didn’t I? The moment you take something out of your pocket, I’ll shoot.”

Park Do-joon lowered his body as he said that, and Lee Ji-soo, who glanced over, also lowered her body.

“We’re faster than you drawing and hitting us with your guns.”

“Kugh.”

The four men were at a loss. If they were arrested, things would get out of hand, but they couldn’t resist. And in that gap, Kim Song-rim, regaining her senses, desperately crawled up.

“Those guys, those guys tried to kill me.”

“Stay behind us.”

Kim Song-rim hurried away at those words.

Park Do-joon, aiming at the four men, said,

“You, on the far right. Take out the handcuffs and cuff the others. If you try anything funny, you’re dead.”

The officer on the far right hesitated for a moment, then suddenly shouted and pulled out a gun from his pocket.

“You son of a bitch!”

He must have thought it was better to die than to be arrested and sentenced to death. But what he didn’t know was that Park Do-joon had no intention of killing them in the first place, and that Park Do-joon’s shooting skills were surprisingly good, especially in a stable sitting position.

Bang!

“Aagh! My hand! My hand!”

He managed to pull out the gun, but Park Do-joon shot first. Three of his fingers flew off, and Officer Park screamed, clutching his bleeding hand.

“I told you not to grab a weapon! You, on the far left, I’ll say it again. Take out the handcuffs and cuff them all. Don’t even think about dying nicely. Unless you want to live as a cripple in prison.”

At those words, Officer Kim glanced around, then lowered his head and took out the handcuffs from his waist, and then took out handcuffs from his colleagues’ waists and cuffed them one by one.

Then, he cuffed himself last.

“Good. Now crawl up.”

They slowly climbed up, and Lee Ji-soo approached them and searched them, taking out their guns.

“You’ll regret this.”

They said coldly, looking at Park Do-joon. Park Do-joon smirked at them.

“Why? Are you worried that the higher-ups who used you will screw us over?”

“You’re messing with us knowing that?”

“That’s why I’m messing with you, you bastards. What kind of police officers have nothing better to do than be killers?”

“You don’t know the world. You’re a dead man. It’s not just us.”

Kim Hyung-sa sneered. And Park Do-joon said to Kim Hyung-sa as if it were obvious.

“Oh, I know. How long do you think I’ve been chasing you? How police officers do contract killings… Doesn’t your conscience bother you, even killing your own colleagues?”

“Kugh.”

“I know everything you’ve killed and the police have covered up as suicides.”

“You’re messing with us knowing that. You really want to die.”

“Why, are you going to destroy the evidence like other cases and pin it on us?”

“You think we can’t?”

“Maybe you won’t be able to this time.”

Park Do-joon said very firmly.

“You absolutely can’t. I guarantee it. Hehehe.”

“What?”

“You must have thought you had some kind of license to kill.”

Park Do-joon said coldly to them with a very bitter look.

“There’s no such thing in the world. Hehehe.”

# Exposure

The four men thought that if they went to the police, the higher-ups would definitely protect them by any means. That’s how it had been so far, and there were more than a few people who would be in trouble if they were caught.

However, when they arrived at the police station, they saw the reporters and people who had gathered, and they knew that something had gone wrong. Park Do-joon had called for backup, but he hadn’t leaked it to the media. No, even if he had leaked it, they wouldn’t have come in such a blatant crowd. The higher-ups would have cut it off by any means. But the number of reporters who had gathered was not three or four, but already well over 200.

“What is this?”

“Looks like the higher-ups called them?”

Park Do-joon turned his gaze from the driver’s seat and smirked.

“What?”

“I think I have a lot to say about our higher-ups. Right?”

Park Do-joon said that and pulled them out of the car. And the reporters rushed to them.

“Is it true that you operated a killer squad within the police?”

“Is it true that you killed a number of police officers?”

“Is it true that the higher-ups killed fellow police officers to cover up scandals?”

The four men were embarrassed to see the reporters talking about cases that no one had mentioned. And Park Do-joon then took out his cell phone from the chest pocket on his shirt, shook it, and turned it off.

“Technology is really good these days. You can broadcast from anywhere.”

“Broadcast?”

“What? You think the higher-ups will cover it up? Tell them to try covering it up. Why, are you going to shoot all the people in the country to death?”

The faces of the four men turned pale. They never thought that Park Do-joon would be broadcasting live on the internet with his cell phone.

“There are many killer squads? Who doesn’t know? But that killer squad is going to kill you now? Oh, dear.”

Park Do-joon grinned and dragged them inside. And they were dragged inside with a look of dismay at the fact that they had been deceived.

And the reporters followed Park Do-joon and the police officers into the main building. And in that gap, a car came in.

Lee Ji-soo quietly drove the car inside. Kim Song-rim also got out of the car.

“Go in.”

“That…”

“The reporters aren’t here right now, so hurry.”

“Thank you.”

Kim Song-rim got out of the car in a hurry to go inside, and Park Do-joon, who was entering the main building, turned his head slightly and smiled inwardly as he watched her go inside.

‘It’s almost over, almost.’

The country was turned upside down.

It was revealed that the police were running a killer squad internally, and the higher-ups were using them. Of course, it wasn’t official use. However, with numerous cases of mysterious deaths or disappearances of key witnesses in numerous major cases involving the police, it was impossible not to pay attention.

“So, what did they say? Tell me simply.”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head at Park Do-joon, who had returned after the interrogation.

“The other guys are keeping their mouths shut, but a guy named Kim Hyung-sa is telling the truth. I guess he’s the type to give up quickly.”

“What did he say?”

“They got together while embezzling drugs.”

Even a small amount of drugs is incredibly expensive. The guys who knew that decided to embezzle drugs. Even a small amount would be worth billions of won [Korean currency], so they were blinded by money.

It was easy to raid a drug site and steal three or four bags of drugs, and they killed a colleague who found out about it.

“After that, their main job changed completely.”

After being transferred from the drug enforcement team to another department, they were in a situation where they were desperate to make money, so the guys who had been receiving bribes to cover up for them gradually asked them to take care of some troublesome guys, and they were working secretly.

“They’re crazy.”

“That’s why they’re working as killers with the title of police officer. So, what is Kim Song-rim saying?”

“She’s so angry that she’s telling everything.”

“Well, I guess she would, since she almost died.”

When she knew that she would die if Hong Woo-jong was left alive, there weren’t many options she could choose. She wouldn’t have cared about the women who might die, but would she not take revenge when she almost died?

She would definitely tell everything in order to live and to take revenge.

“Now, if she tells all of that…”

“No. It’s not over yet.”

“It’s not over yet? Why?”

“Those police officers have been arrested. And you can’t deny the murder.”

It’s not just the live broadcast on the internet at the scene. In fact, Park Do-joon was already zooming in on the scene from a distance to capture the scene in order to arrest them. The whole process of trying to forcibly take the key, breaking the window and pulling them out after getting into the car, and then trying to drown them in the water has already spread on the internet, so you can’t deny the killer police officers’ murder attempt.

“But is there any evidence that Hong Woo-jong ordered it?”

“There isn’t?”

“It’s unlikely that Hong Woo-jong will be directly connected.”

Most likely, Pyogi-il is involved. But even that Pyogi-il, we can’t know if it’s directly related. And considering Pyogi-il’s position, we should assume that it’s almost impossible that Pyogi-il directly ordered those four people to do the job.

“Then, no matter how much Kim Song-rim claims that she’s a victim of murder, it’s meaningless.”

Of course, Pyogi-il will pretend not to know. And I don’t know who’s below him, but if you go up step by step from below, you’ll be cut off in the middle with a very high probability.

“But Kim Song-rim was called out for the purpose of covering up the case, right?”

“The criminal is a police officer. Can’t the police find that case?”

“I guess so.”

If you only know the resident registration number, it’s not difficult to search the computer and find out what related cases there are.

“Furthermore, a murder case has already broken out in that sponsor net [network of individuals providing financial support in exchange for favors or relationships].”

In that case, even if someone claims that they are trying to kill Kim Song-rim to cover up at least a similar but undisclosed case in order to cover it up, they can’t ignore it.

It’s not uncommon for a murderer to pin his crime on someone else.

“Then what should we do?”

“We have to dig a psychological trap.”

“A psychological trap?”

“Yes, we have to make people believe that this is definitely Hong Woo-jong’s doing.”

“But how?”

“It’s simple. The victims just need to unite.”

“Yes?”

“When people belong to a group, they think that person is also part of that group. But that’s surprisingly not true.”

“Not true?”

“It’s a kind of psychological trick.”

It’s a very old trick to deceive the other person by pretending to belong to a group that you don’t belong to and get benefits.

“For example, there was such a thing in the past when oil was spilled in the sea.”

When oil leaked from a ship carrying crude oil and the beach became a mess with oil, the government and companies paid a huge amount of money to compensate for it.

The method used by the fraudsters at the time was to bring a decaying old ship from somewhere and suddenly cry and make a fuss that they were ruined. By doing so, they naturally belonged to the victim group inside the region and extorted hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from the victim company.

Of course, those fraudsters had never been out to sea on a ship, and in the first place, it was at the level of a wrecked ship, so it wasn’t even at the level of fishing on the bottom, but once they belonged to the victim group, they used other victims as shields.

If a company or government suspects, ‘You don’t have a record of activity here?’ they incite the victims by saying, ‘They’re trying to find fault with us and not give us money.’

“And in such cases, the victims are mostly incited by them.”

“Yes? Why? If there are more of those guys, the compensation they get will be reduced, right?”

“That fault is not wrong.”

It’s natural for companies to try not to give money in any way, and in the process, they find all sorts of faults. Repenting and apologizing while compensating? Unfortunately, that’s not very meaningful at the point where money is involved.

“Because the victims know that, they have no choice but to bite together if they try to find even one fault.”

If they back down here, they don’t know what kind of fault they’ll find next.

For example, ‘Considering the age of the ship, it will be scrapped within a year anyway. So, we’ll only compensate for one year’s worth of damage.’ or ‘It’s impossible to catch this many fish within a year. We’ll only give you half.’ If you try to find fault like that, there’s no end to it.