My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 725

“No, that would be difficult too, wouldn’t it?”

There’s almost no chance that Hong Woo-jong would leave his ID or anything that could prove his identity there.

“If I go, he’ll probably come.”

“You’re going?”

“Do you know what the common trait of criminals like Hong Woo-jong is?”

“What is it?”

“They have no future.”

To be precise, they act as if they’d rather die than not succeed and have everything. That’s why they have no future.

“Hong Woo-jong knows he has no future now. So, what will he do?”

“I don’t know.”

“He’ll try to kill me.”

At those words, Lee Ji-soo flinched for a moment.

“Kill you?”

“Yes, he’s probably desperate to kill me.”

Since he has no future anyway.

He’ll want to take revenge for ruining him.

“Hong Geun-jong is basically who he wants to kill more, but…”

Realistically, he can’t even approach Hong Geun-jong.

“So, we need to lure him there and trap him.”

“But…”

Lee Ji-soo hesitated slightly at those words.

“How? If the situation is like this, even within the prosecution, they won’t want to give Hong Woo-jong information, will they?”

“Of course, they won’t.”

At this point, all lines related to Hong Woo-jong should be considered cut off. Even if someone was inevitably on his line, they were aiming for power, not wanting to work with a murderer.

“Fortunately, the media is on our side.”

Park Do-joon said confidently.

“He’ll probably crawl out on his own, hahaha.”

Soon after, Park Do-joon’s news was released to the media.

-Detective Park Do-joon, the perpetrator is likely to have buried the body nearby.

It was a plausible interview. In fact, anyone could have said that. However, one sentence in it scratched Hong Woo-jong’s nerves like crazy.

-The perpetrator is likely to have used heavy equipment to dispose of the body.

“How?”

Watching that, Hong Woo-jong felt a chill down his spine. There was no one there. There were no civilians around, and no one passing by. The work itself was done quickly. But how could they find that place?

“That can’t be. It can’t be.”

No one even knew where the final disposal was done. But Park Do-joon was acting as if he knew everything. That’s why Hong Woo-jong gritted his teeth.

“It must be a coincidence. It must be.”

No one knows that place. Not even Wang Woo-hwan’s gang. He made sure no one followed him when he went to dispose of the body, and he watched several times along the way.

“But they found it? No way. There’s no way they found it.”

If they had found it, the news would have already reported that bodies were discovered. But the interview only mentioned the possibility of using heavy equipment.

“Damn it.”

Hong Woo-jong felt a chill down his spine at those words.

“Should I have disposed of that place too?”

It was a warehouse he had left just in case. But now he couldn’t do that.

“I have to go and take care of it.”

Hong Woo-jong gritted his teeth. Then he went down from his apartment. Of course, there were reporters gathered at the entrance. But it didn’t matter. When dealing with dirty work, he used someone else’s car, not his own.

It had heavily tinted windows so you couldn’t see inside, and it wasn’t a luxury car, just an old, beat-up used car that no one would think he would drive. That’s why Hong Woo-jong was able to quietly leave his apartment, avoiding the reporters.

Of course, he remained cautious. He checked several times to see if any cars were following him, circled around the area, and drove around the countryside all night.

But when no one followed him, Hong Woo-jong breathed a sigh of relief and headed to his warehouse.

“Thank goodness.”

And fortunately, the entrance to the warehouse hadn’t changed. If the police had come, this area would have already been turned upside down.

But there was nothing, not even a tire track on the ground.

“They haven’t found it yet.”

Hong Woo-jong felt relieved at that sight and took out the gasoline from the car. Then, grunting, he carried it up and started spraying gasoline everywhere.

“There won’t be any problems here.”

Then he suddenly looked at the place where the bodies were buried. But he soon shook his head. There’s nothing to worry about. He only wore the clothes once when he was working, and he wore a hat and a mask. He didn’t even move with his body, he dug the ground with a backhoe, so there was no chance that his DNA would be there.

“Let’s erase the traces first.”

But the excavator is different. His fingerprints might be on it, and he might have sweated. That’s the only thing inside the building that could be used, but he couldn’t ignore the possibility that he might have made a mistake while using it.

‘One mistake is enough.’

Hong Woo-jong thought so and tried to light the gasoline he had sprayed.

At that moment, a strong light suddenly poured out from the darkness.

“Kuh?”

“Oh, my. Mr. Hong Woo-jong, long time no see. How long has it been? Is it the first time since Representative Hong Geun-jong’s wedding?”

“Park Do-joon?”

Park Do-joon coming out of the darkness. At that sight, Hong Woo-jong flinched for a moment.

“How did you get here?”

“I expected you to use heavy equipment.”

“…”

Hong Woo-jong was confused by those words. That was true.

But wasn’t this a place where there was nothing? No one knows, and even the only entrance is hidden by trees, so it’s hard to see. There is no road to enter this place. It’s all just trees.

In fact, to enter by car, you have to know the angle between the trees, so from the outside, it just looks like a forest.

“How…?”

“I’ve been waiting.”

Park Do-joon smiled cruelly.

“I think I need to end your and my bad relationship.”

“You, you bastard!”

“Strangely, you kept scratching my nerves.”

It had been like that from the beginning.

Whenever he saw Hong Woo-jong, he had a headache and kept scratching his nerves.

“I don’t know why, but I’m not the type to leave loose ends behind.”

Watching Park Do-joon slowly come forward, shining a strong light, Hong Woo-jong gritted his teeth.

“Did you come alone?”

“Why, were you going to kill me if I came alone?”

Park Do-joon chuckled at those words.

“Why do villains always end up the same way? Even though they know I wouldn’t come alone.”

“Hehehe!”

Hong Woo-jong laughed like crazy at those words.

“At best, there will be two of you. You and that junior of yours who always follows you.”

“How do you know? Are you sure?”

“Sure? Yes, I’m sure. And I’ll just kill you both!”

At that moment, Hong Woo-jong rushed at Park Do-joon. In his hand, he was holding a sharp axe.

At that moment, something flew from behind Hong Woo-jong with a pinging sound.

“Keuk, grrr!”

Hong Woo-jong’s whole body trembled uncontrollably after being hit by it.

And Team Leader Jo Sang-gyu slowly revealed himself from the darkness.

“What kind of guts do you have? Not even dodging.”

“I trusted Team Leader.”

Park Do-joon said that and chuckled, and Lee Ji-soo, who was holding a camera, appeared from the other darkness.

“It’s perfectly captured. The infrared shooting mode is very helpful.”

“Right?”

Park Do-joon said that and approached Hong Woo-jong, who was trembling on the floor.

“Did you think I wouldn’t expect you to attack? I know your type well.”

Hong Woo-jong is not the type to be caught easily. If he’s going to be caught, he’d rather die.

“You probably wanted to commit suicide by the hands of the police.”

In fact, there are so many cases like that in the United States. When there is no way to live and it is difficult to commit suicide, criminals just want to commit suicide by borrowing the hands of the police.

“You probably thought Ji-soo would shoot if I was attacked.”

Probably with a high probability. In an emergency, it can’t be helped.

“But if I know that, it’s meaningless.”

The plan was probably to kill Park Do-joon while shooting blanks, and then either kill the frozen Lee Ji-soo or kill Lee Ji-soo and run away.

“I told you. Why do you think I came alone? Just because I’m not alone doesn’t mean there are only two of us.”

Police move in even numbers. So it’s either two or four.

But Park Do-joon revealed himself alone, so Park Do-joon induced him to think there were only two of them.

In fact, Hong Woo-jong was confident that there were only two of them and rushed in, but because of Park Do-joon, who completely took away his attention, he didn’t see Jo Sang-gyu approaching from behind.

“When a person has a mortal enemy in front of them, they can’t see anything else.”

That’s why Jo Sang-gyu was able to come within the range of the short-range taser gun and gave an electric shock at a precarious timing.

“To you.”

Park Do-joon took out handcuffs from his back pocket.

“Death is a luxury.”

Then he twisted Hong Woo-jong’s hand behind his back and handcuffed him.

With a cracking sound, the handcuffs dug into Hong Woo-jong’s wrist.

“And I have no intention of showing you mercy.”

Park Do-joon began to mutter loudly in the ear of Hong Woo-jong, who was still trembling and drooling on the floor, the words he had not been able to say and wanted to say.

“Hong Woo-jong, I arrest you on suspicion of serial murder. You have the right to remain silent, and anything you say can be used against you in court.”

Park Do-joon’s Miranda rights [legal rights read to a suspect during arrest] echoed through the silent space, breaking that silence.

Hong Woo-jong’s arrest.

And more than 100 bodies were found at the scene.

Hong Woo-jong, who had avoided punishment for a long time with words that there was no direct connection to everything or that he could not be trusted because he was a criminal, could not escape this time no matter what he did.

The bodies found at the scene.

The sincerity of coming directly to set the fire.

On top of that, the half-attempted suicide at the end.

All of that strongly tied him up, and Hong Woo-jong was eventually dragged into the prison he hated the most.

The suicide he wanted the most was eventually impossible, and Hong Woo-jong’s remaining life will eventually have to be spent in a small prison.

“Oppa [term used by a younger woman to address an older brother or male friend], you finally caught that bastard?”

Jung Yi-yeon stirred the ice in her cafe latte with a straw and asked casually. And at those words, Park Do-joon smiled more refreshingly than ever.

“Yes, I finally feel relieved.”

Park Do-joon felt relieved, as if a bad tooth had been pulled out, or even more than that.

“So, what will happen to Hong Woo-jong now?”

“Murder is certain, and excavation is still ongoing. Well, the result will be the death penalty no matter what.”

But given South Korea’s characteristic of not carrying out the death penalty, he will probably live in prison until he dies.

“Without being able to meet anyone.”

In fact, Hong Woo-jong attempted suicide several times.

In such cases, the prison puts them in a solitary cell where suicide is impossible and monitors them 24 hours a day.

“The luxury of death will probably not come to Hong Woo-jong for a long time.”

He will just suffer alone in the silence, writhing and slowly going crazy.

“But what about you, Oppa?”

“Me? Why me?”

“No, do you even know what you’ve done?”

“I know very well. Let’s see. I’ve thrown the ruling party’s approval rating into the gutter, made the prosecutor general commit suicide, and exposed the killer Jo in the police, and twelve police officers have been arrested now, right? And there are still over 100 cases under investigation related to the contracted cases.”

“You know too well, don’t you?”

Jung Yi-yeon retorted with a dumbfounded expression.

“But you’re still going to be a police officer?”

“I have to.”

Park Do-joon leaned back in his chair leisurely.

“Why don’t you come to our company instead? Dad said he’ll treat you exceptionally if you just come.”

“No, this is my place.”

Park Do-joon straightened his body and looked out the window. Many people were walking on the street outside the window, living their lives.

And Park Do-joon wanted to protect their lives.

“Where would I go?”

Looking at that sight, Park Do-joon couldn’t help but smile for some reason.

“My calling is a profiler. Hahaha.”