The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 63

Shin Hae-soo grabbed the scrawny middle-aged man by the neck and lifted him up.

The man was wearing a white gown and holding a surgical knife in one hand. It seemed he was Mr. Yang.

“Gasp, cough!”

Mr. Yang made strange noises, flailing his arms and legs. Hae-soo suppressed the urge to break his neck and tossed him aside.

Thump, thump!

Mr. Yang tumbled among the surgical tools. A pair of surgical scissors stuck into his cheek.

“Ugh, uh-oh.”

The tip of the scissors was visible inside his mouth as he opened it. He tried to get up but lost his balance and fell again. His nose was red, and his pupils were slightly dilated, indicating he wasn’t in his right mind.

“You, you little punk! Do you know who I am…”

“I know, someone who deserves a beating.”

Smack! Crash!

Hae-soo slapped Mr. Yang, sending him flying sideways into the wall.

Crack-! Thump!

Mr. Yang’s body was so thin that a single slap sent him flying several meters.

After three slaps, Mr. Yang completely rolled his eyes back and lost consciousness. Hae-soo approached him and checked his forearm.

There were so many needle marks that it triggered trypophobia [a fear of closely packed holes].

“This crazy bastard…”

He was a hardcore drug addict. Judging from his current state, it seemed he was trying to perform surgery while high on drugs.

Hae-soo twisted his arm behind his back, handcuffed him, and approached Kim Dong-dong, who was lying quietly on the operating table.

“Hey, Dong-dong, wake up.”

When he saw Hae-soo, he rolled his eyes from side to side and blinked rapidly, as if glad to see him.

“Anesthesia? It’ll wear off eventually.”

Dong-dong tried to open his mouth but gave up and rolled his eyes to the side. In that direction, another man was lying with his eyes closed.

“Is that Young-shik?”

Dong-dong’s eyes moved up and down. Then he looked to the side again.

“Is he alive?”

Hae-soo approached Young-shik and put his finger to his nose. He could feel a faint breath. His chest was also rising and falling slowly.

“He’s alive.”

At those words, tears welled up in Dong-dong’s eyes, and he finally closed them tightly.

“Showing off your loyalty, huh? Come to me first if something like this happens again, got it?”

Dong-dong looked at Hae-soo with teary eyes, moving his eyeballs up and down diligently.

“Dong-dong is good at eye-talking. We could just pull out his tongue, right?”

At Hae-soo’s words, Dong-dong opened his eyes wide and shook his pupils from side to side.

“Just kidding, the paramedics will be here soon, so lie still with Young-shik.”

Hae-soo grabbed Mr. Yang by the scruff of his neck and went up to the ground floor.

It was utter chaos up there.

“Ugh, oppa, tie me gently. Do you want to tie me up so tight? Do you like this kind of thing?”

“Seriously! I invested a billion won here! That’s all my money!”

“I didn’t do anything! I was just kidnapped!”

There were about two hundred people in total, including thirty gangsters, female employees, and gamblers.

All of them were subject to arrest. Sorting out who to release after the investigation was something to be done after taking them away.

They contacted all the police stations around Byeolcheonji to call in all available patrol officers, but it wasn’t enough, so even the riot police were mobilized.

It was deep in the mountains, making it difficult for cars to enter.

The special forces team, which arrived late, was bewildered to see the gangsters sprawled on the floor, groaning.

“What is this…”

“What happened…”

At that moment, the special forces team leader recognized Hae-soo and the youngest member.

“Ah, it’s those detectives again. Should I be happy about this, or not? Anyway, we should be happy that we’re not hurt. Take them into custody.”

The gamblers were handed over to the local police station, and the gangsters and women were taken to the Gangjin Police Station.

“…So, you were sold? What’s that on your arm?”

At the detective’s question, the woman hurriedly covered her arm.

“Ah, this is what those bastards forcibly injected. They said it was to prevent us from escaping…”

“I see. Anyway, do you know who the loan sharks you borrowed money from are?”

“Of course, those bastards I want to chew up…”

The women who worked there as employees had been sold to them after being deemed unable to repay their debts.

The Byeolcheonji gangsters had paid loan sharks to buy the women.

“…They said they would send us back if we paid off the debt by working here, but with the interest and drug costs, even if we worked hard, running two shifts a day, our debt only increased.”

“…If our bodies were ruined, they would hand us over to Chinese people.”

Its name was Byeolcheonji, but for the women, it was a hell they couldn’t escape. They were suddenly saved by Kim Dong-dong.

Some of the women wiped away tears and bowed their heads repeatedly.

“Thank you. Thank you so much.”

“Yes, yes, we believe you, but anyway, you’ll have to stay here until things are settled. We have to catch the loan sharks too.”

“Yes, compared to there, this is… heaven.”

Meanwhile, Violent Crimes Unit 1 was investigating the gangsters, excluding those who had been taken to the hospital in critical condition.

On one side, debt ledgers and various people’s body part relinquishment forms were neatly stacked.

The team leader stroked them.

“Are these guys stupid or kind? This stuff is all invalid, you know. Anyway, thanks to this, we’ll find quite a few missing people.”

At the team leader’s words, a bald man answered awkwardly.

“We didn’t kill them.”

He only had six teeth missing, but his pronunciation was very slurred.

“Confident, huh?”

“We didn’t kill them.”

“Where did you send the organs?”

“We didn’t sell organs. Do you have evidence?”

The bald man stared straight ahead, and the team leader suddenly remembered and jumped up, feeling angry.

“This bastard… I can’t let this go. Charge!”

“Yes.”

At the team leader’s call, Hae-soo, who had been writing statements from other gangsters in the back, approached.

Then, the bald man’s pupils began to shake.

“You go have a serious talk with this friend.”

“Yes, Team Leader.”

Hae-soo pressed down on his trapezius muscle and said subtly.

“Shall we go over there and have a secret talk?”

“Huh? No, why are we moving places? No, Detective? Detective!”

Hae-soo tried to grab the bald man’s hair but missed and grabbed his collar, dragging him into an empty interrogation room.

Thump, crash, bang!

“Oh my, who’s running upstairs.”

The team leader slyly turned off the recording device in the interrogation room.

Creak.

It wasn’t even five minutes before Hae-soo came out again. There was fresh blood on his white shirt.

“There’s an incinerator about 200 meters behind Byeolcheonji.”

“Really? I didn’t see it, damn… These guys burned them, huh? What about the organs?”

“They said they handed them over to Chinese guys. Considering the organ transport time, there’s a high possibility that the Chinese guys came to Korea for surgery.”

“Okay, dig deeper, how they contact each other and exchange money.”

“Yes.”

Hae-soo went back into the interrogation room.

“Aaaaaagh!”

The bald man’s desperate screams leaked through the slightly open door of the interrogation room.

The team leader slyly closed the door.

A steel incinerator, properly camouflaged with bushes, was discovered behind Byeolcheonji. A large amount of bones and bone fragments, presumed to be human, were found there.

Although the bodies could not be found, the circumstances were clear, and the missing persons matched the people listed on the body part relinquishment forms and debt ledgers, so the Violent Crimes Unit indicted the thirty gangsters, including the bald man, for murder.

The organ trafficking broker’s face and identity were secured at the meeting place and handed over to China.

Later, it was heard that the broker was quickly caught and executed.

This case also caused a stir on the internet.

[Illegal Gambling, Drugs, and Organ Trafficking at ‘Byeolcheonji,’ Thirty Organized Crime Members Arrested]

┗Is this a Chinese story translated into Korean?

┗It’s Korean, you idiot. Can’t you see it says Jeonbuk?

┗This is so creepy, so scary. Execute them all.

┗Those bastards

┗Ugh, those organ harvesters should have their necks or limbs chopped off with machetes.

┗Kill those waste trash on the spot and incinerate them!

┗So, my tax money is wasted!

┗Is it the Gangjin Police Station’s Violent Crimes Unit again?

┗Wow, that’s right. Is the Gangjin Police Station catching all the bad guys in Korea? Are all the bad guys in Korea gathered in Gangjin City?

┗Seriously, which came first, the chicken or the egg?

┗Detective Shin, I love you! Thanks to you, I’m living my life again!

People reacted as if it were a different world, a different country. It was such an unrealistic event for ordinary people.

An office with a pleasant, lush view.

A middle-aged man is sucking on a banana-flavored milk carton with a straw.

Slurp, slurp, glug.

He finished it all at once and looked up at the man in a neat suit in front of him.

“Is this case also the Gangjin Police Station’s Violent Crimes Unit?”

“Yes.”

“That’s the…”

“It’s the team with Detective Shin Hae-soo, who is often talked about on the internet these days.”

The middle-aged man took out the straw and neatly removed the lid, continuing his words.

“Is that detective good at his job, or does he bring the cases with him?”

“Wouldn’t it be both?”

At the man’s words, the middle-aged man nodded twice and said.

“Yes, that’s right. There’s never been a time when the public’s attention has been so focused on the police. The authority of the police must be established for public safety to improve.”

“That’s right.”

“Let’s give that Violent Crimes Unit, or rather, that detective, a big push this time. Make an appointment with the police chief there.”

“Yes, Commissioner General.”

A few days later, the Gangjin Police Station Chief’s office.

The entire Violent Crimes Unit 1 is lined up in front of the police chief.

“The Metropolitan Investigation Unit?”

“Yes, the first Metropolitan Violent Crime Investigation Unit in Cheongnam. Its scope is nationwide, so you can think of it as a unit directly under the Commissioner General. You can basically stay here and do what you’re doing now.”

The team leader tilted his head.

“It sounds the same… No, is it like it’s a little easier to work and we have a little more backing?”

“Wasn’t my backing strong enough?”

At the police chief’s words, Oh Gyeong-i raised his thumb.

“It was incredibly strong!”

“Chief is the best! We won’t do the Metropolitan Investigation Unit!”

“Don’t overdo it. If you guys take on the Metropolitan Investigation Unit here, Gangjin will shine even more. Shut up and do it. How many more people should I assign to you? Two?”

The team leader and team members looked at each other. They didn’t say anything, but their expressions were enough to read their intentions.

“Not yet, we’ll request support from the Violent Crimes Unit if necessary.”

“Okay, then. Use the current office for now. I’ll make a separate office for you. It’s an order from the Commissioner General.”

“Thank you.”

“Thank you!!”

“Go on. Do the Metropolitan Investigation Unit like you’re doing now. Ah, Detective Shin, stay behind.”

After the team members left, Shin Hae-soo was a little uneasy, not knowing what was going on.

His memory of being alone with the police chief at the Naeju Police Station was not pleasant.

“…Is there something you wanted to say?”

“I’ve been very reassured since Detective Shin came.”

“It’s thanks to being in a good team.”

“Yes, humility is a virtue. Clear some time next Saturday.”