070
If You Know, You Get Hurt (2)
“I hope you don’t worry about such things.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Labor laws have been strengthened these days.”
“I’ll take care of it.”
“Yes, yes.”
“Rin, hop on for a moment.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Maaaster?”
“…….”
“It’s a term of endearment, is there a problem?”
“Ah, no. I was just a little surprised.”
Ta-da-da-da!
After getting on the boat, they quickly head to the land.
A curse word burst out of Rin’s mouth.
“That guy’s an idiot. Master, can I kill him?”
“Do you think that’s possible? Think before you speak.”
“Then I think we should educate him soon. It’s going to be difficult if he keeps acting like that. Why is he so nosy?”
At the word ‘education,’ my body flinched slightly.
Rin’s education involves driving someone to the extreme and devastating their mind.
The Y Construction guys were all hospitalized in mental institutions. They showed extreme anxiety symptoms if they took even one step outside.
Could she be saying she’s going to turn Ahn Tae-gyun into that?
“Even so, it’s a bit much to turn someone into an idiot just for being a little nosy. He’s the site manager, after all.”
“Then we can do it softly, right?”
“Ugh. The problem is I don’t know what level your ‘softly’ is.”
“I’ll do it gently. Okay?”
Rin seemed like she was dying to beat someone up.
I thought she had a bit of a psycho streak, but now I’m starting to think violence is a habit for her.
“Let’s just monitor him for now.”
“Just monitor him?”
“We have methods, right?”
“That’s right. We can monitor him using familiars [magical spirits or creatures].”
“If you see any suspicious signs, then let’s move. He’s the general manager of the construction, so we can’t start educating him already.”
“I have a feeling there’s a 99% chance he’ll cause an accident.”
“That’s why I’m telling you to watch him.”
“Okay.”
I got off at Yeongjong Island and told her repeatedly until the boat disappeared.
“Don’t kill him, no matter what!”
“Yes! Don’t worry!”
Her bright expression makes me even more worried.
Still, I gave her strict orders, so I thought she wouldn’t harm him.
Darkness fell on Beomdo.
Site Manager Ahn Tae-gyun was quite worried about the workers who had been working non-stop until just now.
It was past midnight.
Even if they were working all night, they should be finishing up by now.
“Surely, they’ve all gone in.”
Looking outside, there wasn’t a single light. If they were working in this darkness, they would have to be considered crazy.
But what should I call it, a human instinct?
For some reason, President Lee Yoo-sung’s words to keep ignoring it bothered him. He had a feeling they were still making people work.
He went outside and walked around, and he saw it.
“These crazy bastards!”
Whoosh!
It was early spring, but it was still chilly in the mornings and evenings.
What about dawn?
Moreover, this was an island, and the perceived temperature was even lower. But people were still working at the salt farm.
Since they couldn’t dry the salt in the sun, all 10 of them were stuck working on the salt farm construction.
Undead were also moving at the road construction site.
Thud! Thud!
Since heavy equipment wasn’t moving, they used pickaxes and shovels to dig the ground and clean up the surroundings.
“Hey!”
“…….”
The people didn’t even acknowledge his words and continued to work.
How could this be happening?
“Just a moment!”
When Ahn Tae-gyun grabbed a worker’s arm, he shook it off roughly.
Thwack!
“Ugh!”
He rolled on the ground from the strong force.
“Stop it now? You’ll freeze to death!”
The workers didn’t listen to him.
A situation that Ahn Tae-gyun couldn’t understand was unfolding.
He visited the farm as well.
“Huh.”
The farm was the same.
People were working non-stop here too.
What on earth is going on here?
The next morning.
I was worried about Site Manager Ahn, so I went to work early.
Site Manager Ahn hadn’t come in yet, and as I entered the office, only Rin staggered in.
“What happened yesterday?”
“That guy was poking around here and there.”
“Poking around?”
“Yes. He kept talking to the undead, asking if they were crazy, and it seems like he caught a cold.”
“If he was wandering around in that cold, he would naturally catch a cold.”
“Can’t we just ask them to send someone else?”
“I think it’s too late already?”
Bang!
The office door opened, and Ahn Tae-gyun, his face flushed red, came in.
“President!”
“Site Manager Ahn. Good morning.”
“I just checked again, and those people worked all night!”
“No. They went in for a while to sleep and came out early in the morning. Is there a problem with that?”
“This is overwork.”
“They take shifts, I told you.”
“I didn’t see any workers who could take shifts.”
“So, what? Are you complaining? Did I do anything to harm you?”
“It’s not that, but…….”
“Worrying about it any further is just unnecessary meddling. I’m taking care of it. It’s not like I’m making them overwork, they all want to do it, so don’t worry about it.”
“Ugh.”
He had no choice but to leave the office.
Rin looked at me and grinned.
“See? It won’t work, will it?”
“Why is he being so nosy?”
“I would be concerned too. Although I wouldn’t dig this deep.”
“He must be crazy and wants to die.”
“Shall I take care of him?”
Paak!
I smacked Rin on the head.
“Agh! Why did you hit me!”
“Take care of him? You’ve been working with gangsters and you’ve become one yourself.”
“Master is more like a gangster…….”
When I raised my hand, Rin took a posture of shrinking back.
Her expression was full of dissatisfaction, but she couldn’t express it outwardly. If she did, she would immediately clutch her heart and collapse.
“It seems like he’s going to report it to the police.”
“Shall I take care of it?”
“How?”
“If you just lend me manpower from NK [North Korea], I can solve it perfectly.”
“Hmm……. You’re not going to kill people unnecessarily or do anything stupid, are you?”
“Not at all!”
“Then I’ll leave it to you.”
A week had passed since I started working on Beomdo.
Site Manager Ahn Tae-gyun had been feeling his heart burn more and more during that time.
As a result of examining the workers President Lee Yoo-sung brought in from various angles, it seemed certain that they were being overworked.
He even wondered if they had been kidnapped from a foreign country.
The workers pretended to rest every two hours, but it was just a ‘pretense.’ It’s hard to call sitting down and getting up a rest.
They work like that for 22 hours.
They briefly go to the bathroom or visit accommodations like tents, but that’s it. They sleep for two hours a day and get up to work, and they don’t even give them proper meals. They said they eat separately, but I haven’t seen them eating.
He was starting to think that people might die like that.
Of course, this is a fact that only Ahn Tae-gyun knows.
The other technicians didn’t pay much attention to other people.
But he is the person in charge.
If an accident happens by mistake, it meant that Ahn Tae-gyun would take all the blame.
He goes out for a final inspection.
“I’m sure.”
He made up his mind.
Slaves who work 22 hours a day.
They work like crazy for some reason without resting. They never rest. Even if they rest, it’s only for about a minute.
How can that be called a rest?
It’s not just hard labor, even office workers will drink coffee every few hours.
Since it was near Yeongjong Island, the cell phone worked.
He pressed 112 and reported it.
-What can I help you with?
“This is the police, right? I’m trying to report something. There are about 100 workers working like slaves here.”
-Did you say slaves?
“I mean, they kidnap people and use them as slaves!”
-Where is that?
“It’s called Beomdo, 10 minutes away from Yeongjong Island. The kidnapped people there are working almost 24 hours a day. I contacted you because I thought they might die like that.”
-Are you sure they were kidnapped?
“I’m sure they’re being overworked.”
-Okay. We’ll be dispatched soon.”
Ahn Tae-gyun, who hung up the phone, headed straight to the port.
If President Lee Yoo-sung was that evil, he couldn’t leave him alone.
Click!
Rin puts down her cell phone.
Ahn Tae-gyun thinks he reported it to 112 [emergency services number], but a detour circuit was connected to have the call come directly to Rin.
Rin, who received it, answered the phone like a real 112 police station employee.
Rin revealed an emotion that was hard to tell whether it was joy or anger.
“Hehe. This is crazy.”
“If he’s crazy, he’s crazy, but why are you laughing?”
“You’re going to leave it to me, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Are you going to do it yourself?”
I shook my head.
There was no reason to step in directly when there was an excellent sword called Rin.
“Haa. I don’t know why he’s digging his own grave like that.”
“I’ll do it gently.”
“Is ‘gently’ even possible?”
“Yes! Of course.”
“I’ll trust you.”
Chuk!
Rin even saluted.
Rin had been stuck on the island for the past week, working and researching at night. She must have been quite stressed by now.
What will happen to Ahn Tae-gyun?
He will be severely tortured for peeking at our secrets unnecessarily. Of course, it was a secret from the H Group.
If he hadn’t had that interest, he might have been doing well.
While the other technicians were staying still, he was being nosy and was caught by the witch Rin and was in a position to be tortured.
“Judging from his personality, it was something that would have happened someday.”
Beomdo Port.
Site Manager Ahn Tae-gyun was waiting for the Coast Guard to arrive.
He had to let them know that people kidnapped here were working like slaves.
Of course, Ahn Tae-gyun himself didn’t think he would suffer such a thing. After all, he was from the main office of H Construction and was just someone who would finish the construction here.
No matter how much of a bad guy President Lee Yoo-sung was, he couldn’t capture and use an employee of the H Group as a slave.
Soon after, the Coast Guard got off at the port.
“It’s here!”
“Are you the reporter?”
“Yes. I’m the reporter.”
The Coast Guard’s bodies were sturdy and had fierce impressions.
‘Is it because they get so much sea breeze?’
Some people even had scars on their faces.
But Ahn Tae-gyun didn’t even dream that these people wouldn’t be the Coast Guard. That’s because he called 112 and it was normally received.
The Coast Guard came on a boat, wore uniforms, and accurately said that they were dispatched after receiving a report, so it would be stranger to doubt them.
“You said that people were kidnapped and living like slaves here, is that correct?”
“Yes!”
“Where are they?”
Ahn Tae-gyun pointed to the people who were working their butts off.
‘What if they don’t believe me?’
As expected, the police said.
“Do you have any evidence?”