chapter 24
The night view of the Han River from a high place is beautiful, but looking at it from the riverside, like now, was tasteful.
The lights of the high-rise buildings on the other side of the river and the lights of the street lamps on the bridge embroidered the colorful Milky Way on the surface of the water.
Cruise ships were passing over it, so it looked like a spaceship crossing the sea of stars.
malevolent malevolent-
The Han River Park in the evening was different from the daytime.
On the lawn, people spread mats as a family unit and ate late-night snacks delivered to Soon-do Sun-do.
There were many people sweating while running on the jogging path, and many people enjoyed fishing far from the walking path.
There were also people sitting on benches and talking while looking at the night view.
We were one of those groups too.
However, the topic of conversation was a little different from others.
“That means you are not under Baekga.”
“It’s just a business relationship.”
The man who followed me was the one who runs a detective agency.
In 2020, the Credit Information Act was revised and the detective business was legalized, but Nome was running an unlicensed illegal agency.
He was commissioned by President Baek yesterday morning and started chasing me this morning.
Baekga bastard, as soon as we broke up at the Suwon karaoke room, he went into my background investigation.
He was so interested in me, but I wasn’t interested in him at all, so this part was something I had to reflect on before a big deal.
It’s not good to underestimate your opponent too much.
So at this point, I decided to find out about President Baek in reverse through him.
“Tell me everything you know about President Baek. Don’t lie that you are unnecessarily loyal. Because then you can die.”
“There is no such thing as loyalty to protect! I’ll tell you everything I know! Where should I start talking… Ah! Do you know about the Incheon Airport gold smuggling case five years ago?”
“I don’t know.”
“Then let me explain the incident.”
Five years ago, there was an incident in which gold bars worth KRW 2 trillion from Hong Kong flowed into Japan through the transit area of Incheon International Airport.
A large-scale smuggling organization bought gold bars in large quantities in Hong Kong, where VAT is not imposed on gold, and smuggled them into Japan.
The smuggling ring mobilized Korean tourists to avoid the eyes of Japanese customs.
Gold bars bought in Hong Kong were handed out to tourists leaving for Japan in the transit area of Incheon International Airport.
If the tourists succeed in entering Japan without getting caught by customs, local Japanese gangsters retrieve the gold bars and reward them with money.
It took advantage of the fact that Korean tourists are not well inspected by Japanese customs because of their high credit rating.
At the time, as rumors spread that you could earn money by carrying gold bars, the word ‘free Japanese fashion’ was also popular.
As many as 5,000 Korean tourists delivered 40,000 1kg gold bars knowing that it was illegal.
It was 40 tons of gold, equivalent to 2 trillion won at the market price at the time.
Unsurprisingly, this incident caused a huge social stir.
The biggest was the national disgrace.
The credit rating of Korean travelers has fallen to rock bottom, making them subject to special surveillance by Japanese customs.
And there were a lot of funny things about that incident.
One of the most representative cases is that young men in their 20s disappeared after receiving hundreds of millions of won worth of gold bars from a smuggling organization.
They were arrested by the police for living extravagantly, such as buying a foreign car with money from selling gold bars.
Anyway, most of the smugglers involved in the crime were arrested by the police at the time, but not all were caught.
Among the gang members who escaped from the police investigation, Baek was also the president.
“Originally, I was a person who moved to Seoul with only two balls and worked as a waiter at a room salon. But somehow the string came into contact with that side, so I sold it completely and fixed it.”
President Baek continued smuggling gold with the tens of billions of won he had acquired as seed money, and now has become an asset worth hundreds of billions of won.
“President Baek seems to be resourceful.”
“He sold all the seniors who raised him to the customs office and the police and became the head of his own. He is a very mean person.”
I knew roughly what kind of person Baekga was.
So now it was my turn to hear about myself.
“Did you hand over my information to President Baek?”
“no! Our industry’s iron rule is to hand over information only when money comes in! I’ve only collected it, but I haven’t handed over anything yet.”
“okay? How much did you find out about me?”
“that is···.”
He handed me his tablet.
There was a folder called [Minhyuk Choi] on the desktop.
“How did you know my name?”
“You have a wiretapping device installed on your cannon phone. Even if your phone is turned off, you can eavesdrop on nearby sounds.”
“what!?”
A wiretapping device was installed on the cannon phone that Chief Kim gave.
If I put the cannon phone in my inventory, I couldn’t answer the phone, so I had it in my pocket…
All the conversations I had with people while buying the house today were bugged.
“Then did Chief Kim eavesdrop on me too?”
“no! I’m the only one who knows that you installed a bugging device. Manager Kim and President Baek have no idea!”
It was said that it was a business relationship, but he was not completely one with President Baek and his gang.
He secretly installed a wiretapping device that looked like a cell phone part inside a cannon phone so that even experts could not easily find it, and supplied it to President Baek and his gang.
He used it to gather information that could be President Baek’s weakness.
“It’s common to get hit in the back of the head when you do this kind of work. You should have insurance.”
“If you just make me work and don’t pay, are you going to threaten me with a weakness?”
“Well, that’s how it is.”
I opened the [Minhyuk Choi] folder.
The folder contained a lot of my personal information.
The previous job, position, and even salary were listed.
Everything from the trip to Bali after leaving the company and the money won at the casino were all written down.
“I learned a lot in one day.”
“It is difficult to find out the resident registration number at first, but once you know that, collecting the rest of the information is no task.”
It even contained the information I was most concerned about.
“I found all the elementary, middle and high school album photos.”
“Excuse me, where did you get the plastic surgery? My daughter is begging me to get plastic surgery these days, and I have to get it done at that hospital.”
“You wanna die?”
“…”
Anyway, since I knew that Sandy Beach was trying to follow me, I was able to trick him in reverse.
“Hand over my information to President Baek.”
“really?”
.
.
.
I made up my fake information to send to President Baek.
-Name: Yeom Jeong-hak
-Nationality: Chinese (Korean-Chinese)
-Occupation: Head of voice phishing organization
-Special note: In Korea, he is active under the false identity of ‘Choi Min-hyeok’, and is buying gold bars to take the money he earned through voice phishing to China.
Currently, President Baek knows nothing about me.
Because I’ve never told him and his subordinate, Chief Kim, even three letters of my name.
So even if I lied to them because I was Chinese, not Korean, there was no problem at all.
What President Baek wants to know most is probably why I am buying a gold bar.
It was very plausible that a Korean-Chinese voice phishing criminal planned to convert the money he had scammed in Korea into gold and take it to China.
Besides, if I said that I was using the false identity of Choi Min-hyeok, even if he heard my real name, he would be confused about what was true and what was false.
“Send it to President Baek as it is.”
The head of the Heungshinso nodded and sent a text message to Baek on his cannon phone.
<Information collection complete>
<I will send it as soon as payment is confirmed>
Then, less than a minute later, a confirmation text message arrived on another phone from the president of the Heungsinso.
[Web sending]
-xx Bank deposit: KRW 10,000,000
I glanced at how much I was getting paid for doing this kind of work, and it turned out to be quite a lot.
“Did you decide to give me my information and get 10 million won?”
“It’s a one-day express, so it’s a bit expensive.”
“I make good money.”
The head of the Heungsangso sent my fake information to President Baek in front of me.
‘okay.’
Now you’ve become the president of Baek.
The only thing left is how to deal with the head of the secret agency.
Of course, I couldn’t just let it go like this.
Because he might contact President Baek again and stab me in the back.
Besides, he knew that I had psychic powers.
‘Sorry, but you can’t go home today.’
What did you do to just kill him?
You can’t kill everyone just because you’re getting in the way.
‘If it’s worth using, I should use it.’
And if he goes missing as soon as he handed over my information, President Baek might be suspicious.
So let’s take him with us for now.
“How many employees does the Secret Service have?”
At my sudden question, he said with a dazed expression.
“There are three male employees and one female in the office answering the phone.”
“Call anyone now.”
“yes? Why are you calling…”
“If you want to walk, walk.”
He called one of the staff.
Truluru-
After a few beeps, a female voice came out.
-Yes, boss.
I showed the text message I had taken on my cell phone to the head of the agency and whispered so softly that only he could hear it.
[Read it as it is.]
The guy said to the female employee.
“I had to go abroad in a hurry because something happened.”
– Foreign? Which country are you from?
“I’ll call you later. hang up.”
‘Until there.’
I took the guy’s phone away and pressed the end call button.
And he looked at him and smiled.
he asked, terrified.
“Me, what are you trying to do with me?”
“I’m sleeping soundly.”
“yes?”
I put my hand on his shoulder.
‘acceptance.’
hiss-
The guy disappeared without a trace.
It goes into the inventory.
Each piece of magical knowledge contained in the leaf contained a little bit of Alan’s memory at the time it was stored.
The fact that I learned through that memory was that the original inventory magic could not store living things.
Only Alan’s new inventory magic made that possible.
Alan had such a question when he was in magic school.
<What is the standard of ‘life’ that cannot be stored in the inventory?>
You couldn’t put people or livestock in your inventory, but you could put plant seeds or bird eggs.
From Alan’s point of view, this was an absurd contradiction.
So, as if dissecting the existing inventory magic, I dug it up and found out one important secret.
The reason I couldn’t put animals, including humans, into my inventory was because someone had hidden an interlock spell inside magic.
It was probably a restriction deliberately set by the wizard who first devised the inventory magic.
Eren destroyed the spell and created his own inventory magic that could even contain people.
Since time does not pass inside the inventory, the person put inside falls into a deep sleep similar to frozen sleep.
You can lock the head of the secret agency in your inventory and take it out when you need it.
‘If I listen carefully, I can release it later, or else it will be <deleted>.’
Shhhhh-
I headed to the hotel with the cool breeze of the Han River.