The Dungeon Cleaning Life of a Once Genius Hunter - Chapter 216
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Pohang Southern Police Station Homicide Division.
Strong 2nd class office.
“Hey, check this within today and start the investigation tomorrow.”
Captain Go Bae-su said as he placed the folder down on Detective Min Yu-jin’s seat.
Min Yu-jin sat down and picked up the documents and looked at Captain Ko.
“This…?”
“It’s a commercial building robbery and murder case. They said there were no CCTV or witnesses. First, meet some of the bereaved families and start by questioning people around you.”
“….”
It was the same business order as usual, but for some reason Min Yujin’s expression was not very good.
Well, that’s probably true.
“We are still investigating the disappearance of CEO Joo Se-hoon.”
“Ah… that Sehun Chemical CEO?”
The case I was in charge of was still in progress.
Of course, there was no way that class leader Go Bae-su was unaware of that fact.
But even he couldn’t help it.
“I want that investigation to end.”
“…yes?!”
Detective Min Yu-jin’s eyebrows twitched as Captain Ko spoke shakily.
“It’s been almost a month since she went missing, and there are no clues. Searching is also fruitless.”
“It’s only been a month.”
“therefore! “How can I keep going when I haven’t gained anything in that month, man?”
“There are more than one strange thing about the circumstances of the disappearance in the first place! This should focus on revenge kidnapping and re-investigate the people around him…”
“Don’t talk nonsense. “Do we even have manpower left?”
“Even if it’s just me…”
“Hey, you kid watched too many movies.”
Captain Go burst out laughing as if it was absurd.
“Hey, are you the only detective? Are you going to investigate alone and catch the criminal by yourself? Where is this….”
“….”
“…Ha.”
Captain Go sighed in annoyance when he saw her strong eyes.
Yes, honestly, I know full well that this is nonsense.
So, how awesome is that guy?
Captain Go seemed to have lost the will to be angry, and he sighed and opened his mouth again.
“Anyway, let’s finish investigating the state representative case and take on the robbery and murder case.”
“Chief…!”
“It’s an order from above. Don’t pout. “Choose a suspect by this week and place it on my desk.”
Captain Go immediately turned away after saying that, as if he would not listen to any more objections.
But Detective Min Yu-jin bothered him until the end.
“How high up are these instructions?”
“….”
“Are you the chief? Or higher up?”
Captain Go turned his head and glared at her.
But I couldn’t give her the answer she wanted.
That’s all he can say.
“What are you going to do?”
That was all.
“….”
Detective Min Yujin stood still for a moment with a very disgruntled expression.
I immediately grabbed my coat.
“Hey hey! Where are you going!”
“To investigate Sehun Chemical employees.”
“Didn’t you hear me?! If you go, I won’t leave you alone! hey! “Hey you bastard!!”
Captain Go continued to yell, but Detective Min Yu-jin paid no attention and left the office.
Captain Go looked at her back and lowered his head.
“Where the fuck did that idiot come from…”
As I muttered like that, another detective sitting next to me opened his mouth insinuatingly.
“Pretend you don’t know, Captain. “He’s sensitive these days.”
“…What’s going on?”
“My boyfriend suddenly stopped contacting me one day and went into bed. “One year at a time.”
“under!
Captain Go was completely shocked.
I wondered if it was just because of such a personal matter that I couldn’t control my emotions.
But my fellow detective continued as if that was not all.
“But I heard you saw that boyfriend on TV recently. I heard you’re really famous now? Well, it’s worth getting angry about. “Still, he was a lover in his own way, but I saw him go off on his own without saying a word.”
“…How famous is it? “Do I know someone?”
“well. “They don’t tell me that far.”
A fellow detective shrugged his shoulders and answered.
“Well, it’s a case with no clues or suspects anyway. “After a day or two, he’ll give up.”
“Haa… That’s really shit.”
Captain Go shook his head with his hands on his waist.
And the word “f*** up” didn’t just mean Min Yu-jin, who stormed out.
Order to terminate investigation.
Of course, Captain Ko also does not know who gave the order.
However, it is clear that he is a very influential person, enough to cover up the disappearance of a small business owner.
But why…?
What on earth happened that the higher-ups are telling us to cover up the disappearance?
‘Tsk…’
Class President Go felt very uncomfortable.
***
“Are you here?”
“yes.”
In front of the company building where we arrived around lunch time.
The company of CEO Joo Se-hoon, whose business collapsed, protests took place, and then suddenly disappeared one day.
Sehun Chemical.
Director Lee Ah-young and I were standing in front of him, taking a moment to gather our thoughts.
The site where the factory was planned to be built.
A business that suddenly collapsed.
GT Construction immediately promoted the resort construction project.
A local member of the Future Democratic Party who has a close relationship with GT Group in many ways.
Moreover, an organization of ex-hunters being raised by the suddenly missing representative and ‘that person’ from the Future Democratic Party.
Even though the events are just listed, there is some degree of connection.
Even if it’s just a guess, I can’t help but think it’s related.
If the ‘person’ we are looking for is really involved in all these incidents… there will definitely be clues left here.
“Let’s go in.”
I opened my mouth and walked away.
Perhaps because it was lunch time, no one was seen inside the office.
We continued down the hallway and looked around the offices until we saw a young man standing in front of an office labeled Sales.
“Uh… how did you get here?”
The young man also noticed us and asked in a quite embarrassed voice.
“This is Kim Jun-woo, CEO of Karma Corporation. “I came here because I had some business to run.”
When I handed him the business card, he bowed low with a shocked expression.
“I’m sorry! “I didn’t hear that the CEO was coming…!”
“no. I didn’t contact you because I had some personal business to attend to. “I’m sorry.”
“Personal business?”
“yes. Regarding CEO Joo Se-hoon… I had a bit of a relationship with him.”
“yes? “Our CEO is with Karma Corporation…?”
“Ah, so…”
In response to the employee’s question, I quickly looked around the office to find something worth looking at.
Then, a product brochure caught my eye.
“medicine! “I met him a few times to discuss a contract for chemicals to be used by the cleaning team.”
“Ah…”
The employee finally nodded.
“I’d like to meet the person in charge, but I guess everyone’s gone to eat.”
“Ah… I am in charge. Hahaha….”
“…Yes?”
The employee scratched his head with a puzzled expression.
This person is in charge?
At best, he looks like he’s in his mid-20s?
“Mr. CEO, after that happened, employees left the company one after another. “I guess it’s work, so right now, only me, the development team leader, and the executive director are left.”
“Can the company be run by three people?”
“So… I think I’ll sort it out within the next week.”
“I see…”
I couldn’t think of anything to say after receiving such heavy news.
Then the employee spoke first.
“Anyway, I was surprised. “Because the CEO is such an introverted person, there are people around him who know him… I can’t believe they were CEO Kim’s acquaintances.”
“…Has there been any news from Representative Joo yet?”
“Yes… the police say they are conducting a search, but not yet…”
His eyes turned to the ground.
After a short pause, I spoke again.
“Actually, I came to ask you a few questions about Representative Joo’s work. “If you don’t mind, could you give me some time?”
“Oh, of course! My name is Lee Sang-woo, the sales team leader. wait a minute. At least a cup of tea…”
“No, it’s okay. “It will be over soon.”
I said that and put my butt on the dirty office chair.
Then, he introduced himself as Lee Sang-woo and started hinting with a very serious expression.
“Well… I’m telling you in advance, it probably won’t help you with the disappearance case. “He disappeared without any contact from us.”
“That part is okay.”
I waved my hand and got straight to the point.
“Well… what kind of person is CEO Joo Se-hoon in everyday life?”
“Well, to put it positively, he was passionate, but to put it negatively… he was not a fun person. Even on weekdays, all you did was work or exercise.”
“Was your relationship with your employees good?”
“Of course. “Because he took the lead in his work, many employees trusted him and followed him.”
“okay.”
“As you can see, our company is not that big. It was very difficult until last year. Despite this, the employees were paid without delay even once. “He didn’t forget to give bonuses during holidays or family events.”
Team leader Lee Sang-woo continued speaking with a sincere expression.
“Fortunately, things have gotten a little better this year with increased sales. “It wasn’t a huge amount of sales, but it was enough to build a new factory.”
“Ah, at the resort site…”
Team leader Lee Sang-woo nodded his head sharply.
“you’re right. The staff also really liked it.”
“….”
“But the contract was suddenly canceled and the CEO had a very difficult time. We tried hard to help in any way we could, but one day when we came to work, he had disappeared, leaving behind only a piece of paper.”
“Paper?”
“yes. wait a minute.”
For a moment, I hope he starts rummaging through the drawers right away.
He then took out a piece of paper and held it out.
There were several printed words written on the paper.
“It’s all my fault. I’m trash for not being able to protect the company. It’s so hard. I want to give up at this point…”
I wrinkled my eyebrows at the quite pessimistic content.
Didn’t you say that he was definitely a passionate person…?
“Did you show this to the police?”
“yes yes. The police said that because he left a message like this, he seemed skeptical about the loss of the land and went into hiding…”
He trailed off.
I immediately understood its meaning.
Team leader Lee Sang-woo never thought that the CEO had given up everything and gone into hiding on his own.
And that goes for me too.
“Do you remember exactly when you went missing?”
“Yes, it was the 21st of last month.”
“Is there anyone around you who might have a grudge against the CEO?”
“Not at all. As I said, the CEO doesn’t know many people around him. Even if there was, there’s no way I would hold a grudge.”
“Then have you ever had a stranger visit your company?”
“Hmm…”
He scratched his chin and thought about it for a moment.
“Ah… And then there it was!”
Eventually, he raised his voice and continued speaking.
“So… that day was a protest day, so everyone except the minimum number of employees was outside, and a man came to see the CEO.”
“Who was that?”
“I asked his name, but there was no answer. However… he was dressed like a hunter. “Why are these the clothes that hunters wear when going on missions?”
“…!”
“…!”
At his statement, both Director Lee Ah-young’s eyes and mine widened.
“If it were a Hunter uniform, the affiliation would have been attached to the right shoulder. “Do you remember?”
“I knew that too, so I took a quick look and there was nothing.”
“….”
I closed my mouth.
A uniform whose affiliation cannot be confirmed.
There is only one type of person who can wear something like that.
A former hunter from the operations team who retired within the past month.
And as far as I know, there is only one person who recently left the operations team.
‘…Choi Jonghyuk.’
It’s that bastard.
“Could it be that that person also joined the organization?”
“…That could be possible.”
I nodded heavily.
But even for a moment.
“Please check right now if Hunter Choi Jong-hyuk’s information remains. “Please ask me to send you everything I have, including my residence and contact information!”
“yes yes!”
“Let’s go by car. “So that I can come to you as soon as I get the call…!”
It was at that time that I immediately got up from my seat and was about to leave the office.
“This is Detective Min Yu-jin of the Gwangju Southern Police Station’s homicide department. Please take a moment…” “
…?”
At that moment, I ran into a woman who was coming into the office.
‘…Uh huh?!’
As soon as I saw the woman’s face and name, I couldn’t hide my embarrassment.
No, it wasn’t the level of embarrassment, it was the level of feeling dizzy.
That’s right, that woman….
‘Beautiful Min Yujin…?!’
Because it was my ex-girlfriend who we fought with and broke up with before returning.
‘Why is he here…?’
I knew your hometown was Pohang, but wasn’t your place of work Seoul?
What business is there?
By the way, he was young at the time.
All kinds of random thoughts were cluttering my mind, but I tried to shake them off and calm down.
okay.
Now I am back in time 10 years ago.
I’m the only one who remembers this guy and he doesn’t know about me.
So there is no need to panic…
“This…”
At that time, Min Yu-jin opened her mouth in a trembling voice.
“이 개새끼야…!!”
Whoa!
He slammed his fist straight into my face.