The Dungeon Cleaning Life of a Once Genius Hunter - Chapter 218
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After receiving information from the support team, we were traveling together in Min Yu-jin’s car.
“so?”
She drove in silence for a while and then finally opened her mouth.
“Why did you dive? “And that too for one year.”
“….”
Of course I couldn’t answer.
I didn’t even know that he had slept with her in the first place and was still in a relationship with her after returning.
“If you’re going to break up, at least say something. Should I hear about you on the news?”
“I was just a little… busy.”
After thinking for a while, that was the only answer I came up with.
However, Min Yu-jin said even more unintelligible words.
“Is it because you feel burdened?”
“…What are you talking about?”
“I told you not to worry because if I become a hunter, I can feed you for the rest of my life.”
At those words, I quietly scratched my head.
From the looks of it, it seems quite different from the relationship I remember… but I can’t ask him outright.
After grumbling for a while, I came up with a little trick.
“…Actually, there was an accident.”
“what?!”
With that one word, Min Yujin’s eyes immediately turned to me.
“On the second day of work, I went into the dungeon and my gas mask came off and I inhaled some gas, which caused damage to my brain nerves.”
“Really?! “Are you okay now?”
“They say there is no major problem with your body. But I don’t remember much about previous events.”
“…!”
Her mouth opened as if she was quite shocked.
I continued speaking with a calm expression.
“That’s why I couldn’t contact you. My cell phone is broken and I can’t remember your number or anything that happened in the meantime. So I just….”
“You just dived in?”
I nodded.
“You idiot. What does it matter? “Did you think I was going to bother you and throw you away if I said you were sick?”
“….”
Thank you for saying that, but… it’s a lie.
“Anyway, is that why you don’t remember much?”
“uh.”
“After you graduated, you couldn’t get a job for a few years, so I helped you a lot. “Do you remember that?”
“No…”
You helped me because I couldn’t get a job?
It’s really different from what I remember.
“I always bought you food. But… you felt burdened. It feels like you’re begging me. Every time, I told him not to worry because I would feed him when he became a hunter.”
“…Hunter?”
“Don’t you remember that either? “We decided to become hunters together when we were in high school.”
“Oh, I remember that.”
It was the same.
“But… it was an almost impossible dream. “Because you are incompetent and I am unranked.”
“…Do you still want to become a hunter?”
“huh.”
She answered immediately.
“That’s why I applied to become a deputy and became a detective. “I’m trying hard, but it’s not working out well.”
She continued speaking, trying hard to hide her bitter expression.
“Oh my… the guy I was supporting because he couldn’t get a job has now become the most successful guy in Korea. Come to think of it, you are the representative of Karma, right? “Do I have to look good to you now?”
“….”
My expression hardened at those meaningful words.
And then, out of curiosity, I asked carefully.
“If you’re thinking of starting over…”
“Sorry.”
Another immediate answer.
“I don’t think so.”
She looked at me and smiled.
“At first, I felt angry and betrayed, but I also missed him… but now I don’t have any feelings.”
“….”
I sighed.
Thank goodness.
For me, it was a relationship that ended more than 10 years ago, and there would be no benefit in starting it again now.
“Anyway, I heard the story, so it’s okay.”
“…okay.”
“Anyway, putting that aside, tell me more about the suspect. “Why was it cut this time?”
“Choi Jonghyuk? It wasn’t cut, it went out. “During the review period, I was caught collaborating with the company’s director and slandering the head of the operations department.”
“You still do that…?”
“I know. Well, anyway, the higher-ups of that company director are the congressman we are looking for.”
“Why are you looking for it?”
“I think it has something to do with the International Association.”
“Hmm.”
She nodded.
“According to the information sent by the support team… His residence is in Seoul, but his whereabouts have not been confirmed for a month. “I asked a co-worker who lives nearby and he said he hasn’t been home for a while.”
“A month ago….”
“It overlaps with the time when CEO Joo went missing.”
I opened the text message from the support team and checked the contents again.
“However, there is a record of using a credit card at a convenience store in Ulsan around the same time. “The location is… here.”
I held out my cell phone to Min Yu-jin, who was holding the steering wheel, and showed her the address.
Then her eyebrows twitched.
“Are you sure about this place? There’s nothing around here. “It’s an abandoned factory complex.”
“Then I’m actually glad.”
“what…?”
“If Choi Jong-hyuk joined the Hunter organization with that lawmaker, he would be living in a group. Since this is an organization whose very existence is illegal, there is a need to hide as a group. “In a place like a dormitory or hostel.”
“Abandoned factory….”
“Yes.”
I raised the corners of my mouth with a grin.
“That is the hideout of an illegal hunter organization.”
“…Why are you more like a detective than me?”
“I’ll take it as a compliment.”
Instead of answering, Min Yujin smiled and quickly drove toward the location I took the picture of.
The car became quiet again.
“I’m saying this in case you misunderstand…”
“…?”
“Chief Lee Ah-young… has nothing to do with me.”
I said that carefully.
Then Min Yujin let out a chuckle.
“Well…”
He glanced at me and smiled meaningfully.
“He didn’t seem to think so.”
***
“….”
“….”
Sehun Chemical Sales Team Office.
Director Lee Ah-young and Team Leader Lee Sang-woo, who were left there, were sitting quietly without saying a word to each other.
Lee Sang-woo continued to look at General Manager Lee Ah-young’s thoughts.
This was because she seemed very uncomfortable.
“…Would you like me to take that car for you?”
“….”
“There are snacks in the bathroom, so you can take them out as much as you want.”
“….”
Team leader Lee Sang-woo continued to talk in an attempt to lighten the cold atmosphere even a little, but general manager Lee A-young made no reply at all, as if he was thinking about something else.
In the end, team leader Lee Sang-woo used a trick to escape from that suffocating place.
“Oh my, look at my mind! I forgot to contact the contract manager. “Then I’ll just go to work…”
“How often do you get back together with an ex-lover you broke up with?”
“yes yes…?”
However, Director Lee Ah-young did not allow even that.
“Well, well… I guess it’s different for each person.”
“Looking at it, it looks like we’ve been dating for quite some time… You’re not planning on trying again now, are you?”
“Well, if you ask me…”
Team leader Lee Sang-woo scratched his head.
Director Lee Ah-young also continued talking to herself as if she didn’t really want an answer.
“No, that woman is that woman too. If we broke up, it’s over. Why are you clinging to me because you have something to say? “If that’s not enough, you’re going for a drive just the two of us?!”
“…? You two just went to investigate…”
“Oh! The more I think about it, the more absurd it becomes. He asked me to go on vacation with him, so I was looking forward to it, but I was worried that he might ask me to investigate his background, so I followed him and he introduced me to his ex-girlfriend! “I can be angry about this, right?!”
“….”
Team leader Lee Sang-woo looked very troubled.
If you came to investigate, you would just do research. Why are you giving dating advice?
“Ha… I’m shocked that you even had a lover. “I thought he was a person who had no interest in women at all.”
Director Lee Ah-young sighed and muttered.
In the end, Team Leader Lee Sang-woo could not help but cautiously opened his mouth.
“If you are interested, why not talk to me in person….”
“….”
Director Lee A-young had a quite complicated expression.
But for a moment, I shook my head as if I didn’t want to think about it anymore.
“That’s Okay. “I’ll just mind my own business for now.”
“….”
He went back and forth. He was such a tired person.
Team leader Lee Sang-woo truly thought so.
“By the way… you said all the employees went out to protest together, right? “What was the atmosphere like at the protest?”
“Needless to say, it was great. City Hall even said they would reconsider GT Construction and Rep. Kang Jong-gu. Local broadcasting stations also came out to report on this, so I thought it would really work if I did well…”
Team leader Lee Sang-woo sighed, unable to finish his sentence.
Seeing that, Director Lee Ah-young asked a little more cautiously.
“Was there anything like an expression of position between Rep. Kang Jong-gu and GT Construction?”
“yes. There was silence. “I went to see him in person, but he wouldn’t even meet me.”
Is this going to come out without knowing?
Well, if the person looking after you is such a great person, it would be strange for him to respond.
“Then… we should look into GT Construction and Representative Kang Jong-gu.”
“yes?”
“You can’t just wait. You also need to be prepared in case you can’t find the hunter organization. “You have to find out as much as you can.”
Director Lee Ah-young said that and immediately called someone.
“Ah, Chief. “I’m calling you because I have a favor to ask you.”
“Eh? “Didn’t Director Lee go on vacation?”
It was none other than Ha Seong-il, head of the overseas business division.
“…It’s a bit complicated, so to speak. Anyway, does anyone know anyone at GT Construction?”
“My sister probably knows something. After all, it’s a competitor. “But why is that?”
“We are currently looking into the Pohang resort project. Originally, there was someone who had already bid on the site, but GT Construction snatched it up.”
“Is that so?”
“I’m sure someone helped me… Can you help me find out who helped me?”
“Hmm, it won’t be easy….”
“Junwoo is also looking with his eyes on. “Please.”
“If it was the CEO himself, there was nothing we could do about it. “I’ll take a look.”
“Thank you.”
That was the moment I hung up the phone with a thank you note.
Detectives in plain clothes stormed into the office.
“I came from the Pohang Southern Police Station’s violent team. Are you by any chance Lee Sang-woo?”
“That’s right. “For some reason…”
“A body presumed to be CEO Joo Se-hoon has been found. “I would like you to accompany me to check.”
“yes yes…?”
Upon hearing those words, Director Lee Ah-young’s eyebrows twitched.
***
We arrived in front of the abandoned factory before we knew it.
Min Yu-jin spoke with a nonchalant expression in a place so shabby that it was hard to imagine anyone living there.
“Let’s go in.”
“It could be dangerous for a moment, so you should go outside…”
I tried to stop him, but Min Yu-jin didn’t even listen and headed to the factory without hesitation.
A wide, dark space.
There were completely worn-out machines that seemed to have stopped operating a long time ago, and a musty smell pierced my nose everywhere.
On the one hand, I noticed bedding and various items placed haphazardly.
It was clearly a sign that someone was living there.
That’s quite a lot of people.
‘You guessed it correctly.’
The moment I muttered like that.
“what? “Who are you!”
A man appeared from nowhere, spotted us and shouted.
At the same time, Min Yu-jin took out her ID card.
“This is Detective Min Yu-jin of the Southern Police Station’s Violent Team 2. “We are investigating the missing representative of the state. Do you know him as Choi Jong-hyuk?”
“….”
“…I know.”
she said with a smile.
“Is Choi Jonghyuk here now?”
“I don’t know anyone like that?”
“Let’s go easy, don’t make yourself tired. Do you think it’ll be okay if I don’t say anything? “How can I get you all involved first?”
“under! “Do you have a warrant?”
“….”
Oh bastard.
Are you using an invincibility device?
After a moment of hesitation, several of the man’s colleagues appeared from where they had been hiding.
“They arrested us for doing something, Mane!”
“Who the fuck cares? “If there are two strong teams, is it a high-multiple class?”
“Can the police these days just arrest good citizens like this?”
“Please leave while I have good words to say. “If you don’t want to get into trouble.”
Each of them put on their most grim expressions and threatened us.
I slowly looked at that figure and let out a light sigh.
From the looks of it, these guys are also members of the Hunter organization. Of course, they can’t be arrested because there are no charges, but…
‘I wonder if something will come out once they’re squeezed.’
Even if you give it a little help, you won’t be able to report it anyway.
Thinking like that, he held Min Yujin’s shoulder and opened his mouth.
“Stay behind. “I will solve it…”
And that moment.
Whoa!
“…?”
The jaw of the man in front of me turned.
“Anyway, no one listens to what I say.”
Min Yujin openly snorted and relaxed her shoulders.
I was so shocked by that sight that my body froze for a moment.
‘What are you doing now…’
After all, isn’t she an unranked person, no different from a civilian?
But you knocked down a former hunter and member of a criminal organization in one room with your bare hands?
“Say for ten. If you don’t want to wear a bib when eating from now on.”
“….”
“….”
Min Yujin’s eyes sparkled.
I swallowed my saliva without realizing it.