The Dungeon Cleaning Life of a Once Genius Hunter - Chapter 331
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332. Side Story – Episode 10
“I think the control team file has been manipulated.”
I was quite shocked by employee Ha Eun-hye’s sudden words.
After I was speechless for a moment and closed my eyes, she spoke again.
“No matter how much I think about it, there’s something strange about it, so I’m looking into it. I haven’t seen Hunter for a long time, but he’s definitely not the kind of person who would push ahead even if he knew at least. However, I am not the kind of person who will make mistakes.”
“….”
“Of course, it’s still just a mental illness, but there are still clues. I’m trying to find out on my own. “I will try to find solid evidence as much as possible before the investigation period.”
“….”
She narrowed her eyebrows and said, and I closed my mouth, feeling dizzy.
Then, as if she were a detective, employee Ha Eun-hye said with her arms crossed and her brows furrowed.
“The problem is that if the file was manipulated, there is no way the committee would know about it, but there is no action. It seems like the higher-ups are trying to cover up the incident, but looking at it, the team leader is also a bit suspicious…” “
Oh no, how on earth…”
“I know. It must be a huge shock. It looks like someone did it to slander Hunter. “In times like these, we need to be more alert.”
“No, that’s not it.”
I tried to speak in a calm voice.
“How on earth did they know that?”
“…How did you know?”
Then, employee Ha Eun-hye looked at me as if she felt something strange.
“Surely Hunter knew too?!”
I asked, startled.
I saved my answer.
Meanwhile, Ha Eun-hye showed a more enthusiastic reaction.
“No, then you were just trying to ignore it even though you knew it?! “If you miss the minimum promotion, all your achievements so far will be lost?!”
“Haa…”
I let out a deep sigh.
‘Anyway, he’s a kid who doesn’t know how scary the world is….’
Is the newbie really a newbie?
He muttered that and slowly opened his mouth.
“You may not know this, but no matter how much I am the ace of the team, I don’t have the power to do anything in this situation. If you just scratch it and make it crumble, the situation could get worse. Anyway, I have no particular interest in getting promoted…”
“What is that!”
Suddenly she raised her voice.
“So you’re just going to let it go?! Are you afraid of greater retaliation? “During the subjugation, you did everything by yourself, but now I see you’re a pure coward!”
“….”
My eyebrows twitched greatly at those words.
When I looked at her with a straight face, she also started to look at me, probably realizing that she had made a mistake.
“…sorry. “I guess I got a little excited.”
He immediately apologized in a quiet voice.
But even for a moment.
She spoke again as if she had no intention of backing down anyway.
“Anyway, I have close friends with the control team. I made a lot of mistakes when I first started working, so these days I back up all the original files on my personal hard drive. If that file is backed up, we can tie up all the people involved in the incident and blow it up…”
“Don’t do it.”
“…yes?”
I spoke firmly without even hearing what she said.
“Don’t do it. Do you have any idea what you are planning to do three months after joining the company? “If you’re doing it because of affection just because we saw each other for a few days…”
“What do you mean? “It’s because of Jeong.”
Then she shrugged her shoulders and said.
“I told you. “This is my job.”
“….”
“If you can’t say anything because you’re scared of such things, how can you live because you feel unfair?”
Soon she smiled.
A smile so bright and untainted.
When I saw that expression, I realized I couldn’t stop her any longer.
‘There’s no such thing as a bastard like this…’
I was shaking my head while looking at her.
“I told you so many times. Have some faith in your colleagues. “If I keep trying to do everything on my own, I’m going to have to stay alone even when I’m older, right?”
She shrugged her shoulders and continued jokingly.
“And well… if it gets really dangerous, Hunter can help you. You can do that much, right? “But I still have feelings for you after seeing you for a few days.”
“….”
I’ll spare you the answer to this shameless statement for a moment.
‘Haa…’
He let out a deep sigh and turned his back.
“Do whatever you want.”
Yeah whatever.
I didn’t ask for help, but he said he would take care of it himself, so what can I do?
Actually, I’m the type of person who blows my nose without using my hands…
Well, it may be stressful, but it’s not difficult to cover up that much.
***
“How are you?”
The man who opened the front door appeared as soon as employee Ha Eun-hye rang the doorbell.
Employee Eunhye Ha’s college classmate and association friend.
It was Eom Gyeong-hoon, a member of the Operation Headquarters Control Team.
“Have you checked what I said?”
“Well… come in first.”
Eom Kyung-hoon let her into the house in a cautious voice.
The room was cluttered with all kinds of devices and the temperature was extremely low.
On the desk where the bags of snacks were lined up, four monitors were projecting something.
“First of all…”
Eom Kyung-hoon sat in front of the monitor and opened his mouth.
“I checked, but the file you mentioned is not part of my operation, so I did not back up the original.”
“….”
Ha Eun-hye’s expression instantly hardened at his words.
However, Eom Kyung-hoon raised the corner of his mouth as if it was not the end yet.
“I found something else instead.”
“Something else?”
“I received the file before I left work today and just opened it up. “But there was something a little strange.”
Eom Kyung-hoon pounded the keyboard loudly and opened a window on the monitor.
Then he pointed to a certain part and continued.
“Do you see the date here?”
“huh.”
“This is the original creation date of this file. This means that the original was created at this time. And below that are additional revision work dates.”
Ha Eun-hye put her face to the monitor and checked the dates in detail.
The file, which was first created three months ago, seemed to have been modified a total of 13 times over the next month.
and.
“If you look here, the renewal stopped after exactly one month, right?”
“I see.”
“From this point on, the control team almost went into a freeze. At the same time, it was classified as a stock dungeon.”
“…for a moment.”
Ha Eun-hye, who was concentrating on the monitor, soon discovered something strange in the log.
“There has been one more update since here?”
“That’s right.”
Eom Kyung-hoon answered by snapping his fingers.
“When I asked my seniors, they said that once a dungeon has been frozen and put into inventory, it is rarely updated again. “Because we don’t have the manpower to continue collecting information until the inventory dungeon.”
“But why is this here…”
“No matter how you look at it, it’s strange, right?”
Ha Eun-hye nodded silently at Eom Kyung-hoon’s words.
But that wasn’t the end.
“But there’s something even stranger. There was no update for almost two months, and then suddenly additional information was entered…” For a moment,
Eom Kyung-hoon tapped the keyboard again.
Soon several numbers appeared on the monitor.
“November 22, 21:45.”
Eom Kyung-hoon read the number out loud.
“It was during the dungeon operation.”
“…!”
At the same time, Ha Eun-hye’s face hardened.
“That means…”
“It means that it is certain that someone touched the file during the subjugation.”
The corners of Ha Eun-hye’s mouth gradually rose.
“Okay then! “If you report this directly to the team leader… or directly to the board of directors…!”
“no. “There’s no way around this.”
However, Eom Kyung-hoon cut her off and spoke firmly.
“Right now, I can only see the update time here, but I can’t check what content has changed and how. “It is meaningless as evidence that the possibility of dungeon intervention was fabricated.”
“Ah…”
Her expression quickly darkened.
“Is there no way? You are good at using computers. “How can you use something like hacking…”
“I’ve seen too many movies about this. “Do you think that’s easy?”
It was time for Eom Kyung-hoon to sigh softly.
He soon turned his chair back and looked at Ha Eun-hye and said.
“All files related to the dungeon… That is, all information from immediately after the dungeon appears to the real-time subjugation scene and the dungeon’s disappearance are stored on the control team’s main server. “I heard that it has been stored since the control team was created, so there must be at least 30 years worth of information.”
“then…?”
“If the information is from three months ago, of course it will contain everything from the original file of the dungeon to what changes have been made since then.”
He continued speaking in a very serious voice.
“The problem is that not many people can access that server. Even our team leader can’t approach us. Probably the president of the association or the head of the operations headquarters. “Even that requires permission from the president of the association.”
“what. So that means we can’t even get close.”
“What…”
He trailed off and smiled.
“Even if I can’t touch the server itself… I can at least crack the access authorization code.”
Then Ha Eun-hye’s face began to become brighter.
Of course, it wasn’t that simple.
“But even if you know the code, it’s impossible to access it remotely. “To somehow retrieve information from the server, you have to touch the server directly.”
“…You mean I have to go directly into the control team’s server room and steal information?”
“yes.”
“Isn’t it illegal?”
“Do you think it is legal for an individual to take the operation file and open the log?”
“….”
Ha Eun-hye swallowed her saliva.
“What are you going to do?”
Soon Eom Kyung-hoon asked, and Ha Eun-hye saved her answer for a moment.
“Why not try something?”
Her eyes tightened.
But even for a moment.
“For your information, if this is caught, you may not end up getting fired?”
“….”
The seconds were ticking before it even started.
***
“….”
“….”
Seoul Headquarters Operation Fact-finding Committee.
Chairman Woo Seok-ho’s office.
Chairman Seok-ho Woo and Director Min-cheol Seo were sipping tea in silence.
And then.
“Are there 4 days left until the investigation ends?”
Director Seo Min-cheol broke the silence and spoke first.
“…I see.”
Chairman Woo Seok-ho answered in that gravelly voice.
A very uncomfortable expression and tone of voice.
Director Seo Min-cheol also felt that reaction.
“I hope you don’t feel too offended. “Wouldn’t it be more comfortable to just put an end to the unpleasant past rather than trying to ignore it?”
“You’re just playing with me.”
“If you think so, I can’t help it.”
Director Seo Min-cheol answered with a small smile.
“So, is there anything special to say from the guard?”
“There is none. “They’re quietly focusing on subjugation…”
“It looks like they’ve given up.”
Kim Jun-woo is a smart guy.
Even if you know that you have been harmed by construction, if you know why it happened and who did it, you will not bother to move.
He would also know very well that if he goes out for no reason, it could end up being dangerous.
“Anyway, I hope you enjoy the remaining period. “If only this matter is completed well…”
“Once this matter is completed.”
At that time, Chairman Woo Seok-ho stole General Manager Seo Min-cheol’s words and continued in a rather heavy voice.
“You will definitely delete the subjugation monitoring file at that time, right?”
“Sure. Well… we need time to get permission since we have to connect to the control team’s main server, but we will make sure to protect that part.”
“What will be leaked to someone other than you?”
“Hahaha, the chances of something like that happening….”
“Hey, Seo Min-cheol.”
At that moment, Chairman Woo Seok-ho’s eyes changed.
“If that file gets leaked to someone else, I could do more than you can imagine.”
“….”
“So, don’t talk about possibilities and just say it clearly.”
Clearly, it was Director Seo Min-cheol who was holding the sword in the current situation.
No matter how much Chairman Woo Seok-ho is a giant compared to the board of directors, Seo Min-cheol has the upper hand as long as he holds an absolute weakness.
However, Chairman Woo Seok-ho’s warning nonetheless made even Director Seo Min-cheol feel intimidated.
“It will never be passed on to someone else. So don’t worry too much.”
Director Seo Min-cheol answered with a smile, trying not to let people know that he was nervous.
Soon he bowed lightly and stood up first.
As I left the office, Team Leader Lee Soo-yong, who was waiting outside, immediately approached me.
“What do you think will happen?”
When he asked, Director Seo Min-cheol frowned and said.
“Well, I think the Kim Jun-woo case will be completed as planned.”
“But why do you look like that? Is there some variable?”
“….”
Director Seo Min-cheol clicked his tongue.
“I feel like they did something pointless just to make me miss out on a promotion.”
Headquarters Seo Min-cheol looked into space and muttered this as an ominous feeling kept creeping up on him.