The Dungeon Cleaning Life of a Once Genius Hunter - Chapter 337
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338. Side Story – Episode 16
Support Team Hunter Support Room.
This was also my first time contacting the vice-chief there directly.
Even though we often met each other at work, we mostly only communicated via email.
“Anyway… if something like that happens, why are you asking us to do so instead of reporting it to the police?”
She asked as if she was puzzled after being informed of the entire situation by the team leader.
“There are some pretty big names involved in this. It’s not easy to touch it directly… and more than anything, it’s not clear who is carrying out this work. “The police will be of little help in this situation.”
“It looks like the Hunters of Operation Ha Team 1 are also afraid of something.”
Two is openly sarcastic.
It was clearly a voice telling me to listen, but I didn’t bother to react.
“I’ll tell you in advance, considering what the operation team has done so far, I don’t really want to help.” “….”
“
But… what’s wrong with being a new member of the investigation team? “I don’t feel like it, but I can’t pretend not to know.”
Soon, I heard her sigh.
“I received a call from Team Leader Pyeon and took a quick look, and there was an accident on Sejong-daero just before the time he mentioned. A car drove in reverse and hit a taxi… Employee Eunhye Ha was caught on CCTV running away from that taxi.” “That means….”
“
I don’t know who it is, but the person chasing Employee Eunhye Ha intentionally caused the accident. I guess it is. First, let’s trace the basis of the impression of the man who caused the accident.”
Soon, the sound of a keyboard was heard from beyond the cell phone.
Some time passes like that.
“At about 24:40, they both went into an alley. “There’s no CCTV over there, so I can’t check… After about 5 minutes, the man comes out of the alley alone?”
“Are you holding anything?” “A big bag or something…”
“Carrier. “I have a suitcase.”
“So where did you go?”
“Wait. First, I got into another parked vehicle and moved along Gangbyeonbuk-ro. Afterwards, I entered the Seoul-Chuncheon Expressway toward Namyangju IC.”
Clean and clear briefing.
As I was plotting the route in my head, she immediately spoke.
“It looks like it’s headed towards Gangwon-do… I’ll send you the location, so follow me right away.”
“I understand.”
Just before hanging up the phone with those words.
“…thank you.”
I said those words carefully.
But her reaction was quite cold.
“what the. “Whenever you always ignore us because we’re a poor team, what’s going on now? It’s starting to feel disappointing, so don’t be condescending and do your best as usual.” “….”
I
couldn’t bear to say anything, so I just stayed silent.
And then the call hung up without further ado.
At the same time, the estimated travel route was sent to my cell phone, and I immediately got into the car and started traveling.
Not close distance.
As she said, the expected route was out of Seoul and headed to Gangwon-do.
After driving along the road for about two hours, an unknown country road appeared.
A dirt road without even street lights.
As soon as I entered the place where I couldn’t see anything, wondering if I had come to the right place, I immediately received a text message from the support team.
“From this location, tracking is no longer possible. Since there was no sight of the same vehicle on nearby CCTV, he probably got out of the car and walked. “I probably couldn’t have gone far, so let’s search the surrounding area first.”
I got out of the car and started walking.
A very dark country road.
There were endless rice fields on either side, and the occasional private house made you wonder if people were actually living there.
‘I have to search all of this place…?’
It was a very difficult situation, but there was no time to dawdle.
3 o’clock in the morning.
There are 5 hours left until the subjugation.
If you think about the return time, you have to find Ha Eun-hye no matter what by at least 6 o’clock.
‘First, let’s start with the area away from the private house…’
I looked around, roughly divided the search scope, and started searching here and there recklessly.
Old greenhouses and warehouses.
Containers and abandoned houses.
I looked for any place where people might be hiding, but Ha Eun-hye was nowhere to be seen.
I wanted to scream, but it could have been more dangerous if the man who kidnapped her was still with her.
Therefore, we had to move quietly and without making as much noise as possible, which further delayed time.
How much time has passed like that?
‘Fuck…’
Dawn began to break between the distant mountain ridges.
As I took out my cell phone to check the time, a phone call came just in time.
“Deputy Team Leader, the control team is going through the final inspection right now, but have you come to work yet?”
It was none other than Kim Min-ju, Hunter.
“Do it without me. “I think I’ll be a little late.”
“yes? “Then when can you come?”
“…I’ll be there before 8 o’clock.”
“yes yes? Even if you can’t do the final inspection, you have to come by at least 7:40 to check the equipment and dungeon…”
“I know, fuck! “So just shut up and wait!”
「….」
My voice rose higher without me realizing it.
However, Kim Min-ju asked in a calm tone.
“Is something going on…?”
“….”
I’ll hold off on answering for a moment.
“Never mind.”
I unilaterally hung up the phone.
Soon the time appeared on the phone screen.
6:30 am.
It was already long past the time to return.
‘Fuck really…!’
He frowned and chewed his teeth.
Then I scanned the still empty countryside.
We searched almost an entire village for several hours.
Even though I searched the barn and the pig pen, I couldn’t even find a snout, wondering where he was hiding.
It goes without saying, but the subjugation cannot be postponed.
Isn’t this a dungeon that can be upgraded to Omega level if you delay it just a little bit?
‘Should I report it to the police first and go up to Seoul…?’
No… if Chairman Woo Seok-ho had taken action in advance, there is no way they would have moved in time.
Then what should I do?
What the fuck should I do….
‘….’
It was that moment.
As dawn broke and the surroundings gradually became brighter, things that were not visible until a moment ago began to become visible.
A hillside far away from the village.
An old cabin visible in the distance.
A spark flew in my head.
I ran towards that place like crazy, as if possessed by something.
In front of the cabin we arrived at.
I slowly caught my breath.
bang-!
I opened the door there.
***
“Haa….”
Yang Min-ho’s Safe House located somewhere in Gangwon-do.
Yang Minho sighed with a quite troubled expression.
“I wonder how I came up with this thought at that moment…”
He muttered, looking at Ha Eun-hye lying on the floor with her entire body bound.
In his hand was the USB stick she had.
but.
“I never thought you would be holding a fake.”
Kwasik -.
I smashed the USB I was holding.
Employee Ha Eun-hye, who was looking at this scene, actually had a more calm face than before.
The moment Eom Kyung-hoon called, Ha Eun-hye had to make a choice.
I am not a member of the operations team or a hunter, but just an ordinary person.
If someone is after you to retrieve your files, it’s only a matter of time before you get caught.
Of course, if you can run to the police station with the file before then… if you fail, the file will be taken away and you will also be in danger.
That’s why I didn’t bring the real file from the beginning.
From the beginning, he assumed that he would be caught.
And that was the only way to avoid losing the only evidence that his father had been falsely accused of fabricating Kim Jun-woo’s file.
And one more thing.
“They won’t be able to harm you until you find the real file… That’s what you thought, right?”
“….”
Her mouth was closed, and instead of answering, she just glared at him.
It’s just as he said.
Their goal is to retrieve the files they stole.
Of course, once you have seen the contents of the file, your safety will be at risk, but that only happens after the file has been recovered.
So… we just have to wait until they find the file.
Then he will definitely come.
“If I were a normal person, I would have been scared and couldn’t do anything… but I can’t believe I made such a decision in such a short period of time. Incredible. “Didn’t you join the investigation team for no reason?”
“….”
“Ha, then it’s a bigger problem. What should I do if this happens? “It’s not that difficult to get someone to open their mouth… but it’s also annoying in its own way.”
Yang Minho looked into space and sighed.
But even for a moment.
“…Should I just kill him?”
The moment his sharp gaze fell on Ha Eun-hye, he muttered those words without any hesitation.
Calm eyes.
A facial expression that shows no emotion whatsoever.
“Anyway, if you decided to hide it, it would be difficult to find it. Above all, if there is no one to look for it, it will never be found.”
“…!!”
“Yes?”
“Eup eupeup!!”
Yang Min-ho slowly approached Ha Eun-hye while asking that question.
Ha Eun-hye seemed to sense danger and began to struggle violently, but it was meaningless as her entire body was tied up.
With each step she took, she became more and more panicked.
Until he came right in front of me, my body completely froze and I just trembled on the spot.
Eventually, when Yang Min-ho stretched out his hand, Ha Eun-hye closed her eyes tightly.
That moment.
bang-!
The cabin door burst open.
Yang Min-ho and Ha Eun-hye’s eyes turned to that place at the same time.
It soon emerged from the darkness.
“…What should I do if you come all the way here?”
“Kim Jun-woo noticed.”
General manager of the Operation Fact-Finding Committee.
Chairman Woo Seok-ho was the chairman.
“Let’s just settle this and move somewhere else.”
“Do we really have to do that? “It’s such a big deal that Naboorang from the operations team noticed it.”
“That bastard is different.”
Chairman Woo Seok-ho answered in a gravelly voice.
“He’s a guy who doesn’t know what he’ll do when he turns his eyes. “It got especially worse after Regen Dungeon.”
“No, no matter what, it’s only Huntington…”
“Hey! “You don’t want to get money?”
Chairman Woo Seok-ho glared at Yang Min-ho and said clearly.
Then Yang Minho shrugged his shoulders with a light sigh.
An expression as if asking what to do.
Chairman Woo Seok-ho did not provoke him any further due to his jokes.
“Move.”
“Yes yes.”
That was when I was preparing like that.
“Oh, what should that bitch do? “It looks like the USB is fake and the files are hidden somewhere else.”
“….”
In response to Yang Min-ho’s question, Chairman Woo Seok-ho looked at her blankly.
“Well… it doesn’t really matter, does it?”
“….”
At those words, Ha Eun-hye’s pupils began to tremble greatly.
“Then…”
“Deal with it. Of course, go somewhere other than here.”
Chairman Woo Seok-ho waved his hands as if he couldn’t even think about it.
At the same time, Yang Minho picked her up and headed to the car.
Chairman Woo Seok-ho took a quick look around the cabin where everyone had left and then quickly closed the door.
***
Boom!
I opened the door and entered the cabin.
And there.
“…Fuck.”
There was no one.
“Fuck, fuck…!!”
Bang bang!!
Uncontrollable anger enveloped my entire body.
He threw his fists so that the wall broke down with him, but there was no way that someone who wasn’t there would appear.
‘Whoa…’
I tried to control my trembling breathing and began to quickly look around the inside of the cabin.
It didn’t seem like anyone lived here at all.
Because there was no furniture, no objects, nothing.
There is not even a trace of people staying there, let alone living there.
‘It’s not here…?’
The moment that question crossed my mind, my eyes turned to the floor.
‘….’
The dried sweat stains on the floor caught my eye.
And the sweat stains continued all the way to the entrance of the hut… at the end.
“Fuck…”
A trace that I didn’t notice at all until I entered the cabin.
There were wheel marks that had just appeared.
It is certainly.
Ha Eun-hye was here.
Then, someone carried Ha Eun-hye into a car, and it wasn’t long before she left here.
And Ha Eun-hye was alive until the moment she moved.
The moment I confirmed it, strength filled my eyes again.
okay.
If you chase after it now, you can find it.
With that confidence in mind, I was about to contact support again for help.
“….”
The cell phone started to ring.
Pyeon Chang-hyeon, control team leader.
I got a call from him.
“…hello.”
I answered the phone with a trembling voice.
“Hunter Kim Jun-woo… Now, the dungeon abnormality faction has begun to rise rapidly again.”
The news came like a bolt from the blue.
“If this continues, we will rise to Omega level within the next four hours. “If we don’t subdue it quickly, it will become dangerous.”
“….”
I closed my eyes at those words.
“Now…you need to come right away.”
I started to tremble at the words I eventually heard.