Along with the God of Law - Chapter 412



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412.

A confrontation between Kang Hyun and a woman named Jeong Da-yeong.

Although they only exchanged a few words, the air flowing between them was very heavy and fast.

“uh?”

“What did you say?”

Baek Hoon-sik and Park Yi-hyeon belatedly stopped and turned their heads to look at Jeong Da-yeong. She spoke again as if to confirm it with them again.

“Brother Gijun, you’re the kind of person who does strange things.”

“ah….”

Baek Hoon-sik and Park Yi-hyeon completely stopped what they were doing and let go of each other’s hands.

The search and seizure for cases of violations of the Reserve Forces Act, which would have resulted in nothing more than a ‘fine’ if they had simply ended, was no longer important.

“Really… that’s what happened.”

Park Lee-hyun muttered quietly in surprise.

It seemed like a trivial incident, but I couldn’t understand why Kang Hyun was paying attention to it.

However, he had foreseen this.

A person I met by chance while on a mission, but inevitably she has no choice but to tell the truth.

A new statement, a new situation, was before their eyes.

The inspectors realized it.

This incident is not something so frivolous that it can be ended with a simple fine for ‘violating the Reserve Forces Act’.

“Now let us gather together and listen. Execution suspended.”

The two prosecutors straightened their postures with nervous expressions, and Kang Hyun stood in front of them. Now, she approached the prosecutors with a tearful expression and began to spill her secrets.

“My brother has become strange. He doesn’t leave the house, he’s always doing things on his laptop, he’s been wandering around strange places, and he’s recently left home. I don’t know exactly what it is, but… he’s definitely doing bad things.”

“What exactly is a bad thing?”

“Well, I don’t know where to start, I’m not sure where to start right now.”

“Then, let me ask you again from the beginning.”

Park Yi-hyeon, who had a longer investigative career than Baek Hoon-sik, began taking statements from the scene again. Her answers were completely opposite to the first.

“What is your relationship like?”

“We were lovers, but we were cohabitants. We’re really not like that anymore.”

“How long has Mr. Jo Gi-jun lived here?”

“It’s been a few years. My brother used to live here, but recently I became independent and moved into this house. My brother has been out for work, so he only comes here occasionally. He hasn’t been here recently.”

She hadn’t come recently, this statement was the same as before, but none of the prosecutors who heard her story believed her.

“Similarly, this statement contradicts the results of the cell phone location tracking. It is true that Mr. Cho Ki-jun appears to have been operating from this house.”

“I told you it’s not here. I think there’s an office nearby.”

“You said you didn’t know exactly what you were doing, but you know where the office is. Why don’t you just tell me the truth? And, likewise, that answer doesn’t explain why the location of your phone is being recorded here.”

“I really don’t know. My brother didn’t even let me come to the office for work-related matters and kept everything a secret. I originally didn’t really want to know either.”

“Then why do you think it is illegal?”

“The people I met weren’t that great. Gangsters, thugs. Among them, the weak ones were the punks.”

“approximately?”

For a moment, Park Hyun-ah’s gaze fell on Kang Hyun. The ‘that’ thing he had hinted at was really happening.

“… There is no clear and precise statement. Not even the office location. The cell phone tower location tracking results are not that shabby. This exact location is… .”

“I took away his cell phone, so he contacted me through his iPad or laptop. He cheated on me before. I also didn’t like what he was doing.”

“yes?”

“yes?”

To the surprised faces of the examiners, she finally presented her evidence.

“Here, this is it. An Apple phone. I use it as a two-phone. This is my brother’s.”

“… What on earth is your relationship?”

“Partner. That’s partner.”

Park Hyun-ah stopped talking for a moment. At the same time, she looked for a cigarette while saying, “Ugh.”

‘Inspector…?’

The two prosecutors, who were at a loss as to what to do from now on, naturally turned their eyes to Kang Hyun. He began to speak again.

“Ms. Jeong Da-yeong. No matter what you say, we cannot completely trust you.”

“But is there really any need to mess up the house like this? My brother has been out of the house lately and has never been here before. I told you to show me the office. If you just accept my conditions.”

“What are the conditions?”

“Leave the house alone. Leave me alone. I hate it when people invade my territory.”

“… .”

For a moment, Jung Da-young and Kang Hyun’s eyes crossed. This time, the confrontation between the two continued. They were thinking about each other.

It was a fight where one side was trying to weigh the pros and cons and distinguish between the truth and falsehood of the statements, while the other side seemed to be trying to prevent this.

A moment of silence.

“…Okay. We won’t search and seize this place. However, you must give us the cell phone of Jo Gi-jun that Jeong Da-yeong is said to have and the ‘office’ that you know about.”

Kang Hyun ended up speaking first.

It was like giving up, but I could accept it because I got some results. And I was able to be wary of the true nature of the woman named Jeong Da-yeong.

‘Strange, secretive, and dangerous.’

She recognized Kang Hyun’s gaze and began to act somewhat dryly, as if she had given up on trying to dress up.

“Okay. Okay, I’ll get ready to go out, so please wait a moment.”

Before the inspectors could even leave, she quickly changed her clothes, and the three inspectors decided to wait for Jeong Da-young at the front door while maintaining as calm an expression as possible.

Now, even in Baek Hoon-sik and Park Yi-hyeon’s eyes, she was definitely someone who deviated slightly from the category of normal people.

* * *

“It’s here.”

“Here?”

Rotting cigarette butts, tables littered with trash, winter coats hanging haphazardly on wooden railings that look like they could break at any moment… .

The office of Jo Gi-jun that Jeong Da-yeong spoke of was not somewhere else, but an ‘abandoned house’ near the top of the ‘upper ant village’.

What is the definition of an abandoned house?

There are many, but one of them is ‘a deserted house’.

“Did it pop?”

“I think it’s sorted out.”

In this old shack, which had not even been changed and perhaps was not even properly registered in the real estate register, traces of people were still precariously left behind.

“We will change the case to ‘Violation of the Narcotics Control Act’ against Mr. Cho Ki-jun and conduct an emergency search and seizure. Please relay the situation to the Joint Investigation Team first.”

“All right.”

When Kang Hyun declared, Baek Hoon-sik nodded and made contact, while Park Yi-hyeon quickly blocked his view by stopping his manager.

“Nothing is certain yet. If nothing comes out of this, there could be a controversy over abuse of power….”

“There is a statement from Ms. Jeong Da-young. It is a circumstantial statement that Mr. Jo Gi-jun is involved in ‘illegal drug’ related matters. And she received an office from me, presumed to be her ‘business place’, as the location of the incident. Is there a problem?”

“I see… Okay, I understand. I will begin the search and seizure.”

“Search and seizure begins.”

“The devil.”

The inspectors immediately began their search. Baek Hoon-sik and Park Yi-hyeon began the search half nervously and half excitedly.

The reason I was half nervous was because I didn’t know what would come out.

The reason I was disappointed was because I didn’t know what would come out.

This place clearly looked like an ‘abandoned house’.

However, as the search continued, evidence began to emerge that ‘Jo Gi-jun’ had used this place. His belongings had appeared. It didn’t seem like Jeong Da-yeong was lying.

However, there was nothing particularly noteworthy or noteworthy in this place.

“There’s nothing?”

“There’s just a lot of trash.”

The trash can was full of nothing but trash, no notes, ledgers, or anything like that.

There were only a few traces of the authors who had come and gone from here, whom Jeong Da-yeong had named ‘Hakkodul’.

However, rather than providing any traces of what could be obtained from the scene, this was something that needed to be investigated and slowly pursued.

“Is this karma?”

Baek Hoon-sik continued to search and seize while muttering. His words were something like this:

“I don’t even know what I did?”

“Ugh, it’s dirty. It seems like it has its limitations as an office.”

“I think it would be appropriate to call it a hideout or a secret hideout.”

“…What kind of guy is Jo Gi-jun?”

On the other hand, Park Hyun-ah continued her search in silence. An old closet with a door that wouldn’t open easily. A cupboard full of trash.

This was the moment when Park Lee-hyun’s true value was revealed.

His search had one goal. Kang Hyun-do’s eyes lit up for a moment as he realized what he was looking for.

“oh.”

“…here, here it is.”

As Park Hyun-ah blew on the object he had found, dust began to spread out.

“The electrical outlets that were built into the building were relatively clean.”

“There’s evidence that the cord was plugged in.”

“So I searched intensively for any possible places where computers, electronics, chargers, and laptops might be. This is all I could find. They must have been forgotten or discarded.”

“Ah! That’s right!”

Baek Hoon-sik approached with a slight look of admiration. Park Yi-hyeon smiled as if she felt regret.

“It’s a laptop.”

“A laptop?”

It was a heavy, large laptop that looked old. Kang Hyun turned his head. Jeong Da Young’s eyes were unfocused.

‘Still, I think I saved at least one thing.’

At first, it didn’t seem like much, since it was found under a crumbling cupboard in an obscure interior that seemed to be used as a storage room.

When they realized that the object was a laptop, they exchanged a brief glance.

If this place was really an office used as a ‘workshop’ for something.

There was a high possibility that this laptop was one of the many computers and computing equipment that were left over from the withdrawal.

It was unknown what might be inside, but what was certain was that this was likely the only evidence to come out of this abandoned house.

I had to hang something on one of my laptops.

Park Lee-Hyeon, the person who discovered the evidence, said.

“I’ll just check to see if it boots up.”

Wheein.

When Park Yi-hyun pressed the power button, surprisingly, the computer booted up right away. Kang Hyun and Baek Hoon-sik’s eyes widened, and this time, Jeong Da-young’s too.

“Is it on?”

“It’s a working laptop.”

“It doesn’t seem like it’s that old?”

“uh?”

For a moment, Park Hyun-ah paused and was surprised to find something on the laptop screen. In this situation, it was something only he could find.

Click, click.

Something came up.

It wasn’t an ordinary screen that ordinary people saw.

“This is.”

It wasn’t your average notebook. It was beyond the scope of what they were looking for: ledgers, notes, conversations, and the like.

It was a screen that would become very surprising evidence.

“It’s an onion browser.”

“onion?”

“AKA, stealth browser.”

It’s silver.

A browser used to access the ‘dark web’, which is widely used for illegal distribution and prostitution.

If so, there was only one answer.

This laptop was ‘modified’ to block location tracking and use a browser to access the dark web.

This amazing thing suddenly appeared in front of them, in this abandoned house, when they had little expectations.