Rust - Chapter 37



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RUST -37

A life-giving light flowed from Director Kim’s eyes.

The staff member momentarily forgot what he was saying due to the suffocating thick murderous smell.

“Why aren’t you saying anything? Where is that girl?”

“I’m not sure about that···.”

WHACK!

The employee’s head turned around.

“Where are you going?”

“Packaging Taxi. The packaging taxi team has contacted you.”

Director Kim tilted his head slightly.

“The packing guys caught Miss Kim?”

“That’s not it.”

Crack!

“Can’t you speak properly?”

“That. When Team 2 went up, I contacted the packaging taxi team. After Team 2 went up, I told them to pack if there was a woman coming down in a hurry. So I was waiting to pack the taxis right away when the women who were running in a hurry caught them, but they all failed, and then I got a call from a taxi saying that they saw a strange woman.”

Director Kim nodded, indicating that he should continue.

“A taxi was waiting near the bus stop, and a woman with a bunch of bags came up to me. I was trying to tell her to catch another taxi because she had a reservation, but she passed the taxi and went to the bus stop.”

“What does that have to do with you, Miss Kim?”

Director Kim, who was about to slap her, suddenly remembered something and jumped up. Director Kim ran to the room that Ms. Kim had been using. There was no luggage or anything in the room with a hole in the wall.

“That’s her. Check the taxi black box to find out what bus she took. Get all the kids geared up. Don’t forget the bulletproof vest and bulletproof mask.”

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The bus that Kim Yang rode went around and around. It was a bus that went around Yeongdeungpo Station and went to Seoul Station. When Kim Yang tried to reserve a train ticket on her phone, there were no trains going to Busan from Yeongdeungpo Station.

Whether it’s Yeongdeungpo Station or Seoul Station, I just need to get to Busan quickly. Since the bus I’m on goes to Seoul Station anyway, I decided to just keep riding it.

Wow, Ms. Kim was amazed.

It took me over 30 minutes to get here, a distance that would take 10-15 minutes by taxi. I came in the bus-only lane? Is this real? Or did I get on the wrong bus? I was so heavy and tired that I happily got on a bus that said it was going to Yeongdeungpo Station/Seoul Station, but it was a trap.

Ugh-

Ugh-

She carried it on her back, hung it on both shoulders, carried it with her left arm, and pulled the carrier with her right arm. The volume of the luggage was larger than Ms. Kim’s body, so she looked like a refugee. As Ms. Kim was heading toward the Seoul Station high ground, sweating, crying, and cursing, two young men passing by said.

“Can we help you with this?”

Kim Yang’s face brightened as if he had seen hope. He was wearing a mask and a hat, so no one was laughing at his face. Pure and simple kindness!

“Yes, thank you very much.”

Two young men who seemed to be friends each lifted two of the bags that Ms. Kim was carrying and dragging. Ms. Kim, who had found freedom in both arms, greeted them with a folder.

So this is what they mean when they say they like something and curse it. Long live Korea, a country overflowing with affection.

When the young men said that Ms. Kim was going to the ticket booth, they said that they were also going to catch a train and helped her carry her luggage to the ticket booth.

I had a bit of trouble getting on the train. Ms. Kim is short and frail, so it was hard for her to put her luggage on the train rack. As she struggled to lift her luggage with her bare feet, a man nearby gave her a nonchalant “Sseu-sseu” and helped her lift her luggage.

“Why is this luggage so heavy?”

Hehehe- Ms. Kim greeted the man who was returning to his seat with a smile again. It was the daily life of an ordinary person. She felt that maybe it wasn’t so bad.

Suddenly, memories from my time in China came to mind. My luggage was stolen by gangsters. No one helped me. People just pretended not to see me. In China or Japan, no one cared if you pooped on the street. Ah- Is it the same in Korea, too?

Ms. Kim sent a text message with her departure and arrival times with a slightly more relaxed mind.

For Ms. Kim, who had always driven company-operated cars, vans, and trucks, this was her first time riding the high-speed rail. It was really fast.

Even after arriving at Busan Station, people helped her unload and move her luggage. Ms. Kim got used to the folder greeting. Today seemed like the day she would be remembered as the day she received the most kindness in her life.

At the stand where taxis and private cars were lined up and waiting, Ms. Kim glared at her cell phone.

When I first escaped from the goshitel, I was able to somehow carry it out, perhaps because of the adrenaline I was pumping, but when I got to Busan, I felt like my whole body was aching and I had no strength left, perhaps because I was relaxed. I felt like I had lost all my energy.

I sent the departure time and arrival time···

Wooooow

Wooooow

Here it comes! Ms. Kim checked her phone with a very, very slight sense of anticipation.

[where?]

[There are a lot of taxis parked]

Maru felt a pang in the back of his neck after receiving Kim Yang’s text.

I told you to be careful of taxis, but there’s a taxi stand right next to it? I stepped on the accelerator of my rental car. Maybe it was because it was the arrival time of the train from Seoul to Busan, but there was a long line of taxis waiting to pick up passengers and cars waiting to pick up acquaintances.

I saw a woman looking around on the other side of the platform. It was definitely Ms. Kim. Even with a mask and hat on, if I could tell that it was Ms. Kim, then I guess other people would be able to tell too.

‘What should I do with that?’

Should I just throw it away now? With Japan in shambles because of the earthquake, it was obvious that money would do anything. Just as I was near Kim Yang and considering whether to just pass by, Kim Yang saw Maru’s face and quickly raised her hand and waved. She really was a woman with good eyes.

‘Ah- I don’t know-‘

Maru drove the car to where Ms. Kim was.

Bb-

Bb-

Kim Yang, who had thrown five bundles of luggage into the back seat with much difficulty, quickly sat down in the passenger seat. As she sat down, her side was slightly visible. The gun holster was briefly revealed.

Maru pretended not to see and looked straight ahead as he called Ki-sun.

“Uh- Ki-sun, I just picked it up. What should I buy on the way?”

[Okay. That girl will reserve a room at this hotel, so you know that.]

“Thank you.”

Kim Yang looked at Maru with a look that said, “What? Who? A friend?” But Maru ignored it and turned the steering wheel. How long had he driven? A green taxi caught a glimpse of him from behind.

Maru glanced at the rearview mirror and asked Kim Yang.

“Did you feel anything strange on your way here or at the station?”

“There were a lot of good people.”

There were a lot of good people today. They helped me carry my luggage, lifted my luggage, lowered my luggage, and moved my luggage. Kim Yang nodded. Maru shook his head after seeing Kim Yang’s bright expression.

Maru glanced at the rearview mirror again and turned the steering wheel sharply.

Squeak!

Kim Yang’s round eyes narrowed. Kim Yang brought her hand to her armpit.

“Don’t take it out yet.”

Because it was a rented car, there was no tinting on the front, and the tinting on the sides was also blurry. Ms. Kim felt anxious and fiddled with her cast-wrapped right arm. Her swollen fingers wiggled.

Ms. Kim shivered without realizing it. She knew how bad the company was. How did you follow me here? How did you know I was coming to Busan?

“Are you being followed?”

“I’m not sure yet, but we’ll find out when we see.”

Maru was driving while looking at the rearview mirror. Before long, he saw a green taxi speeding up in the distance.

“Fuck. Didn’t I tell you to be careful with taxis? Didn’t I?”

“I didn’t take a taxi.”

If you don’t ride, you get a discount? You shouldn’t have gone near the taxi. If the taxi driver is connected to the organization, you should report it right away. Why are you hanging around near the taxi?

“Ah… Okay. It’ll come out tomorrow anyway.”

Maru picked up speed. The taxi kept following him even after he turned the intersection and changed lanes. It was clear that he was being pursued. There was no way that a taxi that was chasing him with its lights on, indicating that it was empty, could be a passing taxi.

The city center was dangerous. If you ran away from the city and got surrounded, it was over.

“Hey- Search for places near Busan on your phone. Places with few people, quiet towns. Things like that.”

“Gaeryong Village? Daeryong Village?”

“Okay. If it’s a village that shows up in the search results, it’s already a famous village. Just open the map and tell me the name of a place with a lot of green space, like a rice paddy ridge or something.”

After adjusting the navigation to the place name that Kim Yang had found, Maru stepped on the accelerator.

Wooooow!

As soon as we left Busan, green space unfolded. Rice fields and greenhouses lined the road. It was a wide and well-paved road for a country road.

“I’ll open the sunroof so you can get in and check the taxi that’s chasing you… Can you adjust the wheels?”

Ms. Kim nodded.

“Okay, slow down. We have to get it right in one go.”

Kim Yang, with her upper body sticking out through the open sunroof, aimed her Walther P22, equipped with a thick silencer, at the taxi following her. The taxi driver turned the steering wheel as if he saw the gun. Regardless, a low gunshot sound erupted from Kim Yang’s Walther P22.

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

Squeak!

Kwakwakwa-

The moment he turned the steering wheel sharply, the tire burst, the taxi lost its balance, flipped over, and crashed into a rice paddy embankment. Maru, who had just put the car into reverse, went near the overturned taxi.

Whoosh- When Maru took out the sashimi, Kim Yang flinched.

Maru got out of the car and headed to the driver’s seat of the overturned taxi. He glanced at the back seat and, as expected, there was no handle to open the door from the inside of the taxi.

‘These guys aren’t just like that in Seoul.’

At that moment, the taxi door opened wide and the taxi driver came out. Despite having been overturned, his face was clean and unscathed. The taxi driver’s gaze turned to Maru’s face and then to the knife Maru was holding.

Shhh-

The taxi driver, with a wicked smile, tries to take something out of his waistband, and then, PICK! PICK! The taxi driver falls down with a sound of a bullet hitting his head.

As soon as the taxi driver’s hand reached for his waist, Maru, who had been preparing to jump out, turned his head awkwardly. Kim Yang, who had leaned out of the sunroof, was waving her casted right hand.

“Ha- That’s real.”

Maru pushed the taxi driver’s body into the driver’s seat and pulled out the black box memory card when a radio transmission came in.

[Car No. 3. Car No. 3. Are you still tracking?]

[Car No. 3, report.]

Maru lowered his voice. It was no use since there was noise anyway.

“This is car number 3. I just checked and it turns out they were an adulterous couple. They thought they were being chased by a detective agency and ran away.”

[What are you?

“Ah- that was a mistake. I mistook it because I was wearing a mask.”

[야! 이 개새끼야. 지금 보안팀장이 애들 전부 다 끌고 거기 가고 있는데, 불륜 커플? 너 뒤지고 싶냐?]

“Isn’t it fortunate that we’ve confirmed it now?”

[You talk directly to the head of the fuck security team.]

“I get it.”

Maru was troubled after disconnecting from the radio.

‘This time it was resolved like this, but what should I do?’

This is already the second time.

I heard an electric shock.

Chijik- Chijik- Chijik

Flames burst into flames from the overturned taxi.

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High-speed train to Busan.

Still!

Director Kim was cracking walnuts with his bare hands.

“How much is left?”

“There are about 40 minutes left.”

Big hit!

“Any other reports?”

“A taxi cab is tailing the car that Ms. Kim is riding in.”

“Really? That’s good.”

“But what should we do if they say they’ll catch Miss Kim before she runs away?”

“Run away?”

“Yes. They say they caught him while following him and he’s running away to the outskirts of the city.”

Kim Yang is going to escape to the outskirts of the city? Instead of surrounding him and waiting for him to escape, we’re going to catch him?

Crunch! Director Kim cracked a walnut and put the kernel into his mouth, mumbling.

“The Busan branch has grown a lot, too. It’s time to weed it out. Does the security team there do this kind of work?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“If you can catch it, tell me to catch it.”

The weather is nice.

I was lucky.

It was a good day to weed out what needed to be weeded out, gather what needed to be weeded out, and bury what needed to be buried.

Phew-

Honest! The walnuts are crumbling.

It’s a matter of the account.