Chapter 151 – Defense Corruption (2)
Arriving at the office, I immediately started investigating.
“Blanche. Show me the camera footage from the inside of Simyeonggun Mountain.”
This case is fairly easy to investigate.
Hunter equipment manufacturers with 5 or more employees are required to install cameras.
However, Blanche’s answer her completely exceeded my expectations.
[Camera inside the factory, no response.]
“What? Could it be that it’s not installed?”
[No. Looking at the final data and mail history, it seems to be broken due to poor management.]
“Patience…”
It’s really not easy from the start.
If this is the case, there is only a field investigation…
If the special unit conducts a search and seizure directly, I will not be able to use the method I planned.
This defense corruption case should be resolved without formal prosecution for political reasons.
Even if you don’t have to, overusing seizures isn’t a very good option.
A search and seizure was carried out at best, but no evidence came out, so if there is no prosecution, there will be no choice but to talk behind the scenes.
Therefore, no matter how much we do, we do not carry out seizure and search recklessly.
As always, research comes first.
Originally, Seo Ji-yu should have been dispatched here, but…
I’m sorry to pamper you somehow.
As I was slightly hesitating, Alice tilted her head beside her as if wondering.
“What are you hesitating about?”
“No. I’m going to send you to work in a factory all of a sudden…”
“…Didn’t you feel very sorry for sending me to buy drugs during the first investigation of the Special Forces?”
“At that time, I wasn’t doing that with Jiyu.”
When I said it so confidently, Alice closed her eyes tightly.
Tia is staring out the window of her body her, trying hard not to hear anything.
“Stop talking nonsense, just speak confidently as usual.”
“Okay. Alice, open it. Quaaaaagh!”
I joked for nothing and got beaten up so badly that I called Seo Ji-yu and gave him an order.
“Simyeong-gunsan, you go and see it.”
“Yes? Are you sneaking in like a part-time job?”
“That’s right. Since this is a factory, part-time jobs are always being recruited.”
“Okay. Then I’ll get ready and come back.”
Surprisingly, Seo Ji-yu complies.
After a brief visit to my private office, she looked much more disheveled than usual.
Tia, who witnessed Seo Ji-yu’s transformation, admired it.
“Wow, your face looks thinner than when you were removing your makeup at home.”
“That’s… That’s why it’s decided and disguised, of course! How should I set it up?”
“You decide. Blanche will prepare your ID.”
“Yes. Then, let’s prepare today and go tomorrow morning.”
I provided her with her stealth gear from her.
The glasses version of the contact lenses I used last time at the shipboard casino.
This one has battery power all over her eyeglass frames, which dramatically increases uptime.
“Now, since it’s being recorded, take it.”
“Thanks.”
While Seo Ji-yu was away for a while.
I called Kim Jeong-tae and asked for trust.
“Place two snipers near the factory, and if they seem to be doing anything to Jiyu, shoot them right away.”
“All right.”
“I don’t know what to do… Neither of you should be particularly nervous.”
Unable to yield to Alice’s dissuade, the snipers decided to wait quietly nearby.
We waited for the next day’s report with half worry and half anticipation.
Next day.
Fortunately, Seo Ji-yu passed the factory part-time job without difficulty.
She was a little worried because she was a woman, but she didn’t seem to be sent back home.
Since it was a factory anyway, it would have been an interview and there would have been nothing to do.
“It’s surprising. To be able to pass through so easily. Even though it’s a factory in the metropolitan area, isn’t there a lot of shortage of workers?”
“I heard that there are not a few cases where only women are hired for factory part-time jobs?”
Alice said as if she had heard something from somewhere, but…
I smiled and shook my head.
“Ah, to be precise, it’s because we’re picking skilled ladies… Ji-yu is a college student with no part-time job experience, so she’s it’s a bit different.”
“Aha.”
In the first place, young women do not go to factories often.
She went straight to the workshop without going through any inspection.
It’s comfortable for us, but it’s a deduction for now.
“It’s a Hunter-related company, so it’s not doing a proper personal investigation… It’s a violation of security regulations.”
“Well, I guess there are no workers.”
“Well…”
Surprisingly, the atmosphere inside the factory was quite good.
Seo Ji-yu was in charge of simple line work…
As if a college student came to work, the other part-timers, as well as the staff, were quite kind.
If you look at the work atmosphere, it’s never bad.
Rather, it can be seen as a very sound and exemplary factory.
But that’s because things aren’t going right.
Seo Ji-yu was stunned as he watched the slowly rolling products.
It is obviously a mass-produced product, but the sizes are different and the finish is completely messed up.
It doesn’t seem like a product that can be supplied to hunters.
“I-can I really wrap this up like this?”
“Yeah. The quality test has already been completed.”
“Hunters make a lot of money anyway, so don’t worry. This is literally for emergencies.”
As if the part-timers with some experience had nothing to worry about, they waved their hands and worked leisurely.
Equipment and consumables that should not be stored together are stored together calmly, and management is not properly done, so it seems that someone will not know if one is stolen.
The production site that I visited during a short break was far worse than that.
It is a company that also manufactures food products, but hygiene conditions are a mess.
Equipment that shouldn’t be kept together is calmly running on the same line.
Everyone agreed with me that there was nothing to see anymore.
“It would be even weirder if the product was made straight over there.”
“Do you think we can run away now?”
“Jiyu, when the time comes, be a rabbit in moderation.”
[Four. Hehe, ha…]
Even if it’s salary stealing, it seems to be quite a burden to Seo Ji-yu, who is not accustomed to labor.
I established her operation before she even returned.
“Float some of the major products supplied by Simyeonggunsan. That’s right. There they are. Rapid cooling agent for fire suppression.”
What I pointed out was one of the products with the highest production volume in Simyeonggunsan.
“Is that the kind you often use in practice?”
“There’s nothing like that against fire attribute monsters. I’ve never used that company’s products, but…”
“Okay. Then let’s go with that one.”
“What are you doing?”
When Alice was puzzled, I immediately revealed my plan.
“Tonight, we’re going to set fire to the factory warehouse.”
“Eh? Are you serious?”
“Yeah. Anyway, it’s a minor fire. The fire will start in the warehouse where the rapid coolant is stored, and there will be factory guards, so it will be discovered in time.”
As I explained, the agent with the ignition ability nodded eagerly.
“If the coolant is working properly, there won’t be much damage. If there’s a problem with the product and it doesn’t work properly, it won’t spread very much.”
Causal retribution.
Only then did Alice, who noticed my plan, laugh as if she was full of spirits.
“Will an incident like that change the factory?”
“It gives you a chance to change.”
“Yes?”
“About a month from today, another fire is scheduled to break out. At that time, there will be a much bigger fire.”
“Ah…”
If you go through the trailer once in front of you, you won’t be able to make excuses later.
If the same happens after a month, then I plan to completely end it.
After a while
Seo Ji-yu, who had run away from the factory, complained belatedly that her gin had run out.
“I couldn’t even shop properly this time.
“It’s black.”
I gave Tia a massage while ridiculing and scolding me.
Morning that day.
A fire breaks out in the warehouse at Simyeonggunsan.
At the scene of the fire, there was a large stock of quick coolant for Hunter, but it did not help much because the product did not work properly.
Eventually, the fire was extinguished only after fire engines arrived.
Coolant that didn’t help put out the fire at all!
The media did not hesitate to spread this wonderful news.
Thanks to this, the employees of Simyeong Gunsan were in a rather painful situation.
The president of the association hated it very much, but I really enjoyed the positive function of the media for the first time in a while.
About 1 month after that.
Another fire of unknown origin broke out in Simyeonggunsan Mountain.
As in the last time, CCTV was inoperable, so it was impossible to determine the cause of the fire.
Fortunately, there were no casualties during the misfortune… But the factory’s warehouse and production facilities were completely destroyed!
Simyeong Gunsan ended up going out of business.
It was the result as I expected.
“These guys… Haven’t improved at all?”
Alice smiled dejectedly, as if she had never thought it would end like this.
Unfortunately, everything rots.
And collective corruption is harder to undo than individual corruption.
Individuals who belong to a group have a great excuse, ‘for the sake of the group’.
Shim Yeong-gunsan may have been a slightly more normal group originally, but…
It’s a story that doesn’t make any sense now.
“It ended up like this.”
To be honest, I was hoping for a little better…
It seems that it was not easy.
“Actually, I wanted to put him in jail.”
“The president of Gunsan Simyeong, he was a first-generation hunter well known in our guild.”
Certainly, he is a man who sacrificed himself for his country.
However, there was no law requiring compensation in this way.
Wouldn’t that be bullying the poor juniors?
As I sighed and went into my private office, Alice followed me.
Unlike before, she teased me with a mischievous smile.
“By the way, try that one more time last time.”
“Yes?”
“Why, there is ‘open’.”
“Sorry…”
“No, don’t apologize and try one more time.”
I made a mistake. This will last quite a while.
I regretted it belatedly and silently accepted Alice’s prank her.
