Chapter 79 – Bike Thieves (1)
The morning after the Hunter Pet murder case was settled.
I watched the results of training leisurely in the office.
Tia confidently gave orders to the hunter pet, Cerberus, which the special unit had taken over.
“Ker, stand up! Sit down!”
“Wah! Whoa!”
A very smart Cerberus, probably because he was trained from the beginning.
Thanks to that, additional training was not difficult at all.
I sipped my morning coffee and watched it.
“You still can’t bite people?”
“Ah, I think it’s possible to subdue criminals. I asked the hunter pet trainers myself!”
“Repress?”
“Ker, stop me!”
“Grrr!”
When Tia gave her order, Kerr stood up and built a wall with his body her.
As a hunter pet for hunting, he is quite large, and his whole body his is a mass of muscles, so he felt more pressure than I could have imagined.
Tia hit and kicked him, but he didn’t budge.
Eventually giving up on her breakthrough, she turned around to take a detour, and Kerr followed her and turned around.
“Oh, this sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?”
“Right? Kerr, quit!”
“Wow!”
“That’s right, nice, nice.”
I threw a snack to the new member of the special unit.
Jang Min-ho rarely bought snacks for Hunter Pets, so he had to buy them with the special unit budget.
“It would have been easier if I could have confiscated it from him in moderation…”
“They say the cost of selling this hunter pet is much more expensive than it looks.
“Oh yeah?”
After hearing the circumstances from the guild members, it seems that it was true that the victim, the guild master, brought up the issue of employment.
Jang Min-ho was also driven into a corner.
Of course, I didn’t sympathize with him at all.
“I heard that you did something like Hunter Pet YouTube, but these days it’s oversaturated…”
“But Kerr can’t attack only humans, right? Monsters can attack normally, right?”
“That’s because he’s a hunter pet for hunting.”
“Then how do you judge?”
When I pointed to Tia and asked, Kerr tilted her head with a serious expression.
Tia immediately cried and clung to me.
“Master! You heard me right!”
“But you’re half a monster. No, after all, aren’t you just a monster?”
“It’s really too much!”
“Wait, what a mess since morning…”
In the morning, Alice, who was weak, appeared with Seo Ji-yu, frowning on her.
As a special forces and active hunter, she had to take care of this and that, such as being inspected regularly and renewing her qualifications.
Thanks to that, she went downstairs and asked about the recent hot issue.
“Do you know what’s going on with bike thieves these days?”
“No, I didn’t know at all… Do I need to know?”
“I think that’s why there are victims in the association as well.”
Being a bicycle thief in the association is a big deal.
But I didn’t want to focus on those misdemeanors.
“Bike theft… It’s so common. It doesn’t even sound like a hunter crime.”
“That’s right?”
Anyway, I’m driving, so it doesn’t matter.
Besides, bicycle theft is an all-too-common crime.
In Korea, you can leave your wallet and smartphone behind, but you cannot leave your bicycle behind.
It is also common for the person who stole the bike to be stolen again.
In a way, it can be seen that the true meaning of the sharing bike system has been implemented.
However, soon after seeing Lee Seo-woo go to work, I had no choice but to change my mind a bit.
“Forgive me for being late.”
“What’s wrong with Seo Woo being late? It’s okay, so sit down.”
“Chief. You didn’t say that when I was late.”
“Jiyu is too often late.”
While I was joking with Seo Ji-yu, Lee Seo-woo swallowed a sigh and explained the situation.
“I-I think my bike was stolen.”
“What? Seowoo, did you ride a bicycle?”
“Hasn’t it been a while since I left work in a group with a special unit vehicle? That’s why it’s a bit difficult to drag my own car… Foldable bicycles can be stored in the trunk.”
“I see. Are you sure it was stolen?”
“I didn’t have time, so I copied the apartment’s CCTV footage.”
Lee Seo-woo prepared to play the video on the spot.
I decided to stop all other work and catch the bike thief first.
“I don’t know what kind of bastard he is, but I can’t leave a bike-stealing felon alone. We’re focusing on this case for the time being.”
“I heard bike theft is too common…”
“It’s not common to steal my subordinate’s bike! He’s the terrorist who delayed Mr. Seo Woo’s work and hindered the special unit’s investigation. Maybe he’s involved with the Black Lotus.”
Alice and Lee Seo-woo closed their eyes tightly while I was talking about what came out of my mouth.
Still, it couldn’t stop me.
“Okay, let’s see the face first, shall we?”
“Here. This is my bike. It was still there yesterday evening.”
As a member of the special unit, Lee Seo-woo parked his bicycle in a well-recognized spot on CCTV.
Thanks to this, video analysis seems to be quite easy.
“I’ll get back to you soon.”
“Okay. Where once… Um? It’s gone. It’s not even dawn yet?”
“It’s 11pm… Let’s play in reverse from here.”
“Huh? It appeared. But I can’t see the culprit?”
10:47 last night.
We figured out when the bike disappeared in the video.
However, the bike simply disappears in the blink of an eye. The figure of the culprit taking it was not captured.
It was only when we turned the video at 0.5x speed that we wondered about it that the moment was properly seen.
“What, what is this?”
Wow!
The bicycle in the video flashed a small light, and the next moment the bicycle disappeared.
The thief didn’t even cut the lock, but it evaporated in an instant.
We watched the video several times, doubting each other’s eyes.
“Are you gone?”
“Could the video be manipulated?”
“No. There was no noise or anything? Besides, this reaction…”
According to Blanche’s reading, the CCTV footage was not tampered with.
He gave me opinions I didn’t even ask for.
[The light response in the video is a kind that can be commonly found in the abilities of space-transportation hunters.]
Unfortunately, my opinion was also the same as Blanche’s.
The problem is that it makes no sense.
“No, what’s the point of stealing a bicycle for a noble body like a space-transportation hunter…”
“Ears, are they precious?”
“Of course. Even if the space transfer system is B rank, a large guild will take you.”
In particular, hunters who can move humans in space can receive their annual salary as they are called.
Of course, this guy is stealing bicycles, but there are strong and strong places to use it otherwise.
“But he stole a bicycle worth about 100,000 won and sat on it… “
“Chief. This is worth 600,000 won.”
“What? Seo Woo, why did you put a 600,000 won bicycle outside?”
“My wife said that the entrance is getting narrower… He said he was sorry over the phone earlier.”
If you know that you are sorry, you are fortunate among misfortunes.
There is still hope in Lee Seo-woo’s married life.
I still don’t want to believe it… But the method of this crime is the space movement type ability.
I searched the CCTV around the apartment, but I couldn’t find anything that could be a clue.
I let out a small sigh and came up with a special countermeasure.
“Jungtae, just get 20 high-end bicycles right now. At least one million won.”
“Yes, chief.”
“Eh… 2, 20’s? Then at least 20 million, right?”
“It’s an absurdly cheap price for a bait that can catch space-transportation hunters.
Ignoring Seo Ji-yu’s astonishment, he continued to give instructions.
“Put it on properly so that it won’t be seen, and sprinkle it around the apartment in moderation. If it is caught, we will immediately dispatch and arrest it.”
“Yes!”
The special unit, which was actually investigating the bicycle theft, moved very quickly.
In the end, he succeeded in throwing the bait before the day was over.
We watched them in real time while working overtime.
“Oh, bike #3 is missing!”
“Wait… Bike number 3, moving normally. It seems like a normal theft.”
“Hasn’t it been less than an hour since you brought it?”
What the hell is wrong with Korean genes?
A nation with a strict law-abiding spirit who does not steal smartphones, wallets, or bags recklessly does not give a damn in front of a bicycle.
It almost feels like a kind of scientific law.
“Isn’t that a strong lock too?”
“Yeah… It’s a full iron lock, so I should have brought a grinder. Oh, did that only remove the front wheel…”
“Bike number 14 is also stolen! The lock is currently being cut! Will this be stolen today?”
While we were stunned at the too fast pace.
The long awaited response finally came.
It was none other than Blanche who brought the good news.
[Bike 7, tracker response lost for 3 seconds. The signal was re-received 1 km away from the deployed area.]
“1km? Isn’t that the level of an A-rank hunter? If you miss this, you can’t catch it again. Everyone fully armed!”
I said while taking my special green dust smoke grenade.
Kerr, who felt the unusual atmosphere, jumped up from his seat.
“Whoa!”
“Ker, don’t bark for a while. You can’t make noise.”
Nod, nod
I left the office feeling very confident.
“Blanche, where is bike number 7 located?”
[This is a commercial building. Currently completely stopped.]
“Let’s go!”
We mobilized to the scene in a more rigid atmosphere than ever before.
Alice closed her eyes tightly, wanting to know how things ended up like this for her.
