Chapter 122 – The Blood Witch (7)
Four-term member of the National Assembly based in Sacheon. Judging from the fact that he was an adult of the Tang clan, he was from the Tang clan. In a world like this, he was literally close to a man of omnipotent power. It seems that they buried it to hide the spread of the matter.
For me, it only served to add confidence to the belief that Tang Mun was involved. I drank a glass of cold Americano. A bitter taste lingered in his mouth.
The fact that I ordered an iced Americano without hesitation while he ordered hot coffee should be seen as saying that Park Soo-ho even figured out my taste. Or maybe it was just luck, I don’t know. Because it’s not important anyway. I put down the cup and asked.
“I’m sure you didn’t come simply to check on the matter?”
Park Soo-ho silently nodded his head.
“A large-scale biological experiment facility discovered in the South Sea following Kaesong. I heard that Young master was the one who dealt with the matter and directly reported it to the Murim Meng.”
“You’re right.”
“Unfortunately, the political faction’s internal conclusions seem to have been roughly drawn. No clear allegations. Presumed to be the work of a cult. To sum it up, yes.”
“Okay.”
I didn’t even expect it anyway. I already expected that an official punishment for the party would be impossible. Evidence was not easily left behind. It has been a long time since the Protestant intelligence groups came to the same conclusion.
It was enough to make them aware of the party and blood ties. I don’t know if it’s anyone else, but some elders like Dokgopae President and the Murim Lord would have taken it seriously. That was enough for now.
Park Soo-ho lowered his voice and began to speak.
“I don’t know how the Chonma Shinkyo came to that conclusion. However, I have only one answer. The two are related, and both are tangible. It may also be related to our contract. I have no clear evidence, but I am convinced.”
“The Protestant Church came to a similar conclusion… But isn’t it too dangerous for the team leader to get involved? Permission would not have come from above.”
“…Since I came here, it’s a secret for now.”
It was still unclear why Park Soo-ho was looking for me. The affairs related to the party gate were too big for a single NIS team leader to handle. Even the 4th National Assembly member, who is hard to see by the standard of the general public, is just a small branch.
“I want to know the business.”
I just said it outright. He bowed his head with a hardened expression on his face.
“I’m here to ask for help.”
“To me?”
“Yes.”
I stared at the coffee cup and opened my mouth.
“Did you calculate?”
Team leader Park Soo-ho’s eyes widened slightly.
“…To be honest, yes. That’s right.”
“You are weak.”
“Sorry.”
“It’s okay. A good use of information is rather competent.”
“Even with ten mouths, I have nothing to say…”
He scratched his head with a puzzled expression.
“It was a formal talk. In a position like the team leader, being incompetent is a sin, but being competent is not a sin. Let’s hear what’s going on.”
After analyzing all of my interests, personality, and powers, I seemed to be convinced that if I asked for help, I would not refuse.
“As you might have guessed, it is related to our pharmaceuticals.”
“I guess so.”
Team leader Park Soo-ho turned on the tablet and pushed it toward me. I leisurely flipped through the tablet screen and examined the contents. Team leader Park Soo-ho explained further in front of him.
“Some movement has been detected several times in the vicinity of Taebaek City. As you know, Taebaek City has long since turned into a pretty dangerous erosion zone.”
It was a better organized resource than I thought. There were also quite a few pictures of trucks with the logo of Dangmak Pharmaceutical and Nokpo unmanned people coming and going. It was a content that was difficult to find easily even in Protestantism. Of course, due to the nature of Protestantism, there are some things that are less interested in domestic information.
“Awesome. When did you figure this out?”
“Recently. I found it while researching Dangmun and Dangmoon Pharmaceuticals.”
“It would be difficult to attack with just this.”
“…You can flip it a bit further back.”
As he said, my hand, which had been flipping through the tablet for a long time, stopped at a certain page. I opened my mouth heavily.
“Even after seeing this, the government and the NIS are unlikely to intervene, right?”
“…Yes. There is no real power. If you touch it carelessly and the party leaves Korea altogether. That’s a much bigger blow. The sacrifice of a cow for the sake of the great, it seems that the above thinks so.”
The material I just looked at involved some sort of human trafficking. There were countless children who lost their parents due to the gate incident, and the children are “Supplied” By the nursery school that manages them and moved to the facility of Dangmak Pharmaceutical.
What will happen inside the facility is entirely in the realm of the imagination. However, judging from the work so far, it was obvious what Tang Mun was doing. If you were going to do something sane, you wouldn’t have settled in a dangerous area like the erosion zone.
“How many people in the NIS know about this?”
“I can’t be sure. I’ve been researching this and poking around quite a bit here and there. It is possible that information has been leaked.”
“It’s good that you weren’t assassinated.”
“…Always be careful. It’s probably that a lower end like me doesn’t even care.”
“It is difficult for the Protestant Church to officially offer help. If it is Taebaek, it is not a boundary map, but it is an erosion zone, but it is clearly an area of political faction.”
“Is that so too?”
Team leader Park Soo-ho let out a deep sigh with a bitter expression on his face.
“I mean, ‘officially’ to the end.”
“You mean…?”
“Personally, I can think of a few ways. You wouldn’t have reported it separately, right?”
“Yes. Because it won’t make any sense anyway. Besides, if you hide with a needless alertness, you’ll be able to talk. From the outside, it probably looked nothing but a morbid investigation of Young master.”
Hearing those words in person was also a bit subtle. Should I say it’s good to have received the attention of a key character in the game?
“Do you have any plans?”
“Young master was my plan.”
“…”
“It’s a joke. Minchoran. Each and every one of them is a weak grassroots. However, when they come together, they prevent even massive landslides. The weak have their own way.”
“Good. Instead, it will require quite a few revisions to the plan.”
The decision was made. I don’t know if I didn’t see it at all, but I felt bad to just pass it on after seeing something like that.
Even the opponent is right. It’s rather good to have a cause. Unlike last time, there was much more prior evidence.
It would be difficult to carry out a large-scale operation involving the Ghost Troupe and even Cheonbi-gak, as in Namhae, but I wonder if it is necessary now. In particular, as long as the opponent is a member of the party, I have an absolute advantage in terms of character.
“Take good care of me.”
Team leader Park Soo-ho stood up from his seat and held out his hand with a kind smile.
“Yes, let’s start tomorrow.”
Shaking hands lightly, I said.
“Yes…?”
He opened his mouth blankly, but he had no intention of prolonging this matter.
Finish within the weekend
That was my answer
***
Taebaek City.
The city, which once had a population of more than 100,000, has rapidly shrunk in size as coal-related mining declined. The gate situation that broke out in the middle of the day-by-day collapse sentenced Taebaek City to death. Even though it is within Korea, it is an area that is so damaged that it is impossible to properly restore it.
It was near Taebaek City. The next day, early in the morning, I rode a huge truck with Park Soo-ho and his team.
Inside the trailer with Ecogreen Company written on the outside.
Contrary to the common appearance, the inside was filled with all sorts of electronic devices. The Eco Green Company itself is one of the NIS’s cover companies.
Externally, he belonged to the ‘Cleaning Guild Alliance’ for disposal of monster carcasses. The cleaning guild is visible everywhere, and there was no sense of incongruity even walking around the erosion zone.
I could see it as a good thing.
“Are you really going to infiltrate alone?”
Team leader Park Soo-ho looked at me with an expression of disbelief.
“Yes.”
“If it turns out that Young master was involved…”
“That won’t happen.”
I put my inner energy on the blood vessels of the whole body and guided the true qi according to the gut.
Wood Deuk- Wood Deok-
A bizarre sound echoed, and everything from the body shape to the face was changed.
“100 million?”
Team leader Park Soo-ho, who was next to me, looked at me in awe.
Thousand-changing cartoon art.
It was a skill belonging to the highest peak of reverse body transformation, which Cheon Ha-yeon used when dressing as a man. Thanks to the proper training from Cheon Ha-yeon a while ago, I don’t have to worry too much about how I look outside.
“I’ve heard of such a thing…But it’s like magic.”
Team leader Park Soo-ho also opened his eyes and looked around me. An ordinary man in his 30s who could be found anywhere. That was the form I took now.
Of course, it was impossible to spot the 20-year-old Kim Moo-gong from this appearance.
“I was like that when I first saw you.”
“If all unmanned people learn this…”
“The secret arts of the Protestant Church are not taught to anyone, and it is impossible to learn all of them, as it is impossible to enter even under the highest peak.”
“Then I’m glad.”
Only then did team leader Park Soo-ho let out a deep sigh.
“Manager! Im here!”
The team member, who was sitting in a chair and staring at the screen with a headset on, turned around and shouted. As planned, it was easy to get to the outskirts of the erosion zone.
“Red dragons are waiting nearby. It’s out of town, so there’s no problem, but if there’s a dangerous situation, such as a monster attack, you can send it to us.”
He said, checking the communication device one more time.
“Yes. Good luck.”
Team leader Park Soo-ho politely embraced the team with his teammates.
Widely.
I closed the back door of the trailer and got out.
A land where turbid air winds around like a whip.
The ruins of the dreary downtown came into view under the gray sky. A building that cannot be found in its entirety and all kinds of rubble strewn everywhere like garbage.
This is the place where you can feel the crude murder intentions beyond the streets where civilization has been lost.
It was a typical erosion zone landscape.
