Chapter 173 – Chapter 173
“I am…”
“I will speak.”
“Hey, me too…”
Three opened their mouths.
Two things, hesitating whether to speak or not.
One person silently glaring at those guys.
I approached the only one who kept his mouth shut and glared at his colleagues and asked.
“Are you the one who contacted Na Hyun-hee?”
“…”
“From the outside, it looks like your mouth is heavy.”
In fact, I heard it from Na Hyun-hee.
That this guy is the leader of the guys gathered here.
“Are you the one who took Baek Hwa-yeon?”
“I don’t know.”
“At least you have the information?”
“…”
He’s a dumb asshole, just like he looks.
I don’t have a hobby of torturing men, but I have no choice but to act boldly because the situation is the situation.
I don’t want to show this to my colleagues, but I can’t hide it forever.
Because I don’t want to delay any longer.
Fu-wook!
“Keuk…”
Without any warning, the sword was stabbed into the man’s thigh.
Blood is pouring out.
I kicked that guy again, laid him on the floor, and trampled on the place where he was bleeding.
“Kuhhhhh…”
To a guy who has lost his magical power, my feet on his thighs will feel as heavy as an inescapable lump of iron.
“If you don’t want to die thinking about bleeding, you’d better answer quickly…”
“Keuk… Ha, ha…”
Hook-!
He didn’t answer, so I immediately thrust the sword into his thigh on the other side as well.
The man’s screams of pain broke out once more.
The faces of the guys who were kneeling next to them were distorted as if swords had been driven into their legs.
Maybe I was a little excited too.
His voice got a little rough.
“Where did Baek Hwa-yeon get stolen!?”
Haha… I… Don’t know.”
“Listen carefully. You die without answering, right? Then I’m going to kill everyone here at that moment. Do you understand?”
Fuck. This makes me look like a villain.
But don’t you really know?
If these guys were in charge of me, including Na Hyun-hee, I thought it might have something to do with Baek Hwa-yeon’s whereabouts…
If not these guys, who else?
How many transcendents do you have with you?
“I-I… Hey…”
Then someone opened up.
The fact that if this man died, his head would be blown off, he seemed to want to talk about something.
“Say.”
“That… I don’t know who did it…”
“What is it? Tell me properly until the end.”
“If you take someone… We have a vehicle that we use every time we do.”
“Vehicle?”
“Yes… The one who specializes in killing those monsters…”
Disposal to kill monsters?
Hong Eun-young, who had been silent in the background, started explaining.
“Why is there a car that goes in and out of the academy? But it must be managed by the government.”
“What is it? Explain a little more.”
“Why, don’t the academy cultivate and use goblin-like monsters for training children? At that time, there are companies that specialize in disposing of bones and flesh of monsters that cannot be used for industrial purposes, including discarded corpses. Because something like that could happen.”
As soon as I heard the story, I checked the face of the guy who brought up this remark again.
He is looking at me and nodding his head.
“That’s right. It can freeze corpses, and since it’s a truck, it has a lot of space inside… Above all, it doesn’t attract suspicion… No, it’s rather scared and doesn’t want to approach. If you use that truck.”
“So, Baek Hwa-yeon would have been taken there as well. What do you mean?”
The man nodded his head.
The guys next to me also responded positively.
“Hmm… I’m sure it is. Ordinary people don’t even bother to see that car appearing around their house. There may be some perverts who like to see it.”
As I listened to Hong Eun-young’s words, the story of her siblings came to mind.
A story about being transported to a strange place while sleeping after taking medicine.
Well, if one or two Awoken people moved, they would have been able to lightly lift and carry it, but they certainly couldn’t ignore the gazes around them.
In such a state, if you use a truck for transporting monsters, you won’t be very suspicious.
Those who are asleep. Even if they were roughly covered with a cloth, onlookers would not have been able to check the contents.
I asked the man I was stepping on as if to confirm.
But the man only let out a small moan, and there was no answer.
In the end, I have no choice but to ask the guy who brought up the story.
“Weren’t you trying to take Park Yu-ri away today? Didn’t you see a truck around the house, let alone a truck?”
“That… That’s because I got an urgent call from Mr. Na Hyun-hee…”
“Didn’t you have time to prepare?”
“Yes. And since the surroundings were a quiet luxury housing complex, there would be no major problems…”
I was wondering if I should believe this or not.
But for now, this is the only clue.
There is no time to think now that I want to get Baek Hwa-yeon back as soon as possible.
I dug up the ground around me.
I didn’t bring a shovel, but digging a little bit is no longer a job.
In an instant, a pit about 2 meters deep was completed.
And there he threw the man who was bleeding from his thigh.
The faces of the other five were visibly pale.
“I will spare you for now. Until we determine the truth of the statement. And the others…”
“Me too, I have something to tell you.”
“Me. Please listen to everything I know.”
“I’ll stand by your side. My ability will be useful in many ways!”
One by one, urgent voices broke out.
Also, the visual effect cannot be ignored.
Thinking of being buried in that pit, he must have wanted to do something.
I calmly listened to the stories they were spouting.
There were some overlaps with what I heard from Na Hyun-hee, and some other new information.
However, there was no clue to figure out the identity of the guy who was actually him.
Fuck fuck.
It took quite a while to listen to the stories of the five guys.
I wanted to ask my senior or Hong Eun-young for other things to use my time effectively, but I held back this time.
Now we must move together.
No more room for enemies.
Now, I intend to always keep my people by my side and protect them no matter what.
***
Based on the information obtained, a full-scale search began.
We contacted the government and asked them to find the vehicle in question from the surrounding road surveillance cameras before and after the day Baek Hwa-yeon’s family was believed to have disappeared.
Clean Goblin.
A company specializing in killing and disposing of monsters with childish names.
Since it is a government-managed company, there was no need for a long explanation.
Waiting for the government to contact me, I and my colleagues set off for Clean Goblin’s headquarters.
Na Hyun-hee and the man who first gave us this information were also brought along.
“Is there anything I can tell by going to the headquarters?”
“If they consistently used that vehicle every time they built Transcendentalists, there’s no way the head office wouldn’t know about it. It’s only natural that the Clean Goblin side has something to do with them if they openly use that big, conspicuous thing.”
“Couldn’t you have just stolen it and used it?”
“It’s a government-controlled company, and it’s a truck with a mark that anyone can recognize just by looking at it. If you’re going to steal it, it’s normal to steal a butcher’s refrigerated truck. In any case, you’ll find out if you go and check it. Call the police and see if there has been a report of the vehicle being stolen. Check it out too.”
“Um… But there must be Baek Hwa-yeon at the head office, right?”
“… Maybe…”
I look out the dark window with a distraught heart.
Are you still safe?
If it wasn’t for me, Baek Hwa-yeon would still be living as an ordinary Awakener in Cool Support.
Just because of me…
Damn, I think of all the stars.
Since Clean Goblin is a company that handles monster corpses, the main target for transactions is the academy.
So, the head office was located in Incheon.
Unless it was a special case where monster corpses piled up in the city due to the backflow of the gate, the main job would have been to dispose of the corpses of low-level monsters like goblins used in the academy.
It took about 40 minutes to reach the headquarters.
At about the same time, I got a call from the man in charge of me at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.
– Found a clean goblin vehicle. Surrounding CCTVs were all strangely broken before and after that day and could not be found, but the truck was clearly captured in the video on the main road. The same goes for getting out. Exactly 12 days ago. Do you think Baek Hwa-yeon’s abduction is related to the clean goblin?
12 days ago.
It is the day before we enter the Cheonji-dong subway gate to rescue Park Yu-ri.
The man’s question seemed to ask whether the Clean Goblin had anything to do with the president’s kidnapping.
Uncertain payment It was difficult to give back a straightforward answer.
But their help is indispensable.
It should be used well in a line that does not get in the way.
“I don’t know yet. I’m just guessing that it might be related.”
– Hmm… Is that so? All right. If you need cooperation, please contact us again.
“Yes, thank you.”
Calling me in the middle of the night
I thought that the nobleman was not an easy job either.
The headquarters of the Clean Goblins was located alone in the middle of a low mountain.
Well, it’s a place that handles monster corpses, but it would have been difficult to be located in the center of the city.
Even though it was already nearly midnight, some floors were brightly lit, and I wondered if I was on watch because I didn’t know when the backflow from the gate would occur.
“It is said to be an excellent eco-friendly company. They say that they grind the corpses of monsters as well as bones and spoils left over from industrial use into finely ground powder that is harmless to the environment.”
“That’s amazing… If monsters are capable, humans must be the same…”
“Manager…”
Donggeul grabbed the hem of my shirt and pressed it close to my body.
It looks like I’m scared, but the atmosphere of the building itself is definitely bleak.
I had an adventure before entering the building.
The four captives, as well as Na Hyun-hee and the man who provided information.
It returned the power of power.
The magical powers of the transcendental ones were also restored to S-1.
“You can either run away or attack. It’s not like I trusted you and returned the mana.”
Even if everyone attacks at the same time.
Even if they run away in all directions.
It was an expression of confidence that I could catch and kill in an instant if I used my abilities.
At the same time, there was also the purpose of checking their hearts.
Park Yu-ri, the only one who did not receive his magical power back, approached me.
“I am?”
“You will return only this much.”
Up to A-1.
If you raise her mana to S, you may miss it depending on the situation.
It’s lightning fast, and that explosive discharge of electricity I saw in my house.
If this bitch starts rampaging at the same time as the others, I’m fine, but it might be hard to protect my colleagues.
I don’t think there will be a sudden combat situation here, but I’m prepared for the contingency.
Equipment including power suits has been rented.
Wearing everyday clothes on top of that relieved the sense of incongruity, but it was difficult to hide all of the suits that covered the tips of the fingers.
Anyone who sees it will notice that you are an Awakener.
“Who, who are you?”
“It’s from the government. You can think of it as an emergency inspection.”
“Uh, there’s no such thing as…”
“Would you be a proper manager if I told you that? I do it sometimes without warning.”
We proudly entered through the front door.
The guards could never stop us.
After checking the weapon in hand, such as a long sword or a bow, how could they stand against it?
You must have noticed that he was an Awakener.
The huge building on the left that appeared to be a corpse processing plant was quiet at night, probably because it had stopped operating.
On the other hand, the right side is an ordinary office building.
As soon as we passed through the entrance, someone hurriedly came out to greet us.
“Uh, how did you come. At such a late hour…”
I held out my Awoken license right away.
For transcendentalists only.
The man who confirmed this opened his eyes wide and showed an expression that his eyeballs were about to pop out.
“What happened to the super-transcendant to our company…”
“Can I know who you are before that?”
At my remark, the man trembled as if he were playing a game and started spurting broth all over his face.
Why is this
What are you guilty of?
