Chapter 99 – 21
It was an impossible request.
No matter how much I was a veteran who had been in the field for over 10 years, this request was as absurd as looking for Kim Seo-bang in Seoul.
” . . . It’s crazy.”
However, it is impossible to make a fight in the yard that has already signed a contract.
Kim Hyeon-joon, who was using the tracking device, did his duty, suppressing the sigh he was trying to escape.
“Yejin-ah, how about that side?”
“Nothing.”
“Seokjin, you?”
” Clear. “
Members who carried 999k walkie-talkies on their backs, like those carried by communications soldiers in the military, soon sat down, as if they were quickly exhausted.
It would have been absurd if they didn’t get tired since they had been carrying out the request non-stop from early dawn until now.
“Ha- Let’s take a break, guys.”
As soon as Kim Hyeon-jun, the leader, finished his words, the two In-young immediately collapsed comfortably on the spot and gasped for breath.
“This… Will be difficult today, right?”
Lee Seok-jin, a member of the team, asked the leader about the day’s fortune, lying in the middle of the heated scene where the invitation ceremony was held, but unfortunately the answer was the same.
“Oh, it’s hard.”
“Ha… Such a bitch…”
In an atmosphere where he felt even despair from his low sigh, Kim Hyun-joon sadly held only a plastic bottle, but sure enough, he heard the answer from Ye-jin Hong, the only Hong Il-dot in the team, from the other side.
“Kim Hyun-joon.”
” Uh····? “
“Look at me for a second.”
Hong Ye-jin, who was always cheerful and the mood maker of the team, called her with a very serious expression, but even a fool knew that she would tell her something.
Kim Hyun-jun, who took a deep breath, made an effort to put on a bright expression on her face without expressing himself, and then led his exhausted body toward her and her remote place.
It was getting dark now, and it was a remote place, so it was even more gloomy, but it wasn’t a big hindrance to conversation.
“Why don’t you stop looking for this place and take another look at it from the entrance to the exit tomorrow?”
“The client said it’s certain that he disappeared from here…”
“I haven’t had any income for two days already. You know better what this means.”
At Hong Ye-jin’s words, Kim Hyun-joon just smiled bitterly.
There was no way he, being a veteran, wouldn’t have known that.
However, he must be killing himself in the place where he has disappeared endlessly, judging that there might be something more given by continuous search.
“If we continue like this, even the slightest traces of mana left behind might disappear.”
“Yes, there is a point in what you said. But look, the device does not show any income even in the disappeared area, so there is no point in just scanning it. “
Hong Ye-jin nodded at Kim Hyun-joon’s logical words, but sighed.
This wasn’t a response because she didn’t know what Kim Hyun-joon was saying, so it was her words.
“Again, Professor Jungseok is a professor haha… So the point of my words is… It’s frustrating, the current situation…
Kim Hyeon-joon laughed at the sight of her even making a proposal that he would not normally have if he was very frustrated.
As she said, it is a self-evident fact that there is no ultimate income.
Regardless of whether they kept making porridge with harsh words or scouring every corner from the entrance to the exit, the result would have been the same in the current situation.
As usual, I was just going through the difficulties in a standard way with a high probability.
” . . . Yes, let’s just go over there from the entrance to the exit tomorrow.”
“Really? What happened? A leader who only sang classic songs.”
“It’s because I’m also frustrated this time. Chasing is a game of patience.
Seeing Kim Hyeon-joon shaking her head and talking, Hong Ye-jin also burst out laughing, and Lee Seok-jin, who was puzzled by the laughter of the two, answered from afar.
“What funny story do you want to draw?”
“Don’t be surprised and listen! Professor Jeongseok finally chose to change!”
“Ha! Kim Hyeon-jun? You’re a ghost? It’s something to live for a long time. Hehe-“
In an instant, three people laughed inside, which became a sea of laughter, and Hong Ye-jin, who soon stopped laughing, continued.
“By the way, this request…Is it real?”
” What? “
“If you find it within a week, you’ll put the money in whatever you want.”
“Is that what you mean after looking at the contract together?”
“No, that’s right. The contract is just a piece of paper, and it’s enough to run around with stupid words.”
“I can trust you because you’re Dohee’s friend.”
“Ah~ If it’s Dohee…? No way, that… Seo Dohee, our college junior?”
” Uh. “
“Haa, you bad bitch Dohee… You played well with me until you graduated from college, how can you not call your unnie once… I’m sad.”
“He said you didn’t even tell Dohee your cell phone number after you graduated?”
“There’s no way Dohee doesn’t know my cell phone number, right?”
“····You changed your cell phone not long after graduating. When are you bragging about it to me…”
“…Ah… Is that so…?”
“It’s not like that, but if you changed your number, you contacted me first. They say you’re close…”
“Hmmmm- Yeah, I’m sorry. I was short-tempered. Maybe I’m getting tired of social life after a while, so I don’t have enough time in my life… So, if you gave me my cell phone number, where would it be?”
“I didn’t tell you because I was embarrassed. I knew you would do this, and it worked out even though I didn’t. Take this opportunity to apologize and call Dohee with lots of sorry feelings. How disappointed Dohee must be?”
“Give me your number.”
Kim Hyun-jun sighed and gave her number to Hong Ye-jin.
“Are you sleeping already?”
“Hey, it’s time to broadcast.”
” Broadcast? “
“Uh… Dohee is broadcasting. Don’t you know that?”
“Of course I don’t know! Contact me… Ah… I can’t believe it… That’s why the place is like this…!”
“Well, it has nothing to do with it.”
“Wow, Dohee really succeeded! Isn’t this a place where only people with a lot of subscribers can come?”
“I don’t know the specifics, but probably.”
Hehe- I need to follow Dohee’s social media. Tell me my ID!”
Hong Ye-jin, who got the ID from Kim Hyun-jun, looked at the pictures of her posts, and she continued her words with admiration.
“Dohee broadcasts with a bit of a fangirling concept?”
“Pu-Hup- Why, are you disappointed?”
“No, my code suits me well too? Ah, if you like anime, you tell your unnie that you like it. I love it too! It’s not like that at school!”
“It’s probably like that at school.”
“Ah, it’s good that you know now! If we meet, we’ll be able to have a fun conversation- Nice~”
“Simply send me a DM. I’ll call you when I confirm.”
At Kim Hyun-jun’s words, Hong Ye-jin nodded her head, left a DM, and smiled with a much lighter expression.
“Hehe- I also know a celebrity now~”
*
The request Kim Hyeon-jun received was to find a hunter as soon as possible.
With the condition that if the request is completed within a week, the money will be sent to the account as requested.
Normally, it would have been enough to dismiss it as someone’s joke and ignore it with a laugh, but I couldn’t.
This is because the person who entrusted the request was none other than his close college junior, Seo Do-hee.
“Senpai, how have you been?”
“Uh···· uh···· Yes. I’m watching the broadcast. It’s nice to see you working hard. “
“Thank you.”
It was redheads in the middle of the night, not literally.
It would have been unusual for her and her teammates to come to the lodging where they were staying without contacting them in advance.
“Oh, the order has changed… I’m sorry for coming to you blindly without contacting you first.”
“To be honest, I was a bit surprised… If Dohee suddenly came to see you… What’s the matter?”
“My friend has a really, really important request, so I’m looking for a place to take it, but I can’t find anything suitable. But…
A request from a friend of yours, not yourself.
When she was dumbfounded by her absurd remarks, she said her friend’s full name.
“Do you know that it’s Kang A-seol?”
“Kang A-seol? Ah… I’ve heard of it…”
A broadcaster who only saw thumbnails a few times floating on the video viewing platform algorithm.
She has heard rumors that she is a hunter with great skills and has a good reputation.
“Aseol made a request…”
” ····What? “
As Seo Do-hee was trying to explain everything, someone jumped out from behind Seo Do-hee without even realizing it.
Her pastel-toned short hair, her harmonious and pretty face, and the size of her breasts, which didn’t match her skinny body at all, were enough to make the viewer’s heart tremble.
“Hey… Excuse me first. Dohee has a long introduction… I’m in a hurry…”
” Ah···· Ah····Yes de····Come in····. “
Kim Hyeon-joon, whose spirit went out of his face but suddenly came back to his senses at Kang A-seol’s words, brought a chair and directly invited him to sit down.
“I heard that Dohee is good at finding people.”
“Ah… To be precise, it’s a hunter. It’s impossible for high-level hunters… But low-level hunters have enough skills to find. “
As I said, it was natural that the system was well-equipped in the sun to find information on hunters of high rank, A or higher.
Since talented people are talented people, basic information from one to ten was being shared with the branch and the people who make it their business.
Of course, it was natural in capitalism that astronomical amounts of money were required to dig out more information, so it was something that anyone but the wealthy class could not dream of.
However, there was a little difficulty in finding information about low, or B-class, hunters.
Excluding the information that can be obtained from the branch, there were not a few cases where hunters with a lower level were ignored when looking for more information.
So, most hunters implicitly seek information about the hunter through the Dark Zone or other illegal routes.
However, most of all, trackers who give location information by ‘tracking the hunter’ rather than ‘hunter’s information’ were quite rare.
For high-level hunters, even if you didn’t have to use professional trackers, most of them could ask people in the clan they belonged to or solve it by their own way, but most of the low-level hunters were too hard to track down.
So most of the trackers had a high utilization rate of low-level hunters.
From the hunter who takes the stolen money and uses where he ran away, to the hunter who scammed him, roughly like this.
If I had to compare it, it would be safe to say that it was similar to another secret agency that costs less money than the Dark Zone.
“Yes… I understand. If you and Dohee know each other, I don’t need to say more. I wrote my request right here on this piece of paper.”
When he flicked his finger once, a piece of white paper fluttered on the desk and sat down on the desk. Kim Hyun-joon rubbed his eyes as if he had seen some magic, then came to his senses and read the paper.
” Is the request a bit vague… Is there no more information…? “
“Yes, that’s all.”
Kim Hyun-joon felt his head getting more and more dizzy at Kang A-seol’s eyes as he coldly nodded his head as if that was all he said with a calm expression.
“What do you think?”
Kim Hyeon-jun, who was naturally brought back to his senses by a word that brought him out of his thoughts, looked to the side and saw Lee Seok-jin, who had been to the convenience store and was offering an ionic drink.
“Just, the day I first received the request…”
– Profit
“Well, even thinking about it now is absurd. Looking at the contents of the request, aren’t we going through such hardships right now?”
Kang A-seol politely and coldly disappeared leaving only the end of a week.
When I showed the request to her teammates, I vividly remembered her eyes widening and she quickly accepted it when she saw the amount of the request, even though she was dumbfounded by the content.
“Find where the hunter is in a place where even traces of mana have faded without any information within a week. Is this correct? Gulp-gulp-kya-“
“Okay, when I find it, I fill the blank check with the amount I want.”
“Can you tell me who the real client is?”
“You asked to remain anonymous.”
“Hmm- I think at least the youngest daughter or son of a conglomerate family, right?
Hong Ye-jin and Lee Seok-jin, who had gone out to play, would not have seen Kang A-seol, and the client naturally knew only herself as the leader, but it didn’t matter.
“…Let’s go, so we can be busy again tomorrow.”
“Hu- I’m sleeping here in a tent today. Ah… I’ll smoke some cigarettes.”
“The man is smoking.”
“Hehe- go to bed first.”
Lee Seok-jin, who responded with a rotten smile to Kim Hyun-joon’s work, quickly disappeared outside, and Kim Hyun-joon, who entered the tent, lay down first while arranging his seat.
“Keuuuuu!!”
She must have been tired in the tent next to her. Hong Ye-jin was snoring at her while sleeping.
‘Can I do it… ‘
In fact, Kim Hyeon-jun and the two were not hunters.
Because he was just an ordinary person with a job as a tracker.
It’s a big stereotype that chasers will only do hunters.
Many of the tracking equipment were standardized so that non-hunters could easily use them.
It was only because it took a lot of time, but there were quite a few ordinary trackers who made it as a career.
“Okay, let’s do it. I’m sure it will work somehow…”
It is the main battle that must come down.
Even if I couldn’t find it within a week, there was no penalty.
Just as always, he does his best in the given task, but Kim Hyun-joon’s work ethic has not changed.
*
Inside an empty room.
In a place where there was no furniture, Kang A-seol was lying on a blanket.
She seemed precarious like a distraught person staring blankly at her ceiling, but her eyes quickly returned to focus and she straightened her posture again and began to meditate.
Her mana, which started from her heart, stroked her along with her blood, but her uneasy mind and her anger did not subside easily.
“····Let’s calm down, Kang A-seol···· There is nothing to be excited about····.”
Kang A-seol, who had been mind-controlling like a monk reciting her Heart Sutra and muttering nonstop, opened her eyes with a more relaxed mind, but immediately hit the wall with the scent that lingered in her mind.
Unknowingly, her hand clenched into her fist penetrated the middle of the wall, and Kang A-seol began to tremble in that state.
” 어떤 새끼지? 어떤 미친년일까····? 씨발 진짜!! “
Unsurprisingly, there were several holes like the one before, without a doubt, where he had been punched in succession, but even the holes looked bigger than before.
– Thump
“Hey! Student!”
Then someone knocked on the door, and Kang A-seol quickly changed her expression and opened her door at the same time as she snapped her fingers.
“A little bit of room… Uh…! What the heck! That’s…!”
The landlord looked into her room and saw that there were ten large holes in the wall, and she was shocked, but A-seol Kang calmly bowed her head and apologized.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Landlord. I… I’m experimenting with something… What can I do with this…?”
When Kang A-seol handed over a bundle of 50,000 won bills, the landlord changed his expression from angry to shocked, and it was understandable.
” ····This····what is this····.”
“It’s 30 million won… I wonder if you can fix the room with this… Oh, if it’s not enough, I’ll give you more.”
” ····Ah, no! Uh···· Chu····Enough! Won···· Hmmmm- Thank you.”
“I’m sorry to be noisy. I’m in a bit of a hurry right now, so I still have a lot of things to experiment with…
“Of course… Hmmmm- No, that’s right. But please be a little careful when writing.”
“Yes, thank you. I’ll be careful.”
“Okay… Hmm… Rest… Rest.”
Perhaps because he had received too much money in cash, the landlord left immediately, and Kang Ah-seol started laughing like crazy as soon as the landlord left.
Hehe- fuck, can’t you calm down?”
The yaksha with a cold smile looked like it was about to unleash magic at any moment, but he took a deep breath and shook his head again.
“No… Kang A-seol… Calm down. First of all… Calm down… Calmly think about it… Whoa- you’re not a mean bitch like my mother.”
Kang A-seol, who opened her eyes after mind control for a while, began to grasp the current situation, but soon the ringing of her cell phone interrupted her thoughts.
[Boyfriend rapist]
“Heh, fuck, you really keep fucking. You can’t be a nobleman like this.”
Kang A-seol, who had turned off her cell phone, touched her hair, but she sighed and bit her lips.
‘ First of all, I have to keep it a secret from my mother and I have to solve it… ‘
“Ughhh!! Fuck, if you know this, you’re going to catch a strange pod again and give a damn to take it away… No way… I have to solve it quickly somehow…”
She avoids contact with her mother as much as possible and lives in her room temporarily, but the situation shows no sign of getting better.
“…They will definitely not find it.”
The tracking men introduced by her close friend Seo Do-hee.
However, she did not like it in her own eyes that her skills seemed mediocre at first glance.
“If it’s a damn thing, a bitch with a lower rating will take it away… Shit…”
It is usually true that high-ranking hunters are good at finding low-ranking hunters.
It was only natural that the concentration and strength of mana and even power would be noticeably inferior.
But it also has many variables.
For example, in a battle, a high-ranking hunter can find a low-ranking hunter as quickly as swimming.
Because he would have had to use mana when fighting, and traces and traces of mana would have remained thick all over the place.
However, in peacetime, it shows a completely different aspect, and low-level hunters will not use mana during their lives, so there is no way there will be that much trace left, and thanks to that, the few traces and traces are inevitably scattered in all directions.
For example, Kang Ah-seol’s situation was just right at the right time.
Despite the situation where her mosquito-like bitch kidnapped her brother, the traces and traces of her mana were not felt at all, so even her high level was useless.
On the other hand, the situation was different for high-ranking hunters, and this was easily seen by considering Yun Na-yeon’s situation.
It was ironic that high-level hunters did not use mana even in normal times and suppressed it, but since there was a lot of mana in their bodies, traces and traces did not disappear easily, and the probability of being pursued was high.
– I saw a woman walking out that way with a little man in her arms.
As a result of investigating the surroundings, words from a citizen continued to float in Kang A-seol’s head.
The fact that some crazy bitch went out with her brother in her arms meant that she was aiming for it, but her liver wasn’t swollen, it was just overboard.
“Fuck bitch, do you think you have two lives? You kidnapped yourself while I didn’t see you? If you meet a fucking bitch, you have to be careful… No… Let’s think more intelligently and calmly, Kang A-seol. It wasn’t.”
Even if you think about it calmly, there is only one conclusion.
Anyway, Kang A-seol is going to kill the kidnapper.
“Time… Time is important…”
As they say, time is life.
Nobody knew what the crazy bitch would do to her brother.
While pondering, there was something that immediately crossed her mind, and she snapped her fingers and summoned a bunch of 50,000 won bills from space.
She was able to assert that the most powerful thing for her was money, not magic.
The lumps of bills that I had accumulated while hunting from the past until now.
It was the most powerful weapon she could use at this point.
It wasn’t enough that her cash was stuffed enough to cause inflation in her subspace, and her own bankbook would have been stamped with countless zeros.
Ranking her rich people in her medium or magazine is her numbers game to her.
In a world where gates were prevalent, the value of an SSS-class hunter far exceeded that level.
In the current situation where the end of the world theory is coming out, she would have to be treated as a common hero at the mass market just because she secretly removed the dangerous gate and saved the earth.
” . . . The answer is the Dark Zone.”
The bullets were full and overflowing, so there was only one place to use them.
Dark zone.
It was an amusement park that anyone could use for money or something rare.
A place where you don’t even blink about illegal things.
The choice of Kang A-seol, who had the right to use money, was a self-evident fact.
“…Fuck, I can’t use it carelessly, but…”
However, Kang A-seol is a person who created her own image.
She had more to lose if she got a bad rumor about an illegal place in exchange for information about the kidnappers.
Plus she’s about to reveal her boyfriend, saying that her own image is on the cake.
There wouldn’t be anything more stupid than that if you hit the upper limit every day and go into hell with your own feet.
‘There’s nothing I can’t do. ‘
She only went to the costume tracker because of her close friend. In fact, Kang A-seol, who had decided to use the Dark Zone from the beginning, already had a plan, so it was enough to put it into action.
“Knapper bastard bitch, clean your neck and wait. Your head will be taken care of soon.”
Kang A-seol, who uttered her creepy words, immediately left a cold smile on her face, and then she disappeared.