The Legendary Detective Catches All the Criminals - Chapter 147



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◈Episode 147◈

scorched earth

Inspector Kang Tae-gyu asked Kim Han-gyeol urgently.

“What happened?”

“That’s right······ I’m sure there was some commotion.”

“Are you sure you heard the sound of electric torture?”

“I think so.”

“Is this Detective Shin being targeted?”

Kim Han-gyeol listened carefully to the headset sound and then answered.

“This is not Detective Shin’s scream.”

“really?”

“Detective Shin never screams, no matter how much pain he’s in. I’ve never heard him scream. And this sound… sounds like Lee Wan-yong’s scream.”

“Well then, that’s great. What on earth is going on?”

“Detective Shin is not in danger yet. There is no signal to commence operation.”

Manager Park Dong-hee said with a frustrated expression.

“You can’t accurately judge the situation inside just by listening to the sound. How about something like a video?”

Kim Han-gyeol answered.

“Just wait a moment. Detective Bang, who broke into the shopping center undercover, will send you the footage.”

As soon as Kim Han-gyeol finished speaking, Hwang Yeo-ju shouted.

“Videos are starting to come in!”

The detectives from the special task force for unsolved cases moved around in droves.

Soon their gaze was fixed on Hwang Yeo-ju’s monitor.

“Detective Shin is over there.”

Kim Han-gyeol said, pointing his finger.

Manager Park Dong-hee nodded as if he was relieved.

“I’m glad you look okay. Why did the torture device show up?”

“I don’t know. That must be why it was so noisy.”

Manager Park Dong-hee carefully examined the monitor.

“Who is lying on the floor?”

“He’s wearing a monkey mask… I don’t know. He probably sounds like a guy who speaks like an entertainment MC.”

“Why is Lee Wan-yong tied up like that?”

Kim Han-gyeol answered with his arms crossed.

“It’s an obvious trick. He thought that Detective Shin didn’t know that he was the game manager.”

“Are you really that annoyed?”

“What goes around comes around.”

“Isn’t it dangerous? What if those guys attack you, senior?”

“The signal hasn’t arrived yet. Please keep watching.”

* * *

The stage set up by Untouchable.

-Phase support support.

Lee Wan-yong screamed until his throat was hoarse.

“Kwaaah!”

Shin Dae-seong took Lee Wan-yong hostage.

“Did you think I didn’t know you were a game manager? I’m not that incompetent.”

“Ugh······You knew about it and came with me on purpose?”

“Yeah, so that we can know who the Creator is?”

“You’re a really crazy detective. But do you think you can get out of here?”

Bodyguards in black suits ran toward the stage.

Shin Dae-seong threatened Lee Wan-yeong by holding an electric baton to his head.

“Stop! What do you think would happen if I shocked this guy’s head right in the face? He’d feel excruciating pain because of the bullet in his head. It would be so painful that he might die.”

“!”

Lee Wan-yong shouted in surprise.

“Stop it, you little shits! Do you really want to see me die?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry······.”

The men who had come up to the stage hurriedly went back down.

Lee Wan-yong asked with a puzzled expression.

“How did you know I was a game manager?”

Shin Dae-seong answered with a lie.

“When you disappeared from the entrance······ There’s no way a coward like you could disappear without a trace.”

“You didn’t notice it at all before?”

“You would have died instantly if I hadn’t blocked your path with my arm. I really didn’t know you would risk your life to deceive me.”

“Hey, man, that’s too bad… If only I had been careful at the end, it would have been a perfect success!”

“Did you deceive me because of the score?”

Lee Wan-yong opened his mouth with a bitter expression.

“That’s right, the manager has to always maintain the highest score. If this goes well, I’ll break the highest score······.”

“The game ends if you kill me?”

“You’re asking such an obvious question. It’s no use taking me hostage. You’re destined to die here.”

“I won’t die alone······.”

Then, Shin Dae-seong met eyes with Lee Wan-yong, who was tied to a chair.

“I’ll kill you first, and then I’ll try to escape. If I die then, there’s nothing I can do. I’ll take at least one more of those guys to hell.”

“What a trembling gaze······. Now I can definitely feel the creepiness that makes me think of a psychopath.”

“Let’s not be so pessimistic. Isn’t there a way for both of us to survive?”

Lee Wan-yong intuitively sensed what Shin Dae-seong meant by those words.

“If you’re thinking of using me to get away with it, then give up. Once the show starts, you have to see it through to the end. And by end, I mean when the person you’ve chosen as your target dies. My life comes next.”

“Do you really not care if you die?”

“Yeah, there’s always a substitute for situations like this.”

“A replacement?”

“If I make a mistake or get a bad score, he kills me and becomes the game manager.”

“Is that decision something the substitute makes on his own?”

“No, in my case, it is the Creator who commands it.”

A faint smile spread across Shin Dae-seong’s face.

“Is the Creator watching me now?”

Lee Wan-yong nodded silently, and Shin Dae-seong took a step forward with a stern expression.

“I am detective Shin Dae-seong from the Unsolved Cases Unit. I made your game boring, didn’t I? I will never be a scapegoat, and I will arrest you all.”

The murmur in the audience grew louder and louder, because Shin Dae-seong’s words did not sound like a joke at all.

Shin Dae-seong immediately raised his voice and spoke.

“I’m going to start causing trouble from now on. The guy who killed my wife is here too, right? Until he shows up in front of me.”

-Phase support support!

Lee Wan-yong was the beginning.

“Kyaaak~ Why me again~.”

-Crackle~ Crackle~ Crackle~.

It was a time when Shin Dae-seong’s electric shocks continued.

The MC, who had fallen on the floor, came to his senses.

He tried to run away secretly when he saw Lee Wan-yong screaming.

“Where are you going?”

“!”

I tried to escape by crawling, but was caught right away.

Shin Dae-seong applied the electric baton to his back without hesitation.

-Phase support support!

Maybe because he was an MC, his screams were also very loud.

“Kuaaaaaaa~.”

The laughter from the Untouchable members sitting in the audience disappeared.

They realized that they too could end up like that.

The black-suited security guards who had been under the stage came up.

They immediately rushed to Shin Dae-seong and tried to subdue him.

The iron electric baton was suitable for striking purposes.

-Tough, tough, tough, tough!

Shin Dae-seong swung an electric baton and knocked down the bodyguards.

The skilled bodyguard caught the electric baton that Shin Dae-seong was striking with his hand,

-Pizza!

Unable to handle the electric shock, he fell backwards.

You will lose consciousness momentarily.

Shin Dae-seong knocked down all the guards and shouted.

“Isn’t there anyone else who wants to jump in?”

Those in the audience looked visibly embarrassed.

“If this continues, aren’t we really going to get hurt too?”

“How can we not catch even one detective······.”

-Boom, boom!

Shin Dae-seong cut the wire connected to the electric baton.

Then he walked towards the audience, holding the electric baton in both hands.

“I said I was going to arrest you all.”

-chuck!

This is when Shin Dae-seong shouts while aiming an electric baton.

-Whoosh.

Another group of security guards surrounded the stage.

Some of them were even holding guns.

But Shin Dae-seong doesn’t look intimidated at all.

“You’re going to stop me with that many people?”

A man who seemed to be the leader of the bodyguards answered.

“That’s it for the installation. If you come down from that stage, I’ll kill you.”

“Is this a command from the Creator?”

“······.”

“I don’t know who you are, but you seem to be really scared. You’re not even showing up when I’m surrounded like this.”

“It would be better for your health if you kept your mouth shut.”

Shin Dae-seong approached the bodyguard leader.

“Are you also a loyal dog of the Creator?”

“what······.”

“You have a personality that’s on par with anger management disorder, but you’re holding it in. That must be how scared you are of the Creator.”

“You know how lucky you are. If the Creator hadn’t stopped you, you would have already died by my hand.”

Shin Dae-sung approached the end of the stage.

He said, locking eyes with the leader of the security guards below the stage.

“What if we think differently?”

“?”

“It’s because I have a very patient personality that you guys were able to survive. If I had my way, you would have already been finished.”

The bodyguard leader reacted with disbelief.

“Are you trying to achieve a mental victory? Do you know who is surrounding whom right now?”

“Yes, of course I know. You guys are like rats in a poisoned cage. Not a single one of you can escape from here.”

“That crazy guy······.”

“I’ll show you who doesn’t understand the situation. From now on, you should think of yourself as being in hell.”

“Do you think that kind of nonsense would work on me?”

“I’m not lying. I’ve said it time and time again… A club is better than a madman!”

The moment when Shin Dae-seong shouts loudly.

-Pot!

All the lights around the stage went out at once.

“What, what is it?”

A burst of embarrassed gasps from the audience.

Shin Dae-seong took advantage of the sudden darkness,

-Ouch!

He knocked down the bodyguard leader with an electric baton and then started rushing towards the gallery.

-Tight, tight.

Shin Dae-seong’s merciless assault began.

“Kwaaak!”

“Caaak~.”

A series of terrible screams rang out, and the sense of fear in the audience grew stronger and stronger.

“Why aren’t the lights on yet?”

“I can’t even turn on the light because I don’t have my cell phone. What should I do?”

In the thick darkness, Shin Dae-seong’s voice echoed.

“Is the Creator seeing this? If you don’t show up, I’ll kill everyone here!”

Shin Dae-seong’s cry was not a simple threat.

-Tough, tough, tough!

“Ahhh~ Please save me······.”

The first person to get caught was severely punished.

“Fuck, if we keep doing this, aren’t we all going to die?”

“What on earth is the Creator doing?”

“Hey, shit! I have to live first!”

“You cowardly little bastard… Let’s go together!”

A huge chaos broke out as the Untouchable members in the audience rushed to run away.

* * *

The building next to the shopping center.

The special task force for unsolved cases was also in disarray.

“Detective Kim, wasn’t that a sign just now telling you to come in?”

“No, sir.”

“Didn’t you say that a club is the best medicine for a crazy person?”

“That’s right. That’s not a signal.”

“What kind of signal is this?”

“That······is a secret.”

“what?”

This is when Manager Park Dong-hee makes a bewildered expression.

Shin Soo-ah said to Manager Park Dong-hee.

“This is an emergency situation. We don’t know what kind of danger Detective Shin might face. Shouldn’t we dispatch the unit with the authority of the Chief?”

“Well······ It’s so dark I can’t see anything, so I don’t know what the situation is.”

All that was visible on Hwang Yeo-ju’s monitor was a black screen.

Because all the lights on stage were turned off.

Only the sound of impacts and screams could be heard from the speaker connected to the listening device.

-Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

“Kayaak~ Please save me.”

Kim Han-gyeol spoke positively.

“That’s not a scream, Detective Shin. It would be better to wait and see until there’s a signal to come in.”

Hwang Yeo-ju defended Kim Han-gyeol.

“That’s right, Detective Shin is not the type of person to do something reckless. You have to wait for a clear signal.”

The detectives from the special task force nodded in agreement.

How much time has passed like that······.

-Flash.

The moment the stage lights come on and the screen brightens,

“······!”

The detectives in the special investigation unit were all frozen. The scene that unfolded was more horrific than they had expected.

Immediately afterwards, an exclamation of disbelief burst out from Kim Han-gyeol’s mouth.

“This is really a total wasteland······.”