The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 13



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Episode 13: That’s what happened. That’s what caused the chaos.

“You can’t come this way. Please step back.”

As we approached the crowd, a police officer stopped us.

“I’m a detective. What’s going on here?”

“Inspector?”

The police didn’t seem to have any intention of stepping aside even when I told them I was a prosecutor. Instead, they just looked us up and down.

[That facial expression is a mixture of distrust, disgust, and annoyance.]

Well, on a weekday morning, and with a sledgehammer and tongs, that’s a test.

Even I can’t believe it.

“wait a minute.”

I put the bag of trash on the floor for a moment and took out my civil servant ID card from my bosom and held it out.

“uh…….”

Still, the policeman, who looked back and forth between my civil servant ID, my face, and my bag as if he couldn’t believe it, reluctantly opened the way.

As he was about to bow slightly and walk inside, the police stopped Wi Jun-woo, who was following him.

“Excuse me, just a moment.”

“Oh, it’s okay. He’s the one who came with me.”

“That’s not it.”

“Even though he looks like this, he’s a prosecutor. He’s not a neighborhood gangster.”

“No, why am I a neighborhood thug? Do I look like that to you, officer?”

When Wi Jun-woo suddenly got angry, the police waved their hands in embarrassment.

“Oh, no. It doesn’t look like that at all.”

“Then why did you stop it?”

“That’s it.”

The police pointed to the hammer and tongs that Wi Jun-woo was holding.

“You should leave that behind and go in… … .”

“ah.”

Wi Jun-woo, who was embarrassed, put his things down next to mine and quickly followed me.

“What kind of treasure is in there that you’re bringing it in?”

“I forgot because I had it in my hand.”

As we passed the yellow tape and entered, the body wedged in the crevice of the rocks became more visible.

A man wearing jeans and a white t-shirt. He’s wearing a brown checkered shirt over his head. I’m not sure how old he is, but he looks to be in his 20s.

His whole body was soaking wet, as if he had been swept away by the sea, and he was covered in mud and sand. In addition, he had wounds on the left side of his head, his left shoulder and arm, and his right leg.

Looks like it’s been torn by something sharp.

“It’s not a knife?”

[Yes, I need to look at it more closely, but the cross-section of the wound is not clean.]

As we tried to get a little closer, someone blocked our way.

“Wait a minute. Who are you and why are you here?”

I quickly took out my civil servant ID and showed it to him.

“This is Do Hyeon-gwang, the prosecutor at Gunnae-myeon Branch Office. This is the investigator who came with me.”

“The inspector? No, how did you know that the inspector was already here?”

“Make a clean beach, okay!”

I turned my head and looked at Wi Jun-woo. Wi Jun-woo, who had stepped on my foot, responded with a kind smile without even looking at me.

“I happened to see it on my way back from a business trip.”

“Oh, somehow. I was wondering how you came when the official investigation hasn’t even started yet.”

“What is the name of the person speaking?”

“This is Detective Lee Jong-jin.”

Business trips are a no-no. Are you embarrassed about the clean beach movement?

Are you ashamed of protecting nature and the ocean?

Aliotta was nagging at the side.

[Wasn’t it embarrassing to be next to Hyungwang?]

“You shut up.”

“yes?”

When Detective Lee Jong-jin looked back at me with a surprised face, Wi Jun-woo quickly grabbed his arm.

“Don’t worry about him. He sometimes mutters to himself when he’s engrossed in a case.”

“yes.”

“By the way, what happened? A dead body?”

“Yes. A report came in.”

“Can I take a closer look?”

“Just don’t touch it. The coroner hasn’t arrived yet.”

While Wi Jun-woo was asking Lee Jong-jin a series of questions, I slowly approached the body. My eyes were looking forward, but thanks to Aliota, my ears were focused on the back, so I could hear the conversation between Wi Jun-woo and Lee Jong-jin very well.

“Did he drown?”

“It’ll be up to the coroner to determine for sure, but as of now, it looks that way.”

“But judging by the wounds on your body.”

“It’s probably more likely to be murder.”

The body’s face was covered in water, but not badly decomposed.

[Hyun-kwang. Are you okay?]

‘what?’

[This is your first time seeing a dead body, isn’t it?]

Is this the first time…?

It was my first time seeing a corpse. Still, I thought of it as work, so it wasn’t difficult or painful.

[That’s fortunate. I guess I’ll be seeing corpses more often in the future.]

From behind, Wi Jun-woo could be heard asking.

“Considering it had fallen into water, it doesn’t seem to have deteriorated too much.”

“It must have been washed up during high tide and got stuck in a crevice between rocks. That’s fortunate. If the decomposition had been severe, it would have been difficult to determine the cause of death.”

A closer look showed the wounds on his body better: the left side of his head, his left shoulder, and his left arm.

‘The assailant must be right-handed.’

[The wound on the right leg was probably from behind.]

Except for the wounds on the leg, the rest were all concentrated on the left side of the body. And the wounds were strangely torn.

‘I guess it’s not a knife after all?’

[I’ll have to take a look to be sure, but it looks like he was stabbed by something sharp and bulky. It wasn’t thin like a knife. Even if the body was in the water, if the wound was deep enough. Well, it wasn’t a knife. Like.]

‘like?’

[It looks like he was stabbed with something like a harpoon or a long skewer.]

You’ll know if you look at the example.

‘Are you saving all these scenes?’

[Of course. The moment we realize that it is related to a crime, we save all the content.]

It’s a murder case.

The quiet Gunnae-myeon branch office will become noisy.

* * *

“It’s quiet.”

“yes?”

“There’s been a murder. How come our branch office is so quiet?”

“Well, that can’t be helped. The incident hasn’t even come up yet.”

It’s only been three days since the body was found. The police still have a long way to go in their investigation. They need to catch the culprit, or at least identify a suspect, before the case can be sent to the prosecution.

There hasn’t been much progress in the investigation of this case. There’s no evidence, no witnesses.

You have to know where to look and who to catch to issue a search warrant or an arrest warrant. This was just a case of heading into the ground.

Still, perhaps because it was the first murder case in a long time in Gunnae-myeon, it was covered on the news.

< The police have launched an investigation after a male and female college student who had come to Gunnae-myeon from Seoul to visit were found dead, but they are having difficulty investigating due to the lack of evidence or witnesses.

The body of Mr. A (21 years old, male) found in a crevice of a rock after a resident reported it had wounds from a weapon, so it is highly likely that he was murdered. In addition, the body of Ms. B (20 years old, female), who had come to play with him, also floated on the sea four hours later, and the police suspect a sexual crime, as she was found naked. However, it is reported that no evidence such as DNA has been obtained.

The two were last seen heading towards the market in the afternoon four days ago.

I turned off the news video I was watching on my phone and sighed.

“I really wanted to solve this case with my own hands.”

“Because it was a murder case?”

“That’s not it. You know that I do my best in everything, no matter how big or small the case may be.”

“That’s true.”

Wi Jun-woo nodded.

This case was a little different. Not because it was a murder case.

maybe.

“I guess it’s because I saw the body in person.”

"ah."

Wi Jun-woo nodded in agreement.

Of course, I had seen the body before. In pictures. In documents. On screen.

But this is the first time I've seen a dead body right in front of my eyes.

Limbs that are bent and hung loosely.

Hair with foreign matter attached to it.

Dirt and sand were dirty and smeared on his pale, bloodless face.

A small crab crawled nonchalantly over my cold, frozen chest as if it were crawling over a rock.

I had already seen my parents die, but that was a clean, refined death. This was the first time I had ever witnessed such a raw death, such a murder.

Maybe that's why I feel more passionate than before.

“Is it because I saw you dead? My blood was boiling. I’ll catch the guy who did this to you! Even if I can’t catch him and kill him, I’ll make sure he pays the price! That’s what I kept thinking.”

"I see."

While he was clenching his fists and pouring out his heart, Wi Jun-woo kept nodding his head next to him.

“What is it? Why have you been nodding your head as if you understand everything?”

“I see. Now I understand.”

“So, what?”

“Why are we here again today!?”

"uh……."

“I see. So that’s why you made such a fuss about solving the murder case yourself.”

Because I had committed a sin, I turned my head away and pretended not to know. Wi Jun-woo spoke in a voice that was twisted like his own feelings.

“Go see the chief. Tell him about a case that hasn’t even been handed over to the police yet! I’m going to solve this! I don’t have anything to do right now, I have a lot of time, and our investigator is also unemployed! I have no choice but to insist that he leave this case to me.”

“… … .”

“There’s nothing to do, there’s a lot of time, and the investigator happens to be playing around, so you’re telling him to go and do this, right?”

Wi Jun-woo shoved a wad of paper in front of me. I reached out and pushed the wad of paper away.

“But isn’t it better than being in the office? You can also enjoy the sea breeze.”

“With this appearance?”

Wi Jun-woo pointed to the blue belt on his shoulder. It was a blue belt with the words “Golden Fish Period Guidance Period” written on it.

Of course I was carrying it too.

“There will be no more mess this time.”

After storming into the manager's office and demanding that he hand over this case, he was kicked out to the docks instead of the beach.

This month was a fishing ban period to protect spawning species such as octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and tuna. In order to educate fishermen about the fishing ban, they are wearing shoulder straps and handing out information sheets.

“Protecting fish species and protecting the ocean. How great is that?”

“Ugh. It’s my fate.”

The sea breeze was cool.

At the dock, fish were piled up after boats that had set out at dawn came in, and on one side, women wearing boots and rubber gloves were busy cleaning fish and transferring them to large rubber tubs.

The early morning auction ended long ago.

The tied boats were leisurely bobbing up and down in the gentle waves. But the dock still looked busy.

No, rather than saying he looked busy, it would be more accurate to say he looked energetic.

“Hello. Read this.”

“It is a closed season until the 19th. Please be careful.”

We continued our small talk, handing out papers to everyone we met.

“Both bodies were thrown into the sea. The culprit must be someone familiar with the sea.”

“Probably someone with a car.”

“That would be right. Unless they killed him and dumped him in the middle of the ocean, they would have had to move the body from the place of murder to the ocean.”

“The culprit must be a man.”

“One person? Maybe two. It might be too much for one person to deal with two.”

“You had a weapon. Then you could have easily taken on two of them by yourself. Plus, one of them was a woman.”

“That’s right.”

hmm.

As I paused for a moment while handing out papers, Wi Jun-woo looked at me with a face asking why I was doing that.

My gaze was focused on a man who was pulling a shad with a hook. The hook was curved like a question mark and had a sharp blade at the end.

'Is that a hook?'

[yes.]

“Is that the weapon?”

[Let's analyze it.]

As soon as he finished speaking, Aliotta's screen analysis began right before my eyes. Although it was invisible to others, pictures began to appear in front of me as if a transparent screen was floating in the air.

The hook that had been used to pull the gaori appeared on the left side of my vision, enlarged as if it had been Photoshopped. On the right side, the body of the man I had seen three days ago appeared.

This was possible because every screen I saw, especially those related to crime, could be saved.

Among the man's corpse, the wound on the right leg was greatly enlarged and appeared in the field of view. Soon after, the hook that had been visible on the left moved to the right of the field of view as if it was being moved by a computer, then tilted slightly and changed direction, with the sharp end going down toward the wound on the leg.

The end of the hook fit perfectly into the wound, as if fitting Lego pieces together.

[The synchronization rate is 98%. It would have been more certain if I could have gotten a real copy. But at this level, I think I can be certain that the weapon is a hook.]

"bingo."

Sure enough, isn't this incident heaven's will for me to solve?