The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 14



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Episode 14 Brown Checked Shirt

“What’s going on, Inspector? A weapon? Have you found out something?”

Wi Jun-woo saw me standing still and staring into space and spoke to me.

“Over there. That’s the hook that the old man is holding. Doesn’t it look like the weapon used in this case?”

“That one? Oh, come to think of it.”

Aliotta’s screen analysis is only visible to me. I cannot show this analysis screen to anyone else, so I have no choice but to explain the contents verbally.

However, Wi Jun-woo also had some experience as a prosecutor investigator, so he seemed to be comparing the wounds on the body he had seen yesterday in his head without listening to the detailed explanation.

“Do you really think so? Yesterday, the wound didn’t look like it was made with a knife, but rather something thick.”

“If the chief can figure it out just by guessing, the police would have figured it out already.”

“Right. But even if we found out, it wouldn’t have been of much use.”

I nodded coolly.

A hook used to hang or move fish. Whether on a fishing boat, in a store, or in a restaurant with an aquarium. Wherever fish is handled, everyone has one.

Even if you know that you were stabbed, it’s no use if you don’t know whose knife it was. Even if you figure out that the hook was the murder weapon, there’s no way to figure out who the culprit is. Especially in a seaside town like this.

I can’t even examine all those hooks.

“The weapon was a hook, and the body was thrown into the sea.”

I suddenly looked at the fishing boats lined up on the dock.

“The culprit might be closer than we think.”

“What does that mean?”

“The chief said earlier. If they hadn’t killed him and dumped him in the middle of the ocean, they would have had to move his body to the ocean.”

“Yes, that’s right. So it would be someone who has a means of transportation like a car or a truck.”

“Maybe he really was killed in the middle of the ocean.”

“In the middle of the sea?”

I pointed with my finger to the fishing boats anchored at the dock.

“What’s so difficult? There’s just a band left here.”

“ah.”

Most of the fishing boats here make a living by going out to sea and catching fish, but sometimes they take people from Seoul on vacation and go fishing on board.

“It sounds plausible, but it has one fatal flaw.”

“What is it?”

“Haven’t you seen the article? The last time the two were seen alive was when they were walking towards the market. Not towards the docks.”

The market is on the opposite side of the docks. If they were going to board a boat, they would have naturally headed toward the docks. The last time they were seen was in the market area.

I bought lunch at a restaurant inside the market and walked in the opposite direction from the dock.

“What’s over there? Towards the market?”

“If you go further in that direction, you might go towards the train station. Maybe you were trying to return to Seoul?”

“hmm.”

I looked at the ships again. Even though they were last seen in the market area, I had a strange feeling that they had been on a ship.

“Once you get on the boat, everything falls into place.”

There would have been a grappling hook on the ship. It would have been easy to dump the dead body into the sea.

“Prosecutor. You can’t solve a case by just setting it up like that, right? You have to look at the evidence, the evidence. I said the last witness was at the market.”

At that moment, a fisherman was mending his net in front of a boat that was tied up nearby.

“That’s good. I see the old man over there. Let’s go ask him.”

“What are you asking?”

“You want to see the evidence? Let’s look for evidence that the police missed.”

I suddenly dragged Wi Jun-woo and walked towards him.

“Oh my, you’ve worked hard.”

The old man glanced up at us without saying anything, then lowered his gaze back to the net.

“The spawning season fish species protection period has been announced. Octopus, cuttlefish, squid, tuna. It’s a period when catching them is prohibited.”

“Here, here’s the guide.”

“Just leave it there and go.”

I sneakily walked over to the man who was busy waving his hands without even looking at him and crouched down next to him.

“Is this your boat, sir? Your boat is nice.”

“… … .”

“Would you mind giving me a ride to go sea fishing? How much would it cost?”

Only then did the old man raise his eyes and look at me.

“Do you want to go sea fishing?”

“Of course, there is a lot of fresh sashimi here too. But isn’t it even better to catch it straight from the boat and eat it as sashimi?”

“That’s right.”

It seemed like the old man had finally opened his mouth, so I slowly started the engine.

“Not long ago. About three or four days ago. Didn’t two young men and women come to ask to go on a boat?”

“I was here.”

“You were here?”

Only then did the old man put down the net he was mending and raise his head, looking at us from one to the other.

“What is that? Aren’t you asking about the students that were on the news? The dead students?”

“yes that’s right.”

“I told you about the police station yesterday. Are they police officers too?”

“I’m not a police officer. I was just curious.”

The old man rubbed his chin with his rough hand for a moment, as if remembering something.

“I think it was four days ago, two young men I’d never seen before came and told me to get on their boat and come back. They were going fishing and catching fish.”

“So?”

“That day, my back hurt so much that I couldn’t go. I told him to go to the other boat instead of me. I thought he was going that way, but he came back quickly, still groaning.”

At first, Wi Jun-woo, who had been hesitating, came closer to me.

“I thought maybe you couldn’t get a boat, so I said I would give you a boat. But you said no, you didn’t have to go on the boat, and you waved your hand and told me to go?”

“You’re not going on a boat?”

“That’s right. I told you not to get on the boat.”

Wi Jun-woo and I looked at each other.

You said you weren’t going on a boat?

“Look. There’s evidence.”

“No way.”

“You told the police too?”

“That’s right. What happened to the young students? Too bad.”

“You really didn’t get on the boat?”

“Oh my, stop shaking so much. Thank you, sir. Goodbye.”

Wi Jun-woo grabbed my arm and pulled me.

“The police heard about it too. You see, our country’s police are not that easy. There were hooks and the body was dumped in the sea, so the police must have suspected that college students were on the boat. But they said no.”

“hmm.”

“The police will take care of the rest. Whether it’s the market or the train station. We’ll just hand out these informational pamphlets.”

I had nothing more to say in rebuttal, so I followed Wei Jun-woo, but still, there was still a lingering suspicion in my heart.

[Does Hyun-kwang continue to doubt Bae?]

‘Yes. Even if they killed him somewhere else and moved his body, there’s a chance he was taken out on a boat and abandoned.’

The bodies were found on the rocky shore and about 1km further down the sea.

It would have been difficult to move the body from the breakwater side, and if it had fallen from the bridge, it would have been discovered before it floated to the rocky shore, because the water there was shallow.

It must have been abandoned in the sea.

[This is a reasonable analysis. Now, let’s take a closer look at these ships.]

“That would be good.”

But since there is no search warrant and no reason to get close to the ship, they can only watch from afar.

Luckily, I have Aliotte.

Hyper vision that allows you to zoom in and examine things from a distance. This is when you can use it.

“It is a period when catching spawning fish is prohibited. It is a closed season.”

Wi Jun-woo took the lead, handing out paper brochures. I followed him and handed out brochures.

“Spawning fish are prohibited. It is the closed season.”

But my gaze was fixed on the fishing boats lined up along the dock. Maybe I could get some great information there that I didn’t know about.

“Spawning is prohibited. It is the closed season.”

Aliotta quickly began analyzing the ships, recording and storing the information. From the size, shape, and color of the ships to the nets and various fishing gear visible inside the ships.

As I handed out pamphlets to people in a dry manner, my eyes were fixed solely on the fishing boats.

“No hard labor. It’s a forbidden word.”

The woman who received the paper tilted her head.

“What is that young man saying now? Prohibition of difficult labor? What does that mean?”

“I don’t know either.”

“But, difficult labor should be prohibited. It’s so dangerous.”

“Is it banned because it’s banned?”

“I don’t know. But isn’t there something that you’re telling me to do?”

The ladies seemed to be talking about something, but I didn’t pay attention. Aliotta was raging inside my head.

[Hyun-kwang! Stop! Over there! That’s it!]

‘Oh, don’t make a fuss. What’s wrong?’

[I told you to look at this!]

Aliotta pointed out one boat and showed it to me. It didn’t look particularly different from the other boats lined up around it.

Since I couldn’t figure it out, Aliotta zoomed in on the screen and showed it to me. This is what I see in the zoomed-in scene.

“pond?”

What Aliotta showed me was the inside of the ship’s railing. There were nails sticking out of it, and they were being used as hangers.

Fishing nets and fishing hooks and other tools were hung on the nails.

‘What do you want me to see? A fishing net? A hook?’

[No. Look at that second nail.]

Aliotta greatly enlarged the second nail, even pointing it out with a red arrow.

What the arrow was pointing to was a small piece of cloth hanging loosely from a nail.

A check pattern with dark brown, light brown, and white.

Hmm? I think I’ve seen it somewhere.

At those words, Aliotta projected a screen into the air. On the left was the piece of cloth hanging from a nail that had just been shown. And on the right was the body of the man she had seen on the beach.

The clothes he was wearing were jeans and a white t-shirt.

and.

“Brown checked shirt.”

[Yes! They are the same.]

‘But that piece of cloth is so small? Are you sure they’re the same?’

As soon as I finished speaking, all kinds of letters and arrows appeared in the air and Aliotta’s analysis began.

[The darkest brown here is #593c20. The brown with the largest area is saddle brown, #8b4513. The light brown next to it is #cca785. What I thought was white in the hue is actually a very light brown. #c2af9d. All four colors are the same on both sides. It’s the same fabric.]

If it’s Aliotta’s analysis, then it’s definitely correct. The two are the same fabric.

‘But when I saw the body, I didn’t find any torn parts in the clothes?’

[We only saw it from the front. The back of the clothes might have been torn.]

Well, we could only see the body up close before the coroner arrived. We couldn’t touch it, and we couldn’t turn it over.

Of course. Even though we were prosecutors, it wasn’t our case. The police investigation was just beginning.

“Then that must be… … .”

[Yes, there is something.]

You could say it was just a coincidence that they saw the same cloth. But what if that wasn’t the case?

A hook, the sea, a fishing boat, a piece of cloth of the same color as the body was wearing.

Didn’t they say that when coincidences happen too many times, they’re no longer coincidences? There’s definitely something going on here. The owner of that boat could be a murderer.

“Okay. First, I need to find out more about that ship.”

There was no one on the ship. You can’t just board an empty ship. Even if you get evidence that way, it won’t be accepted in court.

First of all, it’s a good idea to ask people around you.

“Inspector. What are you doing here? You should hand this out quickly and finish it. Are you slacking off again?”

At that moment, Wi Jun-woo, who had been handing out papers a long time ago, appeared again.

“Chief, you’re at a good time. I think I found something.”

“What did you find? Did you see a golden squid?”

“This boat here, doesn’t it look a bit suspicious?”

Wi Jun-woo carefully examined the ship I was pointing at.

“Hmm. Now that I think about it… … . It’s fine. I don’t see anything suspicious.”

“Tsk tsk. I couldn’t open my eyes.”

“yes?”

“Okay, first of all. Let’s go see those ladies over there.”

“Why to the ladies?”

“Why? We need to promote the ban on difficult labor.”

“Huh? No difficult labor?”

“And, in any neighborhood, the ones with the most information are the housewives.”

“No, what is that… … .”

Wi Jun-woo tried to say something more, but he couldn’t. I dragged him towards the women who were sitting in a crowded place, gutting and scaling fish.