The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 30
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Episode 30: Firefighting training begins now.
“You’re going to sit comfortably in the office and tell the detectives to go here and there, and play soldier. Can I come with you?”
Inspector Kang Hong-sik’s eyes were shining wickedly.
[Those are some evil-looking eyes.]
‘Of course. I guess he’s planning on going with me and giving me a hard time.’
You want to go with the third team? The intention is obvious. A rookie prosecutor surrounded by numerous detectives.
If I were lying in wait on the street on a cold night and no one came out of the noodle shop building, the laughter, cruel criticism, and sarcasm from those detectives would all be heard on my back and in my ears.
If I say I won’t go here, I’ll just be a bad prosecutor who sits comfortably in my office and makes detectives play soldier.
Detective Kang Hong-sik had a crooked smile on his face, perhaps thinking that he had me pinned down.
“Well, if you’re scared, then just… … No, if you’re scared, then just hunker down in that warm office. Our detectives will go and see.”
“Who cares? Let’s go. I can go with you and check with my own eyes the rats coming out of the secret passage.”
Police Inspector Kang Hong-sik looked at me for a moment, as if he was quite surprised that I said I would go. But then a good idea came to mind and he curled one corner of his mouth again.
“The inspector is a learned gentleman. He said he would go with me.”
“I want to see for myself. That my inference was correct.”
“But what if the inspector is wrong? You made us suffer on the cold floor, shivering, and then no one came out of the noodle restaurant building. What are you going to do? You have to bow your heads at a 90-degree angle, and put that folder in the trash can, can you do that?”
“Hey, bro!”
The detectives around him began to try to stop him, perhaps because they thought that Detective Kang Hong-sik was going too far.
“Would you mind if I brought a folder? I’ll take the grand prize, grand prize!”
It wasn’t meant to be dried.
Then I can’t back out from here either.
“great.”
“I knew you’d take it off like that… … Huh? You like it? You said it’s good just now?”
Why are you so surprised when I suggested it to you?
Detective Kang Hong-sik, who I thought would naturally refuse, looked at me with wide eyes.
“Yes. I will bow 90 degrees to each and every one of you. But if I bet something, I should get something in return, right? What if gamblers come out of the noodle shop building?”
“What does our inspector want? A folder greeting? Grandel?”
“I just need one.”
“What is that?”
“Just hear ‘Thank you, Prosecutor Do Hyeon-gwang!’”
As I smiled, Inspector Kang Hong-sik muttered with an anxious expression.
“You think I can just listen to you? Are you kidding me?”
* * *
“hello.”
The prayer warriors guarding the entrance in front of the stairs greeted Director Rachel.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Director Rachel Hwang responded in a tone that was clearly formal but not at all friendly, and then climbed the stairs.
I didn’t want to be seen with those who looked like gangsters or thugs. Even though we worked together, she and they were clearly on different levels.
Hair pulled back without a single strand of hair out of place, a classy yet tight-fitting skirt suit, and high heels that are neither too high nor too low.
Rachel Huang was a person who looked so neat and professional that she could have been a secretary at a large corporation or a hotelier.
As she entered the gambling house disguised as a billiard hall, the large men standing in pairs in front of the curtained wall recognized her and bowed their heads to greet her from afar.
Rachel nodded her head in greeting and looked around the hall. Who among the people who came to the casino didn’t have a story? Hers was no less than anyone else’s.
Originally, she worked as a floor supervisor at a large hotel chain casino. A Korean-American, she majored in Chinese in college.
He was fluent in English and Chinese, and had experience working in a Hong Kong casino, so he had no problem dealing with foreign guests. He took advantage of these advantages and ended up working in a casino in a large hotel.
It seemed like her future would always be filled with good luck. But as they say in life, everything started to go wrong all at once.
I made a protocol mistake with the casino’s big shot. He came to the casino with his lover, and I ended up leaking the information to his wife.
Naturally, the hotel was in an uproar. In order to avoid losing big money, the casino fired Rachel. Furthermore, it was revealed that she was having an affair with the room manager of a rival hotel, and the rumors grew bigger and bigger with the truth and imagination added to it.
There was a rumor that she had intentionally caused damage to this casino because she was having an affair with the manager of a rival hotel. The affair was wrong, and it was also wrong for her to make a foolish mistake like a rookie against a big shot. She was wronged.
It was definitely not intentional. Anyway, for that reason, she ended up being blacklisted from the hotel casino industry.
No one wanted to hire her.
It doesn’t have to be Korea. Rachel was about to leave the country. Then, by chance, she was introduced to Mr. Kang, who was running an illegal gambling house, through an acquaintance.
Operating an illegal private gambling establishment.
It didn’t fit her class, and she was reluctant to get involved in a crime, but above all, the salary was high. Moreover, President Kang said that he would even run a VIP room that matched her class.
Although Rachel earned a lot while working at the hotel casino, she spent more than she earned, and even after losing her job, she had a hard time managing her spending.
When her bank account balance went into the red and she was unable to pay off her loan interest, she took President Kang’s hand.
That’s why she came here.
She looked around the casino. People winning, people losing. People crying, people laughing. People drunk, people drunk from gambling.
They are all ultimately the money men of this gambling house.
Rachel walked towards the curtained entrance leading to the third floor.
“Are you here?”
“hello!”
She nodded and asked.
“How about the hall?”
“It’s okay. It’s about the same level as usual.”
“Please distribute the items better so that people don’t crowd together in one place.”
“All right.”
“Okay, thanks for your hard work. I’ll go to the VIP room.”
“yes.”
Rachel pulled back the curtain and walked behind it. In the dim light, she could see a staircase. It was a staircase she had climbed thousands of times.
As I climbed the stairs, I saw a heavy wooden door that was decorated in a way that didn’t seem appropriate for this dark place. I pushed the door open with both hands and stepped inside, and a bright light poured in.
She walked inside, lightly walking across the luxurious carpet.
Ornate chandeliers, staff in matching uniforms, people carrying trays and taking drink orders.
It felt like a casino had been carved out of a luxury hotel. That was the part that Rachel had put the most effort into.
In order to get people to spend money, you had to make them feel like it was worth it.
When he saw her, an employee standing on one side hurriedly approached her.
“Are you here?”
As soon as she entered, Rachel looked around the room and quickly gave instructions.
“Go to table number 2 and get me some good whiskey. Tell me it’s mine. It’s been a while since you’ve been here.”
“yes.”
“Why are the chairs at table 4 like that? They’re too low? You can’t see the board properly if they’re like that. Either change them to something else or raise the chairs.”
“All right.”
“For number 5, try offering a cocktail during break time. I’ve heard that you spend quite a lot of money every time you drink a cocktail.”
“yes.”
This isn’t a real casino. It’s an illegal gambling den. But she wanted to make the VIP room as luxurious as possible.
Just because it’s an illegal gambling establishment, do you really need to squat on the floor of a vinyl greenhouse and bet money, and then walk around to collect the money? This isn’t a market.
A place where she could make double the money while making use of her major from working at a casino. This was the perfect job for her.
About an hour had passed like that. I was looking around the casino with a happy face when suddenly my cell phone rang.
“what’s the matter?”
– We’re in trouble. B, there are police outside… … .
Rachel’s heart sank for a moment, but she soon caught her breath. She knew this day would come someday.
We need to calm down now. If only she could come to her senses, we could minimize the damage.
“Put everything else aside and get the money first. You haven’t forgotten the protocol, have you? Just follow the rules.”
– Oh, I understand.
She was answering properly, but she was frozen like that. But now was not the time to keep nagging. She had to move too.
Rachel hurriedly went to the third floor entrance and locked the door. These gambling houses are always subject to police raids. Even houses hidden in the mountains can be discovered, so it is a delusion to believe that a place in the city center will remain a secret forever.
So she was prepared. She had a perfect escape plan that would avoid the police.
While the police are running around on the second floor, he and the VIPs here will have run far away.
Even if you happen to find the third floor right away, it won’t matter. It’ll take at least 15-20 minutes to open that thick door.
That amount of time is enough.
Rachel climbed up onto a nearby chair, put her finger in her mouth, and whistled loudly.
WHEEK-!
A high-pitched whistle rang out above the sound of people laughing and talking. The staff, the VIPs. Everyone looked at her as she stood on the chair.
“This is fire training.”
“What kind of fire drill is this, in this situation?”
“It’s not civil defense training, what is it?”
There was some laughter here and there, but as soon as they heard the words ‘fire drill’, all the employees visibly tense up.
“You need to stop what you’re doing right now and follow me outside quietly.”
“What is it?”
“What’s going on?”
“I’m following you right now. What is it?”
When I told them to stop what they were doing and go outside, only then did people start to murmur anxiously. That’s what happens. They were getting excited for a while, and now they’re telling me to stop.
“I will compensate you sufficiently for today’s work later. But if you don’t leave now, you won’t have a chance to receive compensation.”
“What’s going on?”
Ella, who was once called the nation’s fairy, is now embroiled in a stock scam controversy and is being called an impossible task due to ugly rumors that surfaced during her divorce from her businessman husband. She speaks out loud.
“The police showed up downstairs.”
“Police? Oh my, what should I do!”
People stood up from their chairs in confusion. Rachel put her finger in her mouth and whistled to get their attention again.
“You don’t have to worry. Just follow me and you will be able to escape safely.”
“Is it true?”
“Just trust me.”
Fire training.
This was their code for escaping in case the police raided.
Of course, most people in the casino found this annoying and disliked it. But while decorating the VIP room in a flashy and luxurious way, Rachel also strongly insisted on an escape operation.
It was frustrating to be kicked out of the hotel industry, but I didn’t want to go from one illegal gambling house to another and end up in jail.
Since the police’s performance is important anyway, they can just arrest the idiots gathered on the second floor.
The safety of the VIPs who bring in the most revenue and herself must be protected at all costs. That is why this ‘fire drill’ operation was created.
He asked for a secret passage to escape from the VIP room. Mr. Kang, who owned both buildings around the corner, agreed.
The billiard hall was turned into a gambling hall, and the third floor above it was made into a VIP room. Then, a secret passage was made from there to the real estate store on the third floor of the building next door.
People who absolutely hate being noticed, like organic TVs, used the secret passage every time they came here, even though it was a little inconvenient.
Of course, in an emergency situation like now, it will provide an escape route for everyone to escape.
Rachel smiled as she looked around at the flustered VIPs.
“We will now begin fire drills.”