The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 34
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Episode 34 It may not have just been a witness
“I think there was an accident on the right turn ahead.”
On the way to the scene of the traffic accident at the Hyunwol-ri intersection to check if it was a suicide blackmail group or not. As they approached the scene, Wi Jun-woo spoke while looking at the navigation. At those words, Do Hyeon-gwang, who was looking around, pointed to the public parking lot next to it.
“Then let’s park the car here and go.”
As he entered the narrow public parking lot, Wi Jun-woo glanced at the face of Do Hyeon-gwang sitting next to him. His face was filled with excitement.
‘It seems like it’s really fun to be on set.’
Although his career as a prosecutor was not that long, he still had five or six prosecutors he had worked with in Seoul and Gunnae-myeon.
They all hated going to the field. They would rather stay up all night looking at case files and writing reports. They didn’t want to go to the field because it was just a waste of time.
The only fool who liked to go out into the field was Dogeom.
After moving from Seoul to Gunnae-myeon, Wi Jun-woo gave up quite a lot. He had no motivation for work and no greed.
As the name ‘civil servant’ suggests, I didn’t step forward and just did what I was told to do. I closed my eyes and covered my ears. It was a place where I was praised for doing what I was told to do properly.
About a year after he came to Gunnae-myeon, a swordsman was appointed. The senior prosecutors gossiped about him, saying that he was a dog-like person and that he had no manners, but since he was someone else’s fool anyway, they didn’t pay much attention to him.
Then, the goby fell to Wi Jun-woo. When Do-geom became independent as a new prosecutor, he was assigned to that room.
At first, everything about the sword was dull. It was a pain to handle things, and when he muttered to himself (not always like that), he sounded like a madman.
I was just doing what I always did, killing time and getting paid, but one day, my mind changed.
He was still crazy. He was still acting like a fool. But suddenly, as if he had gotten a chance from somewhere, he started flying around the office.
If a person is only motivated, his performance will lag behind. He will also cause trouble to others. However, when the sword’s ability and motivation matched, he began to achieve explosive results.
Even in cases that should have been dismissed, we indicted them by reinforcing the evidence, and we caught the criminals in cases that almost went unnoticed.
Didn’t they even catch serial killers and uncover illegal gambling dens?
At first, he was a person who made me sigh and feel annoyed just by looking at him, but now, all of that was changing into anticipation.
What kind of performance will you show us this time?
What kind of brilliant method will be used to solve the case?
The dull and boring life at the branch office gradually became more enjoyable. It felt like the dream he had when he first decided to become a prosecutor investigator in Seoul was becoming a reality.
With a sword, even this dreary prosecutor’s office life…
“Manager, do you know that you’re really bad at parking?”
“… … .”
“How many times have I been here? I guess I should just turn the steering wheel to the left, back out, and then shove it back in.”
Wi Jun-woo, who had been feeling happy about the sword for a moment, sharpened it.
“Who can’t park just by talking?”
“I don’t think the manager can even explain it in words?”
“How can you train someone when you can’t even drive… ”
“Oh, oh. Stop! I almost hit that.”
“That’s because you keep talking next to me.”
“Then you just have to be nice and not talk to me.”
“Then please get off and look from behind.”
“Oh, me.”
“Oh, oh! Be careful of the car next to you when you open the door.”
“Then why are you parking your car here?”
Life at the prosecutor’s office has definitely gotten noisy.
* * *
After some twists and turns, we parked the car and went to the scene of the traffic accident.
Turn right and go about twenty meters past the crosswalk. Actually, we already read the report, so we know this is the scene. There was no evidence of an accident here.
There was no blood on the floor, no pieces of broken car. Nothing.
Wi Jun-woo asked with a look of incomprehension as if he was thinking the same thing.
“But why are we here? If it were a major accident scene, there would be bloodstains, pieces of taillight, or even tire marks. But here, there’s nothing.”
What Wi Jun-woo said was right, but I still didn’t want to admit it.
“I wondered why I couldn’t park that well, and it turned out it was because of the limited visibility.”
“yes?”
“It may seem like there’s nothing here, but if you look with an open mind, you’ll see everything. Have you ever heard the saying, ‘The truth of the incident is at the scene?’”
“uh.”
Wi Jun-woo was fumbling around in his head, trying to remember who had said such a famous saying.
“You probably haven’t heard of it. That’s what I just said.”
“… … .”
“But you don’t have to look at it that way. Oh, well, there are similar words. Words like the answer is in the field. Anyway, the important thing here is the ‘field.’”
“What I’m saying is, the reason the scene is important is because there’s something there. In a minor accident like this, there’s nothing left.”
“That’s what I meant when I told you to broaden your horizons.”
I looked closely at the scene of the accident, grumbling. On the outside, I nodded as if I had realized something. But in reality.
[There is nothing.]
‘Really? There’s really nothing?’
[What Wi Jun-woo said is right. If the car had hit something, there would have been a scratch on the bumper, a broken taillight, or some kind of debris left behind, but there wasn’t any.]
‘Bloodstains? No traces of blood either?’
[You saw the black box footage. If it hit at that speed, there would be no harm done.]
“No, I have something to say.”
“yes?”
“No, Chief. Keep watching that area. Something might come out.”
“yes.”
Wi Jun-woo, who had been looking at me with suspicious eyes for a moment, then looked closely at the ground on the road side.
‘I don’t want to get beat up by Wi Jun-woo.’
[Sometimes it’s good to admit your mistakes… … .]
‘No. I don’t like it. Never. Ever!’
After a sharp turn, I took a deep breath and looked around again. Then I replayed the moment of the accident in my head.
The car stopped just before making a right turn. After checking that there was no one on the crosswalk, it started moving again. At that moment, a person jumped out from the alley on the right and hit the car.
“Oh, right.”
When I snapped my fingers, Wei Junwoo looked at me.
“What were you looking for?”
“No. Not yet.”
“Look at that. There’s nothing there even when you come to the scene. How can you be so wise and talk about the scene?”
“Tsk tsk tsk.”
I waved my finger at Wi Jun-woo, who was so hasty that he couldn’t even park properly due to his narrow field of vision.
“When I say the scene, I’m not just talking about the exact spot where the accident happened.”
“sure?”
“Do you remember that black box video? Where did that person suddenly appear out of nowhere?”
“Whoosh, whoosh, from this side. Ah.”
Wi Jun-woo, who had been pointing with his hand, looked in that direction and spoke.
“That alley?”
“That’s right. If you look at it broadly, that alley is also a scene. Why did that person suddenly run out of that alley? What was so urgent that he couldn’t even see the cars on the road? Let’s check it out.”
“It feels a bit forced.”
Wi Jun-woo followed me while muttering something.
There were small shops on the right side of the road, and there was a small alley between them. Park Min-sik must have jumped out from there.
Inside the narrow alley, there were few people, and there was even a musty smell, as if not many people were walking around. There were only overflowing trash cans here and there, but there was nothing unusual to see in the alley. Wi Jun-woo must have been thinking about that too, as he kept talking behind him.
“What would there be to see in the alley? It’s not even the scene of an accident.”
“If you look at it broadly, this is also a scene… … .”
“If they were a suicide blackmail group, they would have been loitering near the road and then jumped into the car. Why would they have hidden in an alley?”
“No, but still.”
“Where are you going? There’s nothing to see, so why don’t you just turn back? At this rate, I’ll end up going around the world.”
As if to vent his anger at being teased about the parking problem, this time Wi Jun-woo teased me and made fun of me.
I stopped walking and turned around to look at Wi Jun-woo. When I looked serious, Wi Jun-woo seemed to flinch slightly as well.
“Around the world?”
“No, what I mean is, there’s nothing there anyway, so let’s just go back to the scene.”
“Why isn’t there anything? It’s over there.”
“Huh. Huh?”
“I told you so. Even an alley is a scene when you look at it broadly.”
The alleyway that led straight ahead split into two paths in front of me. One path continued straight ahead, and the other turned to the left.
I pointed to a road that turned left there. About ten meters into that road, there was a long strip of yellow police tape.
At first glance, you can see the crimson bloodstains on the floor and walls, and the police tape that is haphazardly placed as if trying to cover them up.
The spot where the corpse was lying, marked with white paper tape.
“What, what is this place?”
“What do you mean? This must mean there’s another crime scene here.”
“If you look at it broadly, you said that this is also the scene. Did you really know that something like this would be here, Prosecutor?”
Wi Jun-woo opened his eyes wide and looked at me with a face of disbelief.
Did I know? There was nothing at the scene of the accident, so I was struggling to find something and found it by chance.
But honestly, I can’t say that.
Look at that face of admiration and wonder. Isn’t it the face of someone truly reflecting on their past wrongdoings and swearing loyalty until death?
[Oh, that’s a bit much.]
‘What is that AI speech? Did you do deep learning on the Internet?’
[Blame my developers.]
Instead of blaming the developers who have already gone to the afterlife, I answered Wi Jun-woo.
“It’s more of a product of pure inference than something I knew. I just keep all these situations and clues in my head and deduce the next step in a roundabout way!”
[Deductive!]
“Oh, right. Deductive reasoning!”
Although he stuttered for a moment, Wi Jun-woo seemed to have been too absorbed in the accident scene to notice. He just craned his neck to look at the scene covered in yellow tape from afar.
“Did a murder occur? It looks like it happened recently.”
“Does it look like that?”
“Wait a minute. What happened in Hyeonwol-ri? It would have been on the news.”
Wei Junwu took out his cell phone and started searching for news. At that moment, Aliota caught my eye.
[Hyun-kwang. Look over there.]
Aliotta pointed with an arrow to a white three-story building that was visible just beyond the roofs of the buildings. When he tilted his head to the side, he saw a sign hanging on the side of the building.
‘Oriental medicine doctor? Oh, then this alley. Is this by any chance the scene of the oriental medicine doctor’s murder?’
“Manager, look over there.”
I pointed to the tall building behind Wi Jun-woo, who was just looking at his phone while searching the Internet.
“Where? Oh, that building? ‘Yonghan Oriental Medicine Clinic.’ Oh! So this is the alley where the murder of the Oriental medicine doctor occurred?”
“I guess so?”
“I see. According to the article, Mr. A lured the doctor from in front of the building into an alley and murdered him.”
There is a CCTV in front of the Oriental medicine clinic building. Even without the CCTV, there is a lot of floating population there, so it wouldn’t have been a good place to attack someone.
It is clear that he called a doctor of Oriental medicine, lured him into this back alley, and killed him there.
“Oh my goodness, what a coincidence. I came out to investigate a traffic accident scene, and it turned out to be a murder scene nearby.”
“Isn’t this too close to be a coincidence?”
“If it’s not a coincidence, sir, do you think these two cases might be connected?”
“I’m keeping the possibility open.”
Wi Jun-woo, who had been tilting his head, opened his eyes wide and covered his mouth. Then, he pointed with his finger to the Oriental medicine clinic building behind him, the yellow police line tape, and the alleyway we had come from.
“By any chance! Did he witness the crime scene and run away in fear, causing the accident? Did he just run without looking ahead and end up hitting a car?”
I nodded slowly.
“Did the two incidents happen on the same day? We’d have to look into the exact date and time of the accident to be sure, but it could have been.”
I turned my head and looked at the police line tape stretching down the alley.
Maybe. I didn’t just witness it.