The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 41
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Episode 41 I’ll spread all that evidence
“Now I just need to find out what the threat was.”
“How are you going to find that out?”
“There are many ways to do this, right? We could investigate the area surrounding the dead doctor, or we could investigate Park Min-sik, who is believed to be the culprit.”
At my words, Wi Jun-woo folded his arms and shook his head.
“There are only a few hours left until the press conference. It won’t be easy to find out the details of the threat in that time. It would be best to summon them and question them, but now is not the time for that. We could check their phone call records and text messages, but that would take a long time. We’d have to get a warrant. It would also take time to question the people around them. Also… … .”
While Wi Jun-woo was listing off the reasons why it wouldn’t work, Aliotta stepped forward.
[Hyun-kwang. That’s it! Let me check my phone.]
‘Let’s hack like last time? Whose?’
[Of course, it’s the cell phone of Korean medicine doctor Ha Myeong-jun.]
Is this guy crazy? How is he going to hack into a dead person’s phone? Is he telling me to go to the afterlife or something?
‘If it’s a living person, I can chase them to the ends of the earth to propose to them, but I just need to be close to them. How can I hack into the phone of someone who is already dead?’
[Hyun-kwang, are you crazy? Where would the dead doctor’s cell phone be now?]
‘ah!’
If the case is already solved, the deceased’s belongings are returned to the deceased’s family. However, the murder of the doctor of Oriental medicine is currently under investigation. Naturally, the cell phone he was carrying at the time of his death would have been in the ‘evidence storage room.’
“Chief, where is the evidence storage room?”
“Huh? Suddenly?”
“It’s important. Where is it?”
“It’s in the basement. Go down the stairs and turn right.”
As soon as he finished speaking, I opened the door and ran out.
“I’ll be in the evidence room. Come there if anything happens.”
“Inspector! What’s going on?”
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t answer Wei Jun-woo’s question due to the urgent situation.
The evidence room was lined with shelves taller than me, each one filled with dusty files and boxes containing evidence.
First of all, this is organized in chronological order. The materials inside are older. The case of Dr. Ha Myeong-jun is currently under investigation, so it will be at the front.
I searched through the shelves on the left closest to the door, and soon found a box with the name of Dr. Ha Myeong-jun and the date of his death written on it. I took the box down and opened the lid, and inside was a cell phone wrapped in plastic for evidence.
‘Um. But, you this.’
[Why are you like that, Hyungwang?]
‘Can you really hack it? It’s turned off?’
The last time it worked, the phone was turned on, but the doctor’s phone had been turned off for several days because the battery was dead.
[Don’t worry, it works even when the power is off.]
‘You can hack this? Really?’
[That’s what I said.]
‘Oh my, he’s a scary guy. It’s a scary world.’
[It’s harder when the power is off. Be quiet, because you have to concentrate.]
While Aliotta hacked into Dr. Ha Myeong-jun’s cell phone, I stood still and looked around the evidence storage room.
‘It’s more boring than I thought.’
[Hyun-kwang. Don’t keep looking elsewhere and just look at your phone. Don’t disturb me while I’m working.]
‘If it’s in this location, it doesn’t matter if I look somewhere else, right? As long as I’m close, it’s fine, right?’
[That’s true. When Hyungwang looks elsewhere, visual information keeps coming in. Right now, you have to focus on hacking. It’s harder when the power is off.]
‘Can’t you just take off your glasses and put them next to your phone?’
[Will it work? I’m working because I’m in sync with the light. And if I take it off… ]
‘Yeah, I know, I know. Power saving mode.’
I had no choice but to stare blankly at my powered-off phone while Aliotta hacked.
When you watch movies or dramas, doesn’t it look like they’re really busy hacking? On a black screen, unidentifiable green letters are randomly appearing, and the hacker’s fingers are dancing on the computer keyboard.
If you look at that, you can tell that they are doing some kind of hacking right now.
Aliotta never showed me the situation in which he was hacking. So, I wondered whether he was actually hacking or why I was standing here.
Is this why there’s so much dust here because it’s a basement? Am I going to end up breathing all this dust in? I started getting bored as random thoughts started to cross my mind.
But, is it because it’s underground? It seems a bit hot?
No. Shouldn’t it be colder underground?
As I was thinking this, beads of sweat formed on my forehead. As I was about to put my hand on my forehead to see what was going on, I felt heat radiating from my face, or rather from my glasses.
By the way, my glasses were quite hot. It was like when you play games on your phone for a long time, the battery part gets very hot.
‘Hey, hey. Aliotta! What is this? Why are you so hot?’
[It’s a bit hard to hack a powered off phone. Just hold on a little longer. We’re almost there.]
‘No, what if it bursts? What if my handsome face gets scratched?’
Aliotta didn’t answer. It seemed like he was concentrating all his energy on finishing the hacking quickly.
It feels a bit strange to use the term ‘mind’ when referring to artificial intelligence.
I was worried that I might get a burn on my face and was contemplating whether I should take off my glasses and throw them away, when fortunately, Aliotta’s hacking was over.
[It’s over, Hyungwang. Oh my, it was hard.]
Aliotta sighed as he wiped the sweat from his forehead at the topic of artificial intelligence and the hologram.
‘If you had been just a little bit later, I would have taken off my glasses. It was so hot.’
[You’ll probably be surprised what I found out.]
‘What is it?’
Aliotta brought up the screen she had found in my field of vision. It was the ‘Telekilo’ chat room screen.
‘What’s with the chat room name ‘Candy Hunt’? How tacky.’
[Hyun-kwang. Do you know what candy they’re talking about over there?]
‘Candy? You mean candy?’
[It’s a drug.]
‘What? Drugs?’
I looked closely at the chat room screen. I couldn’t tell who was who based on the username, but the content of the conversation was clear.
Someone wanted candy, and someone else was given a specific time to come get it.
‘Isn’t this a drug deal?’
[Yes. The person who created the chat room is Dr. Ha Myeong-jun.]
‘Wait. What? You made an appointment at a Korean medicine clinic and then dealt drugs there?’
Women would make an appointment for a medical checkup under the pretext of ‘diet pills’ or ‘skin improvement pills’, and men would make an appointment under the pretext of ‘fatigue recovery’ or ‘concentration enhancement’. They would then make an exchange of goods and money.
‘Oh my god. The doctor was a drug dealer.’
Is that why it was popular among the younger generation?
‘Everyone in that chat room is also under investigation.’
[That’s right. But if you look at the conversation, drug dealing has stopped recently.]
‘That’s right.’
Recently, as the conversation progressed, people were rushing to get their stuff back or asking when it would come back.
[See this private chat in particular.]
In the private message that Aliotta sent, there was a message that was causing a commotion by asking for the item quickly and even mixing in some swear words.
‘Is that Park Min-sik?’
[yes.]
‘You two are speaking informally? I guess you two are very close.’
At that moment, the door to the evidence storage room opened and Wi Jun-woo ran in.
“Inspector! Inspector!”
“Why? What happened?”
“I just got a call from the orchard. They said that Park Min-sik’s hair matches the DNA found on the weapon used to murder the oriental doctor.”
“I knew it!”
I clenched my fist and swung it.
“The drug test also came back positive.”
“As expected.”
“But I haven’t done drugs recently. I heard that I did until about three weeks ago.”
“That really fits the puzzle together.”
When you use drugs, the drug components or drug metabolites are detected in the blood for about a day and in the urine for about a week. This means that after that time, it is difficult to detect.
However, in the case of hair, the drug ingredients gather in the hair follicles, which are the roots of the hair, and are then incorporated into the hair. Since the traces left in the hair move with the hair as it grows, it is possible to know whether the drug was used recently or in the past.
“Chief, please call Inspector Kang Hong-sik right now and tell him to arrest Park Min-sik immediately.”
“Emergency arrest? Understood.”
“I have to go see the manager right now.”
We left the evidence room and ran up the stairs. Aliotta shouted, excited about catching the culprit.
[Park Min-sik is now dead!]
I don’t know where on earth he heard that on the topic of artificial intelligence, but instead of arguing, I just shouted along.
‘Naganjin has also been defeated!’
* * *
I hurried to the office, but Director Jang Gi-tae wasn’t there. He said he went to the branch manager’s office for a meeting.
“Why are you walking around like this instead of just sitting still?”
[I don’t think that’s something that Hyungwang, who always goes around to different sites, should say.]
‘That’s true.’
I quickly admitted my mistake and ran to the branch office in one breath. As I opened the outside door and went in, I saw the secretary sitting at the desk in front of the branch office.
The secretary jumped up from her seat as if struck by lightning as soon as she saw me. Without even stopping, I pointed toward the inside of the door and said:
“Can I come inside?”
“No! You can’t!”
The secretary turned from her seat and blocked my path. She seemed to be traumatized by what happened last time.
“You can’t go in.”
“It’s urgent.”
“The branch manager is meeting a guest right now. He is busy.”
I smiled at those words.
“It’s okay. I didn’t come here to meet the chief.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“I’ll just briefly see the manager and go.”
“yes yes?”
The secretary who had been nodding to my words in a daze belatedly realized what I meant and asked me a question again. But it was already too late. I had pushed the secretary away and opened the door wide.
“Oh, wait a minute!”
The secretary came later and stopped me, but I was already inside the branch manager’s office.
At the head of the table was Chief Park Seong-min, and on the sofa next to him, Deputy Chief Jang Gi-tae and Na Kang-jin were sitting across from each other across a low table.
Chief Jang Gi-tae, who saw me, just rolled his eyes, not knowing what was going on, and Chief Park Seong-min nodded to his secretary.
“It’s okay. I’m out.”
“yes.”
As soon as the secretary left, I sat down next to Manager Jang Gi-tae without anyone calling me.
“You said you were doing well, but now you can’t tell the difference between heaven and earth. Am I kidding you? Is the office of the chief of police a place where they can just barge in like that?”
Chief Park Sung-min gave a cold rebuke, but I was not intimidated by it.
“It’s not a place where you can just barge in, but for the sake of saving the country, no, for the sake of protecting our local government, we had no choice.”
“What’s the matter, Sword?”
Director Jang Gi-tae asked in an anxious voice.
“I came because of the murder of the doctor of Oriental medicine. He asked me to bring him evidence.”
When the story of the case he was in charge of came up, Na Kang-jin frowned.
“What do you mean by evidence? It’s already been revealed that the culprit is Yoon Ki-seok. We were just checking for the press conference that was scheduled for this afternoon.”
I looked at Na Kang-jin and smirked.
“Naganjin, I’m done for!”
“What, what is it, Inma?”
“Oh, mistake. Sorry. I just thought about it. I never meant to say it out loud. Seriously. I meant to keep it to myself.”
[Hyun-kwang. Shouldn’t you be apologizing for what you said, not what you said? Something about the apology doesn’t seem to fit.]
‘You should’ve apologized, but do you have to match the pint too?’
Na Kang-jin glared at me, as if he had the same thoughts as Aliota.
“What is that thing you say to your senior? Huh?”
“I’m sorry, Senior. But, if we leave the murder case of the Oriental doctor like this, Senior will be investigated. No, the entire county office will be investigated.”
“Stop talking nonsense. Speak so I can understand.”
Chief Jang Gi-tae urged me while watching Chief Park Seong-min’s expression.
“This is the murder case of Korean medicine doctor Ha Myeong-jun. The real culprit is not Yoon Ki-seok. The moment they announce that it is Yoon Ki-seok, our Gunnae-myeon branch office will be in trouble.”
“What are you talking about? There’s already evidence that proves Yoon Ki-seok is the culprit.”
I clasped my hands together on my knees.
“I’ll spread all that evidence for you.”
“What, what is it?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to criticize me, your junior, rather than the opposing lawyer in court?”