You Are Defended - Chapter 530



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Episode 530

Taesik’s reinforcements arrived at Munyeok at 5pm that day.

There were five of us, and we brought two more cars.

This brought the total number of personnel dispatched to the mission to ten, with four vehicles.

Woo-cheol and Ho-young took the employees who had joined today to a nearby noodle restaurant for dinner and then briefed them on today’s plans.

“Do we really need this many people?”

After sending the newly dispatched employees into the inn, Ho-young, who was smoking a cigarette near the market entrance, whispered to Woo-cheol.

Then Woo-cheol shrugged his shoulders and responded annoyedly.

“Why are you whispering and making a fuss when I’m outside?”

“Ah, it’s become a habit.”

“The more people the better. You never know how many people those bastards might send to catch that driver’s son, and who knows.”

To get out of the gate of the Bangjin Market where this inn is located, you have to pass a small three-way intersection.

As soon as you pass this intersection, you will come to an IC, so the difficulty of the chase increases from there.

The chances of securing a driver’s license are drastically reduced.

Luckily, they said they would come at 1 a.m., so by then there would be no one around the intersection, including the market.

So, if we block the intersection and the entire Bangjin Market and hold out, it will naturally become difficult for the thieves to steal the drivers.

“Brother, I heard that more than three people can’t stay in one room.”

One of the employees who rushed in holding the hotel room key that Woo-cheol had given them approached Woo-cheol and Ho-young and spoke to them in an embarrassed tone.

“Then rent the two rooms across from that kid.”

The rooms on either side are already occupied by existing team members, including Woo-cheol and Ho-young.

“Are you a guest?”

“Hey, what should I do with this kid? What time is it?”

“… … It’s 6 o’clock.”

“When did those kids come?”

“It’s 1 o’clock.”

“Then how many hours is the difference?”

“Seven hours.”

“Then will it be okay to stay in the waiting room? It’ll only take three or four hours?”

“… … You can just do it twice.”

“What’s cheaper: staying twice in the same room or staying overnight?”

The employee who was talking to Woo-cheol counted on his fingers for a moment, then opened his eyes wide as if something had come to mind.

It was so bright that it almost felt like a lightbulb was blinking above his head.

“I’ll stop by the hotel.”

“Ha, hyung, isn’t that really too much? What if you let a punk like that go?”

Hoyoung followed the employee’s back with his eyes and shook his head.

Then Woo-cheol looked at him pitifully.

Do you know that you just introduced yourself?

Actually, I felt this while doing this work, but not everyone needs to be smart.

Of course, it would be nice if everyone were smart, but realistically that’s not possible.

If you put a smart guy in charge and put a bunch of physically fit guys in the same position, you’ll almost never fail.

Those who are good at using their bodies have good physical agility even if they are not smart, so if they follow the plan, they won’t make mistakes.

Woo-cheol swallowed his anger, thinking that his brother must have had a great purpose in mind.

“older brother.”

“why.”

“Then, are you going to buy the accommodation for one night or two nights?”

“… …Why are you asking that now?”

“I thought I might have to stay here a little longer if things take a long time… … .”

“I’ll cancel for one night, and if I have to stay longer, I’ll stay for multiple nights!”

“What if there’s no room when I get there?”

“Isn’t there any?”

First of all, the area called Munyeok itself is uninhabited.

Naturally, this inn is also mostly empty.

In order to attract people who are living off the grid, there needs to be jobs like construction sites nearby, but there aren’t any.

And the fact that there are no people here can be easily inferred from the fact that the doors that should be tightly shut if there were people are slightly open.

“Once you enter the room, speak in a whisper. Air 100, sound 0. The soundproofing here is bad, so I can hear everything.”

Hoyoung added a word to the employee who was about to go back into the inn to rent a room.

Then the employee looked back at Hoyoung with an expression that looked like a giant question mark was floating above his head.

You may be wondering how you can have a conversation when the sound is 0.

Woo-cheol, who was standing next to me, sighed and said.

“Just tell the kids to keep their mouths shut. If they have something to say, write it down on your phone and tell them. If I speak out loud first, then they can open their mouths. Got it?”

“Yes, brother.”

“Put your phone on silent or vibrate. I can hear everything. If you need to answer a call, come outside, as far as we can now. If you answer in front of the inn, I can hear everything inside.”

“Yes, brother.”

The staff member nodded and went back into the inn.

Woo-cheol hit his forehead with his palm.

Considering the hiring criteria of Daebak Detective Agency, it is inevitable that there will be some idiots.

Taesik initially told Woocheol that he chose people based on the criteria of ‘a few smart guys and a lot of guys who are good at using their bodies.’

─You came in as that smart guy.

And Woocheol was chosen.

Of course, whether you were smart or good at using your body, the important thing was to keep your mouth shut.

So, not only do they not know what other employees are doing unless they absolutely have to share it, they also tend to keep quiet about whatever happens.

Sometimes, when I hear the story of Attorney Cha Ju-han, who says that he is better in person than on TV, I want to tell a real-life review, but I even hold back on that.

“Let’s go in too.”

At about 10 p.m., the driver made a short phone call, saying, “Are you leaving now? Okay,” and then started rustling around as if he was packing his luggage.

You’ll be staying for three weeks, so you’ll probably have a lot of luggage.

It’ll take some time to get ready to leave.

I don’t know where these guys are starting from, but if we’re talking about the metropolitan area, they’d probably be near Munyeok Station by now.

“Don’t you think it’s about time for those guys to come?”

It was past midnight.

The moment of decisive battle was drawing nearer.

“Ha, I’m so scared… … I wonder how many people will come.”

“They don’t even know we’re watching them, and they don’t even know where the driver’s kid is, so they might not send as many as we think.”

“I guess so?”

When I reported that the guys who had been driving at dawn had made contact with the driver, I immediately received a call from the driver.

He said the bastards had agreed to hand the driver over to Japan, but he wouldn’t go to the airport.

Since the driver strongly insisted that he had no intention of going abroad, they said that if they were to force him out, they would have to make him sleep and put him on the boat.

The place I’m going to visit is Gangwon-do, and if I go a little further, there’s a port, so I asked if I could handle it there.

He also said that if it is not possible to board a boat, we should consider the possibility of using a fishing boat to catch the fish…

I thought Cha Ju-han’s reasoning was very plausible, but I didn’t expect the lawyer to come out with such a specific method.

Anyway, that’s why we may have to prepare for an all-out war.

I brought extension cords with me when I first came down to the station, and the kids who came down today also brought some extra things, so it’s okay, but…

[Two black cars enter the intersection]

At that time, an employee who was monitoring from outside sent a message.

[Is it true that you are coming to the inn?]

[Yes, park your car in the parking lot]

[Huh? Come in?]

Sure enough, the sound of gravel crashing into gravel in the parking lot could be heard through the open window.

Hoyoung also seemed to hear that sound and looked at Woocheol.

Woo-cheol put his index finger to his lips and leaned close to the wall with his ear.

With one hand, he pulled closer the extension cord he had taken out of the car trunk earlier.

And then he sent a message to the staff waiting outside.

[No, keep watching from there]

As soon as Woo-cheol replied, a message arrived.

[3 people got out now, 2 are in the car]

[The guys who got off are holding the 007 bag]

If there are 5 people, this side has 10 people, so they have the advantage in terms of numbers.

Thud, thud.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the inn hallway.

─Mr. Cheon Jong-nam.

Soon the footsteps stop and a light knock is heard on the door next door.

Creak.

The old door opened, and they entered the room quietly.

─I guess the person I met before didn’t come.

The driver, Cheon Jong-nam, spoke bluntly.

─Something came up.

─Is that money?

Cheon Jong-nam seemed to have found the ‘007 bag’ they had brought.

Then there was a sound of something hard hitting the floor, as if the man had thrown his bag at him.

Cheon Jong-nam said he would count the money himself with a counter, so once he’s done with that, he’ll leave this inn.

Woocheol sent a message.

[Go out quietly so that no one can hear your footsteps, as I said, and block the market entrance and the three-way intersection.]

As Cha Ju-han said, once they leave the station, the next opportunity will be to go to a port on the east coast.

But there will be more people waiting on your side, so you will be pushed back in a battle of wits.

This must be resolved at the written level.

Not long after, the sound of a car engine starting was heard in the distance.

Just in case, I left only one in the parking lot and the other three on the side of the road, so luckily the guys who came didn’t seem to think it was strange.

─Let me count. Is it 200 million?

─The counter.

─Oops. I forgot.

─Oh, when will I ever count all of this? It’s not counterfeit money, is it?

─No. If you suspect so, search the Internet for how to check for counterfeit money.

─Then you think I won’t search?

It seemed like Cheon Jong-nam was really searching for ways to distinguish counterfeit money.

─It’s ambiguous. It says that if you shine a light under the number ‘50000’, the password will be visible, but I can’t seem to see it.

─If we were going to give you counterfeit money, we should have given it to you a long time ago. There’s no reason to delay it for three weeks.

─That’s true. Well, if it’s counterfeit money, I’ll just call the police as it is. It’s not counterfeit money, right?

─No, I said no.

─5 million won for one bundle?

─That’s right.

─Then it should be 40 bundles.

He seemed to have given up on counting each and every bill.

─Yes.

The man answered dryly as if he was bored, but Cheon Jong-nam paid no attention and began counting the bundles of bills.

─One, two, seoi, neoi… … eueu, eueueu!

And then, a groan as if something was blocking Cheon Jong-nam’s mouth was heard.

At that moment, Hoyoung got up with a stick from the extension cord and went out of the room.

Woo-cheol also picked up a baseball bat with nails stuck in it.

At the same time, the employees who had been holding their breath in the room across the street also heard the sound and gathered in front of Cheon Jong-nam’s room.

“Block the inn entrance.”

At Woo-cheol’s words, the three new recruits ran to the entrance, closed the door, and hung an extension cord on the handle.

Woo-cheol and Ho-young grabbed the doorknob of Cheon Jong-nam’s room and turned it.

As expected, the door was locked.

But that’s okay.

Anyway, there is a high wall with a narrow gap beyond the window of this room, so there is no way to escape except through this door.

It’s a partition wall, so you can break it down and escape, but the entrance is blocked by employees anyway.

“Let’s open the door.”

There is no sound inside.

But this is actually more dangerous.

If you don’t open the door quickly, they might try to kill Cheon Jong-nam in the meantime.

“I got it.”

Bam.

The doorknob fell to the floor.

Woo-cheol looked at Ho-young in surprise.

I thought I’d have to knock down the door to get in, but I didn’t know it would be this easy to open.

“… … Ugh, ugh!”

Beyond the open door was a spectacular sight.

Bills spilled out of the money bag and were scattered on the floor, and one of the three men in the room was covering Cheon Jong-nam’s mouth with a handkerchief.

But it didn’t seem to be just a handkerchief.

When I see Cheon Jong-nam’s eyes gradually opening.

Likewise, his resistance became weaker and weaker.

Before the staff could even enter the room, two men quickly got up and blocked the door.

“Fuck, how many people?”

“I don’t know.”

“Since when… … you guys stop those kids.”

The man quickly lifted up Cheon Jong-nam, who had passed out, and opened the window violently.

It seems like he was thinking of throwing Cheon Jong-nam out the window.

“There’s a wall behind there, you idiot. Your butt is barely big enough to fit your calf over there.”

Hoyoung said with a sneer.

The man also seemed puzzled when he noticed that a gray-white wall blocked his view outside the window.

He quickly winked at the men blocking the door.

The men immediately took out their knives from their bosoms and threw the scabbards on the floor.

It’s the easiest way.

Even if you don’t stab them directly, it’s perfect for scaring them because they might die if they get stabbed.

It seemed like something prepared for Cheon Jong-nam.

“Why, are you slicing?”

Woo-cheol provoked them.

That kitchen knife was a weapon to threaten Cheon Jong-nam, who would soon die, not to cut a third party.

That is, since the weapon is a sword, they will be at a disadvantage several times over when things get worse, so they won’t be able to rush in easily.

Hoyoung and Woocheol exchanged glances.

Even if they were to collapse, there would be a second line of defense blocking the entrance to the inn, and even if they were to break through that, there would be a third line of defense blocking the market and the intersection.

Hoyoung and Woocheol quietly put down the baseball bat and the club they were holding.

“Euuuuuuu!”

And at the same time, he stuck the electric shock device he was holding in his arms into their stomachs.

Since it is an item that has been registered with the police, it is on a completely different level from the sharp products circulating on the market.

They must have been prepared for a fight, seeing the two men holding extensions in their hands, but unfortunately, this was not the main event.

In fact, it was also Taesik’s recommendation.

They say that it’s better to briefly stun someone than to crack their head open with an extension cord.

“Ugh, ugh!”

Perhaps because they had been fighting for so long, the two of them collapsed on the floor.

Taesik said that an electric shock device of this level wouldn’t be enough to kill a person, and that if it was just a little stronger, they would just pass out, so those two probably just passed out too.

“Do you want to taste a million volts, or do you want to leave Cheon Jong-nam behind? If you want to know why Pikachu is a fraud, keep holding on like that.”

Hoyoung and Woocheol slowly approached the man, trampling over the two people who had fallen to the floor.