Baek Seung-tae and his party, which circled the outskirts of Las Vegas again and again, were finally facing the final laundry.
The money they laundered today amounted to 3.6 million dollars, or 4 billion won in Korean currency.
It was a satisfactory achievement. Now, their faces were filled with anticipation of entertainment that would last until late at night.
Just as I was hoping that things would go smoothly until the end, a phone call rang.
“hello. hmm… … huh? What are you talking about? disappeared? Did you check carefully?”
After the call, the broker’s expression is unusual. Baek Seung-tae quickly asks him.
“Is anything going on?”
“Looks like there is a little trouble. Do you have a group of people who entered the country together? that… … Did you say surrogate? They say he’s gone.”
“How do you mean people disappear?”
“I think our staff got into a fight with the gang. That’s why it disappeared while it was messy for a while.”
Upon hearing the broker’s words, Baek Seung-tae and Park Min-gyo’s expressions harden in an instant.
“Where is this bastard running around? Chief Baek, call me quickly.”
“All right.”
Baek Seung-tae tries to call, but the ringing continues, and he refuses to answer.
“I’ll have to look for him right now. Let’s go back to the hotel.”
“The next destination is just around the corner, so wouldn’t it be better to just stop there and then go?”
“There is no time for that, so hurry up and turn the car around!”
At Park Min-gyo’s hysterical reaction, the broker is startled and turns the car around.
“Don’t worry too much. If you don’t answer the phone, you’re probably going to be b*tch in a massage parlor somewhere.”
Despite the broker’s words, the two show no sign of calming down.
It was natural. On the day that Shin Woo-hyeok has an inn somewhere on the street, wouldn’t all the plans he’d made so far be in vain?
And what if he ran away after noticing that he would be framed by chance?
During the 10-minute drive to the hotel, my anxious imagination grew bigger.
Sigh.
Upon arriving at the hotel, the two ran into the hotel lobby. It was because he thought Shin Woo-hyuk might be sleeping in the room.
Just then, the frightened voice of Park Min-gyo, who entered first, is heard.
“You, you, why are you here?”
Shin Woo-hyuk, who was said to have disappeared, was playing a slot machine at the hotel entrance.
No matter how long I had been here, the ashtray was full of butts, paper cups were piled up like towers, and my eyes were red and bloodshot like a dead person.
“uh? Are you two already here?”
Standing up scratching his head, his gaze seldom leaves the slot machine.
Baek Seung-tae was so dumbfounded when he saw that scene that his mouth fell. The phrase “it’s dark under the lamp” just came to mind.
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“hahahahaha, originally, people can be released when they go abroad.”
“Executive. In this case, you have to be very careful. When I think of all the hardships I went through because of him… … .”
“Oh hey, it’s okay. That’s right.”
Park Min-gyo chatted happily for a long time before continuing.
“On a good day like today, all you have to do is think about drinking and having fun.”
* * *
Third day after arriving in Las Vegas.
Baek Seung-tae opened his eyes with his cracked voice.
“Uh, um… … eww… … eww… … hmm?”
All he could see in front of him was a gray floor. From the cold, hard feel on his cheek, this must have been a cement floor.
‘Why am I lying on the bare floor?’
I even remember going to a strip bar after work yesterday and drinking a heavy drink, but the memories after that were hazy like fog.
First, let’s raise the upper body. I feel like my body is creaking like a rusty robot because I’ve been lying on the cold floor for quite some time.
‘Where are you?’
The place where he was lying was a room about five or six pyeong. A room with nothing but cement floors and walls.
I was surprised and touched the floor when I caught something soft in my hand.
“Hee!”
A person had fallen. It was Executive Director Park Min-gyo, whom I drank with until dawn yesterday.
Fortunately, he was hiding. Baek Seung-tae hurriedly shakes him to wake him up.
“Mr., Mr. Mister.”
“Hey Mr. Don’t wake me up because I’m tired.”
“Now is not the time to be sleeping. Get up quickly.”
Park Min-gyo tosses and turns for a while before opening his eyes.
After opening his eyes, he shows exactly the same reaction as Baek Seung-tae and jumps up.
“Captain, where is this place?”
“I don’t know either. When I opened my eyes, I was here.”
The only thing in the room they were locked in was a single iron door. Other than that, there are no common windows.
clap.
The door was locked. I tried to peek out through the crack in the door, but that didn’t work either.
“Looks like someone locked us in this room.”
“Who the hell?”
“I don’t remember that either. Do you not remember anything, Executive Director?”
“All I remember is hanging out at a strip bar until 5:00 in the morning. And after that… … ugh… … Nothing comes to mind at all.”
Park Min-gyo, who was frowning from a hangover, suddenly stands up. Then he started looking around like crazy.
“What about the bag? Where’s my bag?”
“I’m fine… … .”
In Park Min-gyo’s bag, there were cash, credit cards, passports, and a USB security key for a secret account.
“Find it quickly! Mr. X, I can’t do without it!”
“Sir, your voice is too loud. What are you going to do if there are bastards locking us up outside?”
“Damn it… … .”
While Min-gyo Park searches the room for his bag, Seung-tae Baek tries to poke the hole in the iron door with a tie pin.
But no matter what I did, the door wouldn’t budge.
“If at least I had a cell phone… … .”
I was locked in a strange room overnight, and I also lost my important bag.
The two sat down on the floor with faces full of desolation.
“Now what should I do?”
“I can only wait for someone to come.”
It was a problem no matter who came. There was no guarantee that anyone who had locked themselves up here would be released intact.
Time just goes by without doing anything.
I didn’t feel it because I was so nervous earlier, but sitting still, hunger and thirst rushed like crazy.
In particular, my thirst was unbearable, perhaps because I had been drinking all night.
“water… … If only there was water… … .”
Just when I wonder if I should drink at least some real urine, Baek Seung-tae brings a small bottle of mineral water.
“water? Where was this?”
“It was hidden over here.”
At the bottom of the wall was a small rat hole, big enough for a fist to fit through. Looking inside, I saw a cement wall presumed to be the next room.
“The bottle looks fine, but it might be damaged, so you should wait… … .”
Park Min-gyo drinks bottled water without even thinking about listening.
In an instant, half of the bottled water disappeared, and Baek Seung-tae barely stopped him from drinking the rest.
“What are you going to do if you get a stomachache!”
“I’m dying of thirst. Is it time to worry about that? And just by looking at it, the water looks clean.”
“No, but… … .”
Just then, a thump and pounding sound comes from beyond the wall.
Surprised, the two closed their mouths at the same time.
“if… … Are you there with Executive Director Park and Manager Baek?”
It was Shin Woo-hyuk’s voice. The two of them scream almost at the same time.
“Agent God! it’s me!”
“that’s right. Fly!”
But the joy is short-lived, and the anticipation soon turns into disappointment.
“Are you two here to save me? Please take it out quickly.”
“We are also trapped here. When I opened my eyes, it was here.”
“ah… … You did.”
Nothing has changed except for one more person in the same situation.
Park Min-gyo sighs and lies down, and Baek Seung-tae diligently talks, hoping that there will be a breakthrough.
“How is your room?”
“There is an iron door in front, but there is no passage other than here.”
“Open it somehow. Right now, that is the only way.”
“All right.”
There is a creaking iron friction sound. It’s like turning a doorknob. Then the sound of kicking the door with my foot followed several times.
“omg… … omg… … Wrong. It doesn’t even budge.”
“Why is a young man so weak? Tighten your stomach and try.”
“I’ll take a little break and try again. But I… … Manager, did you see the bottled water in the hole here?”
Baek Seung-tae looks back at Park Min-gyo in surprise. More than half of the bottled water he was holding was already gone.
“What, what bottled water?”
“I hid the bottled water I found at the back of the room in this hole, but it’s gone.”
Park Min-gyo hurriedly waved his hand from side to side to stop talking.
“Well, I’m not sure.”
A moment of uncomfortable silence follows. In the meantime, the two hold their breath, waiting for words to come from the other side of the wall.
“Once I get it.”
* * *
Even in splendid Las Vegas, if you get out of the center, you will find a common city-like scenery.
This area was once a place where reckless development took place, so many abandoned buildings were built.
We were locked in one of the abandoned buildings, waiting for someone to come.
Oh, not exactly us. It wasn’t because I was trapped, I was just pretending to be trapped.
Todok. Tok. Tok.
I came out of the entrance on the third floor of the building and was looking at my cell phone.
The place where Baek Seung-tae was confined was the innermost room on the third floor, so no matter what I did, no matter what I did, there was no sound.
‘Why are things so late?’
While I was holding Baek Seung-tae and Park Min-gyo, Park Tae-sik was robbing their secret accounts in Korea.
For reference, to withdraw money from a secret account in a tax haven, an 8-digit password and a physical key contained in a USB were required.
The password was solved with the CCTV obtained from the money laundromat, and the physical key was copied through a USB file and handed over.
All that remains is to move the money from the secret account to a safe place.
Impatiently waiting for a reply to come. Then I hear a voice calling me from the end room.
“Agent God. substitute god.”
Steeply walking into the room next to where they are locked up.
“Tell me, manager.”
“I… … Do you have anything to clean?”
“Is it worth wiping? Where are you going to spend it?”
Baek Seung-tae’s voice continued after hesitating for a while.
“The managing director just took care of his errands… … Isn’t there some tissue paper in there?”
“There is no toilet paper.”
“As expected… … .”
Following Baek Seung-tae’s creeping voice, I hear Park Min-gyo talking.
“Take off your clothes quickly. hurry.”
“Executive Director, no matter how urgent it is, wiping with clothes is a bit… … .”
“Then you mean wipe it with my clothes?”
I have a rough picture in my head of what happened over there. It would be such a situation that I don’t want to imagine.
‘Seeing that Baek Seung-tae is fine, did only Park Min-gyo drink the laxative water?’
Before long, a loud ‘Pujik Ppujik’ sound continued that could be heard over the wall.
“Ugh!”
This time it was Baek Seung-tae’s voice.
“I, manager… … Take off your shirt, please. Didn’t I take it off earlier?”
“What are you talking about? Mine can’t.”
“You do too much!”
Even after that, sporadic thuds and scuffled words continued for a long time.
I giggled and barely held back my laughter before opening my mouth.
“Boss, even clothes that have been worn once can be recycled by rubbing them on the floor.”
“now… … late.”
The word late had many meanings. Since you said you took off your top earlier, did you sacrifice your panties this time?
‘If the signal comes now, I will have to suffer for another half day.’
It’s hard to keep listening to the dirty noise, so I sneak out of the room.
Outside, the sun was already setting.
They will have to go back to Korea tomorrow morning, but they couldn’t be locked up until then.
‘If I don’t hear from you until morning… … I have no choice but to die here.’
I checked the oil, wooden planks, and curtain bundles that I had prepared in advance.
If you pile this up in front of the door and set it on fire, the two people who are on the verge of exhaustion will be burned to death.
I didn’t want to kill people, but I didn’t have the intention of saving them either.
Still, if they died, it was obvious that I would be suspected, so I hope this work will be completed in a quiet way if possible.
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