The moment when Choi Min-hyeok set off for the place where Chairman Cheon’s slush funds were hidden, with Managing Director Kim at the fore.
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A temple in Hong Kong was crowded with workers wearing hard hats.
I was working on dismantling the statue.
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Dozens of workers were clinging to the seated Buddha statue and performing oxygen and arc cutting.
It is to cut the steel frame supporting the pedestal.
This is because the Buddha statue must be removed to reveal the lift device underneath it.
Originally, the system was designed so that when a few of the hundreds of marbles embedded in the statue’s pedestal were turned, a hydraulic system would operate and the statue would move.
But no one knew which beads had to be turned in what order to make the device work.
The method was a secret handed down only from the abbot to the abbot of the temple.
But a few days ago, the abbot was suddenly shot dead.
“[Director! I am done cutting!]”
“[okay?]”
When the worker said that the cutting work was over, the construction supervisor ran over and checked the condition.
“[okay! Now if you pull it, it will move. hey! Bring a chain block and walk!]”
Under the direction of the director, workers installed several chain blocks that can pull several tons of weight each on the Buddha statue.
“[Pull!]”
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Workers eagerly pulled the chain block.
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Then, little by little, the statue began to move.
“[Oh oh! move! Keep pulling!]”
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The lift was finally exposed after all the workers were glued to it and pulled the chain block for over 20 minutes.
The construction supervisor reported the progress of the work so far to someone by radio.
“[CEO! The Buddha statue has been removed!]”
After a while,
A handsome young man appeared on the scene.
He was Hwayong, the grandson of the previous triad boss, Hwayeongho.
Hwayong had never seen his grandfather in person.
This is because his father, who hated triads, cut off Hwa Young-ho and his father’s ties before he was even born.
However, as time passed, Hwayong, who had matured, came to the organization on his own.
His grandfather had already died, but the organization welcomed him back.
Hwayong, who graduated from Oxford, was currently one of the most promising young elites in the triad.
Now, he was serving as the representative of Wanyeong Construction, one of the legal entities in the organization.
Hwayong asked the construction supervisor.
“[When will the cutting of the lift top end?]”
Now that the Buddha statue has been removed, you can enter the underground vault by removing only the top of the lift that serves as the door to the vault.
This was also a situation where the key to the controller to control the lift disappeared and the cutter had to be used.
“[Removing the statue was a big task, but cutting the top was no big deal! It is not precision cutting, so it can be finished quickly with a plasma cutter!]”
At the construction supervisor’s explanation, Hwayong nodded.
“[Okay, please proceed immediately.]”
“[Yes, CEO!]”
After a while, the safe will open.
A little tension lingered in Hwa-yong’s heart.
Many of the officials at the headquarters of the triads opposed the demolition of the statue.
It was because there was a way to move the Buddha statue without having to dismantle it.
When the system of Daeungjeon Hall was first designed, other measures were prepared to move the Buddha statue without knowing the ‘secret of the seat’ in case the abbot suddenly dies.
That was ‘waiting’.
A timer was installed on the device that moved the Buddha statue, so if the pedestal was not touched for six months, the Buddha statue moved automatically.
So, when the abbot was alive, he sometimes returned random marbles to prevent the statue from opening automatically.
This ‘Abbot Murder Case’ was not something to be ignored from the perspective of the triad officials, but it was not a very serious matter either.
It’s like the case of Ma Cheonhwa bringing an unknown outsider and entering the safe,
Like the sudden shooting of the abbot with a pistol,
It’s hard to figure out why the hell that happened, but as a result, no one took the gold out of the safe.
The only way to take out the gold bars was the lift device in Daeungjeon Hall.
However, in the CCTV footage, Ma Cheon-hwa and the suspicious man went into the safe and came out empty-handed.
There was no evidence that the CCTV footage had been manipulated.
In a word, it was said that the gold in the safe was safe.
So, the opinion of the officers was to wait six months and then check the safe when the Buddha statue moves automatically.
However, Hwayong insisted on the prompt demolition of the statue to the triad boss.
He analyzed the events from the transaction between Mr. Wang, a wholesaler, and Cheon Young-jin, general manager of Angel Capital, to the subsequent events.
And I felt intuition that this case was by no means a simple case.
“[CEO! It’s pierced! I broke through the top of the lift!]”
At the cry of the construction supervisor, Hwayong ran there.
There was a hole in the top of the lift just enough for one person to pass through.
The cut hadn’t cooled down yet, so it was red hot.
“[I’ll go in myself.]”
“[all right!]”
Hwayong put on a belt to connect the descending rope to go down to the basement.
In the meantime, the construction supervisor sprinkled water on the cut surface to cool it down and checked the underground for harmful gases with a gas meter.
“[no problem. You can go right down!]”
After hearing the construction supervisor’s report, Hwa-yong nodded and immediately went down in the descending machine.
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My foot touched the floor of the safe.
Hwayong looked around with a flashlight.
Then I called the boss.
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After a few beeps, a male voice came out.
-Have you checked the safe?
“[Yes, I am inside now.]”
– How is it?
“[It is empty.]”
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The boss sighed over the phone.
-That gold was the breakwater that protected us. It was because of the breakwater that we were able to survive even after being hit by big waves several times. There are no breakwaters anymore, so when a big wave hits, we will all be swept away by the waves and drowned in the deep sea.
There is no way that the triads will collapse immediately if there is no gold bar.
Because people don’t die right away because they don’t have ‘insurance’.
However, the means to withstand a major crisis are gone.
If the CCP once again defeats the Triads on a massive scale, then the real organization will disintegrate.
Hwayong said to the boss.
“[I will restore the breakwater to its original state.]”
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Boss let out another long sigh.
– It’s a very difficult job, so I won’t expect much, but you can do whatever you want. From now on, your words are my words.
The triad boss granted Hwayong full power for a limited time.
From now on, Hwayong can use all the powers of the triad.
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The boss hung up the phone.
A few seconds of silence fell in the underground vault.
Then suddenly,
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Hwayong started laughing like a madman.
‘Yes, that’s how fun it is!’
His heart was pounding.
The reason why he suddenly came to the organization after graduating from Oxford and obtained a lawyer’s qualification was not to adapt to reality or to continue his grandfather’s genealogy.
He was thirsty for ‘something exciting’.
He thought he would be able to fill it if he joined the triad.
However, even after entering the organization, that thirst was not satisfied.
The executives of the organization continued to increase the weight of the legalization project and tried to take only the safe path.
To Hwayong, they were all pigs with their bellies full of fat.
‘Crisis turns pigs into warriors.’
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A woman followed Hwa-yong down to the safe.
She was Hwa-yong’s attendant secretary.
She looked around the empty safe and opened her mouth.
“[It’s as expected from the CEO.]”
“[Yes, I prayed that my hunch was wrong.]”
Hwa-yong said something he didn’t mean to say.
However, the secretary also did not listen to him straight away.
“[Congratulations. It seems the opportunity the CEO has been waiting for has arrived.]”
Hwayong smiled at the secretary’s words.
“[Then shall we go after them now?]”
In this case, there were four outsiders that Hwa-yong took notice of.
An unidentified man who entered the safe with Ma Cheon-hwa.
Cheon Yeong-jin, general manager of Angel Capital, who sought a deal with the wholesaler Wang.
Angel Capital’s Kim Young-chan, who assisted Cheon Young-jin.
And the motorcycle helmet that attacked the members of the organization so that Director Kim Young-chan could escape from the hotel entrance.
“[Two of the four are from Angel Capital, right?]”
At Hwa-yong’s words, the female secretary nodded.
“[Yes, it is. Cheon Young-jin, head of headquarters, is already dead.]”
“[Let’s start right away.]”
“[Yes, I will prepare the fastest flight to Korea.]”
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Choi Min-hyeok and his party were going down the Gyeongbu Expressway.
Managing Director Kim was behind the wheel and Choi Min-hyeok was in the passenger seat.
And President Park was riding in the back seat.
Everyone was wearing sunglasses and masks.
The bare face of Kim, who disappeared in Hong Kong, should not be captured by speed cameras or CCTV.
The car he was driving was also a cannon truck driven by President Park.
“My cell phone is a cannon phone and my car is a cannon car. Almost nothing is in my name. Come to think of it, the house is also in my wife’s name…”
President Park made a sullen expression at his words.
Choi Min-hyeok glanced at Managing Director Kim.
From a certain moment, the elixir was not consumed to control Kim.
Choi Min-hyeok asked Director Kim again where the slush funds were hidden.
“Where are we going now?”
Director Kim opened his mouth as if he had been waiting.
“I’ll tell you everything you want to know, not just the location of the slush fund! Before that, please answer my question first!”
“What question?”
“What the hell are you? psychic? taoist? shaman?”
Director Kim was a very calculating person.
He didn’t think it was a betrayal that he brought up the story of President Chun’s slush fund to the triad officials.
Cheon Yeong-jin acted foolishly to create such a situation, so he saved his own life by selling his father instead.
For the first time in his life, Managing Director Kim, who was so calculating in everything, experienced something that could not be interpreted rationally.
After experiencing Choi Min-hyuk’s magic, his mind was filled with confusion.
“You want to know about me? But if you know too much, you have to die. Are you okay?”
“…”
Director Kim closed his mouth.
Because the will to live was still stronger than curiosity.
Choi Min-hyeok coaxed him.
“Do you want to live? Then I keep making up reasons to keep you alive. to prove your worth. Do you know what to do first?”
Understanding Choi Min-hyuk’s meaning, Managing Director Kim nodded.
“Chairman Chun’s slush fund… It is on an island.”
“island?”
“You must have heard of it. Even the angels in the South Sea.”
President Park opened his mouth at the word ‘angel too’.
“A sanatorium run by Angel Capital?”
Angel Capital built and operated a sanatorium on an island in the South Sea for several years with the intention of returning their profits to society.
Alcohol, drug and gambling addicts are treated there free of charge.
Then, patients rushed in, and hospitals and nursing facilities were still expanding.
In the meantime, the island, which had only a few dozen people, has now turned into a small city with 10,000 residents.
The local government changed the name of the island to ‘Angel Island’ to honor the achievements of Angel Capital.
“So you’re saying that even angels have secret places to hide slush funds?”
“That’s right. To be more precise, the entire archipelago is Chairman Cheon’s safe.”
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Managing Director Kim took a breath and continued.
“President Chun is building his kingdom there.”