87 – 087. Simultaneous Event (2)
“Nice to meet you! My name is Heo Seong-chan!”
Heo Seong-chan. A contractor working in the slum area of Uijeongbu and a person who plotted to kidnap Kang Ha-neul at the instigation of Na Ju-yong.
He asked Ji Ye-won to shake hands with a cheerful smile on his face.
“But you look so pretty!”
“… ….”
Ji Ye-won’s expression crumpled at the unexpected praise or flirtation, whose intention was unknown.
‘…… Is it hunting?’
Ji Ye-Won, who thought so, turned away in disgust. He didn’t even say a word of refusal. He didn’t even feel worth dealing with.
“Mmm. You seem to have a cold personality.”
It was like being caught in the wind, but Heo Seong-chan didn’t care. In the first place, to him, compliments on women were no more than casual greetings. Even just before, he had no intention of doing anything to Ji Ye-won, but he was simply expressing his feelings with his mouth.
“I wanted to get to know you, but I’m sorry.”
Heo Seong-chan licked his lips and followed Ji Ye-won’s back as he walked away.
When Heo Seong-chan saw a woman of his own taste, he used to be reckless. Thanks to his good looks and physique, there are not a few days when hunting is successful, but today didn’t seem like a good day.
“I don’t know! I guess it has nothing to do with him!”
I said that while brushing away my lingering feelings for Ji Ye-won.
The relationship between the two did not end there.
“Oh! Yesterday he!”
“Eh.”
The next day. Ji Ye-won, who was on her first day at the research center wearing a uniform for a cleaning company employee, bumped into Heo Seong-chan, who was hanging around the research center at the entrance of her alley, similar to yesterday.
“Oh! Aren’t those clothes the clothes of the staff here? Were you a lab worker here? I didn’t know that!”
No matter what Seongchan Heo said, he ignored Ji Ye-won and went his own way. However, Heo Seong-chan stood in her way.
“There he is!”
“If it’s hunting, I will refuse.”
“No hunting! Of course, I have a chimney-like desire to hunt, but I have something I want to ask of you more than that!”
Ji Ye-won sighed as she saw Seong-chan Heo saying that with a genuine smile. She didn’t want to waste her time with such a strange person.
“Get out of the way because you have to go to work.”
“Would you like to talk to me for a minute before I go to work?”
“I don’t have time.”
“You still have 30 minutes to go to work? Can you give me some time?”
“It’s my first day at work, so I have a lot to learn before going out.”
“Was it your first day at work? Then, I don’t think there are many people who know-“
Before Heo Seong-chan finished speaking, Ji Ye-won passed him and headed inside the research center. However, Heo Seong-chan showed no displeasure at all.
“See you after work!”
Rather than being offended, the way Ji Ye-won was seen waving her hand and seeing her off seemed like a close friend. Of course, until yesterday, Heo Seong-chan and Ji Ye-won were people who hadn’t even met each other.
‘What the hell is he doing?’
It was tenacious to say that it was simply hunting. I wondered why they kept running into each other in front of the lab. However, Ji Ye-won had neither the time nor the leisure to devote to non-commissioned work.
As an employee of a cleaning company who went to work for the first time that day, Ji Ye-won learned about the work contents and the internal structure of the research center, while contemplating the movement of Na Ju-yong and his aides and how to bring in monitoring equipment.
Time passes like that, and it’s time to get off work.
It was the moment Ji Ye-won came out of the research center while exchanging greetings with other employees of the company she had become close with.
“Oh! You’re done!”
“Crazy… ….”
As she left her laboratory, her husband, Heo Seong-chan, was waiting for her at the corner of her path. In the very place of her who saw her off in the morning.
At this point, it wasn’t just hunting, it was stalking. Ji Ye-Won looked blatantly displeased, and she argued and listened to him.
“Excuse me. What are we going to do now?”
“I told you to wait until work is done in the morning. So I waited!”
“Why are you waiting for me? Are you hunting something?”
“No! I have a little bit of that feeling, but the bigger thing is that I want to talk to you! I have something to ask of you!”
“Please…… ?”
At those words, Yewon Ji suddenly recalled the memory of yesterday. Come to think of it, I said a favor or something yesterday too.
“Please! I tried talking to other people besides you, but they all ignored me! I’m in real trouble! You don’t have to do a favor, so could you listen to me for a moment?”
Heo Seong-chan ejaculates in a loud voice as if everyone passing by wants to hear it.
Prior to answering his request, Yewon Ji was busy looking around her. Since it was work time, the street corner in front of the research center was crowded with people, and most of them passed by giving one glance at Heo Seong-chan and Ji Ye-won, who were making an unusual fuss.
‘It’s not good to stand out too much from the first day.’
The iron rule of infiltration is not to be noticed. He said that if he continued like this, he might end up failing the mission before it even started because of this unknown man.
“…… Since you apologized that much, I will listen to your story.”
It would be better to cut it off by firmly rejecting it after hearing the story. Thinking so, Ji Ye-won reluctantly complied with his request.
“Thank you! There’s a nice cafe nearby, so let’s go there!”
Heo Seong-chan said cheerfully with a kind smile. That figure was attractive enough to light a fire in the hearts of many women, but in Ji Ye-won’s eyes, it was just annoying and annoying.
“I don’t have time, so let’s finish it quickly.”
***
A cafe located near the research institute.
A corner seat where people’s attention is not drawn. Ji Ye-won and Heo Seong-chan were talking with their drinks on the table. Roughly, when Heo Seong-chan spoke in an enthusiastic manner, it seemed that Ji Ye-won was disapproving of him and nodded his head dryly.
Ji Ye-won thought while listening to Heo Seong-chan’s story.
‘…… I have no idea what you’re talking about.’
Heo Seong-chan explained his circumstances before asking Ji Ye-won for something.
What happened to him, why did he have to enter the laboratory, and for what reason did he call Ye-won?
There was a long explanation about this in his mouth, but he was really long and disorganized. Even Heo Seong-chan’s story lacked several elements essential to understanding the situation.
So Ji Ye-won had no choice but to infer the general flow from Heo Seong-chan’s words, like putting pieces of a puzzle together. The results were as follows.
First of all, Seongchan Heo received a request from a researcher at the Superhuman Rehabilitation Institute. And he failed. So he came to the institute to apologize for the failure.
His business partner said that since the down payment was returned, there was no problem in principle, but Heo Seong-chan had a different idea. Credibility and reputation are vital in his industry, so he certainly wanted to be given the opportunity to apologize to his clients and, if possible, make up for his previous failures.
That was the circumstances of Heo Seong-chan that Ji Ye-won had figured out. I did not hear any important information such as what Heo Seong-chan was doing or what the request was, but the circumstances that Ji Ye-won inferred only from the context matched the truth.
…… However, Ji Ye-won did not know in her dreams that the man in front of her was a contractor who planned to kidnap Kang Ha-neul.
“Anyway, so I want your help!”
After the lengthy explanation, Heo Seong-chan shouted, clenching his fists. Ji Ye-won had a throbbing pain in his head. He had no idea what the man in front of him was doing.
She thinks, once she received the request from the institute, she must be related to research. She did, but it was odd that she didn’t have a secure ID. Prior to that, if you were involved, you would have to go through formal procedures such as an apology or whatever. There would be no need to apologize and ask yourself, who was going to work for the first time today.
‘There is a reason why you can’t follow the normal procedure… ….’
Wonderful. And Ji Ye-won didn’t want to get involved in suspicious things.
She is currently infiltrated here under Min Chaeryeong’s orders.
And as I said before, the iron rule of infiltration is to remain unnoticed. She didn’t want to interfere with her mission because she got involved in useless affairs. In the first place, she didn’t offer any particular merit, but she had no reason to help Heo Seong-chan.
“…… It doesn’t seem like something I can help with.”
“No! I can help enough! If I just convey my intentions to my client inside-“
“So that’s impossible. I’m just an employee at a cleaning company, let alone my first day at work. I don’t even know who the client you are talking about is, and even if I did, I rarely ever meet him.”
“No. Is it. Well, maybe that’s it too…….”
Heo Seong-chan made a sullen expression as if she understood Ji Ye-won’s refusal. However, he soon loosened his expression and smiled again.
“Still, I want to get to know you! I really like pretty girls!”
“Haa…… “
If you can’t get help with work-related things, let’s at least hunt for something like this. It was a really simple thought process.
“I told you during the day, but I have no intention of getting close with you-“
“Sacrament. Were you here?”
At that time, a voice with an intelligent feeling rang out from behind Yewon Ji. Ji Ye-won turned her head away, surprised that she hadn’t noticed her approach this time as well.
“Jinsu!”
The owner of the voice was Yoo Jin-su, Heo Seong-chan’s partner and the same contractor.
“How the hell do you not even listen to me? Didn’t I tell you not to hang around and stay at home quietly? I’ve said many times that there’s nothing good about standing out…….”
Ji Ye-won looked at Yoo Jin-soo with embarrassed eyes at the sudden appearance. Yoo Jin-soo shook his head, as if he was frustrated by his partner’s behavior of not listening to him at all.
“Jinsu! Let’s talk to the researcher again and get a chance to make up for it! I will never be offended this time! This time, it will definitely succeed! Huh?”
“It’s already over. Failure is failure. And did I say We shouldn’t go first unless the other side requests it again.”
“But… ….”
“But, now that you are sleeping, please listen to me. However… ….”
Yoo Jin-soo’s eyes turned to Ji Ye-won. Seeing those sharpened eyes, Ji Ye-won instinctively corrected her posture.
“Who is this?”
“There lab staff! I don’t know the name yet! I called you because I wanted to ask you something regarding a request!”
“You couldn’t have told the outsider about the contents of the request, right?”
“No way!”
Heo Seong-chan was not an idiot. In a situation where he might or might not listen to his request, he didn’t do anything stupid to reveal their circumstances from one to ten. What he said to Ji Ye-won was only the context in which he could not specify the contents of the request or the person concerned.
“…… It looks like my partner was rude.”
“It’s even rude.”
“On behalf of the sacrament, I apologize for wasting your time. Please feel free to forget about today.”
Yoo Jin-soo, who apologized politely to Ji Ye-won, told Heo Seong-chan to go out. It looks like it’s about to leave in a hurry.
“Over there.”
The suspicious appearance stimulated Ji Ye-won’s intuition as a spy.
It is not acceptable to get involved in suspicious things unnecessarily. However, getting caught up in something suspicious without knowing anything was even worse.
“What kind of work did you two do at the research center?”
“…… I did this and that. It was just like a janitor.”
At Ji Ye-Won’s question, Yoo Jin-Soo smiled softly and bowed her head. Soon, he left the cafe with Heo Seong-chan, who was across from him.
Just before leaving the cafe, Heo Seong-chan, who was halfway dragged away by Yoo Jin-soo, waved to Ji Ye-won. However, Ji Ye-won’s nerves were focused elsewhere.
“A handyman.”
Somehow, Ji Ye-won chewed the word over and over again and thought about it.
In a laboratory like this, what could a janitor do?
Prior to this mission, Min Chae-ryeong received information necessary for the mission, but she said that there seems to be something more that she does not know.
“…….”
And a girl sitting at the table opposite her was watching her closely.