Episode 117. absurd (5)
Lee Ji-yoon slowly opened her eyes. A white ceiling was visible.
After a moment of silence, I remembered the last thing I had seen. At the same time, I was startled and tried to get up. Then I felt the muscles all over my body throb.
“Aw—”
At the sound, those who had been dozing off on one side of the sofa woke up and came running.
“mom!”
“honey!”
“Amy!”
“Brother-in-law!”
Lee Ji-yoon was relieved when she saw her family approaching her. And the tears flowed.
“ah······.”
Jin Kyu-yeon, Jin Woo-yeon, and Jin Woo-kyung hugged Lee Ji-yoon.
After being known to have been kidnapped, he was able to return to his family in 33 hours.
They hugged each other and wept.
Tens of minutes passed, and the hospital room became a sea of tears. Then, little by little, it started to calm down.
Only then did Jin Yeon-seok ask in a worried voice behind his family.
“Are you okay? The doctor said he might get a lot of electric shocks and be sick for a while.”
“Come to think of it… it’s not good… Rather, how am I here…”
Lee Ji-yoon thought of Ki Tae-nam and his men. I thought I was really dead when I was burned by electricity in an empty lot where the surroundings were dark.
It was to the point where I just looked at the white ceiling and thought it might be heaven…
Jin Yeon-seok said this.
“They said that the police were called to a place called Dunji Oreum and found you and brought you back. But to be there…”
“···yes?”
For a moment, Lee Ji-yoon did not understand.
“Where you were found. Seonjun over there…”
“ah······.”
The place where Woo Joon-jun was found dead. To be exact, it was the place where Min Hwan-sik was killed.
Everyone was surprised to find out…
“Then… those people…?”
Lee Ji-yoon wondered what had become of Ki Tae-nam, Photo-gal, and their men who had kidnapped her.
If I didn’t check it, it was harder to feel relieved.
“The police say it’s not far from the scene… it’s big.”
“Why are you saying that?”
I was about to say something, but Jin Gyu-yeon gathered her heart and intervened.
“Father, by all means…”
“Wouldn’t it be more so if you didn’t know? It’s not like you don’t even know.”
“What are you talking about?”
Jin Yeon-seok paused again and said.
“…they said that the body was found not far away.”
“That, is that person? everything?”
“I don’t know if it’s all of them, but they say they are the key figures in the wanted case.”
“Ahh! Oh, how about the river? How was the precipitation?”
Lee Ji-yoon, who was distracted, was able to think of it only then.
Everyone was surprised to hear that.
The same was true of Jin Soo-hyeok, who was standing behind Jin Yeon-seok. It was because he did not know why Kang-soo’s name came out of Lee Ji-yoon’s mouth.
“Amy, what do you mean? Is it river water? Why is he?”
“Was it like a warehouse? There, the person who called Ki Tae-nam was talking to someone on the phone, and it was definitely Kang-soo’s voice! He said he was coming to pick me up from there.”
“Precipitation? Is that for real?”
In fact, everyone contacted Kangsu before coming to Jeju Island. He didn’t answer his phone, and he wasn’t even at home.
In the end, I had no choice but to leave out the river.
However, since Kang-soo’s actions came from Lee Ji-yoon, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
“Sister-in-law, didn’t I hear you wrong? How does Kang-su know their number to call?”
“People there know… Oh, I heard that there was a call from a person named Do Jin-cheong, so I answered it, and Kang-soo’s voice came from there. Haa… they said they gave them 2.5 billion won… even that kind of money.”
“Gangsu traded money with them?”
Jin Yeon-seok couldn’t believe it either.
However, the location of the current precipitation was not known.
At first, I thought it might be because of the lack of family ties yet. However, through Jin Soo-hyeok, he said that he seriously asked Lee Ji-yoon’s situation.
Even though I was a little relieved, listening to Lee Ji-yoon’s words made me feel ominous.
“They said they had deposited it right away. But to hear that the man named Ki Tae-nam died…”
Lee Ji-yoon passed out immediately after arriving at an empty lot and being taken out.
When I came to my senses after that, I was in a hospital.
It was difficult to understand how it was in English just by hearing the explanation.
“Call Kangsu again.”
“I am doing it now.”
Turururu— Turururu—
Jin Soo-hyeok tried to call Kang-soo a few times, but he couldn’t connect.
“Don’t you? You don’t even know what happened?”
“That’s… for now, that’s it.”
Everyone groaned.
Then there was a knock at the door.
smart-
The door opened slowly, and Song Yeong-do, Jin Yeon-seok’s secretary, entered.
“What is it?”
“Nothing else, the police came here to Jeju National University Hospital.”
“···police? Didn’t the daughter-in-law’s statement say that she would come back after she calmed down a bit?”
“It’s not like that, but they say they’re looking for Yoo Byung-hun, the director of the hospital. I found out the reason, and it was Yoo Byeong-hun, the hospital director, who instigated the kidnapping and murder of Chairman Lee Ji-yoon… Once we found out, the Jeju Prosecutor’s Office said they were wanted right away.”
“···what?”
Jin Yeon-seok’s expression crumpled and became bloody. At the same time, his fists trembled.
So did other families around.
“Father, I have to go to the police station.”
It was Jin Kyu-yeon who stepped forward. He couldn’t help but be angry because he was trying to harm his wife.
Jin Yeon-seok shook his head.
“If you go there, who will guard this place? Leave the outside work to Attorney Jung.”
It refers to Jeong Taek-yong, the advisor to the Jin family. I had just sent him to the police station before coming to the hospital.
“but······.”
“What are you going to do? Those guys have to deal with the law. Thoroughly so that he never raises his head socially again.”
In the meantime, his secretary, Song Young-do, was instructed by Jin Yeon-seok to contact lawyer Jeong Taek-yong.
Jin Gyu-yeon had no choice but to calm the anger that was seething in his heart. Even if he thought about it, it was because it was more important to stay by Lee Ji-yoon’s side than to go to the police station right away.
“But… is Kang-soo still unable to reach me?”
Even now, Jin Soo-hyeok was busy pressing the call button while holding his cell phone, standing on one side of the hospital room. Jin Yeon-seok and other family members began to worry because they could guess the situation just by looking at his expression.
* * *
It was late at night.
Yoo Byeong-hoon, the director of Jeju University Hospital, entered Pyoseon Port in the southeast of Jeju Island, wearing a mask meticulously on his hat.
Luckily, I was able to escape right before the police burst into the hospital. And now I was trying to get out of Jeju Island.
In this way, Yoo Byeong-hun passed the pier road and approached the boat built at the end of the Pyoseon Port dock.
The men I had met at dawn the previous day poked their heads out from inside the boat.
“Are you leaving right away?”
“Ride once. It won’t do any good to stay here for a long time.”
“Are you sure you can get out of Japan?”
“If you don’t want to believe it, don’t ride it. Instead, there is no refund.”
Yoo Byeong-hun’s eyebrows furrowed at the shameless man’s attitude.
It was a smuggling that was caught by paying a whopping 50 million won. I came here to find out in a hurry because I didn’t know if the police were in the area where they were professionally stowed away.
families? Right now, it was important from his own comfort. I didn’t even care because I was going to be caught by the police right away.
“I got it! You can ride it!”
That was the moment.
People rushed out of the boats around them.
“Stay still!”
“…!”
Those on the stowaway ship were startled, and at the same time, some tried to jump into the sea.
However, as soon as he saw the Marine Police Commando raising his head in the water, he couldn’t jump in.
All roads are surrounded.
In the meantime, another group of police and prosecutors walked through the dock.
Yoo Byeong-hun was so shocked that he couldn’t get out of his seat on the boat. In the first place, all escape routes were blocked, so it was impossible to escape.
“Mr. Yoo Byeong-hun, we are arresting you on charges of abducting and instigating the murder of Lee Ji-yoon, chairman of the JY Medical Foundation, embezzlement of hospital operating expenses, unauthorized taking of medicines, and bribery.”
After that, the prosecutor kindly informed me of Miranda’s Law.
In the meantime, the police handcuffed Yoo Byung-hun and the stowaways and dragged them to the dock.
Yoo Byung-hoon was able to come to his senses a little at the feel of the cold handcuffs on his wrists.
“I am not! why would i do that! uh?”
“All conversations with you were recorded on the cell phone belonging to Ki Tae-nam, who was found at Dunji Oreum. Are you still going to keep talking?”
“That, that’s…”
Of course, I thought that Yoo Byung-hun and Ki Tae-nam might have left something like that. That’s why he ran away, but… However, when I confirmed through the mouth of the prosecutor that it was true, the future became dark.
“-sh*t!”
After thinking about it for a long time, it exploded after belatedly sending 1 billion won to Ki Tae-nam.
However, even now, Yoo Byung-hoon was thinking about that one billion won.
The moment Yoo Byeong-hoon was being dragged along the dock road… dozens of cars came in from the end of the road, parked at the entrance to the dock, and rushed down.
They were all journalists.
He ran to film Yoo Byung-hoon, who was caught trying to smuggle.
“It is said that most of the crimes committed by Joong-Min Kim, the former director of Jeju National University Hospital, were committed by Byung-Hun Yoo. Is that true?”
“I heard that there is evidence that you colluded with the Maotai, a gang in Chinatown in Jeju Island. What do you think?”
Reporters’ questions poured in like a storm.
Upon hearing this, Yoo Byeong-hun became contemplative and quickly tried to cover his face.
But it’s already too late. Pictures were taken as they were meant to be taken, and the reporters seemed unwilling to give way until they heard an answer.
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Camera flashes lit up the dark neighborhood.
There were people who watched the scene from a car a little away from the dock.
They were Kangsu, Teresa, and Simon.
“Soo. Are you okay with this?”
At Teresa’s question, who was sitting in the back seat, Kang-soo grabbed the steering wheel from the driver’s seat.
“Our work ends here. I also smelled it from Gwangsu University in Seoul, so I can’t go any further.”
It was because Seong Dae-woon, whom he had a little relationship with, came to the hospital. And that Seongdaeun was now standing near the dock.
It was to help the investigation and find traces of Kang Soo-ne.
“In a way, he’s the worst guy.”
“I am not playing hero. Just deal with the bad guys to us. And thank you for my personal work. And Simon too. Chiyoung too.”
It was originally something I was trying to solve on my own. The others had nothing to do with Lee Ji-yoon.
At this, Theresa put on a troubled expression.
“Soo. Are you going to be sad like this? If it’s Soo’s job, it’s our job too.”
“I don’t know yet, but I’m always in favor of dealing with these guys, personal or not.”
At the end of Teresa and Simon’s answer, Gong Chi-yeong also spoke.
[It’s crazy and I’m sleepy. Can you do it right without us? Don’t hold on to sh*t and go to the hospital right away.]
It was because other family members, along with his father Jin Soo-hyeok, were looking for Kang-soo.
“…that’s how it should be.”
Kangsu made a U-turn on the road and ran to the hospital.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary