Episode 90. MineBook (2)
Clap! Clap—!
Everyone hid and took out pistols from their pockets and loaded them.
Zhang Ji-chen checked Lee Jin-pyeong, who had fallen to the floor on top of the server machine. I couldn’t get up as I let out a shallow moan.
Looking at the location where he fell, the direction the bullets flew was toward the kitchen.
In response, Zhang Zhiqian pointed to his subordinates with his finger.
The men who had been hiding by the couch pressed themselves against the wall and headed toward the kitchen. And quickly turned the corner with the gun pointed.
widely-
At that moment, an arm came out and grabbed the subordinate’s hand.
At the same time, the muzzle, unlike the silencer, protruded from the inside and fired.
Pooh, Pushyuk— Pushyuk
Two consecutive bullets hit him in the chest and one in the head.
Another subordinate following behind tried to take advantage of the gap, but the man who almost fell first was grabbed and covered his way.
Poo, pooh-
“Big!”
Two bullets were driven into the man’s heart.
It happened in an instant.
Seeing that scene, Zhang Zhichen hurriedly put a gun out of the server machine.
bang-! Tattang—! bang–!
The bullet lodged in the body of a subordinate who had been caught standing in the kitchen.
I couldn’t let the enemy behind him come out.
The men on the other side also opened fire. As the bullets rained down, the body of a subordinate fell to the ground.
Still, the gunfire did not stop.
“stop! Stop shooting!”
The gunshots that continued to be fired stopped at Zhang Jichen’s cry.
The sofa and kitchen were completely shattered by bullets.
But something was strange.
The living room was the only way to the kitchen. That means the enemy has been in the house since the beginning…
“···no way.”
Fufu shook— Fu shuk— Fu shuk—
Bullets flew again. But the direction was towards the window.
Zhang Zhiqian came out from behind the server machine and collapsed after being shot in the arm and abdomen.
The other subordinates were also completely caught off guard, so they couldn’t avoid it.
Chow ah—
Then a man came inside, breaking a window that had been punctured by a bullet.
It was Kang-soo wearing a mask.
Fufu shook— Fu shuk—
Kangsu surely killed Zhang Jichen’s men who were trying to pick up the gun again.
“Yes, what is your guy…?”
Outside the window was the 23rd floor. A rope slid through that window.
Kangsu broke into the kitchen with the rope, and just now jumped outside and swooped in through another window.
Zhang Ji-chen, who used to fly and fly in Hong Kong, never dreamed that he would be attacked in such a way.
“bye.”
push-
Jiangsu put a bullet through Zhang Jiqian’s head and brought his hand to his right ear.
“I got it all done. The server device seems fine, how is it?”
The person connected through the earphones was Gong Chi-young.
[Clean. It was easy because the guy who was trying to catch me stepped on the trap properly. Still, it was close-knit. Even if it was a little late, everything would have flown.]
“I don’t think it really did.”
[What are you talking about?]
Kang-soo was in the kitchen even before Zhang Ji-chen and his subordinates came in.
At that time, I watched Lee Jin-pyeong’s actions and knew what the situation was.
“It looked like he was trying to escape by copying information into the server.”
[That herb and that rice… ah.]
“what’s the matter? What’s wrong?”
[Suddenly I’m craving herbs. Tonight’s dinner is Sanchae Bibimbap.]
“Yes, eat well. how long do you think it will take Is there anything I can bring?”
After checking out the door, Kangsu poked his head out the window as well.
There was a lot of gunfire, but it was quiet. That meant that the area was lawless.
[it’s okay. First of all, I reported it to the Hong Kong police, so you get out too. Oh, don’t leave evidence.]
“don’t worry.”
There was a creeping presence from outside.
When it was quiet, people from the surrounding houses began to peek out.
Kangsu jumped through the window again and climbed down the rope.
* * *
It was the Seohwa Group headquarters conference room.
There, Seo Myung-won returned to his room after hearing about the business plan for the fourth quarter of 2016.
Woo-woo-woo-woo-
My phone vibrated in the briefcase.
It was the cell phone that Jang Eun-seok called in the morning.
“Are you done with everything already?”
The name that appeared on the screen was ‘Oh Won-hoe Jin Shi-jong’.
When I pressed the call button, I heard Shizong Jin’s voice.
[You’re having trouble talking on the phone.]
“I was in a meeting.”
It must have been walked several times.
An ominous feeling lingered.
“Is something urgent happening?”
[…a problem has occurred.]
“Is it a problem?”
[The Kowloon Castle seems to have been robbed.]
Seongwon’s expression hardened.
Apparently, right before the meeting, I even had a direct phone call with Zhang Jichen. I heard that they even secured Lee Jin-pyeong, but it didn’t make sense.
“Couldn’t it be… did Zhang Jichen run away with Li Jinping?”
It was one of the most predictable options.
[Zhang Jichen is also dead.]
“…Jiang Zhiqian is dead? how······.”
When Seo Myung-won prepared the facility in Hong Kong, he saw Zhang Ji-chen in person.
I felt like a professional who had killed countless people. I believed that it would not be an opponent unless it was a tolerable person.
[We are still figuring out the details. First of all, the Hong Kong police arrived first and started an investigation, so we can’t use our hands.]
“You mean the police?”
[Roughly, I heard that there was a talk about a cooperative investigation from the Korean government.]
At Jin Shi-jong’s words, Seo Myung-won felt the back of his neck stiffen.
The thing I feared was happening.
“Then what happened to Jinpyeong Lee?”
[He lived. He was shot in the back and is undergoing surgery. I want to live once.]
Things got messed up right.
But there was something odd about it.
“How did the police go there first? Wasn’t Kowloon Castle the Wuyuanhoe District?”
[It’s on the outskirts of the area. The police don’t even come here. So I also found out that the threat came in anonymously. He said he would kidnap the son of the Hong Kong police chief.]
“Am I kidnapping?”
I couldn’t help but be surprised.
[It was a lie. The Hong Kong police chief there was so hot-tempered that as soon as he heard that, he mobilized a large force even though he knew it was a lie.]
“ah······.”
[Anyway, it seems difficult to organize easily.]
“Once you find out anything about the server there, please let me know.”
[All right.]
When the call was over, Seo Myung-won wanted to throw his cell phone right away.
However, if I made it loud, I could hear it from outside the office, so I put up with it.
Woo-woo-woo-woo-
The call this time came from the original cell phone.
“Big, big. yes, honey What are you doing at this hour?”
A friendly voice flowed from Seo-won’s mouth.
* * *
A few days later.
Seong Dae-woon, the head of the strong 1st team of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Metropolitan Investigation Unit, joined the special team for the ‘Minebook case’ derived from the recent ‘JG Capital case’.
The scale of the incident was frightening.
From ordinary women to celebrities.
It was a very serious matter, so I tried to investigate it with as much silence as possible, but I didn’t know when it would explode.
“What are you doing?”
“Ah, senior.”
The person who entered the office of the special team was Superintendent Lee Nam-seok, the leader of the Gwangsoo.
This time, he was selected as the general manager of the special team.
“Are you looking at the data from Hong Kong?”
“Yes, this is wow… I don’t know what kind of crazy guy it is. It seems certain that he is a true psycho.”
“He’s a madman among madmen. Still, isn’t it fortunate that the Hong Kong police caught the developer?”
It really couldn’t have been more amazing.
In addition to being a dark web, it was assumed that the server of the program would be impossible to track because it was located overseas.
However, anonymous data on Hong Kong came over, and it was possible to propose a cooperative investigation with the approval of the prosecution and the court.
First of all, it was thanks to how much the case was secured in Korea.
“When are you coming?”
“Since there is damage in Hong Kong, it will come over after the investigation is over there. Still, I’m glad he’s a guy with Korean nationality. If it was a foreigner…”
I couldn’t even investigate and didn’t know if I should have handed it over to Hollang Hong Kong.
“There must be someone behind him, right?”
“Didn’t you see the personal information? A guy like that ate this scale alone? It’s nonsense.”
The profits identified in ‘Minebook’ amounted to billions of dollars.
However, all of the funds were traded through overseas accounts or Daepo bankbooks, making it difficult to track.
The money found at Lee Jin-pyeong’s house, which was caught in Hong Kong, is about 1 million Hong Kong dollars. It was only about 150 million won in Hanwha.
There was a cannon bankbook found there, but it was all about $30 million.
The funds traded in minebooks were far short.
“I have to find that too. Rather…”
“why? What else do you have?”
“I wondered if there was still nothing coming out about the anonymous informant who handed over the data to the media.”
At that question, Lee Nam-seok shook his head.
“It’s not clean. Some kind of vigilante…”
All sorts of incidents went over to the press.
The biggest among them was the downfall of presidential candidate Yoon Jae-seung and the Hanmaeum Democratic Party.
It couldn’t have been a huge thing since one opposition party was completely blown away.
“Isn’t there going to be an investigation team about that?”
“I’ve said it a few times too. But since there is no proper evidence, what can I do? Besides, there are so many incidents that explode right away…”
I didn’t have too much of a mind.
The Hanmaeum Democratic Party’s bribery case and the murder case of Yoon Jae-seung were only recently resolved by the police, led by the prosecution.
Of course, as the case was large, it was still ongoing within the prosecution.
“First of all… Hong Kong side Minebook server data will be transferred along with Lee Jin-pyeong.”
“Honestly, I don’t know if I will hand it over intact. Rumor has it that there is also a daughter of a high-ranking official in the Hong Kong government among the Minebook victims…”
The videos or photos of the victims had been spread to a certain extent to numerous criminals who were using minebooks on the dark web.
Even if he did the repairs, the situation would only be sorted out in front of his eyes.
Knock Tok—
“Excuse me. A courier has arrived in front of the special team.”
It was a police officer in charge of guiding the entrance of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.
At his explanation, Lee Nam-seok and Seong Dae-woon tilted their heads.
“parcel?”
“Who sent the courier? Did you check what?”
It was a courier sent to the team.
I was careful because there was absolutely no way for someone to personally deliver the parcel.
“Once, no dangerous goods were detected. And the sender has no name.”
“Let’s go.”
“I see.”
The two followed the policeman down to the first floor.
I went into the room where the courier was kept.
A rectangular box measuring 40 cm wide, 20 cm long, and 15 cm high was placed on a desk.
“I will open it.”
It was because there had been evidence sent anonymously in the same way as now.
Sung Dae-woon approached the box and carefully tore off the tape.
Chii profit—
When the box was opened, I saw a lot of Styrofoam buffer, as if I had stored something fragile.
After digging through it, there was a large external hard drive inside.
“her······.”
It seemed to be as expected.
“I’ll call the cybercrime team.”
“I will.”
Afterwards, the investigation into the external hard drive was a breeze.
And what was found inside surprised the special team members.
“This is Hong Kong server data, right? How is this…”
“Don’t ask me. Because I don’t know. Just in case, try tracking the delivery route.”
I’ve tried tracking it before, but it went through people several times, and there were things that were delivered without knowing their faces, so it was a waste of money.
While checking together, Seong Dae-woon recalled the person who had left Min Hwan-sik in front of the National Police Agency and disappeared.
I couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman because I saw it from a distance and it was dark.
I could only be certain that there was an entity that was thought to be a vigilante.
“The data is terrifying, aren’t we alone enough to catch them all?”
“First of all, I will report to the Commissioner. Then we might have to form a separate team for each provincial office to work together.”
As it is usually an important case, I never wanted to hand it over to another office or jurisdiction because it would be a big achievement.
But the scale of this case was terrifying.
The suspects caught by Minebook so far were new blood.
This was because the external hard drive contained all the chat rooms and data in the Minebook, which had now been deleted.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary