Episode 204
“….”
Cheon Myeong-guk, who received my call, personally led the awakened people of the Awakened Security Office and came to the headquarters of the cult.
He ordered the police accompanying him to classify the citizens and then looked around the interior, which was littered with corpses, with a stern expression. Then, when our eyes met, he came towards me and spoke as if making an excuse.
“This case has nothing to do with the government.”
“Are you sure?”
“yes.”
“The leader was excitedly talking about being related to people in politics and business.”
“It is presumed that there is a secret organization or association inside.”
“It might be a bigger number than you think.”
There is nothing more to add or take away from my words. If the matter had been carried out so secretly that even the President did not know about it, the relative scale would have been significant.
Of course I have no intention of covering it up. But what is at stake here is the will of the President and Cheon Myeong-guk.
Those in power basically show the characteristic of trying to cover up something that happens to prevent it from being expanded and reproduced. Here, a more clever person takes advantage of the incident to his own advantage.
Even if the President or Cheon Myeong-guk are the former or the latter type, I still don’t like them.
They may have different thoughts than I do, so I opened it up to the media first to make it easier for them to think. If this is the case, even if we try to bury the situation, we won’t be able to. Of course, enemies who notice may hide, but it is up to the Blue House to decide what to do with it.
I gave Cheon Myeong-guk a hint to make it easier for him to think.
“This project probably came from China.”
“How?”
“There is a way to know.”
“Well, I understand.”
Since I have a connection with Wei Hao, it may be up to my understanding.
The good thing about being a superhuman is that no one really questions me if I say this. After all, if a person wants to say something, it is better to say it after being successful.
“Superman.”
“yes.”
“Can you leave this job to me?”
“First of all, I have no intention of settling things quietly.”
“That goes for me too.”
“….”
I looked at Cheon Myeong-guk’s face. If he had appeared anxious about how to resolve the situation before, he was now showing determination.
Did running for president change your thinking? Anyway, it was a positive change, so I accepted it well.
“All right. Instead, we cannot just ignore things like soft punishment. “If you are not going to handle it properly, I will step in.”
“Of course.”
“Then I will leave the relevant people to the director. “I guess I’ll just have to deal with the little brats.”
“What if it’s a small piece?”
“There were guys who supplied people here. “Isn’t human trafficking one of the worst crimes, along with drug dealers?”
“…That is correct.”
“Then, please take care of the rest.”
I told him that the cult leader was in a suitable state to provide information. Unlike before, Cheon Myeong-guk nodded and accepted with a serious expression.
“no. Rather, something like this should have been prevented in the first place, but I am only sorry for having to fall into the hands of a superhuman.”
“It was nothing. “It’s my job to take care of these things.”
It served as an opportunity to confirm that there are still many villains disguised as normal people in our society.
* * *
“Chief. “All site cleanup has been completed.”
Yang Joo-hyuk approached Cheon Myeong-guk and reported.
I thought it was a cult located on the outskirts, but the inside was shocking. Not only were people sold through human trafficking, but there were also traces of various biological experiments conducted on awakened people.
Yang Joo-hyuk, who vaguely thought that villains were bad, was shocked to see that those disguised as religious people committed even worse deeds.
Does justice exist in the world? Seeing so many people fainting helplessly, my disgust for the villain welled up.
It was times like these that I realized how great Choi Jun-ho was. If it were me, would I have been able to punish them resolutely?
“Good work. “All those arrested will be handed over to the police and we will return to the Blue House.”
“yes.”
Cheon Myeong-guk skillfully organized the scene. Yang Joo-hyuk, who was watching this, asked with a curious expression.
“What are they going to do with them now?”
“The crimes committed so far will be investigated and appropriate punishment will be given.”
“A reasonable punishment.”
What is the punishment for those who committed human trafficking, plundered property, and conducted biological experiments? Except for the death penalty, which is not actually executed, all you can do is be imprisoned for life.
Maybe that’s too weak a punishment.
Cheon Myeong-guk seemed to sense that thought and added.
“As long as it involves the superhuman Choi Jun-ho, it won’t be passed as a mild punishment.”
“Is that so?”
“If you don’t like the punishment, Superhuman Choi Jun-ho won’t just leave you alone.”
“Ah…”
A normal person would have been satisfied with the arrested criminal being brought to justice. If an unreasonable punishment was handed down, he would have accepted it even if he was dissatisfied.
Everyone knows that’s not right. However, since it is a rule applied to society, it is not noticeable.
Choi Jun-ho goes against the promises of this society.
Sometimes, it occurred to me that overwhelming violence without any hesitation exerts a more powerful force.
So what role do law and order play?
Cheon Myeong-guk spoke as if he had sensed Yang Joo-hyuk’s thoughts.
“Not everyone can be like Choi Jun-ho, a superhuman. If we do that, we will return to the era of barbarism.”
“But there are also positive points about Choi Jun-ho’s superhuman skills.”
“So you want the process to be skipped?”
“….”
“Secretary Yang.”
“yes.”
“I know that you admire the superhuman Choi Jun-ho. But don’t justify Choi Jun-ho’s superhuman ways. If you rely on that method, all order will collapse. “It would be easier to just turn a blind eye to an unmanageable catastrophe.”
“I’ll try my best.”
Although Yang Joo-hyuk said so, Cheon Myeong-guk knew that it would not be easy.
Choi Jun-ho is a fatal poison. The more you use his method, the more you get results, the more you become addicted to it.
It won’t be easy to catch it. Although I said this to Yang Joo-hyuk, I was actually saying this to Cheon Myeong-guk himself.
Cheon Myeong-guk entered the Blue House and reported to the President.
“…I can’t just ignore it.”
“yes.”
“How should I handle it?”
“You have to look at your true colors. “Problems will not arise if we deal with this clearly regardless of the ruling or opposition party’s business guild.”
“The resistance will be formidable.”
“But you still have to do it. If we fail, more blood will be shed.”
The President noticed what Cheon Myeong-guk was saying.
“Are you talking about Choi Jun-ho? Actually, I won’t stay still.”
“yes. And it’s also for the presidential election.”
“….”
“It is the ruling party that is more involved in this matter. Mr. President, I was pushed into running for president, but since I have made up my mind, I will do my best to win. “If we take this opportunity to reform the ruling party and show ourselves taking responsibility, we will be in a more advantageous position.”
“hmm.”
In the process, the ruling party may suffer fatal injuries. But I thought that was not a bad thing for winning the presidential election. The ruling party will immediately be caught up in responsibility, and if the presidential candidates are involved, they will suffer fatal injuries.
When internal candidates cannot guarantee victory, attention naturally turns outward. It is the right time for Cheon Myung-guk to appear.
When I thought about it like that, everything was moving in the direction of Cheon Myung-guk’s victory.
No, it must be a trend encouraged by Cheon Myeong-guk.
“Is it the will to power?”
“yes. Since I have decided to do it, I will do my best to win everything. “I plan to carry on the president’s achievements and contribute my all to the country.”
Perhaps Cheon Myeong-guk, who has the gift of simulation, may be the best president.
If you have the ability to draw a future that is close to foresight by substituting accurate information, trial and error will be greatly reduced.
The only thing to trust is Cheon Myeong-guk’s conscience.
We can only hope that he does not become a slave to power.
Actually, because Choi Jun-ho was there, I wasn’t too worried about that part.
It may be a bit weird to say this, but the president is also a person who will smash his head if he doesn’t like it.
“Let’s proceed in that direction.”
The president planned to draw a picture in which Cheon Myung-guk could appear like a painting without the power of the ruling party’s presidential candidates.
* * *
The largest villain organization ‘Jijon’, located in Anseong-si and Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, has accumulated enormous wealth while acting as a bridge between Gyeonggi-do and Chungcheong-do.
When the villain organizations in the metropolitan area located close to Seoul were wiped out, they were able to take a step aside and increase their power, and were able to grow to dominate Anseong City and Pyeongtaek City.
They are actively engaged in activities such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, smuggling, and usury.
Among them, the most interesting business area was human trafficking, and their main target was refugees who had lost their homes and were driven out by monsters.
The supreme boss, the human butcher Jeong Yeon-hoo, has an unusual history of running a construction company. He was caught using refugees as slaves and was wanted as a villain and chased after.
As a Level 5 Awakening, he graduated from the best university in Korea, but although he was incompetent as an individual, he had considerable business acumen and the ability to collude with the political world.
Even if you commit an illegal act, if it is not treated as illegal, it is not illegal.
When I was running a construction company, I lost everything after being caught by the State Protection Agency, which did not compromise, but this time I was confident.
“Catch everything you can! “Make me into debt that I don’t have and make me sign a waiver!”
Jeong Yeon-hoo’s favorite method is to create debt and force the target to be sold voluntarily.
“Boss, isn’t this dangerous?”
“What’s dangerous?”
“There’s an article out now, and if we make a mistake, it looks like we’ll be in trouble too.”
“Oh, that?”
Jeong Yeon-hu curled up the corners of his mouth after seeing the article his subordinate showed him.
“do not worry. “Because we won’t be exposed.”
“How can you be sure?”
“Because I never left behind any data. If you only look at what is revealed on the outside, you would think that they were attracting people through missionary work. Still, if they catch our tail, we can insist like this.”
Yeonhoo Jeong said without changing his expression.
“We are victims too.”
“…were we victims?”
“Yes, we provided job placement for refugees who were wandering around without a place to go, but wasn’t it that some pseudo-religion scammed us? “It’s those guys who are bad, and it’s not our fault who tried to return the refugees to their normal lives.”
In reality, the villain organization Supreme was just a name that was secretly used, and it was a legitimate human resources office with a proper headquarters in Pyeongtaek City.
Even though they are claiming to be the boss and not properly complying with the relevant laws.
After all, they are small children. Since the scale is not as big as other places, if you want to touch it, you have no choice but to touch the big place. Crucially, the government fears that the number of people employed by them will decrease.
Since the emergence of monsters, the government has been trying to prevent the emergence of refugees, and one of the effective ways to suppress this was the employment indicator.
Here, there was one more thing that Jeong Yeonhu believed in.
“And don’t worry, I have insurance just in case.”
“What do you mean by insurance?”
“Is it time to reveal the truth?”
After saying that, Jeong Yeon-hoo revealed a hidden card.
“There was a conversation with the External Cooperation Management Bureau.”
The subordinate’s eyes widened at the completely unexpected name of the place.
“Isn’t the Foreign Cooperation Management Bureau one of the three countries?”
“It is a place where various operations are actively carried out. “If necessary, it is also a place to join hands with villains like us.”
“Then I am relieved.”
“Were you worried?”
“How easy is it to find such a lucrative business?”
“Of course it’s difficult.”
The two met their eyes and laughed. As Yeom Yeom-cheol, the current head of the National Front Defense Agency, was the director of the External Cooperation Management Bureau, he was one of the most highly positioned within the three countries.
Does that place look after them? Their safety was practically guaranteed.
The responsibility lies with someone else and they drink the sweet water themselves.
Everything was perfect.
“Even if Choi Jun-ho comes, we are safe, so don’t worry.”
“yes.”