D-Workshop Tour (1)
Next day, in Suwon.
Park Jae-hyeok, Sang-gyu, and Jin-cheol arrived at the Crown Hotel Suwon branch.
And the three entered the hotel.
“Is this the security team from headquarters?”
[Hong Gwang-il. Assistant Manager at Crown Hotel Suwon Branch]
A man in a black suit, appearing to be in his late 20s with a height of about 170 cm, spoke to them.
Jae-hyeok answered.
“Yes. That’s right.”
“I’m Assistant Manager Hong Gwang-il from the Suwon branch. I’ll guide you to the branch manager.”
With that, the three followed Gwang-il to Seo Myeongwoo’s location.
Standing in front of the branch manager’s office door, Gwang-il lightly knocked on the door.
“Branch Manager. It’s Assistant Manager Hong Gwang-il. I’ve brought the people from headquarters.”
“Open the door.”
Gwang-il opened the door, and the three entered the branch manager’s office.
Seo Myeongwoo, sitting on the chair, smiled when he saw Jae-hyeok and said to him.
“Long time no see. Your name is Park Jae-hyeok, right?”
“Yes. That’s correct.”
As expected, Myeongwoo seemed to have no grudge against him.
“I heard rumors from headquarters. For a newcomer, your skills are quite good.”
And he took a puff of his cigarette and said to the three.
“Anyway, all of you sit down.”
Spitting out cigarette smoke, Myeongwoo pointed at the sofa in front of him with the hand holding the cigarette.
When the three sat on the sofa, Myeongwoo, holding some document envelope, sat on another sofa.
“I heard from headquarters. You only need to stay here for two months. Depending on the situation, it might extend, but I’ll make sure you can return within two months at most.”
And Myeongwoo opened the document envelope and divided some documents inside to the three.
“This is about the company you need to go to and the dispatch bonus. Read it carefully, and if you have any questions, ask.”
Jae-hyeok carefully skimmed his document.
◇◇Gu side business company… It’s called the D-Workshop. It’s mainly long-term organ trading.
Among Gangryonghoe’s business companies, those called workshops are mainly long-term organ trading companies.
“I heard from headquarters, but here, the number of personnel is lacking right now. A few days ago, most of the security team guys got caught by the snitches after fighting in a gambling den.”
Jin-cheol asked him.
“Does it take about two months for those people to be reinstated?”
“At least that much. It might take longer.”
Then, Myeongwoo explained the tasks at the business company.
“First, most of the things the security team has to do is to check if the spec of the items to be delivered to the delivery destination matches the kernel component, or to prevent the logs from popping out.”
At that moment, Jae-hyeok asked.
“Is there a case where you have to work at another workshop?”
“Until there are separate instructions, work at the D-Workshop.”
“Then, where do we handle lodging?”
“I’ll give you one hotel room each for free. During the dispatch period, stay there.”
Saying that, Myeongwoo asked them.
“Any other questions?”
“No. None.”
The three answered no.
“Alright. If you have any questions, ask Assistant Manager Hong Gwang-il.”
And Myeongwoo shouted towards the door.
“Hong! Are you out there?!”
At this, Gwang-il came inside, and Myeongwoo instructed him.
“Give the dispatched employees a tour of the D-Workshop.”
“Understood, Branch Manager.”
A while later.
The Jae-hyeok group arrived at the D-Workshop.
The place called D-Workshop looked like a clean and ordinary building from the outside.
“It looks just like a villa.”
To Jin-cheol’s words, Gwang-il answered.
“You saw it introduced as ‘thief this, thief that’ outright? This is camouflage. Let’s look from the outside first. Carry the things in the trunk, and so on.”
And carrying a bundle-wrapped something, they went upstairs and pressed the doorbell of a certain house.
“Are you there?”
After a while, someone opened the door, and it was a young woman and a young girl.
“Oh, it’s been a while.”
“How have you been?”
And the child bowed to Gwang-il.
“Hello.”
“Yeah. Has Ye-jin been doing well?”
Jin-cheol and Sang-gyu looked puzzled at this.
What? They said it’s a log trading place? Why is there a woman raising kids here??
But Jae-hyeok’s thoughts were different.
Because I’ve seen this countless times in my previous life.
The upper floor of the workshop is to give money to civilians and let them reside. To disguise the long-term organ trading workshop as a private home.
And he glanced at the woman talking and smiling with Gwang-il.
For civilians, it’s not bad. They get money every month, and they get a house like this.
Jae-hyeok looked at the child staring blankly at Gwang-il with pure eyes as if not knowing anything.
How many people really believe that long-term organ trading is happening underground in the villa where kids live?
Gwang-il placed the bundle-wrapped item on the floor and said to the woman.
“This is for your husband to eat deliciously. It’s a Top Plus Hanwoo set.”
“Thank you. Anyway, my husband was singing that he wanted to eat beef…”
“Wow! It’s beef!!”
The child was happily unaware of anything.
Jae-hyeok’s expression was soaked in bitterness at this.
“By the way, Ye-jin is seven years old this year, right?”
“Yes. She’s preparing to enter elementary school next year.”
“Hahaha, time flies.”
Jae-hyeok looked at the bundle-wrapped item.
This is the compensation for the disguise. These civilians don’t know anything about what’s happening underground. But, they cooperate with Gangryonghoe by receiving a large sum of money and not assisting in their crimes. If they show uncooperative behavior, they might suffer some harm.
After that, Gwang-il, who had greeted several families happily, gave them the bundle-wrapped items.
About an hour later.
While walking towards the basement, Sang-gyu asked Gwang-il.
“By the way, do those civilians… know what we’re doing underground here?”
“Of course. How could they be here without knowing? That beef earlier was the compensation that made them think this is a log workshop.”
And he smiled at Sang-gyu and continued.
“Of course, it’s not just compensated with beef.”
Meanwhile, in the first house they visited, the woman was unpacking the bundle.
“Mom. Then for dinner tonight, it’s beef?”
“Yeah. When dad comes later, we’ll grill it.”
“Yeah!!”
The child laughed cheerfully, and the woman placed the beef on the table.
And when she slightly lifted the neatly arranged beef, 50,000 won bills appeared underneath.
The woman’s expression when seeing the bundle of bills was a mix of joy and guilt in a mysterious way.
Yeah. It’s better to quietly receive money every month as compensation for quietly helping people I don’t know… than to show unnecessary meddlesomeness.
Rationalizing her choice, the woman covered the bundle of bills with beef.
Basement of the villa.
They were touring the D-Workshop.
In the basement, occasionally, horrifying screams could be heard.
“Help me!! Help me!!”
“Aaaaargh!!!”
At this, Gwang-il, digging his index finger into his ear, spat out in annoyance.
“Sigh… Anyway, it would be better to quietly deal with those who are going to die. Don’t make pig squealing sounds…”
And he went to the place where work clothes were lined up.
“First, put this on. Managing the items is important.”
Jae-hyeok, Sang-gyu, and Jin-cheol changed into work clothes, and Gwang-il also put on work clothes.
They also put on masks and latex hygiene gloves.
Prepared like this, they entered a certain room.
In their eyes, a naked young man lying on the operating table was visible.
He was awake with eyes open, looking like he was unconscious.
Gwang-il asked the organization members who were about to start organ extraction.
“Shall we start now?”
“Yes. Preparing for extraction.”
“Items?”
“Kidneys, liver, lungs, heart.”
At this, Gwang-il said to the three with interest.
“Watch closely. From now on, you’re going to see something precious.”
And the organization members began cutting the victim’s abdomen with a scalpel.
The victim didn’t make any sound.
No, he couldn’t make any sound.
They used muscle relaxants. It’s the way long-term organ trading organizations mainly use to maximize freshness.
Jae-hyeok watched the victim whose belly was split open, organs being pulled out one by one, without moving.
The victim couldn’t move, so he couldn’t know the exact state, but the pain of having all organs removed while conscious would be immense.
If one is dissected while under muscle relaxants… The person feels the pain fully. They don’t die immediately from shock and feel the pain until the dissection is complete.
Thinking this way, Jae-hyeok watched the organization members skillfully removing one person’s organs as if doing daily life.
At this horrifying sight, Sang-gyu and Jin-cheol froze, stunned.
But Jae-hyeok calmly observed the situation, restraining his anger at this atrocious crime.
The organization members carefully stored the dissected organs in some containers and talked among themselves.
“Checked the temperature?”
“Yeah. Set to 24 degrees refrigeration.”
And Gwang-il said to Jae-hyeok and the dispatched personnel.
“The dissected organs must be transported at the appropriate temperature. Even a slight temperature change can cause problems with the cell tissue, making transplantation impossible.”
A while later, the organization members removed the victim’s lungs, and one instructed the other.
“Hey, oxygen tank. Bring the oxygen tank.”
And Gwang-il explained.
“Ah, lungs are a bit tricky. You have to circulate them at a constant rate with the oxygen tank and transport them.”
In the end, Sang-gyu threw up and ran outside.
And Jin-cheol finally closed his eyes and turned his head.
At this, Gwang-il shook his head and said.
“Wow… You don’t seem used to it yet. How long have all of you been in this business?”
To this, Jae-hyeok answered.
“All three of us have been here for about two months.”
“Ah, that makes sense. But it will get used to it gradually as you see it often.”
Jae-hyeok himself had actually seen such scenes countless times, so of course he was used to it.
The peculiar unpleasant and creepy feeling was still there.
And he looked at the victim whose heart had been removed and was now cold, with a complex gaze.
Unfortunately, right now, what I can do for the victims’ survival… is nothing.
Suppressing the sadness and powerlessness, Jae-hyeok clenched his fist without anyone knowing.
What I can do now is only to collect information about these trash and make them pay later.
A while later.
After seeing a few organ extraction scenes, Sang-gyu and Jin-cheol were stunned.
“Hey, are you okay?”
Jae-hyeok asked them in a low voice, hinting.
“……Not okay…”
“Wow… Really pissed off… My stomach is still churning…”
And Jin-cheol asked Jae-hyeok in a low voice.
“Jae-hyeok, aren’t you okay? Your stomach seems strong.”
“Uh… But my stomach is a bit upset too.”
At that moment, noisy sounds came from around.
“Get that! Damn, that guy is vomiting!!”
“Move!! Get out of the way!!”
“Who’s going to get that guy!!”
“What the…??”
At this, Jin-cheol looked around.
And a man with his body naked, with a pen incision line drawn on his abdomen, was running down the corridor while screaming.
“Help me!!! Help me!!!”
“Damn, don’t just stand there and do something!!”
The organization members tried to subdue the man, but the burly man used his physique to push the organization members and fled.
When some organization members pulled out knives or swords, one of the organization members chasing the man shouted.
“Hey!! Put the weapons away and catch him with bare hands!! Don’t scratch before the extraction!!”
And the man came in front of Jae-hyeok, and he quickly thought.
Should I help this man escape from the organ trading business?
If I help his escape, there will be some disadvantage to myself in any way.
It would become a hindrance to performing the mission ahead.
It was already too late because he had been watching him since just now.
If he misses him, the arrow will hit everyone who missed him, including himself.
If he misses him and the truth of the D-Workshop is revealed, everyone related to this place will suffer disadvantage.
He is right in front of Jae-hyeok now, and there are many witnesses watching this.
Then, what will become of his fate for missing the opportunity to stop him and prevent this situation.
Will these atrocious thugs leave him as is?
“Move!!!”
In the end, Jae-hyeok decided.
He collided head-on with the man rushing at him, using his foot to trip him over his ankle.
The man fell with Jae-hyeok, and the organization members grabbed him.
“You damn bastard!!”
“Hey. Deal with the revenge later during the extraction. It’s for VVIP, and if you scratch him unnecessarily, it’s troublesome.”
And the organization member helped Jae-hyeok up and thanked him.
“Thank you. That was a VVIP log, and if we missed it, the loss would have been enormous. You saved us.”
Saved…? Saved…? No. I didn’t save him…
And he stared blankly at the man being dragged away by the organization members, desperately screaming for help.