Silver or Lead (1)
After the D-Workshop members' gathering ended, Yeong-seok approached Jae-hyeok, Jin-chul, and Sang-gyu as they prepared to leave.
Yeong-seok mentioned having a younger sister, and Jin-chul, still somewhat tipsy, asked him, "You have a younger sister? Is she pretty?"
"She's sixteen. A middle schooler."
At Jae-hyeok's words, Jin-chul closed his mouth.
And Sang-gyu, with a slight buzz, said to him, "Compared to that, we're the same age, but he's already bought an apartment... Lucky."
"Half of it was subsidized by the boss."
"Still, I'm envious."
But Yeong-seok's expression was far from good.
He was aware that the work he was doing to earn money was criminal.
"By the way, do you always work until dawn like this?"
"Most of the time, we get off at ten, but sometimes we leave this late."
"His sister must be lonely..."
"She hasn't come to our house yet. She said she's been staying at One-Won."
"Ah, really? Then how long..."
"It's about a month now... In two months, she'll come."
At that moment, Sang-gyu suddenly remembered and asked Jae-hyeok, "What about the one we rescued in Vietnam? Is he doing well?"
Jae-hyeok recalled the incident where he and Sang-gyu rescued the North Korean refugee girl Seo Yeon-jeong from the human trafficking organization under Gangryonghoe in Vietnam.
"That girl?"
"Yeah. Her name was Seo Yeon-jeong."
Instantly, Yeong-seok's expression hardened.
"What? You... Wait, did I mention my sister's name?"
At Yeong-seok's words, Sang-gyu’s eyes widened.
"Her name is Seo Yeon-jeong?"
"Yeah. Can you tell me what she looks like, any distinctive features?"
At this, Sang-gyu and Jae-hyeok described the appearance and features of Yeon-jeong from that time.
Hearing their words, Yeong-seok was convinced that Seo Yeon-jeong was his younger sister.
"But what does it mean you rescued her in Vietnam?"
"That is..."
"Be honest. What happened to that girl in Vietnam?"
And they told him everything that happened to Yeon-jeong.
"Then... You rescued the girl who was captured by the human trafficking organization in Vietnam?"
Yeong-seok, who had experienced the horrors of the trafficking process firsthand, was already aware that things during the defection weren't good.
But hearing that his sixteen-year-old sister had endured even more horrific things than he had, Yeong-seok was greatly surprised.
After a moment, Jae-hyeok asked the composed Yeong-seok, "Then, after coming out of One-Won, will you live together with me?"
"Yeah. That's the plan."
Jae-hyeok recalled the rescue of Yeon-jeong in Vietnam with Sang-gyu.
'If I hadn't acted then in Vietnam... Yeong-seok would have waited for his family's news for the rest of his life this time too.'
Thinking this, Jae-hyeok felt he had done well to follow Sang-gyu at that time.
The next day at D-Workshop.
The members were engaged in the gruesome work as usual.
While performing security duties in the workshop, Jong-seok approached Jae-hyeok.
"Park Jae-hyeok Manager?"
And he handed him an iced mixed coffee.
"Take it easy. Too hardworking."
"Ah, thank you."
Jae-hyeok received the coffee from Jong-seok, who said to him, "Without sex or surveillance, there's no fun, so the daily routine becomes boring quickly."
"Yeah, that sounds about right."
"But where did the other two go?"
"Jin-chul Manager went out to smoke, and Sang-gyu Manager is checking the other workshops."
"Uhm... Everyone is dedicated."
And Jong-seok gave Jae-hyeok a sinister smile and said, "If you're not busy now, shall I show you an event we do here?"
"An event?"
"Probably you'll like it."
'Event... In a place that deals in human bodies, what other event could there be?'
Jae-hyeok looked at Jong-seok with no change in expression, as if he already guessed what it was.
So Jong-seok took Jae-hyeok to another room.
And the scene that greeted Jae-hyeok's eyes was exactly as he had expected.
The members of D-Workshop were raping naked women.
"Stay still!!"
"Ehehe, don't show your teeth!!"
"Uuung... uuuh... keheok!!"
Jae-hyeok suppressed the disgust that was about to burst out and asked Jong-seok, "Is this event sex?"
"Yeah. We enjoy it, then discard the shell anyway."
And he showed Jae-hyeok a bizarrely sinister smile.
"No drugs at all, so the taste of resistance is really good. And the thrill of subduing the woman by force is so electrifying..."
Saying this, Jong-seok continued to laugh.
Then he approached a woman lying naked on the floor, looked her over, and asked one of the members, "Hmm... Is this the new log?"
"Yes."
"Oho... Look at the tattoos. Hot."
The woman glared at Jong-seok.
"Hah... Haa... Get away..."
"Oho ho... Look at that resistance. Want to taste it?"
And Jong-seok stripped naked and rushed at her.
"Stop!! Let go!!"
"Yeah... This high-tone scream sounds good."
Jong-seok grabbed her struggling arms and licked her areola and nipple.
And he continued to perform oral sex until her strength left her.
Finally, when her strength somewhat waned, Jong-seok slowly pushed his erect penis into her vagina.
"A... No!! No!!"
"No what."
And Jong-seok pushed his penis deep into her vagina to the root and shook his hips roughly.
"Huuueuk...!! Kkueuk!! Kyaueuk!!"
"Phew... Should have stayed still... Not like rodeo..."
Jae-hyeok could only watch.
What he could do here was only gather information and report it to the police.
If he acted to save the victims now, what would be the consequences?
The naked women were being made to suck the members' penises or being raped with their penises inserted into their vaginas.
'Phew... The feeling is disgusting, I can't take it anymore...'
At that moment, Jong-seok, who had been shaking his hips wildly, ejaculated inside the woman he was with.
"Kkueup... Kkuu..."
And he pulled his penis out of her vagina, stood up, and instructed the members, "If you get pregnant, abort immediately."
"Understood."
And Jong-seok dressed in work clothes and asked Jae-hyeok, "You don't do it?"
"Um... My condition isn't good right now."
"Really? Okay."
It was then that Jae-hyeok was walking the corridor performing security duties.
Through the speakers in the corridor, a beeping sound was heard, and the members, hearing it, became busy.
'This sound... It's the signal that the police have arrived!!'
Thinking this, Jae-hyeok moved busily following the members.
"Move move!!"
"To the emergency exit!!"
"Block the workshop!!"
After a while, the members arrived at some building through the emergency exit, and they removed their work clothes and put on the clothes there.
"What the hell is this?"
Sang-gyu asked Jae-hyeok while changing clothes, and he explained to Sang-gyu.
"Snitches came."
"Police?? Then we're all going to get arrested?"
"It won't be that bad. The workshops are deep underground, and in emergencies, they can disguise themselves as the owner's normal warehouse."
"Everything is prepared?"
"That's right."
"But why are we here?"
"This place is a kind of shelter. Using the burner phones provided here, we roam around nearby pretending to be civilians until the executives send an alert that the situation has calmed down."
And those who changed clothes roamed nearby, buying snacks and drinks at convenience stores or going to PC cafes.
After a while, Jae-hyeok, eating a drink with Sang-gyu at the convenience store, saw the alert from the burner phone.
"All solved. Let's go to that building."
With the situation calmed, the members moved to the building they had gone through the emergency exit earlier.
And they returned to the workshop through the emergency exit.
After returning, the members gathered in a large space similar to the auditorium.
"What the hell is this?"
"They said snitches came earlier."
"Not bad, right?"
"No. Then how are we all fine now?"
The members grumbled to each other, and Jegal Sang-hwan took the microphone and said to them.
"Because of the incident that just happened, many of you must be surprised?"
In Sang-hwan's hand holding the microphone was a S&W M36 revolver.
"This is how it is: Someone on the surface reported our business to the snitches. Completely has no conscience, that's for sure."
'One of the residents reported?'
Jae-hyeok recalled that such incidents happened occasionally.
The workshops disguised as houses like D-Workshop, sometimes the residents of the workshop building who couldn't overcome their conscience reported the Gangryonghoe's crimes to the police.
After successfully alerting the Gangryonghoe's crimes, the clean police started the investigation.
But soon, due to the Gangryonghoe cutting off their tails, it was all covered as crimes of other organizations.
And the residents with strong reporting spirits mostly disappeared without a trace, and the investigating police were transferred to other places, suffering disadvantages.
This was a rare case, and most were like the current situation where the police didn't even start the investigation.
It was because of the bribes they received from Gangryonghoe.
Sang-hwan continued to the members, "Anyway, thanks to some money placed by the Suwon branch, the snitches could leave quietly. But regarding our business getting into the snitches' ears..."
And he continued, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.
"We must handle it properly."
Following Sang-hwan's gesture, a bloody middle-aged man was dragged in by the members and forced in front of Sang-hwan.
The members forced him to kneel before Sang-hwan.
Sang-hwan looked at him and said mockingly, "Ai, President Song. What a sight."
And he poked the head of the man named Song, who was kneeling in front of him, with the gun.
"We have made President Song's life luxurious until now... It should have been fine to just stay quiet like that. Wasn't it enough to give you 500 every month plus various tonics?! Huh?!!"
Sang-hwan raised his voice, took a deep breath to calm his anger, and put the microphone to his mouth, speaking to the man as if the other members were listening clearly.
"You know Pablo Escobar? The drug king of Colombia who was active a long time ago. One sentence I really like from the things related to this human."
And he flicked the revolver and said, "Silver or Lead."
Sang-hwan pointed the gun at the man's head and said, "Here are three silver bullets and three lead bullets. The silver bullets are dummy bullets without gunpowder, and the lead bullets are real bullets with gunpowder. I'll give you two chances."
Sang-hwan gave the revolver to one of the members, who opened the cylinder.
And he quickly spun it with his left hand and snapped his wrist to return to position.
"If both come out silver, you'll get a warning not to mention the business here and money and be deported,"
"If lead comes out, you must fill our money with your body along with your family. Got it?"
Sang-hwan opened the hammer of the revolver he received from the member, and with a click, the cylinder spun.
He handed the microphone to another member and pointed the gun at the man's head and asked, "If not, I'll hear your last words. Why did you do it?"
The man who had been silent for a moment looked up at Sang-hwan and said with resignation, "A person... doing to a person... can't... I didn't intervene... I'm a sinner who can't be forgiven... but now... I wanted to correct it..."
"For myself, my family... I didn't want to make my life shameful..."
"...... Ridiculous."
Sang-hwan slowly pulled the trigger toward his head.
And in the eerie silence, a sound rang out.
It was a click as the pellet hit the firing pin of the powderless bullet.
And Sang-hwan reset the revolver's cylinder, spun it, and returned to position.
He reset the hammer of the revolver whose cylinder had spun, and pointed the gun at the man's head again.
Sang-hwan's finger pulled the trigger again.
But this time, with a bang, a lead bullet was embedded in the man's head.
The man fell sideways, his head bursting with small flesh, blood, and brain matter, and died instantly.
The citizen who reported Gangryonghoe's crimes died that way.
Sang-hwan put the handgun in his pants pocket and instructed the members, "Dispose of Song's family, move them all to the workshop. Tell the other residents they went abroad for immigration."
"Understood."
Among the members, Jae-hyeok looked at the corpse being dragged by the members with sympathy.