Chapter 94

Chapter 94

Our Cheol-gu, Will Become a Star

The next day newspapers began carrying sharp articles about U-gwang competing.

When the U-gwang Chemicals fire accident burst, the media that was busy packaging U-gwang.

Now poured criticism all at once without who first.

Until when will U-gwang ignore the wailing of the U-gwang Chemicals victims!

The promise to take responsibility and clarify the cause of the U-gwang Chemicals fire accident, was there the thought of keeping from the beginning!

Who instructed the U-gwang Chemicals arson! Why is Chairman Kim U-gwang silent!

I hit the knee.

“Yes, should have come out like this from the beginning! How many casualties on earth?”

U-gwang Chemicals fire accident deaths 56, injured 142.

Precious lives died and got hurt.

‘Secretary Kim properly circulated the threat letter!’

I had requested Secretary Kim.

To circulate the anonymous threat letter using the U-gwang Construction bribe ledger.

High-ranking officials and politicians of course even media people would have received letters of similar content.

Choose. Will you hold hands with U-gwang and sink together, or cut hands with U-gwang and shake out the shame.

If deciding to share life and death with U-gwang, will disclose this list together too.

Looking at the threat letter I wrote, Secretary Kim was very satisfied.

‘If no threat letter, no way the media would burst concentrated fire all at once.’

One more.

The flash that the Blue House instructed truth clarification floated following.

‘Definitely the high-ranking officials and politicians subtly whispered to the Blue House.’

Not only newspapers.

On news broadcasts too, poured original color criticism toward U-gwang.

-In front of Chairman Kim U-gwang’s mansion! Chairman Kim U-gwang has been secluded since last night and not responding to coverage at all!

-Directly inquired to Hyunmu Chemicals! Could secure the testimony that delivered a large amount of flammable substances to the U-gwang Chemicals factory!

-See in detail on the nine o’clock news later!

The news camera shone the protest site of the U-gwang Union.

In front of the U-gwang Group headquarters, they wore union vests and held pickets <​U-gwang set fire!>, <​U-gwang family died!>, <​Compensate the damage!> and shouted largely.

“U-gwang killed the U-gwang families!”

“Killed! Killed!”

“Death compensation money 300,000 won! Worked like a dog and died like a dog but didn’t even receive dog price!”

“Didn’t receive! Didn’t receive!”

“People got hurt in the fire that U-gwang set! Didn’t even give salary saying can’t do factory work!”

“Didn’t give! Didn’t give!”

“We are not dogs but people! Guarantee labor human rights!”

“Guarantee! Guarantee!”

The U-gwang Group security guards made a human barricade and opposed.

The police and riot police were hardened holding shields.

The opposition party lawmakers who joined the protest wearing red bands on the forehead quickly stuck their faces in front of the camera microphone.

“Chairman Kim U-gwang come out! Come out and explain directly!”

“People died and got hurt unjustly in the fire you set! Compensate the damage!”

“This is not a labor movement! This is a cry regarding human rights and crime!”

In front of the camera, the opposition party political figures shouted evil trying to say even one more word.

“Why did you unfold such a self-made play! How many innocent people died on earth! An indescribable miserable feeling!”

“The time for the government and citizens, all of us to join forces so that such a terrible tragedy doesn’t occur again!”

Click. Click. Click.

[Ah! Why turning the channel? Soon time for the daily serial drama!]

‘Curious how much more firmly chewing U-gwang on other broadcast station news. Will give after looking only this.’

[How many times is that words! Will watch only news all day? My daily serial drama!]

The underworld messenger hugged the latest CRT television with the whole body and wailed.

[Missed broadcasts can’t be watched again! If doing the ordered work well, give the channel right too!]

It was the television I bought at Taeseong Department Store.

‘Curious how the guys dragged to the Seobinggo water torture room became.’

[What? Now telling me to go there? When will I watch my daily serial drama! No! Not going! Can’t go!]

The underworld messenger crossed arms and stubbornly endured shaking his head.

As expected life is carrot and stick!

I pointed at the latest version Philips VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) bought together while buying the television.

‘This is a machine that can record and play the serial drama.’

[Record? Play? What is that?]

‘What is what. The sound that not only can watch the passed serial drama again, but can watch and watch again!’

[Ooooh!]

‘Want?’

[Want!]

‘Then go! To the Seobinggo water torture room!]

[Going!]

The underworld messenger ran emitting nose breath.

* * *

The place the underworld messenger shows was a gloomy basement where the incandescent light bulb hanging on the ceiling was shaking creak creak.

It is the Seobinggo water torture room.

Whoosh!

Bulgwang-dong Gasoline and the minions became tied side by side and soaked.

One of the minions who was trembling couldn’t endure and shouted like a scream.

“Didn’t set fire intending to kill people from the beginning! True!”

“We just secretly poured a lot of oil!”

Because the future peeked when touching Bulgwang-dong Gasoline before, almost made an ugh sound without realizing.

“If other times, the building burns a bit, people get scared and obediently put out money!”

“Separately take more money with the fire insurance taken out. That was the matter that had to be done!”

“Shut up, these bastards!”

Bulgwang-dong Gasoline shouted evil, but the minions trembled scared.

“I just did as older brother ordered! Please believe!”

“It was unlucky. We were also surprised?”

“These stupid bastards! Really wanting to die?”

“Right before dying right now!”

“Better to go to prison! Doing this will really die!”

Uncle Cheol-gu clapped his hands.

“Good. The guy cooperating with the investigation decided to give leniency so will keep the promise. Take the remaining guys to the interrogation room.”

“Yes!”

The public security bureau Central Intelligence Agency agents took the two minions.

In the Seobinggo water torture room, only Uncle Cheol-gu and Bulgwang-dong Gasoline remained.

“On the occasion of even the statement you wrote in handwriting coming out, what trying to do denying so much?”

“I don’t know the matter! I didn’t write!”

“Just blow refreshingly. That way receive sentence reduction at least. Trying to take the sole responsibility alone and die like this?”

Bulgwang-dong Gasoline stubbornly closed his mouth.

“Since came this far, no loyalty to keep either. Why continuously closing the mouth? Can’t understand.”

“Even if not keeping loyalty, have to keep my life.”

Bulgwang-dong Gasoline put away even the honorifics and giggled.

“Then would I have hit the matter without a corner I believe? You can’t handle. Because a big shot.”

“U-gwang?”

“······!”

Uncle Cheol-gu smiled and began lining up newspapers on the interrogation table with a whoosh.

“What to do this. Your backer also seems X now.”

“Th, this······ Uh, how such a matter······! No way this?”

“Didn’t know because locked here? Look well.”

Uncle Cheol-gu pointed the newspaper titles one by one and kindly read clearly.

Every time like that, Bulgwang-dong Gasoline’s complexion died black.

“This shit!”

“Since the matter grew this much, that side also has to cut the tail to live.”

Uncle Cheol-gu made a neck-cutting gesture with the edge of the hand.

“Seems the conclusion will come out as you alone set the fire. Then you? If doing well, life imprisonment or murder and silence. How do you think?”

“S, please save!”

Only then Bulgwang-dong Gasoline trembled and begged.

“Please save only the life! I don’t want to die like this!”

“Became an incident that the Blue House is watching. Can’t escape just. If wanting to live, blow all that you know.”

“Will blow all as known! So somehow leniency······.”

Then the door of the Seobinggo water torture room opened with a bang.

“Bak Cheol-gu, stop there.”

The senior agent who tortured Uncle Cheol-gu, and the guy who crossed our house wall and got hit!

Seomun something.

“It’s the inspection bureau chief’s order. Catch Bak Cheol-gu.”

The inspection bureau agents rushed into the water torture room in a rush.

They quickly held Uncle Cheol-gu.

“Why doing this?”

“Originally inspection bureau work. Then know no complaint in the handover.”

“The guys I caught! Evidence too, victim statements too, suspect statements all······!”

“Bak Cheol-gu, is this a spy incident? No. An arson incident entangled with a company. In other words, work that the inspection bureau does!”

“Senior!”

“We’ll handle the rest well ourselves, so the public security bureau turn off nerves.”

Seomun something took care of a few crumpled document pages in the bosom.

The statements that the minions were writing in the next interrogation room halfway.

“Now trying to snatch the merit?”

“Merit? Wow, Bak Cheol-gu. You also have the desire for success? But this case is a matter you can’t digest with your capacity. Don’t dream vainly and step aside.”

Seomun something personally released Bulgwang-dong Gasoline who was tied to the chair.

“Prepare the electric chair. All three guys.”

The inspection bureau agents held Bulgwang-dong Gasoline and dragged.

“Have you heard the words that the Central Intelligence Agency makes even non-existent sins confessed? If I am electric grilled chicken again, I grill amazingly. Probably can look forward.”

“Please save!”

Bulgwang-dong Gasoline shouted like a scream.

“Will blow all! Promise to answer the asked words faithfully!”

“Take that bastard. After seeing the thrilling electric taste, the mind will flash.”

Uncle Cheol-gu shouted.

“Senior, already a guy soaked with water! If receiving electric shock in this state, might die!”

“Hey, Bak Cheol-gu. Why continuously trying to teach me? An impudent bastard who doesn’t know up and down. Ptoo.”

It was when Seomun something was about to leisurely escape the Seobinggo water torture room with Bulgwang-dong Gasoline.

“Surely senior is also an entangled matter?”

“Are you trying to put a false accusation on me now?”

“Senior!”

“Don’t act up. Doing that, there is a number of being stuck in that water tank again.”

“Are you threatening now?”

“So you’re still spinning outside. A bastard who doesn’t know X acting up somewhere not knowing the subject?”

Bang!

Then some man in a suit kicked the water torture room door.

Biting one cigarette in the mouth.

“Who is the bastard who doesn’t know X and doesn’t know the subject and acts up?”

“G, public security bureau chief!”

“Am I your friend? Not reducing the decibel? An impudent bastard who doesn’t know up and down.”

He twitched the cigarette bitten in the mouth and twitched the finger.

“Hey, inspection bureau. Release Bak Cheol-gu now.”

Seomun something and the inspection bureau agents glanced at each other’s faces with troubled expressions.

That stimulated the public security bureau chief’s anger.

“Inspection bureau bastards, don’t hear my words? Why holding our kid who has no sin and messing! Not releasing immediately?”

“Public security bureau chief, this is inspection bureau work. We received the inspection bureau chief’s order······!”

“So ignoring my words? Doesn’t the inspection bureau teach hierarchy education at all?”

A man wearing a gun holster and flicking the long coat sleeves walked this way with big strides.

“Kids, the public security bureau chief is speaking. Release Bak Cheol-gu now and step back.”

“Inspection bureau chief!”

“Want to write a written apology? Hearing the sound of opposing the director, bastards.”

“Th, that······.”

The inspection bureau Central Intelligence Agency agents who held Uncle Cheol-gu left sensibly.

The public security bureau chief twitched the cigarette he was biting and twitched the finger.

“What standing there doing? Have to bring back the suspects that the inspection bureau kids took too.”

“Yes!”

“Trying to snatch others’ rice, no conscience.”

Seomun-cheol approached the inspection bureau chief and said.

“Director, this is a path to success guaranteed······.”

“Shut up. It’s the upper line’s order. If told to peel, peel, why so many words?”

The inspection bureau chief glared at the public security bureau chief and gritted his teeth.

“The director is coming down directly.”

“The director?”

“The director said support the guy who first brought this case. So you also stop hands now.”

When the inspection bureau chief turned and went out, Seomun-cheol bit his lips and followed behind.

Soon the public security bureau agents brought back Bulgwang-dong Gasoline and the minions.

Only then the public security bureau chief sucked the cigarette he was biting satisfactorily fully.

“Cheol-gu, prepare.”

“Yes. What shall I prepare how? Just say.”

“In this opportunity, shave the beard, get a haircut, and match one suit.”

“Yes?”

Suddenly?

“Ah, so not looking dry, apply lotion a lot, and brush teeth shiny well too?”

“······.”

Uncle Cheol-gu couldn’t even reply and only blinked both eyes.

The public security bureau chief flicked the cigarette ash with fingertips and grinned.

“It’s the director’s order. Decided that tomorrow at the public press conference, you Cheol-gu hold the microphone and announce the intermediate investigation results.”

“Yes?”

Uncle Cheol-gu blinked eyes slowly.

The public security bureau chief tapped Uncle Cheol-gu’s shoulder and grinned.

“Our Cheol-gu, will become a star with this matter.”