Goblin Library - Chapter 183

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Chapter 183

『I’ll extract him tomorrow.』
Lim Sung-un typed the message to his team.

「We’ll handle the extraction. And we’ll provide protection as well.」
「How?」
「There’s no one watching you. How would they know you’ve disappeared?」
「I can’t leave more than a kilometer from the Study Hall Dormitory. If I do, they’ll know.」

At the Administrator’s words, Jang Ma-ru spoke.
『So they’ve set up a device that activates if you go beyond that range?』
『How?』
『There are many ways. They could set it up so the device activates once you reach a certain distance from the Study Hall Dormitory.』
『So anywhere within a kilometer is safe. Then we just need to disable or remove that device within the one-kilometer radius?』
『Exactly.』
At Jang Ma-ru’s words, Lim Sung-un thought for a moment, then nodded.
『Then there’s a way. It’s a bit extreme, though.』
Lim Sung-un typed a message.

「I’ll extract you tomorrow.」
「Tomorrow?」
「You’ll probably be afraid. But don’t worry. Our team has a complete plan.」
「But….」
「If you can’t trust me, trust ML15. And trust our team’s capabilities—we extracted information without your knowledge.」

After a brief moment, the Administrator finally replied.

「I trust you.」

With the Administrator’s answer, Lim Sung-un looked at Choi Tae-sik.
『When we go tomorrow….』
As Lim Sung-un gave his instructions, Jang Ma-ru spoke in surprise.
『Won’t that Administrator hate it?』
『If I ask and he says no, should I not do it?』
『Ah… well, you have a point.』
As Jang Ma-ru conceded, Lim Sung-un nodded and turned his attention back to the monitor.

***

The next day around lunch, Choi Tae-sik stood before the entrance of the Family Goshiwon.
Tap, tap, tap!
As he tapped the glass door with a canned drink, the Administrator flinched at the sight of him, then rose and opened the door.
“You haven’t eaten yet, have you? Let’s grab a meal.”
“Ah… yes.”
Seeing the Administrator’s tense demeanor, Choi Tae-sik smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder.
“Come on, let’s go eat.”
As he spoke, Choi Tae-sik’s hand lightly brushed past the Administrator’s ear. Without thinking, the Administrator brought his hand to his ear, sensing something entering it.
[Just listen.]
A jolt ran through him.
A distorted voice emanated from his ear.
[This is ML15. Our devices don’t have any eavesdropping equipment installed, but is there perhaps a device I haven’t found?]
“It’s fine.”
The Administrator spoke plainly.
“As long as you don’t go beyond one kilometer, there’s no surveillance. You don’t need to worry.”
“No eavesdropping either?”
“What’s the plan?”
Seeing the Administrator answer his question with another question, Choi Tae-sik spoke.
“The plan is simple. We’ll take our car, disable the tracking device, then move. After that, we’ll extract it from the hospital we know and relocate to An-ga.”
“How will you disable it?”
“It’s already prepared in the car.”
As Choi Tae-sik spoke while moving, he looked at the Administrator.
“But why aren’t they surveilling you?”
“The One is a place with many enemies. If someone there were surveilling me and caught the attention of a hostile organization, this place could be discovered. And who would suspect me of being a criminal organization’s subordinate as long as I don’t draw attention?”
“That’s true, but… couldn’t they still eavesdrop?”
“My phone has an eavesdropping app installed.”
At the Administrator’s words, Choi Tae-sik looked at him in surprise.
“It’s installed?”
“It doesn’t matter. I’ve already hacked the eavesdropping app so it only picks up meaningless static.”
[Idiots. Installing such a ridiculous app on someone like the Administrator who’s a hacker.]
“That’s why it’s fortunate.”
[If there’s an eavesdropping app on the phone, there’s probably a location tracking app too?]
“That’s installed as well.”
[Have you hacked it?]
“I haven’t. There was no reason to hack it as long as I didn’t leave this place. But…”
The Administrator held up his phone.
“When the moment comes, I can hack it.”
At the Administrator’s words, Choi Tae-sik nodded.
“Or you could just throw away your phone. Either way, it doesn’t matter to us. Let’s go.”
Choi Tae-sik led the way, then opened the door to a sedan parked in front of a restaurant.
Once the Administrator got in the car, Choi Tae-sik took the driver’s seat and glanced back at him.
“Are you ready?”
“Phew! I hope this is the right choice.”
Choi Tae-sik nodded as he observed the Administrator’s tense expression.
“It will be the right choice. Oh, and…”
Choi Tae-sik handed something to the Administrator.
“What is it?”
The Administrator looked confused at the rubber object, and Choi Tae-sik explained.
“It’s a mouthpiece. Just put it between your teeth.”
“A mouthpiece?”
Seeing the Administrator’s expression of bewilderment, Choi Tae-sik spoke again.
“It’s just a precaution.”
“A precaution for what?”
[Trust us.]
Hearing Jang Ma-ru’s voice in his earpiece, the Administrator hesitated briefly before placing the object in his mouth.
Choi Tae-sik checked his lips to ensure it was properly fitted.
The Administrator obediently opened his mouth wider. And then…
Bzzzzt!
“Ughhhh!”
His mouth clamped shut as his body convulsed violently.
Then he went limp.
Choi Tae-sik glanced at the electric stun gun in his hand.
“Works like a charm.”
Click!
As Choi Tae-sik muttered to himself, Lee Hye-eun climbed into the back seat.
“Okay!”
She pulled a rectangular device from her bag and powered it on.
Then she reclined the passenger seat.
Click!
As the Administrator’s body tilted back, Choi Tae-sik started the car.
Vroom!
Slowly exiting the alley, Choi Tae-sik glanced at Lee Hye-eun.
“Any signal?”
“Nothing yet.”
Choi Tae-sik caught a glimpse of Lee Hye-eun scanning the Administrator’s body with the device, then focused his attention on the navigation screen.
“We’re about to pass the one-kilometer mark from the Study Hall Dormitory.”
Choi Tae-sik spoke while watching the line displayed on the navigation.
“How is it now?”
At Choi Tae-sik’s words, Lee Hye-eun nodded.
“No signal detected.”
“Good, then let’s go right now.”
[Thank goodness. I was worried what we’d do if the stun gun didn’t work.]
“If it doesn’t work, we just run like hell.”
Their plan was to use the stun gun on the Administrator to disable the device embedded in his body.
Since it was a delicate electrical device, they figured a strong current would cause it to malfunction.
Of course, it worked perfectly.
During their conversation, Lee Hye-eun suddenly asked a question.
“But wouldn’t a magnet also be poison to an electrical device?”
[A magnet?]
“You know, a strong magnet. Couldn’t we have just placed a few of them over the scars and wrapped them up?”
At Lee Hye-eun’s words, Jang Ma-ru and Choi Tae-sik fell silent. It was a valid point.
Strong magnets could destroy electronic devices, after all.
[Let’s… not tell the Administrator about this.]
“Yeah. Let’s keep it quiet.”
Choi Tae-sik answered with a somewhat awkward tone as he accelerated just enough to avoid traffic violations, beginning to leave Noryangjin.

***

The Administrator opened his eyes.
“Ugh…”
As the Administrator opened his eyes with a groan, Choi Tae-sik spoke to him.
“Are you awake?”
The Administrator nodded and slowly sat up.
As he looked around, confusion flickered across his face.
He was lying on a small bed, and this place was a rectangular indoor space.
“Where am I?”
“An-ga.”
“But what happened? All of a sudden…”
Confusion crossed the Administrator’s face. One moment he had lost consciousness, and the next he was waking up here.
The Administrator tilted his head in bewilderment, then winced as if his body ached.
At this, Choi Tae-sik handed the Administrator a small glass cup.
Clink.
Five white metal fragments inside the glass cup clinked against each other.
“There wasn’t just one—we found one in each of five different locations on your body.”
“When did you…?”
“While you were unconscious, we took you to a doctor we know and had them removed. We made the incisions as small as possible, so you shouldn’t have any trouble moving around.”
At Choi Tae-sik’s words, the Administrator’s gaze lowered. Looking at the gauze applied to his body, he asked.
“Why didn’t you just destroy them?”
Choi Tae-sik smiled as he spoke, noticing the Administrator’s concern about whether it would work.
“I ran it in the microwave just enough to avoid a fire and confirmed it’s broken.”
“Ah….”
At Choi Tae-sik’s words, the Administrator looked at the glass cup before glancing around.
Then he picked up a shoe from the floor and dumped the tracker onto the ground.
And then….
Thud, thud, thud!
As he repeatedly struck it with the shoe, the device shattered and fragments scattered in all directions.
“Sick of these things.”
Muttering, the Administrator shook his head and tossed the shoe aside. Then he looked at Choi Tae-sik.
“Is ML15 there?”
[Yes, I’m here.]
At the voice coming through his ear, the Administrator nodded and spoke.
“What’s the plan going forward?”
As he spoke, the Administrator looked around.
“After the Study Hall Dormitory, I’m not going to be locked up here too, am I?”
At the Administrator’s words, Jang Ma-ru spoke with a smile.
[You’re free to leave whenever you wish.]
“Really?”
[Of course. But you should know that The One’s people will try to capture you.]
“So if I’m with you, you’ll protect me?”
[Naturally. And to commemorate your escape, I’ve sent you some gifts.]
At Jang Ma-ru’s words, Choi Tae-sik lifted a large box onto the bed.
“What is it?”
[Why don’t you open it and see for yourself.]
The Administrator opened the box. A smile crossed his face.
Inside were a laptop, a tablet, and a smartphone.
“Nice gifts.”
[I had them custom-made, so they should be useful.]
“You didn’t install any strange programs, did you?”
Watching the Administrator turn on the laptop and smartphone with suspicion, Jang Ma-ru spoke.
[If someone gave me something like this, I’d immediately check what’s installed on it. And you’d do the same, wouldn’t you?]
“That’s true.”
[Would I betray the trust of someone I went through so much trouble to rescue?]
At Jang Ma-ru’s words, the Administrator nodded. But that was one thing—as soon as the laptop powered on, the Administrator began searching for hacking programs or anything suspicious.
Hearing the sound of keyboard typing, Jang Ma-ru understood what he was doing and spoke.
[What we need is the evidence about the incidents on the memory card.]
“Providing evidence isn’t difficult. I can upload it there with just a few finger movements.”
“You’ve been collecting evidence?”
At Choi Tae-sik’s question, the Administrator nodded.
“I thought of it as a safety measure to protect my life. Just in case.”
“Good.”
[I figured as much.]
“But what about my safety before that happens?”
[Once The One is dealt with, I’ll arrange for you to go abroad.]
“The One has roots spread far and wide. We won’t be able to pull them all out.”
[Still, we can’t leave such an eyesore of a weed standing. Once we’ve pulled out what we can, it will take time before it grows back.]
It was Lim Sung-un. The Administrator looked at Choi Tae-sik upon hearing the unfamiliar voice.
“He’s a member of our team.”
“Send me to Hong Kong.”
“Hong Kong?”
At Choi Tae-sik’s murmur, the Administrator nodded.
“Once I reach Hong Kong, I’ll take care of hiding myself from there.”
At the Administrator’s words, Lim Sung-un spoke.
[Understood. Then provide the materials.]
The Administrator nodded and spoke.
“Go to the website I told you about yesterday…”
The Administrator explained how to locate the evidence files.

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