I’m Obsessed With the Suspect - Chapter 20

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20

Yeonhui’s fingertips stopped tapping her phone and her mouth fell open as her face fixed on Cheong-a.

“It seems like they used that to monitor all the professors in the hospital. Wow, this is huge.”

“Wait a minute, unnie! It’s okay that the pharmaceutical company scattered listening devices. But just because Min Yoo-shin recommended it to you doesn’t mean he’s the culprit.”

At Yeonhui’s objection, Cheong-a shook her head.

“He’s definitely not on our side. He kept attacking even knowing I was a police officer.”

Yeonhui’s expression gradually worsened as she listened to the explanation.

“Yang Dongjun is just a puppet for now. And… Min Yoo-shin seems to be from a different faction that’s at odds with Yang Dongjun.”

“Then a rival organization?”

Cheong-a tapped the table and fell into thought for a moment.

The ability to plant personnel in the hospital and prepare dozens, even hundreds of micro listening devices.

No matter how you look at it, this is…

“Could it really be the Yongyon Gang?”

Cheong-a’s pale gaze turned directly toward Yeonhui.

After thinking for a moment, Yeonhui put down Cheong-a’s phone she had been holding onto the table and pushed it over. A screen full of incomprehensible programming language was placed before Cheong-a’s eyes.

“Unnie… Sorry to add bad news, but this side will need more time too.”

The fact that Yeonhui was struggling this much was also bewildering.

If even she, who had made a name as the country’s top hacker, was having trouble with the tracking, it meant the opponent’s abilities were beyond imagination.

“So, unnie, when the listening device in your stomach comes out, could you bring it to me?”

“Huh?”

“If I check whether the phone wiretapping app and that listening device have matching creator signatures, I think we’ll get answers faster.”

Cheong-a’s gaze dropped down toward her own stomach.

The method to extract the listening device.

There’s only one way.

1. Go to the restroom.

2. (Omitted).

3. Rummage around.

“Is that… really necessary?”

“If possible.”

“…I’ll try my best.”

Cheong-a’s face turned bright red.

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“Why is she acting like that?”

Jeon Hong-nam’s expression wasn’t good as he entered the office. It was because of Cheong-a’s pitiful state, glued to the table placed in the center.

Oh Sung-min made a disgusted expression and shook his head.

“She’s been like that for days since withdrawing from Boksan University Hospital.”

“Ugh. We’re busy as hell.”

Hong-nam clicked his tongue and headed to his seat, and from behind his head came Cheong-a’s muttering.

“Ssipap… Ssibap? Ssibang? Ah, it was definitely ssibang. Is it ssiba ssibang…”

“What?”

At the continuous stream of curses, Hong-nam’s head turned sharply.

Cheong-a seemed oblivious to Hong-nam’s anger and continued talking to herself.

The innocent Oh Sung-min and Park Inkyu were rolling their eyes frantically, sending signals for her to shut her mouth immediately, but only Cheong-a failed to notice.

“Ssipa noona… Ssibang… Noona in ssibang?”

Finally, Hong-nam, unable to bear it any longer, shouted loud enough to shake the office.

“Hey!”

At the loud voice, Cheong-a’s body jumped up like a frog. Only then did she notice her team leader and awkwardly scratched the back of her head while greeting him.

“Oh. Team leader, you’re here.”

“Here my ass, I’ve been here for half a day already, you punk.”

“Is that so. You came early.”

At Cheong-a’s indifferent response, veins bulged on Hong-nam’s forehead.

“Yeah, punk. The boss has been here for half a day, but where’s this subordinate been, stuck to the table muttering weird curses? Damn, seriously.”

Then Cheong-a pouted her lips and made a crying expression.

“No, team leader. This is an important clue.”

Hong-nam glared fiercely, and unfortunately, only Oh Sung-min and Park Inkyu saw that menacing look.

“The day I submitted my resignation at the hospital! I saw the drug dealers’ names clearly with these two eyes! On the treatment list!”

Jeon Hong-nam raised his thick arms and crossed them.

“You saw it?”

“Yes!”

“Show me that list.”

“That’s…”

Cheong-a’s lips pressed together tightly.

“I really searched through even the garbage dump to find it, you know? But… some crazy bastard stole it.”

“…”

This was true.

When she woke up in the on-duty room, that crazy Min Yoo-shin had already stolen the drug dealers’ list and run away.

Of course, she had frantically chased after Yang Dongjun too, but only got big denials in return.

—Patient treatment list? How ridiculous. That’s information we might not even give if police brought a search warrant! How can some cleaning lady ask to see such things?! Are you out of your mind, really!

Recalling Yang Dongjun’s shameless statement made her feel indignant.

At Cheong-a’s tearful expression, Jeon Hong-nam clicked his tongue.

“Hey, without evidence, you didn’t see anything. Where does a police officer babble without evidence?”

Evidence.

Very unfortunately, no evidence remained.

All Cheong-a had left were fragments of the conversation between Min Yoo-shin and Yang Dongjun from beyond the tightly closed medical office door. She couldn’t even hear it properly because their voices were too quiet.

Of course, she could storm into Boksan University Hospital right now and demand they hand over the medical records.

But the information that police were investigating would spread far and wide. If that happened, the tail would surely be cut off.

“There’s no evidence… but.”

What remained in Cheong-a’s memory was.

“Team leader. What the hell is ssipap ssibang? I think the answer lies in that ssipap ssibang.”

“…”

“Was it ssipa and I heard wrong? Ssupassibbang? Hehehe. Ah, this is driving me crazy. This is important information.”

At the innocent stream of curses flowing from Cheong-a’s mouth, Hong-nam’s lips trembled. Just as his forearm muscles tensed up and bulged while his arms were crossed.

It was Oh Sung-min who stepped in between them first.

“Ah, team leader. I heard you’re going to headquarters tomorrow for a report?”

Hong-nam’s sharp gaze turned toward Sung-min.

“Geez, what a surprise! Ease up on the intensity in your eyes! …Scary.”

“What report?”

“That case Violent Crimes Unit 1 is targeting. You know, that one.”

“Those sneaky Unit 1 bastards, what are they coveting now!”

Sung-min’s strategy seemed to work roughly.

The anger directed at Cheong-a turned toward Unit 1 in an instant.

Sung-min took the opportunity to signal behind him to Park Inkyu to handle Kim Cheong-a.

Finally coming to his senses, Park Inkyu jumped up from his seat and grabbed Cheong-a’s wrist to pull her along.

“Our Cheong-a, it’s already time for a walk… Let’s go. Let’s go for a walk with hyung. Come here.”

“Huh? I’m going for a walk?”

“Investigation. Let’s go investigate. Field verification. There was a fight yesterday between the Russian ladies and the customers there. Let’s go check out the case?”

Inkyu dragged Cheong-a’s body toward the office exit.

“No, hyung, this is important right now, ssipap, mmph!”

Just as Cheong-a was about to say ‘ssipap’ again, Inkyu’s palm covered her lips. Park Inkyu forced a smile and dragged her out of the office.

“Right, right. Let’s go meet the spasiba unnies.”

Cheong-a, dragged along by Park Inkyu who had grabbed her forearm and the back of her neck, was semi-forcibly made to get into the car. Inkyu, who had been staring at her thoroughly dejected expression, let out a hearty laugh.

“You even lost the evidence, so what did you do well that your lips are pouting?”

Inkyu fastened Cheong-a’s seatbelt for her and then started the engine. The seat shook with a loud noise.

“And you need to watch your mouth in the office. I mean, you’re usually so quick to pick up on things, so why can’t you sense when the team leader goes into goblin mode?”

“….”

“At least if you’re going to talk about something, you should share information about what context this ‘C-pop’ or whatever came from and what situation you heard it in.”

Cheong-a hesitated for a moment, fiddling with her phone and looking around the car. Then she lifted her bottom off the seat and brought her lips close to Park Inkyu’s ear to whisper.

“Hey, you know what.”

At the suddenly narrowed distance, the tips of Park Inkyu’s ears turned bright red.

“I actually found two suspicious people at the hospital.”

“Ah…. Huh? What? But why didn’t you report it.”

Cheong-a let out a sigh and returned to her seat, leaning her back against it.

“To file a report, I’d need evidence like the team leader said. But one guy ran away, and the drug addicts’ medical records list I had secured got stolen too.”

“….”

Tap tap, Cheong-a knocked her head with her finger.

“All that’s left in my head is ‘C-pop’ and ‘C-bang’. How am I supposed to write a report with this.”

Inkyu’s head nodded,

“I’m even being wiretapped right now.”

And then it stopped right there.

“…Did you really eat something wrong?”

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