NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 210

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Episode 210. Suspicious Intersection

“Let’s begin. I just arrived home.”

 

Although Yeon-woo’s voice came through the headset, Han Hae-woon was busy standing in front of the mirror, moving cards between his fingers back and forth.

 

When there was no response, Yeon-woo tilted his head.

 

“Han Hae-woon? Hae-woon.”

 

Then the sound of hurried movement came through the headset, and Han Hae-woon responded.

 

– Ah, yes. Team Leader. I was doing something.

“I see. You’re always working hard, moving around busily.”

 

Han Hae-woon, who had been playing in front of the mirror for a moment, broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing Yeon-woo’s voice.

 

– Ahem, I’ve classified the data collected by the agents into a timetable and transmitted it. Please refer to E-45 for the file encryption decryption key.

“Got it.”

 

Yeon-woo opened his diary upon hearing Han Hae-woon’s words.

 

Important materials were secured using such complex encryption algorithms.

 

And the decryption key code (Symmetric key) existed nowhere else in this world except in the diary that Han Hae-woon had personally handwritten when he was Baek Yu-hyeon in his previous life, so it would be safe even if hacked midway.

 

Yeon-woo also had a copy, having transcribed the encryption keys written in that diary that Han Hae-woon had taken from his own urn.

 

When Yeon-woo entered the key written in the E-45 entry among the cipher texts in the diary, the received data opened.

 

It was data organized by time period showing the movement routes and unusual activities of particularly suspicious individuals from the prosecution, police, and military leadership.

 

“The volume is considerable. Both the agents who collected this and you who organized it must have worked hard.”

 

Then Han Hae-woon’s response came.

 

– Team Leader, who has to analyze all that vast information, will have the hardest time.

 

Han Hae-woon was right.

Based on the organized information, he had to analyze the movements and unusual activities of all these people to find meaningful data.

 

That was work only possible for someone with countless experiences and comprehensive insight.

And it was Yeon-woo from his previous life who had done this work best and served as operational commander overseeing overseas black agents for the longest period.

 

“Well then, shall we start that difficult work?”

 

With no special schedule until the CF shoot, Yeon-woo holed up at home for several days analyzing the data and instructing Han Hae-woon to investigate suspicious parts in between.

 

‘Looking at the route through France and Italy, this is just a simple pleasure trip disguised as business, and that seminar earlier was said to be an actual seminar…’

 

Among the numerous suspects, he began checking routes by separately classifying those who had frequent overseas business trips.

 

Three days passed like that.

 

“Hae-woon. I sent the organized data, so check it. Open it with decryption key C-23.”

– Yes. Understood.

 

Han Hae-woon opened the data Yeon-woo had sent, grasped the relationships, and nodded.

 

– It’s definitely suspicious. Having schedules suddenly empty for three or four days while overseas.

 

The several individuals Yeon-woo had identified through data analysis were recorded as having gone on overseas business trips around similar times, completed their official schedules, then stayed only in hotels for several days without any particular reason before returning home.

 

“Whether these people really just stayed in hotels, or disguised it that way and went somewhere else, we don’t know.”

 

During his agent days, when conducting operations in foreign countries and facing too much surveillance from authorities, Yeon-woo would deliberately exit to another country, then re-enter with a cover identity to carry out operations.

 

If someone were to look at Jeon Su-hwan’s records from that time now, they would probably appear in a similar manner to those he had found.

 

The pattern of entering the country, going to a hotel, staying secluded for several days, then suddenly returning home.

 

“You smell something fishy, right? Investigate flights that would match the timing if these people had exited with cover identities and returned at that time.”

– Understood.

 

Yeon-woo also began searching directly after giving instructions to Han Hae-woon.

 

‘Considering the routes and time frames that could depart immediately from Chiang Mai, Thailand at that time and return within the timeframe…’

‘This guy’s whereabouts became mysterious in Vladivostok. Then cross-comparing this with the one who disappeared from Chiang Mai…’

 

After listing all the flights the suspicious targets could have chosen, he found one overlapping location.

 

‘Here it is.’

 

Just then, Han Hae-woon’s voice was also heard.

 

– Team Leader. I think I found it.

“Okinawa.”

– Okina…

 

Yeon-woo and Han Hae-woon spoke simultaneously.

 

– Ah, you found it too, Team Leader. At this point, we can consider it certain.

“Remember when we were looking at Ha Ju-ran and Kim Gye-sik’s past entry and exit records last time and found one strangely overlapping route?”

 

When handling the matter to frame Hwang-geum’s subordinate who had fled to Minsk, Belarus, they had coincidentally found one intersection point of Baeksol agents.

 

– Yes. That was also Okinawa. There’s definitely something there.

“We’ll have to filter out individuals with Korean nationality who stayed in Okinawa at that time and are suspected of using cover identities. And let’s check their movements using satellites.”

– Uh, Team Leader. That’s a bit difficult. Since there’s quite a difference in level from the equipment we could use in the old days…

 

Hearing Han Hae-woon’s words expressing difficulty, Yeon-woo tilted his head.

 

“Is it difficult to identify the list of personnel who stayed in Okinawa?”

– No. That’s doable. But using satellites is the difficult part. The equipment we have now isn’t sufficient to hack satellites.

 

At that, Yeon-woo scratched the back of his head with a dumbfounded expression.

 

“···Hae-woon. Why would you hack satellites? There’s Google Earth on the internet. Map searches are incredibly advanced these days. And it’s all free.”

– Ah···.

 

To think of hacking right away.

Yeon-woo suddenly recalled the commands he had been giving Han Hae-woon lately.

 

‘Hae-woon. Hack the immigration office.’

‘Hae-woon. Hack the Belarus postal service network.’

‘Hae-woon. Hack the integrated management system to track the movements of military leadership.’

 

Yeon-woo thought he might have been ordering Han Hae-woon to hack too many things lately.

 

“Hmm, it’s all my fault.”

 

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After that, as the smartphone commercial filming date approached, Yeon-woo accelerated his analysis with Han Hae-woon to finish everything while he had time.

 

They filtered out suspicious individuals suspected of being their cover identities and tracked their movements based on payment records within Okinawa.

 

While marking movements with various colored lines across all of Okinawa, they discovered a strange intersection point.

 

“This is just a coastal road, so why did all the targets pass through this road? It’s not even a major road.”

 

When Yeon-woo showed a section of the map through screen sharing, Han Hae-woon nodded.

 

– I’ll take a look at what’s around that area.

 

And after some time, Han Hae-woon’s response came back.

 

– Team Leader. There’s a small dock near that road.

“A dock? It’s not on the map.”

– It seems to be a small dock that local residents use for fishing.

 

Hearing that, Yeon-woo stroked his chin with interested eyes.

 

“A dock···.”

 

He reduced the enlarged satellite map to view all of Okinawa, then moved the mouse cursor to another area.

 

It was toward the sea near the dock.

 

“Look at this. There are quite a few subsidiary islands? It seems their destination isn’t Okinawa but one of the small islands around it.”

– Subsidiary islands···. I see. Where should we dig to get information about the islands?

 

After thinking for a moment, Yeon-woo continued.

 

“First, we should search through Japan’s Cabinet Office Statistics Bureau. If we can just identify the resident composition of those islands, we can compare it with satellite photos and roughly deduce which island it is.”

– Understood. I’ll access it right away.

 

Han Hae-woon went quiet for a moment, seemingly working.

And not long after, a troubled voice came through.

 

– Team Leader. Why do these guys create computer systems, but when you go through the trouble of bypassing to get in, everything just says to refer to related appendices?

 

At that, Yeon-woo held his head as if realizing something.

 

“Ugh, they’re always like that. It’s a country obsessively attached to analog, so they probably printed it on paper, made it into booklets, and stored it offline.”

 

Japan is so serious about analog that companies still maintain the culture of going to superiors to get stamps for report approvals.

 

So when the government issued guidelines to automate and eliminate the stamp approval culture that only complicated procedures and reduced work efficiency, instead of removing stamps and introducing electronic approvals, there was even a joke that they created robotic arms to automatically stamp instead of people.

 

– Hmm. Then what should we do? It would probably be impossible to send agents to infiltrate Japan’s Cabinet Office Statistics Bureau.

 

After thinking for a moment, Yeon-woo gave Han Hae-woon instructions.

 

“Then search through the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Japan Coast Guard materials. There should be patrol duty logs or reports for the territorial waters where the nearby islands belong.”

– Understood.

 

After giving the instruction, Yeon-woo separately conducted additional research on statistical data published by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy.

 

While investigating for a long time, he discovered one island with suspiciously high electricity usage compared to its area and registered resident population.

 

‘Hmm···? It seems no audit came out because they use their own generators, but what kind of island activities would result in this level of electricity usage?’

 

Yeon-woo gave Han Hae-woon a new instruction.

 

“Hae-woon. Look for patrol reports about an island called ‘Maejishima’ at coordinates 26.26 North latitude, 127.58 East longitude.”

– 26.26 North latitude, 127.58 East longitude confirmed.

 

And after a long while, Han Hae-woon’s response came back.

 

– None at all. While they patrol all the nearby areas, strangely only that island is avoided. Of course, it is a small island, but it’s a blind spot for maritime patrols.

“That island seems suspicious. The electricity usage is excessively high. And it’s increased rapidly recently, and comparing the timing, it’s been since the targets headed to Okinawa.”

 

After thinking for a moment, Yeon-woo continued.

 

“I think we need to dispatch one of our agents to conduct direct reconnaissance. I think Kim Su-hyeok would have the best mission performance capability. What do you think?”

– I think so too. If we need to secretly conduct a reconnaissance mission among the three, Kim Su-hyeok is the best choice.

 

A sniper is a powerful combat resource capable of taking on a hundred enemies while simultaneously being the eyes of the battlefield that can observe distant places in detail.

 

Because he has excellent patience and observation skills and received specialized training in infiltration and concealment, Kim Su-hyeok was the right person for the job.

 

“First, to avoid suspicion from those guys later, tell him to enter through Kagoshima and then take a boat to Okinawa. I’ll write up the detailed route in the mission orders.”

– Understood. But Team Leader, weren’t you in charge of Europe and the Middle East? How do you know the East Asia routes in such detail?

“I was handling Europe around the time you joined the National Intelligence Service. Before that, I worked in East Asia and South America too.”

– Ah, I see.

 

So while Yeon-woo was preparing for the commercial film shoot, they decided to secretly dispatch Kim Su-hyeok to Japan.

They didn’t know what Baeksol was plotting on that foreign island, but it certainly wouldn’t be anything good.

 

‘If it’s something they’re operating this secretly with this much effort, I have a pretty good idea what it is.’

 

He estimated it was related to drugs, which was Baeksol’s main business.

 

‘Whether it’s a manufacturing factory or a storage warehouse, it would be quite a sight to see it go up in flames.’

 

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