You Are Defended - Chapter 499
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#Episode 499
It was truly insane and reckless driving.
I even thought that at this rate, I would be reported for reckless driving.
Even when I opened my tightly closed eyes, the scenery changed so quickly that looking ahead was meaningless.
Taesik moved forward, moving forward, changing lanes several times in an instant.
“It’s good to be bullied, but if you keep doing this, you’ll end up in the nether world instead of the gate?”
“I said I was the best driver. “Other cars may suck, but they never crash.”
“Have you ever done any racing?”
“I tried it some time ago.”
“when.”
“It was done in an arcade. “He set a new record five years ago, and the guy who broke my record hasn’t come forward yet.”
“Is that a game that can set a new record?”
“If you don’t know, be quiet.”
I’ve driven recklessly to elude those following me, and I’ve also been in vehicles driven recklessly, but this is the first time I’ve seen numbers like that appear on the dashboard.
“Wow, I feel like I’ve taken off about 10 scabs so far!”
The entire time I was driving, I checked the side mirror and rear view mirror to check the road conditions.
If there was a car trying to chase us, we would have to drive equally recklessly to catch up, but seeing as the road was calm, it seemed like we had luckily been left behind or had given up trying to catch up.
Of course, it seemed a bit difficult to say that the road was quiet because there were lots of car horns and screeching noises.
I feel a great deal of responsibility for failing to follow traffic laws, creating a sense of crisis in other drivers, and instigating actions that increased the risk of accidents.
If I am reported and a decision is made to punish me and have my license suspended or revoked as a result, I will humbly accept it.
Of course, that punishment will be handed down to Taesik.
“I think this will be enough.”
It was around this time that Taesik started driving at regular speed again.
After 25 minutes, when the fear of death approached me, I thought of Kang Min-jae.
Now that I think about it, Kang Min-jae must have been following him as well. He may have been thinking about it, but he may have been too busy and couldn’t remember it, so I think I should tell him.
I called Minjae Kang.
─Ah, lawyer!
“Uh, where are we now?”
─I am now… … . Where am I? It says there is 1 hour and 10 minutes left.
“It’s similar to us. “Did you get a call from Dae-cheol?”
─Yes.
“So, have you met?”
─I will come to the Hongjeong rest area soon and we decided to meet there.
“Didn’t we meet in Seoul?”
─Oh, I couldn’t meet you because I had already entered the automobile road. But Dae-cheol, there is still a long time left until we arrive at the Hongjeong rest area, so wouldn’t I be late?
“You don’t have to be late, so come safely. And was there anyone who stuck with you on the way? “Kangbyeon must have taken my car and got involved.”
─But they must have seen me getting off at the Kalguksu restaurant and knew I wasn’t a lawyer. They’re not idiots, and they probably don’t even know the face of the person they’re following. Rather, I think they might have suspected that we were carrying out a sabotage operation.
“Even if you knew it was by the river, you still need to be careful because the riverside is also subject to intensive marking. “I might have brought something from Seoul, so I’ll just fake it and leave.”
─Do you, the lawyer, use words like that?
Ah, I think it passed on to Taesik.
I previously told Kang-byeon not to hang out with Tae-sik often because he seemed to be carrying something strange with him, but I was reflecting on myself because I felt like I was blaming others without being able to look back on myself.
“Anyway, I’m telling you to be careful. If you decide to meet Dae-cheol at the Hongjeong rest area, that’s a good thing. Dae-cheol comes by car. “Leave my car at the rest area.”
─Don’t worry. I’ll do my best not to get caught.
Kang Min-jae is not a child, and it’s not that I don’t trust his judgment, but strangely, I don’t feel reassured.
Even though I think he usually handles things rationally, I have seen him ignore his own safety and run only forward.
Choi Jong-hyun and Jo Bong-jun were about to open the messenger app to check how far they had come, when a call came in.
[033–123–4567]
It’s an unsaved phone number, and it starts with 033, the Gangwon-do area code.
I checked the time.
It roughly coincided with the time when Son Jeong-min expected to arrive at the Munyeok Public Health Center.
So, did he call me from a public phone as soon as he arrived?
It would have been nice to be able to search for the public phone number before answering the phone, but unfortunately, I couldn’t check it because the system wasn’t in place yet.
“yes.”
─1663 This is a collect call.
─Lawyer, this is Son Jeong-min! please accept this!
As soon as the collect call announcement came out, Son Jeong-min’s urgent voice was heard.
I pressed the receive button and continued the call.
“where are you now?”
─Well, the public phone booth inside the Munyeok Public Health Center you mentioned.
“Was there anyone following you?”
─The person who followed you? Uh, there was no one like that.
“Are you sure?”
Since no one is out there, our personnel can’t check it directly.
It may be funny to ask a student if he or she can be sure that he or she is not being followed, but there is no other way.
Therefore, even if we say that Son Jeong-min is not there, we must still think about the possibility that he is being followed.
─Yes. There really wasn’t. The public health center is closed now, and there aren’t many people nearby. There really is no one. How can there be no people like this? … .
“thank god. Just in case, be careful not to be noticed. And the car I’m driving now is white. The car number is 9176. “Do you know my face?”
─Oh, I saw some photos in the article… … .
“If a car comes into the public health center, check the license plate number. If it’s not your car, it’s best to stay low or hide as much as possible, whether it’s in the grass. “You must not have contact with anyone other than me.”
─Yes.
“You’ve never turned on your cell phone before, have you?”
─After I bought that hamburger, I never turned it on.
“Well done. And if a suspicious person approaches you at the public health center, run away. Just go anywhere and call me back from there. I’ll take you there. Of course, you should never turn on your cell phone. Not under any circumstances. “Be sure to call someone or contact them in some other way.”
I’ve emphasized several times to never turn on my cell phone, but it’s still not enough.
When people face a crisis, they lose the ability to make rational decisions.
We keep allowing gaps with the mindset that it will be okay for a little while or that it won’t matter in urgent times like this, and aren’t there many cases where those small gaps end up ruining things?
─Yes. I will do that.
“I think it will take about an hour to get to the Munyeok Public Health Center from here. “It seems inefficient to keep holding on to the phone. Could you please check the time?”
─Uh, I turned off my cell phone… … .
“Isn’t there a clock in the public health center?”
─The public health center was closed… … . ah! There is a big electronic clock inside. You can check it!
“Then will you please call me like now every 10 minutes? “If you don’t get a call after 10 minutes, we’ll assume something has happened and we’ll find a way to deal with it.”
─Yes, thank you… … .
To be more specific, if I had to move to another area, I wanted to decide where to go and tell them, but I hung up the phone instead.
Reading Son Jeong-min’s email, it seemed like he ran away simply because he did not want to go to an unfamiliar place without knowing what studying abroad meant in detail.
You may have felt an instinctive reluctance when you saw that they were trying to force you to go even though you said you didn’t want to go, but you probably didn’t realize that there was a terrible conspiracy lurking behind it.
So, if I come out too desperately, Son Jeong-min might become anxious.
I did not want to instill anxiety in students who knew nothing.
It’s already an urgent situation, but if my anxiety grows, I don’t know how things will go wrong.
“Is this Munyeok?”
By the time I had two more phone calls with Son Jeong-min, the car had already passed the toll gate marked Munyeok and entered the city.
Maybe it was because I didn’t pass by what could be considered a downtown area, but it felt like I was in a ghost town.
In the first place, Hojeong, where Son Jeong-min first went, was a remote area, and the nearby area, Munyeok, also could not have many people due to its geographical characteristics.
If Son Jeong-min wanted to leave an emergency fund with the money he had, he couldn’t go far.
If there aren’t too many people, I’m worried that if Angel’s House tries to take Son Jeong-min by force, there won’t be anyone to stop him, but if you think about it differently, it also has the advantage of being easy to spot when a commotion breaks out.
You won’t miss someone because you’re buried in a crowd of people, and you won’t be unable to chase after a car.
“Isn’t that the Munyeok Public Health Center? “If you look at the bus standing opposite, it looks like an intercity bus terminal.”
Taesik said, pointing across the intersection in the distance.
I matched it with the navigation and it seems to be roughly correct.
Since the shape of the building was still very small here and could barely be seen, it was impossible to confirm whether Son Jeong-min was there.
I spoke to Son Jeong-min just three minutes ago and confirmed that he was well, so even if the people from Angel’s House came in during that time, they would be able to intervene.
“Phew, fortunately we came here somehow.”
Taesik sighed and laid his upper body down on the backrest.
It’s only natural that I ran here without rest while being extremely nervous.
I nodded and took out my phone to check where everyone else was.
[We are almost there. Where are you all?]
And that was when I started typing messages in the group room.
“What, what, fuck! “What the fuck!”
Simultaneously with Taesik’s sudden voice, an ear-splitting friction sound rang out.
Taesik suddenly turned the steering wheel, causing the car to shake sharply and cause a recoil, causing me to lose my cell phone.
At the same time, I reflexively checked the windshield and saw something with the appearance of a large lump approaching.
It was so bright that I couldn’t see for a moment, but as my eyes adjusted, a shape slowly emerged.
“… … .”
In the spinning car, I fixed my blurry vision out the passenger window.
And then I realized.
What was speeding towards us was a dump truck with its high beams turned on.