Chapter 110

Chapter 110 – Jail War #2

“It came…!”

Kang-suk screamed wildly as he opened the door of the investigation headquarters so roughly that it seemed like it would break . Of course, the only person inside was Hyun-ho, but it still felt important .

However, Hyun-ho was dozing off in his chair .

“……!”

He looked up at Kang-suk with wide and sleepy eyes . Hyun-ho muttered with a bemused expression,

“Sunbae, is it time for lunch already?”

“It sounds like you didn’t hear it so I’ll say it again . The thing we have been waiting for has come!”

“Hmphhh… I guess you did come for lunch . ”

Kang-suk put the yawning Hyun-ho into a headlock .

“Keooook… I-I surrender! I give up!”

“Are you awake now?”

“What is the uproar all of a sudden?”

“Look at this . ”

Kang-suk dropped a thick envelope onto the table and said,

“I brought this here since you’ve been asking for it, yet you were sleeping very well . ”

Hyun-ho took the envelop with less sleepy eyes and read the text written outside . Then his eyes widened and he shouted,

“You were working properly, Phantom!”

The information from Phantom that the investigation headquarters had been waiting for had finally arrived after 2 weeks .

“Look at your eyes now . You should’ve done that sooner . ”

“Sunbae! Can I open it straight away?”

“Yes . ”

Kang-suk and Hyun-ho carefully opened Phantom’s letter, like it would break if they touched it the wrong way . There was a tremendous amount of material on Park Sung-yul inside .

“…Jackpot . Not all of the cases that Park Sung-yul confessed are in there, but there are at least five of them . If all of this was done by Park Sung-yul, then he won’t be able to leave the prison for the rest of his lives . ”

“Five? That’s more than I initially thought…”

The words written were roughly at the prophetic level of Nostradamus .

“In addition, each puzzle is hard . This won’t be completed in just a day or two . ”

The puzzles would take a few months, or maybe even a few years . The degree of difficulty was much harder than he thought, so his head started to hurt .

Kang-suk moaned and said,

“At first, I thought he confessed to his crime after three years in order for the evidence to disappear,ut he might have needed that time just to create all these puzzles . By the way, can you solve it? It looks pretty difficult . ”

Hyun-ho smiled so that his teeth were visible and shook his index finger .

“Sunbae, have you ever heard the saying that a created puzzle can always be solved?”

“I think I’ve heard of it… Maybe some time ago?”

“I will prove it by solving Park Sung-yul’s puzzles… Eek . ”

Suddenly, a strange sound emerged from Hyun-ho’s mouth as he rummaged through the materials with a confident expression . Kang-suk wondered what Hyun-ho saw and followed his gaze . There was a note left behind by Phantom .

–I have put together what I reasoned for the busy detectives . I hope it helps with the investigation . Don’t get me wrong, this is just a service because I am bored .

His comments on the problems were written in red pen like a teacher . Kang-suk read it and muttered,

“Eh? Isn’t it pretty plausible? All of these answers seem correct . You would have noticed it with one glance . Why isn’t your face pleased?”

Hyun-ho dropped his head and said,

“I wanted to solve it myself! Isn’t this the same as writing the name of the killer on the first page of a mystery novel?”

“Ah, is that so?”

Kang-suk snorted and attempted an additional attack on the back of Hyun-ho’s head .

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“Director-nim! Remains have been found!”

Kang-suk ran towards the place where the sound was heard and saw the body, which had completely rotted so that only white bones were left, buried deep in the ground .

“Thank you for the effort . I’ll call the coroner . ”

“Yes!”

A corpse was really in the place that Phantom had mentioned . This was the last one .

Kang-suk called Coroner Park Min-soo on the radio . It took less than five minutes for a man in a white robe to rush over .

“Kang-suk . You went through a lot of effort . Ah, should I call you Director now?”

“Just speak comfortably . There are only two people in my investigation headquarters, and the rest are just support people . ”

“There aren’t many chances to hear yourself being called Director, so you should take this opportunity to listen to it often . ”

“Yes . ”

Park Min-soo laughed and checked the condition of the newly discovered body .

“Hrmm…”

“Won’t it be hard to figure out the identity again this time?”

“The status is similar to the other bodies . Usually bodies in the ground don’t rot well . It is called Casper’s Law of Decomposition…”

“You don’t have to explain . I also went to the police academy . ”

Casper’s Law of Decomposition stated that if temperature and humidity were equal, the ratio of a body decomposing in air, water and the ground became 1:2:8 .

“Haha . I shouldn’t ignore a detective . At any rate, a body buried in the ground for just a few years wouldn’t be decomposed like this . ”

“What does that mean?”

“I think it must be treated with special chemicals . It is too well decomposed . ”

“Do you know what it is?”

“I need to go back and do a detailed autopsy… It might take a while . ”

“……”

It didn’t stop with the discovery of the body . If they couldn’t find anything to identify the body, then this case would fall into a maze again .

“The first body found wasn’t like this…”

“With that one, I could determine the gender with the body type, and the identity can be found with dental records . It will just take some time . ”

Kang-suk groaned in response .

“I want Park Sung-yul to properly confess to his crimes…”

However, he was a person who liked having the police dancing on the palms of his hand . Over time, the evidence would have disappeared . What weapon could be used to open his mouth? Kang-suk wanted to discover all of the crimes committed by Park Sung-yul in order to appease the dead victims . His brain started working at full strength .

“A person who is a specialist in mind games… ah!”

At that moment, something flashed through Kang-suk’s head .

“Won’t that guy be able to intimidate Park Sung-yul? In addition, he is right next to him . ”

Kang-suk recalled his contract with Phantom and decided to add a few lines to it .

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“By now, they would’ve realized that they can’t figure out the identity of the body . The puzzle would just deepen . Won’t he want to know?”

Someone else was thinking the same thing as Kang-suk . It was Phantom who was up to his own tricks .

Tae-hyuk laughed and looked at the ship for transporting goods that was docked in the port . A ship carrying food and other necessities arrived at Blue Dragon once every three days . Until a few years ago, supplies came to Blue Dragon Prison every day . However, the number of times decreased for some reason .

‘Maybe he wanted to prevent as many outsiders as possible from coming . ’

The warden was growing drug farms here, and he did everything in his power to stop it from being exposed .

‘So this trick is possible . ’

Tae-hyuk carried some materials and hid it in the engine room while the crew was gathered outside of the boat . It was something that was easy to destroy . Now, it would be impossible for the ship to sail properly without any repairs . It would take a week to fix it properly .

‘There are two ships . First of all, I need to make sure they don’t operate . ’

Tae-hyuk exited the boat with a casual expression and returned to his room .

A day passed by . He heard that the supply ships were broken from the guards who didn’t filter their words around the prisoners . Tae-hyuk smiled with satisfaction as he relaxed .

On the other hand, there was an uproar among the guards . In the end, the warden convened an emergency meeting . One of the guards raised his hand and asked a question,

“If this continues, won’t the inmates starve?”

The answer was given by someone standing next to him,

“Don’t worry about it, that absolutely won’t happen . There are two supply ships in the first place, so it is okay for one to fail . Food is also stored in the prison to prepare for this situation . ”

“I see, then I don’t need to worry . Well, even if those guys starve…”

“As long as a god doesn’t play a joke, the food supply won’t be cut off . Haha . ”

The other guards also laughed .

Unfortunately, there was a god in the prison .

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“This way, no supplies will enter Blue Dragon Prison for the next week . ”

Tae-hyuk smiled as he broke the engine of the second supply ship . Once this became known, the warden and guards would clearly panic .

He had to finish one task before that .

‘It will take around 30 minutes to complete the logistics work . ’

Tae-hyuk went back to the prison and headed for the warehouse where food was stored . Except for a napping logistics officer, no one else was there . There were ingredients piled up like mountains . There was enough food for hundreds of people to eat for a few weeks .

“Then it is showtime!”

Tae-hyuk pulled out a small vial of bacteria that caused symptoms of gastroenteritis . Simply put, it was food poisoning bacteria .

Tae-hyuk clicked his tongue .

“…Even if it was in a bottle, I brought this into the prison in my stomach . Truly crazy . ”

It was one of the things he brought along with sleeping pills . Tae-hyuk started to distribute it among the food ingredients in the warehouse . Just like pouring salt on food, the specially cultured bacteria would grow .

“Don’t forget to sprinkle it in the refrigerator . ”

Tae-hyun also added it to the meat that was as frozen as a stone and purposely sprayed water on the power cord .

Pajik!

The electricity went out and the refrigerator was turned off . The cold still remained, but it would disappear quickly .

“Always be careful about leaks . ”

After a few days, no one would be able to eat any of these foods . Inside the fridge, bananas were stacked for tonight’s dessert . Tae-hyuk peeled a bunch of them then put the white banana in his mouth .

“Only amateurs would contaminate all the food . To have more of an effect, 1/5th of the food needs to survive .

This place was a prison on the island . The guards rotated weekly and stayed in the prison . Absurd things like a drug farm could be done because it was such a closed off space .

“Everybody can endure it if they starve together, but who will eat the food? What will happen in a situation where someone is starving?”

Tae-hyuk gave an evil laugh as he appreciated his work . After tonight, 4/5ths of the ingredients here wouldn’t be able to be eaten .

“Brown Bear wants to fight the Yakuza… But everyone will be at war because of the food . ”

He quietly turned off the lights and left the warehouse . By tomorrow morning, everybody in the prison would realize the situation .

And…

A life and death battle would start the war .