Chapter 241 – Reunion (3)
ㅇ When I hit the shovel on the dirt floor, the frozen ground collided with the corner and screamed. When I flicked my wrists off the light gray grains of soil rolling around on the round side, I could see the stains on the shovel, which was as clean as new.
As I pressed down on the hard soil once more to dig, Yoo-jeong behind me restlessly looked around and shouted at me.
“Soo, Suhyeon! Are you kidding? Yes? Are you doing this for a joke?”
She seemed to believe that I was doing something close to illegal. The senior didn’t know whether to stop me or not, so I just stamped her feet and looked around. I stuck her shovel into her floor and looked at her again.
“Senior. That… It’s long to talk… Will you trust me for a moment? I’ll explain it to you so you can really understand it later.”
“…Really?”
Even though she was worried, she came to my side carefully holding a shovel as if she finally trusted me. Then, pointing to the part I was selling, I asked again.
“By the way, whose secret money is it?”
This was a forest a little farther from the place where the research institute stood before. Three trees grew elongated, like a marker with a buried treasure, and a grassy forest rose midway through it, as if it had been landscaping around the tree.
I kept dropping the shovel down, sweeping away tree roots, fallen leaves, and piles of dirt from among them. Senior Yujeong asked me again with her hand on the trunk of her tree with her anxious face.
“So, whose slush fund is it?”
“Choi Yeonju Hunter.”
Yoojung’s face hardened even more seriously. She looked at me once more with an expression as if this wasn’t right, and began to persuade me in a polite tone.
“That, Suhyun. Slush funds are a bit bad in the first place, but it’s not like we just need this kind of money to live on a tight budget… Also, this is dead people’s money, right? So, I don’t think Suhyeon will do anything bad, but I think there must be a better way than this. Yes?”
“Senior. Trust me. Do I look like someone who’s about to rob other people’s money? Everything, that… It’s been talked about before. Really.”
I shot her sincere eyes at her. Senior Yoo-jeong still had a reluctant face, but when I told her this much, she seemed to trust me. How could I have figured out this location on my own in the first place? Knowing the location of this slush fund itself was proof that Choi Yeon-ju and I had a conversation about this item.
[It’s very deep anyway.]
[Dig a little more.]
I think I dug in quite deep, but I didn’t see the slush fund box. Senior Yoo-jeong also looked at me as if she had misunderstood, and then she went to get water from the passenger seat of the car. I stuck her shovel into the ground and wiped her forehead once with the hem of her dress.
“I think we can dig a little more. I thought it was buried deep.”
“How much?”
Senior Yoo-jeong seemed to have come to a point. After digging extensively for about an hour and still not seeing anything, it seemed that whether it was slush funds or Davy Jones’ treasures inside, they wanted to come out quickly. I drank the water that senior Yu-jeong gave me one more time, took off my jacket, and started digging diligently.
“Wouldn’t it be better for me to do it too?”
“Your clothes get dirty. Please just pick up your clothes and stay by my side for a moment.”
“Ah yes.”
Senior Yu-jeong turned her body to the other side of the splashing dirt and watched me dig in. She had the feeling of making thugs dig their own graves when dealing with targets, but the fact that there were no buildings around the mountain made it even more mysterious.
I shook my head vigorously to get rid of my thoughts and started digging again. How much did it dig It didn’t meet the air for a while, so lumps of dirt flew through the air. Senior Yoo-jeong let out a silent scream as she barely got out of the car and saw the soil rolling on the floor.
Tick!
And when he heard the sound of a shovel and a hard steel plate colliding, Yoo-jeong, who was about to check the condition of the car, stopped walking and looked at the floor. I made eye contact with senior Yoo Jung and then raised her thumb. Senior Yoo Jung said.
“This, so… Choi Yeon-joo Hunter’s Visa… Is it gold?”
“It is called a treasure. Treasure. Since it’s still slush fund, it seems like we’re doing really bad things. It’s money that would have rotted here if we hadn’t taken it out, so it’s contributing to society. So, we dug up the treasure.”
“…Is that so?”
Senior Yu-jeong glanced at me and nodded her head. Gently scraping the outside of her revealed a large steel box the size of an apple box. When she grabbed it with both hands and tried to lift it, it was so heavy that it was difficult to lift it by herself.
On the outside of the box was a large dial. Senior Yu Jeong turned the dial once, and even though it had been buried in the soil for a long time, the dial turned very smoothly. It’s a shape made of a special metal material, but I couldn’t tell what kind of metal it was. I said to the Almighty.
[Almighty Emperor. What is the password?]
As soon as the Almighty Emperor looked at the dial, he frowned and said.
[…What was your password?]
I almost screamed out loud at the moment, but I managed to hold it in.
[Can’t remember?]
[How can I remember the dial password I set thousands of years ago? I forgot to put a dial on it. Originally, I just had to transform it and open it.]
[Then…]
I said to senior Yoo Jung.
“Could you come out to the side for a second?”
“Can you please break it down?”
“Summon the Almighty!”
It was said that one hundred words is not enough. It meant that it was much easier for me to directly summon the Almighty and show off my abilities than to explain in words. The Almighty Emperor, who jumped out, was a little taken aback by the sudden summons and looked around. Senior Yu-jeong tilted her head when she saw a woman wearing a hanbok that she had never seen before, not Misaki, protruding out.
“Oh that… I think I saw it somewhere… ?”
“Almighty Emperor, quickly!”
I grabbed my legs, which were sweating profusely and trembling. My eyes blurred, and I saw the Almighty’s arms stretched out with black tentacles and grabbed the vault door. As soon as I saw her touch the vault door turned into a handle, I let out a heavy breath and dismissed the summons.
“Pha!”
His whole body was covered with sweat. Yu-jeong asked me, blinking his eyes as he did not understand what had just happened in front of him.
“Bah, what was that?”
“He is the Almighty Emperor.”
“Am I, Almighty? A fragment of the Almighty that is in that body? Ah! Do you remember I think I’ve seen it before on video at the Paradise Research Facility.”
“Yes?”
Senior Yoo Jeong never accompanied me to the interview, but the scene of the interview with Almighty Je was left as a video material. She must have remembered seeing the video a few times while working as a research assistant in Paradise. Senior Yu-jeong wiped the sweat from my body and said,
“What, when did you get the ability to summon it? Since I summoned you, please greet me as well.”
“…I haven’t been able to summon you for a long time.”
“Is the door open now?”
“Yes. Shall we open it together?”
[I have to open it together.]
[I don’t have the confidence to do that in 30 seconds.]
The Almighty Emperor’s grumbling brought me regret as well, but it wasn’t okay. Unlike before, when she was reluctant about slush funds, Yoo-jung held onto her handrail with her slightly flushed face. I, too, took one drink of her water and held onto her door with her. I said.
“I will open it.”
“Oh, wait! Wait! I am preparing my heart.”
Saying that, Yujeong sunbaenim wiped her hands once, placed her hands on her chest, and even took a deep breath. She then held onto her handrail and met her eyes. She nodded her head at the same time, then gave her shoulder a firm grip and opened her safe.
Sunlight on the ridge reflected the interior of the metal box. Thick paper bills were lined up in a row, sharp and sharp like new straight out of the bank. Senior Yoo-jeong, who did not expect much even though she said it was slush fund, took out a 50,000 won brick that seemed heavy at first glance and sat down in her seat.
I also muttered with a shy expression while holding a 50,000 won note.
[Almighty Emperor. Isn’t this just slush fund?]
[In technical terms, it is called tax evasion. Originally, I was thinking of saving up a little more and transferring it to a Swiss bank, but I’m glad I did. It’s because I’ve been using it for something a little more valuable.]
“Write…”
Anyway, I was able to raise money with this. It seemed that all we had to do was buy a house of a decent size in a fairly decent area and install a [Prototype field].
All in cash.
