The bodyguard drove behind the police car.

Cha Tae-so sat in the middle of the back seat of the police car and glanced at Li Zhihan, who was driving: "You want to characterize the investigation as premeditated murder?" ”

"That's not what you should ask"

Che Tae-so, who was in the back seat, saw Li Zhihan stretching out his hand and pointing at the dash cam.

Before arriving at the National Police Department, Cha Tae-so stopped talking to Lee Ji-han.

The dash cam has a recording function, and the car belongs to the police department, so it seems that Li Zhihan is not at ease with the people in the police department.

Sindang-dong

Interrogation Room of the Criminal Division of the Seongdong Police Agency.

Sitting face-to-face, looking at each other, Li Zhihan handed Cha Tae-so a cup of coffee: "I'll tell you about the current situation first." ”

didn't go to get coffee, Cha Tae-so reminded Li Zhihan: "I'm sorry, I'm here to assist in the investigation, not to analyze the case." ”

"I know you, a disciple of Professor Nim of Cao Guo."

Spread his hands: "Does it have anything to do with this case?" ”

"Didn't you ask me in the car just now if I was investigating Hongtai's traffic accident as a premeditated murder case, right?"

Cha Tae-so spoke slowly: "Now I don't want to know." ”

"Car Representative"

"Detective Li, what I can tell you is that I met Yu Bingyan yesterday, and after the meeting, we talked about the relevant news topics posted by reporter Cui Hongtai, and Yu Bingyan wanted us to withdraw the news report, and that's all."

Li Zhihan is not in a hurry

He didn't even listen carefully to what Cha Tae-so said just now.

said to himself: "I met with Hongtai last night because I found new relevant evidence, but the recorded video did not capture the process of the traffic policeman who died at that time being crushed to death, and I could only hear the woman say in the video that she hit someone, and it can be seen that Yu Hongpu was in an extremely excited state at that time, and laughed and said that it was more fun to hit someone." ”

"It's a pity that this is not enough as key evidence for conviction, so I want to create more pressure through public opinion to force Yu Hongpu to confess."

"Originally, it was planned that I would be responsible for monitoring the anchor, and if Yu Hongpu wanted to kill people, he could arrest him on the spot, but I didn't expect this to happen."

"The memory card I gave to Hong Tai, that is, the memory card that recorded that video, is not in Hong Tai's relics, and even the USB flash drive he showed me last night is not there."

"Obviously, this is a premeditated murder to prevent the video from coming to light."

"The only people who can do this are Yu Bingyan or Yu Hongpu, and only they can know from the mouth of the female anchor that the memory card is already in the hands of the police."

"And, I suspect we have a ghost inside us, put ......"

Finish a cup of coffee

Cha Tae-so stood up from his chair: "Detective Li, first of all, your logic is very confused, secondly, I don't want to listen to your story, there is only so much I can help, if Yu Bingyan contacts me in the future, I will tell you as soon as possible, I will leave first if there is nothing else."

Li Zhihan grabbed Cha Tae-so's wrist: "Representative Che, I haven't finished talking yet"

"When we separated last night, the substitute driver called by Hong Tai had disappeared, and there was no surveillance installed on the entire road where he had an accident, and the truck driver turned himself in at the police department only five minutes after Hong Tai's body was found, is this really a coincidence? It's clearly a story made up by someone. ”

"Doesn't Representative Cha want to catch the murderer who killed Hong Tai?"

Cha Tae-so pushed away Li Zhihan's hand holding his wrist, looked into his eyes and said word by word: "The murderer has turned himself in"

"I'm talking about the murderer behind the scenes"

Cha Tae-so didn't stop, walked to the door of the interrogation room, opened the door and went out.

Passing through the office of the first criminal department, the policemen only glanced at Cha Tae-so, and no one stopped him from leaving, as if it was a trouble for Li Zhihan to bring Cha Tae-so back.

I went back to the apartment, took a shower, and changed into a suit.

Before going to the funeral home, Cha Tae-so asked Ko Myung-hoon to post an obituary on the news agency's official website.

That's all he did, an obituary that didn't even go unnoticed.

On the way, I inquired about the etiquette.

When he came to the funeral home again, Cha Tae-so put the envelope containing 70,000 H coins in the gift box, registered his name and went in to incense Choi Hong-tae.

Choi Hong-tae's wife's eyes were red and swollen, and she sat on the floor holding her daughter in a collapsed mood.

"Pray for the blessings of the deceased and mourn"

Slowly raising his head, Cui Hongtai's wife pursed her lips vigorously and looked at Cha Tae-so, her lips trembled, and tears kept dripping from the corners of her eyes.

Cha Tae-so has nothing to say, if Choi Hong-tae listens to him, he should be choosing a new apartment with his wife now.

Obviously you can get 300 million, why do you choose to take this road.

Cui Hongtai's wife slowly opened her mouth and said in a hoarse voice: "He, what a bad person, he almost died in the first month of our marriage, and now his daughter is only four years old, he is still ......"

"Reporter Choi's compensation will be handed over to you after the funeral"

"Can the compensation be exchanged for him? I only want his people if I can. ”

Bending down slightly and nodding in salute, Cha Tae-so walked out of the condolence hall.

Dining room

There are not a few people who come to mourn Cui Hongtai.

As he walked to Ko Myung-hoon's side, Cha Tae-so vaguely heard some of the conversation.

Moon Eun-hee brought the beef soup and put it in front of Cha Tae-so and whispered, "On behalf of Nim, the people sitting there are all former colleagues of Reporter Choi." ”

"Oh"

"They are all journalists from Chosun Ilbo"

"Pour me a glass of shochu"

Moon Eun-hee didn't understand why Cha Tae-so just didn't want to hear her say about Choi Hong-tae's past.

And he didn't say a word about going to the police department, what was the reason.

After Cha Tae-so finished eating the beef soup, Moon Eun-hee, who couldn't help it, said, "Representative Nim, you also heard what reporter Choi's former colleagues said just now."

"He used to be a responsible reporter for the Social News Department, because his brother was such a person and he was the one who led him to become a journalist."

"But his brother died unexpectedly because he reported the news of a certain chaebol, do you think he didn't know that this would happen?"

"My sister-in-law said that reporter Cui bought life accident insurance the day before yesterday, do you know how determined he was?"

"He did this to raise the status of the news agency and let everyone know that we are the No. 1 Entertainment News Agency......"

Ko Myung-hoon kept pulling Moon Eun-hee under the table.

Cha Tae-so's face was expressionless, and his eyes were cold.

After Moon Eun-hee finished speaking, Cha Tae-so replied: "You also said, we are an entertainment news agency, and we don't need social news to make a name for ourselves."

"On behalf of NIM"

rise

Moving his ankles, Cha Tae-so muttered, "It's so tiring to sit cross-legged." ”

Buttoning up his suit, Cha Tae-so left the funeral home.

Moon Eun-hee was very depressed, so depressed that she actually said to Gao Mingxun: "Reporter Cui's death is definitely not as simple as an accident, his criminal police friend must know something, we have to give Reporter Cui justice." ”

"We?"

"Cha Tae-so doesn't want to care, don't we care?"

Ko Myung-hoon said with difficulty: "Senior nim, if we don't care about NIM, it's useless for us to do anything, he is a genius student at Seoul National University School of Law, he is more sensitive to this kind of thing than anyone else, let's listen to the arrangement of Representative NIM." ”

On the day of Choi Hong-tae's burial, Cha Tae-so did not go.

Three days later

October 3rd.

Moon Eun-hee and Ko Myung-hoon looked at the empty office of the news agency, stunned.

Walked over to their desks and picked up the note on the desk.

It reads: "Dear staff, the news agency has moved to the 11-11 office of the Lima Building, Jongno-gu, and we look forward to your arrival. ”