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Chapter 114:
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Chapter 114:
Chapter 114
While everyone was brainstorming for a plan, Yu-hyun said he already had a scenario in mind.
It was a plan he came up with when he entered the crystal cave, the world of ideas hidden by the Twilight Curtain.
“The Twilight Curtain was the first to discover the world of ideas in a place where people don’t come and go, and they disguised it as a construction site to use it for themselves. I went out today to get some information about that place.”
“How did you know that, Mr. Yu-hyun?”
“I visited someone I knew before, and I got into a fight with some gangsters who were subcontracted by them.”
Yu-hyun honestly answered that he had realized that they were connected to the Collector while dealing with those gangsters, and he had noticed that there was a safe with important data in it.
“It was suspicious. So I stole the safe.”
“What?!”
“Are you crazy?!”
Baek Seoryeon and Kang Hye-rim shouted as they jumped up from their seats.
Even Kwon Jia, who was good at shielding him, frowned slightly and crossed his arms, glaring at Yu-hyun.
Yu-hyun waved his hand, telling them not to worry.
“I hid my identity well. I put a perception inhibition on them, so no one knows who I am. Anyway, I stole the safe, and there were some interesting things inside.”
He said that and spread out the documents that were in the safe on the table in the center of everyone.
“These are them.”
The documents containing the crimes of the Twilight Curtain. The things that they were looking for with their eyes on fire to prevent their secrets from being exposed were revealed in front of the three.
Their expressions hardened in an instant as they skimmed through the contents.
“If this is such important information… wouldn’t it be better to report it to the association?”
“Of course, as Mr. Seoryeon said, that’s also an option. But don’t you think it’s too wasteful to just use it for reporting?”
“What? Wasteful? What else is there?”
“If we just report it to the association, the Twilight Curtain clan will surely suffer in many ways. But that’s all. They will try to deny or cut off their tails somehow. Even if we say this is the evidence, there are not enough legal grounds to punish them.”
“I agree with that.”
Kwon Jia stepped forward and backed up Yu-hyun’s words.
“These guys must have prepared several escape routes in case they get caught doing this. Even if they are caught at the very last moment, they will buy enough time until then.”
“Then what should we do?”
Yu-hyun answered instead of Kang Hye-rim, who didn’t know what to do.
“We use this data to our advantage.”
“Data.”
“To our advantage?”
“Hmm. Let’s hear more.”
“The gist is this. The Twilight Curtain is looking for the person who stole the safe. They probably want to find and kill the culprit by any means possible. But more than that, they must be very nervous. Seeing that the other party hasn’t moved yet with this data, they can’t help but suspect that there is something going on.”
Yu-hyun found a clue here.
“They must have plastered surveillance at the entrance of the world of ideas. They can call people right away if anyone suspicious approaches. I’m going to take advantage of this part and make them fight with others.”
“Others? Who are they?”
“The Hanul clan.”
At Yu-hyun’s words, Baek Seoryeon opened her mouth wide in surprise.
“Why there? Don’t tell me you’re thinking of getting revenge there too?”
“Of course, that’s part of it, but there’s a bigger reason why they’re trying to attack us soon.”
“Why… ah.”
Baek Seoryeon nodded her head as if she remembered something.
“The Hanul clan is not only where Mr. Seoryeon stayed for a while, but also where he was fired for a bad reason. Not only that, but they also deliberately interfered with him from behind even though he set up his own management company.”
That was enough to see from the incident at the by-product market. Plus, there was the incident where Jeon Kwangseok, who had picked a fight with Yu-hyun, got beaten up.
It was a trouble with an ordinary employee who was not a Collector, but still Hanul wouldn’t look kindly at Yu-hyun who touched their clan member.
“Plus, judging by how they chased Mr. Seoryeon away like that, Hanul must have some kind of connection with the Twilight Curtain. Not as collaborators who work together, but as someone who occasionally helps each other and benefits from each other.”
“Then…”
“Yes. I’m going to make these two clans fight each other.”
It was a method called using barbarians against barbarians.
If there were two clans that bothered them from their point of view, it was enough to make them fight each other and make them eat each other’s flesh.
“Even if the Twilight Curtain is like that, will Hanul move?”
“We have to make them move. They’re already watching us. According to the fresh information I just got today, a guy named Jeon Kwangseok is plotting something.”
“Jeon Kwangseok, that guy…”
Baek Seoryeon gritted her teeth as she recalled her unpleasant former boss. She asked Yu-hyun as if she remembered something late.
“How do you know that, Mr. Yu-hyun?”
“That’s right. I’m curious too.”
“Hmm. Even if you have your knowledge, how can you know that?”
Everyone looked at him as if they were wondering how he knew that.
Yu-hyun shrugged his shoulders.
“It’s a secret. Just know that I have a way of knowing that.”
Hoot.
Before long, Baekhyo, who was sitting on Yu-hyun’s shoulder, looked at his master with a slightly incredulous gaze.
Yu-hyun ignored Baekhyo’s gaze and continued his explanation.
“The Twilight Curtain will try to protect their world of ideas by any means. There are really amazing by-products inside. It’s something that one clan does against the government’s will. It’s not ordinary, of course.”
Yu-hyun explained everything he saw. Herbs and minerals, and even the natural stones inside the waterfall.
“Natural stones!”
Kwon Jia’s eyes widened when she heard about the natural stones.
Even in her knowledge as a returnee, natural stones were very precious items that could not be obtained easily.
“The Twilight Curtain will consider anyone who tries to touch their world of ideas as an enemy, no matter who they are. Even if they are from the same clan.”
“Hanul will… be the sacrifice.”
“Hanul won’t give in easily either. They will surely resist. A clash is inevitable.”
“So you’re going to sneak in and gulp down the things inside the world of ideas while they fight?”
“Two? No. That’s wrong. There are more.”
At Yu-hyun’s words, three pairs of eyes widened.
“More?”
“Is there someone else?”
“I can’t think of anyone.”
Yu-hyun shook his head as if he expected that.
“Well. I guess so. Look. Here are Hanul and Twilight Curtain. If they fight each other, it will surely be a big incident. But do you think they will spread this fact?”
“That…”
Everyone realized what Yu-hyun was trying to say.
“Even if they fight and eat each other’s flesh, they will ultimately make this matter disappear. Why would they tell anyone about fighting in a secret world of ideas? Maybe they will try to negotiate with each other at some point, thinking that this is not working. It would be stupid to aim for a common enemy even if they are competitors. So I’m going to add one more organization here.”
It was the Collector Association.
An organization that competed with the clan to some extent, but also an agency under the government that the clan could not ignore.
The world after the end would collapse all these organizations, but before that end came.
There was no organization as reliable as the association.
“And it doesn’t end there.”
“What?”
“There’s more?”
Now they looked at him as if they were tired.
“It’s going to be a very interesting four-way battle.”
“…”
“…”
“…”
The three people who were gathered here agreed for the first time that it was really lucky to not be hostile to Yu-hyun and to be his allies.
***
Yu-hyun planned the operation, but he needed Kang Hye-rim and Kwon Jia’s help to execute it.
Yu-hyun first ordered Celine to spread a rumor.
“Is this really all I have to do for you?”
“Yeah. That’s enough.”
The rumor that Celine spread was that ‘a clan secretly monopolizes a world of ideas’.
This was Yu-hyun’s scheme to provoke the Twilight Curtain, and it actually worked.
“A rumor like that circulated? Where?”
“That… it seems like everywhere.”
“The source of the rumor must be him.”
The Twilight Curtain took this situation seriously and dispatched many mid-level Collectors.
The man who was in charge of supervising sensed instinctively that the faint rumor that was floating around was targeting them.
‘But it’s strange that they don’t reveal any clear information about us.’
But he finally managed to find a clue to the culprit.
If he caught the one who spread the rumor, he would find out about the one who stole the safe.
Then a incident happened that shook the Twilight Curtain greatly.
The next day, the supervisor checked the report that came up to him and frowned.
“What? There was an intruder in our secretly operated world of ideas?”
“Yes.”
The subordinate explained the situation with a nervous expression.
He didn’t know how the other side had overcome over 100 CCTV cameras and four Collectors who were guarding the world of ideas in turns, but someone had entered and taken away many of the contents inside.
Of course, it was only herbs or minerals near the entrance, but the fact that there was an intruder was important.
“What were the guys guarding the entrance doing?”
“Well, according to what we checked, they maintained their traces in real time but nothing caught them. When we actually checked, they didn’t seem to be lying or avoiding the situation.”
“What about CCTV?”
“We can’t find anything no matter how we check.”
“…It’s him.”
The supervisor was sure that it was the one who stole the safe.
He had said that he couldn’t tell who he was even if he saw him openly.
If he could inhibit perception to that extent, hiding his appearance would be easy.
‘I didn’t expect him to be immune to tracking abilities, though.’
Now that he knew he was moving, preparing for it was a priority.
“Move. But don’t be too conspicuous. Rotate with a few people who specialize in this matter. Hold the four who were waiting at the entrance responsible for this. Replace them with new ones. Add two more with better skills.”
“Got it.”
The Twilight Curtain moved decisively, but secretly so as not to catch the eyes of others.
But Yu-hyun, who had grasped the flow of the situation, saw their movements clearly as if they were walking on his palm.
‘They must be furious.’
On the rooftop of the office building. Yu-hyun looked down at the city and thought so.
Yu-hyun sneaked into the crystal cave with Kang Hye-rim and Kwon Jia.
He hid his identity by engraving [Inscription], so there was no problem.
The only flaw was that he used too many points to engrave Inscription, but that was enough to recover and spare after this was over.
‘Anyway, sneaking in and taking a lot of things made them aware of the situation.’
He was in a good mood because he made a decent profit.
But the operation was not over yet.
The stage had just begun, and Yu-hyun’s scenario was just in the process of unfolding.
‘Next, new characters will come on stage.’
The next target was Hanul clan.
Yu-hyun couldn’t help but smile as he thought of the data sent to them.