Chapter 145: Chapter 145
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Eun Jiho, however, didn’t look disturbed at all. He just mumbled with his arms crossed.
“Very refres.h.i.+ng reaction as always.”
Woo Jooin giggled with a shrug as he waited for Woo Bee’s response. With a fan running sound, he heard her computer opening.
As a hacker herself, Woo Bee was already using the best computer there was at just the age of sixteen. She bought and fixed a few parts by herself to upgrade her hardware. She was indeed better than any other expert when it came to computers.
Woo Bee soon flung a question over the phone.
“Oppa, I’m running all the essential programs. I’m about to start now. The time limit is 5 minutes.”
“Cool.”
“Tell me what you need once I ask it.”
With that said, they could immediately hear her tapping a keyboard loudly. Eun Jiho sat up straight out of tension. He then gave a piercing gaze at Woo Jooin’s phone with his burning black eyes, which he did involuntarily.
He felt like his mouth was running dry. Even the light summer rays seemed like it was heavily suppressing the whole s.p.a.ce. Tap, tap, tap… as if something had gone wrong, the tapping of the keyboard then rushed in like a storm.
While not knowing if his cousin was in the middle of an arrest or not, Woo Jooin just leaned on the back of his chair with his eyes closed. His light brown lashes tilted, and his breath even sounded peaceful. Eun Jiho had no idea how Woo Jooin could stay that relaxed. Perhaps it was because he trusted his cousin or because of something else, but Woo Jooin had a comfortable yet unfamiliar face, although this situation was at the peak of its urgency.
That was when that sharp tension flowed in a tight range between them as it was on the tip of a needle.
With a fierce sound, the typing stopped. At the next moment, Woo Bee spoke over the phone, which made Eun Jiho hold his breath.
“Success, I accessed the higher database that has people’s information. Oppa, the ID of the one you’re looking for is ‘ham310,’ right?”
“Uh-huh,” replied Woo Jooin. His voice was so nonchalant that one couldn’t see any vestige of trembling in it. Woo Bee, however, didn’t seem to care about it at all.
They could then hear another typing sound over the phone. An unexpected word returned thereafter.
“What?”
“What’s wrong?”
Woo Jooin, at last, sounded a little nervous. Eun Jiho positioned himself upright since he also got concerned if something might have happened. What came out next through the phone was, however, very unexpected. Woo Bee responded in a perplexed voice.
“Oppa, you told me to search which girl was using that ID, right? It doesn’t belong to a girl, though.”
“Not a girl?”
“No, it isn’t. You know, if this person was born in 1977, then it ain’t the right age for a girl. Besides, this person is, conclusively, a guy.]”
“A guy?” asking back, Woo Jooin put his brain to work right after.
Born in 1977, this person would have turned only thirty or thirty-one now. The ID might belong to a guy who had a daughter; still, a thirty-one-year-old father with a seventeen-year-old daughter didn’t make sense. Woo Jooin then gathered his wits when Woo Bee threw a question.
“Oppa, what should we do? We only have 3 minutes left. I need about a minute to erase all the logs.”
“Then…”
‘What should I do?’ Woo Jooin bit his lip; however, compared to those who got blanked out in perplexity, he was the type of person who would display the full capacity of his mind during this kind of situation. Still, it wasn’t enough to just rack his brain. Though the ID didn’t belong to Choi Yuri, he thought that, at least, another girl would be using it, but the person was a guy in his thirties. ‘Who the h.e.l.l is this…’ Woo Jooin then recalled that the name, Choi Yuri, wasn’t so unfamiliar.
Like browsing an old newspaper, a word came across Woo Jooin’s head in a flash. He then asked calmly.
“Look up his mailbox. No, whatever it is, his mailbox, club, or job position, please find what the person does.”
“Got it, bro, hold on! I’ll transfer to the database.”
Woo Bee then tapped her keyboard again. With his eyes stiffened in anxiety, Eun Jiho stared at Woo Jooin. ‘What is he gonna do?” Eun Jiho could hardly guess. ‘He’s more than a two-wheeler while I’m halfway around my head,’ with that in mind, Eun Jiho turned his head. At that moment, Woo Bee dropped her response.
“I found him. He’s a bodyguard with a pretty great career.”
“A bodyguard with a pretty great career? Then what is the name of the company he’s affiliated with?”
“Reed System. I guess it’s a global security organization. Oppa, we only have a minute and a half!”
“Can you remember his name, SSN, age, face, and his phone number?”
Doing this would be such a difficult thing for ordinary people, but she’s Woo Jooin’s cousin. There’s nothing normal about that. A positive response came right after.
“Yeah, oppa!”
“Good, that’s enough. Leave ASAP.”
The noise of the keyboard tapping once again followed Woo Jooin’s urgent voice. Eun Jiho stretched his hands back and held the bed. He then fetched a sigh while bending back.
‘Are they playing Mission Impossible or what?’ with that thought in mind, Eun Jiho waited again for Woo Bee’s response. It did not even take a minute for her to answer back. In fact, she only needed less than thirty seconds.
“Oppa, all done. I deleted all the logs and left safely.
“Thanks, Bee. Would you tell me that bodyguard’s SSN, name, and number?”
[His SSN is x.x.xx.x.x-x.x.xx.x.xx, name Kang Mino, and his number is 0101-x.x.xx-x.x.xx.]
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, oppa. You should come to my house later!”
“Of course, yes, but we just saw each other recently.”
“Come on, I didn’t even touch your hair since other unnies and oppas ran over you! Gosh, it’s so sad to be the youngest!”
Woo Bee was sixteen, a year younger than Woo Jooin, who turned seventeen this year and was the youngest of the Woo family. Eun Jiho giggled as he felt relieved. Woo Jooin smiled and said something to her in a friendly tone. At the very next moment, it went noisy over the phone. Eun Jiho, who leaned backward the whole time, sat straight and flung a question.
“What’s going on over the phone? Did the police come?”
“Nope, it was someone scarier than the police.”
Woo Jooin’s clear response made Eun Jiho burst out laughing.
“You mean, Sanny hyeong,” Eun Jiho replied.
“Yup.”
Whether they chit-chatted leisurely or not, a fierce quarrel spread out over the phone like a blaze. If people heard their fight, then they would have considered it as two beasts roaring or dogs barking at each other. The two siblings then hung up the phone. ‘Whoever calls Woo Jooin first after this fight would be the winner,’ Eun Jiho thought before leaning his body forward.
He asked Woo Jooin, “What are you gonna do?”
“What do you mean? We now have everything we need to know.”
‘We have everything we need to know…?’ Eun Jiho slightly furrowed his brows.
When they heard that the user of the ID was from a guy in his thirties, Woo Jooin also seemed disconcerted as if he never expected that part. He, however, asked what the guy’s job was within a few seconds. After that, he hung up the phone as if things were all set.
Eun Jiho could hardly guess what was happening within Woo Jooin’s head, nor did he want to try knowing it. It would be better to just ask him directly.
“Well, why did you need to know what his occupation was?” Eun Jiho cast a question.
“She said he’s a bodyguard.”
“So?”
“Choi Yuri…”
Since the name emerged out of the blue, Eun Jiho frowned his eyebrows while thinking, ‘Bodyguard and Choi Yuri? What do they have to do with each other?’ Woo Jooin laughed out loud before continuing his words.
“About five years ago, you complained to me about a party you were forced to attend. Do you remember?”
“Well, I complained about that kind of thing quite often, but if it was about five years ago, then I do remember a particularly big one. Hanwool Group’s 20th-anniversary party.”
“Yeah, do you remember what happened back then? You went crazy, saying that you had to memorize every name on the list. You threw me a pile of doc.u.ments in annoyance, remember?”
“Yeah, that happened quite often, too, but what about it?”
“At that time, I scanned the names on the list. You know, every family member of the group owners or presidents are listed there in detail for you to greet them, right?”
“What does that suppose to mean? Hold on, are you…?”
It was total nonsense. Although Eun Jiho knew that Woo Jooin had a computer-like memory from long ago, he couldn’t believe such a thing this time.