Chapter 127 – Parasite (3)

Parasite (3)

40th floor, Building C, Baeksan Town.

It is the highest control tower and main room in building C, the control tower of Baeksan Group.

It is the space of the owner who had about 150,000 group members until just a few months ago.

“… Whoa.”

A space that you can’t get used to.

A door that was only open to the head of the modern royal family and to a few with special permission from the head was placed in front of Shin Bo-gyeol.

Shin Bo-gyeol, who had just belonged to the 150,000 people just a few months ago, sighed like a rite of passage.

There is nothing special about it, but for some reason, a large office door that makes people feel intimidated.

Before putting my hand there, I turned my head to check the desk.

“…”

A beautiful-looking female employee who nodded politely in her confirmation.

She expressed her gratitude with a short nod to the new secretary, who had a different charm from the female employee she saw immediately after returning from the Mapo-gu expedition.

It was a look that would inevitably show pure goodwill for a man, but that short nod of the head was the maximum goodwill Shin Bogyeol could show.

This time, it will change in a few weeks, no, in a few days.

Shin Bo-gyeol turned her head, feeling just that much appreciation for the female employee who responded to her gratitude with her flower-like smile.

Knock-knock-knock-

“President.”

Three taps that resonated clearly, neither too loud nor too small.

“The new team leader—”
“Come in.”

A languid voice cuts him off before he even finishes talking.

However, the head of the future planning team hurriedly opened the office door at the call of Yeon Si-woo, who was not at all cheeky or awkward.

“Shin Team Leader~ Shin Team Leader~”

Took-! Took-!

The sound of shoes leaking through the softly opened door.

Shin Bo-gyeol bent her waist as he watched her long legs tap the table in rhythm.

“The new team leader has been busy with construction~”

The playful lyrics flowed from the seat of honor.

However, Shin Bo-gyeol did not show any particular reaction.

She just stretched her back and quietly closed the slightly open office door.

Dalgrak-!

“Sit down.”

Only after receiving instructions pointing to an empty seat with a teacup fluttering with white steam—

“Yes, Chairman.”

He carefully placed his butt on the spot Yeon Si-woo pointed at.

“Really~”

Seeing this, a smile bloomed on Yeon Si-woo’s lips as he sipped his teacup.

“As long as it’s team leader Shin, it’s time for you to sit down as you please.”

It was a faint smile, not sure if it was ridicule or satisfaction.

“Why are we being so rigid between us, what kind of company are we?”

Is not it?

A whisper that tickles the heart in a subtle, very subtle way.

However, despite such lightness, Shin Bo-gyeol shook her head.

“No, sir.”

He shook his head politely and met eyes with Yeon Si-woo, who was sitting in the high table.

He stared at the new president of Baeksan, who was looking at him with a light smile.

Thump – thump –

“I’m more comfortable this way, Chairman.”

He pressed his beating heart and spat out the words he had to say.

“… Okay?”

Yeon Si-woo asked back his answer, tilting his head at an angle.

Tsk-!

He clicked his tongue and leaned against the soft backrest.

“Well, since you’re comfortable, I have nothing more to say.”
“…”
“I was still trying to save Gao, the head of the future planning team, who is Baeksan’s number two.”

Thump – thump –

The second-in-command of the newly reformed Baeksan Mountain.

The confidence of being the head of Baeksan’s future planning team, and the new chairman’s favorite.

If you are a Baeksan Man, your heart beats at the whisper that repeats the place you dream of.

However, Shin Bo-gyeol was not confused.

The reason why my heart was beating right now wasn’t joy or excitement.

Thump – thump –

Ever since I entered the president’s office until now.

There was only one reason why my heart was beating.

“…”

Shin Bo-gyeol caught the faint smile that still remained on Yeon Si-woo’s lips.

As if looking at a fun toy, Yeon Si-woo’s sparkling eyes were also included in his eyes.

He knows

What kind of monster is hiding in those twinkling eyes like that of a child?

No one knows the monster better than Shin Bo-gyeol.

Model student, prestigious university student, Baeksan Man.

Shin Bo-gyeol never thought of himself as ordinary even for a moment in his life.

However, not here in Baeksan.

Among those who rode the elevator together, those who did not study and those who were not model students are even rarer.

Among those sitting at the same desk, there was no one who did not graduate from a prestigious university.

All those who took employee IDs and commuted were Baeksan Man.

That’s why, seeing himself as the head of the future planning team, everyone whispered that he was blessed with heavenly luck.

A giant corporation with 150,000 group members.

He whispered that he had won the best lottery that an ordinary employee of the giant corporation could win.

But do those who gossip like that know?

The greatest luck that Shin Bo-gyeol won was not simply being chosen as a person with special abilities.

Shin Bo-gyeol, he thinks that his greatest luck is ―

‘Kuaaaaa

He is said to have been chosen as an ordinary ‘person with this ability’, not a ‘true person’.

It means that I did not become an existence that was not disturbed by those eyes.

Whether the being caught in those creepy eyes was a ‘true person’, another member of Baeksan’s royal family, or Baeksan itself…

“Come to think of it, I should say hello to the other presidents as well, Team Leader Shin.”

Yeon Si-woo’s playful voice is heard again.

Shin Bo-gyeol slowly turned his head toward the spot where Yeon Si-woo was looking at.

“No matter how old you are in the back room, it’s polite to say hello in the morning.”

There was ‘Baeksan’ there.

A huge presence that still stands out despite its whitish form.

One of the giant trees that cannot be left out when discussing the Korean economy.

The beginning and everything of Baeksan, which started from a small hole-in-the-wall shop and built a giant corporation with 150,000 employees.

“…”

Yeon Baek-gi, who had now become the first president, was glaring at his grandson with his mouth shut.

Even with the ghost’s behavior as if it were wandering in the sky, his eyes were still bright.

“Look at this—a nobleman who doesn’t even budge when his grandson greets him.”

However, Yeon Si-woo smirked nonchalantly and continued.

“Such a quiet nobleman asked me to leave, but as a grandson, how could I not go out?”
“…”

It was a question in the form of a question, but it was not really a question to Shin Bo-gyeol.

So, Shin Bo-gyeol kept his mouth shut and listened to Yeon Si-woo’s grin.

“When an enemy commander comes to the gate, it is only natural that the same general greets him. That way, the soldiers will not be shaken and will not lose their spirits.”

Kiya~

Yeon Siwoo exclaimed and shook his head.

Rehearsing his grandfather’s advice in a comical way, he sipped as if what was in the teacup was soju.

“In case someone isn’t an old man in the back room, old horses and old history classes.”
“…”
“No matter what you do, you are still worried about your grandson.”

That is-

“Even though I’m the grandson who stabbed a knife in his stomach, he still doesn’t trust me.”

Ah~ Come to think of it, that’s fucking cheeky.

The air suddenly cooled down.

Before he knew it, Yeon Si-woo, who had a frown on his face like an evil spirit, threw away the teacup he was holding in his hand.

Clink-!

A teacup that shatters through a whitish yeonbaekgi.

Yeon Si-woo, unable to blink even at the shards of glass flying in all directions from the wall of his office, glared at his grandfather.

“Now, a young ghost who can only speak famous lines on a jukebox needs to know the subject.”

Whether alive or dead, he always glared at the cold-blooded man whose everything Baeksan was.

But-

“They say that even if they die, they will never see Baeksan Mountain, which they raised from one to ten, collapse.”

Even if it was to give advice to the impostor who betrayed her.

A person who never sees the collapse of Baeksan Mountain.

Literally Baeksan was and will be everything in life.

“So Grandpa, you are the national treasure of Baeksan.”

Above all else, it was the only existence worthy of Baeksan’s ‘national treasure’.

“…”

The lips of Yeon Baek-gi, still unmoving even in the face of smirks of anger and ridicule.

Yeon Si-woo leaned back in the chair while adjusting his clothes as if it were a familiar task.

“How’s the baby’s dynamic?”

A time for reporting following the completion of the essential events that follow each morning.

Shin Bo-gyeol also cleared his throat and hurriedly answered Yeon Si-woo’s question.

“There is nothing special to report. We are still expanding our power by attracting the bait we have sown.”
“… You’ve been baiting for a week?”
“Yes that’s right.”

Took-! Took-!

The heel of a shoe full of reluctance knocks on the table at the confirmation of the future planning team leader.

“It’s a really strange asshole. An idiot who can’t tell whether he’s a smart bastard or a stupid bastard.”

He frowned and scratched his forehead lightly.

“When we camped out in front of our stronghold, the cub seemed to have something, but he just ate the crumbs we spilled for a week?”
“Isn’t that the limit of a kid in the first place?”
“A kid’s limit?”
“Yes. No matter how ingenious a plan you come up with, aren’t you lacking the experience or ability to carry on the next one?”
“… It could be.”

Yeon Shi-woo’s eyes slowly narrow at Shin Bo-gyeol’s expectation.

“… Maybe not again.”

It was the latter that recited with more sincerity.

The new president, who still has no doubts.

Shin Bo-gyeol looked at his king and continued his advice.

“Maybe the president is overestimating the kid too much. Aren’t you a college student? I don’t know that the sketch and plan to realize the idea are more important than the brilliant idea.”

Shin Bo-gyeol continued, recalling her days as a college student.

“You might be copying a library’s history of war or a YouTube video. A war is fought in someone else’s house, not in one’s own. You may be thinking only that far and not paying attention to the plans behind it.”
“… A war in someone else’s house. Like America?”
“Yes, Chairman.”

As a child who was in danger of revealing her stronghold to the enemy, she could have thought that way.

Yes, if we are going to go to war, let’s do it at someone else’s house, not ours.

Because that’s the most popular way to minimize damage.

It is also the most popular method in modern times.

“Ji is not some kind of zombie version of the World Police. What kind of country is it?”

However, it was also possible because it was the United States.

It was a very dangerous provocation to start a fight like this in the front yard of someone else’s house.

There was no guarantee that the opponent would fight the troops lined up in the front yard.

No, most opponents tend to think of other attack routes.

Since they brought troops to the front yard, they inevitably had to pray—

An enemy stronghold that can end the war once and for all.

“Well, whether you want to play America or a terrorist, do whatever you want.”

Anyway, the other party’s reaction to Yeon Si-woo’s plan was not a variable.

“Is the bait firmly attached?”
“Yes. Bastards won’t even know that bait is bait.”

In the first place, they were just piglets caught for Yeon Si-woo’s ability.

There was not a single word that would come out of the mouths of the survivors who were not even aware that they were bait or food.

“Let’s reduce the mouths of insectivores who eat only food, save manpower and time for education instead, and get information that children are hiding tightly.”

A plan to kill three birds with one stone that only benefits Baeksan.

Very steadily, the trap for the child was being completed.

That was the case with fishing and traps in the first place.

You might think nothing happened in a week, but this pre-storm time was the most important time for anglers and hunters.

It was a moment between catching the fish caught in the bait and getting the animal’s ankle caught in the trap, but it was this week that decided that moment.

“Furthermore-“
“I found it?”

A question suddenly pops up even before Shin Bo-gyeol’s report is finished.

Shin Bo-gyeol quietly nodded at Yeon Si-woo’s question, full of expectations.

“Yes, I found it.”

An expedition to Mapo-gu to find the home of the child.

However, Baeksan wasn’t the only person Baeksan was looking for in the first place.

“I found the base of Sujeonno in Mapo-gu.”

Yeon Si-woo smiled with satisfaction at the Future Planning Team, who delivered the news he had been waiting for.

At las-

It was the last lure he had been waiting for.