Chapter 442 – Kim Dong-Mi (1)

“As far as I know, there are three major black markets in Seoul, Incheon, and Mokpo.”
“You know that. Yes.”
“Before I came, I was handed over the materials by Kim Se-ra.”

I showed Choi Yoon-mi the paper Se-ra Kim had given her.
Sera Kim, who looked over it, nodded.

“Yes. Roughly, I can organize the power structure to this extent. However, each region has its own characteristics. It can be said that items from all over the world flock to Incheon, and logistics from China dominates Mokpo. And Seoul is where all those things come together.”
“I don’t think organizing domestic organizations would be such a problem.”

This time, Im Seol-bin answered my words.

“You’re right. The problem, however, is the people who look after you. There are usually many cases where large companies are holding on behind the scenes. Large corporations have connections with politicians and influential guilds. As Yunmi said, Chinese guilds are the mainstream in Mokpo. I think it would be better to target Incheon and Mokpo first. Anyway, things come through that side, so if you block that side, the Seoul-side organizations that have had difficulty in logistics distribution will complain of difficulties on their own. Then the rear will have no choice but to move.”
“It’s going to be bigger than I thought.”
“The pie on the black market side is so big that there are many people who are benefiting from it. What Seonggi wants is to unify the market and unify it to the Busan side, right?”
“Yes, because the black market will not disappear anyway, and disappearing is not necessarily good. Sales can also be done online, so I don’t think there’s any need for multiple organizations to be in a mess. Then the price will stabilize and the market will grow bigger in the long run.”

We target Incheon and Mokpo first, not Seoul.
It’s been a while since I came back from Busan, and I thought about going to the provinces again, but it was impossible.
Because opening a black market in Busan is important.
The women in Busan would also be waiting for me to push it forward.

I asked with that thought in mind.

“Where should I go first? Incheon? Mokpo?”

Seolbin Lim shook her head at my question.

“Anyway, members of that organization came up to Seoul and are active. Because they are the organizations with the largest markets, they have national distribution networks. If you hit an organization member in Seoul, you will be connected to them as well.”
“Do you know where the gang members are?”
“Yes, I will guide you.”

“I’ll look into the online side.”

I thought it was really good to discuss this with Yunmi Choi and Seolbin Lim.
If I had been alone, I would not have been able to find a solution so quickly.
It was more complicated and bigger than I thought, but I thought I could do it step by step with the help of the two women.

She said she wanted to help Fiona as well, but apparently she was good at sorting and organizing data.
She thought it would be okay if she helped Yoonmi Choi, and she was actually set to do so.

I left Kim Hye-ri’s house with Kaori and Lim Seol-bin.

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Seolbin Lim led the way in her own car, and Kaori and I followed her in my car.
It was my first time coming to the black market.
When I was a normal person or a normal awakener, I didn’t use it because I didn’t have to, and even after becoming a hunter, I never came to the black market.

While the black market was useful, it also contained many risks.
You can buy things that are difficult to find in the general market, and in many cases, you can get items at a lower price than the general market price.
You can buy things without a hunter license or ID, but there is a high chance of being scammed.
Moreover, among the illegal items, there are many cases where the source is unclear and poorly manufactured, so there are many cases that suffer from major side effects.

But more than anything else, the biggest reason the black market exists is because there are items that are not available in the regular market.
New materials from dungeons or items made with new technologies were hard to find in the general market.
The reason is that stability is not guaranteed.
In many cases, it would take at least several months or even years to obtain them, and in the meantime, the price would rise several times.
In the black market, customers are responsible for misuse of items, so even items that are hard to find in the general market were traded if they were money.
And items prohibited by law.
Hallucinogens and drugs used for sexual intercourse, for example, were commonly traded on the black market.

The reason the black market is rampant across the country and online is because it makes money.
That’s a lot of money too.
There was no one who wouldn’t be tempted by this illicit business with a plethora of customers and no need to pay taxes.
Everyone wanted to take a step if they could.

Lim Seol-bin drove into a public parking lot.
It was natural, since you couldn’t drive your car into the market.

I was surprised as I got out of the car and walked under the guidance of Lim Seol-bin.
The place called the black market is more prominent than I thought.
It’s because I’m not interested, even if I was an ordinary person, I would have used the black market as long as I wanted to.
However, it was not wise to come to such a dangerous place as a normal person.
It’s natural to think like me, so most of the black trade is done online.

There weren’t many people here.
There didn’t seem to be many people who came all the way here by selling their own products.
The people who could be seen were the Hunters, who were obviously coming with a dark purpose, and the Hunters, who seemed rogue on the outside, and who moved in an organized manner.

It could be seen that this place serves as a retail store, but also basically serves as a warehouse.
Goods brought in by plane or port flow into markets across the country.
Items that can be traded online are sold there, and items that cannot be delivered are sold in retail form.

Lim Seol-bin and Kaori were basically beauties, so they caught the attention of hunters.
However, the reason they didn’t approach those who looked bad was because their auras weren’t normal. It was because I, who had a stronger aura than those girls, was following me.

Lim Seol-bin stood in front of a building.
It was a shop with a signboard but shutters down.
It was a three-story building, but I could see that there were people on the upper floors as well, and that the lights were on.

Seolbin Lim tapped the shutter without hesitation.

Bang bang!

The sound was so loud that it felt menacing, so a reaction came from within.
A man upstairs was also seen sticking his head out and checking under him.

Dripping-

The shutter went up and a bare-headed man came out.
His exposed skin was full of tattoos.
Up to the face.

He had a rough impression, but when he saw Lim Seol-bin, her wrinkled face straightened up.

“Sister! What have you been up to here? I will give you a call if you need anything.”
“I have something to tell you, so let’s go inside.”

As Kaori and I followed in, the man asked Lim Seolbin.

“Who are these people?”
“Since they are precious people, don’t act recklessly.”
“Ah yes!”

The man found Lim Seol-bin difficult.
He bowed his head to us and closed the shutter again.

In a sense, it was also a natural painting.
Because Im Seol-bin was the one who led her guild and had a reputation that ebbed in the shadows.
I guess her feet are wide this way too.

“What about Dongmi?”
“The boss has gone to entertain a customer, maybe she will be back soon.”

We were escorted upstairs by a tattooed man.
The downstairs was the same, but there were so many things in the building that it reminded me of a general store.
Some were wrapped and stacked on one side.

When I went upstairs, people were gathered and working.
There was a man looking at the monitor and printing a paper with a shipping address on it, and there were women packing things.
I thought I knew roughly how it worked.
Is it similar to the landscape of companies specializing in online sales?
Only the items sold were different.

The tattoo man led us to the third floor.
Although it did not get much sunlight and the furniture was worn out, it had at least a space that could be called a drawing room.

After we sat down on the sofa, the man with the tattoo asked.

“Can I get you something to drink?”
“It’s okay.”
“Really, what are you here for? Sister’s mood is very serious today.”
“Because I’m here to talk about something serious. Contact Dongmi. Tell them to come quickly.”
“Yeah!”

The man took out his cell phone when he heard the sound of a shutter going up from below.
The clicking sound of shoes.
And I heard people standing up and saying hello loudly.
His title was ‘the boss’. The atmosphere was like welcoming the boss of the organization.

“Ah, you’re here!”
“Bring it.”
“Yeah!”

The tattooed man went downstairs.
Meanwhile I asked

“Where is this?”
“It is a branch of the largest business organization in Incheon. A kid named Kim Dong-mi is the branch manager here.”

The sound of footsteps climbing the stairs came closer.
Appearing with the man with the tattoo was a woman wearing a suit and wearing rather heavy makeup.

She was happy to see Lim Seol-bin.

“Oh, sister!”