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Chapter 18 - 189.000 dolar cash

[Congratulations, host, you have successfully completed your mission]

 

[One of your mission rewards is a 189,000 dollar cash prize. How would you like to receive it?]

 

When Leo heard the voice inside his head, he opened his eyes with a pounding headache.

 

The first thing he saw was the message from the system.

 

When Leo focused on the messages, some information surfaced in his mind.

 

Apparently, the system had a complete currency conversion ability. If he wanted, he could choose to receive the money in South Korean won or in American dollars. Moreover, not just that, he could convert different portions of the money into different currencies.

 

The system had no rigidity on this matter.

 

Leo did not bother thinking too deeply and split the money into three parts.

 

The first part, 10,000 dollars, would be sent directly to the system storage as cash. The remaining money was displayed by the system as being worth 263 million won. After sending the fractional remainder to the system storage as cash, he told the system to deposit the remaining 200 million won into his bank account.

 

[Transactions complete]

 

When Leo slightly shifted to his side to take his phone from his left pocket, he suddenly hit a hard and cold surface.

 

The impact of falling to the ground instantly cleared the drowsiness clinging to Leo and replaced it with endless suspicion.

 

His phone, wallet, and car keys were no longer in his pocket.

 

But once he looked around and realized where he was, his phone no longer mattered.

 

Right now, Leo was locked inside a cell.

 

The design of the cell was spacious enough to serve several people at once. Of course, "serve" in a bad way.

 

Even though Leo had been lying there for an unknown amount of time, the stench hitting his nose made him frown in disgust.

 

When he turned around, a yellowed toilet entered his field of vision.

 

For such an advanced time period, it was not normal at all for such a filthy, yellowed toilet to simply sit in the corner of a cell.

 

Looking outside the cell, there was nothing.

 

Only a corridor.

 

Leo closed his eyes and recalled what happened before he passed out.

 

He remembered how he had enjoyed completing the mission the system gave him, how his fists were covered in blood, and how he even told a woman to slap herself in the end.

 

After that, a kick struck Leo from behind and his head hit something hard, making him lose consciousness.

 

Since Leo did not see the police officer who subdued him before he fainted, he had no idea what had happened, and he assumed the worst.

 

He became fully convinced that both manager Woon and mr Chang min had deceived him from the start.

 

Leo truly believed until this moment that he had stepped into some giant conspiracy by accident, but now he realized that he was the real monkey in the story.

 

Or rather, all of this was just what Leo imagined in his own head.

 

What had actually happened was that, after hearing Leo's words, a female police officer intervened forcefully in anger and then gave the necessary warnings.

 

But Leo had hit his head on a stone when he fell, and fainted.

 

As a healthy individual, his skull bones had not been damaged by such a weak impact, but he had still lost consciousness.

 

When the female officer saw that Leo's head was not bleeding, she lifted him into the patrol car under the horrified gazes of everyone present and left without looking back.

 

Everything happened so fast, and the female officer acted so ruthlessly that even Lee Chang min, whose reaction speed placed him in the top one percent of humanity as a race car driver, could not react before she left.

 

While Leo was in his cell thinking about what he should do if he was tortured later, and at the same time looking for a way to escape, the racing team arrived at the station to report the incident and explain everything.

 

Of course, the people Leo had beaten did not dare to press charges.

 

This annoyed that certain woman the most.

 

After the technician team explained everything, they looked in shock at the woman standing beside the chief.

 

Because before they even finished speaking, the woman slammed her hands on the chief's desk in anger.

 

"So you are just going to let that rich brat get away with everything just because he is wealthy?"

 

The chief flinched in fear at the unexpected outburst, then understood what was happening and yelled.

 

"Yun Wonyoung! You already made a huge mistake today, and you still dare to lose your temper in front of me!"

 

The beautiful woman with long straight black hair, an oval face, and huge doll like eyes completely ignored the chief's shouting.

 

Normally, if she ignored him like that, the chief would just sigh, but today was different.

 

Yun Wonyoung had made a very serious mistake today by arresting a random person without following legal procedures.

 

Yun Wonyoung had been assigned here from the capital for inspection, and thanks to his sources, the chief knew this pretty girl was a spy. Because of that, he had always been very tolerant toward her.

 

Dowon dong neighborhood police station had the highest crime rate in all of Daegu city. Yun, who had been assigned here last year, was probably sent from the capital to investigate corruption.

 

Moreover, based on intel the chief obtained from a friend, and seeing how Yun acted spoiled like a rich businessman's daughter from the day she arrived, the chief had secretly warned everybody about her.

 

Actually, the biggest characteristic of this station was that they cooperated with the crime gangs in the neighborhood. Because of that, every police officer here had a heart filled with darkness.

 

If a girl like Yun had truly been assigned here, she definitely would have gotten drunk during the first celebration night and terrible things would have happened to her.

 

The chief felt proud of himself for this reason, and whenever Yun was not around, he boasted about staying one step ahead of her.

 

Now he heard that Yun had done such a thing, and most importantly, that the person she arrested was the son of someone important. Judging by the way she threatened the technicians, Leo's father was probably the leader of a crime syndicate.

 

The chief was extremely uneasy that someone had been wrongly arrested. If this person revealed what happened here to the media, the chief would definitely lose his job. And if this person was someone he could not touch, the situation was even worse.

 

Thinking this, an idea suddenly came to him.

 

A true strategist is someone who can turn even crises into opportunities.

 

"You may all return now. It is clear this was a misunderstanding. We will provide mister Leo with the necessary medical care as soon as possible."

 

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