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[132] At times, chimneys don't smoke (4)

In the middle of the ruins, a passage opens wide, like a cave. However, the excavation has been halted, and the ruins are still teeming with rocks.

“I've been working on it, but it's not finished. ”

It couldn't have been too tinny, so the prime minister's order to expel all heavy equipment from the site was made to explode the PPF case. That's why once they were no longer able to continue working, they had a rich possibility of leaving the site.

“You'll burn your butt when you hear the sound of being evicted from the situation you were about to pull out. ”

If so, it meant that something inside was still there. Gangjun pretended to be a ruin with his finger and pointed.

“Now, drill. ”

“You're so frustrating. ”

Iznitas grumbles and approaches the ruins. Kangjun guessed the location of the elevator by looking at the design drawings and ruins alternately. Iznitas had already transformed his arms and was ready for construction.

The biggest mistake in the construction industry was that they didn't hire hunters to finish the job quickly, even if they were willing to take a big cut.

- Bang, bang!

A mutant makes his way through the ruins in an instant.

Iznitas quickly dug through the ruins and cleared the building of the elevator shaft. It would have taken more than a week for ordinary heavy equipment, but a few hours would have been enough for Iznitas.

Of course, the elevator couldn't be used because the power was cut, and Iznitas smashed the door of the elevator for a large cargo hold and tore out the elevator cargo hold and threw it into the ruins.

- Bang!

“All right, we're through. ”

Kang Jun looks down at the basement and wonders for a moment if he really needs to go down here. A hundred and fifty meters underground. It was an enormous depth.

It was an ideal place to conduct secret experiments and to hide things. Iznitas chuckles, looking at the stream behind him.

“I'll go first. ”

- Boom!

Iznitas slams down into the pit and starts his free fall. After sighing, Kangjun wears reinforcement gloves, he leaps lightly and grabs the steel wire and slowly slips down.

“When will I go back up here...? ”

Kang Jun was more worried about coming back here than he would find anything else.

The space used to be a secret laboratory changed a lot. First of all, the entrance is blocked.

A huge reinforcement gate that had never existed was blocking the way between Iznitas and Gangjun. The door, which was over five meters in diameter, looked as if the streetcar could not be extinguished with saturation.

“How did you install this again? ”

Iznitas grunts and looks at the reinforcement door and shakes his head.

“Hey, this is not something I can break right now. ”

The reinforcement gate made of cube alloy was not at the level that Iznitas had not yet fully recovered his strength. The giant alloy door was intact, just a few scratches after Iznitas deformed his hand.

However, Kang Jun kicked his tongue looking at Iznitas like that.

“Have you ever tried anything like this? ”

“Huh? What? ”

“Side to side. ”

What Kang Jun pointed to was not the door, but the laboratory wall next to it. He digs in to the side and breaks through the wall, not the door. Iznitas stared at Kangjun with a foolish look for a moment since he had forgotten that simple fact.

Soon, they were able to enter the old laboratory.

The walls turned wide open, and a lot of experimental equipment and equipment were removed.

Inside, there were lab-specific power plants and lights everywhere when Kangjun turned on the switch. Computers and experimental equipment were cleaned away.

Iznitas stares blankly with his mouth wide open. In fact, even without the fire, the surroundings were illuminated by energy crystals.

“What is all this...? ”

Core, Ethel, and Cube crystals were stacked all over this giant room. Not all of them fit in a compressed box, so the superb energy crystals were emitting their own colors everywhere. Above all, the other rooms leading through the corridor were the same.

“It looks like it's been used not only by the president, but also as a public secret warehouse for the Architects. ”

“So this is a monetary asset, right? ”

At this scale, it would not have been explained otherwise. It was not a level that could be created with a single blessing from the President. Kangjun and Iznitas stared blankly at the sea of great treasure unfolding before their eyes.

The president and the cohesive construction industry have found a huge warehouse where they beat up the visa fund. The tankers, no. Taking together what had not yet been discovered, it was worth it. When money is this big, it doesn't seem like money.

There was only one thought in Kangjun's head.

“Here, I think I'll burn if I eat this. ”

Kang was convinced that eating this huge amount of money would make him sick. It wasn't just a lot of money, it was a lot of money to carry around the whole country.

But Iznitas was thinking something completely different about this situation.

“Hey, Kangjun Choi. ”

“Er... Why?”

Kang Jun was dumbfounded by the fact that there was this level of corruption in a country.

“Then, why did you put it together like this? ”

Non-funding actually exists. But why did we need to collect so much stuff in this huge warehouse? Why do you need so many energy crystals in your country, not a secret offshore account?

“That's weird too.... ”

Kang Jun was just punched in the face, and had not thought at all about the need for this much money. Energy crystals are not currency after all. Values are meaningful even when exchangeable.

Pretending is not just a visa fund. Energy crystals are assets that require cash and are very uncomfortable to cash or carry.

“That's right. You said that the first time President Joo Won and I got along was for the construction industry. Then why did they save the energy crystals? They bought energy crystals in cash to fund a non-profit? It actually doesn't make any sense. There are many safer ways. ”

At Iznitas' words, Kangjun glanced at me as if he had remembered something.

“Yes, there is. ”

“What?"

“A place where energy crystals can be used as money. ”

There are places where energy crystals can be used as currency rather than cash.

“Black Market.”

“…… No way. ”

Black Market is not a big community. Although I do not know about the black market in Gangjundo, in the end a black market is formed in each region, and transactions are naturally used for cash or energy crystals. Kangjun shakes his head as if it were nonsense.

“Black market uses energy crystals as currency. ”

“Do you know what that means? ”

“Yes."

Gangjun nodded.

“Either way, the former president had something to do with the black market, so the visa funds had to be energy crystals. It was hard to cash in, so I had it. That explains it. I don't know if the construction industry was the mainstay or just a subsidy.... ”

“To raise this amount, you'd have to consider it key, not relevant. He thinks the dead guy was the center of the Korean black market. ”

As Iznitas said, this enormous amount was the only explanation. We do not know the size of the black market in Korea. However, the amount in front of me explained everything. This is not just a matter of a calibrated adhesion level.

The former president is at the heart of the crime, and that involves the construction industry. But I couldn't answer it now. All guesses had to be strenuously rolled up in order to end up guessing. And, regardless of whether the main gate was black-market or not, what was important to the construction industry was the simple fact that their fortune was right in front of them.

“By the way, if the PPF is causing any problems and the ground is sufficiently fractured, then should this explode? ”

“…… I don't know. It could explode... Although the odds are very low.... ”

There was a facility installed to power the core, so if the machine was damaged, it was literally rich and likely to cause an explosion. If the core exploded, the other core crystals here would also cause a chain explosion, and the ethel crystals would also release plasma.

“What do you think will happen if it explodes? ”

Iznitas looks frightened. At that, Kang Jun suddenly came to his senses. Kangjundo Core and Ethel scraped together quite a bit, but they didn't know what would happen if an energy crystal of this magnitude exploded.

A trillion energy crystals explode from a hundred meters underground. Explosion of pure energy is even more dangerous. Kang Jun calmed down.

“Half of Seoul will fly away first. ”

I couldn't deny the possibility that the explosion would make me late and blow up the whole of Seoul. The premise of an explosion was there, but now it was dangerous. They were now in a huge armory that could swallow up the whole of Seoul.

If you think about it, at the time of Chrysis, this point was also safe for Yonkers. It was absolutely insane that Joo Won Moon decided to give up Silver Flats.

When Kang Jun thought that, he even felt his blood pressure sinking again.

“Phew... ”

“Anyway, let me think. ”

Iznitas pokes you in the side, wondering if you've noticed Gangjun's rage.

They didn't have the means to carry so many energy crystals. I brought several boxes of crystals, which I could store more crystals than they were sold on the market, but I couldn't carry this much.

Kang Jun thought for a moment.

1. I don't want Union's help.

2. If you eat it, you will be followed by rebuilding.

3. If we leave it alone, they will somehow recover the money, or Seoul will be closed because of PPF.

If you summon Versailles, the Dimensional Ability, you can collect the Crystals here. But I promised not to get involved with Union anymore, and I didn't want to open my hands again. While it was okay to wish the region safe in the aftermath of the PPF, Kang Jun did not want to gamble with his life.

Above all, the money here is inevitable if you eat it carelessly.

The construction industry would eventually confirm that the funds were missing. Then they must be followed, and they will use all their power to track down who stole the money.

I was confident that I wouldn't get caught, but Choi Jun didn't want to use it.

“Kang Joon, what are you going to do? I think I'd better call Versailles. If you're embarrassed, you're out. I'll cut you in later. ”

Iznitas said as if he would be considerate of Gangjun. Calling Versailles was the best choice in many ways. Kang Jun thought for a moment, then nodded. This situation was not the time for self-esteem.

“Well…. Yeah, go ahead. ”

Iznitas attaches a radio amplifier to his cell phone and soon makes a phone call somewhere.

“Oh, yeah. Liam, it's me. Yes. I need Versailles now, but I'll shoot you the coordinates... Huh? Ishita? ”

Suddenly, Iznitas hangs up the phone with a look on his face. Iznitas frowns, gazing at Kangjun dazed.

“Hey, he's gone to Ishita... ”

When Kang Jun heard that, he opened his mouth and muttered with a frown.

“W-we can't.... ”

“Uh, she took Maria to Ishita. That's where I decided to inform Ishita's mechanism, so she won't be able to come back and contact me for a while... ”

Kang Jun also chewed the shit just as much as Iznitas' puzzled face. With the help of Versailles, a Dimensional Capable, Maria crossed over to Ishita, and told her that Versailles would also be in Ishita for a while to travel together about Ishita's life.

Gangjun knew that Maria was crossing over to Ishita, but he didn't think it would be this time.

You cannot get Union's help. It was a good thing to keep the beads intact, and to be able to take them all, even if there was a sea of gold in front of my eyes. How much more do I have to say if it's an explosive substance that could exterminate everyone, not gold?

Even if the core was stabilized, it was eventually an energy body.

“Let's shut down the generator first. ”

“Yes."

Gangjun and Iznitas quickly searched the facility and found items that were at risk of fire and explosion, removing the core packs and stopping them from running. After eliminating the possibility of danger a little bit, the two of them take a breath.

In the middle of the sea of Jabbo, the two of them sat face to face and pondered.

“It's gonna take us a month to get this back and forth. We have to move barefoot. ”

The two of them wandered around and checked that much.

“The government is going to detonate the PPF tomorrow... ”

PPF may have no effect, but it may have an impact. The loss of energy crystals could or could not all explode, and technically, it was more likely not to. What was important was that millions of lives were at stake, depending on what they were doing.

- Hiccup!

Then suddenly, the two of them raised their heads. Iznitas mumbles a little, bringing his index finger to his mouth.

“Something's coming. ”

Iznitas notices the sound coming from his ears, focusing on the nerves in his ears. Then he showed Kang Jun what he heard and learned by texting on his cell phone.

‘Iron screech, definitely a gun. ’

‘It's like walking down a rope. ’

‘I found out someone broke in. ’

‘Not a soldier, but an armed civilian or supposedly a hunter. ’

What's your response?

Hide, fight, run. I had to choose between three. Kang Jun stared at the locked door and the wall through which they had pierced. And I looked at the sea of jabbo. Kangjun's answer was clear.

“Just get everything you can. ”

“Okay.”

The thief eventually decided to take the money first.