The Uncrowned King of the Peninsula

Chapter 15: The road is higher

Bae Yong-jun's approach made Choi Jong-bum even more furious.
"What are you doing?! I told you to kneel down, did you hear me?" His fingers trembled, and veins bulged on his forehead. "Do you really think I wouldn't dare? Tomorrow I'll make you regret it!"

Pei Yongjun remained unmoved and continued walking step by step.

step.

Two steps.

Three steps.

As the tall figure approached, Choi Jong-Bum, who was in pain all over, couldn't help but tremble in his legs. "Ah! I called the police! Don't regret it later!"

"Police! Police!" He took out his cell phone and wanted to call the police, but the call was never connected, so he had to shout in vain.

The figure was getting closer and closer, so Choi Jong-Bum looked at Choi Sulli, and a hint of panic appeared in his arrogant tone, "Ah, Choi Sulli! Stop him! Make him kneel down!"

For some reason, Choi Sulli just held the camera tightly in her hand, looked at Bae Yongjun's tall back, clenched her teeth, and didn't say a word.

"Stop, stop!" Choi Jong-Bum shouted at the top of his lungs, and Bae Yong-Jun finally stopped in front of him.

"Stop." Pei Yongjun said lightly.

"You're smart!" Choi Jong-Bum looked up at Bae Yong-Jun in front of him, glared at him fiercely, and pointed at him, "Get away from me!"

"Do you have a backup?" Pei Yongjun asked without moving.

"Yes! If you don't believe me, try it!" Choi Jong-Bum seemed to have regained his confidence, and his tone immediately became stronger. "You care about her too, don't you?"

"Is it a nosy friend? Or is it some strange guy she found behind my back?"

"No matter what, you have to listen to me now!"

"Where is the backup?" Pei Yong's tone remained calm.

"Huh? You think I'm going to tell you?" Choi Jong-Bum gave him a ridiculous smile. "Do you think I'm an idiot?"

"I asked you where the backup is. Don't you understand what I'm saying?" Pei Yongjun continued to ask.

"I don't understand! I really don't understand! What can you do?!" Choi Jong-Bum's neck stiffened. "You still want to hit me?"

"Hit me! Aren't you a good fighter?!" He pointed at his right cheek, veins popping out on his forehead. "Hit me here! Hit me to death!"

Pei Yongjun stood there, without moving or saying a word.

Seeing this, Choi Jong-Bum threw his head back and laughed wildly.

Choi Sulli frowned, wishing she could die together with Choi Jong-bum, but she was also worried about poor Goo Hara, and stood there anxiously.

"Do you understand the situation?" Choi Jong-Bum admired Choi Sulli's expression, then raised his hand and poked Bae Yong-Jun's chest again and again. "You son of a bitch, listen to me now."

Pei Yongjun stared at him and opened his mouth again, "Choi Jong-Bum, let me ask you one last time, where is the backup?"

"Ah? You want me to tell you, okay!" Choi Jong-Bum opened his eyes wide, grinned, and pointed to the ground.

"Kneel down and kowtow loudly. When the sound is loud enough to satisfy me, I'll tell you. How about that?"

"Kneel down! Hahaha!" Choi Jong-Bum's laughter was almost crazy.

Pei Yongjun had a blank expression on his face and slowly leaned forward.

"Bae Yongjun!" Choi Sulli screamed behind him.

Looking at Choi Jong-Bum's hideous laughter, Bae Yong-jun's face was as hard as iron.

With a thought, his eyes turned into the abyss, and a cold and hard robotic voice sounded in his mind.

[Consume 1 truth fragment]

Start listening to your heart

In an instant, the mechanical voice turned into Choi Jong-bum's sinister whisper.

[Wow, I'm such a genius! Who would have thought that the backup would be hidden in the TV remote control on the desk?]

Pei Yongjun stretched out his arms and stood up, holding a small rectangular black box in his hand.

It was the TV remote control on the bedside table.

He twisted his hands hard, and with a snap, the remote control separated into two halves, revealing a black micro memory card.

Choi Jong-Bum's laughter stopped abruptly, his eyes bloodshot. "You, you, what are you doing..." He trembled like a sieve, as if he had seen a ghost.

"What? What did you want me to do just now?" Pei Yongjun held the black card in his hands and looked at Cui Zhongfan.

"I, I..." Choi Jong-Bum's lips trembled, and he fell to his knees. "I was wrong. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

"Louder." Pei Yongjun said coldly.

"I'm sorry!" Cui Zhongfan burst into tears, kowtowed louder and louder, and trembled all over. "Brother, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Pei Yongjun raised his head and looked at Cui Xueli, seeing her sparkling eyes.

He used up the last fragment of truth.

The first fragment of truth that he had obtained when the interviewee committed suicide, which had been sleeping silently in his mind for two years and had been sealed in his heart.

It turns out that everything is true.

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Choi Sulli sat in the passenger seat and felt as if she was in a dream.

The video and the backup were obtained just like that.

Until now, if it weren't for the two memory cards tightly held in her hands, she might not have believed what she had experienced. The deadly threat hanging over her and Holaoni's heads disappeared just like that.

But it's all true.

The back door of the car was opened, and Pei Yongjun threw a handbag containing 4 million in cash into the back seat, then he turned around and sat in the driver's seat again.

"Thank you, editor-in-chief nim, thank you so much..." Choi Sulli came back to her senses and thanked him excitedly.

"Fasten your seatbelts." Pei Yongjun simply nodded to show he understood, then raised his hand to stop her from saying anything else. "Let's go, hurry up."

He immediately started the car, drove diagonally across from Choi Jong-Bum's house, and soon arrived at the gate of the Digital Industrial Park.

A police car was driving in from the door and the two cars passed each other.

"Police?" Choi Sulli became alert and turned her head to stare at the police car driving into the Digital Industrial Park. "Did Choi Jong-bum call?"

"It's hard to say, but it's possible." Pei Yongjun glanced at the rearview mirror and continued driving. "Didn't he just call the police? Maybe he came to check on me."

"What should I do then?" Choi Sulli subconsciously clenched her palms, fearing that the hard-earned memory card would be taken away by the police again.

"It's okay, he was just scared at the time. When the police really come, he'll probably be more honest than anyone else. When they get to the bottom of it, loan sharking, extortion, illegal filming, any of it will be enough to send him to prison for years."

"As long as he's not too stupid, he'll be fine."

Bae Yong-jun looked calm, but Choi Sulli was a little nervous. She looked back every once in a while, as if observing whether there was a police car chasing them.

After a while, she finally felt relieved when she saw that there was no police car chasing her.

The huge stone that had been weighing on her heart for many days finally disappeared, and Cui Xueli gradually felt curious.

"Editor-in-Chief, how did you know the video would be in the safe?"

"Choi Jong-Bum definitely wouldn't put such an important thing anywhere. He must have put it in the safest place, most likely where he keeps his money." Bae Yong-Joon answered while driving.

"Well, what if he's already paid back all the money? What if the loan sharks have already come?"

"With more than 400 million taken away in an instant, who would still have the heart to go to a nightclub for drinking and partying?" Pei Yongjun had obviously anticipated Choi Jong-bum's actions.

Choi Sulli listened attentively, with a glint of light in her big, bright eyes.

"Then how did you know the backup would be in the remote? My heart was about to jump out of my chest."

"Well..." Pei Yongjun glanced at her and smiled softly, "Maybe I can hear what he's thinking?"

"Really?" Choi Sulli opened her eyes wide, full of curiosity.

"Is it true or not..." But Pei Yongjun didn't say anything more. He pointed to the building on the right that was glowing with soft lights and said, "Let's go find Goo Hara first and give her the things."

We arrived at St. Mary's Hospital in Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu.

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