Moving between the containers, I leaned my body against a nearby tree.
At that, Kang Sibang said to me:
[Don’t break the branches.]
“Why?”
[That’s Big Brother.]
If he means… Big Brother…
I looked at the trees with a strange feeling.
Could it be that he’s talking about that sacred tree?
Is this all that one tree?
Is it possible for that tree to be both above and down here?
[They’re Big Brother’s descendants, but for all intents and purposes, you can consider them all connected. Do you dare try to draw Big Brother’s blood? F*ck!]
…Ah, sorry about that.
I quickly pulled my body away from the tree.
In the meantime, I spotted a container where there were no signs of people.
When I gestured with my chin, Kang Sibang squeezed his body through a gap in the crude door of the container.
The voice of the vanished Kang Sibang reached my ears.
[There’s no one here!]
Kang Sibang soon opened the door from the inside.
I could see his body stretched out long, likely having used his stickiness.
I ducked under Kang Sibang’s body to enter and scanned the interior of the container.
Inside the dark container, I saw various boxes and materials of unknown nature.
I checked the boxes using the lantern I had prepared.
20XX. XX. XX. Vladivostok. (Slime Extract)
[F*ck!]
Kang Sibang seemed to be crying as he clung to the box.
The reason I say he seemed to be crying was that instead of tears, slime juice was dripping from his eyes, and its viscosity was so high that even though it touched the floor, it didn’t actually detach from his eyes.
“Si… Sibang-ah…”
I patted Sibang while using my capitalist—no, my civil-servant-duty-bound upper body to look around at the surrounding boxes.
Most of the boxes had their contents listed along with detailed dates of arrival or departure.
20XX. XX. XX. Tianjin (Lamia Skin)
20XX. XX. XX. Nampo (Succubus) (Handle with Care)
In particular, the box containing the ‘Handle with Care’ item felt like it was vibrating slightly.
As if something was actually inside.
A single box probably cost at least ten million won, and there were at least a hundred boxes filling this container. And I had no idea exactly how many containers like this were inside this cave.
Even accounting for raw material costs and transportation fees, meaning not everything could be liquidated into pure cash—
‘This isn’t going to be on the scale of tens of billions of won.’
If what’s in these containers isn’t everything, the cumulative total would be in the hundreds of billions of won.
That means the tax revenue leaking away is already in the tens of billions—
“Are you crazy?”
I muttered before catching myself and closing my mouth.
A shadow flickered outside the door, followed by voices.
“Are you sure we can move all of this today?”
“F*ck. What choice do we have? Orders from above.”
Two people.
I roughly calculated the number of people based on the difference in the footsteps and voices I heard.
“Is this…… mean we’re wrapping up the business or what?”
“Maybe?”
“Hey, I bought a sub-space item. Want to swipe a few?”
“Oh. Sounds good.”
Anyway, these bad guys always end up stabbing each other in the back.
I shook my head in the darkness at that thought.
At that exact moment, the door opened with a creak.
I turned off the lantern and hid with Kang Sibang in the deepest shadows.
Soon, Kang Sibang made his body translucent like camouflage.
‘A Great King Slime is…’
Quite a formidable thing.
I might actually be with a surprisingly strong friend.
Soon, two men who looked like ordinary trading company employees walked in and inspected the boxes.
They selected a few boxes and put them into the sub-space item.
Meanwhile, a walkie-talkie at the waist of the man wearing a gray shirt among the two rang out.
“Ah, startled me!”
“F*ck, I nearly jumped out of my skin. What is it?”
“What else? It’s the Manager.”
The Manager?
I struggled to remember every piece of information I heard.
“Yes, Manager. Yes, yes. I’ve secured all the ledgers. The boys are moving the goods now.”
Gray Shirt gave his companion a secret smile and tapped a box. The box, which seemed to contain the Succubus, reacted with a slight vibration when he tapped it.
I saw a file folder in Gray Shirt’s left hand as he turned around with a cocky attitude.
‘That’s the ledger.’
If I could just take that one thing, I could grasp the clue to this entire smuggling operation.
‘I can’t take photos of everything here and move it.’
What I needed was empirical evidence.
With that thought, I took action. When I looked at Kang Sibang, he tilted his head in confusion.
I mouthed to him:
‘Close the door.’
…?
Kang Sibang tilted his head.
Ah, right. I’m invisible right now.
Realizing that, I quickly corrected my actions. I placed my hand on Kang Sibang’s squishy body.
An immediate reaction followed.
[What are you doing! F*ck!]
Just stay still for a second.
Thinking that, I began to write words on Kang Sibang’s body.
‘Go close the door. As quietly as possible.’
[Why?]
‘Just do as you’re told.’
[Fine, jeez…]
Though he grumbled, Kang Sibang faithfully stuck to the wall and moved toward the door, ensuring he didn’t catch the two men’s eyes.
And the moment Kang Sibang finally put his hand on the doorknob.
Without caring whether I made a sound or not, I immediately knocked over the box Gray Shirt had been leaning on.
“…What!”
Boxes tumbled all at once, and Gray Shirt fell forward.
The ledger in his hand and the radio both spilled onto the floor.
“F*ck, what are you doing? Quietly…”
The man in the black jacket next to him seemed to have no intention of helping his colleague up; he was only concerned about the noise.
However, at that moment, both men lost their voices.
Their pupils were instantly sucked toward one spot.
They were facing the mist that had erupted from the box I had just knocked over.
* * *
“Hello. Mister.”
“Hello… Hehe…”
Gray Shirt was currently looking at a half-naked woman. For the record, that woman had an incredibly curvaceous body.
And the man in the black jacket—
“Oh my goodness. Isn’t that Mister Otaku? I’m watching all the photos Mister Otaku took!”
…was seeing a phantom of a famous idol.
And Lee Yuji quietly watched the scene.
The sight of two men grinning foolishly and drooling.
And subsequently, the sight of them saying such strange things.
“I’m a fan, and you’re an idol! If we do this… it’s okay!”
“Doing this in a public place… thank you.”
[F*ck.]
I seriously want to puke.
Kang Sibang’s swearing reached her ears, but Lee Yuji didn’t care about that.
It was a relief she had used the universal sealing knife Kang Ilyeon had provided to ensure the succubus’s box would open easily.
In the first place, even if a succubus escaped, it was a species whose aggro was drawn more sensitively to sight than hearing.
Thus, she had calculated that since she was invisible, the aggro wouldn’t be drawn to her.
Lee Yuji gathered the radio and the ledger scattered on the floor.
Then, she spoke to Kang Sibang, who was keeping the door locked.
“Let’s get out now.”
[Okay.]
Kang Sibang unlocked the door.
But before she could even finish her sentence, a voice came through the radio.
[Container 3 is clear, right? Why is there no answer? Anyway, we’re moving it now.]
Container 3? I think that’s this one.
What do you mean, moving…
With those words, her body began to move.
No.
It wasn’t her body moving, but the ground beneath her feet.
The floor tilted, and she felt a strange decrease in the resistance of gravity. The feeling of her heart dropping.
Which meant—
[F*ck, we’re going up!]
It meant the entire container was being transported.
Lee Yuji reached out toward Kang Sibang in the tilting container.
To be precise, she handed the ledger to Kang Sibang and said:
“Eat this!”
At Lee Yuji’s words, Kang Sibang swallowed her hand and the ledger simultaneously.
A sharp sting shot up from her fingertips.
Neurotoxin.
Dammit.
I forgot touching him makes you pass out!
Realizing this, Lee Yuji acted the moment she knew she was about to faint.
‘Your body is my body, my body is my body!’
There was no other way.
And when she opened her eyes—
Lee Yuji was not in the container, but had become something outside the container.
Along with an experience of feeling inexplicably calm, she heard someone’s voice.
[The foolish humans are up to their strange antics again.]
And she answered those voices.
[Indeed.]
…?
‘Why does my voice sound so much like a sage?’
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