"Everyone, behave yourself! Come here and kneel down." Jack, as usual, lifted the hem of his suit, revealing the pistol at his waist.
Although unsure of the foreigner's identity, the Koreans, accustomed to white-faced soldiers rampaging freely on their home soil, dared not question him.
The dozen or so minions who had just been single-handedly beaten down by Lin Zheling now knelt obediently behind their leader, the man in the red leather jacket.
As for the latter, now intimidated by Ma Xidao's muscular build, he honestly confessed the situation.
"Those were two guys with northern accents. They seemed desperate for money, so they offered only a third of the usual price—like nothing at all. So we helped them get a few samples. It
was really just a few samples. I swear, please let us go. I was planning to just sell these and then go back to the countryside."
The man in the red leather jacket looked pitiful, his face tinged with cautious flattery as he spoke.
"Do you think this is some supermarket sale? And they even have samples?" Jiang Zhentai put his doubts aside for the moment and gave the boy a stern kick.
The Japanese cop had a good impression of Jack. In the previous drug-related case, this FBI agent had not only saved him but also helped protect his family.
Lin Zheling took advantage of this opportunity to wander around the two container buildings. When he emerged, he had a black travel bag in his hands.
"Is this the little sample you were talking about?" He tossed the bag in front of the boy in the red leather jacket, and the zipper revealed bundles of yellow bills, all in 50,000 Korean won.
"Ah," Jiang Zhentai exclaimed in mock surprise. "At least 100 million, right? That way you won't have to worry about retirement anymore. It's enough to stay in prison until you get Alzheimer's."
"Brother! Brother!" The boy in the red leather jacket threw himself flat on his face, hugging his thighs, his mouth drooling with excitement.
"What good would it do to arrest a small-time scoundrel like me? I can atone for my sins. Let me go, seriously, just this once, just this once."
"How do you atone for your sins?" Jiang Zhentai asked with a smile.
"Those guys will deliver a batch of goods at noon and collect the money along the way. I can help you catch them." The boy in the red leather jacket, with his bruised face and ingratiating expression, was indescribably funny.
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"People from the north can now come to the south to enforce the law. Are the north and south finally going to be unified? This is really cause for celebration."
The four of them hid in the container house. Jack glanced at the sullen Lin Zheling and teased Jiang Zhentai with a sly smile.
"I thought you couldn't understand or speak Korean. You're truly a sinister American villain," Lin Zheling, whose face had been sullen since they met Jack, couldn't help but speak.
"Hey, hey, what are you talking about, Zheling." Jiang Zhentai quickly nudged the guy with his elbow and stepped forward to smooth things over, "Jack is as brave as your FBI, and he even saved my life."
Lin Zheling seemed to respect Jiang Zhentai more, turned his head and said nothing more, which made Jack curious about the relationship between the two.
Jiang Zhentai's sister-in-law, Park Min-young, a beautiful girl who looks just like Lim Yoona, mentioned before that Jiang Zhentai had worked with Lin Zheling.
In the middle, their family was implicated and kidnapped, but she couldn't explain the specific process. In short, the result was not too good, and Jiang Zhentai was transferred from the Guangsou Team and sent to the Internet Investigation Team to sit on the bench.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel curious, "After the last case of the Ichitsu Team was over, didn't Officer Jiang transfer back to the Guangsou Team?"
Hearing this unrelated topic, Jiang Zhentai's face suddenly wrinkled into a bitter melon. "Ashiba, forget it! The bastards above said I acted without reporting it to the police and only gave me a 200,000 won bonus, barely enough to buy two watermelons."
200,000 won is almost $150 USD. Are watermelons in South Korea really that outrageous? Jack opened his mouth but said nothing, wisely avoiding the topic of prices.
It was not yet ten o'clock in the morning, and the small-time drug dealers remained on the rooftop, pretending nothing had happened, waiting for the delivery man to fall into their trap.
Since they had nothing else to do, they both tentatively chatted about their respective purposes.
Jack had nothing to hide, but once they met, it was clear that Lin Zheling's purpose for the trip was no longer concealed.
"Wow, you two were there at that incident in New York a few months ago!" Jiang Zhentai had clearly read the relevant international news, his eyes almost popping out in surprise.
"I heard there were fierce gunfights and explosions. It's a very dangerous incident!"
Only then did he realize what was happening and slapped Lin Zheling on the shoulder. "You kid, you said you were here for the inter-Korean talks in a week, and you wanted to catch a North Korean drug dealer while you were there. Could that be that terrorist?"
Without waiting for a response, his face darkened. "It's over. I kept your coming from your sister-in-law, but now we're screwed. If she finds out we're dealing with even more dangerous terrorists this time, we won't even be able to get home."
"Brother, I didn't expect to be your partner again this time." Lin Zheling felt a little aggrieved.
Perhaps because he had long been accustomed to lying flat on his back, the worry on Jiang Zhentai's face disappeared in an instant. "Forget it, forget it. It's really not your fault."
He looked at Lin Zheling with an odd expression, then at Jack, and suddenly chuckled. He pulled Ma Xidao, who was watching the show, and said, "By the way, do you remember my sister-in-law?"
"Minrong? What's wrong with her?" Ma Xidao looked puzzled.
Jiang Zhentai's expression was hard to describe. "She thought Lin Zheling came for her, and she said a lot of nonsense like 'Forgetting me is harder than death' and 'As expected, Zheling said that we would meet again'."
"Huh? I remember he said 'See you after reunification.'" Lin Zheling didn't expect him to suddenly change the subject to this, and felt quite embarrassed.
Jiang Zhentai nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, the moment she heard the news that Lin Zheling was coming, the girl was already in a mess. Fortunately, Jack also came. Otherwise, why don't you just take her back to the United States this time."
"Huh?" This time it was Jack who was confused, "What does this have to do with me?"
"Oh, you don't know." Jiang Zhentai sighed deeply, "Didn't you pretend to be a couple together? Since then, she has mentioned you as many times as Lin Zheling."
He slept for 9 hours, and although he got up twice in the middle, he could barely be considered to have had a full sleep.
(End of this chapter)