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The van carrying the workers stopped just before going on the road, and Taehyung rolled out to the side through the gap. He quickly hid in the grass and waited for the car to leave. And he got up when he was completely alone.

After wiping off the grass and twigs from his clothes, he looked back. Jungkook's house was so far away that he couldn't even see it anymore. He covered his face with the hat and mask he had in his pocket after turning his shoulders to loosen his body. As he walked away from the main road, he noticed a taxi he had hired in front of the convenience store.

He got in the back seat and the taxi driver turned around.

"Are you the one who called?"

"Yes. Please go here."

The driver drove the car after confirming the address. After about an hour, the car arrived at a car centre in a rural village in Gyeonggi-do. Taehyung walked to the car centre after paying the driver. An employee who was conversing with a customer abruptly blocked Taehyung from approaching. The man probably thought Taehyung with his entire face covered appeared suspicious.

"What did you come here for?"

"I came to see the boss. If you say Han sent me, he will know."

The employee told him to wait a moment and then went inside. Soon after, a big man appeared from within. The man was dressed in a brightly coloured short-sleeved shirt, and his physique was so big that the shirt was about to burst. A man who immediately recognized Taehyung approached him and hugged him tightly.

"It's been so long. Right?"

Taehyung tapped his arm, which wrapped around his neck. He was struggling to breathe. The boss let him go and motioned for the employee next to him to leave as well. When it was just the two of them left, Taehyung took off his hat and mask. Wang Lun was Wang Han's cousin, and now owns a car centre but used to be a smuggler. Taehyung last saw him when he was 18, and it was a 7-year reunion.

"How have you been?"

"I'm always the same. You haven't changed at all. You haven't changed a bit. But what's the matter? There's still a long way to go before the appointment."

"I'm here to get it in advance. No, I have to say that I am only borrowing today."

Wang Lun's face grew slightly serious.

"What's wrong?"

"It's not that. There's something else I have to deal with."

Wang Lun simply nodded. He knew taehyung wouldn't tell him even if he asked further. He led Taehyung to the office's back door. It was a warehouse where tools and other items were stored. When the boxes stacked to a person's height were removed, an iron gate appeared.

He opened a lock the size of his fist and went inside. There was also all kinds of junk. Wang Lun bowed and picked up the yellow rug on the floor. Instead of a cement floor, there was a wooden lid under the rug.