within half an hour, the duo arrived at the station. parking his car along the sidewalk, jungkook released his seatbelt swiftly and stepped out from his car. gesturing for the boy to follow up behind him, he jogged up the steps to the entrance of the station.
then, carefully placing his thumb on the biometrics, jungkook allowed the system to confirm his identity before the sensor finally sounded and the door became was released. a cool gust of air blew into jungkook's face as soon as he pushed open the door but what surprised him was that, there was no one else left at the station.
darkness filled the room and subconsciously, a premonitory chill traced its icy way down jungkook's backbone. for a second, he only stood on the steps outside, under the dark sky, in the midst of a gray silence, until the young boy beat him to it by entering the station first.
"woah! so this is where you work at?", the boy announced, amazed at the space around him and yet, still standing at one corner, jungkook had his arms folded across his chest.
weird, jinyoung couldn't possibly have knocked off this early..., jungkook thought to himself.
as he roamed about the station, there was no flicker of light within and the other office doors were shut closed, which was rather unusual as jungkook clearly recalled his chief officer trying to contact him and to get him back to the station about an hour ago. it was the first time jungkook became so clueless about everything but sinking into his armchair, he didn't give up still. picking up the phone from the counter, he then decided to make a quick dial to jinyoung's phone.
sorry, the number you have dialed is currently not available. please try again later.
jungkook frowned at the system's reply. pissed, this was the word to describe how he was feeling now for his colleagues have called him back for no reason. closing his eyes, jungkook sighed hard and he was suffering from a major headache over everything until just then, a voice startled him.
"officer jeon,"
jungkook almost forgot about the boy's presence. waving his hands at him, he was wanting to shoo the boy away, but what the boy said next alarmed him.
"a computer screen showed up when i accidentally tripped over the wire and knocked onto the table just now", the boy was pointing towards jinyoung's desk as he narrated his story to jungkook,
"but look what came up on the screen,"
as the boy said, he was already dragging jungkook along with him to the desk.
"here, ppalli,"
lee dahae
jungkook flinched at the sight right away. he was surprised at how conveniently his neighbor's details were being searched up on jinyoung's desktop, but immediately letting his hand take over the mouse, he clicked into her particulars, scanned through them and tried his best to register whatever possible details he may have of her.
"lee dahae. 22. a freelance writer", jungkook muttered under his breath as he scrolled further down.
"oh look! there's a record of the t-money card registered under her name! should we check it too?", the young boy from behind suddenly blurted out in excitement as he popped out in between jungkook's arms. having said that, he then eyed jungkook dubiously before the older one eventually heed his advice to click into the record, fast.
during which, only the clicking sounds of the keyboard and mouse filled the station but that didn't bother the two one bit. totally absorbed in gathering clues to the mysterious disappearance of lee dahae, the two worked hand in hand in scanning through the documents together until the both of them soon let out a yelp after coming across the same line.
"myeongdong station!", they widened their eyes and chorused together.
getting himself a swivel chair from around the corner, jungkook then sat down instantly and studied the details with more attention.
"it seems like someone is using her card or possibly, dahae-ssi may be just around the corner", said jungkook with his eyes tapped onto the screen.
"the last tapped out time from myeongdong subway station shows 9:15pm and right now", the boy carried on and took a glance at his watch,
"it's 9:16pm", he shot his head up.
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jungkook returned his gaze and shifting over to his table to get a usb cable, he wasted no time in plugging the device into the hard drive.
"what's this for?", the boy peeked over and asked curiously.
"i'm synchronizing every detail of dahae-ssi into my phone right now", jungkook explained and with a determined look, he got up from the chair and proceeded to the printer to retrieve some documents which he had sent for printing.
"no matter what, we gotta track them down,"
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