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Most of the people yelling numbers were dressed in fancy clothes.
In front of them stood naked, shackled men and women, most in their teens or early twenties.
Woo-Moon frowned.
“...It’s a slave market,” Si-Hyeon said from behind.
She glared at Go Mu-Dong with a chilly gaze.
“While having slaves isn’t illegal, isn’t it against the law to have this sort of slave market? Moreover, to have a market hidden away in such a secretive place it almost seems like it’s been set up to avoid the attention of officials. And here I thought that slave trading was still legal. But then…why would a legal market look like this? Wait a minute, could this market be one of those markets, the ones that only appear in rumors… where you sell kidnapped slaves?”
When he heard these words, Woo-Moon’s expression grew even worse.
“Hey, you. Is that true?”
Realizing he could no longer get away, Go Mu-Dong clung to Woo-Moon’s leg.
“P-please just overlook it this one time. I-I’ll give you all the money I have. No, I’ll just give you everything that I have! How does that sound?”
He knew that the way things were progressing, he would either die by Woo-Moon’s hand here or be taken to the government office and beheaded. Go Mu-Dong couldn’t accept either result. Of course, he knew that even if he were to survive by bribing Woo-Moon right now, he would have to flee anyway. Hye-Ryeong would never forgive him for letting a business she had invested...
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