Chapter 5 · free to read
Baek Group logs every entry to the fortieth floor against a badge and a name. The entry at 08:40 that morning is logged against a director who died in 2019.
The withdrawal of charges was filed at 18:02 under the signature of Baek Group's founder, and it is entirely valid. Ha Geum-ju's death certificate is dated the fourth of March, 1986.
The call that reached that rooftop lasted forty seconds and appears on no bill in this country. The helicopter on the far pad had been fuelled and filed for the flight ninety minutes before the call was made.
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