Chapter 1316. Working Together (1)
“Assembly Master. Once you reach the location, our people will try to contact you.”
Kang Jin-Ho stared weirdly at Yi Jong-Wuk. Not because he was dissatisfied by something the NIS agent had said, of course.
First of all... Even he could tell Yi Jong-Wuk’s face had become a lot more gaunt than before.
Just how much did he go through to reach this pitiful state?
Each department in NIS should be tasked with handling different matters, but their main task should still be the same: waging war against their allocated budget.
Outsiders might view budgets of such departments as inflated and unnecessary, but in reality, every penny they received was a precious resource they desperately needed. And that was precisely why every department had to shout at the top of their lungs and clamor like lunatics to get the best deal when the time to allocate the budget came around every year.
That was the situation, yet Yi Jong-Wuk had to ask for extra funds from the accountants. Things he heard from them must’ve been rather harrowing.
Actually, no. Judging from his expression, it seemed calling them harrowing was greatly underplaying the severity of his experience. Yi Jong-Wuk must’ve gone through the proverbial hell just to get here!
But that makes sense, no?
Imagine a hypothetical scenario of Kang Jin-Ho being Yi Jong-Wuk’s superior officer. Even he would’ve had a hard time understanding the necessity of this expense. After all, those in the know already knew to some degree that Kang Jin-Ho was one of the wealthiest people in the country. Not to forget, NIS was a spy agency. Its agents should already have finished analyzing Kang Jin-Ho’s assets by now.
So, it was easy enough to imagine what must’ve happened when Yi Jong-Wuk requested the accountants to pay for the travel expenses of someone that wealthy!
“I’ve... already delivered the travel funds to Chief Lee. There should be no problems in that regard, sir,” said Yi Jong-Wuk.