Chapter 111 – Escape (1)
The motel staff looked at me strangely as I came out of the motel alone, but there was no time to explain. After checking out and rushing to the parking lot, the driver was smoking a cigarette and fiddling with his cell phone. He looked at my reflection in the car window and extinguished his cigarette by squeezing it into the sole of his shoe.
“How many summons?”
“I have to go now. I think I can locate it.”
Since Kim Chun-bae could have Misaki run an errand again after being released from the summons, or send her on a dispatch somewhere, we had to move as quickly as possible. Hearing my urging, the driver grabbed the steering wheel with a dumbfounded face. He straightened his suit and opened the window to let out the smell of cigarettes.
“Where shall we go?”
[Go straight towards the bank sign in front of you]
The Almighty, who was detecting the traces of the summoned beast through my sight, said. And a warm wave emanated from the heart, and heat rose in both eyes. I reflexively closed and rubbed my eyes, then stared into space again. I could see the wavelength that the Almighty would see. As if waypoints were marked by silver light in the game, waves of blue light were floating in the air at regular intervals, guiding us along the way.
I continued to direct the driver by following the blue light.
“Turn right here, yes. Please go straight like this.”
“Cross the bridge and keep going. Please go down the alley there. Yes.”
After moving several times like that, we were able to arrive at a neighborhood with old shopping malls on the outskirts. It was a neighborhood with no traces of business left except for a convenience store with a brightly lit sign in front of the road. The buildings climbing the mountain were on the verge of collapsing, having been hit head-on by the winds of the years, and the signboards were white and almost nothing was clean.
Dilapidated restaurants and dilapidated houses. In the meantime, the blue waypoint was shining brightly, pointing to a house. I took a picture of the house, figured out the current location on my cell phone, and sent it as a message. I couldn’t rush in right now. Because I didn’t know how many people were in there.
“Are you sure?”
[That location is certain. I am not wrong Because it is a great omnipotent.]
It was a tone that somehow imagined the omnipotent me shrugging his shoulders and raising his nose. I nodded and told the driver.
“You worked hard today. I think I should just go back now.”
“Ah yes. Then I will go to the Black Dragon Room.”
******
The next morning. We were all gathered near Kim Chunbae’s hideout. The arrest operation itself is carried out by the police, but it was to prepare for an emergency. The police speculated that Kim Chun-bae was hiding alone when he saw that he did not seek other collaborators and spyed on his own abilities.
However, Kim Chun-bae was a dangerous person with a previous conviction for summoning and rushing the A-class monster Chariot in the last Gapyeong terror incident. It is not known how he used such ghastly techniques, but there was no guarantee that he would not do something similar this time.
Because of that, Jang Ji-wan, an S-class hunter from the Diamond Club, and other guild members were also waiting at a convenience store a little far from the cafe where we were now. When the police rushed in, if an abnormal energy reaction came out, the members of the Diamond Club, including Jang Ji-wan, would first subdue it, and secondly, we planned to deal with the aftermath or damage spreading around.
Hunter Lee Jun-hyeok was rolling his legs with a cigarette in his mouth. Seong Ha-yeon Hunter was also observing the police while chewing on a live cigarette. In the cafe where we were, we could vividly observe the police in action.
The police disguised themselves as locals and carefully opened the door to the mansion.
*****
“Who are you?”
Kim Chun-bae suddenly felt the door on the upper floor open. His lair was in the basement, so he could vividly hear the thumping sound of hurried walking above his head. Kim Chun-bae struggled to move his body to the side, paying attention to the voice coming from the ceiling.
“Isn’t this here?”
“Can’t you see?”
“No. No. I also confirmed that the summons went out this morning. You are right here.”
Kim Chun-bae was terrified by the voice. It was because, at some point, the hunters came over his head. But that didn’t mean he was hiding here without a countermeasure. Even if the sky collapsed, there was a hole through which to rise, and there was always a way to escape even in an extreme situation. Kim Chun-bae took out a piece of equipment that had been tucked away in the corner of the warehouse.
******
“By the way, what would you do if Kim Chun-bae was caught too early?”
Due to secretly moving supplies, there was still a large amount of equipment left in the hideout. Choi Sun-hong of the Black Dragon Ark sat down on the junk and asked the organizers such a question. There was no sympathy for Kim Chun-bae left in Choi Soon-hong’s voice. Like many of the gang members here, I sympathized with Kim Chun-bae at one time, but after seeing an article about him pushing Kim Joo-seong’s grandmother to death, even that feeling had disappeared.
The organizer laughed and said.
“It’s not that easy to catch. Do you remember the last time I summoned Chariot?”
Choi Soon-Hong hardened his face at those words. The memory of that time was painful for him. As he recalled his memory of the media who mocked him and tried to put the blame on him, a black aura was gushing out of his body. The organization member quietly dodged to his side and said.
“At that time, even though there were S-class and A-class, Chunbae succeeded in running away. What would you have done?”
“How did you do?”
“This is it.”
Saying so, the gang member pulled out a large iron ball from his pocket. The blue core was shining brightly in the center, and it was a device that moved jaggedly every time a member of the organization waved it with their hand, like a puzzle that had not been properly matched.
Choi Soon-Hong looked at the device and asked, frowning.
“What is this?”
“Forced escape device. Recently, it is one of the works being researched by the National Research Institute, and the original purpose is an escape device made to immediately escape from the gate when a high-level monster suddenly pops out of the gate. By the way, this is not because there is a structural defect and runs out of the set gate. It warps to a random location about 400M away. So only samples were made and not sold, but we also got a few.”
“You mean Kim Chun-bae ran away with that?”
“Yes. Like last time, and this time, I brought a few, so I’m going to use them well.”
Choi Soon-Hong frowned. It was because he seemed flawed, even thinking about cancer. For example, what if Chunbae Kim used it and it warped to concrete or the middle of a wall? He wrote it on an overpass, but what if it warped into thin air?
“Isn’t it a big deal if you warp wrong?”
“It’s not a big deal. If you warp incorrectly, it just blends into the concrete and dies horribly.”
Choi Soon-Hong frowned. Organizer said.
“Either way is good for us. Whether Kim Chun-bae dies by getting stuck in the ground or a wall, or whether he succeeds in escaping safely and takes time. Because Kim Chun-bae himself is well aware of the dangers of tools. He’ll know how to use it. You are the one who left the organization. You are responsible for it.”
Choi Soon-Hong looked at the ceiling with disapproving eyes. Meanwhile, the gang members were quietly leaving with their luggage on the truck.
*******
Thud!
Suddenly, a vibration resonated in the mansion. The shock was so great that the building was weakly shaken, so the police looked around again in a state of tension.
“Here, are there stairs in the basement here?”
One of the D-class Hunter cops turned into a corner and found a staircase in the basement. He immediately picked up his radio to announce the presence of the cellar, and received support from the police besieging the perimeter of the fence.
I dragged the freshly lit cigarette on the floor and carefully descended the stairs. In his hand was a shield to protect against awakened criminals, and on his head was a bulletproof helmet.
Now that he was a member of a criminal organization, it was possible that he had a gun or powerful firearms. They muffled their footsteps and carefully held the door of the stairway. The D-Class Hunter Police breathed out.
It was because they were now facing an unprecedented heinous criminal.
“Inrush!”
Shouting loudly, Hunter spewed his awakening ability in all directions. Sparks rose from the tips of his fingers and ran through the room like a net. The powerful high-voltage current that stuns people in one blow paralyzed the spiders and rats hiding in the room and threw them to the floor.
Along with the smell of burning hair, acrid smoke billowed out from all sides. Police realized that no one was in the room. In the corner of the room, there was only a trace of a circular dig, as if a bomb had exploded.
*******
Withered lilies filled the side of the portrait. Kim Joo-seong, who was sitting in a wheelchair, kept looking at his phone. The Diamond Club no longer supported Kim Joo-seong, who had neither honor nor skill. All he had left was this house and the cooled honor that he had once been famous for.
Now all he had left was his vengeance. Chunbae Kim. According to the story told by the police, Kim Chun-bae was located today and he was to be captured.
Kim Joo-sung prayed that Kim Chun-bae would not be captured.
So, he prayed for death at his own hands.
