Chapter 174 – Trap (2)
Leaving the unpleasant memories behind, I moved to the meeting room where Choi Yeon-ju was waiting. While I was sleeping, a medical hunter came and examined my body and said that there was nothing wrong.
Senior Yu-jeong, is she really going to be okay? She asked me once more, and I reassured her with a nod of her head. At the same time, my eyes were looking for Ichi-ae and Seong Ha-yeon, who were invisible right now? Where are you two now? Seong Ha-yeon was especially worried because she was pregnant.
“The two of you are going first.”
It was only after senior Yoo-jeong said that that I finally stopped rolling my eyes. I turned my head around and saw nothing different. Because there was nothing coming in except for the structures destroyed by the S-class hunters’ fight and the horrific damage.
In front of the conference room door, hunters in jet-black suits were looking through the window with insect-bitten expressions, and beyond the window, I could see them carrying something wrapped in a large box.
When I opened the door to the meeting room, Choi Yeon-ju was waiting for me. She had a thick bandage on her forehead and a patch on her neck. She frowned intermittently as if her injury still hadn’t healed, but as soon as I came she got up and pretended to be fine.
“You are here. Jeong Su-hyun Hunter. And, Hunter Lee Jun-hyeok of the Black Dragon Room.”
“Yes. There are many examples.”
Hunter Lee Jun-hyuk bowed her head and greeted her, and Hunter Choi Yeon-ju also bowed her head accordingly. When Hunter Lee Jun-hyeok sat down, I followed him and found a seat. Seeing me walking around, Seong Ha-yeon and Ichi-ae were staring at me with their eyes wide open.
When I smiled, His Holiness Ha-yeon sent her eyes and smiled, and Ichie nodded her head and smiled broadly. Yeonjoo Choi said.
“I’m glad you’re okay. At least, we almost went ahead with the meeting without Hunter Jung Suhyeon. It’s quite important, so it’s annoying to explain it twice. So, while you are here, I hope you will listen carefully.”
When Choi Yeon-joo Hunter clapped her hands, the screen came down all the way behind her. Choi Yeon-joo grabbed her ballpoint pen from her pocket and pulled it out, creating a long pointer stick. Was that also made with ability? Due to the atmosphere of her meeting, she was unable to ask, but Choi Yeon-ju looked around at all of us and pointed at her ballpoint pen.
“This is just for sale. It’s shaped like a ballpoint pen, so when you stretch it out, it becomes a pointer.”
“Ah.”
It seemed I wasn’t the only one looking at it that way. A researcher sitting in the conference room with him laughed and laughed, and one hunter was twitching at the corner of his mouth. Choi Yeon-joo raised the corner of her mouth and tapped the researcher’s shoulder with her pointer stick, as if the relaxed atmosphere in the meeting room was not too bad.
When the researcher stood up, Yeonju Choi said.
“Announce the progress of your research.”
“Yes. Currently, all the data on the fragments of the Almighty have been handed over from Mr. Stephen Morel. So it is unfortunate that she passed away, but based on her data, the research can continue.”
The Frenchman’s name seemed to be Stéphane Morel. Hearing his name, I lowered my head for a moment. Choi Yeon-ju only raised her eyebrows, and did not mention his death any more.
“It’s a fortunate thing out of misfortune. How is the equipment?”
“Currently, all of the equipment stored on the second floor needs to be thoroughly inspected, and half of the equipment on the first floor has been destroyed due to vibration and shock. As a result of the temporary test, all the equipment in the 3rd floor lab was confirmed to be working fine.”
“It is a painful loss. However, it is fortunate that the most important equipment remains. Then, how are the equipment on the second floor doing?”
“I plan to send it to a gate-related equipment repair company to have it inspected, and it turned out that it would be cheaper to buy a new one than to repair the half-destroyed equipment on the first floor. The parts themselves are expensive because the equipment is a bit old.”
“Yes. Then, we will replace all equipment on the first floor.”
And Yeonju Choi looked at us. Lee Jun-hyeok, who had been suddenly called to such a mountain valley, still did not know why. Choi Yeon-ju said as she stroked her hair.
“Choi Soon-hong of the Black Dragon Ark has become very strong. I think I took some kind of medicine, but by any chance the Black Dragon Room handles such strengthening agents?”
“No. It doesn’t deal with that. It must have been brought in from that organization.”
Lee Jun-hyeok shook his head and said. The very fact that he suspected that he was involved with a criminal group made him feel bad. Choi Yeon-ju looked at Seong Ha-yeon and Kim Yu-jung, not paying attention to his uncomfortable feeling.
“The reason we gathered all of you in the Black Dragon Room, who have nothing to do with this situation, is to offer you cooperation. This is because we found out that if we use [Paradise] Hunters for this task, our guild’s loss will be too great, and that Black Dragon Ark Choi Sun-hong, who is the dark master of this work, will be emotionally agitated when he sees Black Dragon’s hunters.”
At those words, His Holiness Hayeon narrowed her eyes. Kim Yoo-jung nodded her head. Lee Joon-hyeok sighed deeply.
If you drop a drop of dark paint into clear water, the pigment permeates like a petal blooming. Choi Yeon-ju seemed to be waiting for the word she threw to have enough effect between us. Lee Jun-hyeok finally opened his mouth.
“So, what do you want from us?”
“Choi Soon-Hong will definitely come back here.”
We stopped moving at those words. Lee Jun-hyeok frowned and said.
“How sure are you? The French, who were already targets, were also killed, so why did our ark… Hmm. Are you coming back?”
“If the assassination of the Frenchman had been your primary objective, you would know that we had the material he had. If it is not that Choi Soon-Hong personally hates French people, someone who does not like the spread of his materials must have instigated Choi Soon-Hong and other terrorist groups for this request. Then he will surely come back to rid us of us. You are the insurance to prevent Choi Soon-hong from returning.”
“Are our guild members asking us to become shields?”
Choi Yeon-ju shook her head at Lee Jun-hyeok’s question. She winked at her researcher who was next to her and let her go. Choi Yeon-joo paused for a moment, then she started talking again as soon as the researcher walked out the door.
“I am not asking you to be a shield. We want to join forces together. I saw it for sure this time. Soonhong Choi. The criminal is bizarrely attached to his former guild, and when you say a word, he hesitates like an electric shock. What you do is to be by my side, support me, and at the same time make an emotional appeal to Soonhong Choi. You don’t have to catch it yourself. Because I will kill you.”
He made the word “Kill” Sound even more terrifying. Lee Junhyeok sighed once more. Why did things turn out this way? Seong Ha-yeon also distorted her face when she said that she would kill Choi Soon-hong, but she did not object to Choi Yeon-ju.
She had nothing to refute.
Murder is bad.
Summons should be encouraged.
That would not have been the intention.
No words could convince Choi Yeon-joo. Right now, there was no means to capture the Black Dragon Ark comparable to the S class, and Choi Soon-hong refused to surrender in front of us.
They even raided the research institute with the obvious intent to kill.
Senior Yoojeong opened her mouth.
“By the way, if they knew we were waiting here, wouldn’t they try to avoid more raids?”
“So, I’m going to camouflage it.”
Choi Yeon-joo nodded her head at Yoo-jung’s words and then clapped her hands again. The researcher who had just left brought a store hanger and a cabinet with wheels. A doctor’s gown, a researcher’s name tag, and a wig were hanging on the store hanger.
Choi Yeon-ju said to Lee Jun-hyeok.
“Hunter Lee Junhyuk. Didn’t you tell anyone when you came here?”
“Yes. Yes, but…”
Hunter Lee Jun-hyeok stuttered and blinked his eyes because he had not yet grasped the situation. Yeonju Choi said as she took out her doctoral gown from her hanger.
“As of today, all research equipment and researchers except for the most important facilities and equipment will be relocated. This transfer will be very secretive, and you just have to walk around the inside of the lab wearing this outfit, wig, and mask as if you were a researcher at the [Shard of the Almighty] Lab.”
Only then did Lee Junhyeok nod his head as if he understood.
Choi Sun-Hong knows Choi Yeon-Joo’s weakness, so she won’t try to come to a place where the Black Dragon Bang members are. Therefore, if the members of the Black Dragon Room were to stand by, Choi Soon-Hong would rather use a different method to terrorize, or change the target altogether and attack another place.
“From what I’ve heard, Choi Soon-hong seems to have strong hostility toward Jeong Su-hyeon here. If I and Jung Su-hyeon are all actively conducting research on fragments of the Almighty at this research facility, they will definitely come.”
I nodded my head at Yeonju Choi’s words. Seong Ha-yeon asked. Her face was full of uneasiness.
“Don’t you call other hunters?”
In response to her question, Choi Yeon-ju said:
“Yes. If you call other hunters, the resident cost is too high. You don’t know when it will come, and the fewer people know, the better. Choi Soon-hong, whom I met at that time, was at a level that I could defeat, so with the support of the Black Dragons, I could win enough.”
Lee Joon-hyuk twitched his lips as he looked through the wig and clothes. He frowned, took a deep breath, and picked up his robe.
“Yes. All right. I’ll tell you that I’m going on vacation for now, and I’ll stay here for the time being.”
When Lee Jun-hyeok agreed, everyone nodded.
Thus, the covert operation to catch Choi Sun-hong began.
