Chapter 226 – Strike Back (4)
People stood firm on the peaceful road. They turned their heads to look back at the vehicle that had just passed me. The black vehicle had already become a dot and was passing their line of sight. In the place where the vehicle passed, there were smashed street vendors and cars that collapsed due to sudden braking and twisting of the body.
Like a knight of the Apocalypse who is now driving disaster, Park Seong-jin was rushing and causing accidents wherever he went. His face was stained bright red, and his car was on the verge of becoming scrap metal. A haze was rising from the bonnet.
“Hurry! Sooner!”
I had a hunch that someone was following me. As if whipping his horse, Park Seong-jin was running out of control on the road, blaring his klaxon.
“That, what are you going to do to the National Assembly?”
“Oh fuck! Why are you going to the National Assembly!”
[Diamond Club] And [Paradise] Immediately sent requests for cooperation to other guilds. Most of the guilds that received the official notice expected Park Seong-jin to run toward the National Assembly, and some went to the front of the National Assembly building and waited. And some go to Parliament
One of the hunter team, who was following Park Seong-jin’s trail from behind, asked a question while he was busy.
“Hey, is that bastard going to the National Assembly?”
“Then what are you going to do there?”
“Not the National Assembly, but there is another landmark in the roundabout in front of it. I made it in advance as an example of a work that was won in the past and [Renaissance Seoul].”
Hunters were silent. It was a compelling story. The struggling Hunter shouted.
“Hey! Fuck! Turn the car yes! Tell them to go to the lottery instead of the National Assembly!”
*****
Park Seong-jin gritted his teeth. It was because the hunters and police officers who were clearly targeting him were blocking the bridge across the bridge. One of the hunters, who was looking at his legs with his eyes wide open as if he was going to catch him, found Park Seong-jin’s tattered black car and pointed his finger at him and shouted.
“Excuse me! Excuse me!”
Hunters were either running or rushing at terrifying speeds crossing the body. Park Seong-jin quickly reversed the car, stepped on the accelerator with all his might, and jumped toward the riverside.
“Kyaaaaah!”
“Whoa!”
I heard the screams of the riverside people. The man, who had been lying down for a while, was crushed by Park Seong-jin’s wheel and died without even screaming. The hunters who had jumped about half a foot jumped down and chased Park Seong-jin. Energy bullets flew over Park Seong-jin’s head, and he jumped out of the car and into the river.
“This bastard! Do you jump into the water cheekily?”
One of the Hunters shouted and shuddered. His whole body was covered with scales, and webbed feet sprouted from his arms and legs. At the same time, another hunter started pouring out the iron needles he made with his ability into the water. Another hunter landed on a boat going to and from the Han River, and pulled out a rope to catch it the moment it came out.
“Stop shooting! I’m in!”
The hunter who turned into a fishman shouted at his fellow hunters and went into the water. Park Seong-jin, who was struggling and swimming, saw the hunter running towards him like a blockbuster, raised the corners of his mouth and stretched out his hand. The fish hunter looked at it with a puzzled look, then saw sparks flashing in his hand.
“Yeah uh uh uh uh!”
All around Park Seong-jin, fish came to mind. The fish hunter was also electrocuted and floated on top of the water with bubbles biting. Park Seong-jin started to swim to the other side of her, holding on to her fish hunter by the collar.
The hunter who was shooting the iron stake couldn’t bear to shoot it because she was afraid that her fellow hunter would get hit, and the other hunter, whose ability itself is a weight + hardening ability, left holding the rope.
When Park Seong-jin got out of the water, the people across from her who had seen the disaster quietly backtracked. The fish-man Hunter was still unable to come to his senses and just groaned. Park Seong-jin fidgeted with the needle stuck in her back like a hedgehog, and she clenched her teeth.
Rotten water and foreign matter seeped into the wound, causing a salty pain.
“Turn it off!”
When she gave strength to her whole body and let out a spirit, the needles came out easily. The needles that had fallen to the floor seemed to have been stuck in at least a word before coming out. I saw the hunters running over the bridge again. They were afraid that Park Seong-jin would use her ability again, so they couldn’t go into the water.
“Stop!”
“Stand there!”
But on the other side of the bridge there were cops. They were running with guns and taser guns aimed at them, but the taser gun was just a funny toy to Park Seong-jin. He clambered up the riverside and out onto the road faster than the cops did. Cars that did not yet understand the situation were slowly moving and observing the surroundings.
Park Seong-jin ran as far as he could to the leading car and tore off the driver’s door.
“What, what?”
Park Seong-jin tore off the driver with the driver’s seat belt and threw him to the floor. The driver fell to the ground and rolled over, screaming. Seongjin Park ignored the driver and stepped on the accelerator. The vehicle, which waddled for a moment and wandered off center, shot forward with its headlights twinkling.
“Catch!”
****
The sound of cutting through the wind rang out with each swing of his fist. The old man overpowered the opponent from his size, but even his speed was a level that could not be ignored. If Lee Hyeon-woo is a little careless, his head will be smashed by the old man’s punches. Lee Hyun-woo narrowly avoided his punches, but his whole body was covered with countless scratches.
The slightest touch of his fist ripped off his skin, and the mere errant blow of wind pressure left him bruised. Lee Hyeon-woo, however, conserved his strength as much as possible and let go of his pretense.
“Why are you doing this to me, old man? Yes? The same S class shouldn’t be like this. Hunter Jang Ji-wan and Hunter Choi Yeon-joo are all dead, but if I die too, who will protect Seoul?”
The old man withdrew his fists and shouted as if he was taken aback by Lee Hyun-woo’s shameless answer.
“Are you really human? Uh? Do you put innocent hunters to death and say such a shameless thing?”
Hyunwoo Lee said.
“Are you shameless? I don’t know what the current situation has to do with me.”
“Even if you pretend to, everything points to you.”
The old man did not want to list the evidence to Lee Hyun-woo. Because he didn’t have to give him wasted time.
When Park Seong-jin received funding in the early days, there were traces of receiving money from Lee Hyun-woo. The circuit inside the gate made by Park Seong-jin matches the development data downloaded by Lee Hyun-woo. After finding out that Park Seong-jin was suspicious, she kept monitoring the two and confirmed that the two were talking to each other.
All the evidence that the [Diamond Club], [Paradise], And [Ground Zero] Members worked together to investigate pointed to Lee Hyeon-woo as the owner of Park Seong-jin and the head of the group.
It was half-assed evidence to stand in court, but it was enough to determine him as the culprit and cut his throat.
From the conviction in the old man’s eyes, Lee Hyeon-woo could tell that the link was completely exposed. He grinned and nodded at the old man.
“Caught…”
Bang!
The old man didn’t even give Lee Hyun-woo time to laugh. Lee Hyun-woo’s face was crushed like a baseball hit by a baseball bat for an instant, and then flew through the building’s outer wall like a bouncy ball. The old man chased after Hyeonu Lee to catch him before he flew away into the air. It was the moment I tried to catch his foot that had fallen out of the window.
“Oh.”
The old man realized that he was in the air trying to be himself, and Lee Hyeon-woo was rubbing his face inside the building.
Hyunwoo Lee’s ability is space distortion. It was the ability to manipulate space itself at will, provided it was within a certain range of his own surroundings. Hyeonu Lee was rubbing his nose with his palm outstretched.
The old man’s well-beaten nose was sunken down, and a broken tooth popped out every time he coughed. Of course, the injury was not a big problem for S-class hunters. Lee Hyun-woo got up from his seat sniffing his nose as it was difficult to breathe. The old man’s body was falling to the floor, but Lee Hyun-woo stepped back.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
A roar rang out.
There was a roar as the old man fell to the floor and stopped with his hands on the wall. Through the noise, Lee Hyun-woo heard the sound of an elevator coming up. He looked in the direction of the elevator, circled his wrist and flicked his wrist lightly.
The space in front of Lee Hyeonu’s eyes distorted for an instant, and an intangible energy shot forward and cut through the wall. The energy emitted by Lee Hyun-woo accurately cut the elevator line and stopped the elevator.
“Lee Hyun Woo!”
The old man jumped out the window again and swung his fist at Lee Hyun-woo. He was a man who knew how to use his fists like a mace or his club. He twisted his arm once, then swung his fist at an odd angle, aiming for Lee Hyun-woo’s chin. Lee Hyeon-woo tried to distort the space around him as if he were going to cut the old man whole, but
“Huh!”
As soon as the old man gave him strength, Lee Hyun-woo’s ability itself bounced off. The old man’s fist pierced Lee Hyeonu’s embarrassed face once again. Lee Hyeon-woo, who was beaten one more time, was pushed into the wall, and the old man shouted.
“You! How many Hunters so far! Do you know if I fought to block the gate! You know how many people have been sacrificed to keep the doors open!”
“While the members manipulated the Rookie of the Year, what… !”
Lee Hyun-woo laughed at the old man while clearing the pile of collapsed stones. The old man frowned at Lee Hyun-woo’s words, and once again punched him out to kill him. But what the old man hit was the window. The windows were shattered, adding twinkling stars to the sky.
Lee Hyun-woo rubbed his chin and once again distorted the space towards the old man who stood up and showed his back.
“This… !”
Empty!
The old man’s body was thrown out like a slingshot. Hyunwoo Lee stared at the landmark with a frown on his face.
If his identity was discovered, he had no choice but to change his strategy.
“Then you have to run away. Is there anything special?”
Because there is no meaning in a country where you can’t be a hero.
