Chapter 227 – Strike Back (5)
Personnel waiting in front of the National Assembly building frowned upon receiving an urgent call. It was because the instructions to go to the Yeongdeungpo Rotary right away had fallen.
“Damn it, it was like this and that.”
“Isn’t this an emergency? Emergency situation. Just in case. Some wait here and only three go.”
The hunters gathered in front of the National Assembly were hunters who came with the cooperation of other guilds. Following the instructions of the Diamond Club, they started to move some of them in the direction of the Yeongdeungpo rotary. While stepping on the car and running, I saw a car driving rough in front of my eyes. Hunter, who was smoking and driving, said with a frown on his face.
“What is that? Isn’t that Park Seongjin?”
“No, Park Seong-jin said he was driving a black car? That’s red Do you have the ability to change the color of a car?”
As soon as they finished talking, the phone rang. When they answered the phone, which rang fiercely as if to urge them on, a loud, deafening sound resounded in the car.
“Park Seongjin! Seongjin Park Red car! Getting away in a red car!”
I didn’t even have time to understand. Hunter, who was behind the wheel, stepped on the accelerator as soon as he heard the word ‘red car’ and started running. Even now, screams and ruptures mingled in the streets, making a mess.
*****
Citizens walking all the way between the commercial buildings parted like the Red Sea. People who could not avoid it and cheap street vendors selling jewelry were thrown out in all directions due to the impact of the collision with the car. Seongjin Park gritted his teeth and looked around. I had been on this road several times, but at times like this I was strangely confused.
With the complex overpass of Yeongdeungpo Rotary in between, I saw a towering landmark like a baobab tree on the plains. Park Seong-jin, who found the landmark while holding the steering wheel, smiled broadly and tried to turn his steering wheel.
Bang!
And his car was crumpled like a sheet of paper because he didn’t see a medium-sized car that had jumped out from the side. As if it had become a marble in a pinball game, the vehicle that hit the structure once again crashed into a pillar of the overpass, spewing black smoke and pouring oil.
“Turn it off… !”
As I forcibly opened the door, Park Seong-jin jumped out. He started walking toward the landmark, looking around him like a zombie, with blood on his head. Survivors of the catastrophe sat down at the site of the mayhem, crying or staring blankly into space.
If you swipe your card at the door behind the landmark that looks like it was made for power maintenance, an underpass under the landmark opens. Park Seong-jin opened the door and jumped down as hard as he could to the floor of the underpass, as he usually does to terrorist groups.
A low darkness greeted Seongjin Park. He belatedly heard the voices of the hunters shouting his name, but that didn’t matter anymore.
Because he saw a button that glowed blue in front of his eyes. A button that emits light in all directions like a mirror ball. The fruit of all the evil that Park Seong-jin had planned to make Lee Hyun-woo into a hero was contained in one blue button.
Park Seong-jin shed tears. It was because everything he had accomplished so far would come to an end at this moment. Hyunwoo Lee will definitely become a hero. He will become a hero who deceived all of Korea, and he will soar. He who saved himself could definitely become that kind of existence.
Park Seong-jin smiled and pressed the button.
*****
Lee Hyun-woo, who succeeded in throwing the old man to the floor, grabbed his window frame while fixing his twisted nose. He heard Hunters coming up the stairs, so he had to jump right out the window. Crooked windows and broken glass gleamed in the light.
Lee Hyun-woo once again captured the city scenery that can be seen from his building.
“Fuck, I thought it would work out.”
I once saw a show like that on TV. If you tell a drunken person to walk on a straight path, they won’t go in a straight line, but will circle in a circle and bounce in the wrong direction, and they think that the drunkard himself is going straight. From a certain moment, Lee Hyeon-woo thought that he might have been drunk with confidence.
He was drunk and with a twisted view, he was running, he said he was running straight, he was going down and he was thinking there was nothing wrong.
“I guess I’m crazy too.”
But now that I’m here, that doesn’t mean anything. Hyeonu Lee laughed and jumped off the building. From the tallest building in Seoul, Lee Hyun-woo descended directly to the underground parking lot. He reached at once, using his abilities to jump over the skylights and the asphalt ground that blocked the way.
The car that touched Lee Hyun-woo’s feet collapsed with a crackling sound. In order to endure the shock of falling from a high floor, Lee Hyeon-woo had to grit his teeth. As the car body sank, the emergency bell rang loudly, and the guard who had been dozing off in front of the parking lot got up in a hurry and came out.
“Oh my! Oh, what’s going on with this! Aren’t you Hyunwoo Lee? This is the car of the CEO of Ohsung Electronics, what did you do? This…”
When Lee Hyun-woo lightly twisted his wrist, the whole body of the guard who had been picking loudly twisted with a grotesque sound. As if being swept away by a whirlpool, the whole body spun and clumped together before falling to the floor as a small ball. Blood gushed out on the parking lot floor with a muddy sound.
Hyunwoo Lee kicked his meat off and entered the location of the airport into his self-driving system. And he looked for foreign planes departing the fastest and furthest from the airport.
“Ah, sir… Where are you going?”
First of all, I had to leave this country as soon as possible. It was difficult for even an S-class hunter to get over it safely if he had committed a crime like this. I had to flee to a country that was as far from Korea as possible and didn’t have many S-class hunters. Going to Japan or China was dangerous. It was because there were quite a few S-classes there, so there was no need to take risks and receive criminals.
There was a possibility that they would be captured and taken back to Korea.
“Tanzania, Bhutan, South Africa, Afghanistan…”
It was safe to go to the Third World, where S-class hunters were rare, because the hunter infrastructure was not developed. While he was lost in his thoughts, the car left the building and drove down the road. Lee Hyun-woo glanced out of his car window and continued looking for tickets.
While looking for a ticket, Lee Hyun-woo took a peek at the road conditions. Seeing a car crowding in front of him, he thought his car would soon stop too.
To get out of the driver’s seat at any time, Lee Hyun-woo leaned against the driver’s seat and fiddled with his cell phone. The name [Park Seong-jin] Appeared on the background of his cell phone along with a plane ticket. At the same time, Lee Hyun-woo could feel intense vibrations spreading from all sides of him with the subtle senses unique to S-class hunters.
“Hello?”
Lee Hyeon-woo answered Park Seong-jin’s phone call in the most calm tone.
“Gate… Opened…”
There was no power in Park Sung-jin’s voice. Lee Hyun-woo made a statement expressing concern for his health with an expressionless face.
“Your voice is not good. Are you seriously hurt?”
“It’s okay. Now… All that remains is to become a hero.”
Park Seong-jin’s sincere heart made Lee Hyeon-woo feel like he was about to burst into tears. So he yawned and looked at the city crookedly. The hunters in the room answered the phone and saw their embarrassed faces. There was nothing more to see in this country. It was because it was too unfair to go to prison for not being a hero.
“Yes. Thank you for your effort. Now I’ll take care of it.”
Lee Hyeon-woo reassured Park Seong-jin and then hung up on her. Park Seong-jin tried to say something more with a laughing voice, but Lee Hyeon-woo did not listen to the answer. He bent down and started looking for tickets again, fearing that the hunter with good eyes might see him.
“I want Greenland.”
Greenland was a direct route opened in response to the recent overseas travel boom. This place, where the population was small and the land was large, always needed hunters, was far from Korea, so it was a perfect place for Lee Hyun-woo to hide. He bought a ticket to Greenland and then tried to sing his hum.
The moment I applied force to his nose, his nose became hot and nosebleeds flowed out.
“Damn.”
The face that had been beaten by the old man was still not healed. He shook his head once and carefully opened his car door. Since it was a high-performance self-driving car, even if he wasn’t there, he would be able to drive it to some extent. Lee Hyeon-woo covered his face and started to run frantically through the blocked cars.
*****
“Quaaaaagh! Aaaaagh!”
Hyeonu Lee’s secretary, who was hiding in the corner of the room, was screaming while tied to a chair. The old man was tearing off the secretary’s eight flesh, making full use of his grip, which could tear out lumps of metal. Every time I applied strength, there was a sound of paper tearing and blood dripping.
Song Yeowul used her own powers at her old man’s side, summoning healing soap bubbles that healed her torn flesh. As the old man watched the weight grow back on his secretary’s arm, he urged in a grim tone.
“Tell me quickly where you have gone. Then it will save your life.”
“M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-O! Aaaaagh!”
The old man did not give the secretary time to show his spleen. The old man pulled the secretary’s ear hard this time and tore it off. He had no option of giving his allegiance to his secretary. Howl ugly, or be an ugly traitor. He could only choose one of the two. In front of his tear-and-snot-stained face, the old man put his ear to it and said:
“Can you speak without teeth? This time, I’ll pull out the molars one by one.”
“No, I will tell you! Please save me! I heard you say that the other day! If this job fails, I will run away to a foreign country! Boo, since you said that, you must be on your way to the airport!”
“To the airport?”
The old man opened his eyes wide in surprise as if it was really unexpected. The same was true of Song Yeo-ul Hunter. Since he exploded such a large-scale plan and disappeared, it was because he naturally thought that he had gone to contact a secret base or hidden colleagues somewhere.
It’s no wonder that things went wrong and he ran away right away.
The old man shook his head and said.
“This is crazy.”
