Episode 41 [Hong Kong Night (1)]
Inside a dark room. An old, musty smell permeated the entire room.
Cigarette smoke wafted from the fan hanging on the wall, and
it was thick.
The faintly blinking light only illuminated the large table in the center of the room.
At the table, men covered in tattoos and scars were sitting around playing mahjong.
The man who was rolling the dice quickly piled up a mountain of defeat in front of him
.
“How many days is it today?”
The faces of those playing the cards were full of boredom.
“Well, is there anyone who counts them?”
“How long on earth are we going to have to keep surveillance here that doesn’t work?”
“That will be until I get a call to bring it to the mainland. Phew,” a
man with a tattoo on his arm grumbled, exhaling cigarette smoke.
“Tsk, it looks like they’ll move it soon.”
“It’s all because of that guy who appeared on the Internet. It seems like the whole atmosphere has become strange, including in the mainland…”
Everyone frowned as they remembered the strange being that appeared on the Internet.
“Well, since someone came from the mainland, something must be concluded.”
After the last word was finished, everyone fell silent. They only focused on mahjong. Only the smoke from their cigarettes filled the room.
It was the moment when the water was at its peak.
Phew! Sigh!
A small noise was heard outside the door.
It was like opening a can of Coke.
‘Silencer sound!’
There was no way everyone knew what that sound was. It was the same sound as their guns.
The mahjong cards rolling on the floor stopped. The man holding the mahjong tile picked up the pistol lying next to him.
Everyone else picked up their guns too.
It was a moment when we winked at each other and tried to press against the wall.
Quang!
The door exploded inward.
The men were startled and shot at the bursting door.
Phew! Sigh! Sigh!
However, the bullet fired into the hallway did not go any further than the door.
Kang! Kaang! Kang!
They were all bounced off by a shield with a symbol that appeared behind the door.
Phew!
The shield that blocked the bullet flew forward and cut off a man’s arm.
Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!
And the gunshots that followed blew holes in the legs of the remaining men.
Blood spurted out and the men screamed and rolled around on the floor.
-It seems different from when you dealt with soldiers not long ago. Unlike back then, you are treating me mercilessly.
“They’re soldiers. It’s because they’ll be in trouble if they kill or get hurt for no reason. The guys here are criminals who shot me. They’re clearly enemies, so it’s right to exclude them.”
-For that matter, it looks like he didn’t kill them.
Kyung-hoon raised his sunglasses again.
“First, we have to save the trapped person and listen to their story before making a decision.”
-It seems like there will be people who die from blood loss before that…
Kyung-hoon’s shoulder. He just shrugged it off.
He pulled out the shield stuck on the wall, separated it, and put it in his backpack. He took care of everything with a pistol in the hallway, but Kyung-hoon was not one to let the atmosphere get in the way of work. He collected the gun while avoiding people rolling around
. I put it in my backpack. Then, I held the pistol in both hands again.
“Did you find it?”
-There is no visible entrance on the wall or floor.
Kyung-hoon scratched his head with the hand holding the pistol.
This room was the last place I arrived at after getting through the crowd of people blocking my way.
It was difficult to determine the exact location by tracking the location of the telecommunication company.
“Should we interrogate them one by one? “I don’t know if there will be an interrogation in this situation.”
The men lying on the floor panting were already in a state of panic.
Kyung-hoon, who was wondering whether he should use a potion to treat the patient, felt a strange discomfort in his eyes.
The movement of cigarette smoke blowing in the fan was a little strange.
Kyung-hoon tilted his head and picked up the cigarette that had fallen on the floor.
He took a big drag on his cigarette and then exhaled it across the room.
Cigarette smoke spread throughout the room.
Kyung-hoon continued to check the movements of the smoke.
Some of the smoke flowed to the floor. And it seeped under the table in the center.
“no way?”
Kyung-hoon checked the table. Contrary to what it looked like, it was a heavy barrel table.
He pushed the table with force.
That’s right.
The table was pushed to one side, and a square gap and a handle were visible in the wooden floor underneath.
– I think I found it . .
Kyung-hoon pulled the handle, opened the secret door, and ducked backwards.
Phew. Pew.
Bullets came pouring out of the open door along with the sound of a small silenced gun.
Kyung-hoon also put his hand inside the secret door and fired roughly.
Pyu . !
Cursing was heard inside, and the gunshots stopped.
Kyunghoon jumped right into the passage.
Crash! Puuuk. Bang!
Immediately, the sounds of crashing and gunshots intersected with screams, and then it quickly became quiet.
Kyunghoon sighed when he saw the clothes with a hole in his chest . I rested.
Thanks to the bulletproof vest I was wearing, I barely felt any pain, but I had to throw away the high-quality clothes I had bought. Around
Kyunghoon, three men were rolling around on the floor again, and the long table that was meant to be a barricade was split in half and rolled on the floor. “ It
smells strange.”
Kyunghoon sniffed and frowned. An unpleasant scent was floating in the air.
He looked around. It was a pretty strange basement.
It seemed to have originally been a basement built for storage. But now it looked like a factory making medicine or something.
Liquids and powders in a basin. And beakers and test tubes. It was just like the unlicensed laboratory seen in the movies.
However, no one was seen working in the small factory.
Kyung-hoon looked inside and saw a locked door on one side.
It was an iron door that looked like a prison door with a casement window at eye level.
Kyung-hoon opened the window and looked inside.
Inside was a room with a bed, a table, and a sink.
And inside, on the bed, a woman was sitting and watching him.
She was a woman who gave me a strange feeling. The age was difficult to determine, and the atmosphere was very unique.
But Kyung-hoon didn’t really care about that atmosphere.
“Are you the one who sent the rescue call?”
Eve translated Kyung-hoon’s words, and the expressionless woman’s eyes sparkled.
“EV?”
A husky voice echoed throughout the room.
The person who posted the rescue message was correct.
-I don’t think it’s a trap. The car camera parked in front does not show any military or police officers.
At that moment, Eve told me about the surrounding situation.
Kyung-hoon pulled the iron door handle. It didn’t budge. As expected, it was not a door intended to trap ordinary people.
Sigh! Sigh!
He immediately shot the handle with a gun and broke the lock.
When Kyung-hoon opened the door, the woman sitting on the bed stood up.
Chrrrrrr.
As she stood up, the chains around her ankles made a harsh sound.
“Are you really here to save me?”
Kyung-hoon responded to the translation provided by Eve.
“I happened to be nearby and received an email from EV.”
I had never received an email or anything like that, but I had no intention of revealing that it was me, even wearing sunglasses.
“Ah… So you really came to help out of good faith?”
“of course.”
Although other personal reasons were also very important, it could not be said that he did not have good intentions. Gyeong-hoon answered her words with that in mind. He went out the door, took out a sword from his backpack without her knowing, and approached her. The sword that suddenly appeared was a bit harsh
. She looked surprised, but she stood there quietly.
Suddenly,
the sword cut the chain tied to her ankle.
Although the chain was very strong, there was no way it could withstand the sword loaded with mana.
She looked at the ankle with the chain loose. ，She moved her legs back and forth as if curious.
“It’s so easy to cut.”
She strode out of the room with a happy face.
The woman’s expression did not change even after seeing the men lying on the floor.
“What did you do here? ”
Kyung-hoon asked as he followed her out. I guessed the big floor, but I needed to confirm.
“Well, it’s obvious. I made drugs. It is a completely new drug that cannot be detected by sniffer dogs. “A drug with simple ingredients and powerful effects even in small doses.”
She raised her hand and pointed at herself.
“This is the drug I made.”
Kyung-hoon’s expression did not change despite her confession.
This was something I expected after seeing the appearance of the basement.
“After I became a mutant, I developed strange abilities. “I gained the power to create ecstatic feelings with ordinary drinks or medicinal herbs.”
The woman raised both her hands in front of her eyes.
“I never expected that tasting it with some people I knew from the bar I worked at would turn out like this.”
-This is absurd. They took a precious alchemist and barely managed to make drugs.
Eve showed emotion for the first time in a long time. Because it was that absurd.
But Kyung-hoon completely understood.
There was no way I could find any other use in an organization like this.
It was not possible to conduct research like the government or corporations, and anyone who could extract undetected drugs from ordinary ingredients could be considered a goose that laid golden eggs.
the woman asked, pointing to the fallen people.
“Are these people deliberately kept alive to be used for other purposes?”
Kyunghoon shrugged his shoulders.
“I didn’t know whether it was better to kill them or let them live, so I just left them there.”
At Gyeong-hoon’s words, she picked up the pistol that had fallen on the floor.
Sighed,
and put bullets into the heads of the fallen people.
Gyeong-hoon wiggled his eyebrows. Eve couldn’t even get a word out.
“It would be easier to deal with it if I killed her. There was less worry about getting caught, and it was easier for me to deal with the other person.”
No matter how I looked at him, he didn’t seem to be an ordinary bartender.
“The ingredients here are just ordinary alcohol and sugar, so you can just leave them as is.”
As she said, even if the police raided this place, it would be of no use.
“If you don’t know the reason, it’s a complete crime.
– Awakened One . The ability is difficult to understand with conventional science.
As she went out, she took care of all the fallen people with
her own hands. I don’t know if it was the anger that imprisoned her, the anger that made her make drugs, or just doing what she had to do, but she was absolutely ordinary. It was clear that it wasn’t a person.
“You didn’t ask for my
name?”
“Oh, that’s why you were on guard.”
Although he was wary of the atmosphere and indifferent killings, Kyung-hoon nodded.
“Today, someone from outside, or China, came. I thought they were coming to take me away, but they gave me a tablet and asked me what I could see.”
While showing the homepage to the man from the mainland, she secretly left a message on the bulletin board.
So only two short sentences were left, and the woman had little expectation that someone would come to her rescue.
When she finished speaking, the two people was leaving the front door of the apartment.
‘He’s a native…’
Kyung-hoon looked at the window on the second floor of the building next door. Although there was no evidence, Kyung-hoon could sense that the man who shot his arm was the same native. The apartment complex
was It was very quiet. All the windows were down, and there was no sound from the TV.
Kyung-hoon asked the woman as he walked between the apartments.
“Is there a place you can take shelter or a place you can turn to?”
The woman thought for a moment and sighed.
“It happened before, but I think it’s impossible now. Even if you kill everyone here, the organization will still remain. Rather, it will only cause harm to them.”
Hearing the woman’s words, Kyung-hoon secretly clenched his fists.
“Then, come with me first. Let’s find a place to escape together.”
The woman nodded at Kyung-hoon’s words.
As she left the complex, a car was parked on the side of the road.
It was a very sophisticated, new sedan.
Kyung-hoon opened the seat next to her and took her in.
“Please wait in the car first. I’ll come back after finishing my work.”
The woman looked surprised at Kyung-hoon’s words.
“You want me to stay here alone?”
“Oh, it’s not here, so don’t worry.”
The woman looked even more incomprehensible at Kyung-hoon’s words.
Kyung-hoon closed the car door and spoke to Eve.
“Let’s go, Eve.”
-Yes, I will tour the nearby area.
Vroom.
As soon as Eve finished speaking, the car started moving.
The woman’s pupils grew several times larger, but Kyung-hoon just waved his hand behind her.
Kyunghoon looked around the apartment.
“Are you tracking down the guy who shot my arm?”
– Tracking call location.
Kyung-hoon looked at the hole in his arm and smiled sharply.
