Episode 212 [Foreshadowing (1)]
“Welcome.”
The chairman bowed his head respectfully towards the soldiers who had dismounted.
Although he was standing with his free arm on a cane, he had no hesitation in lowering his head.
However, the American soldiers who got off the helicopter ignored the greetings.
Everyone just passed by him.
Only one officer stopped in front of him.
“Have you made all the necessary preparations?”
The chairman straightened up again. The man standing next to the chairman handed over the document he was holding.
“This is information sent by colleagues and collaborators infiltrated in Korea. “It is said that the pharmaceutical company you mentioned was sold to an investment company a few years ago and underwent repairs and remodeling.”
The officer listened to the man and looked through the documents.
“It is said that the pharmaceutical company was not operational again and very few people were coming in or out. However, with a large amount of CCTV installed and security guards walking around, it seems that people around are wondering about it.”
The officer nodded.
Attached to the document were several photos taken of the building from afar.
The building in the photo looked empty, but there were plenty of military CCTV installed around the building.
The officer closed the papers.
“Where are you staying for lodging?”
“We set it up in the building over there.”
It was a temporary building erected on one side of an empty lot.
At the man’s words, the officer took his men and headed toward the building.
The chairman looked at the American soldiers entering the building.
The secretary next to me opened her mouth.
“Can they succeed?”
The chairman answered with an expressionless face.
“There were quite a few awakened people, right?”
“yes. Many of them appeared to be awakened.”
“America has changed a lot too.”
He also did not expect that the United States, which called for freedom, would forcibly conscript awakened people.
But it was a good story for him.
“I hope I succeed, but it doesn’t matter if I succeed or fail. “I just hope that this will further ruin the relationship between the two countries.”
Because the countries were so far away, a full-scale war against each other was impossible, but they still had great weapons called missiles.
“Well, even if it doesn’t lead to war, it’s enough to cause chaos.”
Although it was far away, there were still many people on the continent who were overconfident in the power of the United States. If we could shake up the Eurasian Union by inciting such people, that was enough.
“All you have to do is create a gap. “Whether each country grows apart or EV and other countries diverge, Japan can be revived if there is an opportunity.”
“….”
The secretary didn’t say anything in response to the chairman’s words.
In the secretary’s opinion, recovery was now impossible for Japan.
Tokyo and the entire Mount Fuji area have become a playground for monsters, making it impossible to even approach them, and there are no more than half of the military left.
Public security was a mess and the economy was at its lowest. There were areas where the government gave up on them because they were controlled by Yakuza or warlords, and there were also areas where local feudal lords fought against each other, bordering on civil war.
Japan may have returned to the daimyō era, where people served a formal king.
However, there were still people like the elderly who could not escape their old memories. They were old people who had newly restored the government. They were trying to revive Japan with the help of the United States.
The secretary’s expression as she looked at the chairman darkened. The president he served was no longer even thinking about looking around.
The secretary opened her mouth.
“It’s windy. Now that you’ve seen them, go back to the mainland.”
“…I will do that.”
The chairman stopped for a moment, looked at the helicopter and the building the US soldiers entered, and then walked away.
The helicopter the chairman rode that day headed to the mainland, and the next day, the rested U.S. soldiers departed for Korea in a stealth helicopter.
Korea’s radar network was still insufficient to find the stealth aircraft.
The helicopters went up the coastline to Gangwon-do, crossed the Taebaek Mountains, and arrived in Gyeonggi-do around evening.
*
Outside the window, darkness was creeping in.
However, the living room where Omar and Ruiring were gathered was illuminated by a warm lamp.
Omar no longer looked young.
His physique, which had been dwarfed by hunger, was restored within two years.
He was also taller.
Although I’m not yet 170cm tall, I’m no longer made fun of because I’m young no matter where I go.
Although his appearance has changed, what Omar does has not changed.
He was still squatting on a chair and sculpting.
The Chinese women, including Ruiling, were staring blankly at Omar, who was carving.
The women clearly looked bored.
“What is it? “It doesn’t seem like it’s even human.”
Finally, the woman couldn’t bear it anymore and asked Omar.
Omar answered, continuing the piece.
“Oh, it’s a robot.”
Omar looked much brighter than before.
Although I was still hitting a wall with others, I was able to live a normal life with my family and colleagues.
“robot?”
“Yes, I am making it according to the blueprint I saw before.”
“EV was also making robots?”
The woman who asked the question tilted her head. Liu Yiling clicked his tongue.
“Robots are also being made by SG Electronics.”
“No, look at that. “That’s a robot that looks like a human?”
Liu Yiling looked again at the pieces Omar was making.
It was as she said. The sculpture was completely different from the robots Liu Yiling had seen.
“It seemed like it was already made? “I just repainted the emblem on the mod.”
Liu Yiling also shook his head at Omar’s words.
EV and Kyung-hoon’s work was full of unknowns even though several years had passed.
“But why are you sculpting such a robot? “Nobody else did sculpture except us.”
In response to another woman’s question, Omar held up the piece she was making in front of her.
It was as she said. Omar never sculpted anyone other than his family and colleagues.
“I have never set such standards when carving separately. “I just did what I felt like.”
Omar also tilted his head as he spoke.
It was a piece I started making without thinking after completing Kyung-hoon’s gun. But when I thought about it, I found myself a little strange.
“I saw that Kay was also sculpted. “I didn’t say anything…”
“Then it won’t be a problem.”
Liu Yiling calmly responded to Omar’s words.
Boo.
Her answer drew boos from other women.
“Ryu Yi-ling stops thinking whenever Kyung-hoon’s story comes up.”
“Normally, he is infinitely sharp, but why does he pass without incident whenever the story of Kyung-hoon comes up?…” “
But Kyung-hoon has that secretary. “Honestly, there’s no reason to shake your head in front of Mr. Kyung-hoon.”
“But Liu Yiling is too harsh.”
Women from China have also overcome many hardships. Now, when they were alone, they could make fun of each other.
However, their loyalty to Kyung-hoon and EV did not change.
At that time, all the women raised their heads.
“Is it the sound of a helicopter?”
The other women tilted their heads at Liu Yiling’s words.
“It’s a little different, isn’t it?”
“Plus, the sound is very quiet. We can barely hear it? “It looks like Omar can’t hear either.”
Omar looked puzzled by their words.
“Then it’s probably no big deal. “Let’s go back to the original story.”
“Yeah, anyway, Liu Yiling is too much.”
Liu Yiling burst out laughing at his friends’ attacks.
*
Dark night.
Tutututu.
The helicopters stopped in the sky a little distance away from their target.
It was a night full of clouds.
The black-painted helicopters had no lights at all.
Moreover, not only was it not detected by radar, but there was almost no sound.
Even from the ground, it was difficult to tell that the helicopter was there.
The rope fell down and the soldiers came down on it.
They were special forces soldiers wearing gas masks, tactical helmets with scopes, and various high-tech equipment.
Moreover, many of them were awakened people. The numbers were not small. A total of 20 people.
When all the unit members disembarked, the officer in front gave a hand signal. The unit members watching with an infrared scope moved quickly.
Buuuuung.
Black drones came out of the helicopter and flew over the crew.
The helicopter also did not leave the spot. I was confident I wouldn’t be caught, but there was no reason to avoid it.
Officer in the lead. Lieutenant Colonel Colin checked the front line with an infrared scope.
I saw low buildings surrounded by barbed wire. The pharmaceutical company confirmed in the photo was correct.
Perhaps because it was night, the guards were not visible.
However, numerous surveillance cameras installed throughout the area were caught by infrared scopes.
Moreover, it seemed like electricity was flowing inside the double barbed wire fence.
These were not crime prevention devices that an ordinary pharmaceutical company would install.
He sent a hand signal to his subordinates. The men advanced quickly.
Colin’s mood sank as he watched his subordinates pass by with expressionless faces.
The subordinates who had just passed by were all awakened.
Although they followed orders much better than the ordinary subordinates who followed them, their appearance depressed him, a fellow awakened person.
His subordinates, like other awakened men in the army, did not cause accidents and followed orders well.
They were better soldiers than any other soldiers in the world.
But they have lost their individuality and free will.
It was all because of a small brain surgery I had to undergo upon entering the military.
Those who were originally in the military like himself did not undergo surgery, but all those who were forcibly conscripted underwent brain surgery.
The purpose was to help those who were forcibly conscripted adapt.
And the surgery actually helped a lot.
It was thanks to that surgery that the awakened people, who were ordinary people, stood up to the monster and fought brilliantly.
The higher-ups had promised to return them to their original state once they completed their service, but no one believed them now.
There was no way the government would let go of the awakened people who had become great weapons.
Colin shook his head.
Now was not the time to think about anything else. This operation had to succeed.
To come to this faraway land of Korea and kidnap or kill Helmet Man and his colleagues… To be
honest, it was something I didn’t want to do, but he was an American soldier.
He waved his hand to signal the operation to begin.
All of his subordinates pointed their guns at the surveillance camera.
Phew. Phew. Phew. Phew.
With the sound of a small gunshot, all surveillance cameras and streetlights shattered.
*
A broadcast was heard in the ears of Omar and his group, who had been chatting happily for a while.
[The surveillance camera monitoring the surrounding area has been destroyed. The surveillance camera monitoring the surrounding area was destroyed…]
The group looked at each other as the broadcast was repeated.
“No way…”
Everyone stood up.
“It was the control room, right?”
“let’s go.”
At Omar’s question, the group left the reception room.
Outside the reception room was a long hallway. And at the end of the hallway was an iron door with a lock.
It was a control room.
The group walked quickly. Omar walked down the hallway and looked out the window.
A few street lights from a company a little away from here were out.
Pajik.
This time, a small spark flew next to the unlit streetlight.
Omar accelerated his pace even further.
As soon as the group arrived, the iron gate opened.
Behind the iron door was a small room, and inside the room, numerous monitors were lit.
On the monitor, there was a screen showing a building captured from various places using an infrared camera and a regular camera.
Most of the monitors were fine, but a few monitors were showing only black screens.
The monitor screen showed soldiers surrounding the equipment one after another, and the screen immediately turned black.
The screen continued to turn off, and eventually the soldiers were seen entering a room.
An empty room with a pattern drawn on the floor. The soldiers were quite confused.
“traps?”
A man sitting in a chair watching the screen responded to the soldier shouting on the screen.
“It’s a trap.”
The group looked at the man who answered. It was Kyung-hoon.
“It’s a trap! “Escape!”
The soldiers on the screen were trying to leave in a hurry.
Kyunghoon gave an order through his earphones.
“Suppression begins.”
-EV Special Operations Team.Operation begins.
In another screen showing the outside of the building, people wearing black body armor appeared.
They were equipped with state-of-the-art equipment just like the U.S. military.
But their races were very diverse.
Russians and Europeans, Koreans and Chinese.
They were EV’s special forces armed with body armor and items found in the New York underground in another world.
