Episode 241 [What the Doppelganger Wants (1)]
The night Kyung-hoon met James was a nightmarish night for the FBI and CIA in New York.
Dozens of awakened and CIA agents were killed and numerous FBI agents were injured.
Moreover, seeing such damage, the siege was broken.
I found out that another great combat awakener helped the target, but I couldn’t find out the identity of the person who helped me, let alone the target whose face I couldn’t identify.
Among the people who survived, no one saw their faces properly, and the CCTV cameras placed everywhere were damaged during that time.
When the CIA director arrived in Washington, he ordered the deployment of troops in a cold voice, but he did not expect to catch the agents who had received the order.
As they thought, Kyung-hoon and James stopped by the hideout James had made, took a bath and changed clothes, and then came to a luxury residential area in Manhattan Beach.
The mansion that Kyung-hoon prepared a few years ago was still well maintained.
Kyung-hoon opened the secret door and headed to the basement of the mansion.
Buuuuuung.
When Kyung-hoon turned on the switch, the monitors that had not been used for a long time came to life again.
Monitors fill the walls and a comfortable, luxurious interior.
James looked into the room and sighed.
“This is really the secret base you see in the movies.”
He remembered the back alley hideout he had passed through a while ago.
“You can use this place from now on.”
“no. You can’t take unnecessary risks. “I also have many places to stay.”
James shook his head at Kyung-hoon’s words.
[Fortunately, the network I created before is alive.]
As Eve spoke, people’s photos and histories continued to pass by on the monitors.
After a while, the screens that kept passing by stopped. A total of eight people’s personal details appeared on the screen.
[I sent the list to my cell phone.]
At Eve’s words, James checked his cell phone. An email came in.
“Can we find out the whereabouts of the people on this list?”
[This is a list of people expected to have the code to unlock the nuclear bag. Updates stopped two years ago, so I don’t know where I am now.]
James looked at the list with a gloomy face.
“…In the end, you plan to draw your sword against the United States.”
Kyunghoon responded to James’ words.
“My misjudgment led to Marcelo’s death.”
Surprised, James looked at Kyung-hoon. Kyung-hoon continued speaking in a pitchless voice.
“The knife has already been drawn. EV has already declared war on the United States.”
EV’s declaration of war was the same as Kyung-hoon’s declaration of war.
James got goosebumps at Kyung-hoon’s calm voice.
There seemed to be no trace of sadness or anger over losing Marcelo on Kyung-hoon’s face. Instead, all I could see was a determination for revenge.
James closed his eyes.
“If it’s hard to do, you don’t have to do it. “You can find another way.”
“…Then the damage will be even worse.”
James opened his eyes and looked at Kyunghoon.
“Couldn’t it just be the president, or government ministers and military leaders?”
Kyunghoon shook his head.
One mistake was enough. We couldn’t just leave the country where awakened people are transformed into robots through surgery.
“Phew… Then, please keep the sacrifice to a minimum. Everyone was just driven by madness.”
Despite Gyeong-hoon’s refusal, he could not refuse the task he was asked to do. He
had to at least prevent a nuclear war. And he had to return this country to its original state.
Even if he had to be branded a traitor later, there was nothing he could do now. There was none.
He put his cell phone in and said hello to Kyung-hoon.
“It won’t take long. I’ll contact you as soon as I check.”
“Wouldn’t you need security?”
“It’s okay. This is far from where they were looking, and the curfew is about to be lifted, so there’s no problem.”
It was James, who had already been hiding for a long time. The smell had disappeared, and the awakened man and the dogs that were tracking him were no longer alive. He
was confident that he would not be caught unless something like yesterday happened.
He left the mansion right away.
“Oh, I didn’t tell you about the monster. ”
James, who had stopped walking, immediately shook his head.
There were monsters living underground in New York, but what was important right now was not those monsters. The
morning sun was rising over New York Bay in the distance.
People passing by on the streets at dawn looked better than before. He
had to hurry. He pulled up the collar of his old coat and quickened his pace.
*
At the same time, the White House.
The meeting was convened in the middle of the night and started at dawn and lasted until the morning.
CIA Director Byrd had no choice but to participate in the middle of the meeting because he was coming from New York. But he was dissatisfied. There seemed to be no reason.
That was because the meeting proceeded as he had previously claimed.
“Then, Unified Command, please set a target for the use of tactical nuclear weapons. I will send you the nuclear weapon launch code.”
Only the president had the authority to use American nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons could be used by entering the launch code sent from the White House. “
However, this use of tactical nuclear weapons is limited to operations in South America.”
The members of the National Security Council nodded in agreement at the president’s words.
Finally, the United States approved the use of nuclear weapons again after World War II.
Unfortunately, the CIA Director was not an official participant in the National Security Council.
However, Director Byrd He was watching the meeting unfold with a smile on his face.
His expression did not look as stiff as before.
“And there is the matter of using nuclear weapons against Korea.”
The decision to use tactical nuclear weapons on the South American front could be made quickly.
Regarding dropping strategic nuclear weapons on Seoul, the meeting was prolonging.
“It’s an alliance, so there’s a high possibility that Russia won’t sit still.”
“But I’m planning to shoot the missile even though it hasn’t landed on the mainland.”
“It’s not just Russia. There’s Manchuria and North Korea as well. There’s no guarantee that they won’t fight back. It’s dangerous.”
“I think it’s okay. It’s not like they flew into their country. We need to set an example for countries that cooperate with EVs. Look at how those countries are threatening the United States now. If they stay quiet, they might turn their backs on the United States.”
There was no mention of Korea being an ally of the U.S. in the past. There was no mention of the deaths of civilians. There was only talk about whether
it would pose a threat to the U.S.
It was a completely different meeting from yesterday.
Director Byrd was half-hearted about the meeting. He was listening.
The current meeting was out of his interest anyway. What he wanted had already been achieved.
It didn’t matter whether or not to drop nuclear weapons on Korea. In fact, he thought it would be better not to attack Korea, even if it meant nuclear war.
To South America . All the U.S. troops had to do was to continue attacking. It
would have been difficult if they had retreated due to a pointless defeat. It would have been
much easier if the U.S. had occupied the entire American continent, but even if not, the number of soldiers on the mainland had to be reduced as much as possible.
Location and size of the U.S. military. had been figured out to some extent. If they were scattered this far apart, it would be much easier to destroy them one by one.
Moreover, for the work being done now, it was important to leave the military out as much as possible.
Director Bud, or rather the doppelganger Bud, wasted time with a smile on his face. I waited for it to pass.
Soon, when an attack target came from the headquarters, the advance would begin again.
Several targets would be pointed out, but São Paulo could never be left out.
If they killed all the EV awakeners who were said to have gone on a rampage with tactical nuclear weapons, they would be transported to another dimension. It was clear that it would be much more helpful in dominating.
Bud looked out the window at the rising sun, imagining nuclear missiles flying through the sky.
***
After James left alone, Kyung-hoon headed to a subway station in Manhattan.
Port Hamilton Parkway subway station.
This was the station where the monster James shouted on the phone last night.
“It’s pretty thrilling considering I came here because I had nothing to do.”
Kyung-hoon’s face became serious as he stood at a distance and looked at the subway station.
Sharp mana was flowing out of that subway station.
“There were no captain-level monsters in New York, right?”
-Is he at the level of a captain?
“It feels strange, but he might be at the level of a captain or higher.”
-Unfortunately, it is difficult to detect deep underground with a satellite. Among the monsters living underground, there are probably quite a few that have been missed. “In the end, it is too much to do with
machines alone.”
Gyeong-hoon clicked his tongue quietly and began to walk at a brisk pace.
Wearing sunglasses that made him look unimpressed for the first time in a long time, he was stopped by the police before he could even approach the subway station. “
Stop. If you come any closer, I will fire. Take out your ID card there. ”
Due to yesterday’s incident, the police guarding the station had turned into a SWAT team.
As the police officers pointed their guns at him side by side, Kyung-hoon kicked the road.
-Are you going to go in after knocking everyone down?
Kyung-hoon shook his head at Eve’s words. .
I might have done it yesterday, but James’ words changed my mind.
There was no reason to bother killing him.
He kicked his foot. Kyung-hoon’s figure disappeared.
“Attack the ball! It’s the enemy!”
The team leader guarding the station shouted, but no one on the team pulled the trigger. There was no target
in sight. There was no man wearing sunglasses anywhere.
“Search now!”
The siren rang and the police started running again, but Kyung-hoon was already inside the station.
Papa-pak!
He was launched down the stairs as if he was running in the air.
There were awakened people blocking him in the middle, but they couldn’t stop Kyung-hoon.
Weapon There was no need to take it out. The awakened people’s shields were shattered by his fist, ending their lives.
Those who were not a threat did not need to take any action, but there was no reason to look after those who were not. Within
a few minutes, Kyung-hoon was on the lowest platform of the subway. Arrived at.
He saw a writhing lump of flesh in the center of the platform.
“What is this?”
Gyeonghoon looked at the monster with a bewildered face.
He was nervous as he thought it might be a monarch, but what came out was a lump of flesh that resembled a squishy brain.
– This is the first monster I’ve seen. It might have some characteristics. Please be careful! It
was staring at the lump of flesh . Kyung-hoon shook his head at Eve’s words. There was something wrong with this monster.
And there was no need to pay attention to its characteristics.
“I know what its characteristics are.”
He could feel images radiating from the monster. Powerful images spreading far away.
But these were images he could barely make out until he got this close.
A strange image of avoiding those with mana. If it weren’t for Kyung-hoon, the Awakened would have been right in front of him. It must have been difficult to know.
At that time, an image rang in Kyung-hoon’s head. The monster seemed to be capable of normal images as well.
Curiosity, doubt, and doubt.
If put into human words, it was an image that could be replaced with a single word.
[What are you?]
Danger There seemed to be no. Kyung-hoon responded to the image,
“I am a human awakened person.”
Embarrassed, shocked, cheered. [No way! How could a human be!]
The monster seemed to have seen through Gyeong-hoon’s abilities.
[I can’t believe there is a human like you! If I only had a body, I wouldn’t leave you alone!]
Unjust images kept coming to Kyung-hoon. All
the unfair stories, from the pain that he could not deal with because he had no body,
to the story of being defeated and left with only a brain, to the brainwashing of humans under the orders of the doppelganger here,
became images and poured out to Kyung-hoon.
Kyung-hoon looked at the monster with a bewildered expression.
The monster revealed all of its secrets to Kyung-hoon in a strange way.
I could see why this monster was doing this from the image that flew in.
“You’re asking me to kill you.”
Although it was following its master’s orders because of its oath, this monster was thirsting for death.
Kyung-hoon took out a greatsword from subspace.
[Ugh. It is unfair. If only I had the strength!]
Joy flowed in along with the anger that was created.
“There are a lot of questions I want to ask, but it will be difficult to answer.”
Plus there was no time. According to the image I received, I had to kill the monster as quickly as possible.
Strange tentacles began to extend from the monster’s brain. It seemed like it was probably a monster attack.
Kyung-Hoon dodged the tentacle and stabbed his sword.
Was it because only the brain was left? There were no painful images.
Kyung-Hoon poured mana into the sword.
A crack appears on the sword and
quaaaaaang!
The sword exploded inside the monster.
At that moment, the monster threw its last image at Kyung-hoon.
Was it that he was free from dependence the moment he died?
[Thank you. May your clan not lose.]
With a final thank you, the monster’s body exploded.
Wow!
Flesh was scattered everywhere.
At that moment, all the images spreading everywhere disappeared.
Kyung-hoon threw the sword with only the handle remaining.
Then Kyung-hoon stretched out his hand.
A silver hole spread over the bloody Seungjang River.
It was a portal to Washington.
Kyung-hoon, who was throwing himself into the dimension door, was smiling grimly.
“The CIA director is a doppelganger?”
The image delivered by the monster also contained the identity of the director.
Kyung-hoon’s voice disappeared into the portal and the platform, which had become a sea of blood, fell into silence again.
