Episode 45 [Unity Rally ⑵]
A dusky evening. A black van arrived in a remote fishing village in the South Island.
It was a van covered in dust. The van that left Seoul in the morning arrived at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula in the evening.
Suddenly.
When the car stopped next to the dock, the side door of the van burst open and people poured out.
“I lived. “It was very difficult.”
“I can’t even get off for more than 8 hours, and I keep running on the winding road. I feel like I’m going to throw up.”
“If it were like before, I might have really thrown up.”
Jong-cheol and Dong-kik didn’t say anything, but they had the same expression.
“Mister, are you sure you invited a car racer?”
“Chairman!”
“There is no one else. “Let’s just move on.”
Seol-yeon glared at him, but Gyu-gyu just lay on the floor and waved his hand.
“Still, I thought I’d eat lunch at a rest area…”
“That’s right, I never thought I’d eat lunch in a moving car.”
“But you skipped the chase?”
Hearing the big man’s words, Gyu-Gyu looked at Jong-Cheol with an amazed expression.
“But how did you do this, expecting to be tracked? “Our chairman is really good at his job.”
Jong-cheol looked shocked at Gyu-kyung’s words. Because it wasn’t something he did.
“Rather, is this a training site? Can we train in a place like this?”
Everyone looked around at Gyu-Gyu’s words. Just as he said, this was an ordinary fishing village. It was also a very underdeveloped village where only the elderly lived. There were no pensions, let alone training centers, in the vicinity. Unlike the other people lying on the floor, Da-Hee quickly
recovered
. It was getting dark.
She wondered who the driver was who had put them through so much trouble. Dahee crept to the other side of the car, but was quickly disappointed.
“There is no driver.”
The driver’s seat was already empty with the car door open.
“How did you disappear without our eyes? Isn’t the driver really a mutant… no, an awakened person?”
Gyu-kyung grumbled that the word “awakened” didn’t stick in his mouth. While he was incarcerated, he kept hearing that he was a mutant, so it wasn’t easy to quickly change. However, he himself much preferred being called an awakened person rather than a mutant, so every time he made a mistake like he did now
. “I didn’t go that far ,” I scolded myself .
“It’s coming.”
At that time, Seolyeon pointed to the harbor breakwater and said.
“Oh right. You were there, right? “But why didn’t you tell me?”
It was a snowy field that could be called radar as long as it was nearby.
Gyu looked at the sea with a puzzled face and then opened his mouth.
“Surely what I think isn’t true?”
“Huh, wasn’t it here?”
A fishing boat appeared bouncing behind the breakwater.
According to Seol-yeon, the human radar, the driver in the van appeared driving the boat.
“If that’s the case, he can’t be an ordinary person.”
Gyu-jeong grumbled and Da-hee hurriedly ran to the dock.
The rest of the group also headed to the dock with their luggage.
After a while, the boat stopped at the dock and the man driving the boat appeared from inside.
It was a man wearing large sunglasses and a deeply pressed hat. . Although he wasn’t wearing a gas mask like before, everyone knew who he was.
“It’s the gas mask guy!”
Dahee waved her hand toward the boat. Thanks to meeting his family and time passing, his original bright personality seemed to have returned.
Other people were happy to see him too.
“It would have been better if you had told me in advance. “I was swearing at the driver all this time…”
Gyu-kyu was also grumbling, but his expression was very bright.
Moreover, the two women seemed quite happy that Kyung-hoon took off his gas mask.
“Come up to the boat. We have to go into the sea a little bit.”
“Where are we going?”
Dahee asked, her eyes shining. Kyunghoon answered her question with a slightly apologetic look.
“It’s a small uninhabited island. “It has to be a place where people can’t see.”
They might be happy to see Kyung-hoon now, but it was clear that soon everyone would be angry at him.
The training he knew was like that.
Gyeonghoon picked up the group and headed to the sea.
The sea of Namdo was surrounded by islands and felt like a lake. But as the sunset faded and we left the islands, the ship entered a deserted sea.
I could see scattered islands in the distance, but now I was in the middle of the clear sea.
While the boat was crossing the night sea, the group asked Kyung-hoon one question after another.
“How tall are you?”
“Do you have girl friend?”
Starting with very personal questions from the women.
“Are you a military veteran?”
“Have you done any exercise separately?”
The young men continued to ask questions:
“So, are you staying together for the next week?”
The only questions about the future came from Jong-cheol.
Gyeong-hoon only shook his head and did not answer most of the questions. Even
if Gyeong-hoon did not answer, the group did not seem to be very dissatisfied. They just enjoyed their long trip while looking at the night sea.
After about three hours, the ship arrived at a remote island.
It was an island with no traces of human habitation, let alone a dock. As Kyung-hoon said, it seemed to be uninhabited. It was
just that there were no people at the moment.
A fishing boat was anchored next to a rock. The sun was falling, and a bonfire was shining on the white sandy beach of the island.
The group could see a man standing next to the bonfire.
It was a man that Kyung-hoon knew well, and it was Jin-hyuk, his close younger brother. Jin- hyuk,
who was watching the approaching ship, was also embarrassed by the current situation. ***
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few days ago, while having a drink with Kyung-hoon, Jin-hyuk hinted about the incident in which he leaked the note.
“The people who created the Awakened Association this time. Aren’t they related to the rag I spilled back then?”
It was a piece of cloth that he had accidentally spilled. But he remembered well where he had spilled it.
And this time, the people who escaped after being detained by the military were people who escaped very close to where he picked up the cloth. Of course, it had nothing to do with it
. The odds were high, but he thought there might be some connection.
He had been receiving help from Kyung-hoon, and he was exaggerating Kyung-hoon’s skills more than expected.
Still, he thought he would shake his head, but surprisingly, Kyung-hoon was staring at him.
“why?”
“There’s nothing we can do about it. Just take a week off.”
The next words were even more absurd:
“Just as you said, that cloth was involved in the escape of the Awakened Association members. Those people don’t know my identity, but it’s true that they took a step.”
“Really?”
“I just connected you. Thanks to you, I’m not bothering you anymore, so you should spend some time too.”
Jinhyuk understood that Kyunghoon helped him escape through his personal contact network. Since Kyung-hoon knew a lot of people in the military, it seemed quite possible.
‘But aren’t those who escaped awakened? ‘Do you know any awakened person?’
A question came to mind for a moment, but it disappeared with Kyung-hoon’s next words.
“Train the people from the Awakened Association. At least so that you don’t get scared when you stand in front of a mutant. “That’s what you specialize in.”
Jinhyuk opened his mouth.
After hearing the circumstances, I was able to agree to some extent, but it still didn’t mean there were no problems.
“It’s a good thing to help those people under difficult circumstances, but is it something I can do?”
He didn’t think at all about the damage he might receive from doing this. He only asked about the possibility.
“I’m an expert on mutants and have military experience and combat experience . “You have a lot of experience and have trained quite a bit.”
“Anyway, I’m an ordinary person. It’s impossible to train an awakened person.”
“No one has ever trained an awakened person anyway.”
When Kyung-hoon told him to take responsibility for the person who did what happened, he had no choice but to agree and now he was standing next to the bonfire. “He is an expert I invited
for training. He is a special force from the Animal Quarantine Department who has been dealing with mutants so far.” .”
Kyung-hoon introduced Jin-hyuk to the group who got off the boat.
“This is Jin-hyuk Park.”
Since he had promised to do it anyway, Jinhyuk greeted him properly.
Thanks to the instructor hat and commando uniform he wore for the first time in a long time, his greeting was quite scary.
The people in the association hesitantly greeted him.
“Hello.”
After the greeting was over, Kyunghoon opened his mouth
. For five days from now, you will receive basic training from instructor Jinhyeok. How to not be overwhelmed by mutants, how to use guns, and various survival tips. “It may be a short period of time, but those of you who have more than a human body will be able to catch up.”
“What about that gas mask guy?”
Jinhyuk, who was next to Dahee’s question, looked at Kyunghoon with a strange expression.
-I think we will find out that the master saved them before the training is over.
Kyung-hoon shrugged his shoulders at Eve’s words. It didn’t matter if it was revealed as long as things went as expected.
“I will come back in five days and we will practice together. I have prepared all the necessary supplies, so I hope you enjoy your training until then.”
Kyung-hoon pointed to the back of the bonfire. There were several tents and luggage lined up.
Everyone except Jong-cheol, who had heard the story in advance, was in tears. They had finally realized the hardships of the week ahead.
Kyung-hoon last spoke separately with Jinhyeok and Jong-cheol . He got on the back boat.
Gyeong-hoon looked around at the people one last time. The people in the association looked depressed because they were worried about future training, and Jin-hyuk looked like he was thinking about something. Gyeong-hoon wasn’t particularly worried about Jin-hyuk’s
expression, which looked like he was thinking a lot. He wasn’t worried. He was a person who clearly carried out his duties no matter the situation.
“You will definitely wake up, right?”
-This time, I think it would be better to give the probability. It is more than 80%.
That was enough. If it was the Jinhyuk he knew, the probability was high enough. -Awakening
is already underway to some extent. There may not have been any physical changes, but the senses are It is clear that he has changed from before.
According to Eve, Jinhyeok has now entered the pre-awakening stage.
It seems that there are two types of awakened people: those who suddenly awaken one day and those who show some omen phenomenon in advance. The
latter also exists in the other world. People who fight alongside mutants and awakened people seemed to be the type that often appears among soldiers or awakened support people. “
So did that awakened person also leave a piece of cloth in front of Jinhyeok?”
-It is said that some awakened people have an instinctive sense of other people’s mana.
Gyeong-hoon, who remembered the awakened person who disappeared that day, kept the awakened person in one corner of his head. It might be hard to find now, but I didn’t plan on forgetting it.
After gesturing to the remaining people, Gyeonghoon drove the boat and left the island.
“Now we have to find out who messed things up like this, right?”
-Most of the lawmakers at the hearing were those who received significant support from the business community.
“Well, is there any member of the National Assembly in our country who has not received corporate money?… ”
-Those companies were related to medicine and the military.
At this level, it wasn’t enough to smell.
-While checking the executives of related companies, I found a name: ‘Ha Jeong-gil’. At the hospital where Eun-hye’s father, Jeong Won-sik, was. This is the person who is hospitalized. He is also the person who requested the potion after seeing that Jeong Won-seok got better.
“Is there any potion left?”
Kyung-hoon seemed to have found a way to approach.
