Episode 153 [ Cleaning – 2 ]
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Qua—ah—ah—ah——!
A large-scale freezing spell suddenly fell on the heads of the Hope Guild members who were coming down the middle of Paldal Mountain. As if an ice age had arrived, a white snow storm rolled in like a wave and soon froze everything.
Qua—de—de—de——!
A huge wall of ice formed simultaneously on the ground and in the sky, and sharp icicles sprouted like monster teeth and engulfed the Hope Guild members. Those watching thought that not all of them could have escaped death…
But…
“Huh—is everyone okay? There are no injuries, right?”
“yes! “The magic shield is set up beautifully!”
They were intact and preparing for a counterattack inside the ice wall.
Because Lee Hyun-wook held on to this situation just before coming out of the labyrinth, he was able to cast a magic shield in time to block the freezing storm.
“A real boss is sometimes like a prophet.”
“Iknow, right. How did you notice this?…”
And right before the ice wall hit, Lee Hyun-wook escaped first using the ‘short-distance teleportation’ he had prepared in advance. It was to catch the enemy off guard. “I think I was successful in catching the enemy off guard.
”
Lee Hyun-wook’s figure was seen in the sky through a very small gap in the ice wall.
He detected the vehicle containing the ‘city vacuum cleaner’ through Hugin and secured it by launching the entire vehicle into the air. Although there were quite a few security forces with him, the entire vehicle they were in was captured. “I easily subdued him by crushing him.
Next, he wrapped the limbs of their leader, a level 81 player, with steel wires and hung him upside down in the air. I took off his fedora and even ripped off his fake mustache to confirm his identity.
” “Oh, who is this?”
And as expected, it was a face that Lee Hyun-wook knew. He chuckled.
“Leonard, you came a long way, but you didn’t have much fun?”
“…what? “How do you know me?”
“He was once a member of the French intelligence agency and is now a mercenary? So, he was the co-leader of a secret mercenary group in the UAE, right?”
At that point, Leonard Gane’s eyes trembled.
“And I know that you are level 81… and that you are a villain. This means that no matter how much you think about it in the future, it will be of no use.”
In fact, that was all Lee Hyun-wook knew. But that alone made his expression melancholy. It was all secret information that no one could know, and it was like a ghost crying to hear it recited like that.
“What are you? How do you know all that— Wow!”
Lee Hyeon-wook planted his fist in the guy’s abdomen and summoned Fridwen.
Woo-woo–
Soon, a white airship appeared overhead and slowly lowered its altitude.
At that time, I heard someone’s voice in my ear.
– In this area, a white airship appeared and slowly lowered its altitude. The terrorists have been suppressed. However, we are continuing the alert operation because we do not know what threats may still remain.
This voice was Team Leader Lee Kyo-jun. He was also moving.
“Yes, I will move to Laputa immediately.”
Lee Hyun-wook then sent a mana message to Kim Se-hee.
“Team Leader Kim Se-hee will urgently return to Laputa right now.”
– Yes! I’ll prepare right away!
Lee Hyun-wook took out the world tree’s hook from Pridwen’s lamp door and threw it towards the ice wall, and the Hope Guild members took it to the inside of the labyrinth entrance and connected it to the black dragon’s body covered with black cloth.
– Chik— Boss, connection complete!
‘Emergency return—’
Huh——!
Just like that, the Hope Guild members escaped from the scene of the terrorist attack in an instant.
“Boo!”
As soon as Lee Hyun-wook arrived in Laputa, he threw Leonard Gane on the floor.
“Leonard, like I said before, I need to look at the estimate for the cleaning, right?”
“…If you’re thinking of finding out something from me, there’s no way around it.”
Lee Hyun-wook chuckled and shook his head.
“I told you, no matter how hard you try, it’s useless.”
As he said that, he approached and took out a bottle from his pocket.
And didn’t he open the lid and spray it on Leonard Gane’s head?
Cheeeeee——
Then black smoke billowed out from Leonard Gane’s head.
– (!) The ‘potential magic’ on you will be purified.
“Uh uh…”
He stared blankly at the system message that appeared before his eyes.
This potion is an enchantment of the saint’s ‘Purification’ skill into holy water, and it is now possible to remove latent spells without the saint’s on-site service.
“Now, you won’t suddenly burn your brain and die, so speak at ease. If you don’t, the fact that your body will suffer… I’m sure you can sense it, right?”
“…What do you want me to say?”
“Just tell me who in this country entrusted you with this job.”
At those words, Leo Kane chuckled.
“Hey, Steele, I don’t know how much you know, but…”
He chuckled and continued talking.
“So, just like you said, someone from this country approached us and asked us to kill you. You’re hated by the whole world, right?”
“…….”
“But we don’t check who the client is in the first place as long as money and safety are secured. That is the principle of our service and why our service is expensive. “I’ll say it again… I don’t know anything.”
In other words, he himself did not know the identity of the client.
Lee Hyun-wook nodded.
“So, that’s one of the reasons ‘Red Cobra’ makes a living, right?”
[Red Cobra], a famous black mercenary group in the UAE, specializes in player assassination and later gained notoriety as the ‘modern Brotherhood.’ As long as the compensation is reasonable, it devises a strategy as if it were a raid and perfectly kills even the strongest player. It was famous.
And Lee Hyun-wook’s strategy was to prepare a city cleaner.
“Hey Leonard, I’m not asking you to tell me the truth.”
At those words, Leonard Gane frowned and tilted his head.
“In our country’s courts, you can testify that a specific name is behind you.”
“Ha—this is a false testimony, so you’re saying you’re going to use me to get rid of your enemy?”
“Hmm, maybe it’s because I spoke kindly, but the conversation got really long…”
Lee Hyun-wook pulled him in and hit him on the mouth with his fist.
“—Knock!”
His teeth fell out, and Lee Hyun-wook forced his mouth open and
forced seven iron beads into his throat, one after another.
“Break—what is this crazy guy doing…”
and…
“melt—”
“Go away——!”
This time, I planned to turn it into a furnace rather than a mixer.
***
Lee Hyun-wook was well aware of the events and problems that would occur in the future. However, since he could not care about all of them, he had to choose priorities. I had no choice but to leave aside small problems that did not need to be dealt with.
The same was true for the [Row Myeonghoe] faction, which was secretly growing in power in order to swallow up this country. I knew of its existence, but I could not pay attention to it. Because there was still time to clean them up
. This is because there is no justification or evidence.
‘A private organization created by anti-Woo Seong-moon side government officials and large guilds…’
Above all, they were originally supposed to act only after Woo Seong-moon was assassinated, but they suddenly acted earlier than expected because of some variable. ‘Maybe they felt a sense of crisis because I was growing so quickly.
‘
Did he decide that it would be impossible to defeat Lee Hyun-wook now, and that would mean that it would be impossible to bring down Woo Seong-moon, so did he step forward in a hurry? But no matter what…
‘
I know the list of those guys and their secrets.’
Lee Hyun-wook knew all the original members of the organization.
‘Hwang Yeon-soo, who would later become the head of the National Gate Response Strategy Office, would be the main driving force of the Dawning Association, and after that, the political officials of the Guild Cooperation Support Office, AMT generals, and representatives of large guilds would all be present in this country. All the rotten branches are gathered together.’
No one expected that this would be the beginning of the downfall of the Republic of Korea.
Although Hwang Yeon-soo overthrew several large guilds and took power, he was not the type of person to take the reins of large guilds and control them like Woo Seong-moon, and in the end, the guilds were active in the chaos and public power took over. It collapsed.
As a result, large guild forces, which can be called warlords, arose and a modern-day military regime began, during which a villain swallowed up the entire country. ‘At that time,
our country was really… like a dystopian country.’
The people who organized the situation were Kang Seo-yoon and Lee Seong-yoon of the [Zmunnarae] guild, and Lee Hyun-wook helped them as a member of the Guardian Intelligence Department at the time. ‘In other words, I know how they plotted.
‘
At this point, the location of various pieces of evidence that had been hidden so secretly that not even the intelligence department under Woo Seong-moon could find them remained in Lee Hyun-wook’s mind. Lee Hyun-wook turned his head and
looked at Leonard Gane.
He was lying on the floor, spitting out molten metal. “Leonard ,
I guess you feel like testifying now, right?”
He nodded slowly.
Even if he was an elite mercenary who provided a loud-mouthed service, it seemed he couldn’t stand the sight of molten iron moving up and down along his internal organs. *** At
that
time, Commander Jeong Sang-sik was pacing around his office.
And Mana . We were communicating, and the person on the other end was Director Hwang Yeon-soo.
“No, Director Hwang—what is the situation right now? I think Lee Hyun-wook took the murderer, but if things go wrong like this…”
– General Jeong, please control your anger and just keep your mouth shut.
“…Yes?”
– What should we do if we contact you directly at a time like this? Ha— Director Woo will be looking for you with all eyes on us, so please stay quiet for a while. That hitman doesn’t know who we are anyway, so no matter how much Lee Hyun-wook interrogates us, he won’t find out anything. Ha. … I guess I didn’t even take care of that much? Rather, keep your mouth shut because someone might hear it. And… no matter who asks you anything, don’t make fun of that mouth. With those words, mana communication with Hwang Yeon-soo is cut off
. Jeong Sang-sik threw it away
and put it down as if he was throwing away the Mana Messenger.
“What the fuck—you really are that young…”
He scratched his little remaining hair and suddenly felt uneasy. The words he had said when he met Kim Kang-seok A thought went through my mind:
“…Did I make a mistake with my words back then? Why do you keep telling me to watch my mouth?”
At that time, an unusual vibration sound began to sound from somewhere.
Thump—thump—
“…Huh? What does this sound like?”
And the sound was getting closer, and Jeong Sang-sik felt his annoyance rising, so he picked up the direct telephone connected to the annex and shouted,
“Hey! “What is this?”
At that time, the dedicated deputy opened the door and came in without knocking.
“Gasp! Commander Sa—!”
“What’s going on?”
“That was a big problem!”
“Tell me what the big deal is!”
“Uh… uh…”
But the dedicated adjutant looked out the window with a mesmerized expression without answering, and Jeong Sang-sik slowly turned his head, feeling belatedly uncomfortable.
“……huh?”
Bang——!
At that moment, the entire window was torn off.
Quad-dude——!
When I looked closely, I saw a huge metal hand pulling the window.
“Uh… that…”
That was Orihalcon, a member of Lee Hyun-wook’s family. It was the giant Talos.
The giant’s huge right hand squeezed through the torn window frame and pushed into the office, and on the palm of the hand stood a man – Lee Hyun-wook. ”
This Lee Hyun-wook… What are you doing, you bastard!”
“Commander, it’s been a while. The windows were a mistake.”
Talos’ head was halfway up behind his back.
“sorry! “I just tried to open it, but I couldn’t control my strength…”
“…Aren’t you crazy? How dare you attack AMT headquarters?”
At that moment, a security force came running through the door, weapons raised, but stopped in shock when he saw Talos standing outside the window.
“Did you see the terrorist attack against me that happened this morning?”
When Lee Hyun-wook asked that question, Kang Jeong-sik’s eyes trembled.
“…What is that?”
At that time, Lee Hyun-wook raised his left hand, and something flew in from outside the window. It was Leonard Gane, a man wrapped in wire.
“This person is the main culprit of today’s terrorist attack. “I captured him alive.”
“…….”
“But this person said he was acquainted with the commander.”
“-what?”
“That’s why he said the commander was behind him.”
At those words, Kang Jeong-sik became angry and started hurling a point.
“…what? This guy is talking nonsense! Even if something like that happens, you have to go through normal procedures, so why come in and exercise power like this? Are you seeing nothing these days? yes?”
After pouring out his words, he huffed and shouted at the guards.
“Hey! Major Kang, what are you doing? Arrest this bastard right now!”
However, no matter how much it was the commander’s order, unless you didn’t know who the man in front of you was, you couldn’t move easily. Even Talos was standing in front of the building, right? But when the commander glared at him, the guards had no choice but to start hesitating and approaching. .
“Mr. Lee Hyun-wook, please surrender immediately!”
– Player (LV: 51)
– Player (LV: 48)
– Player (LV: 37)
– Player (LV: 43)
They were not ordinary bettors as they were directly under the AMT Seoul Operation Commander.
“…If you don’t surrender, we have the right to arrest you!”
At that moment, the leader came in, stabbing his sword.
“Hwaap—!”
However, Lee Hyun-wook easily dodged the tip of the sword, grabbed his wrist, lifted him up as if doing a judo-style flip, and threw him straight into the wall. Bang! The
guy
stuck in the wall coughed out blood.
This was followed by a level 41 guy. He pushed in with the shield.
Lee Hyun-wook threw a front kick straight at the shield.
Kwa—ang——!
His body floated in the sky as if it had been hit by a truck and landed on the bookshelf 4 meters behind, and the bookcase on top of it crashed. All kinds of awards poured out.
Meanwhile, something shot out from Lee Hyun-wook’s waist.
Whoosh. Whoosh.
Two Palenotes stopped at the nape of the other two people’s necks.
In that state, they whizzed like drills and rotated at high speed. .
“—gasp!”
“Please save me!”
In the end, the two threw away their weapons and raised both hands and knelt down.
“Ha—you frustrating bastards…”
Lee Hyun-wook turned to Kang Jeong-sik, who was dumbfounded. And then…
boom!
He threw a punch and Kang Jeong-sik fell down holding his nose.
“Ugh… your boo is broken!”
Still, his nose, which was quite high, fell completely to the side, and he grunted like an old dog, receiving blood from his nose with both hands. “It’s
hard to put teeth back together, so I just broke his nose.”
He forced Kang Jeong-sik, whose nose was bleeding, to stand up.
“Next are the teeth. Even if you heal them, Commander, you will have to pick up each missing tooth and reattach it. It will be in much worse shape than it is now. And then, let’s discuss together where to cut it.”
Kang Jeong-sik glared at Lee Hyun-wook with red bloodshot eyes.
“You bastard, on what basis are you doing this?”
However, Kang Jeong-sik still raised his voice and came out strong, but he seemed to think that no evidence would be found linking him to terrorism.
“There is absolutely no reason for me to go through something like this! What is this testimony? That kid has signs of being tortured just by looking at it. Can you believe that testimony?”
In response, Lee Hyun-wook whispered softly in his ear,
“…there must be evidence there in the panic room in the basement of the mountain in Yeonhui-dong.”
At those words, Kang Jeong-sik’s expression turned cold.
“How do you… know about that place?”
It was a secret meeting place for many influential figures in the player world, and since there was no physical door like a government armory, it could only be entered through a portal.
All kinds of illegal entertainment took place there, including gambling, drugs, and bribery, and it was also a place where a lot of items that could be called slush funds were piled up in the safe. In other words, if the identity of that place is revealed to the world…
“…I heard the members who go in and out of that place call it Pandora’s Box? “The moment it opens, it won’t just end with you taking off your clothes.”
Later, the identity of that place is revealed and Korea is in an uproar.
In fact, it was destined to be opened like Pandora’s box in the panic room in Yeonhui-dong. When the members who came and went there turned their backs on each other to gain power, it became a trigger that each had to pull first.
But at this point, it will be considered an eternal secret— Kang Jeong-sik asked, repeatedly shaking his head with an expression of incomprehension.
“…Who on earth told you that?”
Lee Hyun-wook smiled and answered.
“No. What’s more important than that is why someone would have reported such a secret information to the commander at this time.”
“…what?”
“Haha—Commander, you still don’t know what’s going on?”
Lee Hyun-wook tilted his head towards Jeong Sang-sik and said in a low voice,
“…He was cut off. After torturing this bastard a little, he immediately called out the commander’s name. Then, he plotted a plot with the commander in the panic room in Yeonhui-dong. I’m saying there is evidence.”
“What nonsense… I’ve never done that!”
Lee Hyun-wook smiled and nodded.
“Yes, of course. I was suspicious, so I tortured him again.”
When Lee Hyun-wook raised his left hand, Leonard Gane’s body, which had been lying on the floor, was lifted vertically. He blinked his bulging eyes. “—Khul!
Cough!”
“Now tell me the truth.”
In response to his words, Leonard Gane uttered the promised line.
“Yes… When I first dealt with Director Hwang, I promised one thing. If I were to be captured… to sell General Jeong… Cough! Cluck!”
At those words, Jeong Sang-sik’s eyes widened and his cheeks trembled.
“Do you understand now? “Commander, you were taken advantage of in the first place.”
Jeong Sang-sik was speechless, and Lee Hyun-wook brought two chairs.
“Now, please sit down.”
Kang Jeong-sik hesitated, then sat down on the chair. He had a somewhat detached expression, and his hatred seemed to have moved to a distant place other than Lee Hyun-wook. He seemed to ponder for a moment and then raised his head. “…You said something to me
. “There must be a reason why you came and told me this, right?”
Hyunwook Lee nodded slowly.
When he opened his palm, an iron bead appeared.
Parts of it separated and fell off from its surface.
“From now on, Commander, you will not be a tail discarded from the body, but an emergency lifeboat ripped from the sinking Titanic.”
At that moment, the original iron ball collapsed and melted.
