Chapter 79
Chapter 79
Episode 79. 666 Hunter (3)
Warren, who had just lost his subordinate in an instant, stopped shooting at another sniping point.
“What the hell is this guy?”
He muttered and picked up the phone that was set up with the telescope near the vehicle.
“This is what the team members used…”
It was a phone issued to the 666 Unit members.
He pressed various buttons, but it didn't work, as if someone had tampered with it.
Then, Warren checked the vehicle with the telescope in front of the phone. His expression hardened in an instant, and he urgently pressed the radio button.
“This is Wolf! Enemy approaching from 3 o'clock!”
With the shout, he hurriedly crossed the ridge and went down. It was quite steep and dangerous, but such things didn't matter right now.
Swish―
In the meantime, gunshots began to ring from the vehicle.
The man who received the radio from Warren fired at Shinwoo, who was approaching quickly in the darkness.
Ting―
With the sound of the pin being pulled, something was thrown into the air, and light flashed.
It was a Flashbang grenade. The man lost his sight for a moment due to the unexpected light, but he didn't take his finger off the trigger.
Tatatang― Tatatang― Clunk! Clunk!
Along with the empty firing pin sound, a voice was heard from behind in the 666 Unit's code.
“You should have thought there would be something when the enemy approaches without any preparation.”
Swish― Stab!
The surprised man tried to turn around while drawing his pistol, but he couldn't even scream and had to fall because of the blade that grazed his neck and pierced into his lungs in an instant.
Shinwoo pulled out the knife stuck between the man's ribs and shook it as if dusting it off. The next target was Cui Xun.
At that moment, Warren, who had come down from the hill, fired a gun.
Tang―
However, he couldn't hit properly because of Cui Xun's car covered with Bulletproof film.
“What a loyal dog.”
It felt like he could see Warren's desperate expression in the darkness.
Shinwoo approached the man he had knocked down earlier, replaced the rifle magazine, and aimed. The distance to Warren was about 100m. It was difficult to hit without Night vision goggles in the darkness where there was no moon.
But now Shinwoo had senses that matched his mercenary life experience.
What he needed right now was sight, hearing, and touch. The subtle tremor of the gun, the rapidly approaching footsteps. Warren's movements visible through the darkness…
Tang―
With the gunshot, Warren, who had come to close range, fell like a puppet with a broken string. Shinwoo listened to Warren's fading breath with his ears perked up and looked at the window of the car where Cui Xun was.
Cui Xun didn't even think about getting out of the car surrounded by Bulletproof film.
So Shinwoo stood quietly with his face covered and then went around to the back of the car.
In the meantime, Cui Xun in the car trembled, holding his phone tightly. It was because all of his 666 Unit members were dead. In the current situation, he had no choice but to wait for the support troops that had left earlier to arrive quickly.
‘What is he trying to do in the back…?’
The car shook slightly for a moment and then became quiet. When Cui Xun turned around, Shinwoo was starting to move away from the car.
“Did he give up?”
Then Shinwoo, who turned around, raised his hand. It looked like he was pulling something.
“What are you doing…”
Bang―
While Cui Xun was muttering, the vehicle suddenly exploded. He had created a trap by exploding a Flashbang grenade and a wire in the car's fuel filler.
Shinwoo, who was quietly watching the scene, retrieved the remaining wire from the 8-sided dice he was holding in his hand. The end of the wire was melted and limp due to the car explosion.
“Emergency Clear.”
Shinwoo, who radioed, headed to where he had parked his motorcycle.
How much time had passed?
Im Hee-yeon slowly opened her eyes and saw a pure white ceiling. In the meantime, she could hear Cheon Hye-rin's worried voice approaching from the side.
“Are you okay?”
“…Where is this…”
“It's a hospital. Do you remember how you got here?”
In response to that question, Im Hee-yeon slowly took in the surrounding scenery. It was a VIP room with luxurious interiors and only her bed.
“I remember the accident and being caught by the 666 Unit… Ah, ugh!”
From then on, she traced back one by one until she remembered the sound of the ceiling breaking at the end.
Surprised, Im Hee-yeon hurriedly tried to get up, but felt pain in various parts of her body.
“The stitched wound is opening, so just lie down. And it's true that you were kidnapped. We rescued you and brought you here. Fortunately, the bleeding and blood transfusion went well, so there's no problem, but there was a slight infection, so I had a skin graft.”
“Ah…”
While Im Hee-yeon was sighing, the voice she had heard before losing consciousness flashed through her mind and she was startled.
【…WHITE, F point CLEAR. ALFA…….】
That was definitely Shinwoo's voice.
“Did Shinwoo come there? Is that right?”
Cheon Hye-rin sighed deeply and hesitated for a moment. In fact, she had been asked by Lu Xian to keep it a secret.
But since she brought up Shinwoo's name from the start, it was difficult to insist unconditionally.
“…That's right. To be honest, Shinwoo saved you.”
“Shinwoo? How did he know that place? By any chance, did Chairman Myung find out and tell him?”
Would she have felt a little better if that were the case? Im Hee-yeon didn't care that she called her Chairman because of her uneasy feelings.
In response, Cheon Hye-rin shook her head.
“I don't know how, but Shinwoo knew. My security team went with me, but they only helped a little from behind.”
“How could he…”
“Lu Xian.”
At her call, Lu Xian, who had been waiting outside, carefully entered and approached.
“Did you call me?”
“Tell Hee-yeon what you saw.”
Lu Xian hesitated for a moment, recalling what Shinwoo had asked him to do. What he had seen himself was so brutal and terrible that even ordinary people would be horrified.
But Im Hee-yeon was Shinwoo's biological mother who had done that. He had no idea where to start and how to explain it.
“…Are you okay with this?”
“Please tell me.”
Im Hee-yeon's eyes, with a pale face, were more desperate than ever.
Lu Xian stared at her and let out a shallow sigh before slowly explaining.
“So…”
Starting from entering the abandoned factory, he described the scenes of dealing with the 666 Unit members one by one… Then, he had no choice but to shut his mouth at the point where he secured Im Hee-yeon.
Cheon Hye-rin, who was next to him, was surprised once again even though it was the second time she had heard it.
“…That's all I know. After that, I assume he moved alone and dealt with all the remnants.”
“Shinwoo killed all the people there alone?”
“…That's right. I tried to step in, but he didn't give me a chance. I think I was just getting in the way.”
All Lu Xian did there was distract the enemy's attention and protect Im Hee-yeon.
Of course, he wasn't unskilled either. But the potential that Shinwoo showed was something he had never seen even in the battlefields he had experienced so far.
Im Hee-yeon found it hard to believe even after hearing all that explanation.
“How could that happen… Where is Shinwoo? He's not hurt, is he?”
Only Cheon Hye-rin and Lu Xian were in the hospital room. In that situation, she was worried that Shinwoo might have been seriously injured and hospitalized like her.
“No. Shinwoo moved separately for a while at the abandoned factory where you were detained and then came back. He returned the equipment he borrowed from the security team and then went somewhere again.”
“Where to?”
Cheon Hye-rin sighed at her urging question.
“I don't know either. I was going to assign a separate security team just in case, but he shook them off.”
“Ah…”
“He looked perfectly fine without any injuries. So you don't have to worry.”
With comfort, Cheon Hye-rin stroked Im Hee-yeon's hair.
“What the hell is going on…”
“The thing is, if it wasn't for Shinwoo, you would have died there without a doubt.”
“I know that too.”
Im Hee-yeon had been prepared to die, so she kept provoking Cui Xun. In that sigh, worries suddenly arose.
“…But what if they target Shinwoo there?”
“This time, our Azure Feather Group will request the government to move the Snow Leopard Strike Force to rescue you. Then it will be difficult for them to target you again.”
The Snow Leopard Strike Force was the elite special forces directly under the Chinese police.
Cheon Hye-rin had the wealth and power to make such a request to the Chinese government.
“…Thank you.”
“More than that, take good care of your body first.”
“I will…”
Im Hee-yeon's complexion darkened rapidly.
At that sight, Cheon Hye-rin opened her mouth with a questioning expression.
“It will be impossible for the TSF China branch to target you or Shinwoo again right now.”
“Why… is that?”
“The remnants that Shinwoo dealt with are known to be Cui Xun and her bodyguard, Warren Cooper.”
“…Did Shinwoo do that too?”
It was a part that she hadn't explained in the previous conversation.
But since Im Hee-yeon was still worried, she needed to reassure her even a little.
“That's right. I heard that he tracked them down and cleaned them up after moving separately from the abandoned factory. The police force we sent late has secured the scene and the bodies. Of course, I didn't say anything about Shinwoo, so you don't have to worry.”
“What if the Chinese government still makes an issue of it?”
“They know that my security team moved there. And the Adopted Grandson is so thorough that he didn't leave any traces. Besides, honestly, who would believe it? That an entire unit was defeated by just one person…”
The only eyewitness was Lu Xian. And Lu Xian had a relationship of trust that he would not betray Cheon Hye-rin under any circumstances.
“What kind of work has that child been doing…”
“It wouldn't have been ordinary work.”
Cheon Hye-rin received the death records of Cui Xun and the 666 Unit members from the police. It was more shocking than anything she had ever seen.
In addition, Shinwoo had such combat power and even the information power of a company that was difficult to fathom.
If he wasn't Im Hee-yeon's son, she would have wanted to make him her own person by offering any conditions.
“Then, has there been any news about what happened to me?”
“That's right. So it's quite noisy outside right now. Inevitably, your relationship with me has been revealed.”
This was because the Azure Feather Group and the Chinese Ministry of State Security were involved in the case of Im Hee-yeon's kidnapping to the outside world.
“Are you okay?”
Cheon Hye-rin shrugged her shoulders.
“I don't have any problems. You were the one who asked me to keep it a secret all this time.”
“Ah…”
To Im Hee-yeon, Cheon Hye-rin and the Azure Feather Group were the last bastion. She kept it a secret because she didn't know what kind of movements Myung In-chul and his brothers would make if that relationship was revealed.
“Chairman Myung Joong-hwan has also contacted me, so it would be good for you to do it once.”
With the answer, Cheon Hye-rin placed the phone that had been opened in advance on the table next to Im Hee-yeon.