Workshop Raid Operation (3)
Park Jae-hyeok casually pulled the knife from Do-hwan's neck.
Do-hwan's eyes flew wide open in shock, blood gushing from the wound as he staggered and collapsed to the ground.
The thugs in A Workshop froze in confusion.
'What the...?! How did Assistant Manager Do-hwan fall so easily?!'
'Impossible!! How can someone with that kind of skill be working for Gangryonghoe instead of another organization?'
One of the thugs suddenly shouted, "Grab that bastard!! Now!!"
"Iyaak!!"
The thugs snapped out of their daze and charged straight at Park Jae-hyeok.
But the detectives blocked his path and took down every single thug in A Workshop.
During the chaos, a detective holding a knife shouted at Jae-hyeok, "Find Hwang Du-cheol!! Hurry!!"
Yoo Gang-jun, member of the Police Special Forces unit, dodged the attack from one of the charging members.
He then used his right elbow to smash the man's head, quickly stabbed, and pulled out the knife at his neck.
The other detectives, not from the special forces, used martial arts or batons to knock out the thugs without killing them.
With the detectives' help, Jae-hyeok continued searching for Hwang Du-cheol.
Suho followed behind him, supporting his movements as they hunted for Du-cheol.
"Block them!! Stop those guys!!"
"Gwaaaak!!"
"Kill them!! Kill them, you bastards!!"
"Kuhyeok!!"
The furious shouts of the thugs charging at Park Jae-hyeok and Suho echoed through the workshop.
The pained screams of those who fell to their blades mixed with the groans of the dying thugs as they slowly bled out, creating a tragic symphony in A Workshop.
During the fight, Suho watched Jae-hyeok with a mixture of surprise and disgust as he attacked the thugs alongside him.
'He said he was a cop, right?'
'And he only infiltrated the thugs for three months?'
'But the way he kills with a knife isn't ordinary at all.'
Suho saw Jae-hyeok as someone far beyond a regular police officer.
Even if he had been acting like a thug after infiltrating the syndicate, it was never easy to become accustomed to killing in just three months.
Yet Jae-hyeok seemed far too familiar with murder for only three months of undercover work.
As Jae-hyeok and Suho were finishing off the last of the thugs, Jae-hyeok's phone rang.
"This is Park Jae-hyeok."
"Mr. Park Jae-hyeok. This is Min-jeong, who works under Team Leader Park Min-hyeok."
On the roof of a nearby building, Min-jeong was observing the road near A Workshop through a sniper scope while on the phone with Jae-hyeok.
In her scope, several vans sped along the road, weaving between cars.
"Currently, support forces from Gangryonghoe are heading toward A Workshop."
"We'll try to stall them, but we need to get out of the scene as quickly as possible."
'Support forces from Gangryonghoe already?'
At that moment, Jung-hwan, who had been lying down beside her aiming a G28 sniper rifle, spoke up.
"I'll take out one first."
Jung-hwan steadied his breath, held it, and slowly pulled the trigger.
With a sharp "thwack," the shell casing fell onto the mat.
The bullet struck a tire on a moving van, puncturing it.
The van with the flat tire spun wildly and collided with another car.
"What the?! What's happening?!"
"It looks like a tire puncture!!"
The thugs inside the van panicked and scrambled.
Meanwhile, the remaining intact vans tried to pass between the stopped cars.
Then Jung-hwan shot at the tires of the other vans, puncturing them as well.
The normally busy road descended into chaos from the sudden collisions caused by the vans' flat tires.
While Jung-hwan was sniping at Gangryonghoe's vehicles, Min-jeong continued her call with Jae-hyeok.
"Anyway, get out of the scene as fast as possible."
"I haven't caught the workshop's boss yet."
"And there are many civilians trapped here..."
"Then save the civilians as much as possible and leave the workshop boss alone."
"Leaving the boss doesn't mean all the workshop's information is gone."
But Jae-hyeok believed it was better to secure Hwang Du-cheol's identity to completely dismantle the Gangryonghoe workshop.
'Many bosses managing Gangryonghoe business hold important information in their personal items.'
'Just taking out general information without catching the boss is like cutting off the tail of the Gangryonghoe snake.'
Even if you secure information about Gangryonghoe's criminal business operations, without securing the boss who holds key details, Gangryonghoe can deny the crimes, shift blame, bribe connected legal personnel, and commit new offenses as if nothing happened.
Like a lizard that had its tail cut off and regenerated a new one to live normally.
Therefore, Jae-hyeok could not let the workshop's boss escape.
So he decided to lie to Min-jeong.
"I understand. We'll do that."
"But you said you were sending support forces to the workshop."
"Support forces have already been dispatched to each scene, so don't worry."
"Yes. Understood."
Jae-hyeok hung up the phone, and Suho asked, "Who was that?"
"Our superiors."
"Ah, must be the National Police Agency."
At that moment, a few thugs in A Workshop spotted Jae-hyeok and Suho and shouted while brandishing their weapons.
"Grab them!! These are the bastards!!"
"These creepy bastards... no matter how you try, they're endless."
Saying that, Suho knocked out the thugs along with Jae-hyeok.
But they were also somewhat exhausted, so they began allowing minor attacks.
At that moment, a thug with a flame tattoo on the back of his right hand stabbed Jae-hyeok's left side with a shallow cut.
Jae-hyeok grabbed the guy's wrist with his left hand to barely defend.
He braced himself and hit the thug's jaw several times with his right fist.
The slightly staggering thug spread his legs to regain balance, revealing an opening.
Jae-hyeok kicked the thug's legs with his right foot.
The thug hit in the groin collapsed, and Jae-hyeok rummaged through his fallen pants pockets before continuing the fight.
After the fierce battle, as they roamed the workshop interior, they noticed some doors.
Suho, rolling his eyes around, asked Jae-hyeok, "The atmosphere is strange... Could they have locked up civilians here?"
Jae-hyeok rummaged through his pockets, took out some keys, and opened the door simply.
"Where did this key come from?"
"The guy I knocked out earlier had it."
'Most of the members with flame tattoos on the back of their hands are those who mainly manage the materials needed for the business.'
When Jae-hyeok was investigating Gangryonghoe in his previous life, he had secured information that those with flame tattoos on the back of their hands were the ones managing the materials needed for the business.
When Jae-hyeok opened the door, people with black lines like cut marks all over their naked bodies came into view.
They were men and women around 20-30 years old.
Suho gestured to go outside.
But they didn't rush out, and Jae-hyeok, to calm them, said, "We came to save you. Come outside."
"A-are you the police...?"
"It's not the police, but we came to save you. So trust us and come outside."
The victims hesitantly got up and walked out.
Jae-hyeok then used the walkie-talkie to report the situation.
"Alpha, Alpha. Beta. What's the current situation?"
"Beta. Good."
"We have secured the kidnapped victims from Gangryonghoe."
"Current location is basement 2nd floor."
"How are the victims' conditions?"
"There are no seriously injured individuals."
"Understood. We'll be there soon."
"Yes."
After ending the call, Jae-hyeok handed the key to Suho and said, "Mr. Park Su-ho. Open all these doors with this key and help the victims escape."
"What about you?"
"I'm going to find and catch the boss Hwang Du-cheol."
Suho asked worriedly, "Are you okay alone?"
"I'm fine, so trust me and leave it to me."
'If the skill I showed just now is real, catching Hwang Du-cheol alone shouldn't be a problem.'
"Understood. But don't get complacent."
Suho opened the other doors and rescued the kidnapped victims.
Jae-hyeok roamed inside the workshop looking for the boss's office.
D Workshop.
Detectives including Jin-cheol were fighting the thugs in D Workshop.
Jin-cheol and Sang-gyu were fighting them to protect the workshop.
But it was hard for them to take down specially selected detectives and police special forces members who had served in special units.
The D Workshop personnel had noticeably decreased, and Jin-cheol rushed at a detective and swung a sashimi knife.
The detective dodged Jin-cheol's attack and swung a baton at him.
Jin-cheol stepped back to barely avoid it, but his foot got caught in the body of a fallen thug bleeding, and he fell backward.
Then the detective swung the baton at Jin-cheol's head.
At that moment, Sang-gyu threw a long sword at the detective.
The detective dodged the flying long sword, and Sang-gyu helped Jin-cheol up.
"What the hell are these bastards?"
"I don't know. They seem like guys from another organization."
"They're too arrogant. They're talking about fighting Gangryonghoe?"
While the detective was looking at Jin-cheol and Sang-gyu and preparing to fight, Jong-seok rushed at the detective swinging a machete.
Jong-seok swung the machete at the detective repeatedly, and the detective dodged and looked for an opening.
Jin-cheol and Sang-gyu ran away together.
Jong-seok continued fighting the detective.
When Jong-seok tried to swing the machete widely, the detective stepped back slightly, swung the baton, and hit Jong-seok's wrist.
"Aaak!!"
Jong-seok screamed and dropped the machete, then the baton hit his knee.
Jong-seok, whose balance was greatly shaken, staggered and gave an opening.
The detective activated the electric shock function on the baton and pressed the end of the current-carrying baton to Jong-seok's neck to knock him out.
Jin-cheol and Sang-gyu kept running and fought the detectives blocking them.
But their combat power was weak to take them down, so they repeatedly clashed and then fled when they saw an opening.
Myeon-hwan was indiscriminately massacring the thugs using military martial arts with a knife.
'To disguise as a fight between thugs, it's better to kill them.'
'By the way, where is the boss's office?'
At that moment, an urgent voice came from Myeon-hwan's walkie-talkie.
"Unknown personnel have entered the scene!! Shit...!!"
With a "kwaduk" sound, the connection cut off, and Myeon-hwan felt something was wrong.
'Support coming from Gangryonghoe? They came so fast...??'
At that moment, a man holding a knife rushed at Myeon-hwan from behind.
Myeon-hwan, sensing the presence, turned his body to respond to the attack.
Myeon-hwan stepped and dodged the man's attack while turning, and saw the face of the man who attacked him.
The man was a Southeast Asian foreign national in his late 30s with black hair and beard, glaring at Myeon-hwan with eyes full of killing intent.
Soon, the two men were swinging their knives in a fierce knife fighting.
'This guy... He doesn't look like some unknown foreign mercenary.'
The foreign man fought Myeon-hwan using knife fighting skills and strikes with elbows and knees.
While Myeon-hwan was exchanging blows with him, he analyzed his fighting skills.
It seemed like the mainstream was strikes using elbows and knees, like Muay Thai.
But to Myeon-hwan, it felt different from ordinary Muay Thai.
'It doesn't seem like ordinary Muay Thai. Is it military Lethwei...?'
"Arakara!! Stop!!"
With someone's shout, the foreign man stepped back and distanced himself from Myeon-hwan.
Then Ju Tae-yeol appeared in front of Myeon-hwan.
The foreign man called 'Arakara' stared blankly at Ju Tae-yeol.
He then lightly bowed his head to Ju Tae-yeol in respect and moved to another place obediently.
Ju Tae-yeol looked at Myeon-hwan with an expressionless face, as if emotions were dried up, wondering what he was thinking.
His appearance was eerie, as if he could kill anyone at any moment without blinking an eye.
'That guy is Ju Tae-yeol...'
'In the UDT/SEAL days, he was quite a skilled person until he committed embezzlement.'
'They say if the embezzled amount was a little less, the upper management would have quietly overlooked it.'
Recalling Ju Tae-yeol's specs, Myeon-hwan tensed up.
While Ju Tae-yeol was looking at Myeon-hwan, he took out his knife.
Tae-hyun next to Ju Tae-yeol asked worriedly, "Hyung. Are you okay?"
"Looking at his movements, he seems like a military guy, but he's using firearms..."
"Shut up and stay still."
Saying that, the killing intent slowly rising in Ju Tae-yeol's eyes as he looked at Myeon-hwan.
Suddenly, Ju Tae-yeol narrowed the distance to Myeon-hwan and swung his knife at him.