Overwhelming Strength
Myeong-hwan was startled by Tae-yeol's speed, which was faster than he had expected.
In an instant, Tae-yeol's knife flew toward Myeong-hwan's neck.
Myeong-hwan tried to take a defensive stance.
But Tae-yeol pulled his arm back, stepped back to create distance, then lunged forward again toward Myeong-hwan.
Myeong-hwan tried to defend by slapping Tae-yeol's wrist with his left hand.
He quickly tried to pull his left hand back, but Tae-yeol got closer and grabbed his left arm with his left hand.
Myeong-hwan aimed his knife at Tae-yeol's neck.
Yet Tae-yeol formed a straight punch with his left hand and used the edge of his hand to deflect Myeong-hwan's right arm, defending the attack.
Simultaneously, Tae-yeol extended his straight punch toward Myeong-hwan's neck, striking near his carotid artery.
Myeong-hwan lost his rhythm for a moment and staggered, giving Tae-yeol the chance to extend his knife again to stab Myeong-hwan's neck.
'Must regain consciousness!! Hurry up and get your senses back!!'
Myeong-hwan barely held onto his wavering consciousness and tried to slap Tae-yeol's right arm with his left hand to defend.
'Stop him here and step back...?!'
Suddenly, Tae-yeol bent his right arm and turned the knife held in his right hand upside down.
He twisted his body counterclockwise and wrapped his right arm around Myeong-hwan's left arm.
Without time for Myeong-hwan to react, the knife held upside down by Tae-yeol pierced Myeong-hwan's abdomen and chest.
After that, Tae-yeol embedded the blade into Myeong-hwan's chest and rotated his body clockwise, pulling out the knife from his chest.
As he pulled out the blade, he turned the knife upside down again, gripped it normally, and stabbed it into Myeong-hwan's neck.
Tae-yeol pushed the knife handle down with his left hand to drive the blade deeper into Myeong-hwan's neck.
When Tae-yeol twisted the knife with his left hand and pulled it out, red blood flowed out from Myeong-hwan's neck.
Thus, Myeong-hwan fell lifelessly.
"You bastard!!"
Seeing this, one detective swung his baton and charged at Tae-yeol, but he tilted his body sideways and rotated counterclockwise to easily dodge the attack.
Simultaneously, Tae-yeol moved the knife from his left hand to his right hand.
He grabbed the detective's wrist with his left hand, immediately let go, quickly formed a fist with his left hand, and struck the detective's solar plexus.
"Kuhuk...!!"
The detective groaned in pain and retreated backward.
Tae-yeol turned the knife in his right hand to hold it upside down.
He stabbed the knife's blade into the detective's neck and twisted it to cut off his breath.
And Tae-yeol quickly dispatched and defeated the detectives who were charging at him, just like before.
Meanwhile, Jin-cheol and Sang-gyu, watching this, were frozen in shock at Tae-yeol's overwhelming strength.
These mysterious beings who were easily defeating the other gangsters including themselves.
They were falling to just one man, Ju Tae-yeol, at high speed.
They couldn't even land a single attack on him and were all collapsing and dying.
'What the... Is that... Is that really a person...?!'
'So overwhelmingly strong... Is there anyone who can defeat such a monster...?'
After defeating most of the detectives, Tae-yeol instructed his subordinate mercenaries.
"Leave one or two. You need to find out where they came from."
"Understood."
And they engaged the other detectives, and he leisurely walked around the interior of the workshop.
Meanwhile, on a certain road.
The gangsters including Ryu Sang-tae couldn't move to A workshop because the van's tire was punctured.
"Why did the tire suddenly get punctured?"
"I don't know."
Sang-tae furrowed his brows and muttered to himself.
"Damn it... How the hell did they manage the road maintenance?"
And about 800m away, on the rooftop of a building, Jung-hwan was looking at them through the scope of his sniper rifle.
"Should we retreat now?"
To Jung-hwan's question, Min-jeong answered.
"Not yet. We don't know how the Gangryonghoe guys will act, so let's observe more and then decide to retreat."
Meanwhile, Sang-tae surveyed the chaotic road situation and asked his subordinate.
"Any civilian casualties?"
"No deaths, but some injuries."
"Damn it."
"Let's just take a taxi for now."
"Tell the others to form teams and take taxis too."
"Understood."
At that moment, a taxi was passing near them.
Sang-tae hailed the taxi, and with his 3 subordinates, he got in.
"Driver. Please take us to this address."
Sang-tae showed the driver the address of A workshop written on his phone.
"Drive as fast as possible."
"I'll triple the fare upon arrival."
"Yes. Understood."
And the taxi carrying Sang-tae's group sped along the road.
Seeing this, Jung-hwan said to Min-jeong.
"They took a taxi?"
"I have eyes too."
"What now? Will the taxi get punctured too?"
"Since we're still within range, hurry..."
"Leave it. If the taxi gets punctured in this situation, other people will think something's wrong with the situation."
"Then just let them go?"
"We've bought enough time."
"About 10 minutes have passed, so rushing now won't change anything."
Min-jeong was relieved, thinking that Jae-hyeok had received his call and immediately retreated.
But unlike Min-jeong's thoughts, Jae-hyeok had not yet retreated.
'Where was the boss's office around here...'
Jae-hyeok, wearing a mask, walked around the workshop looking for the boss's office.
The gangsters in A workshop saw Jae-hyeok and charged at him, and Jae-hyeok defeated them and cleared the path.
"Damn... My body's getting heavier... "
"I should have caught Hwang Du-cheol before I got too tired..."
No matter how outstanding Jae-hyeok's combat power was, after fighting many for a long time, he was starting to feel the limits of his stamina.
"I wish I could take off this annoying mask,"
"But if I take it off here and my identity is revealed, it'll be troublesome."
At that moment, one gangster swung a steel pipe at Jae-hyeok's head.
Jae-hyeok barely tilted his body back to dodge the attack.
But Jae-hyeok didn't have proper balance and staggered, fell backward.
"Fell!! Get him!!"
"Step on his balls!!"
The gangsters all rushed to the fallen Jae-hyeok and swung their weapons.
Jae-hyeok wrapped his head with both arms and curled up to defend his head and vital points as much as possible.
At that time, he moved towards the ankle of one of the gangsters beating him and stabbed his ankle repeatedly with his knife.
"Aaaah!!"
The one attacked in the ankle screamed and fell.
And Jae-hyeok continued swinging his knife to slash the gangsters' ankles and insteps.
"Aah!!"
"Kill him!! Kill that bastard!!"
"Kuaaaak!!"
A short while later, Jae-hyeok rolled his body to create distance from the gangsters, picked up the fallen steel pipe from the floor, and stood up.
Then he struck the vital points like heads, necks, etc. of the gangsters who were charging at him or had fallen after ankle attacks with the steel pipe.
The gangsters attacked in the vital points fell, bursting blood from their heads or showing whites of eyes after neck hits.
Some gangsters, in fear of Jae-hyeok's ruthless violence and overwhelming strength, tried to crawl away.
At that time, Jae-hyeok stepped on the back of one of the crawling gangsters, and he let out a terrified scream.
"S, save me!! Please save me!!"
To this, Jae-hyeok asked in a voice full of killing intent.
"You said that... Haven't I heard something like that somewhere...?"
Then that gangster recalled a scene.
Himself and his colleagues calmly injecting neuromuscular blockers into the victim's body who was screaming to be saved,
The image of extracting organs from the frozen victim's body and crushing the remaining body without care,
The scenes of raping female victims who were crying and begging to be saved.
After doing such things for a long time, he finally realized that the victims' situations were exactly like his current situation.
"Damn it..."
The steel pipe swung by Jae-hyeok shattered the gangster's head.
The gangster with his head shattered, blood and brain fluid flowing, twitched and died.
Bloody Jae-hyeok, who had massacred the gangsters, moved his steps while catching his breath.
After a while, he reached the door and saw the gangsters guarding it.
The gangsters, seeing Jae-hyeok covered in blood, pulled out their sashimi knives.
"What?! Who the hell are you?!"
And Jae-hyeok charged silently at the gangsters without saying a word.
So, in the middle of Jae-hyeok clashing with the gangsters and fighting.
Inside the room beyond the door, Boss Hwang Du-cheol was having lewd time with a certain woman.
Without thinking about the horrific things happening outside, even in his dreams.
At that time, several "bang" sounds rang out from outside.
"Shit... Is that bastard playing too roughly with Dohyun?"
Two-cheol thought the sound was his subordinate Cho Dohyun suppressing the intruders.
And he took out the Colt M1911A1 pistol from the drawer next to the bed in preparation for any situation.
When he reached the door, Two-cheol shouted at the door.
"Doh-wan!! Play it slow!! It's too noisy!!"
But no answer came from outside.
'What's this? Why is it so quiet...?'
Suddenly, the door burst open and the door slammed into Two-cheol's face.
Two-cheol fell backward and did a somersault.
And Jae-hyeok, covered in blood, entered the room and approached Two-cheol.
Two-cheol aimed the gun at him, but Jae-hyeok slightly tilted his body, then struck Two-cheol's wrist with his right foot.
The gun flew from Two-cheol's hand, which had lost strength, and fell to the floor.
And Jae-hyeok struck Two-cheol's face with the back of his right foot, and he spurted nosebleed and fell backward.
Bloody Jae-hyeok climbed onto the fallen Two-cheol and beat him mercilessly.
The woman who saw this scene covered her body with the blanket and screamed.
But Jae-hyeok didn't care about the woman screaming and focused on beating Two-cheol to neutralize him.
A short while later, Two-cheol, whose face was bloody, asked while lying down.
"Puha... Haa... You... Who are you...? From the rough place...?"
To this, Jae-hyeok silently struck his neck with a straight punch to knock him unconscious.
Then he looked around and saw the handcuffs used by Two-cheol for SM play and picked them up.
'Although the binding power is weaker than other handcuffs since it's for SM play... But right now, there's nothing better.'
The woman, watching Jae-hyeok in fear, begged while sobbing.
"Please save me... Please save me... I'll do anything you tell me..."
To this, Jae-hyeok answered bluntly towards her.
"I won't kill you, so don't say anything about what you saw today."
"And there will be a few more people coming, so don't get scared unnecessarily because they're not people coming to kill you."
Then the woman nodded quickly while still scared.
And Jae-hyeok turned the unconscious Two-cheol's both arms behind his back, cuffed both wrists with handcuffs, and contacted somewhere with the walkie-talkie.
"Alpha, Alpha. Beta. Respond."
"Beta. Receiving."
"Secured Hwang Du-cheol."
"Since it's hard to move him alone, if you could send support personnel, it would be appreciated."
"Understood. Sending personnel now."
"Thank you."
"Yes. You too."
And Jae-hyeok ended the walkie-talkie and looked down at the unconscious Two-cheol lying limply.