# 46
046
The reward for the level 3 corps gate was 50 billion.
To put it in an analogy, the production costs of two high-budget commercial films targeting 10 million viewers have been taken into account.
In less than 30 minutes.
In exactly 20 minutes.
“I will follow you for the rest of my life, Han Dae-seong.”
This was today’s profit.
Daesung and Seong Chan-ho were having fun driving.
Tiring-!
A notification arrived on Daesung’s phone.
When I took it out and checked it, it was an alarm notifying me that money had been deposited into my mobile banking account.
50000000000 won.
After confirming the attack on the level 3 gate, KHA immediately deposited 50 billion won into Daesung’s account.
‘…It’s easy.’
Now, it seemed like Seong Chan-ho’s impassioned remarks about hunters being the type of people who make a lot of money are being felt.
Moreover, isn’t this the first money you’ve earned from work since returning to Earth? In a legal way.
It was the same for everyone who received a reasonable reward after hard work and felt joy.
“Han Dae-seong.”
“Why are you suddenly being polite?”
“For just one day today, I will serve as your boss.”
“Do as you will.”
Seong Chan-ho was also so excited that his smile almost reached his ears.
“Except compensation, leave all handling of the by-products to me. “I’m really going to spend all the money I don’t have, leaving not a single speck behind.”
“I’ll trust you.”
“If there’s another gate you want to block, tell me! “I’ll win permission to attack at lightning speed before I spit on the other bastards!”
It’s really reliable.
Daesung was once again very satisfied with having Sung Chan-ho as his exclusive partner.
If it weren’t for him, he would have had to handle the by-product processing and obtaining the gate permit on his own.
Just thinking about it gave me a headache.
Buaang-!
Seong Chan-ho put his foot down on the accelerator and burst into laughter as he sprinted down the unevenly paved road.
“If it weren’t for you, Daesung, I would still be under pressure from this manager at the company until now!”
Additionally, he did not write a letter of resignation in a spirited manner.
I just wanted to be absent without notice for about 10 days and hope that they would kick me out on their own.
“Today I’m having a treat at an awesome place! No, I will take you there! Daeseong Han!”
“Please take me to Kkachisan Station.”
“Oh Magpie Mountain? Why did Magpie Mountain suddenly appear? “Do you know any good restaurants there?”
“no.”
“Then why are you going there?”
Seong Chan-ho, whose lifelong dream was to drink happily while others were working, asked with a slightly sullen expression.
Of course, on a day like this, Daesung also wanted to take his time and relieve his worries by having a drink with Seong Chan-ho.
but.
Did I tell you to remove the ox horn as soon as possible?
As I was thinking about it, I wanted to stop by ‘there’ and finish off some of my backlog.
‘They said the black market was there.’
The black market where the secret funds of the Shinheungdong faction were said to be located by Kang Hyeon-do, who is now a commander.
It was said that a large amount of money worth 3 billion won was in the safe.
‘I can’t give up.’
Even if today’s profit is 50 billion won, 3 billion won does not mean that it is a small amount of money.
Also, it was not a small amount to give up just because it was an illegal black market, obsessed with the professionalism of being a hunter.
“I’m sorry, but let’s go somewhere awesome next time.”
Daesung was a man who would do anything and get everything he could.
***
If Yongsan was the mecca of IT, Magpie Mountain in Hwagok-dong, where the black market is located, was the mecca of illegality.
To that extent, all the words that come to mind when you think of ‘illegal’ were prevalent in this black market.
Drugs, prostitution, gambling, etc.
Today’s black market, with the advent of monsters, can be seen as adding illegal gate attack permits and the sale of unauthorized hunter equipment.
“Those guys over there? okay. Thank you for your cooperation, Master.”
And if illegality is tolerated and the benefits gained increase.
From then on, illegality became a ‘necessary evil’ and was practiced secretly in society.
That was the reason why KHA tolerated the existence of the black market even though it knew about it.
“This is what the association requested, so this level of cooperation is natural. If there is anything you would like me to entrust to you in the future, please let me know at any time.”
“Besides, if there are any of them who come and go here, keep in touch.”
“Is there a yes or no?”
Song Man-soo, the master of the black market, kept nodding his head towards the brown-haired man in front of him.
Go Gwang-hyeon, a hunter belonging to KHA.
He was hiding in the black market after receiving information from Song Man-soo, who had previously entrusted him with a job.
The content of the job was simple.
If a person related to < Red Demon > visits the black market, report it immediately.
And after seeing Hongma officials hanging around the black market the other day, Song Man-soo immediately contacted Go Gwang-hyeon.
In this way, KHA turned a blind eye to the illegal activities taking place in the black market instead of cooperating with their investigation.
“Where… now all that’s left is to get the timing right.”
Inside a black market filled with smoke from marijuana and opium.
Go Gwang-hyeon’s gaze was focused on a man and a woman in simple clothes playing mahjong with two ethnic Korean men.
“theory! theory!”
They were two members of < Red Ma >, to whom Song Man-soo had just sold information.
Go Gwang-hyeon burst into laughter.
“They don’t even know that their clan is going to be turned upside down, and Ron is a complete mess… They are easy-going guys.”
It has been five hours since President Park Jeong-ho’s order to punish < Hongma > was issued.
It was an order to arrest not only the leader, Lee Seok-woo, but also all members below him.
This was also evidence that KHA already views < Red Ma > as a large-scale criminal organization rather than just a clan.
‘The two guys… their awakening level is both B level. ‘There won’t be any difficulty in catching it.’
It was an easy task for Go Gwang-hyeon, a class A awakener who was a strong contender for the top spot among the association’s hunters.
Now all you have to do is time it appropriately and attack.
No, there is no need for that.
‘Why am I just sitting there watching those guys gambling?’
The smell of opium wafting from everywhere was making me dizzy.
That was when Go Gwang-hyeon, who had decided to grab those two guys and get out of this place, took his steps.
Grrrr-!
“hmm?”
Isn’t it the first person from over there who suddenly jumps out of his seat and stands up?
And that’s while the game was in full swing.
“What…”
Go Gwang-hyeon frowned and quietly stared at the two’s movements.
The two were whispering with serious faces and pointing somewhere with their fingers.
Go Gwang-hyeon’s gaze also turned to the direction the finger pointed.
There.
“Are you talking about that guy?”
A large man wearing a deep hood and sunglasses appeared in the black market.
***
No matter how much you wear a hood and sunglasses, there are things that cannot be hidden with such crude camouflage.
Such were his huge height of 190, his white hair sticking out, and the scars on his face and nape of his neck.
“It can’t be a coincidence, right?”
“uh. “It’s definitely not a coincidence.”
The pony-haired man answered what the pony-haired woman asked.
The two were from the < Red Ma > side.
I had been wandering around Magpie Mountain for almost half a day after receiving Lee Seok-woo’s order to stay hidden in the black market.
Finally, they were able to find the handsome man that Seok-Woo Lee had told them to keep an eye on.
“What are the chances that someone with that kind of force in Korea would come to the black market here?”
It is unlikely that someone would look similar ‘by chance’.
The two were convinced that the man they were looking at was their target.
The messy-haired man said.
“First, report it to the leader. “Now I want to get out of this damn opium den.”
“I agree, shit.”
The ponytail woman nodded and immediately took out her cell phone and called Seokwoo Lee.
The signal continued for a long time.
And….
“….”
“What’s wrong? “Don’t you accept it?”
The woman, who held the receiver to her ear for a while, frowned in confusion and answered.
“huh. “You’re not accepting it?”
***
Same time.
KHA firmly drew his sword.
Last night, an employee of the surveillance department, his entire body covered in blood, returned to the association in tears.
Holding a gift box in one hand.
What’s in the box.
It was Kim Seong-su’s head from the surveillance department sent with that employee.
As per Lee Seok-woo’s wish.
His message was conveyed very well to Park Jeong-ho.
In addition to the assistance of the hunting teams in Hwagok-dong, where the < Hongma > headquarters is located, KHA also deployed 15 hunters from the association and a fully armed special cavalry unit to the < Hongma > headquarters.
Everyone who knew the inside story predicted this.
That there will be war today.
however.
“…How can this be?”
The scene of reality that has unfolded just now.
It far exceeded the expectations of all ten people.
“What is all this…?”
An expression of astonishment appeared on the face of Jin Ki-hong, the A-class awakened person in charge of this operation and in full command of the hunting team and cavalry.
It’s not just Jin Ki-hong.
Without exception, everyone in the dozens of hunters and dozens of cavalry that followed him swallowed their breath and froze like a stone on the spot.
Blood, with a thick bloody smell, was flowing on the asphalt floor like a pond.
And above the river of blood, corpses with their necks cut or limbs cut off formed a sea of blood.
“…These are the kids from the < Red Demon > side, right?”
A tall skyscraper.
At the entrance to the headquarters of the < Red Demon >, a mass of death that was difficult to see with open eyes was spread out in the middle of the city center.
“….”
Jin Ki-hong and his subordinates, who had pledged to make a life-or-death decision, felt the discomfort of their entire bodies draining of blood.
My head and chest, which had been hot at the thought of a blood clot, cooled down as if I had been poured with dry ice.
They entered the building with pale complexions.
From the empty lobby on the first floor to the second and third floors with a wide open space.
It was very quiet, not a single rat passed by.
However, the bloody wind from the entrance from earlier floated over the empty scene, causing some weak-willed hunters to gasp and gag.
“…keeps going.”
Jin Ki-hong, who was at the forefront, led his subordinates up the stairs without letting go of his nerves.
I heard that Lee Seok-woo is in the penthouse on the top floor of the building.
The problem was that, looking at the mess at the entrance of the building, I had no idea that Lee Seok-woo would be in the penthouse in good condition.
No, I have no idea what it is.
I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
And that question was solved as soon as Jin
Ki-
hong arrived at the top floor and carefully opened the emergency exit door leading to the penthouse.
“omg!”
“Woof!”
The moment the answer was revealed.
Some hunters with weak stomachs who were desperately trying to swallow their nausea couldn’t stand it anymore and started vomiting.
However, no one criticized the behavior.
Because the scene that unfolded before my eyes was worth it.
“…What a tragedy.”
Jin Ki-hong closed his eyes tightly and shook his head.
Inside the penthouse, dead bodies were spread all over the place in a way that was even more horrific and disgusting than the devastation at the entrance.
What if the corpses at the entrance had just had their limbs cut off by something like a blade?
The corpses in the penthouse had their limbs bent in a way that could not be broken in a merciless manner, showing not even an ounce of mercy.
To the point where I thought I couldn’t even break a ball-jointed doll like this.
Some corpses were even lying on the ground, with their necks bent backwards and their heads touching their backs.
When I looked closely, I saw that it was Lee Seok-woo.
“…You shouldn’t have done this.”
And in front of Lee Seok-woo, who was horribly murdered.
Hwang Jun-young was standing there.
That was the reason why Jin Ki-hong just said the word ‘tragedy.’
“….”
Hwang Jun-young looked like a demon with his entire body covered in blood.
Jin Ki-hong also knew what he had been through recently.
Therefore, the context of all this tragedy was understood at once.
“You say it’s to avenge your disciple, but this has crossed the line. “Director Hwang Jun-young.”
“….”
“There’s no way you wouldn’t know that there were non-awakened ordinary people among the dead.”
The only time a hunter can exercise self-defense is when he is attacked with murderous intent by the same hunter.
It was confusing.
It’s not that I don’t understand that feeling, but… I wanted to say, but this was too much.
“Hwang Jun-young only-”
Jin Ki-hong was barely able to open his dry lips.
Shaking my head.
Suddenly Hwang Junyoung shook his head.
Jin Ki-hong closed his mouth for a moment.
Junyoung Hwang said.
“It’s true that I did the outside.”
“yes?”
Hwang Jun-young, who couldn’t figure out what he wanted to say, wrinkled his eyebrows. Hwang
Jun-
young, who had only been showing his back so far, turned his head and glanced at Jin Ki-hong.
The side face of Hwang Jun-young revealed at first glance.
Like Jin Ki-hong, he was filled with astonishment.
“But I didn’t do this.”