Chapter 179 : Just Give Him a Pencil
Chapter 179: Just Give Him a Pencil
Puk!
“···!”
The first target was a guard openly patrolling.
Baek Woohyun descended silently behind him, covering his mouth with one hand while thrusting the military dagger with the other.
The sharp blade cunningly dug into the nape of his neck, severing the spinal cord precisely. Ensuring the target couldn’t do anything except widen his eyes.
Even if he somehow survived, the guard would spend the rest of his life in a completely paralyzed state, unable to move a single finger.
Of course, Baek Woohyun had no intention of leaving any chance of survival. The way he forcefully twisted and pulled out the military blade made that clear.
He had resolved from the start to kill them all.
“···?”
Puk!
“···!”
The next guard, who glanced back after vaguely sensing his comrade’s death, became the next target.
The blade, still covered in sticky blood, stabbed into his throat.
Again, he couldn’t even scream as Baek Woohyun’s hand firmly covered his mouth.
Two members of the three-person patrol team were dead, leaving only one.
Quite ridiculously, the last guard hadn’t even noticed his two comrades had died behind him and kept moving forward.
In other words, he was offering his neck defenseless to the Grim Reaper who had come to claim his life.
Udeuk!
“······.”
With a chilling sound, the strength drained from the guard’s body. It was natural—no non-Awakener could survive with a broken neck.
Even if he were an Awakener, unless he specialized in close combat, it would be difficult to survive with his head twisted to the point of nearly being torn off.
The astonishing fact was that killing all three took barely over five seconds.
It was truly a feat only a seasoned assassin could display. Only someone who had killed enemies in silence for a very long time could do this.
“······.”
After that, Baek Woohyun’s assassination continued without stopping.
The guards who were standing around carelessly died one after another without exception whenever they encountered him.
However, it was hard to call it their fault. It was like blaming someone for not preventing a sudden natural disaster.
After all, the Grim Reaper is called that because ordinary humans cannot stop it.
“Hmm.”
Baek Woohyun even searched the bodies of dead guards along the way, obtaining a radio and a map that divided the nearby area into Zones A and B for convenience.
It was clear proof of how leisurely he was eliminating enemies.
‘Those bastards won’t be able to ambush from behind. Then.’
Baek Woohyun even thoroughly utilized the functions of his newly acquired Special Agent combat uniform.
The upper part of the combat uniform, made of special material, changed color when turned inside out and shaken a few times, transforming into somewhat unusual casual clothes—which he actively utilized.
The fact that the mask could be separated from the combat uniform top and worn like a mask was also very helpful.
In short, he transformed his appearance to look like just an ordinary person wearing a mask. A sight commonly seen on the streets.
Even a Security Captain, not just guards, would be deceived unless they were specifically on alert.
Similarly, it was impossible for guards whose vigilance had relaxed because they thought he was a civilian in disguise.
“When can we get reinforcements?”
“Don’t know. Seems they’re in chaos too. We’ve already had so many problems lately—”
Tuyuk.
“—they said, uh···?”
“What?!” “What happened?”
The guard who bumped into Baek Woohyun suddenly staggered and collapsed as if his legs had given out, and his surprised colleagues rushed toward him.
If they had just a bit more time, they would have discovered the blood staining the fallen guard’s abdomen.
And they would have realized that the civilian who briefly brushed past had cunningly stabbed their comrade.
“Are you alright?”
“Ah, I’m fine. I just got dizzy for a moment—”
Seogеok!
Of course, Baek Woohyun wasn’t one to just stand by and watch.
He approached as if concerned about the person who suddenly collapsed, and just as he had stabbed the comrade, he slit another guard’s throat.
The guard, who tried to push away the ordinary civilian approaching, collapsed forward without even a proper reaction.
“What-?!”
The guard who realized his two comrades had been killed tried to shout, but it was already too late.
After all, even if three people had rushed at him together fully prepared, they couldn’t have scratched Baek Woohyun.
His only remaining option was to become just another guard killed by Baek Woohyun, like the previous two.
Seogеok!
***
“Wow···.”
-This is literally robbing someone blind
-ㄴㄴ It’s cutting throats with eyes open
-Fucking crazy
-He’d be insane at stealth action games ㅋㅋ
Baek Woohyun’s appearance, eliminating guards one after another without delay, naturally brought admiration to the studio.
As they say, even a dog at a village school recites poetry after three years—his assassination, having spent a long time with infiltration and assassination master Kim Youngjun from ‘that side,’ was truly textbook.
The sight of guards collapsing in mere seconds without even managing to scream was so impressive they couldn’t help but exclaim.
-But how do you stop Hackphysical if he does this?
-Obviously you can’t and die
-Absolutely can’t stop him right? Can’t stop ㅇㅇ Then everyone dies right? Everyone dies ㅇㅇ
-Crazy ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
‘ㅇㅇ’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[Suspiciously good with weapons, good at killing people, good with bombs, skilled at threats, and perfect at assassination—what a college student. Hmm]
“Hey now!”
-Huk
-What
-ㄷㄷ;
-He’s an ordinary college student, stop slandering
“Right. Woohyun is just an ordinary college student. He even went to college with me, and I have lots of photos from his college days.”
“A secret agent who attended college as an alibi···?”
“No way!”
“Shocking news! Mr. Cheater’s identity was actually FBI or CIA···?”
“Now even Chloe!”
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So funny ㅋㅋ
-Her reactions are too good ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Teasing Jeong is the most fun ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Apart from enjoying teasing Jeong Nayeon, the topic of Baek Woohyun’s identity heated up more than expected.
They had joked half-seriously about him being a secret agent or whatever like a meme, but what he showed today in the ‘Hack Tour’ content was too terrifying.
‘ㅇㅇ’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[Actually, Jeong might be an agent dispatched to provide Hackphysical’s alibi··· I’ll stop here]
“No way! ···No way?”
“Why are you looking at me like that, Seongcheol-nim?”
“You can tell me everything, Nayeon!”
“That’s why, Chloe. I’ve been earnestly telling only the truth this whole time.”
-What’s with saying everything then stopping ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Explain! Explain!
-No way ㅇㅈㄹ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Not true right? / Yes / Alright, good job.
“Gyaaak!”
Especially the scene where Baek Woohyun disguised himself as a civilian and eliminated three guards pretending to be civilians had a huge impact.
The way he casually bumped into them, stabbed and took them down, then used that to easily approach and dispose of the other two looked like something out of a movie.
“Well, jokes aside. I feel this every ‘Hack Tour,’ but Hackphysical really fights well in various ways.”
-He really is an all-Master
-If he can use the wheel spinner, that says it all
-I still remember the Phantom Swordsman build ㄷㄷ How did he use it like that?
-Using supernatural ability builds for the first time and still using them perfectly is broken
“Mm. It’s a bit different. Hackphysical does use various supernatural ability builds well, but what I want to talk about is the diversity of his combat methods themselves.”
Cha Seongcheol’s eyes gleamed with a serious expression.
It was like the aura of someone who appears as a commentator at official tournaments was emanating.
He looked at Baek Woohyun on screen, who was ambushing another guard from behind to take his life, and opened his mouth.
“It’s more like the person himself is so familiar with combat that he can fight in various ways, you know? To put it bluntly, even if you just gave him a pencil, he could easily kill about ten guards.”
-Hack Wick ㄷㄷ
-“Fucking pencil”
-Surprisingly, facts)
-In the time you’re chatting, our Hack Wick kills one more enemy
***
‘That makes twelve. Four teams total.’
Baek Woohyun thought it was quite a good pace.
It was much slower than openly massacring everyone, but it couldn’t be any faster while cleanly handling the aftermath without causing a disturbance.
Especially considering the enemy numbers he saw from the rooftop were just under forty. A quarter had died by his hands alone.
Chijik, chik!
-Emergency! Enemy attack confirmed in Zone B10!
However, judging from the urgent cry from the radio obtained from a killed guard, the assassination seemed to end here.
He guessed that patrol team discovered the bodies Kim Hana left while roaming. It would be hard for Kim Hana to cleanly dispose of bodies too.
Or she would have to kill even the guards disguised as civilians without exception like Baek Woohyun, but that was only possible for him who had experienced ‘that side.’
No matter how long she had worked as a Special Agent, it would be impossible for Kim Hana, who hadn’t fought the Research Facility and Corporate Alliance for ten years like him.
“···!”
“Move!”
As if openly showing their lax discipline, even the guards who had been sitting in cafes pretending to watch outside hurriedly got up from their seats.
Yet they didn’t return to the building where the Reverse World, which could be called their headquarters, was located.
Swish.
‘Since Kim Hana got caught.’
Baek Woohyun, who increased the number of killed guards to fifteen in one stroke, wiped the military dagger’s blade and his eyes gleamed.
Although assassination was reasonably comfortable, it wasn’t his forte, so he felt combat had finally begun.
‘Now I don’t need to hesitate either.’
Baek Woohyun didn’t hesitate.
If one side got caught and caused a disturbance, he had decided to immediately cause a disturbance on the other side to create confusion.
He took out the radio he had obtained earlier, lightly cleared his throat, and shouted.
“Emergency! Enemy attack confirmed in Zone A7! Damn! Too many enemies! Request immediate support!”
-Request confirmed!
The enemy confirmed only Kim Hana in Zone B10.
In that situation, hearing a radio transmission that a fairly large force was spotted in Zone A7 on the opposite side, their judgment was obvious.
When a small number of elites caused a disturbance on the opposite side for a feint attack, they would think the real main force was attacking.
Then it was easy to predict where they would pour more troops.
‘Good.’
Taat!
Baek Woohyun, who spread false information through intelligence obtained in advance, kicked off the ground.
He launched his body upward, not forward, landed on a house rooftop, and ran toward the enemy headquarters he had confirmed with Kim Hana at high speed.
He judged that enemy forces deployed outside for control and surveillance had mostly been eliminated by him, so enemies would have come out from the Reverse World.
Simultaneously, he grabbed and pulled out the chain scythe from the shadows in one motion.
‘They’re conveniently gathered together.’
Chwareureureuk!
Baek Woohyun smiled coldly at the guards gathered in front of the Reverse World house, preparing to depart.