Chapter 197 : Convoy Vehicle Raid
Chapter 197: Convoy Vehicle Raid
‘ㅇㅇ’ donated ‘1,000 won’!
[Wouldn’t it be wrong to say that crazy people only gather around Hackphysical?]
“Uh-uh! That’s defamation! Isn’t that right, Seongcheol-nim!”
“Uh, umm… Sseuup. Well…”
Jeong Nayeon quickly sought agreement after rebuking the donation full of defamation(?), but Cha Seongcheol awkwardly trailed off and avoided eye contact. It was because he knew about Team All-In.
Besides the representative nickname of Demon King’s Army, Team All-In had other nicknames attached to them like Team Mad Max or The Lunatics.
Starting with team leader Redok being called a bright-eyed madman, the Lee Sihu and Dodo duo had also gradually lost their minds, and Yoojeu-Yoojeu had gone hekkadak too, so it was understandable.
The only ones who could be considered relatively normal were Kang Soyul and coach Enre Kim Jijun, but even the latter had revealed his true colors as a tactics and strategy maniac.
‘OnMyGrandfather’sHonor’ donated ‘1,000 won’!
[The culprit always returns to the scene… Heuk!]
“What do you mean heuk!”
‘LetsSaySomethingNice’ donated ‘1,000 won’!
[Wherever you go, if there’s a crazy person, that person is the cause—bad words are ㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴ]
-Madness is contagious ㄹㅇㅋㅋ
-Honestly, upvote if you think it’s trueㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-When five people gather, one is crazy… There isn’t one? Then it’s you…
-What what what, lunatic leader Hackphysical?!
“Oh, it looks like they’re ready.”
While the viewers who caught the opening were chattering away, Baek Woohyun in the video quickly finished preparing to attack the transport vehicle with the Avengers.
Since the Avengers had already prepared the operation plan and transportation, all they had to do was move to where the bikes were parked.
“I’m really looking forward to what kind of performance Hackphysical will show this time!”
-Why is she suddenly speaking in commentator mode?
-Because she just came from working hard at her main jobㅋㅋ
-We miss you, SSR Cup-nim…
-We didn’t know it was spring until the flowers fellㅜㅜ
***
“……”
“”……””
Baek Woohyun, Kim Youngjun, Jang Eunsoo, and Seo Dain sat casually on their bikes waiting for contact.
An undeniable sense of distance could be felt from how they waited in silence without exchanging a single word, but it couldn’t be helped.
All four weren’t particularly outgoing personalities, and even though the experimental side effects were the cause, Baek Woohyun and Seo Dain had clashed quite dramatically from the start.
…Actually, Seo Dain was the only one whose awkwardness was openly displayed.
Baek Woohyun had his usual indifferent expression, Kim Youngjun wore a faint smile, and Jang Eunsoo was still just staring at his own shadow.
It was just that these three kept their mouths firmly shut and maintained silence, so Seo Dain’s emotions became more clearly visible.
[They’ve departed.]
“Okay. We’re departing too.”
Fortunately, the awkward silence—at least as Seo Dain felt it—was short.
Thanks to the operation start notification coming through the radio-earphone.
Baek Woohyun and the three Avengers immediately started their bikes’ engines and departed with a buaaang-! sound.
As a result of rushing forward without any consideration for speed limits, they were able to quickly catch up with the container truck that departed from the research facility and the cars surrounding it.
The fact that they were leisurely taking their time, thinking there was no way they’d be attacked, also played a part.
“As planned, Seo Dain enters first. The rest charge in after that.”
“Confirmed.”
While maintaining some distance from the escort vehicles and other bikes, Baek Woohyun clearly saw how Seo Dain’s entry was executed.
After receiving the entry order and slipping away somewhere, Seo Dain surprisingly suddenly burst out from the side and rammed the container truck with her bike!
“Hooh.”
Kwaaang!
The bike violently exploding, the container truck being pushed over and toppling, and even Seo Dain spewing flames no less intense while caught in the explosion.
Simple and brutish, but certainly an effective entry. The container truck lying on its side would absolutely not be able to escape this place, so at least they’d tied down its legs.
The other cars that belatedly grasped the situation stopped urgently, and the research facility’s armed guards inside quickly got out and responded. Or rather, they tried to.
If the remaining three including Baek Woohyun hadn’t attacked them first.
Seogeok!
“Kkeok!”
“Above! The enemy is above!”
Kim Youngjun, who had somehow gotten on top of the vehicles and was slashing the napes or stabbing blades into the crowns of everyone who came out.
“Uh-uh, my body is moving on its own-!”
“What are you doing! Lower your gun!”
“I’m not doing this because I want to!”
Tadadadang!
Jang Eunsoo using [Puppeteer Art] to control the armed guards and make them destroy themselves.
Kwadeuk!
“……”
And Baek Woohyun, who crushed them all with their vehicles so they couldn’t even get out.
‘Simple.’
In the end, the regular forces met total annihilation without making a single sound. It was a sight that properly displayed the power of ability users.
When there were few ability users, ordinary people could somehow concentrate firepower and possibly take them down, but as the number of ability users increased, that rapidly became more difficult.
Like now with four people, they would need armed guards numbering at least in the hundreds. With just a dozen or so, it was absolutely impossible.
“[Earth Strike]!”
Kwajik!
Of course, since the cargo in the container truck was important enough for the research facility to try transporting it to a larger place, there were also enemy ability users—namely Hunting Dogs.
The Hunting Dogs with angry expressions who appeared by tearing through the toppled container at once were representative.
“It’s you bastards again…!”
The lead Hunting Dog who recognized the Avengers and shouted had blood flowing from his torn forehead. It seemed he’d bumped into something inside the container.
Most of the remaining personnel were also injured somewhere. From minor abrasions at the smallest, to one person whose arm was completely fractured at worst.
Only one Hellhound man was fine, as if to show he hadn’t earned his Hellhound badge for nothing.
“……”
“……”
The Hellhound man scanning the chaotic surroundings and Baek Woohyun’s eyes met.
They stared at each other in silence amidst all the commotion.
It seemed the Hellhound man had instinctively realized who the strongest enemy here was. This too would mean he had the capability to be a Hellhound.
Though because of that, he became Baek Woohyun’s first priority target.
“What should we do?”
“…You guys clean up the other three. I’ll face that bastard.”
“Understood!”
At the Hellhound man’s order, given without taking his eyes off Baek Woohyun, the Hunting Dog nodded.
He had guessed from the rarely serious expression on the Hellhound man’s face that if he objected unnecessarily, he might be attacked first.
The Hunting Dog led the other Hunting Dogs following him and moved to attack the Avengers personnel, including Seo Dain who was still blazing and rampaging.
“……”
“……”
The Hellhound man naturally stepped forward to confront Baek Woohyun.
As lightning began surging from his entire body with a pajijeok- sound, Baek Woohyun also ignited transparent flames and faced him without backing down.
Just from the momentum the two were emitting, it was clearly felt that they were on a different level from the other ability users.
“Ahahahat-!”
“Euaaak!” “Block it!”
Hwareureuk!
Meanwhile, Seo Dain’s maniacal laughter and the Hunting Dogs’ desperate screams could be heard. It was noise that suggested which side had the advantage.
Having heard that, wrinkles formed on the Hellhound man’s brow as well. Seeing how things were going, he figured that if the battle dragged on, it would only benefit Baek Woohyun.
“This is why they can’t rise above Hunting Dog. Tsk. Stupid bastards. [Lightning Snake]!”
Tseupaapat!
The Hellhound man who had been spewing curses launched a surprise attack on Baek Woohyun.
He transformed the menacingly surging lightning into the form of a snake in an instant and hurled it at Baek Woohyun.
The [Lightning Snake] that crossed through the air while wriggling as if alive bared sharp fangs toward Baek Woohyun.
Though it definitely wasn’t making a sound, there was a feeling of hearing the snake’s characteristic shaaak! cry.
Chwaak!
Naturally, Baek Woohyun wasn’t one to just take that.
His telekinesis exercise accomplished with a single glance tore the [Lightning Snake] into dozens of pieces.
However, the fragments of the [Lightning Snake] strangely didn’t disappear but floated around, and the reason why was immediately revealed.
Large pieces as large pieces, small pieces as small pieces took on snake forms again and rushed toward Baek Woohyun.
“[Lightning Snake]!”
Tseupaapat!
Moreover, with the additional [Lightning Snake] thrown by the Hellhound man, it became a number that should now be called a snake swarm.
The large and small [Lightning Snake] swarm wriggling and flying in from all directions was quite terrifying. Even more so because being made of lightning, they couldn’t be killed.
“……”
Baek Woohyun dealt with the [Lightning Snake] swarm targeting him using [Distortion].
Before [Distortion], which twisted space itself with telekinesis, dozens of [Lightning Snakes] were torn to shreds just like before.
However, the torn pieces once again became smaller-sized [Lightning Snakes] that targeted him, so it seemed to have no particular meaning.
“Go ahead and keep tearing them!”
The Hellhound man shouted triumphantly!
Watching the Hellhound man act as if he would win any moment now, Baek Woohyun gladly complied with his wishes.
Meaning he kept tearing apart with telekinesis all the new [Lightning Snakes] the Hellhound man added, regardless of how much they were shredded.
As a result, the surroundings transformed into a snake den crawling with thousands of [Lightning Snakes], but not a single one could approach within the range of transparent flames he was emitting.
Rather than the problem of being torn apart, they simply couldn’t approach. Because telekinesis was grasping space itself and pushing it outward.
It was a sight that seemed to ask, ‘What are you going to do even if you keep increasing the snakes?’
“Tsk.”
The Hellhound man clicked his tongue, realizing that only a meaningless standoff would continue like this.
It would have been nice if Baek Woohyun had been overwhelmed by the thousands of [Lightning Snake] swarm and launched a counterattack, but he was extremely relaxed even within that.
Because he knew well that as time passed, the remaining Avengers personnel would join the battle, and then the Hellhound man would be finished.
Additionally, there was also the reason that the Hellhound man hadn’t yet used his Otherworld power.
If he rashly broke through the [Lightning Snake] swarm and attacked, it was obvious it would become a structure where he’d counter the counterattack with Otherworld power while going “Haha! I was waiting for this!”
Although it would be possible to win by crushing even that, Baek Woohyun didn’t feel the need to force it in a situation where just stalling time was advantageous.
“Alright, fine! Let’s do this!”
Gooooo─!
The Hellhound man who guessed the same future as Baek Woohyun shouted angrily.
Then starting from the lightning surging from his body, the [Lightning Snakes] that had filled the surroundings rapidly became dyed purple.
It was like pouring purple paint into water in a cup to color it.
‘Otherworld power!’
Patseucheucheut!
The [Lightning Snakes] completely dyed purple twisted their bodies while making bizarre sounds. All thousands of them filling the surroundings.
Moreover, a heterogeneous and therefore more chilling resonance struck Baek Woohyun. It was the [Tinnitus] he’d felt when facing other Hellhounds before.
From previous experience, [Tinnitus] wouldn’t disappear until the Hellhound man died, and would gradually grow stronger as time passed.
“……”
Gooooo─!
Ash-gray lightning spread from the eyes of Baek Woohyun clenching his teeth, and the transparent flames that had been wrapping around him bloomed like a flower.
This was a phenomenon that the research facility on ‘that side’ had named the flower that brings annihilation and feared, so it meant he was finally starting to get serious.