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124 – A precious treasure to someone! # 1

124 – A precious treasure to someone! # One

“Haildo, who are you planning to meet here? Is it really here? It’s a factory that looks like it’s haunted. Was it the Osa Group’s pharmaceutical factory?”

Daldaldaldal-.

I arrived at the meeting place in Jinah Lee’s old truck.

It was a shabby warehouse located in Macheon City.

It felt like it wouldn’t be strange if a bunch of Northern Star Warriors from the turn of the century, armed with iron pipes and wearing tire armor, suddenly came rushing out and hit me in the back of the head.

━Kkeongkeong… !

Of course, I had no worries.

I had Kkungkkungi, Angangi, and Bangkkwangi.

“Jin Lee. “You wait here.”

The person who sent me a strange message said, ‘Don’t tell anyone’ about meeting him.

In that case, we have no choice but to do so.

“Wait 10 minutes. “If I wait 10 minutes and you don’t come back or I don’t hear from you, I’ll either call people or I’ll go look for you.”

Listening to Jinah Lee’s story, I felt quite reassured.

Tap, tap, tap-.

With that feeling, I entered the factory.

Inside the factory, there was a lot of luggage and boxes of unknown identity and purpose were piled up, as if they had been abandoned for quite some time.

“Is there anyone? “Who asked to see me?”

I picked up my phone and looked at the messages again.

「Haildo, help me. In a hurry. The shine is dangerous. Don’t tell anyone, but come to the place I write down below. In a hurry. I do not have time. “The only person I can ask for is you.”

It was a very suspicious message, but…

The urgency was clearly felt.

So, as I was looking around, someone suddenly appeared on the railing on the second floor.

He was a man wearing a black hooded combat suit and a carnival mask.

━Crumbling… !

A cat that puffs up its fur in an instant.

Soon the man in the carnival mask spoke.

“Try to clean up the mess! Cough! Etch! “Cough!”

“This voice… Lee Jeong-hoon? Are you Lee Jeong-hoon?”

Lee Jeong-hoon, former S-class awakened.

After fighting with me, Lee Jeong-hoon would rather be arrested by the prosecution for various problems with the Osa Group and drug charges.

After chatting on the news for a while, it seemed to have quieted down a bit, and when I wondered what I was going to do, it seemed like this place had called me.

“Are you sure you want to apply for a revenge match?”

I asked.

When I had just met Kungkungi, the time when I fought with Lee Jeong-hoon naturally came to mind.

If Kung-Kung is there, the odds of winning against Lee Jeong-Hoon, a former S-class awakener, would be 50%.

However, Lee Jeong-hoon hurriedly stretched out his hand and shook it violently.

“No! I didn’t come here to fight! You sent me a text! Shinnari is dangerous! I have to go save Shinnari! Hail too! You are the only one who can help me! I can trust you! Help me!”

Some kind of trap… ?

Lee Jeong-hoon might have a grudge against me.

So, it is true that it is not easy to believe.

But Lee Jung-hoon’s appearance seemed truly desperate, and he had an appeal that somehow shook the hearts of those who saw him.

The handsome third-generation chaebol is a nobleman even after his downfall – is that something like that?

“What’s going on?”

“It’s a top secret mission. Heildo, what I say from now on. “Can you promise me never to tell anyone else?”

# # #

“I am currently working in a team belonging to the government. In other words, donating your talents in exchange for reducing my sentence… “It was a judicial transaction.”

First of all, I heard about Lee Jeong-hoon’s current status.

Lee Jeong-hoon said that he was working on a team belonging to the government, and I had also heard of the story that ‘the government is secretly hiring competent awakened people to do dishonest work.’

It felt like an urban legend floating around on Awakened SNS.

“Is there really a government-affiliated secret strike team called “Black Tiger”?”

I thought it was pretty cool.

They are specialists who aim for sunny areas in shaded areas.

Although the direction of life was different from mine, which aims for sunny areas, I thought it felt like Batman.

“… Although it is not called “Black Tiger”. Heil too, it looks like you really don’t know anything about our team? It’s surprising. Is it…. “You didn’t hear anything.”

I don’t know.

Who tells me this?

When interest arose in many ways, Lee Jeong-hoon looked around with a somewhat uneasy feeling, saying, “This is not the time.”

And he spoke seriously.

“Our Korean team was the first to enter the typhoon of time and space that arose this time. “It wasn’t Cha Yu-ra or Seo Ye-rim, but ‘our team’, where I work, that unofficially entered the crack first.”

“Is it true? In that super-large T-class crack?”

“Yes! It was a really horrible place. Because of that, we had to escape in a hurry, but we left Bitnari behind… ! If things continue like this, Shinyli will die… !”

Shine.

I thought, what kind of code name is this?

It seems like you are a colleague.

So, Lee Jeong-hoon was now reaching out to me to save his colleague.

“The team decided not to save Bitnari. The stance is that you can’t make big sacrifices for small things. And, Korea has not yet officially approached the typhoon of time and space… !”

If Argonaut, a multinational S-class awakened team that entered later, discovers “Code Name: Shine Lee” Left behind by a team belonging to the Korean government, Korea will be criticized in many ways by countries around the world.

“Right now, our team leader, that bastard is thinking of making Shinnari self-destruct. To destroy evidence! A bastard without blood or tears. How do you….”

Self-destruction….

I felt solemn in many ways.

Even now in Korea, there are people fighting for their lives without my knowledge.

These are probably stories that don’t come up when you search on the Internet.

“But I want to save Shinnari. Heildo, the only person I can ask for is you.”

Pod-.

Lee Jeong-hoon held my hand.

“Help me!” I know full well that things haven’t been good between you and me until now! I apologize in full! Help me! “If things continue like this, Shinnari will die!”

The appeal of pretty and good-looking people, like handsome men and beautiful women, is strong.

I could tell that Lee Jeong-hoon really valued that guy called Shinari.

“Okay, what should I do?”

“… Are you really trying to help me? Really… !?”

“Even if you help me, don’t you need to know what I need to do first?”

“…… !”

Lee Jeong-hoon looked very shocked.

He asked for help, but he didn’t seem to think that I would listen.

Mate-.

Lee Jeong-hoon soon slapped himself on both cheeks.

“Haildo, I don’t think there’s anything to explain to you. It’s a rescue mission you’ve done many times. Bringing Shinnari from a T-class rift -. If you just listen to the explanation, it’s a simple mission. The problem is that the location is not simple.”

Chak-.

Lee Jeong-hoon showed me the tablet PC.

“See? There is a huge tower-shaped structure like this in the typhoon of time and space. This structure itself is one large crack. “You and I have to get through the typhoon and get in here.”

“Really?”

Exciting.

I felt my heart beating loudly.

The largest crack in history.

I can’t believe I got to go in there.

Parr-.

I was slightly excited and trembled.

However, the reason I could not show it was because this was not an adventure but a solemn mission called a rescue operation.

Afterwards, Lee Jeong-hoon let out a small sigh and spoke.

“Yes, I understand being scared. Still, not all of these towers are T-class… ! The place we need to go to is the lower level, and this place can be considered to be at the level of a B-level crack on average… !”

It is said that the storm that formed in the Pacific Ocean and the tower located within it have various levels because each floor has various levels.

The place where Lee Jeong-hoon lost contact with his colleague Bitnari was a place that was expected to be on average a “B” Level.

“If it was only B-level, there was no need for your team to come out in a hurry, right? Lee Jeong-hoon, you. Even if you can’t do it now, you’re at least level A.”

Lee Jeong-hoon was a human being who experienced an unprecedented incident that lowered his level of awakening.

Still, he was Junchi even if he was rotten, so he was a class A awakened person who could be called an elite.

Also, this guy is a second-generation awakener like Seo Ye-rim and Yoo Ah-ri, and is a veteran with a lot of field experience up to T-level crack.

Since this was the team that such a guy belonged to, the government operation unit was sure to have some outstanding talents.

A team like that hastily emerged from the B-grade crack level?

“What is there? Something worth running away from. “What is that?”

“… ….”

Lee Jeong-hoon’s expression hardened slightly at my question.

# # #

Lee Jeong-hoon recalled the time when he entered the tower in a typhoon.

Various vegetation and environments, including the precious gemstone “Manahydrolite” Collected there.

The tower was truly a treasure trove of humanity.

But-.

Naturally, there were guards guarding the treasure hall.

The watchman was strong, and had no choice but to retreat.

‘… Hail is also quick-witted.’

Lee Jeong-hoon looked at Hail-do’s thoughts.

If he was so scared that he said he wouldn’t help, Lee Jung-hoon really had no one to help him.

However, Haildo’s attitude was quite serious.

“There was something there? Tell me what it is. “I need to know what’s there so I can prepare.”

“… Okay. There’s a dangerous guy. Responds to strong magical power. We couldn’t confirm the details, but it was scary. Heildo, I’ll say it again, the only person I can ask for is you.”

“A class B crack where an unidentified monster runs rampant. There, I go to rescue my fallen comrades─. It reminds me of the old days. “There were definitely a lot of missions like this in the past.”

Zek-.

It was Haildo who seemed to be gazing into the distance and reminiscing about past memories.

His eyes soon returned to Lee Jeong-hoon.

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“So, if everyone tried to stop you and you even wanted to ask me to save you, then that brilliant colleague must be so amazing and important? “Are you your girlfriend?”

“Huh? That….”

Lee Jeong-hoon was worried.

I didn’t know how Haildo’s attitude would change if he found out that the Bitnari he was going to save was a “Spirited squirrel.”

━Go back there and risk your life to get an AI drone? Jeonghoon Lee. Are you crazy?

It was a moment when team leader Kang Cheol-min’s scolding came to mind.

How will Haildo react if he finds out that he is going to rescue AI?

“… You are my precious colleague. Important and precious….”

Lee Jeong-hoon couldn’t bear to lie, so he spoke vaguely.

Because it was true that Bitnari was precious.

I wondered what would happen if I asked for more details, but Haildo was no longer curious about the rescue target and planned out the future.

“So, you and I are going in? Are you going to provide the means to get through the typhoon and enter the crack? “Are there any other team members besides me?”

“I can provide the means to enter, but-. There is no other companion. Hail also contacted you because he was really worried about it and only said it!”

“No matter what, those two are too dangerous. I would like to recruit trustworthy people separately. Is that okay? “Time is precious during rescue operations, so we need to recruit people as quickly as possible!”

Lee Jeong-hoon was quite surprised by Hail-do’s story.

“S-class people like Seo Ye-rim and Cha Yu-ra are not allowed! It stands out so much! Korea has never officially entered the space-time typhoon. “You have to stick to that stance.”

“Don’t worry. I’m not that ignorant of the situation either. Because I said it was class B, there are just the right people. Some people you know, some you don’t. “They are trustworthy people.”

Zek-.

Haildo tapped his cell phone and sent a text message to someone.

Five minutes after that.

“Senior, what’s going on? Call me urgently! It’s something that needs to be done secretly and urgently! How urgently can you do something secret with me in such a dark place? !”

Ttogak, ttogak-.

Someone appeared with the high sound of shoe heels.

Yu-ari Yoo brightens her expression as she looks at Hail-do.

She soon frowned as she looked at the man next to her, Lee Jeong-hoon.

“Lee Jeong-hoon. What are you doing here? Why are you and your senior together? “It’s been a while since we’ve been together, right?”

Lee Jeong-hoon’s whole body was covered in cold sweat, like a rat standing in front of a snake.

After all, Haildo sang Yuari!

Soon Haildo spoke as if mediating from the center.

“Ariya. As I said in my message, what we will do next must be kept secret until the moment we die. They say Lee Jeong-hoon here is a government agent. “We are thinking of going to rescue that comrade.”