Chapter 258 – Pocket Girls
“I’ve solved a similar terror attack myself before. Ask Dr. Lowe. He’s someone you can trust because I’ve had experience solving problems like this.”
“…Yes. There’s no reason not to believe in the ability you’ve shown. However, we can’t guarantee your life if you fail the entry operation. Is that okay?”
“Sure. Would you have volunteered for something like this without thinking about that much risk?”
“Hmm…”
Ji-yeon looks at Seong-il, who is so bold, with a sigh. Then she pats him on the shoulder with an admiring expression and continues her words.
“Okay. I’ll believe it…!! Do whatever you want. Hey!”
“Yes! Director.”
“Give this friend the map of the interior. Don’t forget to explain the peculiarities inside the dam.”
“All right.”
As soon as Ji-yeon decides, she quickly hands over all the information she needs to Seong-il. After she finishes all her instructions, she starts whispering something to Seong-il.
“…If you go there and come back alive, I’ll do something nice for you!”
“…”
As much as the game world is a game world, the identity of ‘good things’ is obvious. Seong-il naturally smiles at Ji-yeon’s sticky declaration of reward.
‘It’s me, thank you.’
A tryst with a new woman is always welcome, so Seong-il nods her head, and quietly grabs the map and military walkie-talkie handed to him by the guard and runs toward the canal.
‘Is that the only accessible waterway…?’
Seong-il, where you can hide completely for 30 minutes using a ring. Because of this, he was actually able to infiltrate either way, but since humans are rare, he decides to infiltrate through a waterway that can hide his abilities as much as possible.
‘…Nobody is there?’
Seong-il fixes a transparent ring in a secluded place near a waterway. He looks around and even uses 『Sensation』 To check the surroundings before using Invisibility.
After becoming invisible, Seong-il starts to enter the dam through the waterway.
‘Wow… See how thorough these bastards are…?’
Maybe it’s because they invaded through the waterway, but the hyper team hid extra people in the middle. It was not enough, it was a situation where they were thoroughly concealed to prevent the intrusion of shelter guards and to surprise them.
‘If it wasn’t for 『Sensation』, I would never have noticed.’
Seong-il was able to naturally detect the surrounding landmarks and people through 『Emotion』. While he finds them, he ponders for a moment whether to subdue them.
‘Hmm… Should I subdue them and cut their power…?’
‘No. Things get even bigger when the hyper-dan guys, who sensed something was wrong because they lost contact for no reason and hurt the hostages in their madness. Let’s prioritize infiltrating in order to achieve the goal first.’
In this way, Seong-il performs a spiritual art in an invisible state and moves to the target area very quickly.
“Okay! Are the bombs planted?”
“Uh… It’s still a bit lacking. We need another hour or so for a perfect hit. Even if we explode it at this level, it won’t do much damage.”
“Useless bastard! Hurry up!”
“Yep…!”
The appearance of the hyper team, probably planting a bomb. Seong-il sees this scene and does not pass by as before, but pauses and ponders.
‘Um… Shouldn’t this be stopped? Although the safety of the hostages is important… It’s a little bit like neglecting their ultimate goal of bombing…’
In addition, if the bomb explodes after he saves the hostage, killing him and them, Seong-il continues his worries because the work will be meaningless.
‘Keuk… If I try to solve it by just beating them up, I’m sure the infiltration will be discovered and the problem will become bigger… Is there any other way?’
Seong-il, who had been thinking about it for a long time. Then an idea pops into his mind.
‘Ah! Was there a way?!’
Seong-il came up with an exquisite idea. He carefully reached into his bosom and took out the 『Wonderful Magic Book』.
After that, Seong-il puts his hand on the magic book in an invisible state and quietly shouts a spell he wants.
“…Mind control!”
Seong-il tries using the ‘mind manipulation’ magic that is one level higher than the ‘enchantment’ magic he used on Luan before.
‘It should be eaten…’
Powerful 4 class magic ‘mind control’ that can control the human mind for at least one day. Seong-il stares at the member of the Hyper Team with a tense expression on his face.
‘Great…’
“!!”
Then, not long after, a strange moan echoed in his head. Seong-il hears the sound and realizes that the object and his mind are connected.
‘It’s a success!!’
A coworker bewildered when the co-worker next to him suddenly bent over and grabbed his head and was in pain. Then, interestingly, the mind-controlled member of the hyper team starts acting casually.
“Hey? What’s wrong?”
“Huh? Ah… My head hurts…”
Seong-il admires the magic’s performance when he sees the subject perform naturally, even without his own specific orders.
‘You are next~’
Since Seong-il had mute and invisible magic applied, he felt something strange about the remaining enemy, but in the end he couldn’t find Seong-il, so he couldn’t deal with anything.
And Seong-il, who used it, uses an additional spell without difficulty, and succeeds in casting a mind control spell on the remaining mind as well.
‘It was great!’
Seong-il completed the mind control of the two like that. Using the linked mind, he starts giving commands to the Hyperdan in his head.
‘You guys set up fake explosives. However, if other members of the Hyper Corps saw it, they wouldn’t notice it. Got it?’
“Yes.”
Then, interestingly, the two of them looked at Seong-il, who was still in hiding, and answered with a nod.
‘Hey… If your mind is connected, you can figure out my location even if I’m in stealth? This is fun.’
‘And the number of remaining spells is three. I can use this well to deal with the enemy.’
Thinking so, Seong-il takes out his smartphone again and looks at the map and time.
‘Ten minutes left…! Move to the destination as quickly as possible within that time!!’
Seong-Il runs to his destination using the New Life method to the point of death. He thoroughly scans the inside of the huge dam with 『Influence』, And grasps the size of the enemy.
‘Hmm… Is that the approximate number of eight you’ve seen coming this far? Among them, the enemy who planted the explosives controlled the mind and ordered the wrong thing, so now I can only focus on rescuing the hostages.’
‘…However, what takes a while is that even if the subjects of mind control are released, the memory of being controlled remains… Surely, it won’t become a problem when they are captured later?’
Seong-il used magic in a hurry to solve the problem, but he feels uncomfortable because he seems to have exposed too much of his ability.
However, he couldn’t kill them carelessly, so he gave up his worries and ran in the direction of the hostages.
‘Ah! I don’t know! If anything, you’ll be blaspheming that it’s Luti’s special ability! I’m in hiding, so you won’t even know my face.’
Seong-il, who thought so, ran for a while. She finally gets out of the canal and starts to discover the dam’s management wing.
‘Whoa… Seeing two guys over there with guns standing still, are the hostages over there?’
Unlike the members of the other direction who are busy moving, two hyper-dan henchmen quietly holding guns and spreading their guard as if protecting something. Seong-il instinctively realizes that this is the place where the hostages are kept.
‘Once there…!’
With only 5 minutes left to hide, the urgent Seong-il rushes to the location like lightning and attempts a surprise attack.
“Whoa… I’ll be able to return alive from this mission, right?”
“Well then. The captain has definitely prepared… Kkeok…!!”
A henchman of the Hyper Team who was chatting to relieve tension. They are hit in the stomach by Seong-il’s relentless punch that jumps out from their side at the moment and collapses on the spot.
“That… Enemy… Khehe!”
And the hyper team attached right next to the ambushed member raises a weapon and aims it at Seong-il and tries to shout. However, Seong-il responds by restraining his body using telekinesis and squeezing his throat to block out his voice, as if he had waited.
“First of all, two guys…!”
Seong-il subdued the two gatekeepers in an instant. After subduing them, he attempts to enter the interior.
Quaang!!
“What… What!!”
Seong-il wanted to quickly secure the hostage before the enemy noticed. He breaks down the door and runs inside.
“Are you all okay?”
“!!”
A man breaks down the door out of nowhere and runs in. When he throws away the two henchmen of the Hyper Corps who had been confining and monitoring them until just before, and asks about their safety, the hostages look at each other with puzzled expressions.
‘Let’s see… Twenty-four. It fits perfectly.’
Whether the hostages were embarrassed or not, I turned off their whispers and figured out the numbers of the hostages. Upon realizing that the number of hostages he had heard from the outside and the number of people inside were exactly the same, Seong-il, slightly relieved, sighed in relief and began introducing himself.
“I am Han Seong-il, who has infiltrated from the outside to ensure your safety.”
“Ohh…! So they’ve been subdued?”
“It’s not like that. They say they’ll kill you all when they come in. I’m the only one who has infiltrated here without them knowing.”
“…!!”
The atmosphere inside becomes cold at the words that the person who came to the rescue is Seongil alone. Seong-il lightly eats at their reaction and takes his partners out of the ball.
“Don’t worry. Not only my partners, but I’m also a psychic. Did I infiltrate this place alone, without any powers, just because I’m crazy?”
“Huh…!!”
Gyeong-nae is shocked when Seong-il reveals that he has psychic powers. Seong-il smiles bitterly at their reaction and tries to excuse himself as an eye psychic who has awakened through artificial surgery.
“Oh my God… Artificial procedure?! There was such a thing…”
“Yes. It is the technology of the world before the destruction. The problem is that when receiving the procedure, there is a side effect of dying with a probability of more than half.”
“…You got something like that?
“There were circumstances. And that’s not what’s important in the current situation. Get it.”
Seong-il hands over the captured firearms to the hostages. Then he takes out his partners to guard them.
“Red! Luti! Protect them! Those in black are all enemies, so be careful. Okay?”
“Huh!”
The two women answered Seong-il’s words in a stern way. He pulls out a walkie-talkie and tells the guards outside to secure the hostage.
“…The hostages have been saved. We’re holding a sit-in inside, but I don’t know how long we can hold out!”
“What!? Wait! Deploy troops right away!”
Seong-il breathes a sigh of relief at the quick-footed attitude of the shelter guard. In the meantime, the Hyper team hears the news of Seong-il’s invasion belatedly, and drags their respective partners and rushes in to recapture the hostages.
“Subdue the hostages!! It’s okay to kill some of them, so subdue them somehow!!”
Four or four hyper units enter to subdue the hostages, shooting with bloody voices. Seong-il hardened his expression at that figure and, using his inner strength as much as possible, slammed his fist into a nearby wall.
Quaang!! Quaang!!
Seong-il blocks the bullets of the hyper group with his telekinesis and smashes the wall. Thanks to this, the space where the hostages are hiding is completely blocked by a pile of collapsed stones.
“Whoa… No one’s going to see it anymore. You bastards, get ready to go after me, damn it.”
Seong-il no longer has to worry about his abilities being discovered by the civilians in the shelter. With a relieved expression, he takes the ceremony for the bankruptcy priesthood.
Seeing him like that, the hyperdan gritted their teeth and tried to use their superpowers to command their respective partners.
“That cheeky bastard…!! For boasting that he knows how to use telekinesis!! No. 12! Flame Cannon!!”
“Yeah~ The flames don’t go through~!”
All of a sudden, the gauntlet [Indomitable Will] That Seong-il is wearing grants the wearer strong fire resistance, so the attack of No. 12 does not harm Seong-il at all.
“First of all, one guy!!”
When the attack doesn’t work, Seong-il pours bankruptcy rights on the psychic who is bewildered and parenting, and knocks him out in an instant. After that, Seong-il uses the shadow’s ability to attack the rest of the crew behind them.
Push!!
“Kuh?! This… What is this!”
When a grotesque palm suddenly jumped out of the shadow on the floor and started attacking himself, the Hyper team started to panic.
Seong-il takes advantage of the gap and unleashes a merciless attack on the other wild psychic.
“Kei!!”
A woman with psychic powers who bites her teeth at the attack and realizes bizarre psychic powers. I could feel the tingling energy on her skin, so it seemed that she was probably a lightning-type person.
‘Eh… I’ll be in trouble if I keep going like this?’
Right now, it’s a melee, so it’s difficult for the enemies to unleash their superpowers, but Seong-il thinks that they are subdued one by one, and that if cornered, they might do something crazy.
‘Ah! Was there a way!?’
One idea came to me during the battle. Seong-il quickly explodes the smoke grenade he received from Euphthesia in his arms on the floor.
“Puuong!!”
A huge explosion and black smoke spreading everywhere. The black smoke that spreads in an instant begins to fill the narrow passage in an instant.
