The First Hunter

Chapter 22. Incheon Landing Operation, Part II

Translator: Khan

Editor: RED

3.

Kki-ri-ri! A grotesque sound appeared on the quiet road.

Kki-ri-ri! It was the sound of wheels made especially to move a huge mass of metal, tank treads moving in an infinite orbit.

‘It gives me goosebumps.’ Was the sound of a tank so scary?

It was a horrifying sound. It was not scary simply because it was an unfamiliar sound.

The tank, which was the result and cause of war, was a perfect weapon that no longer needed improvement. It was a weapon that excelled in driving human beings to feel fear and death.

If they did not shiver when they heard the sound, they would be a monster, not a human being.

Kki-rik! Soon the tank stopped, and the road became quiet.

But there were no people who could keep their composure in the silence. As if to surround the tanks, the riflemen that moved along the tanks swallowed their saliva, more nervous than when the tanks made the terrifying sound “Kki-ri-rik”.

Bang! At that moment the tank’s barrel blew out thunder.

4.

Kim Yu-ri, who came down from the building at once, immediately started running toward the Ganseok Ogeori. The road she ran along was not a place where she was allowed to run. All sorts of obstacles, including cars, were filling the road.

“Whew!” But she started to run without wavering. Her movements were amazing.

Swish! She vaulted a small car in one jump.

Thud! She stepped on the van to pass.

Slip! In the case of a truck, she slid under the gap seen below the wheels without slowing.

“What, what?” “Something is coming!”

At her cat-like movements, the watchers, who had been placed throughout the buildings, were surprised. They were so surprised that they forgot their roles for a while.

“Alert! Alert!” “Swing the flag! Swing the red flag!”

Those who were late in their roles pushed the flags out of the buildings. A red T-shirt hung on a flagpole formerly used to display a Korean flag, a red devil T-shirt that filled Korea in 2002 fluttered.

“The flag?” The fluttering flag came into the view of those who were on the overpass of Ganseok Ogeori.

“Red Alert!” The complexions of those at the overpass had paled.

One of them immediately raised the loudspeaker and shouted, “Evacuate! Evacuate!”

Other people were shouting out, “Get into the station! Everybody, evacuate into the station!” they fiercely shouted with pale faces. They were very desperate.

“Take care of the kids!” “Get into the building!”

The most desperate were those who were close to the children. Those carrying the children who started to cry began to run with their teeth clenched tightly. The children who could not find someone to carry them fell on the ground while running away.

It was total chaos. And that was what Kim Yu-ri was aiming for. The situation was urgent to explain, so she tried to warn the survivors of Ganseok Ogeori to evacuate.

There was one warning she should do in the voice. “The tanks are coming! Watch out for the shells!”

She shouted at the overpass with all her might. Because she was a soldier, she knew very well that if she was a tank driver, the best target for destroying the survivors’ territory at this moment was.

“Get down from the overpass!”

Bang! At that moment, a clap of thunder went over the overpass. No one responded to the sound of the flash.

The response came after a shell passed over the overpass to hit a building behind it. “Aahhhh!” “Shell, it’s a shell!”

Screams that only the crazed could spit out began to burst out everywhere.

Bang! At the same time, a building that was hit by the shells began to collapse as if it was spitting blood.

Bang! The tank threw up another shell.

Bang! The second shell bursting before the confusion spread made another building start to collapse.

“Aahhhh!”

At that moment, none of the survivors of Ganseok Ogeori were able to make rational, reasonable judgments.

‘Damn it!’ On the other hand, Kim Yu-ri could be rational at this moment.

She had seen it a lot, because of her experience. It was due to numerous encounters with the sights in Seoul, and she knew what would happen when the tanks spit out a shell between the forest of buildings.

Of course, she also knew what the survivors of this chaotic place would choose. The humans who survived at this moment were selfish animals that only take care of their own lives. The ones who would die first in that selfishness… children.

“Aahhhh!”

“Mummy! Mummy!”

That’s why it was hard to find young children when monsters had swept past. Even worse, it was hard to find the dead bodies of such children. The soft bodies of the dead children were the first meat that the monsters ate.

Kim Yu-ri grit her teeth tight.

‘Select.’

The situation was urgent. Tanks began to vomit shells, survivors were scrambling to survive by running into the station and the building, and the shelled buildings were beginning to collapse.

Of course, it was not easy to take care of her life. So, in this situation, she always took care of her life. It wasn’t because she wanted to.

Her life did not exist to save a child, but rather to carry out a special mission, so she couldn’t take the risk. It was a directive and an order to her. The guidelines and orders were not different now. Naturally, at ordinary times, she would have moved to save her life.

But at this moment she was concerned about the image of Kim Tae-hoon who had moved to save the lives of the children. And her anxiety ended earlier than expected. ‘He’s right.’

His actions had always produced good results, but the only outcome that she had from following guidelines and orders had been disastrous.

The results proved who was right. She didn’t hesitate when she thought to that point. She became a black leopard once again and began running towards the crying children.

Bang! Bang! At that moment a third and fourth cannon shot was heard.

Aahhhh! At the same time, screams began to rise in the direction of the gunfire.

5.

Around the K1A1 tank that was stationed on the road were plunderers armed with guns. It was not a strange sight.

Tanks were deadly weapons, but not omnipotent. There were weapons that could threaten tanks. For example, an anti-tank rocket poking its head toward the side of a tank was enough to threaten it.

It was no wonder that riflemen were guarding the area of the tank, to remove such elements.

Kwarrng! It was natural that the ears of the riflemen deployed for escort duty would become deaf as soon as the tank fired.

“Why did we use this good thing now, damn it… if we had used this earlier, we would never have fought with those guys over there. Don’t you think?”

And it was also natural for an assassin to use the gap created by the roar.

“Huh?” Between the building and the building next to the tank, a rifleman who was guarding the area turned to hear the answer to his question. At that moment, what he saw was a strangely bent figure of a fellow who falling down and a black fist flying toward his face. Bam!

The black fists drowned the face of the man wearing a bulletproof hat.

“Khuck!” This short word was all that was left of him.

Kim Tae-hoon, after killing two people at once, mentally grabbed the guns that they had held. After catching the guns that came up into his grasp, he pulled the triggers with the guns pointing at the sky.

Tutututu! The unhindered gunfire took over the place which the shell’s roar had passed.

“It’s a gunshot!” “There! Over there!”

The plunderers began to gather like fire moths toward the gunshots.

Kim Tae-hoon waited for them. The moment they appeared, he shot them with a gun in turn. Tutu! Tutu! Tutu!

It was not a hard job, but an easy task. It was a much more familiar task for him to fire and kill them as they gathered after hearing the gunfire than to handle an arrow or a sword with his Telekinesis and shoot them out with his power.

“Keuk!” The short final sound of those who were shot was also familiar to him. And what was bitter in his mouth was also familiar. He frowned around a bitter taste worse than the most bitter coffee.

‘It’s the worst.’

He has never been pleasant since the monsters appeared, but he had also never felt more uncomfortable since the monsters appeared. It was… because of the children, of course.

He was not going to be a hero. He was not going to deny that he was a murderer.

He was not the only one, but all of them living lives similar to him were killers. But they also had their own lines: the line that should not be crossed.

The children were one of those lines. He did not want to be a monster pointing a muzzle at children, even if it was a terrible battlefield.

Kwarrng!

Of course, he did not intend to give the tank that was shooting at this moment even a handful of mercy.

Tsreung! He pulled a Sword from his back.

6.

In turn, the tanks that spewed four artillery shells began to pause.

“Aaaaaaargh!” Screaming took over the space where the fire had died down.

The drivers pushing their upper bodies out of the hatch of the tank, looked in the direction of the sound, between the buildings, frowning at the scream.

“What the hell is going on?”

After hearing the gunshots after the gunfire, their companions rushed to the place, where screams came out.

“Hey! Hey! What’s going on?”

It was crazy for the tank drivers. They wanted to close the hatch after they put themselves in the tank. But it was not allowed, because someone had to look around.

‘It’s crazy.’ At this moment, the tanks, which were more reliable than anything else, felt like prisons around them. Therefore, the tank drivers’ minds were filled with fear.

Something fell into the mess. Thump!

Something fell from the rearmost tank with a rough sound. Thump!

With that, the elongated barrel of the tank fell to the ground with it cut off.

‘Hmm?’

‘Huh?’

The faces of those who frowned at this ridiculous sight changed to blankness. As they all looked dazed, the man who had cut the barrel off with a single sword jumped up like a spring as soon as he landed on the ground and climbed on top of the tank whose barrel he had cut off.

Two men were sticking out of the top of the tank, and he landed among them and painted a semicircle with the Sword in his hand. Shh!

The two heads within the trajectory of the semicircle fell to the ground, cut off. The man pulled out one body of the two who leaned over the entrance of the tank.

“What is it?” The question came from a man who did know what was happening in the tank.

The answer to the question was given by Kim, exhaling loudly. Fuhoohoo! He breathed out a huge flame into the tank.

“Aaaaaargh!” A terrible scream came from the flames filling the tank.

“Back! Back!”

At the scream, the tank in front slowly turned its turret around.

“Turn the gun barrel around!” The long barrel aimed back.

However, there was no Kim Tae-hoon there when the gun barrel finally pointed at the tank behind it.

Thump! Like crossed over the stepping stones, he landed on the top of the tank that had turned its turret in one leap.

Shh! Again, as before, he cut apart the two men who were leaning out of the hatch to see what was happening. Then he waited near the entrance of the tank with his Sword in the air with his Telekinesis.

“What’s going on-” A man appeared like a mole, and Kim grabbed the man’s neck and pulled out his body. In the process, the man’s pelvis and legs hit the entrance, so fast that he was bruised.

“Aaaaaargh!” Of course, the man screamed. However, the screaming faded as soon as Kim’s right hand mercilessly crushed his ribs. “Aaarh…”

There was no such thing as screaming in a situation where he could not even breathe. Kim threw the man out of the tank. The man began to wriggle on the ground like a worm.

After that, Kim said to the last remaining person, the tank’s pilot. “Come out.”

7.

The cannon fired four times. There were only those four shots.

However, the gunfire did not achieve a single thing it wanted. All the shells aimed at the overpass crossed over it, and they broke down only the buildings.

However, the four artillery shells were enough to turn Ganseok Ogeori into hell.

“Save me-” “There’s a man buried!” “Baw, mommy…!” “Cough, cough!”

Those who had been buried in the wreckage of the buildings called for help, the children who had been frightened by the gunfire and pissed their pants burst into tears, and there were some people coughing in the dust that was rising.

It was Kim Yu-ri who moved rationally in the mess. She took the children she had saved and moved to a safe place, and immediately began to help those who had survived.

“Hands up!” It was those who ran out of the station armed for the battle that stopped her. She responded to their demands. She raised her hands high and bit her lips slightly.

‘What a fool…’

If she hadn’t taken care of the children, she could have avoided them. But she didn’t. She was in a crisis. It was a stupid thing to do. But she wasn’t heavy-hearted or complicated.

“Father! Father!” The man who pointed the gun at her began to look for a priest in a loud voice. Then a young man in a black priest-uniform appeared. The young man looked at her.

“What are you?”

“Answer straight!”

At the following warning, she told her name and rank. “My name is Kim Yu-ri, a member of the 35th Commandos of the Capital Defense Command, and my rank is Sergeant.”

Everyone looked surprised at the confession.

On the other hand, the young priest did not look surprised and asked, “Are you here to save the companions of the 35th Commandos…?”

This time, she looked surprised. ‘The companions…’

But their conversation did not proceed further.

“Fa, Father, there’s a man in the sky!”a man rushed out in haste and shouted in a trembling voice to the priest.

“What? A man is coming here, stepping on the air!”

“What the hell is that—”

“There, there!”

“Huh, a human?”

Kim Tae-hoon showed up in the sky. Everyone looked blank when they saw him.

‘Ah.’ Kim Yu-ri could feel the meaning of the answer that he had given Sergeant Yu-ri. ‘This really works.’

Kim Tae-hoon looked like a real savior now.