{ reunion 1 }
how old is it?
This feeling I haven’t had since waking up.
It’s been a really long time… It is still faint, but this tingling anxiety is clearly present in it.
I know very well what this means.
Danger.
It’s too direct.
Something very dangerous that could endanger my life… That moment is coming.
Big eyes glow in the dark.
This crisis is an opportunity for you right now.
The long-awaited moment has finally arrived.
* * * * *
Early in the evening, three people gather in an ordinary family home located on the outskirts of Shanghai.
[I have a shared dormitory. It’s a normal family home, so I think it would be better for the three of us to live together. It might look a little weird when three men go into a hotel room together. However, writing is also… There are many eyes to see.]
Rivy’s words came to Yuhanwol’s mind.
It’s definitely the case with three men.
By the way… Bertrand and Brian, you two go into the hotel?
Also in China?
It will attract the attention of others too much.
In any case, the accommodation was located on a seemingly ordinary street.
It seems that the buildings are not very high, as if they were still underdeveloped compared to the center of Shanghai.
Among them, an inn located on the top floor of a seemingly ordinary building.
By the time we got here, it was still around evening time.
Yuhan-wol and Brian pressed the password to open the door and enter the dormitory, but someone inside greeted them as they entered.
It was Bertrand.
“You’ve arrived.”
Yuhan-wol nodded at his words.
“Thanks. By the way, did you come earlier than expected? It doesn’t take long to get to China by ship, doesn’t it?”
Of course, he knew that he had arrived by contacting Yang Gwang in advance.
However, Yuhan Wol was deeply surprised.
The task of saving my parents and younger brother was completed much smoother and faster than I expected.
Even persuading them to stay in the base there.
Since it was on the way to catch the earliest flight right after that, I thought that I might arrive earlier than Bertrand.
If I hadn’t received advice from Yang Gwang in advance, it seems that Bertrand’s appearance in the dormitory would not have been expected.
“Because it’s not that far away. The boat performance is good. If you run fast in a straight line, it doesn’t take that long. If it’s a passenger ship, of course it will take quite a while.”
Then, as if suddenly feeling something, Bertrand looked at Yuhan Wol’s face and spoke again.
“Ah! Did you think I was coming on a ferry?”
“…don’t you think?”
“Hahaha! If I had to do that, I probably wouldn’t have arrived until tomorrow. To get on the ferry, I have to meet the set timetable and the speed is very slow.
“Then, is there a separate boat to operate?”
“Yeah. Cain prepared it beforehand. Without it, I would have been very tired. It’s like sneaking on and off a ferry, but you have to avoid your eyes when you’re in it… It’s perfect to buy doubts about my clothes or things I’m holding. I’m just tired.”
It is Yuhan-wol, who once again admires Aiden and Cain.
That greatness was already felt enough by seeing the facilities of the base or the approach route several times.
But running a boat is another story.
I do not know the details, but I can guess that it will not be easy.
“Hmm… that must be pretty tricky?”
As if he understood Yuhanwol’s thoughts, Bertrand nodded.
“Yeah. It’s not easy, but with the financial power and technology, it’s possible.”
It’s about arranging and maintaining a boat, but it’s also about securing a place to store it.
It is necessary to secretly prepare a place that will not be exposed to external gaze.
“Then where is the boat you brought? Have you set up facilities in China?”
“Hahaha! That would be nice, but… How can you prepare and manage such facilities all over the world? There is no such thing in China.”
“then?”
How do you keep your boat out of sight?
Bertrand speaks as if it’s not a big deal.
“I floated it on the sea. I flew in from the right place.”
At first glance, it is not easily understood.
His words continued as if considering Yuhan Wol’s position.
“You’re right. Actually, if you’re going to use a boat for operations, that’s the trickiest part. Where should you store the boat you’ve been on after you get to the area of operation? To put it simply, Cain’s got a stealth boat. It’s on the radar. Not to mention, it can’t be detected by satellites. It’s almost invisible even with the naked eye.”
“Can’t you see a real person even if you look nearby?”
“Remember the bike I rode before escaping from BH? I brought it with me. The same goes for the curtain I spread over it, like an invisibility cloak. After that, it completely hides objects from view. It even blocks detection, and it’s easy to understand if you think of it as wrapping the boat’s façade with that membrane-like material.”
“Is that… really possible?”
Even as I see Cain’s powers again, I feel suspicious.
But what I hear is Bertrand’s confident tone.
he said definitively.
“Yeah. It’s definitely possible. Even if someone uses an infrared detection system, you won’t be able to find it, and you won’t notice it even if you actually look at it with your own two eyes at close range. Even if there’s something in the background you’ll notice something is distorted… Isn’t it the same background where the boat floats? The sea. There’s no way to find it.”
A finite month that seems to understand roughly what you mean.
“If you just leave it on the sea… it won’t be detected?”
“Yeah. And there’s no need to drop anchor or anything like that, so you don’t get caught by something unfortunate passing by. It has the ability to maintain its position on its own. When something comes close, it automatically distances itself and returns to its original position. Cain said that even if a typhoon hits, it will maintain its position… Anyway, when you return to a boat that is waiting in hiding like that, just call and it will come to the nearby area. How about it? Pretty useful, isn’t it?”
“That’s amazing. Cain… What was he doing?”
“Hahaha! Ask yourself that later.”
Brian is just standing next to him, even though his words are quite long.
Bertrand, who lightly patted his shoulder with his hand, turned around and went inside first.
He walked past the living room to the window, swung open a part of the blind that covered the window, and looked back.
Bertrand, who stared at the two men who were looking at him once, said, pointing out the window in one direction.
“It’s about 700 meters from here to there. Let’s go tonight.”
Although the hour is urgent, it is impossible to work during the daytime when there are many eyes to see.
When he said that we should take a little rest because we have time, it was Yuhanwol who said that he would take a look around and left the dormitory alone.
There was not much interference from Bertrand and Brian in the sudden action.
I wondered if they would ask me to come out together, but they told me to stay at the dormitory and to go because they themselves knew that they stood out well.
‘The CCC should know… ‘
Yuhan-wol, who had an earphone in his ear, connected it to the CCC and spoke out.
“I’m going to take a look around before time.”
[Roger.]
Yuhan Wol slowly headed toward the BH experimental facility while looking at the surrounding terrain.
He took a seat in a cafe that had a lot of seating outdoors.
A good location to observe the surroundings with an open front.
There are quite a few people sitting there, probably because the atmosphere is pretty cool.
Yuhan-wol, who sat down in a suitable place, ordered a drink from the menu.
When Yang Yang-kwang shows the code prepared in advance on his phone to the employee, the payment is made immediately.
n
“Payment has been made. Thank you.”
‘after… ‘
I don’t know how much space this is.
A point in time for the operation time.
I don’t know if it’s the right way to describe the fact that the scouting car came out for a while…
At least he was feeling relaxed now.
Yuhanwol leaned back like a hanyang, leaned back, tilted her head up to the sky, and then closed her eyes.
‘Feel so good… .’
he thought
What is this…
Once again, in these ordinary moments, in the present when you do not have to do anything, you become grateful for the time alone.
Yuhan-wol, who had been enjoying the moment to his heart’s content, changed his posture and sat down when the employee came with a drink.
[brother. At the airport… Even in China, it’s okay if you don’t try to cover your face too much. Then it might look more award-winning.]
[okay? Isn’t it better not to have your face taken as much as possible?]
It’s hard to find a place without a camera.
[Of course, it shouldn’t be taken at an important moment. it’s usually fine And even if you get caught, you won’t know that that person is your older brother.]
[What does that mean?]
[Well… When your brother enters the country, information is collected saying that a person named hyung came in, right?]
[right?]
[How would you collect them?]
[When to go through immigration?]
[Fingerprints are checked during immigration procedures, but in China, you need to obtain a visa in advance to enter the country. So, the photo of the inbound person is the one submitted when applying for the visa and will be converted into a database. I don’t take pictures and collect them when I actually go through immigration.]
[okay?]
[yes. There are countries where you can enter without a visa, but there are places where you have to take a picture when you enter the country. China has always been given a visa. So, you may not have felt the need to take more photos during immigration procedures, but there is a loophole here.]
Yang Yang-gwang’s next words.
[The picture of hyung looks the same as his real face when viewed by people, but in reality, the main parts are very slightly different. So fine that it cannot be discerned with the naked eye. Eyes, nose, mouth, face outline, etc. So, even if my brother’s face is photographed locally, it cannot match the picture of him on the database.]
[Five… ]
[If a person compares directly, they will think they are the same person, but in fact, that is generally impossible. With so many immigrants and a population of billions of people, how can people directly compare each other? All of them will be compared by automatically matching them with face recognition software. So there is nothing to take.]
‘Good… ‘
Yuhan Wol recalled a conversation with Yang Kwang for a moment.
He took off his sunglasses, put them on the window of his hat, took off his mask, put it on the side of the table, and drank a cool drink.
gulp
“Kyaa.”
He looked around for a moment in a comfortable position.
A very different environment from the morning.
It was only this morning that the operation was planned.
However, before it was even time for dinner, he had already come to a distant foreign country.
Yuhan-wol once again felt the greatness of modern civilization.
The various characters I met in the game are worthy of being called superhumans, compared to the current human race.
However, it took a long time for even them to cross the vast continent.
However, with modern humans, that can be done in just an hour or two.
easy too.
‘What… good. Thanks to you, I can have this kind of free time even for a short time… .’