Episode 170. Bear & Crow (1)
Southeast region of Bydgoszcz, Poland.
At one time, Jack Cortez, from the mercenary unit Nightwing, came to Poland at the request of Kang-su.
[53.08066, 18.07285]
[Ernsta Petersona 6, 85-001]
It was the address of the coordinates received from Kang-soo. There was a large distribution center where they arrived.
“That’s awful… Is this right?”
Jack Cortez was a super-giant man with a height of 213 cm and a weight of 132 kg. In addition, her slightly curly brown hair fell to her shoulders, which made her stand out more.
Jack, who was pondering, was at a loss as to how to investigate.
“How do I check? Just run into it?”
It was because the location of the coordinates he had received from Kang-soo was empty in England.
I thought it would be similar this time, but an unexpected situation happened.
But now people and vehicles are busy moving in and out of the distribution center.
Then a familiar voice came from behind.
“I knew it would be like this. what is this I am here, are you bragging?”
Jack turned around in surprise.
“… Simon?”
“A long time. I thought it would be nice to meet Kang-soo. That was you.”
“How is this… ? Did you work with Cap?”
Kang-su had never heard of Simon.
Of course, I couldn’t help but be more surprised.
“that’s right. We decided to move together because we had the same purpose. Why are you here so late? I thought it would be easy in three days, but it took a week.”
Until then, Simone waited in the surrounding town to surprise Jack Cortez.
But it was too late, so I almost called first.
“Is that true? Shall we call Cap?”
“A bear-like figure or big guy has a lot of filthy doubts. Have you tried it?”
“… … .”
Jack called Kang-soo right away. The beep didn’t last long and the connection was established.
[Have you met Simon?]
“Is it really from Cap?”
[I forgot to tell you after sending Simon. Since the coordinates of Poland are the distribution center, I sent it because it would be difficult for you to investigate alone.]
Precipitation was correct at 100%.
At this, Jack gave a slightly puzzled expression.
[Be careful.]
pop-
After talking with Kang-su, Jack looked at Simon.
“Is there a way?”
“Are you sure you didn’t do anything while I was waiting? Follow me.”
The two went down the road a little and approached the car parked near the bush.
Simon took two vests from the car and threw one at Jack.
The PGE (POLSKA GRUPA ENERGETYC) logo was embroidered on the left chest and back. It was meant to symbolize the ‘Electricity Corporation’ under the Polish Energy.
“Is this the right size for me?”
“… … .”
fast-
Jack pulled his shoulders slightly forward while putting on his vest, and his back split in half.
“It’s the largest size… . I will really turn around.”
“How do I do this?”
“Even if it’s the jacket you normally wear outside. You can only show it in front of you.”
At Simon’s words, Jack put on the jacket he had taken off at first. Then the back of the vest, which had been split in half, was invisible.
“Can you check inside with this?”
“Just shut up and follow me quietly. I don’t know what’s going on inside.”
“… All right. Then I’ll just pack some gear.”
Jack opened the Boston bag he had set aside. At the same time, Simon’s brow furrowed.
“Where did you get all of that?”
This was because the bag contained various pistols and hand grenades.
“What and where do you get it? Of course I bought it. Don’t you know that Poland is also a country where guns are legal? It’s easy to get a bullet hole in a dangerous place the wrong way.”
Simon was dumbfounded at the words of Jack, who is the owner of a bullet-proof owner.
“Take care of your equipment so that it is invisible. And come here.”
“Why is that?”
“You’ve been walking around with your bare face all this time and recognized me—?”
Simon ended up throwing a half-door.
Stealth was the most important thing to reach the team’s final goal.
In the process, Kang Soo also moved while thoroughly hiding his true face.
Of course, I thought Jack would have done the same, but seeing the reaction of the person involved, I couldn’t help but wrinkle Simon’s forehead.
Simon continued to speak.
“There’s no way you would have cared about that.”
“There is absolutely no witness, so don’t worry.”
“How can you be sure of that—you can’t.”
“It was inevitable self-defense as some guys rushed to kill me first.”
In reality, there were very few cases where justification was recognized.
Of course, Simon didn’t want to ask that right away. It was just a long sigh.
“Because of your size, a disguise might be useless, but just in case you don’t know.”
Simon squeezed Jack’s curly bob hair and covered it with a hollow bald wig from forehead to top of his head, then put skin sheets under his ears and under his jawline and under his eyes, and put on thick horn-rimmed glasses.
The scary impression seemed to have faded a little.
“This is enough.”
Simon, who said that, also put gauze on the inside of his cheek, applied the skin sheet to his cheekbones and chin part by part, and spread a cream that matched his skin color.
In an instant, Simon’s impression changed and changed into a different face.
“and… Somehow Simon’s disguise seems to be faster than the last time I saw him.”
“It’s because cosmetics that cover easily are coming out well these days. No skin troubles. In particular, there are many products that I couldn’t find in Korea.”
Simon, who finished the small bragging, put the equipment back in the car after finishing the disguise.
“All right? You shouldn’t take it off just because it’s stuffy.”
“I’m already going crazy.”
“Be patient. And put back the pistols and grenades peeking out of your jacket. What do you take care of so much?”
Simon looked at Jack’s jacket.
Iron gruck— Iron gruck—
Six handguns, two each of flash grenades, smoke grenades, and fragmentation grenades were dangling in every nook and cranny of a survival jacket that I don’t know when it was worn between the vest and jacket.
“ah… I will turn around already.”
“Rather than that, can’t we just take off the wig?”
“no. And put back the four pistols and one grenade. I hear it every time I walk. Bring a silencer.”
Just in case Simon didn’t know, he kept a pistol, a silencer and two magazines in his pocket.
Then I went over to the side of the car and grabbed something. The thin sheet peeled off, revealing a PGE Mart attached to the door. It is fully prepared.
The two approached the distribution center by car.
As I stood in front of the main gate of the distribution center, a security guard approached me.
“What are you here for?”
It was Polish.
Simon responded with a bright smile.
“It has been inspected by PGE.”
“Inspection? What’s wrong?”
“It’s not like that, it’s a regular random safety check. Well—there’s no problem here, just a quick glance.”
Simon even gave a slight wink at the guard.
In response, the security guard looked suspiciously at Simon, Jack, and the front of the car.
The PGE logo was also embroidered on the car, so I wasn’t full of suspicion.
“All right. Just enter the relevant information here. Be sure to wear this guest ID around your neck.”
“ah-! thank you!”
Simon smiled as he wrote down the paperwork he gave him.
The distribution center barricade opened and entered Simon’s car. After I parked my car in the guest parking lot, I got out with Jack and started turning outside.
“It came in easier than I thought.”
“Don’t relax. But don’t put your finger on the trigger.”
Before he knew it, Jack was ready to pull out the pistol he had in his pocket at any time.
It looked like it would destroy everything, including enemies.
“Sheesh—”
“Look around to see if there is anything suspicious. When I first came and checked around the center, there was nothing special. If so, it might be in here.”
The two checked every nook and cranny of the center pretending to be doing electrical safety checks.
The vest with the PGE logo attracted people’s attention in the middle, but nothing special happened.
The people in the center were focused on what they were doing, whether or not they were there.
“hmm… Did they evacuate neatly here too? There is not much difference in terms of drawing… However, given the length of time the center has been in operation, it must be related.”
There were no obvious traces.
Meanwhile, several distribution center workers passed by loading boxes onto carts.
While Simon was thinking about it, Jack suddenly opened his nose and made a strange expression.
“Sniff, sniff— don’t you smell something weird?”
“What smell?”
“It smells like gunpowder.”
“… gunpowder? is it?”
Jack’s sniffing nose pointed to the distribution center workers who had just passed by.
“It comes from those people.”
“This is a country where guns are legal. If you shoot, you can fly out of your body.”
“No, it’s not like that.”
tall—
Perhaps they could hear Jack’s slightly louder voice, but the distant footsteps of the distribution center workers paused and then sped up.
He hurriedly dragged the cart around the corner and disappeared.
“Follow me!”
Simon and Jack ran straight to where they had turned. A door in the distance along the way rattled.
It was a warehouse. Countless boxes were stacked tightly around it.
“Where have you been?”
“It looks like this way.”
Back pointed to the right at the fork in the box.
“How do you know?”
“The smell of gunpowder.”
“… … .”
It was the smell of gunpowder from earlier. Of course, if you touched a lot of firearms, you could be more sensitive to the smell of gunpowder than others.
The same was true of Simon, who had lived on the battlefield for a long time.
But not as much as Jack now.
‘Is it that bastard’s tentacle again?’
Or an animal… No, it should be called a beastly sense… . In reality, there was absolutely no smell.
Jack Cortez often mistook what he sensed for smell.
“So which one?”
“hmm… this way?”
I continued to find my way through the boxes, until I came across a pile of boxes that seemed to obscure the entire warehouse wall.
Simon looked around slowly to confirm. The last mark was the scratch mark on the box at the last crossroads.
There was no sign of that now.
bang-
Then there was the sound of something closing from the other direction.
Simultaneously, Simon looked at Jack and at each other.
“Why do you think we fell into a trap?”
“Can I do whatever I want now?”
“Eh— I don’t know either.”
“Then can I take off the bald wig too?”
Jack’s hand went up.
At the same time, Simon made a determined expression.
“That’s not allowed.”
Jack furrowed his brow and pulled out a pistol with Simon.
At that time, men jumped out from the paths between the boxes and shouted at Jack.
“Catch that bald head first!”
“Who is bald!”
Tata-tang— Tata-tang—
The pistol he pulled from Jack’s hand fired bullets. There was a loud noise because the silencer was not installed.
“Let’s do it quietly!”
“It’s already too late!”
“Let’s see when we get it all done!”
Simon also drew his pistol before he knew it and separated from Jack and ran.
Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary