Episode 158. Russia vs EU (2)
Bump!
A large man enters the door with a sign of urgency.
“Captain Alexei, the men from the 68th Legion are taking citizens hostage and demanding surrender.”
“Those who drown in rotten intestines! Citizens who have to give their all to protect, what? hostage?”
The Russian military, remembering Alexei’s heyday, sent a platoon to deal with him, who might be the seed of a civil war, in secret now that the public’s attention is drawn to the war.
Doo doo doo!
When he heard the gatling outside, Alexei opened his eyes and ran outside with a 20-gauge shotgun and a claymore he kept at hand.
“Captain, no!”
Andrei blocked it, but Alexei also once wrote a legend.
Even though he was old, he hung him around his waist and came out of the temporary base to load bullets.
“Margaret! Are you okay!”
When Alexei called for Margaret, who was standing on the guard, an answer came from beyond the forest.
“Yes! Not yet!”
A trained Awakening System can withstand bullets with their bare body. However, if there are no defense-specific characteristics such as durability, there is a limit.
Because of this, all three of them, with their aggressive nature, hid behind a tree and waited for the right time.
“Stop shooting! General Alexei, stop surrendering. We just want to introduce you to a quiet villa.”
A middle-aged man’s voice came through a speaker from one of the armed vehicles on the road.
“Free the hostages. No negotiations until then!”
After a while, a civilian bursts out of an armed vehicle in the rear and runs in the direction of Usnera.
“I did as you said. Now our offer—”
As they moved away, Alexei threw the claymore he was carrying into the air with all his might.
“There is no conversation with the one who attacked the citizens!”
Alexei let out a gunshot-like shout and pulled the trigger of the shotgun.
When the metal beads protruding from the muzzle hit the horizontally rotating claymore, they explode precisely on top of the armed vehicle.
bang!
Aww!
A rain of iron pouring down over the enemy’s head in an instant.
Shortly thereafter, Alexei and Andrei rushed into the enemy camp and quickly subdued a platoon in chaos.
boo boo!
Margaret also confirmed their entry and succeeded in neutralizing the two vehicles trying to escape with her bare hands.
A middle-aged man crawls out of a vehicle that has rolled down a slope, bleeding.
Margaret strides to reach him.
“Don’t come close!”
shudder.
“Ouch! Help me!”
A little boy about ten years old was held in his hands.
Margaret remembered how to negotiate with hostages at the Academy.
How quickly and rationally change the excited hostage criminal’s thoughts determines the hostage’s life or death.
This is why negotiators get the most out of their time through dialogue.
Of course, the best is to induce the villain’s vigilance and rescue the hostage.
“We will be still, so the child—”
“Shut up!”
bang!
The middle-aged soldier, who blocked Margaret’s approach by firing a gun at Margaret’s feet, took a couple of breaths and made a request.
“Bring water and that tea. Then let this kid go.”
“… okay.”
Margaret drove a well-armed vehicle, parked in front of him, and got off.
“Give me the key.”
“Send the hostage this way.”
“How can I trust a killer like you! I’ll drop you off in the town of Usnera. Little! Take this.”
“No, no.”
“This bastard!”
He hit the child in the head with the handle of the pistol and forced the grenade into his hand. And a middle-aged soldier who pulls out pins.
Enraged at this, Margaret tries to run without weighing back and forth.
“this!”
bang!
“Aww!”
A soldier shot the child in the ear.
“Put the key on the floor and step back.”
“ね.”
‘What would Nam Man-hyuk do at a time like this?’
Margaret thought desperately, but could not think of a way out of this situation.
“Are we going to have to give the kid a bullet hole in the other ear to pass his height?”
A different type of hostage-taker than I was taught at the academy.
He was cool and wise, and knew how to lead the situation.
Recalling Nam Man-hyeok’s evaluation that he would have a hard time if he faced a situation other than what he had learned, although his ability to break through a physical crisis was outstanding, Margaret closed her eyes tightly and put down the key and retreated as he demanded.
“It should be.”
The middle-aged soldier was thoroughly vigilant of the four keys and slowly pulled the key to his toes and held it in his hand.
‘If you try to save the child prematurely, the grenade will explode.’
However, believing the hostage-taker’s words, the people who went to the city were worried and could not do this or that.
“Margaret.”
“Captain.”
Alexei, who came to Margaret’s side, had an expression hard as a stone, unlike usual.
“Never take your eyes off the scene that will unfold from now on.”
“yes?”
After saying those words, just as the car’s wheels were about to roll, Alexei aimed his shotgun at the car’s window and fired without hesitation.
This 20-gauge special bullet was optimized for piercing armor instead of consuming a lot of gun durability.
That is to say.
Kwagwang!
This meant that bullets that had penetrated the armor of an armed vehicle pierced soldiers and boys.
A grenade detonated inside the vehicle made the corpse even more terrifying.
Margaret is startled by the situation in front of her.
“Margaret. either a hero or a soldier. There are times when you have to make quick decisions.”
“But this!”
“The commander is right. If we missed him, next time we would have taken the entire city hostage and drove us away.”
Margaret could not agree with them.
“It’s good to be alive and realize your powerlessness.”
Alexei took out a cigar and lit it.
“Remember today, Margaret. Your helplessness led that little boy to his death. Even though I killed it with my own hands, if you were far stronger than you are now, this wouldn’t have happened.”
Whoa.
Exhaling gray smoke, Alexei threw a lit cigar into the car and prayed briefly.
“May your unfinished life go on peacefully there.”
Looking down at Margaret, who had not yet recovered from the shock, Alexei had an unfeeling gaze and had Andrei summon the men who had been hiding in the base.
After a while.
“Everyone has gathered.”
“As you know, this base has become unusable. So I’m going to go to Nikolai, what do you guys think?”
“good!”
When a dozen non-combatants responded in unison, Alexei was satisfied and ordered Andrei and Margaret to bring their car, which they had hidden in a nearby forest.
“Margaret Yevsovna.”
“… This is Yevsovic.”
“Your words were a bit exaggerated. you understand He must have been through a lot of things like this because he spent his whole life in the military, which had been losing battles over and over again.”
Andrei patted Margaret on the shoulder, and Margaret moved her hip to the side to distance herself from him.
“The commander is right. It happened because I was weak.”
“Not necessarily.”
“No, if my grandfather or senior had stepped forward from the beginning, the kid would have lived. You two can move faster than a bullet if you put your mind to it.”
Margaret blamed herself, but her face wasn’t as dark as before.
“Next time, I can do better.”
Seoul Hero Academy is the cradle of genius, where people with talents and characteristics that are said to be the best of the century.
Margaret Yevsovic is the person who always maintained the top rank in such a place, and even achieved the top score for one semester.
What made this possible was none other than an innate spirit of improvement!
It was a situation that could make anyone feel embarrassed, but Margaret’s eyes fluttered more serious than ever.
Alexei knew Margaret was going to recover so quickly, so he poured out a rebuke that was close to gaslighting.
“… okay.”
For some reason, Andrei’s complexion was darker than Margaret’s.
* * *
1 week later. Sakhalin Islands, Nikolai’s mansion.
Kwagwagwagwang!
“It’s a bomber!”
“Shit!”
“You came with a tail, Alexei!”
“Girl! Bring out the hidden anti-aircraft guns!”
“Is there!”
Nikolai and Alexei, who were commissioned officers, were close friends, swearing at each other without fault.
“The guy who shrank two walnuts just by hearing the sound of an airplane engine didn’t prepare for an air strike? Are you telling me to believe it? Look at that awkward attic right now!”
“Anyway, as always, a bastard with an amazing eye. Jacob! Get those stingrays down!”
“Yes, write!”
The structure disguised as the mansion’s attic was transformed into a large-caliber anti-aircraft gun after several manipulations.
The barrel moved violently and vomited a bullet the size of a forearm at a great speed, forming a barrage of its own, even though it was only one line, and the three bombers split in three directions as if they had promised.
However, Jacob’s ability to aim was so great that two of them fell with black smoke after a while, and the other one made a big circle around the mansion and fled over the clouds.
When the situation is over, Nikolai, who is in a wheelchair, spit.
“Hey! look at my mansion You son of a withered bear. How are you going to do this?”
“Whatever it is, you will be considered one of my teammates, so you should join me even if you don’t like it.”
Seeing Alexei smiling mischievously, Nikolai threw the vodka he had received from Jacob at him.
“개새끼야!”
Alexei, who skillfully grabbed the flying vodka, emptied half of it at once and handed it to him again.
“Okay, let’s go to Leonite.”
“The safety-first will take us well.”
“If you bring an anti-aircraft gun, you will be welcome.”
“No Lyudmila!”
Lyudmila was the name Nikolai gave to anti-aircraft guns.
* * *
2 weeks later. Kamchatka Peninsula, Leonite’s bunker.
“Pathetic bastards.”
Leonid, who had caught a group of about 30 people who had arrived with a scruffy and scruffy bastard by anti-aircraft gun bait, heard what had happened to them in the meantime, and filled his mouth with all the pitiful things in the world.
“Have you never thought that if you were attacked by the military throughout the journey, there would be traitors inside?”
“There is no one among us who is so ungrateful!”
While Nikolai strongly denies, Alexei pours vodka into his mouth like bottled water.
“Alexei, what do you think?”
At Leonit’s calm voice, he looked at one person.
“Ouch, well. Because of the alcohol, my brain is completely consumed. However! Our bright newcomers may be different. Margaret.”
Margaret, who didn’t know how to call her at this important moment, comes out in a panic.
“You find it.”
“yes?”
“The enemy attack started even before I joined Nikolai. If traitors exist, they will be among us.”
“Then it is right for the captain to point out.”
“I’ve been with these guys too long. I can’t think rationally. I’d like to hear your judgment on the shallow relationship. And, you noticed something, so you didn’t wink at me.”
“… Right.”
Margaret looked at the faces of those who had been through hardships together, and finally stood in front of Andrei.
“mister.”
“I am not.”
“How many times have you saved me from bombing?”
“okay! If I were a traitor, why would I have saved you?”
“When my uncle dropped his wallet a while ago, I unintentionally looked inside. It was a picture of a wife dressed as a famous cruiser and a girl in a cute swimsuit.”
“Thanks to the captain, both survived that death cruise. But what does that matter now?”
Margaret continued what she had to say, regardless of his threats.
“On the identification card, the name of the man was written ‘Andrei Yurivic Yevso’. Do you have the same name as my father?”
“It’s a coincidence.”
“My daughter’s middle name is Yepsovna.”
“… … .”
“The reason you keep calling me Yevsovna is because it’s similar to my daughter’s name.”
Silence fell within the bunker.
The moment Andrei sensed the strange atmosphere and was about to open his mouth, Margaret asked first.
“When was the last time you spoke to Ms. Yevsovna?”