Chapter 229 – Strike Back (7)

The airport was running busily as if it had nothing to do with the gates open all over Seoul. The roar of airplane engines from the runway obscured the conversations of people passing by.

The figure of Lee Hyun-woo was getting closer along the distant horizon. The guards were busy chatting with carefree faces, assuming that a fast motorcycle was approaching.

Their faces were full of fatigue rather than tension.

For a long time, the guard looked at the black figure as it approached at high speed, then blinked once and realized that the black figure had disappeared from the road. Startled by the sudden change, the moment he looked back, a road railing exploded and a loud explosion rang out. Subsequently, debris from the road was seen rising with smoke. The security guard, who was leisurely smoking a cigarette, and the control tower in the distance were all startled by the sudden explosion and were busy grasping the situation.

But nothing they could know. The road was only quietly carving the scars created by two S-class hunters colliding. The road was smashed and the cars blocked the way looked at the plane they were going to board with an anxious face through the window.

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“Ha… Ha…”

The sight that flashed red indicated the pain. The current time is 25 minutes before the flight to Greenland departs. He didn’t even get to the airport and was lying on his floor. An old man was riding on top of him, his eyes blazing with fire.

Hyunwoo Lee said with a smile. Since he was caught fleeing to the airport, the flight plan had to be abandoned. All he had to aim for now was survival. Survival from this ignorant S-class hunter.

“You’re taking it easy. Yes? The roads are all ruined.”

The old man caught his breath and thrust his fist into Lee Hyun-woo’s face. Lee Hyun-woo thought as he narrowly avoided his fist. That the opponent prepared too thoroughly.

From the moment the gate plan was discovered and the link to him revealed, everything went so fast. It was unknown when he started targeting and setting traps for himself. What could he possibly do in this situation? How many S-class hunters can he defeat by himself?

As the pile exploded, dust rose everywhere. When Lee Hyun-woo used his ability while holding on to the soil on the floor, Lee Hyun-woo and the old man were all buried in the soil. The old man started digging into the ground, startled by the sudden clogging of the soil. While the old man removed contact with him, Hyunwoo Lee used his ability again to come out to the ground. It’s turned upside down and put in, so it will take quite a while to come out.

Once the plan was discovered, the plan to escape by plane failed before a proper arrest order was issued.

More than this. I had to run as far as possible by land and then stow away. Lee Hyun-woo confirmed that the old man hadn’t come out yet and quickly started running. When he had taken his five steps, he saw trees sticking out like volcanoes erupting on the ridge on the far side. I saw an angry old man observing the mountains and the ground, showing off his muddy muscles.

Hyeonu Lee hid under a tree to avoid his glare. The moment he fell flat on the floor, he felt his whole body wriggle and rage. It was because he, who should have been worshiped as a hero, was lying on the floor avoiding the eyes of the S-class hunter.

What am I doing? Do I really have to fall into this situation?

A weak anger welled up in Lee Hyun-woo’s chest. But he had to put up with it for now. I had to endure it, quietly run away, and plan my future somewhere else. The moment the old man’s eyes turned away, Lee Hyun-woo started running again. However, the old man who caught his movement in that brief moment jumped out of the air like a cannonball and flew precisely towards Lee Hyeonu.

“Found!”

“Shit!”

Hyunwoo Lee urgently used his ability to switch positions between himself and the old man. The old man hit the bare floor and there was a huge explosion like a collapsed building. Trees were uprooted along the mountain ranges, and wild animals that roamed the mountains were caught and crushed by the torrent of earth. Lee Hyun-woo gasped and caught his breath before starting to run again. I had to get out of that old man’s arms. As he himself knows, the ability of the elderly to strengthen the body. If the hunter Kim Joo-sung’s ability in the past diamond club only strengthened ‘muscular strength’, the old man’s ability was the ability to strengthen his five senses as well as his muscular strength.

How do I get away from such an old man?

Every time Lee Hyun-woo thought that he was running away from the old man, he felt a tendon rise in his forehead. His pride, which had always been praised and won, was cracking little by little even over such trivial things.

“Fuck!”

Hyunwoo Lee gritted his teeth and spat out abusive language. The emotion that oozes out of his language is unmistakable anger.

Anger at having to run away. But he had to run away.

He ordered Seongjin Park to open the gate, so most of the hunters would be busy blocking the gate. Since many gates of that size were opened, the area around Gyeonggi-do would also be affected, and even the old man, an S-class hunter, could not pursue only himself forever. So, if he just ran away from here, he would have won. A hand protruding like a ground mole grabbed Hyunwoo’s ankle. Uncharacteristic of an S-class Hunter, he rolled on the floor and looked back at him while holding his face. An old man sprang out of the dirt and swung his fist at his leg.

Bang!

“Quaaaaa!”

Lee Hyun-woo could not come to his senses at the unpleasant feeling of the blow, as if his entire shin bone had been shattered. He saw that his leg was not broken, but slightly bent and black with bruises. The old man moved his gaze to the other side as if he would make the same for his other leg. Like the blacksmith god of ancient Greek mythology, holding up a hammer, he solemnly raised his hand clenched into a fist, intending to judge his leg.

Lee Hyeonu once again used his ability to twist the space in front of him. He focused the space as thinly as possible and shot vibration waves at the middle of the forehead of the old man who was concentrating on breaking the bridge.

Empty!

A bell-like sound rang out, and the old man gritted his teeth and bounced back. At the same time, his fist, which was slamming down on his knee, narrowly missed and hit the floor. He saw the floor that his fists touched explode with a heavy sound. Thanks to this, Hyeonu covered his face with dirt and squinted his eyes. The old man fell to the floor, clutching his head. Judging from the fact that he was moaning and bleeding from his forehead, he thought it had been quite a blow to him too.

At that moment, Lee Hyun-woo poured out all his body strength and stretched out his hand in front of him. The old man was startled by Lee Hyeon-woo’s sudden power and shrunk his body. His whole body was pushed back with the power Lee Hyun-woo used, and he floated up. Hyeonu Lee shouted once more as he pushed the air out of him.

“Die!”

Lee Hyun-woo’s sleeve burst. Around him, the middle of the forest broke out in a circle. In one shot accompanied by tremendous pressure and destructive power, the old man’s body bounced off at high speed like a shell. With one shot that stretched out in a straight line and exhausted itself, a huge road was built in the forest where the old man and Lee Hyun-woo escaped, and the overpass that penetrated the forest was cut cleanly and turned into a hideous appearance like the ruins of an old city.

Hyeonu Lee staggered, gagging, and collapsed due to a broken leg. The old man clutched his head and grunted.

Now is your chance to escape.

Hyunwoo Lee limped his leg, and he started running away, slamming his abilities to somehow escape. His eyes were blurry, and he had no strength in his body. He used his abilities excessively to the extent that he didn’t normally use them, so his whole body was in agony. But he had to survive. As long as he survived and regained his strength, he could do anything again. One of his legs was weak and he had to drag. The pain continued to pierce his side, as if it had burst out. As if his lungs were out of order, he couldn’t breathe as usual. When I strained his face, blood trickled out of his nose.

But he liked being alive.

Because he could do anything once he recovered his body.

Hide anywhere Let’s take advantage of this chaos to hide somewhere and restore his powers. Because the gate was still open. Hunters won’t be able to show up to catch themselves.

So, you just need to recover your strength.

Lee Hyun-woo started running with such a promise.

“Stand there! Lee Hyeon-woo!”

“Catch it!”

He heard a voice chasing him. Hyunwoo Lee gritted his teeth.

“Fuck…! Fuck!”

Looking at the ability he felt, he was at best a B to A grade. If they hadn’t been struggling to deal with the old man, they wouldn’t have been a fistful.

He was furious at the thought of having to run away from them.