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Chapter 288
Chapter 288: Reverse City 20
It was a realization that came far too late — only after losing half their participating numbers.
In terms of a human body, it was as if they had only noticed they were being attacked after losing an arm and a leg each. It was beyond being described as simply having dulled instincts.
No matter how much slower a group's reaction speed is compared to a single individual, the speed at which the police and gang grasped the situation could not even charitably be called adequate. Plainly put, they were slow. Very much so.
Yet it was difficult to simply criticize them for it without thought. They had their reasons. Meaning it was not merely a case of being dull-witted enough to be unaware that they were under attack.
W̃ е̄ bn о v́ е̄l̊ E n̈u m̌ а
This was the case even setting aside the entirely obvious fact that Baek Woohyun, moving solo, was extraordinarily elusive, and that the speed from ambush to total wipeout was far too swift.
"Not being able to use the radio is really frustrating."
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"My only conversation partners are the idiot next to me and the viewers? Ugh, I'd rather just die."
"Look who's talking!"
-This guy's making me fume again
-Ha··· feel like starting some trouble?
Ẃ ѐ b ṅо̂ v el̊ Е̄ ǹu m̄а̂
-Always running their mouth and yet always walking around together
-You know what? When you actually ignore her she feels bad and sulks
Currently within 'Reverse City's' inter-faction battles, there were various regulations built right into the system, one of which was the inability to use the radio for those who had died in combat.
This became the first reason why the police and the gang's situational awareness was slow. Since fallen allies could not report on the matter, command naturally had no way of knowing who had killed them.
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On top of that, the fact that there was a clear enemy helped as well. Even when the fact of a death was confirmed through lost contact, the natural assumption was that they had simply been taken out by the police or the gang, and it was passed over.
"Where's a medic! Someone help me up!"
W̌ е́b̌ n ӧv̂еl Еñu m ă
"They say there are a lot of other battles going on right now and they're swamped."
"Nooooo—!"
-Just give up and revive already lol
-Already in debt and adding another one is genuinely ominous;;
-Want to try skipping out on the debt or entering a squid game?
-Was watching the medic broadcast and they were absolutely swamped
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The second reason could also be found in 'Reverse City's' inter-faction battle regulations. To be precise, it was the regulation stating that 'personnel killed in inter-faction combat can only be revived through treatment by a medic.'
Of course, participants could choose to forfeit the battle and revive, but doing so would not only incur a massive cost burden — they would also be ruled as having left the battlefield and barred from rejoining the radio network.
The regulation established to avoid unnecessary prolonging of combat through unlimited revival ended up delaying the transfer of information yet again, concealing Baek Woohyun — the third enemy — from both the police and the gang.
—One of your squad, please watch the rear!
—Warning of third-force intrusion! All units, watch your backs!
-Wha—
W̆ еb n о̆ v e l̄ Еn̈ü m̊а̃
-Watch your backs?
-Apparently in English-speaking regions that means something else lol
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-That's not what it means here lol
The command units of the police and gang, having realized that a new enemy — whom they had presumably assumed to belong to a neutral faction not affiliated with either the hero or villain factions — had intruded, immediately issued orders over the radio.
Whereas before they had built formations to encircle or defend while watching only the direction where a clear opponent existed, they now ordered all units to maintain vigilance in every direction, accounting for attacks from the rear as well.
Though in the end, people tend to focus on the enemy they can see in front of them, so how effective it would actually be was uncertain — but at any rate, they could not simply do nothing.
Е́ n̂ û ḿ а. і̀d
"……."
'They've caught on.'
The eyes of Baek Woohyun, who had been searching for his next prey, narrowed. He had noticed from the enemy's response that his presence had become known. The way they immediately began looking around right after something came through on the radio was plain to see.
Already in a situation where 'outnumbered' was not even a word that applied to him, even the one thing that could be called his sole advantage had now disappeared. To summarize it simply in two words — crisis would be an apt description.
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But as always, that was an observation that applied only to ordinary people. It had absolutely nothing to do with Baek Woohyun, who had long since reached the heights of transcendence — a superhuman, 'a human who has surpassed a certain boundary.'
He made that fact plain once again — to the enemies who dared stand against him, and to Jeong Nayeon and the viewers watching over him.
W ĕ.b̊ñ оv̈е̌l̃ Ẽ n ǔm.а̀
Ta-da-da-da!
"Urgh."
"Oh."
-They're no match
-We warned you there was an enemy behind you!
-Does knowing that mean you can actually do anything about it? lol
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-Don't be too hard on them, they were doing their best;;
'ㅇㅇ' donated [1,000 won]!
[Now that he's just shooting from a distance nobody even knows when the Hackphysical killed someone lol]
Four from the police, followed by three from the gang as well.
This was the result Baek Woohyun had achieved through three engagements.
Despite the command units' warning about the intrusion of a third force — though calling it a third 'force' when there was only a single person felt something of an overstatement — he continued to whittle down the enemy numbers without difficulty.
Еńú m а. ìḋ
It was proof that the gap between an individual broadcaster and him was not the kind that could be narrowed simply by having a few more bodies.
Click.
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The sight of Baek Woohyun replenishing expended ammunition from the enemies he had killed and checking his firearms was the picture-perfect image of a veteran operative.
Jeong Nayeon, carefully observing Baek Woohyun from atop the rooftop she was moving across, could already sense the wave of posts that would flood the community after this broadcast ended.
Even in the corner of her vision, the chat window was already awash with related quips.
"Lost contact again?"
E_n ǔm̈ӑ
"This time they at least managed to report that they'd been ambushed."
-Frustrating lol
-But they should've said who the enemy was too;
-Seems like they got wiped out the moment they were attacked?
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-The neutral faction's joyful uprising, here we go lol
'At this rate, holding the bank is going to get harder.'
W eb n оv̊ ё ĺ È ñ ù m̂ а
'No freeloading! We're the ones who should be robbing the bank!'
With the overwhelming gap made plain once again, it seemed like the police and gang sides had a lot to think about. Understandably, with nothing but reports of lost contact piling up and no news of victory.
Even granting that at first they had died without knowing of the intruder's existence and without time to report it over the radio — the warning about attacks from the rear had clearly gone out afterward. And yet how could they be dying without even identifying the enemy?
The command units, unaware that their opponent was Baek Woohyun, made a reasonable assessment. They concluded that the intruding faction was far larger than they had assumed and that everyone was simply being swept away.
Those who now worried that despite fighting hard, all the gains might end up going to another party — the order they would issue next was practically already decided.
'Let's join forces for a moment.'
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—All police are to cease combat with the gang immediately and deal with the intruding force first
—Switch all targets to the intruding faction! Large numbers estimated! Ignore the police for now!
"No choice, I suppose."
"Th-, whatchamacallit! It's a temporary alliance moment!"
-Are the police and the gang actually joining hands?
-Happens all the time in Reverse City
Еǹ_ǔm̈à
-Fighting hard and then cooperating with the enemy when the fire reaches your own feet, it's almost like··· I'll leave it at that
-Corrupt police and the righteous gang lol
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As said before, the police and gang knew each other very well. Well enough to roughly predict not only combat-related capabilities, but also what kind of judgment each would make in any given situation.
Even without any prior communication between the command units, both sides simultaneously stopped their hostilities toward each other and issued the order to deal with the intruding force first — as if they had coordinated it. That was why.
And with that, the three-way standoff of Baek Woohyun vs. police vs. gang — in which only one side had been reaping all the gains unilaterally — instantly transformed into Baek Woohyun vs. police-gang temporary alliance.
'They're going to try to deal with me first?'
W̃e b̊nо ṽ ěl̃ Е̃ n um̈ а
Even without hearing the police and gang's radio exchange, Baek Woohyun possessed the ability to infer the content of their orders simply by observing how they moved — and a cool smile settled on his lips.
The audacity of both factions in prioritizing the intruding force over the enemy right in front of them — in other words, deciding to deal with him first — was what made him smile. Even if that audacity had stemmed from nothing more than an information deficit, from being completely in the dark about who he was.
Sometimes, ignorance is a sin. He was willing to make sure they learned that lesson himself.
"……."
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"Is it true there are a lot of intruders?"
"I don't know. I can only see the gang from where I am."
Е́ n u m̌ ă. і̃d̃
The first targets were two police officers who were scanning the area while chatting quietly. They were moving about, nominally maintaining vigilance, searching for enemies who did not exist in the numbers they imagined.
Perhaps because of the radio report that the enemy was a large force, their movements were not particularly cautious. It seemed they figured that as long as they were not ambushed, spotting any traces would be easy enough regardless.
It was hard to exactly fault them for being complacent. Unlike command, who could confirm the full scale of the losses, they were merely field operatives — it would be difficult for them to know how dangerous the battlefield truly was right now.
It was simply their misfortune to not know that entering the space where the monster in the dark known as Baek Woohyun lurked while talking loudly was the same as hastening their own deaths.
"···Two police officers have just appeared! They're scanning the area. They're heavily armed with STK-2s and protective gear. You could say they're quite formidable."
-Why is there suddenly a narration lol
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-This is actually how Nuclear Tourism used to be
-At least give them some covering fire in the meantime···
-That's a no; she'd only get in the way;
Anticipating the scene that was about to unfold, Jeong Nayeon naturally watched on and spoke in a whisper. Even though her position on a rooftop quite far away meant there was no need to.
She had likely judged that it created a better atmosphere for a scene where Baek Woohyun was concealing himself and quietly approaching behind the two police officers.
At last, just before he made his move, she — who had been happily narrating the danger posed by the two officers — opened her mouth as if she had been waiting for this very moment. Which, in truth, she had.
Е ňúḿ а̊
"—But right now, they're Woohyun's prey."
-Hackphysical highlights lol
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-"But right now, they're my lunch."
-Two fully armed police officers are genuinely probably just lunch
-How is it that even without supernatural abilities I feel this reassured
"Where do you think the intrusion happened? I think it's the vigilante group the neutral faction was supposedly building··· ?!"
Е n̊ ū m̌ȧ.і ḋ
Crack.
"···? What, why did you stop talking?"
One officer's neck was wrenched by an arm that wrapped around him from behind, dropping him immediately into a down state and silencing him — and the other officer, who had been walking slightly ahead, turned his head in puzzlement.
Thanks to that, he was able to get a clear look at his partner, now down and sprawled out, and the grim reaper standing behind him — Baek Woohyun. Along with the hand already reaching toward him.
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Regrettably, the only thing he could do was let out a single short scream.
"Ugh?!"
Е̌ n_u m а̊.і̊ d̈.
Crack.
"……."
Breaking a person's cervical vertebra with bare hands is, inherently, anything but easy. It is not a matter of simply strangling hard — it requires significant force applied in a twisting motion.
Without experience, making it even sprain would be difficult, let alone breaking it. It goes without saying that people who had experience breaking cervical vertebrae were never going to be common.
Which meant that what had just been demonstrated was something only Baek Woohyun — who had personally snapped the necks of many researchers and security guards 'over there' — could pull off.
Of course, telling the two officers who had crumpled without even managing any real resistance that 'you at least died in a comparatively rare way' would be pointless, as they were in no state to hear it.
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'Now, let's see.'
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