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Chapter 289
Chapter 289: Reverse City 21
Baek Woohyun swiftly looted the equipment of the two officers. Since he was already using what firearms he had, he focused mainly on ammunition — and while he was at it, grenades too. It was a remarkably practiced looting of corpses.
The officers, seeing their belongings being taken as if they were his own, snapped back to their senses belatedly. Meaning they had barely recovered from the shock of being laid out one after another in under a few seconds and managed to open their mouths.
"Wh-, what is this?"
"This can't be happening! Can it! This!"
Ŵẽb̄n̄ оv̌_еl Ѐ n̊um̆а̄
-Hackphysical reality shock lol
-This can't be real~
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-Anyone who gets got immediately goes into reality denial
-Their reactions are delicious lol
"……."
Baek Woohyun did not bother answering the wailing of the corpses. The situation itself was fairly urgent for chitchat — he merely appeared relaxed because it was him — and there was also the possibility it might come across as unnecessarily cruel.
W̄ е̌b ṅо vе́ l̈ Е́ n̂ um̃а̀
Instead, the action he chose was installing booby traps. It goes without saying that the viewers cackled with 'This is our Hackphysical!', seeing him too busy setting traps to bother conversing with his opponents.
Even more, this round of booby traps actively made use of the bodies of the two officers. Arranged so that anyone who took an interest in them and drew close would inevitably be caught.
It was evident he had judged that while they were corpses, they were corpses with their mouths open — perfectly suited to serve as bait. There was a risk of a medic getting caught up in it as well — but the dangers of a battlefield do not discriminate.
"Now that I look at it, you're The End! Isn't it a bit much for someone who's the boss of the Villain Alliance to get involved in a small-scale battle like this!"
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"Exactly! Boo! This is corporate tyranny! At this rate the small businesses are all going to go under!"
Pause.
Ĕn ǔ ṁ а̇ .іḋ.
-Small businesses lmaooo
-Nonsense that makes even the Hackphysical pause lol
-And yet look at how artistically he installed the booby traps in the meantime — anyone coming to save these guys is going to die
-? How did you know?
"···I am not The End. We just look alike because we're twin brothers."
Baek Woohyun, who had stopped his hands at the shout from the two officers, offered a brief rebuttal. At present he was not The End, but Baek Woohyun — The End's twin younger brother. The one who was soon to establish a PMC and become active as part of the neutral faction.
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He had even given up his supernatural abilities to prove as much. No, the word 'gave up' was wrong from the start. The twin brother's supernatural ability was the brother's to begin with, and Baek Woohyun had never had any supernatural abilities to begin with.
Of course, as the reactions of Stormrage and Banshee Queen when they had first heard the twin brother setting proved, there was no one who was going to believe his explanation. The two officers were naturally no different.
Having had their tongues tied by the absurd twin brother claim, they began shrieking even more furiously than before. Not merely figuratively — they actually did. As in, they were writhing and yelling.
"Nooooo! Where do you think you're going!"
"Don't run! Stand and fight! Nooooo—!"
"……."
Wе̇b̌ ń ö v̇ е l Ê n uṁ а̃
-Immediate run
-Won but lost
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-But saying the twin brother setting is a bit too slapdash is a bad comment so no no no no no
-The Hackphysical's retreats are rare indeed
Having finished installing the booby traps, Baek Woohyun found no reason to linger and moved on quickly. Since the police and gang forces still had well over half their numbers intact, he had to keep moving.
He also absolutely could not afford to be leisurely if he wanted to proceed with the talent recruitment that had drawn him into the battlefield in the first place. Because only then could he somehow manage to establish the bones of the PMC and declare its founding before the day was out.
Ẇ еb.n̊ о vе l Е̇n ũ ma
Therefore, the viewers' slander that he was fleeing from opponents he himself had taken down was wrong. At any rate, that was the case. The idea of fleeing from people he had defeated — impossible.
'Let's wrap this up quickly.'
The battlefield, from which gunfire had now ceased — a consequence of the police and gang beginning to ignore each other — pressed in on Baek Woohyun with every passing moment, but it produced no greater effect than somewhat restricting his movements.
He was capable of moving more stealthily than anyone else currently in 'Reverse City,' and so he moved in and out of the now-quiet battlefield as if it were his own home.
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If it had been an enclosed space, perhaps it might have been a different story — but urban streets like these were quite easy for him.
Still, the one limitation that remained genuinely effective was that he had no choice but to refrain from using firearms.
Enumā .id̃
In a battlefield that had gone quiet, a gunshot would reveal his position plainly, so he had to take down enemies with bare hands as much as possible — just as he had with the two shrieking officers.
For that, he needed a little more time than before, when he could dispatch an enemy from a distance with just a pull of the trigger. It was not for nothing that he had judged he needed to move quickly.
Tat-tat-tat!
"There he is!" "Everyone move!"
"Hurry, get over here with back—"
BOOM—!
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"—Aargh?!"
"Trap! Everyone watch out!"
Bang! BOOM!
-Goes off nicely
-Should've been careful like we said heh
-"Mom told me not to follow the Hackphysical"
En ům а
-The traps are brutally nasty — you spot one and dodge it and that's where the real one is;;
Moreover, the restriction on using firearms did not come only as a disadvantage to Baek Woohyun. The fact that it could reveal his position meant, conversely, that he could use it to draw enemies toward a specific location.
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While moving here and there, he lured the police and gang toward spots he had already rigged with booby traps, and there eliminated as many as five additional enemies. He had toyed with opponents who were absolutely seething.
The booby traps striking where least expected, combined with the barrage of gunfire — which this time Jeong Nayeon also helped with — was nothing short of a disaster for them.
Since the fighting strength of the police and gang, excluding command, had been effectively wiped out, Baek Woohyun and Jeong Nayeon, who had joined up with him, cut straight across the downtown area designated as the battlefield and headed for the bank.
It was the very bank that the villain Trigger Happy had once attempted to rob, and that the hero Arc Angel had fought to protect. Ironically, the surviving police and gang had chosen to make their final stand there.
Wе̃b n о v̆ё_l Е́n úm̄ a
More precisely, 'surviving' was perhaps less accurate than 'having been left to survive,' or 'having survived by no choice of their own' — but at any rate.
"D-, don't come any closer!"
"Stop the gang violence!"
"Even in a situation like this, having the gang do that is a bit—"
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"Of all people to say that! Ugh!"
"Aka."
W е̄b́ǹ_оvӗ l Е̂ n_ūmӓ
"···Who just said that?!"
-Ugh Aka lmaooo
-The police and gang's sudden comedy sketch lol
-Instead of being police and gangsters these guys should just become comedians
-What?? You think being a comedian is funny??
"……."
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Stomp. Stomp.
Baek Woohyun silently raised the assault rifle STK-2 seized from the police and shouldered it. It was an unmistakably firm combat stance that left no room for any negotiation.
He had cast aside even cover and concealment, moving with deliberately heavy footsteps. It was as if he were declaring to all sides — I am right here, so come at me if you dare.
That made it all the more imposing. Because an overwhelmingly powerful force radiated from him — the presence of someone truly strong, utterly incomparable to the false momentum conjured by something like supernatural abilities.
The police and gang who had been left alive faced him walking straight toward the front of the bank, and ultimately chose to resist. Having decided that waiting would just mean death, they committed to fighting — come what may.
Their opponent was only one person, and he wasn't even hiding. If they could somehow crack the protective gear, there was a chance a lucky bullet might bring him down. In other words, a one-shot reversal was possible.
Е̊.n̈ǔm̃ а
The police-gang temporary alliance cried "To hell with it! It's not like we can do worse than die! Let's go—!" and plunged into battle — and
"Not a single shot landed···?"
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"This is cheating. Seriously."
"That's not just being a good shot. That's being insanely good!"
-Wrapped up cleanly
-Ah lol if you really wanted to win bring three times as many
Wѐ b̈ńо̂ vеl̈ _Еnu m ă
-Fact) There were three times as many and they all died leaving this many behind
-Reason he came head-on = because he wins even fighting straight up
—they were defeated without landing a single bullet on Baek Woohyun.
A truly devastating result.
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With this, Baek Woohyun firmly proved that he had not revealed himself and attempted to enter the bank without good reason.
One might as well say he had announced that he had thrown away even cover and concealment because he had the confidence to. A feat likely only he could pull off.
Е n u ṁа_
"……."
Click.
Having finished reloading his firearm while looking down at the groaning police and gang, Baek Woohyun gazed at the two who still remained. The police officer 'Zebek' and the gang member 'Taemuung.' The individuals he had earlier decided to recruit.
Left behind in a neutralized state after the final clash, they were looking bewildered, wearing expressions of 'why are we still alive?' Having thought they were dead the moment they were disarmed, it was a natural reaction.
To the two of them standing there unable to do anything, Baek Woohyun asked quietly.
"Would either of you, by any chance, be interested in changing jobs?"
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"What?"
Zebek and Taemuung's eyes went wide.
A job change offer, completely out of nowhere. Even if they had been threatened to hand over their money, they would have been less flustered than this.
All the more so given that they had just been fighting with their lives on the line — though it was more accurate to say only one side had been doing the life-staking.
"It's a recruitment offer. I intend to establish a private military company, and I'd like both of you to come on board."
"W-, wait a moment. This is too sudden."
Е́ n̄ um̌ ä.і̃d
"A private military company."
"Hmm."
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Click.
"···I think it could work!"
"A gang is a private military company when you think about it! Ha ha!"
-This is··· the Hackphysical style of talent recruitment?
Еn̈ u m ӓ . і d
-Ohhh! Headhunting — if they don't accept he shoots their head! It's headhunting!
-? What are you on about; the Hackphysical just raised the muzzle to check the firearm;
-For real for real, no other meaning behind it lol
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[Making an offer they can't refuse (literally true)]
"Very well."
Е̃n um̊а .іd
Baek Woohyun smiled slightly at the satisfactory answer.
However, contrary to what Zebek, Taemuung, and the viewers thought, the reason he had leveled the muzzle was not to threaten them.
If they refused, he could simply leave to find others willing to accept — so why would he go to the trouble of coercing people into joining his PMC?
Therefore, the reason he had aimed the muzzle at them was not to force his will upon them — it was purely to execute a 'then die.'
From the moment they refused the PMC recruitment offer, Zebek and Taemuung would fall off the list of recruitment candidates and return to their original position on the list of enemies.
If they were enemies, he would simply kill them. An utterly straightforward logic.
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"If you join now you're a founding member, you know? This isn't an opportunity that comes around every day!"
"That··· is a little tempting!"
"Gangs have no loyalty."
-Classic gang behavior: no loyalty
-Freedom to betray is the gangster's privilege
-Honestly even if they were police, joining is the right call
E ñ úmа̃
-Agreed; if they don't want to die they have to follow;
Jeong Nayeon, who had slipped in out of nowhere and was chattering like a peddler making her pitch, was in effect the final wedge driven into Zebek and Taemuung.
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Because as unexpected as the offer was, causing them to hesitate, they both privately knew this was an extraordinary opportunity.
That was true both within the content of 'Reverse City' as an in-world matter, and equally so in terms of the broadcast.
"···Shall we go scout the next target."
"Sure!"
Е n umа. і d̄
And so, the unprecedented headhunting conducted by Baek Woohyun — 'unprecedented' in the sense that refusing meant having one's head taken — continued.
He made job-change offers to a total of twelve people, and all but two of them accepted. What became of the two who refused need not be said.
In any case, the important thing was that 'Reverse City' had at last seen the birth of its first PMC.
Through this, the neutral faction's armed strength for standing against heroes and villains had been established — and the city would grow all the more chaotic going forward.
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