NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 238

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Episode 238. Delivery Operation (2)

One of them quickly approached and instantly stripped off the bag he was carrying and pulled it away.

 

Yeon-woo was startled by their actions and grabbed onto the bag strap.

 

“No no. If you do that, only amigo will get hurt. It’s a pleasant night, so let’s keep things smooth.”

 

One of the guys in the back pulled out a pistol from his jacket, aimed it, and walked forward.

 

Then Yeon-woo’s eyes went wide and he immediately raised both hands up.

Seeing Yeon-woo like that, the guy with the gun chuckled and asked.

 

“Chino (Chinese)? Or American?”

“Ah, America U.S… Please.”

 

When he answered stammering with a terrified expression, the guy chuckled and kicked Yeon-woo’s thigh.

 

“Ugh.”

 

As Yeon-woo immediately collapsed forward, the guy with the gun, who seemed to be the leader among them, said to the other thugs.

 

“Killing Americans becomes a headache. Let’s just take the items and get out. Whether that drunk guy wanders around here and dies is none of our business. What’s in the bag?”

“A laptop and miscellaneous stuff. There’s some strange machine-like thing? It’s too dark to tell what it is.”

“Got it. Also bring that guy’s smartphone he’s holding.”

 

At the leader’s words, one of them approached Yeon-woo who had collapsed forward and snatched the smartphone from his hand.

 

“Hey, hey.”

“Shh.”

 

Looking at Yeon-woo trying to resist, the guy grinned and made a slashing motion across his throat with his finger.

 

It was the universal language meaning he’d kill him if he acted up.

 

Then he pressed his foot down on the prone Yeon-woo’s back and spat.

 

“What’s a dirty Mario (Asian) bastard doing crawling in here without fear? I’ll spare your life, so get lost right now.”

 

The guys in the back rummaged through the bag while giggling.

 

Yeon-woo, still with a terrified expression, staggered to his feet and backed away.

Having already taken both the bag and smartphone, the guys seemed to think there was nothing more to gain from Yeon-woo.

 

When Yeon-woo, who had been backing away, ran and escaped around the corner of the alley, the guys glanced at him briefly but paid no attention.

 

And Yeon-woo, who had turned the corner, opened his mouth.

 

“Omega. Item delivery complete.”

– Confirmed.

 

Then the agents who had been watching the scene from the rooftops of buildings on both sides of the alley lowered their aimed gun muzzles.

 

If the guys had shown even the slightest sign of shooting, they probably would have been turned into a beehive immediately, regardless of the operation.

 

That didn’t mean they had no intention of shooting.

 

“Omega. Moving to the next step.”

 

Yeon-woo pulled out the pistol hidden at his waist and took cover at the corner, shooting toward the guys.

 

Bang─.

Bang bang─.

 

“Ahhhhh!”

“Damn it (Merda)! What the!?”

 

A bullet penetrated the calf of the guy who had just kicked Yeon-woo’s thigh.

 

Getting hit appropriately was within the allowable range of the operation, so there were no hard feelings.

To make the guys sufficiently scared and move as desired, one of them inevitably had to make a slight(?) sacrifice, and he just happened to be standing in a good position to hit.

 

Well, if he put his mind to it, he had the shooting skills to accurately hit any of the thugs, but hitting the guy who happened to kick Yeon-woo among them was just a coincidence.

 

Anyway, it was a coincidence.

 

The guys panicked by the sudden gunfire scattered in confusion, and the guy who got his shin bone cleanly shattered and leg penetrated collapsed to the ground wailing.

 

Bang─.

Bang bang─.

 

The leader who had been holding the gun opened the back door of the pub and began counterattacking using it as cover.

Of course, the bullets he fired went flying in all directions.

 

‘Does he think that counts as cover? If I just shoot, it’ll penetrate right through.’

 

He had probably only used his gun for intimidation and never been in a proper gunfight.

 

Bang─.

 

Yeon-woo shot with the intention of just scaring them, aiming to graze past the ear after penetrating the back door of the shop where the thug leader was hiding.

 

“Ahhhhhhh!”

 

The guy who got grazed in the ear rolled around and collapsed face-down in the alley.

 

‘Geez, what a drama queen. Getting so defensively prone from just a slight graze – is he asking me to shoot his head because he wants to end his life?’

 

Of course, he had no intention of killing them, and they shouldn’t die either, so Yeon-woo ran to the opposite side of the corner.

 

“Omega. Next step complete.”

– Roger. Now we’ll begin the drive.

 

Hearing Kim Su-hyeok’s voice, Yeon-woo nodded and moved away from the incident scene.

 

And behind him, whistle sounds began to echo one after another.

 

Of course, it wasn’t the police.

In the first place, no matter what commotion broke out in Cracolândia at night, there was no way the police would respond this quickly.

 

But the guys who got shot were in a state of panic right now, so they wouldn’t be able to properly assess what was happening.

 

The guys who had been chased around all night limped toward their base where other vermin gathered, carrying castella and boric acid.

 

– The location signals from those guys are being tracked normally.

 

***

 

Inside an abandoned building where human footsteps had ceased, the eyes of a man with bandages wrapped around his ear burned fiercely.

 

“Those damn Mario bastards… I’ll kill them all.”

 

Then the guy who served as the brain among the thugs called out to the leader.

 

“Santos! Look at this! That American’s stuff seems unusual?”

“Unusual how?”

“I’m talking about the green circuit board that was in the bag.”

 

Clearly, besides the laptop, bundle of cash, and stethoscope of unknown purpose, there was one more thing inside the bag.

 

“Isn’t that just some computer part? These days Chinese guys do a lot of trading for coin mining. Something like a graphics card.”

 

Then the guy who had been searching various things on the stolen laptop shook his head.

 

While looking through the photos saved on the laptop, he had found pictures of green circuit boards that looked similar to what was in the bag, but it didn’t seem to be a computer part.

 

“It doesn’t seem to be at that level. Look at this. Doesn’t it look almost identical?”

 

When the guy showed the screen to the leader, he alternated between looking at the green circuit board placed nearby and the screen to compare them.

 

“It’s similar? What is this thing. Ah shit. The pain is coming back. Damn Asian bastard!”

 

He carefully pressed around his bandaged ear with his fingernails and frowned.

The guy who got shot in the leg was sprawled out in the back, drugged and unable to receive treatment.

 

“This… this is a circuit board that goes into missiles.”

“…What?”

 

Leader Santos immediately picked up the green circuit board and examined it closely.

 

Now that he looked at it, “USAF” was written on the silver rim that had been soldered.

 

“USAF?”

 

Earlier, when he was burning with revenge and searching through the guy’s belongings to find something that could reveal his identity, he had definitely seen this marking.

 

At that time, he thought it was a computer part and didn’t think much of it.

Santos picked up his smartphone and searched for USAF on a portal site.

 

– USAF : United States Air Force

 

“This cra, crazy…”

 

Only then did the words that Asian guy who shot them had been babbling about during his phone call at the pub flash through Santos’s mind again.

 

“Business, broker, commission… This crazy bastard was trying to steal American military supplies and sell them to arms dealers.”

“If we get involved with America, our lives are immediately over. Even the cartel would never protect us. No, they’d catch us first and hand us over to get the reward money.”

 

The faces of the other guys listening to the leader and brain’s conversation became serious.

 

“Then, then what are we going to do? Let’s just throw it away. If we toss it in the Tietê River, no one will know.”

“You stupid bastard! No one will know? If that Mario guy who shot gets caught by America, whether it’s CIA or FBI or whatever, they’ll comb through everything like catching rats to find us. Haven’t you even watched movies?”

“Then what do we do?”

 

Santos, who had been rolling his eyes around for a moment, put the green circuit board back in the bag as if he had made a decision.

 

“We need to hand it over to someone who can protect us while making money and providing treatment.”

“Who? Igor?”

“No, if we bring it to Igor, we’ll probably be floating down the Tietê River tomorrow. He’ll try to get rid of us and take everything for himself. We need to offer it directly to someone higher up.”

 

At Santos’s words, the thugs’ eyes widened.

 

“By someone higher up, you don’t mean ‘him’, do you?”

“What choice do we have? Anyway, if we take Salis, who got shot and is lying back there groaning, to the hospital, he’ll be caught by the police immediately. Besides, who’s going to pay for the hospital bills? Are you going to pay?”

 

At Santos’s words, everyone averted their eyes.

He was right. In São Paulo, ‘that person’ was the only one who could resolve all of this.

 

***

 

Han Hae-woon, who had been listening to the targets’ conversation through a bug hidden deep in the bag, reported to Yeon-woo.

 

– They’re moving as expected. It seems we won’t need to do any additional operations.

 

Hearing Han Hae-woon’s words, Yeon-woo nodded.

 

After spending all night making those guys frantic and continuously driving them to flee, the sun was already rising.

 

Originally, when you throw prey that’s too big to handle at guys at the bottom like that, they get scared and tend to pass it up to someone higher.

 

“Then this operation ends here, and all that’s left is to wait until those guys guide us themselves. Tell the agents to rest.”

– Since you participated in the operation together, how about having the Team Leader speak directly?

 

At Han Hae-woon’s words, Yeon-woo scratched his cheek.

 

“Well, sure.”

 

Actually, it wasn’t really grand enough to call a nighttime stroll an “operation,” but being out in the field and moving together with other agents…

 

It had been a really long time.

 

Yeon-woo opened all communication channels from 1 to 5.

 

“Omega. This operation ends here. Everyone disperse and rest while waiting for the next step.”

 

Then the agents’ responses came through the channel.

 

– Confirmed.

– Roger.

 

“Hmm, it’s about time for me to head back too.”

 

Looking at his watch, it was already seven-thirty.

 

He took a taxi and headed to the hotel where Yeon-woo was staying.

 

“Good thing those punks weren’t greedy for this.”

 

Getting out of the taxi, Yeon-woo rummaged through his pocket and pulled out a handful of caramel.

 

Then he smiled at the security personnel standing guard at the main entrance.

 

“Ola! Bom dia.(Good morning.)”

 

As he greeted them while sharing caramel, the security personnel smiled back at him.

 

“Oh, it’s that person who left work earlier. Wow, that must be tough. Leaving work at night, getting just a bit of sleep, then coming right back to work.”

 

As Yeon-woo entered the lobby, the radio of the security personnel guarding the main entrance crackled.

 

– Crackle─. Male in suit entering 1st floor lobby.

 

Beep─.

 

“Ah, I’ve confirmed his identity. He’s staff here.”

– Understood.

 

Yeon-woo took the staff elevator and leisurely headed to the R floor.

 

Indeed, the basics of infiltration are smiles and gifts.

 

Arriving at the R floor, Yeon-woo took the emergency staircase down to the floor below.

Since the stethoscope was in the bag those guys had taken, he had no choice but to press his ear close to the door.

 

After waiting a moment, it seemed another security personnel had come up for the 8 AM shift change.

 

During the handover, Yeon-woo quickly opened the emergency staircase door and opened his hotel room door along with the sound of the door closing.

 

Click─.

 

Then Yeon-woo casually poked his head out as if he had just opened his hotel room door.

 

“Hm? You two are on guard duty today.”

“Ah, it’s shift change time so we were doing the handover.”

“I see. By the way, I’m going down for breakfast, but would a suit be a bit too much?”

“Excuse me?”

 

Seeing the security personnel ask back at the sudden question, Yeon-woo scratched the back of his head and smiled.

 

“I think I’m dressed too formally. I should change clothes.”

“Ah, yes.”

 

Watching Yeon-woo go back into his hotel room, the security personnel tilted his head.

 

‘Isn’t this TMI? Well, he did seem sociable though.’

 

Entering the room, Yeon-woo took off his suit that reeked of explosives and marijuana, put it in the bathtub and soaked it thoroughly in water.

Then he casually threw on a casual gray hoodie and stretched.

 

“Ugh, I stayed up all night. I have a schedule today too.”

 

Just like he felt in Berlin last time, he was fortunate to be young at least.

 

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