Chapter 33 (1/2)

“The life I saved, I’ll take it again.”

“That’s true, but I can’t let you do that. It seems too early to die.”

Campbell raised his fist. He was holding a grenade with its pin pulled.

“I pulled it when I heard you call me. That young friend of yours over there is aiming at me, right? If this goes off, you won’t be safe either.”

Cha Jun Sung clenched his teeth. He is cunning to have prepared such a thing.

“Ke ke! That expression is great even though it isn’t as good as the one people show when they’re dying.”

Campbell covered his face and laughed. His eyes showed through his fingers.

‘He seems familiar.’

Something had been bothering him. Campbell’s strange tone that is half formal and half informal, seems to overlap with someone but he cannot remember who that is.

Cha Jun Sung watched Campbell and tried to give Park Jin Hyuk the signal.

“No no! Don’t move.”

“Keuk!”

“The moment you give a signal, I’ll let this go off. I’ll only be caught off guard once.”

Cha Jun Sung stopped moving at Campbell’s warning. They are not even 5m apart. Even if he does not die when the grenade goes off, he would come out with serious wounds.

‘Jin Hyuk, shoot him. Shoot.’

He sent the signal in his mind. Jin Hyuk is fast to catch on. Cha Jun Sung willed him to shoot Campbell in the head.

Park Jin Hyuk squinted as he looked at Campbell laughing from afar. It looked like he is the culprit, but Cha Jun Sung is not giving the signal.

“What’s going on?”

When Campbell covered his face with his hand, his other hand came up and Park Jin Hyuk could see that it held a round object through the scope. It is a grenade without its pin.

He had not seen what was in Campbell’s hand because he had been focusing on getting a signal. Campbell had turned his back with the grenade in his hand.

“This is driving me crazy.”

It is an ambiguous moment. The decision is all up to Park Jin Hyuk. Anyone in this situation would be conflicted. He cannot reverse a decision made on bad judgment.

“If that goes off, Jun Sung will be hit too. Will his body and equipment be able to handle it?”

Kiik!

Park Jin Hyuk’s finger pressed on the trigger. Slowly, so Campbell would not be able to sense it.

If he reacts when he hears the sound, it will be too late. Once his head is hit, he will lose strength and the grenade will go off within a few seconds. There is just sand, with nothing to find cover in.

In that time, how far would Cha Jun Sung be able to get away in order to minimize damages?

“Die.”

Tang!

The bullet is shot. Campbell dies. Park Jin Hyuk did not doubt this would happen. Cha Jun Sung would use his speed from the 1st stage of body modifications to get away.

Puk!

He is hit by the bullet and he falls without strength. With that, Cha Jun Sung runs. But something is weird. Through the scope, Campbell is looking at Park Jin Hyuk and laughing.

While Campbell watched Cha Jun Sung, he was aware of Park Jin Hyuk’s movements.

He could be prepared for Cha Jun Sung in any way. Park Jin Hyuk on the other hand is far away and there is nothing he can do to him. If Campbell misses a change in his behavior, he is dead. S

A feeling.

It is a distance that he cannot see from even with twice the sight, but Campbell got a feeling that Park Jin Hyuk’s finger was moving on the trigger.

He could not be sure. He just felt like it could be. The behavior of a person whose life is threatened?

It is just his last attempt to live. Campbell had the feeling that Park Jin Hyuk was going to shoot him and tilted his body slightly. At the same moment, a shot from the rifle rang the ocean.

As Campbell fell, he threw the grenade past Cha Jun Sung’s head.

Instead of going farther from the grenade, Cha Jun Sung had become even closer to it. He thought that Campbell would drop it nearby, but had not expected him to throw it.

Bang!

As the grenade explodes, countless pieces of shrapnel flew out. Cha Jun Sung protected his entire body with his heavily shielded arms and legs.

Bang!

The bomb exploded again.

The fortunate thing was that it was not a bomb for attack, but a smoke shell.

“Jun Sung!”

Park Jin Hyuk held his SMG and ran. He did not care if Campbell was alive. If Cha Jun Sung was hurt, they needed to return right away and receive treatment.

“He, he didn’t die.”

“Let’s hurry up and go back!”

Dozens of shrapnel fragments were embedded in his arms and legs. Blood gushed from his wounds. His bones must have broken while his skin was ripped because he could not put strength in them.

“What about Campbell?”

“I can’t tell what happened to him because he set a smoke shell off.”

“He’ll be alive. He tilted his body before the shot and got out of range.”

“Ugh! You’re right. I’m at a disadvantage like this, so there’s nothing I can do.”