Chapter 242
Episode 242 [What the Doppelganger Wants (2)]
It was just a moment.
The conference room became deathly quiet.
All the people who were talking and frowning shut their mouths.
Some people had puzzled expressions and others were thinking about something. There were also people who were puzzled.
The Chief of Staff, who had been giving orders while holding the phone, stopped talking, and the President, who was frowning due to a headache, also changed his expression.
“What is this?”
“oh my god. “What were we going to do?”
Soon, people looked at each other with faces filled with fear.
The Chief of Staff looked at the President while holding the phone. The President issued an urgent order from the Chief of Staff.
“Cancel the attack immediately!”
“Cancel attack! Stop nuclear missile launches! “Everyone stop!”
The Chief of Staff hurriedly shouted at the President’s instructions.
Fortunately, it was during the nuclear missile launch sequence. The launch was canceled and people breathed a sigh of relief.
People looked like they had seen a ghost.
“It can’t be a coincidence, right?”
“Is it like brainwashing? Could it be the characteristics of an awakened person?”
“The Awakened brainwashed you into shooting nuclear missiles? I think it would be more correct to say that monsters brainwashed him…”
The ministers looked at each other’s faces without speaking. It was a plausible statement.
“So it’s okay now, but it could happen again, right?”
“There’s no way to stop something like this…”
A different sense of fear hovered in the conference room again.
“We can’t confirm who did it, but it’s clearly some kind of mental attack. We need to find an awakened person with mental characteristics.”
President Ripford nodded at the Secretary of Defense’s words.
“The Department of Defense and Director Byrd are the awakened persons… Where is Director Byrd?”
After hearing the president’s words, all the cabinet members checked the conference room. The CIA director was nowhere to be seen.
“He left the room a little while ago to go to the bathroom.”
People nodded at the words of the guard guarding the door. They might have been so shocked that they went to vomit. The
cabinet members resumed the meeting while waiting for the director to leave the room. The meeting became even more serious due to the sudden situation.
Time was running out . As time went by, Director Byrd did not return to the conference room.
He was already leaving the White House in his car.
“There is a problem in New York. I will cut off all contact just in case. I will contact you again after confirming that there is no problem.” “I will leave Moscow to you, my compatriot.”
After first making a satellite phone call to Russia, he gave instructions to several other locations:
“No more orders will be given from the camp. Each workshop must be completed as quickly as possible.”
England, Hong Kong, and El Dorado National Park.
After giving instructions, he opened his mouth with a stern expression.
“Has it been confirmed?”
The agent from the passenger seat quickly responded,
“Sorry, we’re still checking. The police are refusing to let us into the subway station, so the agents are rushing. It might take a while.”
After the police officer who went inside to check the inside was killed by the awakened person guarding the inside, no police officer tried to enter the station. Even if it was a SWAT team. Ugh. Director Byrd gritted his teeth. The agent glanced at the director through the rear-view mirror and looked
up
. He bowed his head.
It was the first time the agent had seen the director show such emotion. Something must have gone terribly wrong.
Bud was irritated by the human’s trash behavior. He was wasting his time like this.
The moment the conference room became quiet, Bud said, He knew right away that something was wrong.
From the faces of the people, he could tell that the brains of the losers in the New York underground had stopped working.
Unlike the hatred for the awakened, which was left in the deep psyche through continuous images, the current brainwashing was interrupted by images. It was clear that if he lost, it would immediately become ineffective.
The moment he stopped the missile launch, he immediately left the conference room. He
had to go to New York to check. Whether he was a loser or a piece of trash with only a brain left, he was the same master’s servant. He
also ended contact just in case.
The car he was in quickly arrived at Andrews Air Force Base.
A helicopter that had been notified in advance was waiting at the airport. The
car he was in passed the checkpoint and headed to the runway where the helicopter was waiting.
Squeak.
The car stopped and the director got out of the car.
Two-two-two.
The helicopter went down the stairs and was waiting for him. The flight attendant was out in front of the stairs as usual.
He walked quickly.
But before he could reach the helicopter, something passed overhead.
Shooaaaaaa!
A sound like the air was being torn apart. It was.
Boom.
And then a crash sound was heard from the helicopter.
The crew member standing next to the helicopter was startled and looked towards the direction of the sound.
Director Byrd also looked in the same direction.
There was something stuck under the propeller.
“Sword?”
The hilt of the sword was sticking out where the engine was. It was a ridiculous idea, but it felt like a sword had just come flying out and stuck in it. Before I could even think about it,
boom
!
The engine with the sword stuck in it exploded, and the helicopter was engulfed in flames. The crew too. He was sucked into the flames, and Director Byrd also rolled backwards on the floor.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.
The spinning propeller bounced off. The propeller passed over Byrd and hit the car behind him.
The director’s car was torn apart.
The director jumped up.
He too . Although the flames engulfed me, my body was fine thanks to the shield.
However, I was distracted by the sudden terror.
Whoa!
Sirens sounded, and the hangar and barracks became noisy.
It was clear that soldiers would come to help soon.
But Bird had just seen it . The sword came to mind.
“Is it Awakened terrorism?”
An awakened person who could throw a sword and destroy a helicopter would have been difficult for ordinary soldiers to deal with.
Moreover, he did not want it to be known that he had power.
He quickly checked his surroundings. He had to find the enemy quickly. If he made a mistake, he might have to kill all the soldiers as well. Fortunately ,
the terrorist was quickly found.
Director Byrd was able to see a man examining the smashed car.
He was a black-haired Asian man with blood all over his body. He looked like
he had committed a terrorist attack somewhere.
Byrd He slowly moved the mana in his body. No one knew that he could use mana. He had to finish it before they noticed.
But he stopped his actions when the man who was looking at the car said something.
“There is no doppelganger. Just one director. “Is that all?”
The man who was looking at the car turned around.
It was a man who still looked young. He looked a little tired.
But he was not hiding his momentum right now. Mana was gushing out from his body.
“I almost was late. Thanks to Eve. “I could barely keep up.”
After flying to Washington, Kyung-hoon, who saw that the people had found the opposite sex, immediately went to see the CIA director.
Luckily, thanks to Eve’s hacking, he was able to see the director’s car on the traffic CCTV, and ran hard to stop the doppelganger before the helicopter left.
“What are you? What do you mean, doppelganger?”
Gyeong-hoon chuckled at the director’s words.
“That’s fascinating. It’s hard to tell if you don’t look closely. It’s different from other doppelgangers.”
Kyung-hoon continued, looking at the Director who was stiffening,
“I’ll call you a fool if you believed that the secret would be maintained by leaving only the brain behind and preventing him from dying.”
Bud’s expression disappeared at Kyung-hoon’s words.
“Are you the criminal?”
“If it’s me who stopped the image, then you’re right. Now it’s a doppelganger. There’s no need to check further. It’s not like you can torture a doppelganger anyway.”
Confirmation is complete.
I wanted to get more information, but it was difficult to get information from the doppelganger.
Honestly, even if it wasn’t information, it would have been a waste to just kill him.
But Bud was different.
“I need to torture you. “I need to know what else you know.”
The director took out a pistol from his inner pocket. A pistol with a jewel sparkling on the handle. It was an item pistol.
“He seems like a pretty skilled awakener, but he won’t be able to avoid this gun.”
But Kyung-hoon’s eyes sparkled as he saw the gun he pulled out.
“Could it be something from the other world?”
“what?”
The moment the director was surprised by Kyung-hoon’s words, Kyung-hoon moved.
Ta-ta-ta-ta.
At the same time, the pistol opened fire. A sound like a machine gun being fired was heard.
At the same time, the runway where Kyung-hoon was standing exploded. It wasn’t the firepower of a pistol.
But the pistol couldn’t even hit Kyung-hoon.
“Oops!”
Kyung-hoon’s hand pierced the doppelganger’s chest. The shield was useless. I didn’t
want to kill him all at once, but I couldn’t let my emotions get in the way.
Death is death.
The best revenge Kyung-hoon knows. “ Who
are you?”
Would you say he is like a doppelganger? Even after his heart was blown out, Bud opened his mouth.
Kyung-hoon whispered into the doppelganger’s ear.
“He is the owner of EV and a dimension shifter. I meet your clan often.”
The doppelganger’s eyes widened at Kyung-hoon’s words. His face was very surprised.
Kyung-hoon tilted his head at the uncharacteristic expression of the doppelganger, but the doppelganger had already stopped breathing.
Kyung-hoon picked up the fallen doppelganger into subspace. I put it in. It was a corpse doppelganger, but it had something to use.
And I picked up the pistol. As expected, it was an item from the other world.
“Ho, is this okay? Can I hold on?”
It was a work of craftsmanship with a beautiful pattern and a nicely made design.
If done well, I didn’t know if it would be able to withstand his mana. But I couldn’t check it now.
He flew away right away, and when the soldiers arrived at the runway a while later, no one saw Kyung-hoon. There was no one
there . All that remained was a burning helicopter and a car crushed by a propeller.
The terrorist attack that occurred at the air force base turned the crowded but hectic White House upside down.
Security was strengthened and all operations were halted.
*
The White House Oval Office that night.
President Lippard remained in the Oval Office alone . An unexpected guest came to visit.
An awakened person wearing a cloak of invisibility. It was Kyung-hoon.
Kyung-hoon appeared from the darkness and sat on the sofa in the office, looking at the President of the United States.
The president, who was looking at Kyung-hoon with a bewildered expression, opened his mouth.
“Is he an awakened person? ?”
Disgust flashed across Lippard’s face. But the president forced his expression down. The president
warned him first.
“I should tell you in advance. If possible, it would be better not to lay a hand on me. The timing is bad, so I will not use nuclear weapons.” The bag may be activated.”
It was a hectic day. People who had to enter the unlock code may not have entered it.
At the president’s words, Kyung-hoon took out his smartphone and showed the list.
“We have confirmed where all the people on the list are.”
Several names appeared on the smartphone screen.
It was a list of unlock codes that Eve was able to identify thanks to her diligent hacking after arriving in Washington.
James also moved quickly. The locations of all the people on the list were found in one day.
The president’s expression changed at Kyung-hoon’s words.
“Where does this person come from? russia?”
“Russia is also supporting us, but… I’m from EV.”
The President’s face distorted again. He took a deep breath.
“Damn, it’s hard to even trust my feelings.”
He bit his lip, trying to calm his emotions.
Kyung-hoon watched the president quietly.
The President opened his mouth with a slightly trembling voice.
“After South America, is it a terrorist attack on the White House this time by the CIA Director? “Killing one president will never collapse the United States.”
Kyung-hoon shook his head at the president’s words.
“It can be done by removing not just the president but all the cabinet members and destroying the unified command.”
This was what Eve had guaranteed.
Ripert’s face turned pale at Kyung-hoon’s words. He thought of the EV unit that wiped out the U.S. military’s Central Command. There was no way to
stop such an awakened unit.
“Ha, but not so easily… ..”
Now the President’s voice began to tremble in a different way.
“It won’t be easy. Nuclear weapons can be prevented, but rebellions will break out everywhere and the United States will almost be in a state of civil war.”
The President’s face turned white.
“I thought it would be okay though. “I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to just leave the country in a state of civil war in the United States, where antipathy toward the Awakened never went away.”
Kyung-hoon’s thoughts did not change until he entered the subway station.
Kyunghoon glanced at the smartphone screen on the table.
The address James sent did not contain any further words.
He left everything to Kyung-hoon.
“But the hatred of the awakened was brainwashing created by a monster.”
Kyung-hoon took the body out of subspace.
dump.
The CIA director’s body was thrown to the ground.
The president’s expression became strange after seeing the corpse.
“Bud? “But this isn’t a person?”
The color of the skin and the pores inside were different from humans.
Only the stiff, surprised expression on his face revealed that it was Director Byrd.
“It’s called a doppelganger. It is a monster that infiltrates humans. “One also appeared in Korea.”
Although we informed the leaders of the Eurasian Union in advance, we could not inform the leaders of other countries because we did not know when and where the doppelgänger would sneak in.
Of course, Eurasian leaders could not believe it and were busy hiding it.
Kyung-hoon explained to the president what he heard from the monster in New York.
“Was the hatred of the Awakened really brainwashing?”
The president had started to have doubts after what happened during the day, but hearing it from Kyung-hoon’s mouth was completely different.
“The monster has been dealt with, but the brainwashing has already taken hold and will not go away…”
I heard the story, but the disgust did not go away at all. The President’s expression was distorted. The headache between reason and emotion only increased.
“Can’t it be eliminated? ”
“It will disappear little by little over time. Perhaps some of the soldiers dispatched to South America will lose a lot of their disgust.”
However, it did not seem like the awakened person sitting in front of me would remain still. Now he was talking about himself as identified with EV. The President could sense it intuitively.
This person was the power and representative of EV.
Anger, disgust, worry, and regret. Kyung-hoon, who was looking at the president’s mixed face, finally sighed.
After all, he was just a brainwashed puppet.
Kyung-hoon looked in the direction he had come from.
A small person wearing a cape walked out of the darkness.
“You can take off the cape. ?”
“okay.”
The person from Kyung-hoon’s words took off his cloak.
The Goddess of Healing appeared from under the cloak.
“Hello.”
Dahee bowed her head.
That night. People in Washington saw a bright light rising from the White House.
A light that brought peace to their hearts. The anger toward the awakened was washed away from everyone’s hearts.
***
It was night in Washington . But at that time, the sun was rising in Moscow.
The man, who had been looking at the cell phone on the desk until then, got out of bed.
After the last call, there was no call again.
He picked up the cell phone.
Suddenly,
the cell phone broke in his hands.
Now he had to do it alone.
He got dressed and went outside. The streets were all noisy with preparations for the celebration. The
war was still going on, but celebrations were the best way to turn people around.
There was a lot to prepare for in time for the victory celebration. Since the President was attending and the EV awakeners were coming, a proper welcome event had to be held.
He quickly walked towards the venue.