Hadn't everyone thought of such a thing at least once?
There was a very nice building, and I caused an explosion in that building.
But other people didn't know that I was the culprit, and I watched the burning sight.
“It blew up nicely.”
There were no victims.
I intentionally chose a place where people would not be hurt.
However, the explosion would have been heard clearly, and part of the building collapsed.
I had already discussed it with Chairman Han Sang-Cheol.
“Hey, are you sure this really won't be caught?”
“No problem.”
What caused the explosion at the hotel was a grenade fired by Jung Oh-hoon.
But the grenade fragments would never be found.
I wiped away sweat and a nosebleed before answering.
“You checked it too.”
“Yeah.”
I used Paradoxical Flame to burn away the form of the grenade after Jung Oh-hoon finished loading and aiming.
Then, I maintained the Paradoxical Flame that burned the sounds around where Jung Oh-hoon and I would be positioned.
The grenade Jung Oh-hoon fired silently flew without a form.
Just because the form disappeared didn't mean the grenade was gone.
Naturally, if fired, it flew and exploded.
But there were no grenade pieces or traces of gunpowder exploding.
They would never find it.
Even if they mobilized all sorts of means, they wouldn't be able to know the cause of the explosion.
“Dammit, my head hurts.”
I muttered like that while pressing my temples.
Anyway, Han Sang-Cheol certainly played a leading role in this matter.
“Unexpectedly, he might not be such a bad gentleman.”
Jung Oh-hoon organized the grenade launcher he used with a short evaluation.
I snorted at Jung Oh-hoon's words.
“He only helped because it was beneficial to himself. Likewise, he'll abandon us anytime if it's beneficial to him.”
At my words, Jung Oh-hoon let out a "Ha!" sound.
“His own granddaughter is with us.”
“Don't be too sure for that reason alone.”
That fact might have acted as a shield to some extent, but he was not a human who would understand everything and even take his own loss just because Han Sang-ah was his granddaughter.
Speaking of which, I contacted Han Sang-ah.
She was currently checking the coordinates of the tracking device in the hotel room.
“How is it?”
— Moving. It's going down to the basement. The movement route is being displayed. After going down through the toilet... it keeps going down.
Going down continuously, just how far down was it going that Han Sang-ah bothered to add such an expression?
— It went down to 250m underground. It's going down further.
What did that mean?
Did it mean there was a damn bunker under that hotel?
It was going down below 250m?
Was the Playchip Hotel a bottled water company instead of a hotel?
“At this level, the hotel itself was built for that underground bunker.”
Jung Oh-hoon muttered with a dumbfounded expression.
The place where Blue Wrench stored the trafficked items was located much deeper than expected.
“If they invested this much, we can expect very good news.”
A lot of investment represented the importance of the facility.
They must have dug the basement so diligently because there were many important things.
“The probability of bringing good news to Chairman Han Sang-Cheol has increased further.”
“Of course. If we can get down there.”
Jung Oh-hoon scratched his head vigorously and looked at me.
“How do you plan to get in?”
“Even if they dug deep underground, they ultimately need a passage to move items up and down.”
And Han Sang-ah was identifying the movement route of the tracking device Han Sang-Cheol secretly put in.
— The tracking device moved to the security room on the second basement floor of the hotel through the junket room's toilet, and then it's descending straight down from that location.
To arrive at the smuggled goods storage room located underground, one had to pass through the hotel security room.
A hotel of this scale would have hired at least hunters for safety.
Naturally, if we tried to enter the security room, we would have to deal with the hired hunters too.
“Let's go back for now.”
In a situation where everyone was evacuating, people would suspect us if we were the only ones missing.
Jung Oh-hoon and I ran straight to the hotel after packing our equipment.
Outside the hotel, a lot of evacuated people already gathered and were buzzing while looking at the casino building where the explosion occurred.
As we passed through the crowded people, the police standing in front of the police line were seen restraining people.
“It's okay. It's just a simple accident. Guests, please calm down.”
Calm down my foot, was there a person who could calm down when something went boom in the hotel they were staying at?
“Look here, then what happens to the casino operation?”
“Operation is temporarily suspended until the cause of the accident is found!”
Several people got angry at the police notification.
“Such damn luck, then what am I supposed to do with the money I borrowed from the loan shark! You dog-like cops. Are you bastards going to pay it back for me?!”
“The flow was good, but it's all ruined!”
Not everyone who came to the casino was rich.
Rather, there were many cases where poor people borrowed money to come to the casino.
Heck, there were people who were angry that they couldn't gamble instead of being anxious even though a bomb went off in the casino.
“Come to think of it, around 5 PM, a few trucks came and distributed free lunch boxes. People were lining up.”
At Jung Oh-hoon's words, I let out a "Dear me" sound.
They would eat quickly and then go back to the casino to diligently spin the slot machines.
“I feel like I've done a good deed.”
I forced them to be unable to gamble for a while, didn't I?
“Good deed my foot, it's not like there are no casinos in Korea other than the Playchip Hotel.”
Ah, I must have been trapped in old thoughts.
Because in my time, there was no place where locals could gamble except the casino in Jeongseon.
“Let's go back and prepare for now.”
Now, most of what Han Sang-Cheol had to do was finished.
Now, all Han Sang-Cheol had to do was prepare an alibi while we went down to the deep underground where smuggled goods were piled up through the secret passage.
“While Han Sang-Cheol prepared the alibi, we just needed to be careful not to be caught by cameras, enter the hotel security room without using abilities, find the secret passage, and enter the smuggled goods warehouse.”
At my words, Jung Oh-hoon nodded while letting out an "Oho" sound.
“It sounds very easy when you put it that way. It's like the difficulty level of eating cup noodles at a convenience store.”
“Mr. Jung, aren't you being too sarcastic?”
At my words, Jung Oh-hoon replied in a slightly passionate tone.
“We had to enter the security room of the Playchip Hotel. In addition to that, we couldn't use abilities, and it was a big deal if we got caught on camera. It wasn't an easy job.”
“Too many complaints. You know we can't not do it anyway.”
At my words, Jung Oh-hoon muttered while facing the night wind.
“You said we came to rest, you bastard.”
“We might be able to rest once the work is all finished.”
“Might be able to? Ugh, just skin me and boil me.”
Jung Oh-hoon seemed to be laying out complaints, then opened his mouth after a moment of deliberation.
“There are still guests and employees in the hotel main building, but not the casino.”
There were many eyes watching, and many CCTVs were installed.
The way to the hotel security room through the main building would literally be a march of ordeal.
“But we don't necessarily have to go there. The secret passage of the casino junket room connects to the security room, doesn't it?”
And it was currently closed due to the explosion.
Even if CCTVs still operated, it would be much easier since we could at least avoid the eyes of guests or employees.
“In the case of CCTV, Han Sang-ah can easily handle it.”
At Jung Oh-hoon's words, I shook my head.
“You have to use mana. Then we'll definitely be caught.”
Machines like CCTV would all go dead if Han Sang-ah spread a million volts once.
But to do that, she had to use mana.
There was a trace of using mana, and the CCTV was wrecked by high-voltage current.
And Han Sang-ah was staying at the Playchip Hotel.
If these three factors combined, it was a piece of cake to specify the culprit as Han Sang-ah.
If Han Sang-ah was pointed out as the culprit, naturally we would get entangled too.
“Then what do you plan to do?”
“In fast food style, let's finish it within 30 minutes.”
There were roughly two ways to do this kind of thing.
The way to proceed with the work without being caught by preparing meticulously to the point of never being caught and...
The case where the work ended before they could even cope by proceeding incredibly fast.
“The place we passed through anyway was the security room. CCTV records will all be stored there.”
If we entered the security room and ruined all the facilities, the opponent couldn't secure evidence that we entered the casino.
After blowing away all CCTV records, we went down along the route leading underground from the security room, secured the trafficked items, and looked for the information Chairman Han Sang-Cheol wanted.
“How do you plan to escape after finishing the work? Going back up in reverse is practically impossible.”
“They won't move the trafficked items to the underground warehouse via the hotel.”
Moving trafficked items to the underground warehouse through the passage prepared in the security room attracted too much attention from other people.
One could not not be caught by others in the process of bringing smuggled goods to the hotel and moving them to the security room.
In other words, there must have been a separate route for bringing external smuggled goods into the warehouse.
We just had to escape by reversing that route.
Anyway, they couldn't call the police when we arrived at the smuggled goods warehouse.
Because they weren't exactly honorable bastards anyway.
“Let's finish as quickly as possible and rest a bit at the hotel as you said.”
In any case, an explosion occurred in the casino.
No matter what, it was hard to think that those who built the warehouse by pouring money hundreds of meters underground would easily abandon that warehouse, but...
Since there was still a possibility, we had to raid first before they spirited away the trafficked items piled in the warehouse to another place.
If we could wrap up the work within today, we could spend the remaining time at this hotel doing what we wanted to do.
“You're saying something I liked for the first time in a while. Let's join Han Sang-ah quickly. It's a waste of life to not enjoy this good hotel because the theft is delayed.”
“Didn't you say the money was a waste earlier?”
Jung Oh-hoon nodded.
“Hey, already spent money doesn't come back. It's like you can't reverse an accident already committed.”
Jung Oh-hoon, who was wearing a complex expression for a moment, then tapped my back at his own whim and walked in the lead.
The place we decided to join was a bar named L'Amour Sky.
It was a rooftop-style bar located on the 15th floor.
“How can you be later than an old man?”
Han Sang-Cheol was already sitting in his seat and tilting his glass.
Naturally, he swept away all the employees working at this bar and the visiting customers by wielding the power of the Geumyang Group chairman like a sword.
“I agree. It's a big deal because my joints are aching lately.”
At my words, Han Sang-Cheol frowned sharply.
“A young bastard says all sorts of things in front of a walking corpse.”
“If it was a walking corpse, I've been beating up a lot of them lately. Be careful, Chairman.”
At my words, Han Sang-Cheol giggled and laughed.
Anyway, since we were on the same side for now, Han Sang-Cheol and I also exchanged simple jokes with each other.
If we met as enemies later, we would not have been able to share a talk in such a soft atmosphere.
The reason I specifically chose here was that the rooftop bar had no ceiling, so we could head outdoors through here and...
If we jumped through that outdoor area, we could sufficiently fall onto the casino.
“Let's start. Don't use abilities. Don't do any kind of action that can specify who we are. It's 2:30 AM now, so the goal is to arrive at the trafficked items warehouse before 3:00 AM.”
With those words, I put on a mask and a robe over my clothes, then put on gloves.
“Got it, Rey Mysterio.”
“Shut up, Mommy Son.”
The mask I wore did resemble the mask of a wrestler who was famous in the past.
And the mask Jung Oh-hoon put on resembled a mask a rapper who was once famous wore around.
“I'm ready too.”
“Good, Action Mask. Let's go now.”
And Han Sang-ah covered her face with a mask worn by a character from an animation that was famous in the past.
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