Chapter 168 – Pursuit (3)

“Look more carefully. It’s a face that sells pretty well in the film industry.”

While driving a sports car with darkly tinted windows hiding the inside, the female summoner Ling Mingwei kept talking to Sun-woo in the passenger seat.

After getting in the car, she had even taken off her sunglasses and was appealing her beauty.

Though he knew what answer she wanted, Sun-woo didn’t give her the answer she desired.

It was because he was flustered that the movie actress he saw on screen was talking to him from the next seat.

Even if his heart didn’t race, it was a slightly curious feeling.

However, Mingwei misunderstood Sun-woo’s expression, and her mouth popped out five inches.

Thanks to that, the car was quiet for quite a while.

As time passed, the curious feeling also subsided, and Sun-woo could ask her.

“I was looking for a summoner who knows the Triad, so how did a movie actress come?”

“Are you acknowledging I’m a movie actress?”

She still wasn’t over her anger. However, it was too late to give the obvious answer.

“Don’t you have a schedule? Moreover, if a fight breaks out, it’ll be a problem, won’t it?”

“Phew, the schedule’s no problem. I just finished one movie and am resting. I’ve received the next movie scenario and am pondering it, so I have a lot of time now. And I’m also a summoner. I can do more than my share when fighting.”

She seemed to have given up on hearing the answer she wanted.

Of course, her answer wasn’t what Sun-woo wanted either.

Sun-woo could tell she would fight well.

Unusually for someone from this world, she had first-class internal energy, and looking at her fingers, she seemed to have experience handling martial arts and various blades and even firearms.

Sun-woo was about to peek at her memories for a moment but shook his head.

He recalled the awkward experience of peeking at Sophia’s memories a while ago.

It seemed better to refrain from looking at colleagues’ memories.

“Well, I know the reason for your concern. I also know that an actress’s face is her fortune. But you know what I succeeded with. Moreover, plastic surgery is so good these days that scars can be removed quickly.”

Ling Mingwei, an actress Hong Kong is proud of and the last female action star.

Or she was being called the last action star regardless of gender.

Beautiful face and dazzling action. Sun-woo also found it very curious until now, but now he seemed to know the reason.

It was because she was a summoner.

“Wait, I was a famous actress even before becoming a summoner. Then I must have been a summoner then too. Then my age…”

“Stop! It’s rude to question an actress’s age.”

In the end, at her words that made a cold wind blow, Sun-woo shut his mouth tight.

“And the reason I’m guiding you to the Triad is because I’m from there.”

Mingwei was affiliated with the Triad before becoming a summoner.

A young girl gang member who grew up in an orphanage within the Triad and played a part in various businesses the Triad ran.

She did many things for the Triad, taking advantage of her position as a young girl.

“Well, it was when I was young and knew nothing. But then, while I grew up a bit and the Triad was being suppressed by the Chinese government, I became a summoner and we separated.”

After becoming a summoner, she was able to learn some qigong with the help of a martial arts summoner.

And thanks to qigong, she became able to transform her facial shape without plastic surgery.

“That’s how, ta-da, the actress of the century popped out. Well, the man next to me says I’m ugly though…”

‘Eek.’

She held quite a long grudge.

A young gang summoner.

In Sun-woo’s experience, it was difficult for an ordinary thug, especially a young girl, to become a summoner.

She certainly wasn’t an ordinary woman.

“But is it okay to tell all this? It’s huge scandal material…”

“You wouldn’t tell, would you?”

“Not that, but…”

“Then it’s fine. Anyway, we’re not just going to the Triad and coming out. Looking at your past actions, nine out of ten times you’ll smash everything.”

At her sudden words, Sun-woo slightly raised the corners of his eyes.

“Did you investigate me?”

Sun-woo’s question became a bit quieter and internal energy subtly dwelled in his hands.

Depending on her answer, he might have to act.

“I’m a fan of yours, Sun-woo!”

A completely unexpected answer popped out. Sun-woo looked at Mingwei with an absurd expression.

“There were rumors about an amazing summoner going around, but I didn’t pay attention. But I saw Sun-woo on TV being active in Europe. That incredible lightness skill and swordsmanship, you’re at the peak level, right? Wow, a peak master emerging from our world. It’s something I couldn’t even dream of.”

The words that poured out afterward were not easy for Sun-woo to handle.

“After that, I used every method I could to gather information. I was going to go to Korea to meet you, but suddenly the Korean branch separated so I couldn’t go… I should have just gone. Who knew you’d be this handsome.”

If she had come, even his peaceful daily life would have certainly collapsed. Sun-woo was sincerely grateful for the Korean branch’s separation.

“Still, through various lines, I could hear about the missions you’ve done. A near-zero mission failure rate and famous as the King of Destruction who completely devastates targets…”

Sadly, her words weren’t wrong.

Sun-woo seriously began pondering his mission execution methods.

“It’s been a long time since I left the Triad, but I’ve never forgotten them. I thought someday I should return the favor I received, and finally the opportunity has come.”

The favor she mentioned didn’t seem to be one of gratitude.

Tendons rose fully on her hands gripping the steering wheel, and flames of revenge flickered in her eyes.

‘Hmm~’

It felt like some personal revenge would get mixed in. However, Sun-woo didn’t care as long as there was no problem with mission execution.

After driving for quite a while, her sports car turned into a dock warehouse on the outskirts of Hong Kong. She parked some distance from the warehouse and got out of the car.

Her appearance after getting out of the car had changed from moments before.

Blue jeans, a Burberry coat, and under the coat, she wore a not-too-thick bulletproof vest. She had changed at some point.

Her appearance standing at the dock looked like the protagonist of a Hong Kong action movie.

And another thing that changed was her face.

Her face, which had been beautiful like a sculpture, had changed to a somewhat sharper face.

This was her real face now. She had changed the face she’d been changing with qigong back to its original appearance.

She touched her face that had returned after a long time with her hands, then tried to tell Sun-woo to disguise himself too.

“That outfit is a company outfit, so you’ll be caught. Change to different clothes…”

However, she had to stop mid-sentence. Sun-woo’s appearance was changing before her eyes.

A young, handsome man in a black long coat transformed into an ordinary-looking, tired man in his thirties wearing work clothes.

“Wow, what is this now? It’s not even qigong. So the rumors about you having various abilities besides martial arts were really true?”

Her surprised face, though different from before, was quite pleasant to look at.

Mingwei gave an awkward smile as he looked at her face.

“It’s strange, right? Unfortunately, my qigong isn’t at a level where I can transform into various faces. Can’t be helped. And isn’t it better to meet old colleagues with my original face?”

According to her, this dock warehouse housed a Triad branch.

It was a new branch for the Triad, which had hidden deep inside China, to take root in Hong Kong again.

“I barely found out about this place. There must be other branches besides here, but unlike before, they’re hiding so well I couldn’t find them.”

Sun-woo could also guess the reason the Triad, which had withdrawn, was active again.

The same reason as the Mexican drug gang. It was because of the contamination spreading agents.

The old dock warehouse looked very quiet.

At the dock where the sunset was falling, only a few abandoned ships swayed in the seawater, and the only person visible was a man dozing off sitting at the warehouse entrance.

“What you see isn’t everything. They’ll all be armed, so be careful.”

Walking toward the entrance, Mingwei cautioned Sun-woo.

However, her caution was unnecessary. Sun-woo had already grasped the number, positions, and armaments of people inside the warehouse.

Honestly, there was no need to be particularly tense.

Completely unaware of Sun-woo’s inner thoughts, Mingwei approached the warehouse front with a stern face.

As the two approached the warehouse, the man sitting in a chair in front of the warehouse stretched greatly.

“This is private property, so turn back.”

Though he was a man waving his hand dismissively as if bothered after waking up, neither Mingwei nor Sun-woo was fooled by that appearance.

The man’s opposite hand had subtly gone behind the chair.

Sun-woo’s senses clearly felt the iron pipe and shotgun behind the chair.

“The conflict between iron pipe and shotgun…”

At Sun-woo’s murmur, Mingwei realized why the man’s hand that went behind was fidgeting.

She decided to help the man decide.

Click, click.

Two pistols with silencers appeared in both her hands. They were Berettas, her signature weapons.

Surprised by that sight, the man moved his hand to the shotgun and tried to shout, but Mingwei was faster.

Swoosh swoosh!

A sound like air escaping came from her pistols aimed forward, and the man fell backward while sitting in the chair.

At Mingwei’s appearance of shooting without questions, Sun-woo made an incredulous expression.

“Is it okay to kill like that without questions?”

“Well, you said he had a shotgun. It’s self-defense.”

At her nonchalant words, Sun-woo shook his head, and she made a puzzled expression at Sun-woo’s appearance.

“Do you then check each one before moving? From what I heard, that’s not the case.”

Sun-woo could only become a mute who ate honey.

Even recalling past missions, there were few missions less extreme than hers, if not more.

“But even though you have martial arts, guns are your main weapon?”

“Well, I originally became a summoner because I was good with guns. Although I learned martial arts, bullets are faster than swords. Of course, peak masters who block bullets with swords are different.”

At her words finishing while glancing at Sun-woo, Sun-woo could only scratch his head.

Drrrrrr!

Mingwei, who arrived in front of the warehouse, used internal energy to wide open the firmly closed warehouse door.

“What!”

“I told you not to open the door carelessly!”

When the warehouse door suddenly opened, shouts came from inside.

Inside the warehouse, dozens of men were moving busily.

People carrying transparent bags filled with white powder that looked like drugs.

People playing mahjong with guns laid down beside them.

And people experimenting with contamination spreading agents in a setup like a laboratory on one side.

They all stopped their work at the sound of the door opening and looked at the entrance.

“Bingo, looks like we found it properly, right?”

Mingwei turned to Sun-woo with a bright smile.

Though the target Chairman Douglas didn’t seem to be there, seeing the contamination spreading agents, they seemed to have the right direction.

“Then, how many should we keep alive? Should we just keep five or six alive? It’s hard to keep many alive.”

At Mingwei’s words, Sun-woo smirked.

“You can kill them all. No, kill them all.”

They were people who had each packed a contamination spreading agent in their pockets anyway. Sun-woo had no intention of sparing those who would contaminate themselves.

At Sun-woo’s words, Mingwei’s eyes became round, and then her mouth smiled widely.

“Wow, Sun-woo is the best! I really like you! I’m so glad I became a fan!”

Excitedly hugging Sun-woo, she immediately threw her body toward the inside of the warehouse.

The silencers fell to the floor, and guns spewed fire from both hands of her who instantly soared several meters into the air.