Chapter 81

00081 — #Hardened Earth —

#Hardened Earth, Fort Roberts (4)

The wind grew fiercer and fiercer as the day eventually turned to dusk. Raindrops sounded like ice, crashing hard against the roofs. Rainwater soaked through sleeves and collars to the underwear and collected in combat boots, too. Gyeo-ul felt a little sluggish as his hands and feet felt soggy. He felt okay overall, but it would be dangerous if he were exposed to the cold for a few more hours. He was concerned about hypothermia and mild frostbite.

The road to 74th Street was a scene of excessive suppression. Watery blood was everywhere.

Mounted police rushed toward a gang member who had been resisting with a club. The man, who had frozen in the face of the speed and pressure, was eventually run over by one of the horses. His elbow bent backward. A triple rod fell on him, who had been drooling and howling. Thud, thud! The sound of a person being beaten in the rain was terrible.

The police then built a wall with their shields. In the dim light, they cast a dark shadow and looked intimidating even to Gyeo-ul. The police didn't offer a surrender to the gang members they'd cornered, instead indiscriminately firing rubber bullets at them.

Police carrying a six-shot grenade launcher fired all six at the gang, who fled in the direction of the boy officer. Many of them were hit in the back of the head and went down. Gyeo-ul snatched up one of the fallen projectiles. It was a rubber bullet with no killing power.

Still, it could kill people at a close distance.

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