Untouchable: Reaper of the Battlefield

Harry Giles' cheeks flutter as he learns the password from the dragon. It was also due to the sheer desire to open a secret room, although it was also due to the rush.

I also couldn't suppress the excitement that made my heart throb. My stomach flutters and I can't breathe.

He did not want to expect too much because he knew that over-expectancy can easily lead to disappointment. Because when colleagues are disappointed, someone has to be silent. However, I couldn't help but feel like a child who had just entered the amusement park.

Harry Giles pressed the white number plate from 1 to 0, one after the other, remembering the number in his head.

When you enter all the 12 digits, you hear the distance. It was the sound of the motor running.

The fact that it was powered from somewhere in the building was evidence that Hussein had been keeping the facility in mind since designing the Public Palace.

After a while, you hear something moving.

My eyes sparkled.

The lights are on.

< Knuckle! >

You hear a lock opening from the inside of the door.

* * *

The first thing that caught my eye was an object that was covered in cloth in the middle of the room.

On the walls of the three sides, there was a shelf for placing something, and each compartment of the shelf had a light fitted at a constant interval to illuminate downward.

It seemed to be used to display valuables. However, the empty shelf was full of dust, but there was nothing precious that shined under the light.

The three people felt a great curiosity, but did not run towards the cloth directly in the middle of the room. Instead, they stood at the entrance and looked everywhere they could see.

To find out if there was a surveillance camera, a subtle booby-trap, or a switch that triggered something.

Three pairs of eyes searched every room for potential hazards in the bay. However, nothing was noticeable.

Seowon looks at his colleagues' faces.

Terry Cummings and Harry Giles seem disappointed in the small size of the cloth. I thought I had to go through all this trouble because of the items that were the size of the pile of boxes.

Two people with bad expressions nod, and vows slowly walk toward the object covered in a defense cloth.

It was roughly one meter wide and one meter tall, coming up to the thighs. The cloth covering the item was a tarp with U.S. Army markings on it.

Terry Cummings, who checks the nationality of the tarp, shakes his head and mutters.

“The U.S. military is... helping people in so many different ways. ”

On a bony joke, vows grinned. However, the cynical jokes about the organization that once held the body were not only amusing.

It's because the reality is that you can get military equipment and weapons with U.S. military markings on them on every black market in the world.

If the United States truly wants to reign as the king of the world, it should be confiscated from military supplies like this.

Smuggling weapons is not something only a minor soldier can do. There needs to be someone in high positions with protection and organized movements of multiple insiders.

The U.S. military must look to themselves before they kill the world's police. And suffer the pain of having your skin slaughtered. Otherwise, they will one day face a life-threatening situation with their own weapons.

Although there are currently no countries running solo, there are no countries that shine the glorious sunlight for tens of thousands of years. History proves it.

As the vow stands in front of the object, Terry grabs the tarp and pulls it carefully.

A box made of wood was revealed. It was a brown wooden box that looked quite sturdy. No letters were written on the surface of the rough-looking wooden box, and hinges on the top were used to close the lid. On the tip of the lid was a sturdy piece of iron that could fill the lock. But I don't see the lock.

Seowon grabs the lid of the wooden box and slowly lifts it up.

“Oh, fuck! ”

“Ah!!!!! ”

Terry Cummings and Harry Giles expressed their admiration for their personality.

Seowon puffed up his cheeks, took a big breath, and brought his face close to the box. He looked carefully at the items inside.

Terry Cummings also looks inside as if he were about to enter the box.

Unlike the two of you, Harry Giles sticks his hand in the box. He pulls out what he has in his hand and glares at the white light.

The yellow metal illuminated is pale.

Harry Giles glances at the gold in his hand and mutters.

“Dammit…… I can see why they tried to kidnap Bremer. ”

“Even if it was George Bush, not Bremer, they'd run for it. ”

Harry Giles and Terry Cummings' brief comment is muted one last time. The three men could not take their eyes off the crowded gold ingots. A moment ago, the disappointment disappeared completely in front of the brilliantly glowing metal.

The first person to wake up was a vow.

He picks up a gold ingot from the chest. To be precise, it was not a thick gold ingot, but a smaller, thinner goldbara.

On the surface of the gold bar were engraved letters and logos, followed by the letters < 1 KILO, Fine Gold, 999.9 >.

It means 999.9 pounds of pure gold. It was roughly two-thirds the size of the palm of the hand and slightly less than one centimeter thick.

The vows didn't catch on to how much this little one-kilogram gold bar would cost. He picks up the satellite phone while trying to ask his colleagues.

After the mission, Gary Jackson burst into tears on the phone with his colleagues. He knew how hard it was for his colleagues at the Republican Palace.

He has participated in numerous operations at Heart International, but he has never been so out of control of his feelings. I felt sorry for my colleagues because I thought I was comfortably supporting them in a safe place.

Gary Jackson said with a deaf snort, as if his emotions had not yet gone away.

“What's going on? Can I help you? ”

“How much is a kilo of pure gold? ”

“By any chance...? ”

The vow laughs without saying anything.

Gary Jackson couldn't see the expression on his vow. But I understood what silence meant.

You hear a keyboard clatter over the phone.

“I think it's about 270 to 280 dollars an ounce. ”

“How about a kilogram instead of an ounce? ”

“One kilogram is 35.274 ounces, so if you calculate…… the lowest catch is $9,524. How much gold is there? ”

I lost strength in the arms of my vow. The hand holding the phone sagged down.

Terry Cummings and Harry Giles ask one of the vows with a blank expression.

“Are you okay? Is there a problem with the call? ”

“What's wrong with you? What's going on?”

The vow blinks silently, staring at the gold ingot in his left hand.

“Almost $10,000 for one of these……. ”

Harry Giles and Terry Cummings lose their horses at the same time.

The two of them stared at each other with their mouths open.

Gary Jackson yells at me on a phone with a vow. But no one heard that sound.

After some time, Seowon said to the phone.

“Let's talk again in a minute. ”

He ended the call without listening to Gary Jackson's response.

Terry Cummings counts the gold bars in the crate with his finger.

“One, two, three, four…. ”

There were 15 gold bars, 25 vertical bars.

375 gold bars on one side. If you hold a gold bar up to a centimeter high, you will see at least 3,750 gold bars in front of you.

Soon after counting, Terry Cummings mutters.

“The minimum catch is roughly 375 million dollars……. ”

It was a lot of money, but not enough to impress those who had recently won a huge Iraqi business.

“Hehe!”

Suddenly, a vow lets out a sound of breath.

At the time of Blackwater before his death, he came to a golden room just before attending his relatives' baby shower in Korea.

“$200,000 for a buck of gold? What's so expensive? ”

“Don't tell me. Gold is the price these days. ”

“How long has it been like this? ”

“It's been a while since the gold was raised. It's been about 10 years. ”

He had absolutely no knowledge of the price of gold. He tried to give him a gold ring as he had heard from somewhere. But I was surprised at the price of such expensive gold that I had to give cash instead of gold.

Seowon quickly tried to calculate the number. But I don't have a calculator, and I keep stuttering in my head.

“A kilogram is about 266 dollars, so if you calculate roughly.... ”

When the calculations stopped, he gave it to Terry Cummings.

“How much is 266 times 200,000? ”

Unaware of the situation, Terry quickly ends the acid.

53.2 million.

He bent his torso and wrapped his hands around his head.

If he calculates the price of the future, one gold bar in front of him will be roughly 53.2 million won. There are over 3,000 of them.

All of this was so unrealistic that it was not a proper calculation in my mind. But one thing was certain.

The fact that the six founding members of the Shadow Warrior will never have to worry about money again.

Seowon ran out the door, looking up and shouting.

“What are you doing there! Hurry up and carry this and rest!!! ”

Terry Cummings and Harry Giles tilt their heads without understanding what happened to their vows.

* * *

Carrying a nugget of gold was more difficult than I thought.

The three of them pushed the box with all their strength. However, a box close to four tons did not budge. They pick up ten gold bars and stack them in front of the ladder outside the door.

Even the darkest dragon in the land was beaten. Nevertheless, he had to go back and forth more than a hundred times per person to move only a few meters.

Seowon understood why terrorists mobilized their battle gear.

There was no tool to move this heavy in such a small place in such a short time.

Moving the gold from bottom to top was harder.

Harry Giles at the bottom throws a gold bar to Terry Cummings on the ladder, and Terry Cummings takes the gold bar and gives it to vows. As vows piled up gold bars on the floor, the dragon used battle gear to bring them to the secret passageway entrance on the other side of the tunnel.

It took me over an hour to finish up here.

They decided it was impossible to move the gold bar without borrowing anyone's power in just one day. But there was nothing to worry about.

It was because they thought that keeping it a secret would buy them at least a day or two more time.

After stacking gold bars in secret passageways and covering them with tarps, they embark on their next task.

You close the hatch down to the vault, cover it with a chunk of smashed cement, mix the water in the cement powder brought by Harry Giles, fill the gap with tools, and trim the floor to a thin thickness.

The smell of cement vibrates inside the bunker. However, since the soldiers won't be visiting here, they rest assured that the bunker doors are closed.

The giant metal door that holds the secret is closed.

A vow of silence recognizes the sound of the locking mechanism working. You nod at your companions.

My colleagues, who had been excited about the gold before, nodded with a look of what had happened.

Though they had to pay the ultimate price, the mission that brought them so much income was over.

The vows moved slowly, being supported by colleagues.

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