CODE NAME: ANASTASIA [Novel]

Chapter 15

Suddenly, a familiar cigar smell wafted through the air. Kwon Taek Joo was startled to turn around but a hand soon reached out of the bookshelf and attacked him. For a moment, his neck was pinched by strong arms, his mouth closed and speechless. Only after his brain promptly warned that he needed to get out of that embrace, he succumbed, Kwon Taek Joo was pulled in without time to resist. The vision at the same time changed to dense darkness in the blink of an cyc.

Soon, the sound of the door being slammed was heard. The guards rushed inside. Because his vision was blocked, he couldn't grasp what kind of situation was going on.

"The intruder is gone!"

"Disappeared?!"

"Where did they run? Outside?"

The voices of the guards sounded clearly confused. They swept all the books on the shelves to the floor, rummaging through every cabinet and curtain for an intruder. Meanwhile, Kwon Taek Joo was soon dragged somewhere. The tension of facing an unexpected situation was somewhat lessened when he was able to immediately recognize who the other person was based solely on the person's unique body scent. I don't know how this guy got here.

Two people go through a long road without light. It was a secret passage like an ant's nest created from room to room, floor to floor. The road was so narrow that only one person could stand and was connected like a spider's web.

Zhenya, who was leading by a distance, suddenly stopped walking. Then he looked up at the ceiling and found a certain location. Soon, a thick section of the floor above him shook in his hands. Kwon Taek Joo who was watching blankly suddenly came to his senses and clenched his gun.

He could see someone's footsteps walking around the room through the gap in the floor, and for a moment, Kwon Taek Joo and Zhenya's eyes met. He silently motioned for him to lower the floor. Zhenya obediently obeyed. His hand was still touching the ceiling. A guard who was carefully observing the room above approached little by little.

When Kwon Taek Joo signaled again. Zegna raised the floor again. The guard who passed there momentarily lost his balance and fell down. The two quickly swung their bodies to the top. The guard hurriedly pulled the trigger towards the intruders that had just appeared in front of him.

The sound of gunfire cut through the air. Zheyna raised his head slightly and avoided the rain of bullets. A bullet grazed his earlobe, red blood running down his neck. Zheyna suddenly smiled with a strange look as he wiped the blood on his hand with the back of his hand.

Right after that, Kwon Taek Joo opened fire and hit the guard's right hand. He yelled and grabbed his hand with a hole in it.

But the tragedy did not end there. Before he could regain his composure, Zheyna approached him. Kwon Taek Joo foretold that misfortune would come to that poor person. But before he could react, a horrible cry rang out.

"....Knock!"

Zheyna clenched his fist and forced the guard to open his mouth. His jaw was spread out more than necessary. Without hesitation, he added some strength to the hands that were gripping the upper and lower jaws of the unfortunate man.

"uh... um.. AAAHHH!!"

The guard struggled miserably. Try to remove Zheyna's hand from his mouth. However, Zheyna nonchalantly ignored that desperate will to survive and immediately ripped his mouth open in a single stroke.

Kwon Taek Joo turned his head away, but the distinctive sound still reached his cars. Not to the point of dropping the chin. But it was the sound of bones breaking, the jaw joint was broken, and the lower jaw was completely separated. The guard trembled for a few seconds and then passed out. He frowned and took a step back, as if he were just witnessing the slaughter of a hungry animal, not a human. That was absolutely not something a normal human could do. Even his smile now.

Zheyna raised his bloody hand and stared at it, then immediately fixed his gaze on Kwon Taek Joo, no, he was looking at the shirt he was wearing. Kwon Taek Joo took a step back and shook his head stiffly.

"Dislike."

Like it or not, Zheyna soon approached him without hesitation. Kwon Taek Joo repeatedly backed away to avoid those hands but to no avail. The distance is quickly shortened. Kwon Taek Joo tried to refuse again with a frown, but he soon reached out his long arm. Without hesitation, he grabbed his shirt.

"...."

Kwon Taek Joo silently looked down at his shirt with Zheyna's hand printed on it. His lips moved, speechless. Kwon Taek Joo's eyes glared at him, but Zegna didn't care and just sneered. There was no guilt in those eyes.

Kwon Taek Joo angrily unbuttoned his shirt. He then threw the blood-stained shirt at Zheyna's face and spat out some swear words but Zheyna didn't mind and just continued to wipe the other man's bodily fluids on his shirt.

"Why don't you bring a handkerchief yourself?"

"Why do you have to do that?"

If necessary, just take off someone's shirt. It seemed that was what he meant to say,

"This direction!"

Meanwhile, scattered bodyguards ran after the gunfire. Should I go back to the secret passage just now and hide, or should I directly break through? Kwon Taek Joo pondered over the open aisles and doors. Zheyna then suddenly approached and grabbed Kwon Taek Joo's neck and suddenly pulled him to the window. From the outside, this room appears to be located at the front of the building not the back.

Zheyna calmly opened the window, below, cars were leaving the mansion after news of an intruder spread. Zheyna watched the scene and pulled Kwon Taek Joo towards the window. With that terrible power, he easily forced him to climb up to the window frame with him.

"Stand still!"

Not knowing when, the guards promptly burst into the room and asked the two to raise their hands in surrender. Kwon Taek Joo only felt that the back of his neck at that time was like something was shining on, even his head, back, and limbs were all targeted by the cold guns in their hands. Despite being surrounded, Zheyna's spirit did not decrease in the slightest. He just stared ahead and whispered meaningless words.

"Prepare"

"What?"

"Now."

Before Kwon Taek Joo could hear those words, his body was lifted. Zegna recklessly grabbed Kwon Taek Joo by the neck and jumped down. The two fell freely from outside the building onto a sedan that had just left the mansion. The affected sedan suddenly lost control and staggered in all directions. Kwon Taek Joo's body was also bouncing onto the roof of the car and almost fell if he didn't grasp the gap in the car's body in time.

Meanwhile, Zheyna had half- twisted his body to keep his balance, then he slammed his fist into the driver's side door. After only a few blows, the glass pane was cracked and shattered. He immediately reached in and grabbed the driver and threw him out. Not even a seat belt could protect him.

The driver was just pulled out, the person in the passenger seat quickly grabbed the steering wheel. Zheyna swung down and kicked him with both legs, knocking him unconscious and forcing him to the other side of the window, then quickly got into the driver's seat and stepped on the gas without hesitation.

So, Kwon Taek Joo's body once again wobbled hopelessly. It wasn't until then that Zheyna probably remembered Kwon Taek Joo's existence, so he opened the rear glass door. Kwon Taek Joo could only try to crawl into a car traveling at 100km/h. He almost got caught in the middle of the creaking door but fortunately was able to narrowly escape the danger.

Having no time to breathe, Kwon Taek Joo aimed at the owner of the car who was sitting in the back seat and overpowered him. You have no intention of killing him. Since Zegna and Kwon Taek Joo took control of this vehicle, the security team. also stopped firing. That meant that even Bogdanov could not arbitrarily put the occupants in danger. There seems to be no better shield than him.

But that optimism did not last long. The rounds of bullets that had ceased fire for a while immediately resounded once more. This time a sniper rifle. Kwon Taek Joo turned to look at the mansion that was slowly becoming distant. Vladimir Bogdanov was leaning out of an open window and unhesitatingly opened fire on their car. Fortunately, the distance was too far so that the fierce attack didn't have any bullets that reached this. far. Carrying two hostages, the sedan quickly left the Bogdanov mansion.