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Mission: FCA – Free Carrier (Carrier delivery conditions)
d+1 (One day after operation start) 0540
10 . 008773, 43 . 163271, Borama North-Northwest, Somalia, Africa
The man wearing camouflage opened the heavy steel door . The musty air stabbed at his nose . Rather, the stench was more putrid than musty . The smell couldn’t be this pungent from just excrements . It had to contain blood .
The man slightly creased his face and quietly entered the room . In the room about a meter squared, the man found his mark amidst the thickening stench . The man slowly approached a bloody bundle of rags that appeared to be a fallen animal, he confirmed his mark .
Alive?
The man carefully put his hand to the mark’s neck . The area jutting out beneath the jaw, the area where the artery is close to the skin . The man who placed his hand on the area where the heartbeat is easily verified, he felt a weak heartbeat, but it was there . Alive for now .
Alive . For now . If the mark stays in this sort of condition, he would die, but he was still alive .
The man shook the mark’s shoulders . The mark opened his eyes as if it were a conditioned reflex once his shoulders shook . Fear flashed in his eyes . The man quickly covered the mark’s mouth . Some noise was fine . Already, there was no living being that could listen in on their conversation . But even so, the man blocked the mark’s mouth . and said .
“Agent Noyce?”
The mark’s eyes wavered, but didn’t nod his head .
A trained agent . A very well trained one .
“Agent Noyce, I’ll say the code now . Echo Nine, Port Alice, November (N), Golf (G), Uniform (U), Whiskey (W), Tango (T), Yankee (Y), Bravo (B), Hotel (H) . ”
The man who came to rescue said the code .
The mark’s eyes quivered even more . His emotions could be seen from the dilated pupils . From fear to hope .
He asked again .
“Agent Enoch?”
The mark nodded . Finally the man removed his hand which was covering the mark’s mouth and talked into his ear .
“The United States of America sent me to bring you back . Do you agree?”
The CIA agent, Enoch Noyce, from the Center of Prevention of Nuclear Weapon Proliferation nodded his head .
The man said again .
“Say it out loud . Do you agree to the escape?”
“Yes, I agree . Please take me home . Sir . ”
The weak, shaking voice showing his will escaped his lips . Get his agreement, and document it .
It was essential .
“Ok . Let’s go home . ”
Han GyuHo said while smiling . Seeing the smile, Enoch Noyce thought it was a smile he could trust .
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Mission: FCA – Free Carrier (Carrier delivery conditions)
d-5 (5 days before the mission) 1000 Songpdong, Seoul, Korea
The man was annoyed .
He had just fallen asleep after a torturous hangover when the text rang .
The man could fall asleep anywhere when he deemed it was safe .
Sleep when you can . Eat when you can . It was the man’s rules of survival .
The reason he woke was because of a feeling he had . The sound of the alarm wasn’t what woke him, but the instinct that the alarm was important was what woke him . The very instinct that had always kept his life safe .
The man grabbed his phone and checked the text message .
‘1300 Weekly Conference Planned . ’
A simple phrase not even including a preposition .
“Weekly conference my ass . This geezer has good timing . He was born with the ability of harassing people . ”
If he wanted to grab a bowl of soup after getting up and taking a quick shower he had to move now . (TLN 해장국 – soup for hangovers)
The man grasped his aching head and got up from the bed .
Gyeonggi-do Seongnam-si Sujung-gu Sansung-dong . On the 3rd floor of building located on the alleyway heading up to the Korean Polytechnics University was a sign with TaeChung Trading Company on it .
The company was a small trading company that dealt with import and export of the manufacturing companies within Seongnam for 5 years, but after the recent global economic recession and the following import and export decreases that brought about negative business profits was just another trading company with no competitive edge .
In addition, the company lost one of their consigner to a larger trading company and had to brace another hard year .
There was one department in TaeChung Trading Company .
Import Export 2nd Division .
The department was made up of one section chief, who doesn’t even deal with normal import export duties nor sales . Not only that, but he doesn’t even come in to work so he didn’t have a desk .
Occasionally, when the one and only section chief shows his face at the company, he is seen smoking on the sofa in the CEO’s room, but never working .
There were rumors of him being a distant family member of the CEO, or even that he was the company sponsor’s son .
TaeChung Trading Company’s Import Export 2nd Division’s Section Chief Han GyuHo
The man who was complaining just a moment ago on the bed when he read the text, Han GyuHo .
Section Chief Han GyuHo opened the doors and entered the CEO’s office immediately . It wasn’t as if he had a desk, and he wasn’t close enough to the other employees to greet them . If they thought he was a product of nepotism, let them think that . (TLN 낙하산 – slang to denote parachuting into a company aka nepotism . )
As he opened the office door the culprit that woke him from his sweet dreams was looking at documents .
TaeChung Trading Company’s CEO Kim WonHyung . The typical mid 60s Korean male who runs a small trading company and has graying hair, deep creases in his face .
Han GyuHo threw himself into the sofa without a greeting .
“What is it now?”
‘How have you been?’ ‘How’s your health?’ ‘You’ve been well?’ No greetings of the sort .
It’s been 20 years since they’ve met each other, but it wasn’t far off to say they’ve never greeted each other affectionately .
CEO Kim WonHyung kept on looking at the documents in his hands without a reply, and only once he quickly signed the bottom of it did he turn his eyes to Han GyuHo as he pressed the button on his desk .
A ‘zzzzzzing’ vibration hit Han GyuHo’s eardrums . It was a high frequency vibration that normal people couldn’t hear . It vibrates the windows along with a signal jammer .
Wiretapping has long been discarded . Especially the wireless ones that use radio waves are detected 100% or cancelled out . So the method that came to be was to use the vibration of the windows .
Human words are delivered through vibrational sound waves, and these vibrations are tuned to the windows . The wiretapping that could pick up these vibrations rose up as an alternative method .
To prevent this, TaeChung Trading Company placed a high frequency vibrational aligner in the CEO’s office . To put it simply, it was an extension of the noise cancelling ear-chute technology .
Even after the wire-tap cancelling device was fully operational, Kim WonHyung said nothing for a while .
It was Kim WonHyung’s habit to deliberate even in these conditions .
“You’ll need to work with Americans . ”
“Americans? They’re a bit annoying…”
“They’re CIA so it’ll be clean . If you don’t want to, you don’t have to, but give it a try . The Americans are one thing, but this has the Prime Contract riled up as well . ”
Prime Contract . It meant someone was commisioned by the CIA, and that commission came to Han GyuHo . The Prime Contract was the Korean Intelligence Agency .
“What about them? It’s not them that’s working . ”
“It means they want the Americans to owe them . They pressured you into moving . That sort of thing . ”
Han GyuHo thought . Now I don’t want to do it even more .
“I don’t want to do it even more . What do I get out of it?”
“Think of it as placing a debt with the Primary Contract . It’s the NIS (National Intelligence Service), not the Primary Contract . ”
“Do I have to do it? I don’t want to . ”
“Just go and hear what they have to say . If you go, you’ll go today . Go to K-5 5 .
I didn’t like it .
Annoying from the start .
Section Cheif Han GyuHo, who in truth was an Independent Agent who does jobs commissioned by the Intelligence Agencies of various countries, thought this annoyance would continue on .
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