124. Disaster comes subtly (2)

Bataclang Theater.

It was built in 1864 by architect Charles Duvall and is located on Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Today, the Bataclang Theater was crowded with many people from a fairly early hour, because the famous American rock band Dragon of Death Metal was scheduled to perform.

Yang Seong-il sat in his seat excitedly.

“To be able to actually see my older brothers perform. It is an honor that will never come again in my life.”

The lights went out and the show started with colorful lights.

As befits the heavy metal genre, the performance was conducted in a fairly free atmosphere, and the audience was able to go out in front of the stage and enjoy the performance while drinking beer and dancing to their heart’s content.

Yang Seong-il was also enjoying the performance with a beer in line with the guitarist’s performance.

It was then.

bang bang bang

kwaaang

“Wow! to fireworks? Is it cool?”

Gyyying

Suddenly, the music stopped with the sound of an electronic sound piercing the eardrum.

A grotesque stillness came.

male voice

Audiences who did not know the English language burst into dissatisfaction.

“what? What’s going on?”

“Aye. The atmosphere was in full swing, but why are you doing this!”

Yang Seong-il, who was very excited, could not hide his embarrassment at the sudden unexpected situation.

“Is the equipment broken?”

The time when Yang Seong-il was scratching his head in bewilderment.

bang

dump

In front of Yang Seong-il’s eyes, a young blond woman who had been dancing more enthusiastically than himself collapsed on the floor helplessly.

rumble

Soon the floor was dyed red, and the sour, fishy smell of blood emanated from all directions.

It was an unrealistic scene that was hard to believe at the time, but the thick scent of blood that pierced the tip of the nose reminded me that this was reality.

“Quaaah”

A sudden, brutal tragedy.

In an instant, the inside of the concert hall became an abyss.

Instinctively, Yang Seong-il bent down and crawled under the audience seats.

“Ugh!”

There, a middle-aged woman who seemed to have already been shot dead was looking at her with her eyes wide open.

Moments later, three terrorists armed with automatic rifles appeared.

Mohammed, Mostefa and Amimu.

They were members of the Islamic terrorist group Islamic State (IS).

As if playing a prank, they randomly killed the audience who were trembling in fear.

“Ha ha ha, I will specially save and send those who have the courage to get up and go out. how is it? Anyone interested?”

Leader Mohammed said with a smile.

At those words, one of the male spectators, who had been trembling on his face, jumped up from his seat.

“I-I’m leaving…”

bang

“Cheuk.”

dump

“Kyaaak!!”

Mohammed’s merciless shooting was directed at the audience who stood up as if they had been waiting.

“Chiggle.”

Yang Seong-il, who was hiding on his stomach, heard a little girl muttering in his ears.

Did you just become an elementary school student?

A little girl who looked French was lying on her stomach, covering her ears and muttering something.

“This is a dream… it must be a dream… it is a dream. It’s a dream.”

Yang Seong-il, who felt sorry for such a girl, carefully patted her on the back as if it were okay.

Would it have had any effect?

The flinching girl raised her head and carefully looked at Yang Sung-il.

Yang Sung-il smiled and nodded as if to reassure him, and held the child’s hand.

But as time went on, the situation got worse.

bang bang bang

Several spectators on the second-floor balcony opposite the stage were shot by the attacker and fell over the railing.

“How dare you run away!? You are hostages from now on. Your lives depend on what the French government does next, okay?!”

The terrorists gathered the hidden audience in front of the stage on the first floor.

“I was hiding here. If you don’t want to be left behind, come out right now. right now!”

Yang Seong-il and the girl were also found hiding and were forcibly taken out.

The frightened girl held onto Yang Seong-il’s hand as if she would never let go of it, and trembled as she walked to the stage.

The front of the stage was already full of smoke from ammunition, and thick blood smeared on my shoes every time I walked.

On one side, people who seemed to have already become corpses were piled up like luggage.

“Oh my God. Oh God. How can this…”

“Shut up! If there is a baby that is weaving, I will shoot and kill it right away. The god you believe in is fake anyway. Allah is the only God You’ll find out later that it’s real. If your god were real, he would save you from this situation.”

Those who burst into tears at Mostefa’s terrifying threat barely stopped crying as they covered their mouths with both hands.

Mohammed cried out loud.

“Take out all your phones right now. If you secretly keep it and the phone rings, I will pierce your head right away, so judge for yourself.”

Paralyzed by extreme fear, people hurriedly took out their cell phones.

The cell phone was ringing loudly from calls coming here and there.

It seemed to be a call from family members who were concerned about their safety.

Then one of the audience members suddenly burst into mad laughter.

It was a very strange laugh.

“Uh ha ha ha ha ha ha.”

It was as if he had completely lost his mind in fear.

The attacker pointed a gun at the man’s head, but he couldn’t stop laughing.

“This madman.”

bang

The terrorist pulled the trigger into the air.

“Smile one more time. At that time, I will really blow your head off.”

Amimu, who aimed at the man with a murderous expression, murmured in a low voice.

However, the man, who had already lost his mind, couldn’t understand what he was saying, and Amimu, with a cold expression, shot straight to the head.

bang

flutter

“Cheup.”

The existence that was human until just now ended its life with its head exploding in an instant.

It was a very horrific scene.

Yang Seong-il covered the eyes of the girl who was holding his hand.

“hey. you you!”

Mohammed’s muzzle was pointed at two pairs, a man and a woman.

The four men and women who were suddenly pointed out trembled and asked.

“Help me. Help me.”

“Are you two a couple?”

“Yes, that’s right. Help me.”

Mohammed devised a plan to negotiate with the police besieging the outside of the theater.

To do so, they needed a hostage to deliver their demands, but it was calculated that a couple would not betray easily in a situation where one side remained in the theater.

The two selected couples.

The terrorists pointed guns at the wives and forced each husband to stand in front of the entrance window.

The hostages stood at the place demanded by the terrorists, unable to lift their faces properly and trembling.

The hostages were used as a shield to block the French police’s suppression operation.

“Mohammed! Shouldn’t we go to Allah now too? The French police are already coming like dogs. There’s no point in holding out any longer.”

The saying that you have to go to Allah.

In other words, should I not commit suicide with a bomb vest?

At Mostefa’s words, Mohammed shook his head.

“no. Not yet. The French won’t be able to act carelessly with so many hostages anyway. You should try to get what you can get.”

Amimu asked at Mohammed’s words.

“What are you going to do?”

Mohammed pointed the cold gun at the hostages themselves and gave instructions.

“Come on, the cops, withdraw immediately! If you don’t listen, I’ll explode all the remaining bombs and go to Allah with the hostages here! Heeuk!”

Mohammed had blackmailed the hostage into shouting his words instead.

“Also, the French must immediately withdraw their troops from Syria! We have nothing to fear because we have nowhere to retreat anyway. I am also willing to release the hostages if they are obedient to the negotiations.”

The hostage-taking continued for over an hour after that, but there was no progress in negotiations.

At this point, the three terrorists also began to get nervous.

This atmosphere made everyone in captivity uneasy.

“Mohammed! Let’s just finish it now! The French have no intention of negotiating. I’ve done enough for this.”

At Mostefa’s urging, Mohammed bit his lip once, and gradually life began to linger in his eyes.

“Hey, hey! I have a suggestion.”

Mohamed’s head turned at the sudden English sound.

“What are you? Do you want to die like that madman earlier?”

It was a positive day. His trembling voice seemed to tell him about his current condition.

“Oh no! I don’t want to die. However, if you’ve endured like this, shouldn’t you get something?”

Intrigued, Mohammed aimed a gun at Yang Seong-il.

“You talk about something very interesting. Hey you Asian wake up.”

“Yep. Whoop whoop.”

Yang Seong-il, who grabbed his wobbly legs, managed to move forward.

There was a reason he came out this way.

When it comes to his own survival know-how that survived the rough filming site, it’s ‘Nunchi’.

Yang Seong-il looked closely at the three terrorists and read their thoughts that they would all die together right away.

That’s why I pretended to be crazy and stepped forward with the feeling that I should at least buy some time.

“great. let’s talk about it If you talk nonsense, you’ll get a hole in your head like that madman did earlier.”

Yang Seong-il swallowed saliva at Mohammed’s words.

“Anyway, the cops out there are not in a position to listen to what you want. After all, they are just messengers who deliver your negotiation proposals to the heads of the higher ranks. If that’s the case, say you’d rather speak directly to the president and talk to him directly. Original sales are the law to aim for the KEY man.”

“Hoo…”

Yang Seong-il’s plausible words deepened Mahomed’s worries.

Mostefa and Amimu, including herself, would all die here anyway.

The reason they carried out this terror was the withdrawal of French troops stationed in Syria.

It didn’t matter if I died as long as I could complete that mission.

“good night. hey! there! Tell it straight out like this.”

Mohammed told the husband that his wife was being held hostage.

“I propose a final negotiation. Request a phone call with President Bollande right now. If you do not comply, I will kill one hostage every 10 minutes and throw you out the window. If we ignore this to the end, we will be martyred with everyone here.”

“Oh, my God.”

The people in captivity shuddered in panic at the thought that it was over.

Mohammed’s gun was pointed at Yang Sung-il again.

Then I took out my phone and turned on the stopwatch.

[10:00:00]

“hey. Brave Asians there. It was a good suggestion, but if the French ignore us again, you will be thrown out the window first.”

“Hup! I was just giving you a helpful suggestion…”

Yang Seong-il’s eyes were stained with despair.

The time that didn’t go so fast on the set now passed like lightning.

“The French government seems to have abandoned you. I can’t help it. Promises are meant to be kept.”

“Huh. Please save me. I’m just here for work.”

“We are here for work. Let’s not tire each other out.”

Mohammed took out a remote control that looked like a button from his pocket and waved it in front of the crowd.

“Do you know what this is? It’s the detonator for the bomb vest I’m wearing. The moment you press it, I bet half of you here won’t even preserve a corpse. That’s why you should cry even more and appeal to the government!?”

As Mohammed nodded and signaled, Mostefa’s gun was pointed at Yang Seong-il.

Yang Seong-il, who was dominated by fear, crouched down and trembled.

As death drew near, life passed by like a kaleidoscope.

Middle school days when I didn’t study and went out to play.

After belatedly waking up and studying until my nose bleeds, I finally got an acceptance letter from Korea University.

Until the moment he joined the broadcasting station with the dream of becoming a PD.

“Yang Seong-il’s 27 years of life… It ends here before it even blooms…”

The time when I was about to give up on everything and put it down.

Shaaa

“what?”

Suddenly, the sprinklers on the ceiling activated and sprayed water everywhere.

At that time, panicked terrorists were hardened as they were.

Whiik

puck

“Keugh.”

puck

“Ouch.”

The detonator in Mohammed’s hand magically disappeared.

Recognizing this, when Mohammed panicked and tried to point the gun at the other person, he lost consciousness with a strong shock.

With a thump, Mostefa also fainted and fell to the floor next to her.

Amimu just watched in dismay as her comrades collapsed in front of her without knowing why.

It was like being possessed by a ghost.

“Kkeuk.”

A sudden, strong feeling of pressure in the neck.

When the carotid artery was blocked and the blood supply to the brain was cut off, even Amimu collapsed with his eyes closed.

It took less than 5 seconds for all of this to happen.

“Gyuha-hyung…?”

When Yang Seong-il was watching the scene blankly.

wajangchangchangchang

Just then, the door to the balcony was broken and French counter-terrorism agents stormed into the building spraying flash grenades.

When the safety of the hostages could not be guaranteed, the suppression operation was carried out in a blitz.