It was an incredible achievement, but none of the soldiers looked happy. Choi Jong-Il had been shot twice in the chest, and Cha Dong-Gyun had been shot thrice in his stomach and chest.

Following the conclusion of the standoff, they immediately rushed straight to the hospital still wearing their camouflage face paint and military uniforms.

Kang Chan remained steadfast next to their beds. He forced the Chinese doctors, who didn’t understand what he was doing, to give the two men a whole bag of his blood.

Having taken full control of China’s intelligence bureau, Yang Bum’s influence became so great that the team was given the entire eleventh floor to themselves even though they were in a large hospital in the center of downtown Beijing. The air force even closed off the entrance of the hospital and the eleventh floor with a sign that read, “People's Liberation Army Air Force Airborne Corps.”

Yang Bum entered the room with a creak of the sliding doors, breaking the heavy silence. It had been about ten minutes since they had reached...