Chapter 265: The Lone Agent
Chapter 265: The Lone Agent
There is not much difference between the premiere of a Korean movie and the premiere of a Chinese movie.
After a series of introductions and activities, the lights in the screening room went out, and the story of "The Man from Nowhere" began.
The story of the movie is also very simple. In an era when orphans are everywhere, it is extremely difficult to survive.
The male protagonist Cha Tae-seok (played by Won Bin) is a man abandoned by his family. As an agent who protects state secrets from being leaked, after retiring due to injury, he should have lived in harmony with his wife and children, but his pregnant wife died due to the revenge of his enemies.
Since then, he has been depressed, unkempt, and turned into a small boss of a neighborhood grocery store and express delivery station. He lives in a daze every day and seems to want to end the rest of his life like this.
However, such an ordinary life is short-lived after all. As a shop owner, Che Tae-sik discovered that recently, the little girl named Xiumei who had just moved in next door to him always liked to come to his shop to play with him after school every day.
Cha Tae-sik still felt repulsive towards this stranger who suddenly approached him, even though he was just a child.
This is a sequelae of his past career and also the negative impact of his long-term isolation.
However, the innocent and lovely Soo-mi seems unaware of his rejection, and ignores the community's comments about Cha Tae-seok being a "weirdo". She still greets Cha Tae-seok every day and calls him "uncle."
After a few interactions, Che Tae-sik gradually understood Soo-mi's situation.
It turns out that Xiumei's family was also very unfortunate. Her parents died in a car accident, leaving only her and her sister to depend on each other.
As the beautiful elder sister Zhao Hailun, her intelligence was naturally far superior to that of ordinary people. Because of the death of her parents and family changes, she had to take on the responsibility of supporting the family. With her outstanding IQ, she joined a large group company at an early age and received training from the other side.
Although she is so beautiful and has an older sister, she is no different from an orphan. She lives in a house rented by her sister and can only see her impatient sister once a month.
Because of this, Xiumei is always ostracized in school and in her daily life. Only the sausages that the uncle casually gave her once gave her a little sunshine in her strong heart.
The fragmented and frequent communication, as well as the shared suffering of losing a loved one, gradually brought these two lonely hearts, which originally had no intersection, closer together.
However, just when both of them seemed to be about to be redeemed, something unexpected happened.
A group of gangsters suddenly broke into Soo-mi's home in the middle of the night and wanted to take Soo-mi away. The noise they made caught Cha Tae-sik's attention.
But when he chased out, the girl had already been captured.
The people around him left him again. Even though Cha Tae-seok usually ignored girls, she already had a place in his heart. The once depressed retired agent finally decided to fight again for the girl.
However, Cha Tae-sik had no idea why those people wanted to kidnap Soo-mi and who they were.
He only saw a license plate number, but all he found out was a scrapped car.
Just when Cha Tae-sik was at a loss, a slender figure sneaked into his shop late at night, seemingly looking for something, but was completely exposed by the sudden light.
The visitor was Xiumei's sister Zhao Hailun. Through her narration, Che Tae-sik finally understood the whole story.
It turned out that after Xiumei's parents died in a car accident, her sister Zhao Hailun was spotted by a large multinational biopharmaceutical group because of her extraordinary intelligence. She was recruited and trained to become a doctor of biomaterials.
At first, Zhao Hailun was grateful for the company's help and training.
However, with her intelligence far exceeding that of an ordinary person, she soon discovered something was wrong and realized that this multinational biopharmaceutical group was not as simple as it seemed.
Not only was the other party secretly conducting illegal human experiments, but her parents' car accident and her extraordinary intelligence also hinted at something unusual.
This made Zhao Hailun determined to investigate the matter secretly, so he began to distance himself from his sister, trying to use this to divide her to prevent Xiumei from being implicated in the future.
Zhao Hailun's covert investigation paid off. With the help of her position, she quickly obtained evidence of the crimes of the Brilliant Biological Company and also stole a bottle of special medicine from the company.
Such an extraordinary behavior naturally provoked retaliation from the Brilliant Biological Company, who arranged for gangsters to kidnap her sister Zhao Xiumei in order to force the hiding Zhao Hailun to fall into their trap.
As for why Zhao Hailun appeared in Che Tae-sik's house, it was because after she stole the tube of reagent, it was inconvenient to carry it with her, so she disguised herself and sent it to Che Tae-sik's store near her home via express delivery. After she was ready to go home to pick up her sister, she took the tube of reagent and escaped with her.
Unfortunately, because she needed to hide, she was still a step slow and ended up watching her sister being kidnapped.
That's why she sneaked into Cha Tae-seok's house, ready to take the medicine to save her sister.
After finding out the details of the whole incident, Cha Tae-sik immediately decided to go with Zhao Hailun to rescue Xiumei.
"No, this is our sister's business!"
On the big screen, facing Cha Tae-sik who wanted to help, Zhao Hailun, played by Soo-hyun, decisively refused.
However, the decadent uncle agent's ears twitched, but he replied indifferently:
"It's too late."
"what?"
Before Zhao Hailun could react, the next second, the door of Che Tae-sik's house was kicked open from outside.
It turned out that after abducting Xiumei, the gangsters instigated by the Huihuang Company did not all leave. A few of them were left behind to hide in the dark and watch, waiting for Zhao Hailun to fall into their trap.
It can also be seen from here that Zhao Hailun’s extremely high IQ is probably all used in study and research.
Fortunately, Cha Tae-sik was at the scene. Facing the gangsters who came to his door, Cha Tae-sik, as a former agent, showed no mercy. He used decisive and ruthless tactics to knock down those bastards in no time and tortured them to find out where they were gathering.
From here on, the pace of the movie enters the fast lane, and the audience's nerves, which had been relaxed due to the slow pace, gradually become tense.
Amid the low and rapid soundtrack, Cha Tae-sik brought Zhao Hailun to the gang gathering place. Relying on his past skills as an agent, he could take away a villain with one move.
The splattering blood, the crisp sound of bones breaking and the wailing of the villains made people's heart beat faster and they almost shouted "cool".
"Bang! Bang!"
“Ah!” “Crack!”
"Wow!"
On the big screen, Cha Tae-seok walked through a dim corridor and knocked down a group of gangsters.
Outside the house, the police, unaware of the situation, have arrived, sirens blaring.
The gangster boss watched his brothers fall one by one, and his originally arrogant expression gradually became solemn, followed by fear.
In the end, the boss was so panicked that he abandoned his younger brother and tried to escape by car, but was stopped by Cha Tae-sik's car.
However, the police who arrived arrested both of them. And because of the powerful strength of Brilliant Pharmaceuticals behind the scenes, less than 10 minutes after entering the police station, the gangster boss even appeared in front of Cha Tae-sik and challenged Cha Tae-sik, saying that he would dig out the eyes of the little girl Sumi and give them to him.
These words immediately angered Cha Tae-sik and most of the audience.
People always like beautiful things more, especially Zhao Xiumei played by Song Zuer, who is so cute and lovable that she is even more lovable.
Now that the gang boss has said this, he is courting death.
At this time, at the police station, the police finally found out Cha Tae-sik's identity as an agent, and that his wife was killed in revenge. Cha Tae-sik also broke free from his restraints and rushed out of the police station because he was worried about Soo-mi.
From this point on, the rest of the story begins to become simple.
Che Tae-sik, who had no scruples and was murderous, was like a dragon entering the sea. He used his skills as an agent to track down the gang boss, rescued Zhao Hailun who was about to make a deal with those people, and then went straight to kill the other party.
During this process, the audience also followed Cha Tae-sik's perspective and saw the evil deeds committed by this group of gangsters.
It turns out that they were a group of vicious dogs raised by the Brilliant Group, specifically collecting materials for human trials for this multinational biopharmaceutical group.
As for the source of these materials, they were a large group of orphans who were either kidnapped or adopted by gangster gangs.
With these orphans who were trafficked and in miserable circumstances as support, Won Bin's action scenes of beating up gangsters were so satisfying that the audience at the scene felt relieved.
But after all, it is under the brand of "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", and relying solely on a gangster boss as the final BOSS of the movie seems to have some imbalance of power.
Therefore, in addition to the original content, other elements were added to the entire plot of "The Man from Nowhere".
Because of the previous incident, the gang boss knew how powerful Cha Tae-seok, the retired agent, was, and believed that he and his subordinates were no match for him.
In addition, the bottle of medicine stolen by Zhao Hailun was also extremely important. So when Che Tae-sik and Zhao Hailun found the gang boss again and rushed to him, the reinforcements arranged by the Korean branch of Brilliant Group finally arrived.
He was a tall and strong man who was over two meters and five meters tall, with a stern face and lifeless eyes, like a robot.
His body is covered with bulging muscles, and just one of his arms is thicker than Cha Tae-sik's thigh. He looks like someone who is not easy to mess with.
Seeing such reinforcements, the gang boss was immediately overjoyed. Even though he had been caught by Cha Tae-sik, he still remained arrogant and mocked them, saying that they were too late and that Soo-mi had been strangled to death by him.
As if to confirm his words, Zhao Hailun rushed into the basement and let out a miserable cry.
In anger, Cha Tae-sik wanted to kill the gang boss, but was interrupted by the tall and strong man who attacked him.
This sturdy man is not only strong and sturdy, but also very agile and good at fighting skills. Even Che Tae-sik, who was once an agent and armed with a dagger, is no match for him.
During the fight between the two, the director even gave a close-up shot of the final BOSS. It can be clearly seen that the wounds on the strong man caused by the dagger healed and stopped bleeding at a very fast speed.
Although the speed of self-healing is not even comparable to a single hair of Wolverine, this all-round crushing is enough to make people despair.
Cha Tae-sik could only cover Zhao Hailun who was holding the beautiful body and retreat quickly, while the gang boss was chasing after him with the burly man and his men.
The two sides staged a tense and exciting car chase scene on the road. During the chase, everyone came to an abandoned dock.
Until this moment, Cha Tae-sik, who was already filled with murderous intent because of Soo-mi's death, finally showed his fangs and demonstrated his professionalism as an agent.
Even though he was unable to defeat the big, burly man in a head-on confrontation, he still sacrificed an arm and used a special agent firearm hidden in his sleeve to point it at the opponent's eyes and shoot the powerful enemy through his dilated pupils.
After the most powerful enemy died, the angry Cha Tae-sik, even with only one hand left, still killed all the gang members, blew up the tires to stop the car, shot through the bulletproof glass with several consecutive bullets, and killed the gang leader.
After completing all this, the desperate Che Tae-sik told Zhao Hailun that there was a speedboat in a secret place at the abandoned dock that could be used to escape, and then he prepared to commit suicide.
However, at this moment, Xiumei's familiar voice suddenly rang out.
Che Tae-sik, heartbroken, shuddered all over and looked with wide eyes. He saw that Su-mi, who was supposed to be a corpse, actually opened her eyes tremblingly.
"Uncle, are you here to save me?"
The girl's voice was very weak, but to Cha Tae-sik, it sounded like thunder.
"Uncle, I knew you wouldn't abandon me..."
As Xiumei spoke tremblingly, she saw Che Taesik's bent arms, and tears couldn't help but fall from her big eyes.
Cha Tae-seok, who had always had a stern face, twitched his mouth and smiled for the first time after seeing that Su-mi was safe and sound.
At this time, the weather seemed to be very favorable, and the dark dawn had finally passed.
On the distant sea level, the slowly rising sun was about to burst into brilliant golden light. Che Tae-sik and the other two, who had successfully escaped from danger, drove the hidden speedboat towards the direction of the rising sun, leaving only a vague silhouette, looming.
Looking at such beautiful pictures, the audience attending the premiere also breathed a sigh of relief, calmed down the tension caused by the movie, and felt fortunate for the happy ending of Cha Tae-sik and the other three.
However, many fans couldn't help but wonder: how did Xiumei, who had been declared dead, come back to life?
(End of this chapter)