Episode 1490 I didn’t come looking for you? (5)
“Is there someone behind the Ark?”
Baekcheon muttered. There was suspicion in everyone’s eyes looking at Cheon Sang-rooju.
“Are you saying there is some kind of darkness? Seriously, Sapa? Jang Il Soga?”
“Did this guy get a head injury in Gangnam? Anyway, does opening up seem so trivial? “To be taken over by someone like Jang Il-so, not a demonic cult?”
“…sorry. “Whenever I do anything these days, I think about Jang Il-so.”
“If it’s in the dark, things will be easier. All you have to do is catch him and cut off his head.”
“then?”
“This is not some kind of darkness. That ark might be real, but it’s not the real ark. It’s neither fake nor real. “It’s just here.”
Baekcheon, who had been listening intently to Cheongmyeong’s words, looked back at his brothers. And he smiled happily. Sure enough, Yoonjong and Jo Geol also looked at him with the same expression.
‘Don’t worry, Sasuk. We don’t know what they’re talking about either.’
‘Thank you for having you.’
Baekcheon, who exchanged warm love with his eyes, soon sighed in shame. Then Cheongmyeong spoke.
“Do you know what the best way to hide the truth is?”
“Isn’t that what the truth is about?”
“Hide the truth.”
“huh?”
“Those who deal with information are usually like that. Don’t hide the real thing among the fakes. Rather, it hides the real truth between the truths. Then, people usually only try to confirm the truth that they can see.”
“I think I understand. “If you meet the Ark of Openness in a place like this and listen to what he says, you wouldn’t even think that there’s something else hidden behind it, right?”
“Exactly. “At most, they were just trying to confirm whether that person was really an open stockholder.”
Baekcheon quietly closed his mouth. Because that was his intention too. When I glanced back, I saw that other people’s expressions were similar to his.
‘This isn’t our fault.’
‘No, honestly, it’s a bit suspicious.’
‘You have to have something to believe in to believe!’
Cheongmyeong chuckled, as if he knew their thoughts.
“The moment you try to confirm whether that gentleman is the real Ark and find out what the internal conflict is, you end up falling into a trap. “None of that matters.”
“…What’s important is what’s behind it.”
“Exactly.”
Qingming looked straight at Tian Shang Luzhu.
“what do you think about it? “That’s correct, right?”
Qingming laughed, but Tian Xiang Luzhu did not laugh. He had recently reorganized his complexion and looked calm and collected as if nothing had happened.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Hmm?”
“I give the chamber of openness and I decide the matters of openness. Enough with the delusions. A story with no basis….”
“There is no shortage of evidence. “That’s the basis they gave me.”
Cheon Sang-rooju closed his mouth. The eyes looking at Cheongmyeong were fierce, as if they were searching. After a while he asked as if he didn’t understand.
“I gave you the basis?”
“huh.”
“…What basis did you give?”
“Everything you say is plausible. But one thing is missing. “All that logic requires only one certainty.”
“What is that?”
“I am convinced that the world will definitely turn into hell. “The conviction that a war will inevitably break out in which all beggars will die.”
Cheon Sang-ruju’s eyes wavered for a moment.
“If beggars suddenly became incompetent after the Yangtze River Disaster, then what you say would make sense. But that’s not it. This hasn’t happened in the last few years. Rather, it started earlier. “It progressed so slowly that the beggars of openness did not notice anything strange.”
“That…”
“Do you understand?”
Cheongmyeong said sharply.
“According to what you say, you are nothing more than a fool who makes yourself incompetent by being scared of something that will never happen.”
Cheon Sang-rooju stared at Qingming without answering. Cheongmyeong shrugged his shoulders.
“What is it? You can do that by giving in a hundred times. “Just because it’s an ark of openness doesn’t mean you have to be competent all the time.”
“Be careful what you say…”
“But that’s not what’s suspicious. “The truth is what you said.”
“…what?”
“It was very interesting to see you talking about me. “It seems like a typical reaction to meeting people only with information.”
“What’s strange about that? “It’s true.”
“that’s right. It was true, so there was nothing strange about it. “Until you started talking carelessly about Lee Song-baek.”
Cheon Sang-ru-ju’s face hardened. Cheongmyeong started giggling and laughing.
“You probably know the person named Cheongmyeong better than the person named Song Baek. However, while he doesn’t hesitate to use the word ‘I know’ to Lee Song-baek, he uses the word ‘as I heard’ to myself. That means only one thing. You are not the one who evaluated me.
“You just accepted other people’s opinions.”
“….”
“Right?”
Cheon Sang-rooju was not very shaken. But Baekcheon saw it. His hands on the desk were shaking slightly. He must have been so agitated on the inside that he didn’t even think of hiding his hand under the desk.
“That’s not too far-fetched…”
“Wait. “Because the most important thing still remains.”
Cheongmyeong glared at Cheon Sang-ruju.
“There’s one reason I said I thought there was someone behind you, but it wasn’t behind the scenes. Your anger was real. But when I saw it, I thought it was really funny.”
“Why?”
“Why are you angry? “A person who has never experienced it himself or been forced to make a sacrifice?”
“….”
“There is a difference between resisting something wrong and holding a grudge. But you spoke as if you were a victim who had experienced everything yourself. “You are the one who lived through an unprecedented period of peace.”
Cheon Sang-rooju tilted his head as if he did not understand at all.
“Are you saying my anger is wrong?”
“no. It’s justifiable. Of course it would be fair. But… what is just isn’t necessarily natural.”
“…I don’t know.”
“You have no idea. You never know. “I don’t know who understands it with their head and accepts their anger.”
But even if not everyone in the world knows, Cheongmyeong can know.
The anger that Heavenly Rouge exudes is similar to the hatred he has for this world.
That’s why it’s strange. Tian Xiang Luzhu had never experienced what he had experienced. But how can you empathize with that feeling?
Because there is a lot of information? Because it’s open and everyone knows the history? That doesn’t make sense. We can understand this just by looking at how the elders of other sects who knew history behaved.
“So the conclusion is obvious. Whether you are Ark or not is none of my business. “The important thing is that there is someone else who brought openness to this level.”
Cheon Sang-rooju shook his head.
“It’s a ridiculous delusion.”
“….”
“I know another answer. I wasn’t as smart as you, so I couldn’t react well. “Also, I am an emotional person who can be quite angry about things in the past.”
“….”
“I can’t listen to that nonsense anymore. Stop going back. “I’m sick of it now.”
“It’s still like that. “There is no hobby like holding a scarecrow and talking about it.”
Cheongmyeong turned around without hesitation, as if to prove that what he said was not a lie.
“Just tell your master straight.”
“What are you telling me to tell you? “Your nonsense?”
“no.”
Cheongmyeong sent a sharp look behind him and scolded him coldly.
“Nothing will change if you run away.”
“….”
“Just one word is enough. “I’ll figure it out.”
Cheongmyeong gestured towards the group.
“let’s go. “I wasted my time.”
“…Are you really going?”
“That’s like Jeonseo-gu. “I have something to say, so it will be conveyed.”
“What if it doesn’t get delivered?”
“What do you know?”
It was at that time that Cheongmyeong, who spat harshly, was just heading towards the door.
“then!”
Cheon Sang-ruju’s voice grabbed the back of Cheongmyeong. It was a boiling voice that was clearly different from before.
“What would you say to those who would die for so little?”
“You can’t say anything.”
Cheongmyeong stood tall and spoke.
“I couldn’t say anything. “That’s why I’m doing this.”
“…You’re saying this?”
“To find what I have to say. I’m struggling to say that the death wasn’t worthless. “Desperately.”
Cheongmyeong stared into space for a moment as if he was staring beyond the door, then laughed quietly.
“don’t mind. Because it’s nonsense. “I’m old too.”
He waved his hand and took his feet away.
“let’s go.”
“…huh.”
I couldn’t understand the last conversation, but it was obvious that nothing more could be done here. The group nodded and followed Cheongmyeong.
“…Wait.”
However, Cheon Sang-rooju captured Cheongmyeong once again.
Qingming glanced back at Cheon Sang Lu Ju. He bit his lip tightly and glared at Cheongmyeong as he muttered.
“…Why…”
“Hmm?”
Cheongmyeong’s gaze momentarily left the Heavenly Rouge and focused upward.
container. container.
It was faint but clearly audible.
The sound of something hitting something echoed from the ceiling above where they were standing.
“…They say it’s dark under the lamp. “There was another lamp under the lamp.”
“after.”
Cheon Sang-rooju let out a long sigh and shook his head.
Which of the conversations we had here made it all the way up there?
“I can’t help it because you want it. “I’ll let you meet me.”
“…Hoo?”
“But you have to be careful.”
“Are you threatening me now?”
“…you’ll know what I mean when you meet.”
Cheon Sang-rooju sat down and touched somewhere under the desk.
“oh?”
“Wow…”
“There was an institution here?”
While everyone was amazed, a black line appeared on one side of the ceiling. Soon, the long stairs began to come down.
“…Wasn’t there all seven floors here?”
“It sure looked that way from the outside, right?”
“It looks like a little more space has been removed under the eaves. “I didn’t feel it either.”
Tang Xiaoxiao bit his lip, as if he was angry that he had not noticed.
“You just have to go up.”
As soon as the stairs came down, Cheon Sang-rooju pointed in that direction with his chin. Ogum looked at the stairs and the black space above them with a slightly uncomfortable feeling.
“…It’s not a trap, right?”
“What if it’s a trap? “Let’s just go.”
“Okay. “I feel uneasy.”
Everyone looked at Cheongmyeong. In fact, Cheongmyeong was already stepping on the stairs as if there was nothing to be afraid of.
“…Did that bastard have a liver made of cast iron?”
Ogum got fed up and hurried after him.
As I climbed up, I immediately understood why this space had not caught my eye. Even Cheongmyeong, who was a bit short, had a hard time standing up straight. The ceiling was that low.
Moreover, unlike the luxurious downstairs, this secret room was so dilapidated that it was questionable whether anyone could live in it.
“This is…”
Cheongmyeong’s gaze was suddenly drawn somewhere.
A bed was placed in a dark corner of a secret room. There was a white-haired old man lying there who wouldn’t be surprised at all if he stopped breathing soon.
“…this person is?”
Cheongmyeong was an old and gaunt old man who had no idea what to do at that moment.
The old man’s bony hand slowly lifted up. The weak shaking shape seemed to be a gesture for me to come closer.
Cheongmyeong silently stood next to the old man.
Age spots appeared on his wrinkled face, and his skin was as dry as a desert. And my whole body was as thin as a bare tree branch, so much so that I couldn’t even imagine when I was young. Looking at it at a glance, there wasn’t much life left.
Is it a squadron ark? Or Jeonjeondae? How on earth should I talk to someone like this?
As Cheongmyeong was struggling, the old man’s eyes slowly opened. Cloudy eyes met our gazes.
Cheongmyeong first opened his mouth.
“I…”
But I couldn’t finish the sentence. Will he understand? Even though we were making eye contact, it didn’t seem like a living person. I didn’t even expect to have a conversation. This person is literally just breathing.
This is the head of openness that I found at best. There is nothing that can be done like this. Cheongmyeong was just about to sigh due to the overwhelming feeling of helplessness.
“…Sword….”
A cracked voice came out of the old man’s mouth. A question crossed Cheongmyeong’s face.
I wanted to say something about the sword…
“…John (尊).”
Cheongmyeong opened his eyes wide.
Wow!
A cracking sound rang out as the hand that was lightly grasping the old man’s bed grabbed it.
Confusion, doubt, and faint fear swirled through Qingming’s mind like a storm.
