Episode 1159
Same time.
Yeo Ha-ryun is fighting against enemies.
“I’m dying!”
No, it’s embarrassing to even say we’re fighting.
That’s right –
‘You’re clumsy.’
The hand holding the sword has never been properly trained in martial arts.
Although he is running, he is not using proper walking techniques.
What about the body?
Because they were not eating properly, their bodies were worn out and dry, and it was difficult to find any muscles other than those necessary for daily life.
This means that there are no traces of practicing martial arts.
He is a middle-aged farmer from a farming family that you can see everywhere.
Such a person is clenching his teeth and shouting.
A determined will was shining in his eyes and expression.
It’s not like hate or bitterness.
There was within him the will to sacrifice himself.
It is not evil.
Nevertheless.
The heavenly slayer stretched out his hand indifferently.
Suddenly!
Even though he swung his hand, sharp sword energy arose and cut off his head.
However, even after that, there is no end to those who attack with clumsy bodies.
“….”
With indifferent eyes, Yeo Ha-ryun slaughtered them.
Dozens of people die every day.
“You dead people. “Recognize that this is a body that has already died once in the past.”
As you say, Yeo Ha-ryun’s hands are very unique.
The body was cut cleanly, as if it had been cut with a sword, even though the flesh had been cut with bare hands.
There are no other injuries.
Perhaps there is a special reason for killing someone like this.
Eventually, those who attacked died and disappeared.
If you look around.
It was a field full of flowers.
That was a strange thing.
It didn’t make sense for so many flowers to be blooming even though winter hasn’t even left yet.
There was a tree growing far away.
That tree was definitely a peach tree.
however.
It was no ordinary peach tree.
It was so huge that one tree was as big as Mount Tai.
The scent was so strong that it drove people crazy.
And before you know it, the corpses that fill the fields overflowing with peach trees and peach blossoms turn into smoke and disappear.
Only then does Yeo Ha-ryun take a step forward.
And it stops.
“….”
His expression suddenly becomes fierce.
“That’s annoying. “Just one step at a time.”
-Because it is a method of forcing rules on those who do not allow it.
“Why can’t you do it with your own strength?”
-I can kill you! There is! But it shouldn’t be like that. You know? After doing this, you become weak for a while! What do you think will happen to you and me if we become weak in this place?
The awakened celestial spirit can kill ‘anything’.
Even if it’s something like an intangible magic trick.
But that doesn’t mean it can be done infinitely.
“Tsk.”
Another self inside.
Yeo Ha-ryun, who was having a conversation with Cheon-sal-seong, suddenly felt annoyed.
Annoyance is also a human emotion.
It was a very unusual thing for him who was losing his humanity.
And the same goes for Cheonsalseong.
As he grew, his inner brother also grew.
Unlike in the past when people simply urged people to kill something, now they ‘think’.
That ‘way of thinking’ is a form of ‘devising’ to kill more things more reliably.
If Jin Cheon-hee had seen it, she would have said, ‘Has he become a genius psychopathic killer?’
and.
Surprisingly, Yeo Ha-ryun and Cheon Sal-seong are now starting to get along well.
“It’s useful to be able to kill everything, but… it’s annoying to have a limit.”
-The person called ‘Seed of Antipathy’ would be like that too. Unlike us, they get annoyed because they can’t save people.
“I guess it’s especially true because my brother always wants to save someone.”
We want to save people, but we cannot save everyone indefinitely.
A desire that is virtually impossible to achieve.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that it is an unquenchable thirst.
Why did my brother become like that?
‘Maybe my brother was [made] just like me.’
This is something I would never say in front of my brother.
Suddenly, it occurred to me that I was in contrast to myself.
It doesn’t matter either way.
Desire is just desire.
Because achieving that is something completely different.
like.
Like ‘Cheonsalseong’ who wants to kill everything but accepts the reality that he cannot.
Because of this, Cheonsalseong has changed quite a bit.
It burned with cold anger and developed a rational killing intent.
Just like Yeo Ha-Ryun herself.
Suddenly,
the area around Yeo Ha-ryun was filled with people again.
“A thousand deaths! “Even you can’t turn my sacrifice into nothingness!”
“Hehehehe. okay. that’s right. My daughter… If she can live a healthy life, what can’t she do?”
“Die, Cheonsalseong! “Drown in front of our sacrifice!”
Voices are heard from all directions.
A field of flowers where people have clearly been killed, but not a single body remains.
Human shapes appear again here and there in the fields.
It’s different from the stupid villagers from before.
There were warriors, magicians, writers, and government officials.
They rise up and rush from all over the flower garden.
Even Yeo Ha-ryun cannot properly understand most of what they say.
What on earth do these people mean by ‘sacrifice’?
furthermore.
Why do things that are neither illusions nor real entities come into existence and then disappear when you kill them?
however.
Yeo Ha-ryun also knew that if she headed to that tree, all these strange things would end.
Because of this, I started living again.
Every time I take a step towards the peach tree –
‘Does an attack by this strange group happen once in a while?’
We must overcome this and move on.
“That’s annoying.”
Yeo Ha-ryun raises her hand again. Darkness spread in all directions.
* * *
On the way to Otaesan Mountain.
This time, I didn’t ride on the Hwanggu.
It is a long road from Taewon to Otaesan, taking at least 20 days based on the average person’s walking distance.
Because there are many villages in between.
‘Since the entire Shanxi Province is in chaos, it would be a good idea to stop by those villages to see the patients and provide food support to Taiyuan (province) from time to time.’
Instead of people, Hwanggu carries rice on his back.
It’s a rescue.
Therefore, it does not move in a straight line all the way to Otaesan Mountain.
In this way, we went around the village and back and forth.
Anyway, Jin Cheon-hee and his group arrived at Otaesan Mountain.
“As a sacred place for Buddhism, there are hundreds of temples.”
“There are many villages. “Because there are several villages in all directions around Otaesan Mountain.”
Cheonwoo nodded to Jin Cheonhee’s answer.
The mountain called Otaesan is so large that, in terms of area, it is as big as several large cities on the planet, Seoul, combined.
‘That’s why there are hundreds of temples and several villages around them.’
I heard…
We arrived at a village called Yeonbul (硏佛), one of the villages near Otaesan Mountain.
“what?”
For some reason it is quiet.
Jin Cheon-hee tilted her head because she couldn’t even hear the dog barking.
Sima Xuan, who had gone out to scout, returned and said:
“brother. “There’s no one there?”
“You mean it’s not physically there?”
“huh. “There is no one there.”
“What the hell is this…”
As I hurried along, it seemed like the village had been abandoned for quite some time.
At first glance, you can see that the roof or fence has collapsed because it has not been maintained for a long time.
Because I saw a yard full of weeds.
“There are no household items. “He didn’t suddenly disappear.”
If I had to express it…
Jin Cheonhee found the right word.
“trek?”
Cheonwoo said.
“That’s strange. Farmers are not people who can move easily.”
Isn’t land an asset?
Even if the body can move, the ground is different.
You can’t tear up the entire land and move it all together.
“Did they forcefully drag you away…?”
“Hmm… To do that, I’d have to catch a few people and set an example, but there’s no sign of anything broken. I don’t see any dead bodies left behind or anything like that. brother.”
It is the Safa method.
However, there is no record of him being forcibly taken from the coffin…
so the only one who will take him away is Sapa.
But there are no such traces.
“Everyone in the village voluntarily packed their bags and left without any regrets?”
It’s a strange thing.
Jin Cheon-hee continued the search.
From where the poor live.
From the village to a place where people with considerable power live.
There was nothing that escaped Jin Cheon-hee’s eyes.
‘…How can there be no one like this?’
I looked for burn marks just in case.
If there had been an epidemic, the bodies would have probably been burned.
In addition, burning a corpse is impossible with regular firewood for heating.
This is because the human body is made up of water, so it burns less easily than you might think.
Therefore, when a plague breaks out in a village and many corpses are burned, everyone joins forces and piles up firewood like a mountain.
There are many cases where corpses are burned all at once.
This is because firewood is a huge burden to burn separately each time.
Then, the traces remain for a very long time.
No matter how windy and rainy it blows and scatters everything, at least Hwang-gu finds the smell.
Huh?
Hwanggu tilts to forty-five degrees.
“doesn’t exist?”
Grump!
It seems like it really doesn’t exist.
“Let’s go to the government office.”
I continued walking through the empty village, this time reaching the government office.
Even though it is a government office, the size of the village itself is small, so it should not be thought of as a modern village office.
A place with only minimal jurisdiction.
“come here!”
Even if you shout, no one comes out and there is no sign of anyone inside.
“I feel like I’m possessed by some kind of ghost~”
Sima Xuan muttered.
Even here, most of the government office objects and books had disappeared, as if they had decided to move.
“Do cases like this ever happen?”
Jin Cheon-hee scratched his head.
“If the village disappears from the map due to the fight with Kang Ho-in, the government office has no one to take care of it, so they apply for a transfer.”
This is the story behind the government office that those in power do not know.
Jin Cheon-hee continued.
“But if the village disappears like that, won’t the higher-ups be held responsible for failing to manage it?”
“Is that so?”
“So… either we try to make it up as if the village never existed from the beginning, or we cover it up as if it was a mixture of different villages and administration.”
In the Fire Empire, there is even a slang term for it.
It’s called ‘bottom mixing’.
The etymology is battle board.
The idea is to shuffle the cards at the bottom so you can’t tell where they are.
“It would be unfair for the citizens.”
“huh. In Baeklin County, if you are caught doing this, you will be punished severely. But usually, the higher-ups don’t look at each and every small village like this.”
“Okay… that’s right.”
“It may be overturned if an audit comes from above, but there is no way that Doorsa, who was personally appointed by the Emperor, would come to such a small village. “Usually I just move on.”
It can be said that it is a shameful point of impunity in government affairs.
You could say that this is the shitty thing about a world without telecommunications, telephones, roads, or internal combustion engines.
“Later, when Kang Ho-in, who left for a faraway place, returns to his hometown and the entire village is gone, many people turn away at that time. So, if you ask around about what happened and find out who the black thieves who did it are, then your revenge will begin.”
Many revenge novels about charlatans are created this way.
In reality, it arose as a result of neglect due to ‘under-level mixing’ by officials.
“Since the country will not take revenge on my behalf, I have no choice but to judge myself.”
“Private sanctions. Even if the ‘bottom mixing’ disappears, half of the blood pressure will be reduced.”
Sima Xuan asked.
“Brother, even the emperor can’t stop this?”
“Yeah, I couldn’t stop it. The empire is too big and there are too many remote mountain villages. “This never stopped even before the empire was created.”
“All management has no choice but to be as thorough as my brother.”
Jin Cheonhee sighed softly.
“huh. Either that, or technology will become so overwhelming that everyone will know when a village has disappeared.”
“….”
Is it possible to develop such technology?
It was difficult to imagine my brothers not knowing about social media in the modern world.
And Jin Cheon-hee continued.
“…Or else, martial arts will disappear from this world, making it impossible for one or two black swordsmen to slaughter all the civilians in a village.”
“Hmm.”
Cheonwoo fully understood why the civilians in Baeklin County were so anxious to move.
It wasn’t just a matter of money and safety.
no.
Ultimately, this is also an issue related to ‘safety’.
At least when something like this happens, Baekrin-gun can have a government judge on his behalf and use the law to judge it.
That alone is great for the people.
Jin Cheon-hee swept the dust accumulated on the desk and said this.
“Even so, looking at the traces, it doesn’t mean they moved due to blood death or plague.”
“Do you think officials also agreed with the move?”
Sima Hyeon asked like that and then shook his head.
“No, even my brother wouldn’t know that. “As long as we don’t go back to the past.”
If this continues, it will forever remain an unsolvable mystery.
“…Well, what about it?”
Jin Cheon-hee looks at the surroundings with blue eyes.
Piing-
“!”
‘A huge eye glow?’
Jin Cheon-hee said while quickly looking around.
“I’ll reveal all the tricks. “In the name of Detective Grandpa… no, in the name of Master!”
Slowly –
“I’ll show you Xuanyuan Zhandan New Technique’s technique of opening and closing!”
Oh, the stars gather in Hexagon Village –
when the detective sells out Grandfather’s name.
The god of reasoning (feat. Hyeonwonjeondanshingong) will descend!
The location of the desk and quiet library.
The location and arrangement of the cutting heads.
I even touch the soil in the yard.
After looking at everything like that, I finally came to a conclusion.
“I see. The mystery has been solved!”
Has my brother finally reached a point where the criminal cannot be identified?
