Episode 137
‘I am not confident that I will see my father again.’
After seeing a face similar to that of a Vajrapani who protects Buddhism, Jin Cheon-hee decided that she would never make her father angry.
Besides, how can we know how much stronger we will come out after Bongmun?
‘okay. I don’t think you’ll be angry though.’
There is absolutely no way to blame Jin Cheon-hee for her father’s behavior.
‘Rather, you would say that it is also an anguish that must be endured.’
Do Baek-ha said.
“By the way, for the sake of drinking money… there are at least a hundred disappearance cases in this city. “And they are all from the same age.”
“yes…?”
A man, a man, a woman. In other words, it refers to men and women.
Children were very useful in martial arts.
Even if they did not buy children with money and raise them to suit their tastes like Hao Mun, there were many cases where they kidnapped children to make special jiangshi or to raise them as servants somewhere.
“In particular, the grandchild of Jeong Geom-munju, who had considerable influence in this city, was also kidnapped? “It’s not unusual.”
‘They also kidnapped a powerful family’s child?’
This case is a little different.
Poor children or orphans who are easy to kidnap can be raised as jiangshi or salsu. But inevitably, you mess with a powerful person who also has a bodyguard?
It means that there is something that must be done even if it involves risk.
Do Baek-ha continued.
“So, while searching for possible groups, we ended up going to a demonic cult. It would be difficult for anyone other than a group of experts to touch the sons of a family of that size. So this body was also invited.”
“So are you investigating?”
“That’s right. “Because tracking isn’t something you do casually.”
She drank her drink in one loud gulp.
“Now that I think about it… it’s a funny question, but can you give me one answer?”
Jin Cheonhee nodded.
“What is it?”
“Are you… perhaps a virgin?”
Jin Cheon-hee’s face heated up at those words.
“What is that…!”
“Looking at your reaction, it’s a virgin.”
“I don’t want to answer… Huh?”
Jin Cheonhee’s eyes widened slightly. Do Baek-ha watched with laughter as Jin Cheon-hee’s expression changed.
“As expected, your brain is sharp. I’m really sorry for being rude. But it’s a matter of life. I think that the targeting of the South East and the Middle East was not done to brainwash them from any group, but rather for magical purposes. So, they kidnapped children with pure blood.”
Jin Cheon-hee calmed down her shocked heart and answered calmly.
“If it were for magical purposes, the children could be kept alive until the day of the ritual.”
“That’s the hope I’m placing on. “Because, if possible, I want to resolve things rather than seek revenge.”
Jin Cheon-hee nodded at those words.
“Do you think it is the work of the Demonic Cult?”
“Half of it. First of all, there are not many groups with the power to kidnap a child from a powerful family.”
“That means it’s not half.”
“But that’s not the point. Even if it’s not a demonic cult, there is another crazy group with that much power.”
She rubbed her chin and said:
“This is the first time I’ve ever felt like it would have been better if it were a demonic religion.”
bang.
She finished drinking and put down the empty bottle.
“Then I guess this is enough to pay for the drinks. “I plan to stay here for a long time, so if you have any information, please let me know.”
“Why did you tell me? “Is it really because of the alcohol?”
She chuckled at Jin Cheonhee’s sharp question.
“It looks like you are asking knowingly. “The reason you want to confirm it from my mouth is that small tablets also mean the same thing.”
“….”
“Isn’t the best place to get information from Gangho is a member of the National Assembly? Besides, there is no Kang Ho-in who would not be shaken by hearing the nickname So Baek-ryong.”
“okay.”
“If you know anything, please let me know. “I feel like I’m quite pushed into a wall.”
Jin Cheon-hee said.
“If you have any belongings belonging to the kidnapped child, could you please give them to me?”
“Um… is anything okay?”
She reached into her sleeve and pulled out a pony plaything.
* * *
Jin Cheon-hee returned to the guest room.
After unpacking, I sat cross-legged and thought for a while.
Not long after, Hwanggu came into the room.
Wow! Cry. – I couldn’t find a smell similar to the owner.
“what?”
I never thought of this. Hwang-gu placed his forehead in Jin Cheon-hee’s hand and begged for him to stroke it.
As Jin Cheon-hee patted Hwang-gu, Hwang-gu continued speaking.
Sniff! – The smell is gone.
“It’s disconnected?”
It was Hwanggu who even found polluted water sources and traced traces of various elixirs and spiritual objects. Are you saying that they took measures so that even such a yellow bird could not be found?
‘There certainly aren’t many groups that can do that.’
I’m already getting a headache.
‘So then I have no choice but to look through the novel from now on?’
I remembered that there was no incident directly mentioned through Hyeonwonjeondansingong.
Then, it is time to look for any parts indirectly mentioned in the novel. Jin Cheon-hee took out the letters from the medicine chest.
This is low-quality information sent by Samsalchuseo and Haomun Opening.
Most of the stories are probably false. However, if there is truth in it, if you analyze it cross-sectionally with the original novel, there will be parts that are correct.
‘This is going to make my hair fall out.’
Jin Cheonhee sighed softly.
‘Southeastern sister…la….’
Although she didn’t answer at the time, Jin Cheonhee is a virgin. Even in my past life, I was single from the beginning, and this life is no different.
A life where work is life.
‘This is why he was shot and killed by the rebels.’
I felt it was unfair, but part of me also thought there was nothing I could do about it.
Even on modern Earth, half of humanity is starving.
It is only in a very small percentage of human history, and in only a few countries, that children’s human rights are being protected.
It was surprisingly not well known that a child dies of starvation every five seconds.
‘The medical techniques used to relieve cholera were also created in that way.’
There are countless cases in the world where people die because they do not have money to use intravenous fluids and antibiotics. In some places, people die because they do not have money to buy ingredients to make oral fluids.
So many scholars tried to save people by finding replacement products and lowering the unit price again and again.
It’s the same even when you come to this world.
‘I don’t want my child to be sick, I don’t want my child to get hurt…’
Jin Cheon-hee called herself a fool.
‘Oh shit. All I have to do is close my eyes and take my elixir, whether the children die or not…’
I scratched my head for a moment.
Jin Cheonhee frowned.
I might have felt at ease if I was certain that he was dead.
The thought that he might still be alive before the ceremony stimulated the instincts of citizens passing by in Korea.
‘okay. ‘Why don’t we just extort a lot of money from Jeonggeommunju for something like this?’
At that moment, Jin Cheon-hee remembered a phrase from the novel.
‘It’s a blood mission. This… is a blood mission. And… our Yeo Ha-ryun is passing by here?’
Jin Cheon-hee called Hwang-gu.
* * *
There is a passage in the novel related to this period.
-The road to the destination was quite eerie. Yeo Ha-ryun heard from a secret blood demon that the neighborhood people’s sentiments were in an uneasy mood as Dongnam Dongnyeo disappeared these days. People felt unfair because they assumed it was the work of a demonic cult.
-Yeo Ha-ryun didn’t necessarily answer, but he still thought it was cheap. It’s not unprecedented in the Demonic Cult, and people also need someone to be angry with, so isn’t it natural?
-In the end, everything goes as it should. Yeo Ha-ryun had an intuition that this Demonic Cult, or Sun-Wol-Shin-Cyo, would one day suffer great disaster.
A description of just one line. Originally, I wouldn’t have paid attention because there was no name for the village or even the name of the missing child.
It’s not a big incident, it’s just a device that shows how bad the reputation of the Demonic Cult is getting.
The length itself was also short.
‘But…’
When comparing the characteristic terrain and climate that appear here and there in the novel, the routes overlap.
In addition, there are rumors that Dongnam Dongnyeo, who was briefly mentioned, is disappearing. Terrible public sentiment.
In a way, the season is right.
‘Of course, it’s just a guess based on what I read in the novel and my own calculations…’
To find out if the guess was solid, it would have been better to find Yeo Ha-ryun.
“I can never fight against the Blood Mission elites alone, Ha-Ryun. “Please help me.”
Jin Cheon-hee made Hwang-gu smell Yeo Ha-ryun’s scent and sent him away with Cheon Roe-eung.
By pointing out a few major street corners where Yeo Ha-ryun was believed to have passed, the investigation radius was greatly reduced.
Meanwhile, Jin Cheon-hee went towards Jeonggeommun.
* * *
Jingling. rattle.
A space made of stone where no light enters.
A bell rang in the so-called stone chamber.
Then, one by one, people came in through the open door on one side of the stone room.
He is short in height and has a dwarf body.
If you look closely, you will see that they were all children whose eyes were so open that they seemed to have lost their senses.
Children aged between ten and fourteen.
Such children lose their senses and walk like dolls. Then he sat down on the chair in front of the table in the stone room.
“good. good. You should eat well. Wouldn’t that make the blood pure and healthy?”
An old man dressed in noble Taoist attire stroked his beard and smiled.
In one hand he holds a paper with a handle.
If Jin Cheon-hee had seen this, she would have said this.
Blood mission!
Yes. This old man was the culprit who caused the kidnapping in Tangbaek, the city where Jeonggeommun is located.
“Jinin. “It is said that So Baek-ryong appeared at Jeonggeommun.”
“So Baekryong? “Are you saying that he is Baekrin’s disciple?”
“That’s right.”
“I heard that girl is a virgin too?”
“According to the spy who witnessed it, it was revealed that she was a virgin during a conversation with Samjeolchuho.”
“Cluck, click, click.”
The old man smiles and shakes the bell.
rattle. rattle.
“Chew it thoroughly. “Digestion needs to be good.”
And the children began to move at those words.
Eat and drink the prepared food slowly.
It was a scene that gave goosebumps to the viewer, but the old monk sitting at the head of the stone room just smiled.
“That child must have had the most pure spirit. “Catch it.”
“I follow orders.”
The black figure behind the old man disappeared.
“Hehehehe. There’s still no news about the thunder merchant catching Cheon Lae-eung… so once this incident is over, I’ll have a big lead. If I do well, the Ten Heavenly Lords might teach me the way…”
The old man muttered and looked at the children eating.
* * *
Thanks to So Baek-ryong’s name, the entrance itself was very easy.
He said that he only came to see the swordsmanship of the famous Jeong Geommun.
At the Jeonggeommun, I was told that it was nice that So Baek-ryong came, but that it was difficult to receive guests due to the current financial situation.
‘What a disaster. Is there anything I can help you with?’
As I frowned like this, my wife burst into tears and told me everything.
It was a normal day. Then, when he went to wake him up in the morning, he said it was gone.
As a result, Jin Cheon-hee was unable to find any clues.
‘Hmm. As expected, it’s not easy to catch the tail.’
Yellow-ball concussion. Even though they mobilized two spirits, they could not find any clues. However, Jin Cheon-hee himself is not a master of tracking techniques like Samjeolchuho, nor is he well-versed in this area
. ‘Oh, well, not just any scholar passing by does this.’
Still, there was one last method left.
