Episode 763:
When night fell, the child fell asleep.
Yeo Ha-ryun said as she put down the child.
“You passed out. “I was completely stunned.”
“Because Jashi played with us until sunset. “It took away all that power.”
Jashi said.
“If you clumsily relax, you’ll wake up in the early morning and whine. “If you’re going to put it to sleep, it’s better to put it to sleep properly.”
“Jassi was a good dad.”
“You’re a bad dad. “I’m a father who only regrets after losing him.”
Jashi said so and put the wolf skin on his head.
Jin Cheon-hee asked.
“How long do you have left to live?”
“It’s not long, but it’s enough to finish this job. When the time comes, the spirit will eat my soul to calculate the price for using its power.”
“What about the body?”
“The spirit will have to return to where it came from, so I will wear my own skin while I return to my hometown. “At that time, I will not respond to what you say, but I understand that it is not me but the spirit that is inside.”
Jashi spoke of his death calmly.
“The price is really high.”
“Leaving outside the territory is a burden for the spirits, so it makes sense to pay that much in return. “They are people who normally never leave their territory.”
“Isn’t it an evil spirit?”
Yeo Ha-ryun asks.
Jin Cheon-hee quietly thought about it and then opened her mouth.
“Well, it’s similar to magic. However, there is room for magic to survive by at least undergoing a metamorphosis in the middle, but I don’t know what it will be like for witchcraft.”
“Don’t you know that everything has a price and that you will have to pay that price someday?”
Jin Cheon-hee chuckled at those words.
“For me, eating raw is the best thing in the world.”
The one who defied heavenly order spoke.
Jashi shook his head.
“You never give up easily.”
“You have to do as much as you can. Besides, all contracts have loopholes.”
“All I taught you was the basics of witchcraft. And wasn’t the biggest principle that every miracle comes with a price?”
“That’s true. There are many repayment methods in the world. Proxy repayment, early repayment, partial repayment….”
“You’re saying more and more strange things.”
Well, I decided not to worry about it, as long as it made me feel at ease.
Isn’t there a long way to go ahead?
The three people went outside and used stealth techniques.
He moved secretly in the shadows and observed the Rakshasas.
“You man! “Stop drinking!”
“Wow… even though I drink as much as an ant’s claw, I still nag too much. Wahahaha!”
Surprisingly, the Rakshasas showed a lifestyle similar to that of the day.
Just like in the bar back then, everyone spent time talking and laughing.
I spent time with my family and slept well.
The drunkards also happily gather at the inn and drink.
[If you see a person like this, they rush to eat you.]
He nodded at Yeo Ha-ryun’s words.
[Yes, it is an instinct that is inherent within oneself that one does not even know about.]
[It is common for pilgrims and merchants to encounter magical enemies and go missing, and since they lose their memories on a village basis, there will be no more answers.]
[That is right. Your family will usually think that you have passed away. How can you guess this when you can’t even find the body in the first place?]
In addition, this does not apply to people who come during the day and leave during the day, or people who just sleep at night without leaving their rooms.
He wandered around at night and went missing.
If that’s the case, surprisingly…
‘It’s not common in this day and age.’
How can we do this when there are no street lights or CCTV?
After observing the people one by one, we immediately arrived at the temple.
There was no one in the temple day or night.
Jin Cheon-hee first stamped his feet to create vibration.
Kuuuuung –
A low sound touches every corner of the temple.
Jin Cheon-hee, who felt the sound for a while with her hands on the floor, eventually opened her eyes.
“As expected, there is a secret staircase leading to the basement. “Why do villains always create secret rooms underground like this?”
He grumbled and started searching the temple building.
When I went upstairs, there were no documents or books.
“I didn’t think these guys would have left such a valuable clue behind.”
Jin Cheon-hee responded to those words.
“Seeing as there is no dust or cobwebs, it seems like it has been a while since I left. And even if the clues are hidden, you can’t not look for them.”
And now I headed to the underground secret room I first checked.
The destination Jin Cheon-hee headed to was the Buddha statue in Daejeon.
When I pressed the forehead of the Buddha statue, the ground suddenly disappeared and a staircase appeared.
“Hwanggu protects the entrance.”
Wow!
Jin Cheon-hee asked Hwang-gu and went downstairs.
[The stairs are quite deep. Watch your steps.]
* * *
How far down did it go?
‘If it’s an apartment, it’s about the 10th floor?’
As I was going down that deeply, I felt a change in the feel of the floor.
‘Oh, it’s a natural cave.’
After passing the artificial stairs, a natural cave slope appeared.
Stalactites began to appear on the ceiling, and the sound of unknown insects crawling was also heard.
When I looked around with the light, I noticed that the insects’ eyes had degenerated, but their antennae were long and their bodies seemed to have changed accordingly as they lived in the cave.
This was especially true because the entire body was translucent white.
Going further down, there was a water hole underground that could fit about a hundred people.
The color of the water was strange.
“Oh, of course, but don’t eat it.”
A subterranean lake where no fish live.
Of course, there was no way a person could drink this.
Jin Cheon-hee protected her hand with internal energy and briefly touched it with her fingertips.
Chiiik-
Strongly basic liquid. The temperature is also high.
‘It looks like Lake Natron that I saw in the Earth book.’
I don’t know why it’s underground, but if it falls out, the skin of a normal person would start to die.
In places like this, flamingos, bacteria, and some crustaceans adapted to these conditions could live.
There won’t be any flamingos because of the low tide.
There was a mural painted on the wall.
It looked like something a child had drawn in a squiggle.
Still, it was easy to recognize.
Because there were scenes of human sacrifice and taking the medicine made through human sacrifice and becoming a Rakshasa.
There were also pictures that were difficult to understand.
‘It looks like a drawing of a dead body. Could it be that the Rakshasa eats it and turns into a person like the corpse?’
There were also letters I didn’t know.
‘What is this? It’s different from Chinese characters and it’s different from the language of this town.’
Although Jin Cheon-hee was well-versed in numerous languages through the Hyeonwonjeondanshingong, it was his first time seeing such characters.
It was not easy to guess because it was different from the magic script and oracle bone script and Sanskrit language.
“Hmm.”
But Jashi seemed to know those letters as he seemed to be lost in thought for a long time with a serious expression on his face.
“Jashi?”
“This is a record of something that happened on this earth a long time ago.”
“Oh?”
Jashi is now familiar with the strangeness of Jin Cheon-hee’s exclamations.
Wasn’t he really like this?
Even though he had a very strange and strange personality, I knew that he was more serious than anyone else when it came to saving people.
Jashi swallows and focuses again on the ancient text.
Jin Cheon-hee sees his complexion becoming increasingly blue as he reads the ancient script.
“At least thousands of years ago. “What happened on this earth… Ah… I can’t believe it.”
“What happened?”
“It’s a spawning ground.”
“Spawning grounds?”
Yeo Ha-ryun slightly tilted his head and asked his older brother a question, as if even that word was unfamiliar to him.
Fortunately, Jin Cheonhee knew what the word meant.
Because it was something that occasionally appeared in horror movies on Earth in the past.
“So this is where they lay their eggs? And the baby is born? What… Ah Rakshasha. Could it be the egg of a Rakshasha?”
Jashi nodded.
“As expected, you’re smart. Yes. This is the spawning ground of Rakshasha. And when a human eats a Rakshasa’s egg, the human is eaten from within.”
A master of magic who can become a flatterer.
Even if it’s false, if it’s definitely heaven, isn’t that bad too?
As if laughing at that question, the world opened a magic box and revealed the truth.
“Does it work? “Isn’t it changing?”
“It works. The Rakshasa eats that human and becomes that human. Except for turning into the Rakshasa race at night… there is nothing different from that human. Even if you give birth to a child, he will be born as an ordinary child. “Except for feeding the child the Rakshasa egg again so that the child gets eaten too.”
“…Are you giving your parents medicine as a gift to your wife?”
“There is a medicine from Mureungdowon that prevents death and starvation, so how can parents refuse it? “They risk their lives to get that medicine and give it to their children.”
It wasn’t witchcraft.
This was not witchcraft from the beginning.
Jin Cheon-hee took out a glass bottle from her arms.
It is about Seongju that the people of this city gave with their hearts in good faith.
What happens if you eat it?
Is it possible that she is eaten by a Rakshasha from within, and that Rakshasha overwrites the memories of the person named Jin Cheon-hee, believing that she is Jin Cheon-hee, and living the day with Jin Cheon-hee’s identity?
At night, it turns into a completely different being.
This is a topic that comes up a lot in cloned human movies.
“Wow… I can’t even go to heaven with my feet.”
Yeo Ha-ryun asked those words.
“Is it really impossible to go? “If a being with the same memories as me were alive in the same form, wouldn’t that be me?”
I could hear the iceberg slowly splitting apart.
There was a thought experiment we learned on Earth.
Swamp Man.
Thought experiment Swampman.
A thought experiment designed by an American philosophy professor named Donald Davidson.
This was a story about identity.
It would be complicated if I explained it at length, but to put it simply, it could be said like this.
Is ‘I’ a unique being?
The story of Swampman goes like this.
A person died after being struck by lightning in a swamp near a pond.
However, the lightning strike created an exact replica of the dead man for unknown reasons.
man’s body. Let’s pretend that the nearby mud is a clone of this man.
If everything is the same, including memories, body, and age, then is this man real?
Or is it fake?
This is a thought experiment that everyone who likes science fiction has heard of at least once.
I felt like the downy hair was standing on end from the tips of my fingers.
‘The Rakshasa eats humans from the inside and becomes the humans themselves. The Rakshasha that is eaten in this way grows in a fluid state and retains human memories and ego.’
Yeo Ha-ryun asked.
“Hyung, you’ve had a pulse check, haven’t you? “Are you really human?”
“okay. It’s human. “During the day, blood pressure, organ movement, pupil contraction, all that was just human.”
Countless movies and novels have pondered whether this philosophical zombie and the original person are the same person.
Now, even though it is just beef bone soup that has been steeped as it should be, Jin Cheon-hee, who likes science fiction, found it fresh every time she ate it.
Day 6: Island Ghost in the Shell: Multiplicity Oblivion…
Movies that are now starting to sound like classics.
Still, the topic was always the same.
What is ‘I’?
If a clone comes out someday, if he has the same memories as me.
If only we could upload our memories to a computer.
If he walks around in virtual reality believing it’s me, can I delete it?
If I delete it, is it murder? Or is it suicide?
A story my senior told me at that time.
-After all, isn’t the soul just ‘memory’? Rather, the shell is not that important.
-If this corn can also contains my memories, then it is me. If this body is struck by lightning one day and loses memory, then it is not me.
‘Why do I think of that person?’
What did the senior see in that movie at that time?
