<Episode 74 Underground Gold Jade (3)>
‘This is done right.’
Mok Gyeong-un who peeled off the face of cadet Ahn Jong-hu and made a new bast face looked down at Geumok Jeon-do and nodded.
This was the Geumok Jeondo that the Geumwiwi gun that died in the engine trap had.
This Geumok Jeondo was identical to other intact ones that Mok Kyung-un had seen.
Therefore there seemed to be no need to worry about the accuracy of the evangelism I remembered.
Rather
“Hmm.”
Mok Gyeong-un looked at the face of the gun above the gold and stroked his chin.
It was also possible to use this as a bast cover since the rain of flying arrows prevented it from hitting the face.
But soon Mok Kyung-un shook his head lightly.
There wasn’t much time and we had to hurry so there was no point in swapping faces anymore.
Anyway sooner or later they will notice something strange.
‘Let’s just move the gun’s body to a place with a different trap.’
Rather it seemed like it would delay time and add to confusion.
* * *
Somewhere in the downstairs the Infinite Golden Prison.
-Drur!
Cadet Yeom Gyeong a disciple of the Hwasan Sect opened the Geumok Jeondo while pulling a food cart.
Yeomgyeong who was examining the conductor soon frowned.
‘weird.’
I was clearly moving to the mission field but I ended up in a place I had no idea about.
Originally there was supposed to be a passage on the right but it was blocked and the left was open.
What was strange was that the area to the left was steeper and more humid.
So for some reason I felt creepy.
‘shit. ‘I wonder if a place called Geumuiwi can’t even draw such evangelism properly.’
I think I’ve lost my way here.
Yeom-gyeong wondered if he should go back the way he came.
However I had just finished eating one meal so if I went back like this I might be scolded by the Geumwiwi gun gun who came as a gunner.
‘Are you going to give me a penalty point?’
That was difficult.
After thinking about this Yeomgyeong finally took the food cart and entered the left passage.
If I had drawn the map incorrectly there was only one road left.
It was a car that had been dragged around for a long time.
-Good luck!
‘what? The wind is blowing from inside.’
The torch he was holding flickered.
There would be no wind blowing in this deep underground cave.
Maybe that’s why I was worried for no reason.
Could it be that I took a wrong turn?
As I was doing this I heard a strange sound in my ear.
-Kirilik!
‘huh?’
-Kirilik!
It sounded like something was being scratched.
I heard it from further inside the cave. What on earth was it?
Could it be that the prisoner in the gold prison is scratching at the wall?
Cadet Yeom Gyeong who was puzzled soon walked forward pulling the cart.
As I was walking like that I saw a red line painted on the floor of the cave.
‘what? What about this?’
He painted it in red out of many colors and it looked exactly like blood sending shivers down my spine for no reason.
At that time the sound of scratching was heard again from inside.
It seemed like they were getting quite close as the sound was much louder.
-Howling!
Yan Qing held up a torch in front and illuminated it.
Then about twelve paces away I saw a thick iron bar and what appeared to be a human figure inside.
‘ah! ‘Did I come to the right place?’
It seemed like he wasn’t lost.
In response Cadet Yeom Gyeong moved forward pulling the food cart.
The car was crossing the red line.
-Kirilik!
The sound of scratching rang in my ears.
At that moment Yan Qing who was pulling the cart went blank and his pupils went blank.
-thud!
Yeomgyeong whose eyes were relaxed immediately let go of the handle of the cart.
Then with his blank eyes he walked towards Geumok holding a torch.
As the torch got closer the seal inside the golden cage slowly began to become visible.
In-young had an eye patch over her eyes and a thick leather muzzle on her mouth.
The wrists of both his arms and the ankles of both legs were all restrained with heavy weights preventing him from moving.
But in that situation
-Kirilik!
A bound prisoner moves his fingers and scratches the floor.
-widely! widely!
Yeom-gyeong whose eyes were opened began to touch various parts of the iron bars looking for something.
It seemed as if the action was trying to open a cage.
There was a letter engraved near the top of the iron bar that the prayer touched.
[百二十六]
* * *
Somewhere else in Infinite Geumok.
-Gurgling!
Blood flowed from Zhou Yunxiang’s hand which was clutching the sharp iron thorn.
I defended myself with my innate magic but my palms were torn by the thorns due to the force of the fall.
If someone other than him had fallen he would have been stuck in the thorns and suffered a loss.
‘I’m glad the torch fell first.’
I wish I had seen the thorn stuck underneath.
Zhou Yunxiang looking around the thorn-covered surroundings found a thorn-free floor about three feet away.
“Whoa…Whoa….”
Enduring the pain of his hand being torn apart Zhou Yunxiang lowered one hand grabbed the torch that was lying among the thorns and lifted it up.
And then he put his mouth on the handle.
‘If he hadn’t learned the fortune teller from the teacher he would have been in big trouble.’
The reason I was able to stand on my head in such an unstable position was thanks to wind and cloud training.
Otherwise there would have been a hole in his face.
Zhou Yunxiang slowly braced his back and bent his elbows.
‘Tsk.’
His palms became more torn and painful.
But if he can’t bear it and lets go he ends up in the other world.
-Park!
Zhou Yunxiang who had bent his arm used his strength to push his body away.
Just like that Zhou Yunxiang’s body flew towards the thorn-free floor and landed.
He bit his lip hard as he looked at his torn palms which he picked up after dropping the torch he was holding.
‘It looks like his hands are going to burn.’
It was a thorn trap that had been abandoned for a long time.
It was not strange to be caught in iron poison.
‘shit.’
Zhou Yunxiang endured his pain and took out something that was in his arms.
It was a small lucky bag and inside it was a pillbox that I had brought with me just in case.
I don’t know if it would be okay with iron poison but Zhou Yunxiang took a third of it chewed it thoroughly mixed it with saliva and spit it into his palm.
“Turn it off.”
The pain was no joke.
Zhou Yunxiang gritted his teeth and rubbed it on his torn palms.
He was hot and fussed but he persevered.
“Haa…haa…fuck.”
I couldn’t help but curse.
Zhou Yunhyang who was breathing heavily chewed the remaining third of the blood poison and swallowed it down his throat.
He put the remaining third in his lucky bag just in case.
-Squeak!
Ripping his sleeve further Zhou Yunxiang wrapped it like a bandage on both palms.
The strange thing is that at first it hurt like being on fire but at some point the pain disappeared.
It seems that the dogma group had some effect.
Now that the bleeding seemed to have stopped to some extent Zhou Yunxiang returned to reality.
‘under….’
I was shocked.
I had no idea that Lim Gyu-wol would prepare such a double trap.
No matter how much he blames himself he would have given a fake evangelism to Yeom-gyeong another cadet.
Thanks to this he was stabbed in the back.
‘It’s very tingling.’
I had no idea that this guy was so good at trickery.
It was a strategy that reads almost two moves ahead.
‘That guy Yeom-gyeong must have been in trouble too.’
If he had moved with that wrong approach he would have been just as dangerous.
But he wasn’t that important right now.
He was who he was.
‘Can he go up?’
Zhou Yunxiang lifted the torch and looked up.
You have to climb up there and break through the blocked ceiling again to be able to go back the way you came.
But it was quite high for that.
After removing all of those thorns you have to climb up for a while while hanging on to the smooth wall.
‘It’s even more of a disaster if you have a mechanical device.’
Zhou Yunxiang picked up a rock on the floor and threw it at the thorn just in case.
Then another thorn protruded from the walls surrounding the thorn.
-Pupupupupupup!
‘I’m going to turn.’
If you haven’t tried it it will be skewered the moment it hangs on the wall.
All he had was a body and this torch.
If I had weapons I would have done anything but to enter Geumok I had to do so with my bare hands.
‘What should I do with this?’
It was a situation that made me sigh.
Since we didn’t know when or where the engine would pop out it seemed dangerous to move too hastily.
But that didn’t mean he couldn’t stay here forever.
‘Would it be better to hold on?’
That was also one way.
Although Lim Gyu-wol set a trap Cheonho Mak Myeong-bo did not.
If the cadets who entered the apprenticeship do not return he will be in charge and conduct a search to find them.
‘Until then we managed to survive in this place without any machinery…’
-Shoooooo!
Then I heard a strange sound.
When Zhou Yunxiang looked there he saw smoke creeping out from under the thorns.
‘It’s all different.’
Zhou Yunxiang who saw this stuck out his tongue as if he was fed up.
I don’t know what the smoke was but it was most likely poison.
Even though there are groups of people who are exposed to poison there is nothing good about being directly exposed to them for a long time.
‘shit!’
Zhou Yunxiang gathered as many rocks as he could from the floor and ran toward the open passage before the smoke reached him.
-widely! Papa pa pa paak!
Every time a rock was thrown two or three times the engine was triggered.
Zhou Yunxiang could not relax even for a moment as the trap came out so violently.
‘I don’t know who built Muganggeumok but it was really well built.’
Escaping from here seemed like a really long way off.
Without a torch it would be completely dark. How could I get out of here?
A mechanical device came out once every twenty paces and it was driving me crazy.
‘If you try to escape you will inevitably die.’
Joo Woon-hyang who had been running for a while while running the engines stopped.
He had already used up all the stones he had picked up.
From here on I couldn’t move quickly.
‘…hmm.’
Zhou Yunxiang took off his outer garment tore it and twisted it to form his rope.
Then he took off his shoes wrapped a rope around him and tied them.
He was less than two feet long but this seemed to be enough.
-Park!
Zhou Yunxiang threw his shoe with his rope wrapped around it forward.
And he slowly pulled on his shoes.
-Drurr!
Then at a certain point with the characteristic sound of an engine operating key-like symbols came out of the wall and stuck in the opposite wall.
‘That’s it.’
Zhou Yunxiang pulled on his shoes.
There are a few studs in his shoes but these can be removed and used again.
In this way Zhou Yunxiang slowly operated the machinery and moved to find a safe platform.
Zhou Yunxiang thought as he moved with difficulty like this.
‘Haa… If even I who has a lot of experience are like this Yeom-gyeong and Bae Ji-seok… no he must be in a lot of trouble because he is addicted to engine jinsing… Huh?’
I almost fell forward.
The priority now was not to worry about others but to somehow get out of this place safely.
* * *
The entrance to the inside of Mugan Geumok.
Mok Gyeong-un who had the face of cadet Ahn Jong-hu looked around and thought.
Mok Gyeong-un who had memorized the evangelism and could make it three-dimensional in his head had a clear idea of where to move.
So I was able to easily come down here avoiding all the engine-type traps and the guards’ stronghold on the third floor of the underground Geumok.
However there was one problem at this crossroads.
You have to go through the middle passage to pass safely without being hit but if you pass through here you have to pass by one of the eight strongholds of the guards of Mugan Geumok.
‘Hmm.’
Dealing with them wasn’t difficult.
However I heard that each guard base had something to prepare for an enemy attack or escape.
So it seemed like I should avoid touching it hastily.
Accordingly Mok Gyeong-un moved to the passage on the left.
‘There’s nothing I can do.’
It seemed like I had to pass by a place that had tracheostomy services.
If you just pass by here you will get closer to Geumok Room 130 where the Holy Spirit Lord is imprisoned.
Although it was a bit cumbersome there was nothing that would make it impossible to pass at least one engine examination.
Just like that Mok Gyeong-un killed his presence and entered the passage to his left.
He had barely walked a few steps into the passage.
-widely!
-Together!
As the floor caved in something that sounded like a machine was heard from inside the wall.
At the same time numerous holes appeared in the ceiling and arrows rained down.
-Sigh!
At that time Mok Kyung-un walked forward and waved his hands upward.
Then many of the arrows that were about to fall stopped in the air then turned in the opposite direction and ended up getting stuck in the ceiling.
-Papa pa pa pa pa paak!
In response Mok Kyung-un walked forward without any problem.
-Drop!
-Together!
It didn’t stop there and three layers of huge blades protruded one after another from the wall.
In an instant the blade tried to split Mo Kyung-un’s body into four pieces.
however
-Clearly!
The blades stopped midway before hitting Mok Kyung-un’s body and could not move properly.
I could hear mechanical noises between the walls but it was loud as if something was blocking it.
This was a phenomenon that occurred because the blade was caught by a deep secret.
With that the neck tiller snaps his fingers with the blade on top.
-Chaegagagang!
The upper blade broke and all the lower blades were cut into pieces.
Mu Qingyun moved forward again.
He had walked about five steps.
-Shoot! Shoo!
He didn’t stop shaking his neck at the sound of the sound coming from in front so he just shook his head slightly.
Then the two sharp spears that flew in and tried to pierce his shoulder were bent and soon became embedded in the walls on either side.
-Kwaouk!
“Hmm.”
Mo Kyung-un glanced at both sides and walked forward again.
He had walked another five steps.
Smoke seeped out from the floor.
The smoke was poisonous.
‘Seeing that it contains Geumchosan root it appears to be a type of paralysis poison.’
-SSSSSSSS!
Poisonous fog soon filled the entire passage but Mok Gyeong-un walked forward without any problem.
Since it was the best poison in the first place this poison dance had no effect.
Mok Gyeong-un who was walking slowly just in case to counter the trachea opened his mouth and yawned.
‘Is this all?’
It was becoming more boring than I expected.
