Episode 1343. I’m going to save you. (3)
Cheongmyeong opens his eyes and looks at his chest.
There was a white bandage wrapped around his chest. Cheongmyeong, who was looking down at the wound in silence, slowly stood up.
Throbbing.
My face was distorted by the intense chest pain I felt in my chest. The wound, which had been stuck for some time, had moved and opened again, and red blood was spreading out on the white bandage.
Just as I was about to let out a soft breath, I heard a loud noise and someone burst into the room.
“No shit! “How many times has this happened to you, you crazy person?”
“⋯⋯.”
“When you open your eyes and think something is out of the ordinary, how many times do you tell them to lie down nicely? Are you a crucian carp? “Have you been stabbed so much that your memory is now fading?”
Cheongmyeong turned his head and looked at the person who entered the room. Annoyance was written all over his bright face. Cheongmyeong, who was staring at the shape, opened his mouth.
“⋯⋯How long has it been since I lost consciousness?”
“Three days, three days! “This time, I really thought it was going to go away forever, but that guy’s life is really strong.”
“Three days…”
Cheongmyeong was so dumbfounded that he just laughed.
Normally I would wake up in about a day, but I was asleep for three days. It certainly looks like he stepped halfway through the gates of the underworld.
If you think about it, it made sense.
It’s not like you’re fighting alone, and dealing with a bishop while protecting people is not an easy task. I should have considered myself fortunate that my life was at least saved.
“alcohol.”
“⋯⋯Is this person really out of his mind? Do you know what patient means? “Even three-year-olds in our neighborhood know this, but they don’t even teach us that in Shaanxi?”
“Don’t talk too much and drink.”
“There is nothing to eat or die.”
“Bring it.”
“Ah shit!”
A man wearing a green robe symbolizing the Sichuan Party went out with a huff. Then, after a while, he came back holding a pure white bottle. He threw the bottle in his hand at Cheongmyeong and got angry.
“Eat and sleep!”
chin.
Cheongmyeong grabs the bottle, opens the cap, and drinks the entire bottle. As the strong liquor poured into my mouth, I felt the fishy smell of blood rising from my stomach disappear a little.
Of course I knew. No matter how much alcohol I poured, this smell would never go away.
In the first place, the smell of blood is not caused by a wound.
Alcohol just helps you forget for a while. The disgusting smell of blood that had penetrated deep into him and clumped together.
Cheongmyeong took the bottle from his mouth and looked up at the ceiling blankly. After being silent for a while, Cheongmyeong opened his mouth.
“How many came back?”
“⋯⋯Around forty.”
“How many died?”
“⋯⋯.”
“How many people died?”
“About twenty.”
Cheongmyeong nodded silently.
This is so funny. Those who fight against the enemy using evil methods collapse and die when they reach a place where they can survive. If you have the strength to swing a sword, you should also have the strength to live.
When I heard that out of the 40 people I had saved, 20 had died, I even burst out laughing in despair.
“What about the rest?”
“When are you worried about them now? Since my brother saved my life, I will live on my own. “Whether my arm was cut off or the tendon was torn, my life was saved, so what’s the problem?”
“⋯⋯.”
“Worry about yourself. Or is it some kind of ghost that died because I couldn’t fight in my past life? “How many times have I told you not to risk your life with those bastards?”
“⋯⋯Nagging.”
“Or at least I told you to fight while I was there! How many times have you come back with a sword in your back while fighting with people who can’t even protect your back? Taoist brother, there are tens or hundreds of lives…”
“Close it a little. noisy.”
Tang Bao’s face suddenly contorted.
Cheongmyeong drank again. He frowned at the burning sensation in his throat and then smiled bitterly.
“I’ve never risked my life or anything like that.”
“⋯⋯.”
“It just happened because we were fighting.”
Tang Bo, who was looking at Qingming with a stern face, sighed.
“And then you really die.”
“Is that such a big deal?”
Cheongmyeong’s eyes suddenly turned to the window next to the bed. The world seen outside the window was extremely green and also extremely desolate.
“Hundreds and thousands of people are dying every day, so what difference does adding my life make to it?”
“So, do you want to get over it as soon as possible?”
Cheongmyeong looked at Tang Bao blankly. However, the party leader did not flinch at all and instead raised his voice and became angry.
“Why are you risking your life for people you don’t even get along with? Usually, those damn bastards made me feel sick and tormented me so much! What, double personality?”
Cheongmyeong laughed a little at those words. It was because I had nothing to refute that statement.
“It’s because the blood is rushing to my head.”
“⋯⋯.”
“That won’t happen anymore.”
“It’s not going to work out, I’m not going to do it well.”
Tang Bo let out a long sigh as the ground sank.
Even though he had known him for such a long time, he sometimes couldn’t understand this Taoist bastard.
He is not a very considerate person. However, he is not a person who pursues great Tao.
In fact, if you look at it objectively, he is just a horse-drawn Taoist that makes you wonder how such a person ended up in the Taoist Gate.
But why do we always make that kind of choice at critical moments?
“Brother Taoist Brother.”
“why?”
“I’m not kidding… but then I really die.”
“⋯⋯.”
“You know. If even Taoist brother falls into trouble, we really cannot win this war. “Whether the others die or not, you have to survive somehow.”
“know.”
“older brother.”
“You know?”
Tang Bo, who was moving his lips as if hesitating about something, looked quietly into Cheongmyeong’s eyes and spoke.
“Not all demonic cults are the same.”
“What do you mean?”
“My brother, the demonic cultists you cut down are not all the ones who killed the volcano Taoists. Besides, that doesn’t mean the dead people will come back to life…”
“Shut up.”
At that moment, Cheongmyeong’s eyes changed completely. In front of his eyes that suddenly turned cold, Tang Bo could no longer push Cheongmyeong.
Tang Bo once again let out a long sigh and lamented.
“You shouldn’t talk.”
Then, he took out the Geumchang medicine from his arms and threw it at Cheongmyeong. Cheongmyeong quickly took the medicine.
“Apply it to the affected area. It’s roughly leveled, so if you apply the medicine well, it won’t go away. “Don’t do anything foolish today and just lie down quietly.”
The party has completely turned around. As he was about to leave the room, he suddenly stopped and spoke without even looking away.
“Those… the ones that Brother Taoist saved.”
“⋯⋯Why them?”
“Say thank you.”
“⋯⋯.”
widely.
Tang Bo closed the door and went out.
Cheongmyeong lay down on the bed again and looked up at the ceiling blankly. Feelings slowly returned to my body, and the cuts and crushing wounds here and there started throbbing. But this pain was now familiar.
‘Are you out of your mind?’
Cheongmyeong laughed out loud.
Aren’t you saying something too obvious?
There is no way there is a single sane person left in this crazy world. Everyone is just somehow holding on to their half-lost spirit.
– That doesn’t mean dead people come back to life…
know. Know. That’s why I’m doing this. Because dead people don’t come back alive.
No matter how much they regret or struggle, once they die, they can never come back.
Because I know full well how shitty that is.
❀ ❀ ❀
It seemed to keep sinking into a very deep place. Cheongmyeong opened his eyes in that unfamiliar yet familiar sensation.
The dark ceiling, the smell of blood, and the pain that overtook my whole body. A terrible feeling of déjà vu came over me.
Cheongmyeong lifts his head and looks at his body, forcing his eyelids, which were heavy as if they were drooping down, like a thousand pounds.
There is a bandage wrapped around his chest.
It is a sight that is familiar, but at the same time full of discomfort. This is because the body currently wrapped in bandages is smaller and weaker than the body he knew.
Cheongmyeong’s gaze slowly turned to the side.
Someone was sleeping, leaning against the wall of an unfamiliar crypt.
The face of the sleeping person gradually changes from the face he knew to an unfamiliar face.
Cheongmyeong, who had been staring blankly at Baekcheon’s face as he leaned his head straight in his sleep, raised his gaze upward again.
‘⋯⋯That’s right.’
He is no longer the Plum Blossom Sword Zone.
The volcano he knew is no more.
He won the war, but lost everything.
Everything I wanted to keep was lost, and everything I wanted to leave behind was gone.
What’s here is just…
Sassy liquid. Sassy liquid.
A small breathing sound was heard in Cheongmyeong’s ear as he dazedly settled down again. I turned my head and saw Yu Iseol lying next to me and Dang Soso sleeping on the other side.
He seemed to have fallen asleep after being exhausted while checking on Cheongmyeong’s condition.
Qingming stared at Tang Xiaoxiao’s face in silence for a long time. It’s as if he’s trying to find old traces on his face again.
But it didn’t work out.
Tang Bo’s face, which I saw in my dream a little while ago, seems far away. There are times when I can’t remember his face.
Even though it is infinitely clear, it becomes blurry at some point. As if it’s becoming dull little by little.
“Are you awake?”
There won’t be any need for an answer. This isn’t a question you’re really curious about the answer to.
What needs to be said is no different from the past.
“⋯⋯How long has it been?”
“I don’t know exactly, but it was probably about two days.”
“Two days…”
Is it better than three days?
Cheongmyeong smiled and tried to get up. But at that moment, Baekcheon pressed Cheongmyeong’s forehead.
“Don’t open the still-closed wound, but lie down quietly and obediently.”
“Everything is better.”
Sreung.
Baekcheon drew his sword without saying a word. Cheongmyeong finally relaxed his neck. Of course, that person may not be stronger than Tang Bo, but isn’t it already a proven fact that he has no measures compared to Tang Bo?
Cheongmyeong, who quietly placed his head on the floor, rolled his eyes and opened his mouth.
“What about the others?”
“Geol-geol and Lee Seol were hurt a lot… but they’re still better than you. “Don’t worry about other people, just worry about yourself.”
“Haenam?”
“It looks like you don’t understand what’s being said and are just being rude.”
“How about Haenam?”
Baekcheon finally sighed in response to the persistent questions.
“About half.”
“What about the elders?”
“Same.”
That would mean that about half of them are dead. Including those who did not arrive here and those who died upon arrival.
Considering Baekcheon’s expression, the actual number of dead people is probably much more than half, but that’s still the same.
If you make that much of a sacrifice in exchange for passing through Guangdong, which is no different from the stronghold of Mangangang, it is not a very loss-making business. Or rather, it could be said that it did well.
Of course, no one will take it that way.
Cheongmyeong stood up again.
“I told you to lie down.”
“It’s really okay now.”
Cheongmyeong pushed Baekcheon’s hand away from his head and sat up with his upper body raised. Baekcheon, who tried to dissuade him somehow, ended up shaking his head.
“I’m the one who entrusted you with the rear end.”
Cheongmyeong glanced at Baekcheon at those unexpected words.
“So I also know that I have no right to say this.”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“But I have to ask. Why are you pushing yourself so hard?”
“⋯⋯.”
“It’s okay to step out a bit. Even if more people died because of that choice, no one would blame you. You know it, but why are you pushing yourself so hard? why?”
Baekcheon’s lips trembled. He looked calm, but it seems he wasn’t like that either.
Cheongmyeong, who was looking at him, suddenly turned his head and looked at Yu Iseol, who was unconscious.
“It’s not unreasonable.”
“⋯⋯What?”
“I just believed.”
– Or at least I told you to fight while I was there!
“I just believed that when I passed my limit and fell, there would definitely be someone behind me.”
It’s just that now there are people who can count on their backs.
