Episode 1356. That means he’s coming. (1)
Before I knew it, I was out of the crypt and had been running for a full day.
Lim So-byeong, who was running, stopped in place without any sign.
Those who were running behind them at full speed were startled and stopped. Those who had tilted and almost fell over managed to straighten up and start yelling.
“Ah-oh! “What is it all of a sudden?”
Fierce dissatisfaction erupted. However, Lim So-byeong did not pay any attention and was busy looking around.
“Wow, you don’t even pretend to listen. “Why are you swearing so much?”
“I heard that Sapa’s job is to get scolded, so this level of scolding doesn’t go anywhere.”
“For something like that, you roll your eyes when Cheongmyeong is being mean?”
“⋯⋯That bastard doesn’t just curse, he stabs people with curses.”
“Oh, that’s right.”
Lim So-byeong, who was looking around, quickly nodded.
“Let’s stay here tonight. “It’s the perfect terrain to avoid being seen by enemies and avoid the dew.”
“⋯⋯here?”
“yes.”
“No need to rest…”
Yoonjong, who was reflexively trying to stop him, suddenly closed his mouth and looked back. A look of exhaustion was evident on the faces of the Haenam disciples. It was even more strange that I didn’t get tired as I was carrying an injured person while still not fully developed.
“It is important to rest when you can. “If you just run because you’re in a hurry, you’ll end up wasting more time.”
“All right.”
Baekcheon also nodded in agreement with Lim So-byeong.
“I’m taking a rest here. Everyone, please find a place to rest. Instead, don’t light a fire.”
Jo Geol, who carefully got down from Yoon Jong’s back, asked curiously.
“Why the fire? “It would still be a while before the Maninbang guys caught up.”
“This is Gangnam. Even if it’s not a room for everyone, there’s snow everywhere. “Just because they are civilians climbing the mountain doesn’t necessarily mean they are on our side.”
Listening to Baekcheon’s explanation, Jo Geol’s face became a little shaken. Then Baekcheon laughed and tapped his shoulder.
“How can people who only see a light from afar know who we are? “If everyone were to ask me if I had seen anything suspicious, I would of course answer that I had.”
“Ah, I guess so.”
Jo Geol nodded as if he finally understood.
“Then you have to be careful.”
“okay.”
“What does the death penalty do? Let’s find a place to rest. “If you procrastinate, other people will take all the good seats.”
Jo Geol chased Yoon Jong. Baekcheon smiled more bitterly at him.
At that time, a voice mixed with laughter was heard.
“You’ve become good at dealing with people, right?”
“Is this a compliment?”
“It means you end up becoming a fraudster.”
“⋯⋯Thank you for the compliment.”
Cheongmyeong looked at Baekcheon’s expression and laughed.
In fact, Baekcheon probably thought that even if the civilians knew the true identity of this group, there was no guarantee that they would not inform Maninbang. But I couldn’t have said that straight away. Especially for someone like Jo Geol.
“You too, prepare a place to rest.”
“You worry so much. Meanwhile, the nagging increased again.”
Baekcheon did not deny it and smiled bitterly. Because that statement is not so wrong.
Haenam’s disciples dispersed and found a place to rest. At best, it was just a matter of finding a roughly flat place and lying down.
Lee Ja-yang sat down in a comfortable position and looked ahead with an exhausted face.
“It’s too humid here. Go over there and lie down. “Give the guy in the back here.”
“Oh no, Ambassador. “You must have been tired of the death penalty…”
“Okay, come on.”
Kwak Hwan-so continued to move around in all directions, taking care of other executioners. Lee Ja-yang, who was staring at the scene, let out a laugh.
‘It’s really amazing.’
Miss Lee didn’t even have the strength left to lift a finger anymore. However, Kwak Hwan-so, who worked twice as hard as others to look after the executed and the injured, is taking care of others first.
Do you have any strength left? No way.
Even Lee Ja-yang can see that Kwak Hwan-so’s legs are shaking. You probably feel like you want to lie down somewhere right now.
Kwak Hwan-so is just holding back because he has work to do.
“⋯⋯Amazing.”
They say that a crisis hardens people, and it appears that they are not wrong.
In fact, Lee Ja-yang recognized Kwak Hwan-so as his great brother, but did not particularly rate him highly. I thought that his impatient personality and selfish side were not suitable for the position of a long writer who had to bring everyone together.
However, the current Kwak Hwan-so cannot be found with the same shortcomings that Lee Ja-yang saw in the past.
Having passed the difficult road from Haenam Island to here, Kwak Hwan-so is becoming a great person who deserves to be a Haenam scholar, no matter what anyone says.
Even though Lee Ja-yang went through the same crisis, nothing seems to have changed, but Kwak Hwan-so is using the crisis as a stepping stone for growth.
‘The bowl is different.’
Lee Ja-yang smiled bitterly.
There was a time when I roughly placed Kwak Hwan-so in the position of Jang Mun-in and tried to move Haenam according to his will by slowly stabbing him in the side, but now I can’t even think about it. How can they control Kwak Hwan-so, who has grown so much?
All I can do is assume he’s dead and do as I’m told.
‘⋯⋯If you survive.’
Suddenly, a little hope appeared in Lee Ja-yang’s eyes.
The eyes of the executioners looking at Kwak Hwan-so are filled with firm trust. It was a look in the eyes that had never been seen in Haenam in the past.
It’s very difficult and painful right now, but if I can get out of here and that Kwak Hwan-so becomes Haenam’s chief literary officer and Lee Ja-yang can assist with all his might, recreating the glory of Haenam might not be a dream.
Lee Ja-yang, who had been blankly picturing the scene for a moment, laughed as if she were dumbfounded and took out a dry bag from her luggage.
‘You’ve gone too far.’
First of all, survive…
“Do you have any left over from the death penalty?”
At that time, someone approached and asked. Lee Ja-yang asked back.
“why? “Didn’t you bring enough dry food?”
“⋯⋯I lost my luggage during the fight.”
“Ah…”
When we set off from Haenam, we packed as much food as we could, but preserving our luggage during that fierce battle was not as easy as we thought.
In particular, in the case of the injured, there were fewer people with luggage left than those who lost it.
“Then eat this first.”
“Then, if you’re a death penalty, then I too…”
Lee Ja-yang’s face stiffened slightly. Some people quietly got up and started looking for food.
“Does anyone have any water left?”
“I ran out of Geumchang pills. Is there anyone who has Geumchang pills?”
“⋯⋯Oops.”
As she watched the situation, Lee Ja-yang’s face gradually hardened.
I thought I had made enough preparations to pass through Gangnam, but the supplies started to run out before I was even halfway there.
Normally, I would have been able to buy new items with the money I had prepared, but not now. Where else can they spend their money in Gangnam? In a place where you have to avoid people’s eyes.
In this situation, money is nothing more than a useless lump of luggage.
‘Anything else aside, food shortage is a serious problem.’
Of course, an unmanned person can endure a longer period of time without eating than an ordinary person.
But that’s literally just holding on. Isn’t it obvious what would happen if you were running with all your might and couldn’t eat properly?
“⋯⋯ Neither I nor I have any dry weight⋯⋯.”
“I can only eat it once, so if you give me this, what do you want me to eat?”
“Is anyone hiding anything? Now is not the time to economize!”
At first, I was a little embarrassed and agitated, but gradually the tension spread. If it was left like this a little longer, a big problem could have arisen.
“Everyone…”
It was the moment when Kwak Hwan-so was about to say something.
thud!
Something fell in front of them.
“What kind of deer cubs here are blind? “It’s obvious that there are people, but they pass by and cause an uproar.”
Cheongmyeong threw the deer he had hunted towards the Haenam disciples and laughed, shaking his hand. The Haenam disciples were fixating their eyes on the deer on the ground.
Baekcheon glared at me with disapproving eyes and nagged.
“Hey, you’re saying you shouldn’t start a fire?”
“Ah, nagging again! Even when I was born, I would have nagged instead of crying. “It’s noisy and it’s hard to see!”
“huh?”
Cheongmyeong peeled off the deer skin with a sword. For some reason, it didn’t seem like a skill that had been done once or twice.
“⋯⋯You’re so skilled?”
“Wasn’t he a Taoist?”
“I guess it’s right?”
He soon lifted up a large cut deer leg with both hands.
“What are you going to do… omg?”
Baekcheon widened his eyes. The deer legs quickly started to cook, releasing white steam. Cheongmyeong chuckled triumphantly.
“This is called hot-yang tension. hot-yang tension!”
“⋯⋯Have you seen such a crazy person⋯⋯?”
Baekcheon opened his mouth.
“This is the first time in my life that I have ever seen someone cook meat with heat tension…”
“No, Sasuk. It was like that before. “Then in the North Sea.”
“really?”
It would have been a deplorable sound if it had been heard by the people of the South Sea Sun Palace, whose main skill is thermal tension.
Even while Baekcheon was blinking, Cheongmyeong was busy cooking deer legs. After a while, he gently threw back the ripe deer leg.
“eat.”
“⋯⋯Yes?”
Seol So-baek, who suddenly caught the deer thigh thrown by Cheongmyeong, hurriedly shook his head.
“Oh no! I am… “Other people are better than me…”
“Okay, eat it first.”
Cheongmyeong looked at Seol Sobaek and laughed.
“You did a good enough job. So don’t think about unnecessary things and eat plenty of meat.”
“⋯⋯Seal.”
Seol So-baek bites his lip slightly.
Although he was said to be the lord of the Ice Palace, he was still young and inexperienced, so it was difficult for him to be a good force in this battle. He must have been aware of that fact, and so far he had been doing his best to not show his presence and not be a disturbance.
But how could that not make you tired?
Cheongmyeong continued dismembering and cooking the deer without much notice. An appetizing smell spread.
Haenam’s disciples could not even ask for anything and just watched the scene blankly. Then, when Cheongmyeong accepted the meat he threw, he expressed his gratitude profusely.
“Thank you seal!”
“thank you.”
Then Cheongmyeong smiled and asked.
“Are you very tired?”
“⋯⋯Actually, a bit⋯⋯.”
“Your body can’t use its full strength? “Do you think eating meat will give you strength?”
“That’s right! Thank you so much…”
“But that’s not it. “I know because I tried it, but people don’t have much strength if they just eat meat.”
“⋯⋯Yes?”
“There is something else that really gives you strength.”
Cheongmyeong pushed his hand into the deer’s split stomach, grabbed something inside, and pulled it out.
There was silence for a moment. Cheongmyeong said, his eyes shining.
“This is the best.”
“⋯⋯That?”
What he held in his hand was a deer liver that was still steaming.
“If you eat this raw, it is a nourishing tonic that will make even the dead wake up. “Let’s all do one thing at a time.”
“⋯⋯Eating that raw?”
“Now who wants to eat first?”
Cheongmyeong slowly approached Haenam’s disciples, cutting off a piece of deer liver.
“Hey!”
Then Haenam’s disciples all retreated backwards.
Cheongmyeong frowned as if he didn’t understand what was going on.
“It’s strange. “Fish is something you can eat raw, so why is there so much fuss about not being able to eat it?”
“How is that the same as that? “How can people eat that?”
“Over there…”
At that time, everyone’s eyes turned to Seol Sobaek, who was standing behind Cheongmyeong.
Seol Sobaek was licking his lips and staring intently at the hot liver in Cheongmyeong’s hands.
“Can you give me that instead of meat? “In the North Sea, raw reindeer liver is just a delicacy.”
“⋯⋯.”
“And… the blood keeps falling on the ground from earlier. Why are you throwing it away so wastefully? “How good is that for your body?”
“⋯⋯.”
“If you’re going to throw it away, give it to me! “Because we don’t have it so we can’t eat it.”
“Uh… That’s right.”
“Thank you seal!”
Seol So-baek was delighted and pleased. Watching him drooling and approaching the deer, Cheong-myeong suddenly thought.
Bringing together Cheonwoo-maeng may be a more difficult and terrible task than expected.
