Episode 1485. Why are you suddenly here? (5)
“… Cheongmyeong.”
Baekcheon and the other Hwasan disciples glanced at each other.
‘You got caught? execution?’
‘Then what should I do?’
‘Shall we talk?’
‘You crazy guy. ‘If it’s a rabbit, it means acknowledging it!’
‘Then what should I do?’
Everyone’s eyes turned to Baekcheon.
They can’t find a suitable response now, but Baekcheon, the proud representative of Jangmun of Hwasan, can somehow find a way…
“Kkeuk hum. What do you mean by that? “We are from Jongnam, right?”
‘ruined.’
‘I’m tired.’
‘That guy did that once in a while. Look at everything creaking.’
Trying to deny it is not the problem. The problem was that Baekcheon’s performance, which attempted to deny, was clearly shouting ‘I am the culprit’.
“I hope you will be careful what you say about the Moon Pani that we hate the most. “I’m the type of person who grinds my teeth just by hearing the word Cheongmyeong of the Hwasan Sword Association!”
Oh, there was half sincerity in these words. Baekcheon definitely grinds his teeth just by hearing the sound of Cheongmyeong.
However, no matter how you look at the other person, this kind of clumsy acting was not acceptable.
“Sasook. Instead of doing something useless, it would be better…”
“I see. “Excuse me.”
“yes. Just hit me…yeah?”
Jo Geol opened his eyes wide and turned his head. His eyes turn to the smiling woman.
“It seems that the celestial maiden misunderstood and made a mistake. “Please forgive my rudeness.”
As the woman bowed her head deeply, the volcano disciples looked at each other with dumbfounded faces. In the meantime, the woman raised her head again and politely opened her mouth.
“Would you be generous and give me the opportunity to welcome Jongnam’s heroes to the top floor?”
“Uh…”
“Thank you…?”
The volcano disciples look at each other again.
Is this really okay to go?
As the situation became like this, the stairs that had seemed like a path leading up to the realm of hell a little while ago began to look like the gates of hell leading down to hell.
‘How do I do this? ‘Sasook!’
‘Do you guys know?!’
Baekcheon convulsed as the people around him desperately stabbed him in the side.
“Would you like to climb?”
At the woman’s urging words, everyone’s eyes eventually turned to one place.
“Hmm.”
Cheongmyeong, who hardened his complexion and glared at the woman, eventually burst into laughter.
“I don’t know who the owner is, but he seems to be an unusually resourceful person.”
“I apologize once again for the rudeness I committed. “Please forgive me with a generous heart.”
As the woman bowed her head too politely, Cheongmyeong clicked his tongue.
“Is the person who told us to move up here the owner?”
“That’s right. Luju wants to see you all.”
“Hmm.”
Cheongmyeong grumbled as if he didn’t like it.
“I don’t know if he’s resourceful, but he has absolutely no manners. “If you want to see it that much, I will come down.”
The woman smiled without answering that question.
“Funny.”
Cheongmyeong shrugs his shoulders.
“There’s no need to refuse if you show me something. Oh, you don’t have to pay, right?”
“That’s obvious.”
“Then let’s go.”
Cheongmyeong raised the corners of his mouth with a grin.
“I heard that they are showing me a place for free that requires a million nyang to even see. I have to go and see it first. Isn’t that right?”
“Why are you talking to me?”
“Yeah… ah, not now. “Giggle.”
Cheongmyeong smiled at Hyeyeon and gestured to the woman.
“Guide me.”
“yes. Then this way.”
The woman politely took the lead and headed toward the stairs.
Baekcheon, seeing this, leans in close to Cheongmyeong and whispers to him.
“hey. Is this really okay to go? “It looks like someone got caught.”
“I got caught, so I have to go. “If you turn a blind eye here, you’ll be a complete mess.”
“But…”
“Okay.”
Cheongmyeong made a groaning sound.
“Is it Rouge or Clap? This is no ordinary raccoon. “You’re responding to me as a woman who doesn’t know martial arts, so there’s nothing I can do about it.”
From Cheongmyeong’s point of view, Yongdam Tiger Blood was easier to deal with.
All you have to do is break off the heads and feet that you see. In some ways, this base is a place that is more difficult to deal with than the Demonic Cult’s headquarters.
“Anyway, let’s go up. Will there be a raccoon or a fox? Either that or a wolf will come out.”
“… Put the weasel in well.”
“Get in there, man!”
Cheongmyeong pressed Baekah’s head with his index finger and moved his feet.
“…It seems more ordinary than I thought.”
“It feels a bit like that, doesn’t it?”
A strange disappointment appeared on Baekcheon and Yoonjong’s faces.
I had high expectations because the first floor was so fancy, but the sight of the other floors as I climbed the stairs wasn’t that amazing.
As I went up the floor, all I could see was a narrow hallway connected to a staircase and large doors lined up on the left and right sides of the hallway.
“Ordinary?”
“Leave me alone, death sentence. “It’s better not to know.”
“…I guess so.”
“Still, I thought you knew a little bit about Sasuk.”
“Let’s just say he is the child of a wealthy family. “It is a standard of no money.”
“…Are you cursing me now?”
Jo Geol and Tang Soso shook their heads. Baekcheon and Yoonjong spoke comfortably, but from their perspective, this scene was scary.
“That carpet in front of that door… I think it came from the West Station. The door is also made of rosewood.”
“That painting on that wall looks like Kwak Hee’s work… That expensive thing is in the hallway…” “
… The outside of the door is so neat, but what did they do inside?”
“I don’t want to imagine, so let’s stop.”
“okay. “That would be good for your mental health.”
Jo Geol shook his head.
Items that even the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, which travels to Xianjiang as well as Yunnan, do not dare to handle are being used as floor mats in the hallways. I don’t know, but the imperial palace won’t be this luxurious.
Cheongmyeong glanced at Jogeul Soso’s expression and asked the woman who was climbing the stairs ahead of her.
“Are there a lot of unmanned people here?”
“Cheonsangru does not refuse anyone who is qualified.”
“So what is the answer?”
“…But actually, unmanned people rarely stop by.”
Cheongmyeong’s eyes sank slightly.
This meant that most of the people using this base were high-ranking officials or wealthy people. Maybe they are the leaders of the commercial world.
“They said you have to be a member to enter, but wouldn’t it cost extra money to eat and drink each day?”
“of course.”
“I thought I was scraping together some money, but there were other people who were really making money.”
“Well, it’s just a little base running.”
“…You don’t seem to know what small means.”
When Cheongmyeong laughed as if it was absurd, the woman smiled slightly and quickened her pace.
‘hmm.’
Even if you head upstairs, nothing really changes. The only thing that’s different is that the gap between the doors leading into the hallway is getting further and further away.
That meant that the size of each room became much larger as you went upstairs.
“If you’re going to operate this secretly, wouldn’t it be better to put a door on the stairs as well? “If each floor wasn’t so different, I don’t think you would want to pay a lot of money to go to a higher floor, right?”
“…well.”
The woman trailed off as if that was something she found difficult to answer. Just as Cheongmyeong was about to snort, the woman answered in a slightly quieter voice than before.
“Isn’t that why you covet it?”
“…hmm?”
“It doesn’t look that different or that great… but it’s not something you can get your hands on. “People usually feel a desire for such things.”
“….”
The woman slowly turned her head to look at Cheongmyeong and briefly shook her head.
“You are a strange person. “I have never told anyone who visited my guest house what I thought.”
“oh? In that sense, aren’t you thinking about changing jobs? “We are also looking for someone to work in the guesthouse.”
“…You’re a really troubled person.”
The woman’s steps became a little faster. And before they can take a few more steps, the top floor of the base comes into view.
“….”
Sometimes something symbolic catches people’s attention more than something flashy.
The sight they saw upon reaching the seventh floor was not much different from before. A long hallway running down the center of the base and walls on the left and right.
Another thing… there are only three doors visible from this seven-story hallway.
One on the left, one on the right and….
‘Center.’
The end of the hallway they see. There you can see a door painted a different color than the other places. A door made to be practical rather than flashy. A door that felt distinctly different from the doors they had seen so far.
“That’s where Rouge lives.”
“Hmm.”
Hwasan’s disciples swallow dry saliva and look at the door. I felt like the tension that had eased a little while climbing the stairs was rising again.
‘It’s strange.’
Baekcheon slowly turned his head and looked at his priests.
He had not felt the slightest sign of an unmanned person on his way here. That means there is nothing here that could threaten them. However, his priests were clearly tense now, as if they were about to enter a battlefield.
“I will take you there.”
“Please.”
After passing through the red carpeted hallway, the woman arrived at the door and bowed politely.
“Lord Luju. “We have brought our guests.”
A short silence falls in the hallway. When Cheongmyeong, who didn’t like the atmosphere, was about to say something.
“Take it.”
“yes. “Lord Luju.”
As the woman carefully held the door, Jo Geol and Tang Soso’s faces became tense for a moment.
But when the door opened, what they saw was an ordinary office that didn’t seem to be anything special.
“Eh?”
“…what.”
Embarrassed voices come out from the mouths of Tang Soso and Jo Geol.
Of course, it’s not shabby. It was a well-decorated office with reasonably good furniture and reasonably good items. However, compared to this, the family head room of the Tang family was much more luxurious.
“Come this way.”
Before they could organize their thoughts, a short voice was heard. The eyes of those who entered the office turned to where the voice came from.
A bookshelf built on one side of the wall. The man who took a book from the shelf slowly turned and looked at them. A middle-aged man wearing silk clothes with no decoration but made of luxurious material.
A man who didn’t seem particularly impressive walked towards them with an expressionless face.
“Nice to meet you. “I am the ruler of this Cheonsangru.”
‘…this person?’
It was at that time that Cheongmyeong and the others were just about to frown.
“so. “For what purpose did the world-renowned Hwasan Sword Association and Hwasan’s Deputy Jang Mun come to see me?”
Cracking.
The office window is wide open. A small bird with golden feathers flew in through the window and landed lightly on the man’s shoulder.
“Kii!”
Baek-erh popped out from inside Cheongmyeong’s clothes and bared his teeth towards the golden coin.
Cheongmyeong’s gaze, staring at the scene, shifts back to the man.
“I guess.”
The corners of Cheongmyeong’s mouth curled up eerily.
“I think I’ve come to the right place.”
The man’s eyes and Cheongmyeong’s eyes were sharply intertwined.
