episode_0107

“Wow~ It’s gold!”

“Hehehe….”

“This in one day..”

One hundred nyang of gold. Although Black Cat, White Qilin, and Sima Yan were not people who were short of money, the sight of over a hundred golden coins piled up in kind must have been a special sight.

“We ask that security be strengthened as those who are blinded can do harsh things.”

“Haha, don’t worry Daehyeop.”

A black cat begins to build a tower with gold letters, and Hyeok Gi-rin is anxious that the gold letters may fall and be crushed. If the black cat’s eyes were visible, it looks happy, as if its eyes would sparkle more than the money.

Rather than having a particular desire for gold, he seems to be just excited because there is so much gold shining around.

“Is work going well?”

“I worked hard until just now. We’ve prepared everything, so all you have to do is fish.”

In the past, it felt like a symbol of an ominous night, but these days, it’s just a black cat that feels like a startled house cat touching various things in the corner of the room, but it’s only the appearance that has changed.

There is no change in the fact that he is the head of Wolbokdang, so you have to trust him.

Wolbokdang is not just an organization.

How persistent do you think users are? Hidden pieces, Easter eggs, etc. that the developers hid with gritted teeth. Users are ultimately the ones who rip off all the elements hidden in the game.

A mysterious secret that appears once in a thousand years, the secret level of a disappeared Jeonjeon master, and the secret history of the martial arts world that no one knows about. What kind of big deal is this? In any case, once it is captured by a player or other person, it is likely to be exposed one by one, neatly drawn with guidelines, and then packaged as a strategy.

However, Wolbokdang succeeded in keeping their secrets out of the player’s hands. Mysterious intelligence organization Wolbokdang. There were quite a few users who dug into Wolbokdang due to this name, which stimulated players’ curiosity, but no player caught the true nature of Wolbokdang.

So I also thought it was an unimplemented element or Macguffin.

There is no need to doubt the abilities of Wolbokdang and its leader, Heukmyo.

“Now that I think about it, there are two people. I heard that you know about my cross-dressing.”

“What do you mean by “heard”? Did Governor Sima Yan tell you?”

“Yes. That’s right. I would like you to keep quiet about my gender.”

I nodded and the black cat readily agreed.

“Of course! I already thought of Hyeok Gi-rin and Dae-hyeop as my same-sex friend, so when we are alone, I feel comfortable instead of acting like a man!”

“Hehehe. Okay.”

“Good!”

The black cat rushed over and hugged Hyukgirin. The golden tower shakes with its recoil.

“Oh, if you move like that!”

Shake it!

Geumja’s tower swayed.

“If you drop it on the stone floor from this height, the golden character will be crushed!”

Hyuk Kirin was startled and hit the side of Geumja’s tower, which was shaking, with his finger. Geumja’s tower, which had been leaning as if it was about to fall, stumbled once and then stood straight up, as if it had immediately grasped the trembling pulse of the center.

“Oh…amazing!”

Clap clap!

“Ah, why don’t you give me a round of applause for something like this…!”

Clap clap!

“Stop it!”

The shy Hyuk Kirin and the black cat are clapping harder on purpose because it’s cute to see Hyuk Kirin like that. Hyuk Kirin twists his body even more in shame. And Sama-yeom, who intuits Hyeok-ki-rin’s appearance.

hmm.

Is it okay to trust these people and carry out the operation?

“What are you two doing?”

Yeo Il-ye, who had removed her makeup and changed into ordinary military clothes, looked at Geumja’s tower with cold eyes.

“This is the money Eungong earned by gambling all night long! Put it back where it belongs!”

The black cat whines at Yeo Il-ye’s shouting and rearranges Geumja again. Yeo Il-ye narrows her eyes as if she doesn’t like the black cat’s attitude.

“Do you know how hard Eungong worked to earn money yesterday? This is money that you have put away all pride and respect and just saved up with one single intention. It is not something to be treated lightly.”

“What did your senior say?”

“You acted trembling and scared of people’s ridicule. And all last night!”

“Hey. And?”

“It was truly pathetic to see him not be very happy even after winning money and instead keep the money while looking at others! Even though I knew it was acting, I couldn’t help but admire it!”

“Kuhm…please stop.”

“No! You should know how much Eun-gong lost face and showed an ugly appearance to earn this money. Don’t you realize the value of this money!”

“No, stop.”

Stop emitting dark history. Watching the black cat slurp, I had a feeling that they would gather all the eyewitness accounts of yesterday’s activities at Seongrakru, organize them in a document, and stuff them.

In the midst of this, Yeo Il-ye is showing off her dark side with great enthusiasm, and Heuk-myo and Hyuk-ki-rin are listening with interest.

“Dang family’s carriage has arrived.”

The raincoat arrived.

*** ***

“Ho Rongin. Long time no see.”

Dang Do-yeon, with a shiny face, looked fierce.

“…What about Do-kyung?”

Dang Do-yeon opened the carriage door without a word. Inside was a corpse. Tang Dao-gyeong died in the carriage.

Of course, he didn’t really die, only about 90 percent died.

“…Uuuuu.”

“Now, Do-kyung. Wake up. If I wake up and have a glass of water, I feel better.”

As I was carrying Dang Do-gyeong, Dang Do-gyeong opened his mouth.

“Ho, brother… why did you call me in a raincoat?”

That’s right, it’s because of you that I got on this carriage too.

You knew it and rode it, but I rode it without knowing. Did you really think you were going to die?

Dang Do-gyeong, who had been waiting for an answer to my silence, suddenly lowered his head. When I looked at him, I saw that he hadn’t fainted, but that he was so exhausted that he didn’t even have the strength to raise his head.

The black cat was circling around the Bicheon carriage. It seems that his unique curiosity was aroused. Other people are wary and don’t even approach it, thinking, ‘What on earth is that carriage that turns the supreme expert into rice cake?’

“Hoo, are you interested in Bicheon carriage?”

“Bicheon carriage..? It looks fast.”

“Hehe, of course. This is a revolution in transportation that allows you to travel from Sacheon to Danggatha in just a day and a half. It is a historic vehicle from Dangga that has already been in operation for five years.”

Dang Do-yeon started scamming again. I hurriedly called the two people because I was worried that if this continued, I would be hit by a black cat during that soul threshing machine. From now on, the performance of the black cat is important, and if it gets threshed, it will be a big problem.

They spend their time trying to stop the black cat, who keeps showing curiosity about the Bicheon carriage, and Dang Do-yeon, who is trying to get the black cat into the Bicheon carriage. Dang Do-gyeong, who had barely recovered after the lucky breakfast, joined us.

“Do-kyung, how many bandit leaders can you take on?”

“If you want to kill, it doesn’t matter whether it’s four or five. You gave me a lot of memorization in the memorization contest.”

Dang Do-gyeong tapped the memory sac on his waist. The quantity is not much different from the time when all the memorization tools of the direct lineage were taken away from the Tang family and carried around. What a great support they provided for alternative memorization.

“Doyeon mainly took poison. If you really use it only for killing, it will be possible for the two of you to annihilate the bandits on Jeongnamsan Mountain.”

Hyeok Kirin and Yeo Il-ye were seen swallowing dry saliva. Well…Tang Dao-gyeong spoke calmly and without any hesitation, but the idea of the two of them wiping out the bandit alliance was not something that could be easily said.

This is the fear of the Tang family.

The power of martial arts comes from internal energy. However, this strength is not something that can be increased overnight. If you take an elixir, you should gain weight overnight, but is an elixir for nothing? It’s not something you can get when you want to.

There is only a difference in elevation and there is a limit to what a single martial artist can do. However, Tang family martial artists are halfway free of such restrictions. If you are willing to use memorization and poison without hesitation, you can perform several times, or even tens of times more, than other martial artists of the same level as you.

Only if you can sprinkle memorized words more expensive than gold without hesitation like corn to pigeons, will two Chojeongjeongs be able to overpower four Chojeongjeongs and five hundred warriors.

Of course, these two will only do the bare minimum.

Because these two people have to play supporting or minor roles.

Although it is inevitable to receive help from outside, the problems of Sichuan Province must be resolved by the people of Sichuan Province.

Isn’t it because they couldn’t do that that there was an uproar over the establishment of a branch of the Old File Room?

“Hmm. But is it okay to hand out these flyers as is? Isn’t this the only way it will be revealed to the world that the Daehyup interfered?”

Sama Yeom surprisingly sounded worried about me.

“Well, with things going on like this, how can you still be hiding in Heuklip?”

The face has already been exposed. If you perform a martial arts technique in a martial arts world, there are many cases where no one recognizes you, but in this world of martial arts, those who perform martial arts techniques at that level are the rising martial artists who are considered the season of martial arts.

It is easy to understand if you think about plastic surgery. Even if a specialist does his best, it still looks like that, so if you just massage your face with internal energy, will it come out naturally?

A certain amount of force is immediately apparent, and although you may only glance at it in passing, you cannot use it in a place full of surveillance eyes.

Above all, it is not just about revealing one’s identity.

At this point, I have to show my shadow at least once to confuse and anger the golden sun and cloud its judgment, so I do that.

“Please proceed.”

Sima Yan nodded.

*** ***

“Phew…”

Jang Sam, a Gwangyang believer, sighed. Gwangyangmun was a sect that was still well-regarded in Sacheon Province. Just because it was affiliated with the Jeomchang faction, one of the old factions, it was said that it was competitive among the Sichuan factions.

Not all of the sects in Sichuan Province had ties to the old sects. Unless they are a somewhat solid medium-sized faction, the old faction does not even come into contact with them. In fact, the number of sects that are affiliated with the Gupa Ilbang is probably around 30% if you look at all the sects in Sichuan Province.

That’s why I was always able to walk around the streets with my chest proud…

“Those damn bastards…”

“You do things like that and still get around just fine.”

It became difficult to even walk around the streets as rumors circulated that Sichuan clans were desperately opposing the intervention of Sichuan’s major clans out of concern for their livelihood.

In particular, the statement of the Five Great Gates was very appropriate to create a misunderstanding that the rumor was true, so people’s eyes became harsh after that statement.

‘Do you think I’ll buy this because I’m being noticed..!’

Jang-sam really wanted to say something if he could get rid of this misunderstanding. But what can you do? The bandits were strong and the clans of Sichuan Province were small.

“Pogo! Pogo!”

While people were angry and thinking about such things, government soldiers went around and scattered leaflets everywhere.

“The governor is recruiting a punitive force to subdue the bandits! Please note that the Governor will soon be holding a briefing session at the podium of the government office!”

‘Suppression of bandits?’

Jang Sam looked at the government soldiers with a sour gaze. The blunt blade of the trident is for suppression purposes, so even the method of holding the spear is a mess. If we were to consider it unmanned, would it be third-rate? Will the problem be solved if these government forces step forward?

Everyone around him seemed to think the same thing and looked at the government officials like they were looking at cows and chickens. Still, let’s take a look at the contents of the flyer.

Jang Sam thought so and picked up the paper.

“…what is it.”

[♚♚Sacheon Governor’s Volunteer Army Recruitment Statement♚♚When visiting $$All Governor Sima Yeom☜☜100% chance to witness※ ♜Sacheon Danga Fighting Dog Dang Do-gyeong, Dang Do-yeon ♜ Planned to participate￥ Participating family §§ No conditions §§ Triumphal march ★ Participation possible★ Opportunity to gain fame @@@ Immediate movement: Podium in front of government office on Bukcheon-daero. ]

It was a leaflet that felt like a whirlwind, but the content flew into my head anyway.

“…Dangga. Are people from the Tang family going out as a punitive force?”

It was an unrealistic story. However…it was the government army that went around handing out proclamations.

Jang Sam headed to the government office as if possessed. It seemed as if leaflets had been distributed all over Sichuan, and there were already so many people that there was no time to step in. Jang San saw several warriors standing among the crowd. Did they also come here themselves to relieve their frustration?

“Nice to meet you all. This is Sichuan Governor Sima Yan.”

Wow!!

The people cheered at the appearance of the Sichuan governor. Anyway, since they had decided to send troops to suppress the bandits, the first thing they did was cheers. Sama-Yeom, who had calmed the people down, began speaking in a sonorous voice that was not loud but was easily pierced by the ears.

“I had already heard that bandits were rampaging around Sichuan Province, but Sima Yan was shamefully just a civil servant who had become a martial artist, so we had to wait so long.”

The audience, who had regained their composure thanks to Sima Yeom’s polite attitude and appealing voice, kept order in silence.

“However, it is expected that enormous damage will be incurred in suppressing the bandits with government forces alone. That is why we have issued a statement to ask for help from the heroes of Sichuan Province.”

Loud. Loud.

And the silence was immediately broken. No, wasn’t it already a foregone conclusion that the clans of Sichuan Province were powerless to subdue the bandits? But why is the Governor backtracking?

Impatient people criticized the governor, who did not know reality, for acting in vain, but Sima Yeom continued.

“It is impossible for someone who is a beginner to take the lead in martial arts. So, after careful consideration, we came to a conclusion: we decided to seek help from a famous family in Sichuan, a family with the rank of Jungyangjin.”

“…Isn’t Jungyangjin the name of the official position?”

“That’s right. No, the person from the door family leads the warriors to subdue the bandits?”

“What does this mean?”

While people were confused, a young man came up to the stage. People who recognized the young man’s face shouted in surprise.

“It’s the fighting dog Dando-kyung!”

“No, then you mean that the family that held the official position in Jungyangjin was the Tang family!”

“The party had government positions? This is my first time hearing this!”

“This person! Have you forgotten that the Tang family is a powerful family in Sichuan? Of course there are government positions!”

“Nice to meet you.”

A skill that gently captures and suppresses the noise of people. People’s confusion did not go away, but anticipation began to appear on their faces. I’m not sure about the situation, but anyway, didn’t the Sicheondang family step in and suppress the bandits?

“This is Tang Dao-gyeong, who has been entrusted with full authority to suppress bandits at the request of Prince Sima Yan, the governor of Sichuan. The name of Tang Do-gyeong, a fighting dog, may be more familiar to you, Kang-ho’s fellow believers. Just as I was feeling saddened by the news that the people of Sichuan Province were suffering due to bandits, I received a request from the official and rushed to him with joy.”

Wow!!!

Dandogyeong! Dandogyeong!!

“ I think that Tang Dao-gyeong’s spirit is second to none, but his one hand and the government army’s troops are far from enough to completely subdue the bandits. Do you know what will happen in the future if you go ahead with the subjugation and leave behind a lot of sparks? So, in consultation with the governor, I issued this proclamation.”

“This is Dogyeong, who has always admired the spirit of the Sichuan Province clan. I was thinking that it was a pity that there was no way to shake off that guile, but when the situation turned out like this, I immediately thought of the charlatans from Sichuan Province. Is cooperation enough? These are the unfortunate charlatans of Sichuan Province who had to watch the bandits because their strength was a little lacking!”

‘It’s your chance!’

Jang Sam clenched his fists. I knew it instinctively. An opportunity has arisen to resolve misunderstandings among the people of Sichuan Province.

“In order to live up to the spirit of the Sichuan Province knights, we have prepared a few small benefits for the heroes participating in the subjugation.”

The ears of those in military uniform perked up at Sima Yan’s words.

“First, we plan to erect a monument to heroes in the middle of Sacheonjung-ro that records the activities of the warriors and clans who defeated the bandits.”

Jang Sam picked his ears. I was wondering if I had heard wrong. Public achievements… are taxidermied?

Even if you cooperate, at most it will become a hot topic for a short time and then disappear without a trace, and after a while, the authenticity will no longer be known. But if you subdue a bandit, your achievement will be recorded as fact and you will be permanently stuffed?

“Also! A triumphal parade is scheduled for the thieves who captured the bandits and transported them to the government office.”

March of improvement? Can you walk down the street with your chest outstretched and the adoring gaze of Sichuan people on your face?

After that, several benefits were listed. It is said that a plaque of appreciation for contributing to the suppression of bandits can be placed at the place where one participated in the clan. Each individual is given a hero gun or a sling to hang on a weapon as proof of their participation in suppressing bandits.

“Ohhh!!”

The warriors cheered every time such facts were announced. Even if you set the tone without saying a word, the fact that you are using it is automatically certified as a hero? It was a valuable item that had to be obtained even if it meant death.

Objects that deeply reflect the ideas of modern people! The dancers, who had tasted modern marketing for the first time, couldn’t help but cheer.

The front of the government office was already engulfed in intense heat. The mere possibility of subjugating bandits was enough to make ordinary people enthusiastic, and warriors cheered the opportunity to raise their honor and achievements, and the reward for participation that included both honor and guile.

“Everyone!”

Finally, Tang Dao-gyeong drove in the wedge.

“This job demands hourly wages! All preparations have been completed at the government office! So, we will be accepting applications until midnight tomorrow, and departure is in 3 days! Please spread the word quickly!”

People get excited and leave to spread the news. People flock to government offices to apply for participation right now.

Jang Sam ran towards Gwangyangmun.

‘This! must! You have to participate!’

Sichuan Province is starting to heat up.