episode_0178

therefore… This is a story from a time when I was called by titles like ‘There!’ or ‘Trainee No. 1’ more often than by the name Yoon Soo-hyun.

Just like people who always say things that start with the phrase, ‘Anyway, things these days are–‘, did the high-ranking people of the Hunter Association feel the need to suppress the momentum of children who are at an age when it is easy to go astray?

A senior inspector from the Bureau of Corrections, who reigned as a symbol of fear to hunters, once visited the gifted education center as a special instructor.

For reference, the Bureau of Corrections is an independent agency created by the police, military, and hunter association to respond to the criminal activities of hunters and other awakened individuals. If you become a senior inspector, you can immediately dispose of criminals on the spot without going through trial procedures. have the right

In other words, should we say that he is a license holder for murder whose status is guaranteed by the state?

Such a person has descended upon the nose-bleeding dogs who have not yet awakened, let alone actually fought.

For one reason or another, the little ones were so bloated that their shoulders reached their ears, so of course they were devastated.

Why, when dog breeders appear in the neighborhood, don’t the guys who normally bark fiercely start curling up in their crotches and whining pitifully, as if they haven’t done that before?

If I were to reflect on the classmates I saw that day, it felt exactly like that.

Aside from the aura that was exuding from my entire body, the lecture given by the senior inspector who came as a special lecturer that day was quite useful.

Thanks to this, I was able to learn in more detail about how to act when encountering an awakened criminal called a villain during hunter activities, as well as the range of defensive actions allowed to an individual when exposed to a criminal situation.

Well, the most impressive thing I heard that day was what I heard during the question and answer session.

At that time, the man, a senior inspector, said it with his own words.

He said that of all the enemies he had ever dealt with, the most difficult one was neither a smart guy nor a mean-spirited guy, but a lucky guy.

As I was watching the situation unfold, those words suddenly came to mind.

That’s because there was no other word that could explain the current situation better than those words.

When we left Luoyang faster than anyone else and reached Bukmangsan Mountain near the castle, I was confident of our victory.

This was because the view from the top of Bukmangsan Mountain said so.

Was it only after killing all the eunuchs who were protesting inside the North Palace that he realized that Yang Yang and the royal family were no longer there?

Looking down from the top of the mountain, I could see that the swarms of ants filling the palace, which felt larger, were in chaos.

The elemental flag, which can be said to be the biggest object of caution for me and Jojo, was also included in it.

Of course, if the dark woman inside was wrong, she couldn’t have predicted that Yang Yang would use a secret passage or something to escape, so she must have prepared herself for it… .

At least we couldn’t find it on Bukmangsan Mountain, which we chose.

The day we were going there happened to be a market day, and traces of a group of people who seemed to have run away in a hurry were discovered near the entrance of the mountain, so we thought that if we continued like this, we would be able to safely obtain the safety of the emperor and other members of the royal family… .

If there was one thing that we overlooked, it was none other than the miraculous spirit of Zhang Yang, who rose from the status of a eunuch to the position of a world leader.

“Hehe… Someone once said that when you start regretting the past, it’s time to grow old and die, but there’s nothing wrong with that.”

When Zhang Yang, who had been chased by rabbits and was driven to a cliff instead of the foot of the mountain he had originally intended to head to, said those words, we thought he had given up because he was cornered.

“I never thought there would come a day when I would regret ignoring Geonseok when he barked at me to kill you.”

“Enough nonsense, surrender, right? If you surrender now, I will allow you to die in peace… .”

“Your bitch, Joga, you are much older than your grandfather. If it were Mr. Bijeonghu who was here right now, he would have fired an arrow as soon as he saw me.”

For a moment, Zhang Yang, who was laughing unpleasantly in an unusual voice typical of a eunuch, suddenly appeared with a straight face.

Then, he tightly embraced the emperor and the emperor’s half-brother, King Jinryu, who were held hostage, with both arms.

Are they planning to take their lives hostage and threaten us in return?

It was probably the moment when I started to feel regretful that Ha Hoo-yeon was not there, thinking that this might be the case.

A venomous smile appeared on Jang Yang’s wrinkled face as he slowly took a step back, perhaps to increase the distance even a little more.

“Why don’t you go through some trouble?”

And then, with those words, he threw himself down the cliff.

I held the emperor and his half-brother tightly in my arms and locked them in my arms.

He threatened them with their lives. Jojo and I, who didn’t know that Jang Yang would choose the option of committing suicide along with those two people, naturally fell into panic, and the heartbreaking cries of a mother who lost her son right in front of her eyes filled our ears. It was only after I came back that I was able to come to my senses and give a search order.

Hoping that at least one of them survived, or at least with the mindset of salvaging a corpse, they frantically picked up the soldiers and searched the banks of the river that flowed behind Bukmangsan Mountain.

As we entered the fourth day of the search, news arrived from Luoyang.

The news was that a local warlord named Dong Zhuo, who had heard of the disturbance near Luoyang and was heading south to protect Luoyang, found the Emperor and King Jinliu, who were protected by a scholar, and had just entered Luoyang with them.

It was literally a situation where the bears showed off their talent, but the money was taken by a guy who suddenly came out of nowhere.

However, none of Luoyang’s ministers could criticize Dong Zhuo.

Not only did Dong Zhuo make various excuses to keep the emperor in his hands and not let him go, but the Empress Dowager Dong, who had managed to avoid the uproar, lashed out at Dong Zhuo because she was of the same Dong clan as him.

It was the moment when the era of Dong-tak began.

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Dong-tak’s emergency was something no one expected and was close to a natural disaster.

In any case, even Shao Shao, who had sponsored the two with the intention of using the two swords of Dong Zhuo and Zheng Yuan to devour Luoyang, may not have known that Dong Zhuo would take the emperor into his own hands and take over the real power of the government. Because you showed me that you can’t do that.

In that way, while the ministers of the government were struggling in front of the suddenly protruding stone beak named Dong-tak, Dong-tak moved more nimbly than anyone else.

Is it possible for bad guys to recognize each other just as heroes recognize other heroes?

Dong-tak, who lured Jeong-won’s adoptive daughter and subordinate, Yeo-po, into betraying Jeong-won like a ghost, swallowed up her power without even considering it.

Then, using the position given to him by the Empress Dowager Dong, he even incorporated Geumgun, which had been idle without a proper commander since the death of Hajin, the general, into his forces.

The first thing Dong Zhuo, who succeeded in obtaining military power, which was the basis of power, was to remove none other than the current emperor, Liu Bian, from the throne.

The reason was valid in its own way.

After the previous suicide incident, the current Emperor Liu Bian’s body was greatly weakened and he was unable to properly carry out his duties as emperor. Rumors were widespread not only in the imperial palace but also in Luoyang that he was seeing empty things and suffering from mania.

It’s not that they’re just going to take him down without any justification or reason, and they’re saying that they can’t have someone suffering from mania sitting on the throne, and they even got the approval of the Empress Dowager Dong, so honestly, what can you say about that?

It was right or wrong, but regardless, Dong Zhuo’s claim to dethrone the current emperor Liu Bian and put King Liu Hyeop of Jinryu on the throne was something that could never be accepted from the perspective of Yuan Shao and other members of the Cheongryu faction.

That’s because they were the ones who put the current emperor in that position.

But to abolish that person and put a new person on the throne?

In other words, it meant that the delicately maintained balance of the government was being shifted to Dong-tak’s side, so the Cheongryu faction had no choice but to foam at the mouth and shout opposition.

The problem is… it didn’t stop there.

It is said that the first time is the most difficult. After using an object called a knife, which I had no interest in before, a few times, I realized that it is much more efficient and smoother to have a conversation after swinging it rather than having to wrestle with it. Was it like a reminder?

Several members of the Cheongryu faction, including Wu Bu, formed a project group to try to overthrow Dong Zhuo, but failed due to Lu Bu’s intervention.

Naturally, those who participated in the assassination were executed, including themselves and their relatives.

Dong-tak did not hesitate to wield the blade of purge as soon as he had a cause, but did he think that if he continued to take a hard line, his power, which was inevitably unstable as he had only recently acquired it, could be shaken?

Dong Zhuo attempted appeasement by moving the emperor to give positions of government to members of the Cheongryu faction who opposed him.

Considering that the only government positions to which he was persuaded were either the governor or governor, it seemed that the purpose of driving him out of Luoyang and preventing him from exerting influence on central politics was greater than the purpose of appeasement.

In this way, key figures of the Cheongryu faction, including Yuan Shao, left Luoyang, holding in their arms a letter of appointment with the emperor’s seal.

As the number of people leaving Luoyang increased one by one, what were we doing…

“What about your luggage? Did you get everything?”

“Yes.”

“You kept it so you can leave at any time, right?”

I was getting ready to run to my hometown.