< Episode 18: Galjeo (2) >
Not far from the valley where the iron ball battle took place and the mountain where the flag battle took place.
There was another cave there.
-Kirilik! Let’s go!
A procession of five wagons led to such a cave.
Warriors in red belts were pulling a cart and entering a cave lit with torches.
The carts that entered the cave stopped somewhere.
The bodies of numerous boys were lying there.
“Whew. Is this the last time? “Then let’s move it.”
Warriors in red belts pulling a cart began the task of placing the bodies side by side.
The same was true for the remaining carts that arrived later.
-widely!
“I guess it was because I took it out late that my body started to swell.”
A warrior in red belts clicked his tongue as he looked at the swollen body in the water.
It was shallow valley water, but there were some places where it was deep, so I guess my whole body was submerged.
At that time, a middle-aged man wearing a uniform with a yin-yang symbol on it approached and said.
“Take that out.”
“Isn’t this good enough?”
“I can’t work with this.”
“Wow.”
Accordingly, warriors in red belts moved the body to a cart on the left side of the cave.
As the body was being moved on a cart, one of the warriors could not stand it anymore and ended up throwing up.
“Ugh.”
Seeing the warrior like this, the other warriors clicked their tongues.
“Tsk tsk.”
“I wonder if someone is new.”
Of course, they say it like this, but it actually makes sense.
Fortunately, the bodies lying there have few injuries, so they have human shapes.
However, the items in the cart are ‘leftover’ items.
There is nothing okay about these things.
It was common for heads to be crushed, and there were also many cases where a leg was missing or organs were torn off.
It was so horrible that just looking at it made me vomit.
“Do it in moderation. newcomer.”
“Oh, I understand.”
After spitting out what was inside, the warrior barely got up and answered.
When the sorting of the bodies was completed to some extent, nearly three cartloads of items were left behind.
Then, the middle-aged man wearing the uniform from before came up and spoke to the warriors.
“Let’s go.”
A middle-aged man in uniform took the lead, and warriors in red belts pulled a cart piled with corpses.
The cart moved along a narrow slope and stopped only after reaching the cliff at the foot of the mountain in half an hour.
A middle-aged man in uniform took out something from his pocket.
It was a talisman.
[Chae(鎖)]
It was written, and a middle-aged man in uniform said as he attached amulets to each of the dead bodies on the cart.
“Don’t look at the bottom of the cliff when you throw.”
“All right.”
The warriors in red belts responded casually and threw the corpses with talismans down the cliff one after another as if they were used to it.
Seeing this, the new warrior couldn’t understand it.
If it’s a body that can’t be used, it would be cleaner to just burn it, but if you throw it all in a place like this, wouldn’t the area below be literally overflowing with corpses?
Even in broad daylight, it would be so terrible that you wouldn’t even dare to go down there.
The new warrior asked the gunner who was also carrying the body.
“senior. “Why are you throwing it off the cliff here when you can just burn it?”
“I’m just going to do as I’m told. What are you curious about?”
“So, I’m sorry.”
Looking at the new recruit who was so discouraged that he kept his mouth shut, the gunner clicked his tongue and spoke in a low voice.
“Listen and let it go with one ear. “I don’t know, but I heard that the water stream coming down from the cliff here continues down a tributary of the cave.”
“What does that have to do with this?”
“You said you didn’t know. They say it’s a good thing, but for low-ranking people like us, it’s okay to just do as we’re told. I had doubts for no reason and it only lasted four months. Do you understand?”
“…….All right.”
‘food?’
What kind of nutrients are you talking about?
I didn’t understand at all.
By the way, this is what they did every time the gateway to Sihyeolgok progressed. How many corpses were dumped under this cliff?
As of now, there are over a hundred.
– Creepy!
I looked down without thinking, and in an instant, I got goosebumps all over my body.
It felt like something eerie and ugly was creeping up in the darkness that felt like I was being sucked into it.
-widely!
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“omg!”
Then someone grabbed his shoulder.
He was a man in uniform who used to attach amulets.
A man wearing a uniform spoke in a low voice to the startled new warrior.
“What did you say earlier?”
“yes?”
“What did I say earlier?”
“Well, don’t look at the bottom of the cliff…”
“If you do it, you’d better never look at it.”
“yes yes?”
As he looked confused, the man in uniform warned him in a meaningful tone.
“You could be possessed.”
What does it mean to be possessed?
* * *
It was about an hour and a half after the battle to secure the flag began.
As a considerable amount of time had passed, nearly half of the flags had been discovered by the boys, and the fight to defend and recapture them was in progress.
However, an unexpected variable occurred within this battle to capture the flag.
that,
-Kkkkkkk!
It was the appearance of Galjeo, an imamangryang.
Even so, he was so ferocious that he could not be compared to a wild beast, and for boys who were banned from even internal attacks and had no weapons, it could be said to be the worst variable.
In particular, boys who were searching various places for the flag alone without team members were being attacked and killed indiscriminately.
-Quad!
“Kwaaaaaak!”
In the middle of the mountainside, another boy was attacked by Galger.
The galger liked human heads, so it crushed them with its vicious teeth and ate them.
I didn’t even eat any other parts.
As a result, bodies with crushed heads were discovered all over the mountain, raising the boys’ alertness to the extreme.
“Shit. what’s this? “Is this really what happened because we fought?”
One group that had not yet found the flag was shocked when they discovered the body.
No matter how you look at this, it was not a sign that he had died in a fight.
“No matter how much inner strength is banned, you could have been attacked by a wild beast?”
“That’s right. “These are teeth marks.”
“no. Even if it is a wild beast, can it chew off the whole head? “Even if it was Daeho, wouldn’t you have eaten the bones of his head?”
A corpse without its entire head.
No matter how much I looked, I couldn’t understand it.
Mok Yu-cheon, who was with them, had puffy eyes under his eyes.
‘ha…….’
This place really felt like hell.
During the battle to capture the flag, the five of us lost three of our fellow boys and were running around looking for another flag.
However, in the process, I saw over twenty corpses.
Only about three of them appeared to have died in a fierce fight over the flag, and the rest met strange deaths.
There are ten headless bodies like this one.
And they found seven cleanly dead bodies.
‘……Most of them had their necks broken.’
Although not all had their necks broken, most seemed to have been killed in a similar manner.
It wasn’t a hand-to-hand combat or a fierce fight, but it seemed like he died without even being able to resist someone properly.
‘what? how?’
Those killed in this way seemed to have lost their lives unrelated to the flag.
The problem was this.
Everyone was having a hard time with their eyes turned on just by the flag fight, but it seemed like something unknown was killing the boys at random.
‘Who on earth does these things?’
A mountainside about 200 miles east of Mokyucheon Stream.
One of the real culprits he was curious about was absorbing the death energy by placing his hand on the chest of a headless corpse.
He was none other than Mok Gyeong-un.
Mok Kyung-un, who was quickly absorbing the morale, soon withdrew his hand.
And he muttered as if he was displeased.
“It’s not much.”
-You mean fraud?
“yes.”
-Of course. Bodies affected by imaemangryang are eroded by the yogi and most of their energy is quickly used up.
Mokgyeongun clicked his tongue at Cheongnyeong’s words.
Even the energy that comes out when you die is used up so quickly.
It was quite embarrassing.
“Hmm.”
I tried to gain morale by moving diligently and killing more boys than Galjeo, but I was falling behind.
“It’s starting to get a little annoying.”
Unlike himself, who took time because he had to absorb the morale, Lee Galjeo, Lee Mae-mang-ryang, only ate the head and went after another prey.
This should be enough to fill you up, but you keep eating.
“It feels like I’m eating the scraps left behind by others.”
-Hmm.
“Why are you doing that?”
-But this guy… seems to be eating more than expected.
Mo Kyung-un shrugged his shoulders and said.
“It looks like you’re not full.”
-no. That’s a lot more than that. I’m sure I’m full at this level, but I’m eating quite a bit.
“It could be because it’s a period of growing up.”
-……..i get it.
“What?”
-Maybe it’s just before it becomes an adult.
“The Eucharist?”
-okay. Among these species, there are those that need a lot of energy to reproduce or become adults.
“Are you saying Galjeo is that type too?”
-maybe?
Mok Gyeong-un stroked his chin as if he was troubled by the young man’s words.
If this guy continues to eat like this, his share will be significantly reduced.
Accordingly, Mok Gyeong-un decided to change direction.
“That won’t work. “I just need to catch this guy first.”
I thought that if I left it alone, it would actually benefit me by causing confusion to those around me.
But in its current state, it only serves as a hindrance.
That’s why Mok Gyeong-un decided to kill Galjeo first.
-How do you mean that?
“can you help me?
-You said you could do it on your own, but it seems you can’t do anything in this situation.
The young man snorted and said.
-Then get me out of this cramped place.
Mok Gyeong-un held the wooden doll with her in it, made a hand sign, and recited a spell.
“Remove Yeonwon land tax and former Hwandowon!”
-Srrrrr!
Soon, a large shadow appeared from the wooden doll, and soon, Cheongryeong slowly appeared above it, holding a bear bag.
After coming out, she stretched and said that she felt refreshed.
-After all, it’s much better than being locked up. Phew.
Cheongnyeong took a bite of the gombangdae and exhaled a long puff of smoke.
Mok Gyeong-un spoke to her.
“Can you confirm where he is? No, if you can remove it from the Cheongnyeong line, it’s okay.”
-It’s true even if you don’t fuss. Wait.
-Pot!
The spirit soon soared into the sky.
Unlike the demonic monk, she was of a high rank, so she had a very wide range of movement radius even without being possessed by a physical body.
The blue spirit flew higher than the treetops and looked around.
Her blood-red ears slowly scanned the entire mountain.
‘Hmm.’
But Cheongryeong, who was looking around, raised one eyebrow.
I thought that if it was that obsessed with eating humans, she would find it right away, but contrary to expectations, she couldn’t see it in her ears.
Since he is on the verge of becoming a monster, he must be overflowing with energy, but it is strange.
‘Where on earth did they go?’
Isn’t it around here?
As a result, Cheongnyeong flew to a higher place.
This was because it was thought that Galjeo may have moved further away.
As I look around,
-Startle!
Her eyes were focused somewhere.
‘under!’
An exclamation naturally flowed from the young man’s mouth.
I couldn’t know this because I couldn’t feel any outside energy when I was inside the wooden doll.
But now, of course, I had no choice but to see it.
No, it would be strange if your eyes and ears could not see this enormous thing.
An immeasurable scream was coming from the far cliff side where she was looking.
So she went straight down.
Mo Kyung-un asked.
“Have you found it already?”
-no. It’s not visible. Rather, you should quickly follow me now.
Mok Kyung-un could not hide his surprise at her somewhat excited voice.
Either way, the spirit flew away first, as if guiding it somewhere.
Mo Kyung-un followed her.
* * *
It wasn’t that far away.
The place, about an angle away, was in the direction of a cliff located deep within the edge of the mountain.
Looking at the floor,
‘Wheel tracks?’
The slope was full of wheel marks, as if a cart had been pulled.
I’m leaving wondering,
-Startle!
Mo Gyeong-un’s steps stopped for a moment due to the evil energy coming from in front of him.
‘What the hell is this…’
Ever since my demon eyes opened and my sixth sense opened, I couldn’t help but become sensitive to these things, so why didn’t I notice this until now?
Feeling suspicious about this, I looked around.
Then I discovered something.
‘ah……’
Amulets and engraved sayings stuck between cliffs and trees.
They were controlling the evil that was flowing out so that it could not come out.
But even though there are so many talismans attached to it, if you get close enough to see this tremendous evil, what on earth is there?
When we reached the place where the wheel tracks were cut off, we saw Cheongryeong sitting in front of the cliff, smoking a gombangdae.
-Can you see it?
Mok Kyung-un’s skin trembled at her question.
-Kaaaaaa!
-Quaaaaaaaaaaa!
-Please help me!
-please! please!
An endless screaming sound coming from below.
Along with that sound, an evil energy that made my skin feel stinging was crashing upward as if it was anxious because it couldn’t come up.
-Look closer.
Mok Kyung-un approached the edge of the cliff and looked down.
“Ahhh.”
It was like an abyss.
Incalculable resentment was coming together, spewing out endless malice and ferocity.
Even though there were amulets posted all over the cliff, even if you were weak-minded, just looking at them would make you faint.
-Rebirth. Do you know what solitude is?
“……How could you not know?”
I knew almost nothing about herbs and poisons.
Of course, I have never seen loneliness in person, but I remember hearing about it from my grandfather.
It is a secret art derived from the southern Manchurian region where dozens or hundreds of poisonous animals are put into a jar and the lid is not opened until only one survives.
The worst one that survived was called Lonely.
“Why are you asking that?”
Cheongnyeong said, twitching the corner of his mouth.
-There is loneliness down there.
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