Reverse Interview 5
When the girl came to her senses, the first thing Mr. Cheolsan did was check on her condition.
And then he immediately asked the village chief to gather the sick again.
“It’s smaller than I thought, so it’s effective. Would you please gather the sick people again?”
“Oh, I see!”
As the village chief tried to run out after receiving a request from Mr. Cheolsan, he shouted to hold him back.
“for a moment!”
Chagas disease has an incubation period, and even if infected, only about 20 to 30 percent of people develop serious symptoms.
So if you were going to take medicine, everyone in the village had to take it.
It was clear that there were far more carriers than infected people.
“How can you do that? A small business?”
“Elder, if you can give medicine to everyone in the village, you should give it to everyone in the village. It’s not like you get sick right away after being bitten. It’s because you can’t tell who’s sick or when they’ll get sick.”
At my words, Mr. Cheolsan checked the condition of the girl who had come to her senses again and nodded.
“Hmm… Then I guess I’ll have to pour it into water and share it. It seems like it was a bit too much for the girl.”
Perhaps, based on the results of examining the girl earlier, he had concluded that dissolving parasites did not require as many toxic ingredients as dissolving go.
So, at the village chief’s direction, people gathered in front of the village chief’s house in the middle of the night.
The head of the family, Mr. Cheolsan, mixed the flowerpot that he owned with water and gave a spoonful to each person in the village.
In order to treat patients and carriers at the same time.
“Oh! Come to your senses!”
“My fever has gone down and my mind is clear!”
“Oh, you’re alive! You are truly the village’s benefactor!”
“Boohoo···.”
As Mr. Cheolsan said, many people regained consciousness or recovered their condition even after drinking the medicine dissolved in water.
He was a guy who was a bit too patriotic, no, a bit too patriotic, but to this extent, I thought it was okay to feel patriotic.
When people gathered and praised the old man’s medical skills, the old man shook his head and said,
“I just distributed the medicine. It’s all thanks to this small group. If the small group hadn’t figured out the cause, it would have been difficult. So your true benefactor is not me, but this small group.”
“Thank you, Sohyeop!”
“Thank you, Sohyeop!”
“Sohyeop is our village’s benefactor!”
In a black company, it would be common for a superior to steal an intern’s achievements, but this guy, Mr. Cheolsan, gives me credit even though I treated him with a medicine he made.
The evaluation of Sacheondangga has been revised upward.
Giving credit to your subordinates is a sign of good character.
I’m saying that it’s okay to treat me like your boss.
‘+100 points. Mr. Cheolsan seems like a nice guy. Even though he slapped me in the face.’
The village that was dying like that regained its vitality.
Of course, many people came to their senses, but that did not mean that everyone fully recovered.
Since Chagas disease causes organ deformities and enlargement and central nervous system abnormalities due to parasitic invasion, those who collapsed are quite likely to have permanent problems with their heart or organs.
Even if all the parasites that cause Chagas disease are killed, the enlarged heart and organs cannot be restored.
If your heart becomes enlarged for any reason in your previous life, the only treatment is a heart transplant.
But in this day and age, heart transplants were absurd, so most people would have to live with disabilities.
The village chief’s granddaughter was one of the luckiest.
The girl collapsed because she was weak, but before she had any major heart problems, her pulse went out of order after she ate the witch doctor’s prescription.
The old man took my pulse several times and concluded that there was no problem with my heart, so I guess I feel a little reassured?
The old man who fed a spoonful of medicine to every villager spoke to the village chief with a pitiful expression.
“I don’t think there’s anything we can do about people who are already seriously ill. When I return to Sacheon, I’ll ask the medical immortals and medicinal immortals about it. If it’s a disease caused by parasitic bugs on the human body, they might come here out of curiosity.”
According to Mr. Cheolsan, there are two famous doctors in the Central Plains: Uiseon and Yakseon.
The immortal of medicine, the immortal of medicine?
He asked them to look after the villagers, and the village chief responded with an apologetic expression.
“Oh, no. This alone is fortunate. The villagers are dying one by one… I thought they would all eventually die… I’m fortunate that they’re alive.”
A warm atmosphere.
The village was filled with the joyful voices of townspeople who had come to their senses and those who had recovered their health, but they were reminded that their work was not over yet.
Because the most important thing still remains.
“It’s too early to be happy, elders. The work isn’t over yet.”
“What does that mean, small business?”
“Oh, right. It’s not over yet.”
The village chief tilted his head at my words.
Since Mr. Cheolsan seemed to understand what I meant right away, he first checked how long the effects of the Mugoyonghwadan lasted.
I was thinking that it would be good if it was a drug with a long-lasting effect.
“Yes, sir. How long does the effect of the Mugwort last?”
“Originally, if you eat it, it will melt away and prevent the goiter from settling in your body for about three months. But if you mix it in water and feed it to someone, it will probably last about two weeks.”
Fortunately, the medicinal effect lasts for two weeks.
I asked the village chief.
“This disease is contracted by being bitten by an insect. What will happen if you are bitten by an insect again after two weeks?”
“Oh, right. I have to catch all the bugs! Sohyeop.”
Yes, kissing bugs are insects that live hidden in the roofs or crevices of walls of houses, and come out at night to bite people.
The women of Haenam Island wove their roofs with things like palm leaves, so there were probably a lot of kissing bugs living in the gaps between them.
Although they look like stink bugs, they are actually bed bugs, so their main habitat is in the crevices between roofs or rocks near houses.
First, I asked Mr. Cheolsan, who prides himself on being an expert on poison.
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“Yes, sir, do you have any poison that kills bugs?”
Since he boasted about being knowledgeable about poisons, I thought he would also deal with poisons found in insects.
Because we had to make pesticide.
And a medicine to keep insects away.
The old man smiles at my question.
“Then what do you mean? At my hometown, we have chrysanthemums that came from the West, but we won’t have them here. Let’s boil cinnamon bark and prickly ash fruit in water and sprinkle them on the ground.
They work very well on bugs. Are they poisonous to bugs? They die if they touch them directly, and if they smell it, they won’t come near, so that should be enough.”
‘Oh, that’s right. I heard that cinnamon and prickly ash were used as pesticides in the past?’
A memory from my previous life when I was studying insects and poisonous insects.
The old man from Cheolsan said that the eugenol in cinnamon and the sanshol in prickly ash were excellent insecticidal ingredients, which came to mind.
“Oh, I certainly remember hearing that. Chief, would you please gather some cinnamon and prickly ash? We will soak them in water as you said and sprinkle them all over the house, on the roof, and in the crevices of the rocks around the village.
And hang cinnamon and prickly ash on your bed to keep bedbugs from coming near you while you sleep.”
“Okay, Sohyeop. Then I will tell you to gather cinnamon and prickly ash!”
The village chief ran out in a hurry and shouted, which started a large-scale quarantine operation throughout the village.
“Gather cinnamon and prickly ash! Today! I will kill all these vicious bugs!”
An operation to eradicate the mosquitoes by excited townspeople.
An extermination operation against the night-time beetles that visit people and leave sinister kisses begins, and soon the entire village begins to be filled with the subtle scent of cinnamon and prickly ash.
***
After a noisy night of bug extermination, the town was expected to be tired, but the morning brought a total festival atmosphere.
No, it was a festival.
This was because the village festival was held as if the fact that we had been treated rudely at the door yesterday had never happened.
We were tired from sleeping late, but as soon as the sun rose in the morning, we were invited to a place like a village hall.
A bamboo tray on a long table.
A banquet was prepared on the tray, containing a variety of foods, including meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables.
“This is our female tribe’s welcoming banquet, Jangtakyeon. Please eat as much as you can, my benefactors. I’m truly sorry about yesterday!”
“““I’m sorry!””
Jang Tak-yeon has a long history and tradition.
It was literally a long table where we sat and ate the food that was prepared for us. For me, who was used to eating only lizard or snake meat, rice bought in the village, and radish grown behind the pipe, it was truly a sweet treat.
It was because they didn’t have enough money to buy meat even if they sold snake skin, so they only bought rice.
So, is this the first home-cooked meal I’ve had since my previous life?
‘Wow. I never thought I’d be this happy with a home-cooked meal.’
As we ate the food that was hastily prepared, like when we ate venison, the village women came running and smiled as they gave us food.
“So-hyeop, would you like some more meat?”
“Yes? Yes. Thank you!”
“Eat more fish too. It’s cute too.”
“Oh my, even fish!”
As the old men of Cheolsan and the warriors listened to the songs of the women and were treated to drinks, their moods began to improve.
The village chief, who was sitting at our table, asked in a cautious voice.
He said this with a very apologetic expression.
“Sir, what did you say at the village entrance yesterday?”
“What if that’s what you said at the village entrance?”
“You’re saying that people are looking for the missing village?”
“Oh, that’s right. But why is that?”
Although it was temporarily pushed down the priority list while we were curing the illness of the Yeo people, our original goal was to find the hideout of the great demon lord Tak Yun-yang, the Blood-Handled Na-chal.
In order to learn the martial art of blood poisoning that he had mastered, he needed human blood and marrow, so he was trying to find a village where a large number of people had gone missing.
So when Mr. Cheolsan nodded at the village chief’s question, the village chief answered with a bright face.
“I have no way of repaying your kindness, so I looked into it in case it might be of help. I heard a rather strange story.”
“A strange story?”
“Yes, among the women who came to their senses last night, there was a girl who had come from another village to get married. Her hometown had suffered a bizarre incident a few years ago, where people had been disappearing one by one…”
We all looked at each other as the village chief spoke.
I guess everyone was thinking the same thing.
‘Over there!’
“Yeah, where is it!?”
“So that’s over there···.”
At the urgent question of the old man Cheolsan, the village chief’s hand turned to the west.
***
Ghost town.
The village of the Yeojok, located in the mountains southwest of Haenam Island, which we arrived at after finding out from the village chief, was a ghost village.
Not a single living person was seen.
“I don’t see a single person?”
“It feels like we left the village in a hurry. It looks old, but the things in the house are still there.”
“But if there was a bizarre incident where people went missing, wouldn’t it be strange if people ran away and told those around them?”
Even though he was a very evil man in the big city, it felt like there were at least a hundred or two hundred people living in this village.
As we continued our search up the mountain, feeling strange at the sight of all the villagers disappearing,
The stench that creeps in just before reaching the top of the mountain.
The old man from Cheolsan muttered to himself with a darkened expression at the stench.
“The smell of a corpse···.”
And then it spread its wings and shot into the forest at high speed.
If it’s a smell, it’s the smell of a rotting corpse.
I also ran through the bushes with the other party warriors in the direction where the old man Cheolsan had disappeared.
Then, a large cave appeared.
A large cave entrance appeared, blocked by bamboo bars.
“Here?”
“Huh. What, what is this!?”
In the empty space next to the cave we arrived at, there were everything from skeletal bones to corpses that had died not too long ago.
A large number of corpses were piled up in a heap.
A tangled web of bugs hatching maggots, and countless other bugs and poisonous insects gathering to eat the maggots.
Even the snake trying to eat the bug.
And also dead snakes and poisonous insects and bugs that laid eggs there.
A hell where life and death repeat.
A horrific hellish scene unfolded before us.
“Even a poet has appeared···.”
“It’s terrible. Don’t look at the cow, cow slaughter!”
‘No, if you’re going to hide it, do it a little earlier···.’
The Tang family’s warriors blocked my path, but I had already seen the gruesome scene.
I saw the scene of a massacre live, something I had seen in a documentary in my past life.
It was so unrealistic that I didn’t even feel like it was a real corpse.
After a while, we came to our senses and broke the bars to check if there were any survivors inside the cave, but we could not find any survivors in the cave which was covered in sewage.
According to Mr. Cheolsan, there seems to have been a last survivor alive until recently, as there are corpses that died not long ago. He said that the bastard must have mastered his martial arts skills and killed them all.
So he said he thought that maybe that guy was the one who attacked him.
They say that your grandfather, who is your father, is a very scary person, but the fact that he attacked you means that you are not afraid of him?
‘That bad boy is finally done for.’
The horrific scene and the lack of survivors were also depressing for a moment.
The house where the man was believed to have lived was discovered right next to the cave, and while the old man Cheolsan and the warriors of Dangga were continuing the search to retrieve the secret supplies,
While crouching down, I watched the poisonous insects and snakes crawling towards the cave entrance alone.
The sudden sound of a bird’s wings flapping.
-Food addict.
I turned my head at the loud noise, and saw a large bird landing on a pile of corpses with a rather loud noise.
“Huh? Was there a bird like that?”
I’m not a bird expert, but I know quite a few birds, and I’ve never seen anything like it.
The bird, as large as an eagle, had long legs and purple feathers that reflected light and gave off a purple-green sheen, and the golden feathers on its head gave it the appearance of a king’s crown.
And what’s even more bizarre is that at first I thought it was trying to eat the corpses, but it was walking among the corpses, cutting off the heads of the snakes it was crawling around and swallowing them.
It was when I was blankly staring at that sight.
A warrior approached us after finishing his search.
“So-hyeop, what are you doing? Huh!? What about that bird? I can’t let the corpse be insulted any more.”
Musahana, thinking that the bird was going to eat the corpse, took a few steps forward, picked up a stone, and threw it at the bird.
Perhaps the guy thought the crow was a bird that eats corpses.
-widely!
-Kiruru!
Then, the bird, who would have been surprised and run away, cried out loud and looked at Musa with red eyes.
Eyes that seem to be glaring at me for some reason.
Musa picked up another stone and threw it at the guy.
“What unlucky thing you are!”
-Foodduk!
The bird finally starts to fly away, avoiding the stone.
At the same time, a strange phenomenon began to occur.
The spot where the bird took off turned black as soon as it started flapping its wings, as if a spider had descended on the ground.
As the wind from the flapping wings spread around, snakes and poisonous insects began to turn over on the spot.
No, the boat flipped over in an instant.
The guys started melting right away.
Everything from corpses to bugs and snakes began to flow out like heated butter.
-Chiieek!
And from the arms of the Tang warrior who had approached the bird and thrown a stone, a thick white smoke began to rise.
As if I was holding dry ice in my arms, in water.
“Wow, Unghwang!”
The surprised Tang family’s warrior took the ox out of his bosom, but its volume shrank in an instant.
From what I learned after living with it for a few days, it is said that the purpose of the bear is to check for poison and temporarily block it, but since it reacted like that, it was clearly a very toxic animal.
Because the bear was vaporizing like crazy.
That was when.
A hand grabs the back of my neck.
“Ugh!”
As my body was being dragged towards the cave, Cheolsan Ajae shouted at the Tang family’s warriors.
“Get into the cave! That’s definitely a swan, a swan bird!”
‘What’s wrong?’
