Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 157
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-Tsrrrr!
-Crack! Crunch!
The sound of the bedbug being smashed followed by the angry cries of Bin-yi.
The room that had been filled with the faint scent of cilantro was soon filled with the smell of rust from corroded iron.
The reason bedbugs smell like coriander is because the scientific name for coriander, Coriandrum sativum, comes from the Greek word koriós, meaning bedbug.
In both the East and the West, coriander is called “bindaepul” because it has a scent similar to that of a bedbug.
Also, the reason why the room was filled with the rust smell from the corroded iron as the guys died was because of their excrement and the blood they had in their stomachs.
The bed bug droppings that had been dripping down the wall earlier were essentially digested blood, which had oxidized and contained iron, giving off an unpleasant, rusty smell. In addition, the smell came from the fact that the bugs were bursting and spewing digested blood everywhere.
‘Binah! Hit the lantern that Dad dropped on the bed and get out!’
-Tsurut!
I made a request in my heart to Bin, who was struggling with her whole body wrapped around me to protect me.
Since the bean is so strong, it would be okay to fight it like this, but there is no way to know how far the bean bugs have spread throughout the village, and I need to warn the others quickly.
-widely.
-Wow, wow.
The sound of fire spreading as Binnie’s tail swishes along with my request.
Soon after, I started to feel heat on one side, and Bin-yi started to drag me outside.
Bin, who came out, shook his body, and put me down on one side, and then hit the ground.
-Tsrrrr!
-Bang! Bam!
In Korea, they say that flattened things are called bindaetteok, and in Bin-i’s anger, the binda were crushed into a shape that became even flatter.
Crimson blood dripping from a crushed worm illuminated by the blazing flames.
As the squirming bugs dyed the soil around Bin-yi red and disappeared without a trace, Bin-yi and I, who had escaped from the eerie place, looked at the flames.
Lee Tae’s subordinates, who had been asked to patrol due to the continued murders, suddenly rushed into the fire and started screaming.
“Oh, it’s fire!”
“Fire! There’s a fire!”
Then, one by one, lights started turning on in the surrounding houses.
That was when.
Two houses that are clearly different from each other catch the eye.
The lights were not on in two other houses near the first victim’s house and the second victim’s house.
This much noise and a fire raging nearby would be enough to wake you up, but the two houses are as quiet as a mouse.
He ran to the sight and shouted at the four people who were at a loss, saying, “Fire!”
“Leave the fire alone and check if there are any living people in those two houses! You have to be careful. There are bedbugs!”
“Are you talking about a stray dog?”
“What’s wrong?”
The number of people who were trying to run to where I was pointing, but couldn’t quickly understand the meaning of my words, ‘the pest’, and blinked in confusion.
That is to be expected, as bedbugs are insects that can be found in any home, although there may be differences in the number of them in this day and age.
Before the pesticide known as DDT, which has a long name of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, was used.
Because bedbugs are an inseparable part of our lives.
Bedbugs were the ones that would sneak into cracks in houses and bedding and persistently harass people.
So, he told them to beware of bedbugs, which are common anywhere, but the people were making such bewildered expressions because they didn’t understand what he meant.
He shouted again, pointing in the direction of the burning house.
“It’s not just bugs, it’s those guys!”
“What? Eek!”
“Ugh! What, what kind of bug is that!”
A crowd of people are terrified at the sight of bedbugs crawling out in the direction of the burning house pointed by my fingertips.
Turtle-like bugs the size of the palm of a hand were crawling out of the burning house in all directions to escape the flames.
The crowd was startled by the sight and quickly ran to another house.
“Go, go!”
“Let’s go quickly!”
‘People will take care of themselves. We just have to stop the lice from spreading any further.’
Now that we’ve sent people to rescue the nearby damaged houses, it’s time to make sure the others don’t crawl out.
The bedbugs were faster than expected, so Bin-yi was instructed to go around the burning house and pop all the bedbugs.
“Binah! We have to stop those guys from escaping to other places! Go around the house and blow up all the guys who are escaping to other places!”
-Tsrrrr!
Bin-yi quickly circled the burning house as if he was playing ganggangsullae, and mercilessly struck down with his claws the bedbugs that were crawling out to survive.
And then, Itaewon, Seol, Hwaeun, Cho, and Yohwa came running from behind me from the boat.
Hwa-eun and Seol opened their eyes wide in shock at the sight of the burning house and Bin-yi killing lice the size of a palm in front of it.
“Oh, you crazy… What kind of bug is that the size of the palm of your hand!”
“Cho! Please help Yohwa and Bin!”
-Tsrrrr!
-Kissit!
At Hwa-eun’s request, the grass rises into the air, and when a tall demon moves around, the number of bedbugs decreases easily as they are hit.
I ordered Itaewon to do it since it seemed like it would be sorted out to this extent.
He told me to check on Itaewon’s subordinates who went to rescue people from a house where the lights were off.
“Itae, the men went to help the people in the dark house, but they haven’t come back yet. To help there…”
In the meantime, I was about to set fire to the house where the young couple died yesterday, but at that moment, one of Lee Tae’s subordinates came walking out of a nearby house.
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The man who came out trudging looked at Itae with blank eyes.
“Su, Sujang. Do, run away···.”
And then he reached out to Itae and fumbled around, then fell over.
-dump.
Sister Seol shuddered at the sight and cried out.
“Then what did I touch? Gyaaaah!”
As a martial artist, she wasn’t the type of person to yell at someone like that, but there were black lice stuck to the back of the fallen man.
They looked terrified, as their bellies were swelling in real time and clear fluid was dripping from some of their buttocks.
Bed bugs are truly voracious insects, sucking blood until their bellies are bloated, and when that is not enough, they drain only the fluid from the blood, reducing the size of their bellies and sucking even more blood.
So, the mysterious liquid that Sister Seol found in the bed can be said to be plasma with the blood cells removed.
As Sujeok fell, Itae ran towards him, calling his name in a loud voice.
“Hey, Yeon-geol!”
At first, Lee Tae didn’t know what to do, but then he ran to the man with a club leaning against the wall of a nearby house and beat the lice on his back.
-Thud! Thud!
“Yeon-geol! You idiot! Come to your senses!”
A man’s back is dyed red from the lice bursting out of his back.
Every time the club was swung, Itae’s face turned red.
A man who doesn’t even flinch when a club is swung around.
Hwa-eun shook her head at that sight.
The amount of blood in the body of an adult male is approximately 5 liters.
Bed bugs usually suck up to six times their body weight in one suck, so how much blood can a bed bug the size of your palm suck at once?
It is known that a person dies when the amount of blood lost exceeds 30%, so even at a glance, it is clear that the man is no longer alive.
If just 1.5 liters leak out, a person will die.
He approached Itae and grabbed his shoulder, which was now slapping his subordinate’s pale cheek.
“Yeon-geol, wake up! You idiot! Didn’t you say you wanted to see your mother back home! Yeon-geol!”
“Itaewon, he’s already dead.”
“Oh, no, Little Dragon. This guy is the best at diving, so he must be holding his breath!”
I guess I’m half out of my mind from this bizarre situation.
As I hesitated at Lee Tae’s reaction, Hwa Eun came over and spoke in a cold voice.
“Wake up! Are you planning on killing everyone else!?”
“Other than that?”
Then Itaewon blinks his eyes.
He nodded and said.
“We don’t know how many bugs are still in the village. Get everyone moving towards the docks.”
“Oh, right. Oh, I understand.”
The pirates who followed came running and helped Itaewon evacuate the people to the dock.
As the two houses that had been left untouched and the house where the second victim had been found were further burned down, more bedbugs began crawling out again.
The time now is roughly between 1 and 3 o’clock in the Ox era.
It looked like it was going to be a long night.
“We have to stop the insects from entering Cho, Bin, and Yohwa Village! There doesn’t seem to be much left, so let’s take care of them quickly!”
-Tsururut!
-Kissishit!
A swarm of black bedbugs and three poisonous insects clashed against the backdrop of a burning house, and the bedbugs’ screams echoed across the night sky.
-Crack!
-Kkiiiiiiii···.
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As day broke, all the lice disappeared as if by magic.
To begin with, bedbugs are nocturnal insects, and they have the characteristic of hiding in places like the crevices of beds or the gaps in wallpaper when the sun rises, so they have all gone somewhere to hide.
“Ugh, I’m so tired.”
Sister Seol flopped down on the seat to avoid the bedbugs that were stuck to the floor.
And the men who had rushed to help us behind my sister collapsed on the floor with expressions of exhaustion.
“Gasp gasp… It’s finally over.”
“It was terrible.”
I didn’t think there would be many bedbugs coming out of the four houses, but that’s why we fought until the break of dawn.
That was because the guys were the vanguard.
When the house where the first victim was found and three additional houses were burned, the commotion was thought to be over.
Because I got rid of all the bedbugs that were crawling out of your house.
But Seol’s sister points to the first house, which has already burned down and only the embers remain.
“Dragon! More are coming!”
“More!?”
As I raised my eyes at the words that more were coming, an endless stream of bedbugs began to swarm out from the shadow of the mountain behind the first house where only embers remained.
I feel like maybe the source of the lice was that mountain.
That’s why we had to fight until daybreak, and when daybreak came, the fight was finally over.
Well, it’s not exactly over, but the guys just stepped back and there was a brief lull.
“Are you okay too?”
-Tsurut!
-Kishishi.
-Tsrrrr.
Cho and Bin look lively, while Yohwa looks a bit exhausted.
When I put my finger in the mouth of the demon, I felt a slight sense of weakness as if much more yang energy was being lost than before.
He said, sitting on the floor with his sister Seol.
“Oh, I’m tired too. It’s dirty, so Chorang, Yohwa, and Bin-i should go to the water’s edge and wash up.”
The three of them have legs covered in dried bedbugs’ bodily fluids.
When I pointed that out, the three of them looked around at themselves and nodded.
As the three ladies left for the bath, Hwa-eun came over and handed them water, saying:
“Are you okay, Soryong?”
“Yes. What about Hwa-eun?”
“I’m fine.”
Then, I heard the voice of my sister Seol next to me saying that she was going to die.
“I’m not okay. Take care of me too…”
As I approached Seol Nui with a smiling face and handed her some water, she gulped it down.
Seol’s sister, who had been drinking water, shivered, showing a disgust similar to that of a bedbug or a cockroach.
“I hate bugs the most. But you’re coming tonight, right?”
“Maybe?”
“We can’t leave until our ship is repaired, right?”
“Probably, since you said you ripped out all the new places.”
They tore up the leaky part, saying they had to do some waterproofing work, so I’m stuck here for about a week.
My sister sighed deeply at my answer.
“Haa… But where did such a large bug come from?”
To answer that question, I brought one that still had some shape and examined it.
‘It’s no different from Cimex lectularius···.’
Cimicidae is a group of insects that feed on the blood of warm-blooded animals and are commonly called bedbugs.
And among them, the bedbugs that we are most familiar with are called Simex, and the bedbugs that have invaded the village look almost exactly like Simex.
It was almost as if the two were the same species, except that the one that had grown to the size of the palm of one’s hand and had a stronger saliva with a substance that prevented blood clotting and a mild anesthetic effect.
I asked my sister Seol with a serious expression, as something came to mind.
“Doesn’t it smell the same?”
“Huh? Smell? The smell of incense?”
Sister Seol seemed to think I was talking about the smell of coriander, which is the smell of bedbugs, but she shook her head and answered.
“No. Doesn’t it feel the same as when you were in the military last time?”
“Military horse!?”
Seol’s sister is startled by the word ‘military horse’.
Hwa-eun nodded and agreed with my opinion.
“Sure. The location where the odor appeared is also very coincidental. If it’s the Jangjiang Saphyop, it’s a place where it can easily spread out in all directions. Just as Soryong said, it smells the same.”
The reason I mentioned the military horse incident was because, strangely, I had a feeling that this reeked of a misreading.
