Reverse Interview 2
Mr. Cheolsan was in a coma for three days.
We continued to ask around in the surrounding villages, starting from the abandoned duct.
They were all there to find the hiding place of Tak Yun-yang, the Blood-Handled Nachal.
This was because Cheolsan Ajae explained that in order to learn the Blood Poison Claw, human blood and bone marrow were absolutely necessary, so if he checked the information about missing people in the village, he would be able to quickly pinpoint the area around the bastard’s hideout.
My activities come next.
“exactly?”
“Yes, sir. Well, there are one or two people who go missing in the forest every year, but there are no cases of people going missing periodically or many people going missing at once. Even those who go missing are usually found soon after, unless it’s a special case.”
“Thank you for your kind words, village chief.”
“No. I am honored to be able to help the famous head of the Sacheondang family.”
“Okay, that’s it.”
The last village a day’s drive away from the closed duct.
In the new village I visited, I checked with the village chief about the missing people and returned.
Without any particular income.
What we were asking about was information about mass disappearances of people, and the same answer was given in every village we visited: that while there are occasional cases of people disappearing after entering dense jungles, there are no mass disappearances of people.
“There’s nothing special about this town either?”
“That’s strange, Sohyeop. I thought it would be around here since the bastard discovered us and revealed himself···.”
If he had discovered the Tang family’s warriors and revealed himself, I thought his base would be near our abandoned house, but even after searching all the villages within a day’s distance of our abandoned house, there was no trace of him.
If it wasn’t someone I knew, at least someone I had seen should have come out, but there was no trace of the guy.
‘You say it’s strange?’
I also thought Mr. Cheolsan’s story was plausible, so I joined the search for him, but there was no trace of him.
It was strange, after all.
So as I was leaving the last village, I thought back to what he had said when he had appeared.
That’s because people tend to unknowingly leak information about themselves.
‘What did that kid say… Ah!’
Let’s focus our thoughts for a moment and think back to the past, and the first thing the guy said that came to mind.
I remembered the first thing he said to me as he grabbed me by the back of my neck.
“I heard that the guys from Dangga came to Haenam Island, so I came to check, but I didn’t expect to find Mandokshin-gun’s son injured and alone.”
Something came to mind from what the guy said as he appeared, so I quickly asked Mr. Cheolsan.
“Ah! Do you remember what you said when the old man showed up?”
“What did he say when he showed up? Well, I don’t remember very well, but do you?”
‘Oh my, you were out of your mind because you got stuck in the stone steps.’
Everyone has a dark past, and it is a secret that must be kept hidden.
I nodded and answered, thinking there was no need to remind me if I didn’t remember.
“Ah… You don’t remember? I just remembered that moment, and he said, ‘I heard that the guys from Dangga came to Haenam Island, so I came and looked…’”
“however?”
A guy named Cheolsan who has never read a mystery novel and can’t figure out the plot.
I calmed my stuffy mind and answered.
“Now, listen carefully. Didn’t the guy say, ‘The guys from Dangga came to Haenam Island?’”
“yes?”
“In other words, someone heard that the Dang family’s people had come to Haenam Island. If we check where the Dang family had passed through, wouldn’t we be able to find the person who told him that the Dang family had come to Haenam Island?
“No, you can confirm it by looking at the montage, or something like that. Or you can describe the guy’s appearance and ask if he’s seen anything like that.”
“Oh! I see! I thought you only knew about poisons, but you’re so wise in many ways. How did you know that? It was like I was looking at a Zhuge Liang.”
‘It’s like an escape room cafe, so if you go there often and play a lot of mystery games with other YouTubers, that’s what happens.’
And so the exploration began again.
Fortunately, as soon as the Dangga people arrived in Haenam, they headed north to the village where the herbalist was, where the port was, and then to the ruins near where I was, so I was able to hear the story about the guy at the port.
“Ah! Are you talking about the one with the red hands?”
“Oh! That’s right! You know?”
“Yes. He comes once a month without fail to buy grain. He lives on the island, and it takes three days to get here. He comes once and buys about a month’s worth, or ten days’ worth.”
“Oh! Thank you.”
Valuable information confirmed at the author’s rice store.
The information was that the guy bought rice from the rice shop once a month.
“Then, should we check out the villages that are three days away?”
Since he was the guy who leaked information about where he lived, I thought that I could just check the village three days away from the port, but Mr. Cheolsan shook his head.
“No. After listening to my story and thinking about it carefully, I think we shouldn’t think so simply.”
“Simply?”
The old man’s words sound like he’s dissing me.
He asked again, lowering the old man’s interview score by one point.
‘A personality that can turn employees around? Interview -10 points.’
“Then what?”
“He’s a martial artist. It shouldn’t take three days to walk, but three days to travel. He goes to buy grain once a month, so how could he buy ten days’ worth? Considering the back and forth and his martial arts skills, it’s definitely about that distance.”
“Ah, definitely···.”
The word light-weight brought to mind the thrill I felt while riding on the back of an old man.
Because with every step I took, it flew a few meters.
‘The light weight was definitely great. That was an interview score +10 points.’
“And, I guess there are no disciples.”
“Oh, I see. You mean you only buy grain for ten days in a month?”
“yes.”
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The old man from Cheolsan who teaches one and awakens ten.
If this was a past life, he would have been someone who could even look up to an escape room cafe expert.
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“That’s strange.”
West of Haenam Island ten days later.
In the village we stopped by a little while ago, Mr. Cheolsan, who had heard the same old story, held his chin with an expression of incomprehension.
Haenam Island is an island as large as Gyeonggi-do and Chungcheong-do combined.
That’s why it was important to specify the location, because the three of us, the old man and his warriors, couldn’t cover everything, and we couldn’t find any trace of the bastard near a certain location.
“If it’s a seven-day journey, it must be to the west. Isn’t that strange?”
“Gaju, since the guy’s martial arts are similar to that of the Supreme Gaju, Mandokshin-gun, let’s search further west, toward the coast.”
“No. Even so, I don’t think he would have gone all out to buy rice. Surely this would be about right?”
If it is seven days from the port, the east and south are the sea, and the north is the port.
Then, the only thing left is the west.
So, as I almost certainly expected, there were no missing people here either.
It was at the entrance of the village that we were all thinking about this together.
The voice of the village chief, who had come running out in a hurry, was heard again.
“Huk, huk! Oh my, there you are! Old man!”
“Huh? Why are you in such a hurry? Did something come to mind?”
The village chief nods his head to Mr. Cheolsan’s question.
The village chief, who had been catching his breath for a while, answered in a weary voice.
“Hey, why don’t you visit the Yeo tribe village? Gasp… I had forgotten, but I remember hearing that there was some kind of strange incident in the Yeo tribe village along the coast….”
“Necrophilia? Female clan?”
If it’s necrosis, then it might be what we’re looking for.
Mr. Cheolsan looked at me with an expression that asked what kind of woman I was.
Since he didn’t know much about Haenam, I explained it to him step by step.
“In addition to the Han people, there are two other tribes living in Haenam, called the Li and the Ye. The Li are not friendly to the Han people, but the Ye people have slightly different personalities in each village, but they are generally friendly to the Han people.”
The Li and Yeo tribes, a minority group living in Haenam.
Unlike the Li people who do not even allow them to enter the village, the Ye people are a very friendly minority group towards the Han people. They are a very friendly tribe that even offers food to guests when they visit.
I also have a good impression of the women because I once got lost in the jungle while catching snakes and received help from them.
“Really? Well, I guess I’ll have to stop by there. Thanks, Chief. By the way, do you happen to know where the village is where the bizarre incident occurred?”
“Yes, it’s a day’s drive northwest from here.”
“Thank you!”
Riding on the back of Mr. Cheolsan for half a day.
It was when we reached the coast after making our way through the jungle and moved a little along the coastline.
The smoke rising in the distance.
Near the coast, on a mountain ridge, roofs rising like pine mushrooms between the jungle forests came into view.
“I guess that’s it!”
“When you reach the village entrance, the women will welcome you as guests.”
“I see. I guess I need to find the entrance.”
After searching briefly along the coast, at the bottom of the mountain ridge, we found a wooden gate that seemed to be the entrance to the village, and as we arrived at the entrance, people began to flock to it.
People wearing black clothes embroidered with red thread.
These were the Yeojok, wearing metal decorations that jangled on their chests, black high socks, and short skirts for both men and women.
“What are the Han people doing in the Yeo village?”
An old man appeared among the crowd of people, accompanied by two or three young men from the village.
He appeared to be a village chief or a chieftain.
“Ah, my name is Dangcheolsan, the head of the Dang family in Sacheon. The reason we came here is······.”
While the old man from Cheolsan began talking to the chieftain of the Yeo tribe, I looked at the faces of the people who had appeared at the entrance of the village.
It was because from the moment I arrived, there was something strange about the atmosphere.
The atmosphere in the town felt extremely gloomy.
What should I say? Should I say that the village is lifeless?
It was so quiet that I could barely hear the children playing or the women’s voices, and even the chirping of birds.
Moreover, since Haenam is a hot place, people tend to feel lethargic in the middle of the day, but the appearance of the women who appeared at the entrance to the village was all strange.
More than half of them had their eyes open and had expressions that seemed to indicate that they were extremely lethargic.
‘What is this? It looks like they took some drugs as a group?’
I feel like I’m drunk on some kind of drug.
As I was feeling strange at the sight, the old chief’s firm voice was heard.
“I don’t know about the disappearance, and there’s nothing wrong in our village. Then, have a safe trip.”
“But, there are so few people compared to the house…. And another disease?”
“It’s not something the Han Chinese should be interested in!”
It was a strange situation, when a guest came to the village, the women would gather at the entrance to welcome them and guide them into the village.
When I looked in the direction where the sound was coming from, I saw Mr. Cheolsan looking at me with an expression that suggested that my explanation of being friendly was a bit off.
‘No, I explained it as a case-by-case basis···.’
And at that moment.
-dump.
There was a sound of something falling, and one of the villagers watching us fell to the ground.
‘A child?’
The crowd splits when one person falls.
What emerged from the crowd of people was a collapsed little girl. I could see her gasping for breath and her chest rising and falling rapidly.
And at that sight, the village chief ran like crazy, held the child in his arms, and shouted.
“Keuheuk. Mae, Maejin! Ah, no! You are the only one of my blood relatives left, and how can you get sick too!”
An old man holding a child and crying.
The old man Cheolsan quickly ran towards the old man and made a suggestion.
He said he knew medicine, so he would take a look.
“Sir, I have learned medicine, so I will take a look at the child.”
“Medicine? Are you saying you learned the medicine of the Central Plains!?”
“Yes. I am not a doctor, but I know medical books and techniques, so I will examine the child.”
The village was about to kick him out, but the atmosphere was reversed when it was discovered that Mr. Cheolsan knew medical skills.
From being unwelcome guests in the village, we have become God’s companions.
God.
“Father, please! Uh, please save our Maejin! Ma, there’s a plague in the village, children are dying, and even healthy people are suffering! I tried to call the Han doctor, but he won’t come here!”
“Okay, I’ll take the child home for now.”
“Ah, I see! What are you guys doing! Hurry up and bring the congressman’s party to our house!”
As expected, it seems that the God of Medicine is treated with respect regardless of the era.
And when he heard that the old man had studied medicine, Sacheondangga looked slightly different.
I was hesitant because he was from a family that practiced martial arts through poison, but now that you mention him, he is the God of Medicine.
‘Because God’s score is a bit high.’
