Poison Valley 2
The opinion of Grandfather Mandokshin and Grand Master Gupae that there must be something big.
No matter how close I was to being a poisonous otaku, there was something about people being perceptive.
That’s why I hid my joy inside and kept a serious expression on my face.
“This is a really big deal.”
‘If an otaku wants to live well as a secret otaku, they have to be good at cosplaying as regular people. But it’s difficult because the corners of their mouths keep turning up.’
As I was trying to hide my joy, Grandfather Mandokshin said that he would personally go out to scout before going further into Aenoe Mountain.
You never know what might happen, so for your safety, please come and check for yourself.
Because he is the best among us.
“I will go and look around myself, so everyone retreat to where the Yunjiang and Amuk Rivers meet. There still seem to be birds flying over there.”
“Are you talking about across the river?”
“Yeah, that’s it.”
When I looked at the place that Grandfather Mandokshin-gun was pointing to, a little downstream from the river we had crossed, beyond the place where the two rivers met and the current was strong, there were indeed birds flying around on the ground.
And upon closer inspection, I saw that there were no living things on this side of the river, and that on the other side of the river, birds and other insects could be seen flying around.
It feels like something is divided by the river.
He quickly nodded to his grandfather’s words and led his group across the river.
Because, just like my grandfather said, it could really be dangerous.
“Okay, Grandpa. Okay, let’s all step aside.”
“Understood, Little Dragon. What are you guys doing? Hurry up!”
“““Yes, my lord!”””
As I retreated back across the river with my companions, I thought deeply.
I wonder what kind of guy is waiting for me.
‘Are you saying that there is something that uses Aenosan Mountain as its habitat from this side of the river?’
But after thinking about it for a bit, I started to feel that something was a bit strange.
Aenosan is not a mountain that stands tall on the plains, but is located at the end of a mountain range.
Moreover, the large grassland in front of the mountain was quite wide.
I haven’t met many of these poisonous creatures in the past, but based on the ones I’ve met, most of them seem to have evolved into something special based on ordinary creatures from their previous lives.
The Blue and White Dragon is an evolved form of a fox, the Stone Dragon is an evolved form of a lizard, and the Yohwa is an evolved form of a spider.
If you think about it based on that, no matter how much you think about it, there has never been a guy who would claim such a vast land as his territory.
I don’t remember any base creature with such unique characteristics.
“No matter how much I think about it, it’s too big.”
So, I was thinking about it by myself and then I started talking to myself as if I didn’t understand, and my older sister tilted her head and asked me.
“What is it? A dragon?”
“Oh, Grandpa said there might be some kind of big poison, but there’s something a little strange.”
“Is that something strange?”
“Yes, the Blue and Black Dragons don’t eat food, but absorb natural energy, and aside from the ones that were hiding underground because their mother was hatching eggs at the time, they probably drove away the other ones around them, but this place is a bit strange.
There doesn’t seem to be any sign of life on the other side of the river that I can see now, and on the road leading to Aenosan Mountain. It seems too wide for something to claim this place as its territory.
If there is nothing here, then it would be difficult for animals that need to catch and eat something to find food. It would be different if they eat something like Wukong or Seokchuk.”
-Tsurut?
-Crunch?
“Except you guys.”
When their story comes up, they think we’re being called and poke their heads out from under their clothes.
Just in case he was going to provoke Sam, he quickly moved his hand to lightly tickle the heads of the five guys and pushed them back into their clothes.
-Knock knock.
Then I felt something tapping my shoulder.
When I turned my head, the demon was sticking its head out towards me.
“Yeah, yeah, we can’t forget our fairy tale either.”
After finally patting Yohwa on the head, I heard my older sister and the old man talking next to me.
“If it really is a creature that eats things like the little dragon said, then it would be strange that it doesn’t let anything live here, right?”
“Listening to what you said, Master Soryong, it really is true.”
“Yes, the way animals and plants live can be called ecology, and the harmony of such ecologies can be called an ecosystem, but this is really strange.
In the ecosystem, insects that are now invisible to the eye become food for smaller animals, which in turn attract larger animals that feed on them. So, not being able to see anything like this means that you will eventually starve.”
“Ecosystem?”
“Little Dragon, you speak like a master.”
While I was talking to my older sister and the head of the Gupae clan and looking towards the direction of Aenoesan Mountain where my grandfather had disappeared, my grandfather flew towards me from afar, performing light moves.
The old man, who had arrived at the river and jumped over it in one go, spoke with a serious expression.
“There’s nothing up to the entrance of Aenoesan Mountain. Maybe there’s nothing in Dokmulgok too? What a disaster.”
‘What the hell.’
A reality that has only just come to mind after hearing my grandfather’s words.
Because of the unknown creature, not only Aenoesan Mountain but also Dokmulgok Valley was completely emptied.
They said there were many mysterious poisons in the Dokmulgok, but it was clear that one of the two had either been eaten or disappeared.
Since this meant I wouldn’t be able to catch the other guys in the Dokmulgok, I felt like I absolutely had to catch this guy.
I caught a few on my way here, but that wasn’t enough.
‘If we do this, we’ll catch that big guy no matter what!’
“I don’t know who he is, but I can’t go back empty-handed, so I have to catch him.”
Then the grandfather nodded.
“I guess so. I guess I’ll find a place to stay here and start searching. Do you have any good ideas? You’re an expert on poison, Soryong. Haha.”
“Yeah, that’s right. An expert.”
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He smiled awkwardly and replied, remembering the incident during the reign of King Geummobong.
And the first thing I thought I should do in order to find the culprit that created this situation was to accurately determine the size and shape of this land where no living things could be seen.
This was because if you knew the approximate size and shape, you could figure out where the guy was hiding.
“First, let’s make a map to show how vast this land is without any beasts, Grandfather.”
“I guess you think the center will be the guy’s home?”
“Yes, no matter how wide the land is, the average beast tends to stay in the center of its own land.”
‘I’ll have to check the terrain, but they’re usually located in the center of their territory.’
So, I scattered the warriors and started to explore the surrounding area.
And when the warriors who had scattered returned in the evening and marked the border on the map, something strange began to appear.
“What is this? It seems strange.”
“Really.”
My grandfather and my older sister’s strange words.
I also nodded while looking at the map.
Because this was really weird.
“Starting from Mt. Aenoesan, to the north is a mountain range, to the west is a river, and at that point this empty land ends, and to the southeast along the river it continues endlessly?”
A strange, empty land with no life was marked on the map, and starting from Aenoe Mountain, the territory of the unknown great thing stretched endlessly to the southeast.
There were reports from warriors that creatures were seen along the river to the west and north, but to the east and south, there was no border and the land without creatures continued on endlessly.
A strange shape to be called the realm of living things.
“We should go along the river as soon as it’s light and see how far we can go. It shouldn’t be dangerous if we follow it this way without crossing the river.”
“I think that would definitely be a good idea.”
No matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand why it looks like this all night.
In the end, I couldn’t sleep until morning and hurried down the road as soon as the sun rose at dawn.
Sometimes, my grandfather would go across the river to scout out things.
Two days like that.
Two days had passed and there was no end to this area in sight.
“It’s been two days since I moved along the river to check its exact shape, but it’s strange.”
“That’s right, Grandpa. It’s too big.”
We all look together beyond the quiet grassland.
At that time, the warriors and the older sister who had prepared the food began to distribute it to the people.
“Little dragon, here. Have some of this. You guys, come to Mom so Dad can rest.”
“Thank you, Hwa-eun.”
My older sister now speaks very familiarly to me, as if she no longer feels uncomfortable calling me mom and dad.
It was when I was lying in the grass eating the jerky I had received from my older sister for lunch.
Dragonflies flying in the sky.
‘There are a lot of beds here. Is it because it’s by the river? Wait a minute?’
The sight of the flying dragonfly reminded me of something, so I jumped up and asked my grandfather.
It was because I felt like I needed to check something about the way the sleeping creatures looked.
“Grandpa, can you go back to where we came from? Can you check how many dragonflies are flying across the river?”
“Sleep? You seem to have some thoughts. Okay, I understand.”
The old man, who was putting dried rice cake in his mouth and letting it melt, retrace his steps at my request, his mouth trembling. After about an hour, he came back and told me the results of his check of the back.
“About half a day away, dragonflies were flying around on both the other side of the river and here. This is···”
As I nodded to my grandfather’s trailing words, he immediately gave an order.
“Divide the group into two. Those with lightness and agility and strong martial arts skills, step forward!”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
At the grandfather’s command, the people quickly divided into two groups and lined up, and my older sister quickly came over to me and asked.
“What’s going on, Little Dragon?”
It seemed like he suddenly stopped eating and wondered what was going on.
“I don’t know about the beasts on the ground, but don’t the dragonflies that fly in the sky fly around freely?”
“Right?”
“No matter how scary something is, if it is out of sight, a flying dragonfly will quickly return. Even if it senses something we do not know about, it will quickly fly back once it disappears.”
“Oh, then?”
“Yes, we thought it was something claiming its territory, but it looks like something is moving in front of it.”
Why this area is endless.
That was because an unidentified object kept moving in front of the guy.
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My grandfather, the old lord, and a few members of the poisonous blood corps decided to start practicing lightness as soon as we finished eating.
I wrapped myself in only a towel to make my body as light as possible.
It was because something seemed to be moving away from the front, so I had to increase my movement speed.
“Then, please take care of the other children.”
“Yes, Soryong, I will take care of the other children, so you go first.”
-Keep going!
-Tsurut!
-Kissit!
“Yes, I’m not going alone. I’m going first, so you guys follow slowly with your mom.”
“Let’s go, little dragon!”
“Yes, Grandpa!”
After eating, we crossed the river and formed a large group and ran forward.
When you spread your wings, you may become less able to sense the surroundings, so when you move in a group like this, you move in a large formation.
As we ran forward side by side, right behind Grandfather, next to the old man, the scenery quickly shifted backwards.
All that could be heard was the sound of water trickling down from the rapids of the flowing river.
“Gasp gasp.”
“Was it hard?”
“No, it’s bearable.”
Normally I would have died, but there was someone waiting for me in front, so how could I just collapse at this level?
After running for a while like that, when the surface of the river began to turn red in the evening glow, a dense jungle filled with subtropical plants and plants from the palm family that my sister and I had already seen before appeared before my eyes as I ran.
“This is a dense jungle, so everyone should be very vigilant about your surroundings! Unlike people, poisonous creatures are hiding and it’s hard to detect their presence when they jump out.”
“Understood. Your Majesty!”
“Okay, Grandpa!”
The appearance of the Yunnan jungle, which we had only heard stories about.
My grandfather immediately warned me to be more careful, and I continued to pursue him with even more caution, but my speed inevitably slowed down due to the dense jungle blocking my view.
Eventually, the old man who had stopped in front was about to suggest that we stop the chase for today.
“Let’s stop here today and tomorrow is the day… Yeah?”
-Whew.
A strange sound is heard.
-Whew.
-Whoosh.
The sound of huge bushes blowing in the wind.
No, it’s the sound of bamboo trees in a grove swaying in the strong wind.
Such a sound was heard from ahead of us, and as we pushed forward through the jungle, guided by the strange sound, a huge basin dyed red like blood came into view.
-Whooah.
“This, this is! The devil!?”
What appeared before our eyes was a swarm of blood-red ants the size of two human fists joined together.
