Secret Cave 2
“Dragon, you lead us in the direction the flying uniforms are coming from.”
“Yes, father.”
As soon as my adoptive father heard that a swarm of bats had taken flight, he immediately gave me instructions.
He said to lead the people from the front.
Of course, given the nature of the jungle, someone was needed to clear the way, so they assigned warriors from the Beast Palace.
“A few members of the Fierce Wolf Brigade, go forward and clear the way for the little dragon to advance.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
“It was over there.”
“Understood, Little Dragon. Let’s go!”
“yes!”
As I went to the front of the group and gave directions according to the words of my adoptive father, the warriors of the Beast Palace rushed forward and began to clear a path by cutting down the jungle plants on the large road.
-Whoa! Whoa!
As the tall plants and vines of the jungle are cut down to create a path, the Mandokshin Army’s grandfather and the Dangga warriors follow right behind.
“We also follow Soryong!”
“Yes, my lord!”
He led the group along the ridge on the northern slope of Namsan Mountain, in the direction where he assumed the bat had flown earlier.
Every now and then, I go up to the sky with the candles and check the direction.
“There’s a cliff ahead, so turn right and go down.”
“Yes, Little Dragon!”
“Ryong-ah, Father said that it is getting dark, but he said that he will rest once he gets to the cave entrance, so hurry.”
“Okay, Sister Seol.”
Seol, who was leading the way and giving directions, relayed her adoptive father’s decision to first arrive at the destination and then camp, as the sun was setting.
It would certainly be better to use a cave than to be exposed to the night dew.
After answering Sister Seol’s words, he urged the warriors ahead.
“Let’s go a little faster.”
“Yes, Little Dragon!”
-Whoa! Whoa!
The warriors’ arms swung faster than before, and the dense jungle began to open up quickly.
It went on like that for a long time.
It was clear that they should have arrived by now, but the cave that the adoptive father had expected was not found.
The sun has already set, making it impossible to search for people.
“It was definitely around this time?”
-Tsrrrr!
The cave that follows me next to me confirms that this is the correct place, but it doesn’t appear.
I went up to the sky again and used the Myoaam Night Skill to check, but I couldn’t pinpoint the exact location because of the difference between seeing it from afar and arriving in person.
“It must have been around this time, but it’s getting dark so I can’t check.”
When I spoke to Hwa-eun and Seol, who were following me right behind, with embarrassed expressions, Seol nodded as if she understood and gave orders to the warriors of the Beast Palace.
“I’ll look into it from here. Release the reckless wolf.”
“Yes, Elder!”
At my older sister’s words, several wolves that the Beast Palace warriors had brought scattered in all directions and after a while.
From one side of the jungle, the howling of wolves began to echo.
-Aww!
“I think it’s over there!”
The wolf’s howl seemed to be a signal that something had been discovered.
Turn back towards the direction where the wolf howls are heard and wait a moment.
As we made our way through the jungle, we were able to find the cave, or rather, the place that was a cave, that our adoptive father had mentioned, in front of a wolf howling at the dark sky.
“Ryong-ah, I think this is it?”
“Hmm… I guess that’s true. It would be difficult to use a cave.”
The reason I thought it was a cave was because the large cave entrance was completely blocked by rocks and stones that had fallen down.
The entrance to the cave was completely blocked by fallen rocks, and vines growing between the rocks had joined in, completely blocking the entrance.
Seol’s sister used her lightness to check the top of the collapsed rock, but she said that there was a space where bats could come and go, but it was too ambiguous a space for a person to crawl into.
“There is space, but I don’t think a person would be able to crawl in.”
Then, after thinking about it for a while, the doctor decided to let us stay overnight.
“Now that it’s getting dark, let’s camp here.”
“All right!”
It wasn’t decided that this was the base of the Odokmun, and it was better to do a detailed search when it was bright.
Even if you raise your cat’s dark night skills, it doesn’t mean that it will be as bright as day. After all, you need to be good-looking to receive help from the Tang family.
Once it was daylight we decided to investigate further and quickly prepared a place to rest at the cave entrance.
The only place to rest is to cut grass, make a blanket, and light a fire.
It was while I was doing simple yoga around a campfire and leaving the guards to the beasts I brought from the Beast Palace while I was sleeping.
‘It’s cold, it’s cold.’
A chill felt while sleeping.
When I first woke up to the cold, the first thing I felt was my damp clothes.
As dawn broke, dew began to fall and my clothes were damp.
“Ugh… Even though it’s a hot place, the dawn is cold.”
When I got up, my sister Seol, who was sleeping next to me, was pulling at my parsley leaves because she was cold.
Dew was also falling on the back of the girl he was hugging as he slept.
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I covered Hwa-eun and Seol with parsley leaves to keep them from getting wet from the dew, and looked around.
Then, the sight of my grandfather and stepfather roasting half-dried meat in front of a campfire came into view.
They said that since they were both experts, they only needed to sleep two or three hours a day, but it seemed like they woke up earlier than other people.
“Is the little dragon awake? If you’re cold, come over here and warm yourself by the fire. There’s a lot of dew because it’s the north side of the mountain.”
“Yes, Grandpa.”
My grandfather tells me to come to the fire because of my presence.
As we approached the fire, my adoptive father held out some warm meat that was being grilled on skewers and spoke.
“Here, eat this and warm yourself up.”
“thank you.”
“By the way, I should give a beast to Soryong too. It doesn’t make sense for someone from the Beast Palace to not have any beasts.”
The reason my adoptive father said such things was because each of the people in the Beast Palace had an animal, and they all hugged it warmly like a sleeping bag while they slept.
I was also sleeping with the candle in my arms, but the candle was a bit cold.
I guess it’s because foxes are cold-blooded animals.
Then my grandfather smiled and said,
“You could just hug Hwa-eun and sleep, but why is the man so cautious? The wedding will be held later, but even if you have a child before then, it won’t be a big deal… No, Dang-ga is in a situation where his hands are precious, so he should be praised for doing well. Of course.”
“Ugh… Ugh….”
As I dramatically spat out the fatty meat from the skewer that had slipped into my windpipe instead of my esophagus, at my grandfather’s words, Cho crawled towards me.
The adults smiled when I put my head on their lap.
“Oh, you said those were females too? So, So-ryong is yours?”
“Well, it would be difficult to get off the animals because of those guys. I don’t know what the animals will do because they’re scared of those guys.”
-Tsk, tsk tsk···.
The adults’ suddenly embarrassing words linking my eldest daughter and me.
I was just waving my hand and saying, what on earth are you talking about?
“What, what is that? Cho and I, that, between parent and child···.”
-Knock! Knock. Knock knock knock···.
A rock could be heard falling from the cliff, as if a pebble had fallen from the top of the cliff.
Everyone’s eyes couldn’t help but turn towards the clear sound heard in the quiet of dawn.
As dawn broke, we all looked at the cliff above the pile of rocks.
And then.
Mandokshin-gun’s grandfather, who was looking at the cliff with us, suddenly shouted with a surprised expression.
“Huh? Th, that’s it!?”
And then he quickly launched an aerial attack towards the top of the collapsed rock that Seol Nui had just checked.
“What’s going on?”
“What is there?”
My adoptive father and I were looking at each other, wondering what could be the cause of my grandfather’s sudden behavior.
From above the pile of rocks I had quickly climbed, I heard my grandfather’s voice calling for my adoptive father.
“I think the Beast Princess should come and see you.”
Grandfather calling his adoptive father.
Since it seemed like Grandfather had discovered something, we followed our adoptive father and jumped up the rock. Grandfather was standing in front of what appeared to be the starting point of a crack in the entrance to a collapsed cave.
My grandfather was placing his hand on the spot in the rock where the crack had started, and he took his hand away and said,
“Look here, Beast Princess.”
“What is this!?”
“Handprint!?”
What was revealed in the early morning light was a human palm-shaped mark from where the grandfather had lifted his hand.
On the rocky surface of the cave, a red mark that looked like a human hand was clearly imprinted.
And when the upper vines hanging from it were removed, clear letters were revealed, even though they were a hundred years old.
“The Odokmun is sealed here forever.”
A writing clearly left behind by the ancestors of the Dangga and Yasugung families.
My adoptive father and I were amazed by the revealed letters.
“Oh!”
“This is the right place!?”
Perhaps it was because the place we had come to felt like the last stronghold of the old Odokmun.
“Yes. This seems to be the right place. This mark is probably the Red Lotus God’s Palm of the main family…. My ancestors trained it to this level….”
“Wow, this is truly amazing.”
The story goes that a crack was made in the rock wall and the entrance to the cave was blocked.
I thought that Dangga only had a lot of Sapsabi martial arts skills, such as using magic and poison, so I was surprised.
‘Maybe it was a surprisingly wonderful family a hundred years ago?’
The conversation between the two continues as you think about whether or not this family was a pretty good one a hundred years ago.
“I’ll rest for now, and when the sun rises, I’ll look for a place to go inside. If not, I’ll try removing the stone at the entrance.”
“I guess that’s how it should be.”
It seemed like he had come to the right place, but he was trying to jump down from the top of the rocks, thinking that if he made a mistake because of the rocks at the entrance, the warriors would have a hard time.
-Tch!
At that moment, a loud noise was heard from above my head.
A noise like that of an audio device began to be heard from above, and the adoptive father, hearing the sound, shouted in an urgent voice.
“Oh! The uniforms are coming back!”
The source of this strange sound is a flock of bats, their call of return.
As dawn broke, the sound of bats returning from their evening hunting expedition was heard.
As I turned my head, I saw the sky brightening and a flock of black bats flying towards me.
“Let’s step back!”
Thinking about it, the entrance where the bats came and went that Seol had confirmed was definitely right in front of where we were standing.
As my adoptive father said, I immediately flew downwards.
Because if I did something wrong, I felt like I would be surrounded by a swarm of returning bats.
Well, bats aren’t dangerous animals, but it would be uncomfortable if they were flying in a crowd right in front of you.
I didn’t really like bats either, so I did as my father-in-law said.
‘Snakes and lizards are cute, but bats are a bit weird because they have wings and hair.’
But contrary to our worries, a flock of pitch-black bats flew past us and started heading towards the top of the cliff.
At that sight, my adoptive father shouted at me.
“Dragon! It looks like there’s another entrance. Take that child up to the cliff and check it out!”
It seems like the entrance isn’t where Seol-nu said it was, and if it’s that child, he’s probably talking about the grass.
He quickly shouted towards the candle.
“Okay! Choya! Let’s go!”
-Tsurut!
The grass quickly wraps itself around my body at my words.
Then, the body of the child floats up.
As our bodies rose into the midst of the swarm of bats, a huge wave of bats split in half and passed us on either side.
And then I was blankly staring at the sight of bats floating in the sky and parting like black waves.
-Tsrrrr!
The sound of a cry from the first person is heard.
“Why? Did you find anything?”
As we looked in the direction the creature’s antennae were pointing, along with the sound of its scream, we saw a swarm of bats that had split in half as they passed us, regrouping and being sucked into a large gaping hole at the top of the cave.
It seems that the passage of a hundred years had left the entrance to the old Odokmun open in a different direction.
