Episode 588
Currently, a man named Melon was famous in Cheonhaseong.
Every day, rumors about melons were born.
Minstrels singing songs about melons traveled all over the world, and the most popular daily newspaper on the Eastern Continent, Cheonlian, devoted almost a week to stories about melons day and night.
It would have been stranger if I hadn’t become famous.
There were originally four patrolmen in Sacheon.
All four of them died, and most of the people under them also died. That’s why a large-scale personnel change was recently implemented to fill those vacancies all at once.
Among them was the legitimate successor of the Yongcheon Sword Sect, a renowned sect in the martial arts world. That man was Yong Seong-un.
He was holding a large quantity of documents that he had received from the current owner, Akjeonggun. The quantity was considerable at first glance.
This document must be taken to the interim director of the Eastern Continent Special Inspectorate, Melon.
Yong Seong-un was moving with 20 soldiers and a man named Hang Jang-su who had become a patrolman like himself.
The captain asked with a smile.
“Aren’t you nervous?”
Yong Seong-un shrugged his shoulders.
“Are you nervous?”
“If I were you, I would be trembling. That Melon guy, according to rumors, is nearly ten feet tall.”
“You crazy bastard. Do you believe that?”
“I don’t believe it, but why would someone say something like that? He must be at least nine feet tall.”
Yong Seong-un patted the captain’s shoulder and told him to stop talking nonsense.
The captain said.
“But why are you investigating the Hoecheon Church now?”
“I do it because I can do it.”
Hoecheon Bridge is famous.
Cheonhaseong is the best group on the Eastern Continent with a canal in the middle.
In that world, a monster called Ryu Jin was holding out, and countless powerful martial artists loyal to Ryu Jin were entangled inside the world.
There is no reason for the Hoecheon Church to be active in such a place.
Of course, I do have some level of activity.
The Hoecheon Church is a group of assassins who were extremely famous in the martial arts world even before the establishment of Cheonhasung.
The group was pushed out of Cheonhasung and now operates only in the shadows.
That doesn’t mean I plan on living in the shade my whole life.
In every corner of the world, the Hoecheon Church operates in secret. We caught a few of them, but they were all banned and we were unable to obtain any proper information.
Such information about the Hoecheon Church.
Could it be that they are trying to wipe out the Hoecheon Bridge?
But is that even possible?
How on earth do they hide from the world and remain completely hidden in the shadows?
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Anyway, that’s all I thought about.
Yongseongun and Hangjangsu arrived at the location where the Cheonhaseong branch of the Milos Empire’s Inspectorate was originally located.
There was a single hut standing there in the completely ruined place.
A man walks out from there.
As soon as they saw him, Yong Seong-un and Hang Jang-su were surprised.
Could that guy be Melon?
Before the question even hit my head.
“I am Melon, acting as the chief. Are you the patrolman sent by the lord?”
The voice was very young.
His appearance was such that it was hard to imagine that he was the kind of person who was currently causing a stir on the Eastern Continent.
Yong Seong-un missed the timing to answer, but he answered quickly.
“Ah… … . Yes, that’s right. I’m Yong Seong-un, the patrolman of the Jeongwangbu.”
“I am Captain Hang Jang-su of the Shangjangbu Patrol. It is an honor to meet you.”
There is no reason to be honored, but it is true that it still feels strange.
What is the reason that Yong Seong-un and Hang Jang-su were able to become patrol officers now?
It’s simple.
It is because the Melon in front of you killed all the patrolmen belonging to the previous Sacheon. Why was the party leader changed from Park Mu-gi to Akjeong-gun? It is because Melon killed Park Mu-gi.
Although Melon has caused chaos in the world, the world prioritizes ability.
Because it was such a world, there was an abundance of talented people, and the positions of patrolman and clan leader could be filled right away.
Here, the standard for filling them is ability, as mentioned earlier. However, having ability does not mean that you will be appointed to a good position right away.
It’s all a flow, you have to have connections, you have to get recommendations, and you have to get opportunities.
At least for Yong Seong-un and Hang Jang-su who are here, Melon is no different from a benefactor.
Thanks to Melon, I got the opportunity, I got the recommendation, and I went with the flow. Becoming a patrolman is harder than reaching for the stars. Now that I’ve become a patrolman, I absolutely don’t intend to miss this opportunity.
Yong Seong-un immediately handed over the documents he had received from the head of the household, Ak Jeong-gun, to Melon.
Melon quietly looks over the documents.
Melon’s expression gradually hardened.
“… … Most of this information stops at twenty years ago.”
Yong Seong-un spoke quickly.
“That’s right. Twenty years ago, the great upheaval that occurred on the Eastern Continent led to a reorganization of the power of the martial arts forces. The Hoecheon Church is an organization that has existed for almost a hundred years.”
“Only active in the shade?”
“Yes. Before the incident twenty years ago, they were openly operating as a ‘murder organization’, but now, as you know, the chief, they operate more secretly. Slave markets, drug distribution, contract work, etc. Murder is just a part of it. However, they reveal their names more secretly than when they were carrying out murders. If Cheon Ha-seong hadn’t decided to investigate a few years ago, they would probably have been dismissed as just a group quietly living in the shadows.”
“Is that so?”
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“Yes. And as stated at the end of the data, thirty-five of the unsolved cases that occurred in the Murim are related to the Hoecheon Church. There may be even more related.”
Melon continued reading the material.
I completely understand why the evil forces said that eradicating the Hoecheon Church would reduce the crime rate throughout the Eastern Continent.
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“The Lord ‘Jeokmuhan’ recently captured a Hoecheongyo unmanned person and had a few conversations with him before the ban was activated.”
The question and answer that Jeokmuhan asked was simple.
[Where did you come from?] [Hoecheon Sect.] [Didn’t they disappear twenty years ago?] [Just because they can’t be seen doesn’t mean they don’t exist.] [What is Hoecheon Sect doing now?] [They are moving to dominate the martial arts world, including Cheonha Castle.] [Who is your leader?] [Our leader is someone none of you can even guess. Don’t even try to find out… . . ]
That was it. If you look below, it is said that the unmanned person of Hoecheon Bridge died with his head exploding while talking like that.
Jeokmuhan, who was staring blankly at the unmanned corpse, said this.
[Hoecheon Bridge… … Ha… … My name is really long.]
It was interesting.
I have a serious question about the group called Hoecheon Church.
Where exactly was this group connected?
The great cataclysm that occurred in the Eastern Continent in the past is an event that everyone knows about.
Ragnarok and Jack’s fight.
The fight between the two monsters took place once on the Eastern Continent and once on the Western Continent.
The battle that took place on the Eastern Continent was the first battle that took place, but before that battle, there was exactly one more incident.
Cheonmasingyo, and Cheonwicheon.
These two groups turned against Jack and tried to kill him with almost all their might.
Rather, they were killed by Jack, but the number of people killed by Jack at that time was almost hundreds of thousands.
The gist was simple.
‘The place called Hoecheon Bridge may have been related to Cheonwicheon or Cheonmasingyo.’
Those two groups are clearly groups that should have been erased from the world.
So Jack erased two groups from the world.
However, not all of those involved in the two groups collapsed. There were so many of them that it was impossible to kill them all. Of those involved in the two groups who died, most of those who survived went into hiding.
Hoecheon Bridge was most likely one of them.
Then it is right to catch it and kill it.
In addition, it appears that they have now begun to expand their territory towards Cheonhaseong.
Jeongwangbu patrolman Yong Seong-un asked Melon.
“The Lord said that he would give you the opportunity to join the Eastern Continent Special Inspectorate as an employee. Is that correct?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
I was curious.
“… … Is that possible? We belong to Cheonhasung.”
Melon smiled softly.
“It’s possible. Why would the acting chief do it for no reason? I also need manpower, and it seems like the Western Continent has no intention of providing manpower, so what can I do? I’ll have to find it myself.”
Melon’s gaze scanned the two patrolmen and the twenty officers. Should we say that they met Melon’s standards?
Melon said.
“We would like to hire you as an investigator for the Special Inspectorate of the Eastern Continent. Are you interested?”
Yong Seong-un and Hang Jang-su said as if there was no need to even think about it.
“I will do it. No, please let me do it.”
I had to think about it at least once.
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It is clear that the evil lord of the party said this to Melon.
I will send all the capable people to Melon.
Recently, one headman and five patrolmen were appointed.
But now, the only people who had come before Melon’s eyes were two patrolmen. And out of the hundred or so additional personnel, only twenty had come.
What does this mean?
There were three patrolmen who didn’t want to get involved with Melon, and the nearly eighty-year-old officer also didn’t want to get involved with Melon.
That’s it.
In the end, it was Melon who needed someone to use, and for Melon, these people were at least qualified enough.
There are three peak masters and two super peak masters.
Not bad.
Melon liked them.
“We are hiring.”
Yong Seong-un and Hang Jang-su were about to ask who they would hire, but they couldn’t do so because Melon continued talking.
“We will hire everyone.”
The Cheonhaseong patrol officers and the staff burst into laughter. Melon said.
“You may call me Inspector from now on.”
“Yes, Inspector.”
Now it’s time to get to the point.
“If the Hoecheon Church is moving in the shadows, there must eventually be a way to contact them. Is that right?”
Yong Seong-un nodded in response to Melon’s question.
“I want to know the most surefire way, do you have any information on that?”
“… … There is one.”
Of course. After all, the Hoecheon Church is a shadowy organization, so they need to make contact, and they spread the method of making contact all over the world.
That way, requests will come in, and that way, we can make money and maintain the group.
However, a tangent is a tangent, but there is one problem.
“If you want to make contact, you need to submit a request. What kind of request do you plan on submitting?”
Even if we capture the unmanned members of the Hoecheon Sect, the first problem is whether we can obtain information from them, and to obtain meaningful information, we need to capture someone of a fairly high position in the Hoecheon Sect.
Then the type of request is decided very naturally.
“I guess I’ll have to put in a request.”
If I were to put in a request, whose request would I put in?
“Is there anyone who had thought about it in advance? Even if it’s a trap, there’s a high chance of an accident. If an innocent person dies because of this, that could be… … a very big problem.”
A meaningful smile appears on Melon’s lips.
Whose request should I put in?
This is a one-of-a-kind question.
Because there is only one person.
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“I’m thinking of putting in a request for you.”
“……yes?”
“There will be many people in the world who want to kill me. Just submit a request while keeping your name anonymous. I will capture the unmanned members of the Hoecheon Church.”
