3. Wormhole Chase (2)
3. Wormhole Chase (2) – Catch Me If You Can
“Ah, I’m so lucky.”
As soon as the word “green forest” ended, Seolyeong’s face suddenly crumpled.
“Are you sure they’re after us?”
“Yes. If you look at the navigation module, it’s coming exactly in our direction.”
“Why are those guys who are so good at smelling money acting like this today? It’s been a while since I’ve seen money.”
I was already worried that I would get revenge for the fact that I screwed over the demonic cult. Of course, the proud demonic cult wouldn’t take such petty revenge for being subdued by a natural. But I was planning to hide for a while, but why are these bandits suddenly showing up?
“It’s a waste of money on fuel to run away. Should I just beat up a few and send them back?”
“I would like you to realize that Queen Wang is currently injured.”
Seolyeong flinched at the glance of Sunja. Even though Seolyeong could easily subdue an ordinary Nokrimdo, fighting while injured was not a wise move.
“Then Mokjin can just send the old man away.”
“Are you talking about me?”
“You said you would repay us. And the thing that broke my arm was also your work.”
“It was my older sister who did it first······.”
“Shut up, Robert.”
Yes. Robert kept his mouth shut. Truth and justice did not stop the fist.
“Haha. Yeah, I guess there’s nothing I can’t do.”
Who would have thought that at this age, I would be dealing with the Nokrim gang? Mokjin chuckled at the new feeling. It seemed like only yesterday that I had encountered the Nokrim clan when I first entered the martial arts world, but now I felt like a newbie to the martial arts world.
“I’m sorry, Daehyeop. My older sister has a personality like that······.”
“I can hear everything.”
“Eek.”
Mokjin lightly laughed at the two people’s farce. Robert’s worries were obvious, but Mokjin didn’t feel particularly offended by Se-ryeong’s attitude. Mokjin was already an adult enough to show his displeasure every time a girl, who was only his niece’s age, acted a little sullen.
Mokjin waved his hand gently to reassure Robert.
“It’s okay. I was just wondering how much the Nokrimpae of the distant future would change.”
It is a world where beggars become rich and people ascend to the heavenly world. Two thousand years have passed, so how could the green forest not have changed?
Of course, in this era where strange objects that don’t even look like martial arts are called martial arts, there may not be much to expect in terms of martial arts. However, there were many things that were quite amazing to Mokjin, an ancient man from two thousand years ago.
Let’s take a look at the Green Forest of this era. Mokjin tried to get up from his seat with a light heart.
But before that, Sunja opened her mouth in a troubled tone.
“Uhh······. That might be a bit difficult.”
“Why? Even Chae Joo-ra came in person?”
“······What if?”
“what?”
Seolyeong raised one eyebrow and accepted the panel that Sunja held out. Seolyeong’s eyes, looking at the panel with a questioning expression, became as bright as lanterns.
“What, did they run around in a group?”
Mokjin slowly poked his head out and looked at the panel that Se-ryeong was holding. Countless dots appeared on the screen. Mokjin vaguely realized that they represented the number of enemies.
“There are a lot.”
“Not much. Seriously, what day is it today?”
“Even so, it’s not a number exceeding a hundred. Even if a hundred or more of the Green Forest bandits swarm, they won’t be able to defeat the main deity.”
“What makes you so confident······you must be confident.”
Seolyeong put her hand on her forehead as she realized that the Nokrim in the era Mokjin lived in was literally a place full of bandits.
I don’t know what it was like back then, but the current Nokrim is a huge sect that covers the entire galaxy, although it is just a bandit in name only. In a world where money is power, Nokrim, which trains and produces unmanned people with its enormous financial power, is by no means an opponent to be taken lightly.
“Sir, these days, the Nokrim is doing a martial arts show, right? And each and every one of these is a spaceship.”
Mokjin’s expression changed seriously at Seolyeong’s words. Mokjin also knew how important this spaceship was because he had heard things from Robert here and there. If they were pulling dozens of spaceships like that, then by now it would be completely different from the bandits Mokjin knew.
At this point, isn’t this a real army? Mok-jin suddenly had that thought and asked Se-ryeong.
“Maybe they have firearms too? No matter how much the martial arts world has its own rules, it’s not a good idea to fight with officials.”
“A cannon?”
“I’m talking about the cannons used in ancient times, sis. In context, aren’t you asking if there are any military weapons?”
“Ah. There are no military weapons. If you used those, you would have been arrested a long time ago under the Murim Weapons Treaty. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous.”
There are no military weapons, but there are capture equipment. If you are unlucky enough to be captured by the capture equipment, then you will have to fight endlessly until you defeat all the Nokrimdo. Seolyeong did not say anything out loud.
“If it’s that big, it’s possible that real Nokrimchaeju is in attendance. Sunja, where are those kids?”
“This area is a black panther territory.”
“Black Panther… Black Panther of the Moon? Even if he’s in good shape, he can’t be defeated.”
Serin frowned.
Kim Seong-beom, the Black Panther of Buwol, one of the best masters in the Green Forest, is an outstanding master who, despite his white-collared appearance, has a record of single-handedly annihilating thirty members of the Hwangjeok (黃賊) Imhoe Association, one of the six enemy groups in the past. Even though Se-ryeong is a veteran bounty hunter who can fly and crawl, he has no chance against Chae-ju, who has martial arts skills that are strong enough to be counted among the best in the large Green Forest.
‘No, I think it might be possible if it’s your inspiration······.’
Suddenly, Se-ryeong shook her head as she remembered Mok-jin suppressing the cultists at Hwailgaekjanae. She was not sure whether Mok-jin would help them that much, and she had no idea what level Mok-jin’s martial arts skills were. In this situation, Se-ryeong was not foolish enough to gamble.
If there was no other choice, it would be better to take the easy way out and confront it head on, so it wasn’t worth worrying about.
Ah, it looks like I have to pay for fuel again. Seol-ryeong felt a pain in her chest as she thought about her account balance for a moment, then said as she returned the panel to Sun-ja.
“Sunja, can you warp jump? Let’s jump right in.”
“Yes, Queen Unnie.”
Of course, it would be best to run away without engaging. There was still some distance between them, so there was plenty of time to escape by warp jump. Surely, they would not come after a small spaceship like theirs to kill them when they were leading such a large force.
······I thought so.
“What the hell is the real problem?”
Seolyeong had been trying to refrain from swearing in front of Mokjin, who was strong and gave off an old-man-like vibe, but now she couldn’t hold back the swearing that was spilling out without her knowing it.
This is already the third time.
This was already the third time that they managed to track them down even after they escaped by warp jumping. At this point, there was nothing to say even if they had planned on coming after them.
The will to catch them no matter what. Seolyeong was clutching her head at the obsession for which she could not understand the reason.
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“What the heck? At least there hasn’t been any trouble with the Nokrim or the Cheok for the past few months? Don’t you have any inkling of anything?”
“I always hung out with Wang Unnie, so how could that be?”
“I don’t really······.”
“Then, your Majesty… no, what are you saying to a gentleman who has just woken up?”
The only thing Mokjin did after waking up was to take care of the Demonic Cult kids at the Hwail Inn.
“······huh?”
Wait. Serin raised her head. Mokjin still had a puzzled expression on his face, as if he didn’t understand what was happening.
Something finally took shape in her complicated mind. Sparks flew into Serin’s eyes.
“······Did these kids ask Nokrim to take revenge on me?”
If that’s the case, then it would explain why the Nokrim moved in such a large scale and why they were persistently chasing them. In an instant, Serin’s anger reached a critical point.
“You damned bastards! These so-called followers of the Demonic Cult are doing this with a Demonic Cult sign?! Damn, I feel bad for that Cheonma who’s trying to unify the martial arts world with these idiots! Don’t these guys have any pride?!”
Every time Seolyeong continued to curse at Cheonma Shingyo, even mentioning the current Cheonma, Mokjin’s body flinched. However, even Mokjin found it difficult to confront that anger head-on. In fact, even in his view, assuming Seolyeong’s words were true, Cheonma Shingyo’s actions deserved to be cursed.
Seolyeong, who had been expressing her anger for a long time, took a deep breath. Seolyeong had made up her mind to run away until the end, since it had come to this. If it was really the Demonic Cult that had used their power, not only would half of her assets disappear, but she couldn’t even guarantee her life.
“Sunja.”
“Yes, Queen Unnie.”
“Let’s go to Uihyeol Valley.”
Sunja’s hand, which had always moved without hesitation following Seolyeong’s words, suddenly stopped. Sunja looked back at Seolyeong with trembling eyes.
“······Are you serious?”
“Their equipment is better than ours anyway, so it’s just a matter of time before they catch up. Even if it means taking some risks, we have to take them out in one go.”
What on earth is this song called “Yi-hyeol-gok” that makes it so tragic? Mok-jin, who couldn’t follow the story, turned his gaze to Robert.
“What is the meaning of the name ‘Euihyeolgok’? Just looking at the name, it seems like it refers to an anthill with ants, but I don’t think that’s the case.”
“······This is an area where a huge number of unstable wormholes are gathered. Since the wormholes are gathered in such close proximity, once you enter, you cannot tell where you will end up, so it is called an ant hole.”
“I heard the explanation, but I still don’t quite understand it. I know it’s a bit bothersome, but could you explain it a little more simply?”
“Well… well… well… I guess you could say that there are dozens of doors lined up together that, when opened, could reveal the ocean, a mountain, or a cliff?”
I understand the words, but I still don’t understand the content. Mok-jin held his head in confusion. There were so many things about this future era that I couldn’t understand. In the end, Mok-jin had no choice but to give up on understanding and decide to experience it for himself.
Meanwhile, while Mok-jin and Robert were talking about the Ui-hyeol Valley, Se-ryeong and Sun-ja were talking with even more serious expressions on their faces.
“Can you do it? If it’s too burdensome, I’ll find another way.”
“What do you think of a high-spec Android? Of course, it’s not a completely safe method. In theory, the probability of it getting on the right path is about 97.3%.”
“I can take that level of risk. Would you rather die once or twice?”
No one knows what will happen if you take the wrong path. You could be blown out somewhere outside of the universe and become a space stray wandering around the universe forever, you could get trapped in another phase space, or you could be blown right into a giant black hole.
However, rather than taking on the entire Nokrimchae, which was highly likely to have been influenced by the Demonic Cult, it was better to avoid conflict even if it meant taking on this level of risk. As the leader of the team, Seolyeong made a decision.
“Let’s go to Uihyeolgok.”
“Yes. Warp jump standby.”
And a moment later, Nachael’s ship appeared in the Blood Valley, one of the most dangerous areas in the galaxy and a mecca for fugitives escaping from pursuit.
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Seolyeong calls Mokjin “inspiration.” Although he looks young, his speech and actions are very different from his appearance.
The Green Forest is large in scale. Therefore, it has a lot of money. Therefore, the Green Forest members are supplied with equipment such as internal energy drives that are comparable to those of large sects, and their scale is also enormous.
Due to the Murim Arms Treaty, Murim people are not allowed to possess any military weapons, including battleship-level weapons.
The business of the green forest is usually to get close and then capture them with capture equipment.
Although Serin’s skills are undoubtedly outstanding, she is unable to reach higher levels due to the limitations of her internal energy drive.
During a conflict with the Im Association, which is rooted in the Japanese Yakuza, Buwol Black Panther Kim Seong-beom made all 30 members of the assassination squad who came to assassinate him into death. It was such a famous incident that even after a long time, it is still one of the stories that is talked about in martial arts circles.
Serin completely misunderstands the intentions of the Demonic Cult and the Green Forest. The funny thing is, even though he misunderstands, the results are roughly correct.
Jong-ri-taek, the 32nd parish priest of the Demonic Cult, would rip his eardrums every time Se-ryeong scolded him. He didn’t know about it.
The Valley of Blood is a dangerous area filled with all sorts of random warps. You don’t know where they lead, the connection points are always different, and sometimes, if you’re unlucky, you won’t even be able to retrieve the corpse.
Sunja is just another high-spec android, different from other androids. Thanks to that, she is learning a lot of different skills.
