1. Cheonma Chuldo New World (5)
1. Cheonma Chuldo New World (5) – The End of Childhood
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As the first aid for the broken arm was about to be completed, Serin and Robert rushed out of the infirmary at the sound of a shout so powerful it shook the spaceship.
“what’s the matter?!”
Seolyeong’s eyes searched urgently for Sunja. Fortunately, Sunja showed no signs of injury and was looking at Mokjin, who was standing on one side of the hallway, with surprised eyes.
This time, Seolyeong turned her gaze towards Mokjin. He was clearly agitated and was leaning against the wall, wary of Sunja.
Seolyeong opened her mouth, wearing the portable translator that Sunja had prepared in advance.
“What is it? What’s going on?”
“I don’t know either. As soon as I confirmed that I was an android, all of a sudden······.”
“What the hell is the problem······.”
“Go! Stop pretending to be human and reveal your identity, you evil monster!”
“······Wow, I didn’t expect this?”
At Mokjin’s scolding, Seolyeong looked back at Sunja with a dumbfounded expression. Sunja was the same way.
However, for Mokjin, it was the most reasonable conclusion. As far as he knew, the only people who walked around lifelessly pretending to be people were ghosts, monsters, or zombies.
Although he had never personally experienced it himself, he had only heard through word of mouth that the evil cult was using undead and spirits, but when he saw it for himself, it was so strange and bizarre that it was worthy of being called sorcery. It was enough to fool even his senses, even though he was the best martial arts master.
Perhaps this flying carriage is also an illusion caused by the sorcery of the cultists. After all, there can’t be a flying carriage.
Even though he had just awakened from the seal and ascended to the throne of the Heavenly Horse, he was fooled by such a cunning sorcery. Mok-jin’s face turned a deep red with shame and anger.
Seeing him boiling over like a bomb about to explode, Se-ryeong tried to calm him down by speaking to him in a calm voice.
“Hey, Ancient One, before you introduce yourself, calm down a bit. Even if you’re an evil monster, you shouldn’t say something like that in front of people.”
“Do you really think that thing, which has no pulse and no life, is a human being? I personally leaked my personal history, and there was no internal organs or anything, not even blood or energy! How can that thing be a human being?”
“Of course, since they’re androids, they can’t handle it. And let’s not do this and that in front of the person concerned. Android discrimination ended with the Second Space Civil War over three hundred years ago.”
It’s a normal world where marrying an android is commonplace, so what the hell are you talking about Macs? Se-ryeong realized once again that the human in front of her was an ancient person.
But unfortunately, Seryeong’s words to clear up the misunderstanding had the opposite effect. Mokjin became furious as soon as he heard her words.
“······Then you guys already know this story. It was a mistake for me to think you were immortals for a moment. How can a human walk around with an evil monster! You must be possessed by it or a cult group that controls it!”
At this point, there was no answer. Now, Se-ryeong’s temples were red as she listened to Mok-jin’s words, who was starting to criticize them.
In common parlance, Yama has turned around.
“f*ck, since you’re an android, of course I said you wouldn’t be able to run a Mac, so why don’t you just barge in and barge in! Android! Android, f*cking android! I don’t give a shit whether you’re from two hundred years ago or two thousand years ago, so just listen to my explanation in nice words, you idiot! Have you been buried underground in a radioactive star for two thousand years, so even your brain is pickled with radiation?! You’re two thousand years old, so you can’t see anything? If you don’t know what the f*ck’s going on, then just listen to my explanation! f*ck! f*ck! F**k!”
Wow. Robert muttered without realizing it. It was a parade of curses so great that he couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
“It’s ruined.”
On the other hand, Sunja didn’t hide her defeated expression. She was a martial arts master so strong that even if three opponents attacked her at the same time, she wouldn’t be able to respond, so what kind of nerve did she have to start a fight?
Although she is a swearer, she is quicker than anyone at recognizing situations and controlling her anger, so why did she suddenly explode with a barrage of curses at a reclusive master who she couldn’t defeat? It was an action that made Sunja unable to hide her bewilderment.
Actually, I could guess the reason. Maybe it was because my arm was broken and the adrenaline rushed to my head, or maybe the drug in the medicine had caused the brakes to malfunction. Of course, either way, it was a terrible story.
How to resolve this situation. Sunja quickly checked Mokjin’s complexion with a restless face. Does this ancient man know the unwritten rule of martial arts that no weapons are allowed on the spaceship? It seemed absolutely unlikely.
If a fight breaks out and the spaceship is destroyed, we will be stranded on Earth and die from radiation exposure. If nothing else, we absolutely must avoid a fight inside the spaceship.
But surprisingly, Mokjin’s reaction was more calm than expected, as if his previous outburst was a lie.
“Hmm. Okay.”
At the extremely indifferent reaction, not only Sunja and Robert, but even Seolyeong, who had been cursing and making a look of embarrassment, looked dumbfounded.
Sunja was the first of them to understand the situation. Her expression, which seemed to show incomprehension for a moment, soon turned into one of surprise.
“······Are you testing us right now?”
Mok-jin did not answer Sun-ja’s words and smiled faintly.
In fact, at first, it was instinctive to be shocked by Sunja’s true identity and scream.
A monster in human form, not a human. His actions were a natural reaction for a human, regardless of his martial arts skills. Especially after experiencing a series of shocks he had never experienced in his life.
But his excitement quickly died down when he saw Sunja’s reaction, which was like that of an ordinary commoner who couldn’t react to his momentum at all.
It didn’t matter if it was a monster or a zombie. Even if a spirit hundreds of years old appeared, it couldn’t harm him, the best in the world. A mere monster was nothing.
But if you lose your composure in an instant and start yelling, you can’t take it back.
Mok-jin, who felt the spirit of Se-ryeong approaching quickly with busy footsteps, took advantage of the crisis and improvised a performance to test their true feelings.
If anyone had tried to resist by revealing even a little bit of his evil nature in his acting, they would have been killed in an instant, except for one person who was there to explain.
However, seeing him react so aggrieved despite being in such a tense situation, I could tell that he had no intention of harming her at the very least.
“······Ha. This is really driving me crazy.”
Seolyeong, who realized the situation late, collapsed into the hallway. She had prepared herself to risk her life and fight Mokjin here, but it was all an act. She couldn’t help but feel the strength leave her legs.
Mokjin looked at her and spoke calmly.
“I won’t say sorry. In this cruel world of martial arts, you can’t trust people at face value, right?”
That’s not wrong. But she couldn’t help but feel angry. Serin pressed her temples. At this point, it wouldn’t be strange if she were to become possessed by a demon.
Whether he knew her feelings or not, Mok-jin pointed at her and asked as if he absolutely had to know Sun-ja’s true identity.
“But aside from that, I need to hear an explanation about that. If it’s not an evil creature, then what the heck is that? What does Andro-something mean?”
“······Phew. Let’s talk about the details at the inn. For now, just know that there are people like that among people.”
Seolyeong took a deep breath with superhuman patience and answered after calming her mind. It might be different in a guest house on another planet. At least, she had no desire to talk in a spaceship that could explode at any moment.
“For now, we need to get out of here. If we stay here, both your life and ours will be in danger. Let’s get out of here. Until then, please don’t use your martial arts skills in here. You may not know this, but if you use your martial arts skills incorrectly in this spaceship, everyone, whether you’re a martial artist or a naval warrior, will die. Do you understand?”
In addition, the shielding elements of the spaceship were starting to fail. Aside from the fact that their lives were in jeopardy, their money was also in jeopardy, so as the team leader, she couldn’t help but be concerned.
“Okay. Okay, I understand for now. But I’ll have to go to the guest house and give them a proper explanation.”
“Okay, so just follow me for now. The shielding element is being cut down even at this very moment.”
I would like to tie him up and throw him into the cabin, but I don’t know what he might do in the meantime, so it would be better to keep him in a visible place and watch him. Se-ryeong, who brought him to the control room, stopped Mok-jin, who was curiously looking at the cockpit and various panels, and pointed to a chair on one side of the spaceship.
“Sit over there. Don’t touch anything. Fasten your seatbelts, because we’re about to break through the atmosphere.”
“Tie your belt?”
“under······.”
With a deep sigh, Serin gestured as Robert approached and kindly showed Mokjin how to tie his belt. Of course, it was natural for Mokjin to express his doubts.
“What a curious device. But why do you have to tie yourself up so tightly?”
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“The spaceship will shake quite a bit as it passes through the atmosphere.”
“What is the atmosphere?”
“······.”
This is how it will never end. Robert pondered for a moment, then looked for a suitable metaphor to explain to the ancients, and then pointed to the gray sky above the cockpit.
“It’s going up to the sky.”
“If you say heaven, are you talking about the celestial realm?”
“······Uh, well, it’s kind of similar.”
No matter how much he looked at them, they didn’t seem to be fresh, but Mokjin nodded his head half in doubt. Although he didn’t show it, to be honest, he was a little taken aback by Seolyeong’s swear words that were so colorful that they could make even the black swordsman give in.
Anyway, since it was a flying carriage like the one I saw earlier, I was curious. Se-ryeong, who was sitting in the driver’s seat with her chin resting on her arm, spoke, not knowing whether she knew that Mok-jin’s heart was beating a little like a little boy’s.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes, Queen Sister.”
As Sunja finished answering, the spaceship rose into the sky with an ever-increasing vibration. Mokjin unconsciously gripped the spaceship handle tightly. No matter how much he had learned martial arts, he couldn’t be indifferent to flying in the sky on a huge, noisy carriage.
But that tension soon turned into elasticity.
“Oh······Oh······!”
Mokjin couldn’t close his mouth as he watched the ground moving away through the cockpit. He was really flying through the sky in a carriage.
The ruins that were once Mt. Tai gradually shrink, and as they rise into the sky through the ash-colored clouds mixed with purple, the sun, which has not lost its brilliance above the sea of clouds, creates a magnificent spectacle.
“It is truly a magnificent sight, worthy of being called the heavenly palace where the Jade Emperor resides.”
It was such a magnificent sight that I forgot even the fear of flying in the sky and just stared blankly. But that was just the beginning.
“You mean it’s still going up? There’s still more to go up?”
Even though the sun was still shining brightly, the sky, which had been glowing gray, was gradually becoming dark like night. It was a reason he could not understand.
He looked down. The ruins that were occasionally visible through the sea of clouds were gradually shrinking to the point where they could be covered with one hand, and the boundary between darkness and sky slowly began to bend.
They were still going up.
Up. Up further.
Mokjin didn’t open his mouth anymore.
He just watched in silence as the world he lived in gradually became smaller.
The world he knew was just a part of a vast world.
When we pass through the stratosphere, the mesosphere, and finally the thermosphere, and the boundary between darkness and sky forms a sharp curve.
For the first time in his life, Mokjin saw with his own eyes that the world was a circle.
“ah.”
It was a huge sphere.
A beautiful sphere where the land and sea are in harmony, although it is still blue and has turned ashen.
But they were still going up.
Up. Up further.
At a point when he couldn’t tell whether he was going up or moving forward, Mokjin suddenly realized that there was a world outside of the one they lived in.
“······.”
It was another sea.
A sea of stars, gathered together from the night sky and densely packed into the deep darkness.
He saw his world getting smaller and smaller. The world that was so big that he couldn’t even see it all had become small enough to be seen at a glance.
And yet they still went up.
Up. Up further.
Only then did Mokjin realize.
That the round world containing all things including the heavens and the earth is gradually shrinking and becoming the countless stars embroidered in the sky.
He felt infinitely ashamed of himself for having been discussing the world.
His world was a tiny speck of dust compared to the vast world, and even that world was nothing more than a speck of dust in the vast sea of stars.
A thunderbolt struck his mind. It was a shock of such magnitude that he had never imagined it would be possible for him to experience it in his entire life.
Mokjin closed his eyes and sat cross-legged. He felt someone sitting next to him getting scared, but it didn’t matter to him.
Because all he had now was a great realization.
Cheonma Imokjin saw the universe.
Born in the agricultural era,
The last ancient people on Earth who looked at the world with extremely primitive eyes,
Finally, the end of childhood has arrived.
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Android racism has almost disappeared in modern times. About three hundred years ago, when the second space civil war broke out between humans + aliens and androids, they fought each other to death, and after that, they recognized each other and have been living together more or less amicably.
Marriages between humans and androids are very common.
The reason why Seolyeong suddenly has a rash is because of the small amount of narcotic ingredients mixed in the Geumchang medicine. There are frequent lawsuits related to this, but Cheonsa Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of Cheongseongpa that manufactures Geumchang medicine, denies the dangers of the narcotic ingredients and wins most of the trials with its strong financial power.
To be honest, Mok-jin was really scared of Sun-ja for a moment. It was because the effect of the uncanny valley was maximized.
It is an unwritten rule in the martial arts world not to use martial arts on a spaceship. If you install it wrong and the spaceship is destroyed, everyone will die alone in the middle of space. Even martial artists value their lives. Of course, there are cases where crazy people like drug addicts do it without thinking.
Mokjin almost pressed the ejection button while touching the panels.
Since Mokjin couldn’t download basic knowledge using the data chip, Robert later joined him and gave Mokjin a friendly lecture on common sense.
Cheonma Lee Mok-jin broke through the barrier of life and death by breaking through the atmosphere.
