◈ Episode 70. Daeju was right!
While Dang So-so went to gather the men, Jin Mu-rip narrowed down the possibilities to two.
One is that, as the Red Mogae said, the disciples of the Open are hiding there.
Another is that the person who left the blood letter is trying to convey something at the risk of death.
If so, there might be a bloodthirsty madman’s laboratory.
If the Red-crowned Crane is poisoned by the venom left in the blood, it wasn’t that long ago that the Gaekyungdo was affected.
‘Jiksagok is about five days’ drive northwest of here. If we hurry, we might find something.’
Jinmu-rip, who had gathered his thoughts, took out a piece of paper from his bosom and began to write something.
As the busy hands stopped moving, all the remaining unmanned forces gathered in front of Jinmu Rip.
“Daeju. Everyone is gathered.”
At Dang So-so’s cautious words, Jin Mu-rip put the paper in his pocket and stood up.
Kang Yu-wol asked.
“Why did you call me here? Wasn’t it our duty to wait here and act as a bridge between us and Sacheon?”
“There is something I absolutely must check.”
Jinmu-rip took everyone in his eyes.
“From now on, those whose names are being called, please step to the right. Dangcheon, Yakgukmyeong, Yoo Daeha, Jo Yeongseong, Jin Seolran, Yuhwa. You all have a place to go with me.”
As those whose names were called, including Danryehwa, stepped to the right, Jinmurip spoke to Ha Jongbo.
“I would like to ask you to take care of this place, sir.”
“That’s not difficult, but could you tell me what’s going on?”
“If I tell you something when nothing is certain, it will only cause more confusion. I will tell you everything when I get back.”
Kang Yu-wol smiled broadly and placed a hand on Ha Jong-bo’s shoulder.
“Since you didn’t ask me, I guess I’ll go with you. I’ll be back.”
Ha Jong-bo smiled with a regretful face.
“I guess I’ll have to give in this time.”
At that time, Dang Joong-ho, who had been silent, stepped forward.
“I’ll go too.”
He has a duty to watch Jinmu-rip’s every move.
But Jinmu-rip shook his head.
“Too many people is not good.”
“I think I would be more useful than Jo Young-seong.”
The enraged Jo Young-seong’s eyes lit up.
“what?”
Jin Mu-rip, who placed a hand on Jo Young-seong’s shoulder, looked at Dang Joong-ho and smiled.
“I watched you coming, and this guy was better at holding a gun than you.”
Jo Young-seong asked as if it was absurd.
“Is that the only reason?”
Jin Mu-rip tapped her shoulder and looked at Dang So-so.
“I asked you, Master Hano, but while I’m away, the person in charge here is Dang Soso.”
Dang So-so nodded heavily.
“All right.”
Jinmu-rip smiled broadly and looked around at everyone.
“I hope you will follow Dang So-so well until I return. Those whose names have been called, please prepare and gather within half an hour.”
When the soldiers dispersed, Jinmu-rip called Dang So-so.
I couldn’t say it in front of everyone, but I should at least tell the person in charge.
Jinmu Rip poured out everything he had done so far and all the thoughts he had organized in his head.
When the story was over, Dang So-so asked.
“Are you saying there could be a bloodthirsty maniac in Jeoksagok?”
“It’s just a hypothesis right now, but I think it’s possible.”
“Just a moment.”
A wrinkle appeared between Tang Soso’s beautiful eyebrows.
“If there is a bloody light in the enemy’s valley, what will happen where the Cheonmu-dae goes?”
“If the information in the Bigak is true, there may be multiple places where the Bloody Maniac is testing his skills.”
“What if it’s not true?”
Jinmu Rip’s eyes became heavy.
“Since Sejak was fooled by their tricks, they’ll come up empty-handed. If the Blood Cult knows about our existence, they might set a trap for us.”
“Is it really true that Sejak received false information?”
“Isn’t it strange that the whereabouts of the Open Disciples are unknown, but only the Four Heavenly Alliance’s Sejak is fully active?”
I had told Guyangmu the day before, but Jinmurip thought that the Sacheonmaeng’s work was in the blood sect’s sights.
Jinmu-rip continued speaking.
“The opening that confirmed the secret of the enemy’s valley was missed. The Blood Cult, worried that the information would leak out, tried to cover up the truth by leaking false information to the Four Heavenly Alliance. Isn’t that a possible story?”
Although it is a hypothesis, it makes sense.
Dang So-so said anxiously.
“Then shouldn’t we send someone to inform them immediately?”
“What if my hypothesis is wrong?”
She couldn’t answer easily.
It won’t be easy to catch up with them since they left yesterday, and it’s questionable whether they’ll return after hearing only hypotheses that aren’t certain.
“That’s why we need to check the enemy’s song.”
Jinmu-rip tapped her shoulder and took out the pouch containing the folded letter.
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“If anything happens, open this.”
After finishing his conversation with Dang So-so, Jin Mu-rip next approached Yong-chu.
[The Silver Stage will arrive at Changdo within three days. I have decided to leave a sign at the entrance to the village, so if anything happens here, ask Jin-Hwan for help.]
If the Blood Cult detects their presence, this place cannot be safe either.
That was the very reason why Yongchu was left behind.
[Please leave this to me.]
If you are an honest Yongchu, you can trust him.
Jinmu-rip, who smiled broadly, looked for the red hat one last time.
“Redhead. I’m thinking of going now.”
No answer came.
The red-crowned crane, sitting cross-legged, was busy exorcising the poison with the power of the antidote.
Even the red-faced man must have heard that the person who left the blood letter is dead.
But Jinmu-rip did not want to shatter his hopes.
Jinmu-rip, crouching down next to him, spoke in a soft voice.
“If there is an opening there, I will definitely get it.”
The redhead wanted to open her mouth and speak if only she could.
‘Thank you.’
He answered with the corners of his lips twitching slightly.
Jinmu-rip smiled as if he understood and got up.
* * *
A gusting wind sweeps through the narrow valley.
The cliffs on both sides were covered in white snow, but the valley below was filled with sand so thick that your feet would sink into it.
Jeoksagok (積沙谷) was literally a valley covered with sand.
In a sandy field where not a single blade of grass can be seen, three unmanned personnel were guarding the narrow entrance to a canyon where no one could live.
“The wind is really fierce.”
“I want to change shifts and get some rest.”
Behind them walked a handsome young man, about eight feet tall and carrying a sword.
“If I could just die and rest forever, wouldn’t it be better to just die?”
The three members of the Flame Corps shivered without realizing it.
They immediately turned around and fell to the floor.
“I greet the four ministers of the Blood Guard.”
The Blood Guardians are among the top ten masters in the Blood Sect.
The man in front of him was Cheon Tae-mu, who was the latest to join the Blood Guardians and was known as Gwangsa-paedo (狂死敗刀) in the West.
“Blood Guardian?”
The young man’s eyes flashed with madness as he turned his head away, and then a heavy sword was pulled out like lightning.
Crunch!
In an instant, three necks rose up.
The young man, who had wiped the blood off his face, spoke with an annoyed expression.
“Don’t call me that, you rascals.”
At that moment, a middle-aged man with one eye covered by an eye patch, the servant of the Hwanyeon Daeju, appeared at the entrance of the narrow valley.
The servant’s poisonous eyes widened as he saw the corpses of his subordinates.
“Heaven! What the hell are you doing?”
“It’s annoying enough to be stuck in this kind of wallpaper, but these guys are the Blood Guardians. The Grim Reapers. It makes me feel bad.”
“Are you saying you would kill your subordinates for just that reason?”
Cheon Tae-mu smirked, draping his sword over his shoulder.
“If you’re dissatisfied, do you want to die too?”
As the servant’s face hardened, a low, soft voice echoed from within the valley.
“Taemu.”
The softly flowing voice had a heavy aura.
Cheon Tae-mu turned around with a very distorted face.
“why!”
As the wind blew through the valley, a young man with a sharp expression appeared.
“Everything in the church belongs to the lord. If you touch my subordinates again, I will kill you.”
He was the leader of the Blood Guardians, Blood Fog Sword Ghost, Hyeon Yu-rip.
Despite the chilling warning, Cheon Tae-moo just smiled.
“Then, when you die, I will become the leader of the Blood Guardians?”
“Are you sure?”
“I am always confident.”
The moment when Cheon Tae-mu’s stride slightly widens.
Boom!
A bolt of lightning struck from the sky and separated the two people exactly.
In the place where the Japanese storm had swept through, a spear was stuck upside down.
“Tsk tsk. How long are you going to fight like a child?”
The three people who turned their heads at the sound of a soft tongue-clicking voice could see a man walking from outside the valley.
A middle-aged man with a warm impression, like the adult next door.
The best spearman in the West was Lee Gwak, the Flow-Piercing Spearman.
“Tch. Old man.”
Cheon Tae-mu snorted and reluctantly put the sword away.
Hyun Yu-rip also took his hands off the sword and asked.
“What happened?”
This guy had been chasing after a beggar who had been spying on this place without any fear not long ago.
“That guy’s divine power was truly amazing. I chased him all the way to Changdo, but unfortunately I lost him. However, since he was poisoned by the red light, he would have died quickly.”
“If I missed it, I might have left something behind and died. I need to hurry up and prepare to move.”
Jeoksagok is a place where research on bloody madmen is conducted in secret.
Even if the openness that confirmed this place is dead, it must be moved.
If a place has been exposed once, it wouldn’t be strange if it were exposed again.
Lee Gwak said.
“It doesn’t really matter since he was the last one to survive anyway. There are more important things to do.”
“much?”
“I used the art of observing the mind on the Sachon Alliance’s Sejak in Changdo. They sent some scary guys from Sachon.”
The art of conjuration was an illusion that controlled the target’s mind and made them move according to the caster’s will.
“It was worth keeping Sejak alive and watching him. Who did you send?”
“They sent Cheonmu-dae and Talhon-il Island. It seems like a few of the later indexes followed them.”
A faint wrinkle appeared between Hyun Yu-rip’s eyebrows.
“It seems that sending that old man to Cheonmu-dae was an attempt to stop the bloody madman’s experiments. He should have stopped it before the failure spread to Sacheon.”
The reason the Blood Guardians were here, rather than on the battlefield with Podalap Palace, was because one of the Blood Knights had escaped.
Cheon Tae-mu smiled bitterly.
“What’s so scary about those guys?”
Lee Gwak said.
“You’re not a scary guy, but other people are different.”
Hyun Yu-rip asked Lee Gwak.
“Where is Cheonmu-dae now?”
“I played a little prank on Sejak of the Four Heavenly Alliance. I didn’t have time to see it with my own eyes, but if I had made contact with Sejak, he would have been heading southwest from Changdo.”
“Have you contacted the headquarters?”
If the gun corps learns the location of the Cheonmu-dae, they can seize the opportunity to destroy it all at once.
“Kukuk.”
Lee Gwak smiled brightly, his eyes sparkling.
“Of course.”
* * *
Three days have passed since Jinmu-rip and his party left.
The Unryongak warriors who remained in the cave were spending their time devoted to training.
Shin Pyeong, who had been standing guard, approached Tang Soso, who was sitting cross-legged and meditating.
“The masterpiece of the pavilion has arrived.”
She slowly opened her eyes and got up from her seat.
“Bring me here.”
“yes.”
When Shin Pyeong, who had gone out, brought Sejak, Dang Soso tilted her head.
It wasn’t another person who came, it was the man I met a few days ago when I followed Seongyeon.
It is strange that someone who was supposed to be monitoring the troop movements of the Blood Cult suddenly came.
“See you again? What’s up?”
Yoo Bong, a man with an ordinary impression, tilted his head.
“Have we ever met?”
Tang Soso’s eyes shook slightly.
“yes?”
The other person had a face that didn’t remember him at all.
Yoo Bung looked around and asked.
“I came here because it seems like it’s past the time for the Heavenly Warriors to arrive. Where is Gu Daehyeop?”
Tang Soso’s heart sank.
‘Daeju was right!’
It is clear that the three people in front of me have fallen for the Blood Cult’s tricks.
If so, the stage is in danger.
‘If anything happens, open this.’
His voice comes to mind as if it were a lie.
She took out the pouch from her bosom in a hurry.
