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Closed dimension (2)
An office full of colorful decorations.
All sorts of information quickly passed by on the work monitor placed there.
It was so fast that I couldn’t even read a single line with my normal body vision…
‘Now I’m used to this too.’
The man sitting in front of him just stared at the screen calmly without any change in his expression.
Jiying—
Along with the weak vibration felt in one eyeball, the flood of enormous information reflected in the eye was projected intact into his head.
It was a dangerous thing that would not be strange if an ordinary person went crazy, but to him with transcendent mental abilities, it was just a light brain training.
‘Is this all?’
Indeed, the ultimate eye that contains the essence of magic engineering.
Encouraged by his overwhelming performance, the man who entered a vast amount of reports into his mind in an instant, Rilsyeongja closed his eyes and ruminated on the information in his head in an instant.
‘…Where are you, Hahoe mask?’
The Hahoe Mask, which disappeared immediately after the fight in Japan that day, has not yet been revealed.
As if following him, a vampire named Heinz began to roam the night streets of Seoul, but the Doctor was directly interested in the plan, so it was not his business to intervene.
‘The fact that he hasn’t shown up until now must mean that something went wrong with the fight at that time.’
He quietly nodded his head.
Well, it was a mental terror that was determined and staged to incapacitate him in the first place.
If I had been fine with that, I would have been rather unfair.
The ruler who opened his eyes again turned his gaze slightly to look at his drooping right arm.
In the aftermath of Hahoetal, anger boiled in his heart when he faced his body, which had lost its function following one eye and both legs.
‘Hahoe mask…’
As he brooded over his situation and reflected on his resentment—.
– Beep beep!
Suddenly, a communication request notification sounded from the speaker in the office.
After confirming the target, he slowly stretched out his left hand and approved the connection with the opponent.
-Ah, ah— This is the Doctor. Are you a statute?
“Yes, Doctor. What are you doing?”
A frivolous voice came through the speaker.
He responded calmly, frowning slightly.
-Wow~ Oh, I contacted you to inform you that Hoeju has left again! I tried to wait as long as possible, but he said it would be difficult. What a shame!
Quite a bit of time has passed since the conflict with Hahoe masks in Japan.
In the meantime, Huiju had been reorganizing the organization in preparation for the reappearance, but it seemed that the time that could have been spent had reached its limit.
-They said they couldn’t help it because they drew the attention of ‘Earth’ more than they thought while fighting the Smile Mask! Even if it was a bit overkill, I tried to catch him for sure… Eh~ This is not the only loss!
“I’m sorry. Because I couldn’t be sure, I feel like I wasted the opportunity for the Lord to move in vain.”
To be honest, I didn’t think it was my fault, but since his case was so big, I couldn’t just pretend I didn’t know.
As the thoroughly planned plan went awry, the overall plan for the Buncheon meeting had to be delayed further.
-Ah~ Where in the world can there be things that go as you wish? If it’s not the best, you can choose the second best. Hey, you’ll do well wherever you are, so we just have to do what we can!
He didn’t say anything special to him, knowing that the doctor was also in a situation where he couldn’t help it.
I just vomited my dissatisfaction about the root cause of things like this.
– Tsk, but I don’t like this situation… How long will I have to play with the will of the gods!
It was not about blaming Hahoetal for interfering with work, but about the reason why Hoeju couldn’t use its power properly—and about the significance of Buncheonhoe’s existence.
“Isn’t this level of error in the expected range? It’s not long.”
-Who— I did, that’s right! Ah, I can’t wait for that time! If there is an irrational existence called God, scientific progress and new discoveries and inventions become meaningless! Things in the human world should be resolved by humans, so how dare a god intervene!
For some reason, I wanted to be relatively calm.
Sure enough, the doctor’s voice, which had been speaking quickly as if talking to himself, slowly began to grow mad.
‘It’s a start again.’
After all, it can be said that he is the representative madman of the Buncheon Society.
At that, the yulryongja nodded his head as if he had given up, and responded appropriately to his words.
And so the Doctor’s passionate speech continued for a long time.
And he, who had been talking hard, couldn’t control his heat and sighed alone, and then unilaterally cut off communication, saying that he would pour that energy into research.
Inside the sudden silence.
“Ha.”
After letting out a short sigh, Yulryeongja closed his eyes and leaned against the back of the chair, deep in thought.
Suddenly, when he first encountered Hahoe Mask, he remembered what he had said in that mental world.
– Freedom of returnees. Creating a world in which we are driven.
-We have been around for a long time. And I have continued to fight for freedom.
‘Freedom…’
What he said then was sincere.
However, he did not bother to mention that the opponent was a divine being, not a human power.
Of course, at the end of the day, the hegemony of the world would come into his hands, so it wasn’t really that different.
‘Sacrifice is inevitable for the sake of the cause.’
Terrorism was also part of the process to complete the ritual as part of the cause.
If everything goes according to plan, in the end, about half of Earth’s population will be sacrificed.
Hahoe Mask didn’t seem to have the slightest intention of accepting it, but it didn’t matter anyway since there was a limit to what one person could do.
The plan was still going smoothly.
***
‘Beoncheonhoeju, could it be that guy?’
It was an inference without any specific basis or context, but a keen intuition beyond a certain singularity gave a clear warning.
He must be the cause of the current situation.
Feeling the need for more detailed information, Harris spared no effort to enhance Jin Deok’s memory.
Pajijik-!
“Ugh, very—! I really don’t know! I don’t know!”
“Hmm? Are you half words?”
“Oh no! I didn’t say I didn’t know more than this! That’s all I know!”
But unfortunately… Despite all the scientific methods, I couldn’t get more detailed information from him.
All he knows is groundless rumors like ‘there is such a secret story behind the collapse of the empire’.
“Then who did you hear the story from?”
“Kuh, my brother-in-law… I heard from the manager of the Yangtze River Canal House! I don’t know where the man came from, because he said it like a joke at a drinking party, saying he heard it somewhere!”
“Catch the water of the Yangtze River…”
Janggang River Chowder.
Although they were a numerical coalition like the Dong Dong Lake and the Dong Dong Twelve Groups, they were actually a huge organization that was compatible with each other in all respects.
In this world where magic does not exist, the center of logistics had no choice but to be water transport, and they had that much power based on the huge Yangtze River that crosses the continent.
Of course, the government, knowing the importance of the waterway, strictly regulated it, but weren’t thieves good at avoiding such control in the first place?
‘Besides, this is a world where a small number of strong people can overwhelm the majority of troops.’
The gangsters who accumulated wealth through smuggling and tolls while wandering the wide Yangtze River became the bane of the government.
Now that the country has collapsed and the reins have been released, they monopolize the waterways and are rather exerting more power than before the world was confused.
“Um, this is troublesome.”
Recalling that information, Harris salivated and furrowed his brow.
The problem was that the water flow of the Yangtze River was enormous and the time given to him was not so great.
Only 7 days left to go.
In the meantime, there was absolutely not enough time to catch a target that was wandering around the Yangtze River and dig up information.
‘… No, you can’t be full on the first drink. Let’s not rush. After all, my initial goal was to gather information and then create an environment suitable for growth.’
Somehow, it turned out to be a game that beats all the opponents.
There was no need to rush into it right away.
“Keuk… I don’t know what you want. If you want to know something, why don’t you go find someone who knows better, instead of doing this to us, who are only naughty brats? Over there, the Zhuge family of Yongzhong, Hubei Province across the Yangtze River.”
At that time, only Jin-deok grumbled and said in pain.
He seemed to be trying to pass on his bad luck to someone else, but there was a point in his words.
“Jegalse?”
“Keuheum, they say they know more than they don’t know. He also produced many imperial officials. There is also a saying that the decline of qi and the importance of dragon veins were first discovered in the Zhuge Sega.”
Certainly, there was a high possibility that such a place would know the inside story of this situation.
In addition, it is easy to find because the base is clear, unlike Chaeju, the Yangtze River, which is said to move around various sinks under his command.
‘Hmm, that means it’s a prestigious family.’
There is virtually no safe place in the world in this chaos.
In such a situation, the help of local partners was essential for a smooth life.
However, it was impossible to choose just anywhere…
‘…Then, shall we go and check it out for now?’
Of course, after collecting all the riches collected by the bandits.
***
A shabby fishing village near Dongdong Lake.
Just the other day, it was a place where there was only a gloomy atmosphere, as if it was impossible to die, but now the villagers were excited about a small hope that suddenly came.
The bandits who plundered them were not only punished by God, but also filled the empty barn and enriched their hearts.
It was a feeble hope that might fade in some kind of storm, but it gave those who had a hard life the strength to endure today.
“Huh, this is…”
And at the mouth of that little town.
A middle-aged man in an old, tattered uniform entered and exclaimed.
“Who are you?”
An old man with a hunched back sitting in the shade of a tree looked at him and opened his mouth in a wary voice.
An outsider who suddenly came to such a small fishing village, where there were no visitors even before the tribulation broke out.
No matter how you look at it, isn’t it suspicious?
“Ah! Excuse me, old man. The road is also called Cheonggwan.”
“Are you a master? What’s going on here…?”
However, the respectful greeting of the middle-aged man slightly softened the old man’s vigilance.
Of course, in this day and age, being a guru or a monk would be dangerous, but if you set an example like that, you won’t show your evil mind right away.
“There is something I want to ask you about that, but…”
Then, as if waiting for the old man’s question, the guru and the cheong-gwan opened their mouths, and soon turned their heads and looked across the lake.
“Do you know what happened over there?”
His gaze landed on a small island in Dongting Lake, which boasts the size of the sea.
It was the place where the Ioryongchae’s sink, which ruled this area until recently, was located.
“Ohh! Since he is also a guru, he seems to be recognized at once. hehehe, the Dragon King of Dongdong Lake has punished the brutes!”
“Dragon King… You mean?”
The old man raised his voice with a smile, as if he had never shown any vigilance.
And he told Cheng-gwan about the majestic yet mysterious sight he had seen that day.
Dark swirling clouds covered the sky and a tremendous storm raged around the area.
In addition, as if a thunder god had descended, there were even thunderstorms that erupted from the ground.
The cheong-gwan, who listened to the bluff-like words with a serious expression, nodded his head heavily.
His gaze returned to the island where there was a thick trace of something.
If he hadn’t been looking at it with his own two eyes now, he too would have dismissed the old man’s words as mere bluffing.
To that extent, the story about the anomaly was absurd.
But he couldn’t help but believe it because he could feel it clearly even at this moment.
Enormous traces left there, and obviously foreign to the energy of this world.
‘…As expected, it’s not of this world.’
The old man said that the Dragon King of Dong Dong Lake had punished him, but that probably isn’t true.
Whether it’s dragon kings, immortals, or monsters, they must belong to this world anyway.
After politely thanking the old man for answering his question, Cheng-gwan hurriedly left the village and headed for a deserted place.
Then, after taking out ritual tools from his backpack and building a simple shrine, he sat at the center of it and held up an amulet in front of his face while quietly reciting an incantation.
Just like that, a little time passes.
Roar-
Blue flames suddenly erupted from the amulet, scattering soft light around it.
However, even in the midst of this, the amulet did not burn, and it remained as stiff as it was at first without a little soot.
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“The Bindo government is telling you.”
And that guru, Chung-gwan, a magician of the Mosan sect, continued with a reverent voice.
“We found traces of people from another world with otherworldly powers at Dongting Lake in Hunan Province.”
A message sent to the headquarters of Jiangsu Province, which is far away from here.
