Episode 575The shadow was dark (7)
ââ¦?â
Samseon (ä¸ä») raised his head.
âHmm?â
Wu Xun, who was examining the ledger and brushing the parchment paper, asked.
âWhy are you doing that?â
ââ¦.â
âHey Samseon.â
âThatâs strange.â
âWhat do you mean?â
âI feel like my popularity has disappeared.â
âPretending to be popular? who?â
ââ¦I donât know. âIâm not sure.â
Oseon frowned and waved his hand.
âIt seems like itâs because the ventilation isnât working properly. âYouâve never bloomed a cherry blossom before, have you?â
âyes.â
âAlthough your level is great, you will be helpless in the face of constant exposure to cherry blossoms. âIâm going to take a moment to ventilate, so please cleanse your body with the air.â
Samsun sighed.
âYeah, that would be nice.â
Oseon pulled strongly on the iron rope hanging from one wall.
Phew.
A strange sound rang out from a hole in the ceiling at the end of the room. The air and dust that was filling this place are escaping through the vent.
Of course, clean air was constantly flowing in. Otherwise, I wouldnât be able to stay here for several days.
âIâm just feeling it again.â
A subtle admiration appeared on Osunâs face.
âIsnât it really amazing? âThe structure of this place.â
The structure of this gigantic basement was common to all paradises. The inflow of air is certain, so there is no dizziness or loss of consciousness, and it is sturdy, so it does not collapse immediately even if several bullets explode.
There were a total of 50 rooms, including a large room that could comfortably accommodate more than 20 people, and it was equipped with an office for their immortals and a warehouse to store âpreyâ.
Samseon shook his head.
âI knew that Sichuan Dangaâs iron-making technology was amazing, but I didnât know that even the machinery was top-notch.â
âItâs not top-notch. Nowhere else in the world could an institution like this be created. And you saw it too. âIt took less than three months to build this sturdy and huge space.â
âIt did.â
âEven if we mobilized that much manpower, it was truly amazing. âEven though he had such amazing technology, he didnât try to expand his influence further. The head of the family was a more easy-going person than I thought.â
Samsun chuckled.
âIt certainly looks like the cherry blossom smoke has seeped into it. âAs the air becomes purer, my head seems to become clearer.â
âLook there. âItâs just as I said, isnât it?â
âBut this feeling still remains.â
âIf youâre that worried, Iâll come up and come back, so you can do some luck. âPeople really have a lot to worry about.â
Osun deserves to say that.
This place, or the paradise that spread throughout Sacheon, including here, was a place that never tolerated the infiltration of foreigners.
Primarily, institutions called silver-type rain bombs are installed throughout the forest. Even if this organ knew of its existence, it was a murderous organ powerful enough to create a beehive before even a decent expert could react.
Even if you safely pass through the institution and infiltrate the inside of the building, there are extremely poisonous traps set up everywhere from the first to third floors.
If the trapâs control device is not returned to its original state every time, the poisonous fog will explode immediately. Of course, if you touch it, it explodes.
Even if you pass the primary gate, no one unless you are strong in Holy Heaven will survive in front of the secondary gate, the extremely poisonous trap.
There is even a third gate here. Explosives were laid as tertiary gates in some branches close to Chengdu in Sichuan Province, but not in other paradises.
Even if you are lucky and manage to pass through the secondary gateway and reach this basement, if the explosive at the third gateway explodes, all evidence will be destroyed.
This was Paradise Cowâs extreme. No one can secretly infiltrate, and even if they succeed, no evidence can be found.
âLetâs take a break while practicing. âIâll be back soon.â
Samseon felt somewhat sorry.
âYou donât have to do that because of me. âI guess I got on my nerves.â
âNever mind. âI was already planning to go out soon because of the silver explosion.â
âhmm? Why the silver scattering explosion?â
âThere have been quite a few animals around recently. âDidnât a tiger once take a wrong step and end up wasting precious memorization?â
âWell, I did.â
âI received a call from the party. âThey say that with a little tweaking to the control system, it wonât really work unless youâre as tall as a bear.â
âis it?â
âokay. âIâm still learning the mechanics these days, so I thought Iâd check it out.â
Samsun chuckled.
âI understand. âThen please do me a favor.â
âOkay then.â
âOh and.â
âWhy are you doing that?â
âI received a separate call from Il-seon.â
Oseonâs eyes lit up.
Ilseon was the highest-ranking expert among them. The authority was equal, so there was no need to respect it, but unlike the fourth line and below, where everyone was similar, the gap in martial arts was large for the third line and above.
In other words, Il-seon was the highest-ranking person except King Seon, the leader of Paradise God Seonjo. It would be safe to say that he is the actual leader of the Shinsengumi.
âWhatâs going on?â
âThe head of the Sichuan Provincial Commanderâs Training Department will be arriving soon.â
Oseonâs eyes lit up.
âCheomsa?â
âThatâs right.â
âHmm, I heard that the command sergeant in the training department stubbornly resisted.â
Samseon shrugged his shoulders.
âIt seems like he wanted to maintain the standards of a scholar in his own way. But after investigating, I found out that he also lived a pretty rough life.â
âhmm? âWhat does that mean?â
âI heard that 20 years ago, he murdered his nephew and killed his brother and his wife, causing an accidental death.â
Osun laughed.
âA man reputed to be a scholar as stubborn as a bamboo tree actually committed such an outrageous act?â
âIt wasnât just that. It seems that he often kidnapped young girls to satisfy his sexual desires and killed rats and birds without anyone knowing. âThe number of casualties revealed through investigation is twenty-two.â
âHuh!â
I have encountered quite a few evildoers while receiving guests at Paradise House, but it has been a long time since I encountered this level of evil.
Osun quenched his appetite.
âThey say people donât know just by looking at the outside.â
I was quite surprised, but considering the different types of members in Paradise, I wasnât that surprised.
Among the members of Paradise Cow, there were many crazy people. There were perverts who only liked boys under the age of ten, there were crazy people who enjoyed torturing, and there were also devil-like people who were fascinated by human flesh.
And Paradise Cow was a dream-like place that always satisfied their desires.
âAnyway, they say they are coming with the provincial commander. âThey said they didnât have enough name plates to issue this time, so this is an order to send them in even if they donât have a name plate.â
âI understand. âDonât do that.â
The membership registration process at Nakwonso is extremely complicated.
Even the emperor cannot enter Paradise unless he is certified as a member after going through more than ten censorship procedures. We donât even know it exists in the first place. Because we put our lives on the line for member management and information control.
The reason Nakwonso was able to maintain itself for so long was because of such thorough member management and information control.
âThen Iâll be gone for a while.â
âSure.â
* * *
âHere we are!â
Following the samuraiâs guidance, the group arrived in front of a huge rock near the stream.
âThere is a square hole under that rock. âItâs covered in fabric that looks like moss. If you remove it and insert the key, the path to the basement will open.â
âokay?â
âThatâs right!â
âDo you have the key?â
âItâs in my arms!â
Kang Ryang searched the warriorâs arms.
What Musa said was right. In his arms were two gold bags, one of which contained something long and angular.
Kang Ryang opened his gold bag.
A gray square piece of metal appeared.
Yeon Ho-jeong tilted his head.
âIf you stick this in there and turn it, a passage to the underground will open, right?â
âThatâs right.â
Kang-ryang said as he walked to the rock.
âLet me check.â
It was then.
âno.â
âstop.â
Yeon Ho-jeong and Tang Gwan spoke at the same time.
The river slowed down.
âWhy why?â
Yeon Ho-jeong frowned.
âThereâs no way itâs this easy.â
âyes?â
âParadise has taken root throughout Sichuan for a long time and has been kept secret. âYou may be distracted because you havenât been caught for a long time⦠but if you do something wrong, the entire Sichuan martial arts forest can be turned upside down, but management is so lax?â S~eaÊá´h the NôvelFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
The group glared at the warrior.
The warriorâs face turned pale.
âI didnât lie! Itâs true!â
Kang-ryang growled like an animal.
âWhy donât you speak straight, you bastard? Do you really want to cut it into pieces and throw it away?â
âReally! Please believe me!â
At that time, the officer raised his hand.
âstop.â
Kang-ryang hesitated and looked at the party hall.
The official nodded.
âWhat he said is true.â
âyes?â
âThey said it was true. âHe clearly believes that this is the entrance to the basement.â
ââ¦?â
âItâs not just him. Everyone who lost their lives to your sword from the first to the third floor will believe that.â
âButâ¦â
Yeon Ho-jeong interjected.
âThe question is whether these guys have ever gone down to the basement.â
Musa shouted.
âIâve been down there before! âItâs so salty!â
âYou put that key in and turned it to open the passage down to the basement and went down there?â
ââ¦?!â
âDidnât the basement open first and the person inside called out or went in with someone else?â
The warriorâs eyes shook as if there had been an earthquake.
The official laughed.
âParadise conch⦠they know how to deal with people.â
The warriors standing guard between the first and third floors are merely a one-time gimmick. Paradiseâs executives did not allow them to come to the basement alone.
Kang Ryang asked.
âBut it may actually be more sloppy than you think. âThere is no guarantee that this key is fake.â
âThat is correct. Butâ¦â
Yeon Ho-jeong looked at the party hall.
The official nodded.
âItâs gunpowder.â
âAre you sure?â
âDidnât you take charge of it too?â
âHonestly, itâs ambiguous. âIâm asking because Iâm too lazy.â
âItâs definitely gunpowder. âItâs subtle, but⦠thereâs definitely gunpowder in this area.â
The official looked at the rock.
âAnd the place where the gunpowder smell is strongest is on that rock. âI think they were planning to hide it with the fishy smell of the stream water.â
âher?â
âYou did a good job of making it obvious.â
In the first place, the engine equipment of Paradise Cow came from Tang family technology.
And Dang Gwan is the pinnacle of the Sacheon Dang family. Although I wasnât very passionate about the institution, I didnât know anything about the knowledge that came from my family.
The official looked down at the warrior.
âIn the end, there is no need for this guy.â
Musa put his forehead on the ground.
âPlease, please save me!â
Yeon Ho-jeong sighed.
âNow that things are like this, I really have no choice but to break the ground and go down.â
âItâs better that way⦠hmm?â
The officialâs eyes flashed, and at the same time, Yeon Ho-jeong shouted to the group in a low voice.
âSpread out! âHide your presence!â
Faaagh!
As soon as the words were finished, the entire group dispersed in all directions.
After a while.
Rumbling!
The ground near the back of the building across from the rock slowly subsided.
It was so sophisticated an organ that it was hard to believe it even when I saw it. It was hard to believe that such an organ had been built from scratch, much less by human hands.
After a while.
There, the staff appeared.
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