Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 410

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Western Region 2

After Lady Cheongwol arrived.

After passing the basin where they had been searching for Changcheon, they arrived at a place with a dense forest of trees, and in front of them were mountains that had gathered to form a full-fledged mountain range.

Yes, we came face to face with the Himalayas.

The snow that has not yet melted can be seen on the high peaks.

The clouds were passing over the ridge of the distant mountain.

This side is the tip of the mountain range so it is not that high, but the fact that it is not that high in the Himalayas can be felt from the snow piled up on the mountain.

Standing in front of the snow-covered mountain, the air felt chilly even though we were standing quite a distance away from the snow.

-Clang.

The sound of Changcheon’s wings flapping can be heard when you stop in the snow piled up on the mountaintop.

When I turned my head, Cheongcheon was playing the wings while pointing with his antenna to the top of the mountain just before the sun set.

Then, the scent wrapped around my body looked at me and pointed to the top of the mountain with its tail just like Changcheon did and began to interpret.

-Tsurut. “It’s over there. Dad. He said he felt it from the mountain ridge over there. He said it must have come over the mountain?”

“Can you feel it from over there, Changcheon?”

-Whoosh.

-Tsurut. “That’s right, Dad.”

When I asked Changcheon again, he quickly nodded.

Judging from the interpretation of the following scent, it was clear that they had to go that way.

‘I think it’ll be difficult to get over there… I guess I’ll have to go around a bit.’

There was a moment when I thought that I might have to take a detour since I couldn’t go past the snow-covered mountain with the children.

Hwa-eun also said something similar to what I was thinking.

“I can’t go through the cold with the kids, so I think we’ll have to go through the pass between the mountains.”

“Maybe.”

“You look cold just by looking at me, Ryong-ah.”

And Seol, who clung to me and shivered, saying she looked cold for no reason.

He said he was curious about the snow, so he went near the snow with Yeondoo and did this.

That’s because my older sister has only lived in warm places.

While we were talking about Hwa-eun and the route we were taking, the sound of Chang-cheon’s wings flapping continued again.

-Whoosh.

-Tsurut “Dad, but now I feel like I’ve lost touch.”

Cheongcheon-i reported through Hyang-i that the yellow insects in the direction he was heading had disappeared.

“Already? Well, it would be hard for the illiterate to live in such a high mountain···.”

Judging from the fact that the guy’s antennae were erect, I thought he was worried that he had lost touch, so I decided to reassure him.

Because I already expected that the feeling of the grasshopper would be cut off.

“It’s okay. I expected it to be cut off anyway. Now let’s move west like Lady Cheongyu said.”

-Clang.

What this means is that there was a reason why Changcheon was the king of locusts and called the common locusts his kind.

Although there were distance constraints, Changcheon could roughly estimate the location if there were many grasshoppers nearby.

So we were following the long-distance migration of the locust swarms, and we were moving along the route of those who had strayed here and there. Since we were in a highland area different from their habitat, we thought that their movements would soon stop.

In the first place, it was expected that the ones that fell behind would be more likely to be problematic individuals, and the temperature on the mountain was also low, so it was expected that the locusts would die quickly.

-Tsurut “Okay, Dad.”

But there was no need to worry about the locusts dying.

Didn’t Lady Cheongyu explain to you about the silver needle?

A silver needle is an object used to make a stuck locust feel like the leader of the group and to guide the stuck locust in a certain direction.

This time, the locusts that had been stabbed with silver needles seemed to have been ordered to move toward the east where the sun rises, so all we had to do was move toward the west where the locusts had come from.

But the move is after daybreak.

First, we decided to prepare for camping.

This was because, as it was a mountainous area, the temperature dropped rapidly when the sun set.

It was okay when we were in the basin, but as we got closer to the mountain, the temperature dropped rapidly when the sun set.

The children felt cold so they couldn’t move at night.

“Okay, then let’s camp here today and move on tomorrow morning. We’ll have to stop here for now.”

“Okay, okay. Okay.”

“Okay, Little Dragon.”

The people who moved quickly when I told them that they had to camp with Hyungnim and Jiryong.

Now that they were used to camping, they each started to move around to find things to do.

As the older brother moved with the back of his neck to cut dry grass and put the bamboo basket that Ji-ryong was carrying on the ground, Monk Ja-heo approached and helped him take out the white cloth inside and spread it out.

The white cloth is a tent made by a demon, and it cannot be re-drafted every time, so it is rolled up and carried around.

“Hey, Yohwa, can you help me set up the tent? I think you just need to tie some string to a few trees.”

-Kissit.

As I entered the forest and asked the fairy to connect several threads since there were many trees around, I heard Seol’s sister talking to Gungbong.

“Gungbong, let’s go out and hunt something before the sun completely sets.”

“Okay, Miss Seol.”

It was a suggestion to go hunting, but the two of them liked each other better than expected.

First of all, Sister Seol was smart and had the advantage of being able to take care of the animals, and not only that, but Sister Seol was someone who knew animals’ habits well, right?

So, hunting was very easy because the division of labor was such that if they found animal tracks in the surrounding area, the archer would shoot them with his bow.

“I’ll go with you too. Sister Seol.”

“Okay, Hwa-eun, let’s go together too. The guy nearby is Hwa-eun’s better at dark magic.”

When Seol Nui disappeared into the forest with Hwa Eun and Gung Bong, the sister-in-law approached and smiled awkwardly.

I had to help her with something, but my sister-in-law had never done anything other than swing a spear since she was born, and she had little experience going out, so she didn’t know how to do anything better than Hwa-eun.

Because today, you have to pick up branches with me too.

“Well, we guess we’ll have to pick up some sticks.”

“Would that be so, Sister-in-law?”

-Tsururut. “I’ll help you too, Dad.”

-Tsurut! 『Hyang-i will help too!』

-Kyuit! “I’ll pay the installment too!”

First, we made a bonfire with rocks and branches we had picked up nearby.

And when I returned to the campsite with my sister-in-law and the children who wanted to help, I picked up some more branches.

The tent was already finished, and Seol Nui and Gung Bong had just returned carrying something.

“Dragon!”

“Sister Seol, you came so quickly? What’s that?”

“Oh, there was a month (旱獭).”

“A month?”

What Seol Nui held in both hands was a ball of fur with a tail.

I went closer to take a look. It was an animal I knew very well.

Isn’t there a video that was uploaded as a meme on Nutview of an animal screaming ‘Ahhhh!’?

Did you say marmot?

Those cute little guys looked like they were going to be our dinner tonight.

Because Jungwon originally ate everything except the table.

‘You come to Jungwon and eat all sorts of things.’

I thought he ate everything, but on the other hand, I said it with some anticipation because I had heard that marmots were delicious.

“Oh, it’s been a month.”

“Okay. Here you go. Please cook.”

“Okay, Miss Seol. Then I will prepare the meal.”

The person who Seol Nui handed the marmot to was the interpreter, who put down the iron pot and started preparing the meal.

The reason he was put in charge of cooking was because he was better at cooking than expected.

I thought beggars could just eat whatever they begged for, but I guess they got better at eating poor ingredients?

He was called the Tsuka region because there were many mixed foods in the Busan region in his previous life, and he was a kind of Tsuka magician.

It looks like it was roughly mixed together, but the honey-like porridge tasted better than I thought.

So, I became a full-time chef.

“Where did they go?”

After watching the interpreter grooming the marmot for a while, I turned my head and realized that the children were nowhere to be seen.

The kids who were waiting at the campsite and the kids who went with me to collect sticks.

In response to my question, the older brother who was resting on one side spoke.

“You went into the tent a little while ago. Did you feel cold?”

“Oh, you went inside the tent again. Well, it’s gotten a bit chilly under the snow-covered mountain, isn’t it?”

Now that I think about it, the kids weren’t very active when we were picking up wood a little while ago.

Aren’t our children cold-blooded animals like insects and reptiles?

Since it seemed that the sun had set and I was feeling the cold, I filled a bag made of fabric with the stones I had put in the campfire earlier and headed to the tent.

The kids loved the campfire, but they liked it better inside the tent than outside where the cold wind could be felt at their backs, and they loved the warm stone bags I made for them the most.

As I walked through the entrance of the tent and entered, I saw a night light that seemed to belong to a dragon hanging from the ceiling of the tent, casting a soft light, and under it, I saw children huddled together, their bodies pressed against each other.

It’s centered around a hairy fairy.

There was also a white blanket covering her, which seemed to have been made by a demon.

“Dad brought me some warm stones.”

-Tsururut. “It’s a stone!”

-Kissit!

-Sia. “I survived.”

As we put down the bag of stones in the middle of the children, they came closer and started to put their bodies on it little by little.

Lady Cheongyu, who had covered herself with a white blanket and put her tail in her stone pocket, grumbled with an expression that said that she could now live.

-Sia. “I thought it was just weak stamina. I think it’s also a weakness of this body that it becomes difficult to move when it feels cold.”

The trip was worth it since it was moving with Yeondoo wrapped around it, but the cold seemed difficult.

“Are you feeling okay?”

-Sia “Yes, Little Dragon. Thank you for worrying about me.”

“Thank you. Oh, the grasshopper said the connection was lost. I guess we’ll have to keep moving west now.”

-Shii. “Ah, I heard that earlier······.”

I was talking with Lady Cheongyu about the future pursuit.

“དགོངས་དག་ཞུ། འོན་ཀྱང་ཚོགས་པའི་ནང་དུ་ནད་པ་གཅིག་ཡོད།···. Ah, you’re people from the Central Plains. Ahem. Excuse me. There’s someone sick in our group, so would you like to rest by the bonfire···. Huh? A martial artist!? What’s a martial artist from the Central Plains doing here in Seojang!? Could it be that you’re trying to get in our way!?”

A slightly angry man asked from outside.

As I quickly headed outside after facing the young lady, I saw a dozen or so monks dressed in red facing off against a large bonfire.

They all carried large bundles on their backs, and were seen supporting one of the wounded.

They were probably monks from Podalap Palace, the martial arts force of this place, and Jaheo stepped forward and spoke.

“Amitabha. I am the monk Jaheo of Shaolin. I think they are monks of the Potala Palace. There seems to be some misunderstanding. We are just passing through on our way to the West.”

“Shaolin?”

I thought it would go over well since he was a monk from the same Buddhist sect, but all that followed were sharp shouts.

“Shut up! Who would believe that!”

I’ve heard that the monks of Podalap Palace are belligerent, but this seems like an overreaction.

As I looked at Ji-ryong at the reaction of the one who seemed to be the leader of the monks, I heard Ji-ryong’s voice, which understood the meaning of my gaze.

[The relationship between the Podalap Palace and the Central Plains martial artists is not good. The northern nomadic dynasty that ruled the Central Plains and the Podalap Palace fell, and the Central Plains claimed the West as their land, while the Podalap Palace claimed it as their land, succeeding the fallen Tibetan.

However, the Tibetan dynasty had already fallen, so the Central Plains were able to take over the land of the Western Tibetans, which led to rebellions.

But the ones who suppressed the rebellion were the martial artists of the Central Plains···.]

[The martial artists suppressed the rebellion?]

[Since Podalrap Palace was a martial arts power, the martial arts people had no choice but to help.]

In that case, it was understandable that he would have been angry, but it would not have been strange if he had just attacked him, when the voice of Lady Cheongyu was heard from behind.

-Shia. “Is this a fight?”

When I turned my head, I saw Lady Cheongyu coming out of the tent and standing behind me.

The moment Lady Cheongyu appeared with Yeondoo and Juhwang and stood next to me, a surprised voice erupted from the monks of Podalap Palace.

“Let me go out!”

Then he knelt down before Lady Cheongyu.

‘What is it?’