Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 214

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As I was staring blankly at the sky-rising grass, this thought occurred to me.

I’m such an idiot, you know.

‘How stupid of me to think only about the first thing that catches my eye!’

That would be the case. Are there only active skills that are triggered when it comes to technology?

Absolutely not.

There is also a passive skill that is always maintained.

What does this mean?

It’s a term that appears in various games in my previous life, but there are two types of skills: active and passive.

It is divided based on whether it is always maintained or activated the moment the skill is used. If I were to explain it based on the world of martial arts, it would be like this.

If a technique that blows energy into a fist and instantly explodes the point of impact is called an explosive fist, then this can be said to be an active technique that is activated only when energy is injected into the fist.

Because it is an activated technique that requires you to put strength into your fist.

However, if there is a method called Burst Deep Technique that, when practiced like Burst Fist, increases strength and endurance, then it can be considered a passive technique.

Even if you don’t hit the ground running, your body will always be strong and your strength will always be maintained.

A technique that maintains its effects once learned without having to do anything else.

That’s passive.

So, in the martial arts world, can we say that the internal energy-based techniques that are always maintained are passive techniques, and the techniques and techniques that utilize internal energy are active techniques?

So, if the technique that my older sister’s bloodshot eyes and Bin-yi opened were active, it would have been hard to tell since there wasn’t much of a change, but the technique that our Cho opened was definitely a passive technique.

The fact that there is no significant change is the characteristic of passive skills.

‘That’s right, I developed a passive skill!’

And among the numerous passive skills, it was clear that the first one had developed the water attribute.

Even when traveling on a boat, I didn’t like the feeling of being splashed by water while looking out from the deck, and I didn’t like going outside on rainy days. But now I’m flying around outside on a rainy day?

Like a fish in water?

Something that cannot happen without opening up the water properties.

‘Gyaaaah! Water attribute! This really suits our Cho!?’

To be honest, the water speed itself isn’t a particularly great skill.

Because you can just swim in water and are immune to water-related skills.

Well, if we really want to be picky, you could say that Cho’s skill extraction was a failure, but the fact that Cho opened up the water attribute made me feel like lightning struck down from the sky and struck my head.

That was because the water attribute was a passive that really suited the supernatural.

As you can imagine, Cho is a very devoted daughter.

What is the opposite of filial daughter?

That’s an unfilial daughter.

In Chinese, fire is called ‘hwa’, which means an unfilial daughter is also called a ‘hwa-hyo-nyeo’.

So, an unfilial daughter is a fire element.

Our daughter, Cho, who is a filial daughter, should naturally have the opposite attribute, so it was natural for her to become a filial daughter of water, or water (水).

Because the attribute of being a water-loving daughter is the opposite of that of being an unfilial daughter.

You may think this is nonsense, but it is not completely baseless. Didn’t Simcheong, the most famous filial daughter, fall into the water called Imdangsu after receiving 300 seok of rice as a donation?

It seems to refer to a place where water is swirling, but how could Simcheong, a human, survive if she fell into the thousand-mile-long sea?

This thing is neither a fish nor an aquatic creature.

That’s because the Dragon King gave Simcheong the water attribute and she survived.

This is because water-attribute creatures can breathe underwater and are immune to attacks with the same water attribute.

‘Otherwise, how would I have lived? Of course, the water attribute has been the fundamental attribute of filial piety since ancient times.’

As I continued to follow the candle with my gaze, amazed by the fact that I had discovered the secret it held and that the secret was its water properties, against the backdrop of lightning flashing in the distance, the candle continued to soar into the sky as if it had become the dragon that Hwa-eun had been longing for.

The antennae looked like long whiskers, the lime-colored shell looked like blue scales, and if only he had been given a Yeouiju, he could have been a dragon.

-Whew.

As the grass that had risen into the sky finally disappeared into the clouds, the exclamation that popped out again.

Oh, what a beautiful scene this is!

Now, as I was staring blankly up at the sky while the rain was pouring down in earnest.

-Whooooow.

In the flash of lightning in the distance, I saw the first light burst out of the clouds where it had been hiding and move downward again.

Lightning flashes between dark clouds in the sky, and rain pours down, and the sight of candles breaking through the clouds.

‘This is not rain. The sky must have been struck by the fantastic sight of the grass!’

Yeah, the rain that’s falling today just looks like the sky has gone crazy.

Wow. Wow.

It was a moment where I continued to admire myself like that.

-Kurururung!

Suddenly lightning strikes the nearby mountain peak!

I came to my senses suddenly when I saw lightning strike near the top of the high mountain behind me.

I’m telling you that if you do this wrong, you’ll probably get struck by lightning.

I was so excited right now, but I didn’t know when lightning would strike.

-Whoooooooo!

The lightning was getting closer, so I decided to quickly call down the torch.

‘This is not the time, if you keep doing that, something big will happen! Choya! Come down, it’s dangerous!’

I quickly came to my senses and called out to him in my mind.

When I call out to the sky like that, I hear a reply.

‘-Tsuru! 『Dad! It’s cool! Just a little more!』

Dad was worried that he would get struck by lightning, but now that he had a taste for water, Cho said that it was refreshing.

When you first bathe your babies, they cry loudly, but once they get used to the water, they like it and don’t want to come out of the water.

But now it was difficult.

Because the lightning was approaching.

‘Lightning strikes, danger! Come down quickly!’

It was a time when I was calling out to the people with my heart pounding in my chest.

A voice that shouldn’t be heard nearby, Seol’s sister’s voice, was heard.

“I knew it!”

“Two, how about you two?”

When I automatically flinched and looked in the direction where the sound was coming from, what came into view was Seol Nui and Hwa Eun holding umbrellas and lanterns that seemed to have been borrowed from Kunlun.

Seol Noo-ui was holding a lantern and Hwa-eun was holding an umbrella. When Seol Noo-ui and Hwa-eun saw me soaking wet, they quickly came over and put the umbrella over me. They wiped my head with the cloth they had brought and said.

“I thought it couldn’t be true, but it really is. Hwa-eun said she would definitely be here, drenched in rain.”

“See, Sister? Am I right?”

It feels like the two of them made a bet or something.

‘Oh, am I getting in trouble again?’

I was watching closely to see if I was going to get in trouble again.

Seol, who was looking around with the lantern she was holding, tilted her head and asked, confirming that there were no thatched roofs.

“Where did you go? It’s raining. Where did you go? Did you send it in?”

“Oh, right! Cho!”

When I pointed to the sky, which I had momentarily forgotten about due to the appearance of the two, the two followed my finger and looked at the sky.

-Whoooooooo!

As the umbrella slowly folded back and the water droplets fell on our foreheads again, the candles floating in the sky against the backdrop of the lightning that struck again came into our eyes.

He clearly told me to come down, but he keeps going into the clouds and coming back out.

Since the two knew that Choga hated water, Hwa-eun and Seol-nu shouted with surprised expressions.

“What, what is that!? That’s a candle!?”

“The sky on a rainy day!?”

I nodded to their questions and explained what I had found out.

“Sister Seol, it’s not that nothing has changed since then. It seems like you’ve come to like water.”

“Water!?”

“The grass has come to like water!?”

“Yes, they said the water was cool. Look at that.”

As the two eyes looked up at the sky, the image of a scorpion swimming in and out of the clouds while getting rained on entered their eyes, and the two slowly nodded their heads.

How could you question my words when you see me swimming like a fish in water?

It’s not that I just like it, it’s just the fish itself.

That was when.

‘Choya, it’s dangerous, come down quickly! Mom is here too!’

‘Tsrrrr!’

Once again, I tell Cho to come down quickly, and the moment Cho says he understands, he lowers his body to the ground.

-Flash!

-Whooooowooow!

The lightning that was striking passed through Cho’s body and he fell to the ground.

The sight of Cho’s body being struck by lightning and becoming dazzlingly bright, then turning black along with the sky.

Because of the bright light, the afterimage of the house being struck by lightning lingered in my mind for a long time, and then the sky and my eyes became pitch black.

That’s understandable, because our pretty daughter Choga was struck by lightning in front of her father.

A cry that comes out automatically, even though it was briefly denied.

“Choyaaaaaaa!”

“What the heck!”

“Choyaa!”

After Seol Nui and Hwa Eun’s eyes opened wide, and our tearing screams were drowned out by the sound of the rain.

Hwa-eun fainted on the spot after being struck by lightning.

“First, the first house···. Huh···.”

“Hwaeun-ah! Hwaeun-ah!”

‘My daughter is all grown up! Gyaaaah!’

***

-Whoosh.

Hwa-eun faints from shock after witnessing the scene of a house being struck by lightning.

Without even having time to feel the shock and sadness, I dragged Seol-nu and Hwa-eun under the zelkova tree and laid them down.

It was a huge shock to be struck by lightning, but I had to take care of Hwa-eun who had passed out first.

‘First, first night···.’

In my past life, the internet sages said that being the eldest meant not being able to be sad even when you wanted to be.

I suppressed my sadness in my heart and looked at Hwa-eun.

“Hwaeun! Hwaeun!”

“Hwa-eun, come to your senses!”

The falling raindrops are partially blocked by the trees, so the water droplets fall sporadically.

When I tapped Hwa-eun’s cheek and called her name, Hwa-eun opened her eyes with difficulty and spoke with a blank expression.

“Thatched cottage, thatched cottage… Our thatched cottage was struck by lightning….”

“Hwa-eun, Ji, calm down. Calm down.”

“Okay, Hwa-eun. Calm down.”

But Hwa-eun suddenly bursts into tears, perhaps because she remembered being struck by lightning earlier.

“Hehehe. Our thatched cottage···.”

No, I want to cry now too, but Hwa-eun started crying first, so the faucet turned on.

I woke up in awe and hugged her, and she started crying too.

“Our cottage! Gwaaahhh!”

“The wild… Hehehehe….”

And that crying turned on Seol’s sister’s faucet as if it were an infectious disease.

“Whoa! Our cottage!”

As the three of them, including Hwa-eun and Seol, were hugging each other and squeezing away tears, a sound of crying was heard.

-Tsururut?

Seol-nu and Hwa-eun turned their heads in surprise at the sound of crying, but I could tell the difference between their cries without even looking.

That was Bin.

-Tsurur?

Bin, who had been sleeping under the tree, woke up after being hit by the rain and asked while sticking his head between us who were hugging and crying.

What on earth is going on?

Mom, Dad, Aunt, why are you doing that?

When I woke up, my mom, dad, and aunt were hugging me and crying, so I guess I was confused.

“Rain, Bin-ah! Whoaaaa···.”

“Binah! Keuuuk!”

“Our Binnie now has an older sister… sob sob.”

Bin-i hugged him and the three of them started crying, and Bin-i looked flustered and didn’t know what to do.

Bin-i panicked and asked for help.

-Tsururut···. Tsuru? 『Sister, Mom, Dad, and Aunt are weird. I don’t know why they’re acting like this.』

Bin is looking for his sister, not even knowing that his house was struck by lightning.

That sight made me cry even more sadly.

“Gyaaaah!”

-Tsurut?

But then, the sound of grass crying came to me as if it were an auditory hallucination.

When I turned my head with eyes that couldn’t see well because of the rain and tears falling from the sky, beyond the rippling field of vision.

The light from the lantern that Seol Nui had dropped made the light green skin of the candle visible.

“candle!?”

-Churut?

Cho tilts his head when his name is called.

I was struck by lightning and thought I was in trouble, but the thatched cottage was floating in front of me, unharmed.

“What the heck!”

It was the moment when I ran to Cho and hugged him as soon as I saw that he was alive.

A thrilling electric current ran through my body.

“Keep going!”

This was supposed to be an exciting reunion.