Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 357

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Now that the storm of hide-and-seek is over and the kids have gone to bed, there’s no one to disturb them, and no spirits, so I decided to try and cheer them up.

The young lady also wanted it, and she wanted to pull out the bull’s horn in one go.

“Okay, then let’s do it right away.”

-Sia. 『Good. Hehe. I never thought I would receive the energy of the Odokguiwonshinkong as a poison. I’m looking forward to it.

“I’m also looking forward to seeing what new abilities the Golden Crown King will gain.”

Opinions are unanimous.

Lady Cheongyu gently took the hand that was extended to her and immediately closed her eyes.

And he gathered the energy of the beast’s heart that had been raised by luck into his fingertips.

Start from the lower abdomen and rotate the energy through the body, gathering it to the fingertips.

It was the moment when I was trying to convey it to Lady Cheongyu with the feeling of letting it flow.

-Squeak.

“What are you doing, Soryong?”

When I turned my head at the sound, Hwa-eun was standing in front of the door leading down to the cabin.

Their eyes widened as they looked at us.

No, I don’t know if it was round, but I felt like the thief was numb because of his feet.

“What are you doing, Little Dragon?”

Honestly, I think I’m usually lucky, but why do I only get hit on by Hwa-eun at ambiguous moments like this?

Even though he had done nothing wrong, he quickly let go of the hand he was holding with Lady Cheongyu and answered.

“Oh, my!”

-Sia! (That’s a misunderstanding!)

Young Lady Cheongyu shouts along with me.

Then Hwa-eun came over and said with a sly smile.

“You didn’t say anything? Why are you two acting like this? Like someone caught stealing.”

“No, it’s a situation that could easily be misunderstood···.”

-Shii. (Oh, that’s right.)

Below the melon field (below the water field).

Didn’t they say you shouldn’t adjust your shoes in a cucumber patch, and you shouldn’t adjust your hat under a plum tree?

When I explained that I didn’t do anything, but just felt a little awkward, Hwa-eun asked with a still smiling face.

『“Haha. So what was the misunderstanding?”

“I tried to breathe the energy of the beast’s heart into Lady Cheongyu. When you breathe energy into something, the poisonous creatures gain new abilities, right? If fate is something that makes you grow internally and externally, then that is also a type of growth, so I tried it.

“The first one was able to swim through it, and Binnie also grew bigger, right?”

“Ah… I thought Lady Cheongyu was going to teach me something while we were holding hands, but it was the opposite?”

Hwa-eun says that of course she didn’t have any doubts.

Hwa-eun replied that she naturally thought we were practicing martial arts.

I never knew my confidence was this high.

The clown ascended to heaven, feeling that I had become a trustworthy man to Hwa-eun.

‘Well, I’m kind of a surety check kind of guy.’

“Thank you for believing in me.”

When I told her with a moved heart that I was grateful for her trust, Hwa-eun shook her head and said,

“No. I didn’t believe it.”

“Yes? Then?”

If you don’t believe it, then what is your assurance that he must be practicing martial arts?

In response to my question, Hwa-eun asked something strange.

“Little Dragon, as you walk along the road, the wind blows in front of you, causing a woman’s skirt to flutter. At that moment, a red and blue snake appears in the bushes next to you. What does Little Dragon see?”

“Yes. Look at the red and blue snakes. They’re new guys, right? Why do you see that under the woman’s skirt?”

No, why are you looking at that fluttering skirt?

Even in my past life, I couldn’t understand people who filmed hidden cameras.

Why on earth would you take a picture of underwear that smells so bad?

On the other hand, if it is a red and blue snake, it means it has red and blue patterns, which is a completely new species.

Of course I had to see that.

Because this may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

‘Of course.’

Then Hwa-eun nodded with a very satisfied smile.

“So, I have no doubts.”

‘That makes some sense.’

It was a bit disappointing that it was not because of trust but because of taste, but why did I find myself nodding in agreement?

‘Should I just be thankful that no misunderstandings will arise in the future?’ As I was thinking that, Hwa-eun pulled a chair over from one side of the deck, sat down on it, and motioned towards us.

He told me to finish what I was doing.

“I’m curious too, so let’s try it.”

“Would that be so?”

-Sia. (Then let’s try again.)

I guess you also got Hwa-eun’s permission.

After the board was laid out, I clasped my hands together again and closed my eyes.

And he drew up the energy and made it rotate within his body.

Slowly guide the energy with your fingertips.

It was the moment when the energy flowed out through the fingertips of the young lady who was holding her.

『-shii. Huh.』

A sudden groan is heard.

What if he suddenly starts groaning?

I felt like the atmosphere was going to get weird, so I was startled and let go of her hand and looked at Lady Cheongyu.

『“Why, why?” – Shia. (No, something feels strange···.)

“Does it feel strange?”

-Shii. (Yes, I felt something strange, like my body was tingling.)

“Then what should I do?”

“Oh, I was surprised because it was my first time, but now that I know what it feels like, I think I can do well.”

“Little Dragon, try blowing in the energy slowly. Don’t push in too much at once. If you blow in too much energy at once, it can damage the blood vessels.”

“Oh, right. Okay, I understand.”

Was it too much to think about at first?

Hwa-eun’s coach accepted and breathed new life into her.

As Hwa-eun said, start slowly and little by little.

If you blow too much at once, it could hurt the blood vessels, as Hwa-eun said.

Lady Cheongyu, I don’t know if she has blood vessels, since she is the body of the King of Geumgwansa.

Then, this time, let’s breathe life into it so that it goes on without any problems.

There was no particular reaction from Lady Cheongyu either.

But at first, it started very slowly, but just like when I had inspired other children in the past, the flow of energy I was inspiring began to speed up, even though I didn’t intend it to.

A meal that invigorates you.

Towards the end, the energy was sucked out like a wave, and just before my energy hit rock bottom, the hand that was held between me and Lady Cheongyu naturally fell apart as if the energy injection was over.

‘Wow, this is hard.’

As expected, giving energy was an tiring task.

But still, I opened my eyes with a bright expression.

I was looking forward to seeing what new abilities Lady Cheongyu would acquire.

But what I see before my eyes is Lady Cheongyu blinking.

Lady Cheongyu tilted her head and asked.

『-shii? (Uh… is it really over?)

“Yes, do you feel anything? Like a surge of strength, or something coming to mind?”

I asked with a very expectant expression, but for some reason there was a strange reaction.

Perhaps lost in thought, Lady Cheongyu did not answer right away.

“Miss Cheongyu?”

-Sia. (Huh? Oh, Little Dragon.)

When I called out to Lady Cheongyu again, who was flustered, she finally came to her senses and looked at me, saying something in an apologetic voice.

『Sia···. (It feels like nothing has changed. I can’t feel anything.)

“Nothing has changed?”

See. (Yes. What is it?)』

‘Is Sojeong Yoo also passive?’

Although Lady Cheongyu was flustered, she was able to calm her down for the time being because her reaction was similar to that of the first time.

Since Odokmun has never breathed life into a spirit, he seems to not know that abilities have active and passive abilities.

When I first learned the first passive, I had a similar reaction to So-Jeo Cheongyu.

The appearance of So-Jeong-Yu was similar to that of Cho, who had said that nothing had changed and that she had not felt anything.

“Just calm down. It was the same when I first learned how to swim in the water.”

-Shia. Shii? (Really? Well, that’s fortunate. But what happened then?)

“Just a moment. I’ll think about how the first one awakened the new ability. It’s been a while, so I’ll have to think about it.”

I thought about how I first realized the passive.

‘You clearly said that you received a lot of energy from me, but just like Lady Cheongyu, you didn’t gain any abilities, right? And then you were sleeping when it started to rain outside… Did you realize your abilities after getting hit by that rain?’

Thinking about it, it was a situation where Cho woke up from sleep and realized his ability.

“Let’s just sleep and wake up.”

-Shii? (Are you sleeping?)

“Yes, I realized it after I fell asleep.”

At the words that she had to go to sleep, Lady Cheongyu looked up at the sky.

Because the sky was getting brighter before we knew it.

I thought it would be dawn soon since the kids were playing hide-and-seek until late, and it was true.

Lady Cheongyu looked up at the sky and said.

『“I think I really need to wake up. Then I’ll leave the rest to King Geumgwansa Cheongyu. Then I’ll see you later.”』

With the brightening sky as the background, Lady Cheongyu slowly curled up and fell into a deep sleep.

***

As the sun rose over the port of Yeongcheon-bu, where they had arrived during the night, the sunlight poured down on Cheongyu’s coiled body.

Then, Cheong-yu, who kept putting his head inside the coil, looked around with sleepy eyes as if it was no longer possible.

-Shia?

The guy who confirmed that he was on deck looked around for a while, and when our eyes met, he came towards me and put his head in my arms.

Cheong-yu was in a very deep sleep.

The face of the human young lady looked as if she was completely asleep.

I couldn’t even open my eyes properly and was staggering about in a deep sleep.

Normally, he would have woken up right away, but Cheong-yu didn’t wake up right away.

He seemed tired because he couldn’t sleep during the day due to his trip to Shaolin.

Since he usually spent most of the day sleeping, it wasn’t a big problem for Lady Cheongyu to stay awake at night, but since he had been to Shaolin, he had been awake during the day and at night, so Lady Cheongyu seemed very tired.

“Cheongyu? Cheongyu?”

-Sia···.

Cheongyu rubs her sleepy eyes as I call her.

But then I closed my eyes and fell asleep again.

“I don’t think it’ll work. Cheongyu, let’s go inside and sleep. It’ll be too hot here when the sun rises.”

I helped the sleeping man to the cabin.

Because I was planning to put him to sleep anyway.

It could be that the rain woke me up to the fact that I noticed the passive, but it seemed to me like I was asleep.

Because sleep is not only a process for living things to recharge their energy, but also a process for organizing information that enters the brain.

So, there was a high probability that he would realize something he didn’t know while sleeping.

He took Cheongyu to the cabin and guided her to her bed.

It was a place where a soft blanket was spread on fluffy dry grass. As soon as he arrived at the place, Cheongyu made a round nest out of the dry grass with his body and went straight to sleep.

“The green tea was left to rest.”

Since Cheongyu was already asleep, I decided to finish up some pending work before going to bed.

In the morning, I went to Haomun Yeongcheon Branch Manager Eunbi Luju to thank her for sending me a gisaeng, and I decided to go see Elder Punggae to find out what was going on with the attack on Odokmun’s secret business.

Because it seemed like the operation might have been carried out in the meantime.

I was able to come face to face with them just before leaving the port.

Eunbi Rooju appeared wearing a cotton swab, and the old man Poonggae followed from afar, accompanied by a couple of beggars.

The two of them looked at me and then approached me with happy expressions.

“So So Hyup.”

“Where are you going?”

“Are you on your way to meet the two of you?”

“That’s good. We came here because we have something to talk about. Let’s go inside and talk. We came here to tell you about the Odokmun incident.”

“I see you’ve made some progress?”

I was able to guide the two to their cabin and hear their story, but the result was half failure and half success.

“When we raided the secret branches of the Wuduomun in Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, and Jiangxi, they had already closed down their businesses and fled. They probably realized it because they were close to the Great Viet Nation and fled.”

“But Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, and Gansu have all been reorganized. Some were in the process of reorganizing their businesses, which was fortunate.”

“Halfway to success?”

“It’s better than half. We didn’t catch them all, but since we’ve withdrawn the secret branches, won’t our income drop sharply?”

Surely, even if we hadn’t been able to rob them, if we had withdrawn the secret branch that was our source of income, our income would have dropped sharply.

I decided to be content with giving the money a hit.

There’s another way to feed them candy.

“Certainly. I see. Then I’m satisfied with this.

“Next, let’s take a look at the people who are acting as spies for these guys. Are you interested?”

“There is such a list!?”

“Is there such a thing?”

“Of course.”

We already figured out the spies of the Blood Cult when we captured the Blood Yin leader and his deputy leader last time.

I decided to start the second stage of the Odokmun candy-feeding operation to sort out the spies.

***

After finishing the consultation for step 2 and sending the two people away, I finally decided to go to sleep.

After climbing Samhwachwijeong, I definitely feel less tired, but if nothing else comes up, it’s better to sleep.

It’s already past lunchtime, so when I wake up it’ll be night again.

“Hwa-eun, I’ll sleep well.”

“Yes, Little Dragon. Thank you for your hard work.”

When I told Hwa-eun that I was going to sleep and went into the cabin, she was sleeping soundly.

I feel a hand shaking me.

When I opened my eyes, it was dark around me, as if it was the middle of the night, and Cheong-yu, who was shaking me, spoke.

-Sia. “Little Dragon, I woke up again!”

“yes?”

The surprised blue eyes of Cheong-yu glowing in the darkness.

Judging from the tone of voice that resonated in my heart, it was clearly Lady Cheongyu, and for a moment, that thought occurred to me as I heard Lady Cheongyu’s words.

This is Cheongyu’s passive.

It is clear that the time that the young lady is active has been increased.