Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 363

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It was when I was looking ahead from the back of Geumdo.

A twinkling light begins to enter your eyes.

The twinkling light was coming from the city of Taean in front of Mt. Taishan, and at that moment, the Taoist hermit who was checking the water path shouted urgently.

“Little Dragon, it’s over there!”

The place the Taoist hermit points to is where the leisurely flowing Yellow River splits into left and right.

It was the waterway on the right of the two.

The moment the lights on the tower built between the two waterways turned on.

He quickly shouted while sitting on the head of the goldsmith disguised as a player.

“Geumdo, to the right!”

-Bugururur.

At my words, Geumdo quickly fixed his right foreleg on the riverbed and moved his left foot quickly.

Our ship, which was covered with the shell of Geumdo, began to slowly turn to the right along Geumdo.

-Puddudduk

The ship turns to the right with a sound of trees twisting.

The boat, which had been rocking back and forth in the diverging waters, was quickly sucked into the Grand Canal channel on the right as Geumdo kicked his hind legs and moved forward.

-Cheers!

The reason we headed this way was because, in order to go from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, we had to use the Grand Canal, which connects the two rivers.

When coming up from the mountains, they used the sea, but since there is a grand canal connecting the two rivers, they use it to return to Tangga.

Since Geumdoya is a spiritual being, it seems like it would be possible to use the sea, but it would be best if it could use the river.

About ten minutes had passed since we entered the control tower?

The pleasant crying sound of Geumdo was heard.

-Bughur.

-Tsurut. “The gold is nice, Dad. The water is cool.”

The scent wrapped around his body interpreted Geumdo’s words, and the meaning of his crying was that the water was cool(?).

Also, since Geumdoya is a turtle and does not breathe underwater like a fish, he would not feel stuffy due to water quality.

I thought it probably meant that the water was clean and good, but Geumdo seemed to be in a good mood after living in the muddy water of the Yellow River and coming into the clear water.

The water in the canal may not be that clear, but it was clearer than the Yangtze River and definitely better than the muddy water.

At Geumdo’s words, he tapped the tree covering the guy’s head and promised to take him to the stronghold of Yitai, the enemy of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and let him sunbathe for the first time in a long while.

“When you go to the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, I’ll let you take off your boat and let you bask in the sun.”

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

Geumdo was a golden turtle, so if he sunbathed, there would definitely be aggro everywhere, so he needed a safe place. There was no place as safe as Itaewon’s home base, so he decided to anchor there for a while to sunbathe and make his shell stronger.

-Bugurur.

Geumdo, who is crying again in excitement at being able to keep my promise.

I smiled and patted the guy on the head before looking around.

The water was flowing calmly under the darkened sky, but the part where the current splits was a bit dangerous, so now that I was safely in the control area, I could just surrender to the calm current for a while.

“Geumdo, if anything happens, let the Taoist priest know by crying.”

-Bugurur.

The bow of the ship flew down in a light air, thinking that it was time to crack down on the gold and eat dinner.

“Master, if you hear the sound of Geumdo’s cries, look around and let me know right away.”

“Understood, Little Dragon.”

“If nothing happens, we’ll be able to reach the Yangtze River in two days, right?”

“Yes, Little Dragon.”

“I don’t think anything will happen for two days… but if anything happens, let me know anytime, day or night.”

Following Geumdo, he was instructing the Taoist priest to contact him if anything happened.

The excited voice of Lady Cheongyu was heard from the cabin.

-Sia. “Ah! I guess I can really come out at night!”

As I turned my head, I saw the delighted face of Lady Cheongyu sticking out from the cabin.

Judging from her lively expression, which was different from her usual blank face, it was definitely Lady Cheongyu.

Looking at that sight, it seemed that the night of the Golden Crown King had completely fallen for Lady Cheongyu, just as Lady Cheongyu had wished.

‘Has something changed to a 12-hour clock?’

Since it appeared not in the middle of the night as usual, but even in the early evening, it seemed that the ownership of the body changed hands every twelve hours.

That was when.

Hwa-eun, who followed Lady Cheong-yu out of the cabin, asked Lady Cheong-yu through the group chat.

“Are you Lady Cheongyu?”

-Sia. (That’s right. Lady Hwa-eun.)

“As Soryong said, it seems that Lady Cheongyu has appeared at night?”

In response to Hwa-eun’s question that followed, Lady Cheong-yu happily answered in the group chat room.

『-shii! (I guess so!)

“That’s good. Oh, Xiaolong, come in for dinner. Lady Qingyou will come with you too. Let’s talk while eating.”

-Sia. (Yes, I understand.)』

Hwa-eun tells them to go inside since dinner preparations have just been completed.

As I followed Hwa-eun inside, my sister was waiting in my cabin with food.

The usual way to eat on a ship is that one of the crew cooks in the kitchen, puts it in a large vat, and brings it up to the deck to share.

On days when meals cannot be eaten on deck, individuals go to the kitchen and eat.

So, on days when they couldn’t eat on deck, they usually ate in their cabins or in groups of three or four. Perhaps because the sun had set and they couldn’t eat on deck, they brought food into the cabins.

“Come on in. Little Dragon, are you wet? I made some warm soup for you here. Eat.”

“Yes, I feel fine. Oh, it looks delicious.”

A warm soup with steam rising from it.

It seemed to be a soup made using catfish, which are caught in abundance in the Yangtze River, but since they were caught in the Yangtze River, it had a strong earthy smell.

But it wasn’t so bad that I couldn’t eat it, so as I was tearing the dumpling and putting it in my mouth after dipping it in the soup, I heard Lady Cheongyu’s question in the group chat.

『-Sia. Shii. (Ah! Soryong Sohyeop, I heard that you went into a state of meditation and came out. What happened? Did the door open?)』

Perhaps he was curious about what happened in the morning, and upon hearing that, Hwa-eun also asked.

“That’s right. Soryong, what happened? I forgot about you while you were running away and serving guests because Dong-yi was making it snow earlier. What happened? Did you go into a state of mind? Dong-yi said you weren’t in a state of mind?”

And then Sister Seol asked the same question.

“That’s right. What happened to you, Little Dragon?”

Come to think of it, I had also forgotten about what was happening in my mind.

I nodded and decided to explain what was happening in my mind.

I thought that I would have to ask questions and explain things when I came out, but just like Hwa-eun said, I ran away because Dong-i made it snow, and then I forgot because I was busy greeting the guests who came.

“It’s true that I entered the room. I opened the door too.”

『-Sia, (Really!?)』

“Is that true?”

“Really?”

Everyone looked surprised when he entered the room and opened the door.

Lady Cheongyu asked with eyes full of anticipation.

『-Sia. (So, did you open the door to the snake?)』

Perhaps he was wondering if he had opened the snake gate that he had promised to himself, but before that, he had to explain what had happened in his mind, so he spoke to the three of them.

“Before that, something strange happened in my mind.”

“What a strange thing?”

“Something strange?”

-Shia?

The three tilt their heads as if something strange had happened.

He explained while looking at Hwa-eun.

“When you enter the dream, you usually open your eyes in a cave made of stone. This time it was the same. The only difference from last time was that the Wukong you chose last time was engraved on the ceiling.

But last time I chose one of five doors, and this time there were five doors again.”

“Well, it’s not like the doors disappear when you open them, so wouldn’t it be natural to have five?”

“Is that so?”

『-Sia. (That’s right.)』

I had already opened the door, and I thought that if the candles, incense, and candles engraved on the door were engraved on the ceiling, then the door should disappear.

The three were of the opinion that it could be possible since the door could not run away.

‘Did I think too much in terms of games in my past life?’

I thought that in my previous life, the selection screen for something like a game would usually disappear once you chose something, so it wouldn’t appear the next time, but when I thought about it, the three of them’s opinions that the door might remain were valid.

Just because you open a door doesn’t mean it has to disappear.

But what if the door has a silver inscription on it?

“That could certainly be the case. But there was a silver inscription on the door.”

When I brought up what I really wanted to say, the three women blinked their eyes without hesitation as if to ask if what they had heard was correct.

And then he quickly turned his gaze towards Hwa-eun.

“Hwa-eun?”

-Sia? “Are you Lady Hwa-eun?”

Then, Hwa-eun looked at me with a puzzled expression and asked.

It seemed hard to believe that he was being drawn.

“Yes? Me?”

“Yes, it had Hwa-eun engraved on it.”

“No, I’m not poisonous, so why am I there···.”

“Well, that’s why.”

The end of such confusion.

Lady Cheongyu said with an expression that was half resignation and half understanding.

『-Sia. Shii. (So you chose that door? I understand, even though you promised me. If Lady Hwaeun was engraved on it, then of course you should choose Lady Hwaeun.)』

He seemed to think that I would have naturally chosen Lady Hwa-eun’s door, but he immediately shook his head.

“Oh, no.”

Then, Lady Cheongyu opened her eyes wide and looked at Hwaeun with a bewildered expression.

Almost simultaneously, Seol’s sister’s gaze turned towards Hwa-eun.

When I turned my head to look at Hwa-eun at the sight of the two flinching, the corners of her mouth were trembling.

It felt like there was a sense of dissatisfaction that he was engraved with himself, so why wasn’t he chosen?

I was startled and immediately explained the reason.

“Okay, everyone, listen up. I opened the doors of Cho, Hyang, and Bin, and I was able to talk to the child-like creatures, Wukong, and ask them for favors, right?

But imagine if you opened the door to Hwaeun. What would happen?

As I continued to speak really quickly, Seol’s sister answered nonchalantly and then her mouth fell open.

“Then Hwa-eun also has someone similar to Hwa-eun···!”

“!”

The three of them have the most surprised expressions during the conversation so far.

He nodded slowly, looking at the three of them.

“I might gain powers like the art of concubine, or people might feel unconditional favor toward me.”

Do you know how much I really struggled in my mind?

But I could never make that choice.

“That would be really dangerous.”

“That’s right. Uh, it’s similar to the martial arts that the negative people practice···.”

-Sia. “I, I really think so.”

I heard it before, the yin-yang unity that Hwa-eun is talking about refers to those who gather internal energy through yin-yang unity(?), and their martial arts are roughly similar to hypnosis?

Anyway, I continued to explain to him how this situation had come to be, as I had imagined, and told him what to do about Hwa-eun’s door.

“I think it’s because I learned the O-Poison Ghostly Source Technique and the Beast Heart Technique, but I think the part where I register poison, which takes up a large part of the O-Poison Ghostly Source Technique, is very different from the original O-Poison Ghostly Source Technique.

It seems like things like Hwa-eun being registered in the Odok-Gwi-Won-Shingong are also due to that influence.

So, I’m going to try to open the door with the silver lining, once it becomes clear what happens when I open it, or I’ll just seal it forever.

Then the three of them praised me.

“Good idea, Little Dragon.”

“Yeah, good job, Soryong. As expected, he’s my little brother.”

『-Sia. (You made the right decision.)』

It seemed like they were praising me for not giving in to temptation and sealing it, but the three of them nodded and asked almost simultaneously.

“Then which door did you choose?”

“Then which door did you choose?”

『-Sia. (Which door did you choose?)』

“Well···.”

It was just the moment I was about to answer.

Suddenly, a woman’s voice was heard along with a man’s rough tongue-clicking voice from the side.

-Ska. “Oh my. I’m afraid my brother will get into trouble again if he speaks poorly… That’s why you should only have one female…”

-Char? “Yes?”

-Skaa. “Oh, no. Yeondoo, don’t say anything.”

Even though I hadn’t registered, the voices of the gentlemen, Hwang and Yeondoo, were coming through very clearly and distinctly.