Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 421

421 Sejak 1

After releasing the baby grasshoppers, we continued our search in the cave with the four members of Oryongsambongjung who had joined us here.

It was to find more important documents such as Odokmun’s letters that might have remained, but nothing more could be found.

“It’s so clean?”

-Tsuru. “Dad, it seems like there’s nothing here. It seems like there’s no space underground, even for Rang-hyang.”

Even though they mobilized the children to check if there was any hiding place, the inside of the cave was too clean.

I searched the long underground passage leading from the temple to the stone wall, but the inside of the cave was really clean and empty.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that the inside of the cave was completely empty of dust.

The interior was divided into sections, and there were things like breeding facilities and residential facilities, so there were a lot of traces of people living there and other miscellaneous things.

But when I say there was nothing, I mean that not a single piece of paper was found.

It was strange that even aside from the booklet that the leader had in his arms, it was possible to find even minor documents such as books, ledgers, and inventory registers containing detailed experimental records.

When we gave up searching the inside and came out of the cave.

At the entrance to the cave, the dragon was thinking about something and made a suggestion to me.

“The leaders are all dead, but there might be someone who knows. Let’s check with the captured Odogmun guys to see if they know where something important is hidden.”

As Ji-ryong had said, all those in charge were already dead.

This includes the leader of the Black Death, his confidants, and his leaders.

The deputy chief was nowhere to be found, and according to Lady Cheongyu, he seemed to be absent.

They said she was a woman, but there were no women here.

They said that only about a third of the Black Death was here, so I guessed that the rest was probably in Odokmun.

So, it may not be possible to extract advanced information, but in the first place, the leaders of Odokmun did not even think about extracting information.

According to Lady Cheongyu, even if you catch the leaders or members of the armed forces, if they say something harmful to the Odokmun, their danjeon will explode and they will die.

However, I heard from Lady Cheongyu that such high-ranking officials are not used on lower-ranking warriors, so they can be questioned.

Since he was taken prisoner for that purpose in the first place, Ji-ryong’s words meant that they should interrogate the prisoner.

“That would be good.”

The warriors of Odokmun had already subdued the bloodline and locked it in a prison-like facility inside, so they headed there.

A place where one side of a cave is blocked by wooden bars.

“It’s too dark. Brother, can we have a torch?”

“i get it.”

It was dark and the torches weren’t lit, so I asked my brother to light the torch for me. Then I asked the warriors inside who were kneeling and suppressing the blood vessels.

“Not a single scrap of paper has been found inside the cave. Does anyone know why?”

I asked a question, but all I got in return was an echo from the cave.

The disgruntled voices of my brother, who was guarding the cave entrance, and Hyang-i, who was wrapped around my body, continued.

“I don’t think it’ll matter if I tell anyone except the Black Death guys. Even though you surrendered, you don’t want to talk about it?”

-Tsurut! “Dad, should I ask you something?”

The captured Odokmun warriors were divided into two groups: a few members of the Black Death Corps, a military force, and research warriors who conducted research internally.

Aside from the warriors whose eyes I had shot with the Spitting Cobra, there were some Black Death soldiers who had followed the Black Death Lord inside.

As we have already heard, the Black Death Corps cannot speak because their dantian will burst and they will die, but it was okay for the warriors mobilized for research to speak.

But the warriors all kept their mouths shut.

He ridiculed the sight of the warriors keeping their mouths tightly shut.

Well, if you don’t say anything, there are many ways to make them do it.

“If no one is willing to talk, I guess I’ll have to give them a taste of the Golden Crown King’s poison.”

They decided to immediately mobilize Young-Yu So-Jeo to carry out brainwashing.

Even if you are hiding something, if you are poisoned by the poison of the blue oil, anything will come out easily.

Then the warriors inside the bars began to murmur and commotion.

“That, the King of Gold?”

“If it’s the King of Gold Crowns···.”

I feel very nervous when the name of the teenage poison king, the golden crown prince, comes out.

He immediately brought in the Golden Crown King, Cheongyu, and dragged out one of the non-Black Deaths inside the bars.

“Ask this old man and ask him to answer honestly to my questions.”

-Sia! “I understand, Little Dragon.”

As the day dawned, Lady Cheongyu entered a deep state of meditation, while King Geumgwansa was in a state of mourning.

When Cheong-yu approached the Odokmun warrior at my request, the Odokmun warrior shouted in fright.

“Eek! Please, save me!”

“No, don’t worry, I’m not going to kill you.”

“You’re saying that you won’t die if you get bitten by the Golden Crown King!?”

The research staff, excluding the Black Death, were terrified at being bitten by the Golden Crown King, as they did not know about the detailed abilities of the Golden Crown King.

Because usually the poison of a spirit is poisonous.

Perhaps he thought that if he was bitten by Cheong-yu, he would die.

But since he was taken prisoner, he had to go through the process of having Cheong-yu’s teeth embedded in his wrist, regardless of his will.

The moment when Cheong-yu approached and the figure was revealed by the torch that had been lit for interrogation.

A voice of disbelief came out of Musa’s mouth.

“Oh, Miss? Miss Cheongyu?”

Then, even from inside the bars, voices of disbelief continued.

“Oh, you’re a miss? You’re a miss Cheongyu?”

“Miss Cheongyu is here!?”

Let’s take a quick look inside the bars. Among the warriors who could only move their necks due to the blood vessels in the darkness being suppressed, those who were not part of the Black Death Squad turned their heads and looked this way.

‘what?’

Earlier, outside, he looked very surprised, as if he had not properly noticed the appearance of Lady Cheongyu next to him due to the appearance of Hwan-ji and Hwan-ah.

Could it be that Lady Cheongyu’s death was unknown within the Odokmun?

No, looking at the words of the Black Death Lord and the appearance of the Black Death guys inside, it doesn’t feel like that.

Even though the Black Dragon guy didn’t know that Young Lady Cheongyu had become the King of Geumgwansa, he spoke as if he knew that she was dead.

“Father, he definitely passed away… How did he end up like this?”

After listening to the following story, it seemed that he couldn’t understand how the dead Lady Cheongyu could come back to life in the form of King Geumgwansa.

‘These guys, don’t you know that Lady Cheongyu was raised with human elixir? It’s highly likely that it’s a secret, so there’s a high chance that they don’t know. What should we do about this?’

I had to interrogate him, but if my guess is correct, it seems like it would be easier to get him to open up than I thought.

He said it with a cold expression.

“Huh. It’s disgusting that you, Odokmun, sound as if you’re worried about Young Lady Cheongyu.

“Later, he took Nae-dan and raised him as a human elixir to feed to O-dok-mun-ju, but he caused him to die miserably.”

“What?”

The expression on my face was that of a warrior with a strange look on his face.

But he immediately took on a look of shock as if he had caught wind of something.

“Sir, really!? That to the young lady?”

The man seemed unaware that the young lady was a kidnapped child, but his agitation spread to some of the people inside the cave.

“That’s nonsense.”

“What on earth are we going to do?”

“That’s a lie! Do you believe that Zhongyuan guy’s words?”

When the Black Death personnel shouted that they were going to crack down on the inside, he continued speaking with a cold expression.

“Why did it become like this? King Geumgwansa took pity on the miserable death of Lady Cheongyu and took her soul, which resulted in her becoming like this.”

Then, the warrior right in front of me seemed to become even more agitated, and I heard the answer that something that was expected to be important had been incinerated.

“When the poison was coming in earlier, I saw the chiefs putting something into the inner brazier.”

“You’re not lying, are you?”

-Tsuru! “You’re not lying, are you?”

Even though I followed Hyang-i and showed my fangs and threatened the Odokmun warriors, their answer did not change.

“Now that I know what happened to the young lady, I have no intention of lying. The location is in the second cave······.”

He said that he rushed to his brother’s location after receiving a report that he had been burned in a brazier and checked the brazier, but all that was left was ashes.

“It seems like something was burned. The warmth from the brazier still lingered.”

Judging by the remaining warmth in the brazier, it is certain that something was burned.

It’s not that I didn’t trust him, but I decided to use the poison of the young lady, who had a similar effect to hypnosis, because it would be able to bring back forgotten memories.

Hypnosis can sometimes make you recall things you weren’t aware of before, so maybe you saw something different in the chaos earlier?

“It’s not that I don’t trust you, but I just want to find out if you’ve forgotten any memories. Can I use some of the Golden Crown King’s poison? It can help you recall things you know but have forgotten.”

“All right.”

After hypnotizing him like that, I asked him.

“Have you seen anything else?”

“doesn’t exist.”

“Are you sure about what you’ve said so far?”

“Yes. That is an answer without a single mistake.”

A warrior of Odokmun who answers with blank eyes after being bitten by Cheongyu.

The results of the interrogation were somewhat disappointing.

There really wasn’t a single piece of data left.

Additionally, I was able to hear a bit about how they came here and what they did, but that was all.

***

-Knock knock. Knock knock.

The evening of the third day after the battle.

A meat feast was held in front of a bonfire in front of a cave where the sun was setting.

Same venison as yesterday.

No, to be exact, it was just an ordinary meal, called a feast because there was a lot of venison in it.

“Rather. I remember that strange food the villagers used to give me.”

“I feel a little dizzy too.”

“Me too. I remember Cheonghae from before.”

The rice had already run out, and they had no choice but to continue their meal with the deer they had caught in the village. Oryongsambong and Seol Nui Hwaeun looked like they were tired of eating meat again, but there were two people who said how could one get tired of meat.

I mean, a messenger and an interpreter.

Since the two were beggars, they were quite satisfied with their daily diet of only meat.

“Oh, the meat is delicious. I said it’s because everyone is full.”

A deer’s leg is torn off by a snarling slurp, its fingers covered in oil.

Everyone looked at him with annoyed expression, but Hoogae, who ignored the gazes and continued to eat meat, nodded toward the inside of the cave after a while as if his stomach was full.

“By the way, the interrogation is over, so what should we do with them?”

The number of warriors we captured is fourteen.

As you can see, the rest of the Black Death Five felt like research agents.

Their interrogation continued until lunchtime today.

The warriors who were not part of the Black Death became considerably more cooperative after hearing about the affairs of Lady Cheongyu.

So, even though they didn’t find any data, they still had the expectation that they could find out what else Odokmun was planning through the warriors, so they proceeded with the interrogation using Lady Cheongyu’s poison.

But just like with the data, there wasn’t much to be found out.

After absorbing the Blood Cult, the structure of the Odokmun completely changed into a sect, and they know little other than the orders given to them.

Even though I wiped away every memory one by one.

So, the interrogation ended without much result, but the matter was more or less settled here.

So now that the interrogation was over, all that was left was to follow Tenzin, who had guided us here, to the Potala Palace, so he seemed to be asking what to do with those guys.

“Sure. I don’t think it would be a big problem to take him away because he was poisoned by the Golden Crown King. I think the food issue would be the bigger issue.”

Although he is not in a state of hypnosis by activating the poison, he has been brainwashed by being poisoned by the Golden Crown King’s poison, so it should be okay to take him with you, but my brother said he is worried about food.

Just our group consists of me, Hwa-eun, Seol, half of Oryongsambong, Monk Ja-heo, Hu-gae, the interpreter, and Ten-jin, eleven of us.

Add fourteen to that and you get a total of close to thirty.

So, if that group moves, you have to prepare a lot of food.

“It seems like the village we were staying in wasn’t very well off either. If we were to hunt deer and make jerky to prepare food, it would take a month to prepare.”

“That’s true, but our next destination is the Podalap Palace, so I don’t feel like taking them. I’ll tell Monk Tenjin what’s going on, but it’s a bit much to take such vicious guys with us…”

Wasn’t it originally Podalap Palace that hated the Central Plains martial artists so much?

However, since I was invited because I am a Buddha, it would be a bit much to drag sinners to such a place, said Eumbong.

“You don’t have to worry about that. They are the ones that the Heavenly King caught to punish the wicked.”

Tenjin, perhaps thinking that I might stop by Central Plains first to transport the criminals, replied that he had no worries about bringing those guys.

He said this with a slightly anxious expression.

At that moment, the voice of Lady Cheongyu was heard.

-Sia. “How about just letting it go?”

“Should I let it go?”

Everyone’s eyes turned to us at my words, and then Lady Cheongyu explained why she was letting us go.

-Shii. 『The internal warriors are people who have not been in the Odokmun for very long. They are people who have personal grudges or who were brought in by the Odokmun. That is why they seem to have been quite shocked by what they did to me.

So, I was wondering if it would be okay to release it and use it as a spare part.

“Three works?”

A masterpiece?

Yeah, they plant seeds for us too, so why can’t we plant them for them too?

It was a very tempting suggestion.