How To Live as a Civil Servant in Murim

chapter 16



– I have a thousand gold.

-If you don’t sell it, I’ll kill you on the spot.

-If you kill it, you won’t find it for the rest of your life. Because you won’t even be able to enter Janggyeonggak.

-…What do you want? What do you mean!

-nothing! Why would I be harsh on you for saving my life?

-Then are you saying you’re just going to give it to me?

-no. It can’t be. You saved my life, but you also insulted my skills. die in ten years?

-that…

Gosong tried to apologize, but he did not accept the face-to-face Shintoo.

offered a bet instead.

– Ten years later. If I’m still alive by that time, apologize for not knowing the skill of the old man. Then I’ll let you give me a gunmangong.

-good night. good! I can do that much. They say they’ll give you a ball. But what if you die? where do i get it

– Of course I thought of that too. Palgangchae. I hid all my treasures in the palgangchae. If I die, go there and find it.

To make such a bet futile, Baekmyeonshintu met a terrible death by wrongly touching the five generations. In a way, Go Song saw the person properly, but Go Song was not happy at all.

It was because there was no way to find one’s martial arts.

Sure enough, I arrived at Palgangchae and started looking for it, but nothing came out. Even if the sun rises and the moon rises, the only thing that changes is that the skills of the bandits who threw one move at a time improve.

At a time when the medicine is rising and it seems that he is about to go crazy, Go-song was surprised to find that the exorcism came and put all of these things together at once.

How can you figure out everything from this alone?

‘Is it all right?’

Yeon Woo-hyuk confirmed Go Song’s feelings. Seeing that his anger had gone and he was focused, it seemed like it was time to let him know.

In fact, from the time Go Song shouted to find the secret weapon, Yeon Woo-hyeok realized where the secret weapon was.

An incident came to mind as soon as I saw the steep cliffs that pierced the sky beyond the cliffs located behind the mountains and the strange birds above them.

-There are twenty-two corpses under the cliff. The cause of death is a fall. All are Moorim people. Why are the Murim people dying here?

A strange phenomenon in which Murim people who eat well and have many things to do do not fall from the top of the cliff, but fall from the ground while climbing the cliff and die.

Why did these Murim people die while climbing?

‘It was a really ridiculous answer.’

The correct answer was that the secret money was hidden in the bird’s nest on the cliff, and when I went to get the secret money, I was attacked by birds.

Those birds were not ordinary birds, but stone-fishing birds.

These birds were yokai-like birds that ate hard stones and made their nests with soft tree bark.

No matter how much Murim people were, if they were ambushed while climbing such a lofty cliff, it was bound to be fatal.

Of course, from Yeon Woo-hyuk’s point of view, this incident was about ‘what kind of crazy guy hides his secret money in a nest on a cliff’, but looking at this cliff and the flying stone fish, everything is connected.

Who would have hidden that?

There was no choice but to hide it in the back of the face.

If so, Baekmyeon Shinto must be from here, and Go Song is clinging to this place, and he must have entered it himself…

“Look over there. Godaehyup. Do you know what bird that is?”

“What kind of bird… isn’t it just a bird?”

“Didn’t the bandits avoid getting close to that cliff side by any chance?”

“!”

“That bird is not an ordinary bird, it is a masonry bird. He is a savage who eats stones and kills his prey with stones.”

“Are you talking right now?”

“When a gnome builds a nest, it digs up the bark of a tree and makes a nest out of the soft inner bark. They eat because they like nests that are soft even if they are hard.”

“…?”

“Baekmyeonshintu was a bandit who lived here for a long time. You must have known the nature of the stone fishing team.”

“No way, no way!”

Instead of Go Song, Zhuge Gyu screamed.

“That nest?!”

“yes. I tore up the secret money and handed it over to the seokhunjo. You can see the nest itself as a non-class.”

“Nonsense! How does that mean…”

“Check out the colors of the nests on the cliffs. There must be nests of different colors.”

Gosong narrowed his eyes.

Surprisingly, there was one nest with a different color from the other nests, just as Pochwe said!

Cold investigation Gosong (3)

With a roar, Gosong started to climb the cliff.

Like a herbalist, Gosong grabbed the protruding part of the cliff with his hand and did not climb up. As if running up a cliff like a flat ground, I ran vertically and climbed.

It was to the extent that the Murim people below unknowingly let out exclamations at that amazing divine law.

The masonry birds rushed at them with ferocious sounds. The momentum of the stone catching crews, who fired stones to kill the Murim people who invaded their territory, was reminiscent of an army.

However, the hard work was not easy. When I opened and closed my fists, a strong air current and the sound of drumming exploded in the air.

It was a method of rising, striking the enemy from a long distance with tension without any warning. As if shot with an arrow, the flying stones were smashed and fell in the air.

Gosong’s attack did not end there. As his fingers pierced the air in succession, his sharp intellect pierced the vital points of the stone fishermen. Although it was a bird with a body as hard as a stone, the intellect emitted by Gosong pierced its shell and dug inside.

“under!”

Gao Song sighed and took out a whip from his waist. The whip made by weaving the skins of a white snake stretched out and finally reached the nest it was aiming for. The nest, which had been fixed to the cliff as hard as a stone, fell with the sound of being cut.

Go Song also jumped with him. Go Song frantically dug up the nest and picked up a handful of paper rolls.

“found!”

Gosong’s eyes showed mad joy. The old drummer forgot his face and stomped his feet and shouted.

“I found it, I found it! it’s a gangster It’s a gangster! Puffy, you saved me!”

“That is an exaggeration! Go Great!”

Seeing Go Song shouting from under the cliff in the distance, Yeon Woo-hyeok replied humbly.

Sapa’s warriors had to approach with more caution when they were in a good mood. Because you never know when your emotions will turn around.

“Are you okay? If the cold investigator doesn’t keep his promise…”

Jegalgyu was afraid that Gosong would commit murder.

Beommanggong was the martial art Gosong had been aiming for for years, and there were many Murim people in Gangho who would kill anyone to hide their martial arts.

“It won’t.”

Of course, Yeon Woo-hyeok, who confirmed the death with the Spirit, was not afraid. Because Go Song’s words contained sincerity.

Although Gosong appeared to be violent, on the inside, he had a cold-hearted personality. Even just a moment ago, the bloodlines of the five generations had deliberately avoided touching them.

Even though Beommangong is a rare martial art, he must have calculated that Shaolin’s pursuit would not be so severe because it was not an official Shaolin martial art, but a chief’s martial art, and it was also a manuscript.

If so, there was no reason to risk your life by killing the warriors of the five generations.

“Take it!”

Go Song took out the white snake-like whip he had used earlier when harvesting the nest and threw it at Yeon Woo-hyuk.

“It is a reward for innocence. hahahaha!”

“I can’t take it!”

Yeon Woo-hyuk exclaimed in surprise. However, Go Song was in a very good mood, so he did not hear any refusal from Po Kwae.

“It’s a white shooting gakpyeon. He is the one who caught, poisoned, and pickled a large white snake that lived in Marble Mountains. When I was younger, I benefited from this guy a lot. Take it and write it! It will save at least one life.”

“Great bargain. It’s really hard to get…”

“ah. There won’t be any shortcuts. old.”

Go Song threw a sloppy martial arts book with the words ‘Baeksa-pyeonbeop’ written on it. Anyone can see that it was a martial art book written by Go Song himself.

“I recorded the techniques I made while using the whip. There is no special method, but this alone will be useful. It’s much better than some third-rate martial arts in the streets.”

“That’s the big deal…”

Yeon Woo-hyeok kept trying to refuse, but Go-song stopped listening and turned away. It spread light air in an instant and flew away and disappeared.

Paeng Joo-hee, who was next to her, asked as if she didn’t understand.

“Why don’t you want to take it? Are both of you good enough?”

Baeksa-pyeonbeop was not a martial art of the prestigious political faction, but it was not an insignificant martial art. It would be a fairly good martial art if it was a martial art that a master of about Go Song recorded his techniques.

Of course, herbivores could be overly practical and lively, but that could have been an advantage to that exorcist. Those techniques were more useful to fight against opponents with a relatively low level of martial arts.

The ronin did not need long-term martial arts to give them a great realization by building up pure inner strength in the Danjeon. What they needed was an actual martial art to use that day, and the shortcut was just such a martial art.

And that white square piece was a great treasure that could not be compared with the expedient. The whip, which must have been made by catching a spirit creature or a monster from the Marble Mountains, flashed with poisonous spirit as well as a poisonous spirit.

“That’s it.”

“ah. Are you worried that you got it from a cold investigator?”

Peng Jusheng interrupted his sister’s conversation.

“If that’s the case, I don’t care at all. Is there any kind of magic in the expedient without a single simbeop? Also, that whip has a bit of poison, but you just have to be careful with that. If someone brings up a fight by mentioning the name of the cold investigator, it’s okay to mention the name of Paengga.”

Paeng Juseong said confidently.

Considering the performance that Pokkye showed in this work, this much was not enough.

It is often said that outstanding Murim people protect their comrades with a sword, but this exhilarating feat protected all the Murim people here with only his head.

“No, it’s not like that…”

“??”

“There is a high possibility that the martial arts that the late Daehyeop took were fake.”

“…?!”

Yeon Woo-hyuk continued his explanation with a shy expression.

In fact, he said that the possibility was high because he was in front of others, but Yeon Woo-hyeok was convinced that the martial arts Go Song took were fake.

Twenty-two murimin corpses found under the cliff.

In the real case, there were several more clues here, one of which was an unusual nest that had fallen to the ground. If you check this nest carefully, you will immediately find out that it is a fake martial art.

“Think carefully. Baekmyeonshintu was caught and killed while trying to climb over the fence of the Namgung family. How could such a person have entered Shaolin’s Janggyeong Pavilion?”

“……”

The unmanned people in the seat were so absurd that they could not speak. Paeng Joo-hee asked urgently.

“then? What martial art did the cold investigator take?”

“It’s probably a fake martial art created by the Baekmyeon Shintou. Only that nest must have been colored separately in case the ancient Great Hyeop searches around and takes it back. In the first place, there is no reason to make it different in color so that a seasoned thief like Baekmyeon Shinto hides his treasure. The real military ranks will be in other nests.”

At Yeon Woo-hyeok’s words, the Murim people carefully dropped the rest of the nests on the cliff one by one.

It was difficult to grasp the whole contents because the paper was torn off one by one, oiled, and wrapped tightly, but looking at the letters on the cover left by the white-myeonshintoo, I could understand the letters.

It was not the martial arts of the Gupabang or the Five Greats. Paeng Juseong frowned and recalled the memory as if concentrating.

“This taedunkwon law is definitely…”

“This is the martial arts of the Wu family. Pang hyung.”

Jegalgyu sneakily advised. The Wu family was a small and medium-sized family whose name was not widely spread in Murim, but Taedun Kwonbeop was evaluated as a decent martial art within the Zhuges.

“aha. Thank you. Kyu Oh. okay. It was the martial arts of the Wu family.”

When I checked the names of other martial arts, most of them belonged to small and medium-sized families. After confirming that there were no martial arts from the Five Greats or the Gu-Pilbang, Jegal-gyu let out a sigh of relief.

If the martial arts of other prestigious political factions other than Zhuge Sega, Tang Mun, or Paengga were discovered, it would have been quite troublesome.

No matter how much they claimed they didn’t see it, the opponent wouldn’t have abandoned their suspicions. It was clear that Jegal-gyu would not have been able to abandon his suspicions if his position had changed.

However, if it was a martial art from a small or medium family, there was nothing to be misunderstood. I was grateful if they were grateful from that side, but I did not suspect that Oh Dae-se was stealing martial arts against unmanned people.

‘It’s fortunate that I’m lacking in Shinto skills.’

“I, Kyu’s brother, and Dang So-jeo will be responsible for returning these martial arts to their owners.”

“Are you sorry for the cold investigation? I would have expected a lot. I guess I’ve learned a lesson though. The lesson is that you shouldn’t trust the words of a thief.”

Paeng Joo-hee laughed and said, as if it was funny that Go Song had made a mistake. However, Paeng Jusheng shook his head and denied the fact.

“Wrong. The real lesson is that if you try to forcefully intimidate a wise man like a kite, you’ll be miserable.”

The Murim people in the seats burst into laughter. Even Yeom Il-lip burst into laughter.

After tidying up the surroundings, the group started descending. After coming down the mountain, Paeng Juseong looked toward the mountain.

Even if he was from Oh Dae-se, he did not often experience a situation where life and death are tense like today. It felt like it was in the distant past that I had collided with Go Song earlier.

Po-gwae next to him who made the biggest ball today was coming down close behind Yeom Il-lip with a nonchalant expression on his face. Paeng Juseong felt grateful again.

“Feeling exhilarating. Do you have any idea why the back face mask hides fake martial arts?”

“Why?”

Yeon Woo-hyuk was puzzled.

I never really thought about what the back face Shinto was thinking to hide the fake martial arts.

Because it was something I didn’t need to know.

“Since the white-faced Shintoo is also a Murim person, wouldn’t it be because his pride was hurt that he was ignored?”

“It could be. But my thoughts are a bit different. It’s a stupid idea rather than a lot of fun, but will you listen?”

“I will listen.”

“It was embarrassing to wear a white mask. Putting aside the bluff and revealing that there is no such thing as a nerd.”


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