Chapter 284 – 284. To Yunnan

The village adjacent to the border between Yunnan and Sacheon was quieter than expected.

There were many emaciated children who could not eat properly, and that was the case with adults as well. The fact that those who seemed to live well at all wore the same clothes as those who lived in their own way elsewhere, which made it clear that the village was poor overall.
It wasn’t that there weren’t any adults with healthy physiques who looked like merchants, but there were very few of them.
I saw all over the town that the skinny kids only enjoyed playing with the ball, even though they are at an age when they should be playing, perhaps to avoid wasting their stamina.

“Doesn’t the village look worse than I thought? It seems the environment is worse than those living in the barren land of the North Sea.”
“Probably all the towns and cities in Yunnan Province adjacent to Sichuan are like this.”
“Huh? Why?”

Seo Jin-i told me the reason with a sullen face.

“The center of Yunnan is a forest area with high humidity, so it is a place where witchcraft has been developed for the main purpose of farming, such as expelling insects or changing the weather, rather than fighting martial arts. They can be seen as foreign fighters who borrow animal powers, but what about the other guys who only use magic? .”
“It was like that. I learned a lesson.”
“…It’s okay to talk plainly with King Green. He’s older than me and a great senior.”

When Jegal Hwa-yeon nodded, saying that she understood her explanation, Seo Jin-yi could not hide her shyness and said that.

Come to think of it, regardless of inaction or anything like that, people with a big age difference became docile as if manners were instilled in them. If there is a difference of five years or so, it’s just a guy who behaves like a gangster.

‘Though that’s the charm.’

Isn’t that what the so-called reversal charm is?

As I was thinking about that, I noticed that this guy, who was fresh enough to be an adult, but hard to see as a child, was suddenly measuring his angle to bump into me. He seemed to be running somewhere, then he pretended to be out of breath, stumbled and stumbled, and then the hand of the guy who was trying to touch me reached out.
The purpose, of course, was a pocket enchanted with a space expansion spell on my waist.

The guy who looks very familiar with pickpocketing is because this is just an expensive looking bag.
It was a street that they tried to steal after mistaking it for a pouch or a storage pouch for valuables.

But unfortunately, he picked the wrong opponent. Without hesitation, he grabbed his unruly hand with his index finger and thumb and twisted it until it was about to break.

“Ayayayayaya!! Why, why are you doing that? I apologize for almost bumping into you, so please let go of my hand!”
“Huh. Look at this guy?”

As soon as he grabbed his wrist, he immediately threw an apology and asked for forgiveness.

It wasn’t a bad tactic. As it is, Yunnan is a town that has a strong tendency to separate itself from the midfielders, so it has a strong prejudice against outsiders.
I almost bumped into it by mistake, but as an outsider, I am on the verge of grabbing a Yunnan man’s hand and twisting it? Of course, it is obvious that the villagers will be hostile to us unless they are in one line.

And if I get flustered and let go of my hand, he’s probably thinking of running away.

Apparently, he’s a bit quick on his feet, but if you’re not a soldier who has learned light engineering, it’s going to be hard to catch him.

So I,

Wooddeuk.

“Kuaaaaaments –“

Just broke

‘Hmm. Did I just have to kill him?’

The information I receive from the similar intelligence organization of Hao-mun, which was newly formed centered on Hwang Bo-tak and Moo-myeong, is the situation and rumors in the central plains. As long as the future has been greatly twisted because of me, it is important to grasp the flow of the situation, and it is because I have been walking around the back alleys and know that unexpected rumors fit well.

But here in Yunnan, the disconnection from the outside world was as serious as the Tang family.
From the moment I set foot in the region of Yunnan, I always activated the magic of heaven and earth and listened to even the slightest sound.

That’s why I’ve even heard them talk more about their obscenity against my lovers.

-Don’t you kill those foreign bitches quickly?
-Shyybeol. If you hit it once, you won’t have a wish. How can you not?
– Will it work? I can’t do it like you. Cheek.
-… Is this bitch

No matter what region there is, there is no choice but to exist, so it is not unreasonable that such obscene rumors come out.

It wasn’t just Yunnan. In Anhui, Hubei, Guangxi, etc., Walpae exist in any region, and it was the same in Shaanxi, where we are mainly active.
Many of them say behind their backs, such as wanting to eat my lovers from afar, wanting to steal them from their looks, but I left them alone.

Most of them were delusional anyway, and no one tried, and if you killed all of them, there were a lot of them.

If I had killed all of them just because of some obscene talk, I wouldn’t have been able to rise to such a position in the political faction as the solitary leader of the hunting team like I am now.

‘But it’s a different story if you were going to try.’

There was a voice heard the moment the pickpocket was caught.

– Sibal. The guide was caught.
– What to do, big brother. The plan was to lure him this way, and we’d all attack him, kill the man, and then capture the women alive. That’s all wrong.
– A clever fox always digs two burrows, bro.

It was a conversation that made me feel uncomfortable just listening to it.

“Kkeaaaaa! People in the neighborhood! Outsiders are hunting people! Catch me…!!”

I tried to be patient and pretended to smile in order not to openly pick his neck on the street.

After leaving the pickpocket loose on the street, he led his lovers out of the place. The eyes of the civilians were staring this way in fear, so it seemed that the plan to stay here today and seek information should be abandoned.

“I have to gather information in another town. Sorry to bother everyone.”
“What are you apologizing for?
“Nang-gun…Because you’re fair.”
“It is the duty of all wives to follow Giabi’s will. You don’t need to apologize, Sang Gong.”
“…No, is it really only me who gets chicken fat when the Green Forest King does that? Is it like that?”

The women who were full of understanding and caring were so excessive that it seemed that my life melted away.

There was no government office in the village because the government only interfered with the gateway. So, each region in Yunnan runs its own vigilante group, and they were either shamans or warriors who borrowed the power of animals through shamanism mixed with foreign powers like the palace of beasts.
Skills shouldn’t be a problem, but causing friction with the vigilantes is information that the Beast Palace has no choice but to listen to, so we hurriedly left the village.

Of course, there was work to be done before it fully floated.

‘How should I deal with it so that rumors don’t spread and I can finish it cleanly?’

The pickpocket was a real petty criminal, targeting my girls and nothing to do with it. He was just trying to gain recognition from the gangsters who made plans because they were the real power in the back alley.

Because it was such a small town, seeing the gangsters doing their own thing would have made them look like they were in a high position.
Although he committed a crime, he did not appear to have participated directly, so he just ended up breaking his wrist. If not for that, he would have had his neck cut off long ago.

‘What remains is how to cleanly deal with a ruffian who made such a messy plan in a short time. Nothing really comes to mind.’

Should I just make an alter ego and put it on standby, and then swipe it off when I feel like the time has passed. To be honest, I really wanted to get paid for talking nonsense like that to my girls.
It was my honest feeling that I wanted to stay here and spend my time and even serve as an advisor. It wouldn’t be bad to cut off their tongues for talking nonsense, pluck out the filthy eyes that looked at them impurely, and shove them into their mouths and chew them up and eat them.

It’s just too bad that I don’t have time for that.
If I had time, I would have tried…

“Tsk.”
“Upper space. Is there something wrong?”
“No, nothing. Sorry to bother you.”

Realizing that I was over-involved, I clicked my tongue and stopped the accident.

The internal injuries sustained in the previous battle with the Yellow Dragon were definitely healed. However, it seemed that the effect remained on the body, and the mind and body did not regain composure.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have even bothered to kill him so brutally.

‘From now on, if I get an internal injury, I’ll have to focus more on meditation rather than a complete cure.’

It was the moment when I was about to leave the village, seriously thinking about it.

“Kong kong! Kong! Arrrr. Kong!”

Very familiar,

“…Wild dog?”

It was a dog barking.