CLS-Chapter 205

Chapter 205

Chang!

Wei Yan-ho’s white sword, wrapped in cloth, was drawn. The blazing sunlight reflected off Wei Yan-ho’s white sword, emitting a dazzling light.

“You should only use this in the evening! Agh, so bright!”

Wei Yan-ho frowned and waved his sword this way and that. The sword flickered and attacked people’s vision.

“I’m already going crazy from all the chaos!”

When Wei Jeong-han shouted angrily from behind because something kept flashing and getting on his nerves, Wei Yan-ho raised his sword above his head without a word.

“Hup!“

Then an enormous light, incomparable to anything before, began to burst forth.

Jang-il watched this scene with his mouth agape.

Why was that guy suddenly acting like this out of nowhere? He could understand if it were someone else taking the initiative, but he couldn’t comprehend why someone who had been rolling around lazily saying everything was bothersome was suddenly acting this way.

But there was nothing more foolish than seeking answers from Wei Yan-ho. Jang-il didn’t bother trying to understand Wei Yan-ho. He just needed to watch—to see what Wei Yan-ho would do.

The light bursting from Wei Yan-ho’s white sword seemed to gather in one place, then immediately shot out as dozens of light beams. Like a fan opening, the light beams spread out and flew in all directions centered on Wei Yan-ho.

“Keuuk!“

“Kraaak!“

The incoming light beams grazed those surrounding the carriage like escorts and struck precisely at the Green Forest bandits who had been pressing them.

Since they had been rushing at their opponents with all their might, it wouldn’t have been easy to block an attack coming from an unexpected direction. But even considering that, those who had been pressing forward with such force were being struck and sent flying with disappointing ease.

‘I really can’t get used to this.’

Jang-il looked up at Wei Yan-ho with a slightly bitter expression.

Why did such martial prowess exist in that person?

If Wei Yan-ho and Wei San-ho’s martial arts levels had been switched, he felt he could accept it with a happy heart, but of all people, the stronger one had to be Wei Yan-ho.

“Keuuu…“

The Green Forest bandits clutched their struck areas and glared at Wei Yan-ho with eyes that seemed ready to devour him. But Wei Yan-ho merely shrugged his shoulders.

“That’s what you get for fighting like that.”

“Kuk kuk kuk kuk.“

The fight was already over.

Since the Green Forest bandits weren’t rushing forward anymore, Wei Jeong-han and the others found it awkward to press their attack recklessly. Though they glared at each other in standoff, the outcome of this confrontation was already obvious.

Those who had been struck by Wei Yan-ho’s attack and suffered internal injuries were no longer a match for Wei Yan-ho’s party. They seemed to know this too, as they didn’t rashly charge forward.

“…This way.”

When the one giving orders among them spoke quietly, the Green Forest bandits sprang up from their positions and began gathering around him.

Wei Jeong-han watched this scene and sneered.

“Are you going to try running away?”

“Running away?”

The representative Green Forest bandit laughed kik kik and spat out his words.

“Wei Jeong-han, Wei Jeong-han. Though it’s infinitely regrettable that we cannot take your head here, if we can obtain new information with our lives, that wouldn’t be a bad trade.”

“…What are you talking about, you bastard?”

“You may rejoice. Your victory, that is. But do not forget, arrogant ones. The time when the victory you enjoy and the comfort you relish will disappear is not far off. Soon your world will burn. It will burn completely with the flames of hell that will never be extinguished!”

It was an obvious curse.

But Wei Jeong-han had to feel an inexplicable eeriness from his words. If it were his usual self, he would have responded to such words with mockery, but now he couldn’t.

Because the resentment and hatred contained in the man’s words exceeded Wei Jeong-han’s imagination.

‘What are these guys?’

And at that moment, black blood began flowing from the Green Forest bandits’ mouths.

“Poison?”

Wei Jeong-han tried to rush toward them immediately, but it was already too late. Those who had been instantly poisoned and whose faces had turned black began falling to the ground one by one.

“…Don’t forget…”

After the last man fell to the ground, Wei Jeong-han clenched his fist with a hardened expression.

‘What the hell are these guys?’

He couldn’t understand.

‘Were there still guys like this remaining?’

An ordinary person would attempt to flee the moment they thought they couldn’t handle their opponent. Not choose death so absurdly like these people.

“What do they think life is?”

Wei Jeong-han ground his teeth.

Making people able to immediately take their own lives upon command through education close to brainwashing.

The fact that such evil beings still remained was setting Wei Jeong-han’s chest ablaze.

“Carrying poison in their mouths…”

Seok Mun-cho’s expression also looked displeased, as if disgusted.

When he glanced around, his companions also looked pale and didn’t know what to do.

‘No wonder.’

Among the party, there might be people seeing death for the first time. But having witnessed so many people simultaneously bite poison and commit suicide right before their eyes, it would be stranger if there were no shock.

The shock of seeing people die.

And the shock that beings existed in this world who would order mass suicide over such a matter and follow such orders.

Seok Mun-cho couldn’t help but fall into momentary contemplation about how to handle this situation.

“First, let’s dispose of the corpses. If we’re careless, people might get poisoned by that blood.”

At Wei Jeong-han’s words, Seok Mun-cho nodded gravely.

“We must.”

While they were pondering how to sort out the situation, Wei Yan-ho took Jin Ye-ran’s hand and jumped down from the carriage.

“Hmm.“

Wei Yan-ho looked displeased, while Jin Ye-ran stared at the dead with clenched fists.

“How can they regard life so lightly?”

There was anger in Jin Ye-ran’s voice.

As a physician who didn’t hesitate to stay up all night to save even one more person, there could be nothing more futile and infuriating than the current situation.

“They don’t regard life lightly.”

Wei Yan-ho answered matter-of-factly.

“They think there’s something more important than life.”

“I can’t understand it.”

“What in the world can’t be understood? Just accept it as it is.”

Jin Ye-ran looked at the corpses with a complex expression before letting out a deep sigh.

“We should bury the bodies first. Since we don’t know what kind of poison it is, if we just leave them, there could be infection.”

“Did you hear? The physician says so, so everyone move!”

When Wei Yan-ho clapped his hands clap clap and urged them, Wei San-ho and others went to the roadside and began digging a pit.

“Dig deep, deep! The poison mustn’t flow out. Beggar uncle, don’t slack off and go work! Work!”

“Keuung.“

Jang-il, who had been sneakily trying to hide behind the carriage to avoid work, got caught by Wei Yan-ho’s hawk-like eyes and made a groaning sound.

After getting those who were still half out of their minds focused on digging the pit, Wei Jeong-han quietly approached Wei Yan-ho and spoke.

“Strange, isn’t it?”

“Yes, very much so.”

“They had strength left, didn’t they?”

“Yes, tremendously so.”

“Mm…“

Wei Jeong-han nodded with a hardened expression.

“Even though they had strength left, why do you think they chose death?”

Wei Yan-ho seemed to fall into thought for a moment before speaking.

“Either they thought there was no answer even if they exerted their remaining strength, or they couldn’t exert it.”

“Couldn’t exert it… Why?”

“Because the moment they revealed that power, there’s someone here who could figure out their identity.”

Wei Jeong-han’s eyes darkened. The thought he had and what Wei Yan-ho said were identical.

“Then…”

“Wait a moment.”

Wei Yan-ho interrupted Wei Jeong-han’s words.

“Let’s not think about it.”

“Huh?”

“I think this isn’t an ordinary matter.”

“I think so too.”

“If it were a small matter, it wouldn’t matter, but if it’s this big, things could get tangled up because of hasty speculation.”

“Mm.“

Wei Jeong-han also thought Wei Yan-ho’s words were right.

“Then what should we do?”

“Let’s leave the thinking to people who think. In other words, we’re more like hands and feet, and there are people who should do the thinking.”

“You mean the strategist?”

“Yes. I think we should write down everything we experienced here and what that water ghost experienced and send it to Grandfather Strategist, while we do what we need to do. Actually, we of the Wei family aren’t particularly skilled at mental work by nature.”

“That’s also… Wait, that’s not right! I’m smart though?”

When Wei Yan-ho looked at him with a rotten expression, Wei Jeong-han felt somehow sad. The feeling of hearing ‘Father, honestly, your head isn’t particularly good, is it?’ from his child through his eyes was utterly devastating.

“Unless you’re someone like brother who seems like Wei family but isn’t Wei family, someone Wei family-like, it’s not a matter to discuss brains.”

“When you meet the ancestors later, you’re going to get beaten a lot, beaten a lot.”

Wei Jeong-han shook his head and let out a deep sigh.

Seeing him discuss the Wei family, he seemed to acknowledge that his own head wasn’t particularly good either, making it awkward to say anything.

Watching those digging the pit, Wei Jeong-han spoke to Wei Yan-ho in a different voice than before.

“It seems like something unusual is happening.”

“It seems so.”

Wei Yan-ho also agreed with Wei Jeong-han’s words.

Come to think of it, since entering the martial world, the incidents he’d been involved in were all serious cases without exception. From the start, he’d gotten entangled in treason, met the Ming Cult, and was deeply involved in the Nashan Blood Incident. And now he was even encountering unidentified groups.

‘Thinking about it one by one, it’s been incredibly eventful.’

Though being involved in such incidents in that short period was unfortunate, conversely, it also meant that the current martial world was chaotic enough for Wei Yan-ho to get this entangled.

‘Something is definitely happening…’

Wei Yan-ho tapped his cheek tok tok.

Though his desire to live comfortably and peacefully remained the same, looking at how things were turning out, that dream didn’t seem likely to be achieved easily. Since the world was all going to hell, his surroundings alone couldn’t remain peaceful.

“Hey, water ghost!”

When Wei Yan-ho called out, Peng Daoji, who had been digging the pit, turned around with a displeased expression.

“Yes?”

“Come here, come here.”

When Wei Yan-ho gestured, Peng Daoji trudged over.

“Why are you doing this?”

“You’re really strange too.”

“Yes?”

“After experiencing such a situation, you should report what happened first, but when other people are digging a pit, you go there and join in digging it?”

“Ah…”

“That’s why you get caught up in all sorts of incidents.”

Watching Wei Yan-ho click his tongue as if finding him pathetic, Peng Daoji’s face reddened.

“I’m, I’m sorry.”

“Never mind that, tell me your story. How did you end up being chased by those inhuman things?”

“Well…”

Peng Daoji began explaining with a hardened expression.

After hearing the complete explanation, Wei Yan-ho looked at Wei Jeong-han once with a serious expression, then focused on Peng Daoji again and spoke in a firm voice.

“So…”