The two looked at Gung-gwi, Hyunjun Hyun, who was lying in his seat, with the feeling of seeing a jiangshi that had risen from the grave.
Baek Sowol asked Tang Yuhwa, sweating coldly.
"What kind of person is he?"
"I don't know either."
"Didn't you say you knew him earlier?"
"I saw him for a very short time. When he saved me along with my current master."
Baek Sowol felt that something was strange about those words.
She had thought that since he was the master of Tang Yuhwa, who was called the Sichuan Divine Doctor, he was a doctor.
"Is your master a martial artist?"
"He is excellent in medicine and saves people, so he is a doctor."
"But he also has martial arts?"
"So do I."
Baek Sowol thought of the time when Tang Yuhwa had thrown a hidden weapon at her.
Although it was not that there were no doctors who had learned martial arts, their level was very crude, only to the extent of a means of self-defense.
But Tang Yuhwa's hidden weapon technique was only easily blocked by Baek Sowol herself.
'If it were an ordinary first-rate or lower level, they would have died without a sound in a surprise attack.'
Baek Sowol's worries deepened.
'A doctor who is excellent in hidden weapon techniques, if it were such a characteristic person, there is no way I wouldn't know. I can't guess at all.'
Baek Sowol added poison to that thought.
A doctor who was excellent in poison, hidden weapons, and medicine, she couldn't guess his identity at all.
'I thought the Heavenly Mountains had established a system to some extent and had gathered information so as not to fall behind other groups.'
In this chaotic era, since information was like a thousand pieces of gold, it was a problem that could never be overlooked.
Baek Sowol decided that she had to put more effort into growing the intelligence agency.
'For now, medicine comes first.'
For that reason, she had invited the Sichuan Divine Doctor in a slightly coercive way.
It was to teach the doctors of the Heavenly Mountains a more excellent medical skill.
Since every minute and every second was precious, she had also thought of a way to come down to the Central Plains with a doctor.
'An already precious doctor, but I can't bring her to a rough place.'
It is difficult to find a proper doctor, not a quack.
Their numbers are already small, and since doctors who make house calls, not doctors who are resident in a village, are easily exposed to danger, their numbers are even smaller.
Judging so, Baek Sowol gave up her lingering attachment.
'I hope we arrive soon.'
The distance to the Heavenly Mountains is far.
At least it's a few months because she knows the way. In the past, when she didn't know the way, it took years to go.
Moving from one province to another in the Central Plains was like that.
Although a war had not broken out, since the inside of the country was a world like a chaotic era, the roads were not properly maintained, so the roads were even rougher.
Since the journey was rough, Tang Yuhwa only had to wear her blindfold at the beginning and end of the journey.
Therefore, after passing the initial road and the carriage had advanced to some extent, she took off Tang Yuhwa's blindfold.
Whether Tang Yuhwa took off her blindfold or not, her expression was the same.
She didn't particularly initiate a conversation either.
Therefore, if Baek Sowol didn't initiate a conversation first, it became a situation like a staring contest.
Of course, it was Tang Yuhwa's overwhelming victory, who didn't even blink.
"Do you not have eyelids?"
"How can a person not have eyelids?"
"No, it's just a metaphor."
Although Baek Sowol was uncomfortable with Tang Yuhwa, she was also comfortable.
Since the Heavenly Demon declaration, which was half of her own will, she had never had a comfortable conversation with anyone other than Baek Hyuna and Ju Wol-lyang, who had been by her side from the beginning.
For that reason, quite a lot of conversation was exchanged.
"Our master is an upright person who lacks nothing in the world, so he always led the clumsy me."
"My master is a clumsy and sloppy person who doesn't want to leave the house and gets his feelings hurt easily."
The conversation reached the topic of their masters.
'He's the opposite of our master.'
'He's a different person from my master.'
They each thought that the other's master was a person unrelated to their own.
Baek Sowol felt some regret in that conversation.
'Why?'
She herself did not know why.
In fact, although Baek Sowol had unconsciously felt that Tang Yuhwa's master and her own master were the same person, it was an emotion she felt because it had been shattered by the recent conversation.
And so, as the relatively uneventful journey passed.
"So it's not a disease?"
"It's more vicious than an epidemic."
"Did you say it's a sorcery that controls people? But if it's sorcery, why did you call me?"
"I've already tried sorcerous measures. It wasn't very effective."
They had a more in-depth conversation about one of the reasons for inviting Tang Yuhwa.
The traces of the leader that Baek Sowol had cut down.
Among them, the most vicious was the sorcery that controlled people.
"Although their martial arts level increases in an instant, they gradually lose their reason and eventually become uncontrollably ferocious or faint."
The effect of that sorcery continued even after the leader had died, with the target just changing to Baek Sowol.
Baek Sowol smiled bitterly.
Looking at such a Baek Sowol, Tang Yuhwa glanced out of the carriage.
"The people outside too?"
At Tang Yuhwa's words, Baek Sowol nodded her head without a word.
"That's strange. Why did the target of loyalty switch from the previous person to you? Even if you were the one who killed that person."
"That's... it was probably a coincidence, but it's because of the sorcery that the leader cast.
I don't know the details either, but for now, that leader created an unknown object of worship and controlled them, and since I became that unknown object itself, the authority was transferred as it was?"
"I roughly understand what you mean."
"What? Really?"
Although Baek Sowol couldn't believe that Tang Yuhwa had said she understood, she couldn't read her expression at all to see if it was true or not.
'Anyway, that side has more knowledge about that kind of thing than I do, and I'll know when I see what they do later.'
Having given up on reading her thoughts, Baek Sowol leaned against the carriage chair.
At that moment, the smell of blood brushed past the tip of her nose.
In the Central Plains, the smell of blood was common.
Dying on the street, being robbed, or dying from an epidemic.
But this case was a little different.
The smell of blood is thick.
It was a smell of blood that would have been produced by annihilating at least one village.
"It seems a lot of people have died."
Tang Yuhwa also, as if she had noticed, muttered to herself, headed to the carriage door, and immediately opened it.
At that, Baek Sowol's subordinates blocked the front of the door.
It was because of the order that Baek Sowol had given before.
"It's okay, so step aside."
Unlike when she dealt with Tang Yuhwa, Baek Sowol lowered her voice with a solemn look and gave the order.
"As you command."
At that, the subordinates immediately stepped aside from the door, and Tang Yuhwa jumped out.
Although Baek Sowol was inwardly flustered because she had not expected Tang Yuhwa to jump out right away, she did not show it on the outside.
"You guys, take the carriage, protect the patient inside, and follow slowly."
"As you command."
Having given instructions to her subordinates, Baek Sowol also followed Tang Yuhwa.
As Baek Sowol stepped on her lightness skill and moved forward quickly, after a short while, Tang Yuhwa, who was moving while fluttering her green robe, came into her eyes.
A quiet, stealthy, and fast lightness skill that felt like a small bird or a small animal.
'Hidden weapons, poison, and on top of that, a stealthy lightness skill. If someone who doesn't know she's a doctor saw her, they would mistake her for an assassin.'
As Baek Sowol had the miscellaneous thought of whether Tang Yuhwa could become the number one assassin in the world if she really put her mind to it, she caught up with Tang Yuhwa.
No matter how nimble Tang Yuhwa was, since she had not properly learned martial arts, her martial prowess was far inferior to Baek Sowol's, so catching up was instantaneous.
As soon as she caught up with Tang Yuhwa, Baek Sowol frowned.
"Couldn't you have said something before you left?"
"It's urgent. There might be a patient."
"From the smell of blood, they're probably all dead."
"You don't know."
In the eyes of the two who were moving forward while performing their lightness skill, a village came into view.
The state of the village was no different from a ruined village, and corpses were scattered everywhere.
As soon as they arrived at the village, they immediately examined the corpses that were conspicuous.
"Did a wild animal attack or something?"
The state of the corpses was miserable, a shape that had been violently torn apart by force, not by a weapon.
The surrounding corpses were also not in a complete shape.
Tang Yuhwa examined the corpses with her own hands and then quickly kicked off the ground.
"Ah! Where are you going alone again?"
At Tang Yuhwa's sudden movement, Baek Sowol followed and got annoyed.
Although she had learned martial arts, she was annoyed that a brat who was not that strong kept jumping out on her own.
At that, her master's words came to her mind.
-You're damn weak.
Words she had heard continuously during her training.
Although she had been upset every time she had heard those words, this time was different.
It was because there was a person in front of her who looked much weaker than herself.
Baek Sowol did not hold back.
"You're damn weak! Don't go forward recklessly!"
At Baek Sowol's words, Tang Yuhwa stopped her steps and looked back.
Although it was the usual expressionless face, it seemed she was also slightly angry.
"Although I'm weaker than you, I can kill you."
"Ha?"
At Tang Yuhwa's answer, Baek Sowol was upset.
"What are you going to kill me with? Did you forget that your hidden weapons and poison didn't work on me?"
"That's because I did it weakly."
"Then try doing it strongly."
"I don't use it on people."
"You're just not confident."
A small, childish argument befitting their age was exchanged.
Although Tang Yuhwa was not usually the type to engage in such things, since Baek Sowol had said it, a very small but upset feeling arose, and since Baek Sowol was originally of a nature to get upset easily, an argument was established.
"In the first place, you're not even a martial artist, are you? If you're a doctor, then follow behind me like a doctor!"
"There might still be a living person."
"There might be a living animal!"
And so, as the argument was being exchanged, a presence was felt by Baek Sowol's senses.
'A person? No, I don't feel any life, but? But no matter how I look at it, the movement I feel is like a person.'
Baek Sowol stopped the argument and moved her feet.
"Stop it and follow me, I feel a moving presence."
"You started it first."
"So? It might be an injured person, are you going to continue?"
"No."
Although Baek Sowol was dumbfounded by Tang Yuhwa's shamelessly indifferent appearance, she moved her feet to the place where the presence was felt.
And so, the place they arrived at had countless corpses, incomparable to before, and.
"A person?"
Something like a person was standing.
The reason Baek Sowol had felt it was like a person was because although it had the shape of a person, it seemed to have no life, and its movements were unnatural.
"A person."
Whether Tang Yuhwa had not felt that unnaturalness, or whether she had thought that since it looked like a patient, she should treat it first, she jumped out towards what looked like a person without hesitation.
Since it was such a sudden action, Baek Sowol had no time to stop her.
Having approached the person-like thing, Tang Yuhwa immediately prepared for treatment.
"Since I have to treat you, please lie down for now."
"Kraaaaaa!"
But the person-like thing, as if it had reacted to such a Tang Yuhwa's words, immediately rushed at her.
Tang Yuhwa stepped back and swung her arm.
At that, her sleeve fluttered, and a whitish powder spread.
Although the person-like thing was covered in the whitish powder, it rushed at Tang Yuhwa with a beast-like appearance without any sign of hesitation.
"Oh dear."
Tang Yuhwa, with a face that had no change in expression at all, let out an emotionless sigh.
"What did I tell you!"
From behind such a Tang Yuhwa, Baek Sowol jumped out and snatched Tang Yuhwa's body.
Since Tang Yuhwa was very light in the first place, Baek Sowol, who had lightly snatched Tang Yuhwa, rushed at the person-like thing without stopping in that state.
"Kraaaaaa!!"
She stretched out her foot towards the person-like thing that was letting out a strange cry.
The person-like thing, which was hit in the abdomen by a kick full of internal energy, flew away, and Baek Sowol used the rebound from that kick to jump back.
'It's like I kicked iron or something.'
Baek Sowol, who had jumped up, drew a semicircle and landed lightly on the roof of a building.
Having landed without any problem, Baek Sowol looked down at the Tang Yuhwa in her arms.
Tang Yuhwa's expression was the same.
'Doesn't she even get flustered?'
Dumbfounded, Baek Sowol spat out without hiding her annoyed look at all.
"Don't you have anything to say to me?"
"It's not a person."
"What?"
At the words that came out of Tang Yuhwa's mouth, Baek Sowol was at a loss for words.
Thinking that she had said those words to herself, she even frowned.
"To the person who saved you, what you have to say is..."
"That poison, it's normal for paralysis to set in as soon as you inhale it, but it had no effect at all."
"Uh..."
"Do you have anything to say?"
"No, I don't, but..."
Baek Sowol realized that the words 'it's not a person' were not said to herself and became very embarrassed.
"It's not a person."
And yet, looking at Tang Yuhwa, who was saying those words while staring at her own face.
'Is she doing that on purpose?'
A complicated emotion arose.
To not show her emotions as much as possible, Baek Sowol closed her mouth tightly and put Tang Yuhwa down a little roughly.
But unfortunately, as if befitting her light body, Tang Yuhwa landed on the ground lightly.
At such a Tang Yuhwa's appearance, Baek Sowol felt a little regretful and turned her gaze to the place where the person-like thing had flown to.
"Since it's not a person, there's no need to treat it, right?"
"Uh."
"Then stay here, I'll go and take care of it!"
Having put down Tang Yuhwa, Baek Sowol immediately jumped down from the roof.
At the same time, the person-like thing that had been slammed into a building far away raised its body in a bizarre posture without bending its waist.
(End of Chapter)
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