Episode 255: The Secret of Haereung Island (3)
Lim Pyeong-il couldn’t even move.
I had goosebumps all over my body and felt cold.
“I can’t do that...”
He couldn’t keep his mouth shut at the scene unfolding before his eyes.
This is because the master, called ‘Eumgoe’, was frantically beating the two guys wearing red masks. And that too with bare hands.
Powerlessness beyond imagination. Resistance was meaningless in the face of an overwhelming presence.
Damn it! bang-! Kwasik-!!
They weren’t even given a chance to scream.
The beating was so indiscriminate that it could not be seen in detail with the naked eye.
Only after one more breath had passed did the loud hitting sound stop.
At the same time, their bodies went limp.
Go Soo, who was called ‘Eumgoe’, naturally began to search through their arms.
After a while, a voice of disappointment came out from my lips.
“Hmph. “I don’t have any of my loot...”
Jin-san Yu, who was watching the scene, walked towards him with his back to him.
“Just by looking at them, they look like beggars. Anyway, good job. “Please come back for a moment.”
Yu Jin-san, who changed positions with Yoo Seol, looked down at the two of them.
Both of them seemed to have lost consciousness and didn’t even move.
At the time when death appeared in his eyes.
Yu Seol, who was behind him, was approaching Lim Pyeong-il with a curious face.
“mister.”
Is it because I saw the formidable force just a moment ago? Lim Pyeong-il was startled and took half a step back.
“...?”
“Don’t worry. “We may not be nice people, but we don’t hurt anyone.”
Yu Jin-san, who was twisting the masked warrior’s neck, shouted behind his back.
“What are you talking about? “What a great person he is.”
Yoo Seol looked at Im Pyeong-il and slightly shook his head once.
At the same time, he gave me an expression that told me not to believe it because it was a lie.
Lim Pyeong-il was so dumbfounded that he couldn’t even move. What kind of situation is this?
“But what is that?”
Yu Seol’s eyes turned to his left arm. It was a bag of rice that he risked his life to steal.
Lim Pyeong-il, who felt the gaze, responded by hugging it tightly with both hands.
“It’s food.”
“tooth. I won’t take it from you. But you look a lot like someone I know.”
Lim Pyeong-il knew very well who it was talking about. That’s because I heard it from Eugene San earlier.
“You mean Lim Pyung-su? “This is my younger brother.”
At that moment, Yoo Seol clapped her hands in joy.
“wow! really? Mr. Pyeongsu is my friend!”
It was only when he saw Yoo Seol’s brightly smiling face that Lim Pyeong-il relaxed a little.
“It’s so... unbelievable. “How could our immature layman have the two of you as friends?”
At that time, Yu Jin-san, who had finished the work, left his seat, stood up, and approached me.
“Your brother is a charlatan from Hyangnan County. “He was walking the path with the envy of the local martial arts people.”
“Is that really true?”
“Why would you lie? Not long ago, he almost got into a fight with a mean guy named Gu Yang-ho, but we saved him.”
Lim Pyeong-il’s eyes turned red in an instant.
“Ah... thank you. thank you so much.”
I can’t believe I bring you such happy news.
His tone of voice and expression were filled with sincerity. How could I not be grateful?
The two brothers, in turn, owed their lives to the men in front of them.
“There’s nothing to worry about. “Anyway, what are you doing while you’re still on this island?”
“...There are people who need to be protected.”
Even though he did not hear the details, Jinsan Yu had an intuition of something.
There must be people hiding somewhere to avoid the masked warriors.
I had a lot of questions, but there was no rush. It was clear that if they trusted them, they would tell it on their own.
At that time, someone’s moans were heard from not far away.
“Oooooh!”
Yuseol looked up the hill and muttered.
“I put you to sleep earlier, but I guess you woke up.”
It was a person wearing a black mask who had tied him up behind a tree and was about to interrogate him.
It seemed that his granddaughter had fainted while he was away.
Since it was close to here, the three walked there.
For some reason, he was in a lot of pain.
“Aaaah!!”
What on earth is going on?
Jinsan Yu looked at his granddaughter and asked.
“hmm. “Is that temple the headquarters?”
“It’s one of the hiding places. “The headquarters is somewhere else.”
It seemed that there were more people resisting than expected.
It was an island where tens of thousands of people lived in the past, so there was nothing strange about it.
After a while, when we reached the entrance of the temple, Lim Pyeong-il gave a signal.
Beep-! Beep-! Beep-!
It was a bird chirping in three short bursts.
After a while, two people holding swords appeared from the inside of the temple, where the ceiling was half caved in.
“Thank you for your hard work, brother. “You’ve finally found some food.”
“huh. “This is all I can do, but I can handle it for a while.”
“I’m so glad. But what about the kids in the back?”
Lim Pyeong-il’s face, which had been filled with darkness until now, showed a faint smile for the first time.
“They are the ones who will liberate us from this hell.”
“yes? “What is that...”
At that moment, Yu Seol waved his hand behind him and narrowed one eye.
“nice to meet you. “We call it the yin-yang pair.”
“Yin and yang...double monsters? What on earth are they? “You need to explain, brother.”
It meant that if I couldn’t understand it, I wouldn’t let it in.
Of course it has to be that way.
Children with neat clothes and beautiful stains in a hell full of despair. It was something completely unimaginable.
At that moment, Lim Pyeong-il spoke with a serious expression to the confused warriors.
“Speak politely. “He is the one who defeated three enemy warriors with his bare hands.”
The two warriors immediately asked in disbelief.
“yes? I beg your pardon?”
“It doesn’t make sense, does it?”
I can’t argue with them forever.
Jinsan Yu, who had been watching silently, sent a signal to his granddaughter with a glance.
Then Yoo Seol quietly stretched out one hand.
Deukdeuk-deuk-!
The fallen leaves on the floor swirled around and covered their bodies.
Immediately, their toes lifted off the ground.
“Kaa!”
“omg!”
The warriors were frightened and flailed their limbs.
I was so surprised that my face turned pale.
If it were like usual, they would have joked around a bit more, but Yuseol immediately lowered the two to the ground. Because I felt like something would go wrong if I continued.
“Are you very surprised? “I’m sorry, my grandpa told me to...”
Yoo Seol looked embarrassed as if she was sorry.
But now, nothing was heard from the two.
One of them leaned against the wall and the other bent his knees, as if his legs were loose.
It seemed like he still couldn’t calm his shock.
“Brother, I don’t know what’s going on, but let’s go in first.”
“thank you. “I’ll see you later.”
Lim Pyeong-il patted the two on their shoulders and passed by in front of them.
Entering the interior of the temple, he lifted up a bundle of straw spread on the floor. Then there were stairs going down inside.
Jin-san Yu first measured the inside with his senses.
I felt the energy of people buzzing in a space of just over 100 pyeong.
“You mean everyone was hiding in a place like this?”
“There is nothing we can do to survive. Please come in quickly.”
Jo-son, who followed him down a little later, was quite surprised.
The villagers were all gathered together and tangled together, and the horror was indescribable.
Lifeless eyes. And everyone’s bones were thin because they hadn’t eaten so much. It wouldn’t be strange to say that he was alive because he couldn’t die.
I expected it, but it was such a miserable sight.
At that time, the voices of children full of joy were heard.
“uh? “The man is here!”
“Hmph. Why did you come so late!?”
Children who looked to be about five or six years old rushed over and hugged Lim Pyeong-il’s waist.
Now he looked happier than ever.
“Hey, uncle, I brought you something to eat! You were very hungry, weren’t you?”
It seemed like the reason he was so obsessed with rice bags was because of these children.
Jo-son watched the scene in silence.
After a while.
Suddenly, a girl with her hair split into two ponytails approached Yooseol.
Although he was small and scruffy, his big, round eyes seemed full of innocence.
“But who is your sister?”
Yu Seol pulled the ear of the girl who approached her as if she thought it was cute.