Tail Catcher (3)

 

That evening·

Hong Xiaohui soothed Liu Xuehua and carefully walked out of the Tianyu Pavilion.

Luckily, there were still a lot of people coming and going from the top of the river.

As long as he didn't do anything conspicuous, leaving the top and coming back wouldn't be a problem.

"I can't believe my opportunity came so sooner than I thought..."

She had to try to hide her ecstasy.

When I thought of what I had written in the examination I had received from the sloppy kid during the day, the corners of my mouth began to creep up without realizing it.

The contents of the examination were clearly a love letter. But why? She was moving towards a place that wasn't even mentioned in the letter.

'This is my chance to put him at my feet!'

The book, which was written like a love letter, was actually made up of the cipher system of the organization she worked for.

And when I deciphered the code, it was about Shaolin and the Heavenly Stream, and it said that I wanted to contact her directly.

The fact that he summoned her separately while using the code would mean that the person who sent her the inquiry was of higher rank than the old man who was now her superior.

Calming her swelling heart, she arrived at an abandoned house on the outskirts of Dengfeng County.

Then, as if waiting for her, the man in black who had arrived at the abandoned house earlier and covered his face slowly stood up.

The man who covered his face was Mujin.

"After all..."

From this, it became clear that Hong So-hee was a knappy related to the black curtain.

Mujin had read about the cipher system used by the Princes of the Black Curtain in the past in the novel The Fall of the Apostle.

Of course, it was a memory from twenty years ago, but it was still in his mind as he had read the cipher system in school and played around with it.

It's been a long time since I've been able to bring out memories. And as I went through the process of making the book look like a love letter, I wrote dozens of pages.

"I thought it was something I was going to do, but I thought it would be so easy to take the bait."

Even if the other party didn't come over, it was a love letter, so he wouldn't be blamed.

Sending a love letter to a woman would be nothing special...

In order to avoid making a fuss in Shaolin for Dong Jia-monk's writing of the love letter, and to avoid Hong Xiao-hee's suspicion, he asked the grandchildren of the elderly members of the council to sneak out their sweets.

Mujin approached the tail that had been baited to him, and spoke in a thick voice that he had forced.

"What did Liu Xuehua do?"

In response to the black man's question, Hong So-hee replied in a calm tone.

"He will be resting in the upper dwelling. I think I should go back early to avoid any doubts. Please tell me what I should do in the future."

"It's the same as it is now. Go to Liu Xuehua's side and dig up the information of the Tianyu Upper Realm and Shaolin."

Saying that, Mujin approached Hong Xiaohui and held out his hand in front of him.

Mujin was still only fourteen years old, but thanks to the iron that had been cultivated for the past two and a half years, his palms resembled those of Mujin, who had been trained and trained.

Hong So-hee took out a piece of paper from her sleeve.

It was a kind of report that summarized what she had seen and heard while following Liu Xuehua and Mu Jin today.

But instead of handing her the word out, she opened her mouth as if she were talking to the other person.

"I'm tied up by Liu Xuehua's argument, and it's not easy for me to come out like this every time. Please tell me how to make a tangent in the future."

"Sooner or later, I'm going to enter the Heavenly Stream. At that time, it will be in contact with the inside of the top· I'm going to send you a message..."

In response to Mujin's answer, Hong So-hee handed the inspection she was holding in her hand to Mujin.

Mu Jin grabbed the sword she held out, and at the same time, he unexpectedly thrust out his left hand and attacked her.

"What!?"

Only then did Hong So-hee realize that something was wrong, and she hurriedly swung her hands.

Thinking that she was about to destroy herself when she had exhausted her purpose, she used the martial arts she had learned during her training in Sejak to survive.

깡!

There was a noise like a metal clash, and the two hands of Mujin and Hong So-hee collided.

At that moment, a question flashed through her mind.

For someone who came to get rid of him, there was a question that Mugong wasn't very strong.

But before answering those questions, survival was important.

She raised her opponent's seat with her dual wielding and dug straight forward, aiming for her chest with her claws erect.

Puck!

But what the hell is it?

Her superiority tore the black man's clothes and his fingernails touched the man's bare skin, but funnily enough, her fingernails failed to pierce the man's chest.

“!?”

Before she could really grasp the situation.

The black man's knee that hit her as she dug in inside hit her in the abdomen with flying colors.

“컥····”

The black man swung his left hand at the back of her neck as she bent down as she suffocated from the intense pain that seemed to concussion her internal organs and couldn't moan properly.

As she was being struck in the back of the neck and her mind was clouded, the last thing she saw was...

'Orange...?'

It was a scarlet lyric glimpsed through the black of her fingernails.

* * *

Plop·

Immediately after Hong So-hee collapsed to the floor· Mujin made sure she had fainted, and then took off her black robe.

"Tsk· It hurts so dirty..."

Her chest had been struck by her left hand, and not only her black robe but also her lyrics had been torn off.

As if that weren't enough, the skin was also slightly torn. Perhaps if he hadn't cooked the iron cannon, he would have been seriously injured.

She survived because she wasn't a master of water qi.

Of course, it was a bold decision I made because I knew it wasn't at that level.

In the Battle of the Apostle Emperor, Hong So-hee only escorts the family through Liu Seol-hwa. He had mastered martial arts, but he hadn't reached the point where he could hear the sound of mastery.

Therefore, Mujin had expected her to learn martial arts from the time she became associated with the Black Curtain.

And the moment she was sure that she was already connected to the Black Curtain, she had calculated that she had mastered martial arts before leaving.

Thanks to his bold decision, he was able to finish it off quickly before he made a fuss or Hong So-hee did something weird like fleeing or committing suicide.

On top of that, there was another reason why I was deliberately beaten with a punch...

"I'm going to have to clean up before I wake up..."

Mujin first proceeded with the cleanup of this place.

I opened her stunned mouth and checked inside.

By any chance, it often appears in martial arts magazines. It was to prevent self-determination by biting dogma.

After tying her up when she fainted, he burned her black robe with a firestick in a place a short distance from the abandoned house.

After he managed to clean up, Mujin picked her up by the shoulders as she was stunned and tied up, and headed for somewhere.

* * *

Midnight· The town of Dengbong County·

They were busy as usual, but they found Mu Jin, who had now become a celebrity in Deng Feng.

"The Inpassive· Where are you at this time...?"

"What happened to that woman on her shoulder?"

Naturally, the figure of the woman on her shoulders was also found.

"It's no big deal, don't worry about it. Hahaha·"

"I've got some business to attend to, so I'm going to visit you."

Mu Jin moderately responded to the people of Deng Feng County and approached the top of the Tianyu River.

Naturally, the gatekeepers who were standing guard at the main gate of the Tianyu Pavilion also looked at Mu Jin with a puzzled face.

"Mujin Pupil· Does that woman look like Miss Liu's quarrel?"

"Yes· The Legend of the Poet is right· So let's put the kite in the top lord. I've caught the three who were stealing information from the Heavenly Stream and Shaolin."

“!?”

With those words, the Tianyu Upper Stream was in an uproar.

One of the gatekeepers hurriedly rushed inside the upper chamber to convey Mu Jin's words, and not long after, Yang Chongguan rushed out and ushered Mu Jin inside.

And at the place where Mu Jin arrived, there was a heap of people who held key positions in the Tianyu Upper Circle, led by Liu Zhiguang, the head of the upper stream.

“··· Mujinja·"

"Yes· Lord of the Upper Chamber·"

"She is the epitome of our story, and she has served our top brass for more than ten years. Can you prove that he stole the information?"

Liu Zhiguang asked in a blunt tone, unlike his usual sympathetic appearance towards Mu Jin.

My daughter's quarrel was a dispute that had been working at the top of the river for more than a decade since she was a child.

The fact that she was a Sejak was not something to be taken lightly.

Behind Liu Zhiguang, the faces of the top officials were varied.

I can't stand in front of Liu Jiguang, I'm just watching. It seemed that some people dared to think that the Three Great Disciples of Shaolin were making a mess at the top.

And before Mu Jin answered Liu Zhiguang's question,

There was a commotion behind him, and someone approached him and whispered something to him.

"Tell me to go in."

Liu Zhiguang replied to the man's words, and not long after, Shaolin disciples appeared behind Mu Jin.

"Mu Mujin, how did this happen!?"

"Why are you there now, carrying the Lady on your back?"

Mu Jin carried the woman on his back and crossed Deng Feng County to the top of the Tianliu River, and the news reached the Shaolin disciples in the clinic.

Then, realizing that the stage was completely set, Mujin calmly opened his mouth.

"A little while ago... After finishing my work as a councilor, I was walking the streets of Deng Bong County. Then, by chance, I found this woman, the poet of the Legend Story, walking alone in Deng Feng County. I wondered· Why is this woman, who is the Lord of the Legend, not with the Lord of the Legend, but moving alone?"

“··· Is that why she's a Sejak?"

Mu Jin shook his head at Liu Zhiguang's question as if he was dumbfounded, and continued to explain.

"I secretly pursued this lady. She entered an abandoned house on the outskirts of the prefecture, where she was talking to a man who covered his body and face with a black robe. It was a story about the business of Shaolin and Tianyu Merchant together."

“!!!”

Before Mu Jin's explanation was finished, various reactions erupted from the Tianyu Upper Realm and the Shaolin disciples.

"How can you believe that!"

"Awesome Lord! That innocent pupil must be playing a trick now!"

Of course, the reaction from the top was mostly negative.

"Do you dare to doubt the Shaolin disciple now?"

On the other hand, in the case of Shaolin, he was still siding with Mujin in the midst of the Ginga slum.

Then· Liu Zhiguang, the owner of the Tianyu Statue, opened his mouth.

"Everybody be quiet!"

As expected, the owner of the Tianhao Grand Brigade seems to be different. Even though his voice didn't even have an inside air, he fell silent in an instant.

"Mujin Pupil· The testimony of the pupil alone cannot be proof that the dispute is a sessorship."

After calming everyone down, he spoke as if he were exercising his last patience.

"Do you mean you need proof?"

"Yes..."

At Liu Zhiguang's words, Mu Jin couldn't help but laugh inwardly.

In this martial arts world, there are no cameras, CCTVs, or tape recorders.

There wasn't even fingerprint matching technology, and there was no DNA test for blood.

In a world where forensic science is impossible, how can we gather direct evidence?

Therefore, I thought that the only evidence that could be used as evidence in this world was circumstantial evidence and the testimony of those around me.

As a result of much thought, Rather, there was one piece of evidence that was possible because it was this world.

Mujin pointed his hand to his wounded chest and opened his mouth.

"This wound is the evidence. How could this lady be learning such a vicious martial art?"

The most representative evidence in the world of martial arts· It was a trace of emptiness.

"If I hadn't cooked the iron cannon, I would have been pierced to death in the chest."

Saying that, Mu Jin put the stunned Hong So-hee on the ground and showed off her excellence.

As expected, her fingernails were stained with flesh and blood.

And through the wounds and marks that were exposed, those who were learning the martial arts were able to realize the type of martial arts she used.

It was a martial art that specialized in assassination, which only killers could have mastered.

Of course, it wasn't a martial art that the top fighters could master.

"And there are traces of her handiwork on this arm as well. You can compare it with her hand if you want."

Mujin held out his left hand, which had clashed with her duo.

"If that's not enough, this is the last proof of that. At that scene, this female lord was about to hand over to the black man. Please check if it's her handwriting."

Lastly, handwriting, which is one of the most commonly used evidence in the martial arts world.

Naturally, Mujin's words became more credible.

"Gold Governor·"

"Yes· The Upper Lord·"

"Check the handwriting against the documents he wrote."

"I'll obey your commands..."

Before Liu Zhiguang's name fell, the old man who was called the Jin Governor moved hurriedly.

Soon after, servants and servants appeared with a number of inspections, and the old man, who was called the Inspector of the Inner Temple, began to compare them with those of Hong So-hee, which Mu Jin had offered.

Perhaps because of the repeated commotion, Hong So-hee, who had been stunned, finally opened her eyes with a groan of pain.

Of course, as soon as she opened her eyes, she couldn't help but be embarrassed by the appearance of the people around her.

And as she struggled to keep her wits about her, Liu Zhiguang asked her a question.

"Why did you go out alone at this time, even though it was a tale of legend?"

“!?”