Proof (3)

 

Bomu was also a man who went on a hunt, but there was a problem.

"Mujin-ah· I think you've already been robbed?"

"Don't you see a rat?"

As Mu Qing and Mu Gong, who were chasing after Mu Jin, said that there were fruits and mushrooms left in the area. I didn't see any animals.

The warriors of the Beast Palace and the Red Tiger Corps, who had moved one step ahead, had already been wiped out.

As many as two hundred and fifty On top of that, there were two hundred animals brought by the warriors of the Beast Palace.

There was no more food left nearby to hunt or gather.

"Why don't you just go back and ask the Beast Palace or the Red Tiger for something to eat?"

"It's not about rice. It's a matter of pride."

Although Mu Qing replied yes, Mu Jin knew that there was no more food in this area.

"I think I'll have to go a little farther away. Wait a minute here..."

Mu Jin, who had put the Mu Palace as a kind of landmark, moved with Mu Qing by unfolding the shadow hole and the ghost beam.

If there were any hidden animals, they would be caught without being detected.

How long did it take to move in the opposite direction of the gathering place?

'Damn· Did all the animals run away because of the commotion? Even if you come this far, the animal will peep ... Huh?'

Feeling the slightest sign in the distance, Mujin slowed down and motioned to Mu Qing.

Mu Qing also felt the aura belatedly, and together with Mu Jin, he unfolded the shadow hole and the ghost beam in a polar manner, approaching in the direction where he felt the aura.

And when I arrived, I was surprised to find a person who was not an animal.

“!!!”

The moment when the man's eyes widened when he belatedly discovered Mujin and Muqing who appeared like ghosts in the shadows of the jungle.

Puck!

Mujin, who approached in an instant, threw out a single punch and knocked the man out in one fell swoop.

"Mu Mujin? Why are you suddenly attacking people?"

Mu Qing, who was traveling with him, asked in a confused tone, and Mu Jin replied with a serious face.

"It's a suspicious situation, isn't it? It's not because it's a lower level than us, but he's definitely mastering stealth. Besides, he dared to hide near the place where the Beast Palace had stopped in the middle of its movement. And most of all..."

Mujin opened the stunned man's mouth and pulled out the poison that had been sandwiched between his teeth.

"You tried to move your jaw muscles so that they wouldn't notice us..."

If he was ready to kill himself and pursued him, ninety-nine out of a hundred would have been spies or scouts.

"It could be from the Sun Palace, but under the circumstances, it looks like it's either the Wrong Gate or the Divine Heaven."

He came to catch an animal for lunch, and ended up catching a bigger one.

* * *

Instead of moving further to hunt the animal, Mujin carried the scout on his shoulders and returned to the rendezvous.

Then, when the Beast Archer found Mu Jin returning with a man on his shoulder, he asked in a trembling tone.

"Ahem· I didn't know you were that kind of person..."

Mu Jin, who couldn't understand the words of the Beast Palace, had a puzzled expression on his face, and Gu Yang, who had just approached him, translated it for him.

“··· I'm not prejudiced. Or maybe you're stupid ...

Mu Jin muttered in amax, and Gu Yang asked with a serious face, unlike the Beast Palace Master.

"Who's that guy?"

"He's the one who was watching us..."

Mujin showed the dogma hidden in its mouth and explained the details of how he had found it.

"Surveillance!"

The Beast Palace Owner, who understood the situation through Gu Yang's translation, finally exclaimed with anger.

"The mothballs of the Sun Palace must have a trick up their sleeve!"

"It could be the Sun Palace, but it could also be from the Odok Gate... So let's proceed with the interrogation first."

After all, all I had to do was find out his identity and goals through interrogation.

Mu Jin held out the man he was carrying on his shoulder to entrust him with the interrogation, and said,

"Oh... And since I can't hunt to catch him, can you give me something to eat?"

He had grabbed something more important than food, so he could ask for it with great dignity.

* * *

The man was a sort of scout from the Odok Gate.

Ever since the conflict between the Sun Palace and the Beast Palace broke out in Mengdon Village, the Odok Gate had sent scouts to the area around the Sun Palace and the Beast Palace.

And when the two hundred and fifty of them in the Beast Palace began to descend south, the man followed the movement of the Beast Palace to find out what was going on.

In the jungle, it was easy to hide because of the countless bushes and landmarks, and with more than two hundred people in the Beast Palace, it was easy to chase them even from a certain distance.

Then, when the warriors of the Beast Palace moved to hunt, they hurriedly opened the distance.

And after a while· As the noise began to diminish, I gradually closed the distance.

It was unlucky to be discovered by Mujin.

After interrogation, the Beast Archer and Mu Jin Gu Yang, who knew all about the situation, gathered together and began to discuss.

"Hmph· Do I really need to talk? We just need to go south and meet the Sun Palace."

"It's a dangerous idea. Why do they keep an eye on the movement of the Beast Palace? With as many as two hundred warriors away. There is a danger that the Beast Palace will be targeted at the main base of the Beast Palace..."

To Gu Yang's rebuttal, the Beast Archer replied with a snort.

"Our Beast Palace is not so fragile as to be crushed by despicable poisonous bastards just because two hundred are away!"

"Oman... Didn't you say that even before Li Bai was gone, you had a hard time with the invasion of the Wu Dokmun Gate? Now that the palace lord is away, how can you stop the attack on the Wrong Gate?"

"Ahem! I just bothered with their venom! It's not pushed!"

In response to Gu Yang's subsequent attack on the truth, the beast archer twitched his pectoralis and expressed his anger.

'Tsk· You can't treat me like that."

Mujin, who was watching the conversation between the two, clicked his tongue inwardly.

Gu Yangpae was a man who could even play the role of a jinang himself thanks to his excellent five voices.

It was said that he was not only good at martial arts, but also at strategy, tactics, and improvisation.

However, it seemed that the field of dealing with people that was not such a rational field was not yet ripe.

After all, when dealing with people, experience and senses are more important than brains.

And the Beast Archer that Mu Jin had seen so far was a man who couldn't be persuaded to deal with him like that.

Trying to persuade those with strong pride and self-esteem with logic only makes them angry.

Mu Jin first spoke to Gu Yang Fei to ventilate the atmosphere.

"I know what you're trying to say, but you know it's a handshake to come back now. If we go back like this, then it won't be a matter of misreading, but crossing the Sun Palace and the River of No Return."

Gu Yangfei also replied to Mu Jin's words, as if he knew that much.

"I know that... What I meant to say was not to go back completely, but to send a call to the Beast Palace, which is nothing more than an empty house, to prepare for the invasion of the Wu Poison Gate."

Gu Yangpae opened his mouth and talked about various options.

"The best move is between me and the Red Tiger Corps. And only the minimum number of Beast Palace personnel to mediate will go south together, and the rest will go home. Anyway, this is something that will be decided through the conversation between me and Geum Yanghui, so now that the situation is like this... We don't need all the warriors of the Beast Palace to be together..."

In addition, Gu Yang Fei talked about a few more ideas, but the expression on the face of the beast archer who was listening was only fat.

That's why Mujin stepped in and sided with the Beast Palace.

"After all, it must have been reported that more than two hundred people had left the Beast Palace. Rather than retreat the warriors here, why don't you continue south and take advantage of this situation?"

"Oh... How can you take advantage of it?"

When the Beast Archer showed interest in Mu Jin's words, Mu Jin smiled and continued to explain.

"The lord of the palace told you... The main reason why it bothers me is that there are a lot of traps and poison in the swamp near their main base, so I can't get into it. That's why I'm taking this opportunity to get them outside."

"Hahaha! That's it! That's why I said I wouldn't bite the warriors because of it! As long as they get out there, there's no reason for us Beast Palace warriors to be defeated!"

Gu Yang's eyebrows twitched as he interpreted the conversation between the two.

"Do you really not know that you are saying such a thing to the Beast Archer? If you do so, the main camp of the Beast Palace will be razed to the ground..."

"I know all about it..."

"How could you say that when you knew it? Are you going to take this opportunity to devour the Beast Palace?"

"What kind of is this guy talking about..."

"Then why do you try to deceive the Beast Archer with eloquence?"

"Tsk... I'm not cheating· You have to use different methods of persuasion depending on the other person's inclinations."

Mu Jin snapped his fingers and explained like a child, and Gu Yangfei let out a sigh and took a step back.

And Mujin, who relieved the mood of the beast archer with a moderate flattery, brought up the matter.

"If those despicable bastards come out, it's only natural that the Beast Palace will win. I'll ask you if you do. Do you want an overwhelming victory over the despicable poisons? Or do you want to take heavy losses and win?"

Mu Jin's question was answered by the Beast Archer with a snort.

"Isn't that obvious? Our Beast Palace will win overwhelmingly."

"Of course, the Beast Palace should be victorious, but with two hundred warriors and even the Lord of the Palace absent... Even if we win, we will inevitably suffer damage."

"Humph! Warriors don't calculate such trivial gains and losses!"

"What do you mean? It is said that tigers do their best when they catch rabbits, but how can you think that in the Beast Palace, which is said to be with beasts!"

“!!!”

While the eyes of the Beast Archer widened at Mujin's point, Mujin spilled out one word after another.

"Think of wild beasts hunting. Beast Archer· No matter how strong an individual is, when it hunts, it will either hunt its prey or lure it to a place where it has an advantage. Isn't that so?"

"Ahem· You're right..."

"So what about this? We're going south as it is, but we're sending a message to the Beast Palace. Reconnaissance and if the Mistaken Gate invades, naturally retreat to the rear little by little."

"There is no retreat for our Beast Palace!"

"Listen to the end . . . ' It only seems like a retreat to the prey. It's actually a herd hunt. We're going to join the Sun Palace and create a composition that wraps back and forth."

"Oh..."

It was only then that the Beast Archer reacted with enthusiasm.

“····”

And Gu Yang, who was interpreting the conversation between the two, looked at the Beast Palace Master with a stunned face.

After all, Mu Jin's strategy was already one of the myriad of plans that Gu Yang had talked about earlier.

It's just that the Gu Yang Gang didn't use the analogy of driving or wilderness, just discussing the strategy itself.

Even if you say the same thing as "ah" is different and "uh" is different, the atmosphere and the way of speaking, etc.

The young Gu Yang had not yet understood that the feeling was different depending on the analogy.

But I wasn't so foolish as to ignore the visible consequences because I didn't understand it until now.

"I told the same story, but the results were so different..."

Come to think of it, it was because of that man's persuasion that he chose the path of an apostate.

If someone had encouraged him to follow the path of an apostate, would he have accepted it?

"He's a dangerous man in many ways."

It was a Gu Yang defeat that made him wonder if he had been beaten by Mu Jin like that beast archer.

* * *

In the end, the Beast Archer decided to accept Mu Jin's proposal.

They had to send a messenger to convey their plan to the Beast Palace, and it was Xu Linya who was chosen as the messenger this time.

"There must be others watching or chasing us besides the one we caught this time... Avoid their eyes and go back to the main palace to tell them about it."

After being handed a copy of the plan of operation, Su Lin Ya paid tribute to the Beast Archer and disappeared into the bushes with the leopard.

Having prepared for the attack on the Odok Gate, they again set out to the south.

In between, hunting and gathering were carried out in the form of local procurement as before.

A day later, I left the Beast Palace, and in the afternoon of the second day.

They were able to reach a wide mountain range called Daimaesa Tomb, which had promised to meet the Sun Palace.

And they saw people from the south rumbling up the mountain range.

I had already seen it in the village of Mengdon, and I noticed the unique color of the Sun Palace.

Similar to the priest's robe of the Middle Ages, the garment has a picture of the sun in the center.

Unlike the free-spirited Beast Palace, each dressed in the skin of a variety of animals, they were all dressed in uniform uniforms by the hundreds.

Except for one.

'Is the author the Lord of the Sun Palace?'

A man of imposing physique, wrapped in a golden robe, as if claiming to be the sun, wore a large armour behind his back.

Then, as if to prove that Mu Jin's prediction was correct, the Beast Archer shouted at the golden man.

"It's been a while! Silverfish of the South!"

The Beast Archer's provocative greeting was answered by the Lord of the Sun Palace with a roar of heart.

"You're the one who lives for a long time... You bloody barbarian of the north..."

It was indeed a friendly appearance of the courtiers.