The enemy of the enemy is the friend (3)

 

A situation in which the person involved in the conversation suddenly came to you.

It was embarrassing in many ways, but Mujin was willing to open the door.

If I had a chance to look at the situation, I would proceed with the interrogation.

"Why did you come here at such a late hour?"

"I have come to you because it seems that there has been a lot of talk about me. Fufufu..."

It was Zhuge Muhuan who answered in a relaxed tone, covering his mouth with a fan.

But despite his smirk, the words that came out of his mouth were quite significant.

Doesn't that mean he knows he's being suspected?

Mu Jin and Zhuge Jinxi tried to act without knowing it, but Mu Gong already had a surprised look on his face.

Mujin let out a faint sigh and tried to continue with his silence.

"I don't know what you're talking about the general army, but..."

"I thought Shaolin Divine Dragon had a pretty cool personality, but I wonder if wasting time is a hobby. As a soldier, I like to play with words, but I'm running out of time, so I'll get down to business. I'm here to make a deal..."

"If it's a deal, what are you going to trade?"

In response to Mu Jin's question, Zhuge Muhuan replied, folding the fan that covered the corner of his mouth.

"Why not exchange knowledge and life? I'll lend you my knowledge, and you'll protect my life in return."

Mu Jin frowned. I didn't know what he was talking about.

"What knowledge are you going to lend me and why do you mean we should save your life?"

"It means to give you information about 'them,' and to save your life means to protect you from 'them'."

"They?"

Mu Jin seemed to know who Zhuge Muhuan was talking about, but he dared to ask.

"Hmmm· Actually, I don't know the exact name of the organization, but I think it's a good idea to put it this way. The organization that the Blue Dragon Leader Dokgo belongs to..."

After all, it was a story about Shincheon.

But that made it all the more bizarre.

‘··· Is it a deception?'

The man who had been helping Shincheon so far came to visit him, didn't even know his name, and asked him to protect him from them.

Zhuge Jinhui also had the same idea as Mu Jin, and this time she asked.

"Why are you now drawing a line with him when you have accepted all the plans that the Dokgo Sect has insisted upon?"

"That's a good question. Zhuge Sogaju·"

It was a rather bizarre answer. A middle-aged man with the same surname would call a woman in her mid-twenties by her family name and the title of Sogaju.

And the answer that followed was also quite bizarre.

"The reason is simple. Because I want to live."

“???”

Everyone still didn't understand, Zhuge Muhuan explained.

"Even though I'm the general soldier of the Wulin League, I'm not very good at martial arts. If I had opposed their plan at all costs, I would have been killed immediately. Excuse yourself to be killed by an assassin sent by the Demon Cult or the Apostles."

“··· Does that mean that you knew about the organization and continued to accept their plans?"

In response to Zhuge Jinhui's question, Zhuge Jinxi covered his mouth with a fan again.

"Yes, sir."

“··· How long have you known this?"

"Well... It's been a long time since I've felt uncomfortable. I think it was about ten years ago that I became convinced."

"You've known about it for ten years, and you've been hiding it all this time?"

"Yes, sir."

"Why did you do that?"

"What do you mean?"

"They almost wiped out Sega... Besides, do you know what they're doing to the Yang people?"

Zhuge Jinxi, who was cold and angry, scowled at him as if he was going to kill him, but Zhuge Muhuan's reaction was only grave.

"That's a strange story. Why do you think I should worry about the well-being of the Zhuge family, who have already been discouraged? Hmmm· It's a bit unfortunate to hear about the Yang people, but there's nothing I can do about it."

It was only after hearing this answer that Mujin was able to realize the true nature of the discomfort he had been feeling earlier.

I didn't feel it because of the distraction from the fan or the smirk.

Contrary to his smirk and smiling, Zhuge Muhuan always had a cold eye.

Contrary to the way he spoke, moved, and facial expressions, his eyes were emotionless, and a strange sense of discomfort was formed.

Then Zhuge Muhuan added with that fake smile on his lips again.

"Above all, why should I protect the death of the previous lord Zhuge who tried to kill me?"

“····”

At this time, Zhuge Jinhui also couldn't help but keep his mouth shut, as if he didn't have anything to say to refute.

Zhuge Muhuan was the half-brother of Zhuge Mun, who was the former Zhuge family lord. He is also more than twenty years older than his younger brother.

When Zhuge Mun was one of the Soga lords· The time when I was fighting for the job of a housekeeper· He was anxious not to kill his step-brothers.

Zhuge Muhuan was a man who left the Zhuge family in fear of becoming an adult and entrusted himself to the Wulin Meng in order to avoid the threat of Zhuge Gate.

And a few years after Zhuge Muhuan left the Sega, Zhuge Mun became the head of the Zhuge family.

Naturally, most of his step-siblings, except for Zhuge Muhuan, had died for various reasons.

Until Mujin's intervention changed it, the original Zhuge Sega was such a place.

While Zhuge Jinhui is immersed in bad memories of the sinister Sega of the past. This time, Mujin stepped forward and asked.

"I understand the part about the Zhuge family... But I honestly can't forgive you for knowing and turning a blind eye to the horrible things they've done to your people."

"Hmmm· It's a weird sound. As I said a moment ago, it was unfortunate, but it was also unavoidable. Doesn't every human being put his or her own life first? My life was my top priority."

"Even if you don't act right away, if you knew about them, you should have prepared something to stop them, right?"

"By the time I became aware of the organization, it had already gone beyond the Wulin League and the political faction and had spread its roots to the Demon Sect and the Disciple Cult. It is obvious that they will take control of the Middle Kingdom within a few decades, so why would they do anything out of their sight?"

Mu Jin frowned at Zhuge Muhuan's appearance as if it was too obvious, and asked.

"Do you mean that they are on their side because of the strong?"

"Of course..."

"To know who they are even though you don't belong to them means you're pretty smart. Didn't you think of playing with them with your head?"

"Fufufu · There is nothing more hastening death than overconfidence in one's own head."

"So you pretended you didn't know anything and did whatever they wanted?"

"Yes, sir."

"To live?"

"You understand my meaning very well..."

“····”

Mujin felt like his head was hurting.

I understood what he was trying to say, but fundamentally, Zhuge Muhuan's logic didn't make sense at all.

He was a completely different human being from himself.

The only thing that is certain is that there is a great deal of obsession with life.

Maybe it was because he was born into the environment of Zhuge Sega, or maybe it was just his natural disposition.

But what mattered now wasn't Zhuge Muhuan's disposition.

"Why do you want to betray them and entrust us with your life now?"

"Because they abandoned me first."

“??”

Mu Jin and Zhuge Jinhui Mu Gong had a look of incomprehension on their faces, so Zhuge Muhuan added an explanation.

"This was a ploy to annihilate the late members of the political faction. What would happen to me, the commander-in-chief of this expedition? You will be held accountable for all of this and will be severely punished. Ninety-nine out of a hundred, the elders of the old and five generations would have tried to kill me."

"Bullet Catcher· Or was it meant to be used as a fodder for arrows?"

"Yes, sir."

"Why did you go along with their plan when you knew so well?"

"Ever since I became a general soldier of the Wulin League, I have been under a lot of surveillance. Even the slightest suspicious move within the Wulin League would have cost them their lives. So for now, we have to act according to their intentions."

"Were you going to just accept the role of arrowhead?"

"No way... During the battle, the surveillance was inevitably weakened, so I decided to use the True Technique and Transfiguration to hide during the battle with the Demon Cult. Moderately, by swapping clothes and faces with the already dead late exponents. But there was an incident ...

Mu Jin also knew what Zhuge Muhuan was talking about this time.

"Do you mean me?"

"Yes. . . Aside from revealing the Demon Cult's surprise attack first, I can only wonder how the hell he made those fanatics retreat."

Unlike the smile on his lips, Zhuge Muhuan looked at Mu Jin with cold eyes.

"Did you decide to betray them because of today's events?"

"To be precise, I knew that the Shaolin Divine Dragon had thwarted their plans several times. It's just that the Demon Cult and the Wulin League· I thought it wasn't enough to stop them from taking over the Apostles. But today's incident changed my mind a little. This plan was very important to them, but they didn't expect it to be so cool. And most of all..."

"Tap," Zhuge Muhuan said with a smile as he folded the fan, and uttered his last words.

"They abandoned me in the first place, so what a betrayal? Fufufu..."

Zhuge Muhuan was laughing loudly, but his eyes were still cold.

‘··· I don't think it's a deception."

Zhuge Muhuan's way of thinking didn't make sense, but it was too honest to be a deception.

He was openly talking about his life as his top priority.

But even if it wasn't a deceptive measure, it wasn't very appealing.

"I understand that you are not a member of your faction... But honestly, I don't believe I'm going to be an ally..."

He said his life was his top priority, and he would betray him if his life was in danger.

Mu Jin's words made Zhuge Muhuan smile again.

"I knew that and we talked about making a deal..."

After saying that, Zhuge Muhuan looked like he was thinking about something. I said it wasn't a big deal.

"Hmmm· What about this information? Wulin Mengju Wijihak is also a member of the organization. To be precise, he is the leader of the Wulin League."

After saying that, Zhuge Muhuan burst out with exclamations, "Ah!"

"This information is meaningless... Now that it turns out that I'm not a Sejak, I'm going to be suspicious of Meng Ju anyway. How about this..."

He smirked, and then suddenly looked at Mu Jin and said,

"Forty years ago. The people who raided Shaolin were not sent by the Demon Cult, but by the organization."

“!!!”

This time, even Mujin couldn't help but shake his eyes momentarily.

It was the information I thought I needed the most in recent years.

“··· Do you have any evidence?"

"After all, it's the Shaolin Divine Dragon... Seeing that you said that, you must have managed to make an analogy?"

"Don't poke at me, answer me. Do you have any evidence?"

"I wasn't there forty years ago, so I don't have any physical evidence, but circumstantial evidence is enough for me."

“····”

Mujin was momentarily speechless.

For Mu Jin, who was also cooperating with Gu Yang, clearing up the misunderstanding between Shaolin and Demon Buddhism was one of the most important things.

But I didn't know that I would get information about it from Zhuge Muhuan, who suspected that it was Sejak.

“··· How long have you known this?"

"Didn't you feel uncomfortable as a soldier of the Wulin Meng for a long time? That was also one of those inconveniences. As I investigated, I became convinced that they existed, and I found out the truth about them. Fufufu..."

He had known about the existence of the Divine Heaven about ten years ago, so he had already known about it since then.

He didn't even need to ask why he knew this so well and didn't tell Shaolin.

'To live...' I was sure that the answer would come out.

"I'm afraid that if I give away too much information on this, it will be useless and thrown away. So today, I'm going to tell you one last thing."

While Mujin was lost in thought for a while. Zhuge Muhuan's voice woke Mu Jin up.

"Shaolin Divine Dragon· You need to go back to Shaolin with me right now."

“··· Now?"

It was a night of ambition. It had been an eventful day of fighting until daylight.

Why would he rush back to Shaolin on a day like this?

Mu Jin and the others looked at Zhuge Muhuan with a puzzled face, and he pointed at Mu Jin with a fan and said, "Tap."

"Soon, the Wulin League will announce that the Shaolin Divine Dragon is a Wulin Achievement."