“Where the hell are you hiding?”
So Yeowol’s expression was as cold as a stone. She tried to hide her emotions, but there was a glimmer of irritation in her eyes.
It wasn’t just her.
All the children who were tracking Pyo-wol felt the same way as her. All the surviving children were mobilized to pursue the hunt, but no traces of Pyo-wol were found anywhere.
All the children were proud that they had a knack for tracking, but it was no use in front of Pyo-wol, who disappeared without a trace.
It wasn’t just a feeling of weirdness.
“Give me a little more strength. I’m sure I’ll find it.”
“You bastard! I didn’t like him from the beginning. I’ll definitely find him.”
The children swept their hair away and heated up the search even more.
Some children mustered up their courage and searched the underground room where Pyo-wol resides. However, not even a shadow of Pyo-wol appeared.
“That bastard!”
“What a cowardly bastard…”
Profanity toward Pyo-wol broke out among the children.
Beep!
Suddenly, a loud ringing plagued the children’s ears.
At first they thought it was a hallucination. They thought they were only hearing it for themselves. But the tinnitus was heard in everyone’s ears.
That was then.
“Aww!”
“Ouch!”
All the children fell, grabbing their chests at about the same time.
Because they felt pain in their heart. It felt as if an invisible hand was squeezing their heart, and the children could not breathe properly.
‘What, what?’
So Yeowol crouched like a shrimp and trembled. It was the first time she had experienced this kind of pain since she came here. She thought she was already used to all kinds of pain, but this was different.
The pain that felt like squeezing her heart soon turned into a pain that felt like an insect gnawed through her body.
Not a single one was an exception.
The children all collapsed and struggled in agony.
Then, out of nowhere, a boy of the same age appeared.
It was Pyo-wol who exuded a neutral sensuality given the mixed of his masculine and feminine parts.
The children were in so much pain that they did not even notice that Pyo-wol, who they had been searching for so much, had appeared.
Pyo-wol looked at the children with a puzzled expression.
Twenty-seven children were lying on the floor in pain without missing a single one. Even an ignorant person could know that something unusual was going on.
‘Is it because of the sound they just made?’
Pyo-wol also heard a tinnitus. However, unlike the other children, he did not feel anything.
It just hurt his ears a little. But the other children, unlike him, were all clutching their chests and rolling around.
‘They have triggered the restriction.’
Pyo-wol’s eyes went cold.
The moment he has been waiting for came. But he also had doubts.
Everyone suffers from the restriction because only he remained fine.
He didn’t feel pain like the other children, and he didn’t show any signs of abnormality. Because of that, he couldn’t understand why the children were in so much pain.
Pyo-wol knelt down on one knee and looked at the children.
The children rolled their eyes and their complexion turned white. It looked like they were about to die. Pyo-wol took a closer look at Lee Min, who had the most serious condition of them all.
‘I need to find out the cause.’
Pyo-wol carefully injected his inner qi into Lee Min’s body.
Even if the person is crazy, it is extremely dangerous to inject internal energy into another person’s body. If he makes a mistake, he could cause a collision between the energies, which could cause you to wear a coin.
Nevertheless, the reason Pyo-wol instilled his inner strength into the body of Lee Min is because she has learned the same cultivation method.
Unlike himself, she learned it at a level that just passed by, but he thought it wouldn’t cause a major conflict because they had the same internal cultivation method.
Pyo-wol’s guess was correct.
Even though the qi was injected, the collision of the energies did not occur in the body of the Lee Min.
Pyo-wol carefully operated his internal qi.
This was the first time he had injected his inner qi into another person’s body. That’s why he had to be more careful.
Pyo-wol carefully examined the inside of Lee Min’s body. But there was no reaction or alien feeling anywhere.
‘There’s no issues with her internal energy…’
Pyo-wol took his hand off Lee Min-min’s body and fell into deep thought.
‘What is the difference? The difference between them and me is–the same environment, the same food, the same martial arts.’
Of course, he had learned one more unknown swordsmanship, but it was unreasonable to think he was fine because of that.
‘What? What made me different from them.’
Pyo-wol erased what they had in common with them one by one.
He erased everything that came to mind, such as food, water, and martial arts, so there was only one left.
‘Is it poison?’
Unlike them, he had great resistance to poison.
It was because he was constantly bitten by an unidentified snake.
There was only one difference between them and myself.
Then it was understandable that the poison could not be pumped out of his body. But the question was not completely resolved.
If they were really poisoned, it didn’t make sense that they had seizures at the same moment.
It was impossible to trigger the poison that lurked in the bodies of twenty-seven people at one time.
What’s more, the poison was just an unidentified tinnitus, if you say it was a sign before a seizure. It was unreasonable to think that the poison that had been dormant in the body was activated simply by the tinnitus.
‘There’s something more. It is impossible to move the poison by external noise in the first place.’
Pyo-wol’s head turned faster.
Suddenly, the image of a snake eating an insect came to mind.
It controlled the bug by making a cry when it tried to move.
‘What if it’s not poison, but poisonous bugs dormant in our body?’
Then everything clicks.
It was very easy to put poisonous bugs into the children’s bodies.
This is because it can be mixed with water or food supplied from outside.
‘It must be a kind of cursed poison (蠱毒 gu poison).
If you put hundreds of poisonous species in one jar, they will eat each other and only the strongest will survive.
These surviving insects have a number of bizarre properties. Some of them may have the property of being particularly sensitive to sound. And it was clear that the cursed poison stimulated by the sound emitted poison and consequently poisoned them.
As his heart began to harden, Pyo-wol’s head turned more complicated.
‘Why did they have to trigger the cursed poison at this moment?’
Anyway, there was only one reason.
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