Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 32
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Apocalypse in Water Episode 32
Episode 32
A dazzling, sleepless castle deep in the water?
Isn’t that the West Sea Dragon Palace?
Bomi spoke as if to support my reasoning.
“As I approached, a door appeared, and the sign on the door read ‘Seohaemun.’”
It’s the West Sea Gate!
In the drawing of the note, the Seohaemun Gate was marked as the main entrance to the outer wall of the Yonggung Palace.
This really is the West Sea Dragon Palace.
“Simcheong was caught by the guards guarding the gate while she was loitering in front of the gate. She was taken to the Dragon King for interrogation, but she gave a false statement. Her father, a blind servant, fell into a stream while walking along the road, and a monk saved him and told him that if he gave her 300 seok of rice as a donation, he would regain his sight… … .”
The false statement that Simcheong made was very similar to the content of the Simcheongjeon, which was familiar to many.
Even though it was selling her daughter, Bomi added Jiyeon’s interpretation, saying that if she went against her father’s wishes and ran away in the middle of the night, the Dragon King would not have looked upon it favorably.
And the effect of the false statement wasn’t bad.
The Dragon King was moved by Simcheong’s false(?) filial piety and treated her with great hospitality.
“The Dragon King said several times that he would send her to her father, but Simcheong did not want to go back. The hospitality at the Dragon Palace was good, and if she went back, she would be caught by her father again and sold. She made excuses and held out. But here comes the romance.”
“Romance?”
“Yes. But maybe the romance is just a story that Jiyeon added as a seasoning. No, maybe the entire cruel fairy tale version of Simcheongjeon is a story that Jiyeon created. Jiyeon was an aspiring romance writer.”
Bomi shared her thoughts on the cruel fairy tale version of Simcheongjeon, but I found the story of Seohaemun somewhat credible.
“Yeah. How’s that romance going?”
“Isn’t it obvious? Simcheong falls in love with the handsome prince of the Dragon Palace. This love turns into a tragic mess just as Jiyeon likes.”
The love triangle between Simcheong, the crown prince, the half-brother prince, and the wrath of the Dragon King who does not allow love between humans.
As Bomi said, the story took a sudden turn that seemed like something out of a romance novel or a pure love comic.
And the story becomes brutal, with Simcheong being tortured in every way and thrown into prison.
“In the midst of this crazy situation, a character appears who changes the plot from a spy story to a war story. His name is Byeoljubu (鼈主簿).”
“Star Lord? Isn’t that the turtle from the rabbit story?”
“I knew it. The Chinese character for ‘star’ is ‘turtle’. So it’s not a turtle, it’s a turtle. And ‘chief secretary’ is the name of an official position.”
“Wow! You look so smart, sis.”
Hoyoung raised his thumb in admiration.
“Well, that’s about it!”
Bomi lifted her chin and tried to show off, but I quickly found out.
“Is that what Jiyeon told you?”
“Huh! How did you know?”
“I just thought it would be like that.”
I shrugged and answered.
Jiyeon was quite confident and smart.
“So what did Byuljubu do?”
“The Star Princess frees her and tells her that the prince has betrayed her. The prince tortured her under the Dragon King’s orders, but she believed in love. She pretended to betray him for a moment because she had no choice. She said that he would save her soon.”
“In my opinion, it seems like the prince has betrayed you. If you were going to save me, it should have been the prince, not the Byeoljubu.”
Hoyoung said, crossing his arms.
“Jiyeon said that prince, that bastard is trash.”
The prince secretly takes Simcheong to the crown prince’s residence, promising to show her evidence.
There, the prince is found with the crown princess whom the Dragon King had arranged for him.
She burns with revenge, and Byeoljubu shows her how to get revenge.
It was said that if the prince, the captain of the Dragon Palace Defense Corps, turned off the defense beads that he was managing, the Dragon Palace that had been abusing her could be destroyed.
A defense bead?
As I listened to Bomi’s words, I looked at her with my eyes wide open.
“What is a defense ball? Isn’t that a snowball, a round sphere?”
“How would I know that? I heard it from Jiyeon. Anyway, Simcheong secretly enters the prince’s quarters through the secret door that the prince had told her about for their secret meeting and turns off the directional beads. Then, the enemies who had been waiting rush in and trample the dragon palace brutally, and everyone in the dragon palace, including the prince, dies.”
“What happened to Simcheong?”
Hoyoung asked if he was curious about the ending of the story.
“Simcheong fled to the land to escape the slaughter. And when she escaped, she took gold and silver treasures with her. With them, she took revenge on her father and the merchants, and lived a very comfortable life.”
“I think the ending is a bit like that.”
Bomi expressed her opposing opinion to Hoyoung, who tilted his head as he spoke.
“The protagonist succeeded in his revenge and lived well, so it was a happy ending. I couldn’t remember exactly so I couldn’t say, but Jiyeon described the scene when the prince died in great detail, which was really refreshing.”
Hoyoung and Bomi shared their thoughts on the cruel fairy tale version of Simcheongjeon.
But the thing about defense beads has been bothering me throughout the story.
“Bomi, did Jiyeon tell you anything about the defense beads?”
“I told you. Jiyeon didn’t say anything special. Why is that?”
“Oh, I was wondering if this might be a defense bead. Hoyoung!”
When I looked back at Hoyoung, he immediately understood what I meant.
“This is it.”
Hoyoung took out a defensive device from his pocket.
Bomi carefully examined the defensive spell placed on Hoyoung’s palm.
“This is a snow globe. Hey! But what is it? Is that inside our apartment? Where did this come from?”
In response to Bomi’s question, I told her the story of my visit to the Dragon Palace.
“So, you’re saying that you explored the place called the West Sea Dragon Palace where Simcheong had probably gone, but it was in complete ruins. You were only there for a few hours, but three days had passed.”
“Oh, right.”
I nodded.
Bomi said, snorting.
“Huh! This, Jiyeon, you should write a novel. Where is the lie?”
“It’s true. Here’s the proof. If you look at the notes, you’ll find the drawing.”
I took out my note and showed it to him.
But what is this?
The drawings that had appeared in the notes had completely disappeared.
“Hey! Where did the drawing go?”
I glanced at my notes in surprise, but they were empty.
“This is probably something that needs to touch the sea water there to get something like a map.”
“Oh! Really?”
Bomi said, holding up her shield with a look of disbelief.
“Then, since this is a defense orb, it’s like this. There’s something like a button here. If you push this, voila, a defense shield will appear in the sky.”
Bomi, who was looking around for defensive stocks, moved the bar on the floor.
“Hey! Sister! The sky!”
Then Hoyoung looked up and shouted.
“Why the sky?”
Bomi raised her head, following Hoyoung.
“Hey! What’s that? Wasn’t it cloudy just a moment ago? And then it suddenly cleared up.”
Oh! Is that so?
I took the defensive stock from Bomi.
And the bar on the floor was moved from open to closed.
“Oh! It got cloudy again.”
I changed the bar on the bottom of the defensive line from lung to dog.
“Oh! It’s clear again. Why is the weather like this?”
Bomi frowned and looked up at the sky.
But Hoyoung seemed to have noticed something.
“Sir, is that the snowball?”
“Oh, I guess so.”
I changed the defensive stick from dog to lung again.
The clear sky became cloudy in an instant.
“Hey! What’s going on? Is it raining like that crazy monsoon that flooded the world?”
“No, that’s not it. I think that snowball is changing the sky.”
“That changes it? This snowball changes the weather? Wow! Awesome!”
“It doesn’t change the weather, but I think it’s a defensive shield like Bomi said.”
Bomi’s eyes widened in surprise at my answer.
“Oh! Really? If so, this is a real jackpot.”
“So I wanted to do some testing.”
“What is it?”
“Bomi, can you fly the arrow all the way past Building 108?”
Bomi squinted her eyes and looked in the direction I was pointing.
“Hmm. I guess I could fly it. I just have to figure out where exactly I have to hit it.”
“Just throw it as far as you can.”
Bomi nodded at my order and aimed the arrow at the bow.
I pulled the protest as far as possible and then adjusted the angle.
Phishing!
The arrow flew at an angle of approximately 30 degrees, making a sound like wind.
As soon as we passed 108, the arrow began to descend.
And after a while, with a ‘thud!’ sound, the arrow bounced off as if it had hit something and fell down.
“Huh! What is it?”
A surprised Bomi screamed.
“That’s probably a defensive shield right now.”
I answered with a slightly trembling voice.
I don’t know how good the defensive shield is, but this defensive item is amazing.
“Then what happens?”
Bomi looked at me and Hoyoung and asked.
“From now on, we, or rather our apartment, will not be attacked from the outside.”
Defenders will be able to protect your apartment from giant monsters like ark ships and giant shads.
If that happens, the housing problem will be solved, and now that water is secured, more than 90% of what we need for survival will be available.
In addition, the water snake, which was always a threat, and the tenant representative who was always targeting me were also in the same boat.
If you use defensive skills while those two are present, you will end up like a mouse trapped with a cat.
Is this the survival system I had in mind that has been completed like this?
There were still some dochi carp left, but as long as they didn’t fall into the sea, it wouldn’t be a problem.
If you can’t find food, you can also hunt them and eat them.
It felt like the world was expanding and I could make plans for the future, like when I moved from a semi-basement rental to a nice rental apartment.
“The apartment is now safe. It is built on top of the Dragon Palace, so there is no need to worry about it being submerged in water, and the defenses will protect it from external attacks. If the long-term food supply problem can be solved, it will be simple and frugal compared to the previous world, but it will be possible to survive without any problems.”
The self-sufficient fortress apartment that I had imagined as a way to survive in a flooded world became possible.
I said it as if declaring.
“That’s why I have other plans for the future.”