Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 83



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Episode 83 – Kidnapping (1)

Patients who had been standing in line without knowing the end could only see the end of the line when the sun turned red and set in the sky.

With that, the automatic merit that had been piling up began to show its end.

[Conversion Merit] – 271 months and 22 days

A total of 271 months and 22 days of merit. Converted into years, it would be equivalent to 22 years of merit.

It was nothing compared to the 20,000 years worth of merit I had accumulated.

But, considering that it was an automatic merit accumulated in just ‘one day’, it was an absurd amount at first.

And at a glance.

“The more severe the symptoms of a patient’s illness, the more merit they gained. The less severe the symptoms of a patient, the less merit they gained.”

And today alone, it seemed like about 100 patients visited Hyemindang. So, it could be seen that on average, each patient had been hospitalized for about 2 months and 15 days.

What if we expand the scale of Hyemin Party here?

It may not be a dream to be able to accumulate 100 years’ worth of merit in one morning.

So, I feel a bit awkward saying something like this······.

“Human life is the most important thing.”

There is nothing more virtuous than saving a human life.

Anyway, at this rate, it seemed like I would soon be able to purchase the Taishang Laojun’s Xian Dan (仙丹), which had growth effects.

And all of this could be said to be thanks to Grandfather Park Jin-hyeon and Dang So-hyang.

In particular, Dang So-hyang’s help was crucial.

Although the efforts of Grandfather Park Jin-hyeon, who could immediately diagnose a disease even with a mysterious medical history, were amazing, if it weren’t for Dang So-hyang, who could cure a disease with just a gesture of her hand, he would never have accumulated this level of virtue.

So, I wonder why I suddenly said something like this······.

“Now I have to ask Lady Dang to stay at the mission office.”

Dang So-hyang was an indispensable talent to Hye-min-dang, and now she was an indispensable person to me as well.

In that sense, I sought out Dang So-hyang.

And I was soon able to find Dang So-hyang sitting quietly in a small pavilion in the mission office.

Her slender shoulders were somewhat hunched as she sat in the pavilion, as if she were taking a rest. It seemed that she had had a very hard day at work today.

Well, it is said that something is created from nothing, but it is not really created from nothing.

It was to treat patients’ illnesses by using Tang So-hyang’s poisonous energy, and to Tang So-hyang, the poisonous energy was like an innate energy.

Of course, Tang So-hyang’s innate energy was a new concept that did not exist in the world. It was not like the general innate energy that could not be recovered once used.

It wasn’t like it kept rising indefinitely, so maybe that’s why Dang So-hyang was resting and soothing her tired body.

I approached her carefully and spoke to her.

“Young lady, please don’t push yourself too hard.”

Then, Dang So-hyang shouted, “Hot!” and shook her body violently.

It seemed like she had no idea I was approaching her, but instead of Dang So-hyang being that tired, she was secretly eating something by herself.

“Why are you eating so secretly by yourself?”

“This, this is it···?”

Tang So-hyang slowly turned her small body towards me as if she had no choice. Then she gently held out something she was holding in her hand.

“Isn’t this a mushroom?”

“It’s called an ajaebi mushroom. If you look at it, it has a yellowish color like forsythia, so it’s also called a forsythia mushroom.”

As Dang So-hyang said, it was a mushroom that was clearly yellow and the expression “bright yellow” was a perfect fit. In other words, it was a mushroom with an incredibly gorgeous appearance······.

“Isn’t this a poisonous mushroom?”

“that’s right.”

Dang So-hyang nodded slightly as if she had guessed correctly.

“It is a poisonous mushroom that is famous for having such a toxicity that it can kill an elephant in less than seven steps.”

Then, Dang So-hyang opened her small mouth.

And then she takes a bite of a mushroom.

“There is no better elixir than this for resistance.”

Tang So-hyang swallowed the poisonous agaric mushrooms, biting into her mouth.

Her previous words were slurred because her mouth was so swollen like a squirrel’s, but it was still not so much that she couldn’t understand.

“······ah.”

Come to think of it, no poison was affecting Tang So-hyang at the moment.

She was an extremely poisonous body, with an innate energy that was full of poison.

In other words, the source of Tang So-hyang’s life force could be said to be poison, and the deadly poison that prevents even an elephant from taking seven steps was actually Tang So-hyang’s poison, filling her with life force and making her feel more energetic.

“There are also poisons that become stronger, right?”

To Dang So-hyang, it was truly no different from an elixir.

So, Dang So-hyang was chewing on a poisonous mushroom to recover the toxic energy she had lost while treating patients today.

And it seemed like I was eating hard······.

Well well.

Perhaps because the mouth was so small or short, the mushrooms were not shrinking easily.

But Dang So-hyang chews and swallows it diligently to keep her body healthy.

The sight was just like a rabbit eating grass, so I couldn’t help but laugh as I watched.

“haha.”

Suddenly, seeing me burst into laughter, Dang So-hyang tilted her head and asked me with a mouthful of mushrooms in her mouth.

“Why are you laughing?”

“I’m talking about the young lady eating mushrooms.”

“Uhm, why is this?”

“You are quite cute.”

“············Huh?”

Then, Tang So-hyang’s mouth, which had been chewing on the mushroom, suddenly stopped.

Her small hand that was bringing the mushroom to her mouth and her slender body also stopped for a moment as if they had broken down.

Soon, Tang So-hyang’s eyes opened wide as if they were lanterns as she looked at me. And then, as time went by, her face suddenly began to turn bright red.

It was unusual for him to feel so refreshed, as if he had definitely regained a lot of his health.

At first, it seemed like Tang So-hyang’s face was turning scarlet like a carrot, but in an instant, it turned bright red like a ripe strawberry.

“Wh, what, what, what, what are you talking about all of a sudden···!”

Tang So-hyang’s face turned so red that it seemed like it might explode.

Tang So-hyang looked away from me in great embarrassment. However, Tang So-hyang turned away completely, as if she was so embarrassed by something.

“······No, don’t tease me.”

I wondered if it was really Dang So-hyang who had joked with me in the past and asked me to marry her out of the blue.

He remembered what had happened to him in the past, and he continued to tease Dang So-hyang, who was becoming playful for no reason.

Then, Tang So-hyang didn’t know what to do and just kept blushing. Then, Tang So-hyang made a pouty expression and puffed out her cheeks.

It really did seem like a squirrel was stuffed with acorns, and I couldn’t help but laugh.

“excuse me.”

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice was heard outside the missionary office’s main gate.

For a moment, Dang So-hyang suddenly got up from her seat, wondering who she was.

Dang So-hyang suddenly moved her body, perhaps because she thought she was a patient who had come to see Hye-min-dang or because she was trying to hide her embarrassment.

Finally, a man appeared.

He seemed to be in his mid-forties, well past his 40s.

His skin was brown, as if it had been burned by the sunlight, which made his already sturdy physique look even more sturdy.

The well-built muscles certainly exuded strength.

His face was serious and sharp, and his eyes directed at me were clearly wary.

‘Strong.’

I could tell right away that he was a warrior.

He is a strong warrior who has reached the highest level at least.

Although I couldn’t tell what the person was, I could tell from the momentum that he wasn’t a ‘patient’ who had come to Hye-min-dang.

I was ready to pull out the dragon fang on my waist at any moment, raising my tension. And then, as soon as I heard Tang So-hyang’s voice, I could immediately identify the man.

“Oh, Father···?”

Of course, there was only one person in the world that Dang So-hyang could call ‘father’.

Sacheondangmun, the leader of the Sacheon clan and one of the five great dynasties, holds a proud place among them.

The man who came to the missionary office was none other than the head of the Sacheon Dangmun and Dang So-hyang’s biological father, Dang Baek-gun.

“Is it really······So-hyang? Is it really, really So-hyang?”

Dang Baek-gun’s eyes, looking at Dang So-hyang, were shaking greatly.

Dang So-hyang’s eyes, which faced Dang Baek-gun, were also greatly shaken, but now that I look at them like this, there were many similar aspects that made me wonder if they were father and daughter.

Anyway, it seemed like Dang Baek-gun came to find Dang So-hyang······.

“Hey, how is it here······?”

Dang So-hyang looked very embarrassed and didn’t know what to do.

She looked even more flustered than when she had just heard me say that I was cute, and that was understandable, since Dang So-hyang had not told Sa Cheon Dang-mun that she was alive.

After the wedding ceremony with Jo Gye-ak, she ran away from her family and has been living quietly in the missionary office ever since.

When I didn’t have much time left, it didn’t matter much, but not anymore.

Before Dang So-hyang became the Heavenly Goddess of Hye-min-dang, she was a member of the Sacheon-dang sect.

“So-hyang, what on earth has become of you? How could you······? No, why didn’t you return to your family?”

If you look at the situation, it was no different from Dang So-hyang leaving her family on her own accord.

Whether it’s a sect or a Sega, in general, in an organization, individual actions by members are taboo.

This was especially true for Dang So-hyang, the daughter of the head of the Sacheon Dangmun clan and a representative figure of the Sacheon Dangmun clan.

Every little action of hers was connected to the entire organization called Sacheondangmun.

So, if Tang So-hyang didn’t come up with a plausible reason for not returning to Sacheon Dangmun, Tang So-hyang’s position would be quite difficult.

At the very least, there needed to be a plausible reason for not letting the family know that Dang So-hyang was alive.

But it didn’t seem like Tang So-hyang, who was panicking and not knowing what to do, would come up with something like that. Tang So-hyang looked completely out of her mind.

I don’t know if I had prepared in advance. I don’t know if I had at least thought that Dangbaek-gun would come.

However, Tang So-hyang was lost in thought because Tang Baek-gun suddenly barged in.

I felt like I had to beat around the bush to explain it, but when it came to actually doing it, I had no idea how to beat around the bush.

There was one thing that immediately came to mind, but it might sound like nonsense at first, so I had a hard time deciding whether I should say it or not.

But if I continued like this, I wouldn’t be able to eat or drink, so I just shouted out with a feeling of, “What the heck?”

“······I kidnapped the daughter of the party.”

* * *

Tang Baek-gun was wondering what the hell he was talking about.

It was none other than the Hwalong Daehyeop who kidnapped Dang So-hyang. So, at first, I wondered what kind of nonsense it was that Cheongwoon kidnapped Dang So-hyang.

“······??”

What kind of nonsense is that?

Of course, Dang Baek-gun also knew about Cheong-un. He could not have been unaware of Cheong-un, who was currently causing a stir throughout the world.

Fire Dragon Great Swordsman.

In other words, among the great knights who were second to none in terms of chivalry, Cheong-un was the great knight. That Cheong-un kidnapped Tang So-hyang, the precious jade leaf of the Sacheondangmun and the land of jade?

······Isn’t that impossible?

Cheongun was never a great man who would kidnap or threaten a woman.

Above all, Dang Baek-gun knew that Cheong-un had not kidnapped Dang So-hyang.

And even if Cheongun kidnapped Dang So-hyang.

Whether Cheongwoon was captivated by Dang Sohyang’s beautiful appearance and took her to Bossam, or he tried to threaten Sacheondangmun by taking Dang Sohyang as a hostage, it’s something else.

“So-hyang was sick and didn’t have much time left to live…?”

There was no reason to kidnap Dang So-hyang, who was destined to die soon.

What are you going to do by kidnapping Dang So-hyang, who is about to die?

“I······treated it.”

······I wondered what this was all about.

Dang Baek-gun knew Dang So-hyang’s condition better than anyone else.

Even at Sachon Dangmun, which was renowned throughout the world for its medical skills, they tried every possible method to treat Tang So-hyang’s illness, but nothing worked.

It was Tang So-hyang’s illness that no medicine could cure.

Even though it was Dang So-hyang’s illness that could not be cured even by many doctors, you cured it?

How on earth? No, why?

Dangbaek-gun looked at Cheong-un with great doubt, and Cheong-un slyly avoided Dangbaek-gun’s gaze and said as if he didn’t know.

“Well, if you just die like that, you’ll be meaningless as a hostage.”

······I thought, what kind of new thing is this?

Well, it wasn’t a wrong statement.

Hostages were worthless while they were alive.

But why······?

Why is there a need to kidnap and treat someone who is already terminally ill?

No, from the beginning, Dang Baek-gun couldn’t believe that Dang So-hyang’s illness had been cured.

Tang Baek-gun swallowed hard and turned his gaze. Tang So-hyang, who had been at a loss just a moment ago, was making a foolish expression, saying, ‘Huh?’

It seemed like Dang So-hyang didn’t understand the situation either, but Dang So-hyang had definitely changed.

The Dang So-hyang in Dang Baek-gun’s memories and the Dang So-hyang he sees now are clearly different.

Even in the past, Tang So-hyang’s pale skin was almost colorless and pale, not to mention white.

But look at the expression on Dang So-hyang’s face right now, saying, “Huh···?”

Her complexion was bright red, like a ripe strawberry. It was a blood-red complexion that made you wonder if it would burst at any moment.

Her long, dark hair, which seemed to embrace the night sky, was shiny and not frizzy.

Her slender figure, as thin as a flower petal, was still there, but it only gave off the feeling of being frail. It never gave the feeling of being sickly.

Rather, it was highlighting her beauty as a woman.

Her beauty, which was the best in Sichuan and the most beautiful in the world, was in full bloom.

Really······Dang So-hyang’s condition seemed to have been cured.

From the very beginning, the fact that Dang So-hyang was still alive was clear evidence that her condition had been cured.

Originally, Dang So-hyang should have died a long time ago.

I don’t know what happened, but······.

This wasn’t a kidnapping.

Where in the world would you find a kidnapping that would save the life of a terminally ill hostage?

Even if it was a kidnapping, this kind of kidnapping was always welcome.

“What should I······do?”

Dang Baek-gun spoke to Cheong-un in a trembling voice.

“Just say whatever. I don’t care if it’s kidnapping or anything. What on earth am I supposed to do?”

Then Cheongwoon made a ‘Huh?’ expression. His blinking eyes were filled with confusion, as if to say, ‘This isn’t it…?’

Cheongwoon rolled his eyes left and right as if thinking, then slowly opened his mouth.

“One nyang of silver. If you want Lady Tang back, bring one nyang of silver.”

·········Just that?

You cured the terminal illness of your one and only precious daughter?

Dangbaekgun wondered what Cheongun was talking about.

So I was wondering what it was.

Could it be that I misspoke?

But no matter how much I think about it, the words I heard were clearly ‘a piece of silver’.

Dang Baek-gun was willing to give 100 gold coins as compensation for Dang So-hyang’s life.

What do you mean by 100 gold coins? I was willing to give it to you even if you asked for 1,000.

No, even if they asked for 10,000, I was willing to somehow procure them and give them to them.

But what about ‘eunjeon’, which is neither gold nor silver, nor silver jar, and furthermore, it is not a hundred nyang of silver, nor ten nyang of silver, but at most ‘one nyang’ of silver?

“Can I be a little more greedy···?”

Cheongwoon thought deeply at Dangbaekgun’s words and then slowly opened his mouth.

“Then, let’s do it for about two nyang of silver.”

······I told him to be a little greedy, but he was really just a little greedy.

I was wondering what kind of person there was, but Dangbaek-gun, who couldn’t stand to watch, was the first to shout out loud.

“I will give you gold instead of silver. All I can give you right now is 1,000.”

“No!”

But then, Cheongwoon got scared and jumped up.

I wondered why he would be so frightened by the offer of nearly a billion dollars, and what on earth did he mean by “I don’t need it” or “I can’t do it.”

Anyway, Cheongwoon waved his hand in disgust at Dangbaekgun’s words that he would give him gold coins······.

“It won’t be more than 1,000 gold coins! Absolutely not! Absolutely not!”

Tang Baek-gun had no idea who was taking whom hostage.

* * *

Dang So-hyang wondered what on earth was going on.

Even though Dangbaek-gun suddenly showed up, he was still Dangbaek-gun, but he was suddenly kidnapped······?

Of course, Dang So-hyang wasn’t kidnapped. Cheong-un didn’t kidnap Dang So-hyang either.

If Dang So-hyang insisted on staying at the missionary office, then it could be considered an ‘intentional kidnapping.’

But that was just an exaggeration.

That’s why Dang So-hyang was very embarrassed, but she quickly figured out the reason.

‘Could it be for me···?’

It seemed like Dang So-hyang had made up an excuse for the family. Cheong-woon was not afraid to become a villain for Dang So-hyang.

Just like that time when I barged into the wedding ceremony.

Seriously······ It was a deep and profound vision.

And every time, Dang So-hyang received only help.

Still, he could have been of help to Cheongun, but it seemed that heaven would not allow it.

Studying medicine at Hyemindang was fun, and it was nice to see people smiling and saying thank you whenever I treated them······.

It seemed that Dang So-hyang’s fate, which should have already been dead, would not allow her happiness.

Now that the family knew that Dang So-hyang was alive, Dang So-hyang had to return to the family.

If he insisted on staying at the missionary office, it would only embarrass Cheongwoon.

If Dang So-hyang wanted it······ Cheong-un probably wouldn’t kick her out.

Rather, he would try to protect Dang So-hyang, and thus he would not hesitate to fight against the Sacheon Dangmun, including the Dang Baek-gun in front of him.

You could tell just by looking at Cheongwoon that he was now claiming to be a villain.

Cheongun will definitely fight against Sacheondangmun for Dangso-hyang.

So, Dang So-hyang could not remain in the missionary office.

Rather than helping Cheongwoon, it only made things more difficult for him.

Still······Can’t I survive now?

Although Sichuan Province and Jiangxi Province were quite far apart, they were still not too far apart to be heard from often. They were certainly not too far apart to be unconnected.

Dang So-hyang made up her mind.

And just as I was about to take a step forward towards Dangbaekgun.

“Then, I know it’s shameless, but I beg you earnestly.”

Suddenly, Dangbaek-gun’s voice was heard. Then, Dangbaek-gun slowly knelt down before Cheong-un.

At the sight of Dang Baek-gun kneeling down, not only Dang So-hyang but also Cheong-un could not hide their bewilderment.

As the head of the Sacheondangmun sect, it was absolutely impossible for me to kneel before anyone.

It was a fact that Dangbaekgun knew better than anyone else, but he still did not hesitate.

Dang Baek-gun simply knelt down and spoke earnestly to Cheong-un.

“Please, can you continue to kidnap our So-hyang?”

A moment of silence falls.

“Eh···?”

Tang So-hyang couldn’t understand what was going on in the situation from the beginning.