The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion - Chapter 103



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Episode 103

“Yes, that’s Caesar fish. Take out the heart separately and boil the rest in spicy stew. It’ll taste amazing.”

I tried to hand over the Caesar fish to Nurse Jang, who is called ‘Hallasan Ho Jang Geum’.

Then the Caesar fish, which was still breathing, started to wiggle its body trying to get away from my hand.

Where did this guy come from?

I poked the guy in the head with my index finger.

But the index finger slipped and failed to penetrate the guy’s skull.

Ah! As expected, the West Sea’s Dongjeong Jinkyung only applies to water.

They said that the holy water is friendly with water, so it is of no use outside of water.

In that case, Bomi might have developed other underwater abilities besides underwater vision.

I’ll have to check later.

We feasted on Caesar fish for the first time in a long time.

“Wow! Nurse Jang. What is this spicy stew? I’ve been to all the spicy stew restaurants in the country while following Jongyeol around on his fishing trips, but this is the first time I’ve tasted something this impressive.”

Jinman kept eating the spicy fish stew with a spoon because it was so delicious.

Jungwoo also stuck out his tongue.

“That’s right. It’s the best spicy fish stew I’ve ever had.”

“I just put seasoning on the Caesar fish that Detective Kim caught.”

Nurse Jang answered humbly, as if she were an actor giving her acceptance speech at an awards ceremony.

I said with a smile.

“Hey. Why are you doing that? It’s Hallasan Ho Jang Geum. If someone else were to make it, it wouldn’t taste the same, and it might even be difficult to eat.”

Everyone except Bomi nodded in agreement with what I said.

In particular, Jeong-woo nodded vigorously.

The food Bomi made had a mysterious, cosmic taste, and she gave a lot of it to her boyfriend, Jungwoo.

Bomi made a cross sign in the air with a spoon, not even realizing that he was making fun of her.

“I offer my body as an atonement with soft flesh and rich broth, and as the Pope of Mukbang, I forgive you for stealing tuna.”

“haha!”

“Hoho!”

Everyone burst into laughter.

I said with a smile too.

“Eat a lot, Pope Bomi. You have to go into the water with me tomorrow.”

“Water? Why?”

“I need to check something.”

“I’m trying to order you around. Don’t come in.”

Bomi answered with a serious expression.

“Why are you like this, Bomi? Don’t be like that. I’ll give you this.”

I quietly held out a piece of Caesar fish heart.

Caesar fish hearts are a delicacy that gets more delicious the more you chew them. I let everyone try one and kept the rest for myself.

Everyone, including Bomi, drooled as they looked at the heart with shining eyes.

Once you taste this, you’ll never forget it.

Especially if it’s Bomi’s greed, she’ll fall for it.

As expected, there was no need to wait.

Bomi answered without even wiping her saliva.

“Okay call. Now give it to me.”

Bomi picked up the piece of Caesar fish heart I offered her with her chopsticks, dipped it in oil sauce, and chewed it.

* * *

– Bomi only has the ability to see through water.

“Yes. I couldn’t do anything in the water.”

Dr. Oh smacked his lips as if he was disappointed with my answer.

– Compared to you, who is so familiar with water that you can catch a Caesar fish with your bare hands, Bomi is a bit lacking. Even though Seongsu has been buried in it more than you.

“On the other hand, I don’t have any powers that can be used outside of water. Perhaps the powers that each person demonstrates are different.”

– You’ve completed the initiation transformation safely, and you have the Mermaid King Ring, right? I guess you’re more aquatic than Bomi. So, I thought about it.

Dr. Oh paused for a moment and then continued.

– I was just wondering if Jiyeon might have used you in her experiment to create the seeds of enlightenment.

“Oh, Doctor. Jiyeon isn’t that kind of person.”

Dr. Oh apologized, his tail between his legs, at my sharpened tone.

– I’m sorry if I offended you. I was just thinking about it after reading the material.

“No. If you do research, you might think that way.”

I knew what Dr. Oh was suspecting.

It was something I had already thought about.

Why did Jiyeon give me a black bead, or an egg?

If it weren’t for the black beads, I would have died of water in my lungs in the underground parking lot of my apartment.

So, I thought that Jiyeon had given me a gift that would help me survive the apocalypse that was submerged in water, and I was deeply grateful.

But as time passed and other information accumulated, I began to wonder why only I was given the black bead.

Bomi, her best friend, received Sal and Mujihaedo, but she did not receive Egg.

Eggs are elixirs of the Taoist cult, no different from the magic potions of Taoist divination or potions made through alchemy.

In other words, it means that it is no different from an unapproved cancer treatment that has not been safety-diagnosed or clinically verified by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.

It may have unimaginable and strange effects, but if you eat it wrong, you may suffer serious consequences.

In reality, problems arose in most areas, including Chief Choi, Governor-General Yong, and even Yeong-mi.

So, did you give eggs only to me, the salty one, and not to your best friend?

Experimental documents found in the hatchery recorded black bead-like eggs.

The egg, named ‘Black G-6′, seemed to be an egg for dragon seeds like the other experimental eggs.

It seems that expectations were quite high for this egg, which was created by mixing an unidentified material into the embryo of a mermaid with abnormally developed gills.

But for some reason, the Black G-6 was scrapped.

Are you going to go wild like Branch Manager Choi or become a strange monster like the Governor?

When I first read the paperwork, it sent a shiver down my spine, but there was no confirmation that the black beads I ate were Black G-6, and so far there have been no particular side effects.

And above all, I believe in delay.

– Oh, did you hear that from Hoyoung?

Dr. Oh changed the subject as if trying to lighten the mood.

“I haven’t had satellite communication with Hoyoung for the past few days.”

– I spoke to Hoyoung yesterday, and it seems like there’s been rumors of a ghost ship on Trash Island these days.

“A ghost ship?”

– Oh. They say there are ghost ships roaming the sea. The Gold Tooth Pirates’ ferry ship that was supposed to dock at Trash Island didn’t come in, so they sent out a survey ship, and they found several empty ships with no one on them.

“Seeing an empty ship doesn’t seem like something worth making a fuss about. There are a lot of shipwrecks and drift ships floating around the sea.”

– They weren’t abandoned ships, but ships that had a sense of life as if they had been there until just a moment ago. There were still warm meals prepared in the cabins, and I think I found a logbook with the ink still dry, saying that they were approaching when they saw a flash of light.

Dr. Oh made his voice sound creepy, as if he was telling a scary story.

But as I said before, I am a realist who does not believe anything unless I see it with my own eyes.

If I were to see a ghost, I would be a realist and accept the ghost ship as reality, but since I have never encountered a ghost before, the ghost ship is just an unrealistic story like an alien or a dragon palace.

Ah! That’s right. The Dragon Palace was real.

“Ghost ship, I understand.”

When I showed little interest, Dr. Oh stopped talking about the ghost ship and started talking about something else.

– Didn’t you ask the US Navy to decipher the code?

“Oh. Yes, that’s right. How did it go?”

Satellite communications allowed the US Navy to hear communications.

However, some of the content was encrypted, making complete interpretation impossible.

When I expressed my interest, Dr. Oh said excitedly.

– As you know, there are no cryptographers or US Navy personnel in the apartment complex. So, Chief Park asked Hyunwoo’s father to find the right person on Trash Island.

“Oh! Mr. Park, nice! Who is the person you found?”

– I heard you were a member of the US Navy.

“US Navy? Are you American?”

I pictured a blond white guy.

– Well, that’s true. He’s a funny Korean. He said he was on the battleship Missouri during the Gulf War. And since his job was in communications, he was familiar with communications codes.

“Wow! That’s great. If you’re a Korean living abroad, you can take a boat from the US to our country?”

– No, this person taught English in Korea.

“Oh. I see.”

Come to think of it, I saw a lot of foreigners on Trash Island too.

There were some who appeared to be foreign workers, and several who appeared to be of mixed race.

– So the encrypted content that he found out was… … .

It was similar to what I predicted.

The codes used during communications included coordinates, movement instructions, and strategic and tactical commands.

– Detective Kim, you probably heard the US Navy transmission early on. You know that the US Navy is trying to gather all its forces and concentrate them, right?

“Yes. It seems like they are trying to fight against some enemy. However, due to various reasons, they haven’t been able to form a grand alliance yet. Did the decryption reveal who that enemy is?”

– That’s right, the funny Koreans say that the code refers to an alien.

Not an alien, but an extraterrestrial? What are you talking about?

My eyebrows shot up without me realizing it.

Dr. Oh explained as if he knew my expression would be like that.

– The word ‘alien’ is translated into Korean as something like that, and it is a code word for unidentified objects, like UFOs.

“Ah, I see.”

I nodded.

So what, you’re saying you don’t know in the end?

I was expecting it to be either a giant monster or an ark church.

On the other hand, Dr. Oh put forward a different hypothesis.

I thought it might be a code that the US Navy used to tell the world how to drain water from a submerged world.

– In my opinion, this is just speculation. Wasn’t there a conspiracy theory that the Ark Church was connected to the CIA?

“Ah, yes. It was a story from a far-right website.”

The post was about the CIA creating a cult to manipulate Korean politics and society.

Because this site is full of so much nonsense, it has been completely buried to the point where even the members of the site just pass it by.

However, as it became known that some high-ranking officials in Korea were members of the Catholic Church, visits to the Holy Land followed.

Perhaps spurred by the surge in views, the unidentified poster posted part 2 of his conspiracy theory.