The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion - Chapter 61



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Episode 61

I looked at the sea lotus colony.

It was as if the forest was floating on the sea, but the ground was bare of soil, and was supported precariously by thin, paper-like lotus leaves.

Maybe that’s why, even though I saw the description and picture of the sea lotus colony in the monster guide, it felt unfamiliar.

“stop!”

At my direction, Jeongwoo stopped the Hallasan Lake and asked.

“Aren’t you going to land on Bush Island?”

“I’ll go and come back by myself.”

“Are you okay, sir?”

“I will follow you too, brother.”

Only Bomi and Jin asked.

“We’ll explore a bit first, and then launch a full-scale attack if necessary. For now, wait here.”

Because the sea lotus colony is so densely covered with bushes, it is advantageous to act alone.

If you accidentally fall into a trap and your team members get caught, it could cause problems in many ways.

And to catch Oh Min-ho, it was easier to do it alone.

I grabbed my gear from the kitchen and climbed onto the lifeboat.

“Then I’ll be back.”

The lifeboat was landed at a sea lotus colony.

As soon as I stepped onto the lotus leaf, my feet sank in with a whoosh.

It’s just like what Jeong Ji-hoon said, that it’s like a swamp.

When I heard about the condition of the bottom of the sea lotus colony, I thought of Seolpi.

The principle behind snowshoes is to increase the surface area that comes into contact with the snow, thereby increasing resistance, so as to prevent slipping or sinking into the snow.

It seemed like the principle could be applied here too.

I put on the wide sieve I brought from the kitchen and wrapped it around my feet.

I took one step at a time, and the weight was distributed and the wet lotus leaf did not sag.

Although the body overlapped and the gait became like the letter E, there was no difficulty in moving.

I put on my shoes and went into the bushes.

The bushes, which were almost as tall as a person, were dense like a jungle.

This, even if it’s hidden in front, you wouldn’t know.

As soon as I had this thought, men with swords jumped out as if they had been waiting for it.

The distance between them and me was less than a meter.

The surprise and distance of a surprise attack could be seen as half, if not almost all, of its success.

So this surprise attack seemed close to success, but there was something they overlooked.

It was like a riverbank during the rainy season.

As my feet sank in, even my movements went into slow motion.

For me, it was like having caterpillar tracks because I had snowshoes, or rather, water shoes.

I jumped back lightly and pulled out my crossbow.

The target was so slow that there was no need for precise aim.

I pulled the trigger as soon as I saw it.

Phishung, phishung!

Every single shot hit the mark, and they all fell.

I moved forward again.

As I began to sweat slightly on my back, the bushes seemed to be getting shorter, and then I saw straight branches stretching out like bamboo.

That’s a female.

It looks exactly like the one in the monster guide.

Oh! But what is that?

The base of the eggplant was shaped like a human being, as if it were a sculpture.

Ah! That’s it.

In the Aquatic Monster Encyclopedia, it is said that if you continue to consume the stamens of the sea lotus, you will be overcome by something like a hallucination and voluntarily absorb your body into the female stamen.

The shape was still human-like, and the way it moved seemed like it hadn’t been absorbed yet.

This is what happens when moisture is absorbed.

It was small like a weed and had hairs at the end like a dog’s paw.

You might wonder if this fur is a fruit, but there are seeds inside.

I cut off the hairy ends and rubbed them with my hands.

Then, grains the size of millet fell into the palm of my hand.

These were the seeds of the sea lotus.

I took out a bag and put the seeds in it.

So, what should we do with that magic wand?

I looked at the tall, dry branches and thought.

The secret that the witch doctor told Jungwoo was a jackpot was the reason he came all the way to the lotus flower colony in the sea.

It’s too early to cut it and go, but there’s still a guy named DJ Oh Min-ho left, so I’ll have to get information about the Bangju Church from him and then do the work.

At that moment, a rustling sound was heard from ahead.

As I aimed my crossbow, I saw DJ Oh Min-ho hanging in the bushes.

How did that kid know I was looking for him?

“Hey, cutie. Catch me.”

DJ Oh Min-ho grabbed onto a bush and shook his body like Tarzan, moving to the next bush.

It was a ridiculous sight, almost touching the ground, but the speed was much faster than the sinking steps.

I chased the guy into the bushes.

Oh Min-ho screamed as if he was drunk.

“Haha! I’m DJ Monkey.”

It wasn’t hard for me, who had waterskin, to chase after the guy.

However, it was not easy to catch him because he knew the geography of the bushes very well and was fast.

If it seemed like it was going to get caught, it would jump into another bush.

But soon, as if the medicine had worn off, Oh Min-ho began to slow down and gasp for breath.

“Gasp! Gasp! Ah! That’s right. I ran too fast. What if the cutie behind me can’t catch up? Hey, what the heck! I’m surprised!”

He looked back and was startled to see me.

“What? Why is it so fast? Is the cutie also a monkey? We’d be a good match.”

Oh Min-ho winked at me.

The right answer would be to not deal with these types of people at all.

But Oh Min-ho persistently pestered me like a stalker.

“If you run, doesn’t your throat get blocked? Squeeze this and drink the juice. It’s so refreshing and delicious. It’ll quench your thirst and you won’t get hungry.”

Oh Min-ho took the surgical gloves out of his swimming trunks and threw them at me.

I dodged the flying surgery.

I know what surgery is, so I can’t drink it, but no matter how delicious it is, I won’t eat anything that came out of swimming trunks.

“What? I showed mercy. You seem to be a picky eater. This is something the Ark Church likes.”

The word ‘ark church’ came out of the guy’s mouth.

It was true that Oh Min-ho and Bang Joo-kyo had a deal.

Okay. Let’s catch him and shake him off.

I increased my stride and picked up my pace.

The moment I was about to grab the back of the slow guy, I suddenly felt an empty feeling under my feet as if I had stepped on a weak spot.

My feet sank and I fell into the water.

“Haha! You got fooled, cutie.”

Oh Min-ho’s voice was heard above the water.

It was like a trap the guy had made by covering the pond with lotus leaves.

“Come up here. I’ll make you feel cute.”

Looking up, I saw Oh Min-ho holding something similar to a jungle on the water surface.

Surely you didn’t put the jungle dodo in your swimming trunks?

Oh Min-ho raised his jungle sword and prepared to strike the water at any moment.

If I struggle upstairs, you’ll probably want to take a picture of that jungle road.

Using the Golden Shield will make it easy to block his jungle, but there’s something we need to check first.

There must be a surgery nearby.

I looked around.

Around the pond, I could see something like corn silk fluttering in the waves.

It’s exactly as it appears in the monster guide.

The roots of the sea lotus are like corn silk.

I approached and put my hand into the root to examine it, and I saw the stamens formed into droplets.

I pulled out the white beard-like thing in the middle from the root.

It was said that if you pluck out the white beard, the narcotic component of the surgery will disappear.

“Cutie. You should come up. If you stay in the water too long, your skin will shrink and your hands will be ruined.”

Oh Min-ho’s voice was heard.

Now I have to catch that guy.

The pools where the surgery grows are said to be crowded.

I could see the sunlight coming in from over there.

It was obvious there was a hole in it.

As we approached, roots appeared around the hole.

Here, too, he plucked out the white beard and I went up.

Oh Min-ho was seen hiding the jungle map behind his back and looking down at the pond.

“Come up. Come up. If you don’t come up, I’ll come in and get you.”

The guy squeezed the juice out of the bottle and drank it, muttering as if reciting a spell.

The staggering looked like it was completely drugged.

I took out my crossbow and shot Oh Min-ho in the buttocks.

“iced coffee!”

The guy jumped in surprise and fell to the floor with his butt facing upwards.

He seemed to be laughing so hard that he didn’t feel any pain.

“Hehehe! Looks like the cutie likes surprises. I see you’re surprising me again.”

I shot an arrow in the butt again.

“Don’t shoot. You’ll ruin my pretty butt.”

He shot another arrow in the buttocks.

“iced coffee!”

Perhaps due to the shock of being hit by arrows in succession, the pain-relieving effect of the drug seemed to have worn off.

“Stop. Stop.”

“Okay. Answer my questions properly and I won’t shoot you anymore.”

“Why is it like this, between us… … .”

As I picked up the loaded crossbow, the guy’s expression changed and he said.

“Okay, I got it.”

“The Archdiocese came?”

“uh.”

“What did you trade?”

“They said they needed samples and took everything including fruits, nuts, and roots. We received gunpowder and weapons.”

Oh Min-ho kept drinking alcohol because he was sick.

“Why do you need samples?”

“I don’t know about that.”

“Did you ever say anything like, ‘You’re trying to enchant the followers with fruit,’ or ‘You’re doing experiments with the trees,’ or something like that?”

“Ah! I’m sorry. Hyunsoo, Donghoon, Beom. It was my fault.”

To my question, Oh Min-ho did not answer and began to speak into the air as if he was performing a one-man show.

“If I hadn’t gotten naked on drugs back then, you guys would be performing on stage. But I couldn’t stand being controlled and decorated, from eating to laughing to even shitting. Didn’t you guys do the same? Was it just me? You did it too. Why am I the only one? I just got caught, but we all did it anyway. This is a witch hunt.”

Oh Min-ho, who was talking to himself as if he had lost his mind, started crawling as if possessed by something.

Then, he approached the female protagonist and curled up like a fetus.

Then, the base of the female plant swelled and something like a large leaf popped out.

Then she hugged Oh Min-ho like a mother hugging a baby.