The Anti-Intellectualism Demon King’s World Invasion - Chapter 65



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Episode 65

The mermaid guided us through a sea route that had never been seen before, even though she had a sensory organ that could detect the flow of the current in real time.

That year, the foam was so thick that it almost made a foggy atmosphere, but when we actually moved, it was as smooth and steady as a newly paved asphalt road.

“Wow! I’ve never felt this comfortable since I rode the current.”

Bomi, who had been unable to eat anything but water due to motion sickness, scooped up a large spoonful of bibimbap from a bowl and put it in her mouth.

Then he said, chewing hard.

“He was handsome, but I didn’t know he would be so popular with mermaids. Did he perhaps have a second heyday after the world went underwater? No, was it his first heyday? Hehe.”

“Bomi. It’s all gone. Let’s eat and talk.”

I thought about it as I brushed away the rice particles that had splattered on the bowl.

As Bomi said, maybe now is the greatest time of my life.

As I said before, I was leading a lot of people and my power was quite large.

And the world submerged in water seemed to suit my constitution.

I thought detective work was the most fun, but when I got on a boat, my heart opened up and I felt a sense of freedom.

I adapted well to breathing in water without much discomfort, and actually felt like I was taking a walk when I went into the water.

Before we knew it, Hallasan Lake had almost reached the eastern shore of Trash Island.

The fog was so thick, perhaps because of the strong foam, that even if there had been a voyage, navigation would not have been easy.

Was it thanks to the mermaid guiding us in front, or was it thanks to me, who was extremely popular with the mermaids, that Bomi was able to come and eat bibimbap comfortably?

As we approached, the eastern side of the garbage island began to reveal itself, with household waste, building materials, and other debris piled up like a wall.

I wasn’t an expert junk dealer, but the junk that formed the wall looked useless at first glance.

That’s why people didn’t seem to advance as far east.

“Ouch! Ouch!”

“It hurts! Jude it hurts!”

The screams of the mermaids running ahead were heard.

Suddenly, bubbles appeared near the two, as if something was rushing towards them.

I could see a dorsal fin above the foam. Could it be a carp?

That could be quite dangerous.

I grabbed my net, spear gun, and other equipment and jumped straight into the water.

The visibility above the water was obscured by bubbles, making it difficult to see the situation, but once I got into the water, my visibility became clear.

The ones attacking the two mermaids were not the carp, but something else.

The goby-like creature had wide fins on its sides like fans, and instead of sharp teeth in its mouth, it had a mouth like a syringe.

That’s a mosquito.

Since I was familiar with the monster encyclopedia, I recognized it right away.

The water mosquito is a blood-sucking monster that can move both in water and on the surface of the water, and it sticks its sharp proboscis into living creatures such as fish or birds to suck their blood.

Mosquitoes the size of a palm were swarming the mermaids, trying to suck their blood.

Mary flailed her hands around as hard as she could to ward off the mosquitoes, while Jude spun around helplessly.

I drew my crossbow, but the mosquitoes were too close to the mermaids for me to shoot.

It seems like I won’t be able to use a knife or shield, what should I do?

Oh! That’s right. I said that mosquitoes are similar to carp in that they can’t stand the smell of blood.

I cut my arm with a knife.

Blood rose like smoke.

I ran backwards, waving my arms.

Then, the guys who had been surrounding the two mermaids tightly sniffed at me like ghosts and ran towards me.

When I saw those guys chasing me like a swarm of bees, I felt like a piper chasing a swarm of rats.

I deliberately made a circle around Galjija and made the guys follow me without fail.

And when I was far enough away from the two mermaids, I took out the net I had prepared.

Since it is thrown in water, I added a few more weights on purpose.

I was running and then I stopped.

Then the guys started to run towards me, whining as if they were asking what was going on.

At that moment, the net was cast.

The net spread out radially, completely enveloping the guys.

The sharp beak of a mosquito came right up to my nose as if it was going to prick me, but it was stopped by the net.

“Clap clap! Wow! Awesome! Awesome!”

“Awesome! Awesome! Handsome!”

Mary and Jude must have been watching my performance as they clapped and jumped up and down like seals.

I tied up the net containing the mosquitoes and tightened it, then spoke to the mermaids.

“Kids, let’s go up. I’ll treat those mosquito bites.”

They pulled the nets that caught the mosquitoes and the mermaids onto the boat using a pulley.

Jude was quite heavy, so Jungwoo had to help him.

The mermaids who came up onto the deck grabbed my arms and legs and tried not to let me go.

“If you do this, it won’t be cured. Let go of it.”

I forcibly took the mermaids away from me because they wouldn’t leave me and left them with Nurse Jang.

As Nurse Jang disinfected the bitten area, Mary sniffed and tried to lick the wound.

“Rubbing alcohol is not for consumption.”

While I was trying to stop him, Nurse Jang quickly put a bandage on.

In the meantime, Bomi took care of Jude.

The two seemed to have become close as they applied the medicine.

We sang pop songs together and joked around.

Then, all of a sudden, Bomi got excited and ran towards me.

“Sir! Jude, he knows Jiyeon.”

“What do you mean? I asked him and he said he didn’t know.”

“I know the songs Jiyeon usually sings, and I imitate Jiyeon’s speech. And Mary and Jude, these names sounded familiar, so I tried to remember them. They are names that often appear in Jiyeon’s fan fiction.”

I approached Jude and asked him.

“Jude, who taught you how to sing?”

“Song? My sister.”

“Sister? Who are you?”

“You’re my sister. Who are you?”

I thought it would be difficult to have a proper conversation with Jude.

I looked back at Mary.

“merry.”

“No. I didn’t drink.”

Mary, who was licking the bandage, raised her head in surprise.

“You, do you know my sister?”

“Sister, uh. I know.”

“Who is your sister?”

“You are the one who raised us. Why?”

“This is what a human called Sister looks like… … .”

Mary nodded at Bomi’s description.

“Where are you, sister?”

“It must be in the crematorium.”

“A crematorium? What is that?”

“Where mermaid babies are born.”

According to Mary, Jiyeon held the egg laid by the Mermaid Queen in her arms and hatched it.

Jiyeon said that she would incubate the eggs and sing and tell them stories as if she was doing prenatal care.

So all the mermaids born in the hatchery knew how to sing Jiyeon’s song and remembered her cynical jokes.

Bomi and I locked eyes with excited faces.

Finally, we can find out exactly where Jiyeon is.

Now it was only a matter of time before they found it.

“Where is the hatchery?”

“It’s under the National Assembly building.”

The National Assembly building? The one in Yeouido?

Did that one float down like Namsan Tower?

When I asked, it seemed like it was the one in Yeouido.

As expected, it was washed up on the trash island in a completely destroyed state.

He said that in a dome that was split in half, politicians gathered and shouted and cursed.

Because the crematorium was located beneath the National Assembly building, the human deeds could be heard as if they were noise between floors.

So that’s why Jiyeon sang a song and told a story.

I don’t know if Jiyeon’s death metal lyrics or cynical jokes will help the emotional development of mermaid babies, but at least it’s better than listening to politicians’ ramblings.

I was able to hear stories about mermaids and the situation on Trash Island from Mary.

Since he was guiding the ships, he knew a lot of information that Hyunwoo didn’t know or couldn’t know.

In particular, the inside story of Trash Island that I heard while I was at the hatchery gave me a sense of who to trust in the future.

“I have to land and take a look around, so wait here. I’ll be back shortly.”

“No. No. I’m going to be with a pretty boy.”

“I’ll be with you too. Ask me again. I’ll tell you everything I know.”

I forcibly pushed Mary and Jude away from me, who refused to leave, and landed on the east shore with Bomi and Jinman.

The mermaids were made to soak their bodies in bath tubes filled with seawater because it was bad for their bodies when the water dried up, and were then taken care of by Nurse Jang.

Climbing the garbage wall was quite difficult and even dangerous, as if climbing a steep mountain.

If you hold it wrong, the piled up trash will come crashing down like a landslide.

Because of that, Jinman ended up getting crushed in a pile of trash.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a serious injury and we were able to climb over the wall together.

“Huh! What is this?”

As I crossed the wall, a landscape I could never have imagined unfolded before me.

The green space was spread out like a plain on a plateau.

“Is that green grass?”

“No, there is a cow. A cow.”

“Look over there. There are chickens and pigs too.”

Bomi and Jinman pointed around and shouted as if they were country bumpkins who had come to Seoul for the first time.

I came up late and wondered what these guys were talking about.

But just as the two of them said, every time they turned their gaze, they saw real cows, chickens, and pigs.

How did this happen?

I felt like a country bumpkin and couldn’t speak for a while.

No, how are there animals?

Did it drift away by any chance?

Come to think of it, I remember seeing a cow floating away on the roof of a cowshed in the current during the rainy season news.

I also saw a video of a pig swimming very leisurely.

All sorts of things, including humans, are floating to the garbage island, so it’s no wonder that animals can’t come.

But the problem is that green space. I don’t understand that.

The entire field of grass fell away and was swept away by the current to the trash island?

It’s not an impossible story, but it’s hard to believe that it can grow so well on the sea, let alone on land.

The green grass swayed like reeds as the wind blew.

It will definitely not be grass.

If that’s the case, then just go and check.

I went down the trash wall.