Childhood Friend of the Zenith - Chapter 700

The tip of my tongue feels numb.

Although the poison is strong, the sense of the poison has become more delicate due to being on the Manpokbulchim.

‘hmm.’

I swallowed what I had in my mouth and took another sip.
Then, turn it around in your mouth a few times as if you are savoring it.

Of course it wasn’t delicious.

‘What poison?’

What is Germany for?
First, I wanted to check that.

Immediately after swallowing the tea, I briefly checked my physical condition.
The poison would soon decompose and disappear anyway, but since it remained for a moment, I had to check it then.

Sigh.

The swallowed poison spreads slowly and quickly disappears.
Feeling this, I nodded.

I figured it out.

‘Eunyeolcho-gun.’

The poison mixed in plum tea is probably a German herb.

Maybe it was because I recognized this all at once, but I felt proud inside.

‘Studying is worthwhile.’

last few years.
Occasionally, I studied poison with the help of Tang Soyeol or Tang Mun.

I didn’t need to know poison because I had achieved the mastery of all poisons, but I tried to memorize them even more.

‘The poison doesn’t work. ‘Because it means it’s better to use poison.’

It is said that the Heavenly Demon in his previous life was a person who did not commit poison.
I wasn’t her.

‘You have to use everything you can use.’

Be it poison or anything else, if you can use it, you can use it.

For that, I had to study on my own.
Thanks to this, I was able to immediately find out what kind of poison it was.

Silver fever is a poisonous plant that grows only in shady places during hot summer weather.

The characteristic is….

‘Interrupts the flow of bets.’

Although it was not a permanent poison, it was a poison that could cause problems for a few days if ingested.

“Hmm.”

In terms of strength, it is safe to say that if there is no resistance, 30% will be tied up.

It had almost no taste and the scent was like vinegar, which stung your nose, but it mixed in with the plum scent and it didn’t even bother you.

This means.

‘It means that it was mixed well.’

It meant that the preparations had been thorough.

gulp.

Right after drinking all the remaining plum tea. I throw the teacup roughly.

Tuk! Degurrr!
I nodded as I looked at the glass falling and rolling.

‘First of all, I don’t intend to kill you… but what is your purpose?’

If you intend to kill it, stronger poison overflows.

Even if it was difficult for poison to work due to his high level, there was enough poison that could kill a warrior.

At least, if I’m not self-destructive.

“That makes it even more questionable.”

Ttuduk.

I relaxed my neck and moved it slightly.
That moment.

“Huh…Huh…Huh….”

The person in front of me starts sobbing and crying.
It was a woman who looked very frightened.

Looking at her, I slowly bent down and made eye contact.
And asked.

“excuse me.”

Startle-!

The woman trembled greatly at my words.

“What was your name?”

“…Bae…Bae…Baekyeon…it’s called….”

Yes, Baekyeon.
right. It was that kind of name.

“Yes, that’s right. 100 to 100.”

“…Yes…Yes… Go, Confucius….”

I smiled slightly as I looked at the trembling Baekyeon and spat out the words.

“There was poison in this tea. “In the car that Baek’s servant brought.”

As I stretched out my hand, the teacup that had fallen flew out and was caught with a thud.

“Did you know?”

“I-I didn’t know… I… I really didn’t know…”

It’s urgent and desperate.
A woman who expresses denial in order to somehow escape danger.

As I looked at her, I gave strength to the glass I was holding.

Jang-!

“Hi-!”

The glass breaks in half and Baekyeon trembles upon seeing this.
Then, I noticed that my bottoms were getting wet. It looks like he probably peed himself.

“Yeah, you probably didn’t know. “You probably didn’t know.”

I slightly raised my body as I saw it shaking.
Although the appearance is somewhat pitiful, the cold eyes do not return.

That’s right too.

“You probably didn’t know it was poisoned… but you probably received a request to take the car. yes?”

“…!”

When asked a question, Baekyeon’s eyes shake.

“Well, that is…”

“Otherwise, it’s a situation that makes no sense. 100 to 100.”

He shows up early in the morning and offers tea.
Also, using Mrs. Mi’s excuse as the plum blossom tea.

There were more than one or two strange things.
Yes, just looking at it, it’s a strange situation.

That’s why I brought an attendant into the room.
Rather, I wanted to see what he was going to do because it was so strange.

“I was wrong…! Please forgive me Confucius…!!”

After hearing what I said, Baekyeon immediately kneels down and prostrates herself.

“I really didn’t know… They said they would give you a lot of money if you just brought me a car…”

As expected.

“how much?”

“yes…?”

“How much did you say you would pay?”

After hearing the question, Baekyeon spits out the amount.
In terms of amount, it was slightly less than the money the Gu family gave to its servants every six months.

It must be a lot for her.

“Really… I don’t think it’s poisonous!”

I desperately grabbed my leg and cried out, so I asked her.

“But you probably expected it.”

“…!”

Baekyeon stiffened after hearing those words.

“Bring me tea first thing in the morning. It’s strange right from the start, right? “After hearing that, you probably imagined what was in the car at least once.”

“…Oh, Confucius….”

“What if it’s poisonous? It might be poisonous. Someone could die from eating this. “Such words.”

Tuk.

He pulled out his leg and shook off Baekyeon’s hand.

“You would have thought about it. I’m sure you must have thought about it at least once. But you did it in the end. “How is this different from doing it knowingly?”

“Please, save me… that… I never meant to do it that way…! Me, I have a single mother and a younger brother in my hometown…! Because of that-!”

“Single mother and younger brother. i get it.”

“yes…?”

The moment Baekyeon expressed doubt.

Pak.

“Kruk.”

He fired his energy into Baekyeon’s neck and killed him instantly.

I looked at Baekyeon falling down and stroked her chin.

“It’s not unmanned after all.”

He is truly an ordinary person with no energy at all.
He made a sour expression on his face at that fact and muttered his words.

“Clean it up.”

[Yes.]

At my words, someone appears, opens the door to the living room, and takes Baekyeon’s body away.
He was one of the King of Darkness’ subordinates.

Since the mission was entrusted to Nahi, someone else had been assigned.

The moment the person was clearing away the white smoke. Suddenly, he asks me something.

“Confucius.”

“yes.”

“Since there was an assassination attempt, why not further strengthen the security?”

I roughly waved my hand at those words.

“That’s Okay.”

“Yes…”

Normally, even if you were a servant of the Gu family, you wouldn’t be able to come to my place without permission.

As this is a foreign country, it is a time when security should be extremely strengthened.

but.

“I left it alone on purpose, but it turned out to be a good thing.”

On the contrary, I had deliberately lowered my guard as if I was welcoming it.

‘It’s actually easier to think about it if you come here like this.’

It is easy to determine where the assassin is watching me from the point of sending the assassin.

It was easy to determine the time.

furthermore.

‘Anyway, I’m handling the best sprinkler in the midfield.’

The sprinkler carried by the King of Darkness follows my orders.
Even though the other shooters were moving, they didn’t pose much of a threat.

“If you do, we will prepare personnel and use poison to find out who was behind the preparations…”

“Please be as quiet as possible.”

“All right.”

Baekyeon said that the person who was entrusting the request had his face covered with a black cloth and was unrecognizable.

Considering the level of preparation of the car, I don’t think it would have left any traces.

‘Who could it be?’

Who really did this?
Now I had to worry about that.

First of all, it is the plum tea given by Maehwaseon.
However, it was not a plum line or volcanic wave.

‘I also don’t have a reason to do that.’

It wasn’t the place to prepare so openly.
Then where is it?

‘Is it the blind side?’

Murim League.

That side has some credibility.
It is also a group that has that power.

but.

‘The way things are handled is too sloppy to be considered a martial arts group.’

If it had been them, they wouldn’t have used this method.

This is rather….

‘It would be correct to say that it looked sloppy on purpose.’

It is possible that Baekyeon did not even think that he would succeed in the first place.
I gave that a little more thought.

‘There is little chance of sending a servant to drink tea early in the morning.’

It’s strange to even think that would work.

‘I’m just trying this out.’

What the boundaries are, to a level where you can know if you succeed or if you fail.

To be precise, there was a possibility that they hoped Baekyeon would be caught and tell the truth.

‘Then my alertness will go up.’

I tried to approach by using a servant.
That alone would have raised my guard, so maybe that was what I was aiming for.

‘Or there is another meaning that I don’t know.’

There wasn’t enough information to figure it out accurately.
furthermore.

‘What’s important here and now is.’

Rather than figuring out who did it, I had to focus on the fact that someone was targeting me.

‘I think it’s probably because of yesterday.’

What if the performance in the preliminaries became a problem and people started targeting them like this?

‘Good.’

It was just as expected.

‘You just have to find out gradually who did it.’

I walked out of the room, shaking my sore neck from side to side.

It has a bit of a foul smell, so I guess I’ll have to hand over the cleaning as well.

“Oh, and.”

As we passed the floor, we continued talking.

“They say the dead attendant has a younger brother and mother.”

As soon as I spoke, a person who had disappeared earlier appeared behind me.

“I will handle it.”

“Crazy, what should I do?”

expressed disgust.
What scary words are these?

“First, check if it’s real.”

We asked to find out whether Baekyeon was saying these words to save her life or not.

Then, if what is said is true.

“I’ll give you a pouch later. “Please find my family and send them to me.”

The plan was to send money through a person.
The amount was exactly the amount that Baekyeon received along with the fortune.

It was the price of her own life that she mentioned.

“…All right.”

As soon as the person finished answering what I said, he disappeared without another word.

Tuk-tuk.

Afterwards, I shook myself off and walked away.

A sky without a single cloud in sight.
As the sunlight gradually shines on it, a warm atmosphere prevails.
However, unlike him, I felt extremely uncomfortable.

Killing people in the morning?

That’s not it.

‘He’s the one who tried to mess with me, so what does it matter?’

It’s just because I had a confusing dream.

But I couldn’t remember that dream.
So I felt really bad.

I clicked my tongue and took a step forward.

‘He’s the one who would do this to me.’

I thought about it for a moment earlier.
No matter how you think about it, the culprit is probably one of two people.

‘One of them is the King of Swords. There’s a high possibility that it’s that guy.’

Another side.

‘Amipa (峨嵋派).’

One of the old file rooms based in Sacheon.
It was an unusual sect that consisted only of nuns.

There was a ‘rumor’ I heard in a past life that suddenly came to mind.

‘I guess I’ll have to look into it.’

It started to smell strange.

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At a time when Ouyang-cheon was in the midst of pondering his thoughts.
The Murim Alliance side was in full swing preparing for the first round of preliminaries.

“White is this way…!”

The situation is not much different from the first day.

The difference is that the number of people seems to be much larger.
It wasn’t twice as many, but there were definitely more people than on the first day.

The reason is no different.

“You’re here…”

Everyone’s eyes were focused on one place.
People were walking in from the entrance.

“It’s Shaolin.”

A place established in Hanam.
A place that has been gaining momentum recently.

The Shaolin group arrived at the preliminaries.

Naturally, among the countless Shaolin warriors, there was one who caught my eye.

“It is a divine dragon….”

“That young man is a divine dragon.”

A young man who stands at the forefront of the Shaolin people who participated in the martial arts festival.

He was a handsome man with clear facial features and a face that looked like he had just passed the age limit.
What’s unusual is that the eyes are yellow.

Yellow eyes that are said to be born in heaven.
Seeing Shinryong with something similar to that, people around started whispering.

“…If it’s the yellow eye, isn’t it definitely a heavenly life? “That’s what I heard.”

The man watching mutters, and the person next to him gets angry.

“Look at this crazy person. The divine dragon of Shaolin is a celestial being! Do you want to be beaten by them?”

“No… I’m just saying that because I thought I heard something like that.”

“Keep your mouth shut. “If they even hear it, it will be a big problem.”

The youngest Hwa-kyung as proven by Maeng.
Cheonsalseong is a rare genius who will forever be remembered in history. It was ridiculous.

“Why, it’s the same day as them… I wish we were in a different group.”

“I feel like I’m just a kid, but what’s so scary?”

Those who are really scared are 30%.

There are 30% of people who look down on them.

There are 30% of people who watch with interest.

“…”

Seeing their gaze, Shinryong was quietly looking around.

“Are you nervous?”

Someone spoke to him.
It was Museong, the death penalty for Shinryong.

“…no.”

“No, you might be nervous. “You might be nervous since you haven’t even experienced Yongbong Jihoe.”

“…”

Because it was right after the incident occurred, the Yongbong branch meeting was not held, so it was like the first time Shinryong appeared at an official event.

“One, you can do it. “We are Shaolin.”

Heavy words that make one feel their presence.
It was a tone of firm pride and belief in Shaolin.

Hearing that, Shinryong nodded his head heavily.
An uncomfortable feeling arises inside. He said, pressing it hard.

“…yes. You can.”

No, we have to do it somehow.

Shinryong swallowed those words.

A word from the author (author review) Thank you for reading today. ( _ _ )

Chuseok has arrived. I won’t be able to come down because I have a deadline… but I hope the readers have a comfortable holiday. ( _ _ )