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Chapter 5
Chapter 5
“One, be kind. Two, let’s live. Okay, one.”
“Be kind!”
“Two.”
“Let’s live!”
“Your voices are quiet.”1
“BE KIND!”
Is this hell?
This was the first thought the driver had after he regained consciousness. Like a cotton ball that soaked up water, his body felt heavy and his head was spinning. And in the distance, they continued to scream.
“LET’S LIVE!”
“Louder!”
… There’s no doubt this is hell. He heard the grim reaper’s voice and he followed after the sounds of the dead.
“BE KIND!”
The driver closed his eyes and bitter tears fell down his face. As if he came to hell. If he knew he would have died like this, he would have offered more.
‘Aigoo2, mother!’
The driver started to cry aloud. He was so loud, he didn’t even notice someone staring down at him.
“Excuse me.”
The driver’s heart stopped for 3 seconds and started again. He gripped his chest and shouted.
“I almost died because I was so surprised!”
“…”
“…?”
He felt strange after he said that. The driver stared blankly and raised his hand to his chest. It’s racing. His heart is racing.
It’s not just that. The horses are here, the carriage is here. His body shivered in the cold winter air.
“I’m alive?”
As if thinking ‘no way’, he turned and saw a man with a black eye on one eye. Even though he had a look on his face… there was no mistake. It was a person that was alive.
I’m alive!
“Alive! I’m alive!”
The driver hugged the man violently and was pushed away with a shudder.
“Congratulations.”
“Huk. Huk huk3. Thank you so much. But who…”
“Ah, that. I saw him for a second a minute ago.”
A minute ago? Who? He knew all the faces at the brothel and the Jin’s family idiot was the first customer.
Where did he see these thankful travelers. The driver stared at the man and in a instant gulped his breath.
“You’re that bandit!”
“Yes. That…”
“Next to the big bandit! The five idiots!”
“… You’re right.”
“And among them, the one who was the shortest!”
“…”
“The ugliest!”
“…”
“The one with the small package!”
“No!”
At the bandits shout, the driver came to his senses. What was he saying just now? Soon regret and despair came rushing in.
‘Now I’m really dead.’
No, actually he wished he was already dead. Then at least he wouldn’t be in pain.
But.
“Huu. Stop saying nonsense and hurry and follow.”
He walked in front of the bandits. The driver who ended up following them, felt dejavu.
‘This feels like I’m being guided somewhere.’
Compared to before he fainted, he was calmer and had a more courteous attitude. The driver mustered up his courage and asked.
“Where are we going right now?”
“We’re going to the Head.”
The driver’s face turned white. He remembered what he said to Jang Sam before. I’ll dig out your eyeballs, grind your limbs with a mortar…
‘I need to run away, even if its now.’
But in the next instant, his legs shook and he felt cold sweat fall like rain. He couldn’t even move one step.
The blood dripping down the swords that surrounded him. And next to the road, among the grass, he could see legs from a dead body sticking out.
‘These crazy bastards.’
Even though he thought ‘as if’, to think they killed the youngest Jin master in broad daylight. The driver felt his death coming.
Until he saw the figure walking towards him from out of the grass.
“Oh, you’re awake?”
Behind the figure, the bandits had their arms around each other and were gasping for breath. They each had a black eye.
“What are you doing. Don’t you see your colleagues suffering? Go join them.”4
“Yes. Head.”
“This fucker. I told you not to call me that.”
The driver watched the situation in front of him with a blank face and thought.
I’m keeping my life.
—
“So that’s how it became like this.”5
The driver listened with eyes that sparkled like a flashlight.
Whew, it’s shining. It’s hard to look because it’s so dazzling.
“That is, by chance.”
By chance?
“Are you sure you’re not Jin Mukyung master?”
“… I’m telling you to stop.”
I said I was Jin Taekyung for the umpteenth time.
It’s a NPC made to make a person crazy. I wasn’t sure if I should be impressed by the A.I. or if I should consider it a failure.
If I knew how to drive the carriage, I would have already thrown him away.
“Are you done with your preparations?”
The driver answered while finishing up a knot.
“Yes. I am all done.”
What kind of knot was it? It was a knot to tie the five bandits. It was such a tight knot, that the groans from the bandits were neverending.
“Head. Are you sure you can’t loosen up the knots a little?”
“Yes. I can’t. It’s not changing. Just stay here.”
“Please give these younger brothers a chance to serve you as a Head…”
“If you call me Head one more time, I’ll take you to see King Yeomra6.
Leaving behind silence, we got into the carriage.
I already gathered their belongings into my inventory, and felt great after receiving the reward from levelling up.
“We shall depart.”
The driver whipped the horses, and the carriage started moving.
For a trail in the mountains, it was a good road. Through the open window, a cool breeze and fresh mountain air blew in.
‘No matter how much I look, it’s amazing.’
I shook my head.
Science. Technology. Whatever you called it, it was an field of expertise that I didn’t understand.
Furthermore, even thinking like this in this kind of situation was a luxury.
‘Goddamn. What kind of time scale is this game on?’
In virtual reality games, there was something called a time scale. If the scale between reality and virtual reality was 1:3, then even if three hours passed in the game, only one hour would pass in reality.
That was also one of the reasons why I spent three days at the brothel.
If it’s this much time, then someone should save me–that kind of hope.
‘What the heck is Sung Jinho doing.’
I sighed deeply. At the same time, I slowly felt anxious.
This, what if the time scale was bigger than I thought?
‘No way.’
There’s no way. Sung Jinho said that the time scale in the capsule was proportional to the performance and price.
And even though the performance was greater than I expected.
‘No, if it’s this much than it’s fantastic.’
I’ve been playing games for years that I wasn’t so blind that I didn’t even know this much. Even though [Murim] had high specifications, the antique game capsule wasn’t operating without strain.
Even that much was alarming. So.
‘From now on, I hope there aren’t anymore alarming incidents.’
Please. I muttered those words and opened my skill window.
Looking again, I was startled. To think I could forget how to use techniques just because I hadn’t trained for a long time.
‘How much did I play.’7
After another deep sigh, I moved on. The first was the remaining points.
It looks like after levelling up one, I would get 10 points. And it was probably the same for the status window.
‘If I were to combine the skill window and the status window, then the total number of points would be 20?’
It was an ambiguous number. I set aside the points, and touched the last sentence.
‘Access all.’
Ring.
‘Hmm.’
The first place my eyes went to was the rank.
The Jin Family Spear Technique and the Jin Family Footwork were first rate. Only the Jin Family Cultivation Technique was at a Peak rank. And it was also only the Jin Family Cultivation Technique that had a clear Stage and Effect written.
‘I haven’t been able to use the Jin Family Spear Technique or the Footwork. But the Jin Family Cultivation Technique is… alright.’
Who cares if the accumulation speed is slow. A very stable and outstanding technique. I only needed that. My life’s motto was be long and thin.11
It was at that thought.
Ring.
I answered without hesitation.
‘No. I won’t.’
Reward? I don’t need anything like that. Crazy idiots should only take the joke so far. They want to make a deal with someone’s life?
Look at the shallow tricks. I didn’t even look the driver’s way and instead responded clearly, again.
“Re. Ject.”
“…?”
“I said to reject! Why is accept the only two options!”
“Hey! You shitheads!”
The curses I had been holding in exploded out.
—
I never missed my family more. My mom that I love. My cute younger sister… that I’m not close to, Hayeon.
If I ever go out, I’ll buy you a ton of chicken.
‘If I get out.’
It’s not as if they’re letting go of the knife and rubbing medicine on me…
My gaze shook as I looked at the message window.
“Re, reject.”
That was a coincidence just now, right? Right, it was a coincidence.
Before my unpleasant feeling could even disappear, my vision turned upside down.
And the place where I came back to consciousness. An unfamiliar white space.
Come over here.
Surprised, I turned my head and saw an old man gesturing towards me.
If I saw an old man like that in my dream, I would have run away but this was just a game.
‘That old man must be the helper.’
Without suspicion, I went to him.
It seemed weird but I was thinking like this. An odd familiarity. Plus trust.
Sit in a comfortable position.
Huh? If it’s Qi Cultivation, wouldn’t it be a lotus feet position?
As if he read my thoughts, the old man said.
Although weak fools do this and that, masters don’t need to do that.
His calm way of speaking smelled. It smelled.
This was a master’s smell. This time it was for real!
Uh huh. This fool.
I thought I saw his wrinkled hand come towards me but then it disappeared. Huh?
Tak. Tak tak.
At the second I thought I saw something pass me, I paused.
Is this what it feels like to be like a dead body with its eyes open? I couldn’t move an inch.
I’m simply hitting your pressure points, so don’t be alarmed and focus.
As the old man was talking, he jabbed at my back. And with a low voice, spoke quickly.
Qi Cultivation is one of the most important training that a warrior can have. Not only do you accumulate Qi, but by sharpening and polishing Essence (精), Qi (氣) and Spirit (神), you are able to soar to higher heights. So…
Although I was listening, I had no idea what he was saying. Only the fact that Qi Cultivation was important.
Your mind should be like a clear stream. Focus on drawing the flow out. Now I will recite you the Jin Family Cultivation Technique.
And without even giving me a chance to stop him, he recited the technique… and I could hear it. It was as if I was listening to someone speaking in another language and my brain was automatically translating what they were saying.
‘What is this.’
Specifically it was 318 characters. The moment I felt the Jin Family Cultivation Technique imprinted in my head, I felt a change.
Go.
The old man’s one word.
Go where?
Before I could ask, I was sucked in. No, it seemed like I was getting sucked in.
My eyes were definitely shut, but I could see. Feel.
A slight breeze that came and dispersed, the sunlight, the sound of the driver breathing and the horses nickering…
I pushed all those away. And just one. I focused on only my body.
Suddenly, I couldn’t even hear the old man or the system’s voice.
My awakened mind flowed downwards. I wasn’t even aware the the shining acupoints were my meridians. Just, everything felt familiar.
And reached my dantian14.
A small but pure energy. It was the accumulation of 10 years of my Qi.
‘But that?’
In the corner of my dantian, I could see something shaped like a rock, firm and large.
Instinctively, I realized.
‘It’s different Qi.’
It was Qi that I, Jin Taekyung, couldn’t circulate and was similar energy.
‘If I combine it?’
Of course, I would become even stronger.
But that would be reckless and didn’t have a goal.
‘I can’t afford to die by overdoing it.’
I regained the use of my skill. I followed the system and was slowly led to my Qi.
In the midst of this, I thought I vaguely heard a voice.
You made a good decision.
—
At the same time the system finished speaking, the driver spoke up.
“We’ve arrived. This is Taiyuan’s Jin’s family home.”
Right. Finally.
- Speaking informally here.
- Basically means ‘geez’ or ‘oops’. But can also mean frustration, trouble, empathy, awe, shock, glee, etc. Depends on how it is used in a sentence. Equivalent in Chinese would be ‘Aiya’
- Sounds of crying.
- He’s speaking to the bandits informally and the bandits are speaking formally to him.
- Jin is back to speaking formally, when he’s talking to the driver.
- According to Google, he’s the ‘supreme ruler and fifth of the ten Kings of the underworld.’ He’s a part of Korean mythology.
- He’s referring to the Murim Jin Taekyung, not himself
- Not 100% I’m translating this correctly. In Korean it is ‘경지’
- Translated to the peak, or zenith or apex, etc. At its highest point, basically
- In Korean it is ‘운기조식’, according to Korean wiki in hanja/Chinese it is ‘運氣調息’. The definition they provide is the act of generating Qi and controlling the flow through breathing.
- A Korean saying. I looked it up and it basically means if you’re like a string, it’s bendable and flexible so the direction of the string can be changed even through the slightest touch. But it won’t bother anyone, even if becomes too long.
- In Korean ‘기감’, in hanja/Chinese ‘氣感‘. Obtains the skill to feel/sense his Qi,
- In Korean ‘주화입마’, in hanja/Chinese ‘走火入魔‘, i.e. your cultivation base become unstable
- Where a person’s Qi is concentrated, in the lower part of the abdomen
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