How To Live as a Civil Servant in Murim

“ No. The last one was a bit harsh. Forget the last one.”

“……”

“Anyway, you get the point. Podu?”

“yes.”

Alumnus Mu-in explained with a laugh that he felt Yeon Woo-hyuk was confused.

“I heard that you are loyal, but it is true. You probably want to go in there and arrest everyone from the branch to the Najol and ask them to speak Korean, right?”

“yes? no.”

Yeon Woo-hyuk was dumbfounded.

It wasn’t that much, it was just a normal impression of ‘the alumni eat it raw’…

“But what difference would it make if we captured and executed this branch? The guy who will sit next will also remodel the military ship and play the lead role over time. The next one, and the one after that.”

“understand.”

“okay. There are only two of us on this pavilion who care about resignation. Podu. But where would it be? Having at least two of them is the happiness of resignation.”

“?”

Yeon Woo-hyuk hesitated for a moment, thinking, ‘Why are there two?’, but belatedly realized that he was included.

‘It’s not me.’

“Anyway, Fodu. Since the guru is gone, you must help me with my work.”

“It will be an honor for generations to come to help an alumni who is rumored to be strong.”

“As far as flattery? Podu. I do not like flattery.”

Yeon Woo-hyuk answered without blinking an eye. Originally, a real flatterer was the law to go out with confidence even if he was caught once.

“Flattery, I don’t know what you mean.”

At that, the classmate Muin laughed.

“i get it. Then let’s do something like that! The reason I came here is because of blood ties. Do you know about the Blood Bridge? The blood cult members will know you.”

“yes. To some extent, I know. …What’s the point of the blood cult knowing me?!”

Yeon Woo-hyuk was genuinely surprised.

Could it be that he was caught stealing the Blood Jade Armor from the mine?

“Didn’t you help the lieutenant in the mines the other day? Zhang Gui has gone up, so Podu should know your name.”

“Are you talking about me, a mere podu?”

“I guess you didn’t see the contents of the chapter?”

I wanted to ask what the funeral was like, but my alumni Mu-in didn’t give me a chance to do so.

“Recently, we received highly credible intelligence that there are blood followers among Hankyung officials.”

“Jang Dosa…”

“He’s just a pseudo guru who knows how to do a little magic, not a blood cult. He must be a high-ranking official, but he came on board like this to find out who he was.”

“!”

It was certainly a shocking story to say that there were blood followers in Hankyung’s articles of association. It was because blood cults were such that it was impossible to know what they would do if they set their minds to it.

Rather, it was better to have detective ducks who moved according to the calculation of interests, but the Blood Religion was impossible to predict.

“How can you become a blood cult during management?”

“The branch also likes Taoists, but there’s no law saying that officials don’t like blood followers, right?”

‘Well, that’s true.’

The appearance of Master Jang, whom I saw earlier, was to the point where I was slightly worried that I should change my job to a Master from now on rather than as a judge. Except for the fact that the head could be blown off if it was discovered that it was a fake, the guru seemed to have more power than the average official.

It would not be surprising if the blood bridge seduced the officials in a similar process.

“But how do you find blood followers?”

Yeon Woo-hyuk was puzzled.

No one was as thorough in hiding their identities as the Blood Cultists. Master Jang was a third-rate master who could only use one or two magic tricks, but how could he find blood followers?

“I gave the master medicine (散藥, powdered medicine). So that the officials can get drunk while they are unconscious with magical powers.”

“Amazing! Was it made by an alumni?”

It was amazing.

To think you could catch a blood cult just by taking medicine. Yeon Woo-hyeok wondered if it was something like a go (蠱) that reacts to internal energy.

“At classmates? You could say it was made by classmates. But it’s not that grandiose.”

The alumnus uninhabited took out a powder medicine wrapped in paper. Yeon Woo-hyeok checked the medicine with his spiritual eye.

The drug was surprisingly poisonous. It wasn’t to the extent that I would lose my life, but it was enough that I would faint or get sick if I drank it.

“…isn’t this poison?”

“You must be good at medicine! that’s right. It is poison.”

“???”

Yeon Woo-hyuk did not understand.

“How can poison and alcohol find blood cultists?”

“If a Blood Cultist drinks it, they’ll think they’ve been caught, so they’ll react differently.”

“Then how do the other officials deal with the poison?”

“You can go to the doctor after you get sick.”

‘He must have been crazy.’

Yeon Woo-hyeok, who understood the classmate’s plan, was shocked.

So, those who react by poisoning all the officials are Blood Religious, and those who are not can’t help it.

It was hard to tell if this was a word or not.

“But now it’s getting harder to ride this. You are worried.”

“You don’t have to feed the poison, but you can check if it’s a reaction. Please make a fuss that would surprise the Blood Cultists.”

“With a fuss?”

My classmate Muin wanted to be like that.

Can a commotion catch a reaction when so many officials are talking drunk?

There’s a chance it won’t be poisonous…

“yes. Trust me.”

“Okay, let’s see some tricks! Could it be an attack that would surprise the blood cult?”

“Enough. My classmate Muin came…”

“good night. good.”

The classmate Muin laughed and clapped. Yeon Woo-hyeok was suddenly curious about the state of his opponent, so he opened his spiritual eyes and focused.

If the blood cult had learned martial arts or had comrades who learned martial arts, it would be difficult for Yeon Woo-hyeok to deal with them all alone.

Since he came here alone, he must be a master of martial arts. At what level…

“?”

Surprisingly, I couldn’t read his inner thoughts or martial arts as if he was surrounded by fog. Yeon Woo-hyuk realized where the fog came from.

‘That bead…?’

Twin Dragon Goddess. It was a treasure held in the bosom of his classmate Mu-in. Unlike Blood Ok-gap, who immediately revealed what kind of treasure it was on the same treasure subject, the Ssangryongsinju did not want to tell Yeon Woo-hyuk anything except the name.

A treasure that protects its owner from magical powers.

‘No matter how wealthy an alumnus is, I don’t think a mediocre eunuch would have it. then…’

There was a high possibility of having a high position or a back ship. Yeon Woo-hyuk decided to bend his back a little deeper.

“What do you think?”

“I was thinking about how to call the title of a great person.”

“It’s Dangdu. But call it state public.”

‘It was a rush!’

“yes. state public!”

Yeon Woo-hyuk, who was in a higher position than he thought, bent his waist deeply as he had just thought. The governor was satisfied that the greeting received from the outstanding Fodu was very good.

***

“It’s a golden throne!!! It is a golden throne!!!”

The governor made the noblemen shout from the ferry as if the golden guard had arrived.

Indeed, the effect was quite good. Officials who had been drinking until just now ran out of the room making crackling noises. I saw some who were so embarrassed that they had their official caps turned upside down.

“The golden chair has arrived! The golden chair has arrived!”

“All the detective ducks will die!”

The nobles, who had been talking loudly on the ferry, quickly ran away when the officials recovered from their shock and began to curse.

When the officials realized that they had been made fun of by some bastards, they uttered curse words down the river.

“How dare some guys impersonate the Golden Guard!”

“If you get caught, know how to cut your throat!”

“Anyway, the golden guards!”

The state public laughed at the officials who were cursing the golden chair. It was really pathetic guys who didn’t go beyond expectations in the slightest.

‘It ended too soon.’

When the turmoil subsided faster than expected, the governor bit his lip.

There were still a lot of officials and it was confusing, but if it ended this quickly, it would be harder to find blood followers.

After a little while, Podu approached the bow, and the governor asked, not expecting much.

“Did you find it?”

“yes. Adult comrades are like blood religions.”

“?!”

The state public was surprised twice. Once, I was surprised by the higher status than I thought, and the other time, I was really surprised by Podu who came to a suspected blood cultist in this situation.

“Is that true?”

“How safe would you lie?”

“good! Then you should watch your comrade more closely.”

Even if the classmate was a blood cult, he had no intention of catching him right away.

After confirming why the comrade fell for the Blood Bridge and what kind of conspiracy the Blood Bridge was plotting, he planned to strike it down.

“Watch out what your comrade is plotting. Can you?”

“Comrade Elder, when the pavilion stops and settles down by the river, he intends to kill the official he didn’t like and turn him into a blood cultist allied with him. In order to prepare for this, it is necessary to prevent ships coming from downstream. Even though the boat looks like it has fishermen on it, blood followers are on board. Also, the next thing to be careful about is…”

“…?!”

Gong Gong Joo widened his eyes and was astonished at the sight of Podu calmly predicting the truth in advance.

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The blue river flows (4)

Until just now, the Podu in front of me was quite clever, and a loyal Podu who knew how to flatter to some extent.

However, the Podu in front of him now felt like a ghost, not a human.

It’s hard to believe that he found the Blood Church in the midst of all the chaos, but how can he tell the secret details of the Blood Church in such detail?

“Explain it!”

“yes?”

“I asked you to explain how you found out. I honestly have a hard time believing you. Do you know what you are thinking right now? I also suspect that you are possessed by blood cultists.”

“The reason why I doubted my comrades is as follows. When they heard that the Geumuiwi had appeared, the other officials were surprised, but the elder comrade was uneasy.”

“I don’t think you can conclude with that?”

“Once they found out that the golden chair was fake, the other officials were relieved, but the elder comrade refused to live alone. I asked this to my comrade. ‘The branch elders are contemplating whether to put the boat on the riverside after finishing the lead role, and I would like to ask the elders of the comrades for their thoughts’. Then, the elder comrade became very impatient and objected. This is proof that your comrades have other ideas.”

“The plan? How did you figure out the plan?”

Gong Joo unknowingly urged Podu.

“The plan is not too difficult to guess if you think about the current situation. I checked the luggage of the servants brought by my comrade. The luggage contained the official uniforms of officials of different ranks from those of my comrades. Looking at them, I could guess what my comrades were trying to do. And the most convenient way to get additional Blood Cultists on board is to disguise themselves as fishermen coming and going to and from this river. As we saw before, it is not strange that fishermen come and go at this time.”

“!”

The masked alumni soldier quickly shook his head and recalled what Yeon Woo-hyeok had just said.

It was unbelievably brilliant wisdom for improvisation concocted in such a short period of time.

No eunuch from my alumni would show me that kind of side.

“I apologize for doubting your talent.”

The voice of the state public, which had risen sharply, changed to a soft voice again.

“no. Of course you can doubt it.”

“There is no one more stupid than to doubt a talented loyalist. I apologize, so please accept it.”

“Until this happens…”

Yeon Woo-hyeok tried to show modesty, but the governor did not listen and took out a round silver plaque from his bosom, split it in half, and threw it away. It was the alumni’s silver shield.

“No matter what you say, if you bring this out, I’ll trust you at least once.”

“!”

Yeon Woo-hyuk hesitated at the more generous reward than he had expected.