The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 214

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Chapter 214: Crossing the Gate to the Immortal Realm

Currently, the most bustling issue worldwide was undoubtedly the story about whales escorting container ships.

People were ecstatic.

Were there really that many whales still living in the sea?

They naturally thought they would have been driven to extinction by monsters.

Moreover, those whales were helping humans.

They swam together at the front, back, left, and right of large ships, guaranteeing their safety.

Who could have made this happen?

It must be Chairman Kim Tae-ju, of course.

It seems he even has pet tamer abilities.

Well, there were rumors that he had tamed the Three-Headed White Tiger too.

Even now, it appears whenever you turn on the TV.

This was because reporters were also aboard TJ Shipping container vessels, broadcasting live via satellite every single day.

└ Flying whales!

└ Whales?

└ Sigh, who brought the department heads here?

└ Whales are our friends.

└ Anyone who eats whale meat from now on better be prepared to get beaten to death by me.

└ Whale-shaped snacks are also banned.

Though it might seem boring since the footage was always similar, it remained entertaining no matter how many times you watched.

On days when videos of whales catching and playing with monsters were uploaded, viewership would explode.

It wasn’t just container ships sailing the Pacific Ocean.

Escorts accompanied all ships sailing the seas, including the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and others.

Until now, relying solely on black iron had been insufficient.

There was no guarantee that its effects would last forever.

But now things were different.

Reliable escorts that could even devour Elite Marine Monsters.

Finally, the seas had become safe.

However, there was one more issue heating up the internet besides the escort whales.

The series of actions taken by the Swordsman.

Since his visit to Earth, unbelievable incidents had occurred one after another.

Representative examples were the otherworldly monsters that appeared at the Sahara Grassland Mirror Gate, and the Beyond monster raid that took place in Wuhan on the former Chinese land.

The Swordsman had methodically sliced through otherworldly monsters and Beyond monsters with transcendent force that couldn’t be considered human.

At that time, Jecheon Daeseong had also shown himself to Earth through both his avatar and main body.

In the midst of all this, the Swordsman’s Immortal Realm interview broadcast was suddenly transmitted.

The Immortal Realm where Immortals live, and the existence of Heaven and Hell.

It was utterly absurd.

Heaven and Hell?

Do good deeds and go to Heaven, do bad things and go to Hell?

Could such a simple world of rewarding good and punishing evil really exist?

Religious groups were particularly vehement in their opposition.

Though Heaven and Hell appeared in their own doctrines, the reality was completely different.

For existing religious people, the criteria for Heaven and Hell are not good and evil.

They are determined solely by faith.

Faithful believers with sincere faith go to Heaven.

Non-believers go to Hell.

But a mere orphanage director with no religious faith had ascended to Heaven?

Moreover, someone called Gangrim Chasa had appeared and revealed the existence of Hell.

At first, they were so flustered they couldn’t think of anything.

The reaction had been too explosive.

While they were in this state of confusion, a real threat arrived.

Believers began to leave.

Their numbers grew day by day.

Religious organizations took action.

If this continued, they would all die.

It was absolutely unacceptable.

Religious people began comment brigade activities on SNS and bulletin boards with the purpose of leading public opinion.

└ What nonsense are they spouting.

└ Do they think people are fools? Heaven and Hell aren’t places like that.

└ Right! Where do they get off with such childish stories that belong in children’s moral textbooks.

└ This is heretical scheming. We’re being deceived right now.

They also presented appropriate evidence.

└ Look at what this place called the Immortal Realm looks like. There was an amusement park. What kind of Immortal Realm is that?

└ Right, cars and motorcycles were running around too?

└ The Immortals were drinking iced americanos too.

└ And what kind of Immortal uses the Samhan Empire language?

└ Not just Immortals? That Chasa called Kang Rim spoke Samhan Empire language fluently too.

Come to think of it, it was strange.

A place that could hardly be considered the Immortal Realm.

└ Honestly, I can’t even believe that person called the Swordsman is an Immortal. Same goes for Jecheon Daeseong.

└ Then what are they?

└ Probably cosplay. Or maybe manipulated video. That level of manipulation is technically feasible.

└ What about Director Baek Hong-pyo?

└ Just hire an actor and make the face look identical.

There were more people who didn’t believe than those who did.

While their strength was undoubtedly strong, being strong didn’t prove they were Immortals and Jecheon Daeseong.

└ Well, let’s say the video is all real. Even so, does mobile communication in the Immortal Realm make sense?

└ True…

└ Even just going into the mountains kills the LTE signal, and what? The Immortal Realm?

└ This proves it. It wasn’t filmed in the Immortal Realm but somewhere on Earth.

└ It’s also suspicious that UTelecom’s stock hit the daily limit this time.

Every claim had its own basis.

└ If it’s manipulation, who’s the mastermind? Why go this far?

└ Let’s focus on the fact that this person called the Swordsman is close to Chairman Kim Tae-ju. We need to be suspicious.

└ You’re saying Chairman Kim Tae-ju is behind it. Would that gentleman really do such a thing?

└ Isn’t this a move to neutralize Earth’s religions and establish a single religion he leads to dominate the world?

└ No way!

Conspiracy theories ran rampant.

And they were well-received.

No matter how you thought about it, the existence of Heaven and Hell, and mobile communication connection between the Immortal Realm and Earth were utterly absurd.

* * *

Tae-ju also knew about these discussions happening in internet and SNS spaces.

It was actually what he had hoped for.

The fewer people who believed, the better.

He even felt grateful to the conspiracy theorists.

Though the claim that he was trying to establish a religion went too far.

In fact, the Swordsman’s Immortal Realm live broadcast was an unexpected incident that occurred before communication regulations for the Immortal Realm could be established.

Originally, Tae-ju’s purpose in connecting communication was for the Immortals’ entertainment.

The intention was to let them watch and enjoy various incidents happening in the world and diverse content in real-time without having to visit Earth.

So when Baek Seo-yeon had just informed him that the company would respond to the rumors, he instructed her not to do so.

It’s much more convenient when people don’t believe it.

If it becomes known as real, it would actually become troublesome.

Tae-ju continued creating dimensional gates inside the ship container.

At the same time, he also sent supplies.

He had confirmed that entry was possible.

Could others besides himself, that is, ordinary(?) people, also enter?

For this purpose, he practiced opening gates several more times.

Bigger gates, longer-lasting gates.

After doing it several times, it grew larger again.

Now it was about 1 meter in diameter.

In the process, the hallucination-like phenomenon ringing in his head became clearer.

Well, what could he do?

He had to endure it and go.

Suddenly!

Knock knock.

The sound of knocking on the container door was heard,

Clang!

As the door opened,

“Chairman Kim, I heard from the captain. You called for us?”

“Oh! This place is even better than the cabin. You should have called us sooner.”

The Emperor and Geum Su-ho had come.

Their faces looked good.

Each day must be enjoyable for them.

For them, the Pacific voyage was like a dream.

Escaping from their busy daily lives to gaze at the sea, spacing out, and even communing with whales.

“Um, it’s not about anything else…”

“Go ahead and speak.”

“Would you have any thoughts of traveling with me?”

“Hm? We’re doing that right now.”

“Somewhere other than Earth.”

“…What?”

What does this mean?

If not Earth, then…

“Perhaps?”

“Yes, the Immortal Realm.”

“Hmm,”

“H-how?”

Rather than explaining with words, he should show them through action.

Whirrrr!

A dimensional hole opened inside the container.

“Gasp! Good heavens…”

“What on earth is that hole?”

The Emperor was startled and his mouth fell wide open.

“If you go through there, you’ll reach the Immortal Realm.”

“Haha, I see, I see.”

“If you’d like, would you come and go with me?”

However, Secretary Geum Su-ho had a reluctant expression.

“I’m not sure if it’s safe for people to enter.”

His voice was also mixed with concern.

“I’ve tried it myself. There were no particular problems.”

“Honestly, you can’t be considered human. We’re ordinary people.”

“What? I’m human too though?”

“…I don’t think so?”

Tae-ju understood what Geum Su-ho was worried about.

If it were someone else, it might be different, but this was the Emperor, the ruler of Samhan.

If by any chance something went wrong…

However, he had confirmed it was safe.

Just a moment ago, he had caught a fish from the sea and experimented with it.

Putting it in and taking it out.

Of course, the fish was perfectly fine, flopping around.

“I’ll cross over first. And if it’s definitely okay, then Your Majesty can…”

“I think it’s already too late.”

“…Huh?”

“Look over there.”

Geum Su-ho turned his head toward the hole.

The Emperor was crossing over.

Bending his waist and crouching through the hole,

Whoosh!

“…This is maddening.”

He couldn’t wait even that moment.

Shaking his head back and forth,

He also bent his waist and crossed through the hole.

And Tae-ju followed behind them.

* * *

Whirrrr!

A hole gate opened in one corner of Seongyeworld.

The Emperor came out first, followed by Geum Su-ho, then Tae-ju, all crawling out awkwardly.

“This place is?”

“Yes, this is definitely the Immortal Realm.”

It was certainly the same place they had seen in the live broadcast.

The amusement park called Seongyeworld.

“Please stay here and look around for a moment. I’ll go bring Ilisambaeyi.”

“Y-you want the two of us to stay here? If someone comes…”

Whoosh!

Tae-ju disappeared in an instant.

What could they do?

They had to wait until he returned.

The Emperor and Geum Su-ho stood there blankly like country folk who had just come to the capital, only looking around.

“The roads are laid out straight.”

“They seem to be made by cutting granite.”

“Really! Who would think this is the Immortal Realm?”

Suddenly!

Vrooom!

A large automobile racing down Seongyae Road passed in front of them.

“…It’s a car.”

“Indeed. It looks like a Baekdu Automotive.”

Suddenly!

Screech!

The car came to a stop.

Then it slowly reversed and the window rolled down with a whirring sound.

Who is it?

From the window, a woman of indeterminate age but incredibly elegant and beautiful showed her face.

The Emperor and Geum Su-ho froze completely.

“Are you not humans? This is not a place where humans can come freely.”

A terrifying aura that they didn’t dare to look at directly.

Their heads bowed automatically.

Their bodies trembled uncontrollably.

“Th, that is…”

What should they say?

Geum Su-ho, who couldn’t dare to answer, kept poking the Emperor’s side.

“A, actually, we followed Chairman Kim Tae-ju,”

“Aha!”

The woman nodded as if she understood.

“So you’re saying you’re acquaintances of Kim Tae-ju?”

“Yes, yes, we’re very close friends.”

“Hohoho, I understand. Have fun and enjoy yourselves.”

Then she spoke to another woman in the passenger seat.

“Wolgung Seonja, give them a few Seondo each. They might be hungry.”

“Yes, Queen Mother.”

Wolgung Seonja got out of the passenger seat and handed three Seondo each to the Emperor and Geum Su-ho.

Vrooom!

The car started moving again.

Only then did the Emperor and Geum Su-ho, their bodies finally relaxed, stare with mesmerized eyes at the car’s rear end.

“…Phew.”

“Hah!”

It was really scary, but they still managed to obtain Seondo.

“…Should we eat just one?”

“Should we?”

Right then!

“Who are you? Why are living people here?”

Someone else came.

A man with black clothes and white face creating a stark contrast.

He was inspiring a different kind of fear from the woman they had just encountered.

The Emperor and Geum Su-ho couldn’t even answer.

“…”

“…”

It’s a face they’ve seen somewhere before.

Was it a live broadcast?

‘Could it be Kang Rim…’

This is crazy.

Just when is Chairman Kim Tae-ju coming?

* * *

Earth.

Whether people believed it or not, the popularity of the Swordsman and Jecheon Daeseong still soared to the sky.

Just having #Swordsman, #JecheonDaeseong in YouTube video hashtags was enough to guarantee solid view counts.

So there were incredibly many YouTube streamers trying to leech off their popularity for views.

Rudolph, a YouTube streamer from the European Empire, was one of them.

So he was conducting a live broadcast titled ‘Following in the Footsteps of the Swordsman and Jecheon Daeseong’.

The place where Rudolph was located was Earth’s Sahara Grasslands.

“This is the exact place. The place where the Swordsman first revealed his power, remember? A Gate opened around here.”

└ Wow! That was amazing. How many swords were floating in the sky back then?

└ I’m reviewing it now too. Those huge monsters were getting sliced up.

└ What about Jecheon Daeseong? Thinking about it, Jecheon Daeseong was a bit weaker compared to the Swordsman at that time.

└ It was a clone body though?

“Right. It was a clone body. And Jecheon Daeseong’s true worth was fully shown in Wuhan, China.”

└ Include Chairman Kim Tae-ju a bit too.

└ Right. Even as a human, he wasn’t inferior to them.

└ Yeah, just hanging out with the Swordsman and Jecheon Daeseong is something else.

“Chairman Kim Tae-ju goes without saying. The ultimate goal of my broadcast is to interview that person, so my next destination is Gurye in the Samhan Empire.”

└ Will that work?

└ You probably won’t even meet him?

└ Wake up from your dream.

└ How about doing a broadcast from the old Wuhan, China land instead?

“That’s not bad either. But there’s no transportation.”

However,

└ Hey, Rudolph, it looks like there’s dust on the camera lens,

“Dust?”

└ It keeps bothering my eyes, try wiping the lens once.

“Got it.”

Rudolph carefully rubbed the action cam lens with a microfiber cloth.

“Is it okay now?”

└ No, I can still see it?

└ I see it too.

└ You mean that thin line over there.

└ The lens must be cracked.

“Come on, I just bought this recently. I haven’t even filmed with it many times.”

└ Hmm, that’s strange.

└ Rudolph, turn the camera.

“Which way?”

└ To the left, more, more, now go forward. Hold the camera up a bit more, yeah, there!

And Rudolph witnessed it too.

“Huh?”

It wasn’t a camera lens problem.

There really was something like a faint line visible in the sky.

‘What is it?’

A crack that appeared in the void.

Like a hairline crack in a crystal glass.

‘That place is…’

Rudolph knew where that was.

‘The Gate.’

The Gate that had poured out terrifyingly large Ije monsters like a waterfall.

That was exactly where it had first opened.

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