The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 135

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 135

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The three fastest people—well, three of us—decided to retrieve a car, and I sat in the half-collapsed apartment with Officer Oh.
Though “retrieve” was probably the wrong word; they’d likely end up stealing one.
‘It’s an emergency, after all.’
After hearing what Kang Han-geul said, Kwon Ik-seong and Pee So-won decided not to arrest him outright.
‘Special forces background?’
‘Is that really important right now?’
Kang Han-geul looked quite anxious.
So he only follows “Number One’s” orders, whether civilians live or die?
I couldn’t tell if he was being inconsistent or if all that talk earlier was just bluffing.
That’s when Officer Oh glared at me.
“I knew something was off about you from the first time I saw you. So you were the Taekwondo Girl? What are you going to do now? Since Heon-su caused all this chaos, it’s clearly Heon-su’s responsibility!”
“Hey.”
I shot Officer Oh an irritated look.
He flinched slightly and covered his face with his handcuffed hand.
So it did hurt earlier, after all.
“Why did you meet the Hanseong Guild’s Vice Guild Master?”
“Huh?”
Seeing Kang Si-bang perched on my shoulder, Officer Oh swallowed hard and switched to formal speech.
Looks like he got hurt too.
“H-how did you know that…?”
“How? Kang Tae-seon’s side leaked it.”
“Y-you traitor bastard!”
Officer Oh erupted in anger.
Without even thinking about what he himself had done.
Sigh.
I clicked my tongue and spoke.
“We have all the evidence, right? Let’s go to the interrogation room in a bit and have a proper chat, yeah?”
At my words, Officer Oh hesitated before nodding.
“So… I can get out of this, right?”
“That depends—”
“What if I—”
The moment Officer Oh spoke in that pathetic tone, I stood up.
Then I drove an upward kick straight into his jaw again.
“Ugh…”
Officer Oh toppled backward with a strangled cry.
I gently cradled his head as he fell.
Since he’s a Hunter, he wouldn’t actually die, but as Ik-seong said, even suspects have human rights.
‘Tch.’
I didn’t want to respect human rights or anything else!
But I suppressed those feelings and gazed at the nearby hills.
Then I murmured quietly.
“Memories of possession.”
Instantly, moments of possession flooded my mind—countless bodies I had inhabited flickering past.
Recalling the most special moment among them, I spoke.
“Whispers of the trees.”
And at that very moment, I heard the voices of trees.
Numerous trees rustled and chattered.
[Hey, what’s this? That snake-like bastard must be dead.]
[Wow… So what happens to us?]
[Aren’t they gonna develop this place and snap off all our necks?]
[Ugh, they’re gonna make a fuss about building another golf course.]
[Hey, don’t worry. This place is so damn rural that there’s not really any danger.]
…These trees are surprisingly materialistic.
Listening to voices distinctly different from the Protective Tree or the Zelkova Tree, I smacked my lips.
Then I quietly opened my mouth.
[Um, um… Over here? F, focus!]
Should I give Focus a round of applause or something.
The moment I thought that, all the voices fell silent—
[What.]
[Hey, did you hear that?]
[Wow… Isn’t that Elder Brother’s voice?]
[Sounds similar?]
In an instant, it became noisy again.
Oh. So my voice sounds quite like Elder Brother’s to these small trees.
Gaining confidence from a reaction so different from the Protective Tree, I spoke again.
[Did you mishear?]
Just as someone was about to speak, I opened my mouth again.
[You didn’t mishear.]
I mimicked the most majestic voice I could muster.
[What. That doesn’t sound like Elder Brother?]
[No, it does.]
‘Tch.’
The trees murmured, but I maintained my composure.
[Trees, you have rooted yourselves in this vast Mana Stone cavern for a long time. Is that not so….]
My plan began from here.
If a Mana Stone mine existed underground, the flora and fauna surrounding it would have been affected and transformed into monsters.
Indeed, hypotheses and papers on this subject were scattered everywhere and had been nearly accepted as established fact.
So then—
‘These creatures are Druids too.’
Just like the ones in the Zelkova Tree dungeon.
[That’s right, you know?]
[So what?]
[Their voices are similar to Elder Brother’s, but they’re just fakes….]
These things?
I shouted as loudly as I could.
[People are dying to the Goblins right now! This is not the time for this!]
At my cry, the Trees suddenly fell silent.
[…?]
[People are dying?]
[So they are.]
[But what does that matter?]
…Huh?
[Humans dying has nothing to do with us. If humans decrease, that’s good for us.]
[Right. Exactly.]
[They’re the ones cutting off our necks anyway.]
[There was this old man who used to live here naturally before, and he even gave us fertilizer regularly….]
This public sentiment….
Ah, right. The Trees hate humans.
‘Ugh.’
I flared my nostrils, recalling the karma of the humans who had logged the trees.
Then let me try a different approach.
[The lives of humans matter little. But look at those Goblins who have desecrated this land, strutting about so freely. Should we not punish them?]
It’s not some grand strategy—just redirecting their anger elsewhere.
Goblins.
They dug up the ground quite a bit, didn’t they? Right?
The Trees murmured at my words.
[Punish them?]
[Ah, well, I suppose they were pretty bad.]
[I really suffered last time when they broke my roots!]
[You were friendly with that natural-living person, but did you think they were human? You don’t even have roots….]
Oh. The atmosphere is gradually becoming persuasive… No, you Trees! We don’t have time for this!
[Move quickly! They’re leaving this land!]
I shouted as grandly as I could.
Then the Trees seemed to deliberate for a moment before chiming in one by one.
[Should we go then?]
[I was getting bored anyway.]
[It’s not often that the ground gets dug up like this.]
“There’s no point staying here. All these humans will do is build golf courses.”
The next moment.
Heyah, heyah….
With this incomprehensible sound, the earth began to tremble.
Recognizing the familiar vibration of the ground, I spoke to Kang Si-bang.
“Swallow Officer Oh for now!”
This marked the third time Officer Oh had been swallowed by Kang Si-bang.

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A village community center near Jeong-an City.
In the village where the Youth League President was in his late fifties, there had been quite a significant incident recently.
“That side. That side dropped a bit too low.”
The Village Head spoke to the Youth League President and his younger sibling, who were riding on a lift truck installing a banner at the entrance of the village community center.
The Youth League President then lifted the banner that had sagged slightly to the right.
The banner read as follows:
[A mystical land featured on MBK Broadcasting, come visit XX District~]
And beside it was a large interview screen of the Village Head displayed prominently.
“When is the statue arriving?”
For reference, they were also planning to install a tree-shaped statue and lighting for a photo spot.
Originally, there had been an opinion to install a suspension bridge on the path leading to the tree, but the county office official had refused it.
‘That’s not a mystical land. It’s a dungeon site.’
‘Bureaucrats, honestly.’
The way the county office official waved his hand dismissively bothered the Village Head quite a bit.
Regardless of whether it was a dungeon to the county office or a mystical land to the Village Head, the reservoir water hadn’t dried up since the ginseng appeared there.
It seemed to be thanks to the golf course that was supposed to be built on the opposite side being cancelled for dungeon break safety reasons, though he wasn’t entirely certain.
Therefore, the Village Head decided to package even that as the mystery of the ‘mystical protective tree.’
And he was planning to sell the village’s water as mystical water as well….
“Hey! Village Head…!”
The grandmothers who had been playing Go-Stop inside the community center came rushing out.
They were all holding smartphones in their hands.
Indeed, an era had come where before it was your turn in Go-Stop, you’d sell your hand and watch YouTube on your smartphone—so that wasn’t particularly surprising, but—
“What is this?”
The video they showed was quite shocking.
The reason was—
“Isn’t this Jeong-an City?”
In the video, goblins were pouring out of Jeong-an City, and trees were moving about trying to catch those goblins.
“My phone’s been dead since earlier, but suddenly this appeared on it!”
That was when it happened.
Boom.
Boom.
Thud.
From somewhere, the sound of the earth trembling echoed.
The Village Head adjusted his hat at that moment.
His face bore a solemn determination. It had been nearly forty years.
“Youth League President! Get the keys! Drive around with the Kim family living down in that valley and tell everyone to gather at the evacuation shelter!”
And soon after, he grabbed the broadcast microphone at the village hall.
“As of this moment, I’m issuing an emergency evacuation order. This is a real situation. Everyone head to the hall….”
So this was the scene unfolding right now across Jeong-an City and the rural villages nearby.
The footage of the Goblin and the Trees being broadcast to approximately 40,000 people’s phones.
How was that even possible?—
‘Choi Woo-jin’s eyes and ears, along with his exceptional hacking skills.’
And on top of that, it was thanks to my remarkable negotiation abilities.
Ahahaha.
I felt a thrill just as satisfying as the sense of accomplishment from saving people.
Choi Woo-jin must have gone through quite a bit of trouble for this.
He had to go through the names of 40,000 people one by one!
Hacking 40,000 phones wasn’t easy even for Choi Woo-jin!

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