The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 281

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Chapter 35

What appeared on Gong Ya-chi’s face as he shouted out what he had been unable to reveal until now was a clear sense of liberation.

He shed tears like chicken droppings and repeatedly bowed his head to me.

“Thank you! Thank you! How can I ever repay this kindness…”

It’s a bit awkward to say this in this situation, but I told the truth.

“You haven’t completely escaped the prohibition.”

I pointed at the bull writhing in pain.

“I merely transferred the pain you should be feeling temporarily through sorcery.”

“Th-then the prohibition hasn’t been broken?”

Gong Ya-chi trembled all over in shock.

“I’ll die. I was going to die after all! Aaaaah!”

This is how terrifying brainwashing is.

To think he could be so terrified without feeling even a bit of pain.

Tam-rang was truly a difficult opponent in many ways.

“If Tam-rang finds out about this, he’ll kill me with poison. In the end, I can’t escape from Tam-rang’s clutches and will meet a dog’s death!”

“Did Tam-rang plant poison in you?”

“Y-yes! That bastard is a demon!”

Poison, simply put, was a bug.

Male and female gu, that is, a pair of venomous creatures born together as mates, share their lives until death.

No matter how far apart they are, when one suffers pain, that pain is completely transmitted to the other, and if one dies, the other follows in death.

The reason Gong Ya-chi is trembling in fear now is because the male poison planted in his body is connected to the female poison that Tam-rang possesses.

Tam-rang could take Gong Ya-chi’s life at any time through that female poison.

“I’ll remove that poison for you.”

“Lies! There’s no way in the world to remove poison!”

“I solved the prohibition, so you think I can’t handle that?”

“…!”

“If you can’t believe it, then just die.”

I deliberately came on strong.

Not only was there insufficient time to persuade him one by one, but with Gong Ya-chi’s current mental state, it would be difficult for him to properly accept anything anyway.

Pushing forward strongly like this to make him tell the truth was the best option for now.

“Do you want to die here? Or do you want to live?”

“P-please save me! If you just handle the poison, I’ll answer anything!”

“Good.”

Now it was time to extract information.

“Who are you?”

“I don’t know. I was kidnapped as a child and called by numbers, then called by various names.”

‘That’s a lie.’

In the original work, he was a character who lived holding onto one faint memory of going fishing with his father, whose face he couldn’t even remember.

Though he never spoke his real name aloud, I think he knows his birth name.

Well, his name wasn’t important, so I let it slide easily.

“Were you raised in a group?”

“Yes.”

“Is the name of that place the Bloodsky Sect you mentioned earlier?”

“That’s right.”

“What kind of organization is the Bloodsky Sect? What do they want!”

Uncle Wang shouted while holding onto the bull.

Gong Ya-chi looked at me, and I nodded to indicate it was okay to answer.

“I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?”

“I just had to survive, and after surviving, I only carry out the orders given to me.”

“Is Tam-rang the one who gives you orders?”

“Mooooo!”

As Gong Ya-chi seemed to think of Tam-rang, the bull let out a cry of anguish.

“So Tam-rang is the one who placed the prohibition and fed you the poison. Who is he?”

“He’s the sect leader’s first disciple.”

“And?”

Gong Ya-chi shook his head.

“That’s all I know. The Bloodsky Sect is thoroughly organized as a cell structure. I’m just like a puppet doll that only does what Tam-rang tells me to do!”

“You mean you don’t even know where this Tam-rang bastard is?”

Uncle Wang shouted again while forcibly holding down the bull.

“I can only vaguely guess that he’s in the Martial Arts Alliance. I really don’t know who he is!”

Oh, I wasn’t really expecting much from this.

Gong Ya-chi dropped a big one.

“The Martial Arts Alliance?”

“What? He’s in the Martial Arts Alliance?”

Uncle Wang asked repeatedly in great surprise.

“Is that true? There’s no lie in those words!”

“Y-yes!”

“How can such a thing be!”

Uncle Wang couldn’t overcome the shock and squeezed his eyes shut.

“Anyway, in the end, all you know are the names Bloodsky Sect and Tam-rang. You don’t know what the organization’s purpose is, what Tam-rang looks like, or anything else except that he’s in the Martial Arts Alliance. Do I need to keep you alive with just this much information?”

At my cold tone, Gong Ya-chi hastily added:

“B-but it’s all true. I just survived that living hell as a child and was taken in by Tam-rang!”

“So there’s no reason for me to help you.”

“P-please save me! Please, I beg you…”

“Uncle, please let the cow go. There doesn’t seem to be any reason to continue the sorcery.”

When I subtly sent a signal, the quick-witted Uncle Wang played along with my act.

“Kids, we’re withdrawing the sorcery.”

“Yes sir!”

“Yes!”

As expected, the Gaebang members were also quick on the uptake.

When they tried to release the cow, Gong Ya-chi went into a frenzy.

“If things continue like this, I’m a dead man! Please show mercy to this pitiful soul… Ah! There is one! There’s exactly one way to find out Tam-rang’s identity!”

There we go.

I was waiting for you to come to your senses.

“Grab it again!”

“Grab it again!”

“Mooooo!”

Uncle Wang and the Gaebang members pulled the loosened ropes taut again.

“There’s a contact meeting in three days. Orders will come down that day.”

“Orders?”

“I’ll be given my next identity and mission.”

“Will Tam-rang come in person?”

“Yes! Yes!”

Gong Ya-chi nodded as if his neck would break.

“Gong Ya-chi.”

I bent down and brought my face close to his.

“You say you don’t even know Tam-rang’s face, so why are you so certain that person is Tam-rang?”

“That’s… because he said he was Tam-rang himself…”

“That’s not true.”

Gong Ya-chi, whose true face was revealed, had absolutely no talent for lying.

“You’ve never met face to face before, have you?”

When I struck at the core, Gong Ya-chi’s eyes wavered greatly.

“Explain how the orders are delivered.”

“…You need to find a wooden tombstone with the surname Cheon at the northern cemetery. The orders are underneath it.”

“Why three days later?”

“After completing a mission, you’re given fifteen days of freedom. And on the fifteenth day, you receive a new mission.”

“What if there’s no tombstone?”

“There won’t be one now. The tombstone is only erected on the day orders are delivered.”

“You’re certain about that?”

“Yes! Yes! It’s true!”

Gong Ya-chi spoke with desperate pleading.

“Tamrang will definitely come. I can feel his gaze!”

It could have been words made up to survive.

However, I had no choice but to believe him.

Whether he was Tamrang or not didn’t matter anyway.

If he was Tamrang, I’d just capture him, and if not, he would guide me to Tamrang.

“Miss.”

Im Cheong’s voice trembled.

Crash!

“Moo!”

The bull that had been suffering in agony collapsed to the floor.

Seeing it gasping for breath, it seemed time was up.

“The poison is…”

As I was about to press his pressure point, Gong Ya-chi looked at me with pleading eyes.

“I keep my promises.”

With my words, Gong Ya-chi fainted.

At the same time, the bull’s head also dropped down.

Uncle Wang, who couldn’t bear to watch the suffering bull any longer, had directly ended its life with a single strike.

“Huk!”

Im Cheong’s body swayed as if he had expended much energy.

“Gwi-nyeo!”

Just before Im Cheong collapsed, fortunately Yun Ha-ram rushed over and caught his waist.

“…Miss.”

“You did well. Thank you.”

“Hehe…”

Im Cheong smiled weakly and then drifted off to sleep.

“I’ll go ahead first.”

Yun Ha-ram carried Im Cheong on his back and went up to the surface.

“You go too.”

When even Eok Hwi-gyeom, who had been watching nervously, left the basement, Uncle Wang walked over to me.

“I’ll have to issue an assembly order.”

“Will you deploy the Heavenly Net?”

“We have to catch them. How dare they reach out to the Martial Arts Alliance?”

Uncle Wang ground his teeth in frustration.

“Looking at what these bastards are doing, if we miss this opportunity, it’ll definitely be harder next time. So we must catch them!”

“That’s why I think the Heavenly Net won’t work.”

“Niece Seolha?”

Uncle Wang tilted his head at my objection.

“Think about it. What if the person who comes to the cemetery isn’t Tamrang? They’ll obviously be under a prohibition like Gong Ya-chi, so we’d have to do this again?”

That would be a waste of time and cruel to Im Cheong.

“I’m certain that person won’t be Tamrang. No matter how fast, it takes over five days round trip from Wuhan to Luoyang. There’s no way Tamrang would move personally.”

“Then you’re saying we should secretly follow them?”

“Yes! That person will definitely lead us to Tamrang. Let’s catch him then.”

How much had I practiced stealth techniques in preparation for this moment.

No matter how great Tamrang’s skills were, he couldn’t defeat me now.

With Elder Buljon’s buff, I was in a state of greater confidence than ever before.

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